The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 727

Chapter 727: Chapter 723: Heavenly Book Broken Land Chapter 727: Chapter 723: Heavenly Book Broken Land Using the Thousand-mile Wing Flapping Technique, Shen Luo sped forward, flying almost ten thousand miles before stopping and landing in a mountain stream.

Seeing no one pursuing him, he breathed a sigh of relief and silently cultivated the Huangting Technique, recovering his mana.

At the same time, he took out an object from his sleeve. It was the black bottle he'd found in the Treasures Hall Ruins.

What happened before was extremely weird, and despite having resolved it with the aid of the Heavenly Book powers, he wasn't at peace until he fully understood what had occurred.

However, this bottle was made of special materials that could isolate divine sense; only by opening it could he discern its contents. Otherwise, he wouldn't have risked opening it before.

After a moment's contemplation, he removed the green talisman covering the bottle. Then, he took out a set of simplified Array Techniques discs and placed them around the bottle before activating them with a hand gesture.

The discs immediately lit up, creating a blue light shield that enveloped the bottle.

Based on his previous experiences, the black qi in the bottle could infiltrate his body by simply coming into contact with his mana. Now he, relying on the power of the Array to confine it, had no personal connection with it–the black qi should not affect him, right?

With this thought, Shen Luo picked up the medicine vial, gingerly removed the stopper, then immediately put the bottle on the ground and retreated.

A puff of black qi surged out of the bottle, promptly trapped by the blue light shield of the Array.

Inside the light shield, the black qi surged around, unable to break free and escape, nor blend into the shield itself.

Upon witnessing this, Shen Luo breathed a sigh of relief and approached the light shield to look through it into the bottle.

The black qi obstructed his view making it difficult see clearly, but it appeared that a pitch-black elixir was inside the bottle, emitting the black qi. He didn't know what kind of elixir it was.

He contemplated for a moment, then sent a strand of his divine sense carefully through the blue light shield and into the bottle.

However, as soon as his divine sense touched the strand of black qi, it immediately melded into it.

But Shen Luo was prepared for this and promptly discarded the contaminated strand of divine sense.

His mind throbbed slightly, but he'd successfully blocked the intrusion of the black qi.

“This black qi truly is bizarre; it can even penetrate divine sense.” He thought to himself, eyebrows furrowing.

For the time being, Shen Luo couldn't think of a solid method to investigate this, but upon seeing the black qi's peculiar nature, he became more convinced that the previous thunder disaster had been triggered by this qi.

“This black qi can trigger thunder disasters and infiltrate the body with a slight touch, quite useful against enemies.” This thought suddenly occurred to him.

After pondering for a moment, he activated the prohibition power to suppress the black qi back into the bottle, re-corked it, and put the black medicine bottle away.

Having done this, Shen Luo took out the Heavenly Book and immersed his divine sense within it.

Just now, the Heavenly Book had suddenly absorbed the black qi from his body, hinting at the book's mysterious capabilities not yet being fully discovered.

Just as Shen Luo was about to carefully sense this, the Heavenly Book suddenly released a powerful suction, releasing a blinding golden light.

His vision blurred and changed as he was engulfed by the massive golden light.

All Shen Luo felt was the golden light scattering before his eyes, his feet touching solid ground, and the sound of “ding-dong” ringing under his feet, causing ripples to spread out.

He looked down to see that the ground beneath him was as smooth as a mirror, casting no reflection of him. It became clear that he was back inside that odd golden hall within the Heavenly Book.

While Shen Luo was still feeling bewildered, a hoary voice drifted faintly from far behind him:

“Are you… new here?”

“Who's there?” Startled by the voice, Shen Luo's shoulders gave a slight jerk as he immediately turned his head towards it, only to find endless fogs and mists, with nothing else in sight.

“Could this be the fourth man?” The hoary voice muttered again, seemingly to itself.

A chill ran down Shen Luo's spine as he looked up, only to find a giant figure towering a hundred feet high, standing tens of feet in front of a golden fog wall. A white robe enshrouded it within the mist, hardly noticeable unless one looked closely.

What frightened Shen Luo more was that, despite this figure's colossal size, it did not emit any breath or aura. He hadn't detected its presence at all until now.

“May I ask who you are, elder?” After brief hesitation, Shen Luo cupped his hands and paid his respect, asking.

“In this place, asking others about their identity is not very polite,” the voice echoed again, its tone quite placid, without any sign of offense.

Even though those words were spoken, Shen Luo dared not let his guard down. He carefully chose his words:

“Don't misunderstand, elder. I happened to lose my way and unintentionally stumbled into this peculiar space. If I disturbed you, please forgive me. I will leave immediately.”

“Haha, lost your way… That's interesting. But don't worry, I bear you no resentment. You don't need to conceal anything–without a fragment of the Heavenly Book, it's impossible to enter this space.” The voice laughed and said.

Upon hearing this, Shen Luo's heart skipped a beat. At first, he thought to continue his ruse, but with little deliberation, he understood that it was pointless to lie at this point. It was better to be truthful and gain some useful information from this person.

“So you, too, have a fragment of the Heavenly Book, elder. So our meeting here is all due to the Heavenly Book?” Shen Luo craned his neck, trying to make out the person's face.

However, obstructed by the dense golden fog, he could make out nothing.

At this moment, the hundred-foot-high figure waved its sleeve, steadily shrinking until it was nearly the same height as Shen Luo. This figure revealed itself to be a white-robed elder.

He had a snow-white robe on, a vermilion ribbon around his waist, a snow-white whisk in one hand emitting a dazzling gloss, which was evidently no ordinary magical treasure.

Neveretheless, as Shen Luo continued to look upwards, he saw only a strand of snow-white beard drooping onto the elder's chest, while his face was obscured by an orb of golden fog. Even with his current visual prowess, Shen Luo could see nothing of it.

“Boundless Heavenly Emperor,” the elder raised a palm and waved his whisk, paying his respects to Shen Luo in a manner typical of the Daoist school.

“Nice to meet you, Daoist Master,” seeing this, Shen Luo immediately cupped his hands and bowed respectfully.

“You're here for the first time; no need to panic. We call this area the Heavenly Book Broken Land, a virtual world created by the Heavenly Book fragments interacting and resonating with one another,” the white-robed elder began, his voice serene.

“Heavenly Book Broken Land… We? Are there others here?” Shen Luo raised his eyebrows, asking.

“You seem unaware that when the Heavenly Book shattered, it broke into five fragments. They ended up lost in the Three Realms, and gradually, as destiny would have it, ended up in the hands of a few people. You will meet them shortly,” said the white-robed elder.

Right after his words, a huge figure arose from the fog wall across him. The figure was more than a hundred feet tall and clad in silver scale armor–belted with a Barbarian Lion Belt, crowned with a Clustered Pearl Crown, booted with Hide Blue Cloud Boots. The figure stood tall and straight like a pine tree, his aura as majestic as mountains, yet his face was shrouded in a golden fog, and he emitted no aura.