A spatial crack. What appeared before Li Yan's eyes was not the darkness he usually saw when tearing the void, but a dazzling white light.
This white light was so bright that even with Li Yan's cultivation, he felt dizzy for a moment.
"So this is the realm barrier of the Desolate Moon Continent!"
Looking at the white light before him, Li Yan couldn't help but think of the scene before he entered the Forsaken Continent. He had almost perished in this white light back then. It was by a stroke of luck that he had survived.
Every continent was protected by a layer of a spatial barrier, formed by the rules of heaven and earth. It could protect the continent from continuous attacks by meteorites and starfall beasts, like an eggshell protecting the outside.
The innermost layer closest to the continent was the dazzling white light Li Yan saw before him, which cultivators called the "World Force Squeezing Layer." Outside this layer was a dusky yellow space, a layer similar to a cultivator's protective light shield, which cultivators called the "Dusky Yellow Space."
Beyond the "Dusky Yellow Space" was the true dark Chaotic Flow Space. And these two layers combined were the realm barrier.
Logically speaking, the "World Force Squeezing Layer" and the "Dusky Yellow Space" should be closely attached to the surface of the continent, but this was not always the case. In a continent, only a very few places had the "World Force Squeezing Layer" and the "Dusky Yellow Space" closely connected to the continent. This was what cultivators called the weakest point of the barrier.
As for the other places, because the rules of power in the primordial chaos, during their formation process, would directly incorporate a part of the Chaotic Flow Space from outside the realm, it would form a "sandwich-like" layer. This was also why Li Yan and the others, almost anywhere on the Desolate Moon Continent, would enter the Chaotic Flow Space as long as they had the ability to tear the void.
In fact, that was a patch of Chaotic Flow Space contained within the barrier, not yet the true Chaotic Flow Space in the full sense of the word.
The inner Chaotic Flow Space of this layer "had its thick and thin parts." In wide places, a cultivator might even have to fly for ten or a hundred years to reach the "World Force Squeezing Layer." Because it was blocked by the outer realm barrier, although there would be meteorite belts and starfall beasts in this layer of Chaotic Flow Space, their numbers were already much smaller.
In fact, every day, foreign starfall beasts were minced in the realm barrier, thus protecting the entire continent. And the Chaotic Flow Space within the realm barrier also had a protective effect. Even if a foreign cultivator or starfall beast broke through the realm barrier, they might still perish in this "sandwich" section of the Chaotic Flow Space.
And the void that Li Yan entered from the Sea of the Northern Abyss was missing the middle "sandwich" layer of the Chaotic Flow Space. As long as he broke through the "World Force Squeezing Layer" and the "Dusky Yellow Space," he could truly leave the Desolate Moon Continent.
Back then, when Li Yan and Zhao Min fell into the crack at the Devil's Cliff, that was also one of the thinnest realm barriers on the Desolate Moon Continent. But they had broken through a total of four layers at that time, which meant two more layers and two fewer layers. Logically speaking, they should have passed through the Desolate Moon Continent's "World Force Squeezing Layer," "Dusky Yellow Space" — Chaotic Flow Space — the Forsaken Continent's "Dusky Yellow Space" and "World Force Squeezing Layer."
But they had actually experienced the "Dusky Yellow Space," a seven-colored space, a dark space, and the "World Force Squeezing Layer." In the middle, there were the extra seven-colored space and dark space, and each continent was missing one layer of traversal. Li Yan had only figured it out later after consulting ancient texts. The reason for this situation was because Wei Zhongran had destroyed the realm barrier.
At that time, the rules of heaven and earth were repairing and reorganizing the realm barrier, which was why so many rules of power had appeared. They had appeared to recombine and form a new realm barrier. At the same time, it was also fortunate that the rules of heaven and earth were in the process of reorganizing. Otherwise, the dark space they had passed through would most likely have been the Chaotic Flow Space. The wind they encountered would not have just been something that shattered their spiritual power shields, but a true sweep of astral wind, leaving no bones behind.
As soon as Li Yan approached the white light before him, powerful repulsive forces slammed into him. A dark light flickered around Li Yan, but his feet did not stop at all.
He walked forward against the powerful squeezing force. When he stepped into the dazzling white light, a squeezing force several times stronger swarmed in from all directions. Li Yan felt as if the blood in his chest was about to be squeezed out of his body in an instant. He let out a cold snort, and with a turn of his magical power, all discomfort in his body disappeared.
