Translator: Silavin & PewPewLaserGun
Editor and Proofreader: Leo of Zion Mountain & Dhael Ligerkeys
Making up his mind, Yang Kai got up, stretched out his hand and slashed it forward while sending out his Space Force, opening a long and narrow Void Crack before him.
However, compared to when he usually tore space, this Void Crack was much smaller.
The World Principles in this Sealed World Bead seemed to be very firm!
Yang Kai’s brow furrowed slightly, but he didn’t dwell on this for long, instead just stretching out his hands and pulling hard at Void Crack’s walls as he poured his Space Force into it, enlarging the long and narrow crack.
After releasing his Divine Sense for a moment, Yang Kai was pleasantly surprised to see that this Void Crack was extremely stable.
[Was that old dog Qi Tian Che just talking nonsense?] Yang Kai thought suspiciously as he dove into the Void Crack.
But when he reappeared and looked around, Yang Kai’s face sank.
He found himself in a small space about three hundred metres in diameter with traces of battle left all over the place, along with two incomplete corpses that had blood and organs spilt across the ground…
The Void Crack he entered led back to this strange Small Sealed World!
Furrowing his brow, Yang Kai tried tearing space again, unwilling to simply give up.
…
After repeating this a dozen times or so, Yang Kai stopped and sat back down on the ground before falling into contemplation.
He could not leave this Small Sealed World even after tearing space a dozen times, only able to move about within the three-hundred-metre range of this place, a result that surprised him greatly.
Apparently, Qi Tian Che’s words weren’t all just posturing, this Sealed World Bead really had its mysteries and even tearing space couldn’t allow Yang Kai to escape it.
Although he had not managed to escape successfully, Yang Kai’s efforts were not in vain. After tearing space more than a dozen times here, Yang Kai vaguely became aware of a barrier surrounding this small space that isolated it from the outside world.
This barrier was somewhat vague and difficult to grasp, but it was precisely because of its existence that this Small Sealed World could remain independent of the outside world, and trap Yang Kai inside of it.
If Yang Kai was not mistaken, this barrier should be comprised of this Small Sealed World’s World Principles!
If he could tear through this barrier, Yang Kai was confident he could leave here.
However, how could it be so easy to break through the World Principles of this Small Sealed World? Qi Tian Che had spent several dozen years just to slightly refine this Sealed World Bead and grasp a tiny portion of its World Principles, allowing him to enter and exit it freely.
Yang Kai could not even guess how much time it would take him to reach that point.
But now, apart from refining this Sealed World Bead, there was no other way out.
How was he supposed to refine this Sealed World Bead though? Refining it was tantamount to refining this world. Yang Kai was at a loss, feeling like a dog trying to bite a hedgehog, uncertain of where to even start.
Sitting on a spot, Yang Kai silently pondered the issue.
After a long silence, Yang Kai’s confused eyes suddenly flashed, and this spark soon turned into a burning flame that cleared the fog from his vision.
He seemed to understand something and could not help showing a look of both shock and inspiration.
He had a severe misunderstanding before, thinking that if he wanted to leave, he would have to refine this world, a prospect that left him at a complete loss.
In the final analysis, this Small Sealed World was just the Sealed World Bead, an Emperor Artifact!
He did not know how to refine a world, but he knew how to refine an artifact.
And since Qi Tian Che had spent several dozen years in retreat refining the Sealed World Bead, his aura must have permeated this Emperor Artifact somewhat. As long as he could trace the ambient aura fluctuations and erase them, he could simply begin refining the Sealed World Bead from the start.
In the end, the simplest method was often the most perfect, Yang Kai suddenly understood.
Standing up, Yang Kai used two balls of Demonic Flame to turn the nearby corpses into ash before releasing his Divine Sense and beginning to carefully scan the surrounding three-hundred-metre space.
The result of his investigation went well, as it did not take long for him to find the remnants of Qi Tian Che’s aura in this space.
Erasing these marks was not difficult.
However, when Yang Kai tried to leave his own aura on this space, he was met with great resistance.
Qi Tian Che wasn’t wrong in saying that it would be extremely difficult to refine the Sealed World Bead from inside, at the very least, it would require far more effort than doing so from the outside, the difference calculated in multiples of a hundred times.
Even if Yang Kai’s attainments in the Dao of Space were countless times greater than Qi Tian Che’s, such refining could not be completed in a short time.
Yang Kai did some calculations, and the results startled him.
With his current strength and attainments in the Dao of Space, it would take him at least a dozen years before he could refine the Sealed World Bead enough to escape.
Yang Kai suddenly regretted that he had killed Fang Peng so quickly.
If he were still alive, Yang Kai could at least vent his stress on him.
After frowning and pondering for some time, Yang Kai calmed his irritability and stopped trying to refine the Sealed World Bead. Instead, he poured out a large number of crystals from his Space Ring in front of him before picking one up in each hand and rapidly absorbing the energy within.
Space Spirit Crystals!
Yang Kai’s comprehension of the Dao of Space far surpassing Mo Xiao Sheng and Qi Tian Che’s was all thanks to these Space Spirit Crystals.
These peculiar crystals had always only been used as material for refining Space Rings, but Yang Kai had a different use for them: Absorbing the energy inside to enhance his Space Force.
Space Spirit Crystals were extremely rare, and even if others have this idea, they would find it incredibly difficult to implement.
But Yang Kai was different. The Space Spirit Crystal lode Xiao Xiao found beneath Dragon Cave Mountain in the past had given Yang Kai enough capital that he could squander Space Spirit Crystals like this without worry.
There were many Space Spirit Crystals that were mined back then, but with Yang Kai refining some of them whenever he was free or in secluded cultivation, he only had about half as many as when he had started.
However, before chopping down a mighty tree, one needed to sharpen their axe.