Next, Lian Ling faced a serious problem. How was he supposed to leave the Ruins of the City of Doom?
Because this was a separate plane. Countless years ago, after the power of the stars from outer space had instantly destroyed the City of Doom, it had forcibly torn open a spatial rift and created the Ruins of the City of Doom plane.
When Lian Ling entered before, his physical body had been completely destroyed, leaving only his energy soul to enter. So how could he get out now?
Lian Ling, Gou Li, and the three headed Chimera Beast went to the entrance of the Ruins of the City of Doom.
When they had entered before, there had been an energy gate here. However, there was nothing now, only an ordinary door. Entering and leaving through it still only led to the Ruins of the City of Doom.
How could he return to the real world and get back to the Sea of Doom?
Could he use an energy self detonation to destroy his own body and enter the state of a soul energy once again?
Lian Ling had only just thought of this.
Gou Li beside him immediately transformed into a crystal body and then suddenly exploded, shattering into countless crystal fragments, leaving only a soul and energy body.
This woman had detonated herself before Lian Ling so that he would not have to lose any energy.
However…
This path did not work. After destroying her body, what she saw through her soul was still the normal Ruins of the City of Doom. She still could not see an exit.
Countless crystals began to gather, restoring Gou Li’s hot and attractive body.
“Master, it doesn’t work,” Gou Li said.
Lian Ling nodded. It indeed seemed impossible.
Being able to enter from here did not necessarily mean that they could leave from here, because planes like this were often one way.
Lian Ling closed his eyes again and began to think.
Clearly, the Ruins of the City of Doom had an exit. Otherwise, the Ghost King would not have been able to leave this place and reincarnate.
Then where had the Ghost King left from?
Lian Ling closed his eyes and, following his previous memories, arrived at the location of the Ghost King’s Tomb.
Of course, there was definitely nothing here now, because the Ghost King’s Tomb was also a separate plane.
Corresponding to the ruins of the City of Doom, this place was merely a void.
“Master, the Ghost King’s Tomb was originally left for his successor, so the Ghost King must have left information telling his successor where the exit was. Otherwise, his successor would never be able to leave,” Gou Li said.
Lian Ling shook his head. “Not necessarily. The Ghost King would test his successor. Besides, one is immortal and indestructible inside these Ruins of the City of Doom.”
Next, Lian Ling searched through all the memories he had of what the Ghost King had left behind.
There was no information about the exit.
Lian Ling then tried flying around the ruins of the City of Doom again and again, but still could not find an exit.
Finally, he even used the Meditation Void Silence Technique to enter a state of false death once again. This carried an extremely enormous risk.
When he entered false death, all the Death Warriors would become frozen, turning into walking corpses.
Yet even after paying such a price, Lian Ling still gained nothing.
Day after day passed. The time for his duel with the Black Demon Banner Lord was getting closer and closer, but Lian Ling still had not found an exit. He remained trapped inside the Ruins of the City of Doom.
Lian Ling and Gou Li were frantic.
Ten days passed, then half a month, then a month.
At this point, there should have been less than four days before the duel.
Lian Ling and Gou Li searched for an exit like mad, but still found nothing.
The two of them were truly on the verge of losing their minds.
There was not even enough time left to comprehend the Hell Lightning.
But…
One day, two days, three days, four days…
Time flew by.
The time arrived. The day of the duel with the Black Demon Banner Lord had arrived, yet Lian Ling still had not found an exit.
If the day of the duel arrived and Lian Ling failed to appear, what would happen?
He would naturally be declared the loser. The Centaur army would withdraw from Black Demon City and even give up the Silver Alliance. The Centaur army would be disbanded directly, and even the Flame Demon Tribe would be disbanded.
It was practically a nightmare of an outcome.
However…
After the expected day of the duel had passed, Lian Ling instead became calm.
He stopped the meaningless searching and sat down cross legged.
When Lian Ling was anxious, Gou Li became extremely restless.
When Lian Ling calmed down, Gou Li also became calm.
After opening his eyes, Lian Ling searched through the ruins for materials and found a decorative glass cup.
He then had the three headed Chimera Beast breathe fire and burn it, while controlling it with his demonic power, turning the glass cup into a simple hourglass.
After it had been formed, he made an opening.
Then he found some golden sand and placed it inside the hourglass before sealing the opening.
A simple hourglass was completed.
He turned the hourglass upside down.
The golden sand above did not fall at all.
“The Ruins of the City of Doom are a completely dead and silent space. Everything here is dead. There is no gravity, and time does not pass,” Lian Ling said. “Therefore, we have not actually missed the duel with the Black Demon Banner Lord. After we entered the Ruins of the City of Doom, time was mostly frozen.”
Gou Li’s beautiful eyes widened.
She then sensed the other Death Knights.
