Layla had finally succeeded in arousing Zen's curiosity, and her face now revealed a complacent smile.
She then raised one corner of her mouth in a aningful way and smiled, “You said that you don't want to say anything and just want to focus on studying the stone carving, right?”
In response, Zen rely glared at her with a cold gaze. He seed to dislike being kept in suspense.
Layla seed to sense that and stopped beating around the bush. “The most important part in the Passing the Torch is to advance through the Law Storm. The storm is ford of every single law power in the entire universe and can be a bit, feisty...”
“Every single type of law is contained in the storm?” Zen confird.
Layla nodded. “Yes. But don't worry. Those laws are extrely fragnted, left behind by nurous Supre Lords as they fought in the past. The Law Storm is imprisoned within the Enchanted Barrier Tower!”
The Enchanted Barrier Tower had also been left behind by a Supre Lord. In appearance, it was much like a tower, but was in fact, an enchanted barrier. It had been created many years ago and things were much different now.
Several Supre Lords had fought in the Orange Sea World, which ended up disintegrating this supre world. As a result, the laws left behind by them had beco disordered and uncontrolled, making the Orange Sea World a dangerous and chaotic place. Any warrior visiting it would be dead within seconds if he or she wasn't careful enough and got trapped in the chaotic law current.
Later, a human Supre Lord had taken a planned risk and gathered all of the law currents together, trapping and enveloping them within the Enchanted Barrier Tower. The broken Orange Sea World gradually beca peaceful after that.
The chaotic law currents within the Enchanted Barrier Tower had also weakened over ti, losing much of their energy. Later on, they interacted and ford a storm. But ti had passed so much since then that even the storm's might had weakened by a great deal. In the last several hundred years, it had weakened enough to be used as a thod of testing the warriors of thirteen palaces.
After hearing Layla's instructions, Zen understood what was going on. No wonder the warriors of thirteen palaces were required to comprehend those stone carvings; they had six types of laws on each of their six sides. The Law Storm was actually a combination of many different Original Laws, which ant that in order to resist it, they needed to comprehend a sufficient amount of Law Power.
“So we are going to make an effort at the last mont, huh? It would be useless you know. Even if we spend twenty days cultivating here, it won't be enough. Forget about forty hours! If you want to make greater achievent in the Law Storm, you will have to rely on your accumulation of knowledge and cultivation base in the past!” Layla told him arrogantly.
Zen glanced at her indifferently, realizing that she was both proud and confident in herself.
“Even so, I have to do what I have to do,” Zen responded.
“Look! I told you. It's just useless! Like I said, I don't need to comprehend this stone carving. I can surely obtain first place and break the record here without doing that! Let's just chat!” Layla smiled.
Zen rolled his eyes in response. “Layla! I'm not as confident as you are.” After he finished speaking, he didn't raise his head anymore and instead concentrated on observing the stone carving in his hand. He was going to ignore her if she kept on nagging him like that.
When Layla saw that Zen was ignoring her, a resentful expression once again appeared on her face. However, after a second thought, her smile returned. She was very confident in herself. She also knew that Zen would surely be very dejected if he could not perform better than her in the test after he had tried to contemplate the stone carving so earnestly.
Zen could clearly understand what Layla was thinking about. But he just kept on staring intently at the stone carving, deep in thought.
If all the six Law Powers were fused together at the sa ti, what effect would that lead to?
Zen had already seen the perfect fusion of two kinds of Law Power before. For example, Fenton's sword art was a perfect fusion of the tal Law and the Wind Law.
However, it was already extrely hard to fuse even two of the Original Laws together, let alone all six of them.
So of the Original Laws reinforced, and so of them restricted each other; for example, the Fire Law and Water Law were exact opposites. Their restraints on each other were the most obvious among the laws of five elents.
But was there really no one in this world who could mix all kinds of Law Power together?
Of the six kinds of Law Power on this stone carving, the fusions were pairwise. Moreover, the fusions of any two laws weren't complete.
Further, Zen still didn't know how powerful that Law Storm was. He couldn't imagine what would happen if several different kinds of laws ca together and acted on a single point, but he could obtain the fusion thod from the stone carving.
Very quickly, Zen entered a state of imrsion.
Most of the thousands of warriors from thirteen palaces had also sunk into the world of laws, just like Zen. They were trying to comprehend as much of these carvings as possible.
Layla was bored and even started to stretch herself. Seeing the serious expressions on Zen's face, she curled her lips and finally, with nothing to do, also picked up the stone carving.
The warriors only had forty hours to comprehend the stone carvings and they were trying to make the most of it.
