lín xuān méi yǒu zài fù jìn duō zuò tíng liú ， suǒ huà jīng hóng fēng chí diàn chè ， zhí jiē fēi xiàng le yuǎn chù 。
林轩没有在附近多做停留，所化惊虹风驰电掣，直接飞向了远处。
Lin Xuan did not linger in the vicinity. The transformed shocking rainbow zipped through the air like lightning, directly heading towards a distant location.
bì jìng zhè fù jìn yǒu shén me ， zhè bàn nián lái tā suī rán méi yǒu wài chū ， dàn zǎo yǐ yòng shén shí chá tàn qīng chǔ 。
毕竟这附近有什么，这半年来他虽然没有外出，但早已用神识查探清楚。
After all, he had already used his divine sense to investigate this area over the past half year, even though he hadn't ventured out during that time.
huán jìng hái suàn shàng kě ， dàn què shì rén jì hǎn zhì zhī chù ， bié shuō fán rén yǔ xiū xiān zhě ， lián yāo shòu dōu méi yǒu jiàn dào yī tóu de 。
环境还算尚可，但却是人迹罕至之处，别说凡人与修仙者，连妖兽都没有见到一头的。
The environment was still acceptable, but it was sparsely populated. He didn’t see any humans or cultivators, let alone any beasts.
zhè ér hái shì nài lóng jiè me ？
这儿还是鼐龙界么？
Was this still the Realm of Nailed Dragons?
lín xuān bù xiǎo de 。
林轩不晓得。
Lin Xuan had no idea. After all, he knew very well how powerful the spatial storm's effects were; he might have been transported to a completely different place.
bì jìng kōng jiān fēng bào de wēi lì tā hěn qīng chǔ ， zì jǐ yǐ jí yǒu kě néng bèi juǎn xiàng le bié chù 。
毕竟空间风暴的威力他很清楚，自己已极有可能被卷像了别处。
Thus, his immediate concern was figuring out where exactly he was. With no information or clues at hand, he didn’t need to worry about which direction to head in. He simply chose one and flew while releasing his divine sense, hoping to find something useful.
suǒ yǐ dāng wù zhī jí ， shì nòng qīng chǔ zì jǐ shēn zài hé dì 。
所以当务之急，是弄清楚自己身在何地。
However, things did not go as planned; a day passed with nothing to show for it. Two days later, the surroundings remained unremarkable.
rú jīn méi yǒu fēn háo xiāo xī yǔ xiàn suǒ ， suǒ yǐ dào yě bù yòng jiū jié gāi cháo nǎ ge fāng xiàng gǎn lù ， lín xuān suí yì xuǎn le yí gè ， yī biān fēi yī biān jiāng shén shí fàng chū ， xī wàng néng fā xiàn yǒu yòng de xiàn suǒ 。
如今没有分毫消息与线索，所以倒也不用纠结该朝哪个方向赶路，林轩随意选了一个，一边飞一边将神识放出，希望能发现有用的线索。
Lin Xuan’s expression was not particularly grim, but he felt some confusion and frustration.
rán ér shì yǔ yuàn wéi ， yī tiān guò qù le ， fēn háo yě wú shōu huò 。
然而事与愿违，一天过去了，分毫也无收获。
Could I have chosen the wrong direction?
liǎng tiān guò qù le ， sì zhōu yī jiù shì píng píng dàn dàn de 。
两天过去了，四周依旧是平平淡淡的。
More puzzling was how vast this plain seemed to be. Lin Xuan had fully recovered from his injuries; his speed of travel far exceeded a thousand miles per instant. Over two days without rest, he had been steadily moving forward. While it was hard to gauge exactly how far he had traveled, several million miles were certainly within the realm of possibility.
lín xuān de biǎo qíng tán bù shàng nán kàn dào jí chù ， dàn yě yǒu xiē jiū jié yǔ wú yǔ 。
林轩的表情谈不上难看到极处，但也有些纠结与无语。
Such vastness made sense if there were no signs of habitation, but the lack of any beasts at all was perplexing.
