Chapter 601 The First Trap

Cain and Lan Rui touch the ground without a single speck of noise. The duo studied their surroundings.

Spread all across the island were numerous treasure chests. These treasure chests were where the concentrated Law essence had gathered.

On one side of the island was the endless gray mist. Looking at any other side was nothing but more islands and more treasure chests.

Cain began to deeply contemplate. He murmured out loud, "At the very least, we know that there is some kind of tests on these islands. Completing the test would cause that portion of mist to vanish and we can continue on. And for this..."

"It's truly strange. I can barely detect any differences in these chests. The only thing I can make out is that some of them have slightly more essence than others. Perhaps this is a clue?" Lan Rui shot out her suggestion.

Her words got Cain thinking. His Divine Sense pinpointed two chests. One of them had slightly more Law essence than the other.

Strands of booming lightning lights sparkled at the tip of Cain's fingers. He flicked out the blinding lightning lights toward the two specific traps.

Space heavily distorted. The streaks of lightning lights tore through the air at blinding speeds.

A loud explosion reverberated. An overflow of energy is released into the atmosphere. The power of Supreme Divine Laws rapidly condensed!

"Hm?"

Neither Cain nor Lan Rui panicked. They curiously watched on.

Two horrifying presences filled the skies. Ominous gray mist minced apart the atmosphere. The Laws of death descended into the world. Every inch of the island permeated with the harrowing sensation of death.

Even just inhaling the air could corrupt a cultivator's lungs. They would shiver up to complete destruction, causing them to suffocate. Mortals would simply burst apart into blood mist.

This kind of terrifying power couldn't even ruffle Cain's or Lan Rui's clothes.

The sensation of Death Laws rapidly approached. That kind of speed would leave even half-step Holy King slightly suffocated. No Divine Rulers would be able to properly react.

But Cain's mind simply worked faster. His speed made it seem like he didn't even move at all. Even his afterimage was faint.

With such extreme speed, his fingers flicked out several lightning-ice-encased Chaos Chains. Every lightning-ice-encased Chaos Chains was simply a blur in the wind.

'Chi!'

The ear-piercing sound of metal screeched out. The gray Law lights filling the world were overturned by the mutated force of Lightning-Ice essence energy!

Lan Rui blinked her eyes. Everything had occurred in a second for her.

She could only see that the lightning-ice-encased Chaos Chains were currently tightly coiled around several faint gray spear lights.

The power of those gray spear lights caused a shiver to crawl up her spine. Such Laws were far beyond her comprehension. Yet Cain's Laws had easily overpowered them.

Focusing past the power feat, Lan Rui quickly noticed something peculiar. To her right were four gray spear lights. While to her left were three gray spear lights.

The dropped in numbers may not seem like much. However, Lan Rui knew that these different sets of gray spear lights had come from two different treasure chests.

Lan Rui was an intelligent woman. She was quick to realize this was a reason for the difference. "So if we end up choosing wrong, we will get instantly attacked by those spear lights. And I'm assuming, the higher the Law essence, the more gray spear we will receive. I suppose the question now is which one is the correct one? The one with higher or lower spear lights?"

Cain flickered his gaze from left to right. If this was anyone else but him, an ordinary Divine Sense would have a problem picking out the distinction between treasure chests.

The amount of Law essence was simply too faint to accurately tell. A cultivator would need to improve their attainment levels of Source Laws to even beyond Cain's level to make an accurate judgment. Even Cain, with his base abilities alone, would have trouble.

But the advantage of Chaos energy could not be understated. Its universal-level principles allowed him to detect the distinct differences in the treasure chests.

Furthermore, he could detect which sets of gray spear lights were more deadly. It should come as no surprise that the greater amount of spear lights was deadlier.

But it wasn't for the sheer fact of a greater number. Rather, the higher amount of spear lights had a greater amount of killing intent. This set of spear lights wanted to annihilate his soul to ashes.

