Chapter 406 – I Wish That Foreign Races Had Never Existed in This World!
by spirapiraChapter 406 – I Wish That Foreign Races Had Never Existed in This World!
Simulated world, Nine Heavens Domain, Fifth Heaven.
Su Xing took out the Dao-Enlightenment Tea he had prepared in advance, along with Dao essence treasures for comprehending the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny.
“Four cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, totaling seventy-two years of comprehension, equivalent to over a hundred thousand years of insight for an ordinary Mystic Immortal…”
“In fewer than ten simulations, roughly two months’ time, I’ll be able to walk the entire path of comprehension that a Golden Immortal would achieve in their lifetime… This speed is truly terrifying!”
Before formally beginning his cultivation, Su Xing couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.
A Golden Immortal had a lifespan of a million years. Even if they were extremely diligent, devoting the vast majority of their time to cultivation and comprehending the Great Dao, it would still only amount to a few hundred thousand years.
That was still less than Su Xing’s two months of immersive simulation!
And the price Su Xing needed to pay was merely eight immersive simulations, less than 300,000 energy!
“Immersive simulation is the greatest means of improving my strength right now! I must seize every opportunity!”
Su Xing calculated the time.
There were barely five months left before Blood Three descended upon Earth.
Factoring in the time Su Xing would need after returning to Earth to make advance preparations—
The number of simulations left for Su Xing to improve his strength was roughly only twenty.
Breaking through to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal within twenty simulations… Su Xing had no confidence in that.
Therefore, the only thing he could do was improve his Great Dao comprehension as much as possible.
Overtaking on the curve… Since his cultivation was insufficient, he would compensate by comprehending vast amounts of the Great Dao, thereby achieving the ability to contend with Blood Three.
“If within twenty simulations, my cultivation can reach late-stage Golden Immortal… and on top of that, one of my Great Daos reaches the sixth realm, then even if I can’t defeat Blood Three, I should at least be able to preserve my life against him…”
Su Xing took a deep breath and murmured:
“Then, let this session of comprehension begin!”
Su Xing drank the Dao-Enlightenment Tea, adjusted his breathing, turned his awareness inward, and quickly immersed himself in the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method. Countless stars across the cosmos brought Su Xing inspiration, continuously accelerating his comprehension of the Great Dao.
…
In the blink of an eye, seventy years passed.
When Su Xing opened his eyes again, wisps of the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny radiated from his body.
Anomalies appeared between heaven and earth…
Su Xing willed it, and those anomalies began to rapidly dissipate.
The next second, Su Xing rose to his feet with satisfaction, nodding slightly:
“The Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny has finally entered the fifth realm…”
“Then let me see just how terrifying the fifth-realm Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny truly is!”
Su Xing took a deep breath as his divine sense rapidly expanded, quickly enveloping the entire Secret Realm.
Within Su Xing’s divine sense, the Secret Realm contained mountains and trees, as well as rare and exotic beasts…
A Spirit Domain of seven thousand li (3,500 km) instantly blanketed the entire Secret Realm.
Then, Su Xing simply parted his lips and spoke:
“No living beings have ever existed within this Secret Realm…”
As Su Xing’s words fell, he immediately felt negative forces from heaven and earth descend upon him.
Su Xing’s magical power was nearly halved, and his lifespan was instantly reduced by a thousand years.
This price, for Su Xing, was not particularly steep.
But the next second, something astonishing happened!
In this world that had been teeming with life, the mountains began to vanish, and the living beings disappeared from where they stood.
In mere moments, every single living creature within the entire Secret Realm had vanished!
As if… no living beings had ever existed within this Secret Realm!
“The power of cause and effect and destiny truly is a terrifying force!”
Su Xing exclaimed with awe. Clearly, after the Dao of Cause and Effect entered the fifth realm, Su Xing’s ability to reverse causality and alter destiny had been massively enhanced!
With a mere wave of his hand, all living beings across nearly ten thousand li (5,000 km) of the entire Secret Realm had never existed!
Such a terrifying technique was nearly on par with the power of creation!
One must understand—this was not simply killing all those living beings…
Rather, through the power of causal creation, he had made it so those beings had never existed at all!
Su Xing carefully sensed the progress of his Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny, then said with some uncertainty:
“Compared to the fourth realm, the power of my Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny has roughly tripled… meaning my ability to alter reality has increased threefold!”
“And within the range covered by my Spirit Domain, this effect is amplified tenfold!”
If Su Xing wished, he could even easily take an ordinary person with absolutely no cultivation talent and, disregarding all restrictions, directly transform them into a Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator!
