The Tribulation Stage is When the System Arrives
Chapter 38

Please Provide Immortal Realm Coordinates

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After making an agreement with Meng Chun, Jiang Li drifted out of the Profound Mystery Realm. Concealed at the entrance, he heard many people showing off about receiving guidance from the Human Emperor, making those who had failed to enter the Second Layer so jealous their eyes were bloodshot.

Serves you right for coveting the First Layer. What beauties, what power, what Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures could compare to a single piece of guidance from the Human Emperor? This was a blessed opportunity that would benefit one for life!

Of course, everyone who had entered the Second Layer tacitly avoided mentioning how, swollen with overconfidence, they had overestimated themselves and challenged the Human Emperor, only to be taught a harsh lesson by him.

Considering that only Qin Luan and Song Ying were not afraid of spreading the matter, they could only discuss how to bribe the two of them.

Seeing how deliberately they all avoided the subject, Qin Luan guessed what they were thinking and decided to sit at the temple gate and wait for hush money.

Interestingly, Yuan Wu Xing had come as well. He was now a Nascent Soul Cultivator, placing him at a middling level among the various sects.

After parting from Jiang Li, he had spent two months consolidating his cultivation. Once he emerged from seclusion, he heard that his last disciple, Qin Luan, had come to the Profound Mystery Realm. Afraid that other sects might bully him, he hurried over to bolster their standing.

The facts proved that Yuan Wu Xing had worried too much. With Qin Luan holding their leverage over them, the disciples of the various sects were too busy trying to appease Qin Luan. How could they possibly bully him?

"Master!"

"Xiao Luan!"

"Master, you've grown stronger!"

"Xiao Luan, you've grown taller!"

The master and disciple had been separated for ten years and were finally reunited. The scene was deeply moving, with no sign whatsoever that Qin Luan had once treated his master as a heart demon and beaten him senseless.

"Xiao Luan, let me tell you, I saw the Jiang Human Emperor in Green City!"

"Master, let me tell you, I saw the Jiang Human Emperor in the secret realm!"

The master and disciple began showing off to each other the moment they met, speaking similar lines in unison. For a while, the atmosphere was extremely awkward.

"It seems I have quite the affinity with you two."

Jiang Li revealed himself and greeted the master and disciple.

When Yuan Wu Xing saw that no one around them had noticed Jiang Li, he knew Jiang Li had used a spell.

With a chuckle, Jiang Li said, "I did not come here for anything else. I only came to tell you that Qin Luan has a chance to contend for the position of Human Emperor, and Yuan Wu Xing also has a chance to contend for the position of Human Emperor."

Yuan Wu Xing's talent was not actually poor; only his temperament had been lacking. But after following Jiang Li and witnessing the entire resolution of Jiang Yixing's Demonic Path case, his temperament had improved markedly. He was now qualified to compete for the position of Human Emperor as well.

"Nothing else. I'll be going now."

After stirring up the pot, Jiang Li left, leaving behind a master and disciple in a strange atmosphere.

"Master, this disciple has recently gained some insight and wishes to go out and gain experience. But Clear Breeze Temple cannot be left unattended, so please remain here and hold down the fort."

"Xiao Luan, your master is now a great Nascent Soul Cultivator. How can I remain trapped in the temple? Only by traveling the world and broadening my horizons can I make another breakthrough. You have stayed alone in the temple for ten years, so you must be deeply attached to Clear Breeze Temple. It would be better for you to remain here."

"You left ten-year-old me alone at Clear Breeze Temple without caring for me for ten years, and you still have the nerve to say that?!"

"Didn't I leave Clear Breeze Temple to seek an opportunity for a breakthrough? If I did not become a Nascent Soul Cultivator, who would protect your path?!"

A few days later, when Song Ying ran excitedly to Clear Breeze Temple, she found its gates tightly shut. A notice was posted on them, reading:

Master and disciple have traveled through the Nine Provinces. Their return date is undetermined.

