frightfiction #548 - Snow World
#548 - Snow World
However, Zhang Chen's divine light flowed as he stood on the mountain peak, searching but failing to detect the location of the Gate of Heaven and Earth. He could only mobilize the power of Devour, using its perspective. His eyes scanned Mount Buzhou, and the laws of space manifested before him, with countless lines extending in the void.
"It's not here! The Gate of Heaven and Earth isn't on Mount Buzhou?" Zhang Chen frowned. With the uniqueness of his Devouring Eyes, any Gate of Heaven and Earth would definitely not escape his notice.
So, Zhang Chen dragged out the Great自在Heavenly Demon: "Go, see where the Gate of Heaven and Earth is!"
"You want to enter the Third Heaven through the Gate of Heaven and Earth?" The Great自在Heavenly Demon sized up Zhang Chen, a hint of doubt in its eyes.
"What's with that look? Can't I break through the Gate of Heaven and Earth?" Zhang Chen said irritably.
"Don't even mention it. It's not that I look down on you, but even the Emperor's Daughter needs to use that Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade to break it open. What makes you think you can compare to the Emperor's Daughter? You might as well continue to cultivate your mental realm diligently; perhaps you'll have a chance to step into it. Relying on your own power to break the Gate of Heaven and Earth? You should just go to sleep and forget about it." The Great自在Heavenly Demon made no attempt to hide its mockery: "There's no need to look for the Gate of Heaven and Earth; you simply can't open it."
"What about Ninth Order power?" Zhang Chen asked, a hint of triumph in his voice.
"Unless you can unleash Tenth Order power, and also wield a magic weapon no less powerful than the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, you might have a chance to open the Gate of Heaven and Earth," said the Great自在Heavenly Demon.
Zhang Chen gasped when he heard this: "Old fellow, don't try to fool me. Is the Gate of Heaven and Earth really that difficult to open?"
Hearing Zhang Chen's words, the Great自在Heavenly Demon pointed north: "I control the power of the void and have already sensed that the Gate of Heaven and Earth is in the north. At your current speed, it will only take three days of flight to reach the Gate of Heaven and Earth. If you don't believe me, you can try going to the North Sea."
Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing this and summoned the Golden Finger interface. He had a feeling that what the Great自在Heavenly Demon said was true. Although he now possessed Ninth Order power, he was still far behind the Emperor's Daughter's abilities, a difference between a mortal and a deity.
[6 Skills (Ultimate): Second Heaven (0/4,000,000)]
Only four million experience points, just a drop in the bucket. Zhang Chen felt it was worth investing in now because entering the Third Heaven would be completely random. Traveling to Mount Buzhou would take another year and a half, which was too much of a waste of time. Entering early would save time.
Of course, what was most important to Zhang Chen was confidence because he felt he would never be trapped by mere lifespan.
Nowadays, the path of incense is flourishing. When he found a suitable opportunity in the future, he would seize the chance to make a big move, steal the power of incense from the gods, and push all his skills up. He would always find a way to survive.
As for now, getting on the road was the priority. He still had family to take care of and didn't want to attract too much attention.
He was waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the Blood Sea to completely descend from the void into the real world. When the Blood Path could interfere with the operation of the real world, it wouldn't be too late for him to steal incense and faith.
"Especially the bodies of gods, which are great tonics for me," Zhang Chen muttered to himself. "Not attacking the gods now is like raising pigs. When the demon race enters the pass, there will inevitably be trouble. When all sides are in a great melee, with countless deaths and injuries, how can I lack points?"
Zhang Chen thought and spent four million points. Then, the Golden Finger interface changed:
[6 Skills (Ultimate): Third Heaven (0/8,000,000)]
Then, a strange feeling arose in Zhang Chen's heart. The void of the Second Heaven's spiritual world changed for a moment, and he seemed to have opened a clairvoyant eye, seeing the scenery outside the void above the Second Heaven. There was a world there, with heavy snow falling, as if it were a completely frozen world.
"That's the Third Heaven of the spiritual world!" Zhang Chen had a guiding feeling in his heart. Then, he took a step forward, and the void in front of him twisted. He was already in the twisted void, walking step by step towards the Third Heaven.
"What!!! This is impossible!" The Great自在Heavenly Demon looked at Zhang Chen's back, a look of horror on its face: "How can you have such a mental realm? This kind of mental realm should at least belong to a cultivator above the Tenth Order!"
The Great自在Heavenly Demon's eyes were full of disbelief, feeling that Zhang Chen was very strange, not just ordinary strange.
Zhang Chen ignored the Great自在Heavenly Demon's shouts and walked unhurriedly in the spiritual world. As he approached the Third Heaven of the spiritual world step by step, an icy chill permeated from the endless void. Although he had not yet arrived at the Third Heaven of the spiritual world, he had already sensed the chill in advance.
"What a powerful chill, even stronger than that monster's Ice Soul Divine Light!" Zhang Chen's footsteps did not stop. Fortunately, it was his mind descending here; otherwise, he would definitely encounter big trouble.
