Chapter 19: The Gray Wind

"Not good." Ji Ning's expression changed as a gray wind, carrying an aura of death and extinction, appeared out of thin air.

Earlier, the Prison Sword God had been forced by Ji Ning to the point of having no choice but to fly around wildly.

It was also because the gap between them was not large; Ji Ning needed some time to capture him. Ji Ning even thought that a short period of chaotic flying wouldn't be so unlucky as to trigger the formation's restrictions, but they really did trigger them.

"Boom~~"

The gray wind swept over Ji Ning and the Prison Sword God.

An incredibly strong force carried them, continuously flying downward.

"Such a powerful force." Ji Ning tried his best to stop, but his divine power and magic power were far too weak at this moment.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~"

Below was an extremely vast and dark cavern.

Ji Ning and the Prison Sword God spun as they were swept up and sucked in.

"Stop, stop." Ji Ning instantly manifested three heads and six arms, and all six arms grew longer, reaching for the cavern walls. Earlier, in the air, Ji Ning had nothing to grab, but now that he was sucked into this vast cavern, he could still see some rock walls. Ji Ning had a premonition that if he let the wind suck him all the way to the deepest part, it would likely mean death.

He had to stop!

The wind was too fierce.

Ji Ning's six arms simultaneously executed the Star Picking Hand, and finally one hand managed to grab a stone pillar.

"Boom!" Ji Ning, who had been rapidly swept downward, suddenly came to a halt because his arm had grabbed the pillar. This terrifying tearing force made his whole body tremble. The hand executing the 'Star Picking Hand' divine ability instantly went numb, and he involuntarily let go, continuing to be dragged downward by the gray wind!

Crack crack crack~~~ The gray-glowing stone pillar that Ji Ning had grabbed earlier also developed cracks. Under the howling gray wind, the pillar finally broke completely and was also swept madly downward.

"Stop."

"Stop."

"Stop." Ji Ning's six arms were desperately reaching out around him, grabbing anything they could, trying to stop.

"Rumble~~~~"

Ji Ning finally stopped. His three arms simultaneously plunged into a huge crack in the rock wall, and with the strength of these three arms, he managed to resist the wind.

"Whew, finally stopped." Ji Ning breathed a sigh of relief. This huge crack stretched for thousands of zhang along the rock wall. Ji Ning's six arms were now all inserted into the rock wall, each arm stretching to hundreds of zhang long, deeply embedded, hanging himself on the rock wall.

"No."

The Prison Sword God, also swept away in another place, likewise tried desperately to grab hold, but his strength was far weaker than Ji Ning's. He grabbed some stone pillars and other obstacles, but the tearing force would instantly numb his fingers and make him let go; he couldn't hold on to anything! The wind's power was too strong; he couldn't grasp any object.

Ji Ning's hands, after all, were Chaos Numinous Treasures, and his body was that of a half-step World God, with the Star Picking Hand divine ability, so he was luckier.

"Bang." As he was swept downward, his body also collided with protruding rock walls, tumbling.

Pfft.

The Prison Sword God spat blood. Such collision forces were even fiercer than Ji Ning's attacks. He tumbled downward, and with Ji Ning's eyesight, he could clearly see the Prison Sword God fall hundreds of li deep, colliding dozens of times. The deeper into this bottomless cavern, the fiercer the wind became. The Prison Sword God's body twisted from the impacts. With a bang, as he collided with a sharp, protruding stone pillar like a spear, his divine body shattered completely. Under that wind, his shattered divine body was instantly torn apart and annihilated, for that wind was far more violent than Ji Ning's attacks.

"Pity." Ji Ning hung on the rock wall, watching this happen, watching the Prison Sword God die.

"The Dao weapon has also been sucked down."

"But what do I do now?"

Ji Ning's six arms were inserted into the crack. Wearing Chaos-grade top-grade Numinous Treasure armor, and with his divine body cultivated through the 'Golden Statue Divine Ability', his body was stronger, so Ji Ning could hold on.

"Just hang here?" Ji Ning released his heartforce, but as soon as it emerged, it was shattered by a destructive force.

