After traveling some distance further, suddenly, the Yuan Spirit Compass in Wan Old Man's hand shook, flashing a strange red light.
Seeing the red light, Wan Old Man's speed decreased by more than half, as did everyone else's. Because another wandering spatial rift had appeared ahead.
Along the way, they had encountered many spatial rifts, and each time the compass in Wan Old Man's hand would issue a warning. Whenever this happened, everyone would wait for a moment or take a detour.
Wandering spatial rifts appear and disappear very quickly. They basically disappear in one or two breaths. But this time seemed slightly different. The group waited for several breaths, but no spatial rift appeared within a few miles.
"Fellow Daoist Wan, could it be a mistake?" Jin Yu asked, looking around.
"It can't be wrong. This Yuan Spirit Compass of mine was refined at great cost. We encountered thirty or forty spatial rifts along the way, and they were all detected. This time, the compass's response is much stronger than before. There is indeed a spatial rift ahead, it just hasn't disappeared yet. Let's wait a little longer," Wan Old Man said with certainty, asking everyone to wait a little longer.
As long as the spatial rift ahead disappears, they can pass safely without having to take a detour.
Taking a detour in this area wouldn't necessarily be faster, and they might even encounter other spatial rifts. Naturally, everyone had nothing to say and could only wait a moment. They had experienced this stop-and-go situation many times, and waiting a little longer wouldn't hurt. Everyone was an old monster who had lived for hundreds of years, so they naturally had the patience.
The Xuan Tortoise thought the same way. At this moment, relying on his connection, he was still communicating with his main soul.
But since entering this area of gale winds, perhaps because of the presence of spatial rifts in this area, the connection with the main soul had weakened a lot.
At this moment, Zhang Ling was not far from their location, only two hundred miles behind.
Suddenly, a burst of booming sounds came from ahead. Everyone looked to the side and saw a dazzling white light suddenly light up in the gray wind layer thirty feet ahead.
The appearance of the white light was very abrupt, a sign of a spatial rift appearing, nothing surprising. But then, the white light instantly expanded to thirty or forty feet, forming a semi-circular giant halo. It was as if a crescent moon had appeared out of nowhere.
At the same time, the area around the white light turned into a vacuum, and the surrounding flying rocks, large and small, were lightly sliced into fragments when they hit it.
Seeing this scene, everyone's faces showed surprised expressions. Because this spatial rift was too large, the largest spatial rift they had encountered in over an hour. If this spatial rift was a stable spatial rift, they might even be able to enter it and travel to other places.
But this was a wandering spatial rift, which was extremely unstable.
In the blink of an eye, this huge spatial rift shook, and a strange black spot appeared in the original dazzling white light, instantly spreading out.
The black spots turned into spider silk-like lines, distributed in the spatial rift, just like a mirror shattering, cracking countless black cracks.
It was as if there were multiple dislocations in this white light, which looked extremely strange.
"Not good, leave this area quickly," Wan Old Man's expression changed drastically, and he ordered everyone to retreat to the other side quickly.
Without being reminded, everyone knew it was bad seeing this scene.
Along the way, the spatial rifts they encountered were no more than ten feet long, and some were only a few feet in size. Although they would appear suddenly, they would also be quickly repaired by the surrounding space.
Wandering spatial rifts are actually constantly appearing and constantly being repaired.
But such a large spatial rift suddenly shattered, and the surrounding space would become more unstable. It might even cause the space to collapse in a small area, trapping everyone in it. This was extremely dangerous. The unstable space nearby would also cause more spatial rifts to appear.
Silently, everyone had just flown more than ten feet to the other side.
The large spatial rift had completely shattered, forming white lights like crescent moons, like white fish flying randomly in the air.
The surrounding space also seemed illusory, rippling with strange ripples. Then, more white lights lit up in the ripples. In an instant, twenty or thirty spatial rifts appeared above, below, left, right, front, and back.
