I Have 10 Equipment Slots
Chapter 306 - 184: Forced Body Search
’If they hadn’t discovered this ability, how did anyone find out that the Nine Heavens Shadow Realm has nine regions in the first place?’
’It couldn’t have just been made up out of thin air!’
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Although he now knew a new way to switch regions, Gu Zheng didn’t try it right away.
He chatted a bit more with Mu Yunfeng, Yang Sanyue, and Sang Qianying, mainly about the situation in the Floating Island region.
He found that they didn’t know much either, as they had been attacked by Harpies not long after arriving.
Their range of activity had been limited, so they couldn’t provide any useful information.
But there was one thing all seven of them agreed on.
This place was very dangerous!
The danger didn’t come from the Harpies, but from an invisible, potential threat that constantly emanated from all directions.
It was as if a powerful, hidden enemy was constantly spying on them from the shadows.
Sang Qianying was the first to feel it, and then, after deeply probing their surroundings, everyone else discovered it as well.
After hearing this, Gu Zheng tried to sense it.
He didn’t detect any invisible spying...
Although he couldn’t perceive it, he didn’t let his guard down.
Gu Zheng had experienced unseen spying before.
In the ice and snow region, he had discovered the snowdrifts that had come to life. Under the sweep of his Red Abyss Sword, they had turned into Snow Beasts and fled.
Apparently, this Floating Island region had a similar presence.
’What could it be?’
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After some idle chat, Gu Zheng bid farewell to Mu Yunfeng, Yang Sanyue, and Sang Qianying and continued to drift about.
Compared to locking onto a region with his Divine Seed and then jumping into it, Gu Zheng preferred to switch regions by killing.
After entering the Nine Heavens Shadow Realm, the total number of Demon Points he had earned from slaying Demon Fiends and Ancient Demons had already exceeded 120,000!
He was suddenly more than halfway to the two hundred thousand Demon Points needed for a breakthrough to the King’s Body.
Gu Zheng decided to accumulate the full 200,000 before leaving the Nine Heavens Shadow Realm.
He also had a Void Divine Stone on hand.
With the two combined, advancing to the King’s Body Realm was just around the corner!
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To accumulate 200,000 Demon Points, he naturally needed Demon Fiends.
However, the Floating Island Domain was strangely quiet.
Aside from the Harpies he had killed while rescuing Mu Yunfeng, Yang Sanyue, Qing Yichan, and the others, Gu Zheng drifted for two full days without encountering a single Demon Fiend, let alone an Ancient Demon.
As for the unseen spying Sang Qianying had mentioned, he finally detected it on the second day.
It wasn’t that Gu Zheng discovered it through deep perception; rather, "the other party" revealed itself and began following him.
No matter where Gu Zheng went, it trailed behind him.
Gu Zheng searched high and low, but he couldn’t pinpoint its location or figure out what it was.
He hadn’t found any Demon Fiends, but the unseen presence was getting closer.
Gu Zheng gave up his search.
He focused his mind, activated his four Divine Seeds, and merged with the world.
Upon merging, he could indeed sense that the surrounding world was divided into nine large sections.
Each section gave him a completely different feeling.
A world of ice and snow, a vast mountain forest, an endless desert...
He confirmed the regions one by one, and finally, Gu Zheng chose a region that felt desolate and empty, beginning to lock onto it.
This so-called lock-on involved using his Divine Seed to resonate with the space of the target region. As long as their frequencies matched, he could achieve a cross-regional transfer.
Gu Zheng had all four of his Divine Seeds resonate at once.
Two of them quickly achieved resonance.
SWISH!
His vision changed, and space shifted.
Gu Zheng’s vision blurred. He had left the Floating Island region and entered a vacuum.
To be precise, it was outer space!
He had actually arrived in the middle of space!
Empty, dark, and vast.
Within his field of view, only the semi-circular silhouettes of two worlds to his front right glowed faintly, casting a dim light in the dead silence of space. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
The eighth region of the Nine Heavens Shadow Realm was actually outer space!
As expected, the two semi-circular world silhouettes were the Great Zhou World and the Demon Realm!
These two worlds were not planets, but planes with a round heaven and a square earth.
As for other stars, there wasn’t a single one in sight.
Starlight and the like were completely non-existent.
There was no sun, either.
Gu Zheng gazed at them for a few moments from an unknown distance.
Along the edges of the Great Zhou World and the Demon Realm, hundreds, even thousands, of threads now connected them.
These threads were undoubtedly the Tunnels Between Two Realms!
Standing in space and looking out at the two worlds was a rare experience.
After taking it in, Gu Zheng immersed his consciousness in his Divine Seed and decisively left.
There were no Demon Fiends for him to kill in this empty space.
’Eight regions, I’ve transferred through them one by one.’
’Only the last one remains!’
However, as Gu Zheng sensed the ninth region with his Divine Seed and tried to lock onto it, a sudden palpitation arose from the depths of his heart.
Danger!
Extreme danger!
’The ninth region is extremely dangerous!?’
Gu Zheng’s brows shot up.
After some thought, he decided to give up and not take the risk.
He switched the region targeted by his Divine Seed to the ice and snow region.
The next moment...
SWISH!
His figure flickered and vanished from the silent expanse of space.
Just after Gu Zheng left, in a dark area not far behind where he had been standing, a dark red, vertical pupil the size of a star abruptly opened...
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WHOOSH! WHOOSH~
「The Ice and Snow Region.」
The sky was still filled with fluttering snowflakes, falling without end.
SWISH~ SWISH!
Gu Zheng wielded his Red Abyss Blade. Divine Wondrous energy surged as he unleashed wave after wave of scorching Sword Gang, melting the thick snowdrifts.
He had returned to the ice and snow region, naturally, to pick a few more Celestial Gate Snow Lotuses.
The Celestial Gate Snow Lotuses grew in the snowdrifts. With the snow being so thick, how could he find them without melting it and making them run?
Sure enough, after the Red Abyss Blade had unleashed twenty waves of Sword Gang, the previously still snowdrifts abruptly "came to life," turning into Snow Beasts and fleeing into the distance.