Chapter 493: Infinite Star Sea
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“You really stay up to date with the latest news. I’m indeed going to be a king, King of Wuyang. It’s my wife who told me the news. You should have known about it before I did!”
“Recently, everything in Jin is in a mess and its all thanks to your father-in-law. I thought that he would not have been able to turn his life around. But I never knew that he had such a secret advantage and was able to even up the odds. He is really a skillful schemer!”
“Hey, what did my father-in-law do to make you give up the Azure Secret Area?”
“Regardless how amazing the Azure Secret Area was previously, it is lost to us now. Even if we turn Divine Wind Palace over, we will get nothing. We fell out with Divine Wind Palace because we felt we had been wronged and wanted to avenge our defeat. But now things are different. Your father-in-law managed to get the half of the Void Map in one direct swoop!”
“The Void Map? What’s that?”
“The Void Map, just as its name implies, is a map of the endless void!”
“What? A map of the endless void?” Zhou Bao was immediately intrigued. In his mind, the endless void was the same as the universe from his previous life. It was infinite and extremely vast. He had seen the map of the universe in some science fiction and back then it was known as the star map. Had the experts managed to come up with a drawing of the void in this world?
Looking at Zhou Bao’s astonished expression, w.a.n.g She laughed suddenly and his face had the look that said: “I knew you’d be totally surprised by this information.” “This so-called Void Map is not referring to the complete map of the void but the map of a small part of the void. In antiquity times, there were many Void Maps, which had been drawn by the Ancient Mighty Experts while they were traveling in the void. Some of these maps are extremely valuable, but some are totally worthless!”
“Why?”
“The void is so big that it does not come as a surprise anymore. Even the area that the Ancient Mighty Experts and the legendary 99 Emperors had explored was just a tiny part of the whole void. In this small area, some places are unoccupied. Some are filled with worthless meteorites and some possess superlatively amazing spiritual qi, which is superior to that in the 33 Heavens. As long as we can find such a place, naturally, it can cover the loss of Azure Heaven. But the risks of accidents are high in the boundless void. There are even places that seem vacant but are actually death traps. If experts at the Lord of Heaven Realm can end up dying there, what about ordinary Individual Immortals and Genuine Immortals? Furthermore, most parts of the void have no spiritual qi and pneuma, so Genuine Immortals or Human Immortals are unable to stay there for a long time. The void gets its name because most of the void is empty and there’s no place for anyone to set foot in it. Therefore, once anyone gets lost in the void, it is as good as being dead. Thus, if anyone wants to explore the void, the Void Map is a must. But the Void Map has been lost for a long time already. Even those which have been preserved are some residual parts only. Although your father-in-law offered us half of the Void Map, it is only another portion of the part we five biggest sects have in our possession. The whole part is the map of the Infinite Star Sea.”
Zhou Bao appeared to be in a daze now.
The Star Area and Infinite Star Sea!
Although he had long suspected that this world was a huge planet, he had never been able to prove that. Even if he had the Divine Sense and Dharma power to travel around the void, and had occasionally entered into the void just to have the experience, such a void travel could be achieved only by tearing the void apart. How would he be able to have a clear view of the world he was in when there were layers of s.p.a.ces and s.p.a.ce rifts in between?
It was a known fact that the Law of s.p.a.ce was extremely mysterious. Due to its countless layers, it looked like many rooms of all sizes, which came with both thick and thin, hard and soft walls. Divine Senses such as the Three Realms Division and Infinite Realms Teleportation were all created after going through many trials and errors by the ancient experts and necromancers over the years. They were like formulas that you could use freely even if you did not understand the theory. A simple example would be: one plus one equals two. Even a three-year-old child knew this formula. As long as you knew the formula, you could use the simplest mathematical method to calculate the result. However, no one had ever been able to do prove the theory.
The Three Realms Division was a method for traveling about in a s.p.a.ce, for example, in a room. Although it involved the transformation between different spatial layers, it was as simple as the mathematical method “one plus one equals two”. Therefore, even though Zhou Bao did not know the exact principle, he still knew how to use it.
That was how Zhou Bao was able to travel the void by using his Divine Senses and special techniques even though he did not fully understand the actual secret of the Law of s.p.a.ce.
