CHAPTER 186: CHAPTER 184: BIZARRE ENTANGLEMENT!

Seeing the content on the broken bamboo scroll, Lu Yan’s pupils suddenly contracted.

Then Lu Yan’s heart trembled, feeling as if an invisible giant hand had quietly grasped his heart, with an indescribable sense of oppression filling his entire being, making him nearly suffocate.

"This is..."

Lu Yan immediately realized something was wrong.

No matter which version, the information about Zhao Huowang must be the key to the entire version.

The "Heavenly Dao Discussion" of Xianxia, the Heavenly Dao Code of Cyber, helped Lu Yan more than once to overcome crises.

But no version ever reacted as violently as now, just by seeing Zhao Huowang’s relic.

It seemed as if the heavens and earth were oppressing Lu Yan, compelling him to destroy the broken bamboo scroll in his hand.

"No! I can’t!"

"This demon version must have a big problem; the key to the clue lies in this passage on the bamboo scroll!"

Lu Yan’s mind was spinning rapidly, but the oppression from body and mind grew stronger, almost uncontrollable.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed Lu Yan’s mind, and in the Sea of Consciousness, the Divine Sense surged into a sharp blade condensed by the Power of the Divine Soul.

Then this blade fell upon the ten-layer Supreme Dao Foundation, engraving this passage into the Dao Foundation.

As the engraving of the text was completed, Lu Yan, whose mind had just relaxed slightly, suddenly fell into a blank state, and his right hand involuntarily crushed the broken bamboo scroll.

Under the surging magical power, the already decayed bamboo scroll was pulverized into dust, not even divine techniques could restore it.

...

In front of Lu Yan, Li Hao watched Lu Yan’s actions with curiosity.

Shortly after the banquet ended, Lu Yan instructed him to send someone to find a young man named He Dongsheng.

Li Hao used the power of the Li Family to search for four full months, almost turning all of Hezhou upside down, unexpectedly finding that He Dongsheng’s courtyard was actually in Luocheng.

The entire matter exuded an extremely unusual sense of eeriness; ever since the banquet, although the Li Family’s power showed no expansion on the surface, the recognition from various major millennium-old families had directly elevated the Li Family’s prestige to the pinnacle.

The major millennium-old families voluntarily relinquished their shares in Hezhou, and the various smaller forces within Luocheng also submitted one after another, no longer daring to pretend to obey the Li Family.

In such a situation, there is no reason for a courtyard right under their noses to take four months to find.

Moreover, during this period, Li Hao invited some True Martial Artists who master the Celestial Secret True Intent, seeking He Dongsheng’s traces through the Celestial Secret True Intent, yet still found nothing.

The whole matter was too bizarre, prompting Li Hao to deliver the envelope to Lu Yan as soon as he got it.

And Lu Yan, upon opening the envelope and seeing the bamboo scroll, suddenly fell into a daze, then directly crushed the bamboo scroll, indicating the extraordinary nature of the matter.

"What exactly happened that could make the envoy lose composure like this?"

...

The powder from the bamboo scroll gradually slipped from his hand, and Lu Yan snapped out of his momentary trance.

His gaze refocused on the envelope in his hand, with Lu Yan, somewhat puzzled, frowning slightly.

"He Dongsheng said he found Zhao Huowang’s relic? Why is there nothing in the envelope?"

Unwilling to accept it, Lu Yan tore open the envelope; apart from a piece of letter paper, nothing else was left in the envelope.

Lu Yan then looked up at Li Hao in front of him, asking:

"In that courtyard, was there only this envelope? No other items left behind?"

Li Hao instinctively wanted to answer, but when the words reached his lips, his expression froze, falling into a momentary silence.

After reorganizing the memories in his mind, Li Hao shook his head.

"Reporting to the envoy, I indeed didn’t find anything else."

Lu Yan frowned tightly: "Never mind, lead the way, I will search myself!"

Upon hearing this, Li Hao immediately led the way, and the two turned into streaks of light and entered Luocheng.

Entering the courtyard Li Hao mentioned, Lu Yan searched the entire place from top to bottom, even releasing several Yin Soldiers to explore down to hundreds of meters underground, still finding nothing that He Dongsheng left behind.

After a fruitless search, Lu Yan shook his head slightly, pondering to himself:

"In the demon version, there are no ten major sects, even He Dongsheng suddenly disappeared. Could there be some connection?

But how should Zhao Huowang’s relic mentioned in that envelope be explained?"

With a belly full of doubts, Lu Yan returned to the Beimang Forbidden Land Ruins, preparing to continue closed cultivation to comprehend the Dao.

With all the Restrictions, Ghost Mist, Yin Soldiers Array, and the Profound Vagina Door enveloping the entire courtyard, it seemed to restore its usual appearance.

No one could see, at the moment the layers of arrays protecting the courtyard formed, Lu Yan’s previously normal expression suddenly changed dramatically.

"Something’s not right!"

"It’s really not right!"

Ordinary people couldn’t spot the issue, but Lu Yan, having experienced multiple version updates and faced many Celestial Dao, could not fail to notice the anomaly that just occurred.

The information left by Zhao Huowang was too important. Whether Xianxia or Cyberpunks, Zhao Huowang’s leftover information revealed the essence of the world.

