[In 2923, at the age of 68, you ascended to the realm of the Overlord!]

[Xiangyang, you're not sure, but according to the information shown in Yun Jiu's simulation... Beichen Guang should still be at the Celestial level at his age!]

In 2924, you left the Cloud Realm and headed for the Azure Domain.

"If it weren't for the intervention of a powerful figure to help compensate, my eldest disciple would have faced many times more difficulties in the war zone. He might still be paying off his debts while cultivating, perhaps without finishing his battle merits or even achieving the Celestial Realm."

You murmured, "And it was indeed Chen Kongyu who struck first!"

You don't need to do anything to the Misty Sect, but you should at least give them a good beating.

But after arriving in Qiyun City, beyond the misty mountains, to gather information, you felt somewhat superfluous.

[Jiang Liu, the female overlord who was paying attention to Xu Ling'er's repayment agreement with the Misty Sect, has taken a liking to Xu Ling'er.]

Jiang Liu was captivated by Xu Ling'er's "Sacred Heart of Love," which she maintained at eight or nine times her normal mental strength at all times. Therefore, he summoned her supreme master and asked him to take Xu Ling'er as his disciple, making her his junior sister.

Jiang Liu's master is Yan Yingxue—yes, the one who lit the six-light sky lantern in prison.

[Since they are both from the soul-based family, and with his eldest disciple Jiang Liu's recommendation, Yan Zhizun naturally had no objection to accepting Xu Ling'er.]

Xu Ling'er objected, shaking her head repeatedly, saying she already had a master and was unwilling to become a disciple of anyone else.

[Jiang Liu and the other man were speechless upon learning from her that you were merely a celestial being, but her actions were commendable—in the end, even Yan Zhizun took a half-step back and said, "I will not be your master, I will be your half-master, your instructor."]

A master is considered a father for life, while an instructor is less bound by such strict rules and more akin to a transaction where money and goods are exchanged.

It's like comparing someone else's wedding to your sexual encounter.

[Xu Ling'er is stubborn and aloof now, but that doesn't mean she's ungrateful. She'll naturally agree now that things have come to this.]

[Yan Yingxue is the most powerful person in the family, and Xu Ling'er couldn't possibly offer her enough compensation to teach her. That's why Yan Yingxue, out of a desire to nurture talent, used the guise of "teaching" to guide Xu Ling'er.]

Then, three years ago, a Jiang Liu who was at least at the late stage of the Overlord realm, you'd guess, came to the Misty Sect with her half-junior sister to cause trouble.

[Nominally a martial arts exchange, but then Xu Ling'er, at the mid-stage of the Celestial Realm, swept aside many of her peers from the Misty Sect.]

[At the Celestial Realm, where one can mobilize the primordial energy of heaven and earth, Xu Ling'er's ninefold increase in spiritual power allowed her to leapfrog a minor level, reaching the late-stage Celestial Realm and sweeping aside her peers!]

[The last to leave.]

[You've also chosen to leave. Your disciple has grown up, found a new backer, and can now make his own way.]

"I'm really getting old."

[Just as you were about to leave, you heard someone angrily cursing Xu Ling'er. It was a few Misty Sect disciples who had gone to the city to make purchases after leaving the sect.]

A male disciple said, "That vile woman, if she hadn't deliberately disguised herself as old and ugly, why would Junior Brother Chen have made a move?"

He said, "She must have provoked Senior Brother Chen as well. Maybe she clung to him like a shameless dog, saying, 'You must marry this over 100-year-old woman and provide me with cultivation resources...' Her goal was to provoke Senior Brother Chen into attacking her!"

One female disciple also analyzed: "Exactly, Senior Brother Chen must have only given her a light push, but she ended up flying three hundred meters away and crashing into the wooden house!"

"I think that's just her way of saying she was dumped... she's obviously trying to get rid of Senior Brother Chen, she's just pretending! She thinks that because she's a Holy Body, Junior Brother Chen isn't good enough for her!"

