Chapter 495: Chapter 283: Cultivation World 73_2
Locking onto the location of that Obsession Core, Si Lingle’s figure traversed the Void Realm in a short-range jump, ignoring the complex illusory paths on the periphery, and with a few flickers appeared near that Obsession Core.
The core was not a solid object, but an ancient, simple stone stele floating at the center of the vortex, covered in cracks.
The stele’s material was neither metal nor stone, and what was carved upon it was not words, but fragments of the flowing trajectory of some kind of Law Power!
Though most of the runes had already broken and dimmed, the remaining radiance still outlined a profound artistic conception that stirred up tides of Spatial Energy—the [Tide Leading Sky Technique].
Just as Si Lingle tried to use Space Power to imprint and record the Law on this broken stele, the Obsession Core seemed to sense the intrusion. Countless beautiful illusions instantly twisted into soul-rending shrieks and warped spatial blades, lashing in from all directions at once to shred her apart!
Si Lingle gave a cold snort. Her twin pupils suddenly shone bright like two silver stars!
She did not clash with the Illusion Realm head-on. Her ten fingers moved as though plucking invisible zither strings, and ten streams of pure Space Dao Rhythm shot out at the same time, precisely piercing into ten Space Nodes around the stele’s body.
"Still!"
The same-origin aura of the "Heart of Space" fragment spread out in response.
Buzz—!
As though a stabilizer had been injected, the entire berserk Illusion Realm vortex suddenly froze! Those frenzied, strangling attacks also showed an instant of delay and disorder.
A hair’s breadth from death!
Si Lingle’s Divine Thought flashed like lightning, and in that instant she completed a full imprint of the stele’s Law fragments.
At the moment of success, her figure retreated sharply, slipping free of the vortex core like glimmering light skimming over water.
Deprived of a target, the attacks collided and annihilated one another. That vast mirage Illusion Realm slowly sank back into calm amid a low hum, once more draping itself in a gorgeous facade, lying in wait for the next prey.
Following the pulse of the "Heart of Space," Si Lingle arrived at a barren, deathly silent valley of reefs. Here the Space Law was unusually "thin," and instead there spread another kind of unsettling "vacuum" sensation.
The ground was dark, a field of shattered stone that seemed to have been completely drained of energy.
However, with her Perception elevated to a new realm, Si Lingle immediately caught an anomaly—within those seemingly ordinary, giant black reefs honeycombed like beehives, countless extremely faint yet incomparably cold and hungry life fluctuations were hidden.
They were the native inhabitants of this place—[Space-devouring Lice]!
This type of creature fed on Spatial Energy and leaking fragments of Law, their bodies extremely tiny, flea-like, with semi-transparent carapaces, and mouthparts sharp enough to gnaw through ordinary Immortal Treasures.
A single Space-devouring Louse was nothing to worry about, but they were like an invisible ant tide, living in colonies in numbers of billions, and could perfectly merge with the thin spatial background here, making them hard to detect even by Heavenly Immortal Level Divine Thoughts.
Once they managed to swarm close and wrap around their prey, in less than the span of a moment immortal power would be exhausted, protective Immortal Treasures would collapse, and even the Primordial Spirit would not escape being gnawed away.
Si Lingle halted. She could feel that deep within the largest Black Stone Mountain ahead, the pulse of the Heart of Space fragment grew ever clearer, pointing toward the core of the mountain’s belly, but this terrifying louse tide was a path she had to pass through.
Forcing her way through would consume an enormous amount of energy and would very easily trigger a riot of the entire swarm.
A glint of light flashed in her silver-gray eyes. A somewhat risky, yet sufficient plan to avoid the vast majority of trouble took shape in her mind.
She did not circulate any conspicuous Immortal Power Shield. Her body relaxed slightly as she communed with the Heart of Void Relic at her Dantian.
A nearly imperceptible force field spread over her body surface—this field was not for defense or isolation, but a kind of camouflage: it simulated the surrounding, extremely thin, near-"nonexistent" Space Law background!
At the same time, she carefully guided a wisp of original Space Dao Rhythm from the "Heart of Space" fragment to coil around her, emitting an aura highly similar to the energy of this region, yet of a higher Level—a "superior" presence.
To the Space-devouring Lice, whose sensitivity to Spatial Energy was extreme, this aura was like the intimidation of a colossal beast of their own kind.
Si Lingle, like a ghost merged into the thin air, stepped into the louse-nest zone.
The碎 stone beneath her feet made no sound.
Each step she took landed precisely in subtle gaps between the activity routes of the louse swarms, or in natural "safe zones" formed where the shadows of massive reefs were cast.
Countless Space-devouring Lice were close at hand; some even scuttled quickly past along the edges of reef hollows.
They would occasionally pause, their semi-transparent compound eyes turning with a hint of confusion toward Si Lingle’s direction. The lingering resonance of that High-level space made them instinctively feel both "comfortable" and a faint, hard-to-detect sense of oppression, as if that was the aura of the mother nest.
