Chapter 999

This middle-aged man did not act rashly, but instead spoke seriously and earnestly.

As his words fell, the Chaos Tower vanished, and a figure appeared in the void.

"This… truly is an immortal!"

The middle-aged man's gaze turned toward the figure high in the sky, and he saw that it was a young, handsome man. Just by standing in the void, the man radiated an aura that crushed everything; countless profound principles seemed to be held within his great hands.

Those were many things he could not understand, yet all of these countless things were contained within that man's body. The overwhelming pressure needed no careful sensing to perceive clearly.

Heaven.

Lord of Heaven.

In the heart of this Zhendong Wang, monstrous waves arose; he felt that this young immortal was practically a Lord of Heaven.

His appearance here seemed to grasp every principle of the world.

Mountains and rivers, plants and earth, thunder and lightning, metal, wood, fire, soil—every element seemed to be visible in this young man's body.

This was truly inconceivable.

"An immortal descending upon my Yanjing City truly brings radiance to my humble dwelling. I wonder if I might have the honor of inviting the immortal to stay briefly at my Wang Fu!"

This Zhendong Wang did not hesitate at all, and immediately spoke with utmost respect, wanting to invite Fang Yu, this "immortal," into his Wang Fu.

He wanted to accomplish a great deed—to destroy the Xiang family dynasty and restore the great Qin Jiangshan. If he could obtain this immortal's aid, the great deed might be achieved more easily. Of course, if this immortal intended him harm, what he had just said was also a test.

"You are quite thoughtful. It happens that I have something to do, so I shall rest here at your place for a while."

Fang Yu's gaze looked down upon Zhendong Wang Qinde below. He could see every thought of this man clearly. His divine sense at this moment still enveloped an area of hundreds of millions of miles, and he saw that several miles from this place, a youth had obtained a meteor.

At the very moment of his arrival, a meteor had come from a distant place in the void, 穿梭 through countless voids, descending here, and was obtained by a youth named Qin Yu.

It was a red crystal shaped like a pendant, in the form of a teardrop.

"'Set this "crystal" into a pendant, that would be nice. Give it to Xiao Lu, Xiao Lu will surely like it. What should it be called? Let's call it Meteor Tear.'"

Fang Yu heard this youth named Qin Yu, after obtaining the Meteor Tear, wanting to give this Meteor Tear to "Xiao Lu." But in the next moment, this Meteor Tear had already entered his body, becoming a meteor mark on his chest, as if afraid that Qin Yu would give this Meteor Tear to some Xiao Lu.

"A treasure descended from heaven, automatically recognizing its master—quite the style of junior brother Fang Han."

Fang Yu watched Qin Yu obtain his golden finger, the Meteor Tear, and did not seize it. This matter reminded him of when junior brother Fang Han had not yet risen, obtaining the Huang Quan Tu and the Nine Orifices Jin Dan delivered to his door by Bai Haichan. The Meteor Tear Qin Yu now obtained had an effect somewhat similar to the Nine Orifices Jin Dan.

His rise was inevitable.

Fang Yu could see that after this youth obtained the Meteor Tear, he immediately began to cultivate.

This youth named Qin Yu had problems with his dantian, unable to accumulate internal force, so in past years he had been cultivating external skills. This kind of cultivation method had no great future in the Qianlong Continent, because in the Cultivation World there was a common saying: cultivating external skills was merely a minor path.

From ancient times to now, even those born with divine strength, even those whose bodies were trained to the extreme, never had a single person been able to reach the Innate realm through external skills. Cultivating external skills to train the body simply could not make one an Innate expert.

In the mortal realm of this world, experts were divided into Postnatal experts, Innate experts, and immortals who surpassed Innate experts.

Postnatal experts in the secular world were as common as carp crossing a river, countless in number, their strength roughly equivalent to the 1st Stage of Physical Body to 5th Stage of Physical Body of the Eternal Life Realm.

Among Postnatal experts who obtained many fortuitous encounters, perhaps only one in ten thousand or even hundreds of thousands could step into the Innate realm, becoming what was called an Innate expert. This realm granted a lifespan of five hundred years.

However, according to the countless pieces of information Fang Yu obtained in this instant, the Innate experts of this world at most reached the level of the 6th Stage of Physical Body to 10th Stage of Physical Body of the Eternal Life Realm, but the Innate realm of this world had far more lifespan than experts of the Physical Body Secret Realm of the Eternal Life Realm.

