Chapter 0820: Space Crystals
Ning Cheng stopped his hand the moment he was about to grab the female cultivator. At the same time, he only felt ecstasy in his heart. Ning Cheng had comprehended the Laws of Space, yet Ning Cheng didnāt even realise it. Had this female cultivator not interrupted him, he might have continued to grasp the distance between two different spacial pockets. Maybe one day he could have succeeded, but how long would it take to reach that day? Ten years or a hundred years or maybe more than a thousand years?
āYouāve successfully comprehended the Laws of Space? How long have you been here?ā The female cultivator had forgotten about Ning Cheng tearing off her clothes. Even her eyes showed utter surprise.
Ning Cheng felt grateful towards this female cultivator from the bottom of his heart for waking him up. Therefore, since this person asked him, Ning Cheng also gave an honest reply. āItās been a few years; this is the longest time Iāve immersed myself in an epiphanyā¦.ā
Ning Cheng didnāt lie; he had never experienced an epiphany for so many years.
āA few years? The longestā¦ā¦ My godā¦ā¦ā The female cultivatorās gaze at Ning Cheng changed utterly. She had considered herself a genius in cultivation. Yet she still had to roam around in Traceless Gate for a few hundred years. But over these past few hundred years, she had only recently got in touch with how to perceive the Laws of Space. But now, someone touched the Laws of Space in just a āfewā years. The difference was too huge even to describe.
āThank you. If you hadnāt woken me up, I might have already fallen into that intoxicated state.ā Ning Cheng cupped his fists and spoke sincerely.
The female cultivator rolled her eyes and quickly said, āIf you want to thank me, can you tell me what Law of Space you comprehended?ā
After speaking, she looked at Ning Cheng expectantly. Although she knew that such a request was an unreasonable one, she still couldnāt help but mention it.
Ning Cheng hesitated before speaking, āItās not that I donāt want to say it, I just donāt know how to put it into wordsā¦ā¦ā
If he could spell it out, Ning Cheng wouldnāt hide it. It wouldnāt have meant anything to him, let alone to this female cultivator who helped him wake up. The concept he comprehended was something like swimming. You had to experience it by yourself. One couldnāt just tell others to float on water and not sink.
The same remained true for all laws. One could only understand the feeling but canāt put it into words. If you understood it, you understood it; if you couldnāt understand it, then you would never understand it. There simply wasnāt any reason for it.
The female cultivator heard Ning Chengās words and spoke up with disappointment in her eyes, āI understand, Iā¦.ā
She did understand. If she had understood the Laws of Space, even she wouldnāt reveal the essence of the law she comprehended to a stranger.
Ning Cheng could see the female cultivatorās disappointment. He tried to describe it the best he could, āI just felt the distance and orientation of the space between two objects. Then, I used my spiritual consciousness to grasp at the spacial distance between two points using one of it as a reference point. Then I used my celestial essence to supplement my spiritual consciousness to grasp the spaceā¦.ā
What Ning Cheng said was just a very general approximation of what he felt and did. But the female cultivatorās eyes lit up after listening. Thatās it. The Laws of Space she perceived aimed at the space in front of her. Rather, she only tried to understand the space in front of her. She never even thought of Ning Chengās method.
Seeing that his answer finally gave this female cultivator some hints, Ning Cheng quickly said, āI have to go. Iāll be leaving now.ā
After comprehending the Law of Space, the first thing that Ning Cheng wanted to do was to head out to Night Essence Celestial Riverās Thorn Tooth Lake immediately. He wanted to continue studying the teleportation array. He had a hunch that after comprehending the Law of Space, he would soon become an Array Dao Master.
āWait-Waitā¦ā¦ā The female cultivator, on hearing that Ning Cheng wanted to leave, quickly tried to stop Ning Cheng, āI have something else that I want your help with.ā
āWhat?ā Ning Cheng asked.
The female cultivator hesitated before speaking, āI know of a place where you can find Space Crystals containing the Laws of Space. However, I havenāt comprehended the Laws of Space yet, so I canāt get to it. If you want, I can take you to this place, but we would have to divide the Space Crystals equally.ā
āSpace Crystals?ā Ning Cheng repeated in shock.
As a top-grade Artefact-crafting Master and a top-grade Starry Sky Grade 9 Array Emperor, Ning Cheng naturally knew about the value of a space crystal.
Space Crystals contained the Laws of Space within it. It not only allowed cultivators a much higher chance in perceiving the Laws of Space but could also help in refining storage artefacts using the Laws of Space inside of it.
Space Crystals werenāt on the same level as space-attributed artefact-crafting materials like Space Stones. One could use Space Stones and some other top-grade space-attributed raw materials to make storage rings, storage bags, etc. But such storage-type artefacts generally couldnāt store life.
There was only one explanation for it; that is, they didnāt contain any real worldly laws. A top-grade Artefact-crafting Master could use other top-grade treasures to refine a Miniature World or something similar to it. However, despite the Miniature World able to sustain life, it almost had no law shackles around it. The absence of these shackles made such objects extremely fragile, far incomparable with the spacial treasures crafted using Space Crystals.
Space Crystals were different from such spatially-attributed treasures. These crystals usually contained a complete Law of Space. If one combined it with Time Crystals containing Laws of Time and integrated it with other suitable materials, one could refine a special type of Miniature World. One with a perfect living space inside of it. More specifically, the Miniature World refined by this kind of fusion would, in most cases, result in a Law World. This Law World had a much higher value compared to an ordinary Miniature World, apart from being much more stable.
More importantly, Space Crystals were also the best materials for refining long-distance teleportation arrays.
