Chapter 553 – Zero Domain
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
Heavens Road was shaken once again on the day when both Libra Constellation and Ursa Major Constellation announced their collaboration on researching the newest mechanical spirit weapons. The alliance between the two giants, was officially announcing that Ursa Major Constellation had finally stepped into the ranks of the top tyrants.
What surprised people was that Ursa Major Constellation did not ally themselves with Leo Constellation, allowing Honorable Martial Group to relax. Honorable Martial Groups internal department’s original plan to send out a small force was immediately shelved, and turned all their forces towards Leo Constellation. It was extremely taxing for Honorable Martial Group to be fighting against two Ecliptic Palace Grade Constellations, and to fight with three, that was plain stupid.
Just when Heavens Road was still digesting the news of the alliance, Tang Tian and the other few had already disappeared.
“You’re not going in to take a look?” Crane looked at Tang Tian.
Tang Tian shook his head: “Nah, it won’t be too late to take a look if we win.”
The current Star Wind City was flourishing. Especially Caramel Academy, it had become the most famous academy amongst the closer few planets, the standard of the teachers were obviously higher than the academies, causing countless of students to be attracted.
Tang Tian had never thought that the Sextans Eye’s coordinates would actually be on Wu An Star. There were too many familiar people in Star Wind City, and if he was recognized, it would definitely attract the wrong attention.
Although the Wu An Star was already under the jurisdiction of Ursa Major Constellation, its inhabitants were extremely proud of Tang Tian who was their native martial artist. And since it was the homeland of the Bear King, many Ursa Major Constellation martial artists had gathered in Wu An Star. Tang Tian’s mother’s tomb also had martial artists specially set as guards.
But there were so many intelligence gatherers in Wu An star, as all the various powerhouses were brimming with curiosity towards Tang Tian’s background.
The four of them did not fly, it was a rural planet, flying would only reveal themselves as definite experts. They sat on an ordinary looking carriage and flew at a low altitude.
The carriage was not fast, only after travelling for three days and nights with the guidance of Sextans Eye ,did they reach an extremely desolate valley. The valley had nothing special, it looked exactly like any other valley with dense vegetation and overgrown vines, it was obvious no one had stepped in there for a long time.
Inside the valley, Sextans Eye in Tang Tian’s hand suddenly lit up.
It suddenly escaped from Tang TIan’s palm, the six eyes suddenly blinking, and suddenly rotating and flying at a very fast speed, rushing deeper into the valley. The four of them were immediately roused and followed tightly behind. Although Sextans Eye was extremely fast, it was nothing for the four of them. All of the trees were tall and mighty and no sunlight could penetrate through the dense vegetation, while the air was filled with the smell of rotting leaves.
The valley was much bigger than they thought.
After following for around 5km, the sound of rushing water could be heard. River water was flowing out from inside the boulders. The water flow was extremely fast and strong, there was obviously a hidden river.
Sextans Eye immediately plunged into the water. Without hesitating, the four of them dove in also.
Sextans Eye was as agile as a fish. Following closely behind, the four them swam in the hidden river, and quickly went into darkness as the river once again plunged deeper downwards.
Tang Tian and the rest could clearly feel that they were continuously going lower and lower.
About 20 minutes later, Sextans Eye suddenly flew out of the water, so Tang Tian and the rest immediately leaped out as well. It was pitch black around them, but to Tang Tian and the other three, it was as bright as day.
It should be an underground cave, with Sextans Eye releasing a light aura, it flew forward once again, turning and swerving at all the bands.
“To actually find this sort of place, your old guy is actually powerful to be able to find it!” Ling Xu said in admiration, he was already completely confused with the direction.
Crane and Jing Hao also revealed the same expression, they were both dizzy.
Just then, Sextans Eye suddenly flew into the wall and disappeared!
The four of them were startled, they immediately rushed towards the rock wall without hesitation, but there was no obstruction, feeling like they swept through air. The scene before them went bright, and when they adjusted their vision, they were immediately stunned by the scene before them.
Around them was a boundless void, and the vast sea of rocks appeared in front of them. Every rock had different and weird structures, with all different sizes, there were countless of them floating in the void.
“This is…..”
The four of them were stunned.
Tang Tian was the first to react: “Chase after Sextans Eye!”
The others were abruptly awoken from their stupor, Sextans Eye had become a small light dot already, so the four of them immediately flickered and flew towards Sextans Eye. Their speed was extremely fast, and quickly caught up to Sextans Eye. When they turned back to look, behind them, the wall that they had just passed through, actually had a star door floating in the void.
“This sight, is simply spectacular!” Jing Hao exclaimed out.
Crane was also suddenly very enthusiastic: “I know, right! Just now, the place that we passed through, was the end of Heaven’s Road! Wu An Star is already the most corner planet of Heaven Road!”
Everyone became excited.
Since ancient times, there were only conjecture about what the end of Heavens Road was. The majority of people would place their sights on the other end of Heaven Road. Little Fool also floated out, his face revealing shock, facing the vast and broad world in front, the human race would always feel how minute they are, like specks of dust.
Bing also floated out from Tang Tian’s body: “People who are not saints cannot pass through this void.”
Out of all of them, he was the fastest to regain his senses and had already thought of some truths to the matter.
“That’s right, and that is not good for us.” Crane said: “With so many Saints in the Sacred Saint Galaxy, this void is no issue for them. And we do not have that many saints on our side.”
