Chapter 501 – The Ending of Another Timeline? Sovereign Realm Red Moon!
by spirapiraChapter 501 – The Ending of Another Timeline? Sovereign Realm Red Moon!
【One month later, you successfully broke through to the Tribulation Crossing stage!】
【Seven days after that, you ascended to immortality… reaching Human Immortal cultivation!】
“How could anyone in this world become an immortal in a single year!”
Seeing this, Su Xing finally couldn’t help but let the corners of his mouth curl upward.
Too fast! Simply too fast!
This re-cultivation was going far too smoothly…
In merely one year, Su Xing had gone from an ordinary mortal to an immortal!
Back then, it had taken Su Xing two or three years to accomplish this same feat, hadn’t it?
Of course, that was in reality…
But the current Su Xing was inside a simulation!
This was a genuine one-year ascension to immortality!
Apart from those born as immortals, Su Xing was certain that even if other Supreme Unity Golden Immortals dissolved their cultivation and re-cultivated, their speed would absolutely not match his!
“But thinking carefully, my current talent and aptitude… for low-realm cultivators, it’s absolutely heaven-defying!”
Su Xing carefully counted them up.
He currently possessed the highest-grade Ethereal Root…
With Late Bloomer and Innate Severed Meridians boosting him, his cultivation speed was increased by twenty times!
Directly using immortal liquid for cultivation—even if the vast majority of its effect was wasted, it didn’t matter. One word: extravagant!
Add the Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art, the Supreme Dissolution Art, and the dissolved-cultivation re-cultivation bonuses…
Su Xing didn’t even need to undergo tribulation or shore up his foundation!
A complete state of fully stacked buffs!
“This feeling of rapidly ascending in cultivation… it really is wonderful!”
Su Xing couldn’t help but feel a wave of pleasure.
With his current aptitude, reaching this kind of speed didn’t seem all that surprising, did it?
“And after reaching immortality… the spiritual energy inside my body transforms into immortal power, allowing me to maximize the effects of immortal liquid!”
“My cultivation speed… surely won’t drop too much, right?”
Su Xing thought this way, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.
【After breaking through to the Immortal realm, you did not slack off. You continued cultivating with immortal liquid…】
【You felt that your magical power was more than three times denser than it had been at the same realm before!】
【Thus, another year passed…】
【You smoothly cultivated to Peak Human Immortal.】
【Without needing tribulation, one month later, you advanced to Earthly Immortal, first level!】
【You remained in the spirit field grotto-heaven, continuing to cultivate…】
【Simulation year fifteen. After over ten years of bitter cultivation, you successfully broke through to the Celestial Immortal realm.】
【After breaking through to Celestial Immortal, you did not continue staying in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, because the foreign races had begun to reignite, once again invading the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.】
【And the red-eyed aliens led by Red Moon were also continuously pouring into the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.】
【You chose to head to the Azure Cloud Realm, which was temporarily safe!】
【You handed the refined Celestial Sun Soul-Forging Pills to Qingyunzi.】
【One year later, Qingyunzi successfully emerged from seclusion and recovered his half-saint cultivation.】
【At this point, you and Qingyunzi shared both the bond of master and disciple, and the debt of a life saved.】
【Qingyunzi voluntarily offered to become your Dao protector, helping you overcome the Tribulation of Magical Power.】
【Thus, you settled securely within the Azure Cloud Realm.】
【Most of the time, you stayed in the spirit field grotto-heaven cultivating, occasionally guiding Fairy Ziling in the art of spirit cultivation.】
【Simulation year fifty. You successfully broke through to the True Immortal realm!】
【From mortal to Celestial Immortal, you spent only fifteen years… but from Celestial Immortal to True Immortal, you spent a full thirty-five years!】
【You understood that even with dissolved-cultivation re-cultivation, the closer you approached your original cultivation level, the slower your cultivation speed would become…】
【But when Qingyunzi learned of the speed at which you were passing through the Tribulation of Magical Power, he was quite shocked.】
【After all, even he, back in his day, had spent a full eight hundred years after dissolving his cultivation to re-cultivate to the True Immortal realm.】
In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and silently did some calculations.
“Qingyunzi, who cultivated all the way to half-saint… his talent is absolutely first-rate in all the world.”
