[In 7611, experience the local customs and culture in the lower city of Chaodu.]
[A resilient young laborer, a skilled seamstress, a gang leader collecting protection money...]
[In 7612, experience the local customs and culture in the central urban area of Chaodu.]
[A typical daytime worker who works a regular job and stays home all night, a minor internet celebrity with limited online following, and a 26-year-old landlady.]
[Experiencing local customs and culture in the Upper District of Chaodu in 7613.]
[A princess in an ivory tower, a female executive who can decide policy changes for 30,000 blocks with a single word, and an S-class genetically modified warrior with a thousand-layered deer trap.]
"That reminds me."
[In the year 7614, Thirteen, how could you have fallen so low? Have you forgotten to reset your stats across the thirty thousand heavens and become an ultimate true immortal?]
[In 7615, hehehe, let's go try the flavors of the Second Heaven.]
[In 7659, you reached the Third Realm and broke through to enter the Fifteenth Heaven.]
You've discovered something really crappy about this universe.
No matter how outstanding one is, it is almost impossible to rise from the bottom through one's own efforts alone in a single lifetime.
[Because the concentration of primordial energy in those realms near the outer edge of the universe is too low.]
Moreover, the higher one ascends, the more absurd the distances between the different realms become.
Just like in some science fiction movies about interstellar travel, without using technologies like wormholes or faster-than-light travel, crossing a distance of 10,000 light-years would truly require enduring over 10,000 years on a spaceship traveling at 0.9 times the speed of light, spanning countless generations, before finally reaching the destination.
The same principle applies to the Nine-Nine Heavens.
The fourteenth and fifteenth heavens. The distance between their sky and earth is 7,000 light-years.
The power required to break through the barrier between the two realms is not excessive—a Dao Seal quality of around 70 is sufficient for someone newly entering the fourth realm.
[It's only thirty times higher than the Zun Yuan system's value, roughly equivalent to a mid-level Earthly Supreme.]
By now, I'm sure you clever readers have already figured out the problem.
[That's right. Even a mid-level Earth Sovereign, at their absolute maximum speed, can only travel tens of thousands of miles per second. To traverse seven thousand light-years, that means it would take more than 150,000 years!]
[They spent over 150,000 years of their lives flying upwards!]
Even with a Dao Seal quality of 70, it doesn't have such a long lifespan among the Four Realms.
Therefore, in these later realms, a type of "family-style flying boat" appeared.
[An entire extraordinary family resides in a flying ship, slowly ascending to a higher realm of existence for migration. The goal is to ensure that, hundreds of thousands of years later, when the flying ship reaches the top of the sky, the family still possesses a cultivator at the fourth realm, qualified to lead everyone to break through to the next higher realm...]
[In many realms, there exist floating islands, some naturally formed, others man-made.]
[This provides a resting place for those who ascend by flying, as well as for clans seeking a better environment, allowing them to catch their breath on those floating islands and pass on their bloodlines or lineages.]
[Wait until you have fully replenished your strength before continuing your journey and flying upwards.]
Born in the outer realms, in a world with sparse primordial energy, it's truly difficult to break through to higher realms on one's own. Therefore, the only option is to rely on the family's inherited methods and spend countless years climbing upwards.
[Until one day in the future, even the most ordinary of my descendants will be born into the 70th or 80th realm, never again needing to spend their entire lives traveling, because the hardships of those countless light-year journeys have already been experienced by our ancestors.]
[7705 AD.]
[After nearly a hundred years, you have advanced to the fourth realm.]
Don't think it's slow; this is already a result of speeding up.
[Leaving aside the buffer period for breakthroughs, the nearly 10 billion times more resources you need right now cannot be absorbed within one or two thousand years.]
[You often need the help of True Immortals using the power of Dao Fruits to accelerate your own progress; otherwise, you'd be struggling even to reach the second realm.]
[It was in this year that the accident occurred.]
In the future you foresee, someone will come knocking on your door.
[The opposing force consists of a group of extremely powerful True Immortals, including a large number of Resonance True Immortals, meaning they have replicated over one hundred million Dao Principles—a terrifying number!]
[The opponent... comes from the center of this universe, the ninety-ninth heaven!]
Their target is you and those 36,000 immortals.
They didn't come with hostility; more accurately, they came to investigate.
"Where do you all come from? And why have you stayed in my Nine-Nine Realms for nearly a hundred years?"
[They discovered your intrusion a hundred years ago. Their original plan was to observe you silently from behind the scenes using their authority, preventing you from committing mass killings, damaging maps, or doing anything harmful to the Nine-Nine Heavens.]
They didn't focus their attention on you much; their eyes were mainly on the guards.
[I've been watching you from behind the scenes for a hundred years, but I've discovered you have no intention of causing trouble at all. You're either focused on comprehending the Dao or on entering the path of enlightenment.]
What are you here for?
"Doing ** (likely referring to a specific type of business or activity)."
They couldn't understand why over 30,000 such outstanding True Immortals would venture into this universe just to cultivate alongside you, the madman-like Crown Prince Cao Pi.
That's outrageous! Your dad's the Lord of the Universe? That's so awesome!
"That's wrong, he's the father of a group of cosmic lords."
“Those 30,000-plus True Immortals are not only outstanding, they have all served as Lords of the Universe and are all his good sons.”
The rulers of the Nine Realms, driven mad by their curiosity, finally decided to confront you directly after three years, determined to uncover the truth.
"Seriously, what exactly are you guys doing here?"
You honestly replied, "I'm here to experience the local customs and culture; my guard is behind me."
After saying that, you made a hand gesture.
[Those True Immortals who have been in the Nine Heavens for a hundred years, with at least 500 Dao principles and essentially 5 million Dao power, all salute you, proving your identity.]
In return, you also inquired about some secrets of this universe.
[Given that you are suspected to be a child of a cosmic lord, the other party answered very honestly.]
[As rumored, the Lord of the Nine Realms was indeed modified by a Cosmic Lord, resulting in a unique cosmic environment.]
[That cosmic lord hasn't been gone for too long, only four hundred trillion years. The true immortals here are mostly descendants who became immortals in this universe after that cosmic lord left.]
They refer to the area within the ninety heavens as the Immortal Realm, while the ninety-ninth heaven is the "Universal Ruler Space," which only True Immortals who have reached the Resonance level can enter.
They considered themselves disciples of the Cosmic Lord, believing they could exert a certain degree of control over the Nine-Nine Heavens Universe by utilizing the safeguards left behind by the former Cosmic Lord in the ruling space of the universe.
"...It feels familiar. Have I seen it somewhere before?"
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