Transcendent Realm!

Fang Yun (3): "Damn, Cai Ge is getting stronger and stronger. You're about to soar into the heavens."

Cai Yonglong (1): "Not quite, not quite. Only when I break through to the Transcendent Realm can I be called a true powerhouse!"

Wang Ping (66): "The Transcendent Realm? What kind of realm is that?"

Wang Ping was rather curious.

He now knew that above the Innate Realm was the Spirit Origin Realm, but he had no idea what realms lay beyond it.

After all, the strongest cultivators in the Xia Kingdom were only at the Spirit Origin Realm. The other two great nations were probably at the same level.

Fang Yun (3): "Wang Ping, we're not even from the same world. Why are you asking about that?"

Wang Ping (66): "I'm just curious."

Cai Yonglong (1): "The cultivation realms I currently know are Body Tempering, Houtian, Innate, Spirit Origin, and the Transcendent Realm. Of course, although the Transcendent Realm is the highest realm I know of, I believe there are higher realms beyond it. It's just that my current level is too low for me to come into contact with them."

Cai Yonglong (1): "If the Innate Realm means washing the tendons and marrow, shedding the turbid qi from one's body, and generating Innate True Qi from within, then the Spirit Origin Realm is where one compresses and tempers the Innate True Qi within the body into liquid Spirit Essence, causing one's power to skyrocket."

Cai Yonglong (1): "As for the Transcendent Realm, this major realm is quite interesting. It contains three realms: the Spirit Sea Realm, the Spirit Embryo Realm, and the Soul Nurturing Realm.

The defining feature of the Spirit Sea Realm is expanding one's dantian to form a Spirit Essence Ocean. One's strength undergoes a complete transformation, making it difficult for those of lower realms to kill them. After all, there's a saying: beneath the Transcendent Realm, all are ants.

As for the Spirit Embryo Realm, it is when the Spirit Essence Ocean nourishes the body, making the fleshly body stronger and more suited to the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth. This realm can improve one's cultivation aptitude and offers great fortune. Some exceptionally gifted people, or those with special cultivation techniques, can condense a Spirit Body in this realm. In the future, they can form a Spirit Clan.

Finally, the Soul Nurturing Realm opens the Soul Palace and nourishes the soul. One can also use Spiritual Sense to inspect the surroundings and initially communicate with the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth to aid in battle, causing one's strength to surge.

Some powerful Soul Nurturing Realm cultivators can also store and nurture their Lifebound Spiritual Artifact within the Soul Palace, growing alongside it and unleashing immense power."

Fang Yun: "Amazing. Fuck, I want to go to a world like that too."

Wang Ping (66): "Spirit Bodies in other Xianxia Worlds are basically innate, but here they can actually be condensed by oneself and even passed down to one's descendants. This Spirit Embryo Realm is truly interesting."

Wang Ping's eyes flickered. His heart was far from calm, and he now had a relatively clear understanding of the cultivation path ahead.

Otherwise, relying solely on Chi Village, he might have had some chance of breaking through to the Spirit Origin Realm, but he would have absolutely no hope of reaching the Transcendent Realm.

After all, Great Xia did not have a single Transcendent Realm powerhouse. Chi Village naturally could not know the secrets of the Transcendent Realm.

Cai Yonglong (1): "It is indeed very interesting. In other words, once one becomes a Spirit Embryo Realm powerhouse, they can multiply into a powerful Spirit Clan. Before a Spirit Clan, ordinary geniuses simply aren't worth mentioning. ┓(`)┏."

Cai Yonglong (1): "Speaking of that, I'm reminded of the descendants of Spirit Clans in my sect. Every single one of them became True Disciples with ease. If I didn't have my Golden Finger, then after breaking through to the Spirit Origin Realm and becoming a True Disciple, I'd probably just get pinned to the ground and rubbed raw by them."

Fang Yun (3): "Why the hell are you being timid? You're Cai Ge, a man destined to be invincible."

Cai Yonglong (1) @Fang Yun (3): "Go play in the mud! My Golden Finger isn't the kind that lets people become strong easily, okay? There's still a lot of pressure. Thankfully, not every Spirit Clan descendant can awaken a Spirit Body. Otherwise, it would be impossible for me to take first place in the Inner Sect Competition."

Fang Yun (3): "Cai Ge, you've changed. You're no longer that confident, invincible man I looked up to. You've become a wimp. I've decided I'm no longer your fan. evilgrin.jpg."

Cai Yonglong (1): "Hm? Who are you calling a wimp? Where's my blade!?"

"Ding, Zhang Tao (72)'s Death Replay has been recorded."

At that moment, the system's voice rang out. Everyone turned their attention to it and silently opened it to watch.

Wang Ping also opened the video and activated fast playback mode, watching only the key parts.

Very quickly, he learned the whole story.

The Zhang Tao in the video was clearly still only a high school student and had failed to notice anything unusual about the old man's family.

In truth, from the moment Zhang Tao entered the old man's home, the family had kept glancing at his stuffed backpack from time to time. The old man's children and grandchildren even swallowed repeatedly.

Clearly, they had long since set their sights on him.

In the end, after they gave Zhang Tao some thin porridge and told him to rest, they began discussing things cautiously.

Their conversation was quite direct. Seeing Zhang Tao's delicate skin and tender flesh, they believed he was definitely the child of some wealthy merchant or powerful official, and that he must be carrying good things on him.

Now that there was a famine, however, they were nearly at the point where they could no longer lift the lid off the rice pot.

To survive, even if he were the child of some powerful figure, they would still make their move.

The result was that, while Zhang Tao was distracted chatting idly in the Chat Group, the old man's family directly pinned him down and slit his throat. Then, covering his mouth, they chopped off his entire head. It was swift and decisive.

Soon, the group became lively.

Fang Yun (3): "That's why I keep saying that danger lurks everywhere after transmigrating, but some people just won't listen. Well, now he's croaked—got his head chopped right off. ┓(`)┏."

Zhang Jun (70): "Nothing much to say. Going back to lurking."

Cai Yonglong (1): "Tsk, high school students really are too inexperienced. Any working adult would've seen this family's ill intent."

Wang Ping (66): "Not every high school student is this naive. All we can say is that this Zhang Tao was a little too naive. Still, once he entered that house, even if he'd been more cautious, he probably couldn't have escaped death."

Cai Yonglong (1): "Indeed. During a famine, human nature is the most terrifying thing. There are even cases of people exchanging children to eat, let alone killing an outsider. Perhaps even if this family hadn't killed him, the other villagers would have made a move. If nothing unexpected happens, not only will the food in his backpack benefit this family, but he himself will probably be eaten as well."

Chen Yao (71): ".I thought I was unlucky enough. Looks like I'm actually pretty fortunate."

Fang Yun: "Oh? A girl has surfaced. How are things on your end? Have you been sliced up yet?"

Chen Yao (71): "."

Wu Jun @Fang Yun: "Brother Fang, I'm begging you, stop being so dark-hearted and act like a human being."