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Chapter 2422 Perfect Out-of-Body Experience
In Hanli Zhenzun's view, the shrinking of space in the Land of Fallen Gods poses a greater threat.

Maintaining a proper distance is essential to ensure timely intervention to protect the Dharma.

As it turned out, the collapse came much faster than he had imagined.

The day after the Guardians retreated, the space in the Land of Fallen Gods began to shrink slightly.

The contraction began slowly, just like all previous changes, because the area was so large that rapid changes were impossible.

However, once the contraction begins, it is an irreversible process, and the situation develops extremely rapidly.

About half a day later, the contraction was already visible to the naked eye. Such a large-scale spatial change could already be described as a collapse.

Undoubtedly, the increasingly rapid collapse of space exerted a strong pulling force on the surrounding extended space.

Just two days later, the pulling force turned into a powerful suction force.

Even the renowned and knowledgeable Qingkong Zhenzun was taken aback upon seeing this, exclaiming, "So fast?"

It's no wonder he was surprised; the vibrations were completely disproportionate to the speed of the collapse.

Minning Zhenzun didn't pay attention to this; he was somewhat dazed. "Devouring such a large space... I'd believe it if you said it would impact my Nascent Soul stage!"

Thinking back to when he was trying to break through to the Out-of-Body stage, he couldn't help but sigh to himself: We're both trying to break through to the Out-of-Body stage, so why is there such a big difference?

Jin Ge, however, was concerned about whether Xiao Qu could handle absorbing this much.

“You’re the one who’s worried about his lack of resources,” Wenxian Zhenzun chuckled. “Even now, you still haven’t gotten used to trusting Xiaoqu?”

“I believe it,” Jin Ge muttered to himself, “but putting aside energy, how do we absorb so much matter?”

The Land of Fallen Gods is a vast space with extremely violent energy, but it does indeed contain a considerable amount of matter.

Even those Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators have picked up quite a few... They can't be called treasures, but they can at least be called rare items.

These substances are distributed very sparsely, but in such a large space, the total amount of scattered substances is definitely not small.

Jin Ge wondered how Xiao Qu would absorb and digest all of these substances after they were absorbed.

This guy, I hope he doesn't become the first one to be crushed to death by various substances right after leaving his body.

"Who said he absolutely had to absorb it?" Qingkong Zhenzun looked at him in surprise. "You're just overthinking it."

In the past, he would have suspected Qu Jianlei to some extent, but now he no longer has that thought.

It's not that a powerful True Venerable is about to emerge, but rather that Xiao Qu has demonstrated through his actions that he has never disappointed.

One day later, the vast space of the Fallen God Land had collapsed into a small sphere, with a diameter of just over 10,000 kilometers.

The word "then" seems a bit exaggerated here, but it's actually not an exaggeration at all.

Previously, the space of the Divine Realm was almost immeasurable in terms of length.

Various rules and mixed energies cause space to twist and fold in bizarre ways, and even overlap...

If we put all that aside, and we absolutely have to talk about a distance, then the diameter... must be at least tens of millions of kilometers, right?
Imagine compressing a space of tens of millions of kilometers to just over ten thousand kilometers... how terrifying would the density become?
The red giant star that Han Li, Min Ning, and Wen Xian destroyed back then was only in the tens of millions of kilometers in diameter.

The space collapsed to such an extent that it tore the surrounding outer space to pieces, and even created spatial cracks.

Spatial rifts appear quickly and disappear quickly, after all, they are just a byproduct of the rapid contraction of space.

Moreover, the space here was abnormal to begin with, so the spatial rift was only fleeting.

Even so, it is still quite dangerous. As long as it is a spatial rift, its destructive power will be astonishing.

Even such a weak crack could cause serious injury to a True Venerable if he was caught off guard.

However, with the space compressed to this extent, the rate of collapse is significantly reduced.

When the diameter is compressed to a thousand kilometers, it becomes as slow as a snail crawling.

The principle of "things reaching their extreme will reverse" applies here. When compressed to the extreme, unless there is a qualitative change or a change in dimensions, it will inevitably slow down.

Bentley has been released, and it's terrifying to watch.

He considered himself to be quite strong among those in the Nascent Soul stage, but seeing this scene still left him speechless.

"Senior Master, this... can my boss handle it?"

"You...don't even have confidence in him?" Jin Ge glanced at him sideways. "I wouldn't even take in a lackey like you."

Bentley knew the other party's background well and bluntly asked, "You only have disciples under your command, not underlings, right?"

“He clearly lacks emotional intelligence,” Jin Ge shook his head helplessly. “Don’t worry, your boss can handle it.”

"This is... out-of-body experience?" Mu Guang was clearly shocked, his expression a mix of dazedness and fervor.

"We should strive as long as we live!"

You're in for a tough time! Jin Ge really wanted to say this: Your Qi is mixed and impure, your foundation is weak, and it's already a stroke of luck that you were able to condense your Nascent Soul.

