novelraw Chapter 215 Deep Within the Cloud Palace, a Treasure Trove
Chapter 215 Deep Within the Cloud Palace, a Treasure Trove
Chapter 215 Deep Within the Cloud Palace, a Treasure Trove
"By the way, it's been two years, hasn't it?"
"That prince from the Virtual Universe Company has been in the 'Cloud Palace' for two whole years. Generally, those who go in to adventure only stay for a maximum of one year. Do you think that's possible?"
"Hehe, this one comes from a primeval secret realm, so it's not that easy for him to get into trouble."
On the Yungong-8 satellite, Fiske was chatting with another guide.
And deep within the Cloud Palace, unknown to them—
Underground, in a passage about 70 meters in diameter, a figure in white is flying rapidly.
"Thanks to the memory of that white cloud, otherwise I would not have known that there was such an underground passage leading directly to the depths of the Cloud Palace."
Ye Yang was flying at high speed, and soon the tens of thousands of kilometers of the passage came to an end.
"The exit at this end has collapsed and is blocked, but it should be able to be cleared in a while."
He began clearing the exit.
Because humans are relatively small, they can easily pass through a gap of one or two meters.
Ye Yang quickly arrived on the ground, and this place was already deep within the Cloud Palace!
"The entire Yungong city has a diameter of approximately 80 kilometers."
"My psychic power merges with the divine consciousness of the main world, making my detection capabilities even stronger. I also possess a 'resonance spacetime' that is minimally affected by environmental suppression, in addition to the ability to create clones."
"Whether for detection or survival, it is already very powerful, but even so, normal exploration methods can only reach a maximum depth of 67 kilometers."
"The deeper we go into the Cloud Palace, the more wandering clouds there are, and the more white crystal monsters there are. One wrong move and you'll die."
"But through this underground passage, I went directly tens of thousands of kilometers deeper, far exceeding previous exploration records! I arrived directly at the core area of the Cloud Palace."
Ye Yang excitedly peeked out and could see that he was inside a building.
The building was completely undamaged, so the "bacon" on top remained sealed.
Fortunately, Ye Yang wasn't completely clueless during his two years at the Cloud Palace. He had a basic understanding of the structure of this building. The "smoked meat" was actually the "gate," the entrance and exit through which those "clouds" entered the building in their previous lives!
As a life form whose essence is a wisp of smoke, it is reasonable to use smoked flesh as an entrance and exit.
Besides the main gate, there are also some smaller areas that are more suitable for creatures of human size to enter and exit, so there is no need to go through the trouble of prying open the alloy gate above.
"Huh? We're surrounded!" Ye Yang observed the clouds outside and found that there wasn't a single gap. His building was completely enveloped, and he couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.
Although these cloud formations are just corpses, they still possess extremely powerful destructive force.
Using his innate secret technique 'Resonance Spacetime' to sense the surrounding area, Ye Yang quickly learned about the distribution of cloud formations in a large area nearby.
"There are too many of them, and they are too dense! There are 291 cloud clusters in my senses alone, and the gaps between them are so thin that they are hard to pass through."
After making some repairs inside the building, Ye Yang took out a "cloud core".
Since discovering that he could use cloud cores to recreate the memories hidden within these clouds, his search for the Cloud Palace has become much more focused.
By examining the memories of a cloud from its past life, you can find where it stored its wealth and directly reap a large amount of treasures!
Those cloud clusters were all just realm lords in their previous lives, but each of them possessed wealth no less than that of an ordinary immortal in the human race, at least equivalent to 1 Chaos Yuan Units!
Over the past two years, Ye Yang has searched the memories of more than 30 clouds and found 17 treasures with a total value of over 200,000 Hunyuan.
Although it wasn't much, he still got two useful things: the key to the underground passage and a road plan of one-tenth of the city area of Cloud Palace.
Using the key to open the secret passage, Ye Yang arrived deep within the Cloud Palace.
He had already explored most of the road map, leaving only the central half of the area unexplored.
"Let me first see what kind of memories these wandering clouds around me retain?"
He manipulated his telekinetic weapon to continuously pierce through the clouds and smoke, intercepting some tiny cubic crystals.
Let the cloud core in your hand absorb it.
Suddenly, the cloud core trembled slightly, revealing the memories extracted from these cubic crystals.
Ye Yang observed that this race used lightning as a medium for communication, just as humans use sound to communicate.
Ye Yang called them the "White Cloud Clan".
Two years of collecting memory information allowed Ye Yang to understand that the White Cloud Clan was actually a special group of life forms born in the Divine Origin Secret Realm.
They are incapable of reproduction.
The first nine groups of Immortal-level White Cloud Clan members were conceived. Later, some of them grew into 'God Emperors', while others only grew into 'God Kings'.
