After Xiao Fei drilled into the passage controlled by the White Tiger Holy Land, he encountered no danger along the way and smoothly reached the end.
Emerging from the passage, he saw a landscape of green mountains and clear waters, a place of exceptional beauty and spiritual essence.
However, the moment he took another step and set foot in this world, the scenery before him changed drastically.
There were no longer green mountains and clear waters; even barren lands were better than this.
It was a desolate world, devoid of any spiritual energy or living beings.
The sky was a hazy gray, with no blue sky, white clouds, sun, moon, or stars. There was no wind, no rain, not even air.
Everything essential for nurturing life was absent here.
Xiao Fei was currently walking on a rocky wasteland, having never truly witnessed such a completely barren world.
But when he looked back, he found that the inter-dimensional passage he had used had vanished.
"This world is definitely not as simple as just being barren."
With that thought, he flew towards a tall mountain in the distance.
This world lacked even oxygen, let alone energies like spiritual energy.
Therefore, as he flew, he could not absorb spiritual energy, and his mana was depleted rapidly.
He took out a large bottle of ten-thousand-year spirit wine from his spatial storage and gulped it down, casually discarding the empty bottle.
The spirit wine, once inside him, was refined by his cultivation technique, continuously supplying him with spiritual energy.
From the moment Xiao Fei entered this barren world, a pair of eyes had been fixated on him.
After he flew past, the empty spirit wine bottle he had casually thrown onto the ground slowly sank into the earth until it completely disappeared.
Deep beneath the ground, several tentacles wrapped around the spirit wine bottle. One tentacle extended into the bottle, greedily absorbing the tiny residue of spirit wine within.
Even after the bottle was completely empty, these tentacles still clung to the empty bottle, unwilling to let go.
This wine bottle was also made of a type of spiritual jade, containing a small amount of spiritual energy.
A cluster of tentacles continued to greedily extract the minuscule spiritual energy contained within the jade bottle.
After a long while, the spiritual energy within the jade bottle's material was completely depleted, turning it into an ordinary object. Only then were the tentacles reluctantly cast aside.
Xiao Fei was unaware of everything happening beneath the ground. He had already flown to the summit of a mountain.
Standing on this bare mountaintop, he gazed around. As far as the eye could see, everything was barren.
He still couldn't find the location of the inter-dimensional passage out of this world.
Xiao Fei pulled out Patriarch Xiaoyue and Feiyu from his spatial storage.
As soon as they were brought out, they looked at the scene before them, somewhat bewildered.
"Master, you haven't entered some kind of death trap again, have you?"
"This is the passage from the White Tiger Holy Land. This is what it looked like when I came through. Moreover, the passage back has also disappeared."
Patriarch Xiaoyue and Feiyu looked around in confusion.
"We did scout earlier and found that the White Tiger Holy Land had trade dealings with a human world. We also found many specialty products from human worlds."
"Let's investigate this world first."
Xiao Fei was disappointed with this world but didn't dwell on it too much.
He still had a clone hidden in the Demon Realm. If necessary, he could return to the Demon Realm through his spatial storage, or even go to the Canglei Realm.
However, doing so would mean abandoning this world as a hiding place.
If possible, he still didn't want to give up such a hiding spot. The stranger a place was, the less likely it was to be discovered.
Xiao Fei, along with Feiyu and Patriarch Xiaoyue, ate some demonic beast meat on the mountaintop to replenish their spiritual energy.
Then, they parted ways to investigate this world.
From the mountaintop, Xiao Fei had spotted a direction where the terrain seemed slightly different.
Looking around from this high mountain, there were various hills and mounds, appearing natural.
Only in one direction was there an area that seemed as if it had been erased, appearing very out of place.
Xiao Fei now flew towards this direction.
Just as the three of them flew away from the mountaintop, countless tentacles emerged from the ground, scooping up their discarded food remnants and disappearing underground.
Even a pile of excrement left by Patriarch Xiaoyue behind a corner was also carried away by the tentacles.
These items, underground, were greedily drained of their spiritual energy by a group of tentacles.
As Xiao Fei departed, he felt something unusual behind him, but when he looked back, he found nothing.
He continued to fly forward, finally reaching the place he had found to be peculiar.
This place was indeed peculiar and abnormal.
At the edge of the ground, it vanished into thin air, as if it had been erased from a painting.
In place of the vanishing area was a chaotic void, similar to world collapses he had seen before.
He followed this edge, investigating in other directions.
He discovered that this was like the end of the world.
At that moment, a tentacle suddenly shot out and wrapped around his leg.
Then, dozens more emerged from beneath the ground, each aiming to entwine his legs.
The moment he was ensnared by the tentacles, Xiao Fei felt his body weaken. All his mana surged towards the tentacles, being siphoned away.
Xiao Fei immediately unleashed his comprehension of laws, causing these tentacles to disintegrate into fragments.
When he withdrew his law domain, these fragments immediately decomposed, dissolving into the soil and vanishing without a trace.
Just as Xiao Fei was about to breathe a sigh of relief, dozens of identical tentacles emerged from the ground and coiled towards him.
This time, Xiao Fei was prepared. He unleashed a sword strike, cutting down all these tentacles at their roots as if mowing grass.
Before he could even relax, the severed tentacles rapidly dissipated, merging into the ground. Simultaneously, dozens more tentacles emerged from the ground and coiled towards Xiao Fei.
Following this, Xiao Fei continuously chopped at the tentacles. The tentacles would dissipate, merge into the ground, and then re-emerge.
It seemed to have fallen into an endless cycle. The tentacles also seemed content to "play" like this with Xiao Fei indefinitely.
However, for cultivators like Xiao Fei, this was not something they could continue indefinitely.
Humans were, after all, flesh and blood. They couldn't keep cutting like this. Even with his spatial storage continuously replenishing his spiritual energy, his body and mind would still grow fatigued.
Sometimes, it wasn't about how powerful you were, but how long you could endure.
By continuing this attrition, the cultivator side would eventually be drained dry.
Xiao Fei now realized this and didn't want to continue playing with the tentacles. He ascended into the air and flew towards the direction of Patriarch Xiaoyue and Feiyu.
However, these tentacles were like shadows, following him incessantly. Wherever he went, the tentacles pursued him.
Xiao Fei could only fly at full speed while simultaneously conjuring a flying sword to continuously hack at these tentacles.
When he found Patriarch Xiaoyue and Feiyu, he discovered that these two were also in a sorry state, similarly pursued by many tentacles.
They did not have as much replenishment as Xiao Fei, and having been caught off guard initially, they had lost a lot of mana to the tentacles.
When Xiao Fei met up with them, he directly collected them into his spatial secret chamber.