Chapter 767: Celestial Light, Soul Crystal!

“Someone arrived this quickly?”

“Wait, no, judging by their clothes, they don’t look like they’re from around here! They resemble the people from Beyond the Heavens described in the legends.”

“Rumor has it, when celestial light appears, it’s not just treasures descending; it could also mean people from Beyond the Heavens are falling to our world. These people vary in strength, but most carry treasures!”

“Given the celestial light just tore through the night sky, this person must be extraordinary.”

Lu Changsheng watched as several figures with bodies glowing faintly flew towards him, gazing at him with expressions of surprise and suspicion.

These people looked at Lu Changsheng’s handsome and otherworldly face, his bearing, their expressions shifting between surprise and uncertainty, feeling as if they were facing a fallen immortal.

But when they saw the Misty Dust Banner and Sun-Moon Yin-Yang Mirror in his hands, greed instantly arose in their hearts, and some even attacked directly.

“Bang!”

Lu Changsheng frowned slightly, his expression indifferent. He simply slapped out a palm, blasting the figure into pieces.

Although he had no Blood Energy or magical energy, this person was at most comparable to a second-rank body refiner. He could easily kill them with a mouthful of spit.

“This!?”

The surrounding figures were shocked and horrified.

The one who had just rushed forward was not the strongest among them, but was still above average. Yet, he was casually obliterated with a single strike—it was terrifying.

“Where is this place?”

Lu Changsheng looked at the people before him and asked, wanting to use them to understand the current situation.

His easy killing of one person was very intimidating. In just a moment, he gathered a lot of information.

This place was the Land of Eternal Night, without daylight, eternally pitch black, like an abyss that devours everything.

They had rushed here because they saw a celestial light tear through the eternal night, thinking a treasure was descending.

According to records, once celestial light appears, treasures are very likely to fall.

Besides treasures, people like Lu Changsheng, or even beasts, could also appear.

People like them were called people from Beyond the Heavens.

“What kind of techniques do you use?”

Lu Changsheng continued to ask.

His Blood Energy, magical energy, and divine sense seemed to be dormant here.

But these people possessed a method similar to body refiners, their bodies faintly glowing, resembling Blood Energy or magical energy.

“Reporting, Great One, this is Celestial Light Force.”

One of them respectfully introduced to Lu Changsheng that this was a power born after the life level was elevated.

Depending on each person’s cultivation method, the resulting force would be different, but it was collectively called “Celestial Light Force,” a beautiful name.

“Show me your cultivation method.”

Lu Changsheng said directly, wanting to learn more.

“This…”

This person hesitated.

Cultivation methods were personal secrets, and normally no one would be willing to reveal them.

“Great One, I am willing to offer my cultivation method, but I did not bring it with me.”

However, Lu Changsheng displayed strength far beyond theirs and was also a person from Beyond the Heavens. Immediately, someone stepped forward to curry favor, willing to proactively offer their cultivation method.

“No need for such trouble.”

Lu Changsheng gestured for someone to demonstrate Celestial Light Force for him. Then, using the Sun-Moon Yin-Yang Mirror to observe his condition, he saw that it was similar to body refinement techniques.

Only, the force cultivated was not suppressed or affected by this world.

If he was willing, with his fourth-rank physique foundation, he could quickly get started and cultivate this Celestial Light Force.

“Since you know about people from Beyond the Heavens, do you know how to leave this place?” Lu Changsheng asked.

“This… Great One, regarding people from Beyond the Heavens, we’ve only heard of them. For more information, you could go to Crimson Glow City far away…”

These people said with troubled expressions.

They were just people living in towns in this area and had limited information.

People from Beyond the Heavens like Lu Changsheng were only something they had heard of, never seen.

“Besides my appearance, have you seen any other celestial lights?”

Since he had appeared, with a celestial light tearing through the eternal night, then Qian Zhuyan, Golden-Winged Roc, and even Six Paths Demon Concubine appearing in this world would also be accompanied by celestial light.

“It seemed a celestial light flashed deep in the mountains, but we dare not enter.”

They dared not hide anything and told the truth.

The Land of Eternal Night was very dangerous, with a harsh environment, especially in these wildernesses and mountains.

Not only were there wild beasts and mutated creatures, but also many mysterious and unknown dangers that they could not set foot in.

“Deep mountains?”

Lu Changsheng looked towards the depths and then said, “Point me in the direction. Roughly how deep?”

“Reporting, Great One, I only vaguely saw a celestial light flash by. The exact distance is hard to estimate, but it should be in the deepest part of the mountains.”

Listening to these people’s descriptions, Lu Changsheng pondered for a moment and decided to first understand the situation before entering the deep mountains to investigate.

After all, according to these people, there were still certain dangers in the mountains.

He absolutely could not be careless in his current situation.

Moreover, he wanted to see if the Celestial Light Force, the cultivation method here, could awaken his dormant magical energy.

If he could recover some magical energy and use his Storage Ring, his combat power would be greatly enhanced.

Deep in the mountains, everything was enveloped by thick darkness.

