Chapter 1050, I’m Back

Translator: Jon

Translation Checker: Silavin

 

Feng Wujiang was the first to be struck by the red lightning, so he was badly injured, but his Divine Ego followed the red lightning closely. He watched as the red lightning was weakened by all sorts of moves and disappeared alongside Lu Ye.

 

This meant that they hadn’t managed to fully fend off the red lightning. Although the red lightning had been weakened as it was only 20 per cent of its original size, he wasn’t certain if Lu Ye could withstand it.

 

Detecting something, he turned his head and scowled. That was because Dao Thirteen had stayed.

 

He had already expected it, though. It would take the Heavens of Jiu Zhou a lot of energy to teleport. Lu Ye had a chance to return to Jiu Zhou, but the same couldn’t be said for Dao Thirteen.

 

It seemed that the Heavens indeed had no intention of sending Dao Thirteen back, which was why he had been left behind.

 

This made Lu Ye’s situation perilous. With Dao Thirteen by his side, he would have some help at the very least. Now, he only had himself to rely on.

 

Presently, in a nameless passageway, Lu Ye felt everything spinning around him. Although his power had increased tremendously as he was now a Divine Ocean Realm Master, he still couldn’t bear the terrible feeling during teleportation.

 

What frustrated him even further was that he felt some great danger coming after him.

 

Before he disappeared beside the Divine Opportunity Column, he had seen the red lightning descending from the sky. He knew it was the Heavenly Wrath of Blood Refinement Boundary.

 

He had also seen Feng Wujiang and the others trying to destroy the red lightning, but they only partially succeeded.

 

The danger he felt must be the red lightning which had been weakened by all sorts of moves. He instantly realised if he could ward it off, he would survive. But if he couldn’t, he would die.

 

He forced himself to calm down and sensed the strength of the red lightning behind him. Instantly, he gave up on the idea of turning around and fending it off. Although the red lightning had been weakened by Feng Wujiang and the others, he didn’t have the power to go against it. He would be doomed if he forcibly did so.

 

In that case, he could only keep running away. This was the teleportation passageway. Even though the red lightning behind him was the Heavenly Wrath, it was like a tree without roots or water without a source after it left the Blood Refinement Boundary. As long as he could stall for time, its power would gradually weaken until he could ward it off.

 

Under normal circumstances, he couldn’t outrun the Heavenly Wrath.

 

But at this moment, he was in the teleportation process, so the speed of moving forward wasn’t his. That was why he could stall for time with some difficulty. However, the gap between the red lightning and him was shortening rapidly.

 

For some reason, the teleportation process this time was extremely long. It was unlike in the past when the process would be completed without causing too much discomfort for him.

 

After making up his mind, he immediately activated one drop of blood essence out of the three drops he had. As a thought flashed across his mind, the blood essence exploded and covered him in a Blood Mist. He could now move so fast that he seemed to have turned into a blood light.

 

It was his first time using this Secret Technique called Blood Conveyance. Moreover, he used it with the help of blood essence. The effect was much better than he had expected.

 

Initially, the gap between the red lightning and him was shortening quickly, but after he used the Blood Conveyance Technique, the red lightning couldn’t get any closer to him, though he still couldn’t get rid of it.

 

Determined, he continued to charge forward while activating his Divine Ego to sense what was going on behind him.

 

Just like what he had expected, without the support from Blood Refinement Boundary, the power of the red lightning was weakening rapidly.

 

As that happened, its speed was slowing as well. This made the red lightning a lesser threat to Lu Ye.

 

Around an hour later, the Blood Mist around Lu Ye dissipated as his speed returned to normal. Although he was tired, he was generally fine.

 

This was what was incredible about the Blood Refinement Technique.

 

Blood Race members could refine their blood essence at any moment and store it as an energy reserve. At the most critical moment, they could use it to kill the enemies or run away. Since it was an energy reserve, it wouldn’t hurt the user as long as his body could bear it.

 

If Lu Ye had activated the Blood Conveyance Technique normally, his vitality would’ve been affected.

 

By now, he had given up on the idea of fending off the red lightning. Since the red lightning continued to weaken, it would eventually disappear as long as he kept running. He didn’t have to take the risk to ward it off.

 

Regardless of how weak it had become, it was still Heavenly Wrath, after all. There might be some hidden danger.

 

The red lightning had become so slow that it could hardly catch up to Lu Ye, and it continued to decrease in power. It could be said that he was out of danger.

 

Another hour later, Lu Ye could sense that the red lightning behind him had come apart and vanished.

 

Only then did he set his mind at ease. Following that, he felt he had penetrated something. The view around him abruptly changed. It was no longer the strange-looking teleportation passageway.

 

What came into his sight made him fall into a dazed state for a long time.

 

That was because he saw a gigantic blue celestial body. It hovered in the Void, looking like a crouching beast.

 

A sense of affinity exuded from the celestial body, making Lu Ye feel as if he had returned home from his travels.

