Gravity

Hidden Quest Contents: Receive a visitor beyond the golden core cultivation realm. The Host's reward is being calculated:

– The reward was upgraded for completing quests in less than a year!

– Reward upgraded for hosting two such guests at the same time!

Reward: One unique holy land door token! Holy Land's Level of Fame has risen to level 1!

Yasuo couldn't help but grin. His two first visitors had brought him great benefits, and he couldn't help but immediately check out his rewards.

One unique holy land door: Able to open a holy land door directly in a random spot in the universe; it could be anywhere from a planet or even an ocean to space and even between galaxies themselves.

Reading the description, Yasuo didn't bother much and immediately willed; within moments, the token turned into dust, and a notification sounded in his mind.

"Holy Land Door of Cultivators was placed in space."

'Eh, I was gonna be fine even without this reward so who cares? I have nothing to lose since it's not my points being taken for it.' Yasuo didn't care and focused on the other reward.

"Holy Land's Level of Fame has riven to level 1: Host can now browse through the shop and buy whatever he wishes with points."

'Now, this is what I call a true reward,' He laughed all-heartedly, feeling that his luck wasn't any worse than those children of heaven.

Instead of waiting to complete various quests or whatever to raise his fame and get the store, he got to immediately have it after without even completing his first quest! 'Who would have thought I'd be this lucky? Have I stolen the luck of those heaven-defying children after they killed me or what?'.

Done playing around, Yasuo asked an important question,' System, what is the gravity set in the chamber of spirit and time right now? And how is the environment?'

"Since your clients have opened the door from earth, the gravity is set x1000 that of earth. Also, if they manage to even move under such suppression, the environment is set to be so cruel that only the most talented will be able to handle it."

After a bit of silence, the system continued, "The host needs to let his clients know about the options after they go out. Your clients may take the challenge once or twice but will give up afterward."

The system reminded him not to trick his clients too much, unsure whether its host had considered it.

'All is under control, rest assured,' Yasuo assured with a shrug as he waited for them to come out. He then began browsing through the shop, hoping it sold cultivation techniques.

***

Beyond the entrance, Fang and Luke were met with an endless void of white with no landmarks, walls, or sky, making it easy to lose direction which also brought a sense of anxiety into them. Not giving the environment any heed, they disregarded it and kept walking.

"Hmm? A house? Food and even a bed?" Fang commented as he looked at the regular house at the entrance. His face turned ugly as he read through the sign describing what was inside and the prices," Is this old man making fun of us or what? Why would we ever need something a mortal needs?"

"Maybe the food isn't normal food but a spiritual one?" Luke commented, unsure what to say in this situation as Fang's temper wasn't the best.

"Even if it is spiritual food, why would we buy it from him when we can get our own from our clans? If you want to keep this place unknown by the people behind you, you need to be smarter, or else when they contact you, you will easily give everything away!" Fang retorted, unhappy by the young man's naive train of thought.

'Sigh, why the one sent to retrieve a treasure had to be a stupid kid?' Fang thought, a bit helpless about the situation.' If the four guardians hadn't been here, I would have killed him and taken over it, but their presence makes it difficult to do such a thing without a war breaking out; if I only could...'

Luke nodded in agreement with Fang, deciding not to question his words further. Although he had a similar point of view to the man, Luke felt that the spiritual food in the room would be of great help to him.

As they conversed and didn't notice that a line that seemed to set a boundary between the room and the white void existed, the two men stepped beyond it. At first, nothing seemed to happen as they stepped a few meters, each taking a direction.

But as they stopped and were ready to sit and cultivate, the gravity in the white room suddenly increased to an unprecedented level. Fang and Luke, who were about to cultivate, immediately dropped to the ground; their bodies crashed into the floor under the immense force of gravity.

Fang was struggling even to lift his head a bit to utter something, as for Luke, he was weaker than his companion and had no way of even lifting his head, much less try and speak.

'Friend, lend me all your body strength!' The moment Fang had such a thought, a tattoo of a ferocious dragon under his clothes lit up with a red light, filling him with tremendous power.

Fang gritted his teeth, all his muscles straining as he used his arms and tried to push his head up just for a tiny bit. "Help...Get me out!" He said as loud as he could, his arms trembling, and in the next second, he collapsed back to the ground, unable to move a single muscle, blood flowing out of his mouth.

When he lost all hope of survival and the strength he had been using all this time applied with a terrifying amount of his qi began running out, and his eyes started slowly closing, a thought crossed his mind.' I'm done for; I should have asked for more information before going in; I thought it was a simple time facility, damn it!'