The Dark Continent and the Crazy World

Boom! Boom! Boom!!!

Deafening collisions echoed through the void as Su Min faced two massive, black-and-gold behemoths—a Dark Three-Legged Golden Crow and a Dark Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.

Their once-radiant bodies were now dull, covered in eerie dark patterns. Their formidable physiques had weakened, and their innate divine techniques had become fragmented. Even though these two early Mahayana-stage Dark Divine Beasts were ganging up on Su Min—who was only at the mid-Unity Stage—the battle remained evenly matched.

Terrifying shockwaves rippled through the dark void, devouring and annihilating everything in their path. Strangely, the more Su Min fought, the more exhilarated she felt. Since reaching the Unity Stage, especially after achieving completion, few could challenge her like this, even Little Golden Crow and Ao Xue combined were no match for her.

Back when she was at the early Unity Stage, she had thrashed them effortlessly without them even using their Emperor artifacts. Now, at the mid-Unity Stage, the gap was even wider.

So Su Min relished this fight. After reaching the Unity Stage, flashy techniques became meaningless, only the most brutal, direct clashes mattered. Her 10,000-meter Dharma Body wielded a massive blade, slashing ruthlessly at the two Dark Divine Beasts. Despite their size, her movements were lightning-fast, each strike landing precisely.

If not for their supreme divine beast heritage and their original Mahayana peak-level foundations, they would have been incapacitated long ago. Even so, the two beasts were growing increasingly frustrated. They had noticed something horrifying, every time they tried to activate their incomplete divine techniques, Su Min would flawlessly disrupt them.

"How is she so familiar with our techniques?!"

Su Min knew their moves inside out, leaving them utterly helpless. Worse, their techniques were already flawed, making them easy prey for her.

"Seems like this is all you've got. Time to end this."

Su Min sighed in disappointment before casually forming a massive energy sphere—her former ultimate attack. Now that she had reached the Unity Stage and achieved completion, the cost of using it was negligible.

With a flick of her wrist, she hurled it forward.

"Shit! Dodge!"

"That thing's packed with mixed elemental energy!"

The two beasts panicked, scrambling in opposite directions. But in that instant—

Time seemed to freeze.

"Time Law?!"

Realization struck too late. Their frantic attempts to break free with their own Laws were futile—the attack had already landed.

BOOM!!!

A cataclysmic explosion erupted. Their already battered bodies were torn apart, shrinking rapidly to a mere dozen meters in size. Before Su Min's colossal Dharma Body, they looked like insignificant ants.

Then, with a cold smirk, Su Min unleashed two radiant symbols on her palms—

"卍" (Swastika of Buddha's Light) and "雷" (Thunder Rune).

The symbols locked onto the two beasts, unleashing blinding Buddhist radiance and devastating heavenly lightning, both natural counters to dark entities.

In an instant, the two were utterly obliterated.

Su Min dismissed her Dharma Body and collected their remains into her treasure gourd.

Two early Mahayana-stage Dark Divine Beasts—annihilated.

Meanwhile—

BOOM!!!

Another explosion erupted behind her as Yao Xian'er shattered the Nine-Colored Heavenly Phoenix with a single finger. Even severely injured, Yao Xian'er's combat prowess was nothing to scoff at. As for the two beasts Su Min had slain? They were just unlucky.

Their descendants had unwittingly screwed them over—their techniques were full of holes, and Su Min had seen the flawless originals. Naturally, she dismantled them with ease.

"What a waste."

Su Min watched as the phoenix's remains dissolved into a bloody rain. In her past life, this much blood could've drowned an entire country. There was no way to collect it all. But since she'd already secured the essence of the two Dark Divine Beasts, she didn't dwell on it.

"I never thought you could actually kill two Mahayana-stage beings at the Unity Stage… cough cough…"

Yao Xian'er looked at Su Min in awe before suddenly vomiting blood. Her injuries were far worse than they appeared. Even without close inspection, Su Min could see countless Dao scars covering her body.

"Your wounds…"

Su Min was stunned. "What kind of monster could leave such injuries on Yao Xian'er?"

"It's fine. I fought a monster that crawled out of the 'Eye.' Dark-corrupted beings can't leave this void, but that thing could—and it could bring other dark creatures with it. So I had to kill it."

"What was it?"

"A Fallen Immortal."

"…What?"

Su Min blinked. She hadn't expected Yao Xian'er to encounter something like that, let alone survive the battle at the Mahayana Stage.

"Come. We need to get to the Dark Continent."

