Chapter 38: Perceiving Space

Chaotic Void, located in the northeast of Honghuang.

Chaotic Void, named after the chaos of the void, is a place where space interweaves and where space is chaotic. Space is broken, cracks interweave, space gates are crisscrossed, storms are constant, and space layers are unclear. If you are not careful, you will be trapped in endless space for your whole life and cannot find a way out.

Generally, no one is willing to come to the Chaotic Void, because there is nothing else here except the chaotic space. There is no one here except the monks who practice the laws of space.

On this day, a guest came to the Chaotic Void, he was Yuanshi.

Yuanshi looked at the void in front of him, he could feel the chaos in the space here, the other laws were all suppressed, only the laws of space and chaos were strong, and the strength of ordinary people would be suppressed by at least 30%.

What made Yuanshi wonder was, how did the dragon clan find such a ghost place?

What Yuanshi didn't know was that there was a Void Candle Dragon in the Dragon Clan who was practicing the laws of space. By accident, this Candle Dragon found a small world in this chaotic void, which was full of the breath of darkness and death. Later, this place was used as the tomb of the Dragon Ancestor.

However, Yuanshi was not interested in knowing how the Dragon Clan found it. What he had to do now was to enter it and find the dragon tomb.

Stepping into the chaotic void, a desert appeared in front of him. Yuanshi's divine sense swept across the entire desert, but at the edge of the desert, it was an endless void that could not be touched.

Yuanshi took a step, and after a few steps, he rushed out of the desert, and what he touched was still boundless space, without color or shape.

He was like switching in three-dimensional or four-dimensional space, and could only feel the space from time to time, but could not really control the conversion of this space from time to time.

There was no direction, no position, and no breath of life here.

Yuanshi kept shuttling in this endless void. After several days, the void where Yuanshi stood before had long disappeared, and in front of him was another empty gray. The ground, the sky, and even the breath all felt gray.

Yuanshi knew that this was a place where countless spaces were transformed. The desert he had just experienced was just one space, and now he was experiencing this gray void, which was another space.

In this place, as long as you keep moving, you may go from one space to another, or you may be trapped in one space forever and lose your way.

Yuanshi recalled the location of the dragon tomb given by Ao Yu, and he found himself embarrassed. The location was there, but there was no direction here. Which direction should he go?

What Yuanshi didn't know was that every time the dragon clan came to the dragon tomb, they would bring the unique mark of Zhulong. Zhulong left a means in the dragon tomb, and that mark would give a guiding direction in the dark. In this way, the people of the dragon clan could find the exact location.

Helplessly, Yuanshi had to start constantly transforming space and shuttling back and forth in this endless void.

Time passed in this boring space transformation, and Yuanshi went from helplessness at the beginning to neither joy nor sorrow later. Gradually, he was immersed in it. In this constantly changing space, Yuanshi realized that every time he changed from one space to another, he would feel a different rhythm. This rhythm was the most beautiful and made him feel deeply.

Later, gradually, Yuanshi kept shuttling in this aimless space conversion, constantly feeling, and even forgot the time, direction, and space, just walking around without consciousness.

At the same time, because of the storm of space chaos, Yuanshi's real body was constantly damaged, and then constantly repaired. In this way, the strength of his real body was constantly increasing.

In these conversions, Yuanshi experienced various spaces. Desert space, swamp space, forest space, ocean space, mountain space,...

Gray space without anything, empty world, wind blade space, lightning space, broken space...

He experienced space collapse, space dislocation, space cracks, space storms...

Here, he felt space folding and space distortion...

In Yuanshi's mind, he kept thinking about the problem of space and time. Space and time are the essential attributes of the universe, and time is irreversible. Of course, as long as the strength reaches a certain level, time can also be reversed, but this reversal is only possible within a certain range.

Time and space themselves have an inseparable relationship.

Time keeps disappearing in Yuanshi's perception. I don't know how long it has been, maybe a day, maybe a year, maybe ten thousand years.

"Boom!"

Yuanshi was awakened by an explosion. He opened his eyes and saw a huge meteorite hitting him in the void and exploding.

"Huh?" Yuanshi frowned.

It was not because the meteorite hit him. With his physical body, not to mention the years of body training in the chaotic void, even before this, he didn't take this meteorite hit seriously. He frowned because he suddenly thought the space problem was complicated.

Is it necessary to think so complicated? As long as he grasps one point, no matter what space it is, it is up and down.

All distance between two points is space. As long as he grasps these two points and forcibly compresses the distance between them, he can cross the space and reach another point. Even if there are countless planets and countless interfaces between these two points, as long as his consciousness can touch it, he can realize this idea. In an instant, this space is compressed into nothingness and turned into nothingness.

This method of compressing space into nothingness may be extremely difficult for others, but for Yuanshi, his Wuji Seal can solve it.

After that, Yuanshi once again immersed himself in the perception of space, constantly transforming space.

One year, ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years...

In the entire five thousand years, perhaps no one has ever been able to walk in this kind of realization for five thousand years like Yuan Shi. He even fell into a kind of demonic barrier and would not give up until he realized the laws of space.

As the understanding becomes deeper, the thoughts become clearer.

"What is space? Space is the universe. What is the universe? The four directions up and down are called the universe. Four directions up and down? Four directions up and down? Up and down? Four directions? Yes, it is the four directions up and down! Hahaha!"

Yuan Shi seemed to be talking to himself, murmuring softly, as if asking questions and answering questions to himself. As he went to the back, his eyes became brighter and his voice became louder. In the end, he actually laughed out loud.

Yuan Shi grabbed the void with his big hand, and suddenly a huge void was caught in his hand. Slowly, the big hand returned to normal. Along with the big hand, the huge space gradually became smaller.

Yuanshi knew that this space had not become smaller. Although it looked smaller on the outside, in fact it was still a huge space inside and it had not changed at all.

"Up and down, in all directions, this is space!" Yuan Shi looked down at the space in his hands and whispered.

"Boom!"

There was an explosion in the void, and when he looked up, it turned out that the space he had captured instantly became colorless, pitch black, and turned into nothingness. All around, space collapsed, cracks criss-crossed, and space storms broke out one after another. There were constant explosions.

"Huh? I've been spoiled. It seems I can't stay here anymore and I need to move to another place." Yuan Shi looked at the void and whispered.

"Huh? That's——"

Penetrating the void, Yuanshi saw a black spot not far away, looming among the cracks in the void. Yuan Shi was somewhat familiar with this place.

Yuan Shi thought about it carefully and realized that he had arrived at his destination.