If any warrior who cultivated metal-element techniques or secret arts were to arrive here, they would likely go into raptures over this kind of environment! Cultivating in a place like this would absolutely multiply one's efficiency tenfold or even a hundredfold over.
"So this is the fourth floor's shattered space?" Yang Kai mused thoughtfully. "It really is a bit twisted."
Lan Xun had mentioned before that because the spaces inside the Five-Colored Pagoda were all fractured and incomplete, the Heavenly Laws had been shattered right along with them. In some spaces, those Laws had grown extremely distorted over the long ages, resulting in one or several Laws becoming overwhelmingly dominant while others grew weak or even entirely absent.
The current shattered space was exactly like that — the Metal Law had practically conquered everything, leaving absolutely no room for any other Laws. The degree of distortion was truly extreme.
He had specifically locked onto a portal radiating golden light and entered through it, which meant the color of those cloud mists should correspond to the state of the Laws within each shattered space.
And those clusters of cloud mist were the portals into each individual shattered space! By passing through mists of different colors, one could enter different shattered realms.
But why was it like this?
Yang Kai was certain that other Star God Palace disciples had never encountered this — if they had, Lan Xun would have mentioned it. Since she hadn't, Yang Kai's experience was entirely unique.
That was good news, because stationed in that buffer zone, Yang Kai had the freedom of choice — he could select which shattered space to enter. The only caveat was that he had to be able to return to the buffer zone first.
With this thought in mind, Yang Kai set to work immediately.
His Space Laws surged as he reached out and tore at the void before him.
The process was surprisingly smooth, encountering virtually no resistance. A moment's thought made the reason clear — this world was fundamentally broken and incomplete, its Laws far from whole. How much interference could they really pose to him?
A spatial rift opened, and Yang Kai's figure flickered as he slipped through it.
Sure enough, when he reappeared, he had returned to the buffer zone. Just like the last time, an inexplicable force pushed at him. Instinctively channeling his Space Laws, Yang Kai immediately stabilized himself within the wondrous buffer zone. All around him floated clusters of cloud mist.
"Ha, so that's how it is!" Yang Kai laughed aloud.
The first time he had stumbled into this buffer zone, he hadn't known what to make of it. Now, having deliberately tested it a second time, he had finally figured out the trick.
It all came down to Space Laws!
According to what Lan Xun had said, when Emperor Realm warriors passed through the pagoda's main gate, they would automatically be deposited by the Five-Colored Pagoda into a shattered space on the fourth floor — a process that inevitably involved spatial laws.
But Yang Kai was himself a master of Space Laws. When those laws had fluctuated, he had deflected the pulling force, which meant the Five-Colored Pagoda had no way to deposit him into any shattered space at all. It could only leave him here in the buffer zone.
"Now I can play however I want!" Once he understood the whole picture, Yang Kai broke into a broad grin.
Other people entering the Five-Colored Pagoda had to rely on pure luck. If they accidentally stumbled into a dead zone, they could only blame themselves for not checking the almanac before heading out. But for Yang Kai, the possibilities for manipulation were vastly greater.
With his thoughts clarified, Yang Kai immediately began searching the area.
The clusters of cloud mist that were pitch-black and steeped in death energy could be safely ignored — entering those would certainly lead to dead zones where even the Laws of Heaven and Earth were nearly nonexistent.
What he wanted were the clouds with bright, vivid colors, because the color of the mist was directly correlated with the quality of the hidden shattered space. The brighter the color, the superior the space, and the more useful it would be to him.
It wasn't long before Yang Kai spotted a cluster of brilliantly multicolored cloud mist and charged straight into it.
Sure enough, this time the shattered world he entered still had incomplete Laws, but they weren't distorted. Surprisingly, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was also remarkably dense — no less than what one would find at a first-rate Sect in the Southern Region.
However, when Yang Kai extended his divine sense outward, he couldn't help but feel a bit taken aback.
"It's this small…?"
He discovered that this shattered space was extraordinarily tiny, covering perhaps only a few dozen acres at most. Its edges were nothing but void and primordial chaos, giving off an extremely unsettling sensation.
Such a small space — it was about the size of Thousand Leaves Sect's Emperor Heaven Valley. There was some vegetation, but not a single living creature. When Yang Kai swept his divine sense across it, everything in this little world was laid bare before him.
Small was small, but it was better than nothing. Yang Kai was very curious to see what kind of changes absorbing and refining the Laws of this shattered world would bring to the Myriad Worlds Bead.
Consider it an experiment.
With this thought, Yang Kai immediately brought out the Myriad Worlds Bead, sat cross-legged, pressed his palms together, and placed the bead between them.
With a shift of his will, the boundary of the Myriad Worlds Bead opened. Yang Kai immersed his consciousness within it, silently circulating his cultivation technique while using his mind to command the Myriad Worlds Bead to devour the spiritual energy and broken Laws of this entire realm.
In an instant, winds rose and clouds churned as spiritual energy from every direction was continuously swallowed into the Myriad Worlds Bead, like ten thousand rivers flowing into the sea.
At the same time, strands of Laws — profound to the extreme, almost impossible to grasp — flowed through the boundary opening and into the Myriad Worlds Bead, filling the heavens and earth of the small inner world within.