Chapter 1247, Sixth Layer
Trantor: Svin & PewPewLaserGun
Editor and Proofreader: Leo of Zion Mountain
Yang Kai wanted to take the Artifact Spirit back into his Space Ring, but after it finally gained its freedom, it was unwilling to be restrained any more. Instead, it transformed into a miniature Firebird and stood on Yang Kai’s shoulder, using its pointed beak tob his hair, putting on a determined disy of ttery. No matter how Yang Kai tried to persuade it, it refused to return to the Artifact Refining Furnace.
Yang Kai didn’t want to waste time arguing with it so he simply let it be. He couldn’t put the Artifact Refining Furnace into his Space Ring though, otherwise, the Artifact Spirit would be forced to return to its vessel, so instead, Yang Kai stored it into his sleeve before slowly taking a look at his surroundings.
The fifthyer was still the same as it was a month ago, visible waves of heat and unbearable fire poison everywhere with dark reddish hues as far as the eye could see.
However, Yang Kai found that it was now much easier for him to resist the harsh environment here.
His strength had increased, and his cultivation had improved by a Minor Realm, but the biggest reason Yang Kai was able to resist the environment here was that his control over his Demonic me had grown remarkably.
More than a month ago, Yang Kai was unable to manipte the properties of his Demonic me, so although it was both dense and potent, using it to resist the environment of the fifthyer was quiteborious. Today though, Yang Kai could determine whether his Demonic me was hot or cold, transforming it with a single thought. With the ice-cold mes protecting his body, he was no longer afraid of the fierce heatwaves and fire poison around him and was able to keep all of it at least half a metre away from himself.
Standing in ce, Yang Kai pondered for a while, but after understanding what was happening, he couldn’t help feeling jubnt.
Moreover, his worries about time seemed to be unnecessary. Even after refining the Profound Yin Sunflower Water, the Flowing me Sand Field hadn’t closed. Calcting it though, the closing should be within a few days.
With several days of time left, Yang Kai naturally had no interest in returning to the fourthyer and instead wanted to continue deeper to see if there really was a sixthyer!
If there was, he wondered what kind of scene it would be.
If the power of his Demonic me hadn’t improved so dramatically, Yang Kai would definitely not try to reach the sixthyer. Before, when he came here, it had been impossible for him to continue forward, but now that he had his ice-cold mes to guard his body, Yang Kai was confident he could explore further.
No one had explored past the Flowing me Sand Field’s thirdyer barrier for tens of thousands of years, and each subsequentyer had been filled with amazing wealth and opportunities.
The Red Candle Fruit had appeared in the thirdyer, and the huge ancient Sect ruin had appeared in the fourthyer. Unfortunately, Yang Kai didn’t have the ability to ess that Sect ruin so he could only stare at it from afar and sigh. The fifthyer had an Earth Lung Fire Pond as well as an Origin King Grade Artifact Refining Furnace that had formed an Artifact Spirit. If there really was a sixthyer, there would no doubt be some good things there.
Making up his mind, Yang Kai no longer hesitated. Time was precious now as the Flowing me Sand Field would soon close. Taking out his Yuan Maic Compass from his Space Ring, Yang Kai determined his direction before setting off.
With his cold mes protecting him, it was truly quite easy for Yang Kai to walk through the fifthyer, and the excessive consumption of Saint Qi he experienced before did not happen again.
Yang Kai also constantly used his Demon Eye of Annihtion to avoid invisible barriers and dangerous Spirit Arrays.
Along the way, Yang Kai didn’t encounter any danger at all though, and even the Artifact Spirit remained docile, only asionally flying out for a moment before quickly returning and squatting on Yang Kai’s shoulder.
It seemed that it also knew that this ce had its hazards so it didn’t dare run about freely.
For three days, Yang Kai walked through the fifthyer. If it weren’t for the Yuan Maic Compass though, he would have quickly be lost in this scorching world.
On this day, while Yang Kai was walking, the Artifact Spirit crouched on his shoulders suddenly stood up and let out a series of rapid cries, its two small eyes staring forward with extreme alert.
Yang Kai was surprised by this development and quickly stopped before using his Demon Eye of Annihtion to sweep the area. However, upon not discovering anything wrong, his expression couldn’t help but sink.
He knew that in the Flowing me Sand Field, there were some Spirit Arrays which were arranged so exquisitely that even his Demon Eye of Annihtion couldn’t see through them. Now, it seems he was in front of one such Spirit Array.
However, this Spirit Array was actually first discovered by the Artifact Spirit, which came as a surprise to Yang Kai.
This Artifact Spirit was born from an Artifact Refining Furnace, so in theory, it shouldn’t know much about barriers or Spirit Arrays, so how had it discovered something was wrong? Yang Kai turned his head and looked at it somewhat suspiciously, but the Artifact Spirit still kept tweeting, seemingly wanting to convey a warning to Yang Kai.
Yang Kai frowned, but after a moment, his expression suddenly dropped, “You mean, we’re already inside the formation?”
The Artifact Spirit no longer spoke, its silence giving Yang Kai his answer.
