Chapter 1518: Chapter 1518: Innocence

There was a lavish spread for them, including all types of luscious fruits, juicy meat and different varieties of fragrant wines. As he savored them, Zen realized that this Skyland race really knew how to enjoy themselves.

These varied spread of delicacies could be credited to the women from the Skyland race who were extremely good at visualizing food. Their creativity with visualization had even surpassed Zen's imagination. He was amazed at their ability to combine taste and life vitality so perfectly.

All the warriors from the Collapsing Mountain race as well as from other races were also enjoying themselves; savoring each delicacy with delight.

If they finished the food on the plate, those girls would come back and close their eyes to meditate. They would transform life vitality into food, and it would be different delicacies every single time.

After their special meal, the Skyland race made arrangements for everyone to stay.

They decided that they would stay in the territory of the Skyland race for a few more days, until the Harmony race arrived. After that they would proceed with action.

Zen stayed in one of the pagodas and during the whole night of meditation, observed the development of his inner world.

Over the past two days, Zen had frequently used the power of the Nine Divine Stars. But of late those stars seemed to have dimmed a little.

However, as the chaotic sea surged, some traces of the chaotic energy were absorbed by the nine stars.

Chaos could transform into all things. Everything within the divine land evolved from chaos, including life vitality.

Holy Beings cultivated life vitality and turned it into the universe, hence everything in the universe evolved from life vitality. Therefore, it was expected for the nine stars to absorb chaotic energy.

So wasn't it likely that the creatures evolved from chaotic energy would be at a higher level than him?

Zen was born in the universe, so considering this, he was formed from life vitality. He could be considered a 'secondary creature', while the creatures in his inner world were actually of a higher level.

Zen couldn't help but smile at that thought.

After eighteen hours, the night in the Divine Refinement Forbidden Land ended and the daytime came.

On a tall tower several tens of feet away from Zen, a graceful figure flashed across. As her toes touched the ground and a faint smile blossomed, Zen realized the woman was Laquisha.

“Come, I want to take you to a place.” Laquisha smiled and leaning across, she pulled Zen up.

“Where are we going?” Zen inquired.

“You will see. It is an interesting place!”

As she said this, Laquisha whirled around and jumped far away from the towers.

Curiosity got the better of Zen and he immediately followed after Laquisha.

It was baffling to see the large numbers of pagodas in the Skyland race territory. Their size became smaller as they moved ahead. The ones in front of them was so small that they looked like stones protruding from the black water surface.

These pagodas in the distance seemed like a path, extending along the black water.

Even though they could fly in this place, he followed Laquisha who was leading the way. He couldn't figure out where this woman was taking him to.

But when they were walking along a row of short stone piers, a member of the Skyland race blocked their way. “Behind us is the Tidal Surge!” This is the trial ground of our Skyland race. One can enter only with a trial tally."

Although each sacred place for cultivation had its own cultivation method, they all had to pay the trial tally to access. And the Skyland race was no exception.

How could Zen get a trial tally?

However, this did not seem to be a problem for Laquisha.

Their Han clan had a large city exclusive to them in the Divine Refinement Forbidden Land. The purple trial tally could be precious, and it was not that easy for the other Han Clan members to obtain. But for a person like Laquisha or Pascal, it was very easy. ŕÅɴο₿Êš

The corners of Laquisha's mouth curved up slightly. With a casual flick of her hand, two purple trial tallies shot towards the guard of Skyland race.

After a close examination of the two trial tallies, the guard allowed them to pass.

As he continued to walk forward, Zen noticed that the black water beneath his feet started to surge, rolling forward in waves.

At the same time, wide platforms appeared before them. It was as though giant mushrooms had sprung up on top of the black water.

There were over a thousand warriors on these platforms.

The majority of them were warriors from other races and the remaining few were from the Skyland race.

This was something Zen could deduce.

When a warrior cultivated, they would rarely choose to improve themselves through the body refinement. The vast majority of them cultivated life vitality!

Most of the warriors that entered the Divine Refinement Forbidden Land would first look to enter the Skyland race's cultivation sacred place. Once they obtained the purple trial tally, they would enter this place at the first possible moment.

If Zen had been teleported to a normal place and obtained the purple trial tally, he probably wouldn't have chosen the Skyland race. After all, there was no need for him to cultivate life vitality.

As Zen and Laquisha entered, the warriors from the other races on the platforms glanced at them. When they looked at Zen, they were expressionless, but when they saw Laquisha, some of them frowned and revealed a trace of fear.

They were relieved when Laquisha did not go up the platforms.

“What are we doing here?” Zen looked confused.

“Just come with me,” Laquisha said with a laugh. “But there's one thing I need your help with.”

“What is it?” Zen asked.

“Help me beat up someone!” Laquisha said.

