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Chapter 626: Chapter 475: Cosmic World_2
"I’ve gained a lot of insight, truly a lot of insight this time." The scar-faced male cultivator chuckled, touching his bald head, while the bronze hammer in his other hand practically leapt with anticipation. At this moment, he had an overwhelming urge to smash through the crust to see what the core of this Cosmic Realm actually was.
"Alright, the terrain has nothing to do with us. Don’t just think about these things and don’t forget our mission." The male cultivator, who had never spoken among the four, finally said. The mission given by the Southern Domain Alliance was to explore this Cosmic Realm, search within ten thousand miles around the space rift for everything known and unknown, and assess their danger levels, rather than traveling across worlds for a tour.
"No rush—I imagine that Lord Star Venerable would find such terrain interesting as well," the gaunt cultivator replied, simultaneously touching his fingertip to his brow. In the next second, a blue arc flashed in his eyes, followed by a pained expression on his face:
"It’s no use; my Clairvoyant Eye is too restricted in this world, only able to probe a hundred meters underground at most."
The other three: "..."
A hundred meters?
Then how are you any different from trash right now!
Among the four, the gaunt cultivator was positioned as the scout, identifier, and auxiliary. With ninety-five percent of his Clairvoyant Eye’s capability nullified, his role within the team was largely crippled.
Noticing the others eyeing him unfavorably, the gaunt man was exasperated and said, "What are you all looking at me for? Hurry up and test your own divine techniques! The rules of this Cosmic World don’t only cause trouble for me; do you think you’re going to fare much better?"
His argument was reasonable, and the others began their own tests.
The rules differ between worlds, and after crossing worlds, whether a cultivator’s divine techniques can continue to work or display sufficient power is something beyond their control as advance explorers.
After all, rules are rules. Unless your mastered technique operates on a level universal across the Ten Thousand Realms, changing worlds might render it useless.
After some probing, all four of them looked rather grim.
It wasn’t just one or two abilities being weakened; they were reduced by over ninety percent overall, and some techniques conflicting with Cosmic World rules couldn’t even be used!
"Ah, it looks like the worst-case scenario has occurred," said the scarred man holding the bronze melon hammer gloomily.
He was the most relaxed among the four because he was a Body Cultivator. Though he had various divine techniques, being restricted didn’t matter much. With the bronze hammer in hand, he could still exert Nirvana-level combat power. Although it was less than thirty percent of his peak power, he could at least maintain it at the Nirvana Realm level.
In contrast, the other three had it much worse.
"Old Hann, stop making sarcastic remarks. We’re in the Cosmic World, with only about a hundred of our own people spread too widely. Who knows how many years it’ll be before running into each other again. For now, we’re your only teammates, so if we’re weakened, you are too." The female cultivator, whose prowess was diminished by ninety-nine percent, wanted to curse but spoke more diplomatically to maintain her dignity.
She specialized in the Fire Technique, along the Fire Tao, and though not all of her abilities were large-scale offensives, they were pure Dharma cultivation. When faced with rule conflicts, her techniques were reduced to little or no effect. Relying on her Nirvana Realm foundation, apart from Body Nirvana and the ability to fly, she doubted she could even handle a Divine Travel Realm cultivator right now!
Without strength, naturally, there was no confidence in speaking.
"Heh, Immortal Chijiu, look at how you speak. We’re teammates, after all. How could I, Old Hann, look down on you? Don’t worry, as long as I’m alive in this Cosmic World, I guarantee your safety!"
Damn it!
Upon hearing this, the female cultivator named Chijiu cursed internally. Given the glint in Bald Hann’s eyes, she felt he was now the greatest threat she faced!
The other two had varied expressions.
But to be honest, it wasn’t all that surprising.
They were seasoned beings, hundreds of years into cultivation. Even in a world with conflicting rules, everyone had a few ace techniques up their sleeve, and they weren’t necessarily weaker than Hann Guang when forced to fight!
At least until the cards were revealed, that was the case!
Scarred Hann was cognizant of this fact, so he was just taking advantage verbally.
After some bickering,
the four chose to stick together and ventured in a randomly chosen direction to investigate.
Whatever else happened,
the priority was to find a native lifeform of the Cosmic Realm and extract some fundamental knowledge of the world from them.
Similar situations to the quartet’s were not isolated cases.
The over hundred cultivators who crossed over from the Celestial Profound Realm were all subject to the rules’ conflicts of the Cosmic World.
Not only were most of their techniques nullified, but some unlucky ones were caught by native lifeforms even before their physical bodies fully recovered after being spit out from the space rift.
Zhang Wen was a typical example of this.
And it was unclear if his luck was good or bad.
While penetrating the space rift, he encountered a space storm, and the two cultivators traveling the same pathway perished in the corridor, while he alone barely escaped this Star Realm catastrophe with his life.
However, he emerged from the space rift as nothing but a blob of flesh and bone the size of an arm and was immediately consumed by a... presumably a tree?
Zhang Wen wasn’t sure how to describe the ’flesh tree’ that had engulfed him.
It clearly looked like a tree but was composed of flesh and blood. The roots, which should have absorbed nutrients underground, turned into wriggling tentacles, and the bark was replaced by scales. The most revolting part, for Zhang Wen, was the mouth located at the flower’s core.
Without fangs, the flesh tree simply ingested Zhang Wen through its esophagus, relying solely on muscular contractions to ’transport’ him to what was likely the digestive organ.
’This damn Cosmic World, cursed void storm, why am I, Zhang Wen, so unfortunate to end up like this?’
Feeling his remaining body undergoing Nirvana restoration while simultaneously being digested by the flesh tree — the process consuming nearly ten times the usual Nirvana cost — Zhang Wen cursed furiously.
Why was his luck so poor!
If he had encountered this flesh tree at full capacity, it wouldn’t last a single bout against him, but now he was being taken advantage of and wondered if he could escape before being completely digested!
A day later,
under various suppressive forces, Zhang Wen, who had only recovered thirty percent, could no longer endure.
Having only restored a skeletal hand and a head covered in tendons and bone, Zhang Wen knew if he continued to wait, he’d be completely digested by the monstrous tree before full recovery.
Seething, a flame gathered in Zhang Wen’s mouth.
Then, like a fiery blade, it spewed forth!
"Die..."
After a rumble, flames filled Zhang Wen’s vision, causing his partially restored form to collapse back into a lump of blood and flesh.
The desperate attack had an effect.
Though the flesh tree consuming him had a surprisingly robust digestive defense system, under the onslaught of excruciating pain and raging flames, it bizarrely defragmented into thousands of ebony-hued twig-like entities, fleeing in all directions...
This... wasn’t a single entity?
But how had it been digesting Zhang Wen until now?
In Nirvana state once more, Zhang Wen could not know. His internal attack had caused the flesh tree to disintegrate, leaving a heap of charred, branch-like remnants and a mass of Zhang Wen’s flesh at the blast’s center...