Chapter 1458: Cultivating in the Strange Space

“You think we should cultivate here?” An Lin blinked.

They immediately acted without delay.

Shangguan Yi folded her legs before her and meditated as she activated her Ice Matriarch mantra.

A blue vortex of frost power converged toward her.

Energy surged for over a hundred kilometers, and even the ground below began to glow with a faint sheen before flashing at an extremely slow rate.

An Lin could sense a certain resonance from that light.

Shangguan Yi opened her eyes a moment later, and her face lit up with excitement. “The flow of energy really has accelerated due to the abundance of the power of time here! Cultivating the Ice Matriarch mantra here is several hundred times faster than it is in the outside world!”

“Several hundred times?” An Lin drew a sharp intake of breath.

He knew what this entailed.

It entailed that they had stumbled upon an exceptional cultivation venue!

“Every cloud really does have a silver lining!” Shangguan Yi was elated as she turned toward An Lin. “Come and cultivate with me! This is an extremely rare opportunity.”

Every cloud has a silver lining?

An Lin’s lips twitched. The silver lining only applied to her!

He was a fake cultivator, so a normal cultivating method was completely ineffective for him!

“What’s wrong, An Lin, you don’t look so good.” Shangguan Yi was quite elated, but she discovered that An Lin wore a distressed expression instead.

“Aren’t you going to come and cultivate with me?” she asked.

An Lin’s lips twitched. “No thanks. My cultivation is a bit different from yours. I can’t explain specifically why it’s different, but I won’t be able to cultivate here.”

“Really? That’s a real shame.” Shangguan Yi looked at An Lin with a sympathetic expression. “Then is there anything I can help you with?”

“Can you bring a few Dao Integration Stage super mighty figures that I can beat into submission?” An Lin replied with a speechless expression.

He couldn’t help but want to bang his head against a wall every time he thought about the condition required for him to progress to the Return to Void Intermediate Stage. All of his battles against Dao Integration Stage super mighty figures had been extremely arduous, and he was expected to go through nine of those battles?

He was only a Return to Void Stage cultivator!

“Dao Integration Stage super mighty figures?” Shangguan Yi’s mouth gaped open slightly as she blinked hesitantly. “You mean like the Great Empress and the Celestial Thearch?”

An Lin faltered before his eyes lit up.

She was right!

Why hadn’t he realized this?

The Celestial Thearch and the Great Empress were both Dao Integration Stage super mighty figures!

He would be able to satisfy part of the mission condition by beating them into submission!

He was too busy looking into the distance and had forgotten what was right in front of his eyes!

An Lin was enlightened, and he turned to Shangguan Yi with excitement and gratitude in his eyes. “Thank you, Shangguan Yi, you’ve opened up a whole new world to me!”

Shangguan Yi was also quite happy to see An Lin’s elated expression.

After a short while, the Celestial Thearch and the Great Empress both returned from the river of time.

“How’s it going? Any leads yet?” An Lin made his way over to them.

“We’ve made some progress. I can sense a spatial flaw in this world, and we might be able to break through this world and return to our world by force if we all focus our power on that spatial flaw,” the Celestial Thearch replied.

An Lin was ecstatic to hear this. This was a huge breakthrough.

The Great Empress: “I’ve discovered a connection between all of the worlds within the images. It’s like all of them are connected to form an extremely massive formation.

“All of the worlds situated within the images are both independent but also interconnected, as if they were planets in the sky, converging to form a galaxy of stars.”

“A galaxy of stars?” An Lin’s eyes lit up. “A galaxy of stars has no borders or limits, but there are always patterns to be derived from them, just like how a solar system will always have a center around which all of the planets revolve. The Tai Chu Continent is the center of the world, which means that the center of all of these images could very possibly be…”

“That’s right, the Tai Chu Continent!” The Great Empress nodded.

This was a massive discovery, and it lit up the hope in everyone’s heart.

As they were resting and recuperating, An Lin made a request to the Great Empress and the Celestial Thearch.

“You want us to fight you?” The Celestial Thearch was a little surprised.

“Then pretend to be beaten into submission by you?” The Great Empress was also looking at An Lin with incredulity.

An Lin nodded with an extremely solemn expression. “That’s right, this is all a part of my cultivation. Please lend me your assistance!”

Thus, a series of spell techniques clashed in this peculiar space.

“Ah! An Lin is so powerful! I have been beaten into submission!” The Great Empress was blasted flying and conceded her defeat with her imperial robe in disarray.

“Ah! War God An Lin is too powerful! I have also been beaten into submission!” The Celestial Thearch was also blasted flying by An Lin’s spell technique and tumbled to the ground in an extremely disheveled state.

An Lin slowly retracted his fist like an invincible War God.

He turned to his system only to find that there was no reaction from it at all.

“Why is there no reaction? It clearly says I only have to beat a Dao Integration Stage living being into submission to complete part of the mission condition.” An Lin was confused. “Could it be that a staged battle doesn’t count? Do I have to beat the Celestial Thearch and the Great Empress into submission in a real battle?”

An Lin felt like he had hit the nail on the head, and he turned to the disheveled Celestial Thearch and Great Empress. “This time, both of you go all out. I’m going to truly beat the two of you into submission!”

Boom boom boom!

Energy surged violently, and spell techniques clashed once again.

An Lin was soon beaten into submission by the Celestial Thearch and the Great Empress…

An Lin lay down on the ground and pondered his life.

No… This is not because I’m too weak; they’re just too powerful.

The Great Empress was quite a powerful Dao Integration Stage super-mighty figure, and the Celestial Thearch stood at the pinnacle of the Dao Integration Stage. They were completely incomparable to the likes of Feng Wuya and Yi Deng.

That must be the case!

An Lin tried to console himself.

In reality, he could perhaps beat the Great Empress and the Celestial Thearch into submission if he used the power of the Heavenly Dao. However, this was not a fight to the death. He couldn’t just throw a nuclear bomb at someone who was only trying to spar with him!

Thus, An Lin’s plans were foiled.

The Celestial Thearch and the Great Empress also discovered that this was an extraordinary cultivation paradise, and both of them were extremely elated as they too began cultivating here.

The days passed by one after the other.

Everyone would dive into the river to investigate when they were in good condition, and they would come back to the riverbank and cultivate when they were tired.

An Lin had nothing to do, so he too decided to search for leads in the river.

He activated his Void Body Mantra and set foot into the river.

The system suddenly lit up again!

An Lin shuddered upon seeing this, and he almost swore out loud!

He was still traumatized from the grass incident, yet this f*cking system was already at it again?

Get f*cked, you piece of sh*t system!