nán bù chéng zì jǐ jiāng fāng xiàng xuǎn cuò ？
难不成自己将方向选错？
Lin Xuan pondered this as his speed remained unchanged. Another two days passed with no discoveries.
dāng rán ， gèng lìng tā yí huò de shì ， qū qū yí gè cǎo yuán ， miàn jī zěn me huì dà dào rú cǐ lí pǔ 。
当然，更令他疑惑的是，区区一个草原，面积怎么会大到如此离谱。
Suddenly, without any warning, Lin Xuan’s transformed light stopped.
yào xiǎo de ， lín xuān rú jīn shāng shì yǐ jīng quán yù ， tā de dùn guāng sù dù ， hé zhǐ shì shùn xī qiān lǐ ， liǎng tiān de shí jiān ， shuō duǎn bù duǎn ， lín xuān méi yǒu xiū xī ， yì zhí zài bù jǐn bù màn de gǎn lù ， jù tǐ fēi le duō yuǎn bù hǎo shuō ， dàn jǐ bǎi wàn lǐ ， nà shì yí dìng yǒu de 。
要晓得，林轩如今伤势已经痊愈，他的遁光速度，何止是瞬息千里，两天的时间，说短不短，林轩没有休息，一直在不紧不慢的赶路，具体飞了多远不好说，但几百万里，那是一定有的。
He had finally flown out of the plain and was met with a vast desert stretching before him.
zhè me dà de miàn jī ， jiàn bú dào rén yān hái hǎo shuō ， dàn lián yāo shòu dōu méi yǒu yí gè ， zhè jiù yǒu xiē nán yǐ suǒ jiě le 。
这么大的面积，见不到人烟还好说，但连妖兽都没有一个，这就有些难以索解了。
However, the desert wasn’t large; it spanned only about ten thousand miles in both directions. Behind this desert lay an obscure forest that could be faintly seen through the haze.
lín xuān xīn zhōng sī suǒ ， dàn dùn guāng de sù dù què fēn háo bù màn ， jiù zhè yàng yòu guò le liǎng tiān 。
林轩心中思索，但遁光的速度却分毫不慢，就这样又过了两天。
Lin Xuan paused, not because he had reached the end of the plain but because he had made another discovery. That forest seemed strange!
yī jiù méi yǒu shén me fā xiàn 。
依旧没有什么发现。
Although there was still some distance between them, Lin Xuan’s divine sense had already detected something unusual.
tū rán ， fēn háo zhēng zhào yě wú ， lín xuān de dùn guāng ， jiù zhè me tíng xià lái le 。
突然，分毫征兆也无，林轩的遁光，就这么停下来了。
For a moment, Lin Xuan felt somewhat disoriented, but soon his hesitation gave way to determination.
tā zhōng yú fēi chū le cǎo yuán 。 yī piàn huāng mò yìng rù yǎn lián 。
他终于飞出了草原。一片荒漠映入眼帘。
He emitted a faint green glow and flew towards the dark forest.
rán ér nà huāng mò bìng bù dà 。 zòng héng bù guò wàn yú lǐ 。
然而那荒漠并不大。纵横不过万余里。
Though separated by a desert, ten thousand miles were nothing to him. Soon enough, he arrived at the edge of the forest, where his expression grew more serious.
zài huāng mò hòu miàn ， què shì yī piàn yǒu hēi de sēn lín ruò yǐn ruò xiàn 。
在荒漠后面，却是一片黝黑的森林若隐若现。
Lin Xuan had seen many things in his travels, but the celestial energies within this forest were something entirely new to him. The energies of spirit and demon intertwined, no… there was even a third presence, what he suspected to be yin energy from the Underworld.
