Cultivating To Immortality
Chapter 503: Crisis
Just after stepping into Hell, Fang Hong’s most intuitive feeling was that the concentration of Immortal Qi in the surroundings was much thicker than in the Human Realm, almost on par with the Heaven Realm.
Fang Hong sized up the surrounding environment and found himself currently positioned in the sky above a series of rolling mountains and forests.
Below were lush trees that carried a somewhat eerie aura.
In addition to the dense Immortal Qi, the air was also mixed with a faint, ghostly chill.
The overall environment of Hell was indeed quite different from the Heaven Realm and the Human Realm.
The sky presented a dark red color, and the clouds floating in the sky were also slightly reddish, as if they had been soaked in blood, looking exceptionally demonic.
Fang Hong didn’t pay too much attention to this; he had three main things to do during this trip to Hell.
First was to continue searching for innate dao artifacts.
Second was to head to the Vast Continent to investigate the secrets of Hell Valley.
Third was to find Little Rainbow, who had ascended long ago, and see how she was doing now.
Thinking of Little Rainbow, a trace of concern couldn’t help but rise in Fang Hong’s heart.
He immediately took out the Celestial Mechanism Disk and performed the Celestial Mirror Technique again, concentrating on deducing Little Rainbow’s specific location... Under the operation of the Celestial Mirror Technique, the light on the Celestial Mechanism Disk flickered continuously, and complex patterns gradually became clear.
Soon, a blurry place name appeared on the Celestial Mechanism Disk—Netherworld Continent.
Fang Hong was delighted to have finally found a trace of Little Rainbow, but immediately afterward, his expression became somewhat serious. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Because according to the information fed back by the Celestial Mirror Technique, Little Rainbow’s current situation was very bad, faintly revealing a sense of crisis!
It was as if she had encountered great danger and could lose her life at any moment!
The Netherworld Continent was the core continent of Hell, with an incomparably esteemed status.
It was the territory of the ruler of Hell, ’Nether Venerable,’ and the center of power and strength for the entire Hell.
As the supreme ruler of Hell, Nether Venerable was known as the strongest Heavenly Venerable in Hell, with unfathomable strength.
His status in Hell was just like Great Heavenly Venerate Luo Sheng’s status in the Heaven Realm, an existence standing at the very top.
"Could it be that Little Rainbow has been captured by Nether Venerable?" A bold guess couldn’t help but emerge in Fang Hong’s mind.
Little Rainbow was a rare Heavenly Auspicious Beast, born with the blessing of Dao Luck, turning bad Luck into good, and her life-saving abilities were extremely strong; ordinary Cultivators would find it very difficult to catch her.
Only a top-tier powerhouse like Nether Venerable would be capable of capturing her.
Fang Hong’s brows furrowed tightly, and after a moment of contemplation, he could only temporarily suppress the matter of Little Rainbow in the depths of his heart.
Although his current Divine Sense and physical body strength had reached the Early Stage Heavenly Venerable level, and he had also subdued two innate dao artifacts.
But compared to a peak powerhouse of Hell like Nether Venerable, there was still a significant gap.
If Little Rainbow really had been captured by Nether Venerable, his rushing to the Netherworld Continent now would not only fail to rescue Little Rainbow but would also land him in trouble.
The only way forward now was to improve his cultivation and strength as quickly as possible.
Once he had the strength to contend with Nether Venerable, he would go to the Netherworld Continent to meet that Lord of Hell and rescue Little Rainbow!
Suppressing the concern and anxiety in his heart, Fang Hong steadied his mind and continued to activate the Celestial Mirror Technique to deduce the locations of innate dao artifacts in Hell.
The light on the Celestial Mechanism Disk grew more and more brilliant, and as Fang Hong’s Immortal Qi was continuously injected, a macroscopic map of Hell was gradually outlined.
Similar to the layout of the Human Realm, Hell was also distributed with tens of thousands of large and small continents.
These continents were scattered all over the world, and the Netherworld Continent was located right at the center of the entire Hell.
Not only was its geographical location the most superior, but its area was also the largest among all the continents.
At a glance, it occupied a significant portion of the map.
Suddenly, two exceptionally eye-catching small points of light lit up on the Celestial Mechanism Disk in front of Fang Hong.
These two points of light actually represented that there were two innate dao artifacts existing within Hell.
The position of one of the points of light clearly showed it was in the core area of the Netherworld Continent.
One could guess without much thought that as the ruler of Hell, Nether Venerable must also be in possession of an innate dao artifact, which was only reasonable.
As for the other innate dao artifact, its location was rather strange.
The light point on the Celestial Mechanism Disk flickered unsteadily, and the direction it finally settled on was actually a certain continent at the southernmost tip of Hell?
"The continent at the southernmost tip of Hell?"
"Isn’t that the Vast Continent that Xia Wudi mentioned back then?" Fang Hong’s face instantly showed a look of surprise.
A thought flashed through Fang Hong’s mind like lightning: that mysterious Hell Valley Xia Wudi had mentioned before!
Could the unknown mysterious space connected within the valley have some kind of unknown connection with this innate dao artifact?
The whereabouts of the innate dao artifact and the mysterious place Xia Wudi spoke of actually overlapped perfectly in location; this was simply too much of a coincidence.
"No matter what, I’ll know the answer once I go take a look."
Filled with anticipation, Fang Hong’s figure flickered as he escaped into the void, fully mobilizing the Great Dao of Space to rush toward the direction of the Vast Continent at full speed. Hell was much larger than the Human Realm; even with Fang Hong flying at full speed, it took a full two months before he finally reached the territory of the Vast Continent.
The Vast Continent was located at the southernmost tip of Hell, and the concentration of Immortal Qi was much thinner than in other continents, only slightly better than the Human Realm.
Fang Hong arrived at a city and randomly grabbed an Immortal King Cultivator for a soul search to understand some local conditions.
After some inquiries, Fang Hong quickly figured out the general distribution of forces on the Vast Continent.
The strongest sect on this Vast Continent was named the "Vast Sect."
The Old Ancestor of the sect was a genuine Immortal Emperor level powerhouse.
It was precisely by relying on the deterrence of this Old Ancestor that the Vast Sect could firmly occupy the position of the continent’s number one sect.
And according to the positioning shown by the Celestial Mechanism Disk, the Hell Valley Xia Wudi had mentioned back then happened to be within the headquarters mountain gate of the Vast Sect.
Thus, Fang Hong headed directly for the Vast Sect; it was just an ant-like sect, not worth any apprehension at all.
In less than half an hour, Fang Hong had already arrived at the Vast Sect headquarters.
Fang Hong hovered high in the sky, his gaze sweeping over the entire mountain gate of the Vast Sect.
In just an instant, he locked onto the seclusion place of the Vast Sect’s Old Ancestor.
It was an Immortal Cave hidden deep in the back mountains of the sect.
Layers upon layers of restrictions were arranged around the Immortal Cave, obviously specially prepared by the Vast Sect’s Old Ancestor for his closed-door Cultivation.
And this Vast Sect Old Ancestor appeared to be an old man with white hair and beard, and his aura was merely at the Early Stage Immortal Emperor level.
What made Fang Hong even more certain was that this old man’s Immortal Cave was built exactly at the core location of Hell Valley.
Clearly, this old man must have discovered that there might be treasures hidden in Hell Valley, which was why he chose this place as his seclusion spot.