CHAPTER 934: CHAPTER 744: DIVINE CALAMITY

"Where are the evil spirits?"

Gu Jinlai looked around in astonishment: "Where did such a large group of evil spirits go?"

Immortal Lingyu, who came to greet Gu Jinlai upon hearing the news, looked at him with a peculiar expression, hesitated slightly, and quickly asked, "Master Gu, has something happened?"

Gu Jinlai didn’t reply, he simply continued probing deeper into the True Spirit Realm.

The outcome...

He wandered in the True Spirit Realm for one or two hours, but could not detect the presence of a single evil spirit.

"I’ll return to Lingxiao Palace."

Without explaining further, Gu Jinlai sent a message to Zhou Yi and then accelerated directly.

Using gravity, he propelled himself into the clouds, entering the vacuum beyond the atmosphere, and effortlessly increased his speed to hundreds of times the speed of sound, quickly reaching the vicinity of the Heavenly Master Hall in Lingxiao Palace before descending directly.

As he fell toward the star, the Child of the Stars trait activated, along with Gu Jinlai’s own mind power, strong enough to interfere with the outside world. The two forces jointly made the atmosphere part as if pushed by an invisible force, so that when he entered the star, flames did not ignite around him due to intense friction.

Within minutes, he had crossed the distance between the Immortal Country and Qiantian, landing in the Heavenly Master Hall of Lingxiao Palace.

Upon his arrival at Lingxiao Palace, Zhou Yi, Zhang Lihuo, and several core Heavenly Monarchs had already gathered after receiving the news.

When they saw Gu Jinlai arriving, they all greeted him simultaneously.

"Have you checked the True Spirit Realm?"

"Evil spirits in the Qiantian Territory are incredibly scarce, and coupled with our reluctance to venture deep into the True Spirit Realm previously, we didn’t notice the decrease in evil spirits in the True Spirit Realm right away," Zhou Yi explained.

"Is this situation normal?"

Gu Jinlai asked a question.

But as soon as he asked, he realized that their understanding of evil spirits, divine calamities, and evil gods might be less than his own.

He shook his head, "I plan to probe deeper into the Spirit Realm, and you all guard the perimeter for me to prevent any evil spirit intrusion."

"Yes."

Zhou Yi, Zhang Lihuo, Zhang Yukan, Guan Xingyun, and others agreed simultaneously.

Immediately, Gu Jinlai concentrated his mind, and his mighty True Spirit, already far surpassing any Heavenly Monarch, stepped into the True Spirit Realm, continuously exploring deeper within.

The True Spirit Realm was never a planar entity.

Its relationship with the Longevity World was more like a sphere permeating another sphere, yet this permeation was not exactly enveloping.

In such circumstances, what is called venturing into the deepest part of the True Spirit Realm is, in fact, akin to entering another world.

Or rather...

A Divine Country.

As Gu Jinlai continued probing into the deeper regions of the True Spirit Realm, his own perception gradually drifted away and blurred.

But...

Even after he had ventured deep into the Spirit Realm, every place he reached was still as vast and desolate as a dead world.

He remembered that he had once reached this depth before, even briefly glimpsing a colossal evil spirit over a kilometer in size.

Yet now, all evil spirits seem to have vanished without a trace.

"Any further and it may become dangerous."

Gu Jinlai felt the True Spirit Realm smothering his True Spirit, constantly interfering with the connection between him and his body, seemingly trying to disrupt the "coordinates" linking him to his body, preventing him from returning and leaving him eternally in this world.

He continued to scan his surroundings, seemingly aiming to spot something abnormal.

At that moment, a powerful spiritual fluctuation suddenly emanated from a certain depth he was exploring.

That feeling...

It was like he, located in the deep ocean, vaguely saw an undersea earthquake erupting at the edge of his vision.

"This is bad."

Compared to his body, his True Spirit was quite weak, and as the shockwaves approached, he immediately withdrew, falling toward the reality where his body resided.

However, as he fell toward the real world, he activated his True Spirit and peered as far as he could. Dimly...

He seemed to spot, at the site of the erupting earthquake, two enormous evil spirits engaged in a fierce hunt.

No!

Not a battle!

A hunt!

A terrifying evil spirit over four thousand meters long...

Was hunting a dozen powerful evil spirits between two and three thousand meters long!

"A four-thousand-meter evil spirit?!"

Gu Jinlai almost thought he was mistaken.

But when he tried to "see" the battlefield more clearly, the undersea earthquake’s spiritual shockwave, carrying brutal force, slammed into his True Spirit, nearly scattering it completely.

Gu Jinlai’s form wavered, and he extracted his True Spirit from the True Spirit Realm as quickly as possible.

Even so, when his True Spirit returned to his body, it was still extremely weak, seemingly on the verge of shattering at any moment.

"Palace Master?!"

Zhou Yi, Zhang Lihuo, and others exclaimed in shock.

Gu Jinlai waved his hand and soon injected streams of Qingguang into his True Spirit.

After a while, he finally recovered his composure.

"Palace Master, in the depths of the Spirit Realm... has something happened?"

Zhou Yi cautiously asked only after seeing Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit stabilize.

"Something... has happened."

Gu Jinlai frowned, "Can the size of evil spirits... really grow over four thousand meters?"

Just as the size limit for Nine Heavens Profound Immortals rarely exceeded three thousand meters, evil spirits seemed to follow a similar rule.

Evil spirits over four thousand meters...

Zhou Yi, Zhang Lihuo, and others exchanged bewildered glances.

This already surpassed the limits of their understanding.

And Gu Jinlai was merely musing to himself, not genuinely seeking their answers.

In his cultivation journey thus far, he had surpassed Zhou Yi, Zhang Lihuo, and others by too much. Even in past incidents, it was he who guided them, rather than them providing help or inspiration for him.