10 years later.
Tian Yongheng finally broke through to the Ninth Stage of Golden Core Realm!
The golden core floating in his Sea of Consciousness shone brightly, having reached near perfection. A little push, and it could be cultivated to the utmost perfection, which would mean reaching the peak of the Ninth Stage of Golden Core Realm.
Right now, Tian Yongheng felt incomprehensible power flowing through his entire being, the Sea of Consciousness and the golden core full of Spiritual Energy.
He felt as if he had become truly invincible, capable of destroying everything in his path.
Of course, that was only a misconception caused by the increase in strength.
But nonetheless, he was now really invincible below the Void Refinement Realm, fully capable of tackling and defeating tens of thousands of cultivators at the Ninth Stage of Golden Core Realm.
He could now probably even fight against multiple cultivators at the Ninth Stage of Void Refinement Realm, and actually stand a chance against them unlike before.
One thing he was unsure of right now was if he could fight on par with Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
Realm barriers cannot be broken by sheer power alone. Every major realm has abilities unique to themselves, and the difference only grows after the Innate Realm.
In the Innate Realm and below, there were many notable abilities in each major realm except for the Foundation Establishment Realm where one would form their Sea of Consciousness etcetera.
However, from the Golden Core Realm onwards, every major realm has powerful unique abilities, like manipulation of the void in Void Refinement Realm which includes creating enclosed separate worlds, teleportation etcetera, and the Nascent Soul of the Nascent Soul Realm which couldn’t be destroyed without using the strength of beyond the Nascent Soul Realm.
All these abilities contribute greatly to the power factor of each major realm.
While they can be overcome with sheer force, that force must be extremely overwhelming as to completely suppress the corresponding realm.
This force can be the power of a Constitution, Bloodline, Innate Talent, extremely powerful techniques and spells, Divine Powers, Dharma Artifacts, and of course, the Providence. There are also many other factors determining this, like being a Sword Cultivator or Body Cultivator etcetera, but these are usually the main ones.
Tian Yongheng right now possess power possibly equivalent to the Nascent Soul Realm, but he still won’t be able to kill a Nascent Soul Realm completely.
Even destroying their body will be a lot of trouble for him.
But if he can obtain more powerful techniques, spells, Dharma Artifacts and such, then he can break the barrier and possess power equal to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, able to kill even Nascent Soul Realm cultivators with ease.
For example, a Rank-8 Dharma Artifact.
Putting all these thoughts aside, at this moment, Tian Yongheng calmed down and stabilized his cultivation base, checking his status panel screen floating in front of him.
[Name: Tian Yongheng]
[Race: Mortal]
[Lifespan: 270/9,158]
[Cultivation: Ninth Stage of Golden Core Realm.]
[Constitution: Five-Elemental Divine Spiritual Physique.]
[Bloodline: Jade Pure Bloodline (Descendant of the Celestial Venerable of Primordial Beginning).]
[Innate Talent(s): Sword Heart, Primordial Meridians and Primordial Bones.]
Such exponential increase in lifespan!
Seeing the status panel, Tian Yongheng couldn’t help but be excited at the great increase in lifespan in this last breakthrough of the Golden Core Realm.
It was more than 400 years of lifespan!
400 years of lifespan was obtained upon a major realm breakthrough from the Qi Condensation Realm to the Foundation Establishment Realm!
A single minor realm breakthrough has become this terrifying, how great would the lifespan and power increase would be in the future realms?
And what about major realms?
How much lifespan for the breakthrough to the Void Refinement Realm? Is the origin lifespan going to increase to 10,000 years? Or directly 12,000 years?
He was pretty excited about the Void Refinement Realm.
By entering that realm, he would be considered partially invincible below the Nascent Soul Realm, being capable of probably defeating hundreds of cultivators at the Ninth Stage or Void Refinement Realm with the power increase and new abilities that would follow.
However, not truly invincible because he still wouldn’t be able to take on armies of tens of thousands of cultivators at the Ninth Stage of Void Refinement Realm.
