Base Attacked

【“Peerless Half-Emperor” can raise your power across major realms. For example, when you’re in the late Absolute Ground Realm, you can already possess the cultivation of the early Heaven-Connecting Realm.】

【However, this trait does not change the way you cultivate.】

【In other words, whatever your true realm is, you still have to cultivate according to the principles of that realm.】

【Now that your true cultivation has finally entered the Heaven-Connecting Realm, your cultivation from this day onward will have to follow the logic of the Heaven-Connecting Realm.】

【“It feels like the area inside my Origin Pill that can contain divine power has suddenly expanded countless times…”】

【Both the Absolute Ground Realm and the Heaven-Connecting Realm cultivate divine power, using it to strengthen the Origin Pill.】

【The difference is that if strengthening the Origin Pill in the Absolute Ground Realm is like pouring a cup of divine power into it each time, then in the Heaven-Connecting Realm, you have to pour in an entire pond.】

【Your cultivation speed remains the same as before, but the total amount required has suddenly increased by many times.】

【This means that even without bottlenecks or a shortage of resources, many cultivators could work hard for their entire lives and still fail to fill the gap, simply because they would run out of time.】

【Fortunately, you have more than one lifetime.】

【“Since the amount required is so enormous, I probably won’t reach the Immortal Lord level in this life either. I might as well spend some time comprehending a few more Tiangang divine abilities and improve my combat strength.”】

“I know, I know. It’s time to equip Mortal Bone again, right? The problem is, it isn’t time for the annual trait draw yet. Just wait.”

In the Chen family residence, Chen Yi reclined in a bamboo chair, perfectly at ease.

Now that he had three additional equipment slots, he had to consider what else to equip besides Mortal Bone.

【After stabilizing your cultivation, you remembered that you had previously promised A-Dou that you would visit his parents in their hometown on Lingwei Star.】

【“A-Dou delayed things for a while, and I delayed things for a while too. Somehow, fifteen years have already passed.”】

【Sometimes you feel as though there isn’t enough time, while at other times, you feel that time passes in the blink of an eye.】

【You prepared to set out for the Tinder Society’s headquarters.】

【Just then, a figure fell from the sky and crashed recklessly onto Guxiao Mountain.】

【Taking a closer look, you found that it was Ji Wuqing, disheveled and looking utterly battered.】

【Your heart tightened. You had a bad feeling about this.】

【“The headquarters is under attack!”】

【“It was attacked?”】

【“Yes! Everyone escaped in groups through thousands of exits, but the attackers had laid a vast net in advance. There are countless invaders, and the brothers of the Tinder Society are being hunted across the entire planet! We… need your help!”】

【This simulation was different from the previous one.】

【Last time, you had not been a member of the Tinder Society, so no matter how difficult things became, Ji Wuqing would not have sought you out.】

【But this time, your identity was that of the Tinder Society’s second-in-command on Firelight Star. Ji Wuqing had come to you immediately because she knew you were exceptionally capable of dealing with alien races.】

【“Where are A-Dou and the other two Destined Ones? Let’s go help them first!”】

【You remained clear-headed and seized the key point.】

【“I’ll lead the way!”】

【“You’re too slow when flying. Get on!”】

【You transformed in an instant, becoming a red-scaled divine dragon with scarlet flames beneath its feet.】

【“Good heavens… Are you from the Sacred Dragon race?”】

【“I’m not from the Sacred Dragon race! I just know how to use one of their techniques. Hurry up—we’ll be too late otherwise!”】

【“All right, all right!”】

【Ji Wuqing transformed into a Dragon Warrior and stood between your two dragon horns, directing you toward their destination.】

【Along the way, you began pondering a question.】

【Was this attack the same one that, in the previous simulation, had wiped out the Tinder Society on Zhuzixing, caused A-Dou to disappear, and driven Ji Wuqing all the way to the Ji family while under pursuit?】

【If so, how had it happened so many years earlier this time?】

【In the previous simulation, the attack had not occurred until after you had stayed with the Ji family for more than a hundred years.】

【This time, only twenty-some years had passed!】

【You streaked across the sky above Zhuzixing like a shooting star, heading toward the place where A-Dou was likely to be, following Ji Wuqing’s directions.】

【“Is this the right direction?”】

【“The Tinder Society’s headquarters has more exits than anyone can count. I only know which exit A-Dou used, but by now, they may have fled a great distance. Should we split up and search?”】

【“No need! I have a way!”】

【You equipped “Aura of Ten Thousand Races,” a trait that allowed you to visualize the auras of every intelligent race appearing nearby.】

【Although it could not directly locate A-Dou, it allowed you to see the unique aura of the Sacred Dragon race.】

【After all, even on Zhuzixing, members of the Sacred Dragon race were rarely seen.】

【As the ruling race of the Tianhe home star system, they usually appeared only on superior-grade planets.】

【Therefore, as long as you spotted a large number of fresh Sacred Dragon auras, there was a high probability that they belonged to the group of Sacred Dragon soldiers pursuing A-Dou.】

【At the same time.】

【After escaping from the Tinder Society’s headquarters, A-Dou was fleeing along the mudflats at the bottom of Jiwu Valley under the protection of He Xiangdong and a group of Tinder Society members.】

【For this assault on the Tinder Society’s headquarters, the Sacred Dragon Society had dispatched five hundred thousand Peace Troops from the Peace Bureau, nine Immortal Lord-level special assault teams from the Tianhe Guard, and more than a thousand aerospace warships from the Interstellar Law Enforcement Bureau.】

【In addition, the local forces of Zhuzixing had joined the operation.】

【It was truly a vast net from which nothing could escape.】

【The Tinder Society also had starships capable of entering the interstellar routes without relying on a starport. However, because the aerospace warships of the Interstellar Law Enforcement Bureau had sealed off the skies and the routes, their attempts to launch had failed.】

【The underground headquarters of the Tinder Society had already been burned to the ground. Almost none of the civilians living there had managed to escape. They had all perished in the raging flames.】

【A-Dou had lived at the headquarters for more than a decade, and he had grown attached to the place.】

【There were neighbors who had mended his clothes, friends who had played with him during his youth, an uncle who had taught him how to farm, and the girl he had secretly loved…】

【Now, every one of them had been buried beneath the enemy’s merciless attack.】

【“I’m going back!”】

【He Xiangdong grabbed A-Dou and held on tightly.】

【“Calm down!”】

【“They’re all dead! Everyone at the headquarters! So many civilians! Did they really die for nothing?!”】

【“If you’re captured by the alien races, then they truly will have died for nothing! As long as you, a Destined One, remain alive, then no one has died in vain!”】

【“I don’t want to be a Destined One who survives by hiding! I want to kill the enemy!”】

【He Xiangdong slapped A-Dou across the face.】

【“Wanqing and Hongyi have already been captured! Do you know what the Sacred Dragon Society will do to them? It’s something more terrifying than death! You’ll be turned into a weapon—a weapon used to strike at your own people!】

【“Right now, you can’t bear to watch the alien races slaughter our fellow countrymen. Do you think you’ll be able to bear it when your own hands are stained with the blood of your people in the future?!】

【“Whatever happens, do not let them capture you. Do you understand?”】

【He Xiangdong’s words finally made A-Dou understand how terrifying the enemy truly was.】

【“No wonder they never used large-scale spells against us. They wanted to capture us alive…”】

【“Now, come with me! We can’t leave Zhuzixing, but there is a safe place where we can lie low for a while… assuming the people there are willing to do the Tinder Society a favor.”】