Chapter 1694: Entering The Virtual Realm For The First Time

"Is this the virtual realm? It doesn't look that different from the material realm." Charcoal, who had shrunk himself in size, perched on Bai's shoulder and looked around.

"Are you color blind, Little Charcoal?" Grimace had a snide smile on his face. "Can't you tell that the world is black and white?"

"You're the one who's color blind!" Charcoal retorted instantly.

"Then tell me, what's the color of my sock?" Grimace pulled up his right pant leg and revealed a sock with alternating yellow and red stripes.

Charcoal merely scoffed, "I don't want to answer your childish question."

"Stop wasting time. Let's quickly locate a target and finish the hunt as soon as possible," Bai interrupted the conversation between the two at once.

Grimace finally curbed his tongue. His Odyl rapidly began forming a star map in front of him.

Before they had come here, Lin Huang had shown the three of them the star map and gotten Grimace to record it.

"This is the Demon Eye Star Zone where we are right now..." Grimace circled a region on the star map that was similar to a closed eye. "This is the biggest Abyssal rift in the human world.

"Based on what master has said, he's already cleared this star zone cluster.

"If we want to hunt Voids, we'll have to leave the Demon Eye Star Zone cluster far behind and go to the other surrounding star zones. There might not be any suitable prey within close range."

"What are you trying to say?" Bai asked bluntly.

"We actually have a hidden choice..." Grimace's lips curled up in a slow grin. "We can go deep into the Abyss and hunt there!

"Although master didn't mention it, I'm pretty sure he didn't go deep into the Abyssal rift."

Bai fell silent for a moment.

Charcoal, on the other hand, agreed with the suggestion immediately, "I think that works. Instead of wasting time going to other star zones looking for targets, we might as well go straight to the Abyss. We might be able to kill over ten Voids in the Abyss in the time we spend looking for a Void in other star zones."

Bai hesitated for a moment but ultimately agreed in the end.

"We can go to the Abyss, but first, let's get this straight. The two of you must behave when we go in."

"That's fine by me," Grimace agreed right away and looked at Charcoal.

"Why are you looking at me? I always listen to Bai Bai." Charcoal's expression was that of an angelic little child.

After ascertaining their target, the three of them quickly made their way to the Abyssal rift.

As soon as they entered the Abyss, they distinctly sensed a malicious intent approaching.

"We seem to have been targeted by someone through Divine Telekinesis," Charcoal commented to Bai and Grimace. This advance notice was also for the other two to give instructions for what to do next.

"That proves we've found the right place." Grimace not only displayed no signs of panic, but he was also thrilled.

"Don't get reckless. This is the Abyss, after all." Bai was much more cautious.

Theoretically speaking, True Gods and Heavenly Gods would also enter the virtual realm after they died. However, if there were lord-level Voids in the surrounding star zones, they would end up being food.

This was also why most of the Voids Lin Huang had seen were lord-level.

Based on the information Lin Huang had provided, it was not hard to determine that most of the Voids in the Abyss ought to be primarily lord-level.

The reason was that there were many Lords inherent in the Abyss. Over the years, there must have been a considerable number of them who had died there.

A Lord occupied one single region, and each region ranged in size from several star zones to dozens of star zones. The Heavenly Gods and True Gods basically had very little space to live.

"The Divine Telekinesis strength is normal; it shouldn't be hard to handle." Grimace swiftly evaluated the opponent. After all, he was also a powerhouse who specialized in God's soul. He could roughly gauge the strength of an individual's Divine Telekinesis strength by mere contact. "Maybe I should try first?"

"We'll let you have the first target then, and we'll take turns after that. The three of us can fight one each in turn. If we run into something we can't handle alone, then we'll fight it together." Bai nodded slightly.

Grimace had no objections to this. He took a step forward and vanished on the spot.

When he reappeared, he was already hundreds upon thousands of lightyears away.

Grimace frowned imperceptibly as he studied the deformed monster, which looked like a skinned human with its entire body shrouded in black mist.

"What a truly hideous creature."

The skinned, deformed monster seemed to understand what Grimace had said. It was clearly quite enraged. With a shriek, it pounced at Grimace in a flash.

Immediately, golden sigils appeared in Grimace's eyes. An instant later, the skinned, deformed monster's body suddenly froze where it was and did not move at all.

It had obviously been hit by Grimace's illusion.

Within a mere moment, the skinned, deformed monster's life force swiftly weakened. Eventually, its life force faded away completely, and it turned into a grayish-black Origin Energy sphere.

From beginning to end, Grimace had remained where he was.

He was the only one who knew what exactly had transpired in the illusion.

"Is this Origin Energy?" Grimace flung out his hand and grabbed the grayish-black Origin Energy sphere.

He could clearly sense that this human fist-sized sphere contained terrifying energy and a massive amount of information.

He hesitated for a second. Instead of absorbing it right away, he returned to Bai and Charcoal in a flash with the Origin Energy sphere in his grasp.

"So fast?!" Charcoal exclaimed involuntarily.

"The target was more or less what I had anticipated. It was only a lower-rank Lord with five Dao seals and mediocre abilities. It wasn't proficient in God's soul technique either, so it got hit by my illusion right away," Grimace gave a brief account of the battle earlier, "The one thing we need to beware of is not to be contaminated by Abyssal energy."

"Is this Origin Energy, then?" Bai gave a sidelong glance at the Origin Energy sphere in Grimace's hand.

"It should be." Grimace nodded. In actual fact, they had never seen what an Origin Energy sphere looked like. They only had a rough idea from Lin Huang's description.

"The energy it contains is truly very terrifying." Bai nodded slightly. "This thing will definitely elevate our combat strength very quickly. I wonder if there are any restrictions on its use?"

"It doesn't just contain energy; there's a great deal of information stored within it," Grimace corrected him from where he was standing to one side.

"Are those redundant memories or inheritance information?" Bai asked again.

"I think it might be both."

"Try refining it," Bai urged.

"I think that even if there's inheritance information in there, it won't be of very much use to me. I'm too different from that guy." Grimace shook his head. "I thought I'd keep it first and swap with both of you when you come across anything that's more compatible with my personality."

"I think that's a great idea," Charcoal expressed immediate agreement, "That way, we can obtain the inheritances we really want to a much greater extent, instead of obtaining a lot of inheritances that aren't useful to us."

"I think that's a feasible idea too." Bai nodded as well. "My suggestion is that we can first refine those that we think are most suitable for us and leave the rest. Not only can we trade among the three of us, but there's also Lancelot and the others after this. Later, there'll be the group that's currently undergoing advancement in the Demon Star Zone—we can exchange with all of them as well. When more people are involved, it'll be easier for us to obtain the inheritances we want most."

Bai only turned his head to look at Charcoal after watching Grimace put away the Origin Energy sphere. "You can take the next target."

"No problem.." Charcoal immediately got excited and got into combat-ready mode almost at once.