Lu Yun had done his homework on the way to the Firmament Prison and was aware of spatial tides. However, it hadnāt been long since the last one. There should still be time remaining until the next one.
Yet, there were indeed signs of another tide about to take place.
But since he was here, there was no point in heading back. He might as well stay and observe what a spatial tide was. He knocked out the twenty-eighth level sequence cultivator and looted the man of everything he carried. When he was finished, he tossed the cultivator off to the side.
He was a man of his word. Heād told the guy it was a robbery.
ā¦ā¦
āWhy arenāt there more foreigners on Huangpang if itās almost time for a spatial tide?ā Lu Yun murmured to himself. Huangpang was the closest major world to the Firmament Prison. When something as monumental as a spatial tide took place, it should become the primary gathering point.
But he didnāt see that many foreigners throughout the course of his visitāat least, no strong ones.
āIt looks like the matter of the Huangpang Supreme and Mo Fei is no secret. Only the minor fish at the bottom of the totem pole donāt know about it,ā Lu Yun realized. He sighed in spite of himself. Heād traveled from the world of immortals to the chaos, then to the Hongmeng and fourth realm. He now stood in the even greater chief worlds.
The world continued to open up and its denizens grow stronger, but the innate nature of humanity never changed. This was the commonality of all living beings.
Who cared about the weaklings?
However, those with kindness in their hearts still existed. Qu Cu became a chang ghost after he barged into Huangpang City, but his mind remained focused on trying to save the city and world at large.
Good deeds werenāt always rewarded in kind, yet heād met Lu Yun through the cycle of karma. Perhaps this was what was meant by āthe heavens have eyesā?
Lu Yun wasnāt the heavens, that was for sure. Heaven would never rob a cultivator.
The Firmament Prison appeared like a gaping wound to his eyes when he arrived at the ruins. Its cracks took the shape of a starburst, extending in all directions with the prison at the center. It more resembled a black dandelion.
āThe Wound of the Voidā¦ thatās an accurate nickname. But it looks more like a dandelion.ā
Since space here was chaotic, Lu Yun didnāt know how far away he was from the ruins. He had the misconception that he would be able to enter it if he took a single step forward.
Lu Yun looked around and noted plenty of cultivators hidden in the void. They were all twenty-nine or thirty levels of sequence.
Thirtieth level sequence was a threshold. If one exceeded sequence at this number, a dao palace would forever be out of oneās reach. The lack of a dao palace would also preclude one from becoming a supreme. They would be forever caught in the cracks of this cultivation level and never advance further.
Not even supremes would be able to forge dao palaces for them then.
Thus, cultivators at twenty-nine or thirty levels of sequence needed to focus most on accumulation. They needed to accumulate everything they could to prepare for the final push. Once they broke through to thirty-one levels, they could exceed sequence and use those fragments of sequence to craft their dao palace.
But since time immemorial, few were those who could break through thirty levels of sequence. They were possibly one in a hundred million. Thus, anyone who reached thirty-one levels meant they were a supreme-in-waiting.
Even if one was the lowliest supreme, achieving that level meant an evolution beyond an ordinary being.
The cultivators that Lu Yun saw were making preparations to try for thirty-one levels. The twenty-eighth level one that heād just robbed was likely one of them as well. Apart from Ao Quan, son of the Golden Dragon King, heād yet to see any other thirtieth level sequence cultivator.
āThereās still a lot of time until the spatial tide. Letās see if thereās any way into the Firmament Prison.ā He silently operated formula dao, but to no avail. If it wasnāt for the signs of an imminent tide, he wouldnāt even be able to deduce that a spatial tide was about to take place. It wasnāt that formula dao had finally reached its limits, but that this locale of the outside realm was impossible to analyze.
As it was the site of the ancient heavenly court, the intersection of various karma isolated the Firmament Prison from the rest of the worldsā great daos. Lu Yun could derive certain results from the fragment he possessed, but now that he was at the site proper, he wasnāt able to derive anything at all.
The fearsome karma floating around completely defeated formula dao.
āGreetings sir, I am Liang Ruyue.ā A slightly ambiguous voice sounded behind Lu Yun. He turned around to find a young girl dressed as a man. She said with some embarrassment, āIādā¦ Iād like to hire you to protect me. Might you be willing, sir?ā
Unease shone from the depths of her clear eyesāshe was obviously very nervous. It seemed like this was her first time leaving home and she was quite inexperienced in the ways of the world.
āIām here to rob people.ā Lu Yun glared at her. She was thirty levels sequence, but wanted a twenty-four levels bodyguard? No way she didnāt have something else in mind! Emotions could be disguised if oneās self discipline was strong enough. Thus, Lu Yun could read emotions as a reference for his decisions, but couldnāt make snap judgments based on emotion alone.
āI know!ā Liang Ruyue easily responded. āI saw you beat a twenty-eighth level sequence just now!ā
āThis is a robbery!ā Lu Yun roared and lifted his axes.
āIāll, Iāll give you enigma stones, but you have to protect me!ā Liang Ruyue blinked and took out a bag that held at least a million stones.
āOut with it, wench, what do you want with me?!ā Lu Yun blustered with wide eyes. āDo you take me for a fool?! A girl throws herself at me as soon as I stand here?? Am I that lucky?!
āGo on, git! Piss off as far away as you can!ā
āLook, Liang Ruyueās scamming people again! She sucked some men dry last time and wants to try the same old trick. But your acting skills suuuuck and he saw right through you! Hahahaha!!ā Raucous laughter rose and fell through the air. The others here wouldnāt have said anything if Lu Yun hadnāt exposed the girl. Everyone was a stranger, there was no need to offend Liang Ruyue for someone they didnāt know. But since he had, well then.
Liang Ruyue ground her teeth and left in a huff.
āRemember to hide your cultivation next time you try to trick someone. And look for someone on the same level as you if you want to use the bodyguard excuse!ā Lu Yun rolled his eyes.
Hummm.
A pale blue haze emanated from the ruins, dispersing into the surroundings as dots of light. Lu Yunās jaw dropped. Blue was the color of the sequence of space. Was there a complete sequence in the prison?
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