Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 650 - 350: One Person, Two Worlds, Three Confusions

In the desolate Kugu Ridge, sporadic wisps of smoke drifted about.

The battle had ended, but the lingering embers and heat seemed to take an unknown amount of time to completely dissipate.

Deep underground beneath the large pit, Lu Yu stood before the space rift connecting to the Netherworld.

He glanced around, dropped an Array Plate of the Little Forest Array to conceal the area, then summoned the power of annihilation within his right hand, covering his body surface.

A dim gray light enveloped Lu Yu's body, transforming him into a blurry gray silhouette, resembling a shadow in a patch of dim light.

The "cloak" formed by the power of annihilation did not touch Lu Yu's skin, yet he still felt a tingling sensation.

It was his body resisting the erosion from the power of annihilation.

Apart from Lu Yu's right hand, other parts of his body that contacted the power of annihilation would inevitably suffer erosion, with cells decaying and losing vitality.

However, his Pure Glazed Body of the Jade Skin Realm allowed Lu Yu to minimize non-direct contact erosion from the power of annihilation.

The tingling sensation was precisely his skin cells on the surface rapidly undergoing a process of—damage, repair, decay, division, consuming his Spiritual Qi every moment. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Compared to the consumption of Spiritual Power, Lu Yu feared encountering uncontrollable accidents upon entering the Netherworld more.

After preparing himself, he cautiously extended his hand into the space rift, feeling his fingers pass through a slightly cool curtain of water before losing all sensation.

No sudden hand appeared to drag him inside either.

After confirming there was no issue, Lu Yu stepped into the space rift leading to the Netherworld.

Within the space rift, Lu Yu felt no change; upon entering the Netherworld, he instantly felt as though he was drowning, unable to breathe normally, with cold pressure from all sides crushing his body.

At that moment, he felt as if his soul was about to leave his body.

Only by the soul leaving the body could one escape its constraints and "breathe" the air of the Netherworld.

Fortunately, before entering, Lu Yu had prudently covered his body surface with the power of death stillness; although feeling the "pressure," the "water" did not invade his body, hence not affecting him significantly.

Exiting the space rift, Lu Yu adjusted his mindset, acclimating to the suffocating sensation akin to drowning.

The primary cause for this sensation was the lack of Spiritual Qi in the Netherworld, where "death energy" was everywhere.

Although Lu Yu no longer relied on oxygen in the air to provide metabolic gases for his body, instead, he consumed Spiritual Qi to maintain his energy needs.

Thus, as long as there was Spiritual Qi, he could breathe it sufficiently.

Even in the void, there was sparse Spiritual Qi everywhere, unlike the Netherworld, where it was entirely absent.

In fact, death energy was also a form of Spiritual Qi, just the negative energy of Spiritual Qi.

If Spiritual Qi could bestow wisdom upon lifeless objects, then death energy would deprive all living things of vitality.

As there are beings that depend on Spiritual Qi to survive, naturally, there are also undead that rely on death energy to exist.

Undead inhabit worlds filled with death energy, like the Netherworld.

Feeling somewhat better, Lu Yu raised his head to observe this world.

The surroundings in sight, the Netherworld presented a scene of black and white, with little color, even the sunlight appeared grayish white, somewhat eerie in appearance.

Gray mist floated everywhere in the air, Lu Yu could not see far into the distance.

This seemed like a world of black and white mist.

Lu Yu glanced back, the space rift floated stably in mid-air, surrounded by what appeared to be withering black trees, with the space rift being inconspicuous within the forest.

If not viewed up close, one might mistakenly think it was a tree.

Lu Yu left a spiritual mark on a tree beside the space rift, stood there sensing for a while, realizing his Spiritual Power seemed unaffected by death energy, Lu Yu relaxed, turned, and proceeded in one direction.

After walking for a long time, Lu Yu hadn't seen anything moving within the forest, everything there was lifeless and stagnant.

Suddenly, amidst the mist in front, the edge of the forest appeared, moving forward, there were no more trees, turning into bare black land.

Lu Yu exited the woods, stepping onto the black soil plain.

After traveling a distance, he finally saw something moving—a bamboo-being, seven to eight meters tall, advancing through the mist.

He cautiously concealed his own living breath, drawing closer to the bamboo-being.

The Double Ring Snake Ring on his finger maximized the suppression of Lu Yu's aura, reducing his aura stronger than a typical Core Formation Realm level four to that of an ordinary person.

Plus, enveloped in the power of death stillness, he now resembled the living dead, just a moving "dead person."

Yet before Lu Yu could worry about being discovered by the bamboo-being, he inexplicably found the bamboo-being disappeared into the mist.

He quickly ran to where the bamboo-being had passed, resisting to leave its footprints, but the footprints abruptly stopped as they progressed.

Lu Yu continued onwards, but did not enter any aberrant space, as the bamboo-being had vanished inexplicably.

Unable to comprehend what was happening, Lu Yu could only set aside the matter, choosing a direction to continue his journey.

After Lu Yu left, the bamboo-being reappeared from the last set of footprints, having stood still there unnoticed by Lu Yu; when it moved again, it appeared in the "eyes" of people.