Ning Cheng stepped into the soap bubble-like Traceless Gate and what appeared before him was a desert. His divine sense could cover this desert, but when he reached the edge of the desert it was an endless void that could not be touched to the end.
Ning Cheng waved his Heavenly Cloud wings and rushed out of the desert, and what he came into contact with was still boundless space, without colour or form. It was as if he was shifting through a three-dimensional or even four-dimensional space. He could only feel that the space was sporadic, but he could not really control the sporadic transformation.
There was no direction, no location, and no breath of life.
After a few days of constant waving of the Sky Cloud’s wings, Ning Cheng found that the desert where he had stood before had completely disappeared, and what lay before him was again a hollow grey. The ground, the sky, and even the breath had a grey feel to it.
Ning Cheng let out a breath as he stopped. No matter how venomous the methods of the Traceless Immortal Pond were, this Traceless Gate was real. This was indeed the seat of countless spatial transformations, the desert he had just experienced was one space, and this hollow grey he was experiencing now was another.
In this place, as long as you kept walking around, you might go from one space to another, or you might get stuck in one of them forever and never come out again.
The Traceless Gate is indeed the best place to feel the spatial laws, and there is no place more suitable for feeling the spatial laws than here.
Ning Cheng took out the few jade slips he had purchased, all of which had directions on them. Ning Cheng smiled coldly in his heart, he did not know if the jade slip indicating the treasures would have any real treasures after he went there. But he was sure that as long as he went to this place, he would have to face a battle.
For the battle. Ning Cheng really didn’t care. He wasn’t even afraid of the Heart Piercing Building. At most, the means of the Immortal Pond without a trace was just some formation confinement. He was an Emperor Formation Master of the ninth level of the Starry Sky. He would not put this in his eyes. It was just that he wouldn’t waste his time on such frivolous things, he still had to comprehend the laws of space.
Putting away the jade slip, Ning Cheng began to continuously transform space in the Scentless Gate.
Time passed by in this uninteresting spatial transformation, while Ning Cheng was completely immersed in it. The reason why he kept switching between various spaces was because he perceived that each time he switched from one space to another, he had the deepest sense of comprehension.
In these transitions, he had experienced all kinds of spaces. Desert space, swamp space, forest space, ocean space, mountain space ……
Grey spaces with nothing in them, hollow worlds, wind-bladed worlds ……
He has experienced spatial collapses, spatial dislocations, spatial rifts ……
Here, he has even felt space folding, space distortion ……
Ning Cheng had thought about space and time back when he was in school; space and time were the essential attributes of the universe and time was irreversible. In fact, after Ning Cheng had sensed the laws of time, he knew that as long as his ability reached a certain level, time could be reversed just the same. It was just that this reversal was relative. Within a certain range.
He could make time stand still for a breath with his Sunset Twilight divine ability, and this breath was only something within the influence of his divine ability. Once beyond, he had no control over it.
One could imagine how terrifying a divine ability it would be if someone could reverse the time of the entire vast starry sky.
Ning Cheng frowned for a moment, he clearly wanted to perceive the Space Law, why was he thinking about time again? He seemed to think that this thought was correct, time and space themselves were inseparably related. If a person could control the space of the entire universe, couldn’t his law of time also affect the entire universe?
What is space? On the surface space was merely the distance, the empty area between matter and matter. And having cultivated to Ning Cheng’s level, he naturally knew that space was far from being that simple. Perhaps two substances were adjacent to each other, but the space in between was endless.
It was just like the countless spaces in the Uncut Gate, where it was obvious that the two spaces were adjacent to each other, but in reality they were separated by countless distances. This truth was the same as the distance between interfaces and realms that Cang Wei had explained to him back then. It was a wall, and the laws of space could allow you to ignore that wall.
The more Ning Cheng thought about it, the more he had a headache, and he wanted to force himself to stop feeling this problem, but he had been unable to stop.
Time just kept disappearing in the midst of Ning Cheng’s perception, and he did not know how long had passed, when Ning Cheng suddenly tapped his head. Space might be very complicated, did he need to think that deeply? He just needed to grasp that no matter what space it was, it was the distance between two substances and that was it.
He could use his divine sense to grasp another substance that was separated from him and then forcefully compress this space between him and the substance. Even if the other substance was countless planets away from him, countless interfaces away, as long as his divine sense touched it, he might realise his idea. In an instant this space is compressed into nothingness and reduced to nothingness.
The same is true of anything, even laws. As long as there is a beginning, there are countless processes, and then there is an ending.
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If someone had followed Ning Cheng at this time, they would have been able to clearly see that Ning Cheng was constantly transforming space in the Streakless Gate. At the same time, his fists kept blasting out, and his hand seals were struck from time to time, and then grabbed out. Traces of dao rhyme laws flowed endlessly around his body, and changed from time to time.
At this time, Ning Cheng was completely caught up in a sense of walking, he was grasping the distance between two spaces. There was no mistake, what Ning Cheng was grasping was not the material distance of the same space, he was now immersed in grasping the material distance between two different spaces.