A spatial rift several feet long happened to划过 pass in front of them, only half a foot away from Wan Old Man, who was flying in the front, scaring the old man to stop his escape light.
Wan Old Man's forehead was covered with a lot of cold sweat. If he had been any faster, his entire body would have been cut in two. Everyone had to stop their escape light, and their faces became gloomy.
Looking at the increasing number of spatial rifts around them, they were trapped.
The newly appeared spatial rifts were even more strange. Some were extremely narrow, some were bent into semicircles like arcs, and some were like messy lines crisscrossing.
So many spatial rifts instantly filled the surrounding area of several miles. If they were in other areas, everyone's escape light could leave this area in the blink of an eye.
But now that everyone was in this area, no matter how fast their escape speed was, it was useless.
"What bad luck, we're trapped. If we don't get out of this area, we'll all be in danger. We're too big of a target gathered together, it's not easy to pass through these spatial rifts. We should disperse and leave, and get out of this area first," Long E, the strongest among them, said quickly, his face extremely ugly, glancing around.
As he spoke, an astonishing black spiritual power rose from his body, turning into a black ball of light, and looked at the left side.
There were two spatial rifts more than ten feet away, twisting strangely, but there was still a foot-wide space in the center of the two spatial rifts. This demon seemed to be planning to pass through the center of the two spatial rifts on the left.
With a flash of black light, Long E's figure instantly shrank by more than half, turning into a crocodile only half a foot long. But before this demon could act, a powerful suction force came from one direction.
It turned out that after the large spatial rift completely shattered, a not-completely-shattered black hole appeared in the original position.
The others naturally noticed the situation there. With the appearance of the black hole, the space there began to collapse.
Xuan Tortoise's face was also ugly when he saw this phenomenon. He didn't expect their luck to be so bad, they actually encountered a spatial collapse.
He didn't hesitate either, and opened his mouth to spray out a cloud of cold mist to wrap himself in it. At the same time, a layer of faint silver light appeared on the surface of his body. Covered with two layers of body protection shields, his figure also began to shrink like Long E.
Behind him, three spatial rifts were intertwined, moving towards his position. Several spatial rifts also appeared in the sky above.
As long as there were gaps under his feet and on the other side, shrinking his body would increase the probability of passing safely.
The others naturally didn't dare to be negligent, and they all used their methods, guarding themselves while scanning the surroundings, looking for gaps between the spatial rifts.
These gaps were their hope of escaping this area.
In theory, the probability of a small-scale collapse caused by a large spatial rift was extremely small, but it was indeed happening before their eyes.
In just two or three breaths, more spatial rifts appeared around, like a strange spider web, about to cover everyone in it.
"Fellow Daoists, the situation is critical, quickly gather towards me. The Yuan Spirit Compass in my hand is inlaid with a low-grade Space Spirit Stone, which I have specially refined, and can activate a short-distance teleportation once. It can just help us escape this area."
At this moment, Wan Old Man's voice came to their ears. The compass in his hand was thrown into the air, turning into a black and white light ball, rotating rapidly.
Wan Old Man sprayed out a stream of clear air into it. The gray gem on the compass burst open all at once, turning into dense gray runes.
As these runes flashed, they turned into colorful spiritual light, covering the two-foot distance beside Wan Old Man.
Xuan Tortoise glanced towards that side in the midst of his busy schedule, his eyes lit up, and without hesitation, he approached Wan Old Man, and after passing a spatial rift, he entered the spiritual light.
Because the spiritual light that this old man created also erupted with spatial fluctuations, and it was quite stable. Unlike the chaotic spatial fluctuations when spatial rifts appeared around.
This proved that this layer of spiritual light, like a teleportation array, had a stable teleportation function.
The others were all knowledgeable and instantly understood the function of the spiritual light shot out by Wan Old Man's compass. Since there was a more stable method, everyone did not hesitate and fell into it.
Then, this colorful spiritual light flashed, taking everyone and disappearing in place.
After everyone left, the area within a few miles even more crisscrossed with hundreds of black lines, densely dividing it into hundreds of spatial rifts.
