Chapter 531

With Po's explanation, Wu Pifu learned about the past of the True Martial lineage.

According to Po, when the True Martial lineage first emerged, it shocked many ancient civilizations and ancient roots. This was a civilization and race that relied on fighting with martial arts and combat techniques even back in the Absolute Reality Layer. Their character was unyielding, and they possessed immense courage and a sense of collective honor. Therefore, after they fell toward the Dream World, they relied on their civilization's characteristics and collective strength to develop a vast area of the Dream World, gaining a huge share of reality, as well as various resources and specialties from within the Dream World.

This caused the True Martial lineage's power to surge, and strong individuals emerged one after another. When the entire civilization was still in the 0.7 Dream World, there were already double-digit Ascendant powerhouses within it, and the strongest among them, the True Martial Ancestor, was already beginning to move toward the Root level during the sublimation stage.

It can be said that this was a reenactment of the rise of the two great powers, the Buddha Realm and the Heavenly Court. As long as the True Martial lineage could continue to grow stronger, it was very likely to become an extremely powerful civilization and root similar to the Buddha Realm and the Heavenly Court in the future.

At that time, the Buddha Realm had already fallen silent, but the Heavenly Court still remained. Moreover, the Heavenly Court was then the leader of many ancient civilizations and ancient roots. According to Po, although there was no clear evidence, the Heavenly Court seemed to have used some secret means against the True Martial lineage, leading to a split within the True Martial lineage.

A peerless genius emerged, and this genius was also a seed of the Ultimate Path. Then, for some inexplicable reason, they formed a feud with the True Martial Ancestor's lineage and were forced into the Dream World to struggle for survival, but rose to prominence because of it. Later, they even created the Star River lineage path, competing with the True Martial lineage's Human Immortal Yang Spirit, sharing the True Martial lineage's destiny.

Because the True Martial lineage and the Star River lineage originated from the same source but split into two paths, and because of the Star River Ancestor's experiences, the two sides became like fire and water. This caused the True Martial civilization's upward momentum to be blocked, while internal strife occurred frequently.

But even so, the True Martial lineage and the Star River lineage combined were still too powerful to be easily suppressed. The two were still of the same root and origin; even if they were like fire and water, they still had a certain tacit understanding on major issues. If things continued to develop like this, they might eventually develop from one Supreme Root into two Sub-Supreme Roots, which still posed a threat to the Heavenly Court.

So gradually, no one knew when, a new kind of extraordinary principle began to appear in the derived Dream Worlds of the True Martial lineage and the Star River lineage.

This extraordinary path was also named after martial arts. Once this extraordinary path was cultivated, one could cultivate the True Martial path or the Star River path without hindrance. It had a complementary relationship with the two paths of True Martial and Star River, could form a mutually multiplying and overlapping zone, and even had the prospect of sublimating to the extreme. The two major forces of True Martial and Star River were pleasantly surprised. Although they had some doubts, after testing and research by the ancestors of both sides, it was confirmed that this path had no pollution and was perfectly compatible with True Martial and Star River. Only then did the two forces begin to study and learn this newly appeared extraordinary path, and in the following hundreds of thousands of years, they carried it forward, step by step pushing it to an extremely high realm.

Just as True Martial and Star River were about to ascend to the Root because of this new extraordinary path, and perhaps even approach the existence of the level of the Initial Buddha and Initial Immortal, this extraordinary path revealed its terrifying drawback... Everyone who cultivated this extraordinary path began to consume reality on a large scale!

"... Extraordinary is pollution; this should be a fact that your civilization already knows. But because your civilization is still in the Absolute Reality Layer, you are not clear about many specific details of 'extraordinary is pollution.' You only think that only some individuals in the civilization can cultivate the extraordinary system, and they can only cultivate one, or at most two, extraordinary paths, otherwise it is easy to lead to mutations or something. Besides that, there seems to be no other influence, right? But that is not the case."

