【Year sixty-four, age ninety.】
【Everything was ready.】
【Just as in the previous simulation.】
【Using the Profound Heaven Disk, the Ji family sent you to the Star Apes’ divine artifact, the Void-Piercing Divine Altar, located in outer space.】
【Once you were in position, ten beams of stellar-level energy converged from all directions, gathering inside the Void-Piercing Divine Altar.】
【Then, all the light condensed into a single point within the altar and violently blasted into the void.】
【“Crack, crack, crack…”】
【A fissure appeared in the boundless universe. On the other side of it was a bizarre, dazzling spatial turbulence.】
【The turbulence engulfed you, and images of various planes in the Void Realm flashed before your eyes.】
【Under the spellcasting of Sun Xiaosheng and the other Star Apes, the image of the Human Realm actively drew closer to you.】
【“Human Realm, I’m back!”】
【Looking back, it all seemed like a dream.】
【Looking back once more, my heart remains unchanged.】
【You had been separated from the Human Realm for sixty-four years, spending those sixty-four years bullying weaklings in the harsh, desolate Real Realm, where you had no one to rely on.】
【Now, radiant and brimming with confidence, you really wanted to stand before those familiar faces and tell them about the remarkable achievements you had made in the Real Realm—then bask in their admiration.】
【Li Lingyue, Big Brother, Third Sister, Da Chun, Zhenpin, Li Chengqian, Hua Wuyan, Shen Yue, Li Liushui, Dongfang Shuo, Wang Mingbai, Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Hongluan…】
【The chaotic spatial turbulence around you came to a halt, and the Human Realm once again appeared before your eyes.】
【Blue skies and white clouds. Verdant mountains and crystal-clear rivers.】
【Herd boys tending cattle, farmers transplanting rice seedlings.】
【This time, the Human Realm was safe and sound.】
【“Hiding the Five Elements Root Vessels really was useful. Either the Black Hand hasn’t found the Qiankun Mirror and the others, or he’s still searching for them. He has plenty to keep him busy.”】
【Besides, Chen Six had remained in the Human Realm this time. With him guarding the Void Realm, the Black Hand probably wouldn’t act rashly without absolute certainty.】
【“Boom!!”】
【A sonic boom came hurtling toward you.】
【It was Chen Six. His divine sense had been covering the entire continent, so he came the instant you appeared.】
【He flew incredibly fast, shattering the space behind him.】
【“My dear! You’re finally back! I divined that you’d return this year!”】
【Chen Six was so excited that tears and mucus streamed down his face.】
【You snapped your fingers, recalling Chen Six into your body.】
【Now that you were back, even if you were only a projection, you had no use for this counterfeit anymore.】
【“Give me a report on everything important that happened in the Human Realm over the past sixty-odd years.”】
【“Basically, nothing worth your attention happened. The fighting and killing among mortals, the power struggles between cultivator factions… To you, they’re probably no more than monkeys playing house. It doesn’t matter who wins or loses, right?”】
【Chen Six truly had been to the Real Realm. His perspective was far broader than that of your other clones.】
【Indeed, nothing that happened in the Human Realm mattered to you anymore.】
【Because you had already risen to a higher dimension.】
【Who became emperor, how many prodigies a sacred land produced, what groundbreaking invention the Shen family came up with—all of it was merely a ripple in the river of time.】
【Unless the Human Realm itself disappeared, nothing would count as a major event to you.】
【“Then report on everyone who left the Human Realm through the Ascension Road over the years.”】
【Chen Six began listing the names one by one.】
【He had kept exceptionally complete records on this matter.】
【Over the past sixty-four years, fifteen people had attempted the Ascension Road.】
【Six of them succeeded on their first attempt and entered the Real Realm.】
【Four succeeded after repeated attempts.】
【The remaining five gave up.】
