After this, Gu Tianchen and the others bid farewell to Chen Junting. Ascending no higher than a hundred meters into the air, they left in the direction they had come from.
They quickly crossed the 300-meter sea area.
The moment they flew out of the 300-meter sea area, the twelve figures suddenly disappeared, vanishing without a trace.
Clearly, they had already left the alternate space of this island.
After losing sight of their figures, Chen Junting retracted his gaze and turned his head to look at the island beneath his feet, which seemed capable of devouring everything. His face was calm, showing not the slightest ripple.
"Let me see what this trial is."
Saying this, he took a step forward and strode into it.
...
There were no paths on the island. Even though the pitch-black trees obscured the sun, making it difficult to discern directions, Chen Junting didn't care.
Because to him, whether there was a direction or not wasn't important.
What he needed to do was explore this island.
Because he didn't know the specific content of the trial, and even the clues hadn't mentioned anything, Chen Junting could only walk deeper into the island, exploring it by observing the environmental shifts as he progressed inward.
After all, what was supposed to be here would ultimately be here.
As he went deeper into the forest, Chen Junting felt that the sense of silent extinction in the surrounding environment became increasingly obvious.
In the gloomy, cold air, those hard-to-perceive and subtle destruction attribute energies were continuously invading Chen Junting's body, but he mobilized his soul power to block them all out.
However, continuing like this was not a solution.
Actually, at first, he didn't care.
Because he had two soul cores, the soul power stored within him was massive. Even if there wasn't a single place on the island that could connect to normal Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, it wasn't a predicament for him.
It could even be said that the impact on him was extremely minimal.
Furthermore, in his estimation, even if he really couldn't hold on, he could rely on the Zhu Xian Sword Intent, the Zhu Xian Array Map, or even the power of the Zhu Xian Sword Array to absorb and isolate the destruction energy.
Until...
Chen Junting walked while observing the changes as he went deeper.
He found that the destruction energy was becoming more and more vigorous, which meant he had to output more and more soul power. Even as he went further inside, the destructive aura was no longer hard to perceive, but was visible to the naked eye.
This meant that the quantity of the destruction energy was higher, and the quality was stronger.
It also meant that if he continued to block it with soul power, the amount of soul power he needed to output would increase exponentially.
Purely in terms of soul power, even he couldn't withstand that!
One must know, estimating by the size of this island, his current journey had probably only covered about one-fifth of it.
Therefore, to conserve soul power, he directly unfolded the Zhu Xian Array Map. Although there was no normal Heaven and Earth Origin Energy here, maintaining the operation of the Zhu Xian Array Map seemingly could only rely on his own soul power output. But don't forget, destruction energy was also a type of energy.
It was just that ordinary life forms or ordinary soul tools couldn't withstand the erosion of destruction energy, thus they couldn't endure it.
However, what Chen Junting hadn't expected was that the strength of the surrounding destruction energy, or to be more precise, the quality of this destruction energy, was far beyond his estimation.
The Zhu Xian Array Map hadn't been operating for long before Chen Junting noticed that the destruction energy was constantly eroding the array map, and continuously wearing down its original array patterns and source.
If this continued, the array map would probably truly be ruined.
Thinking of this, Chen Junting hurriedly retracted the array map into his Heavenly Eye.
"It seems external objects can't be used."
Using soul power to resist the destruction, he pondered inwardly.
Chen Junting was very clear that although the God of Destruction hadn't told him anything about the trial's content, based on Chen Junting's understanding, he had actually revealed the trial.
In other words, from the moment Chen Junting set foot on the island, the trial had already begun.
As for what the task within it was, and how it could be considered complete...
These two points were still unknown.
Chen Junting's gaze swept over the large trees above that blocked the sky and sunlight. He brought his middle and index fingers together to form a sword seal, and with one slash, shattered everything that obstructed his upward line of sight.
Then, with a light tap of his tiptoe, he stepped into the void.
Looking out, he saw that the black forest before him seemed boundless. When he looked deeper into the island, faintly, he seemed to see a large patch of purplish-black looming in the distance.
Purplish-black?
That meant there was even denser destruction energy.
Even with just one glance, from the depths of his heart, he felt a strong palpitation arise spontaneously, as if a lower-dimensional creature had seen a higher-dimensional existence.