“That can’t be,” Yang Kai’s face changed. All along the way, he had been extremely cautious and never entered any ce that seemed remotely dangerous. He only took routes that he thought were extremely safe, but if what the Artifact Spirit was saying was true, he had most likely stumbled into some kind of Spirit Arraypletely without knowing it.
Turning around, Yang Kai couldn’t find anything special about his surroundings. This ce was like any other, an extremely harsh dark red wastnd.
There wasn’t even a dangerous aura in the air.
This might be a type of Bewildering Array or Illusion Array! Yang Kai didn’t think the Artifact Spirit would be making such a fuss for no reason, so he could only think of such a possibility, but when had he fallen into this Spirit Array?
On top of that, if even the Demon Eye of Annihtion couldn’t see any ws in this Spirit Array, how was he supposed to escape from it?
If this was really the case, Yang Kai could only wait for the Flowing me Sand Field to close and allow the World Principles to teleport him out. Fortunately, that would happen within a few days, so Yang Kai wasn’t particrly worried.
While preparing to sit down cross-legged and wait out the remaining time though, the Artifact Spirit on his shoulder suddenly let out a cry and transformed into a red streak of light that shot out towards a certain direction.
Yang Kai frowned but didn’t force it to return because he was faintly aware that it had discovered something.
So he decided to wait and see.
What was strange though was the Artifact Spirit disappeared from Yang Kai’s sight after about a thousand metres; however, from time to time he could still hear its cries and, judging from them, Yang Kai knew it hadn’t gone far from his current position.
Yang Kai suddenly felt relieved.
A short timeter, a fierce burst of Fire Attribute energy urred and in the next instant, the entire world seemed to distort. After these distortions appeared, Yang Kai was able to see some ws in this Spirit Array with his Demon Eye of Annihtion.
The Artifact Spirit hadn’t been making a fuss for no reason, they really had stepped into an Illusion Array, but as for when that happened, Yang Kai didn’t know. The various distortions around him were obviously not normal and were obviously the result of some kind of mirage.
As the Fire Attribute energy fluctuations became more and more violent, the distortions also became more obvious. The harsh surroundings began to crack and the earth and the sky took on the appearance of a broken mirror.
Not long after, with a loud cracking sound, the world around Yang Kai suddenly shattered and turned into scattered points of light.
At the same time, the harsh environment Yang Kai was standing in disappearedpletely and was reced by an extremely lush and beautifulndscape filled with rich World Energy aura.
Yang Kai couldn’t help but gawk, subconsciously thinking that this might be another Illusion Array.
But when he looked back, his brow couldn’t help furrowing.
About ten kilometres behind him there was a red light curtain beyond which a dark red scorchedndscape filled with swirling fire aurasy.
That was clearly the fifthyer of the Flowing me Sand Field!
Thinking about it for a moment, Yang Kai suddenly had a thought.
Had he actually walked out of the fifthyer and arrived in the sixthyer?
The ce where he was currently standing was the clearly the sixthyer he had hypothesized existed. Yang Kai could tell because the World Energy aura here was significantly richer than around the rolling mountains of the fourthyer’s Sect ruin.
Yang Kai didn’t know when he set foot into the sixthyer, but he surmised that the moment he did, he had been enveloped in the Illusion Array, making him believe he was still traversing the fifthyer.
The mirages around him having been dispelled indicated that the Illusion Array had been broken.
Yang Kai turned his head again and sure enough, a red sh of light was flying straight towards him. A momentter, the Artifact Spirit’s body reappeared, but now it had a fist-sized, hexagonal crystal in its mouth.
At first nce, Yang Kai realized that this crystal was a bit abnormal, because he couldn’t tell what colour it was. Saying it waspletely pure and colourless seemed right, but saying that it was a brilliant purple or red also seemed appropriate, an incredibly strange phenomenon.
Just as he was preparing to probe this crystal more carefully, Yang Kai’s heart suddenly clenched tightly as he witnessed a burst of ck Qi erupt from it, transform into innumerable evil spirits, and rush towards him.
Yang Kai was shocked and quickly waved his hand to condense countless balls of Demonic me to intercept these terrifying spirits.
Strangely though, these evil spirits, which seemed so imposing actually shattered as easily as the moonlight reflected on a pond. The moment the Demonic mes passed through this wave of spirits, they all howled miserably and disappeared. At the same time, a series of angry chirps sounded in Yang Kai’s ear.
Yang Kai froze up and stared in front of himself only to see the Artifact Spirit still holding the strange crystal, its wings fluttering greatly as it flew about, constantly chirping as if yelling at Yang Kai.
Just now, Yang Kai suddenly attacking had startled it.
Yang Kai ignored the Firebird and instead knit his brow tightly.
He also noticed at this moment that the evil spirits from just now weren’t real. In other words, everything had been an illusion, because when that swarm had appeared, his Demon Eye of Annihtion had allowed him to perceive their true form.
[Did this strange crystal have the ability to create such realistic illusions?] Yang Kai thought in surprise.