However, he didn't say anything discouraging. "Let's keep watching, it's a rare experience!"

They are now hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the compressed space cluster, so they shouldn't be of any use for reference.

But that's not actually the case. The power of projecting energy out of the body... it's too easy to project power over hundreds of millions of kilometers.

Although Qu Jianlei is currently in seclusion and has not fully exited his cultivation, thus unable to accurately project his strength, his breakthrough aura is uncontrollable.

This is truly uncontrollable, completely impossible to manage—at least Xiaohu and Qu Jianlei couldn't do it.

For the Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators present, this was indeed an experience they would never forget.

The sphere of light, with a diameter of over a thousand kilometers, expanded and contracted countless times before finally stabilizing.

It floated silently in the air, surrounded by a chaotic and torn outer space and turbulent energy currents.

However, this level of turbulence poses a limited threat, not to mention Immortal Venerables, but even to well-informed Nascent Soul cultivators like Bentley and Mu Guang.

Gradually, the turbulence calmed down, and little by little, drop by drop, strand by strand, it adhered to the ball of light in the center.

The ball of light dimmed and became much more substantial, even increasing in diameter.

It feels like... a thick, large cocoon!

Bentley had heard a similar story from his boss and was a little dumbfounded when he saw this.

He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Damn it, how many years will it take to hatch?"

Lao Ben wasn't unwilling to wait; he didn't care how many years it took to protect his boss. But he couldn't help it... things could change in the long run.

Mu Guang, who was close by, was also a little dumbfounded when he heard this, "It will take many years?"

He thought the same as Bentley: it wasn't that he was afraid of waiting, but rather that the scene was simply too grand.

They couldn't easily guess what the protectors were thinking, but they were well aware of the discussions among the Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators below.

Think about the crew members on those spaceships in the Empire, who were cooped up in space for a year or two, and their mental state was extremely depressed.

These cultivators were considered to have strong willpower, but after more than ten years, they inevitably became restless and impatient.

More than ten years is considered a "period" for a True Venerable, let alone for those cultivators at a lower level.
With such a grand scene, if those Dharma protectors become impatient, the two of them... really don't have the confidence to hold out for many more years.

"What nonsense are you two spouting!" True Venerable Han Li's divine sense arrived. "It will happen very soon, not long after."

The two dared not say anything more, but Mu Guang still muttered to himself, "The boss doesn't like people saying he's fast."

Han Li was right. More than ten days later, the turbulent currents outside the ball of light remained, but the skin on the cocoon was peeling off layer by layer.

"This...it'll have to explode again," Venerable Qingkong muttered softly, "It's just leaving my body, is it really necessary to be this exaggerated?"

However, he was wrong. Seven or eight days later, the cocoon shell completely peeled off, and the light inside turned into a hazy gray.

This gray is still a very strange gray; it looks gray, but it also contains white, black, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple...

It's somewhat similar to the boundary characteristics absorbed by the Great Protector.

"Chaos?" Upon seeing the gray mass, the Great Protector exclaimed, "How is this possible? This is just the body leaving its body!"

“Imitation of Chaos,” Han Li said calmly, “between the beginning and Yin and Yang, but it’s still an imitation, just an astral projection.”

Wenxian said quietly, "If this weren't an imitation, it would have become the world itself."

Jin Ge felt a chill run down his spine. "Damn it... I've remembered the Dao Transformation Technique!"

“Just watch,” Min Ning said calmly. “There might be some strange phenomenon.”

However, nothing extraordinary happened. Under everyone's gaze, the gray space gradually lost its color.

The fading process will still take a while, but this one who has broken through to the other body will have a lifespan of six thousand years, so it's nothing in comparison.

On the tenth or eleventh day, the hazy space had become quite transparent.

One can vaguely see a faint ball of light in the space, just like when Qu Jianlei was in seclusion.

It's just that its size has decreased a lot. Originally, it was over a thousand meters in diameter, but now it's only about ten meters.

Strangely, although everyone was very far away from the ball of light, and the ball of light was inconspicuous, it was very noticeable.

Like a star in the night sky, distant yet impossible to ignore, only this star's light is very dim.

However, the high-level cultivators saw something else entirely.

The light cluster didn't shrink much, but it still exuded a sense of "chaos".

"Wow," Qingkong Zhenzun muttered softly, "This must be... a perfect separation of body?"

"Where is there such a thing as perfection?" Han Li shook his head, dismissively stating, "Even at the fifty Great Daos, there are still those who escape..."

"It seems he hasn't fully absorbed the core of this world."

Wenxian glanced at him, thinking to herself, "You don't need to defend him like this. So what if he achieves perfect astral projection? There have been cases like this in the history of the Houde Realm."

Upon hearing this, Venerable Qingkong nodded in deep agreement, "I also feel that I can't absorb it all... How did you sense that?"

The fact that the other party could sense it from such a great distance is truly impressive.

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