Chapter 23 Entering the Mountains

Two days later.

Xu Jingming looked at the continuous mountain peaks ahead, with no end in sight.

"This is the mountain range area?" Xu Jingming became even more cautious. According to what he had learned from North River Cosmos Lord, many terrifying experts had already entered the inner region. "In the mountain range area, my strength is probably at the bottom, so I must be careful."

Xu Jingming restrained his aura and immediately entered the mountain range area.

At this moment, outside this boundless land, all the 'Third Realm existences' in this parallel spacetime had gathered here. Thirty-five towering figures were constantly observing the exploration process of each Half-Step Third Realm existence, following the threads of karma.

"So many Half-Step Third Realm existences are converging towards the inner region from the edges of the continent in all directions, and quite a few have already entered the inner region," Cosmos Lord Yuhuo watched from afar, puzzled. "But so far, we haven't discovered anything special."

"What exactly did the Ultimate existence leave such a place for?"

"Is it to make those runes public?"

These Third Realm existences also watched in confusion. The treasures seemed precious, but they were not of great significance to Third Realm existences. The Ultimate existence could easily create a large number of precious material resources.

After thinking about it, only those mysterious characters were extraordinary.

"I can feel that these characters contain a trace of the Ultimate's power," said Lord Koye.

"It is impossible to become the Ultimate by relying on characters alone," Cosmos Lord Yuhuo shook his head. "You must first achieve your own path, reach the pinnacle of the Third Realm, and then die and be reborn before there is a glimmer of hope of becoming the Ultimate."

"Yes," Old Master Xu, the Drunken W翁, nodded. "The four Ultimate existences have all publicly acknowledged that they all died and were reborn before finally succeeding. This is their shared experience."

"Then these characters may just be a little amusement for the Ultimate existence?" Lord Koye smiled.

"The path to the Ultimate, how can it be so easy to achieve? These characters can only be used as an aid at most, increasing our accumulation," said Lord Louye calmly.

Everyone present nodded slightly.

In each complete spacetime, only a few Third Realm existences are born after endless years.

And countless spacetimes have only given birth to those four Ultimates!

The difficulty of the path made even Third Realm existences despair.

"The Ultimate existence cannot cultivate another Ultimate," Cosmos Lord Yuhuo shook his head. "The four Ultimate existences all have completely different paths."

Primordial Star, Abyss, Mother River, Heart Realm... the four paths were completely different.

"These characters may really just be a bit of fun," These Third Realm existences continued to observe carefully. Even if it was fun, it was the fun of the Ultimate existence! It might represent their opportunity.

If they performed well enough to catch the eye of the Ultimate existence and were fortunate enough to become a 'follower' of the Ultimate existence, that would be completely different. They could then appear on the grand stage of many spacetimes.

"Jingming, he finally went in," Old Master Xu, the Drunken W翁, had been paying attention to Xu Jingming, and could understand Xu Jingming's exploration progress at all times through karma.

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Whoosh!

Xu Jingming carefully stuck to the surface of the mountains as he hurried on his way. He controlled the surrounding void, restrained his aura, and suppressed all fluctuations. "The place left by the Ultimate existence has extremely strong rule suppression. Now that I'm controlling the surrounding small area of ​​the void, unless they are too close to me, they shouldn't be able to discover me."

"I've been in here for an hour, and I haven't seen any treasures."

Xu Jingming was slightly disappointed.

After all, an hour of travel had already covered a very large area, but there were no treasures and no attacks from any native creatures.

"Have the treasures on the periphery of the mountains been looted?" Xu Jingming guessed secretly. Suddenly, his eyes lit up as he stared at an inconspicuous canyon in the distance.

The canyon was very remote and dark. Xu Jingming could barely see it from his perspective. He could vaguely see many black plants in the canyon. Xu Jingming could see a faint light there. Just watching that faint light from afar caused Xu Jingming's mind to tremble.

"It might be a treasure." Xu Jingming immediately approached.

As he got closer, he could see clearly that the faint light was actually a illusory sphere slightly larger than Xu Jingming's body. Light flowed on the surface of the sphere. It was constantly absorbing the power of the void, growing extremely slowly.

"Absorbing external power to grow? I'm afraid it took countless Abyss Epochs to grow to such a size," Xu Jingming observed carefully. "Just watching it can affect my mind and consciousness! It must be an incredible treasure, but... I've never seen it before, and I can't recognize it."

He did not recognize this treasure and had never even heard of it.

Whoosh.

Xu Jingming immediately split his figure. One figure stayed in place, and the other figure carefully approached.

Just as he was about to touch the illusory sphere—

A ray of light suddenly flashed past Xu Jingming.

This ray of light was extremely fast. Xu Jingming, who had been on guard, did not have time to dodge. This clone of his was brushed by this ray of light.

