Chapter 260: Entrance to the Third Floor (4200)This is a strange and foggy place. Although there are occasional flickering lights in the distance, there is no human figure to be seen. Deathly silence shrouds this unfamiliar land.
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Suddenly, a dull sound was heard, and the next moment, on the silent earth, the space twisted, and then four figures slowly emerged from the void.
As soon as they appeared here, Xiao Yun and his group's internal fighting spirit began to circulate, and they looked around vigilantly.
After not seeing any other situations, everyone's tension was slightly relieved.
"Is this the Heavenly Tomb?"
Medusa and Zi Yan looked around curiously. This was the first time they came to the ruins of Time and Space Tassels, which was different from those in the outside world.
"Apparently, it should be..." Xiao Yun nodded and responded softly. Among their group, only he and Gu Qingyang knew something about it.
But both of them learned the information from other people, and it was their first time to come to this strange space.
"The energy here is indeed much more abundant than that of the outside world!" Xiao Yun stretched out his hand and grabbed a ball of gray gas. In fact, it is called gas, but it is just that the energy here is too abundant and condensed.
Seeing his actions, the other three also took action, grabbed the gray mist, and felt it carefully, their faces full of joy.
Not only is the flow rate here slower than outside, but the energy is also so abundant, it is simply the best place for cultivation!
It’s just that the stay time is a bit short, only one and a half years. Otherwise, they would have to practice here to become a Fighting Saint before they are willing to come out.
After the three of them finished feeling it, Xiao Yun coughed twice, attracting their attention, and said with a smile: "Well, we don't have much time here, we must hurry up and practice!"
After he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at Gu Qingyang, saying: "Brother Qingyang, your goal should be the third level, right?"
"That's right, according to the information from the elders of the clan, within the Heavenly Tomb, only the third floor has the most abundant energy!
Although there are dangers everywhere, I still want to go over and give it a try." Gu Qingyang hesitated for a moment and replied.
Gu Qingyang's answer was within Xiao Yun's expectations. Entering the Heavenly Tomb early had caused the loss of half of the time. If he didn't make up for it on the third floor, it would be a loss no matter how he calculated it.
"Brother Qingyang, the three of us are also going to the third floor. Why don't we go together?"
Xiao Yun said with a smile that since entering the ancient world, he could see that Gu Qingyang treated him sincerely.
In response to this, Xiao Yun was also prepared to give a little in return!
Without waiting for the other party to respond, he suddenly turned his head, swung out his right hand, and grabbed the gray mist next to him.
The next moment, the space in that area collapsed rapidly, the fog dissipated completely, and an illusory figure appeared in everyone's sight.
"Hmm? This is... a soul body?"
The three were shocked. Medusa and Zi Yan were surprised that the cultivation level of this soul body was actually at the One-Star Venerable level.
Gu Qingyang was shocked that Xiao Yun had discovered the soul hidden beside him before him.
“Yes, and no…” Xiao Yun shook his head slightly and explained: “Most of the souls of the strong men who fell in the Heavenly Tomb have dissipated. According to common sense, they will no longer have consciousness remaining in the world.
But because of the special nature of this place, they can survive with the help of the energy here, that's how it looks like."
As he spoke, Xiao Yun stretched out his hand and grabbed the soul body. After showing it to the three people, he squeezed it hard, and the figure exploded directly.
At the same time, a thumb-sized stream of light shot out from his palm, trying to escape, but was caught by Xiao Yun in mid-air.
“As for this, it is the energy core formed after they completely die. It contains pure energy that can accelerate cultivation.
But the energy in this one is not huge, it can only barely increase your cultivation a little bit."
After saying that, Xiao Yun snapped his fingers and shot it in front of Medusa, who grabbed it.
"Brother Qingyang, with our cultivation levels, whether it's the first or second level, the energy bodies in there are not very useful to us.
Why don't we work together to quickly pass through the first and second floors and go directly to the third floor to hunt?"
After listening to Xiao Yun's words for a long time, Gu Qingyang nodded slowly and said with a wry smile: "Originally, the clan leader sent me in to look after Brother Xiao Yun.
I didn't expect that Brother Xiao Yun actually had such a deep understanding of this place. I was actually a little overwhelmed."
"Haha, it's just a family record..." Xiao Yun chuckled. As for the profound knowledge that he could not explain, it could all be attributed to the records left by the Xiao clan.
Anyway, he is the only member of the Xiao clan here. Who would know about his nonsense?
Oh, no, there is another Xiao Xuan, but he has been dead for a thousand years and has been staying in this Heavenly Tomb, which means we don’t know about it!
"I see. Since Brother Xiao Yun has already made a plan, let's get going!"
