Life span plundered, I became a detective and achieved immortality

As Su Mo stepped out of the rosy glow of the crack, the surrounding heat suddenly faded away, replaced by biting cold and thick darkness.

There was no light, no sound, and even the passage of time became a blur. Beneath his feet lay a bottomless void, and every breath felt like inhaling a cold current from eternity, spreading through his limbs and bones, only to be gently blocked by the True Immortal power coursing through his body. This chill was not merely ordinary cold, but rather contained the corrosive force of some unfamiliar law, enough to cause even the divine body of a quasi-transcendent master to frost.

He subconsciously turned around and saw that a crack was slowly closing not far behind him, and at the other end of the crack, a ball of light with a diameter of less than one light year was suspended.

It emits a weak light, like a candle in the wind, but it stubbornly illuminates the void of dozens of light years around it, tearing a faint hole in the dead darkness.

The light was familiar and warm. It was none other than the ocean of the universe where he was before.

"Finally... left."

Su Mo murmured softly, there were not many waves in his heart, only a kind of calmness that the dust had settled.

at this time......

"boom......"

A dull roar that seemed to come from the end of time and space suddenly tore through the dead silence and darkness.

In the depths of unknown time and space, countless eons distant, a huge divine light suddenly flashed. The light was so dazzling, so majestic, it seemed as if countless universes were exploding simultaneously, instantly tearing the darkness before Su Mo's eyes open with a hole that spanned eternity.

Su Mo suddenly turned around and saw an unimaginably large ball of light hovering in the distant void. The ball's outline was indistinct, yet it emanated an overwhelming pressure. Even the slightest glimmer of light it emitted caused the True Immortal Power within Su Mo to tremble slightly.

Compared with it, the ball of light behind him, representing the ocean of the universe, is like a firefly to the sun, or a speck of dust to the galaxy, so tiny that it is not worth mentioning.

The power of rules contained in the divine light was so complex that it far exceeded Su Mo's cognition. It seemed to contain the mysteries of the birth and death of countless oceans of the universe, which made even this transcendent lord feel a palpitation.

However, this astonishing light only lasted for a breath before disappearing quickly like the tide, as if it had never appeared.

The entire void, except for the faint light belonging to the ocean of the universe behind Su Mo, returned to the endless eternal night again. Only the aftermath of the loud noise remained, slowly spreading in the void, lingering for a long time.

"If I'm not mistaken, that huge ball of light is the location of the upper realm."

Su Mo gazed at the direction where the light dissipated, his eyes growing even more solemn. Shallow waters cannot support true dragons, and conversely, the storms of the vast deep sea are far more forgiving to fish swimming in shallow waters. That enormous ball of light was countless times larger than the cosmic ocean he inhabited, and the ceiling of its combat power was definitely far beyond his reach at this moment. He feared that such a being wouldn't even need to personally intervene; a single thought could completely obliterate him, leaving not even a trace of his true spirit behind. Reincarnation and cultivation would be a luxury.

"I wonder what level I'm at in the upper realm with my cultivation?" He whispered to himself, a glint of hope in his eyes. "I hope... it's not too low."

With his thoughts settled, Su Mo moved, his dark blue shirt blending into the darkness as he darted away in the direction the giant ball of light had disappeared. Regardless of whether the road ahead lay between a bottomless abyss and a path to the heavens, he now had no way out.

He subconsciously glanced back. The faint light of the cosmic sea behind him still flickered, but the rift through which he had come had vanished without a trace, leaving not even a trace of spatial fluctuation. Clearly, the supreme will of the cosmic sea had never intended to give him a chance to turn back. The rift was a one-way portal; once he stepped through, it was a farewell forever.

The darkness around him grew thicker, and tiny fragments of space began to mix with the biting cold. Each fragment was no less powerful than a full-strength attack from an early-stage quasi-transcendent lord like Chaos Ape Ancestor, and could easily severely injure a king of the Ninth Heaven and Sea.

Even a perfect and quasi-transcendent master like Hundong God, if he did not have a transcendent treasure, would be severely damaged or even destroyed by the space fragments no matter how far he walked.

We have just left the ocean of the universe, and there may be even more terrifying dangers in the meantime.

No wonder only the Lord of Transcendence can sense that mysterious rift and leave the Sea of ​​the Universe. This not only means that the power exceeds the limit that the Sea of ​​the Universe can bear, but it is also a rigid standard for going to the upper realm.

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after one day.

Su Mo frowned slightly, "It seems that reaching the upper realm will not be a short time."

In this eternal night, his speed had already been greatly weakened, less than one ten-thousandth of that in the sea of ​​the universe, and this was just the beginning. As he continued to move away from the sea of ​​the universe, his speed was still slowly weakening.

