AIR Chapter 195

Chapter 195

The void was just as I left it, empty. 

I walked around carefully, making sure to check the area before fully manifesting. That wasn’t something that Bill did a lot but there was a hypervigilant side to him, the side that was ready for a fight at any moment, and that had been split between the both of us. 

I looked around, seeing the qi stream in the distance and seeing Lynoria shine brightly from afar. It was one out of the infinite stars, but it was the one that shined the brightest. 

I was heading to the left of the Chaordic Bound, to the Law Lands, but to do that I needed a ship. The void was full of many dangers and most of them could be navigated, but distance was a problem as well. 

I had traversed the void before, but rarely did I ever have to come back to a place. I had gone to the Cosmic Forest by entering it through the divine realm of Aftol, and even that had been a journey. I had gone halfway up the Heavens for that, and that was within the Central Realms, one of the safer places to traverse. 

Even the Divine Beast Emporium was a little hard to get to, and that was just a bit below Lynoria. To travel far, you’d have to give up on getting back. 

Just going somewhere required a lot of effort and coming back often required just as much. 

I would head a bit towards Chaos and reach Atalantis. From there, I could get on a ship heading towards the Law Lands. 

I could try to navigate a way there myself, but there was risk. If I were headed somewhere safe or unimportant, then walking through the void would be the better option, but the Law Lands weren’t safe and they were certainly important. I was going to end up in God Imperium territory regardless and fairing by official ships bearing the Tome as my identity would get me farther than just leaping from small realm to small realm and driving myself exhausted as I did so. 

It was the difference between walking across a country and taking a train or a car. 

Normally, I was hyper obsessed with not being observed and such, but I figured I’d be fine with the Imperiums guarding me against divination and cutting me off from the identity of Dane. That was what Wukong had done, and when he had done it. If someone scried Dane or tried to look into him, they would find that he had died and that he had never been anywhere near the Divine Beast Emporium. 

And if they tried to scry me, I was officially a member of the Keepers of the Eternal Tome, and that granted me protection from divination and safe passage in a lot of places. 

But not the Hells, nothing guaranteed you safe passage in the Hells.

I saw some beast and men while treading the void, a few fights off in the distance. But like I said, the more powerful you got the less you risked fighting in general. People always had methods of resurrection, and a powerful cultivator was a long lived one. You get attached to life a bit after that much time. 

It took a lot of effort for me to get to Atlantis, about a day's journey for a mortal, though that wasn’t saying much in the void. I could have gotten there in five minutes if I was willing to step onto important territories and realms. I could have gone from Lynoria and off to the Law Lands, but Lynoria was a place of trade, and prices were expensive in that place. 

What it provided for in infinite variety, it lost in wealth. 

I was mainly just circling Lynoria from a distance, until I was officially in the Chaordic Bound. Once there, I carefully pushed towards the Heavens and entered the Chaordic Bound. 

Now this was where things got dangerous. You had to stay safe here, stay protected. Even though I wasn’t too far away from Lynoria, I was still a good distance away from it. And this side of the cosmos had its own rules. 

A burning black eliminated from the Chaos Realms and a trail of dying worlds could be felt as far as the eyes could see. There were no small realms around here, at least, not many. Once you got past Atlantis and fully entered the Entropic Path, the laws and rules that were required to hold universes and realms together began to break and go fickle. 

Small realms just couldn’t handle the Law of Chaos. Much like the void, there was no true law of chaos. It functioned the same way laws did, but it would be wrong to call it a law. It would be better to call it an essence. 

It ate at rules and definitions. It ate at stability and it ate at reason. 

Logic fell apart in this place, even more than logic fell apart within the void. It was said at the deepest ends of the Chaos Realms, even the void itself was devoured. The void was too stable, too constant and chaos, in its truest form, hated stability. 

But there were always pockets of realms there as well, because complete chaos would be, in a way, another form of order. 

I didn’t have to keep vigil too strongly. There were a lot of Celestial Realms nearby and the trade and people traversing them wouldn’t allow something too strong to come near here. 

But by the Dao was that stretch of realms terrifying. Just from here, I could feel the degrading effects already. I would be fine, but I think even at the thirteenth rank, I would be consumed by the chaos before I could even reach the Chaos Realms. 

I had been there once before as a twelfth rank and I had barely escaped with my life. I’d gone on a ship to one of their cities, though ‘city’ was not a proper classification of that gathering of madness and insanity. 

I saw a hive of insects marching towards the land in the distance. They were led by a fourteenth rank queen and she had nothing but hatred in her aura. 

One of the insects nodded at me, and I nodded back. 

What the hell is up with that?

The insects hated and loved the Entropic Bound. It was a place of resource for most of them, but it was also the reason that insects went rouge sometimes and evolved into singular species that desired to serve only themselves. 

I followed behind their army along with a number of other individuals, making our way up to Atlantis. 

“Insanity to march into that place, wouldn’t you say?” One cultivator spoke. 

He spoke with his aura, transmitting his intentions through his divine senses. He was a man, large and rotund and at the peak of twelfth rank. 

“Yes, but they’re probably well equipped for it,” I added. “The queen might be seeking the next realm, trying to enter true Godhood.”

“Ah the path to power is filled with many steps, that’s what my father says.”

I just nodded.

“Elder brother, are you going up to Atlantis? If so, would you care to journey with this Wang Hou?”

I froze. Wang Hou? He was fat and his name was Wang Hou?

What has the world come to?