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Chapter 310: Strolling in the Netherworld, Spirit Qi Returns
Chapter 310: Strolling in the Netherworld, Spirit Qi Returns
Strolling through the Netherworld, Qin Muye carefully maintained his outer shell. Once it was broken, it would be a catastrophic disaster for the Netherworld.
Qin Muye had already let go of Ji Shan. He couldn't follow the other person around forever, right?
After all, Ji Shan was an adult. If he still needed Qin Muye to protect him, wouldn't he be like a flower grown in a greenhouse, rendered useless?
If there were truly insurmountable problems, Qin Muye could help. But if everything had to be planned and strategized by Qin Muye, then he would be raising not a son, but an ancestor.
When it was time for growth, he had to let him face the storms.
After raising him for eighteen years, he still had feelings for him. Ji Shan wasn't Qin Muye, so he needed training and refinement to become a qualified strong person.
Qin Muye, on the other hand, didn't need to grow, because he was already a strong person.
Over the eighteen years, he didn't just develop the system for cultivators; he also focused on strengthening himself.
Of course, he didn't cultivate himself, but rather evolved and improved himself in various aspects.
Now, his strength was roughly equivalent to a 7th rank true combat power. If he had relied on cultivation, even 180 years might not have been enough to achieve this.
In his territory, he could even instantly kill a 7th rank, but an 8th rank was too far-fetched, beyond his capabilities.
Breaking ranks had its limits. He could fight a 7th rank at the 5th rank because he had already transcended the rank framework of the Lord Era, not because he could truly overkill higher ranks.
His current actual strength was 7th rank, just lacking the data recognition from the Lord Era.
This had its advantages; he didn't need to worry too much about dungeons.
Others definitely couldn't progress as quickly as him, after all, getting stronger wasn't just about cultivation. Even if other lords followed a systematic path of cultivation, no matter how talented they were, they couldn't match the speed of his modifications.
So as long as nothing strange happened in this world, Qin Muye could basically bulldoze through everything.
Alright, on the condition that Qin Muye didn't cause trouble. As long as he didn't stir things up, there wouldn't be any major calamities like the end of the law or the collapse of heaven and earth.
This time, Qin Muye stayed in the world for eighteen years. There were minor troubles, but he was sufficiently restrained, so there were no major issues.
"With my strength far exceeding this world by two ranks, I won't die unless I seek death. Even if I die, I can resurrect in my territory."
This time, his territory was in this world, so his death wouldn't fail the mission. He wouldn't need to return to the Sorcerer Dynasty server to resurrect; he would revive directly on-site.
"These four fundamental forces aren't omnipotent. They don't exist in the Netherworld, showing their limitations."
Qin Muye sensed that the things from the human world didn't adapt to the Netherworld. Besides, the Netherworld wasn't a scientific place. Forcing it to adhere to scientific principles would be too much to ask.
If this world truly had people like Newton, they would still be unscientific after entering the Netherworld.
Qin Muye slowly walked deeper into the Netherworld, continuously absorbing the Netherworld's essence to use as nourishment.
In essence, Qin Muye was devouring the Netherworld, using the erosion and consumption techniques he had extracted from the Shadow Realm. After years of refinement, he had developed his own method of consumption.
On the surface, he looked like a normal person, but his reflection in the Netherworld was a terrifying abyss.
The Netherworld could reflect the heart, and while it couldn't reflect Qin Muye's heart, it could reveal his true form.
Qin Muye didn't care about this. Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. Appearance, looks, and species had long been discarded by him. He had never been confined to his human identity.
If not for the need to use a human body as a buffer for dungeons, he wouldn't even need to maintain this outer shell.
"I always feel like I'm missing something?"
Qin Muye, who started as a self-taught individual, had created his path through self-modification, so there was no reference point.
Whether it was magic, shadows, or even the latest cultivator techniques, they were just stepping stones, not true systems.
"No realm divisions, no rigid cultivation methods, and no clear path forward."