"Could it be that the Chaos Ancestors and the others died on the way to the upper realm because their lifespans ran out?"

He has achieved both divine body and cultivation, and his cultivation has even reached the realm of great perfection of the first-grade True Immortal. In contrast, the Chaos Ancestor and others have reached the realm of small success of the first-grade True Immortal, which is considered good, but their speed is several times slower than his. In the eyes of those kings of the sea of ​​​​universe, the Lord of Transcendence is beyond the sea of ​​​​universe, with endless lifespan and immortality. But the fact is not so. Once the Lord of Transcendence has a limit on his lifespan, if he does not have any magical medicine or secret method to prolong his life, 10800 cosmic eras will be the limit of his lifespan.

But the Chaos Ancestor and the others were not like him. Even if the lifespan lost due to the acceleration of time was taken into account, the lifespan he had consumed now did not exceed one cosmic era. The Chaos Ancestor and the other seven transcendent masters, and the Slaughter Ancestor who achieved enlightenment in the shortest time, all spent 1,600 cosmic eras. Taking into account the lifespan lost due to the acceleration of time, their real age would at least double.

If the distance is a little farther, it is possible that the lifespan will run out and the person will die on the way.

"I don't know whether bringing Gu Tong and the others out is a good thing or a bad thing."

Thinking of the millions of maids including Gu Tong in his natal universe, Su Mo frowned again. He had originally thought that if one person achieved enlightenment, all his family members would rise to heaven, and taking them to the upper realm together would give them a greater hope of breaking through to the realm of transcendence. Now it seems that not all is a good thing. If things go wrong, the maids may run out of lifespan and die on the way.

After becoming the Lord of the Universe, it is not so easy to break through the cultivation level. Even with a huge amount of resources to support them, the strongest maids like Gu Tong can only barely become the King of the Eight-Pattern Universe Sea. The vast majority of maids are at the level of the Three-Pattern and Four-Pattern Universe Kings, and their lifespan is only a few dozen cosmic eras.

Apart from the huge amount of lifespan they lost in the space-time formation, among the millions of maids, few could live longer than ten cosmic eras.

Before leaving, most of the remaining resources in his hands were left in the ocean of the universe, left to the human race and to the Shenxiao Universe, his second home.

Not to mention asking a million maids to become the King of the Universe and the Sea, even trying to produce a thousand Kings of the Universe and the Sea would be difficult enough.

"I just hope I can get to that upper realm as soon as possible. If that's not possible, I can only seal them with secret techniques when their lifespans are about to run out. Once I get to the upper realm and find some life-extending elixirs, I can unseal them.

The next second...

"boom......"

One thousand five hundred brilliant divine lights rose from Su Mo's natal sea of ​​the universe, shining like pillars, piercing through the void. One thousand five hundred illusory spiritual bodies instantly formed a formation, and Su Mo's speed immediately soared by more than a hundred times.

Fortunately, although this eternal night void is dark and lifeless, it still has enough energy to barely maintain the losses of the Thousand Gods Formation. Otherwise, if it were a place of nothingness where there is truly nothing, even if it was combined into the Thousand Gods Formation, it would not last for too long.

......

There is no age in darkness, and a cosmic era passes in the blink of an eye.

"I'm afraid that someone from the Chaos Ancestor group really died on this road." Su Mo sighed slightly. This one cosmic era was enough to make the Chaos Ancestor and his group walk for thousands of cosmic eras, but the upper realm was still far away.

......

Soon, another cosmic era passed.

In Su Mo's natal universe, some maids' lifespans were about to expire, and they had to lie in ice coffins and sleep with secret methods.

......

Three cosmic eras later.

Among the millions of maids, there are less than three layers left walking around in Su Mo's natal universe sea.

"I didn't expect that the road to transcendence would be so rugged." At his speed, he had already walked three cosmic eras. For the Chaos Ancestors, that would be three to four thousand cosmic eras, almost half the lifespan of a Transcendent Lord. For the Chaos Ancestors, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a life-or-death struggle.

"The only advantage is that the closer we get to the Upper Realm, the richer the energy contained in the void becomes. After three cosmic epochs, I have made some progress in my Hongmeng Wuliang Zhenxian Sutra. I am not too far away from the first major perfection. Moreover, the Upper Realm is not too far away either. At most, it will take another few thousand Chaos epochs to reach the Upper Realm smoothly."

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Soon, another 1,200 Chaos Eras passed.

The front was no longer the empty and cold void. Instead, a huge ball of light appeared in his sight. A dazzling light burst out from it, and a majestic aura that surpassed the origin of the sea of ​​​​the universe continued to spread from it.

"The Upper Realm, I have finally arrived!"

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