lín xuān tíng xià lái ， dāng rán bú shì yīn wèi zhōng yú fēi dào le cǎo yuán de jìn tóu 。 ér shì tā lìng yǒu fā xiàn 。
林轩停下来，当然不是因为终于飞到了草原的尽头。而是他另有发现。
Yin energy!
nà sēn lín yǒu xiē guǐ yì ！
那森林有些诡异！
Indeed, the celestial energies here contained both spirit and demon energies, with yin energy mixed in as well, all entwined together.
suī rán jù zhè lǐ hái yǒu yí dìng de jù lí ， dàn lín xuān de shén shí hé děng liǎo de ， yǐ fā xiàn le yī xiē bù tóng xún cháng zhī chù 。
虽然距这里还有一定的距离，但林轩的神识何等了得，已发现了一些不同寻常之处。
How could this be?
yī shí jiān 。 lín xuān de shén qíng yě yǒu xiē huǎng hū ， dàn hěn kuài ， nà sī chí yí jiù bèi jiān dìng suǒ dài tì 。
一时间。林轩的神情也有些恍惚，但很快，那丝迟疑就被坚定所代替。
Lin Xuan was left bewildered. It was known that the Spirit Realm primarily consisted of spirit energy, while the Ancient Demon World was filled with demon energy. As for the mysterious YinOffice of Land Governance, it was no surprise that yin energy would be abundant there.
hún shēn qīng máng yì qǐ ， xiàng zhe nà yǒu hēi de sēn lín fēi le guò qù 。
浑身青芒一起，向着那黝黑的森林飞了过去。
Although spirit energy and demon energy occasionally coexisted in the Spirit Realm or vice versa, such a situation where all three energies mingled was rare, even if they did exist, only within small areas.
zhōng jiān suī rán gé yǒu yī tiáo huāng mò ， dàn qū qū wàn yú lǐ ， duì lín xuān lái shuō ， zì rán bù guò shì shùn xī 。
中间虽然隔有一条荒漠，但区区万余里，对林轩来说，自然不过是瞬息。
But this forest was vast. With his divine sense, Lin Xuan could not determine its boundaries. Yet, what he saw before him—spirit and demon energy intertwined with yin energy in equal measure—was indeed a tripartite balance.
hěn kuài ， lín xuān jiù lái dào le nà sēn lín de biān yuán zhī chù 。
很快，林轩就来到了那森林的边缘之处。
Lin Xuan closed his eyes and carefully scanned the area with his divine sense, finding no trace of demon veins or yin veins. In other words, the celestial energies here were a mixture of spirit, demon, and yin energies coexisting.
tā de shén qíng biàn dé gèng níng zhòng le 。
他的神情变得更凝重了。
Such a situation was unheard of; Lin Xuan’s expression was one of astonishment. Where had he been transported to?
wú tā ， lín xuān yě suàn jiàn shí guǎng bó 。 rán ér yǎn qián sēn lín zhōng de tiān dì yuán qì tā què cóng wèi jiàn guò 。
无他，林轩也算见识广博。然而眼前森林中的天地元气他却从未见过。
The Realm of Nailed Dragons seemed out of the question. To be more serious, it was uncertain whether this place even belonged to the Spirit Realm.
líng qì mó qì hù xiāng jiū jié zài yì qǐ ， bù …… bù jǐn yú cǐ ， chú le líng qì yǔ mó qì 。 hái yǒu yī zhǒng gèng jiā guǐ yì de qì xī 。 rú guǒ zì jǐ méi yǒu kàn cuò ， yīng gāi shì yīn sī dì fǔ cái yǒu de 。
灵气魔气互相纠结在一起，不……不仅于此，除了灵气与魔气。还有一种更加诡异的气息。如果自己没有看错，应该是yīn司地府才有的。
Lin Xuan, who had once felt lucky to survive a spatial storm, now realized that things were far from simple. What should he do next?
yīn qì ！
yīn气！
A look of uncertainty appeared on his face but quickly vanished as he flashed into the strange forest.
