Time and Space Divine Tower, a World Within

Afterward, the enthusiastic Hall Master Mo even offered to help Jing Chen obtain his first soul ring, hoping to use it to build a closer relationship.

Jing Chen politely declined again, saying that he had a distant cousin who would take him to obtain it.

He had deliberately added "distant," making it more reasonable for him to have come alone to awaken his martial soul.

A few minutes later, Jing Chen left the Awakening Hall and headed toward the city gates.

After walking more than two hundred meters, a little black tiger darted out of an alley, naturally landing atop Jing Chen's head and letting out two little cries.

Jing Chen smiled gently and raised a hand to pat the somewhat complaining Yi Yi. "Bear with it for now. I'll get home and find you something to eat as soon as I can."

With that, he quickened his pace. Once outside the city, he broke into a run, moving much faster than he had on the way there.

After awakening his martial soul, he could clearly feel that his physical abilities had improved considerably—an all-around improvement.

Now, when he ran, his body felt light, and it was nearly half as effortless as before he had awakened his martial soul.

"Is this what it means to be a Soul Master?" Jing Chen was delighted by this entirely new sensation, feeling as though he had been reborn.

Whether on Earth or Blue Star, cultivation had been impossible. Thus, the experience of gaining extraordinary power was incredibly novel to him.

He was not as overjoyed as a child receiving a new toy, but a knowing smile still appeared on his face.

Despite having skipped lunch, he was full of energy. His joy had dulled his hunger as he jogged all the way home.

This time, his return from Ye City took nearly a third less time than before, yet he felt about as tired as usual.

"If I were full, I should be even faster," Jing Chen thought. After resting for over ten minutes, he began preparing dinner.

Dinner was still the Azure Nether Turtle meat he had hunted yesterday. The Azure Nether Turtle was enormous and had plenty of meat—enough to last them two or three days.

His and Yi Yi's three daily meals mainly consisted of soul beast meat, because it was easier to obtain than ordinary chicken, duck, or fish.

One trip to Ye City took enough time for them to make more than a dozen trips to Nine Spirit Forest. Going to the forest for food was more convenient and saved more time.

Of course, it was also riskier. However, for someone like Jing Chen, who had often hovered on the brink of death in his previous life, such risks could be ignored. He treated them as a form of tempering.

Another reason was that regularly eating soul beast meat was highly beneficial to them. Naturally, they should eat as much of it as they could.

He still prepared it simply by boiling it in water. After putting the meat into the pot, Jing Chen raised his left hand and, following the Soul Power techniques described in the book, attempted to summon his Second Martial Soul.

Among the rewards given by the Artifact Spirit was a book titled Method of Soul Master Cultivation, which explained in detail how to use Soul Power.

Jing Chen had read that book repeatedly and memorized its contents. Now, he began putting theory into practice.

As Soul Power flowed into his left hand, black light gathered over his palm. Jing Chen watched the mass of black light expectantly without blinking.

Very soon, the black light condensed into a tiny nine-story tower. Its body was pitch-black, while misty white vapor coiled around its surface, making it appear exceptionally extraordinary.

"Time and Space Divine Tower," Jing Chen murmured. This was the name fed back to him by his martial soul. This martial soul was called the Time and Space Divine Tower.

Its attributes were time and space. In terms of attribute rank, they should count as the world's ultimate attributes. However, these two attributes seemingly had no limit, so it could not be considered an Extreme Martial Soul.

After this martial soul appeared, Jing Chen could clearly sense an affinity from the surrounding space. He could also sense time passing.

Because of the Time and Space Divine Tower, he now had a vague perception of the elusive attributes of space and time.

"It seems I can enter it..." Jing Chen could sense that the Time and Space Divine Tower held hidden mysteries, and that he seemed capable of entering it.

Jing Chen began trying to enter the world within the tower. After several failures, he finally figured out the trick and successfully entered.

His vision went dark, then bright. It was like blinking once, and Jing Chen found that the space around him had undergone an earth-shaking transformation.

He had arrived in an entirely new space. The lighting was dim, yet he could clearly see everything around him.

Since the tower itself was round, the floor of the space inside was round as well. It was not very large, with a radius of only around a hundred meters.

The space above narrowed inward, becoming tighter the higher it went, until the sealed top of the tower stood several hundred meters overhead.

"Is this a space similar to a small world?" Jing Chen murmured. After his brief surprise, he quickly calmed down and began exploring.

He walked to the edge and touched the wall of the tower. The texture was strange—neither metal nor stone—and he had no idea what material it was made from.

"Yi yi. (Time passes very quickly in here)," Yi Yi reminded him from atop Jing Chen's head.

It did not panic upon entering this strange space. It remained as calm as ever, lazily lying there as usual.

Only after Yi Yi's reminder did Jing Chen understand the sensation he had felt but could not quite put into words.

"Time really does pass faster here." After carefully sensing it, Jing Chen found that it was indeed as Yi Yi had said.

This conclusion surprised him, but as he considered its benefits, he could not help feeling delighted.

If time passed faster here, then twenty-four hours inside might mean only twenty hours—or even less—had passed outside.

For someone who had only twenty years, such a time difference was simply too precious.

After a brief burst of joy, Jing Chen quickly calmed himself and began carefully studying the flow of time within.

He needed a concrete understanding. He needed to know the ratio of this time difference.

Over the next ten-odd minutes, Jing Chen traveled back and forth between the space inside the tower and the outside world, performing the same task to determine the difference in time.

After repeated experiments, he reached an approximate conclusion: twenty-four hours inside were roughly equivalent to sixteen hours outside.

The difference was nearly one-third. This ratio delighted him. In the future, he could cultivate, research, and make Soul Tools inside.

However, Jing Chen had not been happy for long before discovering a rather crucial problem: there was no World's Origin Energy inside the Time and Space Divine Tower.

Without World's Origin Energy, he naturally could not absorb energy to cultivate inside. His plan to cultivate there had fallen through.

"Wait, there may be no World's Origin Energy inside, but what if I store World's Origin Energy in a Milk Bottle and bring it in to absorb for cultivation?"

"Or I could cultivate using heavenly treasures containing immense energy. That could also achieve twice the result in half the time."

Jing Chen pondered seriously, not giving up on the idea of cultivating within the Time and Space Divine Tower.

In his view, both methods were highly feasible, especially the former, which would be relatively easy to accomplish.

As for cultivating through heavenly treasures, that would probably be difficult to achieve in the short term, since such things were hard to find.

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