137: Chapter 137 The Full Picture of the Cultivation World Unfolds

Years ago, when the boundary wall shattered, the Revered Master and disciple had agreed: once Su Yu had settled the Su Family and Tianshu had stabilized his cultivation, they would travel to The Great World together.

Who would have thought that after the Tianshu Old Monster returned to the main Peak of the Celestial Pivot Sect to go into seclusion, he would find himself unable to sit still the moment he barely stabilized his Void Refining Early Stage Realm.

He had been locked away by that incomplete cage of a world for ten thousand years!

Now that the lid above his head was gone, the vast and boundless aura of the Laws of The Great World teased him day and night; for him, it was more lethal than any potent aphrodisiac.

And so, this dignified number one person in the Southern Wilderness actually broke his word.

He left Su Yu a large batch of defensive Magic Treasure and cultivation insights, along with the message, "Revered Master's inner fire is restless, I am going to The Great World first to scout the path for you," before impatiently breaking through the Void Realm fissure alone and vanishing in a flash.

With that departure, a century passed without a word.

Today, news finally returned.

Su Yu shook his head with a helpless smile and waved his large sleeve, sending a strand of magical power into the Jade Slip.

"Hum—" The Jade Slip vibrated violently, and the voice of Tianshu Old Ancestor—full of vigor, revealing an irrepressible wildness and a hint of exhaustion—exploded directly in Su Yu's Sea of Consciousness.

"Yuer! I am not dead! Hahahaha!"

"This The Great World... is truly vast enough to make one's heart palpitate, and dangerous enough to be hair-raising!"

Inside the Jade Slip, Tianshu Old Ancestor did not exchange pleasantries; he spoke at a rapid pace, pouring everything he had seen and heard in The Great World over the past century, as well as the intelligence he had personally verified, into Su Yu without reservation.

A complete, vast, and cruelly vivid picture of the cultivation world slowly unfolded in Su Yu's mind.

"Yuer, listen well. The waters of The Great World are unfathomably deep."

"Soul Transformation is the ceiling in the Southern Wilderness, but here in the 'Hunyuan Heavenly Domain,' it is nothing more than a slightly stronger ant, barely qualified to establish a second-rate Sect."

"Above Soul Transformation is my current Realm, Void Refining! The Primordial Spirit merges with the Void Realm, and every gesture can borrow the might of heaven and earth."

"Above Void Refining is Body Integration! The Physical Body and Primordial Spirit merge perfectly; one can be reborn from a single drop of blood, and magical power flows endlessly—only then can one be considered a true titan!"

"Above Body Integration is Mahayana! Such Old Monsters have comprehended a certain Law of heaven and earth to the ultimate Realm; their words become reality, and destroying the heavens and extinguishing the earth is done in the flip of a hand."

"And after Mahayana comes the 'Undergoing Tribulation' stage, where one faces the Nine Heavens Heavenly Tribulation and seeks transcendence. Once passed, one can ascend to the Immortal Realm!"

Tianshu Old Ancestor's voice carried a clarity that recognized reality, as well as an unparalleled sharpness that refused to accept old age.

"Over this century, relying on the accumulation of ten thousand years, I have broken through consecutive perils in this Hunyuan Heavenly Domain, and I have now completely stabilized my Void Refining Middle Stage cultivation."

"In this vast ocean, while my Void Refining cultivation is far from a match for those Body Integration or Mahayana Old Monsters, it is still considered 'first-class' combat power. Ordinary forces dare not provoke me."

Hearing this, a trace of a smile flashed in Su Yu's eyes.

His own Revered Master had endured ten thousand years without being worn down; the ruthlessness and Foundation in his bones were truly terrifying.

To go to a place like The Great World, surrounded by tigers and wolves, and be able to gain a foothold in a century was truly no easy feat.

But the voice in the Jade Slip immediately became extremely grave.

"Yuer, you must be extremely careful."

"For the past century, the news of the Southern Wilderness boundary wall dissipating has basically become known throughout the Hunyuan Heavenly Domain."

"Those top-tier Body Integration and Mahayana Old Monsters are arrogant. They have probed the Spiritual Vein Foundation of the Southern Wilderness and concluded that it is merely a barren land just recovering, not even worth a glance, and they disdain to get involved personally."

"However, the subsidiary Sects under those major powers, Nascent Soul Loose Cultivators without backing, and Golden Core families eager to expand their territory have treated the Southern Wilderness as a huge, undeveloped piece of fat!"

