"The people of antiquity, in both spring and autumn, lived past a hundred years yet their movements never decayed."
Looking at the sentence recorded in the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, Qin Sheng smiled slightly.
It is known that Heavenly Emperor Ye reads the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, and I read it too, therefore it can be deduced:
I = Heavenly Emperor Ye.
No, I am stronger than Ye Fan right now, considering I am about to finish cultivating the Sea of Reincarnation Secret Realm.
I have surpassed Heavenly Emperor Ye!
Looking inward at his own body, below Qin Sheng's navel, which was also the position of the human golden ratio, the Sea of Bitterness had already been opened.
Yet his Sea of Bitterness was pitch-black, lifeless.
A golden Sea of Bitterness with towering waves and a magnificent, surging scene belonged exclusively to the Sacred Physique. For a Mortal Body like Qin Sheng's, the Sea of Bitterness was basically pitch-black all over.
Special effects?
That was not something a Mortal Body could hope for.
At the center of the Sea of Bitterness, a Life Divine Spring bubbled and gushed, divine force like a tide, multicolored light filling the sky.
This was the Life Spring.
Looking upward, a dazzling rainbow hung high, taking "This Shore" as its starting point and extending all the way forward, crossing the pitch-black, annihilation-filled Sea of Bitterness, wishing to reach the "Other Shore".
This was the Divine Bridge.
The four realms of the Sea of Bitterness, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, and Other Shore—Qin Sheng had already cultivated to the peak of the Divine Bridge, just a step away from the final realm of the Sea of Reincarnation Secret Realm.
To be able to cultivate to this step in Earth, this Dharma Ending Land where vital essence was exhausted, was already no small feat.
"It hasn't been easy. It took five years just to reach this step, which is somewhat humiliating for a transmigrator." Qin Sheng muttered inwardly.
Qin Sheng was a transmigrator. To be precise, he had transmigrated from another Earth and been reborn into this one.
At the very beginning, Qin Sheng did not know this was the Shrouding the Heavens World, because his parents and family environment had not changed in any particular way. He had simply thought he was reborn in his original world.
Thus, Qin Sheng used the foreknowledge in his brain step by step to help his parents become first-generation tycoons; after growing up, he also became a cultural porter, achieving fame at a young age.
He could not be called immensely wealthy, but having no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life was out of the question—he could also be considered to have achieved success and renown.
He felt that his life had already reached its peak.
Until shortly after the start of his sophomore year, the college football team of Qin Sheng's university and the neighboring university organized a match.
At that time, his classmates told Qin Sheng that there was a "Barbarian" on the neighboring team with a powerful physique and startlingly great strength.
Regarding this, Qin Sheng initially did not care. Everyone was a normal college student; just how great could their strength possibly get?
If he were truly that awesome, why not go kick Messi and punch Tyson to make a name for himself instead of hiding here as a college student?
A Barbarian? I'm a Super Saiyan then!
Just wait and watch me crush him on the pitch—that'll be the end of it.
Would he win?
He would win!
Until right before the official start of the match, Qin Sheng learned that the "Barbarian" was named Ye Fan, and moreover, his class had good brothers like Pang Bo, a girlfriend named Li Xiaoman, and classmates like Zhou Yi.
Qin Sheng's vision instantly went dark.
Wasn't this supposed to be an urban transmigration novel?
Instead, it had me play football with the Ancient Desolate Saint Body?
***, refund!
In the end, Qin Sheng still took the pitch. After all, although Ye Fan's strength was startlingly great, it was just a friendly match, not killer football.
It was precisely after that football match that Qin Sheng's mindset, having discerned the truth of the world, changed. He began to place most of his time and energy into seeking immortals and asking after the Dao.
Now, Qin Sheng had graduated from college three years ago. Over these past five years, with all his insights! With the martial dao of his whole life! With his heaven-penetrating wisdom! With his invincible aptitude!
Qin Sheng had finally cultivated to the peak of the Divine Bridge on Earth!
Of course, this result also had a tiny bit of help provided by the golden finger that suddenly appeared when he met Ye Fan.
Leaning against the chair, Qin Sheng leisurely lost himself in thought:
"Now I'm just waiting for Ye Fan to go to Mount Tai; it should be soon."