Po sighed and said: "Except for the seeds of the Ultimate Path who can cultivate all extraordinary paths without hindrance, 'extraordinary is pollution' is also reflected in the fact that once one begins to fall into nothingness, one will continuously consume reality. Unless one continuously brings power and benefits to this civilization and this world, which can allow the mortals of this civilization and this world to continuously generate reality, otherwise the civilization will begin to weaken and accelerate its fall, or attract the source of pollution and bring about loss. This is the truly terrifying thing about 'extraordinary is pollution'."

"Unless the extraordinary individual achieves a Sublimated Body, then the reality they consume will be greatly reduced. This is the true core of the 'perfection' of the Sublimated Body. The so-called perfection not only refers to the perfection of self-sublimation, but also perfection against pollution. And if one can achieve the Root, achieving an infinite cycle and self-closed loop, then not only will the reality consumed by oneself be nearly zero, but it can also benefit the entire civilization and race, allowing the reality consumption of the civilization and race to be reduced to a great extent. This is the greatest help that the Sublimated Body and the Root can provide to their civilization and race!"

Wu Pifu was horrified. Only then did he understand the perfection of the Sublimated Body and the significance of the Root's self-cycle and self-closed loop. It turned out that this did not simply refer to strength and domain, but was also used for the entire civilization and race. The so-called self-closed loop is resistance to pollution!

Po continued: "The True Martial lineage at that time did not have a Root, and at the same time, almost all extraordinary individuals cultivated this new extraordinary path. Although the Sublimated Bodies could greatly reduce their own reality consumption, countless ordinary extraordinary individuals could not do so. Because the True Martial lineage was extremely prosperous and powerful at that time, the ordinary mortal population was in the trillions, and the ordinary extraordinary individuals were in the millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions. As a result, a big problem arose all of a sudden!"

Wu Pifu felt a chill just thinking about that scene. Not to mention anything else, as long as the reality consumption of ordinary extraordinary individuals increased by 20% or 30% in a short period of time, it would be enough to cause a fatal disaster for the True Martial civilization, which had already formed a balance.

Sure enough, Po said: "Because of this sudden drastic change, the entire True Martial and Star River reality inventory hit rock bottom. Terrifying sources of pollution descended on both sides, and drastic changes occurred on both sides. This immediately intensified the friction between the two major camps, eventually evolving into war and plunder against each other. In the end, both sides suffered heavy losses. The True Martial civilization had the possibility of being completely lost and fallen in a short time. Finally, the True Martial Ancestor paid the price of joining the Heavenly Court himself to bring in reinforcements from the Heavenly Court, while the Star River lineage colluded with the source of pollution through inexplicable methods... I only know this much; I don't know the specifics. In short, the True Martial lineage was eventually torn apart, either exterminated or hiding in the Lost Lands, while the True Martial Ancestor became the North Pole True Martial Profound Heaven Great Emperor of the Four Emperors of the Heavenly Court. The Star River lineage was completely lost, and even the Star River lineage's path had the possibility of bringing lost pollution."

"And that extraordinary path that almost destroyed the True Martial lineage was completely lost after that. Many ancient civilizations and ancient roots have explored its foundation, but they could not explore it, and its whereabouts are unknown. It seems to have been forcibly 'lost-ified' by some power. And this extraordinary path was named Immortal Martial. The path it took was the type of refining essence into Qi, forming internal strength within the body, and constructing an internal energy cycle. Its names were the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, the Ren and Du Meridians, the Heavenly Profound Pass, etc. This extraordinary path was extremely compatible with both the True Martial lineage and the Star River lineage. Once cultivated together with these two extraordinary paths, it could immediately produce chemical changes, form mutually multiplying and overlapping zones, and even fit together on top of the original limits, while breaking through the limits to reach more incredible layers. This was also the reason why the True Martial civilization could not resist the temptation and, ignoring its abrupt appearance, had the whole clan cultivate it."

Wu Pifu found it familiar. Isn't this the internal energy in Wu Xia novels? There were actually so many mysterious inside stories. He couldn't help but ask: "But you recommended that I cultivate this Immortal Martial; wouldn't that be repeating the mistakes of the True Martial civilization?"

