Chapter 1279: Chapter 1279: Godly Way And Godly Tile
Boom! The silence in this corridor was broken by this sound.
It came from the flame, which suddenly exploded in front of Zen in a magnificent flash of color.
However, this flame didn't burn his body. In fact, this flame had originally been part of the flames of the nihility. It was a flame that had burned a soul!
However, the power hidden within the flame was unimaginably strong!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The long corridor suddenly disappeared ahead of Zen.
What replaced it was a world of bitterly cold ice and snow!
Within the swirling and frigid wind, the power of the Ice Law was nearly incalculable!
'My soul has forcefully been pulled into this world of ice and snow?' Zen thought, looking down at his hands. There was a jade-green glow floating around his body. He was at the perfect soul state.
Ding-dong!
The crisp jingle of a metallic bell could be heard.
Then Zen saw a small bell suspended in the air!
“What is this bell?”
After the small bell's appearance, a figure gradually emerged from within the snowstorm.
It was a woman wearing nothing but a green and blue colored ribbon, wrapped around her graceful figure!
This woman flew towards Zen with her bare legs treading uncaringly through the endless cold. She quietly stared at him.
Brrr!
Before, it had not been so cold, and the toughened strength of Zen's soul was powerful enough to withstand any normal cold.
However, under this woman's indifferent gaze, Zen felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar which had been frozen for ten thousand years. At this moment, it was as if his soul was about to be sealed away. The surface of his soul had frozen over, and a thin layer of frost appeared. Zen was now even too cold to think at this point.
“What a strong use of the power of the Ice Law! But this is only the perception released by the soul. It's only an illusion!”
Zen's eyes flashed, and the green light which lit up the surface of his soul grew even more intense!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The frost layer that had attached itself to Zen's body suddenly exploded into countless cracks, and with a series of low popping sounds, the fragments fell to the ground!
When the woman floating in the air saw this, a faint smile appeared on her face, but it melted away to be replaced by a chilly look.
Instantly, she took up the bell in her hand and lightly shook it. A large drift of snowflakes descended in a flurry from the sky!
“More?”
Zen muttered as his face grew cold again. He dashed towards the woman at a high speed.
The cold wind howled past Zen's ears, which had reddened from the chill, as he rushed towards the woman. But he noticed that the woman only lightly swayed in midair like a snowflake, flying backwards and out of reach, while he was dashing ahead! ṜãΝȱᛒÈṣ
The more Zen advanced, the more she would simply retreat.
The two of them engaged in this dash of pursuit and retreat in this boundless space, but the distance between them could not close.
“This movement technique... It appears so familiar...”
Zen's brow suddenly furrowed, but a hint of light also flashed in his eyes as he smiled grimly!
'Eight Smoky Melodies?'
Only that kind of strange movement technique could allow one to become as light as a feather and maintain a distance from one's opponent.
However, Zen had only been able to successfully keep his opponent three inches away from him so far while practicing the Eight Smoky Melodies. If his opponent had presented an extremely strong method, they would then be able to break the three-inch distance and close in on Zen. For example, Lucille had broken his Eight Smoky Melodies during their confrontation!
When his thoughts traveled there, a bit of white mist emanated out from the surface of Zen's soul. He also activated his own Eight Smoky Melodies.
Huff...
After Zen had activated the Eight Smoky Melodies, he became as light as a feather as well.
Strictly speaking, the Eight Smoky Melodies was not a movement technique per say, but rather a body refining technique. However, it was fundamentally different to an ordinary body refining technique.
It could make one as light as smoke. In life, if there was a wind blowing, smoke would drift along with the wind!
Thus, the Eight Smoky Melodies relied on external forces, not its user's own strength. It made use of the opponent's own force and momentum to repel the wielder of the Eight Smoky Melodies.
At this moment, Zen's speed after activating the Eight Smoky Melodies wasn't very high, but the woman's speed had also slowed down. She was originally being 'pushed' by Zen's expending of energy in trying to catch her. With Zen now slowly fluttering, the resulting thrust had become minimal. And the woman could no longer take advantage of the effort, so the distance between the two was shrinking rapidly!
When the woman saw Zen slowly floating closer, a look of confusion flashed across her snowy white face.
“You... You know how to use the Floating Feather Technique too?”
From the moment this woman had appeared, she hadn't spoken a single word. This was the first time she had addressed Zen.
“Floating Feather Technique? No, I'm using another movement technique.”
As he drew closer and closer, Zen stretched out his hand towards the small bell!
The woman's waist gently twisted, and the bell rang again. After avoiding Zen's grabbing hand, the snow between the heaven and earth suddenly increased in size, becoming incomparably huge. A single snowflake had suddenly become the size of a washbasin! The giant snowflakes condensed together and formed into a massive hailstone, which quickly plummeted down like a giant boulder. And for a time, the entire world was filled with the crisp sounds of cracking and splitting ice.
