95: World Will

The 572nd year.

With the help of the Power of Leadership, your cultivation grew stronger by the day.

At this point, it could be said that you had completely broken through the limits of this world, but because you hadn't used the Power of Destiny, your strength remained at Tribulation Transcendence.

You felt the powerful strength within you.

If you were to fight Dai Tianxiao again now, you could kill him without paying any price.

The 573rd year.

You found Five Spirits Sanren and asked him about the Origin of the Ancient Spirit World.

Regarding this question, Five Spirits Sanren appeared somewhat astonished. He asked you why you were looking for the Origin of the Ancient Spirit World.

You told him that you wanted to refine the Origin of the Ancient Spirit World and become the World Master of the Ancient Spirit World.

Hearing this, Five Spirits Sanren shook his head.

He told you that the World Origin was not that easy to refine. Even if your current cultivation had reached the Peak of Tribulation Transcendence, you could at most refine the World Origin of a Small World.

However, the Ancient Spirit World was a Great World, and its World Origin was extremely powerful. No matter how extraordinary your combat power was, how could it be refined by a mere Tribulation Transcendence cultivator like you?

Five Spirits Sanren shook his head, but he eventually told you the location of the World Origin.

Following the path indicated by Five Spirits Sanren, you quickly arrived at the location of the World Origin—Tian Yuan Valley.

This was the deepest place in the entire Ancient Spirit World.

Even with your current cultivation, facing this place, you couldn't help but feel a tremor in your heart.

After long hesitation, you finally decided to go down and take a look.

You descended into Tian Yuan Valley.

Darkness and a strange fluctuation blocked your Divine Sense.

When your Divine Sense recovered again, three days had already passed.

At this point, you had already reached the bottom of the valley. Although it was still pitch black here, you could barely make out some of the surroundings with your Divine Sense.

The path here was incredibly long, with dark stone walls on both sides.

At the end of the path, a phantom shadow appeared.

It was a Qilin!

You widened your eyes, not expecting the Origin Power of this world to not be in human form.

At the same time, the Qilin also looked in your direction.

"A good Human Race."

A glint flashed in the Qilin's eyes.

"It's a pity you were born too late."

"If you had been born tens of thousands of years ago, you might have shone brightly on the higher stage of the Upper Realm."

Hearing this, you quickly asked the Qilin about the current situation of the Ancient Spirit World.

"Hehehehehe..."

The Qilin first gave a desolate laugh, then slowly said, "Because the current Ancient Spirit World has become a meal on the platter for foreign races."

"They have set up an Immortal Array outside this world, preventing all living beings in this world from achieving a Breakthrough to Mahayana Ascension, only allowing them to achieve a Breakthrough by relying on the Power of Destiny."

"And the only other way to Ascend is to steal the Origin Power from a Small World."

"Those foreign races told the Cultivators of this world about this method."

"Thus, one Small World after another was refined by Cultivators, and these people who refined Small Worlds, due to their too obvious Qi, would soon be captured by foreign races and become a great tonic in their mouths."

Upon learning this news, you widened your eyes.

You quickly asked the Qilin what exactly happened in this world? Why had the Human Race fallen to such a state?

The Qilin sighed softly and told you everything.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the Ancient Spirit World could still Ascend to the Upper Realm normally.

At that time, the Human Race's power was still very strong. Although there were no Immortal Venerable Realm experts, they had means to contend with them.

But everything changed when the Myriad Worlds underwent Fusion.

A great war broke out between countless races. Unfortunately, the Human Race was the loser in that war.

From then on, the Human Race became blood food.

However, those foreign races also understood the principle of not draining the pond to catch all the fish and did not completely exterminate the Human Race.

Instead, they allowed the Human Race to continue to eke out a living in the Xuanhuang Great World.

Thus, the Human Race in the Xuanhuang Great World became livestock.

Those with weaker cultivation were allowed to continue to multiply, while those with exceptional talent would immediately become the foreign races' food.

At the same time, the foreign races in the Xuanhuang Great World also discovered Ascenders from the Ancient Spirit World.

These Human Race members were all exceptionally talented, with extraordinary bone structures.

They could be said to be excellent blood food.

Thus, those foreign races set their sights on the Ancient Spirit World.

But due to the restrictions of the World Will, they found it difficult to enter, so they could only set up a heaven-shaking great array to seal off the Ancient Spirit World.

This great array not only suppressed the Cultivators of this world from achieving a Breakthrough to Mahayana, but also magnified the power of the Lightning Tribulation by dozens of times.

From then on, no one in the Ancient Spirit World could ever achieve a Breakthrough to Mahayana on their own again.

Afterward, they somehow taught the Cultivators of the Ancient Spirit World a secret technique to refine pseudo-Origin Power.

The Cultivators in the Ancient Spirit World then began to frantically refine Small Worlds, even though the World Will told them that these were futile.

Because those Peak Tribulation Transcendence cultivators knew their situation: if they didn't Ascend, they would die of old age before long.

If they Ascended, perhaps there was still a glimmer of hope.

However, their struggles were in vain. What awaited these people in the end was to become blood food in the mouths of foreign races.

The Ancient Spirit World Cultivators who are still alive in the Xuanhuang Great World are all those who achieved a Breakthrough by relying on the true Power of Destiny.

Although they almost all live a life of hiding, they are much better off than those Cultivators who achieved a Breakthrough using pseudo-Power of Destiny.

You were somewhat puzzled by this. Since the true Power of Destiny could help avoid being hunted by those foreign races, why didn't the World Will create more Power of Destiny?

Regarding your question, the Qilin sighed again.

He told you that although he was the World Will of the Ancient Spirit World, the appearance of those Power of Destiny had nothing to do with him.

Power of Destiny was an abstruse thing. Whenever a suitable person was born, Power of Destiny would appear in this world to help them achieve a Breakthrough.

"Suitable person?!"

You were shocked, and your mind quickly recalled the process of the Power of Destiny scramble (contention) these past few times.

If you hadn't intervened, then the final ownership of these two Power of Destiny would have definitely fallen to Chu Han and Gu Xunxian.

Could it be that those two were truly destined to receive the Mandate of Heaven?