Eternal Life: I Can Control My Essence Qi-Chapter 251 - 191: Total Chaos (Part 2)

As soon as these words were spoken, True Yang Ancestor and Dugu Tianyi froze, and the scene fell silent immediately.

"..."

After a deathly silence, True Yang Ancestor finally spoke slowly, his voice dry:

"Three Mountains... I'm afraid you really got it right!"

As the saying goes, those involved are confused, while onlookers see clearly.

Previously trapped here, they were unable to make reasonable judgments in their agitation. But now, with one sentence pointing out the key, they suddenly understood the causes, effects, and some details.

The current situation was nothing but this small world being completely sealed, cutting off all possibilities of transmission.

This seemed to be the only reasonable explanation.

"This, this..."

Dugu Tianyi opened his mouth in disbelief, his voice trembling slightly.

If this suspicion were true, the implications behind it would be truly terrifying.

For Yu Wen Tai to be able to directly enter the core zone and control the array means that everything they knew about the core zone, about the Realm Breaker, was false! All their hard work over the years was in vain!

This meant that for over a hundred years, they had been manipulated at will by a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator!!

This truth was so heavy and terrifying that the three of them, dignified Golden Core Ancestors, instinctively dared not face it, dared not believe it to be true.

"...So, what do we do now?"

The deathly silence lingered for a long time before Three Mountains Ancestor spoke with a bitter voice, as if asking the others, yet also asking himself.

Yet no one responded to his words.

......

True Yang Ancestor and the others did not understand:

Actually, it wasn't just the small world they were in being sealed, but rather the entire Five Elements Secret Realm.

After the last of the Three Faces entered:

Zhang Yao withdrew his Divine Thought and directly sealed off all external transmissions from the entire Five Elements Secret Realm, cutting off any possibility of people escaping.

Joking aside, these people were the best materials, how could he allow them to leave without contributing enough Soul Thought Aura to him?

Moreover:

He had previously bled profusely, almost emptying his household, scattering over two to three hundred treasures, including various Spiritual Artifacts, Second grade Spirit Pills, Secret Treasures, Golden Core Level Techniques, Spirit Gold Spirit Grass... and so on.

This involved not only exhausting Yu Wen Tai's assets and secret vault, but also using up his personal savings and the Treasure Vault of the Haihe Association, just to barely gather this many treasures.

Even if it was bait for fishing and setting a trap, Zhang Yao intended to recover it all, along with the hundreds of fish in this pond; he wasn't letting a single one escape.

Under Zhang Yao's deliberate manipulation, these Foundation Establishment Cultivators who were exploring the Secret Realm clearly met with disaster.

In a certain Fire Element Secret Realm—

"Huff, huff..."

Gao Yang slumped to the ground, breathing heavily.

With disheveled hair and covered in blood, his body was full of small wounds, his right arm was gone, his face extremely pale, and his breath weak.

"Damn it, don't let me catch you again!"

Hatred surged within him, cursing aloud:

"I remember you! Once I leave the Five Elements Secret Realm, you'll be in for it!"

He, a dignified Foundation Establishment master from the Lingyang Sect, had been ambushed by a Foundation Establishment Cultivator from a small force, narrowly escaping death at their hands.

If not for currying favor with Elder Jin back then and being rewarded with a powerful Disposable Secret Treasure, he would have truly been done for this time.

What troubled him the most was:

Even though he won the battle and severely injured the opponent, he couldn't keep them, essentially suffering a huge loss.

There was no way around it, the small world was just too small, a depth of mere dozen or so miles, allowing Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators to traverse it with their Escape Light in just a few breaths, triggering spatial transmission to escape.

Gao Yang himself was even more severely injured and couldn't pursue, forced to watch helplessly as the opponent fled, aggravating him almost to the point of fainting.

"Gulp."

He shivered as he took out a Spirit Pill and swallowed it, barely restraining his worsening injuries.

Not daring to be negligent, Gao Yang immediately sat cross-legged, expelling the Exotic Magical Power and residual Daoist Skill might within his body.

After more than half an hour, with his injuries initially stabilized, Gao Yang opened his eyes and tidied his tattered robes, sighing helplessly:

"What a pity, the transmission mechanism of this small world is truly vexing, I dare not linger..."

If he stayed longer than an hour, he would be expelled from the Five Elements Secret Realm.

Once expelled, wanting to enter the Secret Realm again would mean waiting another year, which was precisely why the few major Golden Core influences back in the day took decades before reaching the core region.

Even within the Secret Realm, each shuttle between small worlds had intervals, needing at least a quarter of an hour, which is why the Lingyang Sect's Sect Leader estimated the deadline at half a month, rather than just a few hours or a day or two.

"Boom..."

Riding his Escape Light, Gao Yang soared into the sky, heading straight upward.

Assigned the attribute 'fire' by the Lingyang Sect's Sect Leader, going upward would transport him to the next fire attribute mini world. If assigned 'metal', according to the principle of fire overcoming metal, he would need to head to the northern boundary.

"Buzz!"

Accompanied by a spatial fluctuation, Gao Yang, having flown several hundred meters high, vanished instantly from the spot.

"Huh?!"

Before Gao Yang could open his eyes, he sensed something amiss, his heart sinking suddenly:

"What's going on?"

Wasn't he being transmitted to a Fire Element Mini World? Why did he feel steam and mist around him?!

Gao Yang abruptly opened his eyes, the scene before him left him stunned, his mind buzzing:

"What's happening?!"

The place where he appeared was an endless lake, the surface calm as jade, without any islands or land masses.

This was clearly a Water Element Mini World, completely contrary to his transmission target!

"Just what is going on?"

Flying up rapidly, Gao Yang surveyed the empty Water Element Mini World, feeling somewhat at a loss:

"Was the sect's published transmission mechanism flawed?"

"That's unlikely; this is based on decades of exploration and has never been wrong!"

If he were an outsider, a joint deception by Lingyang Sect and a few others might have been possible.

But he's a loyal member of the Lingyang Sect, having cultivated to the Foundation Establishment stage, a bona fide insider, the sect had no reason to lie to him?

Moreover, the basic principles of the five-element overcoming transmission mechanism weren't complicated; trying it a few times would solve it, so this was information openly available to everyone.

Yet the transmission mechanism he deeply believed in had directly failed...

"This is terrible!"

Cooling down, Gao Yang suddenly realized the gravity of the situation:

"This means the sect's entire strategy has completely collapsed!"

The specific transmission mechanism of the five-element overcoming was the most important premise for continually gathering manpower.

According to a specific attribute transmission, one would inevitably encounter fellow sect cultivators, and by traveling together with their Magical Power Mechanism connected, they would further transmit together.

Gradually, as the time and number of transmissions increased, most of the combat power would gather together, eventually reaching the affiliated mini-world at different time points to start the final battle.

But now everything was in disarray, and the transmission mechanism's chaos rendered the strategic plans of the Lingyang Sect, Shanhe Sect, and the Dugu Family worthless.

"Buzz!"

While Gao Yang was lost in thought, the space fluctuated again, and another unfamiliar figure appeared.

"Huh?!" 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Seeing the erratic aura and obviously heavily injured Gao Yang, the figure paused briefly.

Soon after, a hint of hesitation seemed to flicker across his eyes, but it was quickly overwhelmed by greed, and a trace of joy appeared on his face.

"Boom!"

Without another word, he raised his hand and sent out a flashing Spiritual Flying Sword, simultaneously wielding a Killing Dao Technique, charging like a comet.

"It's over!!"

Gao Yang's vision went dark, a deep despair reflected in his eyes...