I'm in Shrouding the Heavens Practicing Eternal Life

The black shell doesn't reflect light and can't be detected with divine sense; it's actually a layer of temporal turbulence.

Luo Mo is still following the route blasted open by the Devouring Heaven Magic Jar. If he were to directly touch it and force his way through, the lifespan he would lose would be enormous.

But he should be able to get in, even if it costs him a hundred thousand years of life, it wouldn't be much to him now.

However, with such a restriction in place, ordinary Shrouding Heaven cultivators wouldn't be able to enter even if they came here. They simply don't have that much lifespan to expend, nor do they have an Emperor Weapon to clear the path.

The area shattered by the Devouring Heaven Magic Jar is slowly healing, with the temporal turbulence filling the gap.

Luo Mo flew inside, still able to feel his lifespan fluctuating abnormally, but very weakly, at most a few minutes of consumption per second, a far cry from the violent, deadly changes at the entrance.

“In terms of time, this place is suitable for cultivating the fourth level of the Longevity Secret Realm, the Celestial Realm. The law of time…”

Luo Mo reached out, and subtle temporal turbulence flowed from his fingertips in the void, passing through his body. He hasn't cultivated to the fourth level of Longevity, the Celestial Light Realm, and can't control the law of time, so he can only let these temporal turbulences pass through his body.

Fortunately, after passing through the entrance, the power of these temporal turbulences is like a gentle breeze and drizzle, causing no harm, but instead bringing him some insights.

Although he hasn't reached the fourth level of Longevity in the Eternal Life Method, there is a method in the Shrouding Heaven system that involves time.

The Beginningless Scripture.

The Beginningless Scripture touches upon the mysteries of time. Among the other Ancient Emperors and Heavenly Sovereigns, the逍遥 Heavenly Sovereign, who created the 'Line' Character Secret, also touched upon this field. The highest mystery of the 'Line' Character Secret is related to time, hence it is called ultimate speed.

However, just relying on the Saint Realm to comprehend this field, it should be possible, but it's hard to say how much time it would take.

There's a rumor in Shrouding Heaven that a Saint who lived a second life comprehended the temporal mysteries of the 'Line' Character Secret, spending two lifetimes. Even if Luo Mo believes himself to be a hundred or a thousand times more talented than him, it would still take years or decades.

Instead of spending that much time slowly comprehending, Luo Mo feels it's better to level up to the Celestial Light Realm first.

But the environment here is different, with temporal turbulence. Comprehending here yields twice the results with half the effort. Perhaps he can take the lead in comprehending the law of time here, and then achieve disordered cultivation in the Eternal Life Method realm.

However, the luck he has accumulated over so much time and effort cannot be just to bring him what he is bound to get. Such things are not of high value. There must be even greater benefits waiting for him ahead.

After experiencing the temporal turbulence for a moment, Luo Mo engraved the feeling of having his lifespan cut off in his heart, gaining another layer of understanding of the secret techniques related to time in the Beginningless Scripture.

Among the magical treasures in Luo Mo's body, several Great Saints are being quietly fed medicine.

They also experienced the change of having their lifespan cut off in an instant. Although six hundred years of lifespan is only a fraction to Luo Mo, it is very precious to them.

The converted Ancestral Kings naturally don't need to be said, they quickly take pills and the Spring of Life to recover, while the two Great Saints who were severely injured are being fed medicine by someone, living a life of having food served to them, allowing them to survive.

They are still useful and have value, so they won't die so early.

… …

Here, it's dim, oppressive, the stars are broken, some looking as if they've been gnawed on.

Chunks of ancient continent, much larger than stars, float, indistinguishable from top to bottom, the broken stars slowly rotating around the continent, very different from the outside universe.

Some stars fall on the ancient continent, but they are only mountain-sized.

Such continents are truly vast, even the stars are just embellishments, somewhat like the Three Thousand Great Worlds in Eternal Life.

Suddenly, Luo Mo 'heard' a strange sound. His divine sense spread out, discovering that strange things were vibrating the space, and in large numbers.

After floating for a long time, Luo Mo would initially search those ancient continents.

He placed the lid of the Devouring Heaven Magic Jar on his forehead to explore.

