"Is this space storm really something I can withstand?" Zhang Chen gazed at the endless dark void stretching for hundreds of miles, like a beast devouring cookies piece by piece. His heart couldn’t help but shiver.
"If it’s purely the power of space collapse, you certainly can’t withstand it. Even beings at the Fruit Level find blocking spatial annihilation extremely difficult. But the space storm before us was born from the collapse and destruction of the world, which also gave birth to the Spirit Storm after destroying the Spiritual World. Since it’s a storm, it’s naturally within the restraining scope of your Wind Stabilizing Pearl. Don’t worry, no matter how fierce the storm gets, it absolutely can’t harm you," said the Great Freedom Celestial Demon Dao.
Hearing these words from the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, Zhang Chen gave this fellow a glance, yet dared not be careless. If this devious creature was to trick him, wouldn’t he die without a burial place?
So, Zhang Chen revealed his true form on a mountaintop, his eyes looked towards the distant Spirit Storm that expanded afar, and he began to recite an incantation, attempting to capture the wind energy within the Spirit Storm.
The Spirit Storm was born from the space storm destroying the Spiritual World, hence its expansion range is limited, always within a ten-mile scope from the spot where the world barrier was destroyed by the space storm.
The Spirit Storm is inside the world, the space storm is outside the world.
Regarding whether Zhang Chen would be left here after the space channel closed, Zhang Chen didn’t worry much. The Spirit Storm is three thousand miles away from the space channel, according to the current speed, it would take three to five days to blow over.
Zhang Chen had the Wind Stabilizing Pill in hand, and all the gusts calmed instantly when they approached him, then he recited an incantation to capture the Spirit Storm from afar, but the dark distant Spirit Storm was a hundred miles away, Zhang Chen couldn’t capture it at this time.
"Kid, don’t be timid! Charge straight into the Spirit Storm and capture the wind energy within it," the Great Freedom Celestial Demon kept urging beside Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen didn’t bother to heed the words of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, for this devious creature always came up with sinister tricks daily.
As the Spirit Storm kept approaching, and seeing the collapsed space akin to a prehistoric giant beast with a bloodthirsty mouth opening towards him, drawing nearer and nearer, Zhang Chen couldn’t help but panic. Fortunately, the Wind Stabilizing Pill radiated beams of light, firmly shielding Zhang Chen, making him impervious to the world outside, no matter how dark and tumultuous the wind was.
When the Spirit Storm was ten miles away, Zhang Chen finally captured a trace of black wind energy from the void.
The trace of black wind energy was extremely violent, twisting and agitating the world as it passed, causing the air to rampage, creating a series of sand explosions. However, once this trace of Spirit Storm was drawn near by Zhang Chen and entered the range of the Wind Stabilizing Pill, it immediately calmed down, began to weaken and dissipate.
Zhang Chen couldn’t let this trace of Spirit Storm be suppressed and dissipated by the power of the Wind Stabilizing Pill, he promptly captured the now calm storm energy into the Heng Acupoint.
As the trace of Spirit Storm was drawn into Zhang Chen’s Heng Acupoint, his Secret Technique operated, and the trace of Spirit Storm was decomposed by Magical Power and imprinted by Divine Techniques, sacrificially refined in a mystical way. Then, after the Spirit Storm disappeared, a few grains of black sand fell into the Heng Acupoint.
Inside the Heng Acupoint, a Yin Wind vortex revolved. Now, with the black sand grains falling, they directly entered the Yin Wind vortex, being drawn by it.
"Success!" Zhang Chen rejoiced exceedingly upon witnessing this scene.
The Spirit Storm was ten miles away from him, but the aftermath had already swept over in advance, and ten miles were estimated by Zhang Chen as the feasible scope.
Taking the Spirit Storm core as the origin, once the power of the Spirit Storm’s aftermath exceeds ten miles, it will be dissolved by the Material Realm forces. Thus, Zhang Chen estimated ten miles as the limit distance.
Beyond ten miles, the Spirit Storm disappears.
Sitting crossed-legged, Zhang Chen continuously inhaled and captured the aftermath of the Spirit Storm in the air, refining black grains of sand which scattered in the Heng Acupoint.
As the Spirit Storm got ever closer, Zhang Chen absorbed the Spirit Storm energy faster and faster.
Eight miles
Seven miles
Five miles
...
