Chapter 817 - 409: Wraith Princess, Martial Contest for Marriage
"The repair of Asura was even more difficult than that of the dominant one, as the latter’s physical form was damaged, but its spirit intelligence remained intact. Asura sustained damage to its spirit intelligence and its physical body was also harmed, making the repair substantially more challenging. It would require a certain amount of time. But now that I am whole, there will be no problem in assisting you to control and integrate their powers,"
"Okay, then I’ll trouble you with this."
After the Clear Moon Vast Ocean Spirit Furnace was completely repaired, its function as once the most powerful assistive spirit furnace began to show. For instance, if Long Dangdang were to use the Five Dragons Combine As One now, as he had during the Great Impartation Contest, it wouldn’t result in the situation where the energies repel each other, leaving only a single strike’s worth of power. It would be much more harmonious. The Vast Ocean could help him adjust various energies, reinforce himself, and fuse them more perfectly.
That is also why Long Dangdang waited to reenter the Devil Realm and only proceeded towards Calamity City after the Vast Ocean was fully repaired. Without the strength to challenge the 9th Rank, it wouldn’t be a nine in ten chance of death, but rather certain death.
Not lingering outside Wanning City any longer, after figuring out the function of the Soul Stone, Long Dangdang once again activated the Earth escape shuttle and continued to move deeper into the Wraith Kingdom.
In the following days, he would return to the surface once a day to scan the environment, but he wasn’t as lucky as before when he directly encountered Wanning City. Most of the time, he surfaced in the wilderness. Through observations of the celestial patterns, adjusting his direction, he was getting closer and closer to Calamity City.
The deeper he went into the Wraith Kingdom, the more Long Dangdang could feel the richness of the wraith energy in the air, a special kind of energy that can cause a sense of oppression in living creatures. The elements of other attributes weakened and became more difficult to absorb due to the influence of wraith energy. Luckily, Long Dangdang had the deep darkness attribute himself; the deep darkness attribute had some similarities to the wraith attribute, so darkness elements were still relatively abundant in the Wraith Kingdom, which he could use for cultivation and replenishment.
The Wraith Kingdom currently occupied about one-tenth of the entire continent. To cross the entire Wraith Kingdom, it would take a journey of about 3,000 kilometers. Thus, traveling the whole way with the Earth escape shuttle, it should take no more than six days in theory to arrive. But in practice, Long Dangdang took more time because when traveling underground, there were certain difficulties in direction estimation; it wasn’t possible to go in a straight line. Moreover, he wasn’t clear on the exact location of Calamity City. The map did not mark it precisely, giving only a rough area, so he had to search.
It was not until the seventh emergence from the ground that Long Dangdang once again found a city, one even larger in scale than Wanning City. Long Dangdang almost thought that this was Calamity City. However, when he saw the plaque above the city gate, he realized he was mistaken.