He was the same age as Ye Fan, and had also been secretly voyeuristic toward Heavenly Emperor Ye. The class reunion would probably arrive immediately.
"At that time, I'll hitch a ride and be able to take the NineDragon Spaceship to Beidou for cultivation."
Cultivating on Earth was simply too grueling. From a cultivator's perspective, this was simply not a place for humans to stay.
Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountain had sucked Earth dry.
"With my golden finger, Beidou is my Promised Land!"
With a thought, Qin Sheng's consciousness appeared within a boundless, dark space.
There was no concept of direction here, nor any perception of time; only four stars hung high, emitting a faint light.
Upon closer inspection, each of the four stars contained an illusory figure. Though they wore different clothes, their faces were identical to Qin Sheng's.
In fact, they were Qin Sheng—he who existed in different worlds.
Back then, Qin Sheng had not only transmigrated to the Shrouding the Heavens World, he had also simultaneously transmigrated to an unknown number of other worlds.
The dark space, which Qin Sheng called the Infinite Land, was a place that connected countless versions of him.
When a Qin Sheng from another world died, he would appear here. Then, the Shrouding the Heavens Qin Sheng's consciousness would take possession of their bodies in their respective worlds, returning from the dead.
Those Qin Nengs had truly died; the ones who reappeared in their worlds were simply the Shrouding the Heavens Qin Sheng.
As long as the Shrouding the Heavens Qin Sheng could fulfill their dying wishes, he could completely inherit the bodies of his other selves and fuse their talents, comprehension, origins, and so on.
At the same time, the power of those Qin Sheng could also be bestowed upon the Shrouding the Heavens Qin Sheng's body through the Infinite Land, and vice versa.
There were two modes for this power bestowal.
The first was fixed amplification. Regardless of whether his other self's strength was stronger or weaker than the Shrouding the Heavens Qin Sheng's, a single Qin Sheng would invariably double his combat power.
Four stars and four dead Qin Sheng meant four times the base combat power!
The second was true amplification. Just how great the bestowed power's enhancement to the Shrouding the Heavens Qin Sheng would be depended entirely on the strength of the corresponding otherworldly Qin Sheng.
If the otherworldly Qin Sheng was a Mortal, then the bestowal was roughly equal to nothing. If the otherworldly Qin Sheng was a Great Emperor-class figure, then the Shrouding the Heavens Qin Sheng's strength would naturally surge explosively.
The two bestowal modes each had their pros and cons, but they could be switched at any time, so there was no trouble of choice.
The Qin Sheng represented by these four stars came respectively from the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, and Mr. Vampire worlds.
Qin Sheng had already completely fulfilled the dying wishes of his four selves.
Compared to Shrouding the Heavens, these four worlds were undoubtedly very weak, but with the fixed combat power amplification mode present, no matter how weak the world his other self came from was, the help to Qin Sheng was enormous.
Moreover, worlds with low power tiers were not entirely without merit. Qin Sheng was able to cultivate to the peak of the Divine Bridge on Earth, and they had contributed immensely.
The first self to die came from the Demi-Gods World, and Qin Sheng obtained the Northern Darkness Divine Art.
Cultivating martial arts from the Martial Arts World within the Shrouding Universe undoubtedly had no future.
However, being in the Shrouding the Heavens World, Qin Sheng naturally associated the Northern Darkness Divine Art with the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art at the very first instance.
Then Qin Sheng had an idea.
He began to cultivate the Northern Darkness Divine Art in the Shrouding the Heavens World, and then used the true amplification mode to borrow the power of his other selves and swallow it all up...
Qin Sheng had become famous in his youth and possessed some social status. After cultivating Northern Darkness, he gained transcendent power, so through his efforts, he came into contact with cultivators in the Earth cultivation world.
Although they were only very weak rogue cultivators, it still allowed Qin Sheng to obtain cultivation scriptures of the Shrouding Method.
Thus, he began to constantly absorb the cultivation power of his otherworldly selves, treating them as great medicine to raise his own Shrouding Method cultivation.
Now, his cultivation at the peak of the Divine Bridge was entirely filled with hard work and sweat.
Qin Sheng could already hardly wait to bring his talent to Beidou.
As everyone knew, the Ruthless Emperor was also called Little Qin Sheng.
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