There was no sense of time but Lu Zheng knew it had been many months since he had chanced upon this layer of the secret realm.
As a result of being in the layer for too long, a few natural wind path dao imprints had formed on his body.
His physical body was adapting to the new environment.
These wind path dao imprints were extremely useless until Lu Zheng understood the principles of wind path.
They only made him feel more comfortable in this layer.
Most cultivators would never attempt to cultivate three paths. This was because of the intensity of tribulation.
Lu Zheng already cultivated fire path, lightning path and soul path. If he cultivated wind path too, he would cultivate four paths.
Even in his previous life as Xue Ritian, he cultivated blood path, lightning path and soul path.
Soul path did not face lightning tribulation.
But Lu Zheng was helpless against the wind path dao imprints.
They were not offensive like Thea's sword path dao imprints but were rather natural.
They would continue to exist on his body until he could lay his hands on a method to rid himself of them.
He naturally knew some but since his cultivation base was low and he had little connections, they were all impossible.
Lu Zheng squatted on the ground as he observed his body. He had tried a few methods but none of them were useful.
Just now, a new idea formed in his mind. He would absorb wind energy into his body and touch upon the basics of wind path.
Maybe with the new knowledge, he could eliminate the new wind path dao imprints.
"It's better than nothing"
Like an Opening realm martial practitioner, Lu Zheng sat down cross-legged and began to observe the laws of the world around him.
This layer only had wood path and wind path dao imprints so it was relatively easy for Lu Zheng to identify the laws of wind path.
All of a sudden, the familiar wave of dizziness from spatial transportation struck Lu Zheng.
The darkness cleared and the scene changed again.
When Lu Zheng looked around, he was stunned by the sight around him.
He found himself in a space as large as two football fields with the edges lined with a prism-like wall.
The sky was also like a glass prism.
Through these mirror-like prisms, Lu Zheng could see the other martial warriors stuck within the forest, all on their own.
At the centre of this space laid a seven feet tall corpse of a man. Huge wings spanned from the back of this man, each designed with a plethora of colours.
~A featherman! What is the featherman race of the main world doing here?~
The featherman was surrounded by a lot of gems the size of an infant's fist. They were all milky white.
Lu Zheng recognised the gems as wind cores.
Three Void Passage realm warriors battled at a distance from the featherman's corpse. Judging from their injuries, they had been fighting for a while.
Trying to fish in troubled waters, Lu Zheng immediately began to stash the wind cores into his spatial ring.
Instantly, a fist struck Lu Zheng's cheek. One of the Void Passage realm martial warriors had drawn away to battle Lu Zheng.
"Shit!" Lu Zheng cussed as he caressed his jaw. "I got careless again"
The martial warrior before him was a man of average height with curly blond hair and deep blue eyes like the boundless sea. He was bathed in blood and wounds so much that they seemed uncountable.
His bones were even visible from some of his injuries.
Lu Zheng's Sea of Consciousness spread out as he stared at his new adversary.
~He's severely injured and his aura his weak, I can take him!"~
Lu Zheng took a deep breath and focused on his opponent. The features of his opponent became highly detailed even to the smallest pores on his skin.
The faint outline of his aperture and meridians flowing with Qi became visible to Lu Zheng's very eyes.
Even if he was injured, the man before Lu Zheng was at the first tier of the Void Passage realm.
Compared to Lu Zheng's second tier of Sky realm cultivation base, the man was a true powerhouse.
The moment Lu Zheng blinked his eyes, his pupils transformed into the deepest tinge of red.
Bright and hot Vermillion True Flame took ablaze all over Lu Zheng's entire body as white lightning criss-crossed his skin.
Thunder boomed from within his being.
At the same time, an omnipotent aura emanated from Lu Zheng that caused the arms of the man before him to tremble uncontrollably.
Confidence replaced Lu Zheng's expression as he smiled. The taste of power was truly intoxicating.
The Void Passage realm expert was surprised at Lu Zheng's sudden transformation but he controlled the fear in his heart.
Even as warning signals blared in his head, the Void Passage realm expert was confident in his own strength.
Lu Zheng was after all, merely at the Sky realm.