The collapsing black hole in the middle even burst out with a terrifying suction force, and the surrounding rubble clouds and wind masses in a large area were all swept into it.
Whistling sounds, ear-piercing explosion sounds and other strange sounds echoed in this area.
It wasn't until half a cup of tea time later that the spatial rifts in this area gradually disappeared, and were re-covered by gusts of strong wind. It returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.
Another quarter of an hour passed before Zhang Ling approached this area.
He paused here, changed direction, and flew to the right. He naturally knew what had happened in this area through the induction with the second Yuan Spirit.
With the help of the compass in Wan Old Man's hand, Xuan Tortoise and the others had now left the gale wind area and seemed to have entered the Heavenly Palace.
Xuan Tortoise was now very far from his position, and their senses had weakened a lot. At least six or seven thousand miles away.
He also had to quickly pass through this gale wind layer and couldn't be too far away from Xuan Tortoise. After all, there were still many dangers in the Heavenly Palace. Following behind them could avoid many risks.
Secondly, if he was too far away, he would be powerless if something happened to Xuan Tortoise.
Zhang Ling controlled his flying speed and avoided risks with the Space-Responding Spirit Bell. After more than half an hour, he finally passed through the gale wind layer and entered the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm.
At this moment, he stood in mid-air looking at the surrounding environment, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
The surroundings were empty and barren, without any wind, and there wasn't a trace of cloud or mist in the sky.
He could see a golden sun hanging in the sky, and at the same time, he could see a round cyan moon on the other side. That area was in the dark of night, and countless stars were twinkling. It was a scene of stars in broad daylight.
The surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy was also quite abundant, and occasionally he could see various colors of spiritual light manifested in the air. But this scene seemed to be in a static space. The flow was very slow.
Except for the rapidly flowing gray wind wall a hundred feet away behind him, he had just穿进来的 come through the wind wall behind him. This was the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm.
Looking as far as he could see, he could see many strange islands floating not far away. It wasn't accurate to call them islands, they could only be considered huge blocks of stone.
The area that seemed to be static now was the outermost area. Zhang Ling shook his body and drove his escape light towards the distance.
At the same time, he sensed Xuan Tortoise's position. After passing through the gale wind zone, his sense with Xuan Tortoise did become much stronger. After a while, according to the information Xuan Tortoise sent back, he was indeed a bit far away from his current location.
Moreover, Xuan Tortoise's team was separated, which surprised Zhang Ling a bit. Then he knew the reason. It turned out that Wan Old Man had activated the compass, although it teleported them out of the dangerous area. But after all, the compass was not a real teleportation array, and the teleportation location was not fixed, it was scattered.
However, according to the sense, the distance that the few people were separated was not far. If nothing unexpected happened, they would be able to reunite in a few hours.
Knowing the situation on Xuan Tortoise's side, Zhang Ling smiled bitterly. This was a bit troublesome. It would take him two more hours to fly there at full speed.
What's more, in the Heavenly Palace, he couldn't fly at full speed, because there were still spatial rifts in this area. It was just that compared to the gale wind layer he had just passed through, there were much fewer wandering spatial rifts.
Just now, after flying hundreds of feet and passing through a few giant stones, the Space-Responding Spirit Bell around his waist rang again. Zhang Ling glanced over and found a white spatial rift appearing on the right front.
He could only reduce his escape light a lot, constantly paying attention to the surroundings, and cautiously moving forward. Fortunately, his divine sense was no longer affected and could be fully released to explore the hundred-mile area.
Along the way, Zhang Ling also took out a white jade slip, and his divine sense invaded it, checking the information inside.
This jade slip recorded some of the situations inside the Heavenly Palace that he had collected in recent years. It was organized into a simple map.
The Heavenly Palace Secret Realm is more mysterious than the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm. Very little information about it has been circulated. After all, basically only Nascent Soul cultivators can enter here.
So the information inside can only be collected and organized by oneself.
