Chapter 10: Beyond the Realm, There is a Demon (Part 1)

In the midst of the cherry blossoms dancing in the wind, Misaki opened the old diary and read the words of promise written there.

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The dozens of cloud formations, each possessing simple instincts, suddenly began to drift about like headless flies. Even when they occasionally passed over Luo Fan's body, it was as if he were just a shadow, and they did not attack him.

All these phenomena seemed to indicate that the aura emanating from Luo Fan made them unable to sense his presence.

At this moment, Luo Fan was not paying attention to the changes around his body. His entire mind, his entire consciousness, and his entire will were filled with all the information, aura, and details related to Mount Buzhou.

All the observations he had made over the past few ten thousand years about Mount Buzhou, every fragment, every detail, began to surface in his mind, constantly intertwining and reorganizing.

His eyes reflected the summit of Mount Buzhou, thousands of miles away, which was thousands of miles higher than his current position.

The shape of the summit of Mount Buzhou was completely different from the lower part of the mountain, and this sudden change was a great stimulation to Luo Fan, who had been accustomed to the endless height and depth of Mount Buzhou for tens of thousands of years. It was enough to make him fall into the state of enlightenment he experienced when he first saw Mount Buzhou.

Countless pieces of information kept surfacing in his mind, constantly reorganizing. Gradually, all the information, aura, and details he had received over tens of thousands of years merged into a complete Mount Buzhou, rising from the ground and reaching the sky!

This Mount Buzhou in his mind was complete, from the bottom to the top, from the mountain foot on the ground to the sky at the top, without any omissions! The base of Mount Buzhou was incredibly wide, with a diameter of about eight or nine thousand miles. As its height increased, the size of the mountain gradually decreased, until it reached the sky at a height of ten thousand miles, where it finally narrowed to a point!

This Mount Buzhou slowly rotated in Luo Fan's mind, becoming increasingly complete and detailed, and its image became increasingly close to the real Mount Buzhou.

This was the first time Luo Fan had seen the complete Mount Buzhou from the bottom to the top!

It was also the first time he realized that just a shape could be so profound!

He finally understood that even a seemingly ordinary mountain shape could contain so much profound information!

The vast and indomitable aura of Mount Buzhou gradually emanated from the Mount Buzhou in his mind, gradually permeating his entire body, intertwining with the vast and indomitable aura he had previously emitted, instantly increasing the intensity of the aura he emitted by ten times!

As the aura increased, the white clouds around his body, which seemed to be searching for him in confusion, suddenly fled as if they had encountered something that terrified them, leaving a vast empty space of over a thousand miles around Luo Fan's body!

"Supporting the sky and standing on the earth... Mount Buzhou... the backbone of Pangu... never yielding... never giving up... I will break the sky and tilt it... I will fall to the ground and sink it..." These insights about Mount Buzhou gradually emerged in the depths of Luo Fan's mind. As time passed, these insights increased in number, and the speed at which they emerged also accelerated!

In the end, they burst out like a flood breaking through a dam, crazily surging out, and in a moment, it seemed as if his head was about to explode!

As time passed, the vast and indomitable aura he emitted gradually merged with the vast and indomitable aura of Mount Buzhou.

After an unknown amount of time, the aura he emitted and the aura of Mount Buzhou completely merged into one, indistinguishable from each other!

At the moment when the two auras completely merged, the information that burst out in Luo Fan's mind reached its limit, and the feeling of his head about to explode also reached its peak!

Suddenly, countless thunderclaps "ka ka ka ka" resounded in his mind, as if Pangu were opening the heavens and the earth in his mind!

Then, endless lightning filled his entire consciousness!

Everything in the outside world, everything in his body, everything about Mount Buzhou, and everything that emerged from the depths of his mind completely disappeared in an instant!

What he saw, what he heard, and what he thought were only the endless lightning, the lightning that seemed to split the chaos, divide the heavens and the earth, and distinguish yin and yang!

At the same time, his divine soul in his mind underwent a tremendous change!

The divine soul, originally in the shape of his body, exploded, transforming into a gray, chaotic cloud mass that filled the entire spherical void of 490 miles in diameter in his mud pill palace. It filled the entire void so tightly that it even continued to expand outward beyond the 490-mile diameter!

Then, under some mysterious mechanism, an incredibly profound transformation occurred.

The chaotic cloud mass formed by the divine soul began to flow slowly along an incredibly profound trajectory.

As this profound and unpredictable flow continued, the entire chaotic cloud mass quickly transformed into countless extremely condensed threads. These threads were not independent but intertwined in an incredibly profound way, constantly flowing and changing shape along the profound trajectory!

Sounds that shook the soul and the heavens, profound and mysterious, continuously emerged from the mud pill palace as the countless threads flowed, shaking the surroundings and even causing a slight tremor in the primordial void!

It was as if some incredibly powerful existence was being conceived in his mud pill palace!

As these profound sounds echoed, the countless extremely condensed threads began to slowly contract—slowly contracting toward the center of the 490-mile diameter spherical region!

During the contraction, the trajectory of each thread was independent, and the trajectory of each thread was different from any other thread. However, the trajectory of each thread was so profound and mysterious, making one feel refreshed and enlightened!

At this moment, as the countless threads of the divine soul continuously contracted and condensed, a mysterious aura suddenly appeared in the heavens and the earth!

This aura was the first to appear in the primordial heavens and the earth since they were opened tens of thousands of years ago!

It was an aura that had no precedent in the primordial heavens and the earth!

This aura was incredibly strange, elusive, and unpredictable.

No existence knew its origin, and no existence understood how it appeared.

It just suddenly appeared.

It just suddenly enveloped Luo Fan!

The vast and indomitable aura of Mount Buzhou seemed to be completely non-existent to this aura.

At the moment this aura enveloped his body, countless images and sounds appeared in Luo Fan's consciousness.

It seemed as if he were in a wondrous paradise, with mist swirling, immortals flying, and cranes responding...

In a moment, it seemed as if he were in a place of tenderness, with naked celestial maidens dancing seductively toward him, the air filled with fragrance and warmth...

In another moment, it seemed as if he were in a magnificent hall, with countless people bowing and shouting "Long live"...

In yet another moment, it seemed as if he had a large family, with filial children and virtuous grandchildren...

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All these countless images and sounds vividly presented all the fantasies, imaginations, and delusions that had ever appeared in Luo Fan's mind, and they were so real and lifelike!

At this moment, the incredibly stable space of the primordial heavens and the earth suddenly began to distort around Luo Fan.

After the distortion, thick black fog appeared out of nowhere, instantly enveloping Luo Fan's body.

Countless moans, chants, shouts, roars, screams, praises, and coos rolled out of the black fog...