The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 808

Chapter 808: Chapter 805 Trial Begins Chapter 808: Chapter 805 Trial Begins Shen Luo stood atop the Water Python, releasing his Divine Sense to scout out the surroundings. It didn't take long before he discovered that in the direction behind him, hardly ten miles away, his divine soul hit what felt like a wall and was repelled.

His mind slightly stirred, and he redirected his Divine Sense upwards toward the sky.

However, just as his Divine Sense had flown out a few hundred feet, a piercing, intense pain suddenly exploded in his mind, causing the thread of his divine soul to disperse completely.

“Such a formidable prohibition, I'm afraid it's not just against the Divine Sense…” Shen Luo rubbed the sore spot between his eyebrows, thinking to himself.

With this thought, he spent quite a while searching the ground until he found a piece of stone. Mustering all his strength, he threw it diagonally upward toward the sky.

That inconspicuous fragment of stone, wrapped in a layer of Mana, shot through the air like a meteor, reaching the height where Shen Luo's Divine Sense was shattered in a blink of an eye.

“Bang!”

A sudden explosive noise erupted, and the stone that had flown high up shattered into dust on cue.

Shen Luo watched the dust created by the fragmentation of the stone in the sky and silently congratulated himself for his caution, grateful he hadn't recklessly engaged in Sword Flight.

After discarding his stray thoughts, he probed forward, in the direction before him. This time, seemingly without any hindrance, his Divine Sense extended to the very limits of its reach.

“It seems that's the direction to head toward, but this swamp appears to be even livelier than I thought…” Having confirmed his forward path, Shen Luo couldn't help but sigh.

No sooner had his words fallen than the water in a large pond before him began to bubble and churn as if boiling.

Then, a monster over thirty feet tall burst out of the water, bearing its fangs at Shen Luo.

Shen Luo couldn't identify the creature, only noting its dark green, slick skin that seemed to have a layer of sticky substance on the surface–it looked somewhat like a giant leech.

The leech's wide-open mouth was filled with hundreds of sharp, densely packed white teeth, oozing a light green slime and emitting a nauseating rotten stench.

Shen Luo's brow furrowed slightly, and with a wave of his hand, a stream of water from the swamp instantly coalesced, forming a gigantic liquid fist that shot upwards and hit the leech square in the mouth.

With a loud “bang,” the monster's head burst on impact, the liquid fist creating a massive void as green goo splattered everywhere.

Shen Luo, having been prepared, had already raised a Water Curtain in front of him.

The large amount of green slime hit the Water Curtain and immediately began to hiss, quickly followed by billowing green smoke.

Shen Luo's eyebrows knitted together as the Water Curtain in front of him was corroded, creating holes, and a smell somewhat reminiscent of sulfur rushed into his nostrils.

He hurriedly sealed his breath, but he soon felt dizzy, clearly having inhaled some of the substance.

At the same time, in the square outside the Secret Realm, seven Suspended Sky Mirrors were hanging high, displaying the figures of everyone undergoing trials within the realm. Everyone was captivated by the novel trial scene, and the whole square had grown much quieter.

At this moment, a figure slowly made their way through the crowd, coming up beside Li Shu to gently pat her on the shoulder.

Li Shu turned her head and her face immediately brightened with joy as she exclaimed, “Liu Qing, didn't you say you had some disturbance in your cultivation last night and that you couldn't make it today? How come…?”

“I still couldn't bear to miss the trials of the Immortal Apricot Conference, after all, a big reason for coming to you was precisely for this matter,” Liu Qing said with a slightly pale face.

“Are you sure your body is alright?” Li Shu asked with concern.

“The qi within my body is still somewhat chaotic, but I've forcefully suppressed it. It's not a big problem,” Liu Qing explained with a smile.

“That's good to hear, that's very good,” Li Shu immediately relaxed and said with a smile.

Liu Qing swept her gaze over the Suspended Sky Mirrors above the square, a trace of doubt flashing in her eyes as she asked,

“Eh, why don't I see Friend Shen Luo?”

“I don't know what's going on inside our sect; there are clearly eight people, yet they only prepared seven Suspended Sky Mirrors. Now, each person's image corresponds to one, except for Big Brother Shen's,” Li Shu said with a frown, also sounding somewhat dissatisfied.

Lu Ying, who was standing by their side, didn't seem to care much, her gaze fixated on the mirror reflecting Nie Caizhu.

“Junior Sister, don't worry. Once these people get closer to the central region and gather together, you'll be able to see Brother Shen,” Wuming said with a smirk at the corner of his mouth, comforting from the sidelines.

Li Shu, whose attention was not on him, naturally did not notice the playfulness in his smile and nodded, “That's also true.”

Hearing this, Liu Qing did not say anything more.

At the summit of Mount Putuo, within a towering great hall, the eighth Suspended Sky Mirror was conspicuously floating, and the image appearing on it was none other than Shen Luo.

There were three golden chairs arranged in the middle of the great hall, and on these chairs sat three individuals side by side.

On the furthest left sat a burly old man with light yellow hair and beard, his sword-like eyebrows slightly furrowed, his expression stern, watching Shen Luo's image in the mirror as he subtly rubbed his palm hidden in his sleeve.

In the central seat was a hunched old man, whose hair on the top of his head had almost completely fallen out, but two thick eyebrows almost covered his eyes, making his facial expression indiscernible.

Even while sitting, he propped himself up with a thick walking stick gleaming with golden light, as if to support his teetering body.

To the right of the old man sat a woman dressed in a long blue dress and barefoot–not someone else but the Sect Leader of Mount Putuo, Fairy Qinglian.

“Sect Leader, is it really necessary to target a Nascent Soul Middle Stage junior like this?” the burly old man with light yellow hair and beard asked.

“Elder Huang Zhanglu, your words are not entirely correct. You've seen Cai Zhu's qualifications–without any unforeseen incidents, her future achievements in cultivation are very likely to match or even exceed yours and mine. And Shen Luo is that possibility, the greatest and most unexpected one,” Fairy Qinglian said indifferently, taking no issue with the matter.

The old man with the yellow beard was none other than the Master of Law Enforcement of Mount Putuo, Huang Tong, and also Zhou Yu's master.

“Fairy Qinglian, your concerns are not unreasonable. A gust starts from the tip of a willow and might eventually knock down trees and scatter stones, wreaking havoc in the forest, so we must be cautious. Since this man has the potential to disrupt Cai Zhu, it's better to suppress him early. After all, it's not the first time we've suffered such losses,” the hunched old man said, his voice quivering slightly as he spoke.

“Uncle Guan Yue, you misunderstood my point. I just think that a mere Nascent Soul Middle Stage junior, aiming to be the best among these disciples, is simply an impossible feat. There's no need to put in this effort to reopen the Hua Lian Secret Realm, and even deliberately sending him to the most densely populated area of monsters,” Huang Tong said respectfully, turning to the hunched elder.

The hunched old man with bushy eyebrows was no other than Guan Yue, the uncle of both Huang Tong and Fairy Qinglian. With profound cultivation and a very high status within Mount Putuo, he had taken Wei Qing as his closed-door disciple and in just a few decades, nurtured him into a Great Mahayana Stage Cultivator.

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