The section for innate abilities slowly blurred and disappeared, then quickly displayed new text.
’Super Healing: Your individual can recover from injuries at an extremely fast speed.’
This ability...
Zhang Rongfang slightly frowned.
He already had the complete form of the Blood Ancestor, recovering at a speed where, as long as there was Essence Qi in the world, he could reshape his body.
In such a state, this ability was evidently redundant.
His gaze fell on this ability.
A flood of detailed information poured into his mind.
This super healing seemed to be one of a series of innate abilities.
"No, if I enter Taoyuan, without the Essence Qi of heaven and earth supplementing me, this ability would indeed be very useful."
He carefully experienced the new innate ability.
Zhang Rongfang reached out and made a cut on his arm.
Immediately, a bloody cut appeared.
But quickly, the cut healed almost in the blink of an eye. It did not consume any vital blood.
"It’s a pity, this time the talent cannot directly enhance overall strength, just adds a life-saving ability."
He felt a bit regretful, but the attribute points added to his health also strengthened his complete form of the Blood Ancestor.
Thinking of this, Zhang Rongfang cleared his thoughts, closed his eyes, and prepared to call White Scales, to enter the Void, and then transfer into Taoyuan.
There are many hidden pathways into Taoyuan on the earth, but the safest is through White Scales.
Just as he was preparing to remotely summon through the blood lotus on his back.
Suddenly, an intuitive warning began to flash.
’Intuitive Warning: Your spiritual essence has undergone a qualitative change, entering Taoyuan may trigger unknown phenomena.’
"??"
Zhang Rongfang was taken aback.
He had just been there before, why would entering now turn into this?
He carefully checked all his attributes one by one.
His expression turned slightly grave.
The biggest difference between the previous entry and now was this new ability he acquired.
In the attribute bar, the newly obtained super healing ability was shining with a subtle black-purple light.
His gaze fell on it, and three different branching paths suddenly extended from the back.
The tips of these branches were all gray, dim and unlit.
And the three branches, from top to bottom, were:
First—Ultimate Biological Essence.
Second—Ancient Fierce Beast Nine Infants.
Third—World Serpent Jörmungandr.
From the top down, the success rate and compatibility were marked.
The topmost was the simplest, with the highest compatibility, followed by Nine Infants, and then Jörmungandr.
’This is the same starting ability as the Blood Ancestor back then...’ Zhang Rongfang looked at these three branches, his spirit uplifted.
Except for the first unknown one, the other two were extremely formidable existences, mythical monsters that could devour the heavens and the earth.
He looked at these three branches, the path of Jörmungandr was indeed tempting, but the dense combinations of abilities made him a bit dizzy.
At least three-digit various abilities, if he were to slowly combine them, he didn’t know how much time it would waste.
The first ultimate biological essence, on the contrary, had many innate abilities overlapping with the Blood Ancestor.
For instance, ironclad skin, innate great strength.
Afterward, he only needed to acquire a dozen more innate abilities to successfully combine into a new lineage.
’For now, I won’t choose.’
Closing the attribute bar, Zhang Rongfang pondered for a moment.
’White Scales?’
He softly called in his mind.
"Here, here! Going into Taoyuan again, right? You better be careful, lately, the Moon God has been roaming around in Taoyuan, searching for who knows what. It’d be trouble if you run into him," White Scales cautioned.
"It’s alright. I’m just going in to test," Zhang Rongfang solemnly replied.
The space in Taoyuan wasn’t small, and he wanted to test whether entering from White Scales would be detected by the Moon God anytime, anywhere.
This concerned his future plans and arrangements.
’Alright, just be cautious, if something seems off, retreat immediately,’ White Scales advised, now tied closely with Zhang Rongfang.
If something happened to Zhang Rongfang, having betrayed so many Divines and Buddhas, she would certainly face dire consequences.
’Open it.’
Zhang Rongfang nodded slightly.
As soon as he spoke.
A grayish-white, circular portal slowly opened in front of him.
Inside the portal, countless white mist swirled into a vortex.
Zhang Rongfang stepped forward and entered the mist.
Passing through a colorful rotating tunnel, he suddenly appeared high above the White Scales Void.
Below, White Scales looked up at him, nodding and pointing with a wave.
Immediately beneath Zhang Rongfang appeared another gray-white archway.
Swish!
He plummeted straight down, right into the archway.
The vision instantly turned dark.
The surroundings quickly transformed into gray and black, with white mist slowly drifting in the abyss.
This was already Taoyuan.
Zhang Rongfang stood outside the Gate of the Void by White Scales, glanced around, and his figure unfolded, rushing out to the left through the passage.
This time seemed completely different from the previous times.
As he dashed off the White Scales Platform, his body began to emit a faint, transparent glow.
Within this glow, an unknown, mysterious sound seemed to gradually rise.
It was like many people praying and chanting.
Zhang Rongfang frowned, looking at his attribute bar, but there were no hints.
At this moment, the radiance surrounding him gradually dissipated, as if it had never existed in the first place.
After a careful inspection, he found no issues whatsoever.
Zhang Rongfang suppressed his doubts and began to examine the surroundings.
’It seems that the Moon God cannot constantly monitor my movements. In that case... I might as well explore upwards a bit.’
He spread his bat wings and soared into the air, swiftly climbing along the rock wall.
The current platform of White Scale is already on the seventh level; coming out, he only needs to rush up one more level to once again enter the Spirit Flying Heaven and the Moon God’s sixth level.