The skull of a Saint has the function of a 'heavenly eye' for ordinary cultivators, like an external piece of equipment, let alone the Devouring Heaven Magic Jar, which was refined from the skull of the Ruthless Great Emperor. Luo Mo imprinted it on his forehead, urging his divine sense, as if opening a heavenly eye, his vision piercing out, instantly seeing through hundreds of millions of miles of ancient continent, so all hidden folded spaces could not escape his observation.

This is a small function that Luo Mo developed, the effect is second only to borrowing the vision of the Dacheng Holy Body that time.

This is already enough. Although these ancient continents are large, the falling stars are just adding a mountain, but with the help of the lid of the Devouring Heaven Magic Jar, Luo Mo can easily discern them.

It's just that there's nothing useful to be found, because time is too long, it can erase everything, those secret folded spaces are full of desolation, decay, and dust.

So far, Luo Mo hasn't even seen the second corpse, he has been comprehending cultivation, quietly gliding in the dark space.

But now, the strange sound came, awakening Luo Mo.

He looked through the lid of the Devouring Heaven Magic Jar and saw a piece of white gravel flowing from the distant darkness.

Gravel?

That piece of gravel is only a dozen feet in radius, not even large for mortals, let alone these ancient continents in the dark world that can accommodate stars, it's simply a tiny speck.

But then a surprising scene appeared.

The white gravel collided with an ancient continent. Among the continents that Luo Mo has seen these days, this one is considered to be of medium to upper size, with as many as a million stars surrounding it, but when those gravels rushed over, the stars trembled.

When they approached, the stars collapsed on their own, then disintegrated, as if breaking through their rigid body limit and approaching the nearest gravel.

The gravel is very fast, directly piercing through one star after another, the carried domain tearing the stars apart, the stars collapsing towards the gravel, as if being devoured.

In the cold dark space, such a scene is staged, it's hard to say whether it should be called cruel.

If Luo Mo encountered such a thing, he could only shrink into the Devouring Heaven Magic Jar to avoid it, it's impossible to confront it head-on.

“A fragmented universe seed?”

He remembered the name of this thing.

From his observation, this thing is very likely the universe seed among the top-level Dao integration seeds in Perfect World, and the Hongmeng Purple Qi seed in his hand is also one of the top-level Dao integration seeds.

The methods of Immortal Antiquity require choosing a Dao seed to merge with oneself. The stronger the Dao seed, the broader the future path, and the achievements are normally higher than those with ordinary Dao seeds.

Of course, this is the normal situation. The unusual situation is like Shi Hao, who used his body as a seed, without a Dao seed.

If this universe seed were complete, its value would be no less than his Hongmeng Purple Qi seed, but unfortunately, it's fragmented and no longer perfect.

If that group of loose sand were successfully nurtured, it should have been hundreds of millions of stars, but now they have all leaked out, wantonly devouring matter, unrecognizable.

Even the Eternal Life Method, which is extremely efficient in resource utilization, currently has no way to deal with it, because this thing has grown too strong. Only quasi-emperor level experts can forcibly refine it, and perhaps extract something from it.

But it's also very dangerous. These gravels are very unstable and can easily explode. Even if only one grain explodes, Luo Mo can't handle it now.

It's dangerous and not very valuable, so let it wander here.

“Temporal turbulence, ancient continents, stars, fragmented universe seeds… Could this place be a Boundary Tomb?”

Combining so many factors, Luo Mo came to the conclusion that this place is a Boundary Tomb.

Boundary Tomb, this is something from the last epoch. Being able to be named Boundary Tomb can explain its size, and there are also various Dao seeds in it, attracting cultivators of that era to obtain them. Obtaining a good Dao seed can lead to a bright future.

When Shi Hao was in the Heavenly Deity Academy, he once came here with the elders of the academy to look for Dao seeds. The periphery of the Boundary Tomb was temporal turbulence, which was blocked by the elders' magical treasures.

“Does the Boundary Tomb still exist?”

If it's a Boundary Tomb, there are indeed many treasures inside, and it's very suitable to serve as the prize pool for Luo Mo's luck explosion this time.

As for whether it's the Boundary Tomb from before, whether it's complete or just a small piece, Luo Mo doesn't know for the time being, he only knows that he has to go deeper to take a look.

