Solanky passing through the darkness felt the time dilation reduce as compared to the outside world beyond the darkness. All of a sudden he felt his spiritual body fall at a rapid speed into a dense vegetation, which undergrowth was full of lushness. Solanky formed seals with his hands, and an invisible barrier appeared beneath him, cushioning his fall. Solanky looked up to see total darkness, and the golden chain wrapped around his waist snapped into two, cutting off his way to return to the safe zone and into his physical body. Solanky did not panic because he knew that the golden chain would have restrained his movement anyway.
Solanky walked for several meters and felt several sinister auras approaching at a terrifying speed, and they were comparable to peak-stage entities. Solanky, using his spiritual body comparable to a powerful transcendent saint emperor, waved his hand, and the spiritual energies around the incoming spirits transformed into tiny blades, which surrounded them. Solanky clenched his fist and calmly said, "Blade world's annihilation." The tiny blades all began rotating at an incredible speed and shrank in circumference to shred the spirits caught within. The spirits wailed in pain and cursed but to no avail as the spirit essences were caught by Solanky. Solanky moved forward and saw what seemed to be an isolated space, and the entrance to that space was a massive cave entrance, which was pitch black.
Solanky stepped through the entrance, and he appeared in a different space and time that seemed to be parallel to the desolate god region, and within this space there were countless transcendent malevolent spirits battling with the transcendent entities from the desolate god realm and its surrounding realms. This isolated space alone was five times larger than the desolate god realm, and the spiritual energies of this world were much purer and thicker than the spiritual energies found in the beyond realm.
Solanky could see some of his seniors from the desolate god's sect battling with their all in their spiritual bodies to slay the malevolent spirits, who were ten times as many as them. One of the malevolent spirits sensed Solanky and dashed towards him, drawing the attention of other malevolent spirits. The seniors, who recognized Solanky, were shocked and ordered him to go back to where he came from or join their formation so that he would be protected.
Solanky, seeing five malevolent spirits approach him, formed seals with his hands and dashed towards the approaching spirits. The seniors thought he had gone mad, but what they saw next shocked them to the core, as the approaching malevolent spirits were all slain within the split second and their essences collected by Solanky. Both parties of the war were shocked because those malevolent spirits were all comparable to a saint venerable transcendent but they were killed without them knowing what hit them.
The powerful malevolent spirits at the saint emperor level all turned towards Solanky to attack him, about ten of them approaching him with ill intentions. Solanky knew that these approaching saint emperors wouldn't let their guard down as the first did, so using the void shadow steps, he fled in the opposite direction to deal with them one by one or in twos. The malevolent spirits seeing Solanky flee in the opposite direction were all happy because they thought Solanky just wasted his trump card on the saint venerable spirits he killed earlier and gave chase.
Solanky activated his observational technique and found out that his observational technique was several times more powerful than when he used it in the physical world or in the beyond realm. He quickly deduced the path and directions he should thread on in order to achieve his goal of killing these saint emperor malevolent spirits and absorb them to increase his spiritual bodies resilience and power to the half-step peak-turns level comparable to the mysterious woman or surpass he outright. He then used the terrain of the spiritual space to his advantage and planted several traps and seals at every vantage point he passed.
Although all this while a half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit was observing him, waiting to strike at the right time, and this spirit was the one who injured the mysterious woman. The spirits chasing Solanky closed in on him, and two of them fell into the trap and got sealed and teleported into Solanky's spiritual storage bag, where all the essences of the already dead spirits were stored. Solanky became excited as the chasing spirits never noticed they were short of two comrades; another two spirits also fell into the trap set in a different location, and they were sealed and teleported into Solanky's spiritual storage bag.
The malevolent spirits, short of four comrades now, began to grasp the weight of the situation they found themselves in. They hesitated to give chase to Solanky, who had been making them run in circles and leading them back to where it all started. CLAP! CLAP! Clap the half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit descended from above and commended Solanky for cunningness and methods. Solanky, with the help of his observational technique, had spotted this being's presence in the space but paid no heed to him, as he looked like he wasn't going to attack him or intervene at that moment. With the spiritual body at the saint emperor level, a little below the half-step peak-turn, he feared no being below the true peak-turns level. With the help of his peak-turn techniques, he could battle it out with a half-step peak-turn spirit, as his spiritual body was three tiers above his physical body.
The half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit dashed towards Solanky at a rapid speed; if not for activating observational technique, he wouldn't have detected the trajectory of the attack from the half-step peak-turn spirit, and he would have been severely injured. Solanky shifted his body slightly and, without hesitation, activated the finger of terror technique and landed his finger on the back of the malevolent spirit, who happened to be several inches from him due to the missed attack.
Solanky's finger landed on the half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit's back, and at that instant a tearing and eroding energy started acting on its spiritual body, and at that instant it lost 40% of its spiritual energies. Never in its wildest dream would it have thought that it might be killed by a saint emperor's transcendent spiritual body in its turf. Solanky pressed on and moved forward rapidly with another finger strike; the half-step peak-turn spirit tried to block it, but it failed as some strange flames burnt away the barriers it instantly erected, and the energies of the finger of terror landed directly on his chest.
Solanky knew that the half-step peak-turns spirit could detonate its halo or absorb its halo the moment Solanky forces to suppress it with his spiritual power, and it could reach the true peak-turn level, and it would be a massacre in the spiritual space of the transcendent entities of the desolate god sect. Solanky came up with an idea that had a success rate of 15%. This idea was to force the half-step peak-turn to reveal its halo, snatch it, and teleport out of the darkness and return to the safe zone. Because returning to the safe zone, any malevolent spirit who tries to enter the safe zone would be instantly suppressed and thrown off into the darkness.
Solanky decided to go with this plan, but before that, he needed to kill the remaining six Saint Emperor transcendent spirits. He called out the spear spirit and ordered it to kill the six transcendent spirits. Weapons forged by true peak-turns being formed their spirits as time went on, and they could operate autonomously when orders are given to them. The spear teleported away and reappeared in the midst of the malevolent spirits, and heads started falling off with their essences absorbed by the spear's spirit.
Solanky dashed towards the half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit, who had 60% of its energies left, with his finger stretched out pointing towards the space between its eyebrows. The malevolent spirit revealed a mad expression and reached towards the crown of its head to reveal the halo. Solanky waited in anticipation for the halo to fully reveal itself before it could be absorbed or detonated. Solanky, still using his observational technique, noticed something was wrong: the spirit whose energies were below 60% had recovered to 61%, and its power was on the rise.
Decisively, Solanky summoned back the spear and swung towards the raised arms of the spirit; he did that because he discovered that spirits too could absorb the power of the halo even if it hadn't fully revealed itself. The spear slashed through the raised arms of the spirits, completely amputating them. Solanky then used the void shadow steps and quickly appeared above the malevolent spirit. Using the seals he had prepared beforehand with the spiritual bag, he wrapped the halo in a mysterious spherical seal formation and used the finger of terror for the last time to injure the malevolent spirit and escaped into a portal he sensed leading to the safe zone.
Activating the void escape method with all his strength, he dashed out of the darkness and appeared five meters outside the safe zone. The malevolent half-step peak-turn spirit, with its energies at 40% now due to the spear strike, was in a crazed state and burnt its life energies to chase Solanky, who had stolen its halo, which contained its life essence; without it, it would perish. The malevolent spirit was about to grab Solanky, but it seemed to hit an invisible barrier, stopping it in its tracks before it was hurled back into the darkness as it roared in anger.