Jiang Jian heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing the words and thought they made sense, so he quickly followed.
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Meanwhile, entering the Seven Nihilities, Chen Dengming harbored not a single thought, not a single pondering, and eventually transformed into a state of non-thinking and heartlessness, ethereal yet substantial, void yet not void, thoroughly entering the State of Mindlessness.
The process lasted for a dozen breaths.
If Dongfang Huayuan had not arrived in time, even if Chen Dengming had entered the Seven Nihilities, before reaching the Heartless Stage, he would have been detected by the Blood God who would have seized the fluctuations of his spirit from the void and ultimately, he would not have escaped death.