Ning Cheng, Xiao Xinxi and Ao Ru stood in the endless void, and in front of them the void was like a black fog rolling over, forming one swirling ripple after another.
“Great Lord Xiao, this place is so empty, there’s nothing there.” Ao Ru looked at Xiao Xinxi with some suspicion.
Xiao Xinxi smiled heatedly, “If there was everything, then the Nedao Dragon Scale Sand would be too easy to obtain. I’m sure I won’t guess wrong, in the recent period of time, the Black Water Realm will appear in this side of the realm. There is only one thing you have to do, and that is to trust me and wait here with me.”
Ao Ru nodded, “I believe in Great Lord Xiao.”
This journey over, he had long been amazed by Xiao Xinxi’s various profound insights, and after knowing that Xiao Xinxi had participated in the First Great Battle of Creation, he had even more respect for Xiao Xinxi.
Ning Cheng raised his hand to take out a stone chair and sat down, casually asking, “Old Xiao, earlier you said that there was one more thing you hadn’t told me, something about the Great Battle of Creation, what was it exactly?”
Xiao Xinxi did not dare to be as big-headed to Ning Cheng as he was to Ao Ru, Ning Cheng was a strong person he was optimistic about for the Creation, and he was going to follow Ning Cheng into the Creation Gate.
Now that Ning Cheng asked, he hurriedly told Ning Cheng all that he had not told him before, without hiding anything.
Ning Cheng immediately frowned, “Old Xiao, do you mean that as soon as the Gate of Creation opens, then countless Third Step powerhouses will appear? And these third-step powerhouses will have to fight for the Gate of Creation?”
If that was the case, then Ning Cheng fully understood why there were so many withered bones at the Jiaquan Mountain and where so many strong people had fallen. He could also understand why, after the First Great Battle of Creation, there were very few third-step powerhouses in the Vast Universe apart from the wrecked realms. Even if there were a few crooked ones, they were still combined pseudo-realms or false realms.
Xiao Xinxi nodded slightly heavily, “Yes, I promise I’m not making this up. Moreover, according to my senses at Jiaquan Mountain, this second creation war should be coming soon. You have been to Mount Jiaquan, and you know how many powerful people’s Yuan Shen are hidden in Mount Jiaquan. This is because the location where the first Gate of Creation opened was at Mount Gargantua. The place where it opened is now called the Killing Realm, a place I have not entered. If you can enter the Killing Realm, you will find that there are more and stronger powerful people who have fallen there than on the Heaven and Earth God Tomb Heights.”
Ao Ru, who was unsure on the side, also asked in confusion, “Great Lord Xiao, do you mean to say that even if I don’t look for Nirvana Dragon Scale Sand now, when the Gate of Creation opens, that vast rule dao rhythm will allow me to directly cross into the Realm of Creation?”
Xiao Xinxi nodded her head, “You’re right, you don’t know how strong that vast and majestic Heaven and Earth aura, that pure Dao Dao rhythm is when the Gate of Creation opens. Just by virtue of that dao rhyme rushing through, even a Saint Emperor at the early stage of Dao Harmony might be able to directly cross into the Realm of Creation, not to mention you almost completing Dao Harmony.
The first time the Gate of Creation opened, it achieved countless Harmonious Dao Saint Emperors, allowing them to cross over into the Realm of Creation realm. Only, they all ended up being nothing more than cannon fodder as well. So, if the Second Battle of Creation were to open now, you would also be cannon fodder.
That third step, which is washed out by the Great Dao of Creation, is also a catalyst for death. Similarly, that vast and majestic aura of Dao rhythm caused the divine Spirit Grasses and also the Dao Fruits in the entire Endless Universe to grow by leaps and bounds. This is also why so many people in the vast universe were still able to succeed in merging with the Dao after the Gate of Creation closed and the rules of heaven and earth were crippled.”
When it came to the imminent arrival of the Second Creation War, even Xiao Xinxi had no interest in continuing to speak.
The three of them simply meditated while they waited.
All sorts of storms and spatial blades were constantly sweeping over in the void, but fortunately, Ning Cheng’s protective formation allowed the three to not have to worry about these things.
After waiting for several months, even Ning Cheng did not want to wait anymore when even more violent void cracks and storms swept over. The tough protective formation that Ning Cheng had set up was also torn into pieces under this powerful storm breath.
A huge black shadow spun over swiftly from afar.
Xiao Xinxi was the first to stand up and said excitedly, “The Blackwater Star Domain is going to pass by here, everyone get ready. The Blackwater Starfield will pass through here in a very short time, so don’t miss the opportunity. And when you enter the Blackwater Starfield, make sure to protect your whole body.”
There was no need for Xiao Xinxi to say anything, Ning Cheng and Ao Ru had already prepared themselves.
When the huge shadow domain that almost blocked the divine sense appeared at the nearest place for the three, Xiao Xinxi was the first to rush in. Ning Cheng and Ao Crippled also did not stop for half a second and rushed in after them.
A few void dislocation cracks swept past Ning Cheng, startling him. Even if he had met such a void rift, it was likely that his flesh would collapse away.
As he rushed into the confines of the Blackwater Star Domain, a gravity so powerful that it was tens of thousands of times stronger than the gravity on Earth came through.
It was a good thing that Ning Cheng and the three of them were all strong, otherwise this gravity would have turned the three of them into a bloody mist.
Before they even landed on the ground, a black sea of water appeared between Ning Cheng’s divine sense, with no continents.