Gu Qingyang nodded in approval of Xiao Yun's plan. As for Medusa and the other two, they had no doubts at all.
"Okay! Let's go! It won't be too late to practice after we reach the third floor!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Yun took the lead and ran forward. His body turned into a flash of lightning. Afterwards, when everyone wanted to catch up, they saw the lightning running back.
"Ahem, um... Brother Qingyang, do you have a map?"
During his passionate speech just now, Xiao Yun even forgot that he had a poor sense of direction. In this celestial tomb with no reference points, it was really possible that he and the three of them would go around in circles for a year and a half.
……
The extremely vast first level of the Heavenly Mausoleum is always shrouded in a layer of energy mist.
Under the fog, there was deathly silence.
However, things are a little different now. In the gray mist, four streaks of light are seen flashing quickly, running across the earth like lightning.
Wherever it passed, the gray fog dissipated. Sometimes, a transparent figure would appear in the fog, but the next moment, it would be brutally crushed by a young man and turned into an energy light core.
These four streams of light belonged to Xiao Yun and his group. The first level of the Heavenly Tomb was extremely vast, and there was also energy pressure that made it impossible to fly for a long time.
As a result, even the four high-level Dou Zuns had to experience the boring life of traveling again.
Traveling, practicing, traveling, practicing... With such repetition, even the concept of time has become extremely weak.
Therefore, when they spent a month and a half trekking through the vast space of the first level of the Sky Tomb, and looked at the energy light wall that appeared at the end of their sight, they could not help but be stunned.
"Here! This must be the entrance to the second level of the Potian Tomb!"
Looking at the energy light wall that almost separated the sky and the earth, Zi Yan said angrily.
Among the four, she has the most active temper. In other words, she can't stay still.
From childhood to adulthood, she remembered that the last time she traveled in such a hurry was when she first came to Zhongzhou on the spaceship. It was also so boring at that time.
But last time she was still able to lie down in the room on the boat and sleep, passing the boring time in her dreams.
But this time! She actually ran for such a long time, almost without stopping!
"Haha, don't say that. Although traveling is boring, hasn't the fighting spirit in your body been improved a lot?" Xiao Yun rubbed the little kid's head and comforted him.
Cultivating fighting spirit is originally an repetitive process. When they are on the road, they repeatedly consume and absorb fighting spirit.
In a month and a half, everyone's cultivation level improved a lot, and among them, Xiao Yun made the greatest progress.
With the help of the panel and the abundant energy in this place, within a few days, Xiao Yun's cultivation level automatically broke through and reached the eight-star Dou Zun level as if it were a natural progression!
"Let's go in directly, Zi Yan. The area of the second floor is much smaller than the first floor. We won't need to spend so much time then."
As he spoke, Xiao Yun walked towards the huge energy curtain in front of him.
As the distance between the two of them shortened, he could feel an energy pressure far exceeding the intensity of the surroundings seeping out from them and enveloping him.
"Hmm? This pressure is quite strong!" Under this pressure, even Xiao Yun's body inevitably showed some slowdown.
"But it should be limited to those below the Five-Star Dou Zun level. With your strength, you can easily enter."
As soon as the words fell, Medusa and the other two quickly flashed over, and under the pressure of the energy, they slowly walked forward until their figures disappeared into the light curtain together.
This curtain of light is much larger than it appears, and the passage within it is hundreds of feet long.
Even with the strength of Xiao Yun and his group, it took them seven or eight minutes to feel the energy pressure gradually weakening.
The weakening of the energy pressure made everyone realize that the exit was right in front of them. They quickened their pace again, and then with a big step, they stepped out of the light curtain.
"The conditions for entering the second floor are so difficult, then the third floor requires someone at the peak of Dou Zun to enter, right?"
Medusa took a long breath and calmed herself down. Among the four people, her cultivation was the lowest, only six-star Dou Zun. Walking in the light curtain, she was under the greatest pressure.
"It should be enough to have an eight-star Dou Zun..." Xiao Yun shook his head slowly. He remembered that in the original time and space, Xiao Yan and his group were at about this level.
“Eight-Star Dou Zun…” Upon hearing this, Medusa nodded slightly. If this level was all she needed, she could rely on the Sky-Swallowing Python’s strong body to force her way through the light curtain.
After a short break, when everyone had adjusted their status, Xiao Yun said, "Compared to the first floor, the space on the second floor is only about one-tenth of that on the first floor.
With such a short distance, we only need four or five days to reach the third level. Once there, we can practice with peace of mind!"
After hearing this, Zi Yan was the happiest among the three. She really didn't want to make another trip!