In the void, the energy was extremely thin, and there was no air. And if the person had no flying techniques, it would be even harder to advance forward.
“Even for the saints, it will not be easy.” Jing Hao spoke out: “The energy here is so thin, Saints have to consume a lot of their True Power. And they still need to prevent their True Power from leaking.”
Tang Tian suddenly spoke out: “Actually, this place is very suitable for our Zero Energy Bodies.”
Everyone was startled.
“We depend very little on energy, and what you all are focusing on are laws. I have a feeling that this void is very suitable for us as a fighting ground.” Tang Tian said.
Everyone nodded, Tang Tian was right, all of them had treaded on the Zero Energy Body path, and the spirit domains they were trained in were different from ordinary saints.
The spirit domains of ordinary saints were responsible for the allocation of energy, and the stockpile of the energy was still inside their bodies.
But Tang Tian’s body did not have any energy, and the energy was directly stored inside the spirit domain. Before them, no one else had used the energy stockpile inside the spirit domain before, because the energy will corrode the Spirit Domain. But after their martial spirits had gone through the energy transformation, their bodies were unable to be corroded from the energy, but instead became their best place to store energy.
The capacity of their meridians and dantian had limits, but the spirit domain could hold much more energy.
“I feel that the path that martial artists are walking now, could it be that the endpoint of stairway to heaven, is the upper dantian?” Crane started to speak out something that he had pondered for a long time: “In the past, whenever we trained, we would form our dantian one level at a time going upwards, and the final point is the upper dantian in between our eyebrows.”
(TN: Stairway to Heaven is not Led Zep, but it is a point located near the base of the coccyx, or your spine. Upper Dantian is the third eye point, between the eyebrows. So it is literally like a flight of stairs from near the bottom to the top of the head.)
“Crane’s idea is very reasonable!” Jing Hao nodded his head: “But no one has ever successfully trained in the Stairway to Heaven. I feel that theoretically, the capacity of the spirit domain is much bigger than the meridians and dantian pools, and it could even be regarded as an empty room. The energy in my sword spirit, is five times more than it used to be.”
“Me too, I have about five to six times more than what I had.” Crane replied: “But, the purity of the energy is not as high as our True Power, since it does not go through tempering in the meridians.”
“That’s right.” Ling Xu who had not spoke out yet frowned: “The unpure energy is harder to meld, its might is also weaker and controlling it is more difficult.”
The spirit techniques of the spirit domain was used to control the energy, and if the energy’s essence is not pure enough, controlling it would be extremely difficult and would influence the power of the spirit technique.
Tang Tian suddenly thought: “What if we add another spirit technique that could refine and temper True Power inside our spirit domains?”
Jing Hao’s eyes lit up: “That is possible!”
The other two were also attracted by Tang Tian’s thoughts, and Crane’s eyes were suddenly bright: “Although it would take up some spirit value, but if we are able to obtain the pure essence like True Power, that would be worth it.”
“Are there such spirit techniques though?” Ling Xu could not resist to ask.
Crane laughed bitterly: “I don’t think so.”
Tang Tian said unhappily: “Then we will just create our own.”
Jing Hao nodded his head: “We are walking on a completely new dao path, and need to fumble about and test new things out ourselves, that was how the sages of the past did, so it is now our turn.”
“Yea yea!” Tang Tian nodded his head and waved his hands excitedly: “Since our spirit domains are a brand new type of spirit domains, we should come up with a name for it?”
“Show off!” Ling Xu snorted, his face filled with disdain.
“LIttle Xu Xu, since you say that, I consider that you have forfeited your rights.” Tang Tian said happily.
“Based on what? You want to fight?” Ling Xu staread at him.
Seeing that the two of them were about to fight, he immediately spoke out: “What name should we give it?”
Tang Tian immediately raised his hand: “Of course the Tang Domain!”
Ling Xu immediately raged: “Let’s just fight now!”
Crane raised his eyebrow: “I am against that.”
Jing Hao laughed: “I think that since we formed them out of our Zero Energy Bodies, we should call it the Zero Domain.”
Tang Tian was ruthlessly put down, and Jing Hao’s suggestion gained the consent from the rest.
In the void, the concept of time and space slowly became vague.
They thought that they were near the sea of rocks, but did not expect that they had flown for a full six days, just to reach the edge of it. The void had no air, and there was no resistance in flying, so they were extremely fast, to the point that they never thought they could fly at such speeds before. Flying for six days, the distance covered by the group was unimaginable.
After flying close, the vastness of the sea of rocks was even more shocking.
The large rocks were as big as mountains, while the smallest of rocks were only the size of beans. They quietly floated in the void, like a gigantic protective layer, obstructing their path.
“Everyone, be careful!” Jing Hao warned.
After flying for six days, the four of them were slightly tired. They all retrieved out star rocks to replenish their energy. Their method of replenishing energy was completely different, as long as they broke the star rocks, the energy that floated around would be absorbed through the space between their eyebrows, and directly into the spirit domain.
Compared to ordinary saints, who used their meridians to absorb, this method was much more efficient.
Very quickly, the four of them recovered to their peak state. The vast sea of rocks caused them to be serious. They had never seen such a place before, who knows what dangers were ahead of them.
Sextans Eye flew through the sea of rocks, while the four of them followed behind. They flew inside at the same time without hesitation.