Chapter 343: The One-of-a-Kind Ten Thousand Souls Banner! |
【Among this pile of useless Spirit Crystals, you also dug out the Demon Refining Pot, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, the Immortal-Binding Rope, the Heavenly Dragon Blade, and a bunch of other Immortal Artifacts you brought along.】
【They didn’t seem abnormal at first glance.】
【You tested them out a couple of times—their functions were all present and accounted for, but it felt like their power wasn’t as strong as it was back in the Void Realm.】
【There was one small issue.】
【The Artifact Spirits were gone!】
【“Never thought that after ascending, I’d end up all alone...”】
【Along the way, you used to chat with this pile of Immortal Artifacts all the time.】
【Sometimes, you’d even set up a little gathering on the beacon tower, play some cards, and relax.】
【Now, a wave of loneliness—the feeling of being the only one left—washed over you.】
【The Ten Thousand Souls Banner floated up, and the voice of its Artifact Spirit came from within.】
【Hearing the Ten Thousand Souls Banner’s voice, you felt a bit moved, oddly enough.】
【But also a little confused.】
【“Old Wan, the Artifact Spirits of the other Immortal Artifacts are all gone. Why are you still here? Because you’re a Super Immortal Artifact?”】
【The Ten Thousand Souls Banner didn’t know either. After confirming that the Demon Refining Pot’s Artifact Spirit was truly gone, it raised its head and laughed triumphantly at the sky.】
【“Hahaha! That head eunuch! Can’t handle the pressure, huh? Only when the tide goes out do you see who’s swimming naked, hahaha!”】
【The Ten Thousand Souls Banner’s laughter was just its defense mechanism.】
【You, just like the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, were thinking the same thing: Were the Artifact Spirits temporarily gone, or had they been erased by the power of the Real Realm?】
【You figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask those who knew more about the Real Realm.】
【You dragged Yi Chengsheng out again.】
【“Never thought you’d actually make it to the Real Realm...”】
【“How do you know this is the Real Realm? The surroundings don’t look any different.”】
【“No different? Then why can’t you extend your Divine Sense anymore? Why can’t you fly at will? And what about your Spirit Crystals—didn’t they all turn into a pile of broken stones?
The Real Realm has more advanced, more complete, and more solid world laws!
You’re just at the Qi Transformation realm, and you think you can have ‘Divine Sense’ and ‘Soaring Flight’?
Dream on!
Forget those things—back in the Void Realm, you could shatter space easily. Here? Don’t even think about it!
When a Martial God from the human world reaches the Real Realm, the most they can do is split a small mountain peak. As for shattering space, you’ve still got a long way to go!”】
【A lot of the Ancient Wasteland Survivors came to the Real Realm.】
【Not every one of them managed to make a name for themselves there.】
【But with a large enough sample size, some people inevitably achieved remarkable feats and managed to send information about the Real Realm back through various means.】
【That’s how Yi Chengsheng knew this intel about the Real Realm.】
【You got the gist of it.】
【In short, whether it was cultivators or Immortal Artifacts, they themselves hadn’t actually changed, but the surrounding environment had become stronger, making them seem weaker than in the Void Realm.】
【Of course, you, as a Qi Transformation realm cultivator, couldn’t fly—and neither could any other Qi Transformation realm cultivator in the Real Realm. The laws of heaven and earth were the same for everyone.】
【“Does lifespan shorten due to the change in the laws of heaven and earth?”】
【That was the question you cared about most—it related to how many trait tags you could draw.】
【“Why the hell should I tell you all this? You’re my enemy!”】
【“You saying that just made me forget.”】
【You raised your iron fist of materialism and beat Yi Chengsheng until he questioned his life choices.】
【“Stop hitting me! Cultivating to the Qi Transformation realm in the Real Realm isn’t that easy! Lifespan starts increasing from the Qi Transformation realm onward—it’s the same for every race!!”】
【“That’s good. So, cultivating to the Martial God realm, which is after the Seventh Rotation of Qi Transformation, I can still have a thousand years of lifespan, right?”】
