Chapter 534: The Mysterious Fourth Layer of the Yang Deity

Chapter 534: The Mysterious Fourth Layer of the Yang Deity

Qi Yuan glanced at Chen Kangbao with a look of disdain. If Chen Kangbao was his servant, how could he compare to others? He felt inferior, seeing how others' slaves were dressed and what they ate.

"Sigh, at least I have White Moonlight," Qi Yuan muttered to himself.

He looked at the distant corpse of the Blade Demon with a proud expression.

With Divine Descent and the help of Xiao Jia's Companion in Arms, his combat power reached a terrifying level.

In a sense, it even surpassed the peak of Divine Arrival.

Divine Arrival's cultivation was higher than Qi Yuan's, but in terms of controlling divine power, he was no match for Qi Yuan, who could slay the Great Principle of Yang Deity.

"Level 150."

After slaying the Divine Rank Armament General, the Blade Demon, Qi Yuan's cultivation had reached level 150.

In this world, that would be equivalent to a Divine Armament Commander.

Now, without relying on Divine Arrival's power, he was a god!

Moreover, Qi Yuan made a new discovery about the Blade Demon.

"This is..."

Despite the distance, Qi Yuan's keen eyes noticed something unusual about the Blade Demon's blood.

【The blood, tainted by the Dark Light Spirit, diminishes the power of holy artifacts.】

This revelation gave Qi Yuan something to ponder.

"Was the Blade Demon's blood modified by someone?" Qi Yuan wondered, looking at the Blade Demon's severed arm and feeling more certain of his guess.

Perhaps, in preparation to deal with Divine Arrival, someone had used the Dark Light Spirit to taint the Blade Demon's blood.

When Divine Arrival was besieged by the gods, he had injured the Blade Demon, causing the holy artifacts to lose their power and weakening Divine Arrival's strength.

"Hey, are you there?" Qi Yuan once again sought help from the Thorned Blood staff.

He took out the Divine Wood Token.

"First of all, my name isn't 'Hey'. Secondly, if you have a request, just state it. Don't waste my time."

"Have you ever heard of the Dark Light Spirit?" Qi Yuan asked.

Since he was roleplaying as Divine Arrival, he needed to understand the cause of his death.

"No, I haven't." The staff member replied.

Qi Yuan was a bit disappointed. It seemed he would have to clear the Raksha Kingdom's dungeon to find out who was behind all this.

"However, if I pay a certain price, I might be able to find out what this is." The Thorned Blood staff member said.

"If you help me investigate this, I'll remember the favor. If I ever fall from grace, I'll come to the Underworld." Qi Yuan promised.

"Hehe..."

On the other side, the Thorned Blood staff member let out a cold laugh.

He opened the window and gazed at the hazy world outside, as if admiring the scenery.

"New mission: Detailed information about the Dark Light Spirit, 1 point."

As a veteran Void Walker, he had the authority to post missions.

The Void Playground had deeply infiltrated this embryonic universe.

He could even access information about the Green Mountain Book.

With a quick search, he could easily obtain details about other items.

After a few moments, his eyes lit up.

"I've found information about the Dark Light Spirit."

"This thing originates from the Radiant Pathmaster. Its most significant feature is its ability to pollute holy artifacts, reducing their divine power..."

"Thank you." Qi Yuan expressed his gratitude, deep in thought.

"The Radiant Pathmaster again."

Qi Yuan had only encountered two people from the Radiant Pathmaster: Fang Shisan and a dead man.

However, the Radiant Pathmaster had been a constant thorn in his side throughout his journey.

When Qi Yuan was a mere son-in-law, Fang Shisan from the Radiant Pathmaster had tried to scheme against him, even attempting assassination.

Later, Qi Yuan traveled to the Ten Thousand Mountain Peaks, where he saw numerous corpses that had once forged fragments of the Bright Wonder Treasure.

He encountered members of the Radiant Pathmaster there as well.

Among them were the thirty thousand Artificers led by the Radiant Pathmaster to refine fragments of the Bright Wonder Treasure in the Wonder Realm.

Now, with the death of Divine Arrival, it seemed the Radiant Pathmaster was involved once more.

The Radiant Pathmaster was like a persistent skin condition.

"Do you know about the Radiant Pathmaster?" Qi Yuan asked curiously.

The Thorned Blood staff member's eyes narrowed, "The Green Mountain Book records that the Green Mountain Realm is about to be destroyed.

This is not just the end of the Green Mountain Realm, but also the eventual fate of your universe.

No world or living being can escape annihilation.

Unless... one can transcend."

After saying this, the staff member continued, "Let's talk about the Radiant Pathmaster.

Your world, or rather, your universe, is about to face destruction.

The Radiant Pathmaster claims to be the savior of this world, and they have been working tirelessly to... save this world."

"The righteous path?" Qi Yuan was surprised.

The righteous path had been trying to kill him. Was he the villain?

He was a lawful good person who couldn't bear to kill even an ant. How could he be a villain? But then he remembered that self-righteousness wasn't true righteousness.