With constant acceleration, Zhang Rongfang repeatedly pierced through invisible barriers.
The surrounding Taoyuan scenery slowly transformed from dilapidated, mundane small platforms to more extensively constructed and ornately decorated Divine Buddha Passages.
Soon, the fifth-layer barrier abruptly halted, sharply reducing Zhang Rongfang’s speed.
He slowed down and looked around.
On both sides, the Taiyuan Rock Wall extended to the edges of his vision.
Along them, sparsely settled, lay several massive, exquisitely crafted Divine Buddha Platforms that appeared like small towns.
After a while, Zhang Rongfang caught sight of a faint purple light flickering continuously through the distant fog.
Aside from that, there were no other movements.
’The Moon God is indeed absent,’ he speculated in his mind but did not linger; he continued upwards, flapping his wings and rushing forward.
To avoid automatically leaving Taoyuan, he would touch the rock wall at regular intervals.
Flying upward, a sudden blurring distortion appeared ahead; countless gray-white fog condensed into a vast white wall, firmly blocking his path to ascend further.
Gradually halting, Zhang Rongfang’s bloodwater transformed into tendrils clinging onto the rock wall as he gazed upwards at the nebulous fog.
He reached out his hand, gently touching the wall formed of condensed white vapor. It felt cool and firm to the touch, resembling the smooth scales of some animal.
’I should try and see if I can continue to break through now!’
His current strength had already reached its peak state at this moment.
Without hesitation.
He suddenly charged upwards.
Breaking through the fog, he felt a sudden lack of sense of direction.
Swish!
The fog dispersed, and his vision unexpectedly brightened, Zhang Rongfang suddenly felt as if he were entering some extremely viscous gel.
His every move became quite difficult.
The view ahead was still the dreary void of the Taiyuan Rock Wall; Zhang Rongfang continued to rush upwards, and the fog gradually faded and disappeared.
Eventually, after a sudden clearing of his vision again, layers upon layers of colorful architectural passages lay on both sides of the Taiyuan rock walls.
Yet these architectural passages appeared quite dilapidated, seeming completely uninhabited.
Hindered by the adhesive quality of the air, Zhang Rongfang’s speed greatly reduced, yet he managed to lightly land on the nearest Divine Buddha Platform.
On the exterior of the platform, at the passage entrance on the right, the wall bore an inscription.
’Neuroscience Interface Platform, District 146.’
The inscription was in lock script, immediately understandable to Zhang Rongfang.
But....
’Neuroscience Interface Platform?’ This architecture, clearly intended as a Divine Buddha Platform, bore such a name.
He paused briefly in silence; the name reminded him of the imagery of certain institutes from his past life.
Glancing at the ground’s chaotic deep scratches, it was evident some special entity had departed from here.
Advancing, he walked step by step into this passage platform.
The passage walls on the ground displayed various deep scratches.
Soon, traversing the dark passage, he arrived at the supposed location of the Gate of the Void, contemplating this door.
Fine, well-ordered letters were carved on the door.
’Interface Zone Switching.’
He stretched out his hand and gently pushed.
The Gate of the Void was effortlessly pushed open, revealing a dimly lit, expansive hall inside.
Within the hall wasn’t a self-contained realm of Divine Buddha Void but an enormous tree, over ten meters tall, composed of countless conduit and circuit lines.
The surroundings of the great tree were in disarray, with furnishings and paper documents strewn everywhere.
Several remarkably white corpses lay scattered on the ground.
They wore peculiar gray uniform robes.
Zhang Rongfang stepped closer, squatting beside one of the corpses, gently turning it over.
The face of the corpse bore a single eye, seemingly not human.
Its hand still firmly gripped a gray-white document.
Zhang Rongfang picked up the document and gently opened it.
’The light is becoming increasingly intense; we are compelled to take evasion measures by entering the Taoyuan. Yet, the light continues to inflict considerable damage on our bodies.’
’.....Time has passed briefly, yet contact across major gathering zones has begun to be extensively weakened.’
’Research into the separation of spiritual consciousness from the body has entered its final stage. Some have named entities within ancient mythologies as gods. This marks the beginning of a new era, indeed.’
Zhang Rongfang felt a chill in his heart; from the start, he had suspected these Spiritual Line gods were, in fact, a parasitic technological life form.
And now, this document genuinely evidenced this point.
’Emperor En severed ties with other external gathering zones, aiming to become the sole god!’
’He failed....’
Zhang Rongfang closed the final page; although the contents of this booklet were sparse, the implications perfectly corroborated his previous suspicions regarding the gods.
Cautiously, he circled the hall, unable to find any conscious entities present.
Then, he departed from this passage and proceeded to other passage platforms.
The Gate of the Void within the passageways was mostly similar, serving as connectors to other gathering hubs.
Yet all had already been rendered thoroughly ineffective.
The obstacles on the fourth level were quite substantial; even for Zhang Rongfang, simple movement and search could only exhibit a fraction of its original speed.
Just as his disappointment deepened, within the last platform passage, inside the void hall.
A circular arched black vortex door stood slowly before Zhang Rongfang.
Along the edges of the black vortex door, indistinct silver Spiritual Lines appeared and disappeared, seemingly existing for an unknown duration.
They flickered like dimming lightbulbs, about to lose functionality.
Fortunately, before this vortex door ceased to exist, Zhang Rongfang discovered here.