She discovered that something really was strange. The Death Knights were clearly still alive, yet they remained completely motionless.
It was not that they were not moving. It was that time on Lian Ling and Gou Li’s side had stopped, so they appeared completely motionless.
“Master, then what should we do?” Gou Li asked.
Lian Ling closed his eyes and quickly thought. After several minutes, he suddenly opened his eyes and said, “How long after each Death Star flashes does a lunar eclipse appear?”
“Five days and five nights, sixty hours later,” Gou Li said.
Lian Ling said, “During a lunar eclipse, the moon is blocked. The energy connection between the mysterious force on the moon and the Sea of Doom will therefore be temporarily severed. Not only that, the gravitational relationship between the moon and our world will also change slightly. At this time, the waters of the Sea of Doom will shift to some extent. Whether because of gravity or because the connection with the moon’s energy is temporarily severed, the Ruins of the City of Doom plane and the real world plane will become slightly misaligned. When that happens, a crack will appear in space, and we can use that crack to get out.”
Next, Lian Ling closed his eyes and began calculating. About one hour after the blood coloured star went out, he had entered the Ruins of the City of Doom.
After entering the Ruins of the City of Doom, time had frozen until Lian Ling’s soul entered the Ghost King’s Tomb plane. Time flowed normally in that plane.
Lian Ling had stayed in that plane for about five hours.
In other words, there should be fifty four hours remaining before the lunar eclipse.
However, time inside the Ruins of the City of Doom never flowed. If he simply waited there, Lian Ling would never be able to wait for the lunar eclipse.
He had to find a space where time would continue to flow.
But now, the Ghost King’s Tomb had disappeared. Where could he find such a space?
Right, the coffin in the Ghost King’s Tomb.
It was an object from outside. The Ghost King had created it beforehand and then brought it into the Ruins of the City of Doom. It did not belong to this space.
Moreover, after being crafted by the Ghost King, this crystal coffin was itself an independent energy formation. Time should be able to flow normally inside it.
The Ghost King’s Tomb had disappeared, but the crystal coffin was still there, and it had been opened.
Thus, Lian Ling once again used the Meditation Void Silence Technique to enter a state of false death. He found the disguised Netherworld rift, jumped down, and entered the Ghost King’s Tomb space.
Although the so called Ghost King’s Tomb had disappeared and this space contained only emptiness, the crystal coffin was still there.
Lian Ling carried the coffin on his shoulders.
Then, the three headed Chimera Beast awakened Lian Ling from his meditation, causing his soul to return to his body.
Lian Ling suddenly woke up, and a crystal coffin had appeared on his shoulder out of nowhere.
However, another problem immediately arose.
The three headed Chimera Beast was so enormous. How could it get inside?
Before he could say anything, the body of the three headed Chimera Beast began to shrink until it was only about two feet in size, like a pet.
It looked much cuter this way.
When it had no energy, its body could continuously compress and become smaller because it was an energy body.
Lian Ling, Gou Li, and the three headed Chimera Beast all entered the crystal coffin. Lian Ling then closed the coffin lid, creating an independent space.
At this moment, both Gou Li and Lian Ling could clearly sense the movements of the other two hundred or so Death Warriors.
That was right. Time had begun flowing normally.
The two of them and the three headed Chimera Beast quietly waited inside.
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Time passed second by second.
One hour, two hours, three hours…
Fifty four hours later…
The moon in the sky was gradually covered by a dark shadow.
A total lunar eclipse had arrived.
Every time the blood coloured star went out, the total lunar eclipse arrived twelve hours later as scheduled.
Half of the moon had been swallowed!
At this moment, although there was no wind at all, the waters of the Sea of Doom began to surge violently.
The Ruins of the City of Doom also began to tremble slightly.
More and more of the moon was swallowed.
Eighty percent, ninety percent, one hundred percent…
The full moon, shaped like a disc, was completely swallowed by the dark shadow!
At this moment, all the seawater of the Sea of Doom shifted away from its original position, creating waves dozens of metres high.
The Ruins of the City of Doom began to shift, shift, shift…
Originally, the Ruins of the City of Doom and the Sea of Doom were two planes that completely overlapped.
As the lunar eclipse progressed, the spaces of the two planes became increasingly misaligned.
When the moon was completely covered by the dark shadow, the Ruins of the City of Doom suddenly became a mass of light and shadow, constantly flickering. One moment it was light and shadow, the next it was real.
At the same time, scenes of the Sea of Doom also kept appearing.
The two spaces had begun to become misaligned!
Lian Ling silently thought…
When the Ruins of the City of Doom completely turned into a mass of light and shadow, the Sea of Doom appeared before them.
The window was extremely brief, not even one second.
This was the moment. Now.