méi cuò 。 zhè sēn lín zhōng de tiān dì yuán qì ， jì yǒu líng qì ， yòu yǒu mó qì ， shèn zhì hái bù fá yīn qì ， bǐ cǐ hùn hé jiū jié zài yì qǐ 。
没错。这森林中的天地元气，既有灵气，又有魔气，甚至还不乏yīn气，彼此混合纠结在一起。
...
zěn me huì rú cǐ ？
怎么会如此？
"Sure enough..."
lín xuān chú le chà yì hái shì chà yì 。
林轩除了诧异还是诧异。
As Lin Xuan surveyed his surroundings, towering trees reached towards the sky. However, these trees and flowers were vastly different from what he had seen before, along with the peculiar celestial energies. He was now almost certain that he wasn’t in the Spirit Realm.
zhòng suǒ zhōu zhī ， líng jiè yǐ líng qì wéi zhǔ ， gǔ mó jiè gù míng sī yì ， zé mó qì biàn bù ， zhì yú sān dà jiè miàn zhōng zuì wèi shén mì de yīn sī dì fǔ ， bú yòng shuō ， zuì wèi chōng yù dí dàng rán shì yāo guǐ xǐ huān de yīn qì le 。
众所周知，灵界以灵气为主，古魔界顾名思义，则魔气遍布，至于三大界面中最为神秘的yīn司地府，不用说，最为充裕的当然是妖鬼喜欢的yīn气了。
Suddenly, a flicker of sound caught his divine sense from afar. It was faint, at least ten thousand miles away. Even with his divine sense, it could only be vaguely sensed.
suī rán zài líng jiè ， ǒu ěr yě huì yǒu mó mài ， tóng yàng zài mó jiè ， yě yǒu líng mài cún zài ， dàn bù guǎn nǎ yī zhǒng ， dōu shì jī yuán qiǎo hé ， líng qì yǔ mó qì gòng cún ， qiě fēn tíng kàng lǐ de qíng kuàng ， hái shì hěn shǎo chū xiàn 。
虽然在灵界，偶尔也会有魔脉，同样在魔界，也有灵脉存在，但不管哪一种，都是机缘巧合，灵气与魔气共存，且分庭抗礼的情况，还是很少出现。
Lin Xuan’s expression brightened. After wandering for so many days, he had finally found something valuable.
jí shǐ yǒu ， yě zhǐ zài hěn xiǎo yí gè fàn wéi 。
即使有，也只在很小一个范围。
With a green glow surrounding him, he flew towards the direction of the disturbance with all his might. It took no more than a cup of tea to reach the source.
ér yǎn qián de sēn lín ， miàn jī guǎng bó ， zhì shǎo yǐ lín xuān de shén shí ， yě qiě wú fǎ tàn chá tā de biān yuán zài hé chù 。
而眼前的森林，面积广博，至少以林轩的神识，也且无法探查牠的边缘在何处。
What he saw was a scene of intense conflict: spiritual lights flashed and demon energy surged as multiple cultivators fought off an enemy. Lin Xuan quickly counted over twenty people, both male and female, young and old. Despite their numbers, only one leader seemed to be at the yuanling stage, while the rest were merely condensation core cultivators.
rán ér zhè me dà yī zuò sēn lín ， rù mù suǒ jí ， què quán shì líng qì yǔ mó qì ， hái yǒu yīn qì ， yě yǔ tā men jiū chán zài yì qǐ ， sān zú dǐng lì 。
然而这么大一座森林，入目所及，却全是灵气与魔气，还有yīn气，也与牠们纠缠在一起，三足鼎立。
Their single adversary was a demon from ancient times.