"Tsk, truly peculiar." Thankfully, he had developed everything from scratch, and he had the data for every part. Otherwise, he might not have succeeded.
He named his path and system "Abyss," representing both his power system and the ultimate abyss of his territory.
The next major goals were only two: to continue growing stronger and to fully sever ties with Lord Era and gain complete control of his territory.
In the beginning, he wouldn't have thought this way, but now it was different. He had enough strength to protect himself, and the rules given by Lord Era were more of a restriction than a convenience.
Regarding the worry that his talents would be rendered useless after leaving Lord Era, there was no need for concern. At his advanced stage of cultivation, he had already discovered methods to mitigate this, including the creation of a divine soul, which was a fusion of his various talents.
As the prototype of the Yuan Shen, he naturally possessed the corresponding abilities.
So even if Lord Era stripped his talents, he would not lose his ability to learn and conduct research.
"Yellow Spring is truly vast. At this speed, I haven't even reached the end. Could it be flowing into other worlds?" Qin Muye found it strange. He was still in the Yellow Spring of the Netherworld.
If it were the human world, it wouldn't be this large.
"The Yellow Spring that spans the Yin and Yang realms, a river that flows with the tides of spirit qi, containing all sorts of terrifying entities."
At the bottom of the Yellow Spring, Qin Muye saw many powerful corpses and spirits. As he delved deeper, some of these entities were as strong as his current 7th rank.
He suspected that if he continued forward, he might encounter 8th or 9th rank remains.
From this, he estimated that if the Yellow Spring and the spirit qi tides were manifestations of the Yin and Yang realms, then it would mean that during the peak of the Tidal World, it could have reached the level of a 9th rank server.
Qin Muye didn't know how strong 9th rank was, but it was at least on par with the Mother of Races.
The Mother of Races was the only 9th rank entity he had seen, and even then, she was not fully awakened.
He had a brief encounter with Chaos Khaos, an existence akin to the laws of heaven, the original order, the essence of time, space, and the medium itself, and the beginning and end of the world.
Unfortunately, when Qin Muye met him, he didn't gain any insights into the laws of time or space, probably because he didn't have the protagonist's luck. Otherwise, how could he have comprehended these things from the tightly woven rules?
"The Yellow Spring can't go any further. Any further and I'll have to fight for my life." Qin Muye stopped, somewhat reluctantly.
He estimated that no one in the Tidal World could walk as far in the Yellow Spring as he did. For those practitioners, it was impossible to enter the Netherworld physically, and even their souls required protection from ghost ships and ghost lamps; otherwise, they couldn't withstand the erosion of the Netherworld and the Yellow Spring.
Not to mention the various dead yet life-cherishing corpses and spirits lurking at the bottom of the Yellow Spring.
"From the length of the Yellow Spring, the length of this Netherworld exceeds my imagination. It can't be limited to just two spirit qi eras."
For the natives to reach 7th rank through normal cultivation, it would take at least tens of thousands of years. Of course, exceptions like the Divine Mysterious Emperor, who was a genius and a chosen one, were rare, with one such individual unlikely to appear in a world. Even so, it took him nearly a few thousand years to rise to his current level.
Even if this world had a high base level, it didn't mean that high-ranking combatants would emerge endlessly.
The human world couldn't possibly sustain a situation where 6th ranks were everywhere and 7th ranks were as common as dogs.
Liu Gu, the ancestor of the Liu family, was a strong 6th rank from the previous spirit qi era, according to the intelligence Qin Muye had gathered.
In the previous spirit qi era, there was only one true 7th rank, currently in hiding, waiting for the peak of the spirit qi resurgence to meet the conditions he set before awakening.
Above that, 8th ranks didn't exist at all.
Yet, in the Yellow Spring, Qin Muye had already seen no fewer than ten 7th rank corpses.
Each one was vivid, maintaining the appearance they had in life, dressed in ancient, elegant attire, clearly from ancient times. They wore impressive magical treasures, but unfortunately, the Yellow Spring had long washed away their former power.
(End of Chapter)
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