The Outside World
THE OUTSIDE WORLD
Inside a room that was located deep underground. The room was cuboid and completely closed with no openings. It had a length, width, and height of twenty meters.
The walls, floor, and ceiling were as smooth as a mirror. The lighting was dim with the only light was coming from a door in the middle of the room.
The door was floating above a two meters tall platform. It was fully covered with tiny, complicated formation runes that flash with dim light from time to time.
Suddenly, the runes glowed with a dazzling light.
Flash! When the light faded, two human figures appeared in front of the door. The tall figure was a delicate youth with black hair and eyes. The short figure was an adorable child with the same hair and eyes color as the youth
Zaki, the adorable child, had a confused and disappointed expression on his face, "Eh? I thought the outside world would have a bright sun and fresh air seems like I put my hopes too high."
The tall youth, Zaka, ignored the child and flew to the wall. "Amazing, as expected from one of the biggest sects in the ancient era." Zaka shook his head in amazement.
Right after Zaka arrived in the outside world, he had scanned his surroundings. He had found that room was completely made from star abyss rocks! It was the material used to make a spirit-grade magic-artifact!
The walls of the room were ten meters thick which means the total volume of the star abyss rocks was more than twenty-four thousand cubic meters. One meter cubic of star abyss rock could be used to make ten spirit-grade magic-artifacts.
That meant the room was made from 240.000 spirit-grade magic-artifacts! The whole room was once covered by defense and teleportation formation, but the long passage of time had eroded the formation so much that Zaka could easily breach the walls.
However, that also meant he couldn't go outside through the teleportation formation.
"Zaki, stop that and go back to your spirit form," Zaka glanced at a certain system who was licking the floor while murmuring, 'the outside world does have a different taste than the school's dimension.'
Zaka shook his head and sighed, "We will get out of this room."
"Wooo! The outside world here I come!" Zaki's body turned transparent and flew into Zaka's body.
Boom! An apparition of a ten meters tall heavenly giant enveloped Zaka's body. The apparition glowed with a golden metallic light. It linked its hand above its head and started to spin at high speed.
He had made the dao of the piercing as the main dao so that he could pierce through the walls.
Zhiiiing! A combination of 6 complete lesser daos with the piercing as the main dao could just barely penetrate the wall.
Zaka positioned his body to be parallel with the ceiling and then put both of his fists beside his stomach. Then, he threw his right fist which glowed with golden metallic light at the ceiling. Instantly, folded layers of space appeared in front of the moving fist.
The fist rotated in mid-air, twisting the folded layers of space along with it.
This was the variant of [Star Destroyer] stance, [Star Piercer]. If [Star Destroyer] could bypass the defense of an enemy, [Star Piercer] penetrate directly through the defense of the enemy!
Hong long! A corridor with a diameter of two meters appeared in front of Zaka.
Boom! Zaka broke through the roofs and continued to fly upward. Zaka flew with a normal speed while spreading his divine sense outward, keeping the divine sense one kilometer around him.
The rock around him gradually become softer. After flying for about an hour, he flew out from the ground.
Zaka looked around him. Towering trees with an average height of fifty meters stood tall on the ground. Some of their roots were exposed above the ground, looking like numerous coiling dragons intertwining with each other.
The tree crowns were covering the sky, allowing only a small amount of light to pass through The ground was soft because it was the result of the decay of piles of leaves over millions of years.
Zaka climbed to the top of one of the trees. In the distance, he saw blurry shadows of the mountains which the peaks were obscured by a sea of clouds.
The forest was serene with the only occasional sound of insects and the rustling of leaves was heard. The sound was like a planned orchestra, seemingly have been playing for eternity.
Boom Boom! Suddenly, the sound of a massive creature steps was heard.
"Time to go!" Zaka had disappeared from the treetop.
Zaka was moving from one tree branch to another like a ghost. He had absorbed his life force and erased the sound of his footsteps.
There wasn't any trace he left on all of the tree branches as if he had never stepped on them. He extended his divine sense to only around one kilometer around him.
After flying for two hours, Zaki appeared in Zaka's right shoulder in the spirit form. He shook Zaka's neck in excitement and said, "Ten kilometers northwest, ten kilometers northwest!"
"What is it?" Zaka kept his vision in front.
"There was a bad guy at that direction, quick we should go there. There were also three thousand people to be saved, it looks like they were the bad guy's prisoner.
Oh my god, finally, my time to shine has come." Zaki's eyes were glowing.
For the past twelve years, he had never done the thing which he was supposed to do. Every day, he was lazing around while hitchhiking for food at his boss.
Every time he eats, his boss would glance at him with the gaze that seemed to say, 'Can't you be of any use besides hitchhiking for food every day?'
