The Lord of Void and Real

Chapter 173: Chapter 171: Accidentally Entered the Three Star Cave

The Heaven Devouring Tiger, upon witnessing this, was hesitant to advance and quickly restrained its movements.

The traces of light around Shen Luo interlaced and transformed into a fuzzy white light ring that clung to his body, enclosing him within.

He only felt the rocks which had been cold and hard just now suddenly become warm and soft. His body involuntarily tilted inwards and he tumbled directly into the mountain wall.

The Heaven Devouring Tiger, startled, rushed forward, swinging its paw towards Shen Luo’s leg.

But at the moment Shen Luo collapsed, his legs involuntarily jerked upwards, narrowly avoiding the tiger’s claw. His entire body disappeared into the stone wall, leaving no trace.

It was at this instant that all traces of light on the cliff wall disappeared, returning everything to its original state.

Looking at the empty stone wall before it, the Heaven Devouring Tiger was still somewhat in disbelief. It roared violently, continuously swiping its paws against the mountain wall, causing it to vibrate ceaselessly.

But no matter how much it struggled, Shen Luo had plainly vanished in front of its eyes, no longer to be seen.

After a fruitless search, the Heaven Devouring Tiger vented its frustration on the stone wall, its terrifying aura gradually dissipating. It took a long time before it calmed down, staring at the surrounding cliffs for a moment before turning to leave.

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On the other hand, Shen Luo stumbled, his body surging forward uncontrollably almost causing him to tumble.

When he steadied himself and saw his current surroundings, he was completely dumbfounded.

He had thought that if he didn’t crash into the mountain wall, he would fall into the heart of the mountain. But what appeared before his eyes was a cliff.

Shen Luo glanced back to see a smooth stone wall a hundred feet high not far behind him. There were faint traces of stone carvings on it, but due to severe weathering, the inscriptions had become blurry.

Worried about Lang Pu’s safety, Shen Luo returned to the stone wall. He carefully extended his hand and touched the stone wall.

A cold, hard sensation pressed into his hand, but he could no longer pass through the wall.

“A real stone wall…”Shen Luo wondered while looking carefully at his surrounding cliff.

Finally, he noticed that the open cliff was suspended outside of the mountain peak, facing another protruding cliff from the opposite mountain wall. This was reminiscent of a broken bridge.

He walked slowly to the cliff’s edge, his clothes rustling in the wind. Looking down, all he saw were clouds and fog concealing the valley between the twin peaks, making it impossible to see the situation down below.

Shen Luo quickly redirected his gaze, looking across to the other side.

There was a mountain cave on the opposing cliff, at least a dozen feet away, partially obscured by a broken stone door studded with copper nails. The exposed area was pitch black, revealing nothing.

Moving his gaze, he saw a stone stele about three feet tall on the left side of the cave entrance. Although it was covered with spider-web-like cracks, it stood firm and intact. A few archaic large characters were clearly visible on it.

“Oblique Moon and Three Stars Cave, what kind of place is this?” Shen Luo couldn’t help but repeat aloud.

While he was wondering, he caught sight of distinct indentations on the mountain wall to the right of the cave, above and at an angle. Upon closer observation, he realized it was a huge handprint.

Shen Luo extended his palm for comparison and found the handprint unusually shaped. The five fingers were extraordinarily long, each joint exceptionally large, the palm lines vague. It didn’t look like a human hand.

He arrived at the cliff’s edge. With a slight movement of his mind, he began twisting his wrist in his sleeve. Specks of water then began to gather in the void, horizontally spanning between the two cliffs to form a transparent water bridge.

Shen Luo rose, his feet stepping on the water bridge, ripples spreading across the surface of the water as he calmly made his way across to the other side of the cliffside.

He stood on the edge of the cliff, looking up towards the two ancient stone doors. He observed that the studs set in the doors were already covered in green copper rust.

Both stone doors were severely slanted, the doorway no longer able to close properly, leaving an approximately one Zhang high and three feet wide gap in the middle. The inside was pitch black. Shen Luo walked closer to take a better look, but found that he still couldn’t see anything clearly.

“There’s no noise, not even a trace of wind is coming out?” He looked for a while, furrowing his brows slightly. He felt that something was unusual.

Then, Shen Luo closed his eyes for a while, and his sea of knowledge attained tranquility. His divine power began to disperse outwards. Guided by his heart and mind, he intentionally made an attempt to peek inside the cave entrance.

However, as his divine sense had just penetrated into the crack of the door, the space inside that ordinary eyes could only see as pitch black, suddenly burst forth with a dazzling white light that stabbed directly at his divine soul.

Shen Luo’s divine sense immediately felt a powerful impact, and quickly retreated back into his sea of knowledge.

“Uh…”

As he opened his eyes, he let out a muffled groan, then blacked out, tumbling onto the ground.

It took him a while to gradually regain his vision. He looked up towards the sky, feeling dizzy and unsteady.

Struggling to sit up, Shen Luo shook his head vigorously. The groggy feeling in his head gradually faded.

“Another prohibition…” Looking back at the two stone doors, he sighed softly.

This was his first encounter with a prohibition that could counter his divine sense. However, judging from the situation just now, the prohibition seemed to be damaged. Otherwise, with his current divine sense power, the damage would have been much more severe, and it wouldn’t have been easy for him to recover this quickly.

Shen Luo stood up, hesitated for a moment, but still approached the stone door. He raised his hand and felt inside the crack in the door, his palm immediately touched an invisible barrier his naked eye could not see.

The barrier felt somewhat resilient, unlike the cold, hard stone wall.

Furrowing his brow, Shen Luo suddenly activated his mana, his hand exerting a sudden force, pressing violently towards the inside.

This time, a blurry white light lit up inside the stone door. Just as Shen Luo wanted to retract his hand, a force bounced back out, causing his body to shake and he flew backwards.

Quickly sinking his body, he heavily stomped downwards, managing to steady himself just before he would have fallen off the cliff.

“Since there is a prohibition, there should be a way to break it, I just don’t know where the mechanism to break it is?” Standing at the edge of the cliff, Shen Luo stroked his chin thoughtfully. @@novelbin@@

His gaze once again encompassed the entire cliff, his eyes falling once more on the gigantic palm print.

“Could it be…” Shen Luo hesitated for a moment.

Suddenly, he leapt up, activating his Yang Gang Qi, and using his Qingyang Hand to deliver a powerful slam onto the giant palm print.

With a “bang”, the entire cliffside shuddered slightly, a layer of fallen leaves and loose dirt shaking off.

Shen Luo landed and didn’t find any sign of the stone door opening. Instead, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a faint glow appearing on the stone stele standing next to the cave entrance.

He walked over to the stone stele that read “Oblique Moon and Three Stars Cave”, and carefully observed it. The stele was full of cracks, giving it a battered appearance, but he did not find anything unusual.