The Era of Gods
Chapter 438 - 438 Trap

Chapter 438: Chapter 438 Trap

The journey through the void without a specific target continued, a required process for those arriving from a different domain.

Very few people could replace a valuable plane on their first attempt; it always involved drifting and searching in the void until one day, a valuable plane would suddenly appear.

And this usually took years to occur.

Since leaving the last marked plane known as “Grey Mist,” they had not encountered any planes for a whole two months.

Along the way, they had twice detected points of light that seemed like planes, alongside over ten unknown signals.

One of the suspected plane signals disappeared into thin air after following its direction for a while, with no clue as to why, and upon drawing closer to the other, they guessed it was likely a trap through traces and clues, so they simply turned away.

As for those more than ten unknown signals, they ignored them completely.

In the Void, signals usually meant one of two things: either a malicious entity intentionally emitted them, much like a trap,

or they were summoning signals.

This Crystal Wall Universe was typical in having a multitude of extraordinary creatures; many beings discovered across its planes possessed class spell-like extraordinary abilities, not least among them the ability to summon beings from the unknown Void.

Normally, responding to a summoning to an unknown plane is a good method for replaceing planes.

However, once a summoning is answered, according to the rules of the Crystal Wall System, you must abide by the summoning laws, and the most common is to obey the summoner’s commands, and you’ll return after the summoning ends.

Perhaps if the summoned is strong enough, they can resist the rules and not follow orders—a Demigod can barely do so.

But the prerequisite for resistance is that the summoner is not too powerful; if the summoner is overwhelmingly strong, like a Sixth Level Transcendental or higher, they can withstand a Demigod’s backlash and forcibly banish the summoned back under the world’s rule enhancements.

And to send a summoning signal into the depths of the void, the summoner must be quite powerful; hence, those who are summoned are more or less powerless.

If they were just summoned to serve as brawlers, with their strength, they could overpower the opposition or forcefully sever the summoning to escape. But if they encountered a summoner with ulterior motives, like using them as experimental material, that would be a real pitfall.

Therefore, one of the rules of void adventure warns not to respond to summons lightly.

Of course, while summoning signals carry great risks, if one is trapped in a desperate situation in the Void, it’s not entirely unthinkable to use them to escape mortal danger temporarily.

If you’re unlucky, you’re dead anyway, you might as well take a chance.

If you’re lucky and the summoner isn’t powerful, you might use your strength to stay on the summoner’s plane and thus escape danger.

In the fourth month, they found traces of another plane.

Approaching cautiously, they discovered it was a small, valueless, uninhabited plane.

Like most barren planets in the cosmos, this was a plane where the air was filled with gases unsuitable for organisms to survive, mostly barren earth, with occasional lightning and terrible storms creating devastating lightning storms across the land.

This plane had no value, not even mining was worth the labor cost, and thus the Flying Snake No. merely did a half-circle around the plane before departing.

Then…

After waiting a full year, they met no trace of any plane, and even the summoning signals in the void were scarce. They knew the Flying Snake No. should be between one group of planes and another, and they had to cross this section of void to see new planes.

The lengthy journey through the void was incredibly boring. Lin Xiao cleared one chamber of the Flying Snake No. and, through the Creation Rubik’s Cube, communicated with his True Body and transported a set of magical experimental apparatus from the Divine Realm.

With nothing else to do, he and his girlfriend began learning the spell system and practicing alchemy and magical equipment manufacturing related to spells, to be able to disguise their identities later on.

This Crystal Wall System hadn’t discovered a unique power system yet; they had already found several power systems from other Crystal Wall Systems, such as Mage, Knight, and so forth, which are very common, including Indigenous Gods with Divine Enthronement beliefs.

Showing off Divine Power while exploring a new plane is too ostentatious and can easily alert the Plane Will, but if disguised as a Mage, it’s less likely to be noticed.

When there was something to do, the long stretch of time didn’t feel so endless.

Deep in the unknown Void, an orb of light, after crossing the vastness, neared a plane emanating a faint greenish glow of life.

A young schoolmate standing inside the orb, seeing that it was a real plane, smiled tiredly and accelerated toward the plane.

As they approached the Plane Crystal Wall, the golden glow from the orb slowly diminished and finally vanished completely, leaving it a plain, transparent sphere that landed on the colossal Plane Crystal Wall.

The plane seemed quite vast, its spectrum exuding a rich breath of life, looking very much like a life-sustaining planet from the outside.

Leng Wuyun lay on the Plane Crystal Wall, his right hand emitting invisible, slowly twisting waves pressed down and penetrated it. His will traveled through the Plane Crystal Wall, and his sight was immediately filled with a lush green, endless forests covered his entire view.

That rich breath of life, that flourishing vegetation, those active birds and beasts.

“This…”

From just the first glance, it was enough to determine that this was a very valuable life plane, and the plane was not small in size, meeting at least the specifications of a medium-sized dimension.

