Chapter 156: Through the spatial rift.
Guo Luo looked at the black rift that had sucked up Yao Jun, biting her lips so hard that she drew blood. Once more he had pushed her away, once more he had worried that she was too weak, once more he had chosen to bear everything himself. While Guo Luo was agonizing over the fact that she was once again unable to follow Yao Jun, the regal voice of the titanic bird rang out once again.
“Now that the Successor has left, there is no longer a need for any of you to be here.”
After his voice rang out, the bird flapped his wings, causing a ripple to move through the area. Wherever the ripple passed, any spatial storms and spatial distortions completely vanished. Everyone touched by the ripple felt their bodies become weightless, quickly being thrown through space and out of the hidden realm. After the ripple had passed through the entire hidden realm, the only human left in the hidden realm was Guo Luo, still standing in the same spot and biting her lips. The bird turned its eyes towards Guo Luo, his voice ringing out once more.
“Little illusion god. Because of your relationship with the Successor, I will let you choose where I send you.”
Guo Luo raised her head and looked at the bird flying in the air above her, a glimmer of hope appearing in her eyes. Since he had the power to send everyone out of this space, surely he could send her through space after Yao Jun.
“Can you send me to Jun'er?”
The bird did not immediately respond, instead sending a stream of energy into Guo Luo's body, healing her wounds. After he healed her wounds, he shook his large head and crushed Guo Luo's hopes.
“To the location of the Successor? Impossible. Traveling to that spatial rift can bring him anywhere in this wide universe. If he were to end up on one of the closer planets, it would still be possible, but that is not the case here. He has only been inside it for a short few seconds, but he has already moved out of the range of my senses, sending you to him is impossible.”
Even at his level of power, teleporting to some of the closer planets was all he could do. Since Yao Jun had already moved out of the range of his senses, it meant that he had already traveled past all the closest planets. After hearing the words of the bird, Guo Luo could not help but look at him with somewhat aggrieved eyes.
“Senior, why didn't you stop him from falling into the spatial rift? It should be fairly easy with your power.”
Guo Luo refused to believe that he couldn't have saved Yao Jun before he fell into the spatial rift, he did manage to send something to Yao Jun right before he fell into the spatial rift after all. The bird looked at Guo Luo with its lofty eyes, a slight disdain noticeable in his voice as he spoke up.
“My duty is not to save him, it is to help him grow. He is the future Demon God, staying on this planet will only harm him. Only through adversity and struggle can he become someone worthy of that title. Little illusion god, tell me where you want to send me.”
Guo Luo could do nothing but lower her head slightly. Just like the bird said, his duty was not to save Yao Jun, it had no obligation to help him. After thinking it over for a short moment, Guo Luo raised her head and spoke out.
“Can you send me to a place called Golden Moon Town?”
Yao Jun had several times told her where Golden Moon Town was, and she had also seen the map of this continent several times. So while she spoke, she drew up the map, pointing at the location of Golden Moon Town. Yao Jun was gone, so it was up to her to go and meet up with his parents. The bird nodded his head, another ripple passing through space as he spoke.
“As you wish.”
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While Guo Luo was being sent out of the hidden realm, Yao Jun was still traveling through the spatial rift. The inside of the spatial rift looked like a blurry blend of colors that flashed past Yao Jun at high speeds. By the time he entered the spatial rift, he had already overdrawn his energy and was severely wounded, so Yao Jun was barely conscious, only barely able to notice what was happening around him.
Since he was traveling through a rift in space, he was constantly bombarded by shattered fragments of space and slicing winds that came about from moving so fast, only further worsening his injuries. His interspatial ring had shattered, his clothing completely disintegrated, his body fatally wounded. But Yao Jun did not die.
Floating inside his Demon God's Gate was an orb of blood that was almost three meters in diameter. The orb was releasing small amounts of blood out of his Demon God's Gate and into his body, nourishing it and slowly healing his injuries, preventing him from being torn apart. But the orb of blood was not only nourishing his body, most of the blood was being used to nourish Little Gray, who was resting underneath the orb of blood.
As more and more blood started to enter Little Gray's body, his previously gray feathers were starting to take on a silvery color, his strength slowly rising as more and more blood gathered around him, forming a cocoon that enveloped him.
After traveling through the spatial rift for an unknown amount of time, Yao Jun felt like he heard a distant cracking sound, the blend of colors around him giving way for an all encompassing blue. Just as he was wondering what was going on, he felt his own body fall into something liquid.
He tried to look at his surroundings, but he did not even have the energy to move his eyes. He had left the space rift, but his body was still riddled with horrific injuries. The healing that the orb of blood provided him had also slowed down significantly, more and more of the blood being funneled into the cocoon that surrounded Little Gray.
With the orb of blood slowing down the speed of the healing process, Yao Jun slowly became unable to keep himself conscious, his eyelids growing heavier and heavier. He felt something dry, almost like a cluster of dust, land on his face, but before he managed to even wonder what it was, his consciousness slipped away and he sank into darkness.