Heaven-defying Phoenix

Violent gales swirled and whimpered like the wailing of ghosts and the howling of wolves.    

This was a world filled with a bloody aura and endless wind and thunder. The sky was dark and hazy, as if it was covered with a layer of blood-red gauze.    

This place was extremely dilapidated, as if it were a wasteland surrounded by mountains. However, the trees on the mountain were all pitch-black. There were no leaves at all, and every branch was as hard as Damascus Steel.    

On the ground, the soil was soft like wind and sand, but it was more exquisite than wind and sand. It was like a thick layer of ash, accompanied by a strong wind.    

"Where is this place?"    

When Jiu Muli regained consciousness and saw such a world, he could not help but be shocked.    

Hiss!    

She stood up and moved around subconsciously. She realized that the wound on her waist was still not completely healed. However, it had been randomly bandaged. Luckily, her opponent's movements were very rough and had stopped bleeding.    

The intense pain allowed her to regain her clarity of mind. At the same time, she also managed to survive this calamity.    

At first, when she was severely injured, the barrier which she had just stepped into the Ghost Abyss was corroded by endless blood energy. Her mind was immediately invaded by the strange energy, and it was as if a sledgehammer had smashed into her brain, causing her to instantly faint.    

"Two days have passed."    

After sensing the time for a while, she realized that she had been unconscious for two days.    

"Jin Yu, Blacky!"    

Her heart skipped a beat when she saw that she was not looking at Blacky or Jin Yu. However, when she looked carefully at the bandages on her clothes, she realized that there was a small paw mark on them.    

The claw imprint was not big, just like a bird's claw. One could tell at a glance that it was left behind by the Blacky.    

"I wonder where those two guys went."    

Her brows furrowed as she began to scan the surroundings.    

This was an unfamiliar world. Above his head was a patch of greyness, there was no sun or moon, it was filled with an endless amount of blood energy, and in the air, there would even be the occasional howling of the cold wind, and blood-red lightning bolts would continuously crash down, as though it was a piece of waste land, filled with dense ghost aura that did not have any trace of spirit energy. Not only that, even the Power of Star seemed to be isolated.    

"He really lives up to his name."    

She laughed at herself, but didn't care about anything else. Instead, she took the time to heal her wounds.    

She did not have any spiritual energy in the world and could not absorb the spiritual energy in the world to replenish her body, causing her injuries to not have the slightest bit of change. She reckoned that if it was not for Blacky bandaging her wounds, it would probably have worsened, only the Blacky was not able to use her space ring and most of the pill were not able to feed her.    

Touch...    

The spirit crystal s and the others all exploded as she absorbed the boundless spirit energy. She turned it into a spiritual energy and replenished her exhausted Qi Sea in her dantian.    

Time continued to flow as Jiu Muli was recovering.    

An hour later, one black and one yellow, these two small dots came from afar and quickly arrived beside Jiu Muli. It was Blacky and Jin Yu.    

"Master, you're awake."    

"Ha, Jiu Muli, you've really awakened from the calamity a thousand years ago."    

"F * ck, how could you say that? A good person will definitely be rewarded."    

"Oh, I'm sorry, I don't understand. However, it's good that you've woken up. You've been unconscious for two days already, and now you're trying to hurry us up."    

Seeing Jiu Muli healing, the Blacky and Jin Yu both immediately cried out in alarm when they realized that Jiu Muli had already regained consciousness.    

"Right."    

Jiu Muli opened his eyes and looked at Blacky and Jin Yu, two living things, and laughed: "It's good that you two are fine, Blacky, did you bandage my wound?"    

"Yeah." Blacky did his best to nod his head, and said: "Unfortunately, I don't have any good pill on me, otherwise Master's injuries would have healed a long time ago. However, Master, you have to train more pill s and let me have them in case of an emergency."    

In fact, there were quite a few benefits on the Blacky, other than the Grade Seven Mysterious Opening Pill s that Jiu Muli rewarded. Back in the Golden Sacred Mountain, it had hidden quite a few spirit medicine immortal medicine s, but it had not successfully refined them into pill. It did not understand it itself, and did not dare to give them to Jiu Muli, so it had no choice.    

He hadn't praised it yet, but he was asking for more benefits!    

Jiu Muli was helpless, but her heart felt warm. She could tell that the current Blacky was truly dependent on her.    

Soon after, Jiu Muli found out from the bird and dragon's mouth that they had been walking around the place for two days, and discovered that there were no signs of life, making them look deathly still. Other than the berserk blood Qi and endless yin wind, all that was left behind were the thin and strange power of the curse.    

What was even more strange was that within these two days, Blacky and Jin Yu had scouted all over the place, but they did not find the barrier Barrier that they came across.    

You have to understand that back then, Jiu Muli passed out after just stepping across the barrier. Logically speaking, he should be at the edge of the zone, yet they couldn't even find the boundary after searching for a thousand miles, as if this was the real world, a vast and limitless region.    

"I feel that this is a bit like the underworld, but the underworld has spiritual energy, and they also have Power of Star s." The Blacky finally explained.    

Jiu Muli did not have a clue, and she had a bigger suspicion. It was that when she first passed through the barrier, she encountered a strange corrosive force.    

