CHAPTER 709: CHAPTER 575: HIDDEN WORLD!

Its construction speed surpassed imagination, even piercing through the clouds in an instant.

Pillar of Heaven, Babylon!

And yet it was so bizarre, beyond the clouds, beyond the world, completely untraceable.

The God Pillar seemed not to lead to the Void in the physical sense.

No one knew where its summit led.

Wu Xiaode ascended the emerging staircases within the God Pillar, flying upward with all his might.

Fast.

Even faster!

"Babylon," this card must recover its power!

His speed reached its extreme, and suddenly, while ascending, his expression abruptly changed.

"What’s wrong?"

Ye Jiana’s voice resounded from all directions.

—She seemed to have become the spirit of the Pillar of Babylon!

"My world is still near the old blind man’s star system, and it has been found."

"You can take your world back -- after all, it was nearly destroyed, and if someone were to completely destroy it, you would die along with it," Ye Jiana reminded.

Yes.

For world-class life forms, their world is their true body.

Once the world is destroyed, world-class life forms will certainly die.

The situation was now critical.

The most prudent act would be to take back the world immediately!

However, Wu Xiaode’s expression hesitated.

He finally said:

"Being discovered, taking it back immediately would not be beneficial... I’ll wait and see."

"Little Wu, this is no joke. Don’t entrust the safety of your world to others," Ye Jiana said gravely.

"I know, but..."

Wu Xiaode did not continue.

He simply shifted his will slightly and retrieved the Double Angel and Fat Sa into the Book of the Dead.

As for his world—

It still floated there in the Dark Void.

Having done this, he continued to ascend, all the while keeping an eye on his own world.

Elsewhere.

Within Wu Xiaode’s world.

The Void opened up.

A figure fell from the sky.

It was none other than the Duke of Abyss, Sarrens.

As one of the strongest among all the demon marauders, he keenly sensed the battle aura here and thus came to investigate.

He landed close to the old blind man, his mouth agape in surprise, his eyes fixated on the old blind man’s back.

"Great immortal being!"

The Duke of Abyss, Sarrens, hurriedly knelt down and solemnly performed a bow, saying:

"Forgive my presumption; I had no idea that your avatar... had personally come to the battle."

Dead silence.

There was no sound, no reply.

"Ah, yes, this Master of the Stars is quite formidable, I’ve suffered quite some losses, and for that, I am ashamed," Sarrens said as he continued to bow and spoke respectfully:

"Thanks to your personal arrival in an avatar, you struck him down in one fell swoop."

Still, there was no response.

Duke of Abyss Sarrens, with his head lowered, spoke in the most humble of tones:

"Perhaps—your most faithful servant, can do something for you?"

Dead silence.

Sarrens’s eyes flicked about, he crawled on his knees to the old blind man and repeatedly said:

"To witness this battle is the honor of my life."

"Would it be acceptable to offer up this blind man’s body as a sacrifice to you?"

The world was utterly silent.

No killing intent, no fluctuation of power, no sign of life.

Not even the wind stirred.

—Whether it was the old blind man or the humanoid worm on his back, neither showed any reaction to his words, as if they were clay statues.

Sarrens slowly raised his head.

The old blind man stood motionless, his face fixed with a look of scorn, his hand maintaining the posture of a strike, as if he had just completed an attack.

The humanoid worm on his back was stiff and motionless.

Neither the worm nor the old blind man seemed to have taken any notice of Sarrens.

Sarrens waited for a few moments before standing up.

"Great..."

"You..."

"Servant..."

He uttered three words, switching between three different intonations, before he finally shut his mouth.

A glint of greed flashed through his eyes.

He finally stood up straight, arching his back, a sly smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.

"Although it’s hard to believe, based on the facts, it seems you are both truly dead."

Sarrens took a small bottle from his waist, opened the lid, and sprinkled a shroud of grey mist onto the old blind man and the worm while muttering a spell:

"A chance that comes once in a thousand years... come with me, I will absorb your powers properly."

