In the dark void, Yusuf Zuck pressed on alone without any sense of direction, and at this moment, he had been walking in the darkness for nearly six months.
He silently calculated the time in his heart, and indeed, he had been walking for a full six months!
However, after six months, he also began to feel a sense of despair because it seemed as if he were spinning in place. There was nothing here but darkness—darkness was everywhere, and he seemed unable to escape this Dark Zone.
Yet, he still harbored a belief deep within, that if heaven did not destroy him, then he would defy heaven, and annihilate all of his foes, no matter who they were. Today, whoever stood in his way, he would kill!
The only thing left in his heart was the character for "kill"!
He knew that simply wandering was no solution, so after six months, he sat down out of thin air.
After groping about for six months, he realized that within this dark void, nothing existed and there was no danger to speak of. Therefore, as soon as he sat down, he immediately entered a meditative state. Discover more novels at N0v3l.Fiɾe.net
Since there was no path and no way out, he decided to cultivate. Though he had lost his Dantian, reopening it was not an impossible task, and he faintly realized that since the Blood Beads had manifested, their activation no longer corresponded to his cultivation realm. Thus far, the Blood Beads had not pulsed again, nor shown any signs of exploding.
With no Spiritual Energy in the Dark Void, and lacking Spirit Pills or rare treasures, he simply opened his energy channels after sitting down, reaching the state of Fasting.
Moving forward, he lacked the support of Spiritual Power and was unable to continue cultivating.
Of course, what he was cultivating now was not his Cultivation Realm but rather reopening the Book of Earth, projecting his Telekinesis into the second realm of the Nine Levels of Divine Power, "Heavenly Braces and Earthly Thorns."
This "Heavenly Braces and Earthly Thorns" had never been fully mastered by him, so now with nothing else to do and no way out of the darkness, he could only pass time by comprehending the Nine Levels of Divine Power.
Once he settled into meditation, and his Telekinesis entered the space of Heavenly Braces and Earthly Thorns, he lost all sense of time.
Day after day, year after year, just like when he first cultivated this Divine Skill within the Blood Beads, he became thoroughly immersed in comprehension, raptured and intoxicated.
Time passed slowly, and after countless indiscernible years, Yusuf Zuck suddenly opened his eyes, busting out in loud laughter.
But as he laughed, he also blankly touched his hair and face.
He suddenly discovered that a thick layer of dust had settled on his hair—where the dust came from was anyone’s guess. He also noticed that he had grown a half-foot long beard, while his eyebrows had grown significantly longer as well.
He presently had no clothes to wear, and thus appeared almost like a new man.
He let out a wry laugh, shook off the dust from his body, and then continued to project his Telekinesis into the third realm of the Nine Levels of Divine Power, "Sky Darkens and Earth Dims."
Just like with the second realm, once he entered it, he knew nothing of the outside world.
Year over year, each year the same as the last, sitting alone in the dark, he ceaselessly, repetitively, and endlessly plunged into a state of cultivation and comprehension.
After he completely mastered and comprehended "Sky Darkens and Earth Dims," he moved on to the fourth realm, "Sky Shaking and Earth Moving," and thereafter to the fifth, "Sky Overturning and Earth Overturning," the sixth, "Sky Net and Earth Net," and the seventh, "Connecting Heaven and Earth."
After he completely mastered "Connecting Heaven and Earth," Yusuf Zuck suddenly let out a long howl, leaped to his feet, and then raised his arm to rip fiercely through the Dark Void!
Because the essence of "Connecting Heaven and Earth" was the power to tear through the void itself.
It’s just... it’s just... he only mastered the comprehension and practice, and yet his realm was still stuck at the stage of fasting, so without even a Dantian, without a Nascent Soul, he could understand the form and the spirit of it, but he didn’t have enough power to unleash the move!
He was unable to connect heaven and earth, he merely mastered the technique, knowing how to use it, but unable to actually do so!
Yusuf Zuck’s expression dimmed for an instant, and he let out a wry laugh.
"Then let’s continue..." He shook his head, sat down, and resumed his cultivation.
However, after Yusuf Zuck’s telekinesis entered the eighth level, ’Heavenly Disaster and Earthly Demon’, he struggled for a long time without any enlightenment, without truly comprehending the essence of Heavenly Disaster and Earthly Demon. Although he had methods to learn, he still couldn’t master it.
He felt that the time he spent cultivating the eighth level was longer than the cumulative time he had spent on the previous levels, but in the end, he still hadn’t mastered it!
"Sigh~" After who knows how long, he exited the space of Heavenly Disaster and Earthly Demon and stood up.
His beard had grown to waist-length, and his eyebrows too had fallen to his shoulders, while his hair was longer than his height.
With his eyes closed, Yusuf Zuck regarded his own hair with telekinesis and suddenly felt like he had become a wild man, someone... someone forgotten by everything in the world.
"How many years has it been? A hundred years, or a thousand?" Yusuf Zuck laughed heartily. "If my hair has grown this long, then how many years have passed?"
"Sigh~" He took a deep breath, closed his eyes to calm himself for a moment, and finally, with a thought, he disappeared and re-entered the mystical artifact.
"Eh?" As soon as he entered the artifact, he noticed something was amiss, because the shadow within the artifact had become more solid, lifelike, to the point where he could even see the meridians, blood vessels, heart, and other organs, as well as blood flowing through the body.
Of course, the shadow was semi-transparent, like crystal, and seemed underdeveloped; he was floating cross-shaped in mid-air, eyes closed.
"Is this an avatar?" Yusuf Zuck was curious because he really didn’t know what this was. He was also grassroots, not a proper cultivator with a sect or a teacher, so his knowledge of all things related to cultivation was quite superficial.
"Also, how did the spiritual power inside the artifact become complete on its own? What’s going on here?" Yusuf Zuck grew even more curious. How could the spiritual power within the artifact replenish itself automatically? Could it be that in his absence, some people were worshipping him, placing their faith in him and it was their power of faith that he was absorbing?
"Well, it doesn’t matter now. I need to increase my cultivation level!" Yusuf Zuck looked towards the gate within the artifact.
When the artifact first appeared, his telekinesis had entered that gate for a split second, and because of that instant, he had leapt two levels.
There was someone behind that gate, likely another world, but beyond that gate was also supreme spiritual power available for cultivation, a type of spiritual power that was not spiritual energy, but was a hundred times more advanced than both spiritual energy and Miracle Elixirs.
Of course, he also didn’t know if absorbing this spiritual power again would bring upon him any tribulations.
After all, in this dark void, even the Heavenly tribulation might not have reach.
"Forget it, let’s just try it. If I can Cross the Tribulation, all the better, and even if I can’t, I must reach the Condensing Pill Realm first."
Only when one attains the Golden Core does the Four Nine Heavenly Tribulation appear, so he could use the spiritual power within the gate to solidify the pill first.
"Sigh~" He took a deep breath, prepared for an attack by Divine Sense from the person within.
He wanted to become strong; this gate was his only hope. So even though he knew there were dangers, he was determined to draw the spiritual power from within!
Well aware that there were tigers in the mountain, he was set on making a journey into the tiger’s den!