The next day, a golden carriage left Blood Prison City.
Only Ye Xuankong and Ning Xuanyuan were inside the carriage. Outside, a group of armored warriors accompanied them.
These warriors were not the Asura Blood Guards who guarded the imperial city, but the Night Watch Army under Ye Xuankong's command. Unlike the Asura Blood Guards, every one of these Night Watch Army warriors was wreathed in a dense, iron-blooded killing aura. One glance was enough to tell they were veterans of countless battles.
"Brother, tell me about the Myriad Heavens Battlefield, will you?" Ning Xuanyuan withdrew his gaze from outside the carriage and turned to Ye Xuankong.
At the moment, Ye Xuankong had returned to his warm, jade-like bearing. It was hard to imagine that, when he fought, he looked ready to slaughter the heavens and destroy the earth.
They were two completely different people. Ning Xuanyuan found himself wondering how Ye Xuankong could switch so freely between two utterly different bearings, and carry both off so perfectly.
Schizophrenia? A split personality?
If Ye Xuankong knew what Ning Xuanyuan was thinking right now, he would probably slap him dead on the spot.
"The Myriad Heavens Battlefield?" Ye Xuankong's long, narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and a trace of sharpness appeared unbidden on his gentle face. He paused, seemingly gathering his thoughts.
"The Myriad Heavens Battlefield is a mysterious alternate space that appeared suddenly a thousand years ago. It is vast and boundless, stretching endlessly in every direction. Even now, no one knows where it came from.
"A great many strange creatures live in the Myriad Heavens Battlefield. We call them the Void.
"Of course, Void is merely a collective name we people of the Eight Domains use for these strange creatures. In fact, there are many kinds of Void, and their characteristics differ. Even among Void of the same kind, their strength can be worlds apart.
"Based on their strength, we people of the Eight Domains have divided the various Void into several different ranks. The lowest is Copper, followed by Silver, Gold, Platinum, and then Purple Gold."
Hearing this, Ning Xuanyuan's expression suddenly turned a little strange. He really wanted to say, Brother, there's something wrong with those ranks. Shouldn't Diamond come after Platinum?
Can't we change them? It's painful to hear.
Unaware of what Ning Xuanyuan was thinking, Ye Xuankong continued, "A Copper-quality Void is as strong as an Aspect Condensation Realm expert. Silver quality is equivalent to the Soul Sea Realm, Gold quality to the Life Palace Realm, and so on."
"What?" Ning Xuanyuan froze, stunned. According to Ye Xuankong, Copper-rank Void were the weakest of all Void, yet they were equivalent to Aspect Condensation Realm experts. They start at Aspect Condensation? What the hell kind of godly species is this?
Ning Xuanyuan quickly did some calculations, then said, "So the highest rank is Purple Gold, which would make them equivalent to Saint Realm experts?"
Ye Xuankong fell silent for a moment, seemingly hesitant. A trace of complicated emotion entered his eyes as he looked at Ning Xuanyuan.
"What's wrong?" Ning Xuanyuan asked in puzzlement, noticing the change in his expression.
Ye Xuankong took a deep breath and said, "The Myriad Heavens Battlefield is exceedingly vast. In fact, even now, we haven't finished exploring the entire battlefield. So we still don't know whether there are Void above Purple Gold.
"But years ago, Father Emperor once ventured deep into a region of the Myriad Heavens Battlefield where no one had ever set foot. And it was there that he found you."
Ning Xuanyuan: "!!!"
He knew the Asura Emperor had brought him back from the Myriad Heavens Battlefield, but he hadn't known the exact location.
"And according to Father Emperor, he sensed the pressure of a will above the Human Emperor level in that region."
Ning Xuanyuan's heart skipped a beat, and his pupils shrank to pinpoints.
The pressure of a will above the Human Emperor level?
The Ancient Eight Domains were vast and teeming with life, yet experts who could reach the Human Emperor Realm were few and far between. And not a single one had surpassed it!
The pressure of a will above the Human Emperor level? What did that mean? Could there be some super Great Void living in the Myriad Heavens Battlefield, comparable to or even beyond the Human Emperor Realm?
Seemingly seeing what Ning Xuanyuan was thinking, Ye Xuankong nodded. "Over the years, quite a few Human Emperor experts from the Eight Domains have ventured into that region, trying to uncover its secrets. But every last one of them failed, and one Human Emperor still hasn't returned. I'm afraid..."
Ye Xuankong didn't finish, but his meaning was self-evident.
Ning Xuanyuan silently digested the information. This was the first time he had heard about his "origins" in this world. As a transmigrator, he had naturally assumed he had nothing to do with that mysterious region.
Yet for some reason, he seemed to have a feeling that there really might be some connection between him and that mysterious region.
Seeing Ning Xuanyuan fall silent, Ye Xuankong said nothing more. The carriage grew quiet.
"Brother, what exactly are you fighting in the Myriad Heavens Battlefield for?" After a moment, Ning Xuanyuan put his thoughts aside and looked at Ye Xuankong.
Whatever connection he had with that mysterious region, or with the entire Myriad Heavens Battlefield, it was beyond his reach for now. Perhaps only after he reached the Human Emperor Realm someday would he be able to investigate it.
So Ning Xuanyuan decisively stopped dwelling on the matter.
"For Soul Jade," Ye Xuankong said.
"Void are extremely peculiar creatures. In fact, we don't even know whether we should use the word 'life' to describe them. Void are different from us. They don't cultivate by absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. If I had to describe them, they are actually concentrations of willpower, or perhaps manifestations of willpower would be more accurate."
"Concentrations of willpower?" Ning Xuanyuan was taken aback, not quite understanding.
Ye Xuankong nodded noncommittally and said, "The bodies of Void aren't made of flesh and blood. Inside them is something similar to a human's Primordial Spirit or a demonic beast's essence soul. It's called Soul Jade.
"The difference is that Soul Jade is a pure energy body. There's no soul inside it, and therefore it has no consciousness of its own. But Soul Jade contains different powers of will."
A look of astonishment appeared on Ning Xuanyuan's face. Soul Jade actually contained the power of will?
For martial cultivators, the most important thing was to comprehend the various rules, laws, and powers of origin. In the first few stages of the martial path, they could raise their cultivation realm by absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and strengthening their physical bodies.
But starting at the Aspect Condensation Realm, they had to comprehend a power of will suited to themselves, then gain insight into rules and laws, before they could successfully break through to the next realm.