A Sorcerer’s Journey

Chapter 1176: Chapter 1177: Ashen World

”Are you crazy? Hurry up and leave!”

Though he had never encountered such sinister phenomena before, spending so much time in the Dimensional Esophagus meant anything absurd, terrifying, sharp, or eerie could happen; such events were commonplace, and one should never judge by the rules of the real world.

Thousands of years in the Dimensional Esophagus taught Simba that anything that happens here could potentially lead to his demise and be digested by the Endless World.

Yet at this moment, having witnessed the Hulking Bull Monster being completely vaporized by the soaring column of black smoke and vanishing into nothingness, Green did not leave, making Simba think Green was about to go insane.

In fact, Green was indeed about to go insane.

At that moment, Green Truth Mask’s perception kept shifting and merging, completely different from the terrifying appearance Simba perceived.

”Ashes? Ashen World!”

This was unexpectedly the dreadful Illusory World opposed to Wizard World’s strongest sealing skill, Prism Seal Spell, and the Rainbow Deep Illusionary World.

The Ashen World is a deeper-level Illusory World than the World of Oblivion, representing the dark side in the opposition between colorful beauty and ashen destruction.

Unexpectedly, this powerful Illusory World, which stands on the same level as Retrogression of Flowing Light, realized a temporary connection with the World of Retrogressive Luminance!

Traces of the Ashen World’s aura, like floating dust in the sky, merged with the high-altitude gray aura of Retrogression of Flowing Light,

thus, the ash aura was far more than the black smoke column appearing on the surface; it was spreading out thin strands of ashen illusion, pulling everything stained by the ash aura into the Ashen World.

The life of that Hulking Bull Monster had not truly ended; instead, it was dragged into the Ash Phantom World!

The Ash Phantom World is on the same level as Retrogressive Luminance Illusory World, yet somewhat more dangerous!

After all, without dimensional dimension battles occurring, the Retrogression of Flowing Light remains relatively ”peaceful.”

In Green’s perception at this moment, these Deep Illusionary Worlds seemed like the stomach of the Endless World, silently grinding to quickly digest Green and other undigested entities, turning them into nutrients to replenish the core reality.

Simply existing here means Green is fighting against the innate instincts of the Endless World!

Even though as long as he could escape from the Dimensional Esophagus and Retrogression of Flowing Light, eventually he would not escape being completely digested by the Endless World.

”Hiss... Don’t panic. You leave here first. I want to try to understand the nature of these ashen black smoke. Perhaps this will be another way to leave the Dimensional Esophagus.”

In Simba’s stunned silence, Green took the initiative to walk towards the towering smoke column.

Previously pursued by terrifying ant swarms, the diverse and powerful World Masters were unsure how many perished under the joint attack of the Temporal Storm and ant swarms; at the moment, only four emerged sparingly from the Skeleton Land, and upon seeing the black smoke anomaly, they cautiously dispersed in every direction.

”You fool, someday you will die in your own madness. If all Wizards were like you, they would eventually be completely extinct!”

Simba roared, striding rapidly away.

Green chuckled lightly at Simba’s words. If one does not even have the courage to explore unknown knowledge, how could one talk about the Path of the True Spirit? At times, it’s through understanding and grasping the rules of endless knowledge that stronger Wizards can better understand their positioning; humility and madness reflect each other.

Moreover, Green is not completely ignorant about the Ashen World!

As for leaving this Retrogressive Luminance Illusory World through the Ashen World, theoretically feasible, yet generally no Wizard would choose this way.

After all, although as an equally illusory world, the difficulty of leaving is bound to be the same, the Ashen World’s danger level, however, cannot be compared with the Retrogression of Flowing Light during non-dimensional warfare periods.

Step by step, Green kept approaching the area perceived by Truth Mask where the faintest ash aura wafted in the air.

Previously, the reason the Hulking Bull Monster was dragged into the Ashen World without being stained by black smoke was because its body exchanged internally and externally with the spreading ash aura, thus staining with the ash aura, became part of the Ashen Illusionary Rules, only then vaporized and pulled into the Illusory World.

These gases are difficult to differentiate, only existing in the form of a phantom annihilation nature element.

And as a Stigma Sorcerer, realizing absolute control over elements is just a basic instinct!

Moreover, Green’s Robe of Appearances serves as a medium for Self-sealing Technique, sealing external energy leakage while, if Green desires, it can also seal external aura’s erosion towards the internal body; with double defenses, as long as Green is not directly stained by those annihilation smoke, close observation would not pose too big an issue.

At this moment, Green was merely undertaking a matter with absolute confidence; to outsiders, it seemed a crazy venture.

This highlights the knowledge perception gap regarding rules.

”The reason Wizard World grasps the arcobaleno space-time seal technique but not Ashen Sealing Technique lies in the fact phantom ash, like Annihilation Force, is uncontrollable energy—the existence that summons and creates them inherently harms the summoner and creator. The difference is, Oblivion Tower possesses annihilative nature towards all things, whereas Ashen Illusion contaminates living creatures.”

Now, Green gazed at the thin strands of aura emitted by the towering black smoke column, revealing a hint of eerie joy.

”But if in such deep Illusionary World, possessing these ash rules and flowing light rules intermingled mitigated ash aura, using non-sacred materials to collect them...”

Murmuring such, Green used Truth Mask as a medium, focusing entirely and cautiously maintaining a distance from the black column of smoke, a flash appearing in his hand producing three blocks of amber-colored gelatinous substance.

This was the resin of World Tree sealing Mesocea, the Level-6 Peak Creature!

After Mesocea’s eye was studied as a specimen, Green traded the active remains to the Bone Demon, exchanging for a vast amount of materials, while the remaining amber resin was partially used to create amber rings, becoming sorcery instruments integrating sealing, confinement, and defense, conceived within the Ancient Giant Chi Demon Body.

A small portion was kept by Green for research.

Nowadays, Green’s research on this precious material is essentially completed; now taking it out, using it as a vessel to store the mixed gas of Ashen Illusionary Rules and Flowing Light Illusory Rules is perfectly fitting.

Under the expectant gaze, these gelatinous substances began to slowly morph after being daubed and soaked in special potion by Green...

Several hourglass times later.

During which Green constantly moved backward to keep an absolute distance from the black smoke; otherwise, if directly stained by ash aura, the consequences would be unimaginable.

A Level Five Creature afar caught a glimpse, saw Green standing near the black smoke, fled in utter terror, believing it to be a terrifying life form crossing over from connecting Illusory Worlds.

Thus, after several hourglass efforts, Green successfully supported several Ashen Capsules.

Calling them the most terrifying poison wouldn’t be inaccurate!