lín xuān bì shàng shuāng móu ， yòng shén shí zǐ xì sǎo guò ， bìng méi yǒu fā xiàn mó mài huò yīn mài ， huàn jù huà shuō ， zhè lǐ de tiān dì yuán qì jiù shì rú cǐ ， líng qì 、 mó qì ， hái yǒu yīn qì ， bǐ cǐ jiū jié gòng cún dì 。
林轩闭上双眸，用神识仔细扫过，并没有发现魔脉或yīn脉，换句话说，这里的天地元气就是如此，灵气、魔气，还有yīn气，彼此纠结共存地。
Lin Xuan recognized it immediately; three heads and six arms, no human cultivator would ever have such a form. Moreover, the demon’s emitted energy was incredibly dense, distinctly different from that of a demonic cultivator.
zhè zhǒng qíng kuàng ， yǐ qián bié shuō qīn yǎn mù dǔ ， tīng dōu bù céng tīng shuō 。
这种情况，以前别说亲眼目睹，听都不曾听说。
This demon was also at the yuanling stage, specifically mid-stage, surpassing the human leader by one level. Thus, despite being outnumbered, he held his own. If not for their cooperation and formation, they would have been thoroughly defeated by this demon.
yī shí jiān ， lín xuān de biǎo qíng ， yě yǒu xiē cuò è ， zì jǐ jiū jìng bèi chuán sòng dào shén me dì fāng lái le ？
一时间，林轩的表情，也有些错愕，自己究竟被传送到什么地方来了？
However, even now, things were far from ideal. Although their formation had some intricate aspects, the demon’s combat experience was rich. It charged left and right, threatening to break through the formation at any moment.
nài lóng jiè shì bù yòng shē wàng le ， shuō jù yán zhòng yì diǎn de ， zhè ér shì bú shì líng jiè kǒng pà dōu bù tài hǎo shuō 。
鼐龙界是不用奢望了，说句严重一点的，这儿是不是灵界恐怕都不太好说。
"Bad luck!"
yuán běn néng zài kōng jiān fēng bào zhōng jié hòu yú shēng lín xuān hái zài gǎn tàn zì jǐ yùn qì bù cuò ， rú jīn kàn lái ， yuǎn méi yǒu xiǎng xiàng nà me jiǎn dān de 。
原本能在空间风暴中劫后余生林轩还在感叹自己运气不错，如今看来，远没有想象那么简单的。
The elderly human leader shouted as he saw the ancient demon closing in. The round-faced girl had made a mistake under pressure, causing a massive gap in their formation.
Lin Xuan did not linger in the vicinity. The transformed shocking rainbow zipped through the air like lightning, directly heading towards a distant location.
After all, he had already used his divine sense to investigate this area over the past half year, even though he hadn't ventured out during that time.
The environment was still acceptable, but it was sparsely populated. He didn’t see any humans or cultivators, let alone any beasts.
Was this still the Realm of Nailed Dragons?
Lin Xuan had no idea. After all, he knew very well how powerful the spatial storm's effects were; he might have been transported to a completely different place.
Thus, his immediate concern was figuring out where exactly he was. With no information or clues at hand, he didn’t need to worry about which direction to head in. He simply chose one and flew while releasing his divine sense, hoping to find something useful.
However, things did not go as planned; a day passed with nothing to show for it. Two days later, the surroundings remained unremarkable.
Lin Xuan’s expression was not particularly grim, but he felt some confusion and frustration.
Could I have chosen the wrong direction?
More puzzling was how vast this plain seemed to be. Lin Xuan had fully recovered from his injuries; his speed of travel far exceeded a thousand miles per instant. Over two days without rest, he had been steadily moving forward. While it was hard to gauge exactly how far he had traveled, several million miles were certainly within the realm of possibility.
Such vastness made sense if there were no signs of habitation, but the lack of any beasts at all was perplexing.
Lin Xuan pondered this as his speed remained unchanged. Another two days passed with no discoveries.
Suddenly, without any warning, Lin Xuan’s transformed light stopped.
He had finally flown out of the plain and was met with a vast desert stretching before him.