A lifespan of five hundred years, in the Eternal Life Realm, required reaching at least the 5th Stage of Divine Abilities Heavenly Man Realm to achieve.

These were the different laws of different worlds.

In this world, whether Postnatal or Innate, both could only be considered experts of the secular world. Only by cultivating to the peak of Innate and undergoing the Four-Nine Minor heavenly tribulation could one truly step onto the path of cultivation and reach the Golden Core Realm.

After Innate came the Golden Core Realm.

This realm also existed in the Eternal Life Realm, but one could only say the words were the same; the concepts were entirely different.

In this realm, after Innate came the Golden Core Realm. After Golden Core, one's lifespan could extend by over a thousand years. When the Golden Core Realm reached its extreme, one would step into the Nascent Soul realm. A Nascent Soul stage cultivator's lifespan could extend by five thousand years.

Reaching the peak of the Nascent Soul realm would trigger the Six-Nine Major heavenly tribulation. Only by undergoing this Six-Nine Major heavenly tribulation could one enter the Dongxu stage. At that time, the Nascent Soul could merge with the soul, allowing the Nascent Soul to leave the body and achieve the Dongxu realm.

Above the Dongxu realm was the Kongming realm, then the Tribulation Crossing realm. After a cultivator reached the Tribulation Crossing realm, they would encounter the Nine-Nine Heavy Tribulation. This tribulation was incomparably terrifying, countless times stronger than the Four-Nine Minor heavenly tribulation and the Six-Nine Major heavenly tribulation. Basically, out of ten thousand cultivators who cultivated to the Tribulation Crossing stage, all would die beneath the Nine-Nine Heavy Tribulation, their souls scattered and destroyed, never to reincarnate.

Unless one obtained many spiritual treasures, or obtained many spiritual pills, could one withstand such a terrifying tribulation and cultivate to the immortal realm.

Postnatal realm, Innate realm, Golden Core realm, Nascent Soul realm, Dongxu realm, Kongming realm, Tribulation Crossing realm, Dacheng realm—these were the cultivation system of the mortal realm of this world.

Quite ancient and simple.

Now, the Zhendong Wang Qinde before Fang Yu had a cultivation base at the Innate realm, not yet reaching the Golden Core Realm. And Qin Yu, who had just obtained the Meteor Tear, was at the Postnatal realm, cultivating external skills. If nothing unexpected happened, he would never be able to cultivate to the Innate realm in his entire life.

Of course, if something unexpected happened and he broke through to the Innate realm through external skill cultivation methods, he could use his powerful physical body strength to crush cultivators who entered the Innate realm through internal skill cultivation.

This was Qin Yu's uniqueness.

Fang Yu saw that after Qin Yu obtained the Meteor Tear, he became just like junior brother Fang Han, training frantically, sparing no cost to strengthen his physical body.

But no matter what injuries he suffered, a miraculous clear stream would surge out from within the Meteor Tear, directly restoring his shattered muscles and eliminating fatigue, while the muscle strength that broke through limits became even more powerful.

Breaking through limits again and again caused Qin Yu's progress to soar like a rocket.

Back then, junior brother Fang Han had cultivated rapidly and enhanced his physical body strength in the same way.

It didn't matter—junior brother Fang Han had the Nine Orifices Jin Dan.

Now it didn't matter—Qin Yu had the Meteor Tear.

The effects of the Nine Orifices Jin Dan and the Meteor Tear were truly eighty to ninety percent similar.

But the difference was that in the Eternal Life Realm, tempering the physical body like junior brother Fang Han belonged to the orthodox Liantifa Sect—continuously tempering the body to an extreme could cause the spirit to transform, then strike at the Shentongzhi Sect to burst forth the Divine Ability Secret Realm, ascending to heaven in a single step.

But in the Stellar Transformation realm, such physical body tempering was treated as cultivating external skills, unable to enter respectable halls. Cultivating for a lifetime seemed unable to reach the Innate realm. It was a method that those martial artists and generals in the secular world only cultivated when they had no other choice, barely able to establish merit in the secular world, and absolutely impossible to step onto the path of immortal cultivation.

The same cultivation of the physical body received different treatment in different worlds—this was the difference brought by different worlds.

"Today an immortal descended upon my Wang Fu—this is a tremendous joyous occasion for my Zhendong Wang Fu. My Zhendong Wang Fu must celebrate. Bring Yu'er here as well."

