Boom!

A vast blazing wave of fire surfaced from nowhere, forming a gigantic fire cloud band about twenty to thirty miles wide, instantly enveloping a portion of the sky and momentarily blocking the sight of those purple-haired beasts.

Seizing this opportunity, Zhao Sheng flicked a Blood-colored Talisman with his hand, which instantly ignited into a ball of blood light and pounced onto his body.

In an instant, a streak of blood-colored rainbow light shot across the sky, sweeping across a hundred miles of void in a blink, disappearing beyond the vast Cloud Sea.

Zhao Sheng had used three Hundred-Mile Rainbow Talismans in succession to finally shake off the pursuit completely, eventually finding temporary shelter in a desolate mountain, where he opened up a temporary cave mansion to hide.

As the third day extinguished one by one, night fell again, and the chanting from the heavens and earth arrived as expected.

“… Great compassion and great mercy of All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds, Supreme Heavenly Venerate, responding to actions and causes throughout the Universe. At that time, Supreme Taoist Ancestor was in Blessings Heaven, on the Bright Eight Treasure Platform, preaching the Dharma…”

Deep within the cave mansion, Zhao Sheng sat on the stone bed with a pained expression, a faint clear light emerging from the center of his brow.

The world was so bizarre that, in just a few days, Zhao Sheng felt increasingly unable to withstand the brainwashing of the chanting.

Even with the protection of the Hundred Lifetimes book to shield his Divine Soul, he barely managed to keep his consciousness clear.

Still, he couldn’t help but be greatly affected, with impulses to convert occurring more and more frequently in his mind.

A long night passed, and the third day hung high in the sky once again.

Suddenly, the peak of a mountain in the hilly area split open.

As the soil and rocks collapsed and dust filled the sky, a burst of firelight suddenly broke through the dust and soared into the sky.

Within the deep fiery cloud, Zhao Sheng’s expression was stern as he flew with his arms crossed before him, surrounded by twelve Phoenix Mysterious Fire Banners, emitting blazing flames all around, fluttering loudly.

As he flew by, the clouds along the way were marked with a lingering strip of red fire cloud band, making an incredibly grand and conspicuous display.

The reason Zhao Sheng made such a spectacle was out of desperation.

After all, this was no place of benevolence and could not be dwelled in for long!

In order to lure out the “uncertainties,” he had to take this risk.

Although Zhao Sheng did not know what these so-called “uncertainties” were, it was certainly hundreds of times better than waiting for death.

In just half a day, Zhao Sheng had flown tens of thousands of miles, disturbing countless unique and strange creatures from the Ape Clan.

He was also constantly running away from the relentless pursuit of many strong Great Demons, and was injured multiple times as well.

Among the pursuing demon beasts, there were not a few possessing the power of the Divinity Transformation Realm.

If Zhao Sheng were not wealthy and a Master of many Divine Power Escape Techniques, he would have long since perished.

…

The sky grew dark, and the vast clouds gradually took on a layer of blood color, as two of the three Great Suns at the end of the Heavenly Vault extinguished.

Just then, a streak of light appeared from the edge of the horizon, crossing over most of the Heavenly Curtain in a few breaths, flying over towering mountains, with the boundless blue sea appearing ahead.

Zhao Sheng’s face was grim, his chest and abdomen sporting a huge gash about a foot long, with flesh turned inside out and white bones visible, showing densely packed muscle buds growing and intertwining rapidly.

He paid no attention to his wounds, suddenly stopping by the seaside, looking around in all directions.

Ahead, the vast sea was full of billowing waves, yet the sea surface and the beach were deathly silent and cold, devoid of any living creature, indeed quite peculiar.

Zhao Sheng observed for a moment, and seeing nothing unusual, his heart hardened, the divine light at his brow soaring to the sky as a vast and powerful Divine Thought Storm suddenly expanded outwards, instantly covering a region nearly two hundred miles in radius.

Two breaths later, Zhao Sheng’s face expressionless, withdrew his Divine Thought.

Just then, a sneering voice suddenly reached his ear: “Hehe, human kid! You’ve been flying for half the day, you must be tired. Why not come down and talk with this old ape…”

Before the voice faded, Zhao Sheng felt a blur before his eyes, and his body disappeared into thin air.

When he regained clarity of vision, he found himself on a beach, with a giant blue-white rock looming two yards ahead.

This rock was about ten feet high and a yard wide, shaped like a stone ape either kneeling or lying, with its eyes closed and its face solemn, bearing a dignified and lifelike expression.

At that time, on the head of the stone ape, unexpectedly lay an old ape clad in a plain Daoist robe.

The old ape had a face resembling a Thunder God with pointed ears and was only about five feet tall, thin, with dull and ungroomed fur all over his body.

However, upon looking at his head, one could see him wearing a precisely aligned Eight Treasure Purple Bristle Crown with a smooth, silky dark golden braid hanging behind it, falling to his chest, and at the end of the braid was tied, tied…

Zhao Sheng widened his eyes, but still couldn’t see clearly what was tied to it, only a vague and distorted gleam of white light.

“Kid, have you looked enough?”

At this moment, an extremely impatient complaint suddenly reached Zhao Sheng’s ears, startling him into awareness as he hurried forward to pay his respects: “Human Cultivator Zhao… Zhao Qiongtian, greets the senior!”

The Daoist-robed old ape lazily sat up, his hands tucked into his sleeves, his face wearing a half-smile, looking like a meddlesome old man who enjoyed watching excitement.

After scrutinizing Zhao Sheng for a while, the old ape suddenly said with a strange laugh: “Hehe, Zhao Sheng? Zhao Sheng! Good name, it sounds just as if you are destined for me! But kid, you’ve been causing quite a stir lately. I was sleeping nicely, and you woke me up. Do you know what your crime should be?”