Po smiled and said: "Otherwise, the True Martial civilization had everyone cultivating it, and they pushed it to an extremely high level, so the consumption was naturally terrifying to the extreme. But you are different. Your civilization is still in the Absolute Reality Layer. In other words, even the race-specific extraordinary has not appeared yet, let alone everyone cultivating it. The entire race has only you cultivating it. Even if you fall below the Root level, how much reality can you consume for your civilization? What's more, after you become a Sublimator by relying on the combination of True Martial and Immortal Martial in the future, the consumption will be reduced by 99%. If you become a powerful Root, then the entire race will be under your protection; would you still care about this little consumption?"

Wu Pifu suddenly realized, and then frowned again: "So it is indeed good, but you said it yourself, this Immortal Martial disappeared after the True Martial civilization fell, so it's impossible for me to obtain it."

Po said again: "My civilization's special extraordinary is 'Containment.' It is an extremely special race-collective extraordinary. When facing pollution, it can transform it into some specific disaster, or a specific individual, or specific information, things, life, and then find a way to contain it, or turn it into race power. At the same time, this race-special extraordinary can also be used for exploration, which is why I can know so many secrets. What's more..."

Po sighed when he said this. He said: "This may also be your opportunity. Didn't I want to leave 30% of my existence to send you to where my civilization is? This is essentially opening a channel across time and space. And I happened to be infected by lost pollution and became a ghost. In other words, I also possess a certain degree of lost pollution power... I can set this channel as a time-space channel leading to the Lost Worlds, a time-space turbulence. In this process, you will penetrate this channel, and there is a very high probability that you can obtain people, things, and objects from the Lost Worlds that fit your extraordinary system. I can also increase this probability. If you choose the Immortal Martial path, then I will do this for you!"

Wu Pifu pondered for a long time, thinking about the pros and cons. He asked repeatedly and received Po's most explicit answer. Human Immortal Martial Arts combined with Ghost Immortal cultivation to achieve the combination of Human Immortal and Yang Spirit, or cultivating the Star River lineage to achieve the final Star River Great Emperor, none of them could compare to the combination of True Martial and Immortal Martial. And the Immortal Martial path indeed had no other specialties besides consuming more reality. This point was verified by the True Martial Ancestor and the Star River Ancestor at that time.

In the end, Wu Pifu agreed to Po's suggestion.

"Then... no time to lose! My existence has been consumed almost entirely. If we delay, something will happen sooner or later. I will send you to where my civilization is now!" Po was also straightforward and said immediately.

Wu Pifu asked seriously: "Then what about this world?"

Po smiled: "Never mind, I will leave you a coordinate, and you can come back to see it yourself in the future."

"Judging... Judgment complete, obtained imprint, Cyborg World coordinate."

"... Yes, yes, magic potion extraordinary path, alchemy extraordinary path, or any other miscellaneous extraordinary path, such as those similar to Saiyan transformation, similar to Ultraman transformation, similar to magical girl transformation... Forget the last one. In short, why do I have to pursue reaching the peak of one extraordinary path? Isn't it stronger to stack more boxes?"

Huang Rong's words made Wu Pifu wake up like a dream. He laughed and stood up: "Good, then let's go now, go directly to the War Church, kill War first, and then search for the information on the magic potion extraordinary path owned by the War Church!"

Huang Rong rolled her eyes. She felt that Wu Pifu was a bit too extreme.

However, there was nothing to say at this time. After eating and drinking, and sleeping for a while, Wu Pifu's energy and spirit had fully recovered. Then he brought the three small animals and held the golden tree. They were all still unconscious, but their life signs were stable, and there was no big problem. Then he tucked Huang Rong, who was constantly resisting and pushing him, under his arm, and flew into the air, heading toward the location of the War Church.

As Wu Pifu moved, the crowd in the Royal Palace fled in all directions. They had long been terrified and wanted to flee, but they didn't dare to anger Wu Pifu. At this time, they naturally had no scruples.

And everyone outside the Royal Palace was also boiling immediately. Various forces, nobles, bureaucrats, extraordinaries, armies... After getting the news that Wu Pifu flew away, these people immediately reported to their respective forces, and these forces immediately started to act.

Run away, hide, conceal...

Otherwise?

Do you want them to fight an existence that can tear apart a Sequence 3 demigod?

Stop kidding!