<h4>Chapter 1117 Strange Pir</h4>


    Deciding to start searching for another way out of the Valley of Illusory Beasts that didn''t involve the two illusory wooden gates, Xuan Hao ended up finding him moving deeper and deeper in the valley with each passing day without finding anything that might point him towards an alternative path out of the Valley of Illusory Beasts.


    Instead, the only thing he managed to find so far was therge number of Earth Immortal Realm illusory beasts roaming around the ce. If not for the fact that there were simply far too many of them around and even a slight mistake would expose him to at least three or more Earth Immortal Realm illusory beasts, he would have long since tried to find an Earth Immortal Realm illusory beast to test out his new strength.


    Whoosh~


    Crossing over the seemingly invisible barrier separating the area where the illusory beast in the Earth Immortal Realm normally roamed and the ce where the Peak Soul Ascension Realm and weaker illusory beasts could be found after close to a week of searching for the way out, Xuan Hao was happily surprised to discover than the power of his Dao of Space had only been blocked for a short time before bing avable again.


    Different from his expectations of it being impossible for him to utilize the Dao of Space in the deeper parts of the valley due to the progressively harder to manipte space the deeper one went; it turned out that he was wrong. Instead of it bing increasingly harder to manipte the Dao of Space, there was instead some kind of barrier separating the two parts of the valley.


    The barrier in question was not really a barrier in the sense of one created by a formation but was instead arge swath ofnd stretching across the Valley of Illusory beasts. Separating the weaker and stronger illusory beasts from each other. Although he thought it might have been artificially created by some powerful expert in the Dao of Space at first, he quickly ended up throwing this thought away after personally examining the strange state of the space around and inside the swath ofnd.


    Thend covered was simply far toorge, while the power that stabilized the space and made it impossible to manipte seemed to be rted to the strange space that the Valley of Illusory Beasts, Ephemeral Forest, and Sea of Mist was located inside of.


    If something like that had been made by an expert in the Dao of Space, the existence would be far beyond anything he had encountered so far, likely even surpassing the old experts of the Blue Sea Empire standing above the Earth Immortal Realm.


    "Huh? What is that…"


    Searching around the ce where the Earth Immortal Realm illusory beasts should have been confined, it did not take long before Xuan Hao discovered something that made him pause with a look of surprise stered all over his face.


    "A pir…?" Muttering this to himself as he stared up at what could only be described as arge pir, Xuan Hao was rendered speechless as he had no idea what such an object would be doing inside the Valley of Illusory Beasts.


    The only thing he could think of was that it should somehow be rted to the illusion that was now blocking his path out of the Valley of Illusory Beasts or the thing that was responsible for restraining the Earth Immortal Realm illusory beasts.


    But… No matter what its use is, it''s clear that it used up all of the energy stored inside of it and is in the process of absorbing the qi around itself to recover…


    Spotting the small crystal-like object floating above the pir absorbing qi from the air around the pir at a speed that almost caused an energy storm simr to when he had broken through to the Late Stage of the Dao Domain Lord Realm, Xuan Hao did not take long to realize the current state of the pir.


    Whoosh~!


    Deciding to investigate more closely with his divine sense, Xuan Hao soon discovered that there were countless ancient formation symbols floating around inside the crystal-like object floating above the pir.


    The formation symbols all absorbed the abundant qi that entered the crystal-like object before they began growing brighter and bright when-


    Whish~


    One of the ancient formation symbols seemed to have been filled with qi as it seeped out of the crystal-like object and fell down onto the pir below before merging together with it. In the process of this, the crystal-like object also seemed to shrink ever-so slightly.


    The pir didn''t show any clear change that was observable to him, but Xuan Hao still felt like something had changed after the ancient formation symbol merged together with it, it was just that he couldn''t tell just what this was.


    "Hm… If the pir is rted to the restriction of the Earth Immortal Realm illusory beasts, does it perhaps mean that when it has finished recharging, the path leading back out of the Valley of Illusory Beasts will be opened?" Muttering this to himself as he focused his attention on the crystal-like object floating above the pir, Xuan Hao could not help silently frowning to himself.


    If his guess was correct and the pir was indeed connected to the restriction of the illusory beasts in the Earth Immortal Realm, he might have to wait until the pir finished recharging before he could leave the Valley of Illusory Beasts.


    Although it might not sound too bad at first, he guessed that for the pir to fully recover, it had to absorb all of the ancient formation symbols floating in the crystal-like object above it… And from his quick observation of the speed at which the ancient formation symbols were charged up and released back into the pir, this process would at least take thirty years at the current speed.


    Even if the qi absorption speed was far above anything Xuan Hao had seen before his breakthrough to the Late Stage of the Dao Domain Lord Realm, it was also obvious that restraining so many illusory beasts in the Earth Immortal Realm was not an easy thing to aplish. After all, restraining and killing were twopletely different concepts.


    But… For what reason would someone go through the trouble of constructing something like this just for the sole purpose of restraining the illusory beasts in the Earth Immortal Realm? Is there perhaps some other use for the illusory beasts that I don''t know about?


    Gazing up at the pir with an increasingly curious expression on his face, Xuan Hao wondered if the illusory beasts had some other magical effect other than increasing one''sprehension of the Dao of Illusions after they managed to reach the Earth Immortal Realm.


    Wait, no, it''s not time for this! I have to find another way to leave this ce. If I really stay in here for the next thirty years waiting to see if the path out will open, the Star Shattering Sect and my disciples might have already perished.


    Feeling like his train of thought was starting to drift away from his main objective of finding a way to leave the Valley of Illusory Beasts, Xuan Hao got into the air before continuing his search across the valley for anything that might be able to help aplish his goal. Leaving behind the strange pir to continue absorbing qi on its own.


    …


    As days passed and turned into weeks, Xuan Hao continued searching through the valley with no sess.


    Outside of therge pir he had encountered back when he had first crossed into the deeper part of the valley where the Earth Immortal Realm illusory beasts normally resided, Xuan Hao did not encounter anything. Not even a single Earth Immortal Realm illusory beast ran through the area covered by his divine sense. Making him believe that all of them should have already left the ce to go to the outer part of the valley.


    This realization made Xuan Hao wonder just what these Earth Immortal Realm illusory beasts were up to. After all, they weren''t as dumb as the illusory beasts who normally wandered the outer part of the valley.


    Given they had at least some level of intelligence, they should be trying to find a way to leave the Valley of Illusory Beasts while the pir was not there to restrain them and given that the two wooden gates had been blocked off-


    "They should be trying to find some other way to leave the valley…" Finishing his own train of thought as he was flying through arge empty field, Xuan Hao could not help could not help freezing on the spot- n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    Why didn''t I think about that before!


    Swish-!


    And without wasting a single second, he turned around and headed straight towards the outer part of the valley where the Earth Immortal Realm illusory beasts should be searching for an escape path in.