The Spirit Storm relentlessly approached Zhang Chen, but the Wind Stabilizing Pill around Zhang Chen flickered, no matter how fierce and daunting the Spirit Storm was, shaking the skies and quaking the earth, it couldn’t move him in the slightest.
Now Zhang Chen believed the words of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, the Spirit Storm indeed couldn’t affect the Wind Stabilizing Pill.
As the Spirit Storm closed in further, the Spirit Storm force in the air became abundant, Zhang Chen refined the Spirit Storm at increasing speed. Until the Spirit Storm approached one mile, Zhang Chen ceased capturing it, his eyes watched the dark void outside the world barrier approaching, his pupils involuntarily constricted.
Only now, seeing close-up, the violent space storms raged in the darkness, continually destroying the edges of the Spiritual World.
The Spiritual World and the space storms in the darkness were distinctly separated. The space storms were within that endless darkness, and inside the Spiritual World was a mysterious force, resisting the invasion of space storms in the darkness.
Even though the Spiritual World inherently resisted, the space storms still influenced the Spiritual World by passing through space, causing material breakdown and chaos, stirring up the Spirit Storm.
The Spirit Storm force Zhang Chen absorbed was merely energy from the Spiritual World being destroyed by space storms.
In Zhang Chen’s eyes, the Spiritual World now seemed like a sheet of paper, while the space storms in the infinite darkness resembled burning flames, steadily consuming the paper, slow yet unyielding.
The Spirit Storm Zhang Chen absorbed was like stray sparks from the burning flames drifting over.
The dark void was like a giant mouth, mountains simply vanished where it passed, the earth was obliterated without a trace, grass and other objects vanished one by one.
"That darkness is the Endless Void. Once caught inside, you’ll lose all direction," the Great Freedom Celestial Demon reminded at Zhang Chen’s ear.
Zhang Chen watched the disappearing mountains and rivers under the ’dark giant mouth’, deeply shaken in his heart: "Those mountains? Materials? Vegetation? All destroyed by the space storm?"
"Correct!" Great Freedom Celestial Demon nodded: "Only certain things that can withstand the space storm will be thrown inside the Material Realm, also where you are now in the Material World."
Deeply shocked, Zhang Chen saw the space storm relentlessly approaching, without hesitation turned and ran for his life.
He definitely didn’t want to try the power of being drawn into a space storm.
At this moment, heaven and earth were filled with flying sand and stones, truly blowing the world into darkness and chaos.
Fortunately, Zhang Chen had the Wind Stabilizing Pearl. Once he ran ten miles away, he again sat crossed-legged to start capturing the Spirit Storm.
Not long after, to Zhang Chen’s eyes, the mountain where he previously sat disappeared into the dark space.
The opposite dark void seemed like a bottomless pit, anything falling inside would be utterly swallowed.
Zhang Chen made effort to capture the Spirit Storm, enhancing his own foundation.
As the Spirit Storm approached once more, Zhang Chen rose and fled again, but this time he suddenly thought of the Big Black Dog: "I say, has the Big Black Dog awakened? Could it have been swept away by the space storm and died?"
"You’re overthinking it, such a trivial space storm couldn’t possibly harm the Big Black Dog," Great Freedom Celestial Demon replied calmly: "Worry about yourself instead."
Upon reflection, Zhang Chen agreed, since the Princess could break space barriers and forcibly create a passage in chaotic flow, then although the Big Black Dog was not as powerful as the Princess, it should also not fear the space storm.
"I wonder what power my cultivated Spirit Storm would exhibit when unleashed," Zhang Chen secretly anticipated.
Then Zhang Chen focused entirely on his cultivation, devouring various mysterious Qi mechanisms between heaven and earth.
But as the Spirit Storm approached yet again, Zhang Chen detected the time change within: "This time the Spirit Storm spreads ten miles faster than before! At least fifty breaths faster."
"Indeed, the Spirit Storm triggers a chain reaction, like a house on fire, as the flames rise, burning only hastens and eventually sweeps across the lands," said the Great Freedom Celestial Demon.
Upon hearing, Zhang Chen was surprised internally. According to the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, the Spirit Storm spreads increasingly quickly, leaving him little time indeed. So thinking, seeing the Spirit Storm relentlessly approaching, he dared not delay, and hastily ran ten miles away.