Chapter 335: 2 Years
2 years silently passed by.
Tang Yin had not moved even once after descending a little bit further down the Abyss Layer. After he set up the Space Principle Attraction Flag Set, he remained in the same position, cultivating diligently.
Tang Yin had basically been repeating the same thing over and over again without stopping.
He devoured Space Principles with the Heaven Devouring Abyss non-stop. They were redirected to the Abyss Firmament where Xiao Fei and his divine sense utilised the Space Principles to expand the Abyss Firmament.
Tang Yin had remained undisturbed for the past 2 years. No living creature or being had attempted to ambush or attack him. The Hectic Chasm Holy Land had truly been swept clean of all native creatures except for one.
Other than this, Tang Yin’s will had somewhat become a bit stronger. The constant pain and torture from the pressure of the Space Principles and the damage and healing to his body, tempered his will to be indomitable.
Now, Tang Yin barely even perceived the pain. It was as if he was not constantly being terrorized by the dense Space Principles surrounding him.
Tang Yin’s aura had also stabilized. After his breakthrough into the Peak-stage Principle Comprehension Realm, his cultivation base slowly stabilized and stagnated.
Tang Yin made no effort in increasing his cultivation base. All of the devoured Space Principles were directly sent into the Abyss Firmament. He paid no attention to his cultivation base at the moment.
Tang Yin believed that if he had focused on utilizing the Space Principles he had devoured in the last two years to enhance his cultivation base instead of expanding the Abyss Firmament, he would have already reached the Mid-stage of the Principle Manipulation Realm.
However, Tang Yin’s main goal for coming to the Hectic Chasm Holy Land was to expand the Abyss Firmament. He was dedicated to this goal and would not deviate from his original plan for short-term benefits.
After all, Tang Yin could Devour any type of Principle to increase his cultivation base. Whereas to expand the Abyss Firmament, only Space Principles would suffice.
How many more Space Principle based Holy Lands like the Hectic Chasm Holy Land could Tang Yin enter? Most likely none. After all, they were extremely scarce in Bright Yang Continent and highly valued.
Now that he had a chance to enter a Space Principle based Holy Land, Tang Yin would not squander such an opportunity. He was not blinded by immediate power which would not bring the most benefits in the long term.
In 2 years, Tang Yin had devoured a colossal amount of Space Principles. Thanks to Xiao Fei and his divine sense, none of these Space Principles went to waste. They were successfully incorporated into the Abyss Firmament to aid in its expansion.
After 2 years of hard work, the Abyss Firmament had expanded from 4,000 to 7,000 kilometres in size!
Altogether, Tang Yin spent 3 years and 6 months enlarging the Abyss Firmament from 10 kilometres in size to 7,000 kilometres large.
Normally, if Tang Yin remained at the initial level of the Abyss Layer, the enlargement of the Abyss Firmament wouldn’t have been so huge. However, after Tang Yin increased the quantity of devoured Space Principles by descending deeper into the Abyss Layer, the efficiency of expansion also increased hugely.
The appearance of the Abyss Firmament remained the same as before its expansion. It was a colossal void with a 10-kilometre large platform at its centre. However, by now, the 10-kilometre large platform appeared to be as tiny as a rock in the large void known as the Abyss Firmament.
There were still 3,000 kilometres remaining until Tang Yin reached his goal of the Abyss Firmament reaching 10,000 kilometres.
However, that wasn’t all. Once the Abyss Firmament reached 10,000 kilometres in size, the primary goal would be accomplished.
The secondary goal was to reinforce the space of the Abyss Firmament. After all, the devoured Space Principles were utilized to expand the world, not strengthen the density of the space itself.
Even if the Abyss Firmament reached 10,000 kilometres in size, the space of the world would be very fragile. Just a mere stray fart from a Rank 8 Demonic Beast could shatter space.
Of course, mending space was quite easy. All Tang Yin would have to do was utilize the Abyss Firmament’s will and recondense the Space Principles. Or he could just allow the Space Principles to gather themselves to fix the space. However, this would take too long as it was a natural process.
