Chapter 135 Main World [VIP]
In order to better understand the various aspects of life, Qingran had the system pre-select the previous world. The original plot spanned a long period of time, and he lived until the end of the timeline before leaving the small world with Mu Xingye's soul.
They lived to a ripe old age together and died peacefully in their sleep.
It has been proven that a complete life experience is indeed more helpful in cultivating one's mind amidst worldly affairs.
Qingran completely immersed herself in the identity of Su Qingran, filming one movie after another and winning awards step by step, from a fledgling newcomer to a powerful actress who has won numerous TV and movie awards.
Her career was going smoothly, and her relationship with Mu Xingye remained stable for decades.
Six worlds have passed, and the fragments of humanity's soul have only gathered into a small ball of light; there is still a long way to go before they can be completely collected.
Qingran was not in a hurry; his journey of training was still long.
[Host, should we choose another world with a long timeline next time?] the system asked cheerfully in my mind's eye.
She stored the soul fragments in her sea of consciousness to nurture them. Qingran: [From now on, I'll choose those with a long time span.]
System: [Received]
As each small world passed by, so many that Qingran eventually became too lazy to keep track of them all.
The fragments of a human soul gradually become whole in the process, and his Dao heart is also polished to become more and more perfect.
One day, when he suddenly realized that experiencing life could no longer bring him any insights, Qingran understood that his path of engaging with the world had come to an end.
The next step is to be born.
Once his cultivation in the mortal stage has reached perfection, he can be considered to have entered the late stage of the mortal realm and begin to look for an opportunity to break through to the next stage.
There are three realms of cultivation: transcending the mortal realm, observing the starry sea, and transcending the mundane realm.
The mortal transformation is further divided into five stages: Spirit Induction, Marrow Cleansing, Spirit Absorption, Enlightenment, and the Mortal Realm.
He is nearing the end of the first realm.
Qingran retrieved the fragment of her soul that had been nurtured in her sea of consciousness.
Above the palm, the soul, composed of countless tiny fragments, appeared as a hazy, glowing orb.
A human-shaped phantom could be vaguely seen at the center of the ball of light, but only half of the phantom was relatively solid.
"Host, shall we continue to the next world?"
Inside the spacetime rift, the system flapped its wings and flew around Qingran.
As soon as he finished speaking, a sudden change occurred.
On Qingran's palm, besides the soul light cluster that had moved upon entering the new world and automatically merged into the new body, it suddenly shone brightly—
The outer halo expanded from the size of a ping-pong ball to the size of a soccer ball, its light soft and not dazzling, flickering at a frequency in sync with a heartbeat, as if it were breathing.
"Hey host, what's wrong with your people?" The system approached curiously without any fear.
Qingran frowned slightly, a sudden thought flashing through her mind.
Before I could figure out what was going on, my train of thought was interrupted by the system's loud shouting.
The system panicked and clung to his neck, squeaking and yelling, "Host, host, what do I do? The entrances to many small worlds in my database have suddenly gone black!"
Self-checking and virus removal are useless; it's like encountering a ghostly killer specifically targeting the system.
I carefully lifted my eyelids to take another look.
"Ah!" she screamed in agony.
"It's still dark! It's still dark!" The system cried pitifully, "Host, do I have some kind of terminal illness? Waaaaah..."
Qingran frowned even more: "Does the blacked-out small world mean it can no longer be entered?"
The system choked back a sob: "Yes."
Qingran: "Like the world that was sealed away after we left?"
"Yes," the system exclaimed in surprise, "Huh?"
Qingran seemed to be deep in thought, then suddenly looked up as if she had noticed something.
Faint, dandelion-like rays of light illuminated this lifeless, otherwise gloomy space.
The faint light travels across time and space, each one representing a shattered fragment of a soul.
Qingran finally remembered that before he met the system, he had read a cultivation manual left behind by an ancient cultivator in the secret realm.
In her essay, she wrote that she was inspired by a book about the supernatural powers of a certain sect that specialized in cultivating the soul, so she recorded her conjectures in the essay.