Just at this time, Xiao Xinxi’s voice came, “Don’t fall into the black water, otherwise, you might die of poison. This black water is incredibly poisonous and has an extremely strong squeezing ability, so it’s very bad to fall in without preparation.”
Ning Cheng cursed Xiao Xinxi for being unreliable, for not saying such an important thing in advance. Despite the increasing gravity, Ning Cheng still turned his body and flew sideways to land on a piece of land that was only a few feet in circumference.
The place where he landed was hard and incomparably hard, without a trace of mud, and was also pitch black like the black seawater in front of him.
A few moments later, Xiao Xinxi and Ao Ru also landed on the piece of land where Ning Cheng was.
Ning Cheng was about to speak when he suddenly saw a black shadow fall from the void and directly rush into the black seawater. The black seawater returned to its original state without even a single ripple after this figure rushed down.
“I didn’t expect that apart from the three of us, there was another person who also came here to look for the Nedao Dragon Scale Sand.” Xiao Xinxi looked at the disappearing black figure and laughed heatedly.
“Great Lord Xiao, what should we do now?” Ao Ru asked.
Xiao Xinxi said, “Nedao Dragon Scale Sand is very difficult to find, so naturally the three of us should come separately, and we should still meet here in six months. If it takes too long, I’m afraid we won’t be able to find our way back to the Xuanhuang Outer Heaven.”
After saying this, Xiao Xinxi took out two white talismans and handed them to Ning Cheng and Ao Ru, “This is my treasure, something refined by Fu Lie. One for each of you, after you enter the Black Water Sea, you can use this talisman to protect your entire body. Remember once this talisman all turns black, you must rush out of the Black Water Sea within three breaths, otherwise you will have to suffer.”
After saying this, Xiao Xinxi’s body turned into a shadow line, just like the person who had rushed directly into the black water before, and also plunged directly into the black water.
Fu Lie? It suddenly occurred to Ning Cheng that he had heard of this person before.
“Big brother, I’m going in too.” After Ao Ru finished speaking, he sacrificed his talisman and his entire body turned into a white shadow and rushed into the black water.
Ning Cheng also did not hesitate and similarly sacrificed his talisman and rushed into the black water.
Only when he entered the black water did Ning Cheng realise the function of the talisman. The talisman transformed into a white shield, protecting his entire body within the shield. The dark seawater outside painted the outermost layer of the white shield black, but that blackness could not penetrate in. Not only could it not penetrate, but the squeezing of that black water could not deform this white shield even halfway.
This talisman neither required Ning Cheng to spend divine energy, nor did it require Ning Cheng to consume divine sense. Within this white shroud, Ning Cheng could simply look around for the Nedao Dragon Scale Sand with his divine sense.
Ning Cheng secretly sighed in his heart, this talisman Lie was really too strong to refine this kind of talisman, so he guessed that this talisman was still just something ordinary to him.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense penetrated out and finally appreciated why Xiao Xinxi had said that the black water here was extremely poisonous, this black water could actually corrode even his divine sense. His sea of consciousness was the Starry Sky Sea of Consciousness, and such a powerful divine sense could only penetrate out less than a few miles. One could imagine that Ao Ru’s divine sense could only cover about a thousand meters at most, and he would have to rest constantly.
He should have known that he had thrown some Empty City Transmutation Sense Pill to Ao Crippled, it would be useful here.
Several miles was naturally not Ning Cheng’s limit, despite the black water corroding his divine sense, Ning Cheng still forced his divine sense to extend outwards with the help of the Starry Sky Sea of Consciousness and the quenching of his divine sense.
He had been to many places that obstructed his divine sense, and his divine sense had been tempered to be extremely strong under all kinds of obstacles. Even in places like the Eternal Hope Abyss, his divine sense could sweep out just as well.
Ning Cheng searched all the way while tempering his divine sense. Occasionally, he swallowed a few Empty City Transmutation Pills, which had minimal effect on tempering his divine sense now, but could restore his divine sense very well.
After only a few days had passed, Ning Cheng’s divine sense had already stretched out to a hundred miles away. Unfortunately, his divine sense expanded very quickly, but there was no half-way progress in finding the Nedao Dragon Scale Sand.
The Blackwater seabed was rugged and uneven, and apart from various coral dead reefs and some fossilised fish, he had not seen a single Nirvana Dragon Scale Sand.
No wonder the Nirvana Dragon Scale Sand was so precious, it was indeed difficult to find it in this boundless sea of black water.
Was there something wrong with the way he searched? Even though his divine sense could sweep things within a hundred miles. But who could be sure that this Nedao Dragon Scale Sand was just laying at the bottom of the black water, waiting for him to pick it up?
Thinking of this, Ning Cheng’s divine sense contracted a little and began to penetrate beneath the mud of this Sea of Black Water.
It was said to be mud, but in reality, the bottom of this Black Water Sea was harder than steel, and even if Ning Cheng wanted to expand his search, his divine sense could only penetrate to about one metre below.
Sure enough, after Ning Cheng changed his approach, in just two days’ time, he caught a hint of the fluctuation of the rule dao rhythm.
Ever since he had entered the Black Water Realm, Ning Cheng had never felt any rule dao rhymes. At this moment, with the fluctuation of rule dao rhymes, Ning Cheng knew at first that even if this was not Nedao Dragon Scale Sand, it must have something to do with the treasure.