Tang Yin did not want to stay within the Abyss Firmament, constantly fixing damage to the space caused by the mere movement of the inhabitants.
As such, once he completed his primary goal of expanding the Abyss Firmament to 10,000 kilometres large in size. He would immediately start his secondary goal of reinforcing the 10,000 kilometres of space to become highly durable.
But for now, Tang Yin still had 3,000 kilometres more left to expand the Abyss Firmament. He estimated that it would take him around 2 years to do this and finally reach the 10,000-kilometre size milestone for the Abyss Firmament.
As the Abyss Firmament became larger, so did the required quantity of Space Principles.
For example, expanding the Abyss Firmament from 10 kilometres in size to 100 kilometres large would only take 30 minutes of time.
However, expanding the Abyss Firmament from 7,000 kilometres in size by a mere 100 kilometres would take over a week.
After all, the Space Principles had to cover all 7,000 kilometres of space and expand everything simultaneously. Whereas, in the earlier example, the Space Principles would only need to encompass 10 kilometres of space, which was significantly less volume to cover.
Of course, the area in which Tang Yin devoured Space Principles also mattered.
If Tang Yin devoured Space Principles in the Surface Layer, the expansion of the Abyss Firmament would slow down to a crawl even if it was only 10 kilometres large.
Whereas, if Tang Yin devoured Space Principles in the Abyss Layer, the expansion of the Abyss Firmament would be much quicker even if it was 7,000 kilometres large to begin with.
In summary, the rate at which the Abyss Firmament expanded relied on two factors: the size of the Abyss Firmament itself and the concentration of Space Principles in the area from which Tang Yin devoured them.
In addition, it was worth noting the notable progress made by Xiao Fei. Despite the limited availability of Space Principles sent into the Abyss Firmament by Tang Yin, which hindered her ability to fully push her boundaries in controlling and manipulating them, Xiao Fei showed significant growth and improvement over a period of two years.
Her proficiency in controlling Space Principles had already reached an extremely high level. As such, she did not find it much of a challenge to control the colossal amount of Space Principles sent into the Abyss Firmament by Tang Yin. However, 2 years was quite long. She still made substantial progress.
At present, Xiao Fei effortlessly incorporated the Space Principles into the expansion of the Abyss Firmament, requiring minimal effort on her part. Despite her carefree manipulation of the Space Principles, she executed everything adeptly.
Xiao Fei originally wanted to complain. She wanted to tell Tang Yin to descend further into the Abyss Layer and Devour more Space Principles so she could actually face a challenge, which would allow her to improve her Space Principle Manipulation ability even further.
However, after witnessing the intense pain and struggle he had been enduring for 2 years by facing the pressure of the Space Principles, she decided against doing so. She knew that if Tang Yin descended any further, he would be torn apart. She tactfully remained quiet and fulfilled her job of expanding the Abyss Firmament.
Although Tang Yin had already transcended the pain that would make most others go crazy, this was only due to the constant similar pain he had been perceiving. Once this pain changed to something else, Tang Yin would not be as mentally resistant to the pain as he currently was.
Even though 2 years had passed by, Tang Yin showed no intention of taking a break.
The pressure and pain brought about by the Space Principles did not take a break, why should he? Besides, he did not feel fatigued or unmotivated. He could continue going for a long time.
Tang Yin firmly believed that he could complete the expansion and reinforcement of the Abyss Firmament’s space in less than 10 years.
It had only been 3 ½ of the 10 years, yet the expansion of the Abyss Firmament was already completed by 70%. The reinforcement of the space of the Abyss Firmament was a much less needy task compared to expansion, so that would take even less time.
Tang Yin believed that the complete expansion and reinforcement of the Abyss Firmament’s space would be completed in the 7th year of the 10 years he had in the Hectic Chasm Holy Land.
After that, he would either continue to expand the Abyss Firmament or increase his cultivation base. However, this decision would be made once he actually finished the expansion and reinforcement of the Abyss Firmament’s space, everything would depend on the circumstances at that time.
