134: Breaking the Law with Force

Deep within the Jade Pool, the mist grew increasingly thick.

The pool water, which was originally as milky white as milk, now seemed to have turned into flowing mercury, becoming outrageously heavy.

Lu Yi and Chu Qianqian moved forward side by side through the water.

Even though Lu Yi possessed the peerless and overbearing Star Immortal Body, every step he took consumed a tremendous amount of physical strength.

As for Chu Qianqian, although she had just made a Breakthrough in the heat of the moment and grasped a hint of the "Force-Discharging" technique to neutralize pressure using soft strength,

under this terrifying environmental pressure that felt almost solidified, her face remained pale, and her forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat.

The speed of the two slowed down visibly to the naked eye, and the surrounding air seemed to have frozen.

"Huff... Huff..."

Just as the two had painfully pushed forward another several hundred feet,

Lu Yi, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped without any warning.

His brows were tightly locked together. He didn't continue trying to break through the waves, but instead stood in place, a sharp look of suspicion flashing in his eyes.

"What's wrong?"

Chu Qianqian stopped beside him, panting heavily.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked with some confusion,

"Do you need to take a rest?"

Lu Yi shook his head, his expression somewhat grim.

"Something's wrong, something's very wrong."

He turned around, looking at the endless white mist behind them, and said in a heavy voice,

"The target we're pursuing is that Yun Mu. His current cultivation, at its root, is only at the Cave Heaven Realm."

Lu Yi pointed at the pool water around them, which was as heavy as a mountain.

"The pressure here makes even me feel strained, requiring my full effort just to barely move forward. How could he possibly manage to reach this depth?"

Lu Yi's words made Chu Qianqian fall into deep thought.

"But... this pressure is very real."

Chu Qianqian reached out somewhat puzzled, feeling the heavy water pressure around her.

Lu Yi closed his eyes and didn't speak.

He withdrew his Divine Sense, no longer trying to probe into the distance, but instead focused on sensing the subtle changes within a three-zhang radius.

In addition to that suffocating heavy pressure on his physical body,

he also keenly captured an inexplicable, extremely faint sense of disconnect.

That feeling was like... running on a treadmill.

Although they were panting and sweating from exhaustion, in reality, they had been running in place!

Or rather, they were circling inside a meticulously designed, enclosed loop of space!

A moment later, Lu Yi snapped his eyes open.

A look of certainty flashed in his eyes as he said in a cold tone,

"Qianqian, feel it carefully. Although the pressure here is several times greater than before, the concentration of Spiritual Qi absorbed into the body, as well as that unique Body Tempering effect, has not only failed to increase but has instead... weakened."

"What?"

Chu Qianqian was startled upon hearing this. She immediately followed Lu Yi's suggestion, calming her mind to carefully sense the situation inside her body.

After only a moment, her expression changed.

"It's true! This pressure is like a dead object; it only knows how to apply pressure to the physical body and consume our Spiritual Qi. The nourishing effect of Cleansing the Marrow and Tempering the Bones is greatly diminished!"

She suddenly looked up at Lu Yi, her voice carrying a hint of panic.

"Could it be... we've taken the wrong path? Have we entered some kind of dead land?"

"It's not that we took the wrong path."

Lu Yi let out a cold laugh, his lips curling into a mocking arc.

"We've been trapped."

"It seems that deep within the Jade Pool, there are not only natural hazards but also man-made—or perhaps naturally formed—illusory trapping Formations."

"We've been walking for so long, but in reality, we've just been circling this small patch of ground. We're being worn down by this Formation like dogs on a leash; we haven't actually moved forward a single step!"

Hearing the word "Formation," Chu Qianqian's expression became somewhat unsightly.

Every profession has its specialty. She excelled in charm, Dual Cultivation, and Gu poisons, but when it came to the profound path of Formations, she was completely clueless.

"Then what should we do?"

She looked around anxiously at the mist that seemed completely unchanged.

"I'm not proficient in Formations at all. I can't tell where the core is or where the exit lies."

"Lu Yi, do you know how to break Formations?"

Facing Chu Qianqian's expectant gaze,

Lu Yi was perfectly calm. He shrugged and uttered two words with total confidence:

"I don't."

"That kind of delicate work that requires calculating thousands upon thousands of variations and positions is just too much of a headache."

The light in Chu Qianqian's eyes instantly dimmed, replaced by a look of disappointment and helplessness.

"Then... then don't we have no choice but to turn back the way we came?"

Seeing her like this, Lu Yi couldn't help but laugh.

"Who says there's no way if you don't know how to solve the Formation? There's more than one way to solve a problem."

As he spoke, Lu Yi flipped his palm.

*Wring—*

An ancient and vast Aura instantly permeated the area.

In his hand, a gourd appeared out of thin air. It was purple-gold in color and its surface was covered in complex Dao patterns.

This was exactly the Magic Treasure Lu Yi had obtained for free from the Taichu Old Ancestor—the purple gold heaven-swallowing gourd!

Lu Yi gently stroked the cool surface of the gourd, his eyes flashing with a confident and overbearing light.

"If a knot can't be untied, then just cut it. Before absolute power, everything must shatter. Watch me break the law with force!"

After saying that, he turned and gestured to Chu Qianqian.

"Get back, don't get caught in the crossfire."

Chu Qianqian obediently retreated several dozen feet and deployed several Spiritual Qi shields in front of her.

Lu Yi took a deep breath, no longer suppressing the power within his body.

His Star Immortal Body operated at full capacity, frantically pouring energy into the purple-gold gourd in his hand!

The purple gold heaven-swallowing gourd began to tremble violently.

From the mouth of the gourd, an extremely dazzling purple divine light erupted!

A destructive fluctuation, comparable to the full-strength strike of a Heaven-Reaching Realm expert, was rapidly condensing and compressing at the mouth of the gourd!

"Open!!"

As the Spiritual Qi reached its peak,

Lu Yi gave a low shout and thrust his hands forward!

*Boom—!!!*

A purple pillar of light as thick as a bucket, carrying an Aura that could destroy heaven and earth and pierce through everything,

roared as it surged out from the mouth of the gourd!

It slammed violently toward the seemingly empty Void Realm ahead!

*Rumble—!!*

An earth-shattering explosion erupted deep within the Jade Pool.

It didn't miss as expected.

That terrifying purple pillar of light seemed to have struck an invisible and solid wall.

Just ten zhang away from the two of them, it suddenly exploded!

*Crack, crack, crack...*

In the previously empty space ahead, the air began to distort violently.

Bursts of transparent ripples, like waves on water, surged out.

The invisible wall began to tremble and twist violently.

After holding on for less than three breaths, a crisp "crack" like shattering glass echoed all around.

A blinding crack of light rapidly spread across the Void Realm.