"This?" Xu Jingming's eyes widened in shock. He felt a terrifying destructive force erupting from the wound in an instant, completely spreading throughout his body. The vitality of this clone was completely cut off, annihilated and dissipated.

With just one strike, the clone was completely annihilated.

At this time, the murderer also revealed its true appearance. It was a petite, dark red alien beast. The dark red alien beast had a pair of sharp claws, like blades.

"Destroying one of my clones with one strike, this destructive power... is enough to rival an invincible Half-Step Third Realm existence." Xu Jingming watched this scene solemnly from afar. Because he knew nothing about the illusory sphere and was not sure if it was dangerous, he sent a clone to try to collect it.

The dark red alien beast stared at Xu Jingming, and with a whoosh, it disappeared into thin air again.

"This native creature is much stronger than any native creature I encountered in the outer region," Xu Jingming thought, and instantly created ten clones.

The ten Xu Jingmings stood scattered, each calmly sensing the surroundings. At the same time, they had arranged the Illusionary Abyss Realm, covering a vast area in all directions.

"This native creature is indeed very peculiar. Once it hides, even the Illusionary Abyss Realm cannot touch it." Xu Jingming had always been curious as to why these native creatures had such abilities.

Once they hid, it was as if they had disappeared from this spacetime. No means could touch them or attack them.

Only when they showed themselves could he touch this type of native creature!

The hidden dark red alien beast hesitated for a moment when it saw the ten Xu Jingmings, but then the killing intent in the dark red alien beast's eyes became even stronger.

"Kill!"

Whoosh!

The dark red alien beast appeared again to attack, but this time, when it appeared, this area had already been enveloped by the Illusionary Abyss Realm. Its mind and consciousness were naturally dragged by the Illusionary Abyss Realm. At the same time, three clones of Xu Jingming used mental weapons, turning into three black rays that had already passed through the dark red alien beast's body.

Affected by the illusion, the dark red alien beast reacted slightly slower, but when the three black rays passed through its body, the alien beast's pair of claws still waved.

"Hmm?"

The three black rays in the distance turned into three clones, each holding a weapon, but two of the clones had wounds that were rapidly spreading. New clones immediately appeared to replace them.

"Two more clones lost." Xu Jingming's expression became even more solemn. "The skills of this alien beast are so superb that it's unbelievable. I can't stop a casual strike, and if you get hit, your life form will definitely be destroyed."

The killing intent in the dark red alien beast's eyes grew even stronger, and it let out a low roar. The roar made Xu Jingming's mind tremble. "His roar can affect my mind and consciousness."

This time, the dark red alien beast did not even hide. It flashed and pounced.

Xu Jingming's many clones also rushed up frantically. The Illusionary Abyss Realm was constantly maintained, and the Red Lotus Fire rose. One after another, black rays pierced through the dark red alien beast's body. The dark red alien beast's injuries were obviously getting worse and worse, but it became even more crazy, and its killing intent became even more intense.

"Swoosh."

When another black ray passed through the dark red alien beast's body, the madness in the dark red alien beast's eyes dissipated, dimmed, and it fell down.

Many Xu Jingmings approached.

"It took me forty-seven clones to kill him." Many Xu Jingmings looked at the dark red alien beast's corpse. "He seems a little stupid. Once he starts fighting, he becomes more and more crazy. Even when he's about to die, he doesn't retreat."

"Those native creatures in the outer region are very cunning and know how to escape."

"But the native creatures in the inner region are stronger, but they seem stupid?" Xu Jingming was slightly puzzled.

The corpse of this dark red alien beast dissipated silently, and in the end, only three characters remained.

"Hmm?"

Xu Jingming stared blankly at the three characters in front of him.

These three characters were a black character, a colorful character, and a transparent character. The three different types of characters were combined together, and their auras flowed as if they were one.

"Three characters, perfectly combined?" Xu Jingming seemed to see a new world in an instant. He had collected more than a thousand characters and had some insights. But compared to the perfect combination of the three characters left behind after the death of the dark red alien beast, his insights were not worth mentioning.

At this moment, Xu Jingming was touched.

"Can they be combined like this?"

"The many characters I collected can also be combined." Xu Jingming immediately had all kinds of plans in his mind. Although the plans were very rough and far less perfect than the combination of the three characters left behind after the death of the dark red alien beast, they represented a new direction.

Although he was very excited, Xu Jingming did not dare to delay. Immediately, a clone put away the three characters, and another clone walked towards the illusory sphere.

The Heart Realm power tried to touch it and easily merged into the illusory sphere.

"This sphere?"

Xu Jingming was shocked.

After the Heart Realm power entered the illusory sphere, Xu Jingming seemed to see a chaotic world. "This illusory sphere is a natural, huge illusion! Can it be shaped at will to form an illusory world?"

As soon as he came into contact with it, Xu Jingming was very sure without careful study that the value of this illusory sphere far exceeded a Third Realm weapon. It was worthy of being a rare treasure left by the Ultimate existence.