“Why do you look somewhat familiar to me?” A man wearing a dark red immortal robe suddenly frowned as he looked at Su Rou’er, who was keeping her head down.

Su Rou’er was filled with fear and apprehension. She would recognize this person even if he turned to ashes. This guy was Fu Zhensong from Mirror Void Immortal Dao, and also the manager of Mirror Void Immortal Dao’s business building in Sharp Horn Immortal Ruins. Back then, she and Senior Brother Bian were captured by this person. If it weren’t for Yi Lan’s fortunate acquaintance with Sect Leader Mo of Heavenly Secrets Pill Pavilion, who came to their rescue, she would have lost her life long ago.

She had been cautious on this trip to the fourth level of the Shattered World, but she didn’t expect to be seen by Fu Zhensong, who recognized her.

Dou Hualong naturally knew Fu Zhensong, and cold sweat broke out on his back. He regretted being so talkative. Even though he knew that Fu Zhensong's presence here was just a coincidence, the luck was too bad.

“I know, you are a remnant of Heavenly Secrets Sect. I captured you before, but I didn’t expect to see you again today, hahahaha…” Fu Zhensong laughed heartily.

At that moment, the crowd began to move. It turned out that Great Immortal Emperor Jin Yu had finished speaking, and the fourth level was officially opened. Su Rou’er immediately grabbed Dou Hualong and rushed into the fourth level of the Shattered World.

Su Rou’er had been hiding and running for years, and she was even better at seizing opportunities than Fu Zhensong. With the crowd surging here, even if Fu Zhensong had ten thousand courage, he wouldn't dare to casually use his magic weapon to attack. Seeing Su Rou’er and Dou Hualong rushing into the Shattered World, Fu Zhensong was furious and followed them in.

“Senior Sister, what should we do?” Dou Hualong asked nervously as soon as they entered the fourth level.

“Follow me this way.” Su Rou’er’s figure flashed as she found a direction and rushed over quickly.

The entrance to the fourth level of the Shattered World was filled with mist, and divine sense was also limited in range. By the time Fu Zhensong rushed in, his divine sense had already lost track of Su Rou’er and Dou Hualong. This made him both shocked and angry, and he would definitely not let these two escape.

“Senior Sister, the direction we are going seems to be where the immortal spiritual energy is weakest. Big Brother said that generally when a secret realm opens, the places with abundant immortal spiritual energy have good things,” Dou Hualong couldn’t help but say after walking for a while.

He felt that the direction Su Rou’er was leading him was becoming weaker and weaker in immortal spiritual energy, and the surrounding immortal spirit herbs were all low-grade, not even worth his attention.

Su Rou’er said in a condensed voice, “Junior Brother Hualong, we are being chased by that Fu Zhensong now. He is a Great Unity Immortal, and the two of us combined are no match for him. The fourth level has just opened, and everyone is going to the places with abundant immortal spiritual energy. If we go there too, it will be easy for others to see us. So we are escaping to places with weak immortal spiritual energy. There will definitely be the fewest people coming to this kind of place.”

“Senior Sister is right, I have too little experience,” Dou Hualong said with admiration.

As they walked, the immortal spiritual energy became weaker and weaker. After several days, when they couldn’t even see low-level spirit herbs, Su Rou’er slowed down, “No one should come here for a short time. We will hide near here for a while, and then slowly go to places with rich immortal spiritual energy. Our strength is limited, so we can only try our luck and pick up some things that others have missed.”

Su Rou’er also sighed. With so many people entering the fourth level of the Shattered World, it was really too difficult for them to pick up some treasures that others had missed.

Dou Hualong clenched his fists and said resentfully, “No matter what, I will definitely avenge Big Brother in the future. Those shameless bastards from Great Sword Dao and Thunder Sect actually sent several Great Immortal Emperors to besiege Brother Mo alone…”

Dou Hualong suddenly stopped here, and then he pointed at the position in front of him in shock and exclaimed, “Senior Sister, what is that thing?”

Less than a mile away from them, there was a dried-up lake, and in the middle of the lake floated a fiery red lotus flower with only eleven petals, which was particularly dazzling.

“Karmic Fire Red Lotus…” Su Rou’er’s tone trembled. She was sure that it was the Karmic Fire Red Lotus.

“Quick, let’s quickly go over and put the Karmic Fire Red Lotus away. Once this kind of thing is leaked out, the two of us won’t even have bone scraps left,” Su Rou’er said in a trembling voice. She didn’t expect to encounter the Karmic Fire Red Lotus in a place with almost no immortal spiritual energy.

“I know, it should be that the Karmic Fire Red Lotus has absorbed all the surrounding immortal spiritual energy, which caused the lack of immortal spiritual energy here,” Dou Hualong said excitedly.

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Mo Wuji stood on a deserted rubble beach in Sword Prison, his eyes filled with disappointment. He had made a divine sense imprint here, but no matter how he took out the transmission talisman to activate it, he couldn’t feel any information from the transmission array disk outside.

It seemed that wanting to leave here through the transmission array disk was a pipe dream.

To leave Sword Prison, he could only go to Sword Qi River.

Several days later, Mo Wuji came to the edge of Sword Qi River again. Since Mount Peaceful Vine disappeared, there were almost no people coming to Sword Qi River to fetch water.

At this time, the surroundings of Sword Qi River were silent, and a faint mist floated on the surface of Sword Qi River, just like the lakeside in the morning.

Dense sword qi brushed past the edge of Mo Wuji’s body, or fell on Mo Wuji’s body, without even leaving a trace.

