"Forget it, let’s not worry too much. Let’s first arrive at the destination."

The Eldest Prince increased his speed in hopes of reaching the metal platform in the air in a single stretch.

The faster he climbed the stairs, the faster his spiritual energy was being used up. His Acupoint’s energy seemed as though it had nearly dried up.

After arriving on the platform, a rich spiritual energy of the fire element immediately poured through. They were like a group of fairies as they fluttered around him. The flames seemed very friendly as they lingered around, even taking the initiative to enter the spiritual world...

As he felt the energy rush into him, the Eldest Prince immediately entered cultivation. He realized, with some mild surprise, that the cultivation speed here was not any slower than the cultivation room he had in his palace.

’Seems like Shen wasn’t lying, this spiritual energy density and speed for regular people is indeed astonishing, no wonder he acted that way,’ the Eldest Prince was a bit satisfied, feeling that Darius was getting increasingly more mysterious. Although he had the same cultivation room inside his palace in terms of speed and spiritual energy density, for a young man of unknown backing to get his hands on it was by no means a feasible matter without sufficient background.

’Still, it’s all talk without bite,’ as he gazed around at the staircases and platform, etc., he was sure that such things were mind games used by Darius to amaze the people into thinking that it’s something out of this world. Yet in reality, it paled in comparison to the top guilds... No! It didn’t even reach their shoes...

’Wait, I’m still at the first layer, no?’ The Eldest Prince suddenly had a terrifying thought and couldn’t help but swallow his ridicule. Right now, he was already at the first step, yet he was still able to receive that astonishing cultivation speed...

"The first layer’s cultivation speed is already twenty times faster than normal. What kind of effect would the second layer have?" the Eldest Prince couldn’t help but wonder.

The richness of the spiritual energy within this place was twenty times more than outside. The meditative speed to fill acupoints was also about twenty times faster.

There were 360 acupoints in the body of a human. In the second realm, one had to fill each one of them in order to step from the first layer to the second, from the third layer to the fourth layer, etc., with each layer needing the person to fill 36 acupoints. Right now, the Eldest Prince was in the ninth layer, so he needed to fill double the amount and not merely 36 acupoints.

Cultivating inside here for a little more than an hour would be equivalent to doing it outside for a whole day!

"What if I were to walk further up?"

Darius had said that the time limit was very limited, with merely an hour. Since the higher he went, the richer the elemental aura and spiritual energy became, then he had no reason not to go further up.

Let’s challenge the second layer!

***

Inside the Pavilion, Darius was unaware of what was going on inside the advanced cultivation room, but he wasn’t naive. He still felt that something was weird with the system’s heavy emphasis on the cultivation limit.

’System, what is the difference between the true potential of the cultivation room and when it’s suppressed to meet the cultivation realm of cultivators below the third realm?’ Darius was truly curious about this point. It felt like the system treated the advanced cultivation room as some divine object, and if a person below the third realm dared to go against the normal output of the advanced cultivation room without suppressing it to his realm, he would nearly die. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

The system was silent for a brief moment before the eerie voice sounded in his ears, but this time around, with a panel that gave him an image of the true layout of the advanced cultivation room. Even to Darius, this was the first time he was seeing such a scene.

"Host, your knowledge is extremely limited, and thus you have no idea about this, which is normal, but keep in mind, the system services aren’t simple and ordinary like the ones these people speak of."

This time around, Darius could vividly feel the arrogance in the system’s words, but instead of the irritating type of arrogance, it actually held within it great pride, as though it was but a normal thing to say.

’Did I misunderstand something about my services?’ He had long known about the enlightenment feature inside, but he thought that was the limit. Did he somehow fail to comprehend what his services actually did? He was eager to get more services, but maybe his understanding was just shallow, or else he would feel content with merely the cultivation rooms he had.

Darius fell into contemplation as he heard the system’s words and greatly pondered them, but in the next moment, the system’s robotic voice sounded once again, continuing the brief explanation.

"As you can see in front of you, the space inside is almost limitless, with several staircases; the more steps they take, the heavier the gravity of the space becomes; thus, the spiritual energy they use will be consumed even faster."

’Isn’t this the same concept as the gravity room?’ Darius suddenly interrupted.

"No, the gravity room focused merely on the body, while the cultivation room type of gravity greatly consumed spiritual energy. One is internal, while the other is external. If the host had asked before, he wouldn’t have allowed a prince of Dragon City to enter the advanced cultivation room without suppression of its features."

Darius’s face suddenly twitched; he felt truly wronged.

"If the host has a prince die inside, the host might die, and your benefits won’t appear once more."

Thud!

Darius felt as though ten thousand arrows had pierced his heart in that moment. Wasn’t this an indirect way to say that the Eldest Prince had a great chance of dying inside? If this were true, wouldn’t the system be the main culprit behind his death? Why would he be killed instead?

Each time the system spoke, he felt even more wronged and wanted nothing more than to give a heavy slap to the system, but still controlled his emotions. He wasn’t a kid. Feeling such emotions was normal, but the situation had occurred and everything was done. Plus, he knew the system was making him fearful so he could be careful in the future. It might have already placed precautions if such a case arose.

’Syst... System, why not be honest, he won’t... he won’t die, will he?’ Although he thought all of that, that bit of worry couldn’t help but appear on his face and in his voice.