Chapter 131: Exploration - 131
Jack flew to the trees and started to observe them. After he made sure they were safe to touch, he started to feel them.
Jack continued to explore the small area and felt excited with all the new things. He found plants and even bushes with fruits.
He ate a couple of them, but they didn't taste very good since they were all poisonous. Luckily, Jack was unaffected by them due to his strength.
Jack was only satisfied with his exploration after five hours passed and he had looked at everything, from the worms in the ground to the clouds in the sky.
Even the sun and the heat it gave off was new to Jack, since the sun didn't reach the bottom of the ocean. As the sun started going down, Jack began to move inwards, away from the ocean.
He walked for an hour until he looked up and saw the moon. He was in awe at it and looked for 5 minutes straight before he snapped out of it. To Jack, the moon was even more shocking than the sun because of the glow it gave off. He could also actually look at it while the sun just seemed like a ball of flames in the sky.
Just as he snapped out of his trance, he was caught in another trance when he saw the stars.
Eventually, Jack was able to regain his wits and continue his walk. After another three hours, Jack suddenly heard a branch snap. He stopped, but before he could release his divine sense, a tiger leaped at him from behind one of the trees.
Seeing a beast that he had never seen before, Jack instinctually pointed out with his trident and shot an extremely strong attack at it. The tiger didn't even have a chance to react as it disintegrated and the land behind it was turned into a crater.
When Jack saw the damage he had done, he was extremely surprised. Despite being so strong, he had never actually attacked anything or anyone. Therefore, when he saw the changes his power brought to the land and how quickly the tiger was erased, he was genuinely surprised.
The attack made him realize how strong he was, and how fun using his Qi to its fullest extent was. Jack flew up in the air and looked down upon the land. The crater he had made was a mile in diameter since he hadn't actually used his full power.
Now, however, Jack wanted to attack with all his strength to see just how strong he was. He held his trident out and pointed it towards another big piece of land with trees.
He then started to power up his trident with his favorite Qi. Gold Qi. It covered the golden trident and made it shine more than it already was.
He continued to power it up until he could tell that using any more Qi would cause him to suffer the effects of Qi exhaustion. He then released the attack.
The attack was a condensed golden beam that shot towards the ground at an extreme speed. It reached its target almost instantly and a huge explosion ensued.
Jack, who wasn't expecting such a thing, was unprepared and was hit by his own shockwave, causing him to fall out of the air. Luckily, he wasn't injured at all and was just a little shaken up.
Jack quickly got up from the ground and flew to the point of the explosion. He didn't fly for more than a second as he saw a huge crater up ahead. It was twenty miles in diameter and reached a mile down.
Jack's jaw fell to the floor when he saw the crater. He never once imagined that he could do such damage.
However, Jack was unaware just how strong his attack was. With the constant upgrades of the Zhou World, the ground got harder and the space shattered less easily. If Jack had done such an attack on earth, he had a good chance of blowing up a tenth of the planet.
After he had stopped staring at the attack, Jack continued to move inlands. After a while, Jack felt no progress and started to fly at very fast speeds. He eventually accelerated to his max speed, but he still wasn't really getting anywhere.
This time, Jack resigned to his fate and continued to fly. After a day of flying had passed, Jack saw a small village ahead. He was excited at first, but he then saw a giant palace floating in the skies near it.
The palace gave off an oppressive atmosphere that he had never felt before. It was floating in the sky as if nothing else was important. After Jack stared for a while, he looked down at the village near it. It was occupied by half beast-half humanoid creatures.
Although he had never seen such a species before, Jack quickly got used to them and assumed that they were the beings that ruled over the lands.
Instead of flying towards the floating palace, Jack decided to first stop at the village and hear what the people had to say about it. Since he had already transformed into his legs, Jack didn't even have to change his appearance before he entered the village.
Although he fit in perfectly, there were still a few people that looked at him since it was rare for newcomers to enter the village.
Jack walked around the village until he saw a friendly looking guy with the body of a humanoid creature, but the ears and nose of a wolf.
"Hello sir, do you mind if I ask you something?" Jack said.
Luckily for him, there was only one language in the Zhou world.
"Go ahead." The wolf-man said.
"What is that floating palace?" Jack asked.
As Jack and the old man started to talk, Zhou Fan was moving to the floating palace.
If Jack had the courage, Zhou Fan planned on lowering the difficulty of the stairs so that he could enter the palace. He was doing it both because he wanted to talk to Jack face to face, although he would be using a different face, and because Jack's talent and affinities fit the floating palace perfectly.
