27 End of the trials

He sat down and started to review his gains from this trial, and came to a realization that what he needed the most was some pressure to accomplish his goals, but in the end, he did not dare to go to the highest peak to try since his intuition warned him.

For someone that has lived and experienced more disasters that threatened his life, his body has developed some way of warning him from some impending trouble. In the moment he had arrived at the peak of the island, he wanted to see if he could use the pressure up there since he could feel it even surpassed the gravity he used in the past, but the warning was so intense than when he wanted to breakthrough the sixth level of longevity art on Earth.

Talking about Earth, he did not abandon the martial arts he came with and managed to raise them all to the peak of rank four. In this moment, he had already come up with a plan if he successfully left this place, his goal is to look for somewhere to spend his time practicing and fusing martial arts artistic conceptions. Perhaps the power that can be leveraged from it would also increase to a very high level, and after leaving he wanted to see whether his understanding of science had any use in this place.

He wanted to come up with some trick to generate gravity, but part of him had this feeling that in this crazy world perhaps it was not difficult to find a place with high pressure just like that at the highest peak on the island.

For any other thoughts such as joining some organization, he knew it was most likely a dream, after all his level compared to those that had entered this place was not the same. He had to use a lot of time and go through all the stone steles in this mountain and compared to them, it seemed that they were worth nothing.

"It seems in this place, background is important. Even though it can be beneficial to live longer, trouble can always come knocking." He sighed but did not delve on it. Some things cannot be forced, and he learned this in his 'long' life. Well to him, perhaps it is long, but to someone like Luo Mei, that has lived several billion years it is worth nothing.

For his martial arts path, he already knew that it was not something that could be rushed, just to compete with some strangers he probably was not going to see again. In this moment, he was indeed excited deep inside, as he had gained the opportunity to arrive in such a place.

His goal of entering deep space had been achieved, even though he knew this was probably very further from Earth. His memory was not all useless as he remembered that huge black portal with deep blue chill on all sides widening and the floating continent being dragged in.

He also thought, he saw some creatures moving in there, but assumed it was his dying moment and hallucinations kicked in, but at the moment, he was certain it was not some hallucinations. His excitement was hidden deep inside.

Coming back to his martial arts, apparently different names were used on referring to the system but the first stages could be almost be applied by everyone, and going further depended on the system that one used. It was referred to as the base technique, and Musk already had a simplified version, even though it could be viewed as useless, he planned to keep practicing it.

In this Realm, breakthroughs did not necessarily yield more lifespan, especially in the lower stages, but when in upper stages, then it became an exaggeration. Unlike his ten times lifespan improvement, there were situations where it skipped all the way to almost equaling heaven and earth, but this was only achieved by Realm lords.

In his current stage, he had to worry about things like will, so it would be stupid to bring up issues that concern realm lords.

In the same way, perhaps he did not seem to care about the inheritances at the top of the island since they had no help for the current him.

Ooh there was an important issue that had yet to be mentioned, in this region, existence of worlds was somehow different, even the cultivations systems modeled after it. No planets existed in this place, rather planes and thus when the planes where put together, they formed a Realm.

Different planes were viewed as worlds and they were endless, with each faction seemingly having some influence in some. Even disciples could be taken from those planes as long as they were talented enough.

While lost in his thoughts, the entire island shook, and this woke him up, only to see purple gas, gathering before entering the huge stone stele the red-haired woman had entered. The figures crafted on the stele seemed to move around i.

But before long, the others also followed in less than an hour, totaling up to seven phenomenon's taking place. On the outside it was not calm, as everyone knew what this meant, even the calm Luo Mei could not help but contact her senior brother.

"Senior brother! Are the ancestors wrong or something?" She sent a secret transmission. To her surprise, she was told to keep to the plan.

Those that were in charge of this event, excitement could be seen on their faces, this island was actually some reflection of the real thing, and only the strong knew that. Those that had managed to induce the phenomenon, could be allowed the chance to participate in the trials at the region the actual island was located.

When Musk was still looking in the direction of the phenomenon, he realized that someone was shouting towards him. Turning his head, he found it to be the guy from before and when he wanted to respond, the island started to fade. Yes, it was like the way a painting would be erased, and when it was all gone, everyone found themselves sitting in different positions, on the outside. To Musk's surprise, his age had not changed based on the time spend on the island.

He had only spent a few hundred years, and when he was still in shock, he heard a voice coming from above him.

"Ooh! So, you have realized." Turning his head upwards, he saw some woman descending, and a floral fragrance spread out.

"This is just a projection. If you were to enter the real treasure then regardless of how much time you spend in there, you will retain the same age you were at entry." She spoke as runes seemed to stem from the bottom of her bare feet.