Realm, Part Two

"There was no fixed standard. This was a process of raising one's overall strength. The more you expanded, the broader the range in which you could apply your own martial arts became. Your overall strength would naturally increase, and your Dharma Body would naturally evolve as well.

"The extent of that evolution depended on how much you expanded," Yuan Du Zi explained.

This was the first time Wei He had heard such a detailed explanation of the martial arts realm above Grandmaster.

Yet he had already tried many times, and he simply could not achieve what Eldest Senior Sister Yuan Du Zi had described—making his Dharma Body evolve on its own.

"And after Expansion? Did you reach an even higher level, Senior Sister?" Wei He asked with some curiosity.

For many years, he had always wondered just what level Eldest Senior Sister Yuan Du Zi's martial arts realm had reached.

And now, he finally had the chance to ask it.

In truth, he had wanted to ask this long ago, but the words had never left his mouth until now.

Yuan Du Zi fell silent for a moment.

"Although the Star Abyss has cut off the path of martial arts physical evolution and blocked the direction in which Dharma Bodies could grow stronger, a purely realm-based attainment can still be useful to us once it reaches a certain height."

In a distant star system.

Towering skyscrapers stood in dense forests of steel and stone.

Boom!!

A burly man covered in a silver colony was struck viciously in the chest by a massive force. He flew out through a window and plummeted toward the ground below.

Beside him stood a Deep Crimson Terrifying Human, a woman dressed as a priestess with a lion's head and a human body.

The lion-headed woman