The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 531 - 505 Soul Wandering Beyond the Heavens_1

Chapter 531: Chapter 505 Soul Wandering Beyond the Heavens_1

Li Chu then departed.

This second-in-command figure from the Desolated Terrains, a True God who had always harbored prejudice against the Sword Tower, surprisingly gave up the idea of stepping inside after hearing Pang Jian’s words.

"He’s just leaving like that?" Wang Ce stared, his gaze oddly fixed on Pang Jian.

Guanghe was also taken aback and puzzled.

After a moment of hesitation, Yao Junhong said gravely, "Pang Jian, is the matter with the Alien Tribes truly of no concern?"

He did not know what a Realm God was, was unaware of Pang Jian’s other identity, thus Pang Jian’s forceful rhetoric and his action to pressure Li Chu by bringing up the other four True Gods left him uncertain of the situation.

"There won’t be any trouble for now," Pang Jian said calmly as he continued to descend.

He knew that even Li Chu could not forcefully seize this fragment of land beneath his feet without a reason.

Dealing with Alien Tribes was just an excuse posed by Li Chu, a pretext for his desire to set foot on Panshi Fragment Land.

If Li Chu were to really seek confirmation from those four, the four True Gods who were aware of his Realm God identity would probably not make things difficult for him during this sensitive phase over such a trivial matter.

He had come to see that the neutrality of the Dragon Cave and the Demon Race was pressuring the True Gods heavily.

And he, the so-called Realm God, seemed to always be able to sway the Ancient Demon Clan to the Human Race’s side during great calamities, thus aiding the Human Race in winning the final battle.

In other words, the True Gods needed him now.

...

Inside the wooden hut in Cloud Wilderness.

Pang Jian, absorbed in advancing his cultivation, sank his Spiritual Soul into the "Heart of Winter," contemplating the profound truths of the ultimate cold mysteries.

Suddenly, he remembered that ice-cold star he caught a glimpse of when he had made contact with the Goddess of Cold Crystal through the altar.

"Above the Dantian, within the Star River," he mused.

In a flash, his Spiritual Soul was on the star within his Dantian, which had been imbued with some Divine Power by the Goddess of Cold Crystal.

Having acquired Starlight through the Star Veins in Star Moon Valley, this fist-sized star was already crystal clear and shining.

After the infusion of the Goddess of Cold Crystal’s Divine Power, a murky halo appeared within the spherical, translucent star.

This murky halo seemed to be the star’s... Star Core.

With this object, the star above his Dantian was like a creature that now possessed a heart.

"Huh!"

Pang Jian’s golden Spiritual Soul, having shrunk down to size, settled upon the small ice-cold star, immediately perceiving a corresponding star in the distant Outer Starry Sky.

——That was the one inhabited by the Goddess of Cold Crystal.

"Through this star, I can sense the one in the outer world, a bond exists between them!"

No sooner had this thought arisen than the word "Purgatory Gate" etched on the back of the copper plaque in his chest began to emit a distinct spatial fluctuation.

The fluctuation concentrated on the character "Gate".

The star within his Dantian and the one in the outer world were connected at this moment, with the "Gate" acting as an actual viable channel through the void!

"This works too?"

A strand of his golden Divine Sense seeped into the "Gate".

...

In the Outer Star River, atop a solitary and desolate star, a narrow, bright spatial rift suddenly appeared.

"Whoosh!"

A wisp of golden light shot out from the rift, halting over the ice-cold star.

It darted around to sense for a while, confirming that the Goddess of Cold Crystal was not there, nor were there any worshippers or followers present.

A moment later,

"Huh!"

Pang Jian’s Spiritual Soul, through the spatial rift, appeared in the Star River outside of Purgatory!

Unlike before, he was no longer sneaking around with just his Divine Consciousness Inspiration; this time, his actual Spiritual Soul had left his body and escaped from the world of Purgatory!

On this star that the Goddess of Cold Crystal had vacated, Pang Jian wandered with his Spiritual Soul Out Of Body.

This ice-cold star, so removed from its neighbors, contained not a trace of nature’s spiritual energy, only a bone-chilling energy that was also impure.

His lonely Spiritual Soul drifted above the star, exploring the wonders of the Outer Domain Galaxy.

He soon realized that there were various complicated and changeable forces in Starry Space.

Around the exterior of the star where the Goddess of Cold Crystal resided, there were forces like Flame Force, the power of water, the essence of the earth, energy from the sun, and even moon Alien Power, along with many nefarious forces capable of corroding flesh and strange energies that could taint souls.

Pang Jian was somewhat surprised.

He allowed his Spiritual Soul to drift upward, moving a bit further from the spatial rift, to sense even more deeply.

His glittering golden Spiritual Soul, under the onslaught of many Alien Powers in Starry Space, began to sizzle and emit golden sparkles.

That boundless and endless space, filled with countless impurities and types of Starry Space Supernatural Ability, appeared much more diverse compared to the Filth Alien Power present in the Fifth Layer of Purgatory.

Although the Supernatural Ability was omnipresent in space, it was not concentrated or thick, giving the impression of being sparse and dilute.

He felt that those powerful level-eight Great Demons and Different Kinds’ warriors of the same level Bloodline would be able to move freely with their flesh and blood bodies exposed directly in outer space.

As for the Human Race, due to their relative intolerance to this type of impure Starry Space Alien Power, they might need to manifest a Firm Cover to protect their flesh and blood.

