Chapter 18: Let the Demons and Monsters Come, I Shall Slay Them with a Single Sword

"If I hadn't agreed to cooperate with the Heavenly Pivot Bureau, what would they have done?"

"It makes me quite curious."

After Su Mengyao left, Ye Xuan chuckled and said.

Was the body of a mutated creature really that important to him?

Just as Su Mengyao said, with the current concentration of Qi, although the flesh and blood of mutated creatures contained Qi, there wasn't much of it, and it wouldn't be of much help to him. But why did Ye Xuan still act as if he only cared about the flesh and blood of mutated creatures while completely ignoring the other benefits of joining the Heavenly Pivot Bureau?

On one hand, it was because those benefits really held no attraction for him; on the other hand, he and the Heavenly Pivot Bureau also needed something to maintain the relationship between them.

Joining or cooperating—this was the choice given to Ye Xuan by the Heavenly Pivot Bureau, which Su Mengyao represented, and behind the Heavenly Pivot Bureau was the state.

Would the state just do nothing and let the holders of treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos grow and become stronger?

Of course they couldn't stop them, but they had to express goodwill; and then, from this goodwill, they would see who would ignore it.

Ye Xuan could, of course, refuse to cooperate with the Heavenly Pivot Bureau.

They were just mutated creatures; even without the Heavenly Pivot Bureau's search, he could find and hunt them himself. But he didn't; instead, he chose to use this as a condition to cooperate with the Heavenly Pivot Bureau.

Because he knew that cooperation was the state's greatest concession to the holders of treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos.

If you are unwilling to join the Heavenly Pivot Bureau and also unwilling to cooperate with them, and you are so unwilling to accept the Heavenly Pivot Bureau's kindness, what are you trying to do?

Set yourself up as king?

Ye Xuan, of course, had no such thoughts, but his actions would lead some people above to suspect whether he had such thoughts.

Before he had the ability to completely ignore all threats, he naturally had to accept the goodwill of the "strong."

Moreover, the conditions Da Xia gave them were indeed lenient; you almost didn't need to do anything, you just had to accept this goodwill.

Being able to do this was likely impossible in other countries.

Of course, it was also possible that Ye Xuan was overthinking it and they didn't actually have such thoughts, but it didn't hurt to consider some things more deeply.

"The mutated rats in the school seem to indeed be the handiwork of a superpowered individual in the Heavenly Pivot Bureau."

"I just don't know if it's a summoning-type superpower or a beast-taming-type superpower."

"However, the possibility of the latter is very small. In the future, as the concentration of Qi on Blue Star becomes more intense and mutated creatures continue to grow stronger, their intelligence might improve, even reaching a level not inferior to humans; but right now, it's impossible."

"Given the intelligence displayed by those few mutated rats in the school, the possibility of them being summoned creatures is greater; and it shouldn't be a simple summoning; there should exist some kind of connection, like being able to share vision or memories with each other."

"Otherwise, the spirituality of these mutated rats would seem too extraordinary."

After Su Mengyao left, Ye Xuan pondered the information contained in their conversation.

Like the mutated rats in the school—although neither of them mentioned it, it was undoubtedly the handiwork of the Heavenly Pivot Bureau. And from the spirituality on those mutated rats, it could be seen that they were most likely the summoned creatures of a summoning-type superpowered individual.

Strength was secondary, but to be able to summon mutated rats of such strength under the current low concentration of Qi, that superpowered individual's talent was definitely not low.

But thinking about it carefully, it was normal. How could any superpowered individual who could join the Heavenly Pivot Bureau have low talent?

Considering that the location of the test was a school and the targets of the test were students, these mutated rats might have been summoned after careful consideration by the other party and were not the limit of the strength of the summoned creatures they could summon.

Going all out, they should be able to summon stronger mutated creatures.

Having only developed their superpower to such a degree just three months into the Qi recovery, when the Qi tide Su Mengyao spoke of arrived in the future, their strength would inevitably rise to a stronger level, perhaps even comparable to some weak holders of treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos.

Even if many holders of treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos were surpassed by these superpowered individuals in the future, Ye Xuan wouldn't be surprised.

The Myriad Realms of the Cosmos each had their own cultivation systems, and treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos were merely derivatives under those systems. Who could be certain that their Blue Star's Qi system would be inferior to other systems in terms of potential?

However, no matter what the cultivation system was, the gap between geniuses and ordinary people would always be that large.

Even with awakened superpowers, some people's superpowers had considerable power the moment they awakened, while others' superpowers remained as they were when they first awakened, without the slightest improvement.

Fortunately, besides superpowers, this world also had treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos, which could give those ordinary people a chance to change their fate.

Otherwise, in an already unfair world with an absolute gap in strength, it would likely become even more unfair.

"But these have nothing to do with me."

"Rather, the more geniuses on Blue Star, and the more people who obtain treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos, the more favorable it is for me."

"If only one person stands at the very top, it would be somewhat lonely."

"Being able to have some opponents and fellow travelers on the road of growth is not a bad thing to be happy about."

For Ye Xuan, who possessed the Myriad Realms Fishing System, becoming the strongest was inevitable, but when he would become the strongest was something he couldn't determine.

Although it was interesting to always be ahead of everyone else, making them unable to even see his back, being able to compete with many geniuses in the same era, each showing their own magical powers, and becoming stronger in battle was also something worth being happy about.

As for whether an era would appear where someone would leave Ye Xuan with no power to resist and, with a twisted mind, want to directly destroy human civilization without leaving him any time to develop, Ye Xuan was not worried.

The System had said when it awakened that the mystery level of this world had only awakened by 1%, and the treasures from the Myriad Realms of the Cosmos that invaded reality all originated from worlds with relatively low world systems.

This meant that the dimensional treasures that could appear on Blue Star today had an upper limit in terms of level; it was impossible for treasures from worlds like Shrouding the Heavens, Perfect World, or the Primordial World to appear directly.

Under such circumstances, if he, who possessed the System, couldn't improve his strength as fast as others and didn't have the confidence to compete with others, then he would be no different from a piece of trash.

Mediocrity is like still water, stable but without waves; geniuses are like torrents, surging endlessly, stirring up a thousand layers of spray.

Even ordinary people, in their ordinary lives, don't they yearn for the future they see at a glance to be changed, to live more brilliantly?

"After Wangquan Baye returned from outside the circle, he comprehended the Wangquan Wan Wan Jianyi within just a few months."

"Possessing all his talent and the sword heart he lost, what reason do I have for not being able to do it?"

"Don't forget, the talent of template fusion doesn't replace my own talent, but rather the two are superimposed; so, in terms of talent, I am now even above Wangquan Baye."

"Consuming lifespan? Is Wan Wan Jianyi such an inconvenient thing!"

"If Wangquan Wan Wan Jianyi must be paid for by burning one's own life, then I shall create a new Wan Wan Jianyi."

"Let the demons and monsters come, I shall slay them with a single sword!"

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