Chapter 132: Stairs - 132
After Jack and the old man finished talking, Jack decided to try and climb the stairs to the floating palace. He didn't think he would be able to reach the top, but he wanted to see how far he could make it.
At first, Jack was a bit frightened to do so, but the old man explained to him that severe injuries on the stairs were uncommon, while deaths were one in a thousand. And out of those who get killed, 99% were weak idiots.
Therefore, Jack didn't see a problem in trying to climb the stairs. Jack started walking towards the south of the town and quickly found the path that led to the floating palace.
The path was completely empty and even birds couldn't be seen. Jack walked through it pretty quickly and made it to the floating palace.
The first thing he noticed, besides the stairs and the palace themselves, was the abandoned buildings near them. Although none of them looked like houses, there were plenty that looked like shops or stalls.
Jack guessed that at one point in time, the floating palace was a good tourist attraction. However, it seemed that as time passed nobody was interested in it.
It was likely that people realized that only the strongest people in the Zhou World had a chance to reach the top, but even they barely got halfway when they tried to climb it many thousands of years ago.
Since there was nothing else to look at around the floating palace, Jack walked up to the stairs. They seemed to be floating in the air without any assistance and they were a transparent light blue.
Despite them being called stairs, they were just flat rectangles that you stepped on. After seeing that there was nothing else on the stairs, Jack stepped on the first step.
A pressure instantly washed over him, but it was so weak that a 7th level core formation cultivator could handle it.
It was right before he took his first step that Zhou Fan lowered the pressure needed to reach the top. Instead of strength at the 5th level of the space shattering realm, the stairs could now be cleared by someone at the first level of void traversing.
Even so, Jack would have to struggle immensely to reach the top. As someone at the 9th level of soul formation, reaching the strength of a first level void traversing was nearly impossible. Zhou Fan, however, believed that Jack could do it. His talent was too big for him to fail such a challenge.
As Jack took his second step, the pressure once again increased. Looking ahead, he could see that there were 998 more steps to go.
After his twentieth step, Jack felt the pressure become strong enough to knock off a 8th level core formation cultivator. Jack didn't waver as he continued up. After the hundreth step, the pressure was enough to knock off a 2nd level nascent soul realm cultivator. Once again, Jack shrugged it off and kept walking up.
At the 500th step, Jack felt the pressure become strong enough to knock off a 4th level soul formation cultivator. He was starting to feel suspicious after seeing that he could reach a height that the oldest cultivators had been unable to, but the pressure was starting to burden him and he had to focus.
At the 900th step, Jack felt the pressure reach a level that could knock off someone at the 9th level of soul formation. For the first time since he started climbing, he had to use 100% of his strength.
After another fifty steps, Jack felt the pressure become strong enough to knock off a tenth level soul formation cultivator. He was now under so much pressure that he couldn't even look up. Every step he took exhausted all of his strength.
It took 10 hours for Jack to reach the 990th step. By then, he was nearly dead from the immense pressure, yet it increased one again. Jack almost instantly fell off, but he pulled his trident from his back and attacked towards the palace in a desperate attempt to decrease the pressure.
Unfortunately, the old man had forgotten to tell him what happened to the last group that attacked the palace.
To Jack's surprise, the pressure pushing on him instantly disappeared. After he comprehended that it stopped, he happily ran up the next nine steps, before an aura of death covered his entire body.
In the next second, a lightning dragon appeared above his head. Before he could process what was happening, he was already attacking it with the trident as it shot forwards with the power of a full power strike from a first level void traversing cultivator.
Instinctually, Jack covered his trident with every type of Qi he had an affinity to. First was Gold Qi, then Water Qi, then Light Qi, then metal Qi, and finally, Space Qi covered the trident as it shot forward towards the lightning dragon at an incredible speed.
From the forming of the lightning dragon to the throwing of the trident, not even a second had passed, but their attacks reached each other.
BOOM!
A loud boom, followed by a large shockwave shot out. The sound reached the edges of the beast lands, while the shockwave seemed to not even leave the confines of the floating palace's stairs.
The lightning dragon, instantly dispersed at the point of collision, while the trident was sent flying off in an unknown direction.
As for Jack, the shockwave hit his body so hard that he didn't even get pushed back. Instead, his skin was instantly ripped off and in some sections, his bones were visible.
Jack fell forward and landed on the small flat platform in front of the giant golden door of the floating palace.
His blood instantly poured onto the floor, and Jack didn't move an inch. He stayed like that for 5 minutes, his lifeforce slowly depleting.
Just as he was nearly dead, his hand went up and fell in front of him. He started to drag himself to the golden door of the floating palace almost instinctively.
Just as he was inches from death, he touched the golden door and a golden light covered him.
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