Then the road should follow the chaos.

Luo Mo took the initiative to accelerate, urging the Great Chaos Art, vaguely sensing the direction, and then burning Pure Yang Pills to propel the Bridge of Helplessness, shuttling into the depths of darkness.

It wasn't until a hazy chaos mist filled the air that Luo Mo passed through it, scattering like a celestial mist, that he truly entered the Burial Ground of Worlds; what he had just passed through was only the periphery of the Burial Ground.

Just after passing through the chaos mist, Luo Mo received a 'welcome' from the Burial Ground of Worlds: a withered ancient tree confronted him.

Although they were still very far apart, Luo Mo still had the illusion that the withered tree could reach down and pinch him in its hand, because this withered tree was too huge. Its branches bore countless stars, like fruits on a tree, but all were withered, devoid of life, a scene of deathly silence.

And on the trunk of this withered tree, there were countless black holes. Divine sense probing into them would vanish in an instant, being transported to who-knows-where. Countless black holes pierced through the tree, like traces of insect infestation.

A World Tree that failed to evolve, a withered husk!

Unfortunately, its essence had long been lost, devoured by other beings countless years ago, leaving only a withered husk here, tasteless to eat, useless to take.

This made Luo Mo somewhat unable to act. A single withered tree was already so large, and the entire Burial Ground of Worlds was even more vast. The thing he was looking for had neither a map nor coordinates. Was he still to choose a direction and fly recklessly?

Luo Mo looked at the vast darkness, then at the withered tree, and finally decided to go and take a look at the withered tree first.

Although this tree had long withered and died, and had failed to evolve into a World Tree in its lifetime, perhaps looking at it more might allow him to glean some experience in cultivating his own World Tree.

He headed towards the withered tree, and the Bridge of Helplessness had to shift twice before arriving at a certain point on the trunk, because it was simply too large. Standing on the trunk, one couldn't perceive its grandeur; it was like standing on a cold earth, still able to see those withered star-fruits in the sky.

At this moment, one could only rely on luck and divination.

Luo Mo took out the Eight Trigrams Plate and began to calculate the direction.

"Straight ahead, great fortune."

Luo Mo divined a hexagram for himself, and then kept walking forward according to the hexagram, walking forward, and walking forward again.

Then, he encountered a huge black hole, not the kind of black hole formed by celestial bodies, but a black hole of spatial rupture, leading to an unknown place.

Who knew what had caused such a sight? The space here had not healed even after so long, and the black hole still existed. This was something from the previous Epoch.

There was an obstacle ahead, millions of miles in diameter, and clearly not suitable for moving forward. Luo Mo then divined another hexagram for himself.

Straight ahead!

"Hmm?"

Luo Mo calculated three hexagrams in a row, and all the hexagrams showed that he should keep walking straight ahead, but a huge black hole blocked the way!

Was he supposed to go in?

But what if he was transported to some place, unable to find his way back in time? If the Burial Ground of Worlds sank into the depths of chaos in a few years, then he shouldn't even think about returning to the Shrouding Heavens Universe.

The Shrouding Heavens Universe could not be abandoned for the time being, there were so many people and things he was familiar with, and there was also the Immortal Realm for him to fleece, allowing him to steal immortal energy, and there were also the Supreme Beings in the forbidden zones squatting there like fattened pigs in a pen. How could he just leave like this?

Luo Mo thought for a while and decided to send an incarnation to explore the way.

He used the Great Incarnation Art, consuming vital energy to separate a clone, and then took some materials to refine a magic weapon, imprinting it with the True Spirit Mark.

Because if it was too far away, the connection of the Great Incarnation Art would also be cut off, but Luo Mo believed that the True Spirit Mark would not.

He used the True Spirit Mark to scan the black hole, but the things he obtained were useless. Even if this black hole led to a location, he couldn't distinguish it, because he wasn't a local, and getting the local place name coordinates was useless.

The incarnation carried the newly-made magic weapon and entered the black hole.

In an instant, the signal between Luo Mo and the incarnation was cut off.

Fortunately, he had long anticipated the possibility of the Great Incarnation Art signal being interrupted, and directly switched the True Spirit Mark signal line.