“No,” Zen firmly refused. The woman had indeed helped him before, but Zen had only agreed to help her enter the Soul Suppressing Cliff. That was called for. And Zen had also saved her in the forest of giant trees.

He was definitely not one of Laquisha's henchmen to bid at her orders.

Laquisha curled her lips, revealing a bitter expression. But immediately her expression changed as if she had thought of a plan.

As he continued forward, Zen discovered that these mushroom-like platforms varied in size. The further he went, the bigger the mushrooms became.

At the same time, the fighters on the platforms looked stronger.

Finally, Laquisha brought Zen up with her and stepped onto a platform with a diameter of over a thousand feet. There were only over a hundred cultivators on this spacious platform, so they could move around freely on it.

The moment Zen jumped onto the platform, the warriors from other races glared at him with furious expressions!

Zen was slightly stunned after seeing their expressions.

However, at this moment, the black water below began to surge violently. A whirlpool appeared under every platform, and Zen's platform had the largest whirlpool.

Swishy swash!

The warriors who had been glaring at Zen and Laquisha, shifted their focus to the water as the intense sounds of waves crashing against each other echoed through the air.

The platform began to fill with round divine textures. At the feet of Zen and Laquisha, a divine texture had also appeared.

“Quickly, infuse your life vitality into the divine texture,” Laquisha suggested.

“What for?” Zen asked cautiously.

“Just try it!” Laquisha urged at him.

By now Zen had already guessed something serious was going on. He was no fool. From the moment he had entered this place, the warriors on the platform had been on high alert.

It was evident that there was limited source in the platform. According to Zen's estimation, this kind of resource should be comparable to the strength source. After all, the Skyland race was a sacred place for cultivation that was on the same level as that of the Collapsing Mountain race. They would also have to pay the purple trial tally.

As for the resource on each platform, it was definitely limited. That was why the warriors were wary and didn't want the newcomers to join in.

Right now, the platform beneath Zen's feet was the biggest, but there were only over a hundred warriors on it. This was even more abnormal. The only probable reason was that no ordinary warriors from other races would dare to step foot on this platform.

Now Zen understood as to why Laquisha required his help to beat someone.

But Zen did not mind it much. By now even he was curious about this place and wanted to see what exactly this Tidal Surge was.

Zen was naturally unable to infuse his life vitality into the divine texture, but he could easily replace it with chaotic energy.

With this thought in mind, Zen extracted a trace of chaotic energy and poured it into the divine texture beneath his feet through the meridians in his legs.

Laquisha was also extremely focused at her task. As her ten slender fingers intertwined with each other, she formed a colorful life vitality stream and poured it into the divine texture below her feet.

The instant the chaotic energy was infused within, the divine texture slowly rotated, as though something was about to escape from it.

Clatter, clatter, clatter!

At this moment, the flowing black water beneath them had intensified even further, along with the luster of divine textures.

After a strand of chaotic energy entered, it was quickly devoured by the divine texture. Zen could only replenish one at a time.

For ordinary divine texture, a single strand of chaotic energy was more than enough to be poured into it. But, Zen continued to pour in several strands of chaotic energy, all of them being sucked dry by the divine texture beneath his feet, as if it was a bottomless pit!

A look of curiosity appeared on his face, but he didn't know what the purpose of this divine texture was. However, the amount of chaotic energy in his inner world was so vast that it didn't matter much. He continuously kept infusing the chaotic energy into the divine texture. Although a great deal of chaotic energy had been injected into it, it was still a drop in the chaotic sea.

The black water surged upwards and the waves continued to crash for another five minutes. Soon it calmed down.

As soon as the black water calmed down, black crystals began to shoot out from the divine texture beneath everyone's feet!

The black crystals were about the size of a finger, and they fell to the ground with a clattering sound.

Many warriors looked relieved the moment the black crystals shot out. They immediately grabbed them in their hands before they fell into the water.

Around three to four black crystals would appear next to each martial artist. Most people would choose to swallow them at the first possible moment.

The bigger the platform, the more black crystals it could extract!

Zen and Laquisha's platform was the largest. It was seven or eight times larger than the surrounding platforms. Because the number of warriors on this platform was less, each of the divine textures should have churned out around thirty to forty crystals

But on this platform, the hundred warriors including Laquisha, had yet to refine a single black crystal.

They were all glaring at Zen, as if they wanted nothing more than to kill him. But apart from anger, the warriors were also filled with wonder and disbelief.

The black crystals were being produced from the divine texture at Zen's feet. In the blink of an eye, the black crystals surrounding Zen piled up like a small mountain. There were probably four to five thousand of them!

Sensing the strong hatred from those people, Zen revealed an innocent smile on his face. He shrugged his shoulders apologetically, indicating that he didn't know how it happened. He didn't know what these black crystals were, either.