1125 Through the Crack

Godslayer saw the small cracks in space as well and realized that there were segments of the void that led to the inner tower.

"That exists huh?" he asked.

"Yeah," Alex said. "It used to be small before, but it expanded after that Saint Soul realm girl exploded her body. I threw it into the cracks after all. Maybe that's why this place crumbled, because of me."

Alex couldn't help but think that he had brought it all on himself. "Anyway, what do you think? That works right?"

"That's not a bad idea," Godslayer said. "If you can get there."

"I don't know how, that's for sure," Alex said. "Can I fly in the void?"

"Haven't you already?" Godslayer asked.

Alex thought for a bit and nodded. He had flown away when the floor had first crumbled. "So can I fly up to the cracks?" he asked.

"That… should be possible," Godslayer said, but he didn't sound very knowledgeable on the matter.

"If only I could teleport directly," Alex said, lamenting a little. "Do you know why I can't use any dao in void? Or even just around it."

"No one knows for certain, but I do know what most people believe to be true," Godslayer said cryptically.

"Which is?" Alex asked.

"Qi doesn't belong to this dimension," Godslayer said. "It did not originate from here, so the heavens had no ruling here. Since the heavens can't rule here, the Dao has no effect here too."

Alex heard it and mulled over it for a bit. "I see," he said. "You sure do know a lot."

"I come from the higher realms boy," Godslayer said. "My knowledge might not amount to much there, but it's still quite a lot for a mere mortal from a lower realm."

"I understand," Alex said and looked down at the cracks again. He used some Qi to make sure he could use Qi still. That didn't seem to have any blockade at all, although he would have to be careful about using up his Qi a lot.

"So, should we start?" Alex said.

"Let's make sure you know what you're doing," Godslayer said. Together, they talked to make sure they knew what they were going to deal with at every step of the way.

The distance between him and the cracks was somewhere between 20 and 30 meters. So, there was a high chance that each of the two places had its own separate pockets.

They were always the same distance from each other, but unless there was another pocket connecting the two pockets, he could forever be lost in the void.

"Are we sure it's not one giant pocket?" Alex asked.

"No," Godslayer said. "We have to work under the assumption that the pockets are separate. Otherwise, you would be open to a nasty surprise."

"That's true," Alex said. "How do we check that though."

"Hmm… throw something at the crack. If it goes smoothly, you are free to go," Godslayer said.

Alex nodded and looked around for something to throw. There was nothing at all for him to throw. The only thing with him was the storage ring.

"Urgh!" he sighed a quickly created a blood blade. He was already out of blood aura, so having to make so many of these things was problematic for him.

He leaned down carefully again and threw the blood blade as hard as he could. The blade flew smoothly through the 20 meters or so distance and entered through the largest crack in the middle.

"Nice!" Alex thought. "It's all one pocket."

"Good," Godslayer said. "Now go."

Alex jumped from the crumbling floor and flew straight toward the crack. He made sure to look around to make sure nothing else was coming to obstruct him, and before getting too close he threw another dagger.

Right behind the dagger, he followed up on the crack.

"Alright, cover yourself up in as much space aura as you can and widen the gap," Godslayer said.

Alex nodded and quickly pulled out as much space aura as he could from inside of himself and coated his arm. He appeared next to the crack and grabbed it on each side. He could see people fighting inside, but the cracks in space on the inside made it a bit too hard to see.

He ignored the sight and started pulling the cracks wide open. He pulled it wider and wider and wider until he could enter the place.

However, it wasn't done yet. He could enter inside, but the cracks in were still there, which were troublesome for him.

He carefully stepped into the 44th floor, and as soon as he did, the space aura he had been producing suddenly burst out of him to cover his entire body now that he was out of the void. Still, there was enough pressure on him that he couldn't freely use it outside.

But, he didn't need to.

Alex slowly walked forward, careful at every step. He couldn't use any dao to close the space cracks, but he could use his aura to move them aside.

He made use of the aura in him and parted the cracks away so he could walk through it. He needed to be very careful, as he wouldn't even realize when he lost his body parts.

Fortunately, the opening to the void was towards the front of the cracks, so he didn't have much to deal with.

When he finally managed to navigate outside of all the cracks, he looked at the puppet and the woman whose eyes had gone wide in disbelief.

"Who… who are you?" the woman asked, fearfully.

"Master White Tiger, You're back!" the spirit shouted.

Alex ignored the woman and looked at the puppet. "Spirit, why is there another fight?" he asked. "Why did you not send them all back?"

"I'm sorry, master White Tiger. I didn't know what to do," the spirit said. "The platform collapsed and my formations were gone. I had to think, so I decided to think about how to save you while fighting this young lady who had made it up here."

"Well, stop the fight then," Alex said. "I've already won. It's time to send everyone out."

"Absolutely," the spirit said. "But I don't have that authority."

Alex paused. "What?" he asked.

The spirit nodded. "I don't have the authority to send them out," it said.

"But you're the spirit of the tower," Alex said.

"Yes, I can send them out of the tower, but I don't suppose that's where you want me to send everyone, do you?" the spirit asked.

Alex frowned a little when he realized the spirit was correct. The tower and the secret realm were two different things, and the spirit was in charge of only one of it.

"That podium," Alex said. "It lead to some sort of formation, didn't it?"

"It did," the spirit said. "It activated a formation at the base of the tower from what I remember."

"Remember?" Alex asked. "You don't know for sure?"

The spirit shook its head. "I can't go there," it said.

"Why?" Alex asked curiously.

"I don't know," the spirit said. "I simply can't go there."

Alex frowned a little. "Whatever, let's go there anyway," he said. "We need to send everyone out of here."

The spirit nodded. "Let us go to the first floor then," it said and suddenly the three in the room disappeared, appearing in the midst of everyone on the first floor.

No one really batted an eye when they appeared at all. The Spirit had concealed itself from everyone's eyes so they couldn't even see it.

"This is not the base floor, is it?" Alex asked.

"No, it's one floor below us," the spirit said.

"Can you turn off the spiritual sense blocking formation so I can see what's below?"  Alex asked.

The spirit shook his head. "The first floor's formation is on the base floor as well. You would have to go there to turn that off," it said.

Alex frowned. "Fine, I'll do it myself," he said and brought out Whisker. "Whisker, see if you can swim into this rock."

Whisker nodded and jumped onto the floor and used his earth movement technique. Using the technique, Whisker could go into any earthen surface and move there for a small period of time.

Alex followed Whisker with his senses and gave him directions of where to go, which was basically down below.

Whisker swam through what felt like 30 meters of rock before plopping down from the ceiling of another floor below them.

"Look around," Alex told Whisker, and Whisker started looking around with his eyes. His senses still didn't work, so Alex was left with just the visual data to go by.

However, that alone was enough.

He saw multiple different formation flags at the bottom of the floor that was working concurrently.

"I see it," he said. "You sure you won't be coming?"

"I just can't, Master White Tiger," the spirit said. "Something there keeps me at bay. Maybe there's some sort of formation running that's not letting me come."

"You've been very helpful to me these days, Spirit," Alex said with a very sarcastic voice.

"Oh, that's an honor to hear, master White Tiger," the spirit said enthusiastically.

Alex shook his head and sighed. "Nevermind," he said. "I'm going in."

"Good luck," the Spirit said.

Alex nodded and felt where Whisker was. He approximated the distance between them and then the dao of teleportation filled him in.

In the next moment, he vanished, arriving right next to Whisker.

"Good job," he said to the little mouse, who squeaked in happiness. Whisker went back into his beast space and Alex finally looked around.

"So, what do we have here?"