Covering the Heavens: Fishing for the Heavens Starting from the Great Accomplished Holy Body

"Physical attacks are ineffective, let's try internal energy!"

The third person shouted, thrusting out both palms. A wisp of scorching, pale red true energy, about a foot away from his body, blasted towards the point of light.

The true energy disappeared into the distorted domain without a trace, like a mud ox entering the sea, without even a ripple.

Immediately afterwards, two more passing rogue cultivators who knew a little about basic Taoist arts were attracted over.

One of them tried to use the newly learned "object manipulation" technique to control a stone and smash it.

The other one barely managed to leave its body, transforming into a gust of yin wind as it attempted to approach and investigate.

The result remained the same.

The stone passed through, a cold wind blew by, but the starlight bait didn't even sway, hovering quietly, emitting a constant, unchanging faint light.

The group looked at each other in bewilderment and then tried various other methods.

Even if you try to chop it with a knife or sword, or pour water on it or burn it with fire, that area is like a real mirage—visible but intangible, and any form of physical contact or energy impact is ineffective.

"This is weird!"

The burly man with the bushy beard spat, but dared not linger, lest he attract an even more formidable opponent.

In the end, the group could only retreat dejectedly, turning back every few steps, their eyes filled with resentment and confusion.

......

Although the strange phenomenon was not obvious, the peculiar Daoist aura spread out like a stone thrown into a calm lake.

About half an hour later, two streaks of light sped from the direction of the city and landed at the edge of the valley.

The visitors were an old man and a young man.

The old man was dressed in a brocade robe, with a white face and no beard. He had sharp eyes and a calm aura. He was a martial arts master who had stepped into the Innate Realm and was an elder in charge of foreign affairs for the Lin Clan, a prominent local clan in Nancang Prefecture.

The young man, dressed in fine clothes and with an air of arrogance between his brows, was the youngest son of the Lin clan patriarch and had just entered the Refining Realm of martial arts.

"Third Grandfather, is this the place? That point of light..."

Young Master Lin pointed at the hovering starlight bait, his eyes revealing curiosity and greed.

Elder Lin squinted and observed carefully for a moment before saying in a deep voice, "Neither illusory nor unreal, its aura is ancient and unique, definitely not an ordinary natural treasure... but it is also definitely not something easily obtained."

He cautiously avoided approaching, instead taking out a palm-sized ancient bronze mirror from his robes.

This item is called the "Qi Observation Mirror." It is an auxiliary ritual implement that can observe the flow of spiritual energy and distinguish between auspicious and inauspicious auras.

Elder Lin channeled his true energy into the ancient mirror, and the mirror surface immediately shone with a clear light, which he aimed at the distorted area.

However, the scene reflected in the mirror was a blurry and distorted patch of light, sometimes like a flowing river of stars, and sometimes like a chaotic mess. It was impossible to clearly reveal the true energy of that area, let alone trace its source.

"Can't even see through it with a qi-observing mirror?"

Elder Lin's expression changed slightly.

He then took out a feng shui compass, and the pointer on the compass began to spin wildly and erratically as it approached that area.

"Is it a spatial anomaly, or some kind of extremely sophisticated array or restriction?"

Elder Lin frowned, intending to test him again.

A long howl suddenly came from the distant sky.

The sound waves rolled on, like muffled thunder rolling through the mountains and forests, causing the leaves to fall in a rustling sound.

A burly figure streaked through the air and landed like a meteor, causing the ground to tremble slightly.

......

The newcomer was a burly man wearing a tiger-skin vest, revealing two strong, bronze-colored arms. He had a full beard, piercing eyes, and a fiery aura that made him look like a ferocious humanoid beast.

As soon as he arrived, his gaze immediately locked onto the cluster of starlight bait in mid-air.

"Hmm? This is interesting!"

The burly man, with a booming voice, glanced at Elder Lin and the others beside him, grinned, and said, "Lin family juniors, get out of my way! I've got my eye on this!"

Elder Lin's expression changed as he recognized the man.

"Hong Hu, the renowned lone martial arts master of Nancang Prefecture!"

He was secretly startled and dared not be negligent, so he quickly cupped his hands and said, "So it is Senior Hong. This junior just happened to be there..."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Hong Hu waved his hand impatiently and strode towards the distorted area.

Elder Lin dared not speak out in anger, and could only pull his young master aside, but there was a hint of schadenfreude in his eyes.

They've already tried it; this spot of light is really weird, they can't even touch it.

Let this brute give it a try.

Hong Hu stopped three zhang away from the light spot, his eyes filled with excitement and greed.

He took a deep breath, and his blood and qi surged forth, his skin faintly glowing with a pale golden luster, as if cast from bronze and iron.

This is a sign of the Martial Saint's powerful physical body!

Unlike the others who had grabbed it rashly, he slowly raised his right hand, spreading his five fingers.

hum!

A powerful and condensed divine sense emanated from between his brows, like an invisible tentacle, slowly reaching towards the starlight bait and the distorted domain around it.

Divine sense is a power that emerges from the combination of spiritual will and blood energy after martial arts cultivation reaches the Martial Saint realm. It can see into the smallest details and perceive the energy of all things, which is far more mysterious than the naked eye and true energy.

Elder Lin and the others held their breath and stared intently.

Hong Hu cautiously touched the edge of that distorted domain with his divine sense.

His brows furrowed instantly.

In his divine perception, the spatial structure of that area was extremely strange, as if it were folded and twisted layer by layer, yet incredibly stable.

What alarmed him even more was that the starlight-emitting point of light, from the "perspective" of his divine sense, was not a physical treasure at all.

It's more like a "projection" or a "coordinate".

Hong Hu concentrated his divine sense to the extreme, tracing back upwards along the direction in which the light spot "fell".

He saw a very faint line, as if it were composed of countless tiny ripples in spacetime.

This line stretches upwards, piercing the sky above this valley, piercing the clouds, piercing through...

Do not!

His consciousness jolted violently when it touched a certain boundary.

The end of that "line" was not the sky of the Yangshen world, but rather disappeared into a "nothingness" depth that he could not understand or describe at all.

In that "nothingness," it seemed as if the light and shadow of billions of worlds were rising and falling, and the laws of the Great Dao, which he had never perceived before, were flowing.

Vast!

Endless!

Supreme!

With just an unconscious glance, Hong Hu felt as if his divine sense had crashed into an invisible wall of copper and iron. A sharp pain shot through him, causing him to groan and quickly cut off that part of his divine sense. His face turned slightly pale.

"What...what is this thing?!"

Hong Hu was filled with shock and disbelief.

Even with his martial saintly knowledge and spiritual strength, he was completely unable to comprehend the essence of the "spot of light" before him.

Its physical form is not in this realm; it was "projected" here through some means he could not imagine.

What is that “line” that extends into the endless void?

How could there possibly be such a long line in the world!

But no matter how hard he found it to believe, the facts were undeniable.

This is not an illusion, not a formation, and not some hidden treasure.

This is a "phenomenon" that is beyond his comprehension and involves extremely high-level space and even causal rules!