Now that his physical body had continued to be refined by the "Undead Nether Phoenix" essence blood, its strength and toughness had continued to grow crazily. Li Yan briefly felt the squeezing force.
"This is countless times stronger than the white light I encountered when I entered the Forsaken Continent. This is a truly stabilized 'World Force Squeezing Layer.' If a Dharma Cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage were to enter, the magical power they would consume to resist the squeezing force would be much more than mine. A cultivator below the Nascent Soul stage, unless their cultivation method is heaven-defying or they have some treasure bestowed by a great power, would be instantly crushed into a bloody mist."
Li Yan thought to himself, and at the same time, he was glad that the white light he had encountered back then had been in the process of reorganizing. But his feet did not stop. He strode forward as if he were just taking a casual walk.
Only a late-stage Nascent Soul great cultivator, or a high-level body cultivator who had cultivated an extremely high level of body refining art, could walk so casually in the "World Force Squeezing Layer."
A silver light flickered on the surface of Li Yan's skin. He even directly removed the spiritual power shield around his body, allowing the rolling, mountain-like force from all directions to squeeze in…
One hour, two hours, three hours… Li Yan, walking in it, became more and more surprised. When he had walked for eleven days, he was still in a patch of dazzling white light. And the silver light around his body was also getting brighter and brighter. His entire person had turned into a silver ball of light…
Another two days passed. Just as the silver light on Li Yan's body also became as dazzling as the surrounding white light, Li Yan's clothes had long been lost, leaving him naked.
Every time he took a step, the surrounding white light was like pieces of white rock trying to firmly clamp him in. Every time Li Yan moved, the space around him would emit a series of "kaka" cracking sounds. The white light also became fragmented, like layers of white mountain peaks being shattered by his powerful force.
Behind Li Yan, those shattered white lights would re-solidify into a large patch of dazzling rock-like things a breath after Li Yan had passed. At this time, Li Yan's walking movements were no longer as smooth as flowing water, but like a wooden puppet, or rather, a puppet. His forward movements seemed so disconnected, with a stop-and-go feeling.
With a strange "kacha" sound, like a mirror being broken, the scenery before Li Yan's eyes dimmed. His entire person seemed to have passed through a layer of water and appeared in a dusky yellow space. At the same time, Li Yan felt the powerful squeezing force that had been firmly clamping him disappear in an instant.
"I'm finally out!"
When Li Yan looked back, he found that he was already floating in a dusky yellow space. There was no trace of the way he had come from, not even a single spatial crack. As far as the eye could see, everything was a dusky yellow, a single entity. This dusky yellow had an invisible dissolving power, subtly eroding everything foreign here.
It had taken him a full thirteen days to get here. During the traversal, Li Yan had also stopped twice to take pills to recover his stamina.
Li Yan looked around the dusky yellow space and found that he had lost his direction. All directions were the same. Not to mention being unable to distinguish east, west, south, and north, he couldn't even determine up, down, left, and right. For a moment, Li Yan didn't know if he was standing normally, or upside down, or lying horizontally in this dusky yellow space.
When Li Yan and Zhao Min had fallen into this space back then, they had also had this feeling, as if they were falling downwards, unable to distinguish directions, as if they were falling endlessly without stopping. This was the most terrifying thing about the "Dusky Yellow Space." You couldn't distinguish directions, so the path you had just walked might be the way back in the next moment. A cultivator could be trapped in a permanent cycle here until their pills and magical power were completely exhausted and they perished. And once they lost their magical power protection, everything here would be dissolved by the yellow light.
Li Yan, floating in the air, first had a black light flash around his body, and he had put on a black robe again. His hands quickly formed a hand seal in front of his chest. His ten fingers danced like butterflies through flowers. Along with the specks of light brought out by the spiritual power at his fingertips, a white plum blossom quickly materialized from between his fingers.
The next moment, the white plum blossom was held by one of Li Yan's fingers. Then, with a pull and a tug, he pressed it to the space between his eyebrows. The moment the white plum blossom touched his dark skin, the entire flower suddenly lit up and instantly merged into the space between his eyebrows. A white plum blossom mark immediately appeared there.
Then, a soft white light shot out from the center of the plum blossom. At the same time, Li Yan moved his head and looked around. Soon, he flew in one direction.
For traversing the barrier, each continent had its own relatively mature methods. It was just that these methods were top secrets of each sect, and only Nascent Soul and above cultivators of the sect were qualified to cultivate them. The set of arts that Li Yan had just performed was called "White Plum Probes the Snow," and it was a high-level secret art of the Malevolent Spirit Sect. This was also one of the few secret methods Li Yan had obtained from the Malevolent Spirit Sect.
