Saint Realm

It was a marvelous sensation, as if his soul had undergone a metamorphosis and his body felt rejuvenated; Karl knew this was the power belonging to the Saint Realm.

It felt like a single instant, yet also like an eternity. When Karl regained his focus, he discovered he could perceive a strange color permeating the heavens and earth, and he knew it to be the power of the Wind Element.

[Novice Tutorial] reminds you: Your realm has reached the Saint Realm. Your family scale limit has been upgraded to Level 2, your territory scale has been upgraded to Level 2, and the [Mall] has opened the Level 2 store. Please continue to work hard and attain the Dao soon.

Karl Talos hurriedly opened the familiar attribute panel, and sure enough, many attributes had been updated.

[Auto-Cultivation System]

[Host: Karl]

[Age: 268]

[Level: Saint Realm (1/10000)]

[Family: Taros (Level 2)]

[Territory: Spark Town (Level 2)]

[Faith: None]

[Cultivation: Saint Realm (1/10000), Momentum of Heaven and Earth (1/10000)]

[Novice Tutorial] reminds you: Your family scale has reached Level 2. You may consume points to designate family members to increase their cultivation speed, with a cap of 10%. Simultaneously, you may activate full-member cultivation acceleration, increasing speed by 1%.

[Novice Tutorial] reminds you: Your territory scale has reached Level 2. Your territory registration limit has increased to one million. You may designate territory residents to increase their cultivation, with a cap of 10%. Simultaneously, you may activate full-member cultivation acceleration, increasing speed by 1%.

[Mall] has been updated.

Karl first took a glance at the Mall, as it was one of the primary ways to improve himself. He saw that many high-quality items had appeared at the very top.

For instance, Amulets, ranging from primary to intermediate, and an intermediate Amulet was sufficient to withstand the full-force assault of a Level 9 expert for one hour.

There were also Aptitude Enhancement Talismans; using one could improve cultivation aptitude, allowing someone with a cultivation cap of a Level 6 Warrior to reach Level 8.

Many of the items updated in the Mall were intended for those with lower cultivation levels, though there were also treasures that could provide Karl himself with combat power or other benefits.

For example, Pseudo-Divine Weapons, whose hardness was comparable to Divine Weapons, only they had not been nurtured by the divine power of God Level experts. Such sharp weapons were rare and precious to experts at the Saint Realm.

There was also something Karl focused on most: a complete product related to the Wind attribute.

[Wind Element], [Wind Walk], [Profound Mystery of Speed], [Profound Mystery of Slowness], and so on.

These were all Laws and Mysteries, but these items were not only expensive in points, they also had prerequisites for use.

[Name: Wind Element]

[Price: 10,000,000]

[Effect: Can directly comprehend the "Wind Element" Mystery]

[Usage Requirement: Momentum of Heaven and Earth must be perfected]

Karl looked on with great envy. Although the price was exorbitant, reaching as high as ten million, given Karl's current territory scale, as long as the population registration reached its limit, the daily points he could acquire would be substantial. Compared to a Level 1 territory, the speed would actually be faster.

After all, while a Level 9 Warrior held some status on the Yulan Continent, they were ultimately still at a mortal level, even if they possessed extraordinary power.

A Level 9 Warrior could serve as a Duke within a kingdom or establish their own Principality. However, while such treatment seemed high, experts of the same level would also covet the title of Duke or the status of a Prince. For instance, in the Chaotic Territory, there existed dozens of Principalities, and those Principalities would often wage war against one another. But once one stepped into the Saint Realm, they possessed the power to rule a kingdom, and on the Yulan Continent, even if they established a new kingdom, no one would say much about it.

This was because while many Level 9 experts still kept their eyes on power, once they stepped into the Saint Realm, their focus shifted entirely to how to become a god. As for mortal power, as long as their descendants were not wiped out, most would not bother to intervene.

The reason for this, beyond the change in strength, was primarily lifespan.

No matter how powerful a Level 9 Warrior was, their lifespan was at most five hundred years. Once they reached their limit, if they could not break through, they would eventually become a handful of dust. But for a Saint Realm expert, even one who had just entered the Saint Realm, their lifespan was infinite.

The Saint Realm granted the ability of immortality. Perhaps only those who had just entered the Saint Realm had yet to change their mindset. Saint Realm cultivation was inherently slow, and often it was a matter of enduring time. A hundred years was short, but time spanned thousands, or even tens of thousands of years. If one's own descendants did not reach the Saint Realm, they would eventually pass away, and the residents of the territory were like leeks—every few decades or a century, a new crop would replace the old.

Therefore, to those Saint Realm experts, Level 7 and Level 8 were not worth mentioning; only those Level 9 experts would receive some attention, but that was all. Unless it was a prodigy with the potential to break through to the Saint Realm and stand at their level in the future, they would treat everyone else the same.

Karl's development of his territory was based on this realization. As long as he could steadily reach the Saint Realm, his territory would develop rapidly, perhaps even growing to the level of a kingdom, which meant at least a hundred million residents.

For a force protected by a Saint Realm expert, unless an expert of the same level intervened, Level 9 experts would never dare to harbor any ambition. Yet, Saint Realm experts rarely cared for mortal kingdoms.

This was why, although there were many Saint Realm experts on the Yulan Continent, kingdom-level forces were extremely rare. Instead, there were more high-end forces, such as the Ernst Institute, which had Saint Realm backing, but its members were the elite of the elite, geniuses among geniuses; their strength was great, but their numbers were limited.

When Karl was a Level 9 Warrior, he sat securely in his border town. Whenever the Anlan Kingdom held its annual conscription, Karl never refused. As for the occasional genius who managed to join a Saint Realm force, Karl was also highly supportive.

After his soul underwent the metamorphosis, Karl naturally mastered an ability: telepathy.

His lips did not move, but his voice went directly into the ears of the children of his family.

A moment later, three men and two women walked quickly into the heart of the manor.

The three men and two women were the only five Level 7 Warriors within the Taros Family: his eldest son, Lin Taros; his second son's son, Colin Taros; and Lin Taros's grandson, Rello Taros.

There were also two great-granddaughters of the fourth generation, Liya Taros and Linna Taros.

When Karl himself married, he was only twenty-six years old. His first child was born when he was twenty-eight, and now he was already 268 years old. Two hundred years was already the history of many dynasties in his past life.

Two hundred years was nearly a lifetime for a Level 7 Warrior. For instance, his eldest son's lifespan was nearing its limit. As for his other sons and daughters, they had either died in military service or reached the end of their lifespans and had long since passed away.

The Taros Family had been passed down for over two hundred years, and Karl's own talent was rather average. What kind of talent could the children he sired have? Only through a lifetime of bitter cultivation did they have a chance to reach the peak of Level 6 Warrior. Even though Karl later provided cultivation boosts for his family members, those who could achieve the level of a Level 7 Warrior were only these five.

As for the others, they had long been buried by the passage of time.