Then 36 groups of White Cloud Clan members at the Realm Lord level were born. Except for a few who perished, they all became "gods," that is, immortals, and a few became God Kings.
Then, 72 domain lord-level White Cloud Clan members were born, and most of them grew into immortals.
The White Cloud Clan, which emerged later from the secret realm, was only at the cosmic level. Furthermore, they were born one after another over a very long period of time.
The final number is 10081 groups of cosmic-level White Cloud Clan.
Most of these cosmic-level White Cloud Clan members eventually became Realm Lords, just like the cloud corpses Ye Yang encountered on the outskirts.
Babata, who is already able to translate the Baiyun tribe's unique language, which is based on lightning, is currently translating it for Ye Yang:
"The evil, solid alien race has arrived! As a warrior, I must fight!"
"The children are behind me, I cannot back down—"
Memories flashed through the cloud core, and Ye Yang and Babata continued to analyze the useful information within.
"The White Cloud Clan is truly tenacious. After suffering heavy casualties from an invasion by a group of alien races, the Divine Origin Secret Realm was occupied by the human race, and they were eventually wiped out in a fierce street battle."
Ye Yang couldn't help but shake his head; this was the pitiful state of weak races.
Continue injecting tiny cubic crystals into the cloud core, allowing more memories to surface!
The cloud core shattered.
"Another one ruined." Ye Yang didn't care, took out a new cloud core, and continued to look at these scattered memories.
"Me, Yongquan?"
"Yes, child, this is the name everyone gave you—"
The memory that flashed through my mind was the scene when this member of the White Cloud Clan was just born.
Clusters of white clouds surrounded him, lightning flashed, and he exuded a feeling of affection.
The one who was responsible for nurturing him was another member of the White Cloud Clan named "Wen Feng".
Wenfeng nurtured him with lightning, allowing him to grow rapidly, and taught him various kinds of knowledge, such as how to draw energy from the planet's magnetic field, how to move quickly, and how to fight. The White Cloud Clan cannot reproduce, but according to human relationships, Wenfeng is Yongquan's foster mother.
"Wen Feng?" Ye Yang raised an eyebrow; he had heard of this Baiyun clan name before.
"Isn't this one of the immortal gods who perished in a tribal war, according to the memories of the White Cloud Clan?"
"This spring actually has an immortal deity as its foster mother. It seems that the fact that its body can appear in the central core area is also due to its identity."
Ye Yang could only continue to examine the displayed memories, but unfortunately, despite repeatedly using his telekinetic weapons to intercept the cloud components outside, he couldn't find any useful information.
All that is known is that the once immortal god "Wen Feng" nurtured dozens of Baiyun Clan members. There is a large mansion nearby where Wen Feng lived, and there are also a dozen or so weak universe-level Baiyun Clan members he nurtured.
However, after Wen Feng's fall, these dozen or so cosmic-level White Cloud Clan members lost their nurturers, and because of the great war in the outside world, they could not go to nearby planets to draw magnetic field energy on their own.
They can only rely on the support of the other Baiyun tribe members who have grown up and were once nurtured by Wenfeng.
Yongquan was one of them, and in the final battle, he was still thinking about his juniors, but it is unknown whether he ever found them.
However, none of this matters anymore. Countless eras have passed, and those who were meant to die are all gone. Only these memories remain on their corpses, recording everything from their past.
"We can only continue exploring through the gaps between the clouds." Having found no useful information, Ye Yang prepared to expand his search area.
However, because these clouds move from time to time, this behavior is extremely dangerous. The longer you stay in the gaps between the clouds, the closer the mortality rate gets to 100%!
Fortunately, Ye Yang has the ability to create clones, and his burst speed in a short period of time is also terrifying, so he is still able to handle things with relative ease.
"Wen Feng's residence? I wonder if there's anything good left?"
Ye Yang could pass through the gap without incident if he was lucky, but if he was unlucky and the cloud suddenly started to move, he could unleash his own fire domain.
Since the Great Dao has reached the 'Dao Domain' realm, the power of his Fire Domain has increased dramatically.
It has transcended the realm of ordinary domains, resembling a powerful secret technique based on the creation of a domain.
Therefore, Ye Yang, with his incredibly powerful domain and agility, was often able to escape danger quickly.
If you're really unlucky, you'll have to sacrifice this clone.
Following the gap forward, sensing that there was no gap ahead, they found the nearest building and crawled inside to take shelter.
Ye Yang began his exploration of the core area of the Cloud Palace.
Two more years have passed.
The exploration of the core area was not as smooth as expected, because Ye Yang discovered that every three months, countless White Cloud Clan beings would begin to move rapidly and release the lightning energy stored in their bodies.
The White Cloud Clan, as a special life form, is born to be favored by the fundamental laws of the universe's lightning source, and their bodies are also excellent containers for storing lightning energy.
