Cultivators Are So Weak in This World

Chapter 608: 568 Void 4

In the azure sky, warm sunlight beams down, and a line of wild geese flies in a straight formation toward the distance.

Tiny white and yellow butterflies dance gracefully beside him, as if playing and teasing with the bees.

Further away, a voluptuous woman in a gown resembling a white cheongsam strolls elegantly in this direction.

The woman has a broad forehead, with a red snake-eye pattern at the center of her brow, while the rest of her features resemble those of an ordinary beauty. Her demeanor is languid yet noble.

"You’ve finally come in." The woman’s cherry lips open slightly, issuing a voice identical to Bai Ling’s.

"Bai Ling?" Zhang Rongfang looks incredulously at the woman opposite him.

"It’s me." Threads of white weave through Bai Ling’s black hair. She gently lifts her skirt, unconcerned with the exposure of her fair thighs, and crosses her legs, sitting on a slanted white rock, looking down at Zhang Rongfang from above.

"How’s this? This is my Void. A world belonging to me alone."

She gestures around with a hint of pride in her tone.

Zhang Rongfang glances around; the distant scenery is somewhat blurry, as if not quite clear.

He doesn’t respond, but instead taps his toes, unfolding his Body Technique, and darts straight in one direction.

Soon, after more than two hundred meters, he suddenly halts. Standing among a sea of grass and flowers, he extends his hand forward.

His fingers distinctly sense an invisible barrier, starkly blocking his hand.

"What’s this?"

"You don’t think the Void is infinitely vast, do you?" Bai Ling, unbeknownst to him, appears behind him.

"My Void used to be vast, at least much larger than now, but then it withered, leaving only the size of a coffin. Just enough for me to lie down and sleep.

Until you came. I gradually gained such a large territory." Bai Ling explains carefully.

"Is this your heart’s desire world? Something you created yourself?" Zhang Rongfang strokes the invisible barrier, feeling like he’s touching a smooth, cold porcelain.

"This was where I used to live in seclusion, isn’t it quiet and beautiful?" Bai Ling sighs. "Unfortunately... over time, I forgot the peace of those days. Enveloped by followers, I somewhat lost my nature.

Honestly, if I hadn’t met you, and gained the power to expand the Void from you, I fear I would still be lost in the addictive pleasure of sucking brain marrow, unable to extricate myself."

She looks at Zhang Rongfang, her height just matching his.

"Here, I can unleash all my powers completely, and as long as I wish, I can alter the surrounding environment in a short time."

"For instance, like this." She extends her right arm and casually points.

A blooming red flower at her right foot swiftly grows taller, enlarges and then transforms into a cluster of pink light spots.

The light spots regroup, forming a three-meter-tall cylindrical shape.

Bang.

The cylinder surface manifests with white stone-like patterns, then crashes heavily to the ground, toppling a patch of flowers.

"See, this is the power of the gods within the Void." Bai Ling elucidates.

"Is there a cost?" Zhang Rongfang immediately spots the crux.

"You’re very perceptive, the cost is actually significant, so we rarely change the environment, focusing instead on applying our power to strengthen and recover ourselves." Bai Ling nods.

Zhang Rongfang somewhat understands, within the Void, it’s essentially the home ground of the gods.

For a normal Residual God like Bai Ling, everything seems logically fine now.

But if one were to enter the Void of some Innate Gods, who knows what kind of environment it would be.

"So you usually live here alone?" he asks again.

The entire environment here seems solely a sea of flowers and slopes, with nothing else in sight.

"Yes. If nothing else, I can still chat with you. There’s no need for food or drink, plenty of time to use, no need to rest or sleep, what do you think? Isn’t it great?" Bai Ling smiles.

"Then, do you know where that passage outside leads?"

Zhang Rongfang has a general understanding of the divine Void situation, it’s indeed quite tricky.

But what intrigues him more is the dark metal passage he saw upon entry.

"Passage? Do you mean the gap? I’m not really sure..." Bai Ling shakes her head, "That passage is something everyone who enters my Void sees. We generally call it the gap, it’s considered a transit station."

She ponders for a moment.

"I’ve spoken with other Flesh Gods, and everyone mentioned that passage, but no one paid much mind. Because for us, as well as ordinary people like you, the time we can remain there is very, very short. If inattentive, we’d be forcibly sent back, so further exploration wasn’t an option."

"Is that so?" Zhang Rongfang pulls out the shard of the Sea Dragon God statue from his bosom.

It’s the fragment with a row of mysterious symbols on the back.

"If you see symbols like this elsewhere, please let me know," he says earnestly.

"You truly have secrets." Bai Ling’s eyes reveal an understanding.

"Everyone has secrets, don’t you?" Zhang Rongfang replies. No matter how foolish a Residual God is, it wouldn’t act like this oblivious simpleton before him.

"Alright. I agree, but could you tell me what these symbols are? No need for details, just a rough description," Bai Ling asks curiously.

"....." Zhang Rongfang falls silent for a moment.

He gazes at the coppery shard in his hand.

"A kind of special thing, used for marking."

The shard bears a series of dense symbols, faintly akin to many serial codes he often encountered in his previous life.

He now recalls the door he saw upon entry, and the metal passageways on either side.

A chilling hypothesis rises from the depths of his heart.

These gods... could they be...

"Could you send me to that gap passage again?" he suddenly asks.

"It’s possible, when you go back, you can pass through it once, but you won’t stay long before being forcibly sent back," Bai Ling says seriously. "Honestly, I also thought of exploring that passage before, but there’s no way; time is one issue, and another is that you simply can’t leave the vicinity of the door."

