Chapter 179 - 144: How Come the Safe Zone Is Only in Baijiang City?

Chapter 179: Chapter 144: How Come the Safe Zone Is Only in Baijiang City?

"Incredible, absolutely incredible!"

"This can’t be just another feature of the Safe Zone, can it?"

...

Li Wei was indeed sharing solid information, holding almost nothing back.

It might seem foolish to freely share the techniques he had painstakingly researched with others.

But Li Wei was no fool.

He was improving so rapidly now that these techniques might become obsolete in just a couple of weeks. By then, he would have already mastered more advanced methods.

Rather than hiding them away, it was better to use them to earn some goodwill and build up his image as Captain Li.

This would help in recruiting powerful members.

Besides...

He wasn’t the only one conducting these ’exchange and teaching sessions.’ Many powerful individuals in the Safe Zone weren’t stingy about sharing their experiences.

To outsiders, this was incredible, but in reality, it was already a daily routine for many Safe Zone members.

Exchange! Share! Learn!

They benefited from these exchanges, allowing them to advance with great speed.

This was beneficial to all of them.

’Actually, we members aren’t completely selfless.’

Li Wei reflected.

Everyone has selfish motives. He did, and so did many others.

But the Manager had established the Safe Zone to shelter the weak and provide a platform with numerous Cultivation Sites. The Manager’s wish was for Dream Descenders to unite and cooperate to overcome the Nightmares.

Since it was the Manager’s wish, how could they, who had risen up only thanks to the Safe Zone, be so selfish?

Li Wei hadn’t forgotten that if not for the Manager and the Safe Zone, he would have likely been killed long ago, dying in some corner of the Nightmare World without making even a ripple.

He wouldn’t be the renowned Captain Li of Baijiang that he was today.

...

After a tour of the garden, Fen Huo led Long Xingzhou and Chen Moxuan to the dining hall for a meal.

To be fair, the food in the dining hall wasn’t particularly amazing, about on par with the cafeteria at their Countermeasures Bureau Headquarters.

But the Headquarters’ cafeteria was in the Present Realm.

And this place... didn’t seem to be the Present Realm?

"Then..."

The two fell silent.

Soon, the two of them had a brief experience in the training room and then rested for the night at the inn.

"The training room is truly marvelous. It seems to make one much more focused inside."

Chen Moxuan commented.

Of course, for Extraordinary Realm powerhouses like them, the training room wasn’t very useful.

In their youth, they were one-in-ten-thousand geniuses—highly talented, diligent, and already exceptionally focused individuals.

If they hadn’t been focused enough, they never would have reached their current level.

The most important ability of the training room was ’suppressing the negative effects of Curse Objects’. With this wondrous feature, Ordinary Dream Descenders could quickly get through their initial, weaker stages.

He mused, ’Among Dream Descenders, the majority are still Ordinary Dream Descenders who haven’t been able to achieve Refinement of a Curse Object. The Safe Zone provides these people with more possibilities. This is a good approach. Perhaps our Countermeasures Bureau could also build such a place?’

He thought for a moment, then shook his head.

It wasn’t that no one had suggested this in the past. However, building a place that could ’suppress the negative effects of Curse Objects’ was easier said than done.

It was nearly impossible to do in the Present Realm.

It could only be achieved in the Nightmare World by leveraging some of its special rules.

Even so, the construction and maintenance costs would be anything but small.

Chen Moxuan could almost see the Dream Crystals behind the training room being consumed, draining away like a river.

He was beginning to understand why the Dream Descenders praised the Safe Zone so much.

...

The next day, the two arrived at the last wondrous Cultivation Site in the Safe Zone.

The Curse Art Library.

"The training room, the inn, and now the library... This Safe Zone may not be large, but it’s full of wonders."

Long Xingzhou exclaimed in amazement. No wonder everyone else recommended it so highly.

Whenever Fen Huo spoke of the Safe Zone, it was with great pride.

Chen Moxuan agreed.

Of course, his interest in the Safe Zone on this trip was merely out of curiosity.

Just as the training room could hardly help him at his level of the Peak Third Refinements Realm, the Curse Art Library would likely be much the same.

Stepping into the library, the clamor of the outside world instantly faded away, as if he had entered a space isolated from the rest of the world.

’The Silent Effect!’

’It’s probably the Power of Serenity, projected by some kind of High-Level Curse Object.’

Chen Moxuan mused to himself.

His own Extraordinary Ability was related to this field, so he guessed the library’s construction method at a glance.

Thinking about it, adding a silencing effect to a library was indeed a viable idea.

It was a good approach.

He briefly tried out one of the library’s Quiet Chambers and found it to be quite marvelous.

"It seems... it’s easier to find inspiration for studying Curse Arts in here?"

Chen Moxuan stroked his chin.

Even Extraordinary Beings like them had to research Curse Arts. It was still a way to expand their pool of abilities.

If one possessed a set of Rare Level Curse Arts that complemented their own Lifebound Talent, even an Extraordinary Realm expert’s combat power could increase severalfold.

In fact, even certain Ordinary Level Curse Arts that were a perfect fit could bring a significant boost to someone in the Extraordinary Realm.

Naturally, the value of a Quiet Chamber that could inspire such insights was self-evident.

"Although it’s still a far cry from a true Wondrous Building, it... already possesses a hint of a Wondrous Building’s divine power. No wonder Fen Huo said that these buildings might have been constructed using ’Wondrous Building Fragments’."

Humans couldn’t construct Wondrous Buildings.

However, it was possible to use Miracle Fragments to construct special buildings that possessed a fraction of a Wondrous Building’s divine power.

In fact, the Baijiang Strategy Bureau’s camp had a similar type of special building.

Fen Huo said to the two, "However, for us Safe Zone members, the Quiet Chambers aren’t the core of the library. The core of this great library lies in its first two words: ’Curse Art’. And here, there are many Spell Scrolls available for study."