Chapter 101: Chapter 101

It is understandable, greed leads to blindness and blindness to downfall. The samsara of life revolves around desire and greed. She has already managed to gather enormous treasures, and it’s better not to press any further.

One must learn to chew only as much as one can swallow. The stars can’t be collected in one hand, and water can’t be held in an open palm.

"This Zhao understands your reasons behind it. The monks see once, think twice..." Zhao Fan nodded, yet he understood that once everyone leaves, he shall be alone, and if he dies once, he will be dead.

But he is a nascent soul realm cultivator, above soul wandering. So, he can simply leave his body and survive in soul form.

It also seems that even if the soul is destroyed, this place can revive it. How interesting.

"Forgive me, Young Master Zhao, but my strength limits my progress as much as I wish to move forward, you know I am simply incapable..." Maid Yi bowed, knowing under what kind of situation Young Master was and would be.

Once Young Master loses this opportunity to escape, he shall be trapped here. Either he shall complete all the trials or be trapped forever.

However, Maid Yi knew that there may be a way to leave this place, because from the information they received, it had a layout only up to the 35th floor. Being logical, if someone could really climb all the floors, then, why would that lecher only have a layout up to the 35th floor!?

Perhaps Young Master wants to reach there and quit.

Perhaps once you reach there, you may be able to leave this place.

"Then..." Just like that, Yi Xin Xue also left the domain. Zhao Fan closed his eyes and focused on the task. The path of Dao is filled with such things, where you have to stand alone against all odds.

[ You are the sole survivor in your team. You may leave; otherwise, you are no longer allowed to purchase any lives. ]

The jade token began to glow red, signaling that he was the only one in his team. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ N0v3l.Fiɾe.net

"The east remains unaware of the west, the west remains ignorant of the east..."

[ Well, good luck then... May Dao be fathomable, may spirits be unchallengeable. ]

A cold, soul-chilling air began to blow, and a giant figure appeared... Zhao Fan quickly stopped his heart and body warmth.

The fallen demonic figure began to search for Zhao Fan but remained unaware, as Young Master was right in front of him.

The demon was blind and could only sense others by their spiritual energy or body heat; thus, he was unaware of Zhao Fan.

And just like that, Young Master managed to reach the 27th floor. As for the treasures on the 26th floor, they were untouched. Such cheap things don’t interest Young Master Zhao.

As soon as Young Master Zhao reached the 27th floor...

[ Ding! You are the only team on this floor. Would you like to leave!? ]

Hearing this, Young Master’s lips curved ever so slightly. It seems there is a catch, and as long as you are the only one, the domain allows you to leave.

However, Young Master didn’t choose to leave immediately. Instead, he waited. While waiting, he even killed a few beasts here and there and left some traps—like explosive dead bodies, explosive talismans, soul-trapping arrays, etc.

Young Master had been here for around 10 hours and finally...

[ Another team has joined the floor. ]

[ You are no longer eligible to leave the floor. ]

[ You will be ascended soon. ]

Young Master Zhao closed his eyes, and his spiritual sense instantly traveled a long distance... There he saw two dead bodies. They were weaklings, yet it is what it is.

He arrived at the 28th floor.

[ You are the only team on this floor. Would you like to leave!? ]

You can’t even answer "no"; the moment you say "yes," you will be sent out of the domain.

Young Master looked around. It was a sea realm—its depth and vastness remained unquestionable and unchallengeable.

Young Master used his aura to cover his body and went inside the sea... Suddenly, a large fish with three eyes attacked Young Master...

The fish released a golden energy that rushed towards Young Master, but Young Master just blinked, and the golden energy vanished.

Zhao Fan released a red energy beam, and the fish instantly died.

After two days... Someone finally arrived on this floor, and Young Master killed one of them to reach the 29th floor.

Just like that, Young Master reached the 36th floor within one week.

More and more teams started climbing rapidly. It seemed that, unlike him, the other teams didn’t have that information. As such, they spent a lot of time on early floors to increase their cultivation base.

Which means the upcoming journey would be easier for him.

[ Welcome, the great Daoist. I am Guide 003. ]

This time, unlike a blue hologram, a small fairy with six wings greeted Zhao Fan. Her figure was flawless, with no dust or impurity, like soft imperial jade.

She then snapped her fingers, and reality began to change rapidly...

[ The test is simple... Just say "stop," and you shall be in one of the realities that I created. ]

Zhao Fan was instantly transported into a magical world. This world had no humans and only wild beasts, and his task was to create humans.

The test wasn’t that hard. Young Master snapped his finger, and two drops of blood essence came out of his body. Using the treasure from floors 21–25, he created a female body and a male body, giving them life force.

And now, with this, they shall have babies. More babies, and more babies—and thus, life would begin to develop.

The test was fairly simple, and Zhao Fan was promoted to the 37th floor.

The 37th floor was a strange one, because he was in space with a void all around, without any source of light.

Zhao Fan closed his eyes and released his spiritual energy... It wasn’t easy to sense anything—not to mention, the void was eating the spiritual energy.

Zhao Fan remained calm and began to check his own body... everything was all good, without a hint of impurity.

Hours passed, and still nothing!

Young Master released his secondary soul and began to explore, yet there was nothing... Everything was dark, without the presence of anything. He was all alone, as if trapped.

Could it be that he has to destroy this place to escape!? If so, that’s impossible because nascent soul realm cultivators can’t do such things...

Well, normal nascent soul realm cultivators from the lower world can’t do such things. Alas, this place is really not meant for the lower realms.

The demonic gate appeared behind Zhao Fan, and the void began to tremble... From the gate, a small starfish descended, glowing pink.

A void-eating starfish.

Soon... more and more void-eating starfish began to appear and began eating the void.

To people of lower realms, it’s unfathomable what lies beyond once the void is destroyed... But the reality is far more complicated than one can imagine with their tiny brains.

Isn’t there a new void?

Could it be that once the void is eaten, a space tunnel opens?

Could it be that... you will wake up inside a jar once the void is destroyed?

Just like how the soul is divided by four major vibrations as a core concept, reality is governed by four Gryo-nims.

The void is the very first layer and the weakest of all.

Anyone incapable of destroying the void isn’t a true cultivator. They are a shame; a shame that should be stoned to death with no mercy.

Gryo-nims are four layers of reality. Like a book has multiple pages, think of reality the same way; it has four Gryo-nims.

After the void is destroyed, the second layer is Re-nim.

The four Gryo-nims are:

Re-nim: the Immortal-Bound Layer

Ye-nim: the Dao-Bound Layer

Oe-nim: the Chains of Limitless Vastness

Together, they are G-R-Y-O-nims.

Zhao Fan had destroyed the first three layers, but he was unable to destroy the fourth layer even when he was a primordial god.

Anyway, once the void is destroyed, it opens the Immortal-Bound Layer. Some call it the true void, some call it the true end, but Young Master, who has seen the bigger picture, simply calls it Re-nim.

However, one must learn the fundamentals of reality. The void that is destroyed needs no time to recover, as nothingness travels at the speed of light.

But what is a void-eating starfish?

It can travel at 16 times the speed of light and as heaven wouldn’t have it, it’s merely a rank-2 beast in the large hierarchy.

Nevertheless, it’s the fault of the domain to increase the limit of weapons and beasts from one to three.

The fish eating the first layer instantly passed through the Ge-layer into the Re-layer.

Once the Re-layer is corrupted... the Ge-layer shall start to fall.

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