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Chapter 1270 - Chapter 1270 Chapter 525 The Return of Blazing Flame Chaotic

Chapter 1270: Chapter 525: The Return of Blazing Flame, Chaotic Heaven Punishment_2 Chapter 1270: Chapter 525: The Return of Blazing Flame, Chaotic Heaven Punishment_2 The Sacrificers boarded the Ferry Grave Taoist Boat and departed, but they did not deal with the Chaos Demon Area in any way. What, then, was the purpose of handling the Chaos Demon Area at that time?

There must be a deeper meaning that he was yet to understand.

Of course, what the Immortal Court had learned so far was that nothing unusual had happened in the regions put together in the Chaos Demon Area, but the actual situation remained unknown.

Beyond the Chaos Demon Area, all other territories that were once occupied by the Blazing Flame Tao Court had become leaderless voids.

But separated by the Luotian Immortal Court, even if the Immortal Court had the intention to intervene, it was difficult to bypass the Luotian Immortal Court and reach directly into the Blazing Flame territory, so nothing was done.

Within the Immortal Court, from the Immortal Monarchs down to the common low-level cultivators, all began to stir, eager to investigate the regions left by the Blazing Flame Tao Court, whether to probe secrets or to obtain Immortal Treasures. With the Sacrificers having just departed and no major power occupying that domain, it was the prime time to act.

Additionally, with space returning to normal and some Transmission Arrays working again, with the rest under repair, other means of arrival had become convenient, further inciting the exploratory and treasure-hunting spirit of many cultivators and Immortals.

Han Yi was very interested in this matter as well.

He first returned to the Original Art Immortal Domain and then visited the Xuandan Sect. Once he saw that the sect was unharmed, he returned to the Original Art Dojo. Using a repaired Transmission Array and paying a hefty sum of Immortal Marks, he felt the familiar shift of space once again entering his senses.

When the space stabilized, he found himself in Xuanling Immortal City.

In truth, he could have torn through space himself to travel within its turbulent flows, but without specific coordinates, he risked losing direction in the underlying space currents. It was more convenient to spend Immortal Marks and use the Transmission Array’s set destination coordinates, sparing himself from much trouble.

Xuanling Immortal City is the central city within Xuan Ling Fairyland, a domain belonging to the Luotian Immortal Court. Geographically, it borders Blazing Flame territory, and it is where the Xuandan Sect initially settled upon arriving in the Immortal Realm, located within Xuanling Immortal City.

Han Yi left Xuanling Immortal City and headed straight for the Jade Scale Immortal Realm, reaching it in just two days. It then took him half a day to cross a small part of Jade Scale Immortal City.

Then, he stopped, standing on the edge of an enormous pit, his face a mix of shock and his heart trembling.

The region he was in now, if he continued forward, would be the Dragon Exceeding Immortal Domain.

In other words, he was at the boundary between the Dragon Exceeding Immortal Domain and the Jade Scale Immortal Realm.

And this was the location where the Ferry Grave Taoist Boat had been previously.

No.

To call it a huge pit was no longer appropriate, for even with Han Yi’s Immortal Sense, he could not reach the edges of this deep hole.

From the landscape alone, this seemed to be merely a difference in terrain levels. The area below was incredibly smooth, as if pressed down by something heavy, devoid of any life, not to mention Immortal Cities or forests.

He looked to the north, seemingly seeing the vast Jade Lake. It was from the location of Jade Lake that he had first looked towards this spot, where the massive object ascending into the sky had been none other than the Ferry Grave Taoist Boat.

Han Yi gathered his thoughts, and his body transformed, taking on the appearance of Li Zhengyang. His realm fell from the peak of Profound Immortal to the early stages of Profound Immortal.

He changed his appearance and aura with Infant Morphing mainly because he was concerned that the Demon Court of Donghuang might send Demon Monarchs to investigate.

The Age Candle itself attracted countless Immortals searching for treasures, not to mention the inherently meddlesome Evil Immortals of Donghuang.

Han Yi had no desire to be constantly on someone’s mind. If his whereabouts were to be disclosed by an Immortal, attracting a Demon Race’s Demon Monarch, he wouldn’t stand a chance against a Demon Monarch’s attack and would be unable to escape.

Therefore, until his strength was sufficient, he would keep his movements hidden, not giving the Demon Race any opportunities.

Han Yi traveled westward, flying in the direction the Ferry Grave Taoist Boat had laid horizontally. Four hours later, he finally saw the other side’s normal terrain, which harbored typical forests and living creatures.

Turning around, he took in the view of the sunken area, taking a deep breath.

“Nearly one-third of an Immortal Domain.”

