Chapter 788: Clothes
“Plane Power?” The term piqued everyone’s interest.
In their ingrained understanding, power was simply power; at most, excessively powerful forces would cause destruction to the surrounding environment, but they had never heard of the environment being able to, in turn, restrain a cultivator’s strength.
Especially if it could even restrain True Immortals, that would mean that this Plane Power might be even stronger than Immortals themselves.
“The planes of the Dao Chen Realm can roughly be divided into three levels. The first level is the Mortal Realm. These worlds have the lowest upper limit for the power they can contain. Once that upper limit of power is exceeded, they will instinctively expel the foreign object, which, according to the cultivators of the Dao Chen Realm, is called ascension.”
“......”
“What if I want to forcibly stay?” Yupo, who refused to believe in evil, pressed on.
“Either you die, or the entire world is destroyed by you.”
“......”
“Generally speaking, an existence in the late Lesser Immortal Spirit stage is enough to completely collapse a realm.”
“The Mortal Realm is resource-poor, and there’s nothing that can attract Immortal Spirit beings, so it’s fine not to go,” Yisisi continued.
“The second level is the Spirit Realm. The Spirit Realm’s upper limit is far higher than the Mortal Realm’s, but it still cannot accommodate power at the Immortal Spirit level. If translated into your power classifications, the Mortal Realm can at most accommodate lifeforms no higher than the Fourth Tier, while the Spirit Realm can at most accommodate existences no higher than the Six Tiers.
Only the unique Dao Chen Immortal Realm can accommodate the full power of beings like us.”
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“However, in the Spirit Realms under the Dao Chen Immortal Realm, there might still be some things useful to you,” Bai Mo added.
“You’ve already set off?”
“......”
“Plane Power is a part of this world’s Heavenly Dao.”
“Heavenly Dao?”
“The cultivation system of the Dao Chen Realm is built upon the Heavenly Dao. With every advancement, they must face a Heavenly Tribulation head-on. Those who successfully cross it advance; those who fail turn to ash and smoke.”
In the ten days Bai Mo spent waiting for the others to arrive, he had already diversified dozens of self-sealed miniature projections, infiltrating the various sub-planes under the jurisdiction of the Dao Chen Realm.
Through intelligence probes over these days, he had also gained a general understanding of the Dao Chen Realm’s system.
“As long as you don’t intend to destroy the world, the Heavenly Dao won’t be your enemy,” Yisisi said, following Bai Mo’s words.
“So what exactly is the Heavenly Dao?”
“It’s hard to say. Perhaps it’s a collection of rules, but the most crucial point is that the Heavenly Dao is an existence without a primary consciousness, operating only according to certain laws.”
Yisisi had dealt with the Dao Chen Realm for thousands of years and understood its Heavenly Dao system very well, but it was unwilling to say too much to this group of mercenaries from Terra.
Because it vaguely sensed that its opportunity to break through to the Upper Immortal Spirit stage might lie within this Heavenly Dao itself.
However, for thousands of years, it had been languishing in the early eighth stage.
It wasn’t that Yisisi had encountered a bottleneck; rather, the quantity of Purple-Green Great Medicine it possessed limited its rate of growth.
The more powerful an existence, the more Purple-Green Great Medicine was consumed to combat Dao Toxin. And Purple-Green Spirit Elixir happened to be something that appeared by chance; even when refined into Purple-Green Great Medicine, it could only be preserved for a maximum of a hundred years.
But for a Mid-tier Immortal Spirit lifeform of planetary mass, a battle lasting a hundred years was not impossible. Once the Purple-Green Great Medicine in hand was exhausted and their will was corroded by Dao Toxin, that life would directly enter a countdown, and all would turn to naught.
After it arrived in the Dao Chen Realm, it spent several hundred years collecting Purple-Green Spirit Elixir and refining Purple-Green Great Medicine, barely managing to completely clear out all the original Daoization power within its body.
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Mimicking Bai Mo’s actions, Yisisi also punched the space.
“CRASH!” It was the sound of glass shattering again. It even perfectly mimicked the sound effect.
Centered on the girl’s delicate fist, concentric rings of spatial cracks extended outwards. The world seemed to shatter once more, revealing its truly authentic form behind it.
The wriggling giant flesh masses, the tentacles flailing everywhere, and the slippery ground paved with muscle fibers all shattered. The world returned to a composite of magnificent palaces and a clean, grand hall.
As for the “watermelon” Yisisi had just eaten in a few bites, it inexplicably regenerated.
“This is the real world. What you saw just now was merely an illusion he concocted,” the girl said, gently flapping her wings and playfully chiding Bai Mo with a soft complaint.
“......”
However, after experiencing the scene that was akin to a hell of flesh and blood, how could anyone still believe its words? They could only dismiss it with a smile, pretending to admire the scenery around them.
But then again, this clean and beautiful environment was indeed far more pleasant to the eye than those disgusting things.
“Do you want to see me without clothes?” The green-haired girl chuckled, covering her mouth. Her smile was like the heartwarming sunshine of winter, while her silken, flirtatious glances were cast out as if they cost nothing.
“Absolutely no need, this is perfectly fine as it is,” Ji Er Ke Fu took the lead and actively refused this “kind offer.”
After all, the “clothes” Yisisi spoke of referred to its beautiful girl’s skin, which it had only temporarily “donned” purely to cater to the aesthetics of this group of temporary allies.
And what exactly was beneath those “clothes”... Through that fleeting glimpse just now, everyone could pretty much guess. At the same time, they also couldn’t help but note that Bai Mo wasn’t quite as depraved, having foregone the disguise of a maiden’s skin.
“Right? I told you they’d rather choose this kind of ‘truth’,” Yisisi said, covering her mouth and laughing, having casually changed into a dress with a turn.
Through its recovery of the Brain Bug Seres’s memories back then, it had gained a rather deep understanding of Earth’s cultural environment.
Bai Mo gently shook his head and said no more.
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“I never expected the Zerg Mother’s illusion arts to be so terrifying. The moment we entered, we fell for its trick.”
After the meeting dispersed, the Empire’s group chatted about their future direction.
“But she bears no ill will,” said the sorcerer most proficient in telepathy among them.
“No ill will? Was what I ate a real watermelon, then?” Ji Er Ke Fu retorted. He considered himself a person with a certain bottom line, and he remained somewhat vexed about almost eating human brain matter.
“Although that ‘watermelon’ was disgusting, eating it could enhance one’s cultivation. In the Empire, it would be considered a low-grade Heavenly Tier spiritual material,” Ying Huo, who understood biological materials the most, analyzed.
Of course, it was merely feigning disgust to blend into the human atmosphere. Ying Huo, whose true form was a tree demon, had, in its previous life on Earth, eaten an unknown number of human brains. To it, this thing was nothing but delicious.
What Yisisi had produced was no ordinary brain matter. Although to an eighth-stage ‘Cave Profound Star Lord’ it would indeed be a mere snack, for those with early seventh-stage cultivation, consuming it could save them at least a year and a half of arduous cultivation.
It was a pity that it wasn’t the one who stepped forward to receive the “watermelon,” otherwise, it would surely have pretended ignorance and taken a few bites first.
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