And the price he would need to pay was merely a few months of lifespan…
“In fact, if I utilized the Pseudo Spirit Roots scattered throughout heaven and earth, I wouldn’t even need to expend lifespan—just some magical power would probably suffice!”
“This level of causal destiny power is nearly the power of creation… far beyond what I had before!”
Su Xing used his divine sense to carefully search the entire Secret Realm. Within it, there was indeed no trace of any living beings having ever existed.
“Tsk tsk, the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny is truly profound and mysterious!”
“Hoo… I wish for this Secret Realm to be restored to its original state!”
As Su Xing’s words fell, a mysterious energy once again blanketed the entire Secret Realm.
In an instant, all living beings were active again, everything restored to how it had been, as if nothing had ever happened…
At the same time, Su Xing felt his body grow considerably more uncomfortable.
His magical power was depleted by another third, and his lifespan was reduced by several thousand years.
“Tsk tsk… As expected, even reversing causality comes at a price…”
“Even so, this kind of power is truly intoxicating!”
Su Xing immersed himself in the immense power he had newly acquired, then carefully considered: how much did the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny actually increase his practical combat strength?
After a long while, Su Xing shook his head slightly.
The Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny could affect weaker beings, or even directly erase them.
But if he wanted to deal with enemies of similar strength, Su Xing could probably only force a mutual destruction at best…
Su Xing’s lifespan reduced by a million years, the opponent’s lifespan reduced by a million years—a straight exchange of mutual annihilation.
But against enemies with higher cultivation than Su Xing, he probably couldn’t even achieve mutual destruction.
Suddenly, Su Xing thought of something.
“Wait… Since I can make it so that living beings in the Secret Realm never existed… then what if! I tried that…”
“The power to make words become reality… Let me try it then. After all, this is a simulation—there won’t be any real loss… At worst, I’ll just die in the simulation.”
With that thought, Su Xing took a deep breath and finally spoke the words he had been contemplating for a long time.
“I wish that in this world… the foreign races had never existed!”
As Su Xing’s words fell, heaven and earth went silent for an instant.
…
In the distance, what seemed like a crow flew past, letting out an awkward caw. The entire world showed not the slightest change.
“As expected, it still failed…”
Su Xing shook his head slightly. With his power alone, even if he wielded causality, how could he possibly make all the foreign races vanish?
How enormous would the karmic repercussions be?
“Sigh, of course… If it were truly possible… the foreign races would have long ceased to exist!”
Su Xing shook his head. Just as he was preparing to continue cultivating his next Great Dao—
Suddenly, Su Xing froze in place.
…
The next second, Su Xing’s entire back was drenched in sweat, cold perspiration pouring from every pore, as if he had glimpsed some terrifying existence!
The entire experience was as though a god of death had swung a scythe, gently sweeping it over a mortal’s head.
Even though it caused no harm, didn’t even make contact…
The mere difference between the divine and the mortal was enough to leave that mortal unable to speak.
Moments later, Su Xing gradually regained his senses.
His entire body was soaked as if he had been submerged in a river…
For Su Xing, who had already ascended to immortality, this was the first time such a thing had happened…
Even when he had previously died at the hands of a Great Firmament Golden Immortal, Su Xing had never lost his composure like this.
This terror struck at the very depths of his soul!
“Hoo~ hoo~”
Su Xing gasped heavily several times, until he felt his magical power gradually recovering and his whole being coming back to life…
“Just now, did something actually almost happen?”
“It seemed like… some kind of equivalent exchange!?”
“My life, in exchange for the disappearance of all foreign races?”
“No… that’s simply impossible!”
Su Xing could figure out with the most basic reasoning that such a thing couldn’t happen.
“But strangely, that sensation just now seemed to genuinely want to take something from me… yet ultimately failed.”
Su Xing shook his head, still feeling lingering dread.
He would never do something like this again.
“I really need to… consider my own strength before acting…”
Su Xing shook his head.
“Now then, I still have ten Dao-Hearing Pills remaining, one Inevitable Epiphany opportunity… The Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny has successfully entered the fifth realm. Next, I should try comprehending other Great Daos…”
Su Xing thought it over. Currently, his other Daos didn’t seem to need further improvement.
“Whether it’s the Great Dao of Strength, the Great Dao of Thunder, or the killing intent Dao, none of them are my primary sources of power…”
“Therefore, the priority for advancement should still be Sword Dao, Five Elements Dao, Dao of Speed, spatial Dao… and the Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny…”
Su Xing contemplated the direction of his future growth. This step was still quite critical.
