The Story of the Prince, Leiva
Chapter 7 - Time and Space
He sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes. The Mythical Mark between his brows opened and he began to practice Endless Magic of Power, the first level of Lord Shinichi Moniyan's Sacred Scripture.
As one's Qi container overflowed, Original Qi circulated through his body along the Meridians that had broken apart. With his Original Qi circulating, he felt as if his body had melted into a vortex and was slowly absorbing the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth. And flowed into the Mythical Mark between his eyebrows.
The Mythical Mark transformed the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth into Original Qi within the Qi container. Then Original Qi overflowed from the Qi container and circulated in his body along the Meridians. One genuine Qi circle in the body is complete circulation.
Nine circulations passed. When Leiva opened his eyes again, he was surprised to find that his Original Qi had doubled and was now one-tenth of his total capacity.
If other warriors knew that their Original Qi could double like this in such a short time, they would go to the rapture. But Leiva was not satisfied. It took nine circulations to double his Original Qi.
"It's too slow!"
If he could obtain the Spiritual Crystal, his training would accelerate and multiply. The practice that Leiva practiced came from Lord Shinichi's Moniyan Scripture. Its absorption rate was already faster than that of warriors with lower practices. And again, he was still not satisfied with his current progress.
If he could obtain one Spiritual Crystal, he would accelerate his cultivation dramatically. Spiritual Crystals were Stones formed by Spiritual Qi.
It could be a Natural Spiritual Crystal found in the lower layers of the earth or an Acquired Spiritual Crystal hidden within the body of a savage beast. One Spiritual Crystal costing 1,000 silver coins or more. Only the princes, nobles, and masters of the great families had a chance to obtain the Spiritual Crystal.
1,000 silver coins was a huge expenditure, and Leiva and Empress Ruby could not afford it.
“Spiritual Crystal!” His heart trembled violently, and immediately in the shape of a hole, the Jubilee Stone he was holding fell down. He took it and held it in his palm.
“Could this be a Spiritual Crystal?”
With Original Qi circulating in his body, his Mythical Mark instantly appeared and turned into a circle.
The white Original Qi line shot out from the target to the Jubilee Stone.
"What?!”
Four ancient characters appear on the surface of the Jubilee Stone.
"It's so weird."
Leiva had never seen such writing before. However, he managed to read four characters quickly, ”Stone Space and Time.”
Leiva had injected Original Qi into the Jubilee Stone in his last life. However, he failed to produce his characteristics.
In his last life, despite his cultivation being hundreds of times stronger, he had never inspired the appearance of a character inside the Jubilee Stone. In this lifetime, to his surprise, he had managed to transform the Jubilee Stone at the Early Earth Level Stage. This proves that it is the nature of the Original Qi, rather than its intensity, it matters.
For example, a warrior with the Mythical Fire Mark could better utilize a Spiritual Crystal that had fire properties. This could help double his training level, while an ordinary Spiritual Crystal would only double his training level.
“Does that mean my Mythical Sign has some kind of properties that fit this Stone of Space and Time? But wait, what is the Stone of Space and Time?”
As Lord Shinichi's son in his last life, Leiva was well-informed and knew a lot about Spiritual Crystals with different properties, such as Fire Spiritual Crystals, Ice from Profound Spiritual Crystals, lightning crystals, Blood Spirit Spiritual Crystals, and others. But he had never heard of a Spiritual Crystal with the nature of space-time.
Space and Time could not be controlled by humans at all, nor could Gods dominate their development. So, all life must abide by the rules of space and time.
While Leiva was pondering, a ring of light appeared on the surface of the Space and Time Stone, then melted into a vortex.
The vortex continued to grow bigger and bigger, eventually enveloping Leiva completely. Leiva felt very dizzy as heaven and earth started to revolve around him. The next second he found himself in a sealed space, he crashed into the hard ground.
Fortunately, he had already completed the process of the Tier One Bone Stage. He had reached the Earth Level Early Stage level, which had strengthened his physique. If it was his former body, this heavy fall could lead to death. Leiva rose from the ground, stretched his aching muscles and bones, and began to observe the space around him.
This room was completely closed without doors or windows.
"What's going on? How did I get here? Where'sisthis? There's a stone.” There was only a single stone platform inside the space.
On the stone platform, there was nothing but rolled up paintings and silver iron books. Leiva reached out to the painting first and found that it was unexpectedly heavy as if it was joined to a rock. The painting remained motionless, no matter how hard Leiva tried to move it.
Since the painting could not be taken or opened, Leiva could only give up temporarily. So he turned to the silver iron book instead.
“Mystery Space and Time!”
But this time, Leiva is ready for it. With the Original Qi circulating in his body, he exerted all his strength and opened the first page.
"So easy?” He easily managed to flip through the Mysteries of Space and Time.
Leiva shook his head in earnest and stopped using Original Qi. He took out the book Mystery of Space and Time and held it in his hand, then read it carefully.
The first page of the Mystery of Space and Time does not document its mysterious practices but includes a transcript from Belfort Veldora, the last owner of the Stone of Space and Time.
After reading Belfort Veldora's transcript, Leiva had found everything. It turns out that Leiva's sign is a Mythical Sign of Space and Time. According to what Belfort Veldora said, no one out of hundreds of millions of people can open it. Since ancient times, there were only two people who got it, and now he was the third.
Belfort Veldora was the second person to open the Mythical Sign of Space and Time. But based on the time records in the book, he died over a hundred thousand years ago. It was in the Ancient Middle Ages, which was a long time ago.
The space Leiva was in was the internal space of the Stone of Space and Time. The speed of time that passed in the internal space was completely different from the outside world. Practicing in an internal space for three days was equivalent to one day outside.
Leiva was overjoyed, he exclaimed excitedly, “Training in the internal space for three days is equal to one day outside. That means my practice time will be three times longer than others. It's perfect!"
