Chapter 623: Chapter 632 – Years Go By
If one were to do the math, Chen Heng had already been to many worlds by now. Hence, he had a certain level of understanding of the worlds’ structure.
The worlds’ structures were very different due to various internal rules. However, he could still understand their regular patterns. For example, the void before him was something that would exist in every world.
The world itself was like a living being, constantly changing and growing but at a very slow pace. This growth was multifaceted. It would absorb the vitality of the outside world, as well as drawing energy from the source to supply itself. It would also capture and fill itself with various substances from the outside world.
However, it was clear that those supplier that originated from the outside world could not enter the world directly, or it would cause an upheaval. Any misstep would damage the originally perfect structure of the world and might even collapse. Hence, the existence of the inner void was necessary.
The purpose of this layer of the structure was to digest the substances and energies that originated from the outside world and slowly transform them into nutrients of the world itself and enter the world’s cycle. It could be deemed a part of the world, but it was only the edge of the world, and could not be considered as the inside of the world.
Various thoughts flashed through Chen Heng’s mind as he looked forward at the vast world before him. Under his gaze, the void was fully displayed, appearing particularly clear in his eyes. Basically, no existence in this inner void could threaten him with the strength he possesses.
After all, although the inner void was also a void, the level of danger could not be compared to the void in the outside world. If the outer void was a turbulent sea, then the inner void could at most be deemed a calm river. It was not a big threat to someone of Chen Heng’s level.
Coming to this region, Chen Heng himself still needed to spend some time finding a way to enter the world. Anyhow, he was not anxious. Compared to the empty outer void, although the inner void before him was also barren, there were still some resources in it.
Among the resources extracted and absorbed from the outside world, many materials have unique divinity and have the potential to be comparable to divine gold. These were all precious things within the world, but one could still find quite a bit of them within this inner void if one were willing to.
Such a situation was very natural. After all, it was clear after doing the math that things that could exist in the void and be absorbed by the world would not be weak. They would have long been destroyed in the outer void and would not have remained until now if their nature was not strong.
Furthermore, these materials were not bad in Chen Heng’s eyes. They were the best materials for him to advance further. Therefore, he was not overly anxious to return to the world. Instead, he remained in the outer void to search for divine gold and devour it to strengthen himself.
Time flies, and soon, a decade has pa.s.sed. After staying in the void for ten years, the sky was again filled with lightning. It gathered a strong Gen Qi and descended heavily towards Chen Heng.
This was Chen Heng’s fifth Armed Catastrophe. It has been more than ten years since Chen Heng’s last Armed Catastrophe. During this waiting period, Chen Heng had been in the void, absorbing the essence of various divine materials to grow himself. This method was undoubtedly of great help to Chen Heng.
Chen Heng once again went through a marker ten years later and began his fifth Armed Catastrophe. This itself was nothing special to Chen Heng. The Armed Catastrophe might be a challenging marker for other divine weapons in this world. It was challenging to survive and could even be a narrow escape.
However, it was nothing to Chen Heng. This was not an overstatement but the truth. Chen Heng’s strength continued to grow and had reached a new level after ten years, so powerful that his every move seemed to be able to shake mountains and rivers and destroy the world. His power was terrifying, and no one dared to face it directly.
Even the Armed Catastrophe born in heaven and earth would be directly defeated by Chen Heng. The duration of the Armed Catastrophe was even longer this time compared to the past. It took more than two months for Chen Heng to pa.s.s this Armed Catastrophe finally.
Thereafter, the ancient sword soared into the sky, flattening everything and suppressing the lightning that gathered in the air. Everything dissipated and turned into a void. Only the remaining energy remained and was devoured by Chen Heng in one gulp.
Bang!
Rolling myths appeared like real flames twined around Chen Heng’s body and began to refine his body under Chen Heng’s control. This divine flame was condensed by the Power of Laws within the lightning. It was the manifestation of this world’s power, which was exceptionally exquisite.
As the divine flame coiled around him, many impurities that Chen Heng had swallowed in the past ten years began to subside and were gradually eliminated and rushed to the outside world.
Even though they were only impurities, a knight was still a considerable material. It would be sufficient to become divine gold if it was placed in the outside world, a good material for refining materials. However, these could only be called impurities compared to Chen Heng’s current body.
Chen Heng continued to move forward and tour around. After staying in the inner void for ten years, he had already figured out the situation in this area and had a rough idea of how to leave – to leverage the power of the world’s circulation.
The inner void was like a person’s stomach. It would constantly digest the materials and substances from the outside world and then transport them into the world’s interior, becoming the world’s nutrients. It has close interaction with the world, so there was naturally a way in and out.
Chen Heng only needed to interact with the flas.h.i.+ng screen and blend in with the digested origin, and then he could quickly enter the world without much hindrance. It’s pretty simple to do that.