Dense weeds and trees rustled and groaned in the ice-cold night wind, like countless ghostly figures weeping and drifting.

However, in the deep, dark forest, a puppet with a dark, cold metallic luster scanned its surroundings, two balls of ghostly green flames burning in its eye sockets, assessing the situation.

“Where is this place…”

Qian Zhuyan tried to find Lu Changsheng’s trail, but could not detect any aura.

After waiting for a long time and seeing no sign of Lu Changsheng or the Golden-Winged Roc, she began to walk towards other places, searching further.

Just then, she suddenly noticed a cloud of black mist not far away, seemingly alive, secretly watching her.

Alarmed, she raised her mechanical arm, and a burst of dark wind blades flew towards the black mist.

“Ah!!!”

The wind blades passed through the black mist, and instantly a shrill scream echoed through the night sky.

Immediately after, the black mist rapidly condensed, forming a humanoid outline of a specter, its eyes looking at Qian Zhuyan with icy coldness, lunging towards her.

Unlike Lu Changsheng, Qian Zhuyan’s core puppet crystal was unaffected. In fact, half of her soul, which had transformed into a puppet spirit, was even more active.

The ghost fire in her eye sockets burned fiercely, and her mechanical arm, like a battle blade, erupted with a dark, sharp light, directly cleaving the humanoid specter in two.

The specter’s form sizzled and crackled as if it were oil poured onto a raging fire. Being split in half, it dimmed considerably, then dissolved into a cloud of black mist, quickly fleeing.

This cloud of specter was extremely strange and of unknown origin. How could Qian Zhuyan easily let it escape? The orbs in her eye sockets shot out two streams of fiercely burning azure flames, and then the battle blade in her hand flew out.

“Ah!!!”

Under the azure flames, the black mist wailed miserably like a living being, then shattered completely under the blade, vanishing into smoke, dropping a jade-green crystal the size of a fingernail.

“What is this?”

Qian Zhuyan stepped forward, picked up the crystal, and felt that this object had a strange attraction to her puppet spirit’s soul.

She examined it carefully.

It was somewhat like a demon beast crystal core, but completely different, exuding an aura of yin and cold.

With only her soul remaining, and half of her soul transformed into a puppet spirit, she instantly recognized that the crystal contained the power of yin spirits.

But unlike the Ghost Core seen in the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons, the yin spirit power in the crystal was extremely pure and refined.

It seemed it could be used to enhance and nurture her puppet spirit’s soul.

“This…”

The spirit fire in Qian Zhuyan’s eye sockets flickered excitedly.

Although she possessed a fourth-rank puppet body, her puppet spirit was still third-rank.

Facing Nascent Soul True Lords, she could only barely fight with the Puppet Battle Formation.

If her puppet spirit advanced to the fourth-rank, she would be able to truly contend with Nascent Soul True Lords and control more puppets, wielding even more powerful spells and Puppet Battle Formations.

But thinking about how she still didn’t know where she was, and her master was missing, she felt a wave of sadness in her heart.

However, recalling the black mist from the Phantom Ship engulfing them, and how her master’s magical energy and Spirit Treasures seemed to be suppressed and affected, possibly putting him in danger, she immediately searched around.

At the same time, a tall and magnificent White Bone Palace stood above a spring pool flowing with fiery red light, eerily illuminated.

“Unexpectedly, the legends were true. The Phantom Ship does connect to a spatial rift.”

“According to that handwritten note, the Netherworld Land possesses a crystal called ‘Soul Crystal,’ similar to Ghost Cores but incomparably pure, which can be used to cultivate the Ghost Path and nurture ghost spirits.”

Inside the White Bone Palace, Six Paths Demon Concubine looked at the corpse in front of her, recalling a handwritten note about the Phantom Ship she had once read.

It recorded many details about the Phantom Ship and the Netherworld Land.

Although the information in the note seemed true, not many dared to try and use the Phantom Ship to come to this spatial rift.

Even if cultivators wanted to come to this world to seek opportunities, whether they could encounter the Phantom Ship was one thing.

Encountering it, entering it alive, and being able to guarantee their exit was another matter entirely.

“The Netherworld Land suppresses cultivators’ Blood Energy, magical energy, and divine sense.”

Six Paths Demon Concubine felt her Nascent Soul as if dormant and couldn’t help but think of Lu Changsheng.

Although she was suppressed, the palace’s Spiritual Soldiers and Ghost Maidservants were not affected. If she encountered Lu Changsheng, this would be an opportunity for revenge.

Thinking of what had happened here before, on this Dais of steps, Six Paths Demon Concubine’s gorgeous and bewitching face revealed a hint of intoxication.

But in the next moment, her clear and flawless, naturally charming eyes suddenly flashed with a cold killing intent.

She, as the wife of the Six Paths Demon Lord, a Nascent Soul True Lord, was forcibly pressed down here by a Core Formation cultivator. She must kill this person to vent her anger!

Using the most cruel and ruthless means! But thinking of his powerful and robust, seemingly pure body cultivator’s fourth-rank physique, and the fourth-rank puppet and roc beside him, her eyes again showed a hint of apprehension.