A medium-sized, high-quality life plane was a discovery that could make him stand out.

Once he established a spatial waypoint and returned to the outpost base, whether he sold the coordinates to the military or to senior students, he could get a good price for it.

Yes, any valuable planes they discovered in the void that they were the first to replace belonged to them. They could develop it themselves or sell the coordinates for a good price.

“Could it be that my fortunes are about to change, Leng Wuyun?”

He observed his surroundings excitedly, withdrew his consciousness, and quickly flew around the edge of the plane’s Crystal Wall, looking for any marks left by others or other anomalies.

If there were marks left by others, it meant that the plane was already owned or had been discovered by someone else. According to the rules, he couldn’t take it.

Since this Crystal Wall System was exclusive to Radiance, there were no outsiders. All of those who could come in to explore were from Radiance, either military, classmates, seniors, or other related forces. Strictly speaking, they were all part of the same group and absolutely not to be contested over.

Leng Wuyun flew and prayed, muttering under his breath:

“Please, let there be none, please let there be none!”

As he circled the entire plane at a very fast speed, his expression grew increasingly joyful. He hadn’t found any trace or anomaly along the way, meaning he was the first to discover this plane. As long as he entered the plane and successfully established a spatial waypoint to return, the plane would be his.

With this in mind, he eagerly found a spot to forcibly tear open a gap in the plane’s Crystal Wall and dived in.

However, not long after he penetrated the plane’s Crystal Wall, ripples began to shrink inward at the point of his entry. A pale green halo accumulated, and slowly a voluptuous woman adorned with emerald green leaves barely covering her skin emerged; she looked in the direction where Leng Wuyun disappeared with a hint of… the joy a hunter feels upon seeing its prey, and then she slowly sank down.

The moment she sank, the pale green light brimming with the breath of life on the surface of the plane slowly began to change, turning into a deeper shade of green, and quickly became a dark green. Like flames, it started to burn with a strange dark green fire.

Somewhere above a forest within the plane, Leng Wuyun looked at the slightly different scene before him and fell into deep thought.

Before, he had seen a vast and flourishing forest teeming with birds and beasts, full of vigor.

The forest he saw now was also vast and thriving, with many birds and beasts, vibrant with life.

But this vibrancy was markedly different from what he had previously observed. Most bizarrely, the birds and beasts in the forest seemed different from those he had seen before.

The birds and beasts he had seen earlier were ordinary, whereas now, he saw a myriad of peculiar and strange birds and beasts.

For example, giant birds with various exotic beast heads and human-like torsos, whose wings were like those of bats, with human arms growing at the joints.

Beasts with human heads and animal bodies, or other oddly shaped creatures standing upright on two legs, and so on.

Most bizarrely, these exotic beasts didn’t seem to have come about through natural reproduction but rather seemed like hybrids of various life forms. Leng Wuyun sensed a strange and similar aura emanating from these creatures.

This bizarre aura was present in all the birds and exotic beasts he had seen, almost permeating the entire plane, causing him to hesitate to land.

He tried flying a few thousand kilometers above the ground, and all he saw was an endless forest. This plane seemed to consist only of forest with no other landscapes.

When he reached the edge of the plane, a towering mountain appeared before him. Just as Leng Wuyun was about to examine the green-covered peak, he suddenly saw tendrils of pale green fog emerging from within the mountain, spreading like waves in all directions.

He was about to fly lower to collect some of the pale green fog for study when he noticed that the creatures in the forests surrounding the mountain began to mate frantically like they were out of their minds as soon as they were enveloped by the fog.

Ignoring time, place, and even race, bears with cats, tigers with large birds, and so on—any encounter would lead to frenzied mating.

“What the hell!”

Startled, he quickly retreated and rose higher.

“This world is too strange; I can’t stay here any longer.”

A vague sense of alarm in his heart made Leng Wuyun somewhat apprehensive, and he promptly turned to leave.

However, as he extended his hands to gather Divine Power and reach into the void, a green light flickered, and then a gust of extremely dense green fog burst forth from the torn space, directly into his face, quickly corroding his protective Divine Power.

“Damn it! It’s toxic.”

Even though he reacted quickly and unleashed a Divine Power Burst to blow the green fog away, some of it managed to penetrate the barrier of his protective Divine Power and touched him, merging into his body without even being inhaled.

Then, he felt his consciousness starting to drift away, realizing he had been affected.

He quickly discovered that it wasn’t poison. Normal poison couldn’t affect a demigod, let alone an Incarnation of God. It was more like a mixture of Divine Power and rules, but not exactly Divine Power. Possessing extreme penetrative and influential power, it could actually affect his will, gradually eroding his senses. He quickly fell into drowsiness.

In a hazy state, he seemed to see an extremely beautiful goddess gracefully walking towards him.