 

He instantly understood the colossal celestial body was Jiu Zhou. [I’m back!]

 

It never crossed his mind that he would one day look at Jiu Zhou from this perspective. Could it be considered a reward for his trip to Blood Refinement Boundary?

 

Living in Jiu Zhou and looking at it from this perspective felt completely different. Hovering in front of such a celestial body, he felt how insignificant he was and how expansive Jiu Zhou was.

 

When he was sent to Blood Refinement Boundary back then, his mind was elevated, which allowed him to see the entirety of that world. But this experience was different from the previous one. At that time, he had only seen the world with his mind, but now, he could see Jiu Zhou with his bare eyes. It was more visually impactful.

 

Just by looking at it, he felt as if his Divine Soul was purified.

 

But soon, his attention was drawn to some beings around Jiu Zhou. Around a colossal celestial body such as Jiu Zhou, there were a lot of floating continents of different forms. They came in different sizes, but most of them looked like grains of dust. That said, Lu Ye knew those floating continents were not petite. It was merely a misconception as they were compared with the massive Jiu Zhou.

 

Two floating continents were particularly large. They hovered on each side of Jiu Zhou, looking like two protectors.

 

Lu Ye glanced at one of the floating continents and felt two strange connections from somewhere in the continent.

 

He furrowed his brows, not knowing what the two connections were.

 

While he was in his thoughts, he was suddenly drawn to Jiu Zhou at an incredible speed. His figure was covered in a mysterious force. The same thing had happened when he was sent to Blood Refinement Boundary.

 

This was supposed to be the protective power granted by the Heavens.

 

Although he had no idea how powerful he had to be to live in such an environment, he knew he couldn’t do that as a new Divine Ocean Realm Master.

 

Without the protective power granted by the Heavens, even a Ninth-Order Divine Ocean Realm Master would lose his life here in a short moment.

 

In this regard, the Heavens could be considered reliable as it had given him some form of protection.

 

As the distance shortened, the connections he felt coming from a particular floating continent became clearer.

 

Finally, he realised what the connections were. Those were the connections between Divine Opportunity Columns and him!

 

There were countless Divine Opportunity Columns in Jiu Zhou, so he naturally had no connections with the normal ones. But there was a particular place where he had spent his Contribution points to invite the Divine Opportunity Columns to come over.

 

On paper, the two Divine Opportunity Columns were his property, so there were naturally unbreakable connections between them.

 

[Is that huge floating continent the Cloud River Battlefield? Is the other one the Spirit Creek Battlefield?]

 

If that was indeed the case, the other floating continents around Jiu Zhou were supposed to be the Hidden Realms. The discovery shocked Lu Ye.

 

Be it the Spirit Creek Battlefield, the Cloud River Battlefield, or Jiu Zhou itself, there were countless Hidden Realms. Lu Ye had thought about where those Hidden Realms were located.

 

It wasn’t until now that he discovered that those Hidden Realms surrounded Jiu Zhou.

 

He wasn’t sure if someone else was already aware of it, but he believed he was the first one in history to look at Jiu Zhou and its surrounding Hidden Realms from this perspective.

 

As he got closer to Jiu Zhou, the massive celestial body magnified before his eyes. Anyone who saw that would feel humble and afraid.

 

When Lu Ye passed by a floating continent, he turned his head and looked intently.

 

In such an environment, he had almost lost a sense of distance. Perhaps a stronger cultivator would have a more accurate judgement, but Lu Ye wasn’t able to do that yet.

 

Although the floating continent seemed near, it was far away. Lu Ye looked intently, but he still couldn’t see what was going on in the continent.

 

He hurriedly activated Insight to look at it more clearly, but he knitted his brows together the next moment.

 

He could faintly see hideous beings roaming the continent. Some of them were huge. [Are they insectoids?]

 

He couldn’t see them with clarity, but he didn’t have a chance to verify it as his distance from the floating continent had widened.

 

He furrowed his brows. Cultivators in Jiu Zhou were familiar with insectoids. Almost every cultivator would experience an insectoid attack once on the Spirit Creek Battlefield. Even in Jiu Zhou, a small-scale insectoid attack would break out from time to time, but it would soon be suppressed, just like what had happened the previous time.

 

Soon, white, rolling clouds came into Lu Ye’s sight.

 

He could feel the powerful suction coming from below as his speed hastened. After he penetrated the clouds, he saw a familiar world.

 

Just then, the protective power that had engulfed Lu Ye along the way suddenly vanished. His figure fell from the sky like an aerolite.

 

The speed was so fast that his skin was hurt from the friction. He quickly activated his Spiritual Power to fend off the friction.

 

Still, his figure continued to descend as he couldn’t stabilise himself.

 

When a cultivator flew in the sky, there was a limit as to how high he could go.

 

His present altitude was beyond his limit. If he wanted to stabilise himself, he had to keep descending.