"The Filth Alien Power seems to be a concentration of Starry Space Alien Powers. After the concentration, the diverse Alien Powers become richer, enabling the Alien Tribes of the Fifth Realm to rapidly enhance their Bloodlines."

"But Purgatory is sealed, surrounded by the Boundary Wall. How was the Filth Alien Power formed?"

"Could it be that the Boundary Wall and the Mysterious Fog have extracted the Starry Space Supernatural Ability from the Outer Domain, condensed it, and then diffused it in the Fifth Realm?"

"And how does the pure nature’s spiritual energy come into existence?"

Many doubts sprang to mind.

Above the star where the Goddess of Cold Crystal had departed, Pang Jian, who was for the first time wandering the heavens with his Spiritual Soul, felt everything was novel and curious.

He could also sense the general direction of his physical body.

Before long, he made a startling discovery!

The location of his physical body was not fixed; it was in a state of slow movement.

Yet he was absolutely certain that his physical body was sitting motionless in the Panshi Fragment Land, within the wooden house of Cloud Wilderness.

So, why did the location change?

Thinking this, he watched the sun and the moon become very small from atop this star, which was offset from the central Star River.

From this star, if the sun and moon appear smaller, it means he is further away from them here.

The sun and the moon showed no signs of movement under his observation.

Then why does Purgatory have day and night?

With his Divine Sense in the Outer Starry Sky and his physical location changing, what did that imply?

It meant the entire Purgatory World, beneath the pervasive Mysterious Fog, was constantly moving!

The Purgatory, akin to a well-shaped "tube," was drifting on a specific trajectory within the Mysterious Fog!

It moved beneath the sun, and it was daytime in Purgatory; it moved beneath the moon, and night fell.

Sometimes neither sun nor moon was visible; that meant it had moved elsewhere.

Overwhelmed with amazement, Pang Jian very much wanted to leave the Extreme Cold Star with his Divine Soul, to visit nearby stars and feel even more wonders deep in the starry spaces.

But he was worried that if he strayed too far, the ripped space rift might change unexpectedly.

He also feared that if the Goddess of Cold Crystal returned from another place and he failed to notice in time, she might erase the space rift, leaving his Divine Soul unable to return to his body forever.

Therefore, he stayed near the space rift, quietly observing the changes in the Star River.

One day.

He saw an azure star far away suddenly expel a stark black radiance from its surface, and he faintly saw shadows resembling Mosquitoes Flies flickering and swarming about.

After pondering for a time, he knew those Mosquitoes Flies-like shadows must have truly exaggerated and terrifying forms!

The grandeur of a Divine Mountain thousands of zhang high would not be visible from such a distant star in the galaxy.

"Could it be a stronghold of an Outer World Demon God?"

While contemplating this, he noticed a smaller ash-yellow star among those stars, as if pulled by some force, suddenly plummeting towards the Mysterious Fog.

The ash-yellow star turned into a conspicuous meteor.

It was as if some colossal entity, some existence capable of destroying heaven and earth, was hidden in the Mysterious Fog, plucking that star.

Plucking stars, seizing a piece of heaven and earth—what kind of Divine Skills were these?

On the azure star, those shadows that resembled Mosquitoes Flies clearly noticed this scene, and many unseen true forms of shadows suddenly plunged straight into the Mysterious Fog.

It seemed they were determined to find that existence which plucked stars from within the Mysterious Fog.

At that moment, Pang Jian, whose Spiritual Soul had been detached from his body for a long time and had wandered the Outer Domain Galaxy, finally felt deeply exhausted.

Shaken to his core, he, with immense surprise, followed the space rift back through the Purgatory Gate behind the character "门," returning to where he came from.

"Hiss!"

The space rift in the Ice-cold Star closed up as well.

Back in his Spirit Sea of Consciousness, Pang Jian took out the Big Blood Essence Pill and the Soul Nurturing Pill to consume, only then noticing that, unbeknownst to him, he had exhausted a great deal of Soul Power.

The scale of his Divine Soul had shrunk several times over.

"Without the support of a fleshly body, relying solely on the Divine Soul to appear in the starry sky doesn’t seem to be a long-term plan. Perhaps, my Divine Soul is simply not strong enough yet."

"The one who plucked the stars—could it be an existence hidden in another Mysterious Fog world? There must be more worlds with ’prisons’ than Purgatory alone in the Mysterious Fog."

"Or perhaps, it is someone who got lost in the Mysterious Fog for countless years and never found a way out?"

"But a transcendent being capable of plucking stars, who can see the vast galaxy, how could they not find a way out? Could it be that they, like Purgatory, are sealed by a Heaven Forbidden?"

The grandeur and beauty of the Star River and the infinite mysteries within the Mysterious Fog filled Pang Jian with longing.

This foray of his Spiritual Soul Out Of Body greatly expanded Pang Jian’s horizons, making him acutely aware that the Human Race’s True Gods, at least those currently trapped in Purgatory, were far from the strongest in the stars.

And those ancient True Gods who had escaped Purgatory early on and survived the sieges of Alien Gods in the Outer Realm had once shattered the Hall of Gods of the gods beyond the heavens.

How powerful were they in those days?

Now, if they are still alive, how powerful must they be?

"True Gods, it seems, are merely the starting point after breaking out of Purgatory."

...

One day, a majestic and graceful silhouette, clad in a green robe with skin like creamy jade, suddenly appeared in Panshi Fragment Land, saying melodiously, "The envoy of the Pure Land has come to visit."

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