Strange Magic Cube Area

The two Alien Friends both looked a little stunned.

Bai Xiaowen had beaten them to the punch by offering to sell components of the Frozen Ancient God Seal. How were they supposed to respond to that?

After all, they had just bragged about how amazing the Frozen Ancient God Seal was. They could not immediately slap themselves in the face.

The problem was, we praised the Frozen Ancient God Seal to pique your interest in buying it and sell it for a good price!

Chadu realized that Bai Xiaowen was no sucker, so he gave up on trying to take advantage of him and made an excuse. "Forget it. We've only just arrived at the Prophecy Temple and haven't explored the Magic Cube Area inside yet... We don't have any Divine Artifact Fragments on hand, so we can only regretfully miss this opportunity."

Gu Li cleverly added, "Hold on to that Frozen Ancient God Seal. If we get any spare Divine Artifact Fragments in the future, we'll definitely come find you to trade!"

"Don't wait until later," Bai Xiaowen said with a smile. "If you don't have Divine Artifact Fragments, Divinity Cores will do. If you don't have Divinity Cores, Spirit Crystals are fine too. Since you like the Frozen Ancient God Seal so much, I'm willing to lower my requirements and help you get what you want."

"..."

The two Alien Friends fled in disgrace.

Bai Xiaowen smiled as he watched their backs disappear beyond the Temple Gate.

"Those two definitely have other Poseidon's Staff Fragments! Maybe more than one."

From the conversation he had just overheard, the mention of Poseidon's Staff alone gave Bai Xiaowen an eighty to ninety percent certainty that they had also collected Poseidon's Staff Fragments on Profound Ice Star.

Taking it a step further, they had probably collected at least two fragments, perhaps even more. Otherwise, the two would not have cared so much about Poseidon's Staff. After all, they had a chance to assemble a complete Artifact.

In the Land of Origin, every complete Artifact assembled meant a tremendous increase in personal combat strength.

Just look at Bai Xiaowen. How much had his strength improved after obtaining the Artifact known as the Silver Throne?

Xia Feng's Symbiotic Seed was also a rare defensive Artifact. It greatly increased his margin for error and dramatically improved his ability to survive.

It was worth mentioning that in the Artifact Encyclopedia transmitted to him by the Antahe Caretaker, Bai Xiaowen had also seen information on the Silver Throne, the Symbiotic Seed, and Blessing of the Eternal Heaven.

The Silver Throne was a mid-rank Divine Artifact, created by the Demon God Baal.

The Symbiotic Seed was likewise a mid-rank Divine Artifact, made by the Earth Goddess.

Finally, Blessing of the Eternal Heaven was a high-rank Divine Artifact, its creator unknown—but Bai Xiaowen knew that its creator was most likely Eternal Heaven. As for which Deity "Eternal Heaven" was an alias for, and whether it was one of the Five Great Ones, that was impossible to guess.

Bai Xiaowen put that question aside and stepped through the main entrance of the Prophecy Temple.

It was as though he had passed through an invisible membrane. The scenery ahead gradually became real amid a blur.

"Hiss... this feeling is..."

Before Bai Xiaowen stretched an empty Hilly Area.

After entering an unfamiliar space, Evolutionists perceived the new terrain through Spirit Sense Detection, or mental-power detection. Compared with visual range, Spirit Sense had a larger detection radius and no blind spots.

Eyes could sometimes deceive people, but Spirit Sense would not—or rather, the chances of Spirit Sense being deceived were very low.

Bai Xiaowen's Spirit Sense Detection range was broader than that of ordinary Evolutionists. He could sense that this was a square three-dimensional space.

Behind him, he could still see the main entrance of the Prophecy Temple. However, the Square outside the gate, as well as Jin Gong and the others standing on it, could no longer be seen.

It was as though a single gate had separated two worlds.

The sky had a height, and the earth had a width.

According to Bai Xiaowen's Spirit Sense Detection, the side length of this three-dimensional space—the height of the sky and the length and width of the ground—was around ten kilometers.

It was like one cell of a Magic Cube.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Xiaowen summoned an Undead Bone Archer and planted it underground.

Then Bai Xiaowen began flying at low altitude toward the other side of the cell.

He covered the ten-kilometer distance in less than a minute.

"This should be the boundary between two cells of the Magic Cube." Bai Xiaowen looked ahead thoughtfully.

Though they were only inches apart, the scenery ahead was completely different from that behind Bai Xiaowen.

Behind Bai Xiaowen lay open Hills, brightly lit like morning.

Before Bai Xiaowen stood black, spiked mountains, dimly lit like night.

A strange feeling rose in Bai Xiaowen's heart. Visually, the scenery of the two places was completely separated, as though they were two worlds. Yet under the perception of his Spirit Sense, he could not detect any dividing line or membrane. With a single step, he could cross from these Morning Hills into the black mountains opposite.

The Sound of Wind came from behind him. Bai Xiaowen's Spirit Sense had already detected its source: another Explorer, likely another alien Demi-human Race. It possessed a basically humanoid skeletal frame, but its arms extended forward and were extraordinarily thick, making it more like a gorilla.

Whoosh. That gorilla-like Explorer flew directly into the black spiked mountains ahead without the slightest hesitation.

Seeing this, Bai Xiaowen was surprised.

For it to venture deep into the Magic Cube Area without hesitation, its objective must be very clear. At the very least, that gorilla man must have a way to record its route and ensure it does not get lost.

Even though he had never explored the Magic Cube Area of the Prophecy Temple, Bai Xiaowen knew that the greatest danger in exploring it was losing one's sense of direction.

After all, this was the interior of a temple the size of a planet. The Magic Cube Area was clearly unimaginably vast.

Based on the Magic Cube cells currently detected, each with a side length of roughly ten kilometers, the Magic Cube Area probably contained more than a hundred million such cells.

The Magic Cube was also constantly rotating and undergoing Transformation.

Once someone entered, the route back would certainly change drastically. How could they ensure they found the Temple Gate and returned to the Square?

Of course, Bai Xiaowen did not have to worry about getting lost.

The Temple Gate corresponded to this Hilly Grid, and Bai Xiaowen had already buried a Summoned Creature carrying his Spirit Power Imprint.

Combined with his connection to the Summoned Creature, no matter how deeply Bai Xiaowen ventured into the Magic Cube Area, he would ultimately be able to return to this Hilly Grid. The reason he waited quietly was to learn a little about the patterns behind the Magic Cube Area's changes.

He waited for about two hours.

The adjacent Magic Cube cell in front of Bai Xiaowen switched a total of six times. The areas that appeared were, respectively, Desert, Cliff, Grassland, Sand Hills, Plateau, and Flooded River.

"Looks like the adjacent cell switches once every twenty minutes."

Bai Xiaowen thoughtfully watched the Flooded River before him. Although it was adjacent to the Hills and its riverbed was higher than this area, the river water showed no sign of flowing over, as though an invisible membrane were blocking it.

In addition, Bai Xiaowen used an Undead Bone Archer to test what would happen if someone stood in the middle of the boundary line when the cells switched.

The answer was that it would split apart, but it would not die.

That Undead Bone Archer silently split down the middle. Half remained in the original cell, while the other half entered the neighboring cell with the switch and vanished without a trace.

Yet strangely, the Undead Bone Archer was still "alive." Its Health Value had not been affected at all; it had merely lost the ability to act.

If he had to make an analogy, it was like the power of the Surgery Fruit in the world of One Piece, chopping a person into eight pieces without harming their life.