Yun Shou said helplessly, "Unlike linear and proportional growth, the increase in comprehension is slower as you go further. Even if I use 1000 times the essence, it will only increase my comprehension to 10 times the original."
Keep slicing.
[0.09x, 0.08x...]
[At the end of this year, you've reduced the essence of Wu Guiren to 0.01 times!]
His strength is even inferior to that of an ordinary Grandmaster at the Great Perfection stage!
[If one's cultivation level weren't extremely high, they wouldn't even be able to maintain the body's functions!]
His lifespan has been reduced to only one-tenth; his innate lifespan of five hundred years has been shrunk to only fifty years, and now at forty-one, he already resembles an old man.
"But his comprehension and talent are still twice that of the average person."
All his former vigor and ambition have vanished into dust; Wu Guiren has become a complete cripple.
[He's not completely abandoned by everyone; he still has his mother and younger sister by his side.]
You are preparing to see Wu Guiren off on his final journey.
[Another seven days have ended, the Return to Truth CD has been restored, and you can now openly enter the depths of the palace.]
The only two blood relatives who cared about him remained by Wu Guiren's side, all three looking at him.
"This is my final moment... What grudge do you hold against me?" Wu Guiren asked softly, his spirit worn down.
"How did you get in?!" his mother yelled.
"Why won't you let him go?! My brother doesn't have much time left!" his sister cried.
"But who will spare the memory of Prisoner Jiu?" You shook your head.
"Furthermore," you reveal the answer, "the person who has caused your continuous decline over the past few years is me."
[You spoke to Wu Guiren privately, but neither of his two relatives beside him heard it.]
Wu Guiren's eyes widened. If it were six months ago, he would have already thrown a punch, but now he only felt despair and confusion: "Why?"
"It's fun."
You couldn't be bothered to explain past life grudges to him; you just wanted him to suffer the most during his death.
[You point your true essence at Wu Guiren with one finger. This finger doesn't cause harm; it's merely to make contact, and then you use the Essence Punishment on him.]
In an instant... Wu Guiren vanished before your eyes, as if evaporated into thin air, as if completely annihilated.
Aside from clothing and other external objects, Wu Guiren left no physical traces whatsoever; even his bones and hair had vanished.
"Returning to one's true nature."
You are back one minute earlier, sitting on a rooftop.
Inside the house, Wu Guiren vanished into thin air.
Moments later, the cries of a mother and daughter could be heard, but you were already gone.
"Yun Jiu's grudge from that lifetime has been avenged."
[In 3275, the human race's domain reached 3,500 square kilometers.]
Approximately 10% of the people in Qingyu possess high-level qualities.
Meanwhile, the second generation of humans, whose essence was 3-4 times greater, began to spread outwards from various Supreme Palaces.
[One by one, the Supreme Beings whose essence you have fully replenished are rejuvenated, transforming into second-generation essence transporters.]
Of course, the highest level is still the group of monsters from the Beichen family, with 53 times the essence.
[You feel that, with the blessing of good fortune, you have already seen 0.2 meters of the True King's path to enlightenment.]
"Congratulations! Congratulations! More than fifty years have passed, and I've lived one-fifth of that time."
"...Although it will get harder and harder in the future."
[In 3305, Chu Heshang advanced to the Supreme level with seven times the original essence. Although he hadn't yet reached the essence limit you reported to him, the moment he was destined for the Supreme level had arrived, so it couldn't be wasted.]
His power was overwhelming, spanning 1.4 million miles.
In 3321, an unexpected event occurred.
[You are currently in the Supreme Hall, where you will unconsciously gain more fortune and slightly enhance your understanding of the "Way of Venerable Origin".]
"Damn, the difficulty is definitely getting higher and higher. I'm starting to doubt whether I can even finish the next thousand years!"
[You've been stuck at a tiny "bottleneck" of 0.299 meters for over five years! This has never happened before!]
"It took me 26 years to go from 0 to 0.1 meters, 34 years to go from 0.1 to 0.2 meters, and normally it would have taken me 41 years to go from 0.2 to 0.3 meters. This was a tolerable growth rate..."
"But the problem is that in the 41st year, a hurdle appeared that I just couldn't figure out! This hurdle prevented me from making any progress for the next five years!"
You can only comfort yourself by telling yourself that your skills are constantly improving.
[Even a mere 1% increase in essence each year is equivalent to a 62-fold increase in the combat power of a newly promoted pseudo-king. No other supreme being can match your rate of progress!]
Furthermore, as your inherent qualities improve and your comprehension strengthens, the path to becoming a true king will become increasingly easier.
[In 3327, an accident occurred.]
This is something you've never experienced or heard of before.
[It's also possible that in Yun Jiu's era, he wasn't qualified to make contact, or that this event never even happened then.]
Someone has broken into the Supreme Hall.
[An absolutely invincible person; simply looking directly at him is like glimpsing some ultimate and profound mystery. Behind him, three ever-changing entities surround him.]
Those three objects seemed to be some kind of Dao seal, emanating various mysterious auras, allowing you to immediately recognize this person's extraordinary nature.
[His power was indeed invincible; he easily suppressed the other supreme beings in the hall whose combat strength was over a thousand times greater. In a future scenario, you attacked him, only to be suppressed in return.]
"Where did this alien true king come from!?"
You are shocked.
Fortunately, after several future tests, you discovered that this person did not come with pure hostility; he came to find you.
He sees you as one of his own kind.
【No!】
He doesn't see you as one of his own kind; he sees you as someone on the same level!
[You are clearly only at the Supreme Realm, and your combat strength is indeed inferior even to the weakest Thorn Demon King, yet this young man addresses you as a fellow Daoist!]
"I'm curious how the humans of this realm could possess such peculiarities. If it was your doing, fellow Daoist, then it wouldn't seem so strange."
Based on the safe route you discovered through multiple premonitions of the future, you cautiously replied, "After all, this Yuantian Domain is my birthplace. Now that I have achieved some success in my cultivation, it is only right that I return to take care of it."
The man laughed loudly: "Having gone to such lengths, it seems you truly love this Azure Domain. Otherwise, even for someone like you or me at the Gathering Dao Realm, achieving this would be incredibly difficult... no, I certainly couldn't."
...
(The sixth realm is about to appear. The book is already halfway through, and I estimate that most of the plot will take place in this realm. I'm planning to explore all the extraordinary systems like cultivation, elemental counters, and mechs. (ˉ?ˉ?))
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