Immediately, the incarnation's perspective was shared with the magic weapon, and then relayed to Luo Mo by the True Spirit Mark imprinted on the magic weapon.

The same darkness, the same silence, but this time, a faint radiance flickered in the darkness.

Green radiance, emitted from a green object placed on some stones.

This was a space in nothingness, although it was 100,000 miles in diameter, it gave people a feeling of being cramped and narrow, because the surroundings were filled with chaotic air. Only in the core, a simple altar was built with black stones, enshrining a green thing on it.

The incarnation used the Great Chaos Art to investigate the surrounding situation, and then absorbed the chaotic air within a thousand miles, walking towards the altar in the middle.

He carefully checked it and found that there were no array patterns on the altar. Although it was man-made, it was also a very strange thing for cultivators to not have array patterns, which was not because it was worn down by time, but because it never had any.

After confirming that there were no array patterns, the incarnation picked up a black stone the size of a fist.

The palm exerted a slight force, and a layer of powder fell from the black stone. Then, a tranquil and deep black brilliance flowed and shone, blooming with light.

Darkness, actually shining.

The incarnation spoke at this time, "Able to cause resonance with the Great Five Elements Art's Golden Emperor Divine Power, this is very likely to be Immortal Gold."

The incarnation had distributed some of the vital energy of each of the three thousand Great Daos, although the realm and quantity were far inferior to the main body, it was enough to engage in detection work.

And at this moment, he actually said that this thing was Immortal Gold?

Luo Mo looked at the black stone through the True Spirit Mark and was surprised.

He wasn't surprised at encountering Immortal Gold. In fact, encountering Immortal Gold was within his expectations. He was surprised that this black Immortal Gold didn't have dragon patterns.

This was probably not Dragon Patterned Black Gold.

The incarnation couldn't know the thoughts of the main body, and could only unilaterally provide the main body with a perspective.

After inspecting the black stone, he directly reached out to take the green object on the stone mortar. The green object was the size of a human head, and was oval in shape.

The incarnation muttered to himself, transmitting messages to the main body, expressing his judgment, "There is a very strong wood attribute source aura, and there is also a star source aura."

Two streams of vital energy flowed from his fingertips, one green and one yellow, one was the Wood Emperor Gang Qi, and the other was the Star Gang Qi, and the two merged into the green object.

Stimulated by the two types of vital energy, the green object shook, and then reflected a phantom shape of a grass and tree in the chaos. This grass and tree had slender leaves, rooted in the chaos, and the leaves wrapped stars, crushing them, and absorbing the brilliant light after the stars shattered.

"This should be a special creature growing in the chaos, a Star-Eating Grass, which likes to devour stars. This is its remaining seed," the incarnation made a judgment.

Another creature born in the chaos? This kind of innate divine being was a rare sight. Luo Mo had encountered the second one.

Star-Eating Grass, a chaotic creature that appeared in Perfect World. Generally, only when great divine power users opened up the world in chaos would they accidentally release them.

Unexpectedly, there was a Star-Eating Grass undergoing Nirvana here, leaving behind a seed.

The incarnation casually collected the seed of the Star-Eating Grass and the pile of black Immortal Gold, and then continued to check here.

There weren't many things here, mainly the seeds on the black stone mortar. The rest of the sundries, with a gentle touch from the incarnation, mostly turned into powder, annihilated in time.

There were no other valuable things, so next, he should find the way back.

The incarnation said: "I can feel that there are roads in this space that can lead to the outside, and there is more than one, one of which is the road I came from, but I can't use it. If you, the main body, don't choose to come in, I will refine this seed of the Star-Eating Grass, refine it into an external incarnation, and then try to master the space channel here."

The incarnation waited for a while, and Luo Mo's main body didn't appear. He took out this seed, sat cross-legged in the center of the chaos, and began to refine the seed of the Star-Eating Grass with the three thousand Great Daos, to refine it into an external incarnation, a second soul-like existence, so as to master the innate divine power of this chaotic creature, and obtain the access rights to this space and the outside channels, and bring the things inside back to the main body.

Luo Mo naturally didn't plan to go in. It was good to let the incarnation operate. What the incarnation had was his. He would observe the withered tree outside, absorbing some experience in cultivating the World Tree.