Infinite Awakening: My Exp Doubles Everyday novel Chapter 282

Chapter 282: Staple Food

Li Yao swung her sword, cutting through another massive flaming hand and quickly stepping backward to maintain distance. She thought to herself in frustration that she couldn’t use the Second Heaven domain at all.

In fact, she couldn’t even sense it at all. What’s happening?

Was the elder’s domain somehow interfering with her own domain, making it completely inaccessible?

The empress thought to herself that this somewhat made sense from a theoretical perspective. After all, Li Yao’s domain was still incomplete so it might indeed be susceptible to suppression by a more established domain from a higher realm cultivator.

"Do you know how the Second Heaven domain actually works?" Xiang Yu asked.

"Of course I do, it’s..." Li Yao began confidently before pausing for a long moment as realization dawned on her. That’s right, she didn’t even understand how the domain functioned.

[I see, so that’s it,] the empress spoke with a knowing smile.

[You can’t access the domain since it doesn’t actually belong to you,] the empress explained.

"Doesn’t belong to me?" she asked in bewilderment.

"That’s right," Xiang Yu responded. "Yao Yao was the one who originally created the domain. And since you two aren’t currently in sync with each other, you don’t share understanding. Meaning she’s the only one who truly knows how the domain works and thus the only one who can use it."

[That’s right,] the empress confirmed.

Li Yao seemed to have a conflicted expression as she processed this information. The idea of relying on her younger self felt somewhat humiliating. But after some internal struggle, she finally sighed in resignation.

"Fine, you do it," she said reluctantly, addressing the younger Li Yao within her spiritual sea.

She thought to herself that she would’ve liked to kill that phoenix bitch with her own hands. Well, you win some, you lose some.

As she was thinking of this, the other Li Yao looked directly at her and smiled. Li Yao smiled back at her.

"Hmm, why do I suddenly feel uncomfortable"

Outside, lightning started gathering around Li Yao’s form once again, this time much more intense than before.

The elder thought to herself that the last time this strange phenomenon had happened, Li Yao seemed to become significantly stronger. She wondered if that was going to happen again.

More and more lightning continued gathering around Li Yao. The lightning energy then formed into a massive ball that completely enveloped her body.

The ball then began condensing into itself. Its size halved, and again, and again. This happened several more times in rapid succession before the ball completely disappeared, revealing Li Yao’s transformed state.

Her previous mature form had completely reverted, and she now appeared even younger than her base form. Though she still maintained her blue eyes and blue hair.

She did a few casual stretches in the air before speaking in a cheerful voice.

"I’m finally out!" she spoke with excitement.

"Hmm, what should I do now?" she thought aloud.

"Don’t do anything weird! Just activate the domain and find her, then cut off her head," Li Yao spoke sternly from the spiritual sea. She clicked her tongue in annoyance, thinking that staying cooped up in here was really boring, it was just a few seconds and she already wanted out.

"Hey, don’t squeeze too hard," the blob-form Xiang Yu complained as her grip on him tightened as her frustration grew.

After spending considerable time meditating within the void flame’s personal void, he had gradually discovered this crucial distinction.

But something still troubled him. If void represented the complete opposite of space, then why was the void flame so intensely attracted to space? It didn’t make sense.

He remembered that even the original void flame had been floating aimlessly in space when he encountered it. Although it seemed similar to the void back then, after studying the void so intensely, he could confidently say that that was definitely space.

As he tried to figure out why this was the case, he suddenly thought of something that made him pause. Could it be...there’s no way, right? But the more he thought about it, the more believable it seemed.

The original void flame was actually a space-devouring monster. That explained why he was so attracted to space. It wasn’t that space was his natural habitat, but rather his staple food.

He wondered if he would also eventually become a space-eating monster.

Shaking his head to dismiss these useless thoughts, he decided to focus on more practical matters. After spending extensive time in the void space analyzing theories and testing concepts, he felt that he at least had some basic understanding of the void, though he still didn’t know if this limited knowledge would be enough to successfully form a domain.

He raised his palm and closed his eyes in concentration. Slowly, a small black dot, barely visible to the naked eye, started swirling on his open palm. He showed visible strain as he tried to get the void energy to stabilize and expand.

After several minutes of struggle, he still couldn’t get the dot to expand even to an inch in diameter. The best he could manage was a quarter-inch before it collapsed back on itself.

He sighed in disappointment. He’d even tried doing the same thing with his main body, but it only reached half an inch at max.

It seemed that even with something he had natural affinity toward like the void, he still needed much more understanding to get it to actually transform into a functional domain.

As he was thinking of this, he suddenly paused as a new idea struck him. He then smiled widely, if this succeeded, he might not even need to work that hard to gain a domain after all...