“And yet even he spent eight hundred years, while I only spent thirty-five…”
Su Xing removed the bonuses from Late Bloomer and Innate Severed Meridians, dividing by twenty, and found his aptitude was roughly on par with Qingyunzi’s.
“Tsk tsk… as expected, at the level of top-tier Great Firmament or half-saint… everyone’s aptitude is about the same!”
“Even for me, after stacking all those divine bodies and holy bodies, my cultivation speed has essentially reached its upper limit…”
“Unless a talent exceeding red-grade appears!”
Thinking of this, Su Xing’s heart surged with anticipation.
Based on the simulator’s pattern of changes, perhaps after breaking through to Great Firmament Golden Immortal, another upgrade would arrive!
At that time… Su Xing might be able to draw a talent exceeding red-grade.
Of course, it was also possible that the current version of the simulator had already reached its limit and could no longer continue upgrading.
“I hope… it’ll be the former!”
Su Xing silently prayed, then turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.
【After breaking through to True Immortal, your cultivation speed slowed further.】
【But your magical power was approximately three times denser than when you were previously at the True Immortal realm, and your foundation was even more solid.】
【With your current magical power, you could barely use the Luotian Realm and maintain a two-times time differential.】
【So you typically stayed inside the Luotian Realm to cultivate.】
【Until year five hundred!】
【After a full four hundred and sixty-five years of cultivation, you finally completed another breakthrough.】
【Congratulations! You have successfully broken through to the Mystic Immortal realm!】
Su Xing looked at the text before him and immediately felt a bit of a headache.
“Breaking through really is getting harder and harder!”
“Using the Luotian Realm with a two-times internal-external time differential… that’s equivalent to spending a full thousand years!”
“Just to break through to the Mystic Immortal realm…”
“It seems that in this simulation, recovering Golden Immortal cultivation would already be pretty good!”
Su Xing silently did some calculations.
However, after recovering to Mystic Immortal cultivation, his magical power was even denser. The Luotian Realm’s internal-external time differential, without affecting his cultivation, could perhaps reach four to five times.
“Looking at it this way, the Luotian Mirror really is a cultivation treasure!”
“No wonder the Luotian Ancestor was able to rise in a mere million years with the Luotian Mirror… just passing the Spiritual Power Trial alone could save tens of thousands of years!”
Su Xing felt a wave of emotion.
“Time might be running a bit short… since I need to pass the Spiritual Power Trial, I’ll set aside the immersive contemplation and primordial energy purification for now!”
“First, re-cultivate back to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal and overcome the Tribulation of Magical Power!”
Su Xing thought this way, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.
【Year five hundred. After re-breaking through to Mystic Immortal, your magical power was even denser.】
【You attempted to use the Luotian Realm and found that at four-times time differential, your magical power consumption was approximately one-tenth per day.】
【While this slightly affected your cultivation speed, overall it was clearly nearly twice as fast!】
【So you continued staying inside the Luotian Mirror to cultivate.】
【And that very year, the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm was utterly destroyed!】
【The situation in the Azure Origin Domain once again plunged into crisis!】
【Even with the half-saint Qingyunzi holding the line, it was difficult to stem the tide of the foreign race invasion!】
【Qingyunzi told you that he had already contacted the White Emperor… and if the situation went south, he would choose to abandon the Azure Origin Domain.】
【He would lead some of the human cultivators to flee to the Heavenly Secrets Domain, preserving their fighting strength to continue resisting the foreign races.】
【Hearing this, you nodded slightly and simply accelerated your cultivation speed in silence.】
【Thus, another five hundred years passed…】
【Year one thousand. By this year, your cultivation had reached Late Golden Immortal…】
【But this year, a major event also occurred!】
【The struggle between the two generations of Red Moon had ended, and the victor was the first-generation Red Moon!】
【This meant that before long, the foreign races would gain another Sovereign!】
【At this time, only the worlds near the Azure Cloud Realm within the Azure Origin Domain were still holding out. The Tianyuan Realm had long since fallen.】
【Even the half-saint Qingyunzi could not hold alone, and at most could only defend the Azure Cloud Realm to the death.】
【But once they dug in at the Azure Cloud Realm, within a hundred years, once Red Moon broke through, that would be the moment of everyone’s annihilation!】
【Therefore, Qingyunzi chose to cut off the tail to survive—abandoning the Azure Origin Domain and leading most of the domain’s powerhouses to the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】
【And you, naturally, were among them.】
【Qingyunzi’s actions undoubtedly meant abandoning the mortals of the Azure Origin Domain, but at the brink of total collapse, people had different views.】
【Someone like the Celestial Demon General would perhaps fight to the very last moment…】
【But every person has the right to survive, even half-saints and Great Firmament Golden Immortals are no exception…】
【Three years later, under the protection of Qingyunzi and others, you arrived at the Celestial Secrets Realm.】
In the Real World, Su Xing sighed upon seeing this, and did not offer much commentary on Qingyunzi’s decision.
