Spirit Realm
He Says Nothing, Just Keeps Killing!
Contents
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Spirit Realm |
| Original Name | 灵境 |
| Type | Temporary, dungeon-like space containing Sin Beasts and treasures 22 25. |
| Known Tiers | Black Iron, Bronze, and Gold 22. |
| Featured Location | A Bronze Tier Spirit Realm discovered three kilometers west of Shenglin City 22. |
| Discoverers | Shenglin City’s Zhao, Wang, and Zhang families discovered the featured Bronze Tier realm 22 28. |
| Status | The featured realm closed after its seven-day exploration period, automatically teleporting its occupants outside 28 36. |
| First Appearance | Reported in Chapter 22; entered in Chapter 28 22 28. |
Characteristics and Rules
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Temporary existence | Unlike repeatable game dungeons, Spirit Realms exist only briefly before disappearing 22. |
| Entry window | The featured realm’s entrance remained open for two hours before automatically closing 28. |
| Exploration period | A Spirit Realm lasts seven days after opening, then automatically teleports everyone inside back outside 28. |
| Entry restriction | The Bronze Tier realm admitted only cultivators at Bronze Ninth Grade or below 22. |
| Advancement inside | The entry limit did not prevent subsequent breakthroughs: members of the three families reached the Silver Realm after entering 31. |
| Enemy strength | A realm’s tier does not cap its inhabitants’ strength. The Bronze Tier realm contained Silver Realm Sin Beasts, while the earlier Gold Tier realm contained Platinum Realm beasts 22 35. |
| Attribute rewards | Killing Sin Beasts inside grants three times the attribute points awarded outside. A Bronze Realm beast worth one point outside yields three inside 25 29. |
| Special treasure | Every Spirit Realm contains at least one special treasure, potentially a cultivation technique, weapon, natural treasure, or visualization diagram 29. |
| Navigation | A persistent Guiding Star points explorers toward the special treasure and provides a reference for navigation 29. |
| Resource quality | Ordinary resources in the Bronze Tier realm could reach Silver Tier at most. Its special treasure, the Heaven and Earth Spirit Crystal, had no grade classification 38. |
Entrance and Geography
- Entrance: A spatial vortex appeared in the wilderness west of Shenglin City. An invisible barrier covered it until the realm opened 27 28.
- Sky: The interior had no sun; a bright Guiding Star shone overhead instead 29.
- Scale: The Bronze Tier realm was spacious enough for prolonged travel through multiple forests and mountain areas 29 30 31.
| Area | Notable Features |
|---|---|
| Arrival wilderness | Scouts found no Sin Beasts within one thousand meters of the entrance 28. |
| Forested mountains | Early hunting grounds containing numerous Sin Beasts, including packs of black wolves 29 30. |
| Inner region | Sin Beasts became stronger deeper inside; Silver Tier beasts began appearing among the groups encountered 31. |
| Core mountain range | Contained powerful Sin Beasts and an enormous cave used as a gathering point by the three families 31. |
| Core valley | Surrounded by a horde numbering in the tens of thousands. Inside were roughly four or five thousand more beasts, none weaker than Bronze Ninth Grade 32 35. |
| Central lake | Held an apparent island bearing a stone platform and glowing treasure. The island was actually atop a Silver Ninth Grade Purple-Patterned Poison Toad 35. |
History
Earlier Gold Tier Realm
Ten years before the featured expedition, a Gold Tier Spirit Realm appeared near Shenglin City. Lin Xiao, who had recently reached the Gold Realm, entered alongside his father, the previous city lord. The realm contained Platinum Realm Sin Beasts, and Lin Xiao’s father died fighting to secure his escape 22.
During their absence, Sin Beasts attacked Shenglin City and killed Lin An’s mother. These losses made Lin Xiao particularly wary of allowing his son into another Spirit Realm 22 23.
Discovery of the Bronze Tier Realm
The three great families discovered the featured realm three kilometers west of Shenglin City and reported that it would open in about half a month. They offered to explore under the City Lord’s Residence’s direction or give Lin An half their gains if the residence did not participate 22.
Lin An chose to enter personally. Lin Xiao initially resisted, then required him to comprehend the residence’s visualization diagram and perfect a Silver Tier technique before granting permission. After Lin An met those conditions, Lin Xiao supplied protective treasures and assigned ten Bronze Ninth Grade personal guards to accompany him 23 25 26 27.
Expedition Parties
| Party | Entrants and Leadership | Conduct |
|---|---|---|
| City Lord’s Residence | Lin An and ten Bronze Ninth Grade personal guards 27 28. | Explored separately, concentrating on hunting Sin Beasts 28 29. |
| Zhao Family | Fifty members led by Zhao Tao, a Bronze Eighth Grade heir 28. | Offered support to Lin An; later helped draw beasts away from the core valley 28 34. |
| Zhang Clan | Fifty members led by Zhang Yun, a Bronze Eighth Grade heir 28. | Initially explored independently, then joined the other families near the core 28 31. |
| Wang Clan | Fifty members led by Wang Qi, a Bronze Eighth Grade heir 28. | Initially explored independently, then joined the other families near the core 28 31. |
The families’ entrants were all at least Bronze Seventh Grade, with approximately thirty at Bronze Ninth Grade. By the seventh day, a little over 110 of their original 150 members remained gathered in the core cave, and more than thirty had reached the Silver Realm 28 31.
Hunting and the Core Treasure
Lin An’s party used Sin-Luring Crystals to gather nearby Sin Beasts for concentrated attacks. The realm’s tripled rewards funded successive improvements to One Saber Slash, culminating in its perfection and Lin An’s comprehension of Saber Intent 29 30 31 32.
Near the end of the seventh day, Lin An attacked the horde outside the core valley alone. The three families and his guards helped divert the surrounding beasts with Sin-Luring Crystals, allowing him to reach the valley entrance 33 34.
Inside, Lin An activated a jade pendant containing one of Lin Xiao’s attacks, destroying the approaching beasts. He then killed the Silver Ninth Grade Purple-Patterned Poison Toad with a combined saber attack and claimed the Heaven and Earth Spirit Crystal 35 36.
Closure and Aftermath
After obtaining the crystal, Lin An killed more than a thousand additional beasts before the realm shook and automatically teleported him outside. He returned uninjured and later calculated that the expedition had earned him roughly 240,000 attribute points, including those already spent on One Saber Slash 36 37.
The expedition changed the three families’ attitude toward Lin An. Eyewitness accounts of his slaughter convinced their heads to strengthen their support, sending gifts that included their own Gold Tier resources rather than only the realm’s spoils 36 38.
Notable Treasure
Heaven and Earth Spirit Crystal
- Origin: Formed from condensed qi of heaven and earth and the power of the land 36.
- Effects: Helps its user enter unity with heaven and earth, improves comprehension, accelerates understanding, and offers a slight chance of sudden enlightenment 36.
- Durability: Not a consumable; Lin Xiao considered it suitable to become a Lin Family heirloom 37.
- Recipient: Lin An gave it to Lin Xiao to help him perfect the Lin Clan Cultivation Technique and work toward the Platinum Realm 37.
- Value: Lin An judged that, with suitable connections and luck, an ordinary player could exchange it for a Platinum Rank cultivation technique 36.
Alternate-Timeline Appearance
- In Lin An’s previous life, a Black Iron Tier Spirit Realm appeared near Shenglin City one month after the servers opened 22.
- Lin An entered at Black Iron Third Grade and hunted weak Sin Beasts around its outskirts with other players. Contribution-based reward sharing left him with only a fraction of an attribute point per kill 35 37.