Chapter 437 (1/2)

”It's not as big on the outside as it is on the inside, a strange sight to behold…”

While floating through the wide corridor Zhang Dong spotted more windows into the trial grounds. They were spaced out by somewhat a large distance but this distance seemed to expand by at least ten times when he peeked to the inside.

This was the first time that he saw this kind of spatial formation that was divided. While he traveled a hundred meters in the corridor it was as if he went through a whole kilometer on the inside.

He continued to look but there were no of those monsters to be seen. The inside was in some kind of stasis that would probably only be removed when a group of cultivators came to challenge the test.

Then finally after going in one direction he came before a door. It was not closed to him and he didn't need to use Bob to hack it either. After entering through it he found himself in another area with more windows. There he could spot areas that he had already visited, ones that he faced of the seven deadly sins-themed bosses.

Like the other areas, there was nothing in the rooms and the signs of combat were gone. He tried to recall those days, some of them were spent battling the monsters. He could clearly remember damaging the surroundings in some of the fights but it seemed that this place could somehow repair itself.

”Is someone living here that repaired it? or is there some kind of formation that can put it back into place?”

Even if there were some type of beings doing the repairs he expected them to be more like the monsters. The easiest way would be to create some automatons that performed restorative efforts after a test was done. From what he knew, the tests couldn't be carried out constantly. This place clearly needed time to repair itself for the next batch of combatants.

”Should I try breaking through it…”

After tapping on the glass a couple of times he realized that it was also made from some strange material. It was not as hard as the walls though and would probably be unable to resist his punches. The trials didn't allow nascent soul masters in them so these windows might not have been made resistant enough.

Thus he arrived at a flight of winding stairs that brought him up, there he also discovered the library from where he borrowed most of his current knowledge. All the books were still there and if other cultivators were here they would probably already be busting through the windows to get to those old scriptures.

But this didn't seem to be the end so he continued to go up. The whole place was giving him a strange feeling. He clearly wasn't able to see these glass windows when he was on the other side but from here he could peek inside of the testing ground with ease.

It was as if someone or something was watching them battle for their lives for their amusement. But perhaps this was something of an age long past, this whole place looked deserted. There was no sign of anything living going through these corridors, the whole place was probably just operating on some old directive.

”That's quite a drop…”

He continued to go up the stairs for some time but they didn't seem to end. It was clear that he had entered through another spatial formation that extended this tower of stairs even further. But without any directions, he could only continue and finally after about an hour of traveling he arrived at the end.

”Only the worthy may pass?”

There were actual words written above this chamber, their meaning didn't really matter but there was something peculiar about it. The words were not in mandarin, no they were in English.

After coming to this world he had seen some strange mix of cultures that didn't fit the theme of this world. He realized that this was probably due to many other system users shaping their cities to fit their more modern style. Seeing English words was not out of the ordinary but it also made it obvious that they were meant for people like him.

Thus he took a step forward and placed his hand on the large door ring. The moment he did, he could feel an outward force scanning his body. Before he knew it, there was a click, and as he started pulling the door quickly creaked open.

”This room… Is that a beanbag chair?... This…”

The room wasn't that large but it reminded him of his old apartment. There was a gaming chair right next to a desk with three large curved monitors. Nothing was turned on but the PC that the monitors were connected to would probably have some nice RGB coloring.

This room reminded him of the secret one that he made at his own sect. It seemed that whoever lived here had a similar longing for their old life as a gamer. To the side, he could also spot a large bed and a projector next to it probably used to watch movies or perhaps spy on the people performing the tests.

”I guess this is the place where the system user hung out?”

The chamber wasn't too big and there were some windows there. When peeking out of them he had a clear view at the last area where his old Zhang Clan did their tower defense session. But after going around a couple of times he couldn't really find anything, it seemed that he would need to turn that computer on to see if it worked.