“With catastrophe approaching… Qingyunzi’s actions are undoubtedly the more ‘correct’ choice. At least the human race gains an additional half-saint, giving them a better chance!”
“While Qingyunzi can’t be called someone who fights for all the people under heaven, he can at least be considered a righteous cultivator…”
Su Xing nodded slightly.
For the current cultivation world, the standards for justice and righteousness were indeed not very high.
Those who didn’t indiscriminately kill the innocent or harm mortals were considered righteous cultivators.
And Qingyunzi, apart from being self-interested and obsessive in his pursuit of the Great Dao, could indeed be counted as a righteous cultivator.
“After all, at that level… for someone wielding such power to manage even that much is already quite good!”
Su Xing murmured.
“In this simulation, Red Moon is about to break through to the Sovereign realm again?”
“It seems this simulation won’t last much longer…”
Su Xing shook his head slightly. This was a small oversight on his part, but it didn’t matter much.
If he had directly crushed Red Moon’s hopes of advancement at the start of the simulation, he could have simulated a bit longer.
“What a pity, how did I forget?”
Su Xing shook his head slightly.
“But two simulations are still more than enough to break through and overcome the Tribulation of Magical Power… from here on, I just need to stay alive as long as possible!”
Thinking this, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After arriving at the Celestial Secrets Realm, you quickly made contact with the White Emperor.】
【And only then did you learn that the human race had reached a critical moment of life and death.】
【Of the Five Great Domains of the human race, four had already fallen… years ago, even the Celestial Demon Domain had been completely overrun!】
【The Celestial Demon General had been unable to hold and was forced to lead some of the Celestial Demon Prison’s powerhouses to the Celestial Secrets Realm.】
【At this moment, the Celestial Secrets Realm had already gathered several Great Firmament Golden Immortals and over a hundred Supreme Unity Golden Immortals…】
【Including the White Emperor, the Celestial Demon General, Sea Emperor Daluo, Qingyunzi, and others…】
【And Fairy Ziling, who had broken through to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal back in simulation year fifty with your help.】
【Thus, the majority of the human race’s powerhouses held fast to one-third of the Heavenly Secrets Domain, with the Celestial Secrets Realm as their core, making their final stand!】
【Yet you understood that by this point, the human race’s failure had been declared once again. The complete fall of the Five Great Domains was merely a matter of time.】
【And what you needed to do was to break through to the Golden Immortal realm again as quickly as possible in the remaining time!】
【So you entered the Luotian Realm to cultivate…】
【By year one thousand three hundred, you finally broke through to the Golden Immortal realm!】
【At this point, your cultivation density already rivaled that of an ordinary Late Golden Immortal cultivator…】
【You knew that if you could return to Peak Supreme Unity, your cultivation density would be more than double what it was now.】
【Over these centuries, the Heavenly Secrets Domain had been progressively lost…】
【Sea Emperor Daluo had fallen in battle… while the human race had promoted dozens of new Supreme Unity Golden Immortals.】
【All cultivators were trapped within the Celestial Secrets Realm…】
【You knew the moment for the final gambit had arrived!】
【But the enemy of the human race was Red Moon, who had already stepped into the Sovereign realm.】
【Defeat was inevitable… the only question was how they would die.】
【Year one thousand three hundred. Red Moon led countless foreign races toward the Celestial Secrets Realm, launching the final assault!】
In the Real World, Su Xing took a deep breath upon seeing this.
“The final battle? A genuine Sovereign realm… I want to see just how powerful it truly is!”
Su Xing muttered internally:
“Activate immersive simulation…”
As the words fell, Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulation world.
…
Slowly opening his eyes, Su Xing found himself in the Celestial Secrets Realm.
