The vassal states not only demand enormous amounts of resources as annual tribute, but also require humans to be considered superior, both within and outside their territories.
[When humans see them, their status automatically rises by one and a half realms.]
[This refers to humans at the Innate level, whose position among the subordinate races is higher than their ordinary third-realm cultivators. Only those at the late third-realm can surpass them... but they must still maintain basic respect for them and not offend them casually.]
[In the year 3215, you resided in the Supreme Hall.]
[Exhale deeply.]
"After more than three hundred years, I have finally reached the pinnacle."
"After 346 years, I have finally reached the summit for the first time!"
【"Cool!"】
On this day, you are 360 years old, with 43.76 times your essence, and your realm is: Supreme Being!
[Including the essential multiplication domain, the value reaches 270,000!]
"The Thorn Demon King is the weakest of the True Kings. Not only is his level at the entry-level True King, but he also lacks any additional power-ups. His combat strength is only about 900,000 times that of a newly promoted Pseudo-King."
"That's only a little over three times my strength... With the Holy Body's ability to foresee the future, I can fight!"
"By drawing upon the accumulated power of ten generations, I, eleven, am now capable of challenging a true king!"
"The next step is to advance to True King, becoming a True King in the forty-fold multiplier zone from the start!"
Yun Shou frowned; the gap was narrowing.
The gap he had created due to his superior nature was becoming smaller and smaller because other beings were gradually evolving their sacred bodies and expanding their multipliers as their realms improved.
Those two human kings had a combat power multiplier of more than ten times.
The Black Dragon Demon King was twenty times stronger, and at the True King level, his value was only twice that of his opponent.
"Although the mechanics of the 'Apocalypse Manifestation' are becoming increasingly complicated, it doesn't provide numerical values! This is a fatal flaw."
"I will definitely choose the cultivation level for this simulation... Unless something unexpected happens and my essence increases from 40 times to 400 times, I will absolutely choose at least the supreme level!"
"Sigh, but if this continues, won't I become someone who only has mechanics but no stats?"
Yun Shou recalled a famous anime he had watched years ago, where the character mechanics were all outrageous, but when he looked at the stats, the strongest character in the entire series was trapped in space and didn't even have the ability to survive outside the Earth!
"Without numerical values, we won't even be able to break through the defenses of skilled opponents in the future!"
"Just evolve now, unleash your true divine power!"
[Year 3220.]
"As expected, grasping the fundamental essence of a transcendent system is quite difficult," you thought, frowning.
If we were to assign a numerical value to talent, the average person would get one point.
Most top-tier players have four to five points, which is already a very high value. Each point increase represents a qualitative leap.
Among the existing human supreme beings, most have a score of seven or eight, with the best reaching over ten.
[Beichenguang's original value was 20 points, but after being significantly amplified, it has reached 80 points!]
[Xiang Yang started with 100 points of comprehension, but because he ran too fast, his aptitude didn't increase much, so he now only has 200 points of comprehension.]
Talent and comprehension are crucial attributes that permeate the entire life of any martial artist, yet their improvement is many times more difficult than enhancing cultivation power!
In ordinary times, it symbolizes the speed of learning martial arts, the ability to adjust the flow of energy, combat skills, and so on.
When breaking through to higher realms, factors such as innate sensitivity to vital energy, the path of a hegemon's domineering will, and the supreme being's instantaneous attainment... all provide additional speed boosts!
However, unlike the Kinghood realm, in the earlier realms, besides comprehension, the benefits of martial arts elixirs and terrifying aptitude are equally enormous.
[But only the title of king is conferred solely on aptitude, regardless of anything else!]
[Under the influence of 43 times the essence, your comprehension is currently... approximately 3.5 times.]
"Isn't this putting me, Yun, in a difficult position?"
You are furious.
[Your innate spiritual energy was already a major hurdle at the time, but you forced it up by taking drugs.]
As for the path to hegemony? At that time, your state of mind was perfectly aligned, so traversing it was not difficult.
The most daunting challenge of achieving enlightenment in a single thought became a joke in the face of the forty-fold increase in essence and the instantaneous return to the true body. On average, it could be encountered once every few years, and if one was slightly excited, it could happen once every ten or twenty days.
[The fifth realm, however, requires comprehending the very essence of the cultivation system... and that's the most difficult part!]
This cannot be understood simply by reading books and learning more about martial arts; in a sense, it is about comprehending the Great Dao.
Yun Shou: "...Is there anything profound about this kind of purely numerical martial arts that's worth understanding?"
[It is so profound and mysterious that it cannot be explained in words.]
"But I have time to waste with you!"
[You sneered, "The supreme being's lifespan is six thousand years, meaning you can live to nearly forty thousand years old."]
[If the lifespan increases 400 times in 40,000 years, the upper limit of lifespan will increase to 120,000 years, and can be extended by another 80,000 years!]
"Furthermore, while my comprehension increases less during the ascension process, it is still gradually improving!"
"Moreover, Haji and the others will soon advance to the sixth or seventh realm. Perhaps they can produce rare and precious materials that can enhance comprehension, and even demonstrate the laws for me to comprehend directly, and obtain some auxiliary items such as enlightenment stones..."
[While you're daydreaming, you decide to spend two hours each day trying to comprehend the "Great Dao."]
"These things can't be rushed, so there's no rush."
[In 3221, you started exploiting bugs.]
[Through "predicting the future," countless insights are accumulated!]
Simply foreseeing the future won't bring back one's cultivation level, but it can bring back memories of that experience.
Insights are also memories!
[Because mental energy has a limit, receiving too much information will cause fatigue, and fatigue will reduce the efficiency of comprehension. You can currently use the ability to predict the future a maximum of 100,000 times per day, and then add up these 100,000 one-minute comprehension sessions.]
Unfortunately, the effect of such intermittent one-minute intervals is very low. Even if you add up 100,000 minutes a day for two months, the actual effect is only about five days of continuous insight on your own.
"Compared to two hours a day, this is sixty times faster."
In the year 3225, during a moment of leisure, you also felt fortunate that you hadn't compromised your true nature to save resources.
If one's true essence decreases, not only will their comprehension drop significantly, but even the 1% natural increase in essence each year will be reduced.
"Luckily, I didn't try to get something for nothing, otherwise I would have been in big trouble with this simulation, and even future ones."
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