This was his ideology.
For him, being invincible in a major realm meant being able to take on as many of the highest level of that realm that may come, or at least tens of thousands of them.
At this point, just as he was contemplating about this, the familiar system notification popped up in front of him.
[Congratulations to the host for breaking through to the Ninth Stage of Golden Core Realm.]
[Obtained the ancient treasure, one of the Nine Tripod Cauldrons.]
[Nine Tripod Cauldrons: Ancient treasures which were casted by Yu the Great. There are a total of nine of them, and this is one of the nine. If one manages to get a hold of all the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, they can attain the Mandate of Heaven and get the power to rule the world. It’s power can only be unveiled upon being combined with the other cauldrons.]
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"Huh?"
Reading the name and description of this newly obtained treasure, Tian Yongheng was extremely baffled.
Hold on, those Nine Tripod Cauldrons from the prehistoric times on earth?
And Yu the Great!?
Countless questions filled his mind to the brim, with no one to answer them.
Yu the Great was a figure who’s existence blurred between history and myths, eventually becoming a legendary figure back on earth.
In the legends, he was the one who casted the Nine Tripod Cauldrons as symbols of the Nine Provinces of ancient China, and were deemed as authority given by the Mandate of Heaven to the ruler of all under heaven, the emperor.
However, this should still be not enough to deem the Nine Tripod Cauldrons as ancient treasures!
Because the tales of Yu the Great and the Nine Tripod Cauldrons were less than even 5,000 years old back on earth!
Less than the origin lifespan of the Golden Core Realm!
How could it be considered as an ancient treasure then!
Things were not adding up, something was amiss!
Tian Yongheng’s mind ran rapidly, trying to find the answer to these innumerable questions in his head, but he couldn’t come up with a proper answer.
Did the system make a mistake? Impossible!
Unless...Yu the Great and the Nine Tripod Cauldrons had a far greater history than he knew of!
Could it be that Yu the Great was a legendary cultivator who had gone to earth?
He couldn’t help but think of this.
Was Immortal Cultivation actually possible on earth back then? Or was the known history and myths altered with?
A cold sweat ran down his face as he thought of this.
No way...that means there is a chance that every single being had been manipulated from the very beginning?
I can’t put get my hand around this!
"Haah..."
Taking a deep breath, he slowly calmed down and looked up at the ceiling of his cave abode.
I can’t do anything about it as of now. I should focus on increasing my strength and cultivation first.
Only then will I be able to find the answer to all these questions.
Suddenly, he stood up and went out of his cave abode, stretching his limbs as he closed his eyes facing the rising sun.
I need to take a breather and stop cultivating for a few months now.
These revelations are too sudden even for me.
He let out a soft sigh and remained in that position for an unknown amount of time.
...
At the same time, in a grassland teeming with hundreds of Demons at the Golden Core Realm.
Dark clouds gathered above the grassland, and an extremely tense atmosphere was brewing.
In the middle, around 20 or so human cultivators floated in air, some of them slightly tired, some exhausted, and some even injured.
They were all in the later stages of Golden Core Realm.
Yun Jiang was also among the.
He appeared to be quite exhausted, sweat dripping down his forehead, his long hair messy and all his Spiritual Energy drained.
He was currently using the Spiritual Energy from his golden core, which was also nearly drained one third percent.
Corpses of more than a thousand Demons, all in the Golden Core Realm, were laying on the ground, some were intact, some were not.
It went without saying that the human cultivators including Yun Jiang had done this, which also made them very exhausted.
The strongest among them was at the Ninth Stage of Golden Core Realm, while the weakest at the Seventh Stage.
On the other hand, the Demons were all in the early and mid stages of Golden Core Realm, but they had the numbers on their sides, not to mention the multiple Demons at the later stages of Golden Core Realm.
At this point, Yun Jiang couldn’t help but think of something.
I should’ve just went to the Eternal Peak to fight with the Master of Eternal Peak.