Zen and the woman both circulated their movement technique and were able to safely avoid the hail. However, because of the hail's disturbance, there was a reintroduction of energy and force between Zen and the woman. As a result, Zen was unable to get close to the woman.
“It's so strange. You are clearly using the Floating Feather Technique. Who did you learn this movement technique from?” the woman asked with a puzzled look on her delicate features.
Zen smiled and said, “I'll tell you, but first, tell me who are you?”
When the woman heard this, she indifferently replied, “This here is the Corridor of Emperor…”
“You are an Emperor?” Zen's eyebrows twitched as he interrupted.
“No,” the woman shook her head. “I am the mark left behind by a True God.”
“A True God?”
Zen's expression changed when he heard the woman's reply, and realized the implications thereof.
Seeing the change in Zen's expression, the woman sighed faintly. “This is your test. Although I am just a mark, I will still test your soul…”
While the woman was speaking, she lightly waved her hands and a glacier appeared in the heavens and began thundering down from the sky towards Zen!
This glacier was one hundred feet wide, and the temperature near it was extremely low. As the glacier descended at a murderous speed, it had already congealed into a thick icicle falling from the air, charging towards Zen!
“Using a True God's illusion to test my soul...” Zen murmured.
A look of caution and apprehension appeared on Zen's face as he faced the glacier falling towards him from above. Suddenly, he swung his fist!
Swish!
When Zen's fist collided with this glacier, a crack appeared at the bottom of the glacier. The crack immediately ran out and spread like a spider's web through the thickly packed ice. Then this glacier turned into countless pieces of broken ice that collapsed and shot out with a loud bang to the land in a circle with a diameter of several hundred meters.
Whoosh!
With a flash of Zen's body, a second glacier was suddenly falling towards him!
Bam!
With a punch, the glacier shattered yet again, in a shower of ice shards that scattered on the land below.
The woman quietly floated in the air, lifting the small bell in her hand. Her face was calm and almost serene.
This space had been forcibly preserved as a memory of the heavens. However, even though this woman had transcended the heavens and become a True God, her memories of being born into this round of the heavens were permanent, and beyond being erased.
“So far, there have been one thousand and four hundred warriors flying through this area. But none of them were compatible with my Godly Way!”
The woman flicked her ten fingers and several blue spots of crystalline light appeared in the sky overhead.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Tens of glaciers came roaring down!
While Zen was dodging the gauntlet of ice, his mighty fists broke through the glaciers one by one.
“Your Godly Way? What is your Godly Way?” Zen asked, intrigued by the woman's words.
The woman's eyes glimmered. “I use ice as my body and have already been imprisoned in the glacier for a hundred thousand years. Finally, I have comprehended the Snow Godly Way and obtained the Mysterious Ice Godly Tile. My name is Hannah…” she said.
This Illusion Battlefield was an excellent opportunity for ordinary martial artists to cultivate in extreme conditions.
Countless martial artists that had gone through the tests of life and death here would find that their strength had increased by leaps and bounds, after they left the Illusion Battlefield.
However, to those special warriors and ace talents, this strength enhancement was as nothing. For them, what could be accomplished in the Illusion Battlefield was also something that could be performed in the Illusion Space.
But what they had obtained in the Illusion Battlefield was far more important and priceless than that the ordinary martial artists had obtained, for example the thing they could obtain in this Corridor of Emperor!
The Godly Way was of course the way one could use to become a True God!
Those who could cross the heavens and become a True God numbered very few in the universe. There were very few warriors or clans that claimed to own the Godly Way, and there were no more than ten talents in the entire universe who possessed the qualifications to practice the Godly Way.
This type of person was known as a Godly Genius.
The Godly Geniuses were beings that far surpassed the ace talents. Even if all the clans and forces gathered together, they would only be able to gather a handful of these Godly Geniuses.
Even some Supreme Lords themselves didn't have the qualifications to follow the Godly Way, so it was even more impossible for their descendants to accomplish it.
Lucille, whom Zen had met before, was the ace talent of the Ji Clan, and was also the most likely person to become a Godly Genius of the Ji Clan! What the Ji Clan possessed was the Five Elements Godly Way!
And the most important sign indicating the transformation of a Godly Genius was the full blooming of the Mahayana Lotus Flower!
Some warriors had only stepped into the Soul Sea, and their Hinayana Lotus Flowers would bloom with seven petals, or even nine petals. However, they had never managed to open up a Mahayana Lotus Flower during their entire lives spent in cultivation!
There were some martial artists that had opened up the Mahayana Lotus Flower when they were at the Spirit Supreme Realm or the Spirit Transformation Realm. And later, when they had become world lords, or when
they managed to carry a Heavenly Destiny, they might be able to open up all the lotus petals of the Mahayana Lotus Flower.
However, the warriors in this situation were called “talents being restrained by the heavens”. The majority of the Supreme Lords in the universe belonged to this kind of warriors. They had no hope of stepping into the Godly Way in their lengthy lifetimes.