Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 704 - 372: The Mirror Mysterious Domain_2

From a distance, Lu Yu forcefully hurled the wooden board in his hand. The board shattered from his immense strength mid-air, and the scattered wood fragments became even more dangerous.

The splintered wood, like a storm of blossoms, shot towards the black oil slime, heavily pounding its body, causing it to dent severely.

Soon, the dented area smoothed out as the wooden fragments fell to the ground, causing no significant harm.

Rumble! The black oil slime rolled forward, and just as Lu Yu was about to charge, he noticed everyone behind him scattering. They intended to take advantage of his distraction of the black oil slime to enter the unnatural realm's node.

Lu Yu's heart sank, and he immediately stopped his advance. If no one wanted to cooperate, why should he confront the monster alone?

With a burst of alarming power beneath his feet, his body quickly retreated, increasing the distance between him and the monster.

Although the others couldn't unleash spiritual power to fly, when their spiritual power exploded, their movement speed and strength increased significantly, and they weren't slow now.

But no matter how fast they were, they couldn't outpace Lu Yu.

Bang~ The ground beneath Lu Yu's feet exploded, and his figure instantly vanished from the spot, leaving afterimages in the air.

Rumble! The black oil slime, having lost its target, rotated its body and charged at the nearest Martial Cultivator.

Noticing humans all around, it rapidly changed form, spreading its body out swiftly.

It was as if it exploded; the black oil slime's body suddenly expanded to cover thousands of meters, engulfing everyone within.

Owen was almost pulled in, the edge of the oil already brushing his heels.

Boom! Suddenly, a section burst open, and Lu Yu leaped out from it.

He was carrying a White Jade Skull on his shoulder, gripping it tightly as he waved it around, forcing back the black oil. Lu Yu walked towards the safe zone with ease.

Owen, standing outside, looked at Lu Yu with some frustration. He had a way to deal with the undead. Why hadn't he mentioned it sooner, before everyone else got killed?

It wasn't Lu Yu's fault; it was the path the others had chosen.

Among those ensnared by the black oil slime, only Lu Yu emerged alive.

The rest either transformed into undead, oozing black oil, or were strenuously struggling inside.

Unless Lu Yu went back to save them, no one could help them.

As for why the White Jade Skull had such power to repel the undead, Lu Yu didn't know.

He didn't need to know the reason, as long as it worked.

Stowing away the White Jade Skull, Lu Yu glanced around. Only he and Owen were left, and he said, "Let's go."

Owen didn't urge Lu Yu to save people, as he wasn't familiar with the others anyway. Knowing them didn't mean Owen had any ties with them. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

They were just names in Owen's intelligence notebook, now ready to be crossed off.

Lu Yu also felt fortunate for taking the White Jade Skull along; otherwise, it was uncertain he could have survived such dire circumstances.

After all, the black oil slime was immune to physical attacks.

In fact, looking at it another way, it was precisely because Lu Yu took the White Jade Skull that the black oil slime appeared.

Even if the black oil slime hadn't appeared, there were other dangers present; but with its appearance, those oddities receded or were devoured by it.

Now, the black oil slime was still digesting the other struggling individuals.

The place was devoid of other dangers, allowing Lu Yu and Owen to easily search for the nodes they needed.

"There's a node here," Owen called to Lu Yu, pointing to a makeup mirror in front of him.

Amidst the rubble, the intact makeup mirror stood out eerily.

Owen immediately recognized the mirror as a node; passing through it would lead to another supernatural realm.

"This is... the Mirror Domain?" Lu Yu approached and, after observing, said unsurely.

Owen nodded, replying, "Yes, pass through this node, and inside is the Mirror Domain. The flow of time in there is one day in nine months, a decent place for cultivation."

"The only danger is your own reflection, but once defeated, it'll disappear for a while, allowing peaceful cultivation during that time."

"The downside is, once entered, it's hard to exit. No one has found a node leading from the Mirror Domain to other realms."

"Once you're inside, you remain until Destiny Pavilion draws you back."

"Do you want to go in?" Owen asked Lu Yu.

Lu Yu shook his head, saying, "No, nine months for a day sounds good, but I have other matters to attend to."

"Alright, if you're not going in, I will," Owen said.

Lu Yu looked at him in surprise, asking, "You're not looking for a realm with a faster time acceleration?"

Owen shook his head, "No need, plus I have my own secrets."

With that, Owen walked towards the mirror, its surface parting like water to accommodate his body. Once fully inside, the surface returned to calm, reflecting only Lu Yu's image, appearing as an ordinary mirror.

Lu Yu turned to leave. As he did, the reflection of him in the mirror didn't turn but instead showed an eerie smile.

After searching for a while, Lu Yu was fortunate enough to find a node leading to the rendezvous point.

Zhou Hong had chosen the meeting point in the Stairs Domain.

Lu Yu entered a staircase leading to a basement, and as he descended, the world around him changed dramatically. The stairs beneath him widened to several hundred miles, extending into the distance to reveal more stair-like continents, each several hundred miles wide with a drop over a hundred meters.

Standing on the first layer of the Stairs Domain, the time flow here was five days in one. Descending further increased the time acceleration with each layer.

The deepest point's flow was ten days in one.

Of course, reaching the deepest point wasn't easy, with countless dangers along the way.

One might also encounter "traps" with astonishing time acceleration.

It's not always better with faster time acceleration; once it exceeds a certain ratio, irreversible phenomena of accelerated time passing occur.

Simply put, staying too long in a place with accelerated time might cause one's life span to continue dwindling even after returning to a normal time flow pace.

Time's accelerated passing differs from the world's quicker time passage.

The former was like Lu Yu's experience in the Time House; he spent half an hour inside, but his life span reduced by about a year.

The world's quicker time passage equates to staying in the Ruptured World for ten months and returning to the Divine Martial Realm to discover only a day has passed.

The two differ greatly, although both share something in common.

Both consume actual life span.

Spending ten months in the Ruptured World consumes ten months of life, and doesn't equate to merely consuming one day because it matched a day in the Divine Martial Realm.

Life span consumption is determined by the individual's own lifeline, not by the world's time passage.

A trap refers to the area of accelerated time passing.

There, one's life span is wasted without benefit.

Not everyone could do as Lu Yu did.

Communicating with the outside world, utilizing time acceleration to speed the refining of a Void Fire Sea, enhancing his prowess.

Using time acceleration to absorb spiritual qi hundreds of times faster, instantly absorbing and storing vast amounts of spiritual qi.

Others couldn't cultivate in a world of accelerated time.

Cultivation requires running a cultivation technique; in a normal state, running a cultivation technique in accelerated time translates to intermittent operation, disrupting proper cultivation.

Unless there's a cultivation technique specifically designed for time acceleration, facilitating training under such conditions.

Not far from where Lu Yu walked, he spotted Zhou Hong's figure, already surrounded by three individuals.

"Lu Yu, over here!" Zhou Hong called out when he saw Lu Yu from afar.