"Shall we try?" Zhang Rongfang says in a low voice.

Bai Ling’s Void is only so, thank goodness everything went smoothly, with no bloody or divine conflicts.

Yet it was that passage he glimpsed before entering the Void that gave him an inexplicable sense of oddity.

So he is eager to return for another look.

"Don’t you want to stay with me a bit longer?" Bai Ling spreads her arms, revealing an ambiguous smile.

"Here, I can arrange any kind of life you desire, like... letting ten Celestial Maidens play with you~~"

"..... Old temptress." Zhang Rongfang is at a loss for words, "I’m heading back."

"Hehehe, you were tempted, weren’t you? Just a moment ago, I sensed your heartbeat quicken," Bai Ling smiles more ambiguously, her charming face coming closer, looking smug.

Boom!!

In an instant, Zhang Rongfang raised his hand and delivered a punch.

With super speed movement combined with Immortal Technique Shortening of the Earth, plus his currently terrifying physical condition.

Boom!!!

The White Scale raised his hand to steadily catch the punch. A circle of white air slowly spread between them, shaking the surrounding sea of flowers into disarray.

"It’s useless. In my Void, my power can be increased by at least ten times!!"

The White Scale shouted triumphantly.

"Plus, what you fought before was only a part of my main body’s strength! So, you can’t possibly defeat me now!!"

"Again!" Zhang Rongfang’s body rapidly expanded and grew larger.

Since they both knew each other’s nature and had a symbiotic relationship, he didn’t hold back, activating three Blood Lotuses simultaneously, along with the final form of his divine speed.

Whoosh!!

Circles of heat spread rapidly from Zhang Rongfang, radiating outward.

His body instantly reached seven meters as he lunged forward.

Immortal Technique · Blood Mist.

Boom!!!

Zhang Rongfang’s arms smashed down hard on the ground, shattering, and blasting out countless droplets of blood mist.

In an instant, the ground within a thirty-meter radius trembled, all the sea of flowers were uprooted and levitated.

The soil here seemed particularly soft, nearly destroyed by the shockwave upheaval of this move.

Being too close, the White Scale was the first to be caught in the blood mist, her entire body immediately emitting a hissing corrosive sound, producing large plumes of smoke.

"Are you crazy, going all out!??"

Enraged, she leapt into the air, transforming into a massive, twenty-meter-long single-eyed white python, hurtling fiercely towards Zhang Rongfang.

In the smoke, the white python and a dark red fist met instantly.

With another thunderous boom, another loud crash erupted.

Bai Ling rolled backward, landing heavily on the ground.

Zhang Rongfang also retreated two steps, his chest heaving continuously.

"Your strength is indeed much greater than before." Previously, White Scale’s strength was estimated to be around two of Sang Lan, simply in terms of raw power.

But now.... it’s like most of Auduna.

Whoosh.

As he compared, a figure in a white dress suddenly flew out from the smoke.

The figure had waist-length black hair, an extremely ample bosom, a golden bell around her waist, and a face as cold as ice.

It was none other than the Celestial Maiden Tong Zhang.

"Rongfang, why are you here too?" Tong Zhang suddenly let out a weak moan, a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of her mouth, as she softly tumbled towards Zhang Rongfang.

"I just encountered a big snake, I’m so scared..."

As her delicate form fell, her clothes were accidentally torn open a bit, revealing a hint of the spring scenery beneath.

Bam!!!!

Zhang Rongfang struck a powerful blow, punching directly at Tong Zhang’s face.

Blood splattered, the beautiful face of the Celestial Maiden Tong Zhang distorted, her lips cracked, her nose broke, and then with a cry of pain, her body flew backward, transforming back into the White Scale’s human form in mid-air.

"Ahhhhh!! You madman without pitying the fairer sex!! Zhang Rongfang, I curse you to have no ** sons!!"

"Get out! You get out!!" The White Scale screamed, waving her hand.

The ground beneath Zhang Rongfang’s feet immediately moved swiftly, like a conveyor belt, rapidly carrying him a long distance backward.

Flash!

Suddenly, a white light flashed before his eyes, and he found himself standing once again before the metal door etched with the image of the single-eyed white python.

"With how foolish you look, you still want to pretend to be a Celestial Maiden?" Zhang Rongfang chuckled. Then he turned to look around.

On both sides were dark, twisting metal corridors.

The massive passage was vast and silent, as if no one had passed through in a long time.

Without hesitation, Zhang Rongfang turned and strode into the left corridor.

Hiss!

Suddenly his footsteps sank.

An exceedingly heavy pressure violently descended from above, fixing him firmly in place, unable to move.

For a short time, his entire skeletal frame emitted faint cracking sounds. It was the groan of being unable to bear the burden.

At this point he had already opened the Blood Lotus, opened the final form. In the peak state of his body.

Yet this pressure still caused his blood to circulate madly, as if bearing a load surpassing his own maximum limit.

One second....

Two seconds....

His heart pounded explosively, constantly sending waves of blood to provide more strength.

Just as Zhang Rongfang was about to falter, kneeling to the ground, his vision suddenly blurred.

Flash!

The overwhelming force vanished.

He found himself back at the White Scale Temple’s original spot.

Everything around remained unchanged, except for the torrential downpour falling from above.

Clearly, quite some time had passed.

He rapidly shrank, returning to his normal physical state. Breathing heavily, he quickly retrieved a pill from his waist pouch and popped it into his mouth to alleviate the severe exhaustion just endured.

"Interesting..... If what I guess is true, then this Void.... Gap...."

Despite his heavy breathing, he felt an unprecedented sense of gain within his heart.