In addition to the rumbling of blood lightning, in this strange place, it was extremely difficult for one to cultivate in peace. Fortunately, although this place was strange, there were no living beings, and it was very safe.    

Even so, it took Jiu Muli an entire day to fully recover from the wound on his waist, and his fighting strength had also been restored to the peak.    

"Let's go, we'll take a walk around."    

In the end, she set off. Since she couldn't find the source of the problem, she had no choice but to find her way out of here.    

No matter how big the Void Battlefield was, it still had its boundaries, not to mention the Ghost Abyss, it was just that outside of the Void Battlefield, it was only a forbidden area with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles. Even if the inside of the Void Battlefield was any bigger, she did not believe that she would not be able to find the border.    

It was just that after walking a few steps, Jiu Muli's expression became completely dark, because there were no sun, moon, or stars here, and the direction couldn't even be determined. Furthermore, geomagnetism was in chaos, so any method Jiu Muli could think of to determine directions was completely useless.    

"Isn't it easy to get lost?"    

She was helpless. Even if her spiritual sense was powerful and had astounding computational abilities, she couldn't possibly maintain a straight line in the face of an unknown location.    

"Master, why don't you try using that broken plate?" In the end, the Blacky suggested this as the Tian Ji Pan and the compass were very similar and could determine directions.    

The truth proved that the Blacky's unreliable suggestion was unreliable. Although the Tian Ji Pan had a lot of functions, but it seemed like the heaven and earth was clouded and the Tian Ji Pan was also unable to pinpoint its position.    

"Forget it, let's search for a treasure."    

In the end, under that helplessness, with the continuous mountain peaks as the marker, Jiu Muli held onto the Tian Ji Pan, and casually found a spot to move forward.    

Crack!    

After walking not too far, she heard a crisp sound coming from the soil beneath her feet that was as soft as ash.    

She stomped her feet and flipped open the dust. It turned out to be a skeleton. That one kick had broken the skeleton's leg bones. Apart from that, the skeleton was perfectly preserved.    

"Holy shit, the skeleton of a cultivator. It's still a human."    

Blacky screamed.    

Jiu Muli was equally shocked, the skeleton looked to be taller than her by half a head, but it was filled with a decaying Qi, and it did not release the slightest amount of pressure, so she was unable to differentiate the strength of the skeleton master in front of her.    

After that, she circled the skeleton and searched for 30 feet. Surprisingly, she did not find any space ring s or other items.    

"Let's go."    

Finally, she buried the skeleton and continued on her way.    

After walking for less than a thousand miles, she found more than a hundred sets of skeletons consecutively, each of them completely intact. There were Homo sapiens, demonic beast, and even demons, but they were all unable to differentiate between the realms of cultivation in front of them.    

"There's no need to think about it, these must be the cultivators that barged in here." The Blacky spoke casually, then sunk into silence.    

Jiu Muli's expression was also extremely unnatural, how could she not guess, she just did not want to admit it, that's all, so many cultivators had entered, but all of them had died for no reason, leaving behind a complete skeleton, it was too strange.    

"Did they all die from age?"    

Her heart felt heavy. There were no other life forms here, only the blood-red lightning in the sky. There was no killing intent. To be able to die here, he had to die of old age.    

Thinking about the rumors, that at least the Star Emperor Stage Cultivator was able to enter, she couldn't help but shiver. This was because this kind of cultivator had at least five or six hundred years of cultivation time, and the Venerability at least a thousand years. Thinking about these cultivators, dying alone in this dark environment, she felt a chill down her spine.    

He was like a prisoner, inferior even to prisoners, because there were no living creatures here. He could not even find a person he could communicate with, and he could only endure the endless loneliness as he waited for death to descend upon him.    

"If I were you, I would definitely commit suicide, right?"    

She sighed lightly, feeling that if it were her, she wouldn't go crazy and would definitely commit suicide.    

"Just how big is this place? Why haven't I reached the end even after exploring for a hundred years?!"    

In the end, Jiu Muli found a row of words carved onto a huge black iron tree. This was carved out of rune, if she did not have the Tian Ji Pan, she would not have been able to detect it.    

The words were very ancient, and very familiar with the rune outside of Blood Evil Secret Realm.    

"At least thousands of years."    

She was sure that in this kind of place, this rune could sustain immortality for a few thousand years. This person's cultivation when alive was definitely much stronger than hers, because there were no spiritual energy here, nor were there any Power of Star.    

"Since the rune can not be destroyed, the corpse of this man has not decayed yet."    

Jiu Muli's mind shook, and immediately saw a glimmer of hope.    

This time, she, Blacky and Jin Yu travelled for another ten thousand kilometers in one go. In the end, they had no choice but to stop at a cliff.    

This was a cliff, not too high. It seemed as if someone intentionally hacked a mountain apart with a single sword strike. Originally, it should have been as smooth as a mirror, but now it had already been corroded long ago and was no longer flat.    

"Traitor... "So it's you …"    

On the mountain wall was this inscription. Maybe due to the passage of time, Jiu Muli was able to discern a few words, but the majority of them had already fallen off due to the decay of the mountain, and he was unable to discern them.    

However, the appearance of this line of words, caused great waves to rise in Jiu Muli's heart.