Master of Kaidan
Chapter 253: Preparations Before Heading to the Otherworld

Chapter 253: Chapter 253: Preparations Before Heading to the Otherworld

"This pure ’identity’ burns so nicely!" Feng Xue sat in the small courtyard playing a game and tossed a "crystal dice" into his mouth, crushing it with a crunch. The pure ’identity’ transformed into a thin stream, flowing into his Kaidan Fire.

In terms of Feng Xue’s personal experience, there was no difference in the burning efficiency between ordinary ’identity’ and pure ’identity.’ It didn’t increase the daily digestion limit, nor did it enhance the Kaidan Fire more than the ordinary ’identity.’ The only thing he could claim was a kind of superiority when consuming it, considering that without residence rights, the black market price was a thousand to one!

But, when you think about it, it’s not surprising; after all, the so-called ’identity’ is human cognition. Since it could gather around him, it naturally already was in a suitable form. Compared to pure ’identity’ used for all Kaidan, this exclusive ’identity’ might be even more fitting.

Shaking his head to toss these thoughts aside, Feng Xue casually grabbed a bottle of Joy Water and gulped a few sips. The greatest advantage of phantom food compared to True Objects was that it wouldn’t spoil, aside from its special effects.

Take this bottle of Joy Water, for example. As long as Feng Xue didn’t finish it, whenever he opened it, it would be as bubbly as when it first appeared. If noted as iced cola, then whenever it entered the mouth, it would always be cold—even if it had been boiled in a kettle for days and nights.

He spent two billion Tower Coins completely in just half a month, and in return, his pockets stored thousands of big and small parcel cloth patches.

These labeled parcel cloth patches contained all sorts of good things one could only get at Infinite City’s department store. Even if he were to arrive in a primitive era, Feng Xue was confident he could live a comfortable life thanks to them.

Taking a pocket watch from his chest, Feng Xue watched the second hand ticking slowly. The corners of his mouth curved slightly. Today was the last day of the challenge month; once past midnight, his residence rights would be firmly set.

Over this past month, it’s not like he hadn’t been challenged. Still, under the dual trials of Deconstructing the Holy Mother + Abe Tetsuya, those who could hold out until Feng Xue transformed were few and far between.

But maybe it was because this year’s challengers were of higher quality. Even in failure, most had resurrection or survival techniques. In a month’s time, Feng Xue had truly killed only an idiot who insisted on taking bullets with his steel frame.

"The usage instructions from Infinite City didn’t mention anything about the doors, so I don’t know if there are other triggering mechanisms."

Feng Xue pondered whether to call Old Li now, but his work badge rang first—

"By the roadside..."

"Hello?"

Feng Xue wondered if Old Li had some strange entry like "speak of the devil and he shall appear" while quickly connecting the communication. Old Li, on the other side, didn’t seem to expect Feng Xue to answer so fast. After a pause, he jokingly said:

"Libra, only a few minutes left until the end of the challenge month. Have you secured your residence rights?"

"Got it."

"Hey, don’t be discouraged. How long have you been into Kaidan... Wait, what did you say?"

As Old Li’s incredulous tone came through the badge, Feng Xue’s mouth curved upward:

"Got it, on the sixth floor. It’s just a Yan Country-style garden villa, and I’m at the entrance."

"Alright, I’ll be right over!"

Old Li hung up immediately, sounding like someone rushing to verify if a long-lost friend had made it onto the rich list.

I have to say, Old Li’s speed was indeed quite fast. Feng Xue even suspected he had been previously shopping for various goods in the Tower of Babylon.

Upon seeing Feng Xue and the obviously newly built villa, Old Li finally confirmed he wasn’t dreaming. Feng Xue hadn’t been bluffing either. After a quick scan, he still couldn’t help but ask:

"How did you beat that Iron Knight?"

"What Iron Knight?" Feng Xue’s brow arched, could that big-breasted...?

"I know all fifty property owners on the sixth floor. Now there’s only one Iron Knight missing, you must have... Uh, no, that Vampire Hunter’s villa changed locations... This is more outrageous, isn’t it?!"

Old Li looked at Feng Xue like he was a monster but soon remembered that this brother had just defeated the near-physically-immune Umibozu. He shook his head:

"Ah, times have changed!"

"Enough about that. How do you open the door to the Otherworld?" Feng Xue interrupted Old Li’s moment of sentiment, getting straight to the point.

Old Li raised his hand to check his watch, seeming to count silently. When the time finally reached midnight on January 1st, he nodded and said:

"Let’s talk inside."

"Alright, I’ll show you your bedroom too." Feng Xue didn’t refuse, leading Old Li inside. Although it was decorated in a Su-style garden manner, it didn’t lack high-tech equipment. Leading Old Li to the first-floor guest room, Feng Xue used the Babylon Tower-provided housing management panel to grant him temporary stay permission, at which point Old Li finally seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, saying to Feng Xue:

"Your house’s decoration isn’t quite right. First, find an invisible stabilizer in the decorating panel and install one on each door."

"Invisible stabilizer?" Feng Xue frowned slightly but did search for it on the management panel and immediately understood its purpose.

According to the description, this gadget could fix a door to the wall at the moment of opening, and it wouldn’t close automatically until the homeowner purposely closed it.

Having seen several doors, Feng Xue naturally understood the functionality of this gadget.——

Supposing the doors in the Babylon Tower operated under the same rules as those in the real world, it would mean that a "Door Opener" could only go back and forth once.

However, this rule itself was based on opening and closing a door "once." In other words, as long as the door didn’t close after opening, multiple passages were possible.

But...

"Doesn’t that mean people from the Otherworld could also come here at will?"

Hearing Feng Xue’s doubts, Old Li just laughed and said, "What are you thinking? This is the Babylon Tower, your private residence. How could someone without passage rights come in? Of course, if you authorize them, they can move freely only in your home."

Hearing Old Li’s explanation, Feng Xue realized his folly. He immediately spent thirty thousand Tower Coins to fit each door with an unobtrusive stabilizer.

Once everything was settled, he turned his gaze back to Old Li, squinting his eyes:

"So, to the main point, how do you open the door to the Otherworld?"

"Wait." Old Li spread his hands, uttering a word that made Feng Xue want to flip the table. Then, before Feng Xue could question further, he continued:

"Like doors in the external world, doors in the Babylon Tower open entirely at random. The only certainty is that each villa will have at least one door open annually. And depending on the floor, the number of doors that can remain open simultaneously varies: floors 1-10 can have up to one open door, 11-20 up to two, and so on. That’s why when I signed the contract, I required at least a year of stay."

"Tsk..." Feng Xue let out a dissatisfied click of his tongue. Old Li, being the slick person he was, naturally noticed and added:

"Though I can’t help with the door opening, I do have some tricks on how to influence the worlds connected by the doors!"