Chapter 822: Nine hundred ninety thousand Feet
In one of the four Great True Worlds, the Emperor of Abyss' True World, there was an incredibly great galaxy. It was ford by nine vortexes that surrounded the area, creating a forbidden ground. If anyone without a plate allowing them entry stepped here, they would find difficult to survive.
In the depths of the galaxy was a vortex, and at the center of it was a piece of land whose edges were covered by black lightning. That piece of land was not big, only a few millions of lis in size.
The area there was covered in flowers and grass. Thick waves of spiritual energy filled the air, and their presence was so thick that they were corporeal. They circled in the air several tis based on so pattern before surging towards the center of the land.
There was a tall platform at the center upon which nine old n sat cross-legged. They were sitting in a circle, and in the middle of them a young woman lay quietly.
She was dressed in a long purple robe and had her eyes closed, as if she was deep asleep.
She was Yu Xuan.
She remained still and unmoving, her face pale, as if she had died.
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In the foreign lands of Western Ring Nebula within the Sinful Barren Lands located in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, there were a hundred thousand stone monunts, all of them different in size. Su Ming appeared before his stone monunt once again. As his body gradually beca completely distinct, the stone monunt before him let out booming sounds. It slowly grew from one hundred thousand feet to two hundred thousand feet, and once it did so, the light disappeared.
A calm voice travelled into Su Ming's ears. "Congratulations. You managed to make your stone monunt grow to such a level within such a short period of ti."
The person who spoke was Zhou Kang. It was clear that he had just co out from his stone monunt, but instead of growing, it had beco only one hundred thousand feet. The difference was too great compared to the height it reached previously, but the man looked as calm as ever.
After a long ti, Su Ming averted his gaze from it and sensed his own power as he looked at his surroundings quietly. When he looked over, he found several dozens of people around, most of them ditating with aloof expressions on their faces. They did not bother each other.
When Su Ming's gaze fell on Zhou Kang, he saw that his stone monunt had shrank, and he could not help but focus on it. He rembered that when he'd first walked out of his stone monunt, he had glanced past Zhou Kang's stone monunt and seen that it had reached seven hundred thousand sothing feet. However, at that ti, he had been imrsed in his mories of his mother and did not pay too much attention to the changes around him.
"I failed to reach one million feet, so my stone monunt regressed to one hundred thousand feet," Zhou Kang stated flatly when his gaze fell on Su Ming. "I didn't expect that your speed would be so quick. Looks like Yue Er's guess was correct. The Five Illusory Echelons are the best thod of training in this place.
"Of course, this has a huge connection to your own potential in understanding things. This should be sothing that exists, or else why would I, whose potential in the path of cultivation is lesser than that of Yue Er but whose epiphany was slightly deeper, could survive while she left?" Grief appeared in Zhou Kang's eyes as he mumbled to himself.
"If you fail in reaching one million feet, your stone monunt will regress?" Su Ming asked softly.
"You should have realized the benefits after you entered the world in the stone monunt, because your world is completely ford based on your mories. This way it'll be much more convenient for you to gain epiphanies, and your epiphanies will also be much deeper.
"That's why your cultivation base can be increased in the world within the stone monunt. As long as people aren't afraid of being killed, many of them will choose to give up on reaching one million feet and instead continue imrsing themselves in the world within the stone monunt so that they can gain deeper epiphanies.
"However, even if that's not what you want, you will still have no choice, because it's not incredibly difficult to make your stone monunt reach nine hundred thousand feet. Since the start, there have been plenty of those who managed to go up that high.
"But when trying to reach one million feet from nine hundred thousand feet, there is a wall. It's the sa for everyone. If you want to climb over it… it will be difficult, very difficult. If I were to count it, then I've run into this wall four tis. I didn't try to climb over it the previous three tis but chose to give up on it. I was waiting for my wife.
"Once she passed away, I tried breaking through it, but failed." Zhou Kang looked at Su Ming, his voice calm.
"If you fail, then you'll have to start again. It's like a cycle of reincarnation. You will keep on repeating the process… and those who manage to climb over this wall are few, very few…" Zhou Kang closed his eyes.
Su Ming fell silent. He looked at his stone monunt, which was now at two hundred thousand feet. The questions that existed in his heart were now answered. When he first left his stone monunt, he had looked at it, which had beco one hundred thousand feet, and had been skeptical about the Divine Essence's legacy. It seed… as if it was not really that difficult.
So why when were there so many people who had failed, with only a few who managed to reach one million feet? Now, he understood.
Su Ming looked at Zhou Kang, who had his eyes closed, and said in a low voice, "There should be quite a number of people who will co during the next few days. If… you can make your stone monunt reach one million feet as soon as possible, then you should."
Zhou Kang did not speak. He continued to stand with his eyes closed.
Light would occasionally flash in the area. So people would walk into their worlds in the stone monunts, while others would walk out. Su Ming noticed that the stone monunt of the old man whom he and Zhou Kang had plotted together to kill had already been occupied by soone else, and it had already reached one hundred thousand feet.
Several days later, once Zhou Kang returned to the world in his stone monunt, Su Ming also chose to enter again.
