Chapter 20: Cave dwelling of an an expert
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Lin Manman had seen very many documentauries of tomb raiders. He thus approached it with apprehension. The novels also indicated that some old individuals that set up very complicated formations usually have an idea to sieze the body of talented individuals.
He made himself move in a manner that indicated apprehension.
Based on his understanding of the situation, he is unprepaired and thus kept forging forward.
The moment he encountered the trouble with the formation, he made up his mind to keep walking backwards facing the formation.
His legs kept at it and discovered it worked.
The distance kept narrowing and then he realized the place had weird mechanisms and if he kept moving forward he might have been thrown out of the formation.
The situation just made him more intrigued by since he has less time he approached the cave entrance in his backward motion.
He belived either his vision was flowed or the place had been tampered with and yet he couldn't find the formation.
He suddenly felt things in place was really dangerous.
He tried. To retreat but realized he had been blocked from the retreat.
Cold sweat sydbeky dropped from his forehead, he was very anxious right now.
He even tried to comfort himself that the owner of the formation might just be an essentric existence.
From the moment he entred this world he had yet to feel such a sense of panic.
He also understood that he had not taken anything seriously at all.
He has been viewing life in the place as some kind of game.
The benefit of it being he could avoid getting involved and thus having little conflicts.
The downside however was they he was not in his previous life.
If he wanted to avoid conflict it could at most be viewed as a dream.
The moment he though about it, he had suddenly managed to improve his mentality.
He also could see somethings more clearly.
In order to improve his strength he had to be proactive otherwise he might not be capable of leaving thia world anytine soon.
He also managed to think of his actions as naive, since he had no clear understanding of the people in this world.
He had to be very informed in a lot of issues and staying confined in a sect was the least beneficial to him.
He had been a scietntist so it is understandable to have some thighs but they might not have much impact on his goals.
To achieve goals, certain routes must be taken and the current him had cleverly failed in this regard.
He grit his teeth and continued forward towards the cave.
The pressure that the cave started. To put on him changed from a formation to something he could hardly explain.
His dormain he had. Been proud of become completely useless.
He felt suppressed especially on the soul level by some force but kept pasisting.
In another several hours he had managed to reach the mouth of the cave.
After hesitating for some moment he went it.
The pressure immediately dispeared and replaced by a cold ice world.
He looked back and the cave entrance was nowhere.
He tried other means but it seemed not an illusion.
He had already dtioes attempt to open his domain in this place since it made the pressure the place exerted on him double.
Being an intelligent person he oxykd immediately guess that the persoj responsible was strong and could not be decieved.
The place might be a trial site of some sort and thus only real abilities can be used, using domain might sound like own ability but it was shameless.
Domain is a high level skill and it is obtained once cultivation reaches a certain point.
The test seems to test more than just physique.
The willpower and mentality of the participants is also put in consideration.
He also started to look around only to find the region was covered in ice.
The temperature was so low that even someone like him could hardly stop himself from shaking.
Moving around the place he felt some bitterness in his heart.
"Why would this tests be so cruel? Even the opportunity to give up has been cut off. Sure enough the strong are very ruthless."
He also had an idea forming in his mind, if he could not persevere to the end, he might end up dying in this place.
Or to be more blunt, if he did not manage to gain the inheritance in this place he might end up being killed.
It seemed like the oalcr had a self cleaning mechanism that viewed those who failed to gain inheritance as pests that should be dealt with.
Death was very much the only way to assure the owner lf this pace that one might not leak the information about this place.
The other way was to manage to obain the inheritance and once bound by a Dao oath they might become very honest.
Besised revealing the information about this place after getting inheritance is paramount to committing suicide.
Everyone wants to have access to some high level techniques, treasures and practice methods.
"Only a fool can go around claiming they have a treasure in their possession when they are weak infront of robbers." he was very much aware of cultivation world reality.
In the previous life people would show off their wealth and even become celebrities for it.
In the cultivation world riches are for the strong no one cares about the issues of justice.
The strong set the rules, so he prefers to avoid showing off talent or he might not even have the chance to cultivate to a high realm before being stealth with.
The individuals that entred the hidden realm might not be a threat for him but it is not the case of they have some treatises form the sect leaders.
The attacks from powerful can also be stored in the body of their disciples or descendants.
The most logical thing is to avoid having to deal with them.
If possible solve the problem completely to tge roots, and currently he was trying to get benefits so he prefer to avoid being noticed.
If he could get out of the place with a proper technique that meets his requirements then it could help push him another step further.
He also had to figure out some important things such as dimensional travel but his realm is very low.
He could only make guesses about some of the things he had discovered here today.
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