Chapter 1188: Chapter 1079: Unparalleled Burning Fire

Dugu Yuqing looked at Li Fan, and a myriad of emotions flooded his heart!

Warmth kindled in his eyes!

Because, he had finally fully understood his master’s intentions!

In this life…the master still refused to follow the path of “A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire,” unwilling to let them sacrifice themselves…

He would rather stand alone, in front of everyone!

“Master, you’ve been too good to us…”

He spoke, forcefully holding back the sobs in his words.

Li Fan said:

“Let’s go, come back to the village with me.”

Now, finally knowing what the disciples were up to, Li Fan’s anxious heart also settled down by half.

After all, his group of disciples had quite the stunning array of experiences wandering the outside world, having often gone hunting in the past; it should not be that dangerous.

Dugu Yuqing nodded and said:

“Disciple…follows your command.”

At this moment, he didn’t press any further.

Because, since Li Fan had discarded that Ancient Bronze Lamp, clinging to “A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire” truly lost its meaning.

There was no choice.

They could only follow by the master’s side, and even if night fell, they’d just have to bear it together.

Li Fan nodded, then turned to look at Fan Paiming and Fan Yaoyao and said:

“The two of you, I’ve already found my disciples. This place is too dangerous, and I’m preparing to leave. Would you like to join us?”

Upon hearing this, Fan Paiming’s expression immediately became complicated.

My sister was so right.

This big shot, really loves to put on a show!

This place is too dangerous?

He was almost tempted to say, to someone like you, does the word danger even exist in this world?

Even the black smoke has been dealt with by you!

That’s the kind of power that’s absolutely of the highest order in this world.

Whereas Fan Yaoyao then said:

“Okay…let’s go together!”

Immediately, they all left together.

…

And at this moment.

Within the Hanque Mountain Range.

In a certain forest, a middle-aged man wrapped in a black Corpse Wrapping Cloth was frantically fleeing!

This man was none other than Ao Wushuang!

“Damn it… it’s too dangerous, way too dangerous!”

As he ran, Ao Wushuang spoke, his face filled with fear.

He followed the other Rotten Slaves to Origin Valley, but there, he saw Dugu Yuqing…

Others might not recognize that guy, but how could he not?

That’s from the infamous small village in Xiemeng!

So, the cold sweat poured out then and there.

Later, when the black smoke actually took the initiative to attack Dugu Yuqing… he no longer waited, turned around, and ran.

In his view, although the black smoke was also very Xiemeng, the small village cast a much bigger shadow on him.

Not long after he escaped, the earth-shattering noises from within Origin Valley proved his prediction right.

Indeed, places where the small village appears are never peaceful!

“Damn it, I’ve even crossed realms, and yet I can still get entangled with that darn small village… This is just too much!”

His face was filled with unwillingness, and he clenched his teeth and said:

“I refuse to believe that I can’t shake off the small village from Xiemeng…”

He resolved that from today onwards, he’d flee, fleeing far away, no longer wanting any association with the small village!

Right, first, avoid the small village at all costs, and second, never again encounter things like that black smoke.

Both are very Xiemeng, with the small village being even more so!

But as he was still running, suddenly, he felt as if he had kicked something, and instinctively looked down to see…

A Bronze Lantern had rolled to the side!

Seeing this object, Ao Wushuang was straight up dumbfounded.

This lantern… wasn’t this lantern in Dugu Yuqing’s hands?

How did it appear here?

He quickly looked around, fearing the presence of someone from the small village.

But, everything around was dead silent.

“Could it be, could it be that the small mountain village and that darkness, their struggle broke out, and as a result, this thing was sent flying?”

In his mind, he suddenly thought of a possibility…

If that was really the case…

Then… he had struck it rich, struck it rich!

This was definitely a treasure that could incite a fight between the small mountain village and the darkness!

He took advantage of the fact that no one was around to pick up the Ancient Bronze Lamp.

But it was in the instant that the ancient lamp came into his possession.

Boom!

Ao Wushuang’s mind suddenly went blank, and his Path-Scenic Land involuntarily began to emerge!

