System: Replicating The Heavens

Chapter 49 Ch 49: Stairway To Chaos

Alex was dumbstruck when he saw the huge sphere of light covering a large area in the dark abyss. The end of the sphere could not be seen.

Alex tried to probe what this sphere of light is with the help of the system, only to be disappointed. It could only mean that the sphere of light was no treasure.

"What is it? Is it the huge meteor that fell down from the sky?"

Muttering in his heart, Alex cautiously stepped forward. He was still having the feeling of being stared at by someone. It was as if someone was looking at him without blinking for a long time from afar, so far that Alex was unable to even locate the direction from where he was being spied on.

Alex looked at his surroundings, only to see the endless darkness of the abyss. In this dark abyss, there was only one source of light which was the sphere of light. Arriving in front of the sphere of light, Alex extended his hand to touch the sphere, only to feel a pulling force and the next moment, he found himself standing in a completely different space.

Alex found himself standing in front of a huge mountain and could clearly see that halfway up the mountain, there was a mountain gate. The mountain gate was surrounded by clouds and mist, and it gave off the feeling of a celestial cave residence. With Alex's eyesight, he even saw a horizontal signboard above the mountain gate, which had three words written on it: Stairway To Chaos!

Alex didn't know what this Stairway To Chaos is but knew he could only find out about it after climbing there.

This place was strange. He was most likely inside the sphere of light right now. And inside was a completely different world with lush green forest in the surroundings and a tall mountain in the front.

Well, there was one right thing which happened was that the feeling of being stared at by someone has disappeared the moment he entered the sphere of light.

Alex started climbing the mountain. The mountain was tall and Alex knew it'll take him hours to climb half of the mountain. After climbing for close to one hour, Alex noticed something. He noticed that the mountain gate where 'Stairway To Chaos' was written, was in the same position and was the same size as what he saw from the foot of the mountain.

Could it be that this mountain gate was an illusion?

Thinking about it, Alex decisively tried to use the system to probe if there was any illusion formation here. If there really was, then it'll definitely be caught by the system.

However, in the next moment, his expression could not help but change. The system didn't react at all. It could only mean there was no illusion formation here.

Alex's expression became serious.

After some time, Alex decided something and without much hesitation, he once again decisively took a step up the mountain. However, after just taking a dozen steps this time, he sensed that something was amiss.

He found himself standing at the foot of the mountain again. He also felt that the spiritual energy in the forest below seemed to have frozen and could not be absorbed. He also didn't feel the slightest bit of movement of air, and after scanning the surroundings, he found that everything was all exactly the same as before other than the frozen spiritual energy and the disappearance of air. What made Alex even more surprised was that he had actually completely lost all sense of direction in this forest.

He was naturally not an idiot. How could such a thing happen, the only explanation would be the effects of the illusion array.

But if this really was true, then why was his system unable to detect it?

Could it be that the system stopped working?

No, impossible! This shouldn't be! There must be some other reason.

But when it came to illusions, Alex again felt that something was wrong. If even spiritual energy couldn't flow, then how could the illusion array be activated and working?

After thinking about it for a while, Alex decided to test it out. He took out a dagger duplicated from a disciple in the Floating Cloud Academy and cut a tree in front of him. Then, he turned around.

"Hmm?"

He frowned and again turned back to look at the same tree. The knife wound on the tree was gone in an instant!

There really was a formation here.

What a formidable formation!

Alex sighed in his heart. He had never thought that he would encounter a formation that he could not understand.

And, why was it that even his system was unable to see what this formation is?

Alex becomes worried; however, this also aroused his competitive spirit. For the system to be unable to detect the illusion formation, such formation must be of an extremely high level, higher enough to be out of the System's reach!

"I have to break the Illusion Formation to move forward. But how do I break it?"

Alex frowned and started looking around. He once again looked at the surroundings and tried to use the system with some hope in his heart. He looked at the ground to detect the formation, only to be disappointed.

Alex looked at the sky and sighed, however, at this moment, the system's prompt appeared in front of his eyes, surprising him greatly.

It turned out that the formation was not laid in the ground or the forest or the mountain, instead, it was laid in the sky. Whoever was able to do this, that person must be a terrifying powerhouse.

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[Name: Unknown.

Grade: Unknown!]

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[Name: Myriad Illusion Formations.

Grade: Celestial.]

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[Name: Ten Direction Illusion Array

Grade: Emperor.]

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[Name: Nine Small Illusions.

Grade: Royal.]

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The system prompt continuously appeared in front of his eyes, making Alex dumbfounded. He could not believe so many illusion formations to be in the sky.

Why were there so many formations in the sky?

Even the system was unable to determine what one of these formations was or its grade. But from other formations, Alex did come to know that there were also many grades above Royal Grade.

[Consumed 200,000 Energy Points. Duplication Successful. Congratulations to the Originator for obtaining Royal Grade Nine Small Illusions.]

Alex chose to fuse with them and instantly, a huge amount of information appeared in his mind.

"So that's how it is!"

Alex nodded his head and muttered in low voice. After copying the Nine Small Illusions, Alex understood how to break it. He also understood that as long as he was able to break the Nine Small Illusions, he'll be able to climb the mountain and go to the mountain gate.

However, he'll be unable to discover the true mystery of this place. If he truly wants to discover the mystery of this place, he has to break each and every formation in the sky.

Alex knew he still has a long way to go before he'll be able to break the Emperor Rank formation called the Ten Direction Illusion Array, let alone other formations.

He also knew if he wants to break the Nine Small Illusions, his current strength was far from enough. He has to at least break through to Golden Core Stage, but right now, he was only at the peak of the Enlightenment Stage.

Alex sat down cross-legged and made up his mind. No matter what, he'll at least try his best to break this formation. And the first step was to break through to the Innate Stage.

There were no resources for cultivation left in his personal space. Well, he does have the Golden Pill in his possession, but it was something that could only be taken in the Golden Core Stage. He also has a few pills that could only be taken in the Innate Stage. As for breaking through to the Innate Stage, he didn't have any resources.

Alex started cultivating and it took him three days to finally accumulate enough to make a breakthrough. It took him another two days to finally break through to Innate Stage.

But Alex didn't stop there, he once again took out the pills that could be swallowed in the Innate Stage and started cultivating.

Alex could still feel the spiritual energy of the surroundings frozen and when he tried to absorb them normally, he was unable to absorb them. But for some reason, when he was circulating his cultivation technique and was trying to absorb the spirit energy for the sake of making a breakthrough in cultivation, not to break the illusion or climb the mountain, he was able to absorb them.

This really surprised him, but it also made him take breaths of relief.

This at least guaranteed that there'll be no obstruction in cultivation here. As long as resources were present, he'll be able to make breakthroughs in cultivation rapidly.