The Malevolent Spirit Sect not only had Nascent Soul level arts, but even several Spirit Transformation stage ones. Li Yan's contribution points and spirit stones were of course enough to exchange for many Nascent Soul level secret arts. It was just that he now had so many secret arts that he had no time to finish cultivating them, so how could he be greedy for more?
But "White Plum Probes the Snow" was something he had to spend some time cultivating. Otherwise, Li Yan really wouldn't be able to get through the realm barrier.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. The white plum blossom on Li Yan's forehead had already been replaced by the fifth one after its power was exhausted. Li Yan continued to move forward according to the vague direction detected by the white plum!
Finally, when the petals of the fifth plum blossom became dim and were about to disappear, the plum blossom between Li Yan's eyebrows in the dusky yellow space suddenly flew off on its own. With a flicker, it floated at a certain point in the air. The white plum no longer shot out a white light, but continuously flashed with a dim light.
A strange light instantly appeared in the eyes of Li Yan, who had been expressionless all this time. He took a step forward and arrived in front of the plum blossom. He formed a sword finger and slashed fiercely at that spot.
With a "hiss," a yellow crack appeared in the dusky yellow space. Li Yan did not hesitate at all, and his figure flashed and disappeared into it.
Then, Li Yan in the crack fiercely smashed his fist forward.
"Boom!"
A rumbling sound echoed in the surrounding space. With the impact of this punch, a chilling aura rushed toward him…
And just as Li Yan threw this punch, several people on the Desolate Moon Continent suddenly raised their heads.
"Someone has broken through the realm and left the Desolate Moon Continent. This aura... seems to be that kid from the Malevolent Spirit Sect!"
An old monk looked at the night sky outside the window, his pair of gray eyebrows seeming to be able to see through the endless firmament.
"Finally couldn't sit still and wanted to go out!"
Under a dense forest, ten thousand zhang from the ground, an old man in linen clothes, his skin ashen, his pair of gray pupils looked in one direction for a few breaths before closing his eyes again.
"It's good to go out and explore, it's good to explore!"
In a spirit plant garden of the Malevolent Spirit Sect, under the night sky, Yu Xiaofan sprinkled a ladle of spirit liquid on a spirit plant. The full moon above shone down. He was bent over, as if carefully watering. Although he did not raise his head, he said in a low voice.
They were the true guardians of this continent, the Spirit Transformation experts!
This was an endless dark space, everything silent in the night.
Suddenly, a strong light shone in from a crack. Then it dimmed, and a figure exuding a faint light instantly appeared in the dark space. And the crack behind him also flashed and then closed on its own, disappearing without a trace. The entire dark space returned to its original state.
Li Yan instantly released his Divine Sense. After a sweep, his mind relaxed slightly. He had not appeared in a dangerous area. This was an endless dark void, but in the eyes of a cultivator, it was a gray and hazy space. There were only a few scattered meteorites around, slowly drifting.
Because Li Yan cultivated the True Scripture of Gui Water, the magical power light shield he released was also a deep color. Without intentionally hiding it, it almost blended in with the surrounding environment. At this moment, Li Yan was inconspicuous.
Apart from some small, scattered meteorites slowly drifting around, everything was as silent as death.
"The Wei family marked this as one of the safer entry points. The meteorites are indeed sparse."
Li Yan knew that this was like what the Buddhists said, "leaping out of the three realms." He had finally jumped out of those few layers. And after arriving here, Li Yan had to be even more careful. This place seemed calm and harmless, but the dangers it contained could not be judged with normal thinking.
Some places were said to have time that was eternally stopped. Once you mistakenly entered, all life would be "frozen," unable to think, unable to act, and even unable to enter reincarnation. But these places were often the most direct path to various realms and continents, and also one of the most common methods for high-level cultivators to traverse continents.
Of course, the safest way to traverse was a cross-realm super teleportation grand formation. But that kind of grand formation, even with all the resources of a continent, might not be able to build one. And for a place like the Desolate Moon Continent, they didn't want to build a cross-realm teleportation grand formation at all. In order to reduce the chances of foreign invasion, their thinking was more conservative.
Just as Li Yan was observing, some of the nearby meteorite fragments suddenly shot toward him without any warning. The meteorites that had been slowly drifting like snails just a moment ago suddenly increased their speed by several dozen times. At the same time, with a sharp whistle of wind, they crashed toward Li Yan.