In his Path-Scenic Land, among the nine huge statues, a Black Small Tower floated unpredictably in the center.

At this moment, the Black Small Tower began to tremble violently, and the first level of it uncontrollably opened.

Within the tower, chains rattled as if something was struggling violently.

Terrifying black light surged crazily out of the tower’s first level door, as if enveloping something, and in an instant entered the Ancient Bronze Lamp in Ao Wushuang’s hand!

At this moment, the black secret patterns on the Ancient Bronze Lamp Ao Wushuang held suddenly emitted a faint black light, and the seals on the lamp wick… slowly vanished!

— If Dugu Yuqing were here, he would be extremely surprised.

Because he had observed before that this lantern was etched with dark patterns, harboring some kind of terrifying power, but it had been sealed by someone.

Now, the seal had been opened.

The originally depleted oil and burnt-out wick of the Ancient Bronze Lamp suddenly ignited an odd Flame of Darkness!

The Flame of Darkness, intangible and immaterial, yet under the illumination of the black light, black original essence and mist suddenly surged crazily forth.

Then, all of this black essence and mist entered Ao Wushuang’s Path-Scenic Land.

His Path-Scenic Land turned into the Land of Darkness.

Secret Force flowed around the nine statues, and endless dark qi gathered between the nine statues, before pouring into the Black Small Tower.

That tower, seemingly only as tall as a palm, was now swallowing the entire Path-Scenic Land’s dark qi.

Boom!

The third level of the Black Small Tower was immediately deified.

Then, within the Black Tower, dark qi surged forth again, but this time it was completely different from before, as if it had been refined.

Dark mist once again filled Ao Wushuang’s Path-Scenic Land!

Simultaneously, his Path of the Rules stretched out infinitely, propelled by the dark qi, reaching beyond The Shade of the Deceased and Insightful Truth, directly Touching the Prohibition and arriving at the Land of Nothingness!

The Path-Scenic Land linked to the dreadful Land of Nothingness, where cultivators who stepped in would be instantly devoured, without even leaving a trace of life behind.

And yet, the Land of Nothingness is the very foundation of cultivating the Path of the Forbidden.

The foundation of the Path of the Forbidden is the Land of Nothingness. Cultivators need to use all sorts of heavens-defying methods to turn the Land of Nothingness into a real world, achieving the transformation from nonexistence to existence!

It is said that the creators revered as Great Emperors in this world established true worlds, and their Imperial Courts stand within the worlds and Pure Lands they created.

And now, the Land of Nothingness within Ao Wushuang had received its first bout of forbidden power–

The energy of darkness!

He had officially stepped into the first level of the Najin Realm!

The Najin Realm requires drawing in the Five Qis within the Land of Nothingness.

But at this stage, the cultivator’s own consciousness and soul still cannot venture into the Land of Nothingness, or else they would still perish, falling into an abyss with no end.

Only when the Five Qis gather and form a wind, which can uplift and carry the cultivator’s soul and intentions, can a cultivator enter the void without falling into the abyss, this is known as Ride the Wind.

For an ordinary cultivator, it would be considered impressive if just a thread of qi as thick as a pinky finger enters the Land of Nothingness during the first level of Najin.

But Ao Wushuang now… had accepted an ocean of the dark qi!

As the dark qi entered Ao Wushuang’s Land of Nothingness, his Path-Scenic Land also began to slowly fade away.

Ao Wushuang, with a mind initially blank, finally came to.

“Hm? This… how in the hell did this lamp ignite?”

Looking at the ancient lamp in his hand, Ao Wushuang was instantly dumbfounded.

What the heck is going on…

And burning with black fire, too?

Isn’t that bizarre?

“Wait, how did I level up?!”

“The Black Small Tower, the third level, has been deified?”

At the same time, he felt the anomaly in both his own strength and the Black Small Tower within his Path-Scenic Land.

He hastily sent his thoughts into his Path-Scenic Land, standing before the Black Small Tower.

“Something feels off…”

Ao Wushuang muttered to himself, subconsciously opening the first level of the Black Small Tower.

Inside the first level, it was completely empty…

The man who had been locked within the first level of the tower…

Was gone.

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