"The Radiant Pathmaster isn't that strong, but they can be a nuisance. However, behind them..." The staff member's face showed reverence and fear as he thought about it.

That majestic existence was so awe-inspiring that even imagining him made one's heart tremble.

If one were to call out his name with ill intent, and it wasn't his real name, the consequences would be dire.

Before he had consolidated the Divine Realm, that being could annihilate him with a mere thought from across a universe.

Only after consolidating the Divine Realm and deepening his connection with the universe could that being no longer kill him with a single thought.

But if a thought wasn't enough, surely a finger would do the trick?

"Who's behind this?" Qi Yuan felt he didn't know enough about the game's background.

"Radiant Pathmaster!" The Thorned Blood staff member trembled as he uttered these four words.

Radiant Pathmaster!

Single Pathmaster!

"Who is he, what realm is he in, and is he strong?" Qi Yuan asked in surprise.

Hearing this, the Thorned Blood staff member was even more certain that Qi Yuan was a native of this world, as he hadn't even heard of the Pathmasters.

"Do you know that above the Divine Rank Armament Generals, there are True Gods who have consolidated the Divine Realm?

Above the True Gods, you call them Ancestral Gods.

But in our other universes, they are known as Yang Deities.

There are five layers of Yang Deities, and the gap between each layer is greater than that of the Celestial Rank.

In our Zhou Universe, any Yang Deity can swallow an entire realm.

Such a majestic existence, with a mere yawn, could kill even the strongest of your Green Mountain Realm, the Divine Arrival.

And this is just the first layer of Yang Deities.

As for those above, their strength is even greater.

The creator of our Void Playground is the first among the strong in the Zhou Universe, the Void Sovereign!"

This time, the Thorned Blood staff member didn't hide his identity.

After so many days of communication, if the other party wasn't an idiot, they would surely know he wasn't just a member of Thorned Blood.

"What, are you from another universe?" Ji Wuyun came online again, his face filled with shock.

The Thorned Blood staff member was speechless and didn't respond. He continued, "The Void Sovereign is a Yang Deity of the third layer, a perfect realm, and the strongest in the Zhou Universe.

The Void Sovereign can create realms like the Green Mountain Realm and even bring life into existence from nothingness.

If he were to take action, no one in your universe would be able to stop him."

When mentioning the Void Sovereign, he spoke with pride and reverence.

This was the imperial existence that all cultivators in the Zhou Universe admired and worshipped.

"He's a bit strong," Qi Yuan commented seriously.

At least with his current strength, he couldn't create a world, nor could he create any life.

But he could modify it.

The last time he obtained the token of the Void Playground, he had learned a lot of information.

The third layer of Yang Deities is divided into Rule, All Things, and Heaven Opening Realms.

The Supreme Principle understood by the Six Heavens of the Immortal World is actually considered weak in the Rule Realm in terms of combat power.

The Thorned Blood staff member was already familiar with Qi Yuan's reactions.

"The realm of the Void Sovereign is something we can only look up to in our lifetime.

But the Radiant Pathmaster... is a Yang Deity of the fifth layer, two layers above the Void Sovereign, known as the Pathmaster!

The Pathmaster, the Single Pathmaster, is the one and only, the eternal, and the fixed!

Once you become a Pathmaster, you truly transcend, and even if the universe is destroyed, your body remains, and even if the universe is annihilated, your spirit lives on, traveling through the river of time, able to traverse the past and future."

In his family, there was an old ancestor who was a Yang Deity and a Void Walker, so he knew about these things.

And for Yang Deities, these weren't secrets.

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"Pathmaster, Single Pathmaster.

In this world, there are numerous cultivation systems: Martial Path, Immortal Path, Sorcery Path, Poison Spirit Path, Demon Cultivation Path, and more.

When you reach the true end of any of these paths, you can be called a Pathmaster.

The moment you become a Pathmaster, that cultivation path will be under your control, and the universe will become your territory.

All the cultivation of later cultivators will be to pave the way for you, and... they will never be able to surpass you.

On each Great Path, there is only one Pathmaster!

And each universe can only support the existence of one Pathmaster!"

The Thorned Blood staff member shared what he knew with Qi Yuan.

Of course, his realm was low, and his knowledge wasn't entirely accurate, with many errors and omissions.

But most of the above content was correct.

"This is indeed strong," Qi Yuan commented.

During his time at the Moon God Palace, he had also learned that the fifth layer of Yang Deities could control time.

Now, he knew even more.

Not only could they control time, but they were also Single Pathmasters.

For example, in the Immortal Path or the Martial Path.

This meant that if a Yang Deity of the fifth layer appeared among the immortal cultivators, then he would be the only Yang Deity of the fifth layer among the immortal cultivators, the Immortal Pathmaster.

In the immortal cultivation world, there would never be a second Yang Deity of the fifth layer.

The lives of the other immortal cultivators would also be in his control.

He would become the end and the beginning of the Immortal Path.