Although she possessed Spiritual Soldiers and Ghost Maidservants, her greatest weapon, the White Bone Demon Palace, was also affected.

The White Bone Ghost King could not freely move this Demon Palace as in the outside world.

Without the White Bone Demon Palace and White Bone Ghost King, even with Ghost Maidservants, she was no match for Lu Changsheng, Qian Zhuyan, and the Golden-Winged Roc.

“Soul Crystals… if I have enough Soul Crystals, my Spiritual Soldiers’ strength can be raised by a level.”

“And according to the handwritten note, there are some rare treasures in this world that can release some dormant magical energy. As long as I recover a bit of magical energy, I can open my Storage Ring and Spirit Pet Bag.”

Six Paths Demon Concubine’s exquisite jade hand, adorned with a blood-colored jade ring and Yunshan Serpent finger guard, clenched slightly, her beautiful eyes shifting, exuding indescribable allure, endless charm, elegance, and nobility.

Reaching the Nascent Soul level, almost everyone has a deep foundation, possessing many treasures and exotic items.

And she, as the Six Paths Demon Concubine, naturally surpassed many cultivators of the same level.

As long as she could open her Storage Ring and Spirit Pet Bag, her strength in this world would increase by a level, making her fearless of Lu Changsheng, and even allowing her to find a way to leave.

Without much hesitation, she summoned some Spiritual Soldiers to go out to scout the situation and hunt some demon beasts.

Under the boundless, abyss-like pitch-black eternal night, a black-feathered, white-beaked night hawk spread its wings, flying over mountain range after mountain range.

At the edges of these mountain ranges, one could occasionally see some faintly glowing places or villages.

After a long while, the night hawk swooped down towards a city standing in the center of several majestic mountains.

This city shone with radiant light, as bright as day in the eternal night, illuminating the surroundings with much splendor, very eye-catching.

Passing through the ancient, heavy cyan city walls, the night hawk landed on the tallest and most magnificent building in the city, chirping clearly.

“Reporting to the City Lord, the night hawk has scouted and found a huge celestial light appearing deep in the Silent Night Ridge!”

A guard outside the building saw the night hawk and immediately went to the hall to report.

“Huge celestial light? I wonder if there are any natural treasures within that celestial light that can restore magical energy…”

Deep within the City Lord’s Mansion, a stunningly beautiful figure wearing a colorful palace dress, with a tall and graceful figure, heard the report and murmured softly, then walked out of the palace.

Lu Changsheng came to a town with these people.

Although this world was pitch black without daylight, there were still some places suitable for human survival.

For example, the villages and towns where they lived were mostly built based on the [Fire Springs].

Soaking certain stones in the Fire Springs could not only provide lighting but also warmth.

And the crops and grains irrigated by the Fire Springs were also like spirit rice, greatly beneficial to people.

“This is the Fire Spring?”

Lu Changsheng came to the fiery red pool in front, shrouded in misty haze, and saw that the Fire Spring was somewhat similar to spirit veins and spirit eye springs.

The shimmering spring water in the pool contained some special substance that could nourish people and things.

Under the tense gazes of these people, as if worried he would seize this Fire Spring for himself, Lu Changsheng glanced at it for a moment and then looked away, temporarily settling down in the town, preparing to study the Celestial Light Force.

“Hmm!?”

Then, just as he settled down, holding the secret manual, preparing to read it, Lu Changsheng suddenly felt a faint wisp of magical energy surge into his Qi Sea Dantian from nowhere.

But soon, this wisp of magical energy sank into the Dantian Lake, which was as if dormant.

“It can still be like this?”

Lu Changsheng’s face lit up with joy.

When Lu Family disciples and descendants cultivated, once they broke through, their cultivation and magical energy would be added to him, the ancestor.

But now, except when his children broke through to Core Formation, the bonus to him was almost negligible under normal circumstances.

But just now, it should be that a Lu Family descendant’s Qi Refining cultivation had broken through, causing him to gain a faint wisp of magical energy.

Normally, such a faint wisp of magical energy would be useless.

But in this world, his Blood Energy, magical energy, and divine sense were all suppressed and dormant.

As long as he gained a bit of magical energy, he could open his Storage Pouch.

Not to mention anything else, among the puppets Qian Zhuyan crafted, there were three third-rank top-tier puppets that could fight autonomously without him fully controlling them with his divine sense.

If he took out these three puppets from the Storage Pouch, he would instantly have three top-tier bodyguards, and he could consider going to the celestial light location in the deep mountains to take a look.

Moreover, the Mountain-Moving Whip for the Brahma Demon True Form could temporarily be used as his weapon to enhance his combat power.

If worst came to worst, he could also awaken the Soul-Taking Beast in the Spirit Pet Bag, adding another top-tier combat force! “It’s a pity this wisp of magical energy is too small and too slow. If only a Qi Refining disciple in the family could break through, it would allow me to quickly take out an item from the Storage Pouch.”

Lu Changsheng exhaled a breath of stale air, focusing some of his spirit and attention on his Qi Sea Dantian.

Waiting for a child or descendant in the family to break through and give him some magical energy.