Zen had been standing in front of the huge stone and was delayed for a couple of hours. Therefore, after Zen had ditated only for about thirty hours, a voice simultaneously sounded in everyone's ears.
“Alright, folks! Ti is up! Please put down the stone carvings in your hands and enter the Enchanted Barrier Tower! Quickly now!” The voice belonged to the old man dressed in cotton clothes and standing near the tower.
The warriors, who were standing at the side of the square put down the stone carvings and quickly stood up.
Everyone was naturally well-prepared to participate in the Passing the Torch. But so of them were more confident than ever, while so had hesitant expressions on their faces. So of them also uttered, “I wonder what the reward is this ti.”
The old man in cotton clothes continued speaking indifferently, unfazed by the mutters, “This ti, those who can reach a thousand miles will be rewarded with a Tribulation Exterminating Pill!”
“Tribulation Exterminating Pill?” Zen's eyes flashed.
Luckily, Layla imdiately explained, “The Tribulation Exterminating Pill is a powerful dicine that can extinguish the punishnt imposed on us by the heavens!”
“Destroy the Heavenly Tribulation directly?” Zen asked curiously, “But from my estimate, the warriors here probably don't need the Tribulation Exterminating Pill, right?”
To an ordinary warrior, the Tribulation Exterminating Pill might be incomparably important. So of them would really suffer a lot while undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation, and if they weren't careful, they could end up dead!
In the past, when Zen had undergone a small Heavenly Tribulation, he had been almost killed by the black light.
However, undergoing the tribulation even once was extrely beneficial for the warriors themselves. The warriors of thirteen palaces were talented people from tenth-grade sacred places. Going through the tribulation was actually a good thing for them. Layla, a warrior at the ninth level of the Life and Death Realm, was looking forward to the tenth small Heavenly Tribulation!
To these warriors, exterminating the tribulation was not a good thing, but would be a great loss, since they were in no danger but would lose its effects.
Layla slightly smiled and replied, “Of course not! The Tribulation Exterminating Pill isn't able to completely destroy the Heavenly Tribulation! If that were the case, then I wouldn't want it! The Tribulation Exterminating Pill can only delay the arrival of the Heavenly Tribulation! If a warrior is already in danger or severely injured, it would be inconvenient for him to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation. If the Heavenly Tribulation arrives, then this Tribulation Exterminating Pill can be used to delay the Heavenly Tribulation!”
Zen nodded his head, thinking what Layla was saying made sense. Back when he was in the Sea God Continent, the two ogre sacred places had launched a surprise attack during the absence of Amber who had gone out to undergo the tribulation. Although Amber had successfully passed through the tribulation and co back in ti, both she and her race had been in an extrely dangerous situation while she was gone.
It seed that the Tribulation Exterminating Pill could indeed be of so use at a critical mont.
“Reaching one thousand miles will get you only one Tribulation Exterminating Pill...”
"Mmm. This reward for Passing the Torch seems to be too small!
“Are there any other prizes? Please tell us...”
These warriors were participating in Passing the Torch just for its rewards. Naturally, they would pay attention to them and want bigger ones to be present.
The old man continued, “Those who can travel three thousand miles will be rewarded with a secondary first-rank divine weapon!”
Zen had been slightly interested in the Tribulation Exterminating Pill. He felt a bit of a lack of interest when it ca to the secondary first-rank divine weapon.
As for the warriors from thirteen palaces, they were also sowhat dissatisfied.
“I heard that the warriors who traveled three thousand miles in the last Passing the Torch were rewarded with first-rank divine weapons, but this year the reward is just a secondary first-rank divine weapon... So cheap!”
“Indeed, the rewards seem to have decreased in grade this ti. What happened I wonder?”
The old man dressed in cotton clothes didn't care about everyone's dissatisfaction and continued with his announcent, “As for the reward of traveling ten thousand miles, I will announce it when soone of you is able to make it!”
Obviously, the old man wanted to keep everyone guessing and increase suspense.
The crowd was naturally unhappy...
It was extrely difficult to advance through the Law Storm. Very few warriors would be able to move forward even for a thousand miles.
As for reaching the three thousand miles mark, most likely, only about a dozen warriors would be able to do so.
Ten thousand miles was a dream that was unimaginable. The warriors of thirteen palaces wondered whether there was even a single warrior who could travel ten thousand miles. To be honest, there was no point in announcing the rewards of this case. No one would make it!
Although everyone was dissatisfied, no one chose to give up. They were clear that the benefits attained by Passing the Torch were not limited to just this. If they were able to achieve a good result, then they would be highly valued in the palaces. And they could also get a lot of resources several tis more than they had now.
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