"This gray wind can even annihilate heartforce."

"The ancient mighty one who built this Suifeng Cave Mansion built a truly terrifying cave." Ji Ning muttered to himself, unaware that this cave had once been investigated by the strongest existence in the entire Da Mo region, a being at the level of 'Da Mo Daolord', and had not been conquered. The ruins were even named 'Suifeng'.

It was because that ancient mighty one had reached an inconceivable level in the aspect of 'wind'.

……

Neither mental strength nor mental perception could work; he could only rely on his eyes.

"I have to get out of here." Ji Ning looked up. The gray gale howled, and he controlled his 'Chaos Supreme-grade armor' to form a semi-transparent protective layer over his eyes, allowing him to barely observe above.

"I have to get out of this cave."

"In the face of this gale, my hands can't grip stone pillars or the like; I can only rely on the strength of my whole arm to wedge into cracks." Ji Ning searched for other cracks higher up. Under the gray gale, this cave was indeed strangely shaped, with many cracks.

"Found it."

Ji Ning immediately spotted a smaller crack over a hundred zhang above.

"Go." Ji Ning immediately extended one hand upward.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~~"

The force of the gray gale pressed down on Ji Ning's palm like countless stars, making it impossible for him to reach upward. Ji Ning struggled to persist; extending his arm in other directions was still possible, but moving completely against the wind to climb upward was utterly impossible.

"No use. The wind is too strong." Ji Ning immediately gave up.

"Can't go up..."

Ji Ning looked down into the endless dark depths of the cave. "Then I can only go down!"

Ji Ning carefully looked downward and saw a large crack over two hundred zhang below. He immediately extended one arm.

Going up meant facing the wind.

Going down, however, meant going with the wind.

His arm, which had expanded to several hundred zhang, easily reached in and plunged deep into the crack. One arm after another wedged into the crack, and then Ji Ning released the original crack.

Whoosh!

Ji Ning plummeted downward, then stopped.

"Continue." Ji Ning looked around, then continued downward.

……

In the vast bottomless cavern, Ji Ning slowly climbed downward like this.

During the climb, he also saw a sword stuck between stone pillars.

"This sword is not the Prison God of Swords'. It seems some unlucky cultivator from the past was swept in, and his weapon got stuck here without being sucked deeper." Ji Ning immediately reached out with difficulty, grabbed that divine sword, and put it away.

He slowly climbed down.

A hundred zhang, a thousand zhang, ten li...

Ji Ning had already picked up three weapons, but they were all at the Chaos Treasure level; he hadn't encountered a single Dao weapon. Thinking about it, it made sense: World-level powerhouses facing this gray wind wouldn't be as狼狈 as Ji Ning and the Prison God of Swords. After all, Ancestors and Ancestral Immortals with Dao weapons were few, and the chance of one being lost and stuck was even lower.

Climbing slowly, after descending about a hundred li, Ji Ning carefully looked around as usual, searching for a way out.

"What's that?" Ji Ning stared in surprise at a place far below.

On the rock wall, there was actually a cave inside, clearly a deliberately carved cave. The cave, at a glance, was estimated to be several hundred zhang in size. Because it was carved entirely inside the rock wall, although the gray wind howled, it did not invade the cave, making it a rare place of peace.

Since it was carved inside the rock wall, Ji Ning hadn't been able to see it before and only noticed it when he got close.

"Who carved such a large cave here? Never mind. I've been climbing for so long, maintaining the Three Heads, Six Arms form, and my divine power has been depleted quite a bit."

"I need to get over there quickly." Ji Ning immediately moved closer, then extended his arm toward the cave. The carved cave also had some protrusions, making it easy for Ji Ning to get a grip.

Using his arm to extend, then shortening it, Ji Ning's body quickly approached, and soon he entered the cave.

"I'm in."

Inside the cave, there was eerily no wind at all, perfectly calm.

Ji Ning, who had just come in from the gray wind outside, felt a bit unaccustomed.

"Huh, I can finally rest for a while." Ji Ning withdrew the Three Heads, Six Arms technique, glanced at the gray wind outside the cave, then turned to carefully examine this cave.