Once the three-month mark is reached, the Baiyun clan members in the core area will collectively discharge electricity in large numbers.
I don't know why this phenomenon occurs; it's as if even the dead (dead clouds) need to have a dance party from time to time.
"It can be confirmed that this tidal-like collective discharge phenomenon propagates from a more central region. And the effect can only be transmitted without interruption at the cloud density of the core area."
"As the cloud clusters thinned out on the outskirts of the city, the collective discharge phenomenon ceased and could not spread further."
Ye Yang couldn't help but guess that this strange phenomenon might be related to the tall tower in the very center of the Cloud Palace.
Unfortunately, he was tens of thousands of kilometers away and couldn't get there at all.
More than two years have passed since Ye Yang began exploring the core area, but he has only explored the area within a radius of 1000 kilometers centered on the exit of the secret passage.
This area is actually not very large.
Even among the same World Lord-level White Cloud Clan, there are huge differences in size. The smallest World Lord-level White Cloud Clan cloud cluster is only about one kilometer in diameter, while the largest World Lord-level White Cloud Clan corpse Ye Yang has ever seen has a diameter of 400 kilometers!
This is already the same size as an adult Golden Horned Beast.
Of course, in terms of density, the cloud formations of the White Cloud Clan are much smaller.
The 1000-kilometer radius area that Ye Yang explored within two years only included a few dozen cloud clusters in the vicinity.
The center of the Cloud Palace is simply out of reach!
In the Cloud Palace, there are only dilapidated and desolate buildings and lifeless white clouds.
Knowing that these white clouds were once unique life forms, and are now all wandering corpses, made it even more eerie.
The Cloud Palace is sometimes eerily quiet, sometimes filled with constant thunder, and various powerful white crystal monsters appear from time to time.
If there were other humans, even enemies, they would bring a sense of life to this desperate situation.
Unfortunately, there was only Ye Yang.
Being alone, let alone for four years, even for a month, would be unbearable for most people, but Ye Yang was able to endure this loneliness.
A person gazes at this sea of clouds, lost in thought, their mind as still as water.
Previously, he had refined his inner demons in the dual world of immortals and demons, and experienced countless memories of the mortal world being washed away, all of which quickly settled down in the past four years.
Time can brew the finest wine, and after four years, Ye Yang has also re-examined his mental cultivation.
Some of the questions I once had have been answered; only the crucial finishing touch remains—perhaps just a trigger, a moment of inspiration.
His mindset allows him to truly enter the realm that best suits him.
Mindset is like the amplitude of willpower.
Hong's state of mind has just reached the realm of "infinite heart," and it is not yet perfect, yet it is enough to pass through the 20th island of the Illusionary Sea!
Is his willpower really that much stronger than Luo Feng's? They're both at the cosmic level, so how could the difference be so huge?
That's not the case; it's just that his mental amplification of his will was too exaggerated.
Although Ye Yang knew that Luo Feng's extreme mindset was more conducive to squeezing out the potential of the soul and breaking through the limits under great pressure, it was ultimately not the path that suited him.
Today, 928 kilometers from the exit of the secret passage, Ye Yang is hiding inside a building as usual, collecting the remaining memory information from the corpses of the White Cloud Clan around him.
"Yes, this White Cloud Clan member was called 'Fireline' in life. He frequently traveled and explored the Divine Origin Secret Realm, making him an adventurer among the White Cloud Clan."
"At that time, everything in the Divine Origin Secret Realm was still very primitive, with many dangerous areas and a large number of mysterious and strange places. This White Cloud Clan adventurer collected many extraordinary items he found in the secret realm."
"Let me see where his collection is—"
Ye Yang continued to use the cloud core to read the memories of this "frontline" member, when suddenly a scene flashed through the memory screen.
Babata's figure in the virtual space froze for a moment, then excitedly waved his little fist: "Wow! Ye Yang! Ye Yang! This is incredible! I think I just saw a 'Blue Aurora Prism'?"
"What is it?" Ye Yang asked in confusion. "Blue Aurora Prism, an excellent material for light-attribute weapons!" Babata exclaimed excitedly.
"As I told you before, after you advance to the Realm Lord level, you may need to forge your own unique weapon."
"Although this Blue Aurora Prism is a light-attribute material and not suitable for you, it is extremely expensive. The piece that flashed in the memory fragment just now, judging by its size, is worth at least 300 million Chaos Units!"
"You can use it to trade with others, or sell it directly to the Virtual Universe Company and then buy the materials you need. In short, this is a huge profit!"
Ye Yang waved his hands repeatedly: "Don't be too happy yet. The location of this 'Frontline' treasure hasn't been found yet. Nobody knows if, after so many years, that so-called Blue Aurora Prism is still there."
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