Eighty-One Supreme Divine Abilities

Luoyu nestled in Qin Yue’s arms, the two of them huddled together at the very front of the procession, drifting lazily toward Heaven-Defying Palace. Only after the brawl did they realize the two sects lay surprisingly close; for cultivators, they were practically neighbors.

Luoyu beamed. “You thought I was dead, didn’t you?”

Qin Yue tightened his embrace. “Yes.”

Luoyu pressed on. “Were you heartbroken?”

Qin Yue replied softly, “Yes.”

Luoyu crowed with pride, “Last time I fell for an illusion and thought you’d died—I was devastated. Now we’re even! Wait, you called people over, but why didn’t the Cat come? I died and she didn’t care at all?!”

Qin Yue rested his chin atop Luoyu’s head, muffled, “I only sent word for the Fanged Ghosts to bring some people... How could I let the family know…”

Seeing his dejected look, Luoyu felt a mix of tender pity and secret joy. He turned and hugged Qin Yue, patting his back as one would comfort a child. “It’s alright! Brother survived disaster—good fortune must follow. Hey, do you know how I came back alive? Guess, guess!”

Qin Yue blinked. “The teleportation array worked—you were sent elsewhere, then brought back?”

Luoyu’s eyes sparkled. “Wrong! Let me tell you—at the critical moment, I awakened my innate divine power!”

Qin Yue realized, “The Phoenix clan’s innate power… teleportation?”

Luoyu nodded excitedly. “You could say so! Do you know how teleportation works? Let me explain: it’s tearing through space, slipping inside, then emerging from the other end.”

Qin Yue, face impassive, said, “When you came out, you were so slow—it’s hardly teleportation…”

Luoyu laughed awkwardly, “Uh, still not very practiced… I’ll get better with time! Let me tell you what happened…”

And so Luoyu launched into a vivid recounting of his ordeal.

Transformed into the phoenix, he was sucked into a black hole. In his panic, his latent abilities surged, yet he was not torn apart by the black hole. He felt a dizzying rush, then a force shoved him, and when he regained his senses, he was in the vacuum beyond Earth’s atmosphere—blue Earth below, weightless.

Luoyu was terrified: Was he dead? If so, why did he still have thoughts and a whole body, with no discomfort? That familiar sight—wasn’t it Earth? Had he been teleported here in an instant? Didn’t everyone else who entered the black hole perish? He’d seen them reduced to nothing—so how had he survived? And why hadn’t his body exploded in the vacuum?

He scrutinized himself: What was different?

Lifting his wings, he examined them for a long while before he noticed a strange energy wave enveloping his body, isolating him from the vacuum. This layer was what protected him from the immense pressure differential. Instantly, Luoyu thought of the Phoenix’s innate power—teleportation. The Phoenix was the swiftest of divine birds. To be precise, Luoyu belonged to the sub-species called Yuanqu, while the Qingluan was the fastest among Phoenixes—legend had it Queen Mother of the West kept one to deliver messages. Though Yuanqu weren’t as fast as Qingluan, they still possessed the teleportation ability.

“Teleportation” and “high-speed movement” are actually two distinct concepts. In our world, there are “space” and “void.” Space is essentially an “energy-covered domain.” Like water, it has tension, and when torn, it can self-repair. If you move your hand quickly through water, a temporary low-pressure “vacuum” forms behind it, before water rushes in to fill the gap. Space is similar. In the universe, the fastest natural substance is light, and “light speed” is the maximum attainable velocity. Exceeding light speed is like tearing water—creating vacuum. But when “space” is torn, it isn’t vacuum that forms, but “void.” Space’s tension then acts to repair itself, drawing in all matter, breaking it down into spatial energy to fill the void—thus, the devouring black holes, or what cultivators call “spatial rifts.”

Luoyu didn’t quite understand the origin of black holes, but ignorance didn’t stop him from using them. He figured, his sudden appearance beyond the atmosphere must have been due to the teleportation array... But how did an incomplete array send him there? That remained a mystery.

His immediate concern: How to get back?

No air in the vacuum meant he couldn’t fly, only survive by consuming spiritual energy—a temporary solution. He couldn’t identify the exact nature of the energy surrounding him, but since Phoenixes could teleport, and he appeared here without a spatial array, it must mean he could breach space himself. But how was it done?

He recalled his experience in the black hole: He’d screamed, feathers bristled and trembled, spiritual energy surged chaotically... The energy layer resembled spiritual sense, but also contained magical power and other odd waves... What energies had protected him? Electromagnetic waves? Brainwaves? It seemed to be a mix generated by his magical power and feather friction... Too complex—let’s call it “magical magnetic waves.” This must be what allowed him to traverse the black hole—if even black holes couldn’t harm him, what else could? Time to test teleportation!

According to the teleportation scroll, two points must be set, and arrays on both ends activated simultaneously to enable teleportation. How to set the points? Luoyu expanded his spiritual sense—success! It could define a range even in vacuum, making it easy to choose a destination. But how to mark the destination? Spiritual sense couldn’t transmit magical power, only monitor—it was more like thought or brainwave... Wait, could it transmit his “magical magnetic waves”?

