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Chapter 970: [967] I found you, Eleventh Tribulation!

Inside the underground cave.

What exactly did that shadow deep within the icy sea represent?

The first thought that popped into Cheng Han's head was: "Could it be the Eleventh Tribulation?"

However.

He immediately dismissed this guess.

"No!

"Even if the Great Sand Ant experienced Divine Fire Soul Tempering, and its Calamity Eye talent was enhanced, it's impossible for it to glimpse the true form of the Eleventh Tribulation.

"If it really did glimpse it, that would be a disaster. The Eleventh Tribulation would definitely kill the Great Sand Ant from afar."

The Great Sand Ant was at least two major ranks below the Eleventh Tribulation; it had absolutely no chance of glimpsing the latter's true form.

Cheng Han gazed at the sleeping Great Sand Ant and murmured, "The only possibility is that the Great Sand Ant foresaw important clues related to it."

While pondering, he gently waved his right hand.

A dim fluctuation flashed by.

The next moment.

"Sha! Sha!"

Accompanied by a faint sound, a large amount of yellow sand appeared out of thin air.

In just a few breaths, the entire underground cave was filled with sand.

The Great Sand Ant, which had fallen into slumber, was naturally completely enveloped by the sand.

It's worth mentioning that this sand possessed an extremely special transcendent power.

It could both isolate external probes and suppress the Great Sand Ant's unconsciously emitted fluctuations.

This was clearly a safety measure.

The Great Sand Ant could sleep undisturbed until it woke up again.

Amidst the vast sea of sand.

At the top of a certain sand dune.

A faint ripple suddenly flashed in mid-air.

Cheng Han's figure appeared out of thin air.

The experiment was over, so he naturally didn't need to stay in the underground cave.

Cheng Han pondered for a moment, then his heart stirred again.

Stars flashed.

Dozens of halos appeared in sequence.

At the center of each halo, a vast icy sea appeared.

Cheng Han glanced at them and muttered, "There seem to be a lot of target areas!"

Previously, he had roamed the Southern Remote World Cluster. In order to understand the situation of the Calamity Insect Swarm, he had roughly observed every small world.

Every small world with a large-scale icy sea was now displayed in the halo images.

He planned to use a simple method—to "manually" screen out the small worlds where the Eleventh Tribulation might be hiding, based on the icy sea images displayed in the dream.

This was not impossible.

Although the small worlds within the Southern Remote World Cluster were all icy and snowy worlds.

The laws of each world were different, and there were also certain differences in temperature and environment.

To give an example.

Although they were both icy seas floating with ice floes, some small worlds had icebergs, some had flat sea ice, and some had strangely shaped ice blocks.

"Pa!"

Cheng Han snapped his fingers.

The images in each halo flashed rapidly like slides.

He stared unblinkingly at the many halos, carefully comparing every detail.

Each small world was extremely vast, so this was destined to be a difficult task.

A full two hours passed.

After a round of comparison, Cheng Han finally completed the preliminary screening.

The number of halos was reduced to thirteen.

The icy seas presented in the images were very similar to the icy sea in the dream.

Then.

Cheng Han began to feel troubled: "How should I proceed with the next round of screening?"

He muttered, "Do I have to visit the thirteen small worlds one by one?"

Honestly speaking.

Cheng Han was a little apprehensive about the idea of visiting them in person.

Because he had been hunted down by the Divine Insect Swarm, and it was only after escaping to a more distant small world cluster and borrowing the power of the Wan Hao Clan that he had侥幸 escaped the pursuit.

The Southern Remote World Cluster had long become the territory of the insect swarm, and no one knew how many Divine Insects were hiding there.

He wasn't sure if going there to investigate in person would turn into a stupid act of throwing himself into the net.

Not to mention that there was also a super terrifying monster hidden there.

Even if only a clone went, if the clone was caught by the Eleventh Tribulation, the main body would probably be in great danger.

Cheng Han shook his head and resolutely rejected this idea: "A wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall! A genius even less so!"

He stroked his chin and murmured, "Then what should I do?"

"Whoosh ~"

A furious wind swept over.

A large amount of sand dust rose from the surface of the sand dune.

Cheng Han looked up at the sand dust flying all over the sky, his eyes a little blank.

He really couldn't think of a better way.

But for this dream, the Great Sand Ant had endured the painful Divine Fire Soul Tempering, and had paid the huge price of sleeping for more than ten years.

If things got stuck here, wouldn't it be letting the Great Sand Ant's efforts down?

Cheng Han was unwilling!