【“Ten people made it through? That doesn’t sound right. Those Ancient Desolate Remnants clearly said that only Martial Gods had a chance of passing through the Ascension Road. How did so many Martial Gods suddenly appear in the Human Realm?”】
【“Who said they were all Martial Gods? Most of them were Martial Saints. There were only three Martial Gods, two of whom were Li Lingyue and Li Liushui.”】
【Li Lingyue becoming a Martial God had been a certainty.】
【With Chen Six ensuring her safety and making arrangements, Li Lingyue was sent to Hua Wuyan to become her disciple.】
【With Chen Six’s guidance and Hua Wuyan’s devoted instruction, Li Lingyue’s Incense Saint Body was utilized to its fullest. Reaching the Martial God realm in just over sixty years was not particularly difficult.】
【It was equally normal for Li Liushui to become a Martial God.】
【He had already been a renowned Martial Saint when you first ventured into the world.】
【That fellow was simply a little lazy. His talent was beyond question—perhaps even greater than Li Lingyue’s.】
【Perhaps, after seeing so many people go to the Real Realm in this simulation, he had been tempted. So he got serious for once and accidentally became a Martial God.】
【“Wasn’t it extremely difficult for Martial Saints to pass through the Ascension Road? How did so many Martial Saints make it across?”】
【Chen Six gave you a mysterious smile.】
【“Take a guess.”】
【“Guess your sister! Hurry up and tell me!”】
【“Because of the Sword Master.”】
【“What does the Sword Master have to do with it?”】
【“The Sword Master left something behind at the entrance to the Ascension Road—in other words, on the bridge we saw. A trace of sword intent.”】
【“What was it for?”】
【“Anyone who could withstand the pressure of that sword intent could enter the Ascension Road. The sword intent’s pressure was far weaker than the pressure of the Ascension Road itself, but only Martial Saints could sense its existence. Martial Gods couldn’t feel it at all.】
【“However, that sword intent wasn’t permanent. Every person who passed through consumed part of it.”】
【When you entered the Ascension Road during the sixth simulation, you were technically a Martial Saint. However, because of the effect of “Eternal Half-Emperor,” you were actually a Martial God.】
【You couldn’t help but sigh.】
【“The Sword Master’s charisma really is too high. All these people who entered the Real Realm as Martial Saints owe the Sword Master a favor. I wonder how fanatically they’ll worship the Sword Master when they meet him in the future.”】
【Of the ten people who entered the Real Realm, besides Li Lingyue and Li Liushui, the ones you knew relatively well were:】
【Your elder brother Chen Jing, the old monk Zhenpin, Shen Yue, the Shen family’s patriarch, Dongfang Shuo, the Grand Overseer of the Carefree Sacred Land, Wu Yue, the Carefree Sacred Land’s Holy Maiden who was using your second sister’s body, the Great Qian Emperor Li Chengqian, and Wang Yanbing, the head of the Human Realm’s wealthiest Wang family.】
【“Wait a moment. Ten people went there, and nine of them are people I know?”】
【“To be honest, you also know the tenth person.”】
【“Who?”】
【“Wan Jianyi of the Boundless Sword Sect. He was the third person over the past sixty-odd years to enter the Ascension Road as a Martial God.”】
【When that name was mentioned, even with your “photographic memory,” you had to dig deep into your sea of memories before you could find him.】
【This person had first appeared during the “Contest for the Nine Provinces Cauldron” in the third simulation—a tournament held by the various factions of the Five Regions, in which the younger generation competed for ownership of the Nine Provinces Cauldron.】
【Wan Jianyi had been the champion of that tournament, helping the Boundless Sword Sect obtain the Nine Provinces Cauldron.】
【Although the Nine Provinces Cauldron had later been stolen by a mysterious individual anyway.】
【“I remember now. At the very end of the Fifth Trial, he even inherited the position of sect master of the Wuji Sword Sect. He was a formidable figure—no wonder he was able to advance to the Martial God realm as well.”】
【The world is teeming with heroes, like carp crossing a river. This realm will never lack geniuses.】
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