Chapter 118 Mountain Range Area

Two days later.

Xu Jingming looked at the continuous mountain peaks ahead, with no end in sight.

"This is the mountain range area?" Xu Jingming became more cautious. According to what he had learned from the North River Cosmos Lord, many terrifying experts had already entered the inner region. "In the mountain range area, my strength is probably at the bottom, so I must be careful."

Xu Jingming restrained his aura and immediately entered the mountain range area.

At this moment, outside this boundless land, all the 'Third Realm existences' in this parallel space were gathered here. Thirty-five towering figures were constantly observing the exploration process of the semi-Third Realm experts, following the threads of karma.

"So many semi-Third Realm experts are converging towards the inner region from all directions along the edge of the continent. Quite a few have already entered the inner region," said Lord Yu Huo, watching from afar with puzzlement. "But so far, we haven't discovered anything special."

"What exactly did the ultimate existence leave this place for?"

"Was it to make those runes public?"

These Third Realm existences watched with confusion. Those treasures seemed precious, but they were not of great significance to Third Realm existences. The ultimate existence could create a large number of precious material resources at will.

After thinking about it, only those mysterious characters were extraordinary.

"I can feel that these characters contain a trace of the ultimate power," said the Lord of Ke Ye.

"You can't become the ultimate existence by relying on characters alone," Lord Yu Huo shook his head. "You must first achieve your own path, reach the pinnacle of the Third Realm, and then die and be reborn before you have a glimmer of hope of becoming the ultimate."

"Yes." Old Master Xu, the Drunken Weng, nodded. "The four ultimate existences have all publicly admitted that they all died and were reborn before finally succeeding. This is their common experience."

"Then these characters might just be a little fun for the ultimate existence?" Lord Ke Ye smiled.

"The path to the ultimate is not so easy to achieve. These characters can at most be an aid, adding to our accumulation," Lou Ye Jun said calmly.

Everyone present nodded slightly.

In each complete space-time, only a few Third Realm existences are born in endless years.

And in countless space-times, only those four ultimate existences have been born!

The difficulty of the path made the Third Realm existences despair.

"The ultimate existence can't cultivate the ultimate," Lord Yu Huo shook his head. "The four ultimate existences are all on completely different paths."

The Primordial Star, the Abyss, the Mother River, the Mind World… the four paths were completely different.

"These characters may really just be for fun," these Third Realm existences continued to observe carefully. Even if it was for fun, it was the ultimate existence's fun! It might represent their opportunity.

If they performed well enough and caught the eye of the ultimate existence, and were fortunate enough to become a 'follower' of the ultimate existence, then it would be completely different, and they would be able to step onto the grand stage of many space-times.

"Jingming, he finally went in," Old Master Xu, the Drunken Weng, had been paying attention to Xu Jingming. Through karma, he could understand Xu Jingming's exploration process at all times.

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Whoosh!

Xu Jingming cautiously stuck to the surface of the mountains as he hurried on his way. He controlled the surrounding void, restrained his aura, and suppressed all fluctuations. "The place left by the ultimate existence has extremely strong rule suppression. Now I'm controlling the surrounding small area of the void. As long as I'm not too close, I shouldn't be discovered."

"I've been in here for an hour, and I haven't seen any treasures."

Xu Jingming was slightly disappointed.

After all, he had been traveling for an hour, and had passed through a very large area, but there were no treasures, and no attacks from any native creatures.

"Have all the treasures in the outer area of the mountains been snatched away?" Xu Jingming guessed secretly. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he stared at an inconspicuous canyon in the distance.

The canyon was very remote and dark. From Xu Jingming's perspective, he could barely see it. He could vaguely see that there were many black plants in the canyon. Xu Jingming could see a faint glimmer of light there. That glimmer of light, even from a distance, made Xu Jingming's heart and soul tremble.

"It might be a treasure." Xu Jingming immediately approached.

As he got closer, he could see clearly that the glimmer of light was actually a phantom sphere slightly larger than Xu Jingming's body. The surface of the sphere was flowing with light. It was constantly absorbing the power of the void, and growing extremely slowly.

"It absorbs external power to grow? I'm afraid it has taken countless abyssal epochs to grow so big," Xu Jingming observed carefully. "Just watching it can affect my mind and consciousness! It must be an amazing treasure, but… I've never seen it before, and I can't recognize it."

He didn't recognize this treasure, and had never even heard of it.

Whoosh.

Xu Jingming immediately divided his figure. One figure remained in place, and the other figure carefully approached.

Just as he was about to touch the phantom sphere—

A flash of light suddenly swept past Xu Jingming.

This flash of light was extremely fast. Xu Jingming, who had been on guard, didn't have time to dodge. This clone of his was swept by this flash of light.

"This?" Xu Jingming's eyes widened in shock. He felt a terrifying destructive power erupting instantly along the wound, completely spreading throughout his body. The vitality of this clone was completely cut off, annihilated and dissipated.