Ti passed. When in the world of the stone monunt, he returned to the ti when he beca the God of Berserkers, when he was still in Dark Mountain, when he experienced the great war between the Shamans and Berserkers, and when he had just entered Freezing Sky Clan.
The experiences, epiphanies, and killings caused more runic symbols to overlap, making it seem as if the universe was contained in Su Ming's right eye. Its power also grew the extent that it terrified even Su Ming himself.
This power was not sothing he had obtained through an epiphany. Instead, he had naturally obtained it after he used his eye to enter the stone monunt.
Without being aware of it, Su Ming had already spent sixty years in this place. During that ti, there were more than thirty thousand people who had co to this place, and once they arrived, they beca one of the candidates to obtain the Divine Essence.
There were n and won among those thirty thousand people, and almost every single one of them ca for Su Ming's life. Once they saw him in this place, so of them chose to attack, but after multiple deaths, the others noticed the will in this place and gave up, since they could do nothing about it.
Occasionally, so more newcors would arrive, but Su Ming was completely unconcerned. In fact, he did not even attempt to dodge. As long as their divine abilities landed on his person, they would all die.
Gradually, the old tirs in the place noticed what was happening, and they were delighted by the proceedings. After all, every ti a person died, it would an that a stone monunt would be emptied, so when a new person arrived, they would receive that monunt, and the old tirs would thus skip one turn of possibly dying.
The arrival of thirty thousand people ant that there was an equivalent amount of people who had died. The old nas on the stone monunts were gradually replaced by new ones, and the occasional deaths put pressure on everyone that they had never experienced before.
There was a continuous string of people who attempted to break the wall of one million feet, but during the sixty years, not one managed to succeed.
There were still people entering the foreign land, and Su Ming had even sensed a powerful threat several tis. This sensation had eventually dissolved, but those few tis had put pressure on Su Ming.
Once his stone monunt reached six hundred thousand feet, it beca harder for it to grow. In fact, Su Ming needed to fuse with the stone monunt's world several dozens of tis before he could make his stone monunt grow even a few tens of thousands of feet.
In sixty years, Su Ming managed to grow his stone monunt to nine hundred nine thousand feet. At the sa ti, Zhou Kang's stone monunt also reached nine hundred eight thousand feet.
This was the second ti Zhou Kang made his stone monunt reach that height during the sixty years, and it was also the sixth ti he'd reached that height.
"We've known each other for sixty years now, and to lifeforms like us, sixty years is too short, but to mortals, sixty years might be their entire lives.
"Today, your stone monunt also reached a similar height. It's a pity that I can't tell you anything about the experiences about the wall in trying to reach one million feet. This is a restriction placed on us by the laws here. I can only… wish you success!" Zhou Kang looked at Su Ming. Once he sucked in a deep breath, he pushed his right hand on the stone monunt and disappeared.
Su Ming looked at his own stone monunt, which had reached nine hundred nine thousand feet. During the sixty years, he had seen almost every single person here. The apathetic faces and gazes that would occasionally shine with a gloomy light were expressions that said that they hoped for others to be quickly replaced by newcors so that their chances of death would be lowered, and it was an expression that showed just how cruel this place was.
So of the one thousand people who had made their stone monunts reach one million feet had returned from the world outside during those sixty years, a telling sign that their ti limit of a thousand years had drawn near, and they had to continue trying to receive the Divine Essence.
Su Ming shook his head. Once he sat down with his legs crossed, he looked at the stone monunt. He noticed that there was quite a large number of people around him who were sizing him up, but he was already accustod to these kind of gazes. After all, compared to other people, he had chosen to walk down the path of the Five Illusory Echelons. He was different from the others, and he would naturally catch their attention. Besides, during the sixty years, the newcors would occasionally attack him straight away, ignoring everything else. So it was impossible for him to not catch people's attention even if he wanted.
After a mont, a vortex appeared on the stone monunt in front of him. As it rotated with loud booming sounds, Su Ming's body swiftly beca obscure and he disappeared.
When his field of vision cleared, he imdiately had his Atman sweep through the area. This was a galaxy, and there was a cultivation planet not too far away from him. That planet was golden, and it shone with a brilliant light.
"Those who wish to obtain my Divine Essence must go through this test if they want to make their stone monunt reach one million feet. If you succeed… you will obtain a part of the power of my Divine Essence. If you fail, then you will have to start over.
"That cultivation planet before you is my holand. In that place is my Divine Essence, but whether you can obtain it… will depend on your serendipity!" Sui Chen Zi's ancient voice, which had spoken to Su Ming sixty years ago, echoed in his head once again. "You can use whatever thods you have at your disposal… as long as you obtain that Divine Essence!"
Sui Chen Zi's ancient voice gradually disappeared, and once it vanished, Su Ming lifted his head. A glint appeared in his eyes, and the overlapping shadows from those runic symbols in his right eye gave him an especially stately appearance, making him look incredibly bizarre. He took a step forward and, with a bang, turned into a shooting star that charged down towards the cultivation planet in the distance.
Su Ming's speed grew increasingly faster. In the blink of an eye, he sliced through the galaxy and closed in on the cultivation planet that was shining with golden light. Right then, a powerful and mighty pressure spread out from the cultivation planet. The golden light around then beca akin to a golden sea, which decreased Su Ming's speed by a large margin.
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