The conjecture goes like this: since a cultivator's spiritual consciousness can leave the body and then be retrieved, perhaps when one cultivates to a certain level, the soul can also reassemble itself.
Back then, Qingran was just a rogue cultivator without any sect or school. She opened her notebook mainly to learn from other people's cultivation experiences and to use it as a reference for her own cultivation path.
He merely glanced at anything unrelated to cultivation, paying it no heed whatsoever.
Unexpectedly, the current situation seemed to confirm the conjecture of that cultivator from back then.
Sensing something was wrong, the energy ball pressed against Qingran's neck and looked up, staring blankly at the scene of the dandelions silently merging into the soul light cluster.
This is a silent and lengthy process.
Only after the last dandelion-like fragment disappeared into the ball of light did the system belatedly realize what was happening and hurriedly check its database.
Inside the ball of light that had merged numerous soul fragments, the humanoid figure, which had originally been half-faded and in a dim state, had now solidified completely.
A soft halo surrounded the humanoid figure, obscuring its exact shape and appearance. The only obvious feature was the dense cracks all over its body, making it look like a porcelain doll that had been shattered and was barely maintaining its outline.
Qingran held the ball of light close to her, a faint smile appearing between her brows and eyes.
Are you telepathically connected to me?
No sooner had he finished his earthly cultivation than humanity spontaneously gathered the remaining souls.
The ball of light naturally did not answer him, and even stopped flashing, returning to its normal size as a ping-pong ball.
"Zero zero".
The system snapped out of its despair: "What's wrong, host?" Waaah, almost all the orders are gone! I'm not going to lose my job!
Qingran put away the ball of light and looked at it: "Would you like to come back with me to the place where we met?"
The system patted its chest and said, "Of course I'm willing!" It was the best partner for its host, and it was its duty to accompany the host home.
Anchoring direction in the vast universe is a basic function that every system comes with by default. After preparing the host, the system takes its host on its final journey through time and space.
*
Thunderclouds hung low above the dense, towering trees.
The air was thick with the aura of lightning; if an ordinary person came here, they would probably feel their heart racing and have difficulty breathing within three breaths.
Even cultivators with advanced cultivation levels will experience a stinging sensation on their exposed skin if they come here without any protection.
Qingran looked up and gazed at the rolling clouds overhead.
Before leaving with the system, Qingran was undergoing his tribulation of lightning, which occurs once every five hundred years.
This kind of lightning tribulation is specifically for spirits that have taken human form but have not yet attained enlightenment. Before they cultivate their Dao heart, the higher their cultivation level, the more severely they will be struck. There are eighty-one lightning tribulations, and if they cannot survive, their souls will be scattered.
Even if they survive, they still have to guard against other humanoid beings and certain human cultivators plotting against them.
Qingran is considered exceptionally talented. In all his years, he has only experienced two tribulations and has also encountered demons and cultivators who took advantage of his injuries to launch sneak attacks.
The horrors of the ordeal need not be elaborated upon, but the outcome was that he survived.
The lightning tribulation above his head now is the third time—the system has sent him back to the moment he left, down to the second.
"Crack!" The lightning, which had been gathering momentum, struck down suddenly due to its inertia.
Qingran turned her body slightly to the side, a few strands of her hair fluttering up and then falling down beside her cheek.
The lightning bolt that the system had once described as turning him into charcoal struck the ground with unstoppable force, melting a deep, smoking crater into the smooth surface.
He stood suspended in mid-air, his robes fluttering in the strong wind, not even glancing at the horrific marks on the ground.
The thunderclouds overhead, suddenly unable to find a target, roared twice, rolled a few times, and reluctantly dispersed.
The dark clouds dispersed, and a ray of the setting sun pierced through the clouds, casting its light upon the tall, elegant figure below.
Qingran, bathed in the glow of the sunset, didn't even flinch.
