Chapter 28: World of Ice.
When the world around Yao Jun finally turned clear again, it came with a flash of white. The world around Yao Jun was completely white. He stood next to Yun Yantian on a vast expanse, surrounded by hills and a few mountains. Every inch of ground was covered in snow, fresh snow falling from the sky.
The air around them was pervaded by an intense chill, Yao Jun had to circulate the Qi in his body just to stave off the cold. With the cold gone, Yao Jun could finally gather his thoughts. While they were traveling, Yun Yantian had already informed him about this tower.
The tower tested a person's skills as well as their luck, each activation of the Spatial Arrays sending you to a random floor of the tower. The only room you could not be sent to randomly was the top of the tower. To get to the top of the tower, you had to clear a certain amount of floors. How many floors one had to clear was unknown.
“Ah, fucking hell, why did we have to get sent to a place like this?”
Yun Yantian stood at the side and complained while he circulated the Qi within his body, he was not pleased with the cold evidently.
“So, what's your Soul beast? Is it that Mist Eagle or the Lightning Tiger?”
Yun Yantian turned his head to Yao Jun and asked him a question he had been wondering about ever since he saw Yao Jun fight. He had heard about the Demon Race before but never seen any. But the books he read had never said anything about people from the Demon Race being capable of having two Soul Beasts, nor that they could use the powers of their Souls Beasts.
“Neither of them, I don't have any Soul Beasts. My parents are humans, I'm not from the Demon Race. They are Demonic Beasts I killed and absorbed using my power.”
Yao Jun explained his power to Yun Yantian, even telling him about the circumstances around his birth, as well as the thoughts he had about his Garden of Eden. Since they had already reached this point, with Yun Yantian basically throwing everything away just to protect Yao Jun, not telling him everything would be wrong.
“What the fuck is that?! Isn't that a bit too good? Doesn't that mean that you can essentially form your own army and constantly carry it with you? Why does yours sound so much more freakish than mine?”
Yun Yantian couldn't help but curse as he heard Yao Jun explain his power. Sure it started out weak, but the speed at which it grew would just become more and more terrifying. If he had been in a large clan that managed to understand his power, they could help him kill his first Demonic beast immediately after his power was awakened.
They could them help him kill Demonic beasts, quickly growing his army and power. If they managed to keep it a secret, they would have a massive army in no time. The army could even be called an undead army, just returning them to the gate would allow them to heal.
“What even is your power? Is it the power to create copies and control them?”
Yao Jun ignored Yun Yantian's obvious envy and asked a question of his own. Yao Jun had seen Yun Yantian conjure swords into his hand and even let his swords simply dissipate after stabbing people. At first, he thought he could copy certain weapons to attack with, but while they were escaping, he had clearly seen Yun Yantian control the weapons from a distance.
“My power is surprisingly simple. You called yours Garden of Eden right? I call mine World of Swords. I can conjure up a small space around me, currently, I can only make the space cover about two meters around me, and within that space, I can summon and control an unlimited amount of swords. The more swords I summon, the harder it is to control them. I can also slightly move the space, but it has to be within one meter of me.”
Yao Jun couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at Yun Yantian's power. Yun Yantian hadn't even reached the 1st grade, but the small space already covered a distance of four meters in total. Every grade one reached was a qualitative change that gave your powers a strong boost. If it was already that big, didn't it mean that it could cover a simply massive area in the future? At that time he might even be able to kill people in a different province without even getting close to them.
“How is that not freakish? That is literally a world of swords huh?”
Yao Jun couldn't help but click his tongue. His power could indeed summon an army after he trained it enough, but couldn't Yun Yantian do the same? An army of swords and an army of Demonic beasts. Upon thinking to this point, Yao Jun couldn't help but let out a little chuckle. It really seemed like birds of a feather flock together.
“Anyway, we should probably focus on what's ahead of us. If we can't escape from this place, we'll just end up freezing to death here.”
Yun Yantian's voice returned Yao Jun to reality. Indeed, there was no point thinking about what their powers could do in the future if they could not even break out of this world of ice. Yao Jun turned his head a few times, taking in everything around him, but all he saw was the vast expanse of snow and ice, without anything special.
“There should be a message around here somewhere. It will tell us what we need to do to get to the next place.”
Yun Yantian had prepared extensively before this trip. It was impossible to know about all the locations within the tower, but he could prepare for some of them. Those he could not prepare for, he could use the standard that the other locations used to find some patterns. This message was one of those patterns. Without those messages, everyone would just be running around blindly, something that the creator of this tower obviously did not want.
Yao Jun followed Yun Yantian as they started slowly making their way through the world of ice. The wind howled around them, the snowflakes hitting their face like tiny needles. To constantly circulate their Qi drained it at a rapid pace, so Yun Yantian had already prepared several pills that could rapidly restore their Qi.
They kept searching for a few hours before they finally found a message written into the side of a mountain. No matter how much snow fell onto the mountain, the message did not vanish, so Yun Yantian and Yao Jun were certain that this was the message that they should follow.
“To break the world of ice, only pierce the eye.”
The message was written with large letters, each stroke looking like someone had carved it with a sword, bringing with it a pressuring and tyrannical feeling. Yao Jun had heard about this before. When someone reached a high enough level in their cultivation, every action they took brought with it a hint of their intent, their belief. Whoever wrote these letters, had obviously reached this level.
“It seems like we are going to have to find the eye of this world to break free.”
Yun Yantian murmured to himself as he looked at the words. To find the eye of the world was easier said than done. The eye of the world was often placed in the center of the world, also called its heart. But they had no idea how large this world of ice was, finding its eye would be a tough challenge.