[After cultivating for countless years, your various skills improved and your realm continued to rise, but you still couldn't break through to True God. After all, the cultivation methods you practiced could only take you as far as True God.]
[With a breakthrough nowhere in sight, you turned your attention to the Moonlit Pool.]
[You knew the requirements for entering the Moonlit Pool very well. Although you had no other clone, you still wanted to go in. Now you had to choose: A: Enter the Moonlit Pool; B: Continue building up your strength.]
The greatest opportunity in the Three Realms was Daoist Three Pure Ones' Nine-Fold Chaos Restriction. Unfortunately, it was currently inside the Star-Plucking Mansion. The Moonlit Pool came next.
"Go in." Wu Yun assessed himself. He probably couldn't clear the trials as quickly as Ji Ning, but passing them shouldn't be difficult.
[You entered the Moonlit Pool. Within a million years, you passed through the first few islands, greatly improving your strength and realm, but you suffered setbacks at the final trial.]
[There were still some Heavenly Gods on the final island. They cursed Jue Ming, telling him to leave by himself instead of leaving them behind.]
Jue Ming had entered the Moonlit Pool in the Primordial Era and emerged during the Three Realms era.
[Celestial God Dameng of the Wujian faction came to befriend you, but you couldn't be bothered to entertain him. You warned him that if he tried again, you'd attack.]
[Celestial God Dameng held a grudge and tried to recruit some Heavenly Gods to attack you.]
[Now you had to choose: A: Strike decisively and kill Celestial God Dameng; B: Wait and see.]
Wu Yun chose A.
Celestial God Dameng was no good person. Even though Wu Yun stood with the Wujian Gate faction, he disliked him. Besides, the man was exceptionally good at winning people over.
If he really managed to recruit some Heavenly Gods and form a formation, Wu Yun might survive, but he would probably be left in a sorry state.
[Although you were trapped at the final trial, you were far stronger than the other Heavenly Gods. After fighting Celestial God Dameng for thousands of rounds, you killed him for good.]
As the memories flooded in, Wu Yun learned how difficult it had been to kill Dameng. There were quite a few Heavenly Gods in the Moonlit Pool, so he had to recruit allies before making his move.
The choice had taken only an instant, but Wu Yun had actually spent over ten thousand years on it.
[You continued cultivating and studying your skills, tempering your Killing Power to the fourth level.]
The Moonlit Pool was in the endless Chaos, so Wu Yun could patiently improve his powers and skills there, including his Heart Power and Killing Power.
In the simulations that followed, Wu Yun received all the memories in real time. He cultivated in the Moonlit Pool for over a hundred billion years, bringing his strength to the very peak of Celestial God True Immortal.
He had reached the threshold of True God Dao Ancestor. Ordinary Heavenly Gods were no more than ants in his hands.
"I really am far behind Ji Ning." Only after cultivating did Wu Yun understand just how terrifying the talents of Luo Feng, Ji Ning, and Xue Ying were.
After a hundred billion years, Ji Ning had already become a Life-Death Dao Lord. Wu Yun was still struggling as a Celestial God True Immortal.
So Wu Yun decided that in the next simulation, he'd choose Cultivation Genius.
[You went to the final trial. After passing it, you brought many Heavenly Gods out with you, but you weren't transported to the secret space of World God Beixiu.]
[After you emerged, your memories merged with those of your Second Primordial Spirit, and your Heart Power naturally broke through to the fifth level. You were now strong enough to kill an ordinary True God Dao Ancestor.]
[You brought every Heavenly God out of the Moonlit Pool. Black-Robed God King demanded to know why Celestial God Dameng wasn't with them. You didn't want to answer, and your Life-Bound Oath also prevented you from doing so.]
[Black-Robed God King suspected you had killed Dameng and was furious, but he couldn't make a move because of Dao Ancestor Moshou. Just then, you suddenly struck, exchanging a palm blow with Black-Robed God King.]
[You fought him to a standstill with your Heavenly God body, stunning the entire Three Realms.]
[Dao Ancestor Moshou was overjoyed and asked how you had done it. You simply replied, "Fifth-level Heart Power."]
[Your status was now higher than that of an ordinary True God Dao Ancestor. Everyone knew that if you were already this monstrous as a Heavenly God, you would surely become an extraordinary True God once you broke through.]
[The Wujian Gate faction held a grand banquet and invited many powerful members of the Nuwa Faction as well.]
[Elder Yuan stared at you intently, making you very uncomfortable.]
"I'm at the fifth level of Heart Power, and I don't have any obvious weaknesses. There's no way he can control my soul. I wonder whether Dao Ancestor Mozhu, Gonggong, and the others have been manipulated yet."
Wu Yun was deeply worried. He had changed the history of the Three Realms, and it was uncertain whether Ji Ning would appear in the future. He had to make defeating the Heart Spirit General a priority.
[You and the Heart Spirit General were both only at the fifth level of Heart Power. After thinking it over, you reached out to many powerful figures, including Dao Ancestor Mozhu and Fuxi, and planted a Heart Power Seed in each of them.]
[The Heart Spirit General came to Dao Ancestor Moshou's territory to discuss Heart Power techniques with you, but you said that you needed to break through to True God Dao Ancestor and weren't in the mood.]
[You began cultivating in seclusion.]
[Three hundred million years later, you broke through to True God.]
[Simulation complete...]
Whoosh—
This simulation was unusual. It included memories stretching from the end of the simulation to the end of the God-Demon Era. During that time, Wu Yun had been cultivating in seclusion, trying to comprehend the Heavenly Dao.
Becoming an Ancestor God or Dao Ancestor required the Heavenly Dao.
"From the Three Realms era to the end of the God-Demon Era was several hundred billion years, almost a trillion." Wu Yun now had a complete understanding of the history of the Three Realms.
The period from the Primordial Era to Ji Ning's time lasted about one Chaos Epoch, but the Primordial Era alone had continued for tens of trillions of years.
"Hmm?" What surprised Wu Yun most was that his memories had connected with those of his Desolate Era world clone. Across such an immeasurable distance in space and time, he could only access those memories just after the simulation ended.
After that, he had to rely on improving his strength. Once his Desolate Era world clone broke through to True God, the strength of his soul finally reached the required level.
Heavenly Immortal Wu Yun also broke through to Pure Yang True Immortal. No one could have guessed that this newly ascended True Immortal was the strongest True Immortal in the Three Realms.
His fifth-level Heart Power and fifth-level Killing Power, along with the rest of his cultivation, could all be shared completely. Only the True God Divine Body couldn't be replicated.
Still, with the help of World God Kuji, it was only a matter of time before True Immortal Wu Yun became a True God.
That was secondary. His true self had inherited his True God cultivation perfectly. His Heart Power and Killing Power were both at the fifth level, and his strength had changed instantly.
Even without a Dao or any power at a higher level, a True God's Divine Body was terrifying. This kind of power, which wasn't based on a Dao, still worked across different world systems.
Wu Yun had broken through to Heavenly God using the Dao of Slaughter, which focused on offense. He had become a True God through the Great Dao of Blazing Fire. Once he came to the Primal Universe, these structures would be weakened.
Even a regular True God Divine Body was comparable to a formation made from millions of Loose Immortals or tens of thousands of Heavenly Immortals.
But without the boost from the Dao that formed his body, Wu Yun estimated he would be comparable to only a million times the power of a World Lord.
And in Swallowed Star, Wu Yun's life form was only that of a World Lord. Even so, he could still venture through the Outer Realm Battlefield and many Universe Secret Realms.
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