After a few seconds.

"Buzz ~"

A string vibration suddenly sounded.

This was the Soul String being touched.

The next second.

A clear and sweet voice rang in Cheng Han's ear.

"Master! Master! This cat has discovered many beautiful landscapes in the 'Blue Lake World'."

It was Cat Xiao Miao.

This little cat girl would proactively report on her recent situation every once in a while.

"The Blue Lake World has a very large number of lakes, and the color of each lake is sky blue.

"This world also has many beautiful 'Rainbow Lakes'. At noon every day, the surface of the Rainbow Lake will turn into a mirror, reflecting the scenery near the lake."

Just as the cat-eared girl was babbling.

One picturesque and beautiful landscape after another was transmitted from the Soul String.

Each picture was obviously a landscape carefully captured by the little cat girl, wanting to share it with her master.

Of course.

The little cat girl also had a little bit of a hidden show-off mentality.

This was just like in another space-time, many people going out to travel, no matter whether it was really fun or not, must post beautiful photos on their Moments.

Cheng Han withdrew his gaze and absentmindedly browsed the landscape paintings.

Each picture was a landscape of the Rainbow Lake.

The clear blue lake surface turned into huge mirrors.

Various scenes, mountains and forests, rushing rivers, etc., were presented on the mirror surface in turn, and constantly changed.

The beautiful scenery was fused with the lake surface, and it looked really unique.

The little cat girl's babbling voice came again.

"Master, is the Rainbow Lake's peculiar phenomenon also a manifestation of the world's laws?"

Cheng Han replied to the little maid: "The world's laws have given the lake surface a special power, just like a monitoring profound array, it can present..."

He stopped halfway through his words.

He suddenly realized something, as if he had been enlightened.

The little cat girl's doubtful voice came: "Master, what can it present? Why did you stop talking halfway?"

Cheng Han was stunned for two seconds, then quickly said: "I have a very urgent matter now, let's talk about the Blue Lake World tomorrow."

After saying that.

He unilaterally cut off the Soul Link.

At this moment.

Cat Xiao Miao's complaint floated over.

"Hmph!"

Cheng Han acted as if he hadn't heard it, and completely immersed himself in his thoughts.

"I'm likely stuck in a very serious thinking error.

"The content displayed by the Great Sand Ant's dream is very likely not something that exists in the real world, but an expression of symbolic meaning.

"This is just like the Rainbow Lake seen by Cat Xiao Miao, the mirror surface shows all kinds of scenery, but in reality it is just a lake surface.

"So my understanding of the dream is likely a big mistake, I only paid attention to the appearance, but ignored the essence."

Cheng Han had a feeling of awakening from a dream: "This should be the disguise deliberately made by the Eleventh Tribulation, to mislead the enemy in this way."

Although the above was just a guess.

But he had an unusually strong premonition that he had seen through the Eleventh Tribulation's little trick and glimpsed a bit of the truth that had been covered up.

Cheng Han couldn't help but "hmph" softly: "What a cunning guy!"

Another thought immediately arose in his mind: "Each 'Tribulation' may have different personalities and different ways of doing things."

However.

The personality of the "Tribulation" was not the focus of attention now.

Cheng Han immediately restrained his divergent thoughts and muttered: "I have to change my perspective and rethink the Great Sand Ant's dream."

He let out a long breath and fell into deep thought again.

"The root cause of the Great Sand Ant's dream was actually the Calamity Eye talent, a tracing process of potential crises.

"The duration of the dream represents the depth of the tracing, and the sudden termination of the dream represents that the tracing encountered a strong obstacle.

"From this point of view.

"Everything the Great Sand Ant encountered from drifting on the ice floe to sinking underwater is essentially the information collected.

"It's just that many things presented in the dream must have been distorted by the power of the Eleventh Tribulation, turning into a false appearance."

Cheng Han's thoughts became clearer and clearer.

"So.

"The icy sea may not be a real icy sea, and the ice floe may not be a real ice floe.

"That shadow in the deep sea should be understood in another way."

He clenched his fist a little excitedly: "That's right!"

Cheng Han took some time to repeatedly recall the dream several times, and carefully studied the details, gradually seeing a bit of the trick.

"The icy sea in the dream is definitely not a real icy sea.

"It should symbolize an area, placed in the real environment, it is a small world cluster.

"The dream contains many cold-related elements, such as flying snow, ice floes, cold currents, etc., which shows that the ice-type laws of the world cluster occupy a dominant position.

