Chapter 481: Which version is this? Why have I never played it?

On the way here after being snatched by Venerable Bamboo Sword, Zhao Xing received some information from the Profound Spirit History Book, and many of his original memories were also unsealed.

When he was in the Ancient Kingdom of Yuanhai, he had learned the titles of four God-realm beings: Sword God 'Di Yi', Bone God 'Yuan', Heavenly God 'Gu Xiao', and Earth God 'Yao Jun'.

Later, the titles of these four God-realm beings vanished, as if wiped from the world.

Now, with this part of his memory unsealed, Zhao Xing recalled that meeting with Wang Tianzhi in a dream.

He speculated that these four God-realm beings were very likely staying in the Profound Yellow World.

So, the Profound Yellow World was a secret? Zhao Xing agreed. Safe? That didn't even come close.

Originally, Zhao Xing should have had Ji Si cast a spell to contact Wang Tianzhi again, to understand the situation before returning.

But now, having to return in such a muddled and reckless manner truly went against Master Zhao's principles.

After thinking for a moment, he still replied in a way intended to dissuade: "Old Imperial Physician, my hometown has already been destroyed. Shortly after we ascended, it exploded."

Wei Tianchen shook his head: "Not necessarily. The Sinking Luo Wilderness has the characteristic of 'hidden broken illusions'; your hometown wouldn't be that easy to blow up."

He knew this too. Zhao Xing was somewhat surprised; Wei Tianchen was truly an old antique.

However, in Wei Tianchen's eyes, it looked like the surprise of someone who didn't know the truth and had just learned it.

Zhao Xing: "You say there are hidden broken illusions, wouldn't it be very dangerous then?"

Wei Tianchen said indifferently: "Even if it is dangerous, Qing Yuzi could go there, so why can't we? His cultivation realm at that time..."

"... as lower than mine and Bamboo Sword's."

"Your hometown couldn't possibly have such great risks."

The more he tried to decline, the more counterproductive it became.

It seemed Wei Tianchen had made up his mind to go to the Profound Yellow World.

Zhao Xing simply stopped trying to persuade him.

For him, returning to the Profound Yellow World with two demigods following him wasn't without its benefits; at the very least, the safety factor would increase somewhat.

Zhao Xing arrived at the array core of the White Jade Five Mausoleum Ship and input a string of reference coordinates.

"How long will it take?" Wei Tianchen asked.

"About four years." After inputting the data, Zhao Xing estimated a rough time. "If things go smoothly, it could be a bit faster."

"Only four years, no rush." Thinking about it, Wei Tianchen took a golden hoop out from his robes.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Xing didn't know what trick he was up to now.

"Put it on."

"This is—"

"An Academy magic treasure, the Enlightenment Golden Hoop."

"The Old Imperial Physician actually managed to get such a treasure."

Zhao Xing obediently put on the golden hoop.

"Trapped by the Heaven-Net, you have no way to cultivate, and you can't even use your magic power."

"The Enlightenment Golden Hoop is different; you can still cultivate the Heart-Sealing Method."

After Zhao Xing put on the hoop, Wei Tianchen reached out and grabbed, withdrawing the divine artifact Heaven-Net from his physical body.

The function of the Enlightenment Golden Hoop was that, aside from a specific type of magic art that could be learned and cultivated, everything else could not be used.

Wei Tianchen chanted a spell.

The golden hoop flashed with a circle of scriptures, and subsequently, Zhao Xing not only had the hoop on his body, but it also appeared above his soul.

The vast majority of skills on his panel turned gray.

Only the magic power chapter of the Heart-Sealing Method remained available for cultivation.

The Enlightenment Golden Hoop was originally a magic treasure developed by scholars to help people focus on cultivation. Yet, it was being used by Wei Tianchen to prevent Zhao Xing from escaping.

Now, aside from being able to cultivate the Heart-Sealing Method, Zhao Xing couldn't do anything else.

