Chapter 152: The Place He Was In, Void Sacred Realm!

Gu Fan felt helpless. As his spiritual sense swept across the surroundings, he discovered that although he couldn't manipulate spiritual power, his spiritual sense was unaffected.

This was a blessing amidst misfortune; otherwise, Gu Fan would have essentially been blind right now.

He first looked at the rope wrapped around his hands, then exerted a slight force with his physical body. In the next moment, with a snap, the seemingly tenacious rope shattered instantly.

"This kind of thing might not even be able to restrain a Spirit Sea Realm cultivator. It seems that woman's strength is average at best. But why can't I sense her spiritual power?"

Gu Fan found it a bit strange but didn’t dwell on it.

As for the woman’s threat for him to stay put, of course he wouldn’t obediently comply.

Who knew what kind of trouble would arise upon her return.

Gu Fan’s physical strength was currently overwhelming, but with no spiritual power, he couldn’t even manage basic flight.

Though he remained strong in melee combat, if his opponent were to fly high into the air, he could only be beaten passively from the ground.

Moreover, he was a bit worried that this place might belong to some force hostile to the Brahma God Sect.

Most importantly, since arriving in the Upper Realm, he had never heard of any race with horns growing out of their heads.

"Could this be some extremely remote place on the Destiny Continent? If there’s no Teleportation Array, walking back might take a hundred years..."

While worrying about his situation, Gu Fan began to investigate around the backyard.

After a round of searching, he found that aside from a large hot water pool, there was nothing particularly special here—nor was there a single person in sight.

So he gathered his courage and climbed over the wall to leave. Before long, he arrived at a rather dilapidated courtyard, where he encountered the second person he had seen since arriving.

It was a young man, who looked quite down and out.

At this moment, however, the youth seemed to be cultivating a certain technique. Gu Fan saw the technique circulate, and streams of energy from the air slowly gathered and were absorbed by him.

But when Gu Fan saw this scene, his expression became strange—for the technique was not absorbing spiritual power!

No—that was not it! It was that this space simply lacked spiritual power entirely!

Gu Fan's heart trembled, and his expression changed dramatically!

Just now, because he couldn’t manipulate spiritual power, he had misjudged his perception of it!

He had thought he simply couldn’t draw spiritual energy from the air, but in reality, there was no spiritual energy present in the air at all!

Instead, it was a different kind of special energy—this very substance being cultivated and absorbed by the youth before him!

"How could this be! Isn’t spiritual energy supposed to be everywhere? Why would it vanish?"

Gu Fan muttered to himself, feeling as though his entire worldview had collapsed.

Even in the Lower Realm, where spiritual energy was scarce, its presence could still be genuinely felt.

But now, he couldn’t sense any at all. No wonder he couldn’t mobilize the spiritual power in his body—turns out the problem wasn’t with him, but with this world having no spiritual power to begin with!

At once, Gu Fan no longer cared about revealing himself. He climbed over the wall into the courtyard, and before the youth could react, slapped a palm onto his shoulder.

The youth’s expression changed drastically. That palm didn’t contain any mysterious power, yet it pinned him to the ground immovably!

"Who are you? Why are you in the Servants' Courtyard?!"

Gu Fan’s gaze flickered slightly. Upon hearing the term 'Servants' Courtyard', he immediately deduced a general idea of the youth’s identity.

A servant looked down upon by his clan, struggling to cultivate and change his destiny in the future...

Hmm... this had the makings of a protagonist template.

The corners of Gu Fan’s mouth lifted into a smile as he said:

"Don’t be nervous. If I wanted to kill you, you’d already be dead. I just have a few questions I want to ask. Is that alright?"

The young man thought about it and found it reasonable. He was just an ordinary servant—what was there about him that anyone would care about? Even the cultivation technique he used was something he had pieced together after secretly listening to others talk about it.

The fact that he had managed to cultivate safely until now was already a stroke of luck.

“Who are you, what do you want from me, and why have I never seen you before!”

The youth’s gaze was resolute, carrying a hint of sharpness, and he stared at Gu Fan without the slightest fear.

“Of course you haven’t seen me. That’s because I only just accidentally got lost and ended up here. As for my question, it’s actually quite simple.”

While Gu Fan spoke, the youth’s eyes widened in shock upon hearing his words.

Then he asked dumbfoundedly, “You’re saying you snuck in here?”

Gu Fan lightly coughed and corrected with a serious face:

“Passed by. Not snuck in. I’m innocent!”

The youth’s expression turned pale at once, and he urged in a low voice:

“You better leave quickly! This is Dragon People territory, and this household is one of the three great families of the Dragon People. We humanoid beings here either have a powerful backer and they don’t dare mess with us, or we’re like me—without any backing—caught and forced into slavery!”

Gu Fan’s heart sank again. Dragon People.

He truly had never heard of those three words before. It seemed this place really was some extremely remote region of the Destiny Continent.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gone all this time in the sect without ever hearing of such a race.

“No worries. You don’t need to be concerned about that. Instead, I have a few questions. If you help me answer them, I’ll give you a bit of reward.”

Seeing how calm Gu Fan was, the youth also relaxed—after all, if the person involved wasn’t worried, why should he be?

“Alright then. My name’s Jun Li. If you have questions, ask quickly. Then you should leave. I’m only advising you out of consideration since we’re both humanoid beings.”

“Don’t worry. What I want to ask is, what is the energy you were absorbing just now during your cultivation? And why is there no spiritual power here?”

Jun Li paused, then once again summoned the mysterious energy he had absorbed just now onto his palm.

“You mean this? This is called Mysterious Power. Don’t tell me you don’t even know that? Are you a mortal or something?”

Gu Fan’s expression turned odd.

“Everyone here cultivates this stuff?”

“What else? Doesn’t your hometown absorb Mysterious Power too?”

Gu Fan pondered for a moment, then took out a Seven-colored Yuan Crystal Stone and said:

“I’ve seen someone cultivate by absorbing the energy within this stone. Do you know what this is?”

He didn’t say it was something he had personally used—just in case.

Jun Li took the Yuan Crystal Stone, carefully felt it, and then showed a disgusted expression.

“Isn’t this Degenerate Energy? Who would cultivate with this junk? Even though it’s technically energy, whether it’s us humanoid beings or the Dragon People and other exotic races, absorbing it would damage our meridians and internal organs. It’s absolutely unusable for cultivation!”

After speaking, he looked at Gu Fan and laughed:

“You didn’t get tricked into buying this thing for a fortune, did you? That’s all a scam—no one cultivates with Degenerate Energy!”

Gu Fan paused for a moment, then laughed heartily:

“Seems I really was foolish. I actually got duped by such a crude trick. What a pity!”

After that, Gu Fan clasped his fists again and said:

“One last question. What is this place? I’ve been wandering for too long and got lost. I don’t know where I’ve ended up.”

“This is Wanlin City in the southern region of the Cangyuan Continent. It’s just a small city, really.”

Jun Li replied. Then he saw Gu Fan’s expression turn stiff, as if he had just heard something very unpleasant.

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