At this moment, countless beings within the Celestial Secrets Realm raised their heads, gazing at the despairing sight in the sky.
Like a black curtain, densely packed… those were countless foreign race deities, suspended in the sky, sealing off the human cultivators’ last escape routes.
And beyond the Celestial Secrets Realm, in the void.
Hundreds of millions of foreign race soldiers had gathered, all to completely conquer the Celestial Secrets Realm.
Su Xing narrowed his eyes, looking at that bewitching red moon in the sky…
No—a black moon!
After mastering the Death law, this Red Moon had also turned black!
And before the countless foreign race deities and six top-tier chief gods stood a man of bewitching appearance.
That appearance—Su Xing couldn’t be more familiar with it.
Red Moon, in avatar form!
And at this moment, the aura emanating from its body had reached a level completely beyond Su Xing’s comprehension.
“So this… is what the true Sovereign realm looks like?”
Su Xing’s voice trembled involuntarily.
Under Red Moon’s pressure and overwhelming presence, Su Xing found he couldn’t muster even the slightest thought of resistance.
As if… the existence before him was destined to be sovereign over this heaven and earth!
And at the same time, Red Moon in the sky spoke.
“Hehehe~ Don’t say I didn’t give you a chance!”
“If any of you can defeat me one-on-one… what’s the harm in letting you cling to life for another thousand years?”
The sinister voice descended from high above, reaching the ears of the many cultivators below.
At this critical juncture of life and death for the human race, this terrifying enemy had developed the playful amusement of a “cat toying with a mouse.”
“The Sovereign realm… a realm no less than that of a Saint?”
Su Xing took a deep breath and turned to look around.
At this moment, beneath this “black moon” and before Red Moon, every cultivator below Supreme Unity Golden Immortal had gone mad without warning!
Gazing upon the body of a Sovereign drove them to insanity.
But streams of clear light surged from Su Xing’s pupils, restoring his sanity.
Only cultivators at Supreme Unity and above could barely maintain their composure, yet even they could no longer exert their full strength.
“The fighting force on the field… is reduced to just a few Great Firmament Golden Immortals?”
“Defeating a Sovereign one-on-one… how could that possibly be done?”
“But it’s still the option with the best odds, isn’t it?”
“If it were an all-out war… the foreign races would crush us instantly!”
Su Xing let out a sigh.
And at that moment, the Celestial Demon General spoke up.
“Fellow Daoists, the battle for the survival of the human race… is upon us now!”
“Even if the chances of victory are slim… we must try!”
“As long as we defeat that black moon in the sky, we’ll have hope of winning!”
“Then… allow me to lead the charge—”
Before the Celestial Demon General could finish, Qingyunzi spoke first.
“This poor Daoist has retreated his entire life. It’s finally time for me to step forward!”
“Back then… I too was very close to that realm… perhaps I have the best chance of defeating it!”
Qingyunzi said this, then turned to look at the Celestial Demon General.
Their gazes collided in the air for a second.
Grudges spanning tens of millions of years seemed to dissolve in this moment…
Regardless of what had transpired before, regardless of debts and feuds.
At this moment, the Celestial Demon General respected Qingyunzi.
And so the Celestial Demon General stepped back half a pace…
While Qingyunzi took a single step forward, hovering high in the sky, and began his battle with Red Moon.
Five-colored divine light shot toward the Red Moon in the sky.
This was Qingyunzi’s Five Elements Dao, which had reached Peak seventh realm.
Once, he had even briefly attained the eighth realm, but after failing the Reverse Severing of the Three Corpses, he had taken half a step back.
The equivalent of… half a step into the eighth realm!
This five-colored divine light, with its terrifying Five Elements laws, was naturally awe-inspiring in its might.
Red Moon and Qingyunzi clashed hundreds of rounds in the air.
The two seemed evenly matched…
Yet Su Xing noticed that Red Moon had never retreated a single step.
Qingyunzi, on the other hand, had already gone all out… even summoning his evil corpse avatar.
One Qi Transforms into Three Purities—now only two avatars remained.
The self corpse and the evil corpse!
But even so, two half-saints were attacking simultaneously…
After hundreds of rounds of battle.
Red Moon seemed to have grown bored of the game…
It casually extended a single finger…
A wisp of black light appeared in Red Moon’s hand!
The Death law!
This was the Death law that had already reached the eighth realm!