At this moment, Qi Yuan suddenly remembered that the future of the Six Heavens of the Immortal World had been severed.

Could it be... that a cultivator had glimpsed such a future and cut off the Immortal World's future with a single sword?

The Immortal World was vast, probably not smaller than a universe.

To be able to sever the future of the Immortal World with a single sword, one would have to be at least a Heaven Opening Realm cultivator.

(End of Chapter)

"You can offend the Radiant Assembly, but you must never offend the Radiant Pathmaster behind them."

The Thorned Blood staff member spoke with a sense of superiority.

He was smug, as if to say, 'You country bumpkins, you have no idea how vast the world beyond is.'

However, he soon became somewhat disappointed.

These people, who had not yet reached the Yang Deity realm, were like frogs in a well when they heard about the Radiant Pathmaster. But once they reached the Yang Deity realm, they would be like mayflies before the vast sky.

Until they reached the Yang Deity realm, they couldn't even fathom the power of a Pathmaster.

"I have a question. The third layer of Yang Deity is the Realm Sovereign, and the fifth layer is the Pathmaster. What about the fourth layer?" Qi Yuan asked curiously.

The Radiant Pathmaster was powerful, many times stronger than the one in the Grand Brilliance Palace, but what difference did it make?

As long as there was a health bar, Qi Yuan could slowly kill him!

"This..." The Thorned Blood staff member was stunned, not expecting Qi Yuan to ask this question. "Regarding the fourth layer of Yang Deity, it is a taboo. Even in our Zhou Universe, not many people know what the fourth layer of Yang Deity is.

According to ancient records, even ordinary Yang Deity at the third layer do not know what the fourth layer is like.

Perhaps only the Void Sovereign at the peak of Heaven Opening and the Radiant Pathmaster at the fifth layer of Yang Deity know about the fourth layer."

"The fourth layer of Yang Deity is so mysterious?" Qi Yuan was surprised.

It was strange that they knew about the fifth layer but not the fourth.

"According to some great existences, the fourth layer of Yang Deity is something that cannot be spoken of, cannot be described, and cannot be perceived. Otherwise, a great calamity will occur."

"Thank you, lecturer," Qi Yuan sincerely expressed his gratitude.

He not only learned more about the game settings but also gained a clearer understanding of the cultivation system.

"The Immortal Path probably doesn't have a Pathmaster. Otherwise, if they yawned... I would be dead, right?"

"No, am I cultivating the Immortal Path?"

"Yes, I cultivate the Immortal Path of Schrodinger!"

With a Pathmaster, he was cultivating a fake Immortal Path.

Without a Pathmaster, he was cultivating the Immortal Path and striving to become a Pathmaster.

"What's the point of me, a Purple Mansion cultivator, thinking about these things? I'm just a Divine Rank Armament General."

"We should first slaughter that little good-for-nothing, White Moonlight, before discussing anything else!"

Yes, after hearing about the Pathmaster, Qi Yuan increasingly felt that the Divine Rank Armament General of Raksha Kingdom was a nobody.

Perhaps, in the eyes of a Pathmaster-level existence, the actions of the Divine Arrival now seemed comical.

It didn't matter!

However, Qi Yuan remained true to his heart.

As an actor, he had to maintain professional ethics.

...

In the grand hall, there were four people, all Divine Rank Armament Generals, and their faces were grim.

"The Blade Demon is dead, killed by a single sword strike!"

One of the old men spoke, his voice hoarse.

His face was pale, whiter than most people after being dead for several days.

"He has resurrected, and he's almost as powerful as he was in his prime!" another Divine Rank Armament General said gravely.

He wanted to leave, but he also understood that he would die faster if he left.

Staying together with the other Armament Generals, they could at least keep each other warm.

"If we join forces, we might not be able to stop him!" Duke Yuan said worriedly, "He's already dead, shattered into pieces, yet he's still able to resurrect!"

He was truly afraid. After all, if the Divine Arrival had been a little harsher, he might have killed the Blood Cloud Bandits and continued to do other things.

He also felt daring, having stayed in Dingbo Prefecture for so long.

"Now is not the time to discuss why he resurrected. We should be considering how to deal with him!

If we can't kill him, we'll all die.

Our immortal legacy, which could last for eternity, will be destroyed by his own hands!" The pale-faced old man spoke with resentment.

Just then, a majestic voice came from behind the pearl curtain.

"A hundred years ago, I was unable to face him. This time, I will personally slay him!"

Hearing this voice, the Divine Rank Armament Generals in the hall reacted differently.

The Emperor... was going to take action personally?

...

Where did he get the confidence and courage?

These people knew the Emperor better than anyone. A hundred years ago, not only did they dare not fight against the Divine Arrival, but they also didn't dare to even watch, fearing they would be implicated.

Over the years, he had grown stronger, and some even praised him as being almost on par with the Divine Arrival.

But even so, with his timid nature, would he dare to act against the Divine Arrival?

That was the Divine Arrival!

(End)

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