Lian Ling, Gou Li, and the three headed Chimera Beast shot out of the crystal coffin like lightning.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…”
The three moved at incredible speed. Before the Ruins of the City of Doom could change from illusory to real again, they suddenly leapt out of the plane and entered the Sea of Doom!
The moment they entered the Sea of Doom, the bodies of Lian Ling and Gou Li were once again about to be shattered.
Even a Demon Sect level expert would find it difficult to withstand this terrifying pressure.
If their bodies were shattered, then so be it. At worst, they would lose some energy.
The two people and one beast, now transformed into soul energy, quickly floated upwards, upwards, upwards…
At this moment, the entire seabed was filled with the light and shadows of the Ruins of the City of Doom, creating a breathtaking sight.
After rising to a depth of five thousand metres, the bodies of Lian Ling, Gou Li, and the three headed Chimera Beast began to recover.
Lian Ling did not continue upwards. Instead, he carefully released his energy to investigate.
Because only five days and five nights had passed since he entered the Ruins of the City of Doom, she would definitely still be waiting in the same place to hunt Lian Ling.
However, Lian Ling searched the surrounding waters for dozens of kilometres and found no energy fluctuations.
Instead, there were violent energy clashes above the surface of the sea.
Lian Ling and Gou Li gradually floated upwards. When they were only dozens of metres from the surface, they saw light and shadows crossing in the sky as both sides fought fiercely.
Lian Ling released his spiritual power above the surface of the sea to see who was fighting.
As a result, he saw a group of stunningly beautiful women surrounding and attacking Ji Xiuning!
The woman at the front had an appearance and bearing that were no inferior to the transformed Yan Zhuo’er. She was a noble, powerful, and extraordinarily alluring beauty, filled with magical charm.
They were warriors from the Witch Nation!
Lian Ling immediately determined their identity.
After hesitating briefly, he did not rise to the surface. At this moment, it was better to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Soon, Ji Xiuning was unable to withstand the attacks of several thousand Witch Nation warriors.
Lian Ling’s spiritual power clearly saw that her face had been badly injured, yet it unexpectedly recovered instantly.
This… this was clearly a characteristic of demon descendants. Why could Ji Xiuning do this as well?
Finally, he saw a layer of energy armour condense over Ji Xiuning’s body, an energy shell that was immune to all attacks.
With no other options, the leader of the Witch Nation warriors gave the order to capture Ji Xiuning and take her away.
They not only took Ji Xiuning, but also carried away all the bodies of the Heavenly Guardian Knights and the Witch Nation warriors.
A moment later, several thousand Witch Nation warriors disappeared into the clouds without a trace.
Above the entire Sea of Doom, there was nothing except the smell of blood.
“Ji Xiuning was actually captured by the Witch Nation!” Lian Ling took a long time to accept this fact.
The Witch Nation really had courage. The Divine Dragon Holy Temple was so powerful, yet even the Motuo Empire did not dare to provoke it, and several major demon races in the southern wilderness did not dare to provoke it either. Only the Witch Nation dared.
They had captured Saintess Ji Xiuning without hesitation, and killed the Heavenly Guardian Knights without hesitation.
Hopefully, this would not bring a catastrophe upon the Witch Nation.
“Master, when you rule the world in the future, they will all be your subjects!” Gou Li said. “Now, you should go and comprehend the Hell Lightning!”
Lian Ling nodded, then rode the three headed Chimera Beast towards the north.
After staying inside the Ruins of the City of Doom for so long, time had actually stopped there. Therefore, more than thirty days still remained before the duel.
During this period, he had to successfully comprehend the Hell Lightning.
…
The Witch Nation, the Sky Islands above the Blue Sea Banner!
No one knew how long she had been asleep. Ji Xiuning, who had never had nightmares, had a terrible dream!
She dreamed of being subjected to sexual violence by an immensely powerful ancient god and demon.
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“Ah…”
She suddenly woke up and sat up.
She then discovered that she was unclothed.
Two stunningly beautiful women stood in front of the bed.
One was Banner Lord Lan Qi. The other was very young, yet she already possessed astonishing beauty, a beauty that was even comparable to Ji Xiuning’s.
Moreover, the young girl was looking at her with a mischievous and sinister gaze.
Ji Xiuning’s eyes turned cold, and she suddenly struck towards the young girl.
She was extremely calm. The moment she woke up, she immediately decided to capture the young girl as a hostage, then fight her way out and return to the Divine Dragon Holy Temple.
However…
Her strike did not release terrifying demonic power. Instead, it merely struck through empty air.
What had happened to her cultivation? What had happened to her martial power?
Ji Xiuning, who had never been afraid before, felt a trace of panic for the first time. Her martial power had actually disappeared.
“What have you done to me?” Ji Xiuning asked in horror.
Immediately afterwards, she felt a strange movement in her lower abdomen, almost frightening her out of her wits!