Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Chapter 2048  Way Out

Over the following day as the people of the ancient secret realm alongside a few demon beasts who also sensed the bad situation of the ancient secret realm escaped through the spatial passages, Xuan Hao found his understanding of the Dao of Space reaching a brand-new realm. Even though he was still at the Perfection Realm, he could clearly sense that his overall control of space had significantly increased while spatial movement had become far easier, to the point where he didnʼt need much preparation for using longer distance teleportation, as he would be able to slip into the void directly and just adjust his path along the way.

This sudden improvement when it came to spatial manipulation and spatial movement mainly came from keeping all the ancient spatial passages open and watching how they worked on their own with only a little assistance from his side.

RUUUMBLE~!

Of course, alongside most of the people who could evacuate from the ancient secret realm having already escaped by now, the ancient secret realm had also devolved into a completely unrecognizable state.

Taking the holy lake as an example, the entire lake alongside the villages around it had already been swallowed by the expanding spatial storm, while the space outside wasnʼt in a much better state as the ground already split apart in the form of massive scars that allowed one to peek down below the surface and glimpse a far more terrifying battle playing out between the guardian formation and the spatial storm.

If compared against the battle playing out around the holy lake that had already disappeared, it wouldnʼt be wrong to say it was like comparing the sun to the moon, there was simply no comparison between the scale of the two battles.

And for Xuan Hao who hadnʼt witnessed the full might of the Venerable Realm in the past, he felt that the battle playing out below ground should be a true display of the guardian formations might, as the battle above ground could at most be considered a secondary battle that required little to no attention from the guardian formation.

During this time, outside of himself, there was also another person witnessing this spectacle playing out both above and below ground… And that person was none other than Qian Qing.

Although she did have the chance to leave before, she had stubbornly decided to remain in a clear attempt to lay a foundation for comprehending the Dao of Space in the. Even when she had been informed that the nearby spatial passage her fellow villagers had escaped through wouldnʼt be able to last much longer, she had ultimately still decided to stay behind after asking him if it was possible for him to take her out of the ancient secret realm when he left in the future.

Given that his intentions towards Qian Qing had already shifted towards wanting to recruit her to the sect, Xuan Hao saw no reason to refuse her and happily agreed. Not seeing any problems with pulling her back alongside him when the time came-

CRAAACK-!

And speaking of which, it looked like it was about time, as the sky above had already begun cracking under the pressure of the spatial storm outside, a third battlefield the guardian formation had to engage in, as the more of the spatial storm seeped inside the ancient secret realm, the deeper into the spatial storm it was pulled.

If he didnʼt leave soon, even with his strength having broken through to the Middle Stage of the Land Creation Realm, he wouldnʼt be able to escape the same fate as the guardian formation the secret realm it protected.

Whoosh~

With that in mind, his divine sense soon concentrated around a small group of people still struggling to make their way through the ancient secret realm, even amidst the increasingly chaotic state of the secret realm.

”Brother Feng, are we there soon?”

”Yes, the gate we used to enter this secret realm should be just around the corner, just a bit more and we should be able to leave this place.”

”I hope so… After all, with how this entire place started collapsing suddenly and those strange visions and warning that suddenly appeared, we likely wonʼt survive if we donʼt get out of this place soon…”

This group of people was none other than Li Feng and the other youths who had been journeying alongside him towards a Branch of the Star Shattering Sect in hopes of becoming official disciples of the sect.

Although they had also seen the scene of destruction that everyone within the ancient secret realm had seen, he had made sure to not include the location of other spatial passage in the information shared with them. Ensuring that they would head back towards the same place that they had originally used to enter the ancient secret realm through.

Not because he didnʼt want them to escape alive with how far from that place they originally found themselves, but instead because he didnʼt want these future disciple of the sect to randomly enter an ancient spatial passage that might lead them to some random island in the middle of the endless ocean far from the Ewaria continent or even one already far below the surface of the endless ocean.

After all, though the chance of ending up below water, it wasnʼt entirely impossible… And such a situation would undoubtedly spell certain death, as outside of the water pressure that would be hard to resist without sufficient cultivation, one also had to worry about powerful demon beasts lurking within the depths of the endless ocean.

Shaking his head as he thought about this potential dreadful fate awaiting some of the people escaping through the ancient spatial passages, Xuan Hao could only hope that a majority of the people escaping the ancient secret realm managed to find themselves somewhere safe before he got up and made his way towards Li Feng and the rest who were already about to reach the ancient ruins they had ended up inside of upon entering the ancient secret realm-

Swish~

”Waaah~!? Wha-what is happening!?”

Grabbing the unsuspecting Qian Qing as he set off, causing her to scream in a panic at the sudden movement. Not understanding what had happened as she flailed around helplessly for a few seconds before falling silent once she realized she had been carried off by Xuan Hao like some stray cat.

Although she wanted to complain about how he had just picked her up without saying anything, she didnʼt dare to do so, as she feared doing so might result in him leaving her behind, something she absolutely dreaded knowing that the spatial passages around her out of the ancient secret realm had already closed and her only way out now relied entirely on him.

Speaking of the ancient spatial passages, the second he got up and began moving towards Li Feng, those ancient spatial passages immediately lost their anchor and began to slowly collapse in on themselves.

Without him around the anchor them to the ancient secret realm struggling within the spatial storm, these spatial passages had no way to remain stable and connected to the secret realm on their own even if they had the strength to remain open.

Of course, this caused no small amount of panic amongst the few people still left inside the ancient secret realm hesitating to enter the spatial passages, as most of those who didnʼt want to leave and thus hadnʼt yet stepped through a spatial passage, stopped hesitating and charged forward before the spatial passage in front of them fully detached from the ancient secret realm. Escaping just at the last second.

Not that no people remained within the ancient secret realm by now, but the number wasnʼt more than a few tens of thousands of people, while still a large number of people, it was nowhere near the original millions of people who had once existed within the ancient secret realm before they had been forced to gather everything of value to escape over the past two days.

Surprisingly enough, as Xuan Hao reached Li Feng and his group of friends as they were starting to open the spatial passage leading back to the Ewaria Continent, he took on last look through the ancient secret realm and discovered that amongst the people still left within. Unwilling to leave their home behind, a few had formed some kind of religious cult that revered the spatial storm outside as some kind of cleansing god descending to liberate them of their mortal flesh.

Looking closely, this religious cult had clearly existed before the collapse of the ancient secret realm began, but it was only now that the most hardcore believers revealed themselves.

Small as this cult was, what caught his attention was the fact that things these zealots embracing death were sprouting actual contained some degree of similarity with the Dao of Corruption.

Unfortunately, though he wanted to investigate this cult and its origins, he simply didnʼt have the time to do so, as he descended towards the spatial passage that had just been opened by Li Feng and escaped through it just as the sky above seemed to have reached its limit and broke under the pressure of the spatial storm outside. Overwhelming the guardian formation that was only barely resisting the spatial storm at this point.