Cultivation Online

1417 Returning to the Shadow Realm

Upon escaping into the Shadow Realm, Yuan took a good minute to breathe after nearly losing his life to the spirit's devastating attack.

"I have never been so close to experiencing death—not even when I actually died inside the Nameless Emperor's Tomb!" Yuan cried out loud as he fell flat on the cold ground.

"That spirit was immensely powerful—perhaps even stronger than Senior Bai."

Xiao Hua came out of his Dantian to comfort him, "Yet you managed to escape unscathed, Brother Yuan."

Yuan looked at his sweaty palms and sighed, "Yes, but at the cost of my last usage of Heaven's Supremacy. Unless I gain its approval, I won't be able to call forth its power again, and we might have to face that spirit again once we leave the Shadow Realm."

Without Heaven's Supremacy, Yuan knew he had no hopes of escaping the spirit a second time. In fact, he believed that even if he had unlimited usage of Heaven's Supremacy, it still wouldn't be close to enough to defeat the spirit at his current strength.

Once he'd rested enough and composed himself again, Yuan examined his surroundings.

Just as when he first entered the Shadow Realm back at the Dragon Essence Temple, he found himself amidst a desolate and dilapidated cityscape that looked like it had been void of life for eras.

However, there were no trials for him to do.

his concerns aloud, feeling a twinge of worry at the possibility

entrances. Hence, there was a reasonable likelihood that

I

Vanishing Valley, where he was given instructions on reaching the Shadow Realm, he had

could

have to wander around until

to cover the entire abandoned city and even several miles outside,

Hua returned to his Dantian, he went into the sky and

and sizes began appearing around Yuan, their red eyes

"Human…!"

"Human…!"

"Human!!!"

reminding Yuan of his first encounter with these

only a Spirit Grandmaster, he was not completely clueless in the Shadow Realm and even had sufficient prowess to

nearly strong or fast enough to threaten

in the past, but they've been reduced to such a pitiful state after wandering as a trapped soul for countless years. Only someone with a cruel and indifferent heart could do such a thing to them," Xiao Hua voiced her sentiments, expressing sympathy for these banished souls, noting the resemblance of their plight to that of Exiles

within the Primordial Realm by the Celestial Emperor. However, Exiles, at the very least, retain their physical bodies and possess a glimmer of hope for eventual freedom through the Supreme Heaven's Legacy. Meanwhile, banished souls are forsaken and left to languish in this dark and desolate realm. Though they may harbor a flicker of hope that someone like Yuan might appear to rescue them from the Shadow Realm, such occasions are less likely to occur than an Exile completing the Supreme Heaven's Legacy, as not even immortal

into the Shadow Realm, the banished souls grew progressively more powerful, their bloodlust for him intensifying with each passing