Immortal Martial: Starting in Reality, Pushing Across Two Worlds

"The other super-geniuses aren't bad, either. Some have even cleared the third level. That Yu Heng has comprehended the Law of Space. Although he's made little progress so far and still falls short of us, people like him are the sort who build up their strength before unleashing it. If he gets lucky and clears the fourth level, he'll be unstoppable. We should keep an eye on him."

"I just don't know whether Jiang Shu can push to an even higher level. If he reaches the fifth, even I'll have to go out of my way to curry favor with him."

"Unlikely. You and I are both on the fourth level, so we know just how hard it is to clear the fifth. In all the long history of our base, hardly anyone has managed it. Only the bases ranked higher have all kinds of geniuses who've cleared the fifth. Their cultivation to the Eleventh Tier is practically guaranteed. They get unlimited resources, and some of the missions they take from the Merchant Guild even send them to the Deep Space Sea. Unlike us, the missions we can get are only average."

Several inner-circle geniuses who had just emerged from the Eternal Tower were chatting among themselves. After entering the inner circle, they had all managed to clear the fourth level in the time since. But they understood that this was their limit. From here on, they would spend a long time cultivating on the fourth level, occasionally venturing to the fifth to fight its replicas and recognize their own shortcomings.

Of course, if the Merchant Guild had any good missions, they could take one, if only to get out and clear their heads.

"Oh? Someone else is out. Porter, the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance genius. From the looks of