Chapter 185: Gravity Training
Three days before the opening of the small secret realm, two hundred people gathered at a courtyard in the Lu family residence.
Among the two hundred, more than half belonged to the Lu family, and the remaining were somehow associated with the family.
’As expected, big families are different.’ Jiang Yue said and sighed.
If he didn’t know Qi Shuo, he would never have gotten a chance to enter the Lu family’s secret realm.
However, Jiang Yue wasn’t overly grateful to the Lu family or Qi Shuo.
One of the reasons for this was that the Lu family only invited outsiders because there weren’t enough qualified people from the family. If there were enough people, outsiders like him would never get a chance to enter.
The second reason was that the opportunity wasn’t free.
If Jiang Yue couldn’t take out three thousand kilogrammes of gravity stones after three years, he would have to make up for it using spirit stones.
Finally, Qi Shuo had ulterior motives for inviting him.
Although he was clear on this, Jiang Yue didn’t take it as a reason to give up a good opportunity. After all, the Ice Palace conference would be held in a few years, and he needed strength to support Yu Nianzhen and master Yang.
"Yeying." Someone called as Jiang Yue was thinking about things.
"Young master Qi." He turned around and said.
"Are you the famous Yeying?" A woman asked and sneered at Jiang Yue.
From how she looked at him, it was clear that she looked down on him, but Jiang Yue didn’t care.
He came to the secret realm because it was beneficial to him. Making friends and everything else were secondary.
"This is?" Jiang Yue looked at Qi Shuo and raised his eyebrow.
"She is the third young lady of the Lu family. Her name is Lu Xuanrui."
"Yeying has seen the third young lady." Jiang Yue said graciously.
"Is the famous Yeying ugly?" She continued.
Jiang Yue looked at the girl and was somewhat amused.
"Does the third young lady think that Yeying is ugly?"
"If you are not ugly, why are you wearing a mask?"
"My husband doesn’t like it when other people look at me." Jiang Yue said pointedly.
He could tell that the girl liked Qi Shuo and had misunderstood his relationship with young master Qi.
By saying that, he wanted to clarify the relationship and take the opportunity to discourage Qi Shuo.
Although the man had not said anything to him, Jiang Yue could see his thoughts. This was the reason he had always maintained a distance between them.
"Husband?" Qi Shuo asked and narrowed his eyes.
"Yeying has a Taoist companion." Jiang Yue confirmed, and his eyes softened when he thought of Yu Nianzhen.
He sighed, and a little grievance flashed in his eyes.
’I miss you.’ He thought.
Jiang Yue understood the necessity of training, but he didn’t like the separation. He wished they could always be together.
"Who is your Taoist companion? Where is he?" Lu Xuanrui asked.
Her eyes were narrowed, and she made it clear that she didn’t believe him.
However, Jiang Yue didn’t care whether she believed him or not.
He hadn’t done anything to indicate that he liked the person she liked, and he didn’t need to explain anything to her. His initiative to clear the relationship was just because he didn’t want any unnecessary misunderstandings.
"My Taoist companion is out for training."
"How can he leave you alone?" Qi Shuo asked in a bad tone, and Jiang Yue stiffened. His eyes turned cold, and his demeanour became indifferent.
"Someone who doesn’t even know my name has no place to comment on my Taoist companion." He said, and this time, Qi Shuo froze.
He had known Yeying for three years, and this was the first time he saw him angry. At the thought, Qi Shuo clenched his fists, and his heart was filled with resentment.
He hated that Yeying was angry with him because of an unknown man, and he couldn’t wait to strangle the person.
However, the person was not around, and his current priority was to make things right with Yeying.
"Yeying..." He started.
"I will take my leave." Jiang Yue said and walked away.
"Yeying seems to be angry." A voice said from behind Lu Xuanrui and Qi Shuo.
The voice was filled with amusement, and the two could tell that the speaker was mocking Qi Shuo.
"Qi Feiyan." Qi Shuo shouted in warning.
"Others have a Taoist companion. Is the fourth brother planning to break up the mandarin ducks?" Qi Feiyan continued.
"This has nothing to do with you." Qi Shuo glared at his sister and walked away with Lu Xuanrui trailing behind him.
"Yeying..., let me see a good play." The young lady said and walked away.
For the next three days, Jiang Yue and everyone else received instructions from the Lu family.
When the time came to enter the small secret realm, the group of two hundred followed the Lu family’s elders to the back mountain.
At sunrise, four elders released four broken tokens, and the tokens flew towards each other.
A moment later, the tokens collided and clicked together to form a circular token. At this time, a ray of sunlight hit the token, and a door appeared on the ground.
"Enter." One of the elders shouted.
Since everyone already knew that the door would soon close, they didn’t hesitate when they heard the elder’s words.
’This world still surprises me.’ Jiang Yue thought and also jumped into the door.
Soon after, he felt like his body was being squeezed out of a tube. However, before he could get used to the feeling, he fell out of the tube and appeared in a desert.
"Is this the Lu family’s secret realm?" He muttered and tried to stand up.
Unfortunately, a heavy weight was weighing him down, and he fell back to the ground.
"Is this the effect of the gravity stones?" He wondered and sighed.
If he couldn’t handle the gravity, he wouldn’t be able to leave the desert and find the gravity stones mine.
With that realisation, Jiang Yue removed formation flags from his storage ring and struggled to arrange a protective formation.
Although he had the ancient palace, Jiang Yue did not release it for two reasons.
The first reason was that he was new at formations and needed every opportunity to practice his hand. Arranging the protective formation under current circumstances would not only test his skills but also test the limits of his soul power.
The second reason was that the ancient palace could nullify the extra gravity. From Jiang Yue’s perspective, this was not beneficial since he entered the secret realm to train his body.
"The best I can do is a low-grade level two formation." He muttered in dissatisfaction after setting up the formation.
After three years of learning formations, Jiang Yue could already set up low-grade third-level formations.
However, the excess gravity in the small secret realm was not only weighing on his body but also on his soul. While setting up the formation, his soul power was not as flexible as usual, and it was exhausted much faster.
"It doesn’t matter. I will get used to the gravity first and then figure things out."
After that, Jiang Yue sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.
He first circulated his qi to clear the meridians and then locked the qi in his dantian.
As soon as he did this, the weight of gravity became even heavier, but Jiang Yue only gritted his teeth. Sweat poured from his forehead, and his bones creaked in protest, but this was the effect he wanted.
When he couldn’t take it anymore, he released his qi from his dantian and circulated it a few times. This was followed by the flame body refining technique before locking the qi once again.
For ten days, Jiang Yue repeated this routine until the pressure on his body felt normal.
"It worked." He said happily.
Not only did his body feel lighter, even his soul felt lighter.
If asked to arrange the protective formation at this time, Jiang Yue was sure he could do it without any problems.
However, he didn’t plan to retest his skills.
What he planned to do was retrieve the formation flags and move towards the gravity stones mine.
Although it was less than a month since the small secret realm opened, Jiang Yue didn’t dare to be careless.
After all, he didn’t know the difficulty of mining gravity stones. Also, he had a hunch that getting to the mine would not be easy.
Before they entered the secret realm, the Lu family provided some basic information.
One piece of information was that gravity increased the closer one was to the mine.
If that was the case, Jiang Yue would have to stop several times to get used to the gravity before arriving at the mine.
Given that, he didn’t know how long it would take to get to the mine, let alone the time needed to mine three thousand kilogrammes.
However, he was determined to take full advantage of the training opportunity.