He had already broken through to the Enlightenment stage and entered the mid-stage of the Mortal Realm. Naturally, the lightning tribulations that target those below the Enlightenment stage would not strike him.
He turned his gaze to the depths of the dense forest in the distance.
At the same time, the male cultivator who observed the dissipation of the thunderclouds through the treetops hissed in surprise.
"Hiss, how come this lightning tribulation only struck once before dissipating?" The male cultivator had a pointed mouth and monkey-like face, and his skin had a strange grayish-white hue.
As a fellow demon cultivator, Mosquito Sixteen knew all too well what the thunderclouds that had just gathered were all about; it must be some demon clan undergoing a five-hundred-year tribulation.
After discovering it by chance, he immediately decided to stay and see if he could pick up a ready-made one.
Only demons below the Enlightenment stage need to undergo tribulation. The opponent's cultivation level is at most no higher than Nascent Soul, while he is now in the late Nascent Soul stage.
His opponent was exhausted and battered, while he was well-rested and had the advantage of being caught off guard.
As for why the thunderclouds dissipated after the lightning strike... could it be that the cultivation of that fellow clansman in the distance was too weak, and he was killed instantly by the lightning?
After much deliberation, Mosquito Sixteen, filled with suspicion, flew towards the center of the thundercloud.
"Sigh." Qingran sighed softly.
He had thought that if the person didn't come over, he wouldn't bother chasing after them to find out what was going on, but things didn't go as planned.
The other party was after him.
After thinking it over, he adjusted his external cultivation level to the early stage of the Spirit Absorption realm.
Mosquito Sixteen, who arrived at the edge of the dense forest a moment later, narrowed his eyes as he looked at the blue figure by the deep pit, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.
Did someone beat him to it? Or...?
“Fellow Daoist, just now I saw what looked like rolling thunderclouds in this place. I wonder what it is?” Mosquito Sixteen asked, standing still with his hands behind his back.
The other party's cultivation level is two minor stages lower than his, so they may not be able to discover his identity as a demon.
Qingran smiled faintly: "It is I who am undergoing tribulation."
Mosquito Sixteen feigned surprise, cupped his hands in greeting, and said, "I apologize for my intrusion. I'll be leaving now."
As he turned around, a poisoned needle silently appeared behind the blue-clad figure.
Mosquito Sixteen walked forward, silently counting in his mind: one breath, two breaths, three breaths...
"You're waiting for this?" Qingran, standing behind him, held a blackish-purple poisoned needle.
The sound, so close at hand, startled Mosquito Sixteen. He activated a speed-enhancing talisman and fled without looking back.
"Bang!"
A hundred meters away, a gray-white shadow that had returned to its original form fell heavily to the ground, splashing up a few withered leaves.
"It's just a mosquito," Qingran said, glancing at it.
With a wave of her hand, she snatched the male cultivator's storage bag into her hand, while at the same time, a cluster of spiritual fire landed on the enormous mosquito demon corpse, quickly and accurately burning it to ashes.
"Spirit stones, venom, cultivation techniques, weapons..."
Aside from spirit stones, which are a hard currency, Qingran doesn't care about anything else; she'd rather sell them and exchange them for spirit stones.
"Huh?"
He took out two separate items from a pile of odds and ends in the storage bag.
One is a compass, with each direction marked with words such as spiritual minerals, spiritual plants, strange fires, and rare objects of the five elements, the purpose of which is currently unknown.
The other was a jade box about the size of a palm, with intricate engravings on its surface, seemingly intended to conceal one's aura and prevent spiritual exploration.
After examining it, Qingran used her spiritual power to open the jade box, and inside was a Spirit Nourishing Flower that could repair and restore the soul.
At that moment, the compass needle spun with a "snap" and pointed towards the jade box, with the words "spiritual plant" appearing in the center of the compass.
The speculation was confirmed.
"A treasure-hunting compass," Qingran murmured to herself in realization.
Just as he was about to examine it carefully, his long-quiet sea of consciousness suddenly stirred.
It's not a system.
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