The Infinite Realms Teleportation was a way to move through different spatial levels. Frankly speaking, it was just another method to get from one room to another and was even more difficult than just moving around in the same room. Specific coordinates were required, and you couldn’t go into any random s.p.a.ce.
Legend had it that if one could go across the Nine Heavens Gang Wind, he would be able to enter the void directly from this world.
But, would it be that easy to break through the Nine Heavens Gang Wind?
The first layer of Gang Wind was 90,000 feet off the ground and the second layer of Gang Wind was 90,000 feet above this level. The rest had the same layout. There were nine layers of Gang Wind in total. Each layer was more powerful than the previous layer. Even the first layer of Gang Wind had the ability to crush a Level Nine expert. Thus it was evident that it would be very difficult to go across the nine layers of Gang Wind.
The most important fact to take note of was that from the fourth layer onwards, the Gang Wind contained s.p.a.ce debris which was capable of ripping the s.p.a.ce into pieces. Due to this, there were countless numbers of s.p.a.ce cracks amongst the debris. However, the Gang Wind’s activities were unceasing, so even if the s.p.a.ce here had self-healing powers, it was no match for the unending and violent Gang Wind. Therefore, the place where the fourth layer of Gang Wind was at was an absolute death trap. It was impossible for anyone to pa.s.s through the fifth or sixth layer of Gang Wind, even it was a Genuine Immortal at the Lord of Heaven Realm; or even guys like Zhou Bao who was proficient in Divine Senses such as the Three Realms Division and Infinite Realms Teleportation. To execute spatial Divine Senses in such a chaotic s.p.a.ce was simply seeking a death wish.
Coupled with the fact that the void was too vast, thus, whoever managed to get through the nine layers of Gang Wind would face only emptiness. Therefore, over the tens of thousands of years, no one had been able to pa.s.s through the nine layers of Gang Wind, nor were they able to see the true colors of this world.
Of course, over hundreds of thousands of years, the true colors of this world meant nothing to those Powerful Divines and great pract.i.tioners of antiquity times. Those who had received their inheritance, be it sects, experts or Genuine Immortals, knew what the real world was like.
The Powerful Divines of antiquity times had explored the void and discovered many resources, power and living creatures that were not available in this world today. They kept a record of what they had seen and heard, including the places that they had explored and the wonders they had encountered on their journeys. And that record became the Void Map.
The Void Map was a very good piece of work and everyone was aware of that. But few had been pa.s.sed down from antiquity times and even lesser people were able to enter the void even if they had the map.
People like Zhou Bao who had minimal knowledge of some Spatial Divine Senses and only a slight understanding of some Laws of s.p.a.ce, were able to tear through the void and live there for some time. However, it was still hard for them to pinpoint their positions there because the voids they tore apart each time were always in different positions, with some being very close to their own world and some being thousands of miles away. These things happened all the time. Thus, how would they dare to wander around such a void?
Even if you had three or four Void Maps in your possession, it was useless because you would not be able to tear into the very position that was recorded on the Void Map.
In fact, most of the Void Maps that had been pa.s.sed down from antiquity times were of no use. After all, compared to before, there were fewer people in the current world who were able to pa.s.s through the Nine Heavens Gang Wind to enter the remote void like those Powerful Divines.
Therefore, there were few Void Maps that were really useful to the pract.i.tioners in the present world. The Infinite Star Sea Map in Yan Yuntian’s hands happened to be one of those that was of some value.
The Infinite Star Sea was not near the present world. However, according to the records, there was a slightly smaller star near the large star that this world was located in; this was the moon that people saw from the ground. On it was a Transmitting Formation from antiquity times, which was able to send people to the Infinite Star Sea Area directly from the moon. This information had been confirmed by people from the five biggest sects tens of thousands of years ago. They had attempted to do so once only. The problem was that the five biggest sects only possessed half of the Void Map and lacked the other half that the Transmitting Formation was located on. Therefore, no one was brave enough to explore the Infinite Star Sea even with half of the Void Map. The Transmitting Formation was located on an enormous and remote meteorite, which occupied the same area as the Central Mainland Region did. However, there was no pneuma and spiritual qi on this meteorite at all. It was directly exposed in the void, and near it were dense cl.u.s.ters of meteorites that were visible to the naked eye. Through these meteorites, one could vaguely see a large star surrounded by numerous meteorites. But because the other half of the Void Map was missing, no one could tell what was on the large star, and therefore, no one dared to explore it.