【“Yes! But a thousand years of lifespan is also a bottleneck in the Real Realm. If you want to keep improving, just raising your cultivation level won’t cut it!”】
【“Then what do I do?”】
【“Do you think I know everything? I don’t know much more than you. Since you’re here, go explore it yourself! Stop asking me!”】
【You let Yi Chengsheng off the hook.】
【He had a point.】
【Since you were already here, you might as well discover this information yourself.】
【The first Simulation in the Real Realm was all about the experience—feeling your way forward, laying a foundation for future Simulations, and gathering enough intel.】
【You pulled up your interface and noticed that your cultivation level description had changed.】
【Before, it was Middle Stage Martial Saint. Now, it was Sixth Rotation of Qi Transformation.】
【It wasn’t just the interface info.】
【You flipped through some trait tags and noticed their descriptions had also changed.】
【Terms like “martial artist” had been replaced by “cultivator.”】
【The Nine Martial Realms had also been replaced by a new set of realm names.】
【None of the trait tags’ effects had changed—only some nouns had been swapped out.】
【“The trait tag system adapted to the environment change.”】
【Your Storage Ring was also broken.】
【Back in the Void Realm, it could contain a whole space. But here in the Real Realm, it had become an ordinary spirit artifact—though the Real Realm didn’t call them spirit artifacts. From some of the trait tag effects, you saw they should be called magical artifacts.】
【This magical artifact couldn’t create a separate space.】
【Thinking about it, with the suppression of higher-dimensional space laws in the Real Realm, creating space must be extremely difficult.】
【“Not having a Storage Ring is really inconvenient...”】
【The Spirit Crystals were useless now, so you didn’t need to carry them.】
【But besides Spirit Crystals, you still had to carry living supplies, martial arts resources, and a pile of magical artifacts.】
【You simply couldn’t carry it all.】
【You could tie them all together with the Immortal-Binding Rope and sling them over your back, but wouldn’t that be way too conspicuous?】
【And it would be inconvenient to do anything.】
【“I need to make some choices. Bury what I can’t carry somewhere for now, and come back for it once I get a storage artifact from the Real Realm.”】
【You decided not to bring any food or water. From now on, you’d rely on “Unlimited White Porridge”—it covered both water and food perfectly.】
【You put on the Primordial Chaos Armor, picked up the Heavenly Dragon Blade, stepped into the Lightning-Chasing, Thunder-Racing Boots, hung the Immortal-Binding Rope on your side, strapped the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to your back, and hung the Demon Refining Pot from the banner’s pole.】
【You looked like a peddler heading to a market fair. Every time you moved, everything clattered and clanked.】
【“I wonder what people from the Real Realm look like. Just thinking about it gets me a little excited...”】
【With a mix of anticipation and anxiety, you took your first step into the Real Realm.】
【The vast earth stretched out endlessly before you.】
【The sun rose and the moon set—it didn’t look any different from the human world.】
【But here, there were two moons.】
【“Why can’t I cultivate?”】
【After nightfall, you wanted to do the same thing you did in the human world: replace rest with cultivation.】
【But you found that when you activated your Qi Refining Art, the Heart-Burning Immortality Art, you couldn’t sense the Essence of Heaven and Earth around you.】
【Without external spiritual energy, you couldn’t increase your cultivation level out of thin air either.】
【You dragged Yi Chengsheng out again, beat him up, and asked if he knew the reason.】
【Unfortunately, he didn’t know either.】
【He only said that the Real Realm didn’t have the Essence of Heaven and Earth—only Immortal Qi. The Qi Refining Arts used by Real Realm cultivators absorbed Immortal Qi and converted it into their own True Qi for cultivation.】
【“Is the problem with the cultivation method?”】
【“How the hell would I know if your cultivation method has a problem? But from what I know, Qi Refining Arts from the Void Realm can still be cultivated normally in the Real Realm. The only difference is that instead of absorbing the Essence of Heaven and Earth, you absorb Immortal Qi. There’s no real change.”】
【You frowned in thought, suspecting that this place might not have Immortal Qi.】
【“I still need to find a local to ask.”】