What powerful energy!
Chen Junting had a premonition that compared to the destruction energy of unknown grade currently around him, what he was seeing was absolutely no longer mortal, but had reached a divine level.
Otherwise, it absolutely wouldn't give him such a feeling of palpitation.
But whether it gave him palpitations or not, he ultimately had to make this trip.
Besides, having reached his level, would he still be timid?
If he were timid, that would truly be a joke!
So after locking onto the direction, to save soul power, he dropped back to the ground and continued walking deeper into the forest. He didn't know how long had passed, but he was still in a patch of black woods. Only this time, that patch of purplish-black "fog" appeared before him. The purplish-black light flickered in and out of view, giving off a terrifying sense of silent extinction.
"What terrifying destruction energy."
In his mind, a low exclamation from Tyrant suddenly rang out.
Hearing this, Chen Junting immediately split off a trace of his attention and heard Tyrant's evaluation of this purplish-black fog in his mind.
"Junting, the destruction energy in the region ahead absolutely exceeds your imagination. Even at my peak, I wouldn't dare act presumptuously in front of this destruction energy; that is attribute suppression."
Regarding this, Chen Junting wasn't surprised.
What he cared about now was whether he could withstand it.
"Hard to say."
After a moment of silence, Tyrant gave this answer.
"If one were to truly give an adjective to the destruction energy in the region before us, 'Ultimate' might be quite suitable. But as for its grade... I can only say that looking at it, I am like a mayfly gazing at the vast sky."
"...Then I understand."
Pondering for a brief moment served as mental preparation for Chen Junting. He looked at the purplish-black fog before him, and the next second, he took a step forward, submerging his entire body into it without hesitation.
At this moment, a continuous stream of soul power burst forth from Chen Junting's body, resisting this crazily attacking destruction energy.
However, when his soul power encountered the destruction energy, it rapidly melted away like ice and snow meeting heat. Moreover, the destruction energy was like the tides in the ocean, continuous and endless.
This scene made Chen Junting clearly realize that if this continued, the soul power within his body would inevitably be completely exhausted.
With his power waning and the enemy's waxing, Chen Junting continued to walk step by step deeper into the forest, observing this destruction energy.
As time passed, when his soul power gradually couldn't compare to the surging destruction energy, the four great soul spirits in his mind frequently spoke up, wanting to join forces to isolate this destruction energy for him. Only Electrolux still resided in the second sea of consciousness, making no sound.
But all of this was suppressed by Chen Junting alone.
Just as the purple intent contained within the destruction energy in the forest became increasingly thick, Chen Junting seemed to suddenly understand something.
Immediately after, he made a move that the four great soul spirits couldn't understand—with a wave of his hand, he directly retracted all his soul power.
"Junting, what are you doing!?"
"My Lord!?" x2
In the Spiritual Sea, Tyrant, Mad King, and the Evil Emperor instantly lost their color in shock and cried out. Although the Snow Empress's face changed abruptly, out of her trust in Chen Junting, she held herself back.
But her unpeaceful expression and that readiness to move clearly showed that she intended to forcefully take action if any accident occurred.
"I'm fine."
He said this with his mouth, but Chen Junting's face sank.
Without the protection of soul power, the destruction energy began to sweep across his entire body. His whole body felt as if it were about to be torn apart.
Taking a deep breath, the blood essence throughout Chen Junting's body continuously surged. At the same time, his soul power also combined with the blood essence power within his body. In an instant, powerful fluctuations of blood essence permeated the air.
Such an action was like a replica of his time staying at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well over the past two years. Only this time, for body refining, he was no longer borrowing the two spring waters of ice and fire and the sword intents of the Four Zhu Xian Swords, but directly borrowing the ultimate destruction to help himself reach a higher level.
Under such pain, Chen Junting didn't activate the Life Gold. Instead, enduring the continuous erosion of the destruction energy, he advanced step by step deeper into the forest. Moreover, his speed got faster and faster, and this destruction energy capable of extinguishing everything also grew stronger and stronger.
The combination of soul power and blood essence power helped him continuously go deeper.
And to counter the massive consumption produced by resisting this destruction energy, his soul power and blood essence power were continuously drawn by his body.