Only in the urban version did Lu Yan not receive information related to Zhao Huowang from He Dongsheng, even though He Dongsheng himself claimed never to have met Zhao Huowang.

After Lu Yan communicated with He Dongsheng in the urban version, He Dongsheng secretly kept this matter in mind and left the letter in the Demon Version just now.

Lu Yan clearly understood the karma between He Dongsheng and Zhao Huowang; it was significant karma that spanned several versions. It would never happen that He Dongsheng left the letter, but Zhao Huowang’s relic disappeared!

Thinking of this, Lu Yan instinctively looked at his right hand.

Even though there was no information in his memory, Lu Yan was certain that he had definitely come into contact with Zhao Huowang’s relics.

"Zhao Huowang was not some Cultivator; most of what he left behind were things of an information nature. ’Heavenly Dao Discussion’ and Heavenly Dao Codes were such things.

If I had contact with Zhao Huowang’s information and some external force made me forget this information, I would definitely have recorded it somewhere in advance."

"Somewhere that even the Celestial Dao cannot touch!"

Thinking of this, Lu Yan’s eyes slightly closed, and his Divine Sense sank into the Supreme Dao Foundation, towering like a heavenly jade pillar.

The highest position item on Lu Yan was undoubtedly this Supreme Dao Foundation, nurturing the seed of Supreme Great Divine Techniques.

This foundation was built with the trend of the whole version as a sacrifice, even difficult for Celestial Dao to interfere with.

His Divine Sense scanned the Supreme Dao Foundation, and Lu Yan quickly found the freshly engraved words in a corner of the foundation.

[The Immortal has taken everyone away... It has come!]

"What does it mean that the Immortal left? Who is It? How did It come?"

These doubts lingered in Lu Yan’s mind, making him subconsciously look above the sky.

As an Unchanging, Lu Yan’s position was considered half a false Celestial Dao, such that even Nether Abyss Realm old monsters could not easily erase Lu Yan’s memory.

In the entire Demon Version, the only entity capable of achieving this and having a reason to erase Zhao Huowang’s information seemed to be the Demon Celestial Dao.

Since entering the Demon Version, Lu Yan realized that the Demon Celestial Dao was entirely different from other normal Celestial Daos.

The Path of Heaven and Earth in the Demon Version was open to everyone without reservation, the turbid Dao invaded the world’s beings, all beings without cultivating life, maintaining a peculiar cycle where humans steal the Dao, and the Dao devours humans.

As a high-energy level version where the concentration of Spiritual Qi is as much as half of the Xianxia version and nurtures countless miraculous Daos, such an approach would undoubtedly lock the Demon Version’s cap.

On the surface, it seemed that the number of powerful beings in the Demon Version far exceeded the Xianxia version, but it was all illusory.

Even Li Hao, a Peak of Foundation Establishment in the Xianxia version, could transform into a peak strong practitioner of the Mara Realm in the Demon Version.

With the magnitude of the ten great profound sects, what kind of astounding strength would be demonstrated?

The Demon Version’s Celestial Dao and Dao Rules both exuded an indescribable eerie feeling.

"Having resolved the influence brought by the correction of the Demon Celestial Dao, and with the identity of the Underworld Envoy protecting me from easily exposing the secret of the True Technique, why would I still be affected by the memory erasure of the Demon Celestial Dao?

Is it because the ’Chang Chun Skill’ I passed on would cause changes in version Celestial Dao, or was it the words within Zhao Huowang’s relics could affect the Celestial Dao itself?"

An increasingly heavy unease enveloped Lu Yan.

Even within the layer upon layer protected courtyard, Lu Yan constantly felt the impending sense of danger.

Suppressing the throbbing in his heart, he trained for a month, and the heavy anxiety drove Lu Yan to intensify his means to steal the True Intent of the Great Dao.

When the largest of all True Intents, the Profound Vagina Door, grew to three meters high, Lu Yan’s unrestrained theft finally triggered the counterattack of the Profound Vagina Dao.

Even though Lu Yan possessed a residual false Heavenly Dao Position to stand in for the heavens, this false threat ultimately had its limits. The Profound Vagina Dao couldn’t truly allow Lu Yan, this false giant, to devour the Dao completely.

The Profound Vagina Dao’s counterattack seriously injured Lu Yan, taking three days to recover, and by then the growth of the Profound Vagina Dao had reached its limit.

Unless Lu Yan’s cultivation broke through again and could further suppress the Profound Vagina Dao, the three-meter-high Profound Vagina Door was the limit of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Realizing this, Lu Yan decisively made a decision.

To secretly escape the Beimang Forbidden Land Ruins!

Whether it was Zhao Huowang’s last words or the erased memories, they all conveyed an indescribable eerie feeling.

This made Lu Yan more certain that as time drew nearer to the version update, the crisis behind the heavy unease was bound to erupt.

On the day the version update progress reached 90%, Lu Yan used the Profound Unity True Intent and secretly escaped the Beimang Forbidden Land Ruins, leaving behind only a courtyard shrouded in ghostly mist.

Just three days later, a sensational piece of news spread throughout the human race.

The Underworld Envoy who appeared in Luocheng was the very person who monopolized the True Techniques of the top seventeen Great Daos!

For a time, the human race was in an uproar, countless strong practitioners heading to the Beimang Mountain in Luocheng, but ultimately only finding a courtyard with no sign of life.