Free Web NovelChapter 6: Pagoda
Five Days Later;
Boom! Boom!
Two different explosive sounds rang at the same time in two different places.
One was his body releasing an immense amount of lightning energy into his surroundings, and the other was the sixth Qi vortex forming inside his Dantian.
Marx slowly opened his eyes and stood up.
He found himself covered in black goo. Feeling this dirt all over him, he quickly took off his clothes and ran towards the river.
He put the bucket in the river and pulled out a bucketload of water before using it to clean his body.
As for why he didn’t dive into that water, it was simply to keep the river clean.
As a health-conscious individual, he couldn’t bring his habit of diving in rivers to this world.
Especially when this river was cleaner than purified water from Earth.
Coincidentally, this world was also called Earth. Although the size might’ve been different.
At the third stage of Qi Sea Realm, he could run at a hundred kilometers per hour for an entire day without getting tired.
This meant he could run for more than two thousand kilometers in one day. Although it wasn’t the same on both sides, it was only half.
And that was the length of the Taicho Mountain Range.
Taicho Mountain Range was at the corner of the External Dark Forest. This forest was nearly ten times bigger than the Taicho Mountain Range.
The entire External Dark Forest was only forty percent of the land of the State of Drunken Immortal.
And this was just one of the eight states of Niddhog Country.
State of Drunken Immortal was among the smaller states among the eight states, with the biggest one being twice as big.
So, the entire country of Niddhog was bigger than the continent of Asia. This was why even for cultivators, running wasn’t an option.
They could not only encounter fierce monsters in the forest, but it was also easy to get tired and lose a lot of Qi.
So, the most applicable mode of transportation was a sword.
By flying on the sword, not only could they travel faster, but also in a straight line.
Unfortunately, one could only control the sword using the Spiritual Sense. To awaken the Spiritual Sense, one must reach the seventh stage.
Upon reaching this stage, they could open their sea of consciousness and temper their souls with Qi, allowing them to awaken their Spiritual Sense.
Spiritual Sense consumed Qi to run, but it wasn’t completely reliant on it. It could run off soul energy, but that meant one’s soul must be powerful.
Otherwise, this kind of act could damage a person’s soul.
Marx was already at the sixth stage, but to reach the seventh stage. Either he had to take the boundary-breaking pill, which he would not.
Or he could simply improve his spiritual root and improve his cultivation.
But before all that, he had to change his identity.
’Although I am not famous, my parents and I are well-known in that village. If they find out about my improvement, it could be detrimental to me.’
’There is probably no one who can improve his cultivation beyond his talent cap without using a powerful treasure or that pill.’
’Other cultivators will immediately think of the same thing and try to hunt me down. As for why?’
He bitterly smiled.
He didn’t even have to think for a moment to come up with an answer.
He wanted to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, but to reach that level, he had to upgrade his spiritual root.
He could rely on his Gacha tickets, but that would be a waste, especially when he was still in a lower realm.
In this realm, he could try to use treasures from this world. While finding treasure, it was normal to make enemies.
Once he made enemies, he would kill them.
As everyone knows in the world of cultivation, once you kill a young one, the older one will come for you.
He would definitely not wait for his death. If he left, the old one would get angry and do everything in his power to find him.
That would mean investigating him and his family.
So, he couldn’t use his original identity. With the memories from that Immortal, changing his face wasn’t a problem.
But the problem was that there were many kinds of techniques in the world of cultivation that could still trace his origin.
So, he had to figure out a way to get his parents out of that village.
’Wait, I remember I also got a tower from that lottery.’
Thinking about it, while wearing new clothes, he immediately called out the inventory and took out the tower.
When this town appeared, a cut was directly made in his thumb, and the blood dropped on top of the tower.
The next moment, Marx found a new piece of information in his mind. At the same time, he felt something strange waking up in his mind.
Whoosh!
The door to his sea of consciousness opened. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
Although there was no meridian connected to his head, his Qi still flowed out of his Dantian, flowing into six meridians.
This Qi didn’t directly reach the brain, but it kept moving around his body, trying to send a small portion of it outside the meridian.
This wasn’t a problem.
Meridian was a pathway, but Qi could still leave the meridian. Of course, if it left in a large quantity, that could have a huge impact on the body.
Even if that happened, Marx didn’t need to worry since his body was already strong.
But his brain wasn’t. So, channeling a small portion of Qi into his sea of consciousness was the safety measure.
’Whoa! I never thought I would be able to awaken the Sea of Consciousness at the sixth stage.’
’Then again, I needed this to control the tower. But without reaching the seventh stage, I can’t strengthen my soul with Qi to use spiritual artifacts in a battle.’
Weapons running on spiritual sense were considered artifacts.
They held incredible power, allowing the cultivator to surpass the combat strength of their realm.
This tower was also an artifact.
Of course, it was a Heavenly-rank Artifact. If he used this, even with his current realm, he could kill anything with the Qi Sea Realm.
Upon reaching the seventh stage, he would even be able to defend against the attacks of Foundation Realm cultivators.
This tower was an incredible artifact, but its main usage wasn’t combat.
Whoosh!
After thinking about it, Marx suddenly disappeared, and so did the tower.
Of course, the tower wasn’t completely absent.
While using this tower, he couldn’t make it enter his sea of consciousness. But while not using this tower, he could do that.
In that case, this tower could not only save him from physical attacks but also from soul attacks.
More importantly, this tower had nine floors.
When he entered the tower, he appeared on the first floor, and the information about the first floor appeared in his mind.
Surprisingly, despite being its owner, without a certain cultivation, he couldn’t enter the higher floors.
It was a restriction installed in the tower while it was being created.
And the purpose of creating this tower was to hold nine different worlds within the tower.
Because of this, it was supposed to be a Saint-rank treasure. Unfortunately, only the first floor could be considered a world.
It had a day-and-night system. It also had a proper atmosphere and a large space.
At least, without reaching a higher realm, he couldn’t travel throughout this place.
The first floor didn’t have any creatures or living beings. But it had a large Spirit vein capable of supporting millions of cultivators for thousands of years.
What surprised Marx was that, despite getting this pagoda from the system, he wasn’t exactly its first user. frёeωebɳovel.com
But without a doubt, he was its only user right now.
Because its previous owner was dead millions of years ago.
Except for its large Spirit Vein, the first floor didn’t exactly have any unique advantage.
But its upper floors had many advantages.
Of course, that was only written in the introduction. If he wanted to know the true benefits, he had to reach the upper floors.
’Unfortunately, to open the doors of the second floor, I have to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm.’
’Now I have another reason to chase that realm. For now, I will just go back to the village and bring my parents to this pagoda.’
’With their safety confirmed, I can start taking more risks. The cultivation world is ruthless. I have already suffered enough.’
’Now, I just want to keep moving towards the higher realm.’
With a single thought, he left the pagoda.
He didn’t have to prepare anything else. He barely had one extra pair of clothes and some spirit stones in a spatial pouch.
So, he began his journey back to his village.