Even though Mo Wuji was only in the middle stage of Great Luo Immortal, his body refinement had reached the middle stage of God Body. The sword qi here was powerful, but it still couldn’t break through his physical body.

Mo Wuji sat down at the edge of Sword Qi River. He didn’t immediately fetch water, but quietly felt the sword qi in Sword Qi River.

Divine sense still couldn’t penetrate into Sword Qi River, and he couldn’t even feel the surging sword qi in Sword Qi River. After Mo Wuji fully adapted to the sword qi at the edge of Sword Qi River, he condensed his spiritual eye to look at Sword Qi River.

The dense and terrifying traces of sword qi had nowhere to hide under his spiritual eye. The endless sword qi only condensed on the surface of Sword Qi River, turning into endless sword qi and rushing out of Sword Qi River.

In just half an incense stick of time, Mo Wuji felt a burst of pain in his spiritual eye, and he quickly put away his spiritual eye and swallowed a few pills.

Although the sword qi of Sword Qi River wouldn’t directly tear apart his spiritual eye, watching these sword qi for a long time still made his spiritual eye somewhat unbearable. If he wasn’t in a hurry to get out, Mo Wuji would have waited until he had cultivated to Immortal King before coming to this place. Unfortunately, in Sword Prison, he didn’t know when he would have to wait to cultivate to Immortal King.

After another hour, Mo Wuji continued to condense his spiritual eye to observe Sword Qi River. He hadn’t even gone into the river yet, and the sword qi in the river was already harmful to his spiritual eye, which made Mo Wuji suspect that once he entered Sword Qi River, he could withstand it.

This time, Mo Wuji didn’t observe the process of sword qi condensing in Sword Qi River. The spiritual eye directly crossed the surface of Sword Qi River and penetrated into Sword Qi River.

A dozen breaths later, Mo Wuji was shocked to find a long sword inserted at the bottom of Sword Qi River. The long sword looked ordinary and unremarkable, but Mo Wuji’s spiritual eye could clearly see that endless sword qi was emanating from around this long sword.

Mo Wuji gasped. Sword Qi River was indeed the origin of the sword qi in Sword Prison. A long sword could actually make the entire Sword Prison filled with sword qi, and it could even harm souls and primordial spirits. How terrifying was the owner of this long sword?

The spiritual eye started to hurt again, and Mo Wuji closed his spiritual eye.

After another hour, Mo Wuji opened his spiritual eye again, and at the same time carefully put a hand into the water of Sword Qi River.

A cool feeling came, and before Mo Wuji could feel this coolness, endless sword qi wrapped around his entire body.

Mo Wuji’s spiritual eye could clearly see that the endless, faint traces of sword qi began to frantically tear apart his physical body. At the same time, more sword qi rushed into the Purple Qi Lake in his sea of consciousness.

“Puff!” A bloody arrow spewed out, and Mo Wuji’s whole body seemed to have been cut open by countless blade芒, turning into a bloody man in an instant.

The sword qi frantically tore apart Mo Wuji’s sea of consciousness and frantically tore apart Mo Wuji’s skin. At this moment, every drop of blood and every inch of skin on Mo Wuji’s body became the source of these sword qi’s greedy absorption.

Regardless of how broken his body was, Mo Wuji still calmly opened his spiritual eye to feel the devastation of the sword qi in Sword Qi River.

If he was taking water from Sword Qi River, he would have taken all the water he could at this time. He knew that before, when Pang Hong and others took water, they would collect the bucket as soon as they touched Sword Qi River. Now Mo Wuji had stayed in Sword Qi River for at least a dozen breaths of time.

More and more sword qi gathered, and Mo Wuji even heard the sizzling sound of his bones being cut by the sword qi. The skin on his face was constantly disappearing under the sword qi.

Mo Wuji became more and more calm. He allowed this crazy sword qi to tear apart his physical body and sea of consciousness. At this moment, he not only allowed 108 meridians to form a grand cycle, but also allowed the body refinement technique and the cultivation of the grand cycle to form another cycle. In addition, he was also running Star Ocean Art.

Only by staying in Sword Qi River for a long time could he know how terrifying the immortal spiritual energy in Sword Qi River was.

Because of this terrifying immortal spiritual energy, Mo Wuji decided to let himself cultivate. After the Immortal Mortal Technique was reversed, his body refinement technique would receive a strong response from the immortal spiritual energy, accelerating the tempering of his physical body. Star Ocean Art solved the hidden danger of the sword qi tearing apart the Purple Qi Lake in his sea of consciousness. Cultivating Star Ocean Art here was more than a hundred times faster than in ordinary circumstances.

Pressure creates motivation. For the body refinement technique, the endless sword qi of Sword Qi River was pressure. For Star Ocean Art, the endless sword qi pouring into Mo Wuji’s sea of consciousness was also pressure.

Feeling that his sea of consciousness was becoming more and more solidified, and the Purple Qi Lake seemed to be undergoing qualitative change, Mo Wuji even felt somewhat grateful to Taishi Xiao. Without Taishi Xiao, he wouldn’t have Star Ocean Art.

In Star Ocean Art, some principles that Mo Wuji hadn’t understood before were unconsciously comprehended by Mo Wuji under the tearing of endless sword qi in Sword Qi River.

In the beginning, endless sword qi was constantly tearing apart his flesh and destroying his body. Later, when Mo Wuji’s body refinement consumed sword qi, his sea of consciousness consumed sword qi, and the sword qi pouring in from Sword Qi River formed a balance, Mo Wuji completely forgot the pain of his body and immersed himself in the tearing of this endless sword qi.

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