Assuming the breaking of the divine power restriction didn't go smoothly, Wei Tianchen intended to have Zhao Xing fully cultivate the Heart-Sealing Method, then use him to unlock the Seven-Star Cabinet and obtain the deadly poison inside that could hunt God-realm beings.

"Walk two steps."

"Still making me walk two steps, is your physician occupational disease acting up?!" Zhao Xing complained inwardly, but he followed the order nonetheless.

Wei Tianchen nodded with satisfaction: "Hmm, not bad. Next, you will cultivate the secret method well on the ship; don't wander around."

Zhao Xing had gained a certain degree of freedom, and naturally, he wouldn't stay with Wei Tianchen; he immediately went out and ran to the deck.

At this moment, Venerable Bamboo Sword already had one sword in his left hand, and his right hand reached into the flames, grasping another sword.

"Taking a sword from the fire, Venerable, you took the first one so quickly?"

"You have quite the insight; you even know the characteristics of the Seven-Star Li Fire Divine Sword." Venerable Bamboo Sword didn't even lift his head.

"I know a thing or two," Zhao Xing said modestly.

"The Seven-Star Li Fire Divine Sword is junk in the hands of outsiders; only in the hands of the Sword Sect can it display its corresponding divine wonders. It is not a physical object, but the true spirit of the sword."

"In total, one must take the sword's true spirit from the Li Fire seven times. Each time it is taken, the true spirit surges, and one can also control more of the sword Dao origin."

"If one can take it seven times, one can become a Sword God."

Venerable Bamboo Sword looked up and glanced at the Enlightenment Golden Hoop: "Is this the price of freedom?"

"Where can this be called freedom?" Zhao Xing shook his head and sat cross-legged beside Bamboo Sword.

"What are you going to practice?" Venerable Bamboo Sword's mood was clearly quite good after obtaining the divine sword, and he became more talkative.

"Condensing a certain type of magic power."

"I observe that your true spirit has yet to cross the tribulation, yet you have combat power comparable to a Four-Tribulation Emperor. Is it because of this?"

"More or less." Zhao Xing nodded.

Azure Flower magic power encompasses everything and can amplify all secret methods.

Red Lotus magic power contains the Dao of destruction, and its power is extraordinary.

Cangming magic power enhances the mind and will, focusing on the protection of the true spirit's will.

The method Fan Qianrou created based on her own Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart was inexhaustibly wonderful in its magic power chapter alone, and its value was immeasurable.

"I must cultivate first," Zhao Xing said, closing his eyes, because the Enlightenment Golden Hoop had taken effect.

It had a forced focus effect. Zhao Xing now wanted to do nothing but cultivate the Heart-Sealing Method, and he was even somewhat indifferent to life-threatening dangers.

Venerable Bamboo Sword also lowered his head, continuing to study the Seven-Star Li Fire Divine Sword.

"Zhao Xing, wake up, wake up!!"

The voice seemed to have a certain heat; feeling his body suddenly becoming hotter and hotter, Zhao Xing opened his eyes abruptly.

He discovered that Venerable Bamboo Sword was using a fire-red heart sword to burn him.

"Hmm? How did I fall asleep?"

"Where have we arrived?"

Opening his eyes, he was no longer on the ship, but had appeared on a desolate ridge.

Zhao Xing realized something was wrong. He was cultivating Cangming magic power on the ship, so how did he suddenly come to a desolate mountain?

Wei Tianchen was right in front, also sitting cross-legged. His expression was somewhat grave, as if he didn't know what had happened either.

"Zhao Xing, do you remember anything?" Venerable Bamboo Sword asked.

"I remember that after I put on the Enlightenment Golden Hoop, I came to talk to you, Venerable, and then started cultivating magic power." Zhao Xing was somewhat bewildered.

"He doesn't remember either." Venerable Bamboo Sword looked at Wei Tianchen. "Old Imperial Physician, you have many treasures; can you still not find any abnormalities?"