He tried channeling magical power through his feathers, and sure enough, the magnetic waves strengthened—he only now realized their existence, suggesting they rivaled spiritual sense in rank. He attempted to send some “magical magnetic waves” via spiritual sense—it worked flawlessly, instantaneously reaching the destination—perhaps because within spiritual sense, “distance” doesn’t exist.

Once the magnetic waves arrived at the destination, Luoyu placed some around himself and tried operating them simultaneously. Instantly, he felt a resonance between the two—perhaps because of identical wavelengths. The resonance caused the two points to attract each other, distorting and warping the space nearby, stretching toward one another, and then fusing to form a stable spatial channel—though it sounds slow, the distance was negligible compared to light speed, so it happened nearly instantly.

Though Luoyu couldn’t see the invisible channel, he saw the marked point transform into an ultra-thin energy sheet, through which different scenery appeared—was this the spatial gate?

He tried poking a tail feather through—no danger—then plunged in entirely... teleportation successful!

Overjoyed, he continued marking points and teleporting, eventually setting a point at the edge of his spiritual sense and resonating the magnetic waves, instantly arriving at his target—this truly was teleportation! If he reached the Golden Core stage, wouldn’t his teleportation range increase tenfold? Marvelous!

Luoyu teleported eagerly, and after much effort returned to Mother Earth’s embrace—his luck held; the spatial rift had just absorbed him when his magnetic waves bounced him out, otherwise he might have been lost in outer space. The magnetic waves had also disrupted the black hole, accidentally sealing it and saving Qin Yue and Xuan Jing.

Burning with anxiety, Luoyu teleported back to the ruins, searched for ages but saw no one, unsure how Qin Yue fared. He thought: If Qin Yue was safe, he’d surely go to settle accounts with Yun Jingdan; if not, Luoyu would do so himself! So he hurried to Xue Tingyuan, arriving just in time to save a crowd.

Qin Yue listened to Luoyu’s tale, chills running through him, only hugging Luoyu tightly: If he hadn’t become the Phoenix, he’d never have returned.

Luoyu nestled obediently in his arms, utterly at peace, basking in warmth.

The couple returned to Heaven-Defying Palace, handed a large sum of spirit stones to Luoli, and together with her, conducted a grand reward ceremony for their subordinates in the main hall, followed by a celebratory banquet for the entire palace.

After feasting, the couple and the Cat swaggered into Moon-Embracing Villa, a private Lu family domain, normally off-limits to subordinates—even Father Chu and the old master stayed here when they visited.

The three entered the main hall to inventory their spoils: Spirit stones, immortal stones, divine jades piled like mountains; the materials from the artifact chamber were all precious. Luoyu sorted through the spirit jade bottles—mostly high-grade pills, unnecessary for now. The jade boxes held, aside from a few spirit herbs, rare and coveted artifact materials. As Luoyu opened one box, his eyes widened. “Look! Is this Void Stone?”

The other two hurried over. Inside lay a chunk the size of a sea bowl, metallic yet stony, astonishingly heavy, and its movement subtly twisted the space around it.

“Ah-ha!” Luoli snatched the stone, delighted. “It must be! Let’s forge a portable space—this chunk’s big enough for a whole courtyard!”

Luoyu cackled, “All the treasures we rob can be stored in that courtyard—no one will ever steal them, ha-ha-ha!”

Qin Yue deadpanned, “There’s no spiritual energy in the courtyard—how will you survive?”

Since ancient times, spaces forged from Void Stone were isolated from external space—no air, effectively a “vacuum.” Thus, spirit herbs had to be sealed in jade boxes before storage, lest they lose too much energy and their efficacy. Living creatures couldn’t be stored—they’d self-destruct from pressure. Some tried leaving an opening to let air in, but strangely, the space vanished when they did. No one quite understood why, so they made do.

Luoyu mused, “Let’s build a complete ecosystem inside!”

Luoli said, “Bingo!”

Qin Yue replied, “The space disappears as soon as you let air in.”

Luoyu countered, “Jade boxes can bring a little air inside, and that doesn’t hurt the space… Let’s test it: compress some air into a storage pouch and see if the space survives.”

Luoyu fetched a random storage pouch from some unlucky soul, and the three compressed air into it until the internal pressure matched the outside. The space inside remained intact.

Luoyu grinned, “See? No problem!”

Qin Yue wondered, “Isn’t it said that any air destroys the space? Perhaps the legend is wrong?”

Luoyu thought aloud, “If you blow a small bubble inside a big soap bubble, and open a hole in the small bubble, what happens?”

Luoli answered loudly, “The small bubble disappears—the air all goes into the big bubble!”

Qin Yue observed, “Space is not air.”

Luoyu frowned, pondering, “Space… might be similar to air… When I teleport, I can feel it twisting, so it must be a kind of inherent substance… Right! The Big Bang! They say after the explosion, energy covered everything and created space… So, could Void Stone be leftover material from the explosion?”

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