Chapter 43: Mysterious City?
A golden silhouette spanned through a few hundred meters of space.
“Right, it should be a city wall. Still, they must be rich to use high-grade material to build this city wall. Even I don’t have any knowledge of this metal.” Shen vigilantly headed toward the city wall. It was already a few hours he noticed this ‘wall’ but couldn’t reach it yet.
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Standing roughly a hundred meters away from this wall, Shen cussed as he failed to comprehend what he was seeing. City Wall? It was nothing such as an insignificant city wall. It was a palace. No, even calling it a palace might be wrong for it was much larger than any palace he had seen in his two lives.
Even comparing its size to some biggest cities he had seen so far won’t be exaggerated. And how big the cities of this world were?
He didn’t know what he was feeling right now. One cannot think to understand his feeling right now. Think of ordering a over-sized hamburger that even three person can’t finish. Only to see that was just over-sized hamburger two, there’s still another bigger version after that. Maybe now some can possibly hope to understand Shen’s inner turmoil.
This also made Shen remember about a certain commonly used phrase: There’s sky above sky and heaven above heaven.
Till now his knowledge was limited within his previous world, Earth. And now, Kyushu. He had no idea how the Ancient world of Kyushu was. But staring at the work of ancient times, a new feeling took inside his heart.
'Was this world rich during the ancient times? Were there more exotic species? Or maybe there were exquisite cultivation techniques? There was definitely more species than now... The Heavenly Treasure Race, Heavenly Creator Race, Heavenly Cultivators, Frosty Dragon Lineage, Forest Beauty Tribe. These all tribes were destroyed because of Human greed. How will the future look like? How will this world change? Will more races disappear in time? Will this world able to return to their former glory? I wish to see how the world changes. Which path this world will take...' Many thoughts passed Shen’s head. At the same time giving him a different wish, maybe a motive. Or maybe something that will take a major step toward his future?
A scene crept inside his head. It was obscure and hazy. As if a layer by a thick mist obstructed his vision. Chaos, pink & golden these three-colors covered his vision, as he forced through the mist a sharp pain brought him back to reality.
‘What was that?’ Shen grabbed his head in pain. He felt it was something important but every time he wishes to tear the misty haze and look past the scene, sharp pain in his soul obstructed him. As he was about to try again, the image disappeared.
He felt it was something important but even if he doesn’t know it, he will eventually find it out one day. As he came to this conclusion, he sighed. His gaze focused on the Palace. It was golden in color with the height of a few hundred meters. There was some over-sized dome which was only visible from a certain distance.
The exterior was designed with extreme diligence. It was elegant and graceful like a mature beauty. "Whoever made this design must have a profound taste!" Shen couldn't help but exclaim loudly.
Even though this palace was extremely big, there was no hint of lack within this work. The labor required for building this palace must have been exceptionally large.
After doodling around the palace for a few minutes, Shen finally stood in front of the palace. He couldn’t find any hint of living beings let alone humans. It’s not like he can find the way to leave this place by wasting time and he got the feeling the way to outside existed inside this palace.
“Ahh, whatever happens, will happen!”
Although he knew the extraordinary size of the palace, the gate still overwhelmed him. The height of the gate was 50 meters while the Length was around 20 meters. Can I even push open this gate? Even with the strength of the third layer of the Absolute Strengthening Technique, he didn’t have the confidence.
He placed his palms on the door intending to push it open but just when his fingers touched the door, the door started vibrating before separating itself. Unlike how Shen expected, the door didn’t go inward but rather came outward.
“Holy S@#(&%@)!i2@(&t...” Seeing the width of the gate Shen couldn’t help but spat out some incomprehensible words.
He felt pity for his poor heart. At this rate, he might lose his life with no outside harms but just views alone. It's because he saw the width of the gate, it was freaking four meters. Even if there was ten of him, he won’t be able to move it even an inch. And now, it opened by itself.
His gaze fell into the interior only to be disappointed. Everything beyond the gate line was black as if a space membrane separated it from the outside world. Even his all-powerful Absolute Vision that ignored every boundary became useless after entering this secret realm.
Was all the secret realm like this? Then again how many secret realms were there in this world? In the novel, he didn’t remember Qing Shui finding any secret realms.
“No use thinking something that I have no idea of. I better take care of the problem I have in front of me.” Shen determinedly walked inside the black void.