Song Ying also bid farewell to her own master and set off in pursuit of Qin Luan's footsteps.

"Settle the mission rewards."

Even Jiang Li, who had weathered great storms, could scarcely suppress the excitement in his heart at the thought that he would soon be entering the Immortal Realm.

Wasn't the original purpose of using this godforsaken system to make use of its spatial teleportation function and go to the Immortal Realm?

Please accept a five-hundred-cubic-meter Storage Ring.

Since a Storage Ring could not store another Storage Ring, Jiang Li tucked the miniature-capacity Storage Ring provided by the system into his robe and did not look at it again.

Source Point Reading function unlocked. By consuming Source Points and touching a book's cover, the host may memorize all its contents. The Source Points consumed are related to the obscurity of the content.

Jiang Li considered it. This function seemed somewhat useful after all—not entirely worthless—though he would not have many chances to use it.

Spatial teleportation function unlocked. The host needs to...

"Teleport me to the Immortal Realm!" Jiang Li spoke the line he had long wanted to say.

Please provide Immortal Realm Coordinates.

"...Huh?"

Always confident in his hearing, Jiang Li suspected that something was wrong with his ears and repeated himself, "Teleport me to the Immortal Realm!"

Please provide Immortal Realm Coordinates.

"The Immortal Realm is so damn huge. Fine if I don't know its coordinates, but you don't know them either?!"

"If I fucking knew the Immortal Realm Coordinates, I could go there myself! Why would I need you?!" Jiang Li said through gritted teeth, finally roaring the last words outright!

The wretched system had enraged Jiang Li so badly that his black hair fluttered wildly. A terrifying Sha Qi spread outward, freezing the spiritual energy for a thousand li around.

He was truly furious.

Ever since obtaining this system, he had not gotten a single useful item or function from it.

The entire Qi Refining Stage Newbie Gift Pack, merchandise in the store that was not even as complete as what he already possessed, utterly useless map fragments, spirit artifacts that would burst after a single drop of blood, and so on.

Counterattack System?

High Blood Pressure System! Furious, Jiang Li threw a punch, tearing a massive gash directly through space. Beyond it was pitch-black, and who knew how far away the other world was.

As long as Jiang Li knew the spatial coordinates of another world, he could punch his way there blow by blow. He had no need for any spatial teleportation function at all.

Wasn't that why he had initially asked Old Buddha of Mount Sumeru to search for the Immortal Realm Coordinates? Because he could cross the Void.

Though threats such as astral winds and Turbulent Flows in the Void made cultivators pale at the mere mention of them, those things could only threaten Tribulation Stage cultivators. Immortals and Great Ascension Stage cultivators could cross the Void in the flesh without fearing such dangers.

Jiang Li had never dared casually attempt to cross the Void in search of the Immortal Realm, afraid he would lose his bearings. If that happened, he might fail to find the Immortal Realm—and fail to find the Nine Provinces as well. That would be truly miserable.

Without coordinates, such a thing was highly likely to happen! An unknown world has been detected. Would you like to teleport?

The sudden system prompt startled Jiang Li. Pointing at the spatial rift he had just punched open, he asked uncertainly, "There's another world on the other side?"

Yes. The system has detected an unknown world through the rift. Would you like to teleport?

Huh? This system actually seemed somewhat useful.

Delighted, Jiang Li asked, "Can I teleport back?"

Given the system's goddamn pitfall-ridden nature, Jiang Li had to ask one more question. If he could not return, he would have no choice but to learn from Robinson Crusoe and write a book called The Human Emperor's Drift.

The system has recorded the coordinates of the Nine Provinces World. You may teleport back.

"Then what are we waiting for? Teleport!" Jiang Li was overjoyed. With his worries gone, of course he had to take a look at another world. Perhaps the other side was the Immortal Realm.

Insufficient source points. Unable to teleport.

"Fuck!"

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