With just one strike, the clone was completely annihilated.

At this time, the culprit also revealed its true appearance. It was a small, dark red alien beast. The dark red alien beast had a pair of sharp claws, like blades.

"Destroying one of my clones with one strike, this kind of destructive power… is enough to rival the invincible semi-Third Realm," Xu Jingming watched this scene solemnly from afar. Because he knew nothing about the phantom sphere, and didn't know if there was any danger, he sent a clone to try to collect it.

The dark red alien beast stared at Xu Jingming, and with a whoosh, disappeared out of thin air again.

"This native creature is much stronger than any native creature I've encountered in the outer area," Xu Jingming thought, and instantly created ten clones.

The ten Xu Jingmings stood scattered, each calmly sensing the surroundings, and at the same time had deployed the Void Abyss Illusion, covering a vast area in all directions.

"This native creature is indeed very peculiar. Once it hides, even the Void Abyss Illusion can't touch it," Xu Jingming had always been curious as to why these native creatures had such abilities.

Once they hid, they seemed to disappear in this space-time, and no means could touch them or attack them.

Only when they appeared could he touch these native creatures!

The hidden dark red alien beast hesitated for a moment when it saw the ten Xu Jingmings, but then the killing intent in the dark red alien beast's eyes became even stronger.

"Kill!"

Swoosh!

The dark red alien beast reappeared and attacked again. However, this time when it appeared, the area had already been enveloped by the Void Abyss Illusion. It was naturally dragged into the illusion and its mind and consciousness were affected. At the same time, three of Xu Jingming's clones used Mind Weapons, turning into three black rays of light that pierced through the dark red alien beast's body.

The dark red alien beast's reaction was slightly slower due to the influence of the illusion, but when three black rays of light pierced through its body, the alien beast's pair of sharp claws still swung.

"Hmm?"

The three black rays of light in the distance transformed into three clones, each holding a weapon, but two of the clones had rapidly spreading wounds. New clones immediately appeared to replace them.

"Losing two more clones," Xu Jingming's expression became even more solemn. "This alien beast's skills are so superb that they're beyond comprehension. I can't stop a casual claw, and if I'm hit, the life form will definitely be destroyed."

The killing intent in the dark red alien beast's eyes became even stronger. It let out a low roar, and the roar made Xu Jingming's heart tremble. "His roar can affect my mind and consciousness."

This time, the dark red alien beast didn't even hide. It flashed and pounced.

Xu Jingming's many clones also rushed up madly. The Void Abyss Illusion was constantly maintained, and even the Red Lotus Fire rose up. Black rays of light crisscrossed and pierced through the dark red alien beast's body. The dark red alien beast's injuries were obviously getting worse and worse, but it became even more crazy, and its killing intent became even stronger.

"Whoosh."

When another black ray of light pierced through the dark red alien beast's body, the madness in the dark red alien beast's eyes dissipated, dimmed, and it fell down.

Many Xu Jingmings approached.

"It took me 47 clones to kill him." Many Xu Jingmings looked at the dark red alien beast's corpse. "He seems a little stupid. Once he starts fighting, he becomes more and more crazy. Even when he's near death, he doesn't retreat."

"Those native creatures in the outer area are very cunning and know how to escape."

"But the native creatures in the inner area are stronger, but seem stupid?" Xu Jingming was a little puzzled.

The dark red alien beast's corpse silently dissipated, leaving behind only three characters.

"Hmm?"

Xu Jingming stared blankly at the three characters in front of him.

These three characters were a black character, a colorful character, and a transparent character. Three different types of characters, but they were combined together, and their auras flowed as one.

"Three characters, perfectly combined?" Xu Jingming seemed to see a new world in an instant. He had collected more than a thousand characters, and had some insights. But compared to the perfect combination of the three characters left behind by the dark red alien beast, his insights were not worth mentioning.

At this moment, Xu Jingming was touched.

"Can they be combined like this?"

"The many characters I've collected can also be combined." Xu Jingming immediately had a variety of schemes in his mind. Although the schemes were very rough, and far less perfect than the combination of the three characters left behind by the dark red alien beast, they already represented a new direction.

Although he was very excited, Xu Jingming didn't dare to delay. He immediately had a clone collect the three characters, and another clone walked towards the phantom sphere.

The power of the Mind World tried to touch it, and easily integrated into the phantom sphere.

"This sphere?"

Xu Jingming was shocked.

After the power of the Mind World entered the phantom sphere, Xu Jingming seemed to see a chaotic world. "This phantom sphere is a natural, huge illusion! It can be shaped by me to form an illusory world?"

As soon as he came into contact with it, Xu Jingming hadn't studied it carefully yet, but he was very sure that the value of this phantom sphere far exceeded a Third Realm weapon. It was worthy of being a rare treasure left behind by the ultimate existence.