After exchanging greetings and asking for all the necessary information, Edson transformed back into human form and cautiously observed you.
[You didn't care what he was thinking. He injured so many people in your Yunyang Realm, and he still thinks about surviving? You froze him into an ice pop. With a crack, his body shattered.]
[Having lost control, its corpse swelled into fragments of a giant python. You quite enjoy eating python demons, but the thought that it was a product of a human undergoing bloodline mutation makes it somewhat difficult to eat.]
Ignoring the corpse, you proceed to the ascension passage. After a moment's hesitation, you decide to first check out the nearby city of Taicang. According to the warlock Edson's testimony, his presence here was a coincidence.
[It's not that the outside world has been occupied by wizards and sorcerers, but rather that after the Sea Soul Continent suddenly appeared in the Azure Domain, these guys got too excited and were eager to explore and conquer the new world, running around everywhere.]
The Taicang Mountains, corresponding to the exit of the ascension passage, are not near the human border; Edson traveled for months to reach this place.
Wizards are human, and sorcerers also have human forms. They are easily intercepted in places like the Demon Realm, while sorcerers in the Monster Realm, or both in human territories, can advance almost unimpeded.
[You enter Taicang City, retrieve the Dead Body Golden Spirit computer, and connect to the internet to check information. The arrival of the Sea Soul Continent was too sudden; the defense line hadn't had time to take shape. Currently, each race has dispatched a group of Supreme Beings and Overlords there.]
[The intensity of conflicts between humans, demons, and monsters in the war zones has been greatly reduced in a short period of time.]
In 3816, the wizards and sorcerers were extremely arrogant, claiming they had come to conquer the world. Two Sun Wizards and one Ultimate Sorcerer—three beings at the fifth realm—made their move!
In 3821, the wizards and sorcerers... were defeated.
[In the Fifth Realm, they are on par with the three races. Although there are only three of them, it's impossible for the three races to send out their entire forces.]
[In the three realms, their numbers are considerable, and they remain evenly matched against the three opposing races.]
After all, the three races only share about 80% of the Azure Domain, while wizards and sorcerers control the resources of the entire Sea Soul Continent. These two types of extraordinary beings belong to the same family.
However, the battle at the fourth realm left them dumbfounded.
The human race possesses a supreme fighting body.
[The demon race possesses the true form of a demon god.]
[The demon race possesses primordial demonic bodies.]
Although few possess such external mechs, those that do increase their output power by tens to thousands of times!
[And the wizards and sorcerers of the four realms... they are pure, so pure that they use their own power to fight against the Supreme Battle Body.]
[Only then did you realize how formidable the various races of the Azure Domain truly were. Countless years of fierce conflict between the three races had forced them to develop giant mechs, unleashing the destructive power of a "half-step fifth realm" despite only being at the fourth realm.]
In 3845, the human, demon, and monster races joined forces to attack the "Witchcraft Clan," scrambling to carve away one-fifth of the newly established Sea Soul Continent in the Azure Domain.
There's no need to start a holy war, because this symbolizes an immense amount of resources that powerful races from all sides will be too busy vying for.
In 3873, the sorcerer tribe extended an olive branch to the human race, seeking peace and stating that since they were all human, they should join forces to fight the demons.
[Human: Heh, that's not what you said when you infiltrated our territory and caused all sorts of destruction.]
In 3909, the Water Spirit Clan had not produced a new Fourth Realm expert for two hundred years, and its sphere of influence had been squeezed and encroached upon by the Sea Clan.
Although the other spirit races and humans had supreme beings intervene, they were ultimately not water spirits.
In 3926, while the three major clans were locked in fierce combat with the sorcerer clan, the sea clan was making its move quietly.
[Seven members of the Water Spirit Clan have fallen to the third realm, nearly plunging them into the lowest rung of the Spirit Clan's history.]
[Xi Xi and the others have no heart to stay with you anymore. They want the Water Spirit Clan to give birth to a fourth realm again, and for another Water King to appear.]
[You left silently. Among the three water spirits who had fallen, many were acquaintances of yours.]
[In 3941, you are 1086 years old, your essence has reached 16 times its original strength. With this unprecedented enhancement, your physical combat power is more than twice that of the newly promoted Myriad-Element Demon Clan, and your lifespan has also quadrupled.]
Therefore, even if you suffer more severe corruption from the Demon Egg, you still have a thousand years to live.
"At two thousand years old, the essence is 25 times greater, plus several hundred more years; at two thousand five hundred years old, the essence is 30 times greater, plus several hundred more years of lifespan."
[“I’m like Achilles chasing the tortoise; the end of time will never catch me!” You’re proud of this.]
Yun Shou: "Uh, if we really have to use this analogy, you're actually the tortoise."
In 3971, Xixi Qi reached the mid-stage of the Third Realm.
[Seven hundred years is a long time. From the initial stage of the third realm to reaching the middle stage with the abundant resources of the Water Spirit Clan, this speed is not slow—even though Xixiqi reached the third realm when she was over four hundred years old.]
[At forty, one reaches the second realm; at four hundred and fifty, the third realm; and at over a thousand years old, one reaches the mid-stage of the third realm. This speed is truly remarkable. Not everyone possesses the potential to become a supreme being, or even a true king.]
Talent, comprehension, fortuitous encounters, and a hazy, unknown destiny—without a series of priceless treasures, even those born with these qualities cannot become celestial beings.
The Azure Domain encompasses countless lower realms, with trillions of people born each year, yet a new Supreme Being is born only once every few decades.
[Think of Chu Heshang, a 200-year-old at the third realm, and a nearly 600-year-old fourth realm supreme being. Why did he progress so quickly?]
[He dares to fight, he dares to kill. He received a large amount of resources from the human race and was blessed with the fortune of a great clan. If Xixi Qi had the same amount of resources, she would at least be a Perfected Third Realm cultivator by now.]
Yun Shou felt terrified. Even martial artists above the Celestial Realm level, who cultivated alone with all their might, could not become overlords.
Not to mention the Overlord, even if you play defensively your whole life, you'll never reach the mid-game.
The later stages of martial arts development require more and more reliance on drugs!
Either fight tooth and nail, or just go for it.
"Sigh, I'm not like Bei Chenguang, who's a cheat. Every generation of Lao Yun has relied on their own hard work and down-to-earth cultivation."
"...However, after this simulation, the essence of the prison is at least sixteen times stronger. It should be no problem for it to pass the Overlord Realm. One hundred years of cultivation is equivalent to nearly two thousand years for others. A normal Overlord can only live to around two thousand years old."
"I also have two lucky adopted sons and a steady and reliable apprentice behind me who are responsible for pulling me ashore!"
In 4005, including the sorcerer clan, the four major clans redefined their territories.
[With one-third of the Sea Soul Continent slashed away, the Witchcraft Clan, who could have suppressed one of each of the other three clans and become the true number one clan among the Hundred Clans of the Azure Domain, was now in power.]
However, their arrogance attracted a combined attack from the human, demon, and monster races, and now all four races are at the same level, forming a balance.
[In 4016, after two hundred years of chaotic fighting among the four races, they are now in a state of recuperation. Meanwhile, the sea race, which has been submerged for five thousand years and has not caused any major disturbances since the beginning of this era—]
[It has stirred up a massive wave across the world!]
"It's time for our race to rise to power! Let's start the war!"
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