Just as Fang Yu was thinking in his heart, Zhendong Wang Qinde spoke.

"Yes."

Immediately someone went out to invite the third Young Master of Zhendong Wang Fu, Qin Yu.

However, Qin De's address "Yu'er" made Fang Yu slightly uncomfortable. He also had a Yu in his name, called Fang Yu. Qin De's address Yu'er sounded as if he were calling him.

Of course, Fang Yu paid no heed to this matter and directly began comprehending the fragments of the Law of Time left behind by Tai Batian within the Zhendong Wang Fu.

"Father, you wanted to see me."

Just as Fang Yu was comprehending the fragment of the Law of Time, the third young master of the Qin family, Qin Yu, arrived at Zhendong Wang Fu. His face showed both curiosity and impatience, as if he did not want to waste such precious time on coming home.

Because he had obtained the Meteor Tear, no matter how he tempered his physical body, he could always recover. So he was going to temper himself madly—wearing a three-hundred-jin weighted load, hoisting a several-hundred-jin boulder overhead with both hands, then sprinting at full speed for an hour, then throwing off the boulder and swimming in the lake in the three-hundred-jin load for over a hundred laps, then running again.

He was going to use this method utterly beyond human imagination, this method humans simply could not comprehend, an unbearable pressure, to force himself to quickly break through to the Innate realm of external martial arts!

But now, his father had summoned him, so he had no choice but to abandon this training and come to the Wang Fu.

"Yu'er, today an Immortal has come to our Zhendong Wang Fu. This Immortal is no ordinary matter—perhaps he has already cultivated to an extremely high realm among Immortals. Tonight we will attend the banquet, and I shall entreat this Immortal to see if he can treat the problem with your dantian."

Zhendong Wang Qinde spoke earnestly. "That is why I have called you here. You must be reverent and respectful toward this Immortal. He may well be your turning point."

"Yes, Father."

Qin Yu nodded, yet inwardly he was extremely curious—what kind of Immortal could make his father adopt such an attitude.

In his memory, his father had always been composed and confident, never once like this.

The night banquet arrived swiftly. Fang Yu was in the midst of comprehending that fragment of the Law of Time when he saw Zhendong Wang Qinde come respectfully to invite him to the feast.

"I have lost all interest in the food of the mortal world."

Fang Yu shook his head. "However, I have already perceived your intentions. Letting your son follow the path of cultivation he currently desires is itself a broad road."

"This… the Immortal could actually hear my conversation with Yu'er!?"

Qin De was greatly shocked within. His conversation with his son, Qin Yu, this time had taken place in a secret chamber, yet he would never have imagined that such a talk could also be known by that Immortal.

This was simply too inconceivable.

Especially since this Immortal had actually said to let his son cultivate according to his own chosen method—could cultivating external martial arts truly reach an extremely high realm?

Cultivating external martial arts was basically incapable of achieving the Innate realm—this was common knowledge in the Cultivation World. Moreover, cultivating external martial arts was both painful and added little strength. The Immortal actually encouraged his third son to cultivate external martial arts—could this really work?

"Go on. You may actually let your son cultivate around me; it will greatly benefit his training."

Fang Yu smiled.

His divine sense reached out and grabbed into the void, and endless spiritual energy of heaven and earth was drawn over by him. With him at the center, a dense rain actually began to fall.

This rain was not real water, but droplets condensed from spiritual energy—spiritual rain.

When it fell upon the ground, it seeped into the earth, immediately causing bursts of vitality to sprout. Any plant immersed in this spiritual rain would grow rapidly; moreover, any person immersed in this spiritual rain would gain tremendous benefit.

"What is this?"

Whether Zhendong Wang Qinde or Qin De's son, Qin Yu, both gazed in utter shock as within this city a torrential downpour began to fall in dense sheets—yet upon reaching the ground, no water pooled, because this was the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, not rainwater.

"This is the spiritual energy of heaven and earth—the spiritual energy of heaven and earth! How dense must the spiritual energy be to transform into such spiritual rain falling down!"

Qin De could hardly believe his own eyes. The moment he absorbed a little of the spiritual rain, he felt his physical body, washed by this spiritual rain, have all its impurities and stale qi scoured clean.

In the blink of an eye, his cultivation base had grown far stronger—more than several months of bitter cultivation in the past.

"Is this what a supreme Immortal is!"