58: Chapter 58 Revenge

[Your name is Chen Yuan. You are twenty years old, and your cultivation has already reached the peak of the Spirit Ruins Realm—the Body Integration Stage.]

"The peak of the Spirit Ruins Realm? Isn't the limit of the Spirit Ruins Realm the Soul Transformation Stage?"

Chen Yuan, outside the simulator, was taken aback, immediately catching the discrepancy in the text.

He wasn't sure if the simulator was being imprecise or if the current peak of the Spirit Ruins Realm was actually the Body Integration Stage.

Chen Yuan couldn't figure it out; the higher his cultivation rose, the more he felt his own insignificance.

Perhaps this was a common ailment among cultivators.

[You feel that your current self is completely transparent and unblocked, as if the Dao Rhyme of heaven and earth is slowly surging toward you.]

[You can clearly see the colorful Dao Rhyme existing around you, though its flow is extremely slow and the quantity isn't very large.]

[You sigh softly. From the looks of it, the Spirit Ruins Realm has indeed begun to decline.]

[As the former center of the world, even the Dao Rhyme of heaven and earth is no longer abundant. The loss of the world's source has caused this mother realm of all small worlds to grow old and decrepit.]

[Although the spiritual energy in the Spirit Ruins Realm is not particularly rich, you feel your body constantly and autonomously absorbing spiritual energy and Dao Rhyme for you.]

[Your cultivation is also increasing by a very small margin.]

[You can't help but marvel at how heaven-defying this constitution is. If you were in the Upper Realm, you probably wouldn't even need resources to break through on your own.]

[Furthermore, this is just the cultivation speed; you feel that your comprehension is not the slightest bit inferior to your cultivation speed.]

[Leaving the Yin Yang Spirit Sea Garden, you do not leave a clone behind this time. You simply have Daoist Lan Hai continue to maintain contact with the Upper Realm.]

[Since your ultimate goal is to unify the Sea Palace Archipelago anyway, you might as well trick the Upper Realm out of a few more resources.]

[However, you also give Daoist Lan Hai a talisman sealed with an attack at your Body Integration Stage power. After all, you don't know if the Upper Realm has left any other hidden cards here.]

[This time, you are in no hurry to head to the Erosion Abyss. Instead, you go straight to the Wanzhen Sect.]

[With a wave of your hand, a terrifying pressure descends from the sky, directly plucking out the still-slumbering Yang Cong.]

[Your methods shock everyone in the Wanzhen Sect. Hua Tian is even more terrified, collapsing to the ground. He could never have imagined when such a figure had appeared in the Spirit Ruins Realm.]

[Being able to tear apart a Seventh-Order Array with your bare hands means your array cultivation is at least Eighth-Order or higher.]

[One must know that the Upper Realm would never allow a Seventh-Order Array Master to exist in the Spirit Ruins Realm. After all, the two great locking arrays were only at the peak of the Seventh-Order.]

[Of course, for your current self, unraveling them would be as simple as moving a finger, but you do not plan to do so.]

[Firstly, you have no intention of developing in the Spirit Ruins Realm this time. Secondly, if you were to undo the arrays, it might bring forward the timing of the Upper Realm's war.]

[Yang Cong is still dazed as you hold him in your hand. However, upon realizing he is being held by a Soul Transformation cultivator, he immediately begins to struggle violently.]

[But after being educated by one of your slaps, he settles down. He also realizes that you are not as simple as just being in the Soul Transformation Stage.]

[After breaking the array, you do not leave immediately.]

[Because the commotion of the Wanzhen Sect's array shattering was too great, it attracted the attention of many forces in the Western Region.]

[Before long, several figures in red robes appear on the scene.]

[Indeed, the ones you are waiting for are the people from the Xiujin Tower.]

["Jie jie jie, I've finally waited for you."]

[You give a wicked smile. In this simulation, you intend to wipe away your past humiliation and take out the Inspector who frequently hunted you down.]

[Seeing that you are merely at the Soul Transformation Stage, those figures rush toward you with disdain.]

[These individuals are not simple Soul Transformation cultivators either. To be chosen by the Upper Realm to come to this realm, they have at least the strength of the Void Refinement Stage.]

[However, they still underestimate your strength. You casually strike out with a seal—it is precisely the Heaven Suppressing Seal you obtained from the Tianxuan Sect in the last simulation.]

[A terrifying pressure weighs down from the sky, as if the entire heavens are about to crack under the strain.]

[The group is scared out of their wits by your move. Before they can even circulate their magic power to flee, they are suppressed by you.]

[You do not intend to kill them yet. At a glance, you recognize the Inspector who is different from the others in the Xiujin Tower—it is the very person who sent you to your death in the previous several simulations.]

[You show him no mercy. Closing the distance, you grab his head and begin a Soul Search.]

[Your past self might not have resorted to this, but now that you have the power, you naturally choose the simplest method.]

[From this person's memories, you learn that his name is Hong Xiutao. He is an elder of a small force called the Tanyan Sect, which is under the Taixu Divine Palace in the Nine Heavens Domain.]

[The Tanyan Sect is a relatively secretive force under the Taixu Divine Palace. Because its Sect Master has mastered the Law of Deduction, the entire Tanyan Sect functions as an intelligence department.]

[Through Hong Xiutao's memories, you finally learn that in the Upper Realm war of the past, your father was not the only sacrifice.]

[At that time, the Nine Heavens Domain, Xingzhi Academy, and several other Holy Lands were the top powers of the Lancang Realm. Many people within them were also vehemently opposed to the Lancang Realm starting a war.]

[However, the eventual fate of these people was basically the same as your father's. Only a small portion escaped the pursuit and went into hiding.]

[Some of these people had their entire clans slaughtered, while others had a few family members escape to various small worlds. These escapees are known as 'Seeds.']

[Hong Xiutao was sent down to monitor the Seeds from the Upper Realm scattered throughout the Spirit Ruins Realm. Existences like him are present in every small world.]

[And in the Spirit Ruins Realm, there are many more figures like him. Their purpose is precisely to search for these Seeds and pull them up by the roots.]

[As for the methods to search for these Seeds, they rely entirely on the Tanyan Sect transmitting information to them.]

[However, due to the spatial barrier between the Upper Realm and the Spirit Ruins Realm, as a Seed's strength grows, the probability of them being found gradually decreases.]

[At that point, they would report upward, and the Tanyan Sect would then dispatch someone skilled in the Art of Deduction to the lower realm to help search for the Seed.]

[But this only applies to others. With your Perfect Great Dao Body, even if their Sect Master came in person now, he would be unable to find any trace of you.]

[Only now do you realize that there are actually other existences like you three brothers in the Spirit Ruins Realm; you just never encountered them.]

[Thinking about it, you find it normal. Most people probably ended up in the Middle Pond or the Erosion Abyss. Few would come to a desolate place like the Western Region.]

[Having obtained everything you wanted, you casually crush Hong Xiutao's skull.]

[For this man who killed you several times in previous simulations, you wish you could resurrect him and kill him a few more times.]

[Even if killing this person would draw the attention of the Tanyan Sect and the Nine Heavens Domain, you don't care at all. Regardless, you are currently an invincible existence in the Spirit Ruins Realm.]

[As long as the war doesn't start prematurely, you still have time to prepare for everything.]

[You also suspect that there is some kind of condition for the Upper Realm to start a war against the Spirit Ruins Realm, but you did not learn of this from Hong Xiutao's memories.]