Even a wisp of it contained terrifying dark elements.
Zi Linling slowly seeped her divine sense into the strand of darkness, patiently communicating with the dark element.
As she was a body favored by elements, she quickly grasped the fundamental properties of the dark element.
The dark element was all-pervasive, possessing characteristics of consumption and erosion.
"Darkness Shield!"
Zi Linling's lips parted slightly, and the form of the dark element began to change, rapidly compressing into the shape of a shield.
She attempted to attack with the five spiritual powers of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. However, these attacks on the Darkness Shield were quickly absorbed.
This meant that the five elemental attacks were ineffective against the Darkness Shield.
With a thought, Zi Linling produced a scalpel.
She raised her hand and slashed at the Darkness Shield. The shield was cleaved, but it quickly rejoined.
Huh?
Immune to physical attacks?
A flicker of excitement appeared in Zi Linling's eyes.
She raised her fist and punched the Darkness Shield.
The Darkness Shield scattered, but it soon returned to its original state.
It seemed her guess was correct.
The Darkness Shield was indeed immune to the five elemental spiritual powers and physical attacks.
The reason she could cleave and scatter the Darkness Shield earlier was because there was too little dark element drawn into the Goddess's Hall.
Otherwise, in the Abyss of Darkness, she would have been utterly helpless.
With this discovery, Zi Linling was filled with joy.
This was equivalent to adding another trump card to her hand.
"Darkness Erosion!"
Zi Linling commanded again, and the dark element transformed once more, slowly infiltrating a leaf.
A black spot instantly appeared on the leaf.
The black spot gradually spread outwards, soon covering the entire leaf.
Zi Linling noticed that as the black spot spread outwards, it resembled the fine roots of a large tree, dispersing into countless thin lines.
In this manner, it continuously dispersed, forming a network structure, eventually occupying a space.
Was this erosion?
Interesting! Interesting!
Zi Linling marveled internally.
This seemingly harmless dark element possessed such terrifying capabilities.
Its destructive power was even more formidable than the gold element, as this erosion was silent and imperceptible. By the time it was discovered, everything would already be irreversible.
After completing these two experiments, the strand of dark element Zi Linling had drawn in was almost entirely consumed.
She then realized that although the dark element had terrifying offensive power, it was not omnipotent.
This was because the dark element also depleted.
Zi Linling conducted several more experiments and found that in the presence of other elements, especially abundant light elements, the consumption of the dark element was accelerated.
However, in places shrouded in darkness, the offensive power of the dark element was enhanced.
Since the dark element was so potent, what about its opposite, the light element?
Zi Linling acted on her thoughts and began to communicate with the light element using her mind.
Soon, she discovered that the light element possessed almost identical attributes to the dark element.
It was immune to attacks from the five elemental spiritual powers and physical attacks, and it had a "Light Assimilation" similar to "Darkness Erosion."
Furthermore, the light element had peculiar life fluctuations, capable of healing.
Based on this, the light element, when combined with the wood element, could quickly replenish consumed energy.
Zi Linling was overjoyed and immersed herself in cultivating the light and dark elements.
She discovered that when cultivating both the light and dark elements simultaneously, her cultivation speed astonishingly increased by leaps and bounds, directly breaking through the barriers of cultivating two elements.
Outside the Goddess's Hall, the blurry shadow, having lost its target, wandered aimlessly for a while before reluctantly departing.
Inside the Goddess's Hall, Zi Linling busied herself alternating between cultivating the dark element and the light element, thoroughly engrossed.
Concurrently, the nascent world in her dantian underwent significant changes.
Within the nascent world, it was sometimes white, sometimes black. In the sky, a circular outline gradually appeared.
As white and black alternated, a peculiar energy was born within the nascent world.
The small tree, which had previously stopped growing, began to flourish rapidly once more.
Zi Linling's cultivation spanned three months, while only three days and nights passed in the outside world.
It wasn't that she didn't want to continue cultivating, but she had reached a bottleneck.
She opened her eyes, which gleamed with a fighting spirit.
With a thought, Zi Linling appeared in the outside world.
"Light Vision!"
She softly uttered, merging her divine sense into the darkness.
This time, her sight became clear and expansive.
She could now see the ground covered with bones, both human and beast.
The bones formed a thick layer, crunching underfoot, filling her with unease.
Zi Linling merged herself into the darkness and began to move forward slowly.
Firstly, she had come to find someone and could not remain stationary.
Secondly, the moment she emerged from the Goddess's Hall, she felt a fatal allure emanating from the depths of the darkness.
Within the darkness, a rhythmic crunching sound echoed.
A moment later, Zi Linling arrived at a fork in the road.
She frowned, hesitating at the spot.
There were two paths at this fork, and Zi Linling was unsure which to take.
However, she was certain that both paths would converge in the end, as that fatal allure existed at the end of both.
What to do?
Zi Linling's mind raced.
Why would they diverge here if they ultimately led to the same destination?
Just then, a familiar sensation washed over her.
Zi Linling sneered, "When you wish for something, it appears!"
Previously, she could only rely on her intuition to evade because, like a blind person, she could not see in the dark.
But now it was different; she could open her vision using the dark element.
Therefore, her disadvantage no longer existed.
Soon, the entity that had previously attacked her rapidly appeared in her sight.
A Dark Gale Leopard?!
Zi Linling was greatly astonished, no wonder she had been in such perilous situations before.
The speed of leopards was already extreme, and Spirit Beast Gale Leopards were the kings of speed among leopards. Coupled with the assistance of darkness, which concealed the leopard's form,
it was no wonder Zi Linling could only evade when she was in the dark, like a lamp under a bushel.
Now, although Zi Linling no longer had a disadvantage, she couldn't conceal her shock upon seeing the Dark Gale Leopard.
She didn't know whether to praise her luck or her misfortune.
After all, Spirit Beasts were equivalent to human Saint King realm powerhouses.
And now, this Dark Gale Leopard, accustomed to living in darkness and demonized by the demonic energy here into a demonic beast, had become even more terrifying in strength.
If a comparison had to be made, this Dark Gale Leopard had reached the Half-step Emperor Realm of humans!