The four blue Chaos Stones were refined by Lan Xiaobu and Mo Wuji into eighteen array flags. The array flags made from Chaos Stones had no additional materials, each one as light as a feather in hand.
The eighteen array flags were planted, with the Chaos Plaque as the array core, and a Space-Tracing Array was instantly set up. As soon as the array activated, a clear yellowish fork road appeared before the trio, seemingly much wider than the other paths of the Chaos Road.
“Old Ou and I will go first, Xiaobu, you come last and collect the array flags,” Mo Wuji said, stepping onto the fork road. The array flags made from blue Chaos Stones were highly useful in the Chaos Road and could aid Lan Xiaobu in collecting the Chaos Road in the future, so Mo Wuji had Lan Xiaobu enter last to retrieve them.
Ou Ping and Mo Wuji entered the fork road, and Lan Xiaobu followed. As he stepped in, he casually swept his hand, collecting the eighteen array flags and the Chaos Plaque.
As expected, a station appeared before them, noticeably larger than the others.
“Station One,” Ou Ping read the words on the station.
Lan Xiaobu was somewhat surprised. He had been fixated on finding Station One, yet it came so easily. Now he understood that reaching Station One required array flags refined from blue Chaos Stones, with the Chaos Plaque as the array core.
The trio entered Station One. Unlike other stations, though it appeared large from the outside, it contained only a single teleportation array at its centre. Surrounding the array were six faint Dao patterns, impenetrable to divine sense and invisible to the eye.
“Xiaobu, if you can’t find the Chaos Dao Heart in the future, you might try coming back to Station One of the Chaos Road to see if refining these six Dao patterns could help you refine the Chaos Dao,” Mo Wuji said, immediately noticing the uniqueness of the patterns.
“Why not try refining them now?” Ou Ping asked, puzzled.
Before Mo Wuji could answer, Lan Xiaobu chuckled, “With my current strength, refining these six Dao patterns would take at least hundreds of thousands of years, if not more.”
Not to mention that hundreds of thousands of years might not even be enough, even if it were guaranteed, Lan Xiaobu wouldn’t do it. Spending hundreds of thousands of years holed up here just for the Chaos Dao?
The Chaos Dao was powerful, but not worth Lan Xiaobu wasting hundreds of thousands of years. Besides, in that time, his cultivation might have already reached a higher level. The higher the cultivation, the faster one could refine such Dao patterns. With the Chaos Plaque and Dao Heart Disk in his possession, if he couldn’t take the Chaos Dao, no one else could either.
Refining it now would take hundreds of thousands of years, but if he reached the fifth or even sixth stage one day, it might take only months. That was the difference.
“Let’s get on the teleportation array,” Lan Xiaobu said, stepping onto one corner of the array. Mo Wuji and Ou Ping followed suit.
Lan Xiaobu took out two blue Chaos Stones. “Wuji, we’ll insert the Chaos Stones together and leave this place. If we arrive in the Great Cosmos, focus on improving your strength.”
Mo Wuji added, “Unless absolutely necessary, don’t reveal your Great Path principles. That powerhouse almost certainly knows our principles. If we expose them, we’re as good as dead. This is our best chance to escape. That powerhouse wouldn’t expect us to slip away, and their attention is likely still on the realm we came from, not elsewhere. Xiaobu, insert the Chaos Stones.”
Lan Xiaobu and Mo Wuji placed the four blue Chaos Stones into the four corners of the teleportation array. The array surged with faint blue light, enveloping the trio and whisking them away.
Neither Lan Xiaobu nor Mo Wuji made plans to meet again.
If they weren’t teleported to the Great Cosmos, they’d likely still be under that powerhouse’s surveillance, and contacting each other would be suicidal. If they reached the Great Cosmos, its vastness made talk of reuniting impractical.
Communication beads from a mid-tier universe might not work in the Great Cosmos. Even if they did, they’d likely only function within a small area.
Though Lan Xiaobu and Mo Wuji had never been to the Great Cosmos, they could guess as much. Their communication beads from low-tier universes were nearly useless in mid-tier universes due to weak communication principles.
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Lan Xiaobu couldn’t remember the last time teleportation principles had overwhelmed him to the point of dizziness. Normally, even for ultra-long-distance teleportations, his divine sense could still perceive the flow of spatial principles. But this time, he was so dizzy he could barely stay conscious, let alone extend his divine sense.
The powerful teleportation principles enveloped him, leaving him no ability to resist. At that moment, any mishap could tear him to shreds.
The teleportation seemed endless, and Lan Xiaobu struggled to avoid passing out. After an unknown amount of time, just as he was about to lose his grip, the spatial principles holding him abruptly vanished.
With the spatial principles gone, Lan Xiaobu felt like a rapidly spinning top, whirling uncontrollably in the void. He frantically extended his domain and circulated his Dao intent.
Under the protection of his Sage domain and the resistance of his Dao intent, his body gradually slowed and finally came to a stop in the void.
Then, he was overjoyed. Even if this wasn’t the Great Cosmos, it was definitely no ordinary mid-tier universe. He felt his divine sense suppressed here, indicating his Great Path principles were restricted. Yet, even in the void, he sensed that cultivating here would cause his strength to soar—not just in raw power, but in the refinement of his principles.
Lan Xiaobu summoned a top-grade flying divine artifact. Though the Seven Realms Stone would be ideal for finding a star continent, he didn’t dare use it. He had no idea where he was. If powerhouses were as common as dogs and one’s divine sense casually detected the Seven Realms Stone, it would be snatched from him in an instant.
The top-grade flying divine artifact wasn’t slow, but after nearly a decade of continuous flight in this void, Lan Xiaobu hadn’t seen a single planet, person, or even a meteorite. If not for the decent cosmic vitality that could enhance his strength, he’d have thought he was in an empty void.
Just as he was about to risk summoning the Seven Realms Stone, he sensed a fluctuation in the void—not a principle fluctuation, but a spatial disturbance from rapid flight.
Lan Xiaobu immediately steered his top-grade flying divine artifact to pursue, but to his astonishment, even pushing the artifact to its limit, he couldn’t make out what had passed by.
He stopped and performed the Heaven-Reversing Sun-Returning Divine Ability in a chosen space. This was one of the thirty-six Tiangang transformations, capable of retracing recent events in a space through spatial principles.
After the time of one incense stick, a slightly blurry image appeared before him. It looked like a flyer, but Lan Xiaobu stared at it, stunned.
It was because of a spaceship that Lan Xiaobu had entered the vast cosmos, encountered the Three Thousand Great Paths, and begun his cultivation journey. He was certain this was no flying treasure—it was a spaceship.
Could he have arrived in another low-tier universe? Lan Xiaobu quickly dismissed the thought. It was impossible. The cosmic rules here were more profound than those of mid-tier universes, and the cosmic vitality could further elevate his strength. No low-tier universe could have such a void.
The only possibility was what Ou Ping had mentioned about the Great Cosmos, where technological civilization had reached level eighteen, as formidable as cultivation civilization. The spaceship that just passed might have been a product of the Great Cosmos’s technological civilization.
Though the spaceship was fast, it hadn’t concealed its trail. Lan Xiaobu controlled his top-grade flying divine artifact, following the trace, barely keeping up with its path.
After nearly a year of continuous pursuit, just as the trail was about to vanish, a vast blue planet appeared in Lan Xiaobu’s divine sense.
Had he finally found an inhabited planet? Lan Xiaobu sped up and rushed toward it. When his divine sense landed on the vast blue entity again, he was stunned. This massive existence, larger than a planet, wasn’t a planet—it was a flying treasure.
Though still far from it, Lan Xiaobu could sense it was a flyer built from a fusion of technological and cultivation civilizations.
It belonged to someone else, and Lan Xiaobu had no intention of approaching. Just as he was about to turn and leave, two figures rapidly approached him. Before they arrived, their domains pressed down, distinctly unfriendly.