“Impressive indeed, but what exactly is this boat for.”

“Ferry Grave, Ferry Grave, it must be for ferrying across a ‘grave,’ but what is the ‘grave’? Is it a specific location, or perhaps a crisis?”

This boat conceals profound secrets, secrets that not even the Ancestors could clarify before their disappearance, much less himself.

Han Yi shifted his gaze away from the deep pit left by the boat and moved deeper into the territory of the Blazing Flame Tao Court.

A moment later.

He arrived at an Immortal City and, as he approached, he discovered that this Immortal City was a city of the dead.

The silent Immortal City, with its empty streets, had neither Immortal Arrays nor Immortals, not even low-ranking cultivators to guard its gates.

He cautiously descended into it, only to find that caution was entirely superfluous–all the cultivators and Immortals within the city, even the mortals, had been relocated.

This situation was recorded in the intelligence he had received from the Immortal Court.

It wasn’t just this Immortal City; there was no trace of anyone within the whole area governed by the Blazing Flame Tao Court.

Only in the Qingxuan Immortal Domain, within the Qingxuan Dojo, was there an exception. Only Qingxuan Immortal Venerable and a few Immortals joined the Taoist Boat, not the entire populace.

Among the remaining Immortals, there were even some Immortal Monarchs. Aside from the Immortal Venerate, about half of their strength was preserved.

Perhaps this was also part of the Qingxuan Immortal Venerable’s arrangement, making a contingency plan to prevent putting all their eggs in one basket and then losing everything.

In the Immortal City, Han Yi searched every corner but found nothing.

He had no choice but to leave the Immortal City and venture deeper. This time, he did not stop along the way, crossing several Immortal Domains directly to reach the heart of the Blazing Flame Tao Court–the Immortal City known as Blazing Flame.

The Blazing Flame Immortal City was immensely large. Although it couldn’t compare with the profound heritage of the Age Candle Immortal Court, it was, of course, much larger than the area of the Original Art Dojo.

When Han Yi arrived at the Blazing Flame Immortal City, he found that there were already quite a few traces of Immortals, and occasionally an Immortal would enter from the outside, their form flickering as they vanished from sight.

Among these Immortals, there were quite a few Evil Immortals.

And no matter the type of Immortal, they all regarded Han Yi with a wary eye and deliberately kept their distance to avoid any misunderstanding.

Suddenly, Han Yi looked up and saw a massive figure of an Evil Immortal crossing the sky, entering deep into the Immortal City.

“An Evil King from the Donghuang Evil Court.”

“Judging by the stature, it should be the Red Fox Demon King.”

Although the Red Fox Demon King ranked lower among the various Demon Kings of Donghuang, he was not someone Han Yi, who had just reached the peak of the Profound Immortal, not yet stepping into the Golden Immortal Realm, could probe into.

He quickly withdrew his gaze; his Infant Morphing would probably be seen through in front of an Immortal Monarch, so naturally, he would avoid any Demon Kings.

However, Han Yi did not immediately turn around to flee; he had anticipated this situation.

Instead, he exerted his Infant Morphing to its utmost and stealthily entered the Blazing Flame Immortal City.

His purpose here was secondary to finding treasures; primarily, he was seeking records on the Sacrificers and the Ferry Grave Taoist Boat.

Although the chances of finding them were slim, he still wanted to try.

The Immortal City was vast, and Han Yi only occasionally encountered some Immortals or cultivators. Without discovering any treasures, both parties tactfully went their separate ways, avoiding scenarios where one would kill not for the treasure, but solely to murder the other.

Ten days later.

Han Yi finally had a breakthrough; he found a book in an Immortal Tower. The book was made of paper used by mortals, not a creation of Immortal Path.

For Immortals of the Immortal Realm, recording information on jade stones, jade discs, jade slips or devices capable of storing information was most common.

Beyond that, they would use the skin of special beasts or paper with a soft texture but also a material for refining, to record information.

Yet in this Immortal Tower, which clearly belonged to a high-status Immortal, the sudden appearance of a mundane ancient book was extremely unusual.

The book was also hidden underneath a gray cushion in the center of the Immortal Tower, a cushion that had the effect of blocking explorations by Immortal Sense.

Han Yi, by a fortuitous coincidence, lifted the cushion and found this book.

If it were purely up to Immortal Sense, it would have been extremely difficult to discover.

The combined unusualness of these aspects greatly piqued Han Yi’s interest in this book.

As he opened the book, Han Yi was slightly startled to find that despite its thickness, it had writing only on the second page, a hastily scrawled line.

“Chaotic Heaven Punishment, seeking life by crossing the grave.”