An emperor in his later years is summoned by his sister to save the nation's fate.

"Fan'er, now! Drink it!" Yao Lao urged anxiously. Xiao Fan knelt by the spring, his hands trembling as he scooped up a handful of the Nether Water and poured it into his mouth.

"boom!"

The moment the dark water entered his stomach, Xiao Fan felt as if he had swallowed an ancient glacier!

The bone-chilling cold instantly froze his blood and meridians, and even his consciousness was about to be completely extinguished by this extreme cold.

"Guard your mind! Circulate the essence of your sacred body!" Yao Lao shouted fiercely. At the critical moment of life and death, Xiao Fan let out a beast-like roar.

The dormant ancient sacred body within him was finally activated to its fullest extent!

"Boom!"

A surge of extremely powerful and yang golden energy erupted, fiercely resisting the freezing effect of the Nine Netherworld Waters.

Under this extreme devastation, the extremely yin creative power contained in the Nine Netherworld Water began to frantically wash over and repair his broken meridians and bones.

"Snap!"

Accompanied by a crisp, loud cracking sound, like chains snapping, coming from deep within his body!

The sixth invisible shackle binding the Ancient Sacred Body shattered under the impact of this power of creation!

"ah--!"

Xiao Fan roared to the sky, and a terrifying pressure far exceeding the Divine Power Realm and comparable to the Feather Transformation Realm erupted from his body.

Not only were all his fatal injuries instantly healed, but his cultivation level also directly crossed the great barrier, successfully stepping into the Feather Transformation Realm!

Feeling the surging power re-emerging within him, a cold glint flashed in Xiao Fan's eyes.

"Li Qingyue! Eternal Night Demon Emperor! I, Xiao Fan, will repay this humiliation a hundredfold in the future!"

Just as he stood up, preparing to leave the frigid dungeon.

The old man inside the ring suddenly spoke up to stop him.

"etc."

The old doctor's voice carried a hint of solemnity and puzzled doubt: "This place... seems a bit strange. Go and dive to the bottom of this spring to take a look."

Even with my quasi-emperor level soul, I couldn't quite fathom the depth of this Netherworld Spring.

I have a vague feeling that some kind of opportunity is hidden at the bottom of this spring!

Xiao Fan had always been obedient to Yao Lao, and the ecstasy of breaking free from his shackles had brought his desire for opportunities to its peak.

"good!"

Xiao Fan took a deep breath, his body enveloped in golden blood energy, and plunged headfirst into the dark spring without hesitation.

Meanwhile, as he descended, in a secret chamber within the Primordial Holy Land...

Lu Li, who had been sitting cross-legged in meditation, slowly opened his double pupils.

In fact, as early as when Xiao Fan endured the excruciating pain and crawled towards the Nine Netherworld Water to break the sixth shackle of the Holy Body, Lu Li's Emperor Realm divine sense had already taken in everything that happened in the dungeon.

However, he did not intervene, because in his eyes, Xiao Fan was nothing more than a fine leek that was growing vigorously. Letting him break free of his shackles was just to make his essence more plump.

But now, as Lu Li's double pupils traversed the void, his gaze pierced through the thick rock layers, directly looking at the bottom of the spring formed by the Nine Netherworld Water.

This emperor, who remained unmoved even when Mount Tai collapsed before him, actually showed a rare look of surprise and uncertainty in his eyes!

Because, under the gaze of his double pupils, which he claimed could see through the very essence of everything in the world.

At the bottom of that spring, instead of rock, there was a deep, twisted gray mist!

Even the ultimate insight of the double pupils felt a bit obscure and obstructed when it came into contact with that fog, and it was unable to see through its internal spatial structure at a glance!

What shocked Lu Li even more was that the aura emanating from that mist did not belong to the Great Dao Laws of this Xuan Tian Realm at all.

Moreover, the aura felt familiar to him.

"Cold and twisted, filled with absolute rules and deathly silence..."

A thought flashed through Lu Li's mind like lightning.

"This...isn't this the aura of a strange world? This fluctuation is almost identical to that of the Eternal Night Wasteland where Xueyao is!"

Just as Lu Li was in shock, Xiao Fan, who had dived to the bottom of the spring, crashed headfirst into the gray mist within the light screen.

The next second, his figure, along with the aura of the Ancient Sacred Body, completely vanished into thin air in this Xuan Tian Realm!

Lu Li's pupils suddenly contracted, and an unbelievable guess began to rise in his mind.

"Could it be... that there is a hidden spatial passage between the Xuan Tian Realm and the strange world?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Li immediately stood up and sent a telepathic message to the door: "Qingcheng, come to see me immediately, I have something important to discuss."

Meanwhile, after a period of intense spatial inversion and dizziness...

"Bang!"

Xiao Fan crashed onto a patch of muddy, black earth.

He scrambled to his feet, shook his head, and looked around.

As far as the eye could see, there was a vast, desolate black plain.

It was nighttime here, and there weren't even any stars in the sky, only an endless sense of oppression.

The air was filled with a thick, malevolent aura and a nauseating stench.

"Where...where is this?" Xiao Fan's heart skipped a beat. That spring was actually a teleportation array!

Just as he was filled with doubt and uncertainty, a familiar, weathered voice suddenly called out from behind him.

"Fan'er..."

That voice sounded exactly like the old doctor's!

Xiao Fan subconsciously assumed that it was Yao Lao's soul that had escaped from the ring, and turned around without any suspicion.

"Master, what's wrong...?"

Before he could finish speaking, a chilling, domineering, and terrifying force that defied all physical logic descended upon his neck!

That force was like an invisible pair of iron clamps, trying to forcibly twist and break his head!

If an ordinary cultivator were caught off guard by this power of rules, their neck would be snapped instantly.

However, Xiao Fan had just broken the sixth shackle of the Ancient Sacred Body, making his physical body incredibly powerful.

"Get out of my way!"

Xiao Fan roared, his golden blood and qi erupted, and the veins in his neck bulged. He forcefully used his heaven-defying physique to withstand the strange power of the rules that was trying to break his neck!

In the dim light, he finally saw the thing behind him that was calling his name.

That's not some kind of medicine at all!

Instead, it was a figure with an illusory form, a blurred face, and a grayish-white mist emanating from its body!

The D-rank ghost, seeing that its rule of certain death upon turning around had been defied by this living person, seemed to show a hint of anthropomorphic astonishment on its blurry face.

Xiao Fan felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight up to the top of his head.

"What the hell is this? An illusion? Did I accidentally get transported to the underworld?"

He cried out urgently in his heart, "Master! Are you there? Where am I?!"

A full few seconds passed before Yao Lao's weak, even slightly surprised, voice came from the ring.

"Fan'er...be careful! My soul is being suppressed by a strange and powerful law of heaven and earth in this world! My original quasi-Emperor level soul power has now been suppressed to the Dao-Slaying Realm level!"