Upon hearing the report from the little demon, she merely chuckled lightly, but an undetectable magical energy surged within her. If a powerful immortal were present, they would surely discover that she was using a unique method to communicate telepathically with other cultivators.
Who is the recipient of her telepathic message? Because this method is special and requires powerful magical artifacts to be effective, it is estimated that no one in the cultivation world has yet been able to discover the recipient of her telepathic message.
As the "Gap" opened, an unusual tranquility descended upon the Tianmang Forest. However, within about a day, a special magical energy began to emerge from the mountain hollow where the "Gap" was located.
The cultivators who had been surrounding them all retreated, because this was a magical energy that no one in the cultivation world could withstand.
Chu Nian secretly followed the demons and retreated a few steps. He then discovered that the magical energy spewing from the mountain valley was somewhat like mental energy, and also similar to the superpowers of the apocalypse.
She suspects that the existence of this "gap" actually stems from the eruption of excess energy from the Earth's core caused by crustal movement somewhere in this spacetime, or perhaps the Earth's core is throwing out its metabolic waste.
So, this is the book's... garbage dump?
I wonder if she could manage if she worked a bit harder, like a garbage collector or a junk collector.
Chu Nian stroked her chin thoughtfully, and because she was carefully sensing the special energy emanating from the mountain hollow, she stopped retreating. Soon, she was engulfed by this surging energy and began frantically circulating her mental power to absorb it.
Some demonic cultivators saw her being engulfed by the surging energy, some were shocked, some were horrified, and some were overjoyed—thinking that she had been swallowed up by the energy eruption before the "Gap" opened.
In fact, the energy eruption of the "Gap" had been going on for three years, but Chu Nian had only just arrived. She regretted not coming out sooner, as she had been hiding in a corner of the Demon Realm in seclusion, not even returning to Xuanyuan Palace for the past hundred years. Otherwise, how could rumors of her demise have spread?
If she had come earlier, she could have caught several more of these energy eruptions. This should be the last energy eruption before the "Gap" opens, which will take place at midnight tonight.
As Chu Nian absorbed this energy, he wondered if he could absorb the energy within the "gap" in the same way.
That night, a quarter before midnight, the mountain hollow where the "gap" was located suddenly trembled, and then the ground suddenly split open in both directions like a door, revealing a dark, bottomless cave.
As the ground tremors gradually subsided, Venerables at the Mahayana stage immediately flew into the cave on the wind. Most cultivators who wish to reach the Mahayana stage need to cultivate for more than five hundred years. Many Mahayana Supremes present, especially Demon Venerables, have even longer lifespans and many of them participated in the opening of the "Gap" last time. In addition, the opening of the "Gap" is very regular and is recorded in the classics of various races and sects, so everyone basically has a grasp of the general situation after it opens.
Its opening time is thirty days, and the cultivation world has existed for tens of thousands of years, with this "thirty days" period never being off by even a fraction. Once more than thirty days have passed and a person has not been able to come out of the "gap," they will be trapped inside and will only be able to come out when the "gap" opens again.
Of course, since the "gap" is a spacetime turbulence when it is not open, it seems that no one in the history of the cultivation world has ever been able to live here for more than 100 years.
For the supreme cultivators of various races who have already reached the highest level of cultivation, the spiritual herbs and treasures here are no longer of any interest to them. The reason they enter the "Gap" is that they hope to find an opportunity to ascend, or perhaps a celestial treasure from the upper realm.
Therefore, in places where spiritual herbs and plants grow, in the ruins of past sects that have fallen into the long history of the cultivation world, and in the underground tombs of unknown great figures of the cultivation world, one rarely sees the traces of Mahayana Supremes.
Only ancient ruins from before the separation of the three realms, dilapidated plantations exuding the aura of immortals, and so on, are the areas where they frequently appear.
Fox Queen Hu Qianjiao, along with several other fox demon lords, had searched several such places over the past twenty days, obtaining quite a few treasures. However, Hu Qianjiao was puzzled as to why, after searching so many areas frequented by Mahayana Supreme Beings, they still couldn't find Chu Nian.
With the thirty-day deadline fast approaching, if she fails to complete the task assigned by the upper realm, the opportunity to be guided to ascension by the Wen clan of the upper realm will likely slip through her fingers.
She remained at the peak of Mahayana for five thousand years. Even though the demon race has a long lifespan, her physical body would perish if she did not break through and ascend for so long.
In the world of cultivation, there are many powerful cultivators who have reached her level, but quite a few are forever stuck at that level due to bottlenecks, ultimately unable to continue their journey to immortality. She is now facing such a situation.
Fortunately, the Wen clan of the upper realm possessed a fox-like celestial beast, and through the introduction of this fox-like celestial beast senior, she obtained this opportunity to be guided to ascension. As long as a celestial being intervenes to help her break through her bottleneck, her ascension is just around the corner.
However, the Wen family also set a condition: kill Hua Nian, a remnant of the Xuanyuan Palace, and force him to reveal the whereabouts of the "Battle Heaven Technique".
She received this mission before entering the "gap" and was instructed to follow the arrangements of Princess Wen Ruyan.
What arrangements could Wen Ruyan possibly make? In her view, Hua Nian entered the "gap" simply to search for treasure, so she reminded Hu Qianjiao to look for people in the places where the Mahayana Supreme would go to search for treasure.
The result was that we gained absolutely nothing!
It should be noted that Hu Qianjiao is not alone. As the Fox King, she can mobilize all the demon lords within the fox clan. In addition, there are many demon lords who are on good terms with her, and even the kings of various races within the demon clan, who are all willing to lend a helping hand.
However, none of the demon lords who were searching for treasures elsewhere saw any sign of Hua Nian.
That female demon entered the "Gap," surely not intending to hide and remain hidden like she has for the past hundred years! Judging from her high-profile entrance and the fact that she injured Lin Zhao of the Nebula Sect as soon as she appeared, this style of behavior doesn't seem like that of a coward!
Just as Hu Qianjiao was getting so worried about not being able to find anyone that her hair was turning white, she suddenly received a special telepathic message from Wen Ruyan, instructing her to quickly meet up near the exit of the crevice.
Hu Qianjiao guessed that it was probably Hua Nian who appeared at the exit.
That's true. No matter where Hua Nian is active during these twenty-odd days, she will definitely go to the exit when the opening time of the "Gap" is about to expire.
Hu Qianjiao immediately led the fox clan demon lords to the exit, citing the approaching deadline. They had indeed unearthed many treasures with her during their treasure hunt, and knowing that the opening of the "Gap" was imminent, none of them suspected anything.
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