"That's too cruel! They just want to break up, and they don't want to keep their childhood promise! Junior Brother Chen was such a devoted man, and now..."

[Pause for a moment, then walk to the end of the street.]

Then he suddenly rushed over and kicked each of them to the ground.

["Unfortunately, the Instant Return to Truth Body technique can only be used on a single character." You return to ten seconds earlier, standing at the end of the street, when a male disciple of the Misty Sect suddenly clutches his groin and screams in pain.]

[The others, on the other hand, are directly controlled by you to unleash a massive attack or Bakugan on the surrounding air, forcing them to share the burden.]

[Five innate beings collapsed to the ground simultaneously, drawing astonishment from the street: Had a powerful celestial being, displeased with these individuals, secretly intervened by manipulating the primordial energy of heaven and earth?]

Qiyun City is just a small city. Although it is hundreds of times larger than Qingcheng in the Yunyang Realm, it is still a small city, and its city lord is only a Celestial Being.

In this small town, Celestial Realm martial artists are the absolute elite, and the Overlords? The Misty Sect only has three of them! All of them are Supreme Ancestors, whose positions are even higher than the Sect Master!

You accomplished your task and left without a trace, concealing your merit and fame.

In 2925, you felt your path of spiritual practice was somewhat difficult, referring to a lack of experience and guidance.

[Advancing as a hegemon isn't simply about absorbing vital energy; it requires combining hegemonic intent with numerous other wondrous techniques. Blindly following the old methods of cultivation for innate beings and celestial beings will only result in stagnant cultivation.]

It will become increasingly difficult as you go on, hindering your breakthrough to higher realms; this is not the right path.

"The martial arts knowledge I possessed at the start of this life is only enough for me to cultivate to the peak of the Celestial Realm..." you sighed.

"Lao Jiu knows how to break through to the Overlord level, but he only left those few lines in the simulator and didn't inherit any martial arts cultivation or knowledge. How could that rough description possibly be useful?"

"I'm not some genius like Xiang Yang, who can create his own cultivation system..." you say helplessly. "Even the specific method for breaking through to the Overlord realm, I had to go to the camp and ask someone for help."

[You disguised yourself as a nobody who had spent decades on the battlefield of a hundred races, and who, even after breaking through from the Innate Realm to the Celestial Realm, still dared not attempt to cross the "Stairway to Heaven." You decided to try to break through to the Overlord Realm, so you sought out some human Celestial Realm beings to learn about the methods for breaking through to the Overlord Realm.]

[But now that you've become a hegemon, as a human with a clear cultivation path, how could you not understand the specific cultivation methods of a hegemon and have to ask?]

The Qingyu region is governed with strict discipline; obtaining even slightly advanced martial arts knowledge requires identification of the corresponding level.

There are no "unorthodox" martial artists here. Under the terrifying dominance of the Human Yuan Diagram, every martial artist who reaches the late stage of the Innate Realm and whose Gang Jin has been completely converted into Yuan Qi is an official, belonging to "one of us."

Unlike fantasy novels where one can travel through mountains and rivers, discuss cultivation with other cultivators, and gain a deeper understanding of cultivation knowledge—or purchase powerful scriptures from the black market for study.

Here, most of the martial arts knowledge of the human race is open; it can be automatically acquired once the required level is reached. Therefore, no one sells information about how Celestials cultivate or the various details of Overlord realm cultivation outside... because this knowledge is free!

[Once you reach the Innate Realm, I will tell you how to break through to the Celestial Realm. As for the Overlord Realm, you will naturally learn that once you reach the Celestial Realm!]

The entire human race has been united as one, yet you remain outside of this system!

[You're feeling a bit numb; it seems we'll need to find a way to get around this.]

(Chapter 211 seems to be stuck in the review process. To avoid disrupting the reading order, I'll post the third and fourth updates together at noon once that chapter is released. ╮( ??ω?? )╭)