Night Without End

He swiftly sidestepped, slicing through the night sky far away. When he looked back, his pupils contracted, and his heart shook violently. Indeed, often walking by the river, his shoes finally got wet.

He saw a somewhat chilly "creature"!

In fact, Qin Ming also wasn't sure if it was truly alive. The other was in human form, wrapped entirely in a nearly rotting black robe, with a face as white as a ghost.

He had long heard that the pitch-black night wasn't so "clean," with various terrifying rumors, and today he finally encountered one.

For instance, there was a tale of a Fangwai disciple on a divine travel screaming terribly in the night sky, where the sound of chewing could be heard from afar. By the time experts arrived, they only found a few drops of "Blood of Consciousness" in the night sky.

Of course, there are also opportunities in the Nine Heavens. There was once an Immortal Seed who unexpectedly found a golden flower bud drifting in the Night Fog Sea above the sky. Even by painstakingly plucking just three petals, his Taoist cultivation was drastically enhanced, breaking through the Fourth Realm Heavenly Gate.

Qin Ming dived beneath the clouds, unwilling to confront the rotting black-robed creature in the abyss-like sky.

The inexplicable "monster" followed him, piercing the pitch-black night as it swooped down.

Qin Ming's Newborn's Eye had recently improved dramatically. When he looked back, he saw clearly that the monster's face resembled a human face but was closer to a skeletal form, though it had flesh and blood, albeit overly white.

He felt that the eerie face was ten times whiter than Cui Chonghe's great-grandmother's corpse face, who had been buried for fifty years.

Qin Ming operated the Golden Crow Illuminating Night Scripture, penetrating the high altitude, and instantly swooped down to the ground, returning to his own body.

He abruptly opened his eyes beneath the twin trees, tightly grasped the Divine Measuring Ruler refined from Nine Lives Wood, and rose tall, preparing to battle the monster from the sky!

Clearly, the black-robed creature was no slower than him, already nearing low altitude, rushing straight at him.

Moreover, it emitted a chilling laugh. The sensation was quite unsettling, like the sound of metal plates from hell scraping together, causing goosebumps.

Suddenly, in the night sky, a Blood Kite appeared, gliding like a scarlet lightning flash, causing the creature to emit a piercing shriek as it shattered and then dissipated.

Qin Ming was entranced until he watched the Blood Kite drifting away in the wind and snow before he snapped back to reality.

At this moment, he was still entangled with a large amount of "Meteor Shower." He quickly sat down, beginning to absorb and refine with his body, cultivating here.

In the latter half of the night, Qin Ming suddenly opened his eyes, shooting out two divine lights. His Taoist cultivation advanced, ascending from the Two Realms of Spirit Field to the Third Realm.

His entire body's physique and Spiritual Field were full of vigor and vitality, becoming even stronger.

"It wasn't easy. It's been over forty days since the Western Territory war ended. Back then, I wasn't far from the Third Realm of Spirit Field, and after cultivating in seclusion for so long, I finally broke through."

Qin Ming was not complacent but rather thoughtful. If this trend continued, without the aid of external objects or Big Medicine, it would take him ten years to break through the Heavenly Gate to the Fourth Realm.

This was almost as he had estimated earlier. After all, even the Overlord took twenty years.

"Hmm, let me think again, how to speed up the process and ascend Above the Nine Heavens? But not to mention fierce gusts of wind, tribulation fire, etc., even the pitch-black firmament isn't clean; there are inexplicable creatures lurking."

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The next day, a grand bell rang out from Kunleng, startling all major organizations. Surprisingly, it was summoning the Ancestor Masters of Newborn Road, Esoteric Buddhism, and the Outer World!

No one knew what major event had occurred.