Void World

Boom.

Su Ye's blood and qi surged within him, and a powerful force burst from his body. Countless runes flew out, rushing toward the firmament and piercing through heaven and earth.

Rumble.

The sky roared. One after another, Heavenly Passages appeared—six in total, lined up in a row and reflected across the firmament. Their heavenly might was vast as they swallowed the essence of heaven and earth.

Beside the sixth Heavenly Passage, heaven and earth were pierced through. Countless runes merged with the world, blending into it as mist surged like the creation of heaven and earth. A seventh Heavenly Passage gradually emerged.

Seven Heavenly Passages.

Su Ye's change of heart had not only made his state of mind more complete; the unseen rejection from heaven and earth had also vanished, allowing him to open a seventh Heavenly Passage.

At that moment, he had completely merged with this world and become a part of it.

Although he had crossed over into this world long ago and had lived here for nearly eleven years, deep down he had never fully accepted it. He had always looked down on it from on high, treating it like a false game world with a trace of contempt, as if everything were under his control.

He had never truly taken this world seriously. Naturally, it could not take him seriously either. He could not gain the favor of heaven and earth; instead, he was rejected by them.

Put simply, when someone from a big place came to a small one, even if he had been ostracized in the big place and was at the very bottom, he would still feel inherently superior simply because he came from somewhere bigger. Even if he was now in a small place, and its people surpassed him in every way, he would remain arrogant and look down on them.

Rather than superiority or arrogance, this was a kind of human inferiority. He accepted that people from the big place were better than him, but he could not accept that people from the small place might be better.

Now, Su Ye had completely cast aside that way of thinking. He was just an insignificant nobody. Neither in his previous life nor in this one did he have the right to look down on anyone.

In his previous life, he had been a failure. In this life, he refused to be one again. He would fight—fight to cross the river of this world.

First, he needed to become one with this world, to earn its recognition and become a part of it.

Hum.

Heaven sent down auspicious signs. Streaks of Auspicious Mist descended from the highest heavens, their brilliant radiance pouring down like a waterfall and enveloping Su Ye, making him seem incomparably sacred, as if a Heavenly Deity had descended to the mortal realm.

Bathed in divine radiance, Su Ye felt his Mental Power growing rapidly. At the same time, he could sense heaven and earth more clearly, and feel the power contained within this vast world.

His spirit merged with heaven and earth, and he took control of it.

The power of Heavenly Law.

It was a power cultivators could comprehend only after reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm.

In the Spirit Transformation Realm, one reshaped the true self, transforming both body and spirit as if evolving from a Houtian Being into an Innate Being. This allowed one to further comprehend and merge with heaven and earth, gain control over it, and wield the great Divine Ability, Law of Heaven and Earth.

"Am I about to enter the Spirit Transformation Realm?"

The joy vanished from Su Ye's face. He had only opened seven Heavenly Passages. How could he enter the Spirit Transformation Realm? He was supposed to become a man who opened ten Heavenly Passages.

No.

This wasn't a breakthrough.

Su Ye carefully sensed the changes within him. His spirit reached out to the world around him, but what he sensed was not the world before his eyes. It was a Void World.

Spirit Wandering through the Great Void?

Su Ye recalled a myth from his previous life. In that myth, once Mental Power reached a certain level, it could leave the body, roam through the Great Void, and enter the Heaven Realm.

He had always thought that Spirit Wandering through the Great Void meant having such powerful Mental Power that one's spiritual sense could perceive the outside world, perhaps even reach beyond heaven and earth and enter the boundless starry sky.

But now, it seemed that wasn't the case. One really did enter the Great Void.

But how could that be possible?

First, with his current Mental Power, he couldn't possibly reach beyond the heavens. He couldn't even reach a hundred miles around him.

Second, he hadn't entered the starry sky, but a boundless Void World.

Moreover, this Void World filled him with a sense of desolation. That desolation kept invading his spirit and spiritual sense, until he...

Started crying.

Hum.

Suddenly, the Ruyi Jingu Bang flew out from Su Ye's body, shining with light. The void roared as it jolted Su Ye awake from that strange state.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang stirred heaven and earth. Boundless light spread out, enveloping the surrounding area as Chaos mist surged and sealed it off from the world.

Fairy Menglian's breathtaking figure appeared, her curves striking and her beauty beyond compare. She looked at the bewildered Su Ye and demanded, "What are you doing?"

"Huh?"

Su Ye stared at her in confusion. He had been cultivating just fine when she had forcibly jolted him awake. Now, instead of apologizing, she was questioning him.

Did she think he was easy to bully?

Fairy Menglian's beautiful face was now grave. In a solemn voice, she said, "You've got some nerve. You actually dared to enter the Void World."

"The Void World?"

Su Ye looked baffled. Had that strange, dark world really been the Void World?

Although he knew the fate of the Perfect World, that didn't mean he knew everything about it. He only knew some of the fates of this era, which meant little in the context of the entire world.

The world of the Perfect World had an immense framework, spanning stretches of time measured in millions of years and enduring one Era after another.

"The Spirit World."

Fairy Menglian said gravely, "The cultivation system has changed in this era. People no longer cultivate the Spirit system. Do you know why..."

"I really am muddleheaded, asking you such a question."

Fairy Menglian gave a self-mocking smile. The fellow before her was just an ordinary young man. How could he possibly know about things from endless ages ago? She continued, "The Spirit cultivation system is one of the most ancient cultivation systems. It's so ancient that even I have only heard of it in legends.

"In an unimaginably distant age, legend has it that cultivation civilization flourished. It was known as the Immortal Ancient Era. Dao Methods flourished, and one extraordinary figure after another emerged. They explored heaven and earth, pursued the Great Dao, and created many cultivation systems. The Spirit cultivation system was one of them.

"This system focused on cultivating Mental Power, constantly strengthening it until it could pierce through time and endure for eternity with a single thought.

"As long as one's spiritual consciousness remained undestroyed, one could keep living even if the physical body rotted away. Some beings even abandoned their bodies, shed their mortal forms, and ascended, entering the Spirit Curtain Worlds created by powerful beings to become undying deities."

"Ascend, abandon the body, Spirit Curtain World?"

Su Ye murmured to himself. Why did this sound so much like the Heaven Realm from the myths of his previous life? He asked, "Then why was this system abandoned?"

Suddenly, he felt that he had asked a foolish question. The Immortal Ancient Era had been destroyed by the Dark Cataclysm, so the collapse of the Spirit system had to be connected to the Dark Cataclysm.