Immortal Ice Empress: Path to Vengeance

The Guardian snapped his fingers and both he and Mira teleported. When Mira regained her vision after teleporting, she looked around and was astounded at what she saw.

In front of her was a massive castle-like structure made out of dark purple stone with a white and black checkerboard floor. However, this badass-looking castle looked more like it was underground since there were no windows and she couldn’t see the sky.

It would also most likely be pitch black if it weren’t for the torches hanging on the walls, which for some reason seemed to light up much more area than what they seemed capable of.

“Well, come on! Don’t just stand there! We haven’t even gotten to the good stuff yet!”

Mira was interrupted by The Guardian and saw him walking ahead of her. Mira quickly caught up to him and began following as The Guardian started explaining what exactly she’ll be inheriting.

“So, I’m sure by now you are wondering what this place is and what it has to offer you. Before we get into that, let me first start off by saying that what you are inheriting is the Firmament of Limitless Death and Infinite Life. Sounds badass, right? Anyways, although it has a badass name and quite honestly literal heaven-defying opportunities, you are way too weak to even make use of even 1% of what this place has to offer.”

“You might now know this, but the trials you just went through aren’t unique to just your world. The entrance to these tests can actually be found in every world with at least a bit of Qi that allows for cultivation. It was even on other continents in just your world alone. However, it’s not like people can just keep lining up to try and inherit this place. No, The Firmament of Limitless Death and Infinite Life has a consciousness of its own and will subconsciously guide those it deems worthy enough to attempt its trials. So, although the entrance to those tests is on other continents and even other worlds, it would be impossible for one to find it unless it wanted to be found.”

“Alright! Now that we know what you’re inheriting, let’s get on with what inheriting this place can do for you. To put it simply, this place offers everything you could ever want! Resources? Check! Dao Comprehension spaces? Check! Techniques? Cultivation Manuals? Body Tempering Manuals? Check! Sparring partners? Check! A place to endlessly torture your enemies? Check! There’s even a place that will help you make the most out of a Dual Cultivation session!! Haha!”

Mira was a bit overwhelmed with what she just heard. If the man in front of her wasn’t joking around, which she knew he wasn’t, she couldn’t stop thinking of the endless possibilities this place held! It has basically everything she’s lacking! Actually, the most important thing this place seemed to offer her is that it gave her a sense of direction on her journey to the top.

She knows next to nothing about the Cultivation World. Her best items so far are her scythe and the cultivation manual that came with it. But anything regarding Dao Comprehension, Weapon Comprehension, and techniques or abilities that can make the most out of one’s strength? Nope, she hardly knows a thing! And it doesn’t help that she grew up in a backwater part of the world as well.

If she made full use of this place and her title as the Successor of the Firmament of Limitless Death and Infinite Life, then her path to the top would be much more steady than it was before.

A faint smile crept onto her face when she thought about being able to kill that son of a bitch who has been messing with her for so long. With the help of this place, she’ll be able to have her revenge much faster!

However, The Guardian wasn’t about to let her get lost in her thoughts as he said words that made her immediately snap out of her daydreams.

“Don’t go thinking that you can just run amok wherever you want now that you essentially own this place. That’s not how things work here. You should know by now that nothing comes free in this world and naturally, nothing here comes free either. Or else, wouldn’t you be able to just stay in this place until you reached the peak?”

Mira looked at him, feeling a bit wronged. She had already been tortured so much by this place, what more does it want?! Could it be that she has to go through more of that shit to unlock certain benefits?

“Haha! It’s pretty much exactly how you’re thinking! You have to go through certain trials and tribulations to get what you want. Even just asking for a simple Cultivation Manual will force you to undergo specific trials where there will be certain conditions you’ll have to meet in order to pass.”

“Every technique. Every Manual. Every resource. Every Dao Comprehension space. Even specific sparring partners. All of these things have conditions placed on them and in order for you to unlock them, you will have to undergo various trials.”

“If you want a specific herb, even if it is just a Human or Mortal grade herb, you’ll still have to go through a trial. Now, that trial might not be very difficult for such a weak herb, but you’ll still have to do it nonetheless.”

“Honestly, at your strength, it’d probably be easier and faster to just get what you want in the outside world. But if you need a specific herb or something that is unreachable or too difficult to attain with your strength then you can always come here and try your luck.”

By now, Mira started realizing why she was forced to go through all of those trials before she could even reach this point. It’s to prepare her for what’s to come. If her willpower wasn’t high enough, she might very well be overwhelmed by this place and its difficulty and end up never utilizing it. Who would actually want to go through numerous pain-in-the-ass trials just to get a fucking herb? Hell, even Mira wouldn’t want to do that unless it was a last resort! She might be accustomed to pain, but that doesn’t mean she likes it and this place really knows how to make one feel pain!

She was a bit dissatisfied with the benefits so far since they are less like benefits and more like work. Can’t she be like every other Successor that gets all this shit for free? Why does she still have to work her ass off even after she became a successor? Why does it feel like she’s playing a gacha game where instead of using money, the currency is pain and suffering and she just hit a pay wall? Those were Mira’s current thoughts and The Guardian could see right through her.

He smiled and continued to talk…

“Although I might have said everything here is locked behind some kind of trial, you do have certain benefits that are already unlocked for you now that you are the Successor. Well, I guess you could say they don’t come free as the condition for unlocking them is to become the Successor and in order to become the Successor, you have to go through all that stuff you just experienced not too long ago…”

“Anyways, let me show and explain what you already have access to!”

The Guardian stopped in front of the entrance to a room and opened the door, showing a massive garden that seemed to go on forever! The climate here was perfect for most types of herbs and the Qi in this place was incredibly dense. It was dense enough to crush Mira into meat paste and the only reason she wasn’t is simply that she’s the Successor.

“This place is called the Infinity Garden. This Garden is a bit special. As you can see, the size of this place is extremely big and that’s part of the reason it’s called the Infinity Garden. Though, another reason for its name is that anything can be planted here. No matter what kind of plant it is, whenever it’s planted here, the Infinity Garden will isolate it and provide the exact amount of nutrients it needs to grow. This is the case for almost every plant in existence and can even work on plants that have never been discovered before! Amazing, right? Oh, also right now this place has a time dilation of 1:1,000 so 1 day outside is actually 1,000 days in here. Though this only works for the herbs. You can increase that number, but you’ll have to take certain trials in order to do that.”

Mira was astounded, to say the least! She would’ve never guessed that such a treasure could exist! Although this place wasn’t very useful for her since she has no thoughts of becoming an Alchemist, this place is still beyond useful.

For example, if she finds a rare herb that can sell for tons of money, well, she can just grow them herself and then sell them for an insane profit! Or, if Maria keeps going down the alchemy route, she could just be her walking herb garden and force her to concoct everything she needs!

There are many other uses for this place than she can even think of right now, even if she isn’t an alchemist!

“Okay, let’s move on to the next thing!”