However, the desert wasn’t large; it spanned only about ten thousand miles in both directions. Behind this desert lay an obscure forest that could be faintly seen through the haze.
Lin Xuan paused, not because he had reached the end of the plain but because he had made another discovery. That forest seemed strange!
Although there was still some distance between them, Lin Xuan’s divine sense had already detected something unusual.
For a moment, Lin Xuan felt somewhat disoriented, but soon his hesitation gave way to determination.
He emitted a faint green glow and flew towards the dark forest.
Though separated by a desert, ten thousand miles were nothing to him. Soon enough, he arrived at the edge of the forest, where his expression grew more serious.
Lin Xuan had seen many things in his travels, but the celestial energies within this forest were something entirely new to him. The energies of spirit and demon intertwined, no… there was even a third presence, what he suspected to be yin energy from the Underworld.
Yin energy!
Indeed, the celestial energies here contained both spirit and demon energies, with yin energy mixed in as well, all entwined together.
How could this be?
Lin Xuan was left bewildered. It was known that the Spirit Realm primarily consisted of spirit energy, while the Ancient Demon World was filled with demon energy. As for the mysterious YinOffice of Land Governance, it was no surprise that yin energy would be abundant there.
Although spirit energy and demon energy occasionally coexisted in the Spirit Realm or vice versa, such a situation where all three energies mingled was rare, even if they did exist, only within small areas.
But this forest was vast. With his divine sense, Lin Xuan could not determine its boundaries. Yet, what he saw before him—spirit and demon energy intertwined with yin energy in equal measure—was indeed a tripartite balance.
Lin Xuan closed his eyes and carefully scanned the area with his divine sense, finding no trace of demon veins or yin veins. In other words, the celestial energies here were a mixture of spirit, demon, and yin energies coexisting.
Such a situation was unheard of; Lin Xuan’s expression was one of astonishment. Where had he been transported to?
The Realm of Nailed Dragons seemed out of the question. To be more serious, it was uncertain whether this place even belonged to the Spirit Realm.
Lin Xuan, who had once felt lucky to survive a spatial storm, now realized that things were far from simple. What should he do next?
A look of uncertainty appeared on his face but quickly vanished as he flashed into the strange forest.
...
"Sure enough..."
As Lin Xuan surveyed his surroundings, towering trees reached towards the sky. However, these trees and flowers were vastly different from what he had seen before, along with the peculiar celestial energies. He was now almost certain that he wasn’t in the Spirit Realm.
Suddenly, a flicker of sound caught his divine sense from afar. It was faint, at least ten thousand miles away. Even with his divine sense, it could only be vaguely sensed.
Lin Xuan’s expression brightened. After wandering for so many days, he had finally found something valuable.
With a green glow surrounding him, he flew towards the direction of the disturbance with all his might. It took no more than a cup of tea to reach the source.
What he saw was a scene of intense conflict: spiritual lights flashed and demon energy surged as multiple cultivators fought off an enemy. Lin Xuan quickly counted over twenty people, both male and female, young and old. Despite their numbers, only one leader seemed to be at the yuanling stage, while the rest were merely condensation core cultivators.
Their single adversary was a demon from ancient times.
Lin Xuan recognized it immediately; three heads and six arms, no human cultivator would ever have such a form. Moreover, the demon’s emitted energy was incredibly dense, distinctly different from that of a demonic cultivator.
This demon was also at the yuanling stage, specifically mid-stage, surpassing the human leader by one level. Thus, despite being outnumbered, he held his own. If not for their cooperation and formation, they would have been thoroughly defeated by this demon.
However, even now, things were far from ideal. Although their formation had some intricate aspects, the demon’s combat experience was rich. It charged left and right, threatening to break through the formation at any moment.
"Bad luck!"
The elderly human leader shouted as he saw the ancient demon closing in. The round-faced girl had made a mistake under pressure, causing a massive gap in their formation.