Journey Of A Legend

"Cough... Cough... Cough..."

Coughing while waving the dust away from his face, Greg turned around and looked at the damage he just caused by his own power.

Including the wide gap he created by an explosion, the interior of the 25th floor was in total chaos.

The thousands of energy crystals inside there, which could be sold for a huge amount of money each, now were lying on the ground in pieces.

As he was completely stunned by this, several figures appeared on his side and looked at the interior of the building with shocked faces too.

"What happened?", asked Joe calmly, knowing it was an accident.

He knew that Greg would be the last person to cause such big harm, so he was entirely calm.

Turning his head to the side to only see Russ, Wayne and Joe standing next to him, Greg cleared his throat and said, "I made a minor breakthrough with my power, but it seems a small outbreak broke through my body."

"Small...", thought the three with expressionless faces, not believing that Greg called the power that caused all of this as a 'small' incident.

Looking around calmly, Joe thought for a while and said, "Well, it seems some energy crystals survived the impact, but now the energy level of this floor could be said it became the worst.

Currently, it couldn't even be compared with the 5th floor in energy density, showing just how tremendous harm did Greg's power just caused.

Greg looked at his surroundings and thought, "It seems every time I will form a layer, a similar outbreak will follow suit. This is not good at all."

As Greg thought for a solution how he could avoid causing such damages, suddenly another explosion occurred, but this time it came from the staircase behind their backs.

"What was this?", asked Greg with a slight frown, fearing that someone just found their hideout and tried to invade.

But knowing that if that would be true, then his Wind Fairy would have already warned him.

"It's only the girls and Jay. I brought them here, so it should be probably the cause of the test they are currently doing.", said Joe calmly.

Knowing that Joe was talking about the Endless Pressure, nodded and walked back inside the building.

When Joe saw that Greg was ready to go to the 26th floor looked confused and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I will proceed on my cultivation.", replied Greg instantly.

"And what will you do if another explosion occurs? I hope you don't aim to destroy this building completely.", said Joe with a deep frown.

Stopping on the staircase, Greg looked back at Joe and smiled.

"Don't worry. This time was only an exception. It happened suddenly so I was unable to do anything. But now that I know this, I have a way to stop it."

"And how exactly?"

This time, however, Greg instead of answering he waved his hand and the black demon mask appeared before him.

Knowing that the mask had the power to nullify and protect anyone, Joe realized Greg's plan so nodded and turned around to leave.

"Do whatever you want, but make sure not to cause any more harm. This is a treasure."

"I know, I know."

After he said that, Greg waved his hand and walked up to the 26th floor.

After this conversation happened and Greg and Joe walked away, Russ and Wayne looked at each other in surprise.

They looked stunned not because of what happened, but because of the sight before them.

In just one room, thousands of high-quality crystals were, each from high-ranking creatures. Just alone the crystals that were still intact in the room could make any person reach God rank in one go.

The sight was so stunning that they became entirely speechless and shocked.

"You don't want to say that below and above this floor, the same amount of energy crystals can be found?", asked Russ with shock, not knowing if he was dreaming or not.

However, Wayne's nod told everything.

"There is. But the lower ones are weaker. The precious ones are above this floor, and as I can sense there are 4 more floors. In all, in this building, there are 30 floors full of energy crystals."

"!?"

The instant as Russ heard this turned silent, not knowing how to react.

Only after a small while later did he turn around to look at the area he was in, and said, "So this is truly the legendary Eternal Kingdom from legends? Just how many mysteries hide this place?"

While Joe walked back to see how his friends were doing and Russ and Wayne started to inspect the interior of Skyfall Mountain, until then Greg sat down in the middle of the 27th floor.

"The energy density is truly more here than the previous floors, but I can still bear it, so I will be fine."

As he said this, he waved his hand, and the smiling black demon mask flew before him.

"I don't know if you understand me or not, but I hope you can help me. I want you to protect this place from any harm at all costs."

Seeing that the mask was hovering before him without any reply or signal, Greg scratched his neck gently.

"Well, if it doesn't do anything at all, I will use it, but then avoiding a small amount of damage is inevitable."

As he thought about this, Greg controlled the mask above his head and after that closed his eyes.

"Well then, let's start it again.", thought Greg and started to concentrate on his Third Flow's layer.

So far he created 25 connections between his First and Second Flow and 20 connection between his Second and Third, forming the so-called First and Second Layer in his body.

Now what lasted for Greg was to form the remaining Layers and for that to happen, he needed to create 15 connections to make the Third Layer.

As for the Fourth and Fifth Layer, he needed to create 10 and 5 connections, but that was still in the future. What he needed to do first was the Third Layer and that is what he was currently trying to do.

While controlling his Third Flow's layer to move toward the closest point on his Fourth Flow, Greg resisted against the pain he was currently feeling in his soul.

So far as he knows, the closer he got to reach the Mind Grade, the greater the pain became that he felt during his Soul Tempering process.

In the beginning, he only felt a numb pain inside his body, but right now it was like someone pushed small but sharp needles inside his muscles one by one.

The feeling was bearable, but if it went for so long, Greg could go mad quite easily.

Just imagine yourself getting tied to a chair and slowly getting tortured. You could do nothing but resist the urge to scream because of the pain and that was the worst feeling ever.

Yet, Greg knew this would only benefit him in the future. As Alice said, the longer he can withstand the pain, the stronger his soul would become after reaching the Mind Grade, so he didn't complain at all.

No, he just simply clenched his teeth powerfully and continued to form connections one after another.

Because the 26th floor was greater in energy density than the 25th by a huge margin, Greg could create a connection in less time than before.

However, because of this, he needed to stop sooner too, avoiding the chance to be killed by the huge amount of energy he was currently consuming.

After creating his first 2 connections between his Third and Fourth Flow, Greg stood up and walked down to the previous floor and right out the gap he just created.

"Phew... That was hard.", said Greg quietly as he wiped the huge amount of sweat from his face.

Sitting down to get a bit of rest, suddenly a flash appeared out of Greg and stood next to him, calmly observing the scenery before them.

Naturally, the one who appeared was Alice, who now could act independently from Greg like any living being.

"Everything here is special. Never would have I thought that such a place could exist. Especially not here among you humans."

When Greg listened to this, he frowned slightly and looked up at Alice.

"What should that mean? You say humans are weak too?"

However, to Greg's surprise, Alice just shook his head and said, "Not at all. I think humans are the most powerful existences in the universe, but because their body restricts them to surpass the God rank, they seem weak."

"However, if one day every human being could surpass this restriction, I am very sure that they will become greater existences than the Higher Beings."

As Greg listened to this, he stayed quiet for a while, and after a bit later he looked at Alice and asked, "Um... Ozron said that you were the closest one who truly knew the Creator. Is that true?"

Hearing this Alice smiled gently, making Greg believe that just her smile alone would be able to melt anything, and replied, "Yes that is true."

"Then can you please tell me more about him?"