The divine objects around Wei Tianchen had been changed; clearly, he had been repeatedly attempting to find out before Zhao Xing woke up.

"No. Bamboo Sword, can you feel any abnormalities?"

"Your Heart Sword Art can see through all illusions. Are we currently in some kind of illusion or dream?"

Venerable Bamboo Sword waved a Li Fire sword in his hand, the blade reflecting his own image.

"Everything is normal. We are not in a dream, nor are we in an illusion."

"Wait, why are you asking this?" Zhao Xing was somewhat surprised. "A dream? Can't you two great experts determine if it's a dream or reality?"

"We don't know when we arrived here," Venerable Bamboo Sword said in a deep voice. "My and the Old Imperial Physician's last memories were that I was contemplating the Li Fire Divine Sword, and he was reading a scripture."

"Upon exiting the contemplative state, we were on this desolate mountain."

"Neither I nor the Old Imperial Physician can determine where this is, nor do we know how much time has passed."

"Everything is like a dream."

"We cannot remember the beginning of a dream, just as we cannot remember when we started entering here."

Wei Tianchen stood up, and the seven or eight divine objects flowing with light around him were all put away.

Subsequently, he stared fixedly at Zhao Xing.

"Zhao Xing, did you really not feel any movement?"

"No." Zhao Xing was very helpless: "Old Imperial Physician, why would you suspect that I did something?"

"My strength is far inferior to you two. If I had this ability, wouldn't I have just run away?"

Wei Tianchen didn't speak, just frowned and looked around. Venerable Bamboo Sword also looked at the sky, as if trying to familiarize himself with this world.

After a brief moment of bewilderment, Zhao Xing quickly opened his panel.

There was a record on it:

【You have entered the 'Profound Yellow World', coordinates: Extreme Yang Three, Divine Moon Four, Yuan Three Four Two.】

"What the hell, Profound Yellow World?"

Zhao Xing was greatly shocked.

When did he return?

And why couldn't he understand the coordinates of the Profound Yellow World?

"What are you surprised about?" Wei Tianchen and Venerable Bamboo Sword clearly noticed Zhao Xing's expression.

"I..." Zhao Xing hesitated.

"We have arrived at your hometown, right?" Wei Tianchen pressed.

"Yes." Zhao Xing gave a bitter smile: "But I'm not sure anymore, because the changes are quite large."

"Old Imperial Physician, you never said Zhao Xing's hometown was so dangerous." Venerable Bamboo Sword frowned. "This world is much larger than I imagined. My Heart Sword power just spread for a full three quarters of an hour, and I still haven't seen the end."

"Bamboo Sword, this is the reason I came," Wei Tianchen said. "Do you know that Qing Yuzi was originally just a lamp-tending grave-watcher of the Reincarnation Temple, yet after the Wilderness Era, he achieved the God-realm?"

"In this era where cultivation is difficult and tribulations are strong, for him to have such great achievements, it is absolutely not his own strength."

Zhao Xing was somewhat stunned: "Old Imperial Physician, you didn't come here to unlock the seal, but to find opportunities?"

The Profound Spirit History Book unsealed the history of the Ancient Kingdom of Yuanhai. Some were shocked by the arrogance of the Dongyan Ancient Clan, some were angry at losing a lifetime of cultivation, and some lamented this disaster.

And some saw Qing Yuzi's path to godhood, which was strange and inexplicable, and tried to find the reason to replicate his path.

Venerable Bamboo Sword's expression turned cold: "Old Imperial Physician, no matter what you are plotting, this is not what I want."

With lightning speed, he grabbed Zhao Xing with one hand and pointed his sword at Wei Tianchen with the other: "The deal is off. He belongs to me now, and we are leaving here."

Wei Tianchen did not stop him, just watched as Venerable Bamboo Sword and Zhao Xing flew toward the sky, muttering to himself: "Too naive. This is definitely a God-realm means. Since we don't know how we got in, how could it let you out so easily?"

