If You Don't Want to Live, Don't Drag Me Into It

Universe Rank 7, Lightning, Wind, and Light domains at the Ninth Layer, Gold at the Eighth Layer, and Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth at the Seventh Layer.

This was the harvest and progress Bai Muye had made in his domains over the past hundred years.

Among these seventy-four opponents, there were practitioners of various law domains. Of course, the strongest among them only reached the Sixth Layer, with some only at the Fifth or Fourth.

But after merging all the cultivation memories, Bai Muye continued to contemplate, bringing all his domains to at least the Seventh Layer.

He wanted to delve deeper into the Lightning Law and even hoped to grasp a trace of the Time Law, but unfortunately, the ideal was plump, while reality was skeletal.

Without the systematic guidance of top-tier secret techniques, he felt like a mouse pulling a turtle—he had no way to start.

He simply could not find the entrance to the path.

The main issue was that none of these opponents had ever practiced top-tier secret techniques; they were all basic or ordinary ones.

Even Xia, who had stepped across the threshold of the laws, had only practiced something slightly better than ordinary secret techniques, capable of reaching at most the Domain Ninth Layer.

That Xia could step across the threshold of the laws was due more to her own talent.

As for weaponry, he knew a great deal. Not to mention common weapons like blades, swords, spears, and staves, he also knew over twenty types of Telepathic Weapons, as well as various exotic armaments.

Now, Bai Muye could boast that as long as a weapon was brought out, he could basically use it, and use it quite proficiently at that.

Over these hundred years, Bastian had treated him quite well, not only giving him a larger Training Room but also providing him with delicacies and fine wine from time to time, satisfying many of his cravings.

"Without top-tier secret manuals, relying solely on self-cultivation makes progress truly difficult," Bai Muye sat cross-legged, thinking silently. "My current strength has likely reached a bottleneck. Fortunately, there is only one final life-or-death battle left..."

Thinking of this, his calm lake of a heart could not help but ripple. "As long as I win against the last opponent, I can gain my freedom!"

Taking a deep breath to suppress the ripples in his heart, he cast his consciousness into his Consciousness Sea.

The pitch-black Seed in his Consciousness Sea was slightly larger than it had been a hundred years ago. The most bizarre thing was that despite its jet-black color, Bai Muye often felt he could see multicolored, brilliant hues upon it!

"Xiao Si, you often brag that even the Hunyuan Progenitor can't do anything to you, yet you can't even guide my cultivation..."

Bai Muye naturally knew this Seed was not simple, but he still couldn't help but complain.

"You have no idea of the greatness of Fourth Master!" Xiao Si snorted. "I am not a lifeform from within the Cage, so is it not normal that I don't understand the cultivation methods within the Cage?"

"What I lack most right now is soul energy. If you find me more soul energy, and I devour more souls, I can grow another root. Then, one root can devour souls while the other can absorb energy to feed back to you, saving you the trouble of painstakingly cultivating Origin Energy..."

"It can do that?" Bai Muye was overjoyed. Wasn't this just an alternative "Pool of Life"?

"Of course it can." Xiao Si chuckled.

"Anything else?" Bai Muye asked with anticipation.

"Old Bai, don't push your luck," Xiao Si said, aggrieved. "I'm just a seed; you can't demand too much from a seed... wait, no!"

It suddenly realized, "Old Bai, haven't you noticed that your comprehension is much stronger than before? In just a hundred years, not only have you basically brought eight types of domains to the Ninth Layer, but your Mixed Domain has also almost completely fused all eight..."

"If you had only relied on merging memories, you would merely possess eight different domains. Fusing these domains is no simple matter. Even with the Virtual Universe helping to guide you, you wouldn't be able to do it without sufficient comprehension..."

Bai Muye recalled the situation and found it to be true, wondering, "Is this also your credit?"

"Of course it's my credit!" Xiao Si said proudly. "Every time I 'purify' memories, I have to use my power. So, along with the memories, some things I can't even name are passed on to you. In any case, it's beneficial to you; at the very least, it increases your comprehension..."

"Fine, fine, I get it." Bai Muye nodded. "Let me think about where I can obtain a large amount of souls..."

"Where else could it be?" Xiao Si had said so much just to lead him to this point, and immediately interjected, "Of course, the Outer Battlefield..."

"Xiao Si, if you don't want to live, don't drag me down with you..." Bai Muye couldn't help but curse upon hearing those four words. "Do you know what kind of place the Outer Battlefield is? It's a meat grinder for races! Especially for the Universe Rank, it's a place with a mortality rate of over ninety-five percent..."

"Are you an ordinary Universe Rank?" Xiao Si said eerily.

"..." Bai Muye was momentarily speechless.

"I only learned about the Outer Battlefield from the memories of those you killed. In their memories, the fear of the Outer Battlefield was even greater than what you just described, but..."

Xiao Si coaxed him, "Are you, Old Bai, an average Universe Rank? No! You have stepped across the threshold of the laws, and in these hundred years, you have advanced even further. The power of your new domain, fused from eight law domains, is not low. Even if the survival rate for Universe Rank on the Outer Battlefield is four or five percent, even if it were only one percent, you would definitely be that 'one'!"

"And think about it, how many souls would be on the Outer Battlefield? As long as I devour the souls, the memories attached to them will be resources for your growth. Perhaps among them, there are those who have practiced top-tier secret techniques, and wouldn't you easily obtain the techniques you want..."

"Stop!" Bai Muye was very calm and not tempted. He said coldly, "If I were a World Lord now, possessing the ability to save my life in front of an ordinary Immortal, perhaps I would go to the Outer Battlefield. But I am only a Universe Rank, the lowest level of cannon fodder..."

"Universe Rank can only fight by following a legion; there is no ability to act alone. Even if my combat power surpasses most Universe Rank warriors, facing a siege by hundreds or thousands of alien Universe Rank warriors, even a Domain Lord wouldn't dare say they could escape unscathed, right?"

Taking a breath, he continued, "These are secondary. The most important reason is that legion warfare relies more on top-tier combat power. If the Immortal of my legion is defeated by an alien Immortal, whether they die or flee, do you think I have any chance of survival while being hunted by an alien Immortal—no, I don't even need an Immortal to act, just an alien World Lord?"

Xiao Si was silent for a while before saying, "I can protect your soul. As long as the soul remains, there is a chance for a comeback..."

"That would have to wait until I am a Domain Lord and possess a Singularity..." Bai Muye clearly remembered what Xiao Si had said before.

"That was true at the beginning because I hadn't devoured that many souls and didn't have enough energy to protect a soul without a Singularity." Xiao Si explained, "Now I have devoured the souls of over seventy Universe Ranks, much stronger than at the start. With my current ability, even if you don't have a Singularity, protecting your soul is not a problem..."

"Of course, this is limited to physical attacks. You can't practice body-refining secret techniques right now. If such techniques go wrong, the body, genes, and soul will completely disintegrate. Without a Singularity, I can't guarantee..."

"However," Xiao Si seemed to remember something and continued, "my roots don't just have the ability to devour souls. Although they can't attack, they can still detect and warn, which at least gives you an extra trump card to save your life on the battlefield..."

"When I grow into a sapling in the future, you'll know how powerful I am..."

"You keep bragging about how powerful you are, yet you can't even attack. You even need me to kill someone before you can devour their soul..."

"I'm still a see..."

"Got it, got it, you're still a seed, I can't expect too much!"

"I'll consider it," Bai Muye was silent for a long time. "The most important thing now is to defeat the last opponent, and then—gain my freedom!"

"Once I am truly free, we can discuss the next step..."