Chapter 230: The Collapse of Rules

Deep beneath the lake, three hundred miles underground.

Dongbo Xueying, within the Void Realm, gazed around in confusion.

“Where is the treasure? Where is the treasure left by Senior Heifeng?” Dongbo Xueying murmured in bewilderment. He carefully scanned his surroundings. His Void Realm extended for a full thousand miles. According to the map, the treasure should be right here! The margin of error would not exceed a single mile. “How come it’s not here? The Void Realm reflects reality. Anything that exists in the real world should also be reflected in the Void Realm.”

“Why can’t I find it?”

“Could it be that after tens of thousands of years, the treasure was discovered by one of the native cultivators?”

Dongbo Xueying shook his head lightly. “That would be too much of a coincidence, wouldn’t it? This is a vast world, and it’s deep underground. The black rat also said that only the naked eye could detect it—other methods wouldn’t work. These native cultivators must rely on their eyes too. In such a vast world, with so few cultivators, for them to actually discover this treasure hidden underground… that would be pure, outrageous luck!”

“But I still can’t find it…”

Frowning, Dongbo Xueying carefully searched the area. He had full confidence in the Void Realm—anything that existed in reality should be reflected here.

“Could it be…?”

Suddenly, a thought struck him, and his expression changed. “The black rat said that only the naked eye could detect it. Does that mean… the Void Realm can’t reflect it either?”

That…

That seemed almost impossible.

The real world and the Void Realm were like two sides of the same coin. The Void Realm reflecting reality was a fundamental natural law of the universe. If a treasure in the real world wasn’t reflected in the Void Realm… that would defy the most basic laws of existence. Even powerful deities could only isolate or seal off a world. To prevent the Void Realm from reflecting reality? That was an entirely different level of difficulty!

Earlier, Dongbo Xueying had assumed that the black rat meant ordinary detection methods wouldn’t work. He hadn’t thought that included the Void Realm itself, a fundamental cosmic law.

“How could it be impossible for the Void Realm to reflect it? How could that be?” Dongbo Xueying muttered to himself.

Though he couldn’t believe it, he still twisted his form and passed through the Void Realm into the real world.

“Either the native cultivators got lucky and found it, or this treasure really can’t be reflected in the Void Realm!” Shaking his head, Dongbo Xueying still moved through the earth, merging his Star Essence with the soil and stone, allowing him to pass through effortlessly. He used his eyes to scan every inch of earth and rock, but this method was painfully slow.

Just one mile of searching this way—how long would it take?

“Boom!”

Dongbo Xueying finally decided to use the power of heaven and earth to blast through the surrounding earth and rock. At the same time, he used his power to isolate a ten-mile radius, muffling all sound so as not to alert the native cultivators.

Invisible hands tore through the earth, shaping it into flat slabs, then into spheres.

“Crack!”

Finally, an ordinary cloth sack was revealed.

“What!”

Dongbo Xueying stared in shock at the sack. It was only about three feet long, a simple cloth bag. Its opening was tied tightly with a string. A normal person wouldn’t find it remarkable at all. Even a Half-God would simply recognize it as a special treasure.

“Could it really be that the Void Realm can’t reflect it?” Dongbo Xueying couldn’t believe his eyes.

“The Void Realm reflecting reality is one of the most fundamental laws of the cosmos! But this… this sack defies that law?” He was stunned.

The Ultimate Truth, the Chaos Truth, the Primordial Truth, the Chaos Truth—these were First-Rank Truths, representing the most fundamental principles of the universe.

The Spatial Truth, the Truth of Great Destruction, the Void Realm Truth, and others were also Second-Rank Truths, still considered fundamental cosmic laws. A world without spatial laws? Without Void Realm laws? Without destruction laws? Such a world would be incomplete, flawed.

These fundamental laws were difficult to transcend.

You could use brute force to suppress them—like sealing a space, cutting a space, or closing off a world. That was direct suppression.

But this sack didn’t use brute force. It simply made the law itself ineffective!

“What is this sack’s true origin?” Dongbo Xueying flew over and grabbed it, trying to untie the knot. But the sack’s surface shimmered with dark, black runes, and an invisible force prevented him from opening it.

“Oh, right—the key!” Dongbo Xueying suddenly realized.

Earlier, the black rat had given him a key—a black, octagonal rune tablet!

“Return.” With a thought, Dongbo Xueying stored the sack in his treasure pouch. Immediately, he felt something strange. As the master of the treasure pouch, he could sense that an object had been added to the storage space. But when he tried to sense it further, he could see… nothing at all. “Incredible! Many laws seem to fail before it.”

…

Whoosh.

Traveling through the Void Realm, Dongbo Xueying immediately began his return journey.

This was a vast and formidable realm. He feared that the indigenous Demigods might sense his presence or even assault his form within the Void Domain. Thus, he had dispatched only a Battle Qi Avatar—a mere projection of his essence. Naturally, he hadn’t carried the key with him. Without it, even if the avatar perished, the loss would be trivial. The Divine War Construct would simply dissipate and return of its own accord.

But if both the key and the treasure fell into the hands of the native cultivators, the consequences would be dire.

…

On the crystalline walls of the underground hall of Heifeng Divine Temple, a hundred-meter-tall gate shimmered into existence.

Buzz—

A Dongbo Xueying clad in red robes stepped through the gate and into the underground hall.

Then, continuing through the Void Realm, he entered a completely sealed meditation chamber within Heifeng Divine Temple. Inside this chamber was another figure—Dongbo Xueying in black robes! His true body! The black-robed Dongbo Xueying had placed the emerald-green rune tablet key here before immediately leaving through the Void Realm.

Why had his true body left?

Why open the sack inside the sealed secret chamber of Heifeng Divine Temple?

Because of his concerns!

After discovering that the sack could nullify the Void Realm’s reflection of reality, Dongbo Xueying felt uneasy. This exceeded his ability to deal with it. From what he knew, even many deities couldn’t achieve this. Combined with the terrifying existence that Senior Heifeng had created before his death, Dongbo Xueying remained deeply cautious about this sack.

What would happen when he opened the sack?

The Temple of the Divine Heifeng was guarded by formidable arrays capable of subduing any peril. Entrusting everything to the *Qi Avatar* was the safest course—even if the avatar were destroyed, recovery would take but two or three years. Yet, should his true form stand here and misfortune strike… his very life could be forfeit.

“Let’s begin. I’ll see what treasure Senior Heifeng left inside this sack.” The red-robed Dongbo Xueying focused his mind. Though his spiritual sense couldn’t perceive it, he still forcibly pulled the “strange object” from his treasure pouch.

Plop.

The sack landed in the sealed chamber.

Then, holding the octagonal emerald-green rune tablet key, he approached the sack. As he drew near, the sack’s surface immediately shimmered with emerald-green runes! Buzz—the runes on the sack glowed, and the octagonal rune tablet also began to emit light. The two lights intertwined, and the runes on the tablet flew out, perfectly merging with the runes on the sack.

Silently, the emerald-green runes completely vanished, and the rune tablet cracked entirely.

“It’s open.” Dongbo Xueying felt a twinge of nervousness. He stepped forward cautiously and carefully untied the knot on the sack…