He even felt that his body was shriveling up.
It wasn't until Chen Junting felt that the surrounding air was shattered by the destruction energy, and those shattered fragments of air were constantly cutting into his body like sharp blades...
Suddenly, Chen Junting only felt the space ahead clear up.
Immediately after, everything before his eyes turned purplish-black, and his entire person seemed to be swallowed up by something.
Remaining conscious, his spirit suddenly jolted!
The terrifying pressure brought by the destruction energy completely vanished in an instant. His whole body feeling light, he had arrived at another territory.
Before Chen Junting could even catch his breath, just instinctively taking a breath made him suddenly feel a wave of relief throughout his body, a feeling of his whole body being washed completely clean, even wanting to slump to the ground.
"This place is..."
Chen Junting looked up and found himself in a giant valley. The valley here was no longer pitch black, and many plants were growing lushly all around.
This place not only contained pure Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, but the density of the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy was enough to rival the Qiankun Love Querying Valley and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and might even surpass them.
Besides this, the density of the life aura contained in this place far exceeded any place on the outside, and even gave him a feeling that it was not inferior to the Life Gold at all.
"Just as expected, where there is destruction on this island, there is also life."
This moment could be considered to have confirmed Chen Junting's own thoughts. Just as he had previously guessed, since this island was created by the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life, then apart from the God of Destruction's destruction, that unique vitality shouldn't be lacking either.
However, Chen Junting hadn't been immersed in the rich life energy for long before he looked up and gazed into the distance. "Wait, that is..."
In just the instant he raised his eyes, he saw not far away in the valley, a giant purplish-red pillar of light shooting up into the sky. At this very moment, an even more intense feeling of palpitation emerged!
Clearly, that was even stronger destruction energy!
However, a pillar of destruction with such imposing manner was situated in a valley with such rich life energy; that was quite peculiar.
"Let's go see what the situation with that pillar of light is first."
Intuition told Chen Junting that the trial given by the God of Destruction was mostly inextricably linked to the pillar of destruction in the distance.
Since this was the case, he should head to the pillar of light first and talk later.
Thus, without waiting for his consumption to recover, he hurried towards that pillar of light without stopping. As for his soul power and blood essence power...
Because the life aura in the valley was too rich, he didn't need to deliberately meditate. Just through normal breathing, his soul power and blood essence power would imperceptibly recover. Exactly because of this, he didn't need to pause too much; he could just hit the road directly.
...
This valley was huge; in Chen Junting's view, it was not inferior to the black forest outside at all. He just didn't know for what reason, but when he was looking down and gazing into the distance from above, he hadn't seen it at all.
Perhaps, these two places were isolated by different spaces.
The ground here was not flat either, but all kinds of plants grew extremely well, and many plants were ones Chen Junting had never even heard of.
In his view, some plants might even have effects like immortal herbs; after all, this island was a gift from the Goddess of Life.
This couldn't help but arouse greed in Chen Junting.
However, he didn't make a move at this time. To harvest these top-tier plants, he would wait until he was about to leave this island.
After all, as long as he brought these plants he had never seen before back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for cultivation, it would definitely enhance the sect's foundation.
So...
Mine, mine, it's all mine!
A moment later, Chen Junting retracted his gaze from those plants and walked towards the pillar of light while recovering his soul power.
Not long after, by the time he passed through a jungle, his own cultivation had almost recovered. And in the low-lying terrain ahead, Chen Junting also saw that purplish-red pillar of light.
However, what attracted his attention more was that there was an altar at the place where the purplish-red pillar of light appeared, and in the exact center of the altar, which was also the bottom center of the pillar of light, a stick-like object was inserted right in the middle of the altar, only revealing a portion.
That terrifying purplish-red pillar of light was extending into the air from this scepter. And at the moment he saw the scepter, waves of terrifying destructive aura spread out in all directions!
However, the storm formed by this destructive aura had just scraped out of the altar when the life energy of this region, like a gentle and warm breeze, softly brushed past the storm of destruction.
With just such a simple brush from this gentle breeze, the storm of destruction collapsed in an instant, and then dissipated into nothingness.
Everything seemed as if it had never happened.
As if...
A gentle wife pacifying an angry husband?
Perhaps, it was nothing less than that.
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