“As things stand, the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny can’t be advanced any further…”
Su Xing could sense that his Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method had already been cultivated to the realm of Perfection.
This meant that with the Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny reaching the fifth realm, Su Xing had already reached the end of what it could offer.
To continue advancing, he would have to rely on his own comprehension, or find corresponding treasures…
“Among the Three Thousand Worlds, the most famous practitioner of the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny… is naturally the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master!”
“Or rather, what matters is the Greater Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method in her possession… the other half of the Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method.”
It wasn’t hard for Su Xing to imagine that the Greater and Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Methods formed a complete system. If Su Xing could cultivate both, he would absolutely be able to walk the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny to its very end.
The only problem was that Su Xing had no way to obtain this technique.
Even within the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, the Greater Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method was not available for exchange.
“Currently, the only possibility… is to achieve first place on the Earth Ranking, earn a promise from the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, and perhaps obtain the Greater Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method that way!”
Su Xing thought to himself.
Since the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny could not be further comprehended, Su Xing’s options were limited.
After careful deliberation, Su Xing decided to prioritize advancing the spatial Dao!
This was because the spatial Dao was both offensive and defensive—not only could it help Su Xing preserve his life, it could also enhance the speed at which Su Xing gathered origin energy!
And what Su Xing currently lacked most in reality was origin energy!
Thus, Su Xing began comprehending the spatial Dao next… attempting to push it toward the sixth realm—True Realm of the Dao!
This was a realm that only a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal could reach!
…
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Ninth Heaven.
A woman dressed in black robes, her features indiscernible, suddenly raised her head to glance at the sky.
The corners of her lips curled upward slightly, as if somewhat surprised.
“Hm? There’s actually someone this reckless in this world—just how much karma did they stir up… to actually disturb the Heavenly Dao?”
The woman paid attention for only a moment, then shook her head slightly. Sensing an existence in a certain direction, she murmured:
“I’ve finally found you…”
…
Real World. Su Xing’s consciousness returned.
Rubbing the space between his brows and digesting the memories in his mind, Su Xing nodded with satisfaction.
“The Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny has finally entered the fifth realm…”
“Hoo, but comprehending the sixth realm is far too difficult!”
Su Xing shook his head. Ten Dao-Hearing Pills plus one Inevitable Epiphany should have been worth tens of thousands of years of comprehension at minimum.
Yet Su Xing’s understanding of the spatial Dao still remained at the introductory level of the fifth realm.
To step into the sixth realm, True Realm of the Dao… the gap was still far too great!
“It seems that reaching the sixth realm in the short term is impossible… As expected, trying to comprehend the sixth realm of a Great Dao while at the Mystic Immortal stage is simply too difficult…”
Su Xing felt somewhat helpless.
Generally speaking, entering the fifth realm was something only a Golden Immortal could accomplish, or at the very least, someone at the peak of Mystic Immortal.
At the same time, entering the sixth realm was impossible without peak Golden Immortal cultivation.
The fact that Su Xing could even attempt to comprehend the sixth realm of a Great Dao while at the peak of Mystic Immortal was already extraordinary.
“Sigh, the spatial Dao is still too difficult… Next time I’ll try the Great Dao of Speed instead…”
Su Xing thought to himself.
He had basically achieved this simulation’s objectives.
Within the immersive simulation, Su Xing had gained sufficient Great Dao comprehension.
Next, it was time to raise the cultivation of his lesser demon disguise.
“Hoo… I wonder just how high the lesser demon disguise can be raised?”
Su Xing was somewhat curious as he turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【Year 440: You departed the Nine Heavens Domain and traveled to a world under foreign race invasion.】
【You assumed the identity of a lesser demon Divine Sovereign…】
【Before long, the foreign races contacted you.】
【The commander of the Third Grand Army personally invited you to join as the vice commander of the Third Grand Army.】
【You were somewhat surprised by this—after all, the position of vice commander of a foreign race Grand Army could only be held by a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.】
【Yet you, a mere third-rank Divine Sovereign, had been offered this position. This was entirely due to the prestige of the God of Lesser Demons identity.】
【Becoming vice commander offered nothing but advantages—not only would you gain access to more resources, you could also investigate foreign race intelligence. So you agreed without hesitation.】
【From then on, you steadily cultivated followers and accumulated the power of faith.】
【In the blink of an eye, sixty years passed…】
【Year 500: In a mere sixty years, the number of your followers had already surpassed ten billion, and you had cultivated three Saint-stage Lesser Demon Apostles…】