These properties made it much more precious compared to the Time Stones Ning Cheng had obtained previously. Time Stones only allowed one to sense the existence of the Laws of Time and did not contain even a single strand of a complete Law of Time. Only something like Time Crystals would provide Laws of Time that one could use to gain enlightenment. However, Time Crystals were much more precious and even rarer than Space Crystals.
āYes, Iām sure that itās Space Crystals. Iāve stayed here for nearly a hundred years, but Iāve never managed to get those crystals. But I do believe that Iām not mistaken about it. I just have one request, that is, equal sharing.ā The female cultivator spoke with a firm tone.
Ning Cheng immediately felt a little excited. Who wouldnāt want something like Space Crystals? He subconsciously stretched out his hand for a handshake and said, āI agree with your distribution. Iām called Ning Cheng, and I hope we can cooperate happily.ā
The female cultivator saw Ning Cheng stretch out his hand, but didnāt reach out with her hand. Maybe she didnāt understand the concept of a handshake. Instead, she just cupped her fists and said, āIām called Mu Wei, and I stayed in this pocket only for the sake of those Space Crystals.ā
Ning Cheng quickly retracted his hand and said, āSenior Apprentice Sister Mu Wei, please lead the way.ā
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The spacial pocket Mu Wei had stayed in was a yellow forest-like area without any green colour. But when Ning Cheng heard Mu Wei speak about Space Crystals, he immediately swept out with his spiritual consciousness. However, he did not see any location that had any indications of holding Space Crystals.
An hour later, Mu Wei stopped and pointed at the nothingness in front of her and said, āThere is a small inter-special pocket on the opposite side that contains Space Crystals. Iāve tried countless ways, but I simply couldnāt get anywhere near itā¦ā¦ā
Ning Cheng looked at the emptiness in front of him suspiciously and said, āSenior Apprentice Sister Mu Wei. According to my experience, entering the emptiness would immediately take you to another spacial pocketā¦ā¦ā
Ning Chengās words suddenly stopped. He could feel a difference between this patch of emptiness and other places around it.
After hearing Ning Chengās words, Mu Wei quickly explained. āThere is an inter-spatial pocket filled with Space Crystals in front of us. I have different eyes compared to ordinary cultivators, which allows me to see through a part of the void in this place. But I didnāt try to enter. Otherwise, I might enter another spacial pocket and would never be able to return to this place. It also means that between the location where those crystals are, and where we are, there is an insurmountable space. Since I havenāt yet comprehended the Laws of Space, I couldnāt pass through it.ā
āWhat you said is correct. That location does feel somewhat different.ā Ning Cheng had also noticed the difference. His spiritual consciousness had perceived that this particular patch of space was slightly different from the rest of the area around it. He had switched through so many spacial pockets, but every switch involved the same nothingness.
However, the void in front of him felt different from the pockets through which he switched before. It contained a strong aura of Laws of Space. Not only that, but he could also feel a powerful spacial fluctuation coming from the void in front of him. Under normal circumstances, when Ning Cheng switched between spacial pockets, he could only feel the transition of space. He never felt such strong fluctuations.
If there were such a strong fluctuation of laws whenever he changed spacial pockets, Ning Cheng would have realised the Laws of Space much earlier.
āI want to go over to the other side to have a look at it, but I canāt guarantee that I will be able to reach the opposite side. Moreover, if there is an error, I might end up in an unrelated space, losing these space crystals forever. Will you stay here or come with me?ā Ning Cheng finished talking and looked at Mu Wei.
Mu Wei hesitated for a while before asking, āThen, if you can reach the location with those space crystals, can you come back?ā
Ning Cheng shook his head and said, āThe chance of coming back is one in ten thousand. If you donāt come with me, I can get those space crystals. But if you want to collect them later, I could only tell you about the place from where I come. Once you come out of the Traceless Gate, you can come to my place and ask for your share of the crystals.ā
āIāll come with you.ā Mu Wei said without hesitation. She didnāt think that Ning Cheng wasnāt the kind of a person to swallow everything. But if Ning Cheng obtained those space crystals and left, what was the point of her staying here?
If Ning Cheng truly couldnāt reach the location of those space crystals, then she could only blame herself for not having any fate with it. But without such an opportunity, even if she realised the real Laws of Space after countless years, she might end up in the same state as Ning Cheng.
āOkay, Iāll carry you over.ā After Ning Cheng said that, he raised his hand and wrapped it around Mu Weiās waist. At the same time, he stepped into the void.
The distance in the void seemed to have turned into nothingness under his feet. In just over ten steps, Ning Cheng stood at the edge of a translucent world filled with crystals.
āItās so beautifulā¦ā¦ā Mu Wei exclaimed as she looked at the beautiful scenery in front of her in utter shock. This world looked like a transparent world, and at every step, one could feel the fluctuation of laws coming from the space crystals.
Ning Cheng also felt shocked. The scene in front of him was even more impressive than the ice crystal world. It looked like a scene right out of a fairy tale. But what surprised Ning Cheng, even more, was that this place contained too many space crystals. It even had an abundance of Starry Sky Essence Spirit Qi.
Seeing Mu Weiās excitement and her trembling hands, Ning Cheng spoke a few simple words. āSenior Apprentice Sister Mu Wei, there are at least a few hundred space crystals here. Letās do it like this; whoever gets it can keep it. We donāt have to split it equally.ā
āOkay, thatās what I wanted to say anyway.ā Mu Wei finished speaking and rushed towards one of the spacial fluctuations in a flash.
Since Mu Wei took the lead, Ning Cheng naturally wouldnāt fall behind. He activated the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds, giving him a speed much faster than Mu Wei.
Mu Wei quickly discovered that her speed wasnāt even one-third that of Ning Cheng. However, she didnāt feel disappointed. Rather, she felt delighted with collecting so many space crystals in this place.
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