"..." "Closer, just a little closer." "Further away, a bit further!" "Brother, we are getting closer to the correct passage that I sense." "..." The guiding voices of Tai Yan and Yu Longyue sounded from time to time, and eventually, even Qing You couldn't resist crawling out of Nie Kong's embrace to chime in and join the excitement. After a long pause, the blazing fireworks finally extinguished completely.

Although they could still shift their direction further to the right, this method consumed a massive amount of Chaotic Divine Power. Nie Kong needed to conserve sufficient strength to deal with any potential surprises upon reaching the Grand Sovereign Spirit Realm, as no one could guarantee that deviating from the planned passage wouldn't introduce other dangers.

"The Spirit Gods of the Hongmeng Celestial Mansion, the Pill Immortal Sect, and the Sea Clan will never have expected us to deviate from the fixed passage. Their plan to wait in ambush there is destined to be an empty effort," Nie Kong said, his expression relaxed.

"Nie Kong, don't be overly optimistic." "I wonder what the Grand Sovereign Spirit Realm will actually be like..." "..." Not long after, the hazy white spatial barrier surrounding them suddenly vanished, and the powerful restraint they felt surging from the passage disappeared simultaneously. Nie Kong and the others only saw a blur before their vision opened up dramatically.

However, before they could even survey their surroundings, waves of an intensely terrifying sense of oppression swept in from all directions. Nie Kong, Tai Yan, and Yu Longyue’s bodies paused momentarily in the void before plummeting downwards like meteors from beyond the heavens.

At this moment, Nie Kong could only use his Chaotic Divine Power to slow their descent as much as possible. A thread of caution involuntarily rose in Nie Kong’s heart.

While stabilizing himself, he quickly scanned his surroundings. In an instant, the surrounding scenery came into view: above, the azure sky was washed clean, with wisps of white clouds drifting; below, towering peaks rose majestically, mountains undulating, and a vast river wound its way through the jungle.

"Whoosh!" The wind roared past their ears as the three rapidly approached the dense forest below. Only when they had fallen to an altitude of two or three thousand meters did the tyrannical sense of pressure abate slightly, though it remained fierce, making sustained levitation impossible.

Dropping another thousand meters, although the pressure still lingered, Nie Kong and the others felt their bodies gradually lighten, as if the crushing weight pressing on their backs was slowly being lifted. When they were about five hundred meters from the jungle, the heavy pressure vanished completely, and the three felt immensely relieved.

Seconds later, three figures drifted lightly onto the branches of a large tree. "Is this the Grand Sovereign Spirit Realm?" Yu Longyue and Tai Yan couldn't help but look around, their beautiful eyes filled with unconcealed novelty.

Nie Kong quietly released his Spiritual Sense to gauge the surrounding movements. Just as the memories of those Spirit Gods suggested, with his cultivation as a Sixth-Grade Spirit God, his Spiritual Sense could only cover an area of about ten li, a ninety percent reduction compared to the Divine Void Realm.

However, the heavens and earth of this Grand Sovereign Spirit Realm were peculiar. The void was not only saturated with ten times the spiritual energy elements of the Divine Void Realm, but it also contained abundant, pure Divine Power elements.

If Nie Kong hadn't refined and absorbed the avatars of those Spirit Gods, even spending a thousand years, he could never have reached the Sixth-Grade Spirit God realm in the Divine Void Realm. But in the Grand Sovereign Spirit Realm, those rich Divine Power elements could significantly boost his cultivation speed.

If the Divine Void Realm was a sacred land for Spirit Masters and Phantom Spirit Masters to cultivate, then this Grand Sovereign Spirit Realm was the sacred land for Spirit Gods. At this moment, Nie Kong suddenly began to understand why the Spirit Gods of the Phantom Spirit Continent had flocked here without a World Gate—it was the cultivation environment.

This world held a fatal attraction for Spirit Gods. Perhaps the great war among Spirit Gods ten thousand years ago erupted precisely because they were vying for a superior space to cultivate.

"It truly is a good place." As Nie Kong sensed the movements around him, he mused inwardly. Within the range of his Spiritual Sense, there was a massive spirit beast, possessing strength equivalent to a Second-Grade Spirit God, lurking deep inside a mountain, sound asleep, completely unaware of Nie Kong's probing.

Other than that, there was no other anomaly in the environment. Nie Kong breathed a soft sigh of relief.

After more than ten seconds, he withdrew his Spiritual Sense and chuckled, "It's very safe here. It seems our efforts just now paid off well." "Nie Kong, where do we go now?" Yu Longyue was also quite pleased and asked with a smile.

Before Nie Kong could reply, Tai Yan pointed north and exclaimed in surprise, "Brother, Aunt Yue, look quickly, are those two small pillars over there?" Hearing this, Nie Kong and Yu Longyue quickly turned their gazes. In the distant northern horizon, two slender beams of white light shot up from the ground, piercing the clouds.

Furthermore, between those two white beams, a massive vortex was faintly visible—a sight much like a World Gate in the Divine Void Realm. By Nie Kong's estimation, they were at least several hundred li away from that spot.

"That is... the passage exit." Nie Kong looked at it twice, his heart suddenly leaping, and he blurted out, "If our direction hadn't deviated, we should have followed the passage exactly and emerged from that vortex.

Around that exit, there are likely large numbers of Spirit Gods from the Hongmeng Celestial Mansion, the Pill Immortal Sect, and the Sea Clan waiting for us." According to the rules established by the Grand Sovereign Chong Xu long ago, combat and killing were forbidden within a thousand-meter radius around the passage exit. For ten thousand years, no one had dared to violate this rule.

It could be said that within that thousand-meter zone, everyone was absolutely safe. However, one could not linger there for long.

Because of its connection to the World Gate, that area was saturated with immense pressure. The stronger the cultivation, the greater the pressure exerted.

Even super-experts like the Dark Night Divine Venerable could only remain in that area for fifteen minutes at most; ordinary First-Grade Spirit Gods could only endure for a few minutes. Once unable to bear it, they would be forcefully expelled by that pressure.

It was clear that if Nie Kong, Tai Yan, and Yu Longyue had arrived there via the fixed passage, they would quickly have been trapped like turtles in a jar by the Spirit Gods of the Hongmeng Celestial Mansion, the Pill Immortal Sect, or the Sea Clan. Tai Yan and Yu Longyue had both heard Nie Kong mention this, and expressions of secret relief crossed their faces.

"The World Gate passage exit is north, so let's head south." "..." Nie Kong, Tai Yan, and Yu Longyue flew southward, and in an instant, the three figures vanished into the dense woods... Several hundred li away, at the World Gate passage exit.

On the ground paved with snow-white jade, two white pillars, requiring several people to encircle them, stood silently, resembling pillars supporting the heavens. Between the twin pillars was a massive, peculiar vortex.

A normal vortex rotates from outside in, but this vortex spun from the inside out. Furthermore, what emanated from the depths of the vortex was not suction, but a boundless pressure.

This pressure constantly permeated outward through the vortex, enveloping every inch of space within a thousand meters.