"Great fortune! There's a great fortune! You've struck it rich this time." The Great自在Heavenly Demon stood in the gap between the Second and Third Heavens of the spiritual world, spying on the scene inside the Third Heaven, a strange look in its eyes. It turned its head to congratulate Zhang Chen.
"How have I struck it rich?" Zhang Chen asked.
"The entire Third Heaven of the spiritual world is frozen. Think about what kind of existence it would take to freeze an entire world?" said the Great自在Heavenly Demon.
"Why is it a treasure and not the divine power of some old fellow from the Primordial Era?" Zhang Chen thought of the tears in the Second Heaven of the spiritual world: "Isn't the Second Heaven of the spiritual world the power of some extremely ancient existence?"
"What do you know? With the great changes in the world, all extraordinary power is declining. Look at the seawater in the Second Heaven of the spiritual world, only First or Second Order, but you don't know that when it fell, it was at least Eighth or Ninth Order. Even the Yang God experts you speak of would only be drowned if they fell into it. But now, with the changes in the world, even the spiritual world has been affected, and its power is gradually declining. The tears in the Second Heaven are the tears of the Water Spirit, one of the Four Spirits of Creation. Even the power of her tears is fading, but the power of the opposite Third Heaven can still penetrate from inside the world to outside the world. What kind of terrifying power is this? Simple divine power methods cannot resist the decline of time. Only true treasures can maintain such power." The Great自在Heavenly Demon's eyes were burning.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen's eyes lit up, and he stared at the opposite Third Heaven, looking at the white world without speaking. After a long time, Zhang Chen asked, "If my mental power enters the Third Heaven, will it be frozen by that power?"
Zhang Chen was a little worried. If his mind was frozen in the spiritual world, then this power would act on his body, mapping the power of the mind to the body, causing him to suffer the same damage.
In other words, if his mind was frozen in the Third Heaven, then his physical body in the real world would most likely be finished.
"Of course it will!" This time, the Great自在Heavenly Demon was not joking but said very solemnly.
"I have a furnace, and there is charcoal in my furnace. With the power of that charcoal, I should be able to resist the ice and snow world in front of me," Zhang Chen thought.
"Don't even think about it; your furnace simply cannot be brought into the Third Heaven of the spiritual world," said the Great自在Heavenly Demon.
"Why?" Zhang Chen looked at the Great自在Heavenly Demon in astonishment: "My Golden Thread Scissors can, why can't the Eight Trigrams Furnace?"
"The Golden Thread Scissors are the Golden Thread Scissors. Although they are in the form of a magic weapon, they manifest with innate Yin and Yang energy, similar to innate Yin and Yang divine powers, equivalent to your Five-Colored Divine Light. Of course, they can enter the spiritual world with your mind. But your Eight Trigrams Furnace is not a treasure born from the origin of the laws of heaven and earth, so of course it doesn't have this ability," said the Great自在Heavenly Demon.
Zhang Chen seemed to understand, but also seemed not to understand.
Seeing this, the Great自在Heavenly Demon sighed faintly: "I know I can't explain it clearly to you. If we follow the description of that mysterious era, there are also levels among all innate spiritual treasures. Although your Golden Thread Scissors have been severely damaged, their essence is a severely damaged innate supreme treasure, and the Yin and Yang laws engraved within it are already complete, possessing the origin of Yin and Yang. Although your furnace is also good, it is still a line behind the Golden Thread Scissors. For those existences, a line is the difference between completeness and incompleteness; this line is the difference between heaven and earth."
"Innate supreme treasure?" Zhang Chen was stunned. Was it the innate supreme treasure he understood from reading novels in his previous life?
But after the Great自在Heavenly Demon's explanation, he still understood the difference. The Great自在Heavenly Demon thought he didn't understand, and he actually didn't understand, but when the Great自在Heavenly Demon spoke about the gap between innate spiritual treasures and innate supreme treasures, he suddenly realized that he really understood.
"In that case, my treasure can't protect me either."
Zhang Chen's expression was serious, and his footsteps began to slow down, hesitating whether he should enter the Third Heaven. Although he could mobilize the embers of the sun, he still understood the difference between a piece of the embers of the sun and a furnace of the embers of the sun.
"But..." Seeing Zhang Chen hesitate, the Great自在Heavenly Demon lengthened its tone, attracting Zhang Chen's attention.
"But what?" Zhang Chen looked at the other party irritably, his tone impatient, but he couldn't help but be happy. He knew that since the Great自在Heavenly Demon had spoken, it must have a way to solve the trouble.
"The physical body and the mind are one. If your mind is attacked, the injury will manifest and act on the physical body, but if there is power to protect your physical body, then the power of your physical body will in turn protect your mind. Although your furnace cannot manifest in the spiritual world from the real world, it can also protect your physical body from the outside world, resisting the power of the ice and cold invasion," the Great自在Heavenly Demon said with a smile.