Chapter 221 : Chapter 221
Chapter 221 Confronting the Eldritch Race Head-On, Cultivating in Seclusion!
【You told Xuanyuan Tianji everything you had heard from Chen Shu.】
【After listening, Xuanyuan Tianji frowned slightly.】
【In the end, Xuanyuan Tianji spoke.】
【“I cannot be bothered with any of that. Right now, the only thing I need to do is recover my cultivation and return to the Weiyang Immortal Realm! I want to learn what exactly happened back then, what led to the appearance of the man-eating Eldritch Race throughout the Great Thousand Worlds.”】
【Seeing that Xuanyuan Tianji’s thoughts were the same as yours, you asked whether she had the spatial coordinates of the Weiyang Immortal Realm.】
【“No!”】
【Xuanyuan Tianji shook her head helplessly.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that in the past, she had always used realm-crossing formations to travel back and forth between the major realms.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that each Immortal World could connect to most of the other Immortal Worlds within the Great Thousand Worlds, and only a small number of special realms could not be reached.】
【“If you want to rely on that Divine Power to reach the Weiyang Immortal Realm, all I can say is that it will be very difficult! The same goes if you want to return to the Canglan Realm.”】
【After hearing Xuanyuan Tianji’s words, your heart sank at once.】
【You knew Xuanyuan Tianji was warning you not to take risks lightly.】
【You understood very clearly that without spatial coordinates, if you used Taixu Dragon Traversal inside a Spatial Rift, you would only blunder about blindly, with no way to find your bearings.】
【Under such circumstances, you could only search one realm after another. Yet among the Great Thousand Worlds, who knew how many realms there were? You had no idea how many years this method would take before you could return to the Canglan Realm.】
【At that moment, you suddenly felt some regret over leaving the Canglan Realm so lightly.】
【Back then, your plan had been simple: leave the Canglan Realm, cultivate to the Immortal Realm, then rely on your Divine Power to return.】
【The plan had been beautiful, but reality was cruel. At present, the only way for you to return to the Canglan Realm was to use the Realm-Boundary Grand Array.】
【And from your earlier conversation with Chen Shu, you had learned that the Realm-Boundary Grand Array had already been moved by the Eldritch Race into the Upper City of Heavenly Emperor City, onto that floating sky island.】
【That meant that, in the end, you would still have to face a battle against the Eldritch Race.】
【Only then did you understand what Xuanyuan Tianji had meant by those words just now.】
【She was telling you to cultivate in peace and not to think too much. When the time came to face it, you would face it then.】
【After this conversation, you continued cultivating in seclusion.】
【The fifteenth year!】
【That year, you successfully passed your fourth Lightning Tribulation and stepped into the Middle Three Realms.】
【By now, your cultivation had already far exceeded your expectations.】
【With your Fourth Tribulation Realm cultivation, along with Boiling Dragonblood and the augmentation of Divine Powers such as Heavenslaying, you felt you now had the power to slay those in the Upper Three Realms, and could even fight a Heavenly Venerable.】
【Just when you thought your speed of cultivation was already astonishing, you discovered that Xuanyuan Tianji had already broken through to the Heavenly Venerable Realm and was only a single step away from the Immortal Realm.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that although the Hope Zone had many cultivation resources, most of them were ordinary. If she were in the Weiyang Immortal Realm, she would reach the Immortal Lord Realm in less than ten years.】
【After you underwent tribulation, Chen Shu also noticed how extraordinary Xuanyuan Tianji’s cultivation had become.】
【Before this, she had never paid much attention to Xuanyuan Tianji.】
【When you had first arrived at the Hope Zone, Chen Shu had taken note of Xuanyuan Tianji’s situation. At the time, Xuanyuan Tianji’s cultivation had been very low.】
【However, Chen Shu had never expected that after so many years, Xuanyuan Tianji’s cultivation would advance even faster than yours and already reach the Heavenly Venerable Realm.】
【This discovery left Chen Shu both shocked and delighted.】
【Because with both you and Xuanyuan Tianji emerging as outstanding prodigies, the hope she saw kept growing greater.】
【You asked Chen Shu what changes had taken place in the outside world during the years of your seclusion.】
【After thinking everything through, you knew that what had to be faced would be faced sooner or later. Only by knowing both yourself and your enemy could you prevail in every battle.】
【Chen Shu told you that in recent years, the number of humans within Heavenly Emperor City had been rising sharply, and under Heavenly Emperor City’s indoctrination, the speed at which all humans cultivated had risen by another tier.】
【“By the way, who exactly are those people from the real Heavenly Emperor City?”】
【Now that Heavenly Emperor City was divided into the Upper and Lower City, everyone kept referring to it all as Heavenly Emperor City, to the point that you no longer even knew which people truly belonged to the real Heavenly Emperor City.】
【Chen Shu told you that those people from Heavenly Emperor City were actually the remnants of the Bai Family from long ago.】
【Chen Shu told you that at its peak, the Bai Family had also been one of the foremost great powers in the Qingxuan Realm. They had suddenly fled in the middle of the war against the Eldritch Race, and that was how some of their people and influence had been preserved.】
【Chen Shu told you that there had originally been three great families in Heavenly Emperor City. The other two had all perished in the war against the Eldritch Race. Only part of the Bai Family had survived by fleeing.】
【“The Bai Family...”】
【Once you learned that the Bai Family had survived only because they had fled in panic during the war against the Eldritch Race, you were no longer surprised that they had cooperated with the Eldritch Race.】
【For a family as selfish and self-serving as that, they would do anything so long as it benefited them.】
【Of course, you knew that you yourself were selfish as well, but at the very least, you would never stand against the Human Race.】
【Under special circumstances, you would also sacrifice a portion of the Human Race in order to fight against the Eldritch Race.】
【It was just like the decision you had made in the Canglan Realm, when you allowed Qin Yang to corrupt the Secret Realm.】
【After coming back to your senses, you both entered seclusion once more.】
【There were now only five years left until the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth. You had to return to the Canglan Realm before it arrived.】
【The seventeenth year!】
【You awoke from seclusion. This year, you planned to make another trip to the Fallen Immortal Abyss.】
【You went to find Xuanyuan Tianji and asked whether she wanted to go to the Fallen Immortal Abyss with you.】
【After hearing this, Xuanyuan Tianji nodded and agreed to go with you.】
【When Xuanyuan Tianji emerged, you realized that you could no longer sense her aura at all.】
【“You broke through to the Immortal Realm?”】
【Xuanyuan Tianji nodded calmly.】
【After receiving her answer, you took a deep breath and left the Great Emperor Ruins with Xuanyuan Tianji.】
【Because the Eldritch Race had gathered within Heavenly Emperor City, you no longer had to be cautious along the way this time. You reached the Fallen Immortal Abyss in only a month.】
【This time, you climbed to the seven-thousandth step.】
【At this point, the strength of your fleshly body had also reached the peak of the Mortal Shedding Realm. The next time you came here, you would be able to break through to the Spirit Bone Realm.】
【The eighteenth year!】
【You returned from the Fallen Immortal Abyss to the Hope Zone on the outskirts of the Great Emperor Ruins.】
【After returning, you hurriedly entered seclusion again.】
【The nineteenth year!】
【You began to undergo your fifth Lightning Tribulation!】
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