Chapter 2260: News Spreading, Core Zone Established

Following half of the Yellow Peak Region vanishing into an abyss and the few survivors who had witnessed what had happened running away without looking back, nothing much changed for those who lived around the now missing half of the Yellow Peak Region. The erasure itself didn’t cause much more than a mild shaking that was no different than a normal earthquake. Drawing little attention from the mortals living in the region.

Even the cultivators who had realized something was happening and were still busy trying to leave the Yellow Peak Region didn’t find out about half of the region disappearing before a caravan formed by cultivators moving together out of safety to get out of the Yellow Peak Region found themselves faced with the seemingly endless abyss that stretched as far as the eye could see.

"This... What is this...?" Even the leader of the caravan, a senior figure at the Nascent Soul Realm, couldn’t help quietly muttering this to himself after using both his enhanced eyesight and divine sense to try and grasp the size of the abyss that had appeared before them. Only to end up stunned upon discovering he couldn’t see the end of the abyss.

The most shocking scene he could barely see by staring into the abyss was a few smaller spatial anomalies. Spatial anomalies that to someone in the Nascent Soul Realm looked more horrifying than anything he had ever witnessed in his life. After all, though considered small spatial anomalies, these kinds of spatial anomalies had more than enough strength to easily tear apart someone at the Soul Ascension Realm, let alone a little Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.

"L-Let’s go to Northern Central Region instead..."

"Y-y-yeah, I don’t think moving deeper into the Western Central Region like we originally planned is a good idea."

"I-I agree, the Northern Central Region is also an easier place to make a living with our limited strength."

And although they didn’t witness the spatial anomaly that the leader at the Nascent Soul Realm saw, it didn’t take long before everyone wholeheartedly agreed to change direction and head towards the Northern Central Region instead of moving deeper in the Western Central Region like they had originally been planning on doing.

"...The Northern Central Region it is..." Faced with the voices of those behind him, the Nascent Soul Realm cultivator who ultimately had the final say, slowly nodded his head in agreement with everyone else. Earning the approval of those below him.

Rustle~

Not wasting a single second after the decision had been made, the caravan of around a hundred cultivators turned around and began heading back the way they had come.

It was from this caravan and others like it that found themselves encountering the newly formed abyss, that news of a massive abyss replacing a large section of the Yellow Peak Region began spreading amongst the weaker cultivators of the Western Central Region and beyond.

For the stronger cultivators who had sensed when the abyss had been formed by the ancient formation self-destructing, they had long since begun heading in the direction of the Western Central Region in far greater numbers compared to the few that had set out when information on the collapse of the ancient formation had first reached the Southern Central Region.

If not for the chaos that was still very much present within the Southern Central Region, the disturbance would undoubtedly have drawn out everyone whose strength reached the Celestial Immortal Realm. After all, the disturbance itself had clearly been caused by a power surpassing the Profound Immortal Realm and any chance to encounter this kind of power was a chance to potentially glimpse a path forward.

By the time that the caravan of cultivators had arrived at the edge of the newly formed abyss, the first few of these powerful figures from the Southern Central Region had already arrived and started investigating the abyss in attempt to figure out if there was anything of value within the abyss.

Unfortunately for them, the spatial anomalies that had been left behind were far too powerful even for those whose strength had reached a level comparable to the Star Creation Realm. Forcing most to give up once they got too close to the center of the abyss where the Starfall Observatory had originally been located.

Normally, this would have been enough to satiate the curiosity of those who had come from the Southern Central Region, as there was no way for them to get any closer to the core of the abyss, but, through some unknown circumstance, part of the Starfall Observatory had managed to survive the self-destruction of the endless paths guardian formation.

The section in question being a small part of the larger observatory that stored part of the scriptures and other texts that was part of the Void Observation Branch’s inheritance.

Important or not, the fact that part of the Void Observation Branch’s inheritance had survived was more than enough for those who might have originally wanted to leave to remain in place trying to get their hands on this surviving inheritance.

Problem was... The section of the Starfall Observatory that had survived the self-destruction, wasn’t floating around somewhere easily accessible, but instead seemed to have been trapped within the spatial anomaly that had formed at the very center of the abyss, a place that even the different powerful figures from the Southern Central Region didn’t dare enter. Having witnessed firsthand how someone at the Star Creation Realm had attempted to approach, only to get torn apart a second later, barely escaping alive thanks to a powerful lifesaving artifact that was lost in the process.

From having originally wandered around the abyss searching for opportunities, these powerful figures at the Star Creation Realm ultimately ended up finding themselves gathered around the center of the abyss where the surviving section of the Starfall Observatory silently floated in place. Unable to do anything but watch the different closed scriptures and books within that cut-off section of the observatory.

Although unaware of what might be hidden within those scrolls and books, it didn’t stop them from imagining anything from a full dao rune blueprint covering everything from the start of the Star Creation Realm to the Peak of the realm to a clear path leading to the Venerable Realm.

The longer they found themselves waiting at the edge of what had by now been dubbed the core zone of the abyss, the more fantastic the imagination of these people became.

But waiting forever around wasn’t something they could do. Especially with the Southern Central Region still in chaos.

So, as days slowly shifted into weeks trying to figure out a way to obtain those precious scrolls and books to no avail, the first few who had arrived the earliest began leaving.

The slow abandonment of the broken off section of the Starfall Observatory was understandable and something that was bound to happen with time, but just as these powerful figures began to slowly take their leave from the abyss without obtaining anything, a change to place within the core zone-

Thud~

Unknown to everyone, a small piece of rubble belonging to the observatory had managed to move through the deadly core zone before colliding with one of the books that had already been about to fall off the cracked bookshelf it had been placed on. Dislodging the book and sending it flying out of the broken section of the Starfall Observatory.

"""..."""

The sudden change almost immediately caused the ones surrounding the place outside to freeze, as everyone gathered again to watch the book as it slowly drifted through the deadly core zone of the abyss. Continuing its slow journey forward for another week before it got close enough to the edge of the core zone that one of the Star Creation Realm cultivators who had reached the Small Success Realm in the Dao of Space could grab it and bring it out.

Understandably, it had already been decided amongst every present to share whatever was within this book with everyone. Ensuring a peaceful cooperation as everyone got an opportunity to assess the value of the books and scrolls that had managed to survive within the core zone of the abyss...

"D-d-d-d-dao rune blueprint! And a complete one!"

And it didn’t take long before every single one of the Star Creation Realm cultivators was overcome by excitement reading through the book that had been brought out.

Not only was it a dao rune blueprint, but it was of such detail and complexity that it would be of immense benefit to their own cultivation and creation of dao runes no matter how far along they were.

As for the dao rune blueprint itself merely being for the first dao rune? None of this mattered, as the blueprint of the dao rune itself served as important research material that would make it easier for them to make their own in the future burrowing some of the principles used in this dao rune blueprint.

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