"Looking for death!" Xiao Yun said, and suddenly a black flame appeared in his hand, and he swung it violently forward.
In the blink of an eye, the black flames swelled up in the wind and turned into a black fire dragon. The extreme temperature seeped out, and the gray mist was instantly evaporated, along with the seven or eight souls hiding in it.
"Huh! Huh!"
There were many streams of light flying over, but the quality was mostly at the five-star Dou Zun level. Xiao Yun divided them slightly and threw them in front of the three people.
"Recover your fighting spirit. Once you're recovered, we'll continue on our journey!"
Medusa and the other two nodded, reached out to take the energy cores, sat cross-legged on the ground, and recovered their internal fighting spirit.
Unconsciously, even Gu Qingyang began to obey Xiao Yun's command.
However, Xiao Yun did not sit cross-legged like everyone else to recover his Dou Qi. He was the most relaxed when passing through the light curtain just now, so he consumed the least Dou Qi.
While waiting, he did not just sit there and wait, but looked around vigilantly, and from time to time he sent out a black fire dragon to kill the souls hiding in the gray mist and wanting to attack him.
Just like this, by the time Medusa and the other two had recovered their fighting spirit, Xiao Yun had already dispersed the gray fog within a radius of 100 meters.
"Brother Xiao Yun, here..." Looking at the messy ground not far away, a hint of surprise flashed in Gu Qingyang's eyes.
"Haha, I just killed some souls, not worth mentioning." Xiao Yun waved his hand, without revealing his achievements, and continued:
"Now that we have recovered, let's set off as soon as possible! This second floor is not very safe."
"Well, let's go..." The three of them nodded, thinking that Xiao Yun was worried about the soul bodies here. They had just felt it and found that the strength of the soul bodies here was indeed much greater than that of the first level.
However, what Xiao Yun was really worried about was the huge storm that might appear in the original time and space at some unknown time.
Although I have never seen it with my own eyes, in my memory, Gu Qingyang and others said that the storm would sweep across the entire second floor, and unless they could enter the third floor, they would basically all die.
"Could this big storm be caused by Xiao Xuan?" Xiao Yun thought secretly in his heart. He remembered that Xiao Xuan would take action to clean out the souls in the Heavenly Tomb regularly.
However, the second layer is calm at the moment, without any sign of a big storm. Either the factor has not been reached, or Xiao Xuan has not woken up yet.
Then, he stopped thinking about it and followed Gu Qingyang's instructions, rushing forward first. Afterwards, Medusa and the other two quickly followed.
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Seven days later, the entrance to the third level of the Heavenly Tomb.
Four streams of light broke through the air, and behind them was a large group of souls.
"Hmph! These guys, if you don't teach them a lesson, they really think we are easy to bully!" Gu Qingyang stood in front of the sky-high light curtain, waved his sleeves, and countless lightsabers emerged and flew towards the soul body.
Beside him, Xiao Yun and others were also constantly releasing fighting skills. One after another, extremely terrifying fighting skills tore through the gray mist and exploded in the air.
They were chased before simply because they didn't want to make too much noise and attract more souls.
But now, standing in front of the entrance to the third level, the soul bodies within a hundred miles are extremely rare, so they are naturally no longer worried and attack as much as they want.
Soon, under the fierce attack of the four people, the soul body was defeated step by step, and after leaving behind a pile of energy light cores, it fled in panic.
"Huh!" After defeating the soul body, Gu Qingyang fell directly to the ground without caring about his own image.
Not far away, beside Xiao Yun, Medusa was not much better, leaning on Xiao Yun's shoulder to recover her strength.
The strength of the second-level soul bodies is much higher than they imagined. Most of them are around six-star Dou Zun, some have even reached high-level Dou Zun, and some are even at the peak of nine-star Dou Zun.
For the latter, even if it was just one, Gu Qingyang would need to spend a lot of time to solve it.
However, despite such a terrifying lineup, Xiao Yun did not take the usual route and insisted on leading them across the river, under the pretext of training his escape ability.
If the former did not have a semi-saint level strange fire in his body as a backup, when he said this, Gu Qingyang would have been unable to resist stepping forward to fight him in a duel.
"How is it? I told you that your ability to escape is too poor. As a genius, it is very important for you to master an escape technique!
When necessary, I will rely on it to save myself!"
Xiao Yun put his hands on his hips and also ran away. He did not use the power of the strange fire, but he did not consume too much fighting spirit. It was because of his practice!
"Okay, we know you're really good at escaping..." The little brat panted, turned his head and looked back, saying, "We're finally going to reach the third floor!"
Ten thousand words! Heizi speaks!
(End of this chapter)