This was also because there was no master, if there had been a master to teach him, Ning Cheng would never have done such a nonsensical thing. In fact even Ning Cheng himself did not know that he was being so absurd right now. It was typical that he hadn’t learned to walk and was about to start running.
Spatial Law Sense had never started from the very basics, compressing space through speed. When the speed reaches a certain level, space will be compressed to almost nothing. Only after compressing this space to almost nothing can one slowly touch the rules of space and thus truly walk into them. At this point, even without speed, one can still compress spatial distance through the rules.
This was just like when Ning Cheng first came into contact with the laws of time, before the setting sun dusk was also compressing time without limit. It made time seem to flow extremely slowly. In fact, that was not considered a time law. But it was the best way to comprehend the laws of time.
As for being like Ning Cheng. Trying to compress space on a large scale right from the start, or even trying to control the range of different spaces in your hands, that was simply a dream. If Ning Cheng’s cultivation level had doubled a thousand times more, perhaps Ning Cheng could have done it, but right now, Ning Cheng’s strength was clearly not enough.
The most abundant thing about the Traceless Sect was the various kinds of spaces, and Ning Cheng, who was caught up in his senses, frantically kept shifting between such spaces.
One year, two years ……
This was already the fourth year that Ning Cheng had been here, and perhaps there had never been a person who could be like Ning Cheng. Four years of constantly transforming spaces in this sense. He had even fallen into a kind of magic block, never stopping until he had both spaces in his hands.
In Ning Cheng’s heart, each time he was only so close to success. He did not dare to stop for fear that this sense of understanding would suddenly break. During this period, he repeatedly kept changing spaces and then continued to grasp.
There were perhaps countless cultivators in the Traceless Sect who were here to sense the laws of space, and likewise, there were countless more spaces here. No one could know how many spaces there were in the Scentless Sect, so even though Ning Cheng had been here for so many years to sense it. He hadn’t met a single person either.
But with so many cultivators from the Traceless Sect in there, it was only a matter of time before he met another cultivator.
A slightly hoarse rebuke woke Ning Cheng up. He abruptly snapped out of this endless sense of enlightenment.
After waking up with a start, Ning Cheng realised that it was already the fourth year since he had fallen into this sense of certainty of capturing space.
Ning Cheng looked at the unkempt female cultivator in front of him with slight gratitude, “Was it you who woke me up just now?”
The female cultivator quickly took out an outer garment and put it on, saying in a cold voice, “Don’t you mind using such an excuse to be ashamed? If you want a woman, you might as well be direct, there is no need to use such tactics.”
Because there was no one in this kind of space at all, where would this female cultivator have thought that a big hand of star yuan would suddenly extend out of space? She had also been caught in the middle of her senses, so naturally she was caught off guard.
Wanting a woman? Ning Cheng immediately frowned. He quickly understood what was going on, he was caught up in that obsession to grab space.
It was only when Ning Cheng came to his senses completely that he understood the absurdity in his senses, he was actually trying to grasp the distance between two different spaces, which was simply the same as grasping something from one interface to another.
As for grabbing the clothes off this female cultivator’s body, this was a normal thing. The spaces inside the Traceless Gate were all silent spaces, and apart from a very few, most of them were lifeless. Once there were fluctuations in spiritual energy, he would definitely grab such fluctuations first. This female cultivator was all at the early stage of Eternal cultivation and was cultivating here, so she obviously had great spatial and spiritual fluctuations.
“I am very sorry, just now I was unintentionally ……” Ning Cheng cupped his fist and apologized, in his heart, this female cultivator could only be considered clean looking, he really didn’t have half an idea in his heart. It was also a bit odd for a female cultivator at the early stage of the Eternal Realm to have her clothes casually grabbed by him.
When the female cultivator heard Ning Cheng’s apology, her heart was calmed down a bit. However, it did not occur to him that after Ning Cheng had said these few words, he actually did not explain any further, but instead fell into silence. Not even being able to find an excuse, the female cultivator’s heart suddenly became upset once again.
It wasn’t that Ning Cheng couldn’t find an excuse, he suddenly remembered something, that was, he could catch something in one space in another space, wouldn’t that mean that his first step had been successful?
Thinking of this, Ning Cheng no longer had the heart to think about apologizing, and with surprise in his eyes, he said to the female student, “I am going to attack you now ……”
Between the words, Ning Cheng raised his hand and grabbed it.
The distance between Ning Cheng and this female cultivator was at least a dozen meters, and as Ning Cheng raised his hand and grabbed over, the space of these dozen meters seemed to abruptly disappear. He did not use his Traceless Avatar, and almost at the same time as Ning Cheng’s hand was stretched out, he had already arrived in front of this female cultivator. It seemed as if the spatial distance between him and this female cultivator had completely ceased to exist and disappeared after he stretched out his hand.
“Spatial Laws ……” Ning Cheng and this female cultivator almost simultaneously shouted out in shock.