Various thoughts flashed through Chen Heng’s mind as he looked forward. A boundless void appeared before him. However, a ray of light suddenly lit up. It was a highly resplendent ray of light. Initially, it was just a single ray. However, as time went on, it became more and more like a shooting star that flickered continuously, looking exceptionally dazzling.
Those that the void had digested started to circulate under the fluctuations of the world’s power and gradually rushed into the world. These matters would surge into the main world and become the various substances within it if nothing unexpected happened.
Some of the tenacious ones would turn into meteors and fall, becoming the divine gold and divine materials that the cultivators in the world were madly chasing after. Some origin that could be digested directly would turn into an abundant spirit aura and be digested directly by the world itself. The others would settle within the world and achieve all kinds of natural creation after a long nurturing period.
Now that the opportunity had appeared, Chen Heng no longer hesitated. After observing for a moment, he chose a slightly larger meteor, directly entered it, and was shrouded by the origin.
Upon entering, a sense of st.u.r.diness surged from the surrounding. The meteor that Chen Heng chose contained a st.u.r.dy material.
If nothing unexpected happened, it would turn into a meteor after entering the main world and eventually split into various kinds of divine gold, becoming a good material for refining weapons.
Time slowly pa.s.sed. The fluctuations of the world’s power gradually intensified. Vaguely, the world opened its arms and devoured the meteors, containing them into its body.
A powerful force surged from the surroundings, bringing with it a destructive force. This was the process of entering the world and would be affected by considerable force. This was also the biggest obstacle to entering the world to a certain extent.
Substances would gradually decompose and change into a different appearance under the influence of the world’s power. Even if it was a divine weapon, if the material and power were slightly weaker, it might not be able to withstand it.
Chen Heng was naturally okay. Within the ten years in the inner void, he had already tempered his body to the extreme, reaching the limit of the current stage. Even those Earth Heavenly Weapons might not be much stronger than his materials in terms of st.u.r.diness compared with ordinary divine weapons.
Although the world power before Chen Heng was powerful, it was nothing to him. He even leveraged this unique environment to temper his body, making it stronger and more terrifying.
“Oh?” Chen Heng subconsciously felt an inexplicable sense of horror. Inside his true spirit, an inexplicable premonition filled his body and mind, “What’s going on?”
He felt an extreme sense of danger. It was as if something unpredictable would happen during the teleportation process. At Chen Heng’s level, his premonition was highly accurate, and there were very few occasions when he was wrong.
Therefore, Chen Heng chose to follow his premonition and quickly made a move. Without much hesitation, he sealed his true spirit and locked it in his body before falling into a deep sleep without any fluctuations.
Then, within the large meteorite, all lights on the ancient sword dissipated and returned to normal, integrating directly with the surrounding environment and becoming one.
Nothing could be found on the surface. Everything was normal. However, the surrounding environment began to change after that. In the dark, a world power that had been gathering for a long time rippled around and appeared next to Chen Heng.
This world’s power seemed to have sensed something, so it instinctively gathered in this place, trying to find something. However, the sensing was interrupted in the end.
As Chen Heng fell into self-sealing and strengthening, this world’s power also lost its target. It dissipated again and fell into silence very quickly. Everything returned to calmness once again.
Before his eyes, a huge meteorite fell heavily on the ground, making a crisp sound. It was a desolate continent, and the surroundings looked very barren. There was a lack of resources, but the spiritual aura was also fragile.
The meteorite fell to the ground and finally cracked under force’s influence, turning into many small pieces. The piece that was shrouded around Chen Heng fell directly into the valley. The meteorite fell. Although it looked small, a considerable amount of quality could smash a mountain peak, collapsing it. Fortunately, this area was very desolate. Not many people were living around, so there were no casualties.
Soon, the place gradually became lively. As the meteorite fell, cultivators began to gather around the area, looking for fragments of the meteorite. Meteorites might only be ordinary meteorites in other worlds. The composition was the same, so there was nothing strange about it.
However, meteorites were synonymous with extraterrestrial substances and natural creation in this world. Even a bit of meteorite powder was an extremely precious thing, enough to make some cultivators rich overnight, not to mention a whole piece of meteorite fragment.
Part of the meteorite spirit transformation would also bring a spiritual aura to the surroundings, slowly changing the terrain of this area and making this place lively. Therefore, this originally desolate area quickly became lively.
In a short period, many cultivators gathered here to search for treasures, hoping to obtain good fortune from them and make a fortune. The original location of the mountain peak changed rapidly. A group of people came from around, slowly gathered in a small market.
The arrival of these cultivators brought about a group of people, which at the same time banished the monsters nearby. In addition to the gradual recovery of spiritual aura, there were improvements around this area, and mortals started to gather in villages. If this trend continued to develop, this area would become more prosperous and gradually become a town sooner or later. And this was indeed the case.
Three hundred years later. The sun shone, illuminating this area. When the land had just recovered, many people woke up and started working in the suns.h.i.+ne. Some teenagers got up early in a town and began to practice boxing.