Return to the Human Realm

[Year Fifty, sixty-eight years old.]

[The sense of time inside the rift became blurred.]

[But the simulator will keep accurate time for you.]

[You flew in the rift for a full year.]

[Above a boundless prairie, the Jiuzhou Cauldron appeared out of thin air in mid-air.]

["Bang!!"]

[The hundred-meter-tall Jiuzhou Cauldron smashed into the ground, half of its body sinking into the earth, standing there at a slant.]

[You climbed out of the cauldron.]

["Oh—this familiar fragrance of dirt! This clear blue sky, this fragrant green grass! I'm back! I'm finally back!"]

[The biggest problem with the Demon Realm wasn't the lack of natural essence that prevented natural cultivation, nor was it the lack of martial arts resources or food.]

[It was the dead silence.]

[That aura of death and decay could eat away at a person's will.]

[You felt that if you stayed in the Demon Realm for a few more years, you'd want to bury yourself directly.]

[How could that do?]

[Sixty is the perfect age to strive for success!]

[This was your life motto, after all!]

["Fortunately, there's still time. When I'm seventy-five, the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey's vanguard demon army will launch a surprise attack on the Eastern Wasteland. Only when I'm eighty will the human and demon races go to all-out war!"]

[Your current realm is the seventh level of the Spirit Sea Realm, with five minor stages left to advance in the Spirit Sea Realm.]

[As long as there are no accidents and you live to your theoretical lifespan, relying on the pills from the Jiuzhou Cauldron and the nourishment from the Myriad Soul Banner, you will definitely reach the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm!]

[At that time, with the help of the immortal peach from the Sword Master, breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm will not be a pipe dream!]

["I'll go to the Eastern Wasteland right now to find the Sword Master and tell him the demons are about to attack so he can prepare early! Giving him such massive intelligence, combined with his high regard for me as the 'Demon Nemesis', plus the fact that I'm an authentic Sword Sect disciple this time! Getting one immortal peach shouldn't be a problem, right?"]

[You weren't worried about whether you could get your hands on an immortal peach; rather, you were a bit worried if one would be enough.]

[Although this thing could assist in breaking through to the Martial King Realm, the Sword Sect only gave them to geniuses who had been stuck at the peak of the Spirit Condensation Realm for over ten years, not to someone with weaker aptitude like you.]

[For people with different talents, using the same resources yields entirely different results.]

[Now you were aiming for the Spirit Condensation Realm, which was completely different from when you were aiming for the Golden Body Realm.]

["Regardless, first to the Eastern Wasteland! By the way, where is this?"]

[You put away the Jiuzhou Cauldron.]

[The crystals had all been consumed, and the peaches in the cauldron's inner world hadn't borne any new fruit for the time being.]

[The Jiuzhou Cauldron's divine power had been completely exhausted in the rift passage.]

[Otherwise, it wouldn't have smashed straight down like that when it came out.]

[For now, you could only rely on yourself to travel.]

[Fortunately, you still had the Sword Control Technique.]

[In the past, the Sword Control Technique could only be used for short-distance flights, but now it was different.]

[After entering the Spirit Sea Realm, martial artists could use the Spirit Vortex ability to regenerate their own spiritual energy endlessly.]

[This allowed for long-term flight using the Sword Control Technique.]

[However, when using the Spirit Vortex, you couldn't use vitality or essence energy, as that would interrupt the Spirit Vortex.]

[In other words, you had to stay out of combat.]

["It's all prairie..."]

[After flying for most of the day, you found that below was nothing but lush green prairie.]

[Occasionally, you could see large patches of snow-white, which were flocks of sheep.]

["This should be the Northern Territory."]

[The Northern Territory was full of prairies, and the northerners had a nomadic culture, which matched what you saw.]

["Then I just need to fly southeast."]

[Right at this moment, your Signal Light trait activated automatically.]

[You quickly scanned your surroundings and found a linear red zone appearing behind you.]

[It was a golden arrow!]

["Damn it! Who shot me!"]

[You raised your hand and used the Burning Cloud Hand to swat down the incoming golden arrow.]

[Looking down, you saw a group of cavalry roaring towards you in the distance.]

[Looking closely, they were all drawing their bows and nocking arrows.]

["Holy..."]

[They were going to shoot you into a sieve!]

[Hiding inside the Jiuzhou Cauldron would be the safest option right now.]

[But within the Five Domains, you didn't want to easily expose the Jiuzhou Cauldron.]

[The Shen family was still hunting you!]

[Although the Shen family was in the Star Domain, they had many clansmen experiencing the world on the ground.]

[They also had dedicated strongholds and informant networks. They weren't truly isolated from the world; they just didn't participate in certain matters on the ground.]

["Galaxy Divine Art, Bramble Forest!"]

[Your vitality erupted into waves of qi, and seven spiritual energy vortexes rotated behind you.]

[You unleashed the Galaxy Divine Art, forcefully lifting a large patch of turf from the ground to form a shield against the rain of arrows.]

["Northern cavalry! I'm just passing through. Don't force me to go on a killing spree!"]

[Before you could finish speaking, you suddenly felt a faint sense of suffocation.]

[The surroundings instantly turned a large patch of red.]

[You looked up.]

[A middle-aged man with shoulder-length twin tails on the sides of his head, an extremely burly build, and wearing golden armor was standing directly above your head.]

[His voice was full of authority.]

["Central Plains spy, come with me to the main camp!"]

[There was nothing under the opponent's feet, nor were there any fluctuations of spiritual energy or vitality. He was flying through the air.]

[At least the Martial King Realm!]

["Big bro, I ain't no spy! I'm just passing by!"]

["Wearing the attire of the Central Plains, lingering in the sky above our army's encampment, and you still say you're not a spy! Let's go!"]

[The middle-aged man waved his large hand, and an eagle actually flew out from his sleeve.]

[The eagle grabbed your shoulders and carried you, following the middle-aged man as he flew into the distance.]

[You felt that the person who caught you should be a big shot in the Northern Territory tribes. He wouldn't be unreasonable, and once the misunderstanding was cleared up, he shouldn't make things difficult for you.]

[There was no need to fight them to the death for now; it was better to lay low and endure.]

[The Myriad Soul Banner couldn't endure it.]

["Bro, you can actually tolerate this! Hurry! Let the Shen family ancestor out! Nebula Rift!! Get him!!"]

["You just wish I'd die earlier, don't you?"]

[Having its petty thoughts exposed by you, the Myriad Soul Banner started playing dumb.]

["Oh my, there's no day, night, or seasons in that rift passage. Suddenly returning to the human world, I'm really not quite used to it yet..."]

[You were taken by the eagle to a nearby military camp.]

[This army was massive. The camp was pitched along the river, and its end couldn't be seen at a glance.]

[You were escorted into the central command tent.]

[The golden-armored middle-aged man strode to the seat of honor, turned around, and spoke to the generals standing on both sides of the tent.]

["It seems the Great Qian imperial court is truly panicking. They've even started sending spies to scout our military intelligence. It's just that this spy is too weak, and he's an old man too. Hahaha!!"]

[The middle-aged man laughed, and the generals in the tent joined in, creating an atmosphere of hearty and rugged amusement.]

["The Great Khan is mighty! Our army's momentum is at its peak. This time, we will definitely conquer the Central Plains and capture the dragon in the south!"]

["The vanguard commander Wumuha has already fought his way to Beitong Pass. Once this pass is broken, it will be flat terrain all the way straight to the Great Qian capital!"]

["That female emperor in the south has also been a great help. She has already occupied three provinces of Great Qian! It's leaving Great Qian completely overwhelmed, hahaha!"]