"The foreign forces that have flooded into the Southern Wilderness over the past century are all these desperate scoundrels."

"I have investigated their backgrounds there; there are even some Old Monsters who offended powerful enemies in The Great World and, having nowhere else to turn, have snuck into the Southern Wilderness, intending to reign supreme in your little pond."

"You possess Heaven-Defying Luck, so your cultivation will surely be extremely fast, but remember: the tree that stands above the forest will be destroyed by the wind. Before you have absolute certainty, guard the Su Family Foundation well and do not expose your sharpness easily."

"Wait until Revered Master has completely established a Foundation to receive you in the Hunyuan Heavenly Domain, then I will send word to bring you to The Great World for a reunion!"

The voice inside the Jade Slip came to an abrupt halt. The last trace of spiritual light was exhausted, and the Jade Slip crumbled into a pile of grayish-white powder on the stone table.

A mountain breeze blew past, and the powder scattered with the wind.

Su Yu sat quietly on the stone stool, his fingers tapping rhythmically on the table.

Soul Transformation, Void Refining, Body Integration, Mahayana, Undergoing Tribulation. These five great Realms stood clearly before him like an unreachable tower reaching to the heavens.

"So that is how it is."

Not only did Su Yu not feel despair because of this terrifying gap in Realms, but a long-suppressed wildfire ignited in his abyss-like black eyes.

In his previous four lives, he was either trapped by his Spiritual Root Aptitude or locked in this incomplete world, unable to see the path ahead.

Now, the path to the heavens was clear. And he was in his prime at the Nascent Soul Late Stage, carrying the Fortune favored by the Heavenly Dao.

Mu Qingxue looked at the sharpness in Su Yu's eyes and knew what he was thinking.

"The situation in The Great World is complex and intricate; it is already a great Fortune that Revered Master was able to gain a foothold within a century."

Mu Qingxue's cold, clear voice rang out. "But Revered Master is absolutely right; those Nascent Soul Old Monsters from The Great World who have fled into the Southern Wilderness are our most immediate threat right now."

"A threat?" Su Yu chuckled softly, picked up the freshly brewed Spiritual Qi tea on the stone table, and blew away the floating leaves.

"Mu Qingxue, you overestimate them."

"They are merely stray dogs from The Great World; unable to make it there, they ran to this little pond of the Southern Wilderness to play the big shot."

"Do they really think this Southern Wilderness is their backyard, where they can come and go as they please and plunder as they wish?"

Su Yu set down his teacup, his gaze cast toward the vast territory beyond the Langhuan Peaks.

"If they keep to themselves and find some barren mountain or wilderness to Cultivate in, I couldn't be bothered to care."

"But if anyone stretches their claws into the territory of my Qianlong Su Family..."

Su Yu's tone remained calm, without even a hint of Killing Intent, but to Mu Qingxue's ears, it was more chilling than any harsh threat.

"Then let them know that beneath the ground of this Southern Wilderness, there lies not only Spiritual Veins but also blades that can grind their bones to dust."

And this proved true to Su Yu's words. In the cultivation world, there is never a shortage of fools who hold themselves in high regard and fail to recognize the situation.

Just three months after Tianshu Old Ancestor's message arrived, fifty thousand miles away from the Langhuan Mountain Range lay the Nether Blood Valley.

This place was shrouded in a layer of scarlet miasma all year round; not a blade of grass grew in the valley, and it was infested with poisonous insects.

After the boundary wall shattered a century ago, the "Xuanyou Sect," a hidden Demonic Path Sect that had fled from The Great World, arrived here.

They had taken a fancy to the malevolent aura of this place, forcibly slaughtered the several local Golden Core families that had originally occupied it, and claimed this place as their Sect grounds.

The Sect Master of the Xuanyou Sect, Yin Jiu, was at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and cultivated a highly vicious technique called the "Blood Spirit Bone-Melting Method."

In the century since the boundary wall opened, relying on several secret techniques brought from The Great World, he had crazily plundered low-level Loose Cultivators in the Southern Wilderness as blood food, forcibly pushing his cultivation to the Peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. Under his command, he had even recruited three Nascent Soul Early Stage Elders and dozens of Golden Core Realm desperate death warriors.

With such strength, in the Southern Wilderness, which had been reshuffled by foreign forces, they were definitely considered a first-class