No sooner had he spoken.

The old blind man and the worm disappeared instantly.

But Sarrens saw in the small bottle in his hand their shrunken figures.

Unable to contain the joy on his face, Sarrens leaped into the air and broke through the world, flying off in one direction.

Within the distant world of the great tomb.

Wu Xiaode paused for a moment on the great column and said in a low voice,

"World, converge."

In an instant.

His world immediately retracted.

Nothing existed in that Void anymore.

No old blind man, no worms, no Sarrens, and no battlefield where they had once fought.

It was as if nothing had ever happened.

"Sarrens, you must absorb more of their Power... I pray for you," Wu Xiaode thought to himself.

Now that the world had retracted, he no longer worried about its destruction and flew upwards even faster.

After flying at full strength for dozens of minutes, finally—

Wu Xiaode caught up with the construction speed of the great column.

A door appeared on the side of the great column while the bricks continued to build upwards.

Then—

One door after another began to appear on the face of the great column.

"Open this door and go, Little Wu," Ye Jiana flew to the fifth door and gestured to him.

"Where do the other doors lead?" Wu Xiaode asked.

"The other doors lead to identical parallel worlds, everything inside them is the same, but you cannot obtain that thing."

"What thing?"

"Find it, and you will know," she replied.

Wu Xiaode looked up at the great pillar that was still extending endlessly, then at the doors that kept appearing on the wall.

There were already dozens of doors.

If every door was the same, it was indeed easy to be confused.

—Right, such tight security, without Karing’s help, it would be hard to know which door hid the truly important thing.

"Alright, do you have any other instructions for me?" Wu Xiaode asked.

"First, survive; second, remember to use the Spirit Skill I gave you," Ye Jiana said.

"Understood," Wu Xiaode replied.

He pushed the door open and went in.

Ye Jiana immediately closed the door behind him, softly chanting a spell.

As she continued her chants, the dozens of doors on the wall began to move.

They shifted and changed their original places rapidly.

Sometimes they even overlapped upon one another, taking a while to slowly separate again.

—By the time the spell ceased, it was completely impossible to discern which door Wu Xiaode had entered.

Inside the door.

Wu Xiaode found himself in a quiet basement.

As instructed by Ye Jiana, he used the Spirit Skill "Element Detection" right away.

"Effect: Detect the elements that compose all things, understand and master the methods to use them."

"—Before you switch to the next card, you can continue to use it."

In fact, this Spirit Skill played a key role when helping Gjestastav find her deck of cards.

No matter how well-concealed, the Dragon King Set could not escape his "detection."

Wu Xiaode surveyed the entire basement.

It was not large, about fifty square meters, displaying various ancient vessels.

The basement was somewhat chilly.

There was a faint sound of clamor coming from outside.

Wu Xiaode’s gaze settled on a statue on the table, and after a brief look, he picked it up.

—It was a creature with a human head on its chest.

Carved below the statue was a row of small characters:

"Star of Darkness."

With a slight perception, Wu Xiaode crushed the statue in his hand.

Brushing aside the debris, a key appeared in Wu Xiaode’s palm.

The key—

Wu Xiaode pondered for a few moments and then kept it in his hand.

Finding nothing else around, he went to the basement door and gently pushed it open.

The scent of blood rushed in immediately.

Wu Xiaode, leaving "Evernight City" active, went straight to the corridor.

No one was in the hallway.

His hand on his sword, he was about to take a step forward when he suddenly saw two men with long spears running hurriedly towards a direction around the corner ahead.

"Hurry, the monster is coming!" the man in the front shouted.

They disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Wu Xiaode stood still, perplexed.

It seemed—

They had not seen him.

Wu Xiaode thought for a moment and quietly followed them.

No sooner had he taken a step than two lines of ice crystal characters appeared in the Void:

"You have arrived at a hidden world connected by the Babylonian great column."

"Please explore carefully for the treasure you seek."