While the lower amount of spear lights would simply pierce through his body.

The difference in killing intent shouldn't seem like much. Yet, it was also far too odd to simply ignore.

Thoughts swarmed through Cain's mind. He soon spoke after a few moments of contemplation. "We need to find the treasure with the lowest amount of spear lights. The lower the spear lights, the less killing intent the trap would have. By this, no killing intent should mean we can get through this part. But of course, be prepared for the unexpected."

"Understood. I will leave this one to you, martial brother."

Lan Rui seriously nodded. She knew her role very well. Any assistance on her part would simply be a nuisance.

Cain closed his eyes, communing his Chaos Soul Sense to its maximum limit. Numerous death Law sensations permeated his Spiritual Sea. The creeping chills had even caused his Inner Soul World to slightly shiver.

This would terrify cultivators with ordinary souls' cores. Some would simply collapse from being completely overwhelmed.

It was thankful for Cain that his Inner Soul World was refined by Chaos energy principles. Nothing about the Death Law sensations could heavily affect his soul.

Furthermore, Cain began to doubt whether these were authentic Death Laws. He experienced numerous high-level Law sensations at this point. Space can still evade his perception abilities. Time was lost on him. And even the faintest sensations of Life Laws were a mystery.

Yet, these Death Law principles could be barely grasped by his Chaos Soul Sense?

Cain certainly didn't believe his Spiritual Sea's perception abilities increased in such a short amount of time. The only other option would have to be these are heavily filtered and inferior Death Laws.

This would mean the cultivator who had set up the Frost Islands actually had a grasp towards genuine Death Laws. It could only be possible since he manage to form inferior Death Law principles.

Cain was genuinely impressed. He fathom the only type of expert who could manipulate the Laws to such a degree would need to be a Heavenly Venerate existence!

For the moment, Cain shifted his mind off the origins. His Chaos Soul Sense expanded out as much as he could. It tightly inspected every treasure chest along the island.

The number of Death Law chests was quite a terrifying amount. Everything continually stacked inside Cain's Spiritual Sea.

This is a Spiritual Sea that can handle the tiny principles of Chaos energy. A force undoubtedly at the top of the universe.

But nearly everything has a limit.

The continuous stack of Death Law sensations pressured down on Cain's mind. Slight migraines began to spread through his head. His body was about to sway.

But Cain didn't make a single groan, nor let his expression tighten. He channeled a tranquil state. No matter the pressure, no matter the harrowing sensation of death, he stayed as calm as running water.

Minutes soon passed in this state.

Cain's Chaos Soul Sense could practically spread at light speed. It soon pinpointed the chest with the tiniest amount of Death Law essence. The chest wasn't even that far away. Merely only a dozen of meters to his right.

Cain went in the same manner as last time. His fingers flicked out supremely powerful lightning-ice-encased Chaos Chains.

The streaks of blinding blue and green light tore apart space like fragile glass. It instantly neared that specific treasure chest.

'Bang!'

A loud explosion rumbled the island. Waves of Law essence spewed into the air. Ominous gray mist filled the skies.

But this time, there wasn't any terrifying killing intent directed toward Cain.

No, the gray misty essence shot straight toward the island's gray mist!

Strange Law power rippled into the atmosphere. Screeching sounds reverberated. Sparks streaked all over the island.

Cain and Lan Rui watched in wonder. Their Divine Senses weren't able to understand the phenomena occurring.

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But that treasure chest's essence was truly opening up a path for the duo!

The Supreme Divine Laws within the gray mist were completely helpless. The treasure chest essence forcefully split open a path. Beyond this path was even more of an endless island.

A puzzle was simply solved in a matter of minutes. The danger of this puzzle would be fatal to any Divine Ruler. Even Holy Kings couldn't treat this lightly.

But Cain always has miracles within his pocket.

Lan Rui couldn't help but wryly smile. "Well, since the path is open, I suppose we should carry on. The Life-Vein Root is still pointing in this direction."