First issues first, I am weak. That is apparent, to anybody with eyes. I am no match to the monsters and creatures of this world, and I am even shocked at my capacity to retain my sanity even after I used to be nearly eaten by that massive snake. I am going to need to thank the cultivation mindset for this as a result of if I used to be a daily individual, I might in all probability shit my pants the second that snake confirmed up.

The second factor, I am approach in over my head. This mere snake was the primary hurdle thrown at me on this Ascendant’s cave, there might be extra, and undoubtedly fiercer, stronger creature up within the distance, one thing that mere luck or a broken X can not overcome.

And at last, I can not go away this place with out Xi Son. Just because I did not have the slightest thought on easy methods to. I got here to this place due to the teleportation platform. However the platform did not teleport me to a different one however somewhat threw us in a random spot inside this small ‘world’.

So to go away I have to discover one other teleportation platform and pay the hefty sum of spirit stones to get out. Additionally, to not point out the small slabs which might be within the arms of Xi Son. One in all them allowed us entry to this place, so it would not be incorrect to imagine that one would enable us to go away, and even be the important thing to among the attainable areas on this small world.

Proper, let’s take a step again.

I am too weak to struggle, however I will not surrender and simply die. I would like energy to outlive but it surely’s unimaginable within the present state of affairs, I can not simply up and change into an ascendant if I want arduous sufficient. The world does not work like that. Laborious work and dedication, and struggling by the hands of the poison plaguing my physique.

So, that leaves me with what? Prudence, carefulness, and full understanding of the place I’m, what I’ve to do, and the place to go. I can not energy my approach via these hurdles with mere energy, I am to this point missing in that facet proper now it could be a joke if I had been to assume I am going to survive on my mere Basis Institution cultivation.

I am going to want to make use of my wits.

Instantly, my thoughts’s gears started spinning.

I revaluated my state of affairs and re-thought via it, no exit, no energy however nonetheless intelligence and prudence will take one a good distance, a minimum of if I had been to die, I am going to understand it will not be as a result of I used to be headstrong and believed I can struggle my approach via, however as a result of I wasn’t good sufficient to navigate the hidden risks of this place.

X is broken, however I’ve no approach to repair him on this state of affairs. My physique continues to be completely fantastic, I acquired no accidents and I nonetheless have sufficient Qi to maneuver about. I am not in any speedy hazard however that is no motive to chill out. And I would like to determine my subsequent step, ought to I look ahead to Xi Son, or ought to I navigate this space all on my own.

Although the primary selection looks as if the most suitable choice, I do not belief that noble. Just because he had an excessive amount of energy for me to pose any actual menace, the identical because the traps right here. I may file him as one other hurdle and discover a approach round him, he’s a hurdle that I am finest off avoiding.

So, that brings me to my present predicament, what now?

Throughout me are plains that attain all the way in which to the horizon, the solar by no means moved, and the sky is barely cloudy, there’s a light breeze but it surely feels faux. Extra just like the wind from a fan than a chilly summer time wind.

Staying the place I’m is not going to change something, and can solely enhance the probabilities of Xi Son discovering me. Not that I am avoiding him, but when the jade he gave me stays in a single place for a very long time he would assume that I might need died, or that I am caught, giving him motive to return discover me.

I saved wanting round, there was nothing that will point out my place, no mountains no timber, and no factors of reference moreover this pool subsequent to my toes.

Which approach to go, north, south, west, east? I saved racking my mind pondering the place I ought to go earlier than realizing how idiotic I used to be.

The winds, are static, steady, however the wind is coming from the west, it by no means subsided, it saved transferring. And on this faux world, this wind wanted a supply, and this supply would in all probability be the middle of this place. That is a begin, although not one of the best result in observe, if I created this place I might in all probability put all of the mechanism within the centermost space.

I then pulled my sword, sat meditating on it in a lotus pose, and willed it to maneuver ahead. Not quick, however not gradual both, simply in between.

I meditated, fascinated by my state of affairs and if I had been to seek out myself in a struggle in opposition to one thing quickly and easy methods to take care of it. Although it wasn’t the easiest way to take care of my present state of affairs, it beats not pondering of something and worrying about what may be hiding within the grass.

Hours upon hours of flight, I lastly noticed the primary signal of change on this world. Within the distance, there was at first a protrusion within the horizon. And the longer I flew ahead, the extra the protrusion seemed like a mountain.

Good, a mountain, it is a change in surroundings. But additionally, it signifies that there might be one thing there, moreover the mundane grass.

I saved flying ahead whereas gazing on the mountain taking the sight of it complete.

The mountain stood at a number of kilometers tall, far larger and larger than something I had ever seen and it solely grew bigger the extra I gotten nearer to it.

And proper in the course of it, the supply of the wind got here to view. A towering pagoda with 9 tales, and every of those tales was as massive and as majestic because the palace within the Purple Cloud Sect.

And on high of it, there was a ‘mistake’. I say mistake as a result of one thing did not appear proper. There was a sphere that should not belong there, it was wind, gathering rotating, and spiraling above the pagoda then blowing in a single single space. East. The place I got here from.

The pagoda seemed immaculate and clear as if it did not whether or not god is aware of what number of eons on this place. No snow, dust, or mud gathered on the pagoda and it seemed clear.

It took me extra hours to get to the pagoda’s open gate. And searching on the doorways I noticed two of the slabs making the field that Xi Son had, already positioned on the door. Keys, which means that Xi Son had already arrived right here and entered.

I took a deep breath and took a step contained in the pagoda. Solely to be instantly assaulted by a mind-rending vocal message.

“Welcome to the Laughing Slaughterer’s Abode! Rejoice on your Trials and Tribulations are but to start out! Survive and also you shall earn untold would possibly, fail and also you shall be doomed to eternal mediocrity. That’s for those who stay alive!”

The message was easy but it surely meant that a lot hazard lurked inside this pagoda that it could be finest if I go away. But, man proposes, and heaven Disposes. The gates of the pagoda lurch closed locking me inside what appeared to be a big pentagonal picket platform the place it appeared to don’t have any different exit or entry. The partitions round me closed and locked me whereas the ceiling got here down locking me in a sealed enclosed area that I had no approach to go away.

And proper in entrance of me, there was a person standing entrance of me. He oddly seemed precisely like me. With the identical robes, pustules and hunched again, solely his eyes, nicely considered one of them as I used to be lacking an eye fixed and so was the ‘clone.’ His eye was pink, no irises, not white, only a pink glowing eye and his grin was one thing that despatched shivers down my backbone if I may grin as he did I might be rattling scary.

“FIRST TRIAL! ONE AGAINST SELF! For just one’s limiter is one’s self, discover victory in opposition to your self to see true enlightenment!”

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