Sure enough, not long after Venerable Bamboo Sword flew into the sky with Zhao Xing, he descended again at an even faster speed.

Wei Tianchen didn't mind, and looking at the somewhat disheveled Bamboo Sword, he asked quickly: "What did you discover?"

"Cough, cough, pfft~" Venerable Bamboo Sword first coughed, then actually spat out a mouthful of blood.

Zhao Xing was still very bewildered, because Bamboo Sword's speed was too fast, and he was restricted by the Enlightenment Golden Hoop, unable to investigate with magic arts at all. In a very short time, Bamboo Sword had taken him up to the sky and back down.

"The laws of heaven and earth in the Profound Yellow World are not right." Venerable Bamboo Sword was somewhat shocked: "With my strength, I actually couldn't ascend and break the boundary."

"What?" Wei Tianchen and Zhao Xing were both shocked.

Wei Tianchen was shocked that the boundary rules of the Profound Yellow World were actually so solid. Bamboo Sword was a Sword Venerable, yet he couldn't break the boundary and ascend?

Zhao Xing was shocked by the unknown changes that had occurred in the Profound Yellow World. Originally, one could ascend just by reaching the Dao-Establishing Realm, but now even a demigod couldn't ascend.

"This is simply outrageous. What the hell version is this? Why have I never played it?" Master Zhao was also incomparably puzzled inwardly.

He knew the Profound Yellow World wasn't simple, but he didn't expect it to be this terrifying.

Assuming even demigods couldn't ascend, wouldn't it require the God-realm to ascend?

"Zhao Xing, this is your hometown..."

"Don't ask." Zhao Xing snapped impatiently at Wei Tianchen: "Look at me, do I look like I know? I told you not to come, not to come, but you insisted."

Now that Bamboo Sword and Wei Tianchen had a disagreement, Master Zhao didn't give Wei Tianchen a good look anymore.

"Wei Tianchen, let's part ways here! You go your way, we go ours!"

Wei Tianchen wasn't angry, just slowly shook his head: "We can't part ways."

Bamboo Sword raised an eyebrow, the tip of his sword tilting slightly upward.

Wei Tianchen pointed to the Enlightenment Golden Hoop on Zhao Xing's head: "The scholar friend I asked to create this object set it so that if it leaves a certain range from me, it will self-destruct. Bamboo Sword, you are not a mechanism master; you cannot undo the restrictions of this ancient cultivation magic treasure."

This was not a product of the contemporary Academy, but developed by scholars of the Five Emperors era.

"Old Imperial Physician, we actually didn't really want to leave. In the current situation, separating is actually very dangerous; cooperation is the only way to win-win." Zhao Xing's attitude changed immediately.

There was no help for it; Wei Tianchen, this dead pervert, actually asked someone to make the Enlightenment Golden Hoop a "self-destructing Enlightenment Golden Hoop".

A disciple who doesn't study and goes out to play gets blown up?

Is that friend of yours a demonic scholar?!

Venerable Bamboo Sword fell into thought. He threw out four bamboo swords.

One toward the sky, one into the ground, and two sweeping in all directions.

As a result, the bamboo sword in the sky quickly fell, breaking into three pieces, as if struck by lightning.

The bamboo sword that drilled into the mountain got stuck in a rock crevice.

The two bamboo swords that flew out never returned.

From the distance, however, came a roar that made one's heart tremble.

It was clearly a very ordinary mountain, yet it made all three of them feel a chill.

"Fine, we will cooperate. Let's get out of these mountains first." Venerable Bamboo Sword also gave in.

Actually, Zhao Xing wanted to separate from Wei Tianchen because he was, after all, familiar with this world.

Furthermore, Wang Tianzhi was still here. As long as he could get out and find Old Wang and the Great Zhou, there would always be a place to stay.

And he could clearly understand the situation of the new Profound Yellow World.

Now, he might not even be able to get out of these mountains, so he still had to rely on the two big shots to lead the way.