"From this point of view, the Southern Remote World Cluster seems to be the best place."

Cheng Han immediately corrected his idea.

"No.

"This is a preconceived prejudice.

"There are several colder world clusters in the area further than the Southern Remote World Cluster.

"Although the small worlds in that area are super ice lumps, the temperature is generally below minus one hundred degrees Celsius, and almost no life can be seen.

"But it cannot be concluded that the Eleventh Tribulation is not hiding there for wretched development."

Cheng Han began to meticulously analyze the elements in the dream.

"When the Great Sand Ant first entered the dream, it was stepping on a large ice floe, I think the ice floe is a very important element.

"It's just that the ice floe is just a concrete image, what it really represents should be another existence."

After adjusting his thoughts, he naturally came up with an idea.

"If the icy sea is regarded as a world cluster, then the existence corresponding to the ice floe is most likely a small world within the world cluster.

"The small world floats in the world cluster, the ice floe floats in the icy sea, don't the two sound very similar?

"No problem!"

Cheng Han began to analyze further.

"From the Great Sand Ant starting to drift to sinking below the sea surface, the duration of this icy sea drift was twenty-six seconds.

"Throughout the process, a total of twenty-eight large ice floes with larger sizes appeared on the sea surface, with an area of no less than two or three hundred square meters.

"The remaining ice floes are all broken ice, the number is at least five thousand, the longest is no more than one meter, and they cannot be compared with them at all.

"In the dream, either there is a large ice floe, similar to a ship, or there is negligible broken ice, there is no ice floe in between.

"This is obviously not a coincidence.

"The large ice floe is a distorted small world, and the broken ice is mostly the interference exerted by the Eleventh Tribulation, used to confuse the eyes and ears of the窥探者."

The more Cheng Han thought about it, the more reasonable it felt, and the more certain he was of his guess: "That's it!"

Based on the view that "large ice floe equals small world", the next step of reasoning is a matter of course.

"The Southern Remote World Cluster has a very large range, containing seventy-three small worlds, the number is obviously not in line.

"Then, according to this, the Southern Remote World Cluster can be directly ruled out."

Cheng Han directly overturned the original point of view.

He even thought of the reason.

"The Southern Remote World Cluster is adjacent to the Southern Li World Cluster, the Wan Hao Clan dispatched a large number of strong people, gathering in the Southern Li World Cluster.

"The top powerhouse, His Majesty Star Emperor, has already publicly shown his face several times, and there are probably several God Emperors who have not shown their faces.

"From a security point of view, hiding in the Southern Remote World Cluster for the Eleventh Tribulation is actually quite risky, and it may be strangled before it is born.

"For the Eleventh Tribulation, the safest way is to hide in a more distant world cluster, and then try to mislead the enemy, creating the illusion of hiding in the Southern Remote World Cluster."

This was a logical deduction.

It was also a safer approach.

He intuitively felt that this was the truth.

Cheng Han was both afraid and fortunate: "I was almost deceived by the Eleventh Tribulation, and almost made a fatal mistake."

If the Wan Hao Clan fell for the Eleventh Tribulation's trick, even His Majesty Star Emperor might fall.

"There are also three adjacent world clusters in the void further south than the Southern Remote World Cluster, namely 'Extreme Southern World Cluster', 'Southern Cold World Cluster', and 'Frost Southern World Cluster'.

"The number of small worlds owned by the three world clusters are thirty-four, thirty-seven, and twenty-six respectively."

At this point.

The answer was already very obvious.

Twenty-six large ice floes correspond to twenty-six small worlds.

After thinking for a while, Cheng Han immediately found the second "puzzle piece".

"The small worlds in the Frost Southern World Cluster generally have a very characteristic phenomenon.

“As long as it's nighttime, the ice-type laws will generate clusters of cold air that plummet rapidly from the high altitude.

“After these cold air clusters land, they will form extremely cold frost regions, containing considerable frost power.

“Extraordinary individuals below the Profound Overseer realm will be instantly killed upon entering the frost region, and only Profound Overseer experts have the power to resist it.”

Cheng Han chuckled softly, “From another perspective, the cold air meteors are just the snowflakes in the Great Sand Ant's dream, aren't they?”

Cold air meteors fall from the sky, and snowflakes also fall from the sky.

Cold air meteors are generated by laws, and snowflakes are also generated by laws.

They're so alike!

They're really too alike!

Cheng Han couldn't help but swing his fist, “I've found you!”

The most likely place for the Eleventh Tribulation to hide is the Frostsouth Star Cluster.