Right after Zaka heard Zaki, he speedily turned direction… to the southeast.
Zaki pulled Zaka's neck frantically, "Wait, wait! You got the wrong way, it's in the opposite, opposite!"
Suddenly Zaki stopped struggling, his eyes lit up slyly, "Boss, you're afraid of dying right? Haven't I told you that my justice map can determine the strength of the enemy? It is said in the justice map that according to your level of strength the quest is easy!"
"What a joke," Zaka said, "Sure, maybe the enemy's strength is weak, but do you know how many traps placed around the enemy, how strong is the strength of the traps?
Better, yet, do you know the background of the enemy? What if he or she is part of a large evil organization with members that are way stronger than me?"
Zaki rubbed both of his palms together, sly light flashed through his eyes, He whispered right beside Zaka's ear, "Boss, maybe the bad guy has a flying sword."
Zaka's body stiffened and then returned to normal in an instant. He continued to shuffle through the forest as though nothing happened.
But, How could Zaki who was essentially one body and mind with Zaka not realize it?
Zaki continued to whisper bewitchingly, "Boss, hasn't it always been your dream to soar in the sky with a flying sword under your feet? What was it again, it is an everyman dream to fly on a flying sword?
You even mumbled about wanting to have a flying sword in your sleep. If you want to acquire it through an honest means, how long will it take?
And when you want to take it by force, who can you rob? If you leave the bad guy alone, maybe sometime later he will be gone forever.
Moreover, boss! the guy's worth is a thousand karmic points. It is huge, you know, you will be one step closer to your dream, a full [Gatotkaca] bloodline."
Zaki's voice was like a devil temptation, wanting him to let go of his reason.
"God damn it! This is the first and the last time I will do something this risky. But if we want to do it, we do it my way!" Zaka gritted his teeth and turned around.
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Soon, Zaka arrived in front of a valley that extended for as long as ten kilometers. Both the ends of the valley were narrow, which was twenty meters wide. The valley grew wider if one walked into the middle and shrinks back at the end.
Zaka stopped at a distance of ten kilometers from the entrance of the valley which was covered by a thick fog.
He had used [Fiery Eyes] divine ability to observe from that distance. Not to mention ten kilometers, he could even see one hundred kilometers away with ease.
[Fiery Eyes] divine ability gather all the lights reflected from the surroundings forcefully, even the faintest light which was reflected from an object located far away, and then magnified it greatly.
The result was that the ability user could see a faraway object as clearly as looking at the object from a one-meter distance.
The maximum distance of which the ability user could gather the reflected lights depended on the cultivation realm of the user as well as the level of mastery at [Fiery Eyes] divine ability.
Zaka had built a simple fire camp at a hidden spot located ten kilometers away from the valley entrance. Zaka could choose a place further away, but ten kilometers is the distance which he could keep up the divine power consumption of [Fiery Eyes] with his natural recovery ability.
Also, he believed that a distance of ten kilometers was enough to avoid the detection formation placed at the one kilometer surrounding the valley.
Just to make sure he could avoid any hidden detection formation, he chose a place as far as ten kilometers!
Zaki rolled his eyes at the behavior of his boss. The thick fog covering the valley was a bewildering formation.
He could sense from the fluctuation of qi emitted from the formation that the formation was able to hold a peak golden core cultivator at best.
Even then, it could only trap the golden core cultivator for an hour before the cultivator grew accustomed to the flow of qi inside the formation and escape.
Who was his boss! A person who when he exploded with full ability could kill even a peak nascent core cultivator.
After waiting for two days, two men in black robes walked out from the gorge.
"Ugh, I feel suffocated by remaining in that place for five days straight." The chubby person among the two glanced at the valley behind him with some resentment.
The skinnier person sighed, "What can we do? The invading enemy was just too strong, not to mention him, we couldn't even retaliate against his disciples.
We still better off, others don't have the chance to go out. We better serve our Lord well. Maybe, this is our chance to advance further in our cultivation.
If we could just obtain one technique from our lord, we could dominate some local areas in the future. I heard that they won't stay for a long period."
They continued to chat while walking. Suddenly, a youth wearing exquisite fur clothes appeared in front of them.
Along with the appearance of the youth, the surrounding air solidified. An oppressive might had bearing down upon them. They couldn't move even a single muscle of their body.
The grass swaying movement was frozen, a bug which just took off from a flower also frozen, the fine spores emitted from the flowers, insects of the ground, all of them without exception were frozen.
It looked as if space and time had stopped at that particular location except for the fur clothed youth who continued to walk toward the two men.
They understood that the source of this oppressive might was the youth who stood in front of them.
The youth smiled warmly, "Gentlemen! Could I have some of your time?"