Chapter 274: Still Like a Statue

"What happened?! Where is this!?" Gu Ao was bewildered. One moment, he was fighting a rank eight day beast tiger, the next moment, he was at the apex of a mountain.

He could not comprehend the turn of events.

"You bastard!" Immortal Star's deep voice rang out when he noticed Alaka'i. He was ready to exact his revenge.

"Friend, we meet again" Alaka'i smiled faintly like he and Immortal Star were close friends that had parted for many years.

Immortal Star was vexed but he restrained himself. He knew he was not Alaka'i's match and he could sense it. Alaka'i was at the first tier of Original realm.

The disparity between them was like the void between heaven and earth. It could not be bridged easily.

An Yin was calm and collected and his gaze moved to and fro. Soon, he noticed that everyone from Eight Extremities Palace was present.

Gu Ao also counted and noticed, the martial warriors of Eight Extremities Palace were complete. None of them was missing.

The four clans had all lost many of their clansmen. Gu Clan and Xiong Clan shared the A grade encampment. Because of this they lost many clansmen and only had seven martial practitioners left each. Dong Clan was bullied by Alaka'i and lost five Dong clansmen. Yi Clan was the luckiest and they only lost one Yi clansmen.

Gu Ao's gaze was dark. This could only mean one thing. The S grade encampment was special.

Now, he hated An Yin's group even more for taking the S grade encampment.

An Yin noticed his gaze but he ignored the man: "Where is Lu Zheng?"

They looked around and could not find Lu Zheng. Soon, Fu Li Ping saw the man and called out: "Here he is!"

The martial warriors of Eight Extremities Palace saw Lu Zheng and moved towards him. They stopped when they noticed something abnormal.

"What is wrong with him?" Yu Er Dan asked Immortal Star. She knew the two men were close and felt Immortal Star would understand what was wrong with Lu Zheng.

Immortal Star had a short fuse and was easily angered: "How should I know!?"

Lu Zheng was standing with his eyes close. His entire body was as still as a statue. His hair fluttered in the cold mountain breeze and his robes billowed softly. He did not even move a muscle.

It was like he was frozen in time and space.

…..

Lu Zheng's Soul Lake was the most bizarre Soul Lake in the cultivation world. The Sea of Consciousness was frozen all over like ice but it still flowed like water. It was not something the mortal mind could understand.

Beneath his frozen Sea of Consciousness was a raging inferno of pink flames. It was the Sea of Nirvana.

In the space above the frozen stretch of silver water was a large sphere of darkness that floated eerily like an abnormality that was not meant to be.

~What is this?~

Lu Zheng's host soul that was coated in a layer of Nirvana Flames gathered a scoop of the frozen silver water. It was Lu Zheng's Sea of Consciousness.

Despite it just being a scoop, it was still connected to the main sea. Without hesitation, Lu Zheng detached it and sent it into the black sphere.

After a short while, the scoop of Sea of Consciousness returned to Lu Zheng's host soul. After some probing, Lu Zheng returned it into the Soul Lake.

~So it is like this?~

The sphere of darkness was an expanse of empty space like the one inside a spatial ring. The only difference was that this one was extremely larger in comparison.

Moreover, Lu Zheng could sense that the spatial nodes inside the empty space were so scattered like when he had enlarged the space around the tributary of the River of Time.

~Maybe…~

Lu Zheng willed out a rank ten lightning path material from his spatial ring. It was a green and thin like a blade of grass and was over ten metres long. The sides and tips of the blade of grass were extremely sharp and when they cut a person, hundreds of thousands of volts of electricity would stab into them.

It was the rank ten lightning path material – needle lightning grass.

Lu Zheng's soul consciousness wrapped the needle lightning grass and under his control, it disappeared from his hands and appeared inside the sphere of darkness.

"What is he doing?" Yu Er Dan muttered in surprise.

Lu Zheng was currently standing with his eyes wide open without the slightest motion. Obviously, he was completely oblivious to the others.

Naturally, Lu Zheng was not defenceless. Although he was concealing it, he was channelling his blood Essence and the two drops of lifeblood essence that he had refined in his blood vessels were excited. He was urging his strongest defensive method.

Lu Zheng was cautious and would never leave his life in another person's hands.

The moment the needle lightning grass appeared inside the sphere of darkness, Lu Zheng received a profound sense of inspiration.

This inspiration was not rare to Lu Zheng. He had interacted with it many times in his previous lifetime as Xue Ritian. It was profound enlightenment.