"Zhao Xing is a person of the Profound Yellow World; let him lead the way." Bamboo Sword suggested.

"I can lead the way, but can you take this off?" Zhao Xing pointed to the golden hoop on his head.

"No." Wei Tianchen shook his head. "Now that cultivation is suppressed, I can't take it off either."

Zhao Xing looked suspicious: "Cultivation is suppressed?"

"He is not lying; it is indeed suppressed."

The flames in Venerable Bamboo Sword's hands had become much weaker, and the divine sword that had originally been pulled out for the most part now only had a hilt left.

"How much cultivation do you still have?"

"You can't ask it like that," Wei Tianchen said. "This suppression is not singular. I don't feel the level of the Dao dropping; the true spirit is suppressed, it's just that some magic arts cannot be used."

"In some aspects, we are still demigods. For example, magic power; my magic power is still inexhaustible, but in some aspects, it is restricted by this world. For example, the weapon-controlling magic formula can no longer take effect. It's as if this world doesn't have the concept of magic formulas, so I cannot remove your hoop."

"Is that so?" Zhao Xing tried, but the hoop still couldn't be removed.

According to Wei's method, it was equivalent to the lock still being there, but the key was gone?

"My restrictions are different," Venerable Bamboo Sword pondered. "I just threw out four bamboo swords, and only the amplification effect of the Heart Sword Art remains. The power of other sword arts is greatly reduced, especially to the southeast and in the sky."

"Suppression also has a directional change?" Zhao Xing also fell into thought.

He was wearing the Enlightenment Golden Hoop now, so he didn't feel anything, but when he opened the panel, he found that many skills had turned gray.

All of the Self-Method, except for the Heart-Field Method, had turned gray. The internal world was still lit up, but it also showed that it was abnormally restricted.

Zhao Xing had a vague guess in his heart.

"What did you think of?" Venerable Bamboo Sword asked. His Heart Sword Art effect was still there, and he could feel that Zhao Xing's mind had fluctuated just now.

"What else could I think of? Everyone has been restricted; this is already the means of a god." Zhao Xing avoided the question. "I know nothing about the abilities of the God-realm, not as much as you two know."

Venerable Bamboo Sword said: "I once saw a God of Sword Dao in a certain place. That person called himself the 'Lonely Swordsman' and used a bamboo sword to demonstrate thirteen sword techniques for me."

"I only learned four styles, one of which includes the Heart Sword Art."

"He said the Bamboo Sword Thirteen Styles can cut through karma and destiny, and he cut off my ninth true spirit tribulation for me, which is why I achieved the demigod status."

Zhao Xing was somewhat shocked. Using a bamboo sword to cut off someone's ninth true spirit tribulation and send them to achieve demigod status?

This was too mysterious. Wei's explanation was more concrete: "The Reincarnation Emperor masters the Law Domain, and demigods master the Law Boundary. Every path is absorbing the origin of the universe and mastering the origin of the universe. From Law Domain to Law Boundary, it is that one's own origin is closer to the essence of the universe's Dao."

"Mentioning the God-realm, one has to mention the method of becoming a god."

Wei Tianchen had broader knowledge. Zhao Xing and Bamboo Sword listened quietly as Wei started talking about the path to godhood.

"The commonly said Dao-Proving to become a god had three very distinct methods in the Five Emperors era."

"Self-Proving, Heaven and Earth Proving, and Luck Proving."

"After the Five Emperors disappeared, Luck Proving no longer exists, so there is no need to mention it."

"Self-Proving is probably for martial artists like Bamboo Sword, who only seek to cultivate the small self and vainly attempt to prove the Great Dao."

Venerable Bamboo Sword said indifferently: "Your words are a bit offensive."

Wei Tianchen: "I am not despising martial artists. Those who prove the self are not divided by profession; they are all the same. Physical bodies, magic arts, martial arts, golden bodies, mechanism soldiers, the direction of the Dao heart, those who only seek the self are all Self-Proving."