Yao Xian'er sighed, signaling for Su Min to follow. This dark void was no place to recover.

"What's the Dark Continent?"

The game's lore had only covered up to the Skeleton Emperor's defeat, leaving Su Min completely in the dark about what came after.

"The Dark Continent is like the Heavenly Continent—a massive floating landmass. But it's submerged in this corrupted void, so everything here is tainted by darkness."

"It was also the site of an ancient battlefield. Countless powerful corpses remain here. The 'Ancient Battlefield' in the outside world is just a fragment of the Dark Continent that we tore off and flung into space—to prevent the dark corruption from spreading."

Su Min nearly rolled her eyes. "Do you have any idea how much trouble that caused?"

But she kept her thoughts to herself. As chaotic as it was, it was still better than letting hordes of corrupted Mahayana experts rampage across the universe.

Under Yao Xian'er's lead, the two traversed a dense energy cloud—revealing a landmass as vast as the Heavenly Continent. But unlike the lush greenery of the Heavenly Continent, this place was a desolate wasteland—barren earth, exposed bedrock, and patches of land shrouded in crimson miasma.

"This place…"

Su Min was speechless. She didn't dare recklessly scan with her divine sense, but even a glance told her this world was utterly ruined.

"You guessed right. For generations, Great Emperors have waged war against the darkness. If left unchecked, a catastrophic 'Dark Upheaval' would erupt."

"Countless Mahayana experts, even some Great Emperors have died here. We couldn't retrieve all the bodies, so their remnants linger as dark-infected soul fragments."

"The people here absorb these fragments, allowing their cultivation to skyrocket overnight."

"But borrowed power is worthless. Look at those two Dark Divine Beasts I killed. Without their supreme physiques, their combat skills were pathetic. Their technique usage was garbage partly due to their incomplete inheritance, but mostly because they were too young to refine it."

"They could bully the weak, but against real experts? They were doomed."

Su Min scoffed. "What isn't yours will never truly be yours."

These people either went insane, became calamities, or ended up as laughably weak fighters like the two she'd just slaughtered. Still, her expression darkened. If their numbers grew too large, even she wouldn't be able to stop them all.

"Follow me. There are others waiting."

Yao Xian'er took a deep breath and led Su Min to a secluded corner of the continent—a mountain range hiding her humble abode. The cave was so well-hidden that Su Min only noticed it when they were right in front of it. Inside, the space was cramped—barely 30 square meters, with nothing but a spiritual spring for comfort.

"You live like this?"

Su Min couldn't help but laugh. "This is beyond frugal."

"This is just a place to rest and heal. It's covered in concealment arrays."

"Remember—on the Dark Continent, everyone is your enemy, especially the cultivators. If you see one, kill them immediately."

"Why?"

Su Min frowned. Was this some kind of dark forest law?

"The Dark Continent is barren. Most cultivators here don't cultivate properly, they just devour soul fragments to boost their power."

"Fucking lunatics!"

Su Min cursed. "Were they trying to become immortals or demons?"

They weren't just eating the soul fragments, they were fusing them into their own souls.

At that point, who could say if they were even themselves anymore? Su Min would never dare merge foreign souls into her own. The risk of identity loss, schizophrenia, or outright madness was too high.

The stronger they grew, the crazier they became.

"As you can see, I'll need a long time to recover."

Yao Xian'er smiled bitterly. In her current state, fighting even one Mahayana expert was a struggle. If Su Min hadn't arrived in time, she would've had to burn her origin essence, risking her second life and her entire Dao.

"What do you need me to do?"

"From what we've gathered, that Fallen Immortal was lured out by someone."

"Huh?"

Su Min's eyebrows shot up.

"To cross from the 'Heaven's Eye' to our universe, one must traverse a chaotic zone. Without enough 'anchors,' there's a 99% chance of getting lost."

"The beings here, after absorbing enough dark energy, naturally become anchors. We've been hunting down the strongest ones to delay the inevitable."

"Where's 'he'?"

Su Min blinked. "You mean the other guy?"

"No idea. This is a map of the continent's powerhouses. It's up to you now."

"As for him… he seems to have encountered a powerful foe. He won't be able to help much."

"But those soul fragments can be useful to you—just don't fuse them directly. Refine them into pure energy to boost your cultivation."

"Now that's good news."

Su Min grinned. "Leave it to me. I'll hunt down as many dark cultivators as I can."

Yao Xian'er nodded and handed her a scroll.

"Here's a list of the current 'Seven Dark Kings'—all at the Mahayana Stage. They're your priority now."