Chapter 641: The Path Underfoot
"I'm not small anymore, though it seems I'm still not as 'big' as you are." Yue Yu straightened her back, deliberately emphasizing the words "small" and "big," and casually drove the conversation into risqué territory.
No matter what, even if she looked like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, she was actually the mother of two adults. When she "drove," she did so with practiced ease, without a hint of the shyness that would belong to a true maiden.
"...I can only deduce that he reincarnated in Yuzhou of the Manghuang Realm, but I don't know who specifically, whether male or female, human or demon. It's also possible he didn't choose to be reborn as an infant, but an adult, or even an adult creature."
Bai Mo ignored Yue Yu's suggestive remarks, telling her to prepare herself mentally for the possibility that her beloved might have transformed into some strange existence.
...
After a moment, he manifested an avatar from mid-air. It took him nearly half a second to reacquaint himself with the use of legs.
For many years now, he hadn't personally used his legs to walk.
With telekinesis, no matter where he wanted to go, a single thought was enough to fly to his destination; what was the point of walking?
...
Behind the door lay a bizarre and fantastical world—the Space Rift.
Countless indescribable colors existed here in distorted, diffusing forms, utterly reshaping the worldview of anyone who stepped through.
It wasn't a sanity-draining nausea, but merely pure, unpredictable change.
Casually opening the door, Bai Mo walked straight in.
"Thank you."
Yue Yu followed in his footsteps, stepping into this entirely new world herself.
...
A terrifying pressure instantly descended. Her instincts screamed warnings: the spatial storms here were extremely dangerous, and she had to immediately evade them.
But Yue Yu suppressed the impulse to teleport away, because in such an extremely unstable place, teleporting was more likely to be a suicidal move.
"No wonder people in the Federation say that only by reaching the Seventh Stage can one freely traverse the Space Rift."
Thinking of this, she grew even more worried about Yun Jie, who had bravely withstood such a storm over a decade ago to travel to the Manghuang Realm.
"But then, does that mean as long as one can reach the Seventh Stage, they can continuously travel to other spatial layer worlds for exploration?"
...
"Why is there a path beneath your feet?" Yue Yu, protecting herself fiercely with her Xuanhua, realized that the path she had been walking on only generated the moment Bai Mo's foot descended.
Shortly after he lifted his foot, the temporarily appearing path was once again swallowed.
"..."
Bai Mo reached back to touch the nape of his neck, then lowered his hand and turned his head to look at Yue Yu, who was following closely behind him.
He had originally intended to simply grow an eye on the back of his head and consider that his way of looking back.
All this way, he had been trying to emulate normal human behaviors, but it seemed he wasn't very successful.
As for Yue Yu, she had no mind to notice Bai Mo's changes, for the raging spatial storms still watched them like tigers eyeing their prey.
Unlike Bai Mo, who was nearly immune to pure physical attacks and wouldn't care even if he were sliced into fragments, Yue Yu was far from reaching the level of complete Elementization, like the 'Myriad Forms' concept.
If her body were cut into pieces, she would at most survive only an hour or two longer than an ordinary person.
...
"One hundred twenty-three thousand five hundred sixty-two heartbeats." Inside the Space Rift, various timing devices seemed to be severely interfered with and couldn't function, so she could only split off a thought, dedicating it solely to counting her heartbeats as a timer.
High-stage transcendents generally cultivated a bit of the Thousand Souls Sutra to aid their multi-tasking; otherwise, having dozens of avatars but only being able to process one thing at a time would be quite awkward.
"This is my path. For Yun Jie, it would take at least three months to reach here." Bai Mo pointed a finger again, and instantly, amidst the myriad chaotic "colors," a door materialized.
Beyond it lay their destination this time—the Manghuang Realm.
"Three months... really?"
"Transmigrating to an alternate world, that was the path he chose."
In the method Bai Mo originally provided for undergoing the Reincarnation Tribulation, it wasn't strictly necessary to transmigrate to an alternate world; the most convenient way was actually to reincarnate on the Moon.
However, Yun Jie and Di Qi, in their respective private experiments, had discovered that transmigrating to an alternate world not only allowed one to safely evade enemies.
More importantly, undergoing this trial's baptism with a relatively low-stage physical body could greatly enhance one's affinity for the Space Rift, making trans-world travel much easier in the future.
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Hanluo City.
Fifty kilometers north of the former Hanluo City ruins, a brand-new Hanluo City had replaced the old one.
As for the old Hanluo City, left behind after Bai Mo and the Holy Progenitors ascended, it had now become an adventurer's paradise.
Wave after wave of people walked in full of hope, but the vast majority returned disappointed.
Only a tiny fraction of the lucky few managed to find a shred of inheritance within these ruins, which had already been thoroughly plundered by countless predecessors.
...
"We're back."
A man and a woman appeared from the void, descending to the ground without a hint of fanfare, drawing no attention from those nearby.
"So many people..." Yue Yu glanced at the ticket office of the Hanluo City Ruins Management Center. It was barely dawn, yet it was already packed with adventurers from all over the Manghuang Realm.
A group of black-robed security guards, exuding an aura of "keep out," stared fixedly at the queue, strictly preventing anyone from causing trouble.
After the Xierdesi Ark took control of the Manghuang Realm, they immediately partnered with the Bloodline Houses to develop the ruins.
Now, it was essentially a business of selling the bones they had already picked clean to people from all over the world hoping for a stroke of luck.
...
Freed from the shadow of the Starlight Beacon, and with the full support of the Ark's thousands of transmigrators, the Manghuang Realm embarked on a fast track to development.
In less than twenty years, a comprehensive industrial revolution had begun; many technologies were illuminated ahead of schedule under the transmigrators' catalysis, and the entire society flourished.
After the Starlight Beacon relinquished its hold, the Manghuang Realm welcomed a new golden age.
The transmigrators transplanted Earth's culture, technology, and systems wholesale into this new world. The natives of the Manghuang Realm had no resistance to these influences and soon began to sing, dance, rap, and play basketball.
The original enemies of humanity, the demonic entities, were annihilated in a monumental gamble over a decade ago. The Bloodline Houses, who had long been obsessed with Origin Seeds, gradually began to experiment with the new paths brought by the transmigrators.
Origin Seeds had already been proven by the Starlight Beacon to be a dead end, with the Sixth Stage being their limit.
Thus, the Five Immortal Paths theory, originating from Earth, became the new hope for the heads of the great families.
If they knew of Xu Xuanling's success, they would likely go even crazier.
P.S.: A small plug for "The Wandering Meteorite," it has a feel similar to "Rebirth of the Super Dreadnought."
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