"This type of God-realm can be called a 'Free God'."

Venerable Bamboo Sword snorted: "Then what is Heaven and Earth Proving?"

Wei Tianchen: "My kind."

Bamboo Sword scoffed.

Zhao Xing, however, vaguely thought of something.

Wei Tianchen raised his eyebrows and looked at the sky: "The Dao benefits heaven and earth, its heart shines through the ages, and its power is infinitely magnificent. This is Heaven and Earth Proving."

"..."

Zhao Xing realized something: "Old Imperial Physician, does Emperor Chixing count?"

"He counts, and he doesn't." Wei Tianchen nodded: "He created the mechanism soldier 【Hunyuan Dao Tower】, which can suppress the internal world. His Dao is beneficial to the Self-Proving faction of Agriculturalists, and people are also considered part of heaven and earth. The stronger the Self-Proving Agriculturalists are, the stronger the Emperor is."

"However, this is equivalent to occupying someone else's Dao. Your original world has not had records of God-realm beings for a long time; it's not without reason."

"His Dao is also very narrow and does not directly benefit the universe."

"On the contrary, Gu Luohe... forget it, let's not talk about him; he is destined to fail."

Venerable Bamboo Sword was confused, but Zhao Xing understood.

Wei Tianchen must know Gu Luohe's philosophy.

Assuming Gu Luohe could succeed, then after he became a God-realm being, he would be unimaginably powerful.

And Wei himself, it was because he also wanted to solve the problem of Wilderness-ization.

It's just that his method was not as arrogant as Gu Luohe's.

So he thought Gu Luohe couldn't succeed, but he himself had hope of success.

"Heaven and Earth Proving is rare. This type of God-realm is called a 'Tribulation-Free True God'." Wei Tianchen looked at Venerable Bamboo Sword: "Self-Proving still has God Tribulations. Free Gods are not free."

"Heaven and Earth Proving, however, has no tribulations or disasters, so it is called a True God."

"Bamboo Sword, I am not looking down on you."

*I'm saying everyone here is trash, Zhao Xing added inwardly.

Clearly, Wei Tianchen looked down on the way of Self-Proving to become a god.

He wanted to obtain the Wilderness God Poison in the Seven-Star Cabinet because he wanted to become a 'Tribulation-Free True God'!

Killing God-realm parasites is beneficial to the universe; he could become a Tribulation-Free True God among physicians!

"So you're saying, a Tribulation-Free True God is stronger than a Free God?" Venerable Bamboo Sword asked.

"No, I am talking about the method of becoming a god, the category of the God-realm, not the specific strength." Wei Tianchen said.

"In the Five Emperors era, those who had just proven the Great Dao had strength not even as strong as a divine weapon. These were mostly 'Free Gods'. The divine soldiers and generals of ancient times were all of this level."

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"After the Great Dao is stable, one can become a king of the Great Dao in a certain direction, which is another level. Called a Free God King or Tribulation-Free God King. Unless it is a particularly heaven-defying divine object, whether one has a divine object or not, one can crush other God-realm beings."

"The Five Emperors were above all God-realm beings."

"Each of them was a Tribulation-Free True God."

Zhao Xing looked at the desolate and cold ridge: "You mean, in my hometown, someone is proving the Dao to become a god?"

Wei Tianchen shook his head again: "The laws of heaven and earth are suppressed to this extent; there must be a strong person proving to be a Tribulation-Free True God, and I'm afraid there are already Free Gods appearing."

"The southeast that Bamboo Sword sensed, where the power of sword Dao decreased, there is only one reason: his sword Dao was weakened by the existence of the other party."

Zhao Xing was somewhat dumbfounded. What the hell version is this? Why have I never played it? Not only are there Heaven and Earth Proving God-realm beings, but there are also Free Gods?

"Zhao Xing, your Profound Yellow World possesses a great secret. Bamboo Sword and I know nothing about this place. Next, we can only rely on you to find a way out."