Chapter 378: Passageway

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“Shall we talk?”

A voice came from outside, reaching Lu Ming’s ears.

It was Jiu Han.

Lu Ming nodded slightly, “Sure, let’s talk.”

As he spoke, he proactively opened the restrictions of the manor. Jiu Han and Bai Zhe walked into Lu Ming’s manor.

Beside the two of them was a yellow blurry ball of air, and Lu Ming quickly recognized it as the demonic qi clone of the Desolate Demon Lord.

With a wave of his hand, four round stools and a round table appeared on the open ground.

“Teacher, please sit, and two Seniors, please sit.”

After inviting everyone to take a seat, Lu Ming sat down.

The few of them looked at each other and were silent for a long time.

Lu Ming was waiting for Jiu Han and the others to speak.

However, Jiu Han and the others did not know where to start.

Things had developed too quickly.

It was so fast that they could not react.

In the blink of an eye, Jiu Han’s last disciple had gone from the Quasi-God Realm to the Divine Spirit Realm… and not just an ordinary Divine Spirit Realm expert, but a Divine Spirit Realm expert with three divinities, walking on the right path of the divine spirit realm.

The biggest question among them was… how did he complete the creation of the divinities alone?

In short, Lu Ming’s secrets were too big and there were too many doubtful points. There were so many that Jiu Han did not know where to begin.

Seeing Jiu Han stammering, Lu Ming smiled and took the initiative to speak.

“After Teacher left, 1…”

He started when Jiu Han went to the front lines.

He spoke about the opening of the Blood Demon Gate and how he had to study array formations to protect the Three Elements Academy.

Later, he discovered the research project Jiu Han left behind, which led him to the path of an Outer Dao God that Jiu Han had mentioned to him. He then used earth-shattering array formation knowledge to thoroughly figure out this path.

He skipped the details but still left Jiu Han and Bai Zhe dumbfounded…

It sounded simple, but doing this was simply harder than ascending to the heavens.

“In short, that’s about it. Looking at the power system on Vicky’s clone, my path should be fine…”

Concluding his words, Lu Ming looked at Jiu Han again.

“Teacher, what have you experienced during this time?”

Under Lu Ming’s guidance, Jiu Han finally sorted out his thoughts. He thought for a moment and said, “1 learned about what happened in Xuanshui City from the front lines of the battlefield…”

He spoke slowly and tirelessly, recounting everything he had experienced. When Jiu Han mentioned the crystal left behind by Lord Deun, Lu Ming immediately interrupted, “Can you tell me more about this?”

Jiu Han immediately nodded, “Of course.”

He conveyed to Lu Ming the information recorded in the crystal word for word. Lu Ming thought about it briefly but shook his head helplessly, “It’s useless to me.”

If he didn’t understand anything, and didn’t know anything, the information recorded in Lord Deun’s crystal could be considered a treasure!

However, in Lu Ming’s eyes now, the things in the crystal were almost all nonsense.

This was because it did not provide the general outline of cultivation from the Spirit Realm to the Source Realm.

Through the crystals, he could only know that the cultivation outline of the Spirit Realm was to constantly spiritualize blood patterns, the more the better… However, how to break through from the Spirit Realm to the Source Realm—of course, this was referring to the breakthrough in the true sense.

Lord Deun did not give an answer.

Rubbing his forehead, Lu Ming thought about it but did not feel bothered anymore.

He was still in the transformation stage and had not even reached the Spirit Realm, so there was no reason to worry about such distant matters.

Lu Ming’s gaze wandered outside, and a moment later, he asked Bai Zhe and the Desolate Demon Lord,

“Let’s talk about our next destination.”

“The Black Mist, the anomalies, and that place called the Dead Sea.”

In fact, Vicky was entering the area covered by the black mist for the first time.

As soon as he entered, Vicky felt that something was wrong.

As a true Spirit Realm expert, although Vicky did not attract the anomalies and was not isolated from the perception of the black mist, he could sense that the surrounding black mist had a sticky suction force on him.

It was like a normal person entering the water… no, it should be said that it was like a normal person soaking in a sea of syrup.

Although he could still breathe with the oxygen cylinder inserted, his every movement, every word, carried an indescribable sense of restraint.

Due to the existence of this sense of restraint, Vicky could not unleash his full strength, and his overall strength was weakened by at least 80%.

At the same time, he kept having a bad premonition in his heart.

His perception was also compressed.

Even so, Vicky could still vaguely sense the traces of Lu Ming and the others in the distance—he did not lose track of Lu Ming.

After thinking about it, the greed in his heart overwhelmed everything.

“The opportunity is right in front of me. Do I have any reason to give up halfway?”

“What is the black mist? We don’t know.”

“What are anomalies? We don’t know either.”

Bai Zhe spoke first, uttering these two sentences, and Lu Ming raised his eyebrows when he heard this, seemingly writing a question mark on his face.

Seeing this, Bai Zhe smiled bitterly, “Zero didn’t say that much.”

“Zero knows a lot. He’s also the leader of our subversives. Although we will tell the outside world that the leader of our subversives is someone else, it’s just for mystery. The real leader is Zero.”

“The terms like black mist, anomalies, and the Dead Sea are all told to us by Zero.”

“In addition, there’s also the Harvest Period.”

“The appearance of the black mist and the anomalies is the external manifestation of the Harvest Period.”

Jiuhan had just told Lu Ming about the concept of the Harvest Period. At this moment, Bai Zhe repeated it again. Lu Ming was not tired of it and just listened attentively.

It was not until Bai Zhe concluded, “In short, this Black Mist Zone is actually the garden of the Supreme God. The winners of the Heaven Ascension Stairs, which is the Divine Spirit Realm in its original sense, are the mature saplings that could be harvested. The ordinary non-Divine Spirit Realm saplings are prepared vegetables.”

“As for the Harvest Period, when winter comes, the garden will restart and wait for the next spring to sow and fertilize again.”

“This explanation is not correct.” Lu Ming immediately opened his mouth to refute, “There are too few of them, the number is too small. It takes a whole generation that ascends to the heavens to select a Divine Spirit Realm expert, but creating a divinity doesn’t take so much time.”

If it was just raising pigs, the Supreme God’s way of raising pigs would be too few.

If it were Lu Ming, he would have to produce 180 of them in a year.

Bai Zhe shook his head, “I’m not sure about that.”

At the side, the Desolate Demon Lord’s demonic qi clone added, “The Dead Sea is the origin of the Black Mist and the Anomalies.”

“It’s located deep underground, with an infinite area. Considering that we don’t know how deep the Dead Sea is, 1 feel that the space there is even much larger than our so-called Black Mist Zone’s surface area.”

This was also the reason why the Desolate Demon Lord suggested hiding in the Dead Sea.

After they finished speaking, Lu Ming’s gaze wandered as he looked out of the tower.

In the outside world, the Desolate Demon Lord, with the Boshi Tower, avoided the anomalies and traversed dangerous places.

Very soon, they appeared in front of the Ten Thousand Devil Abyss.

The voice of the Desolate Demon Lord suddenly sounded in Lu Ming’s ears.

“Actually, there’s another reason why 1 suggested coming to the Dead Sea.”

Lu Ming turned to look at the Desolate Demon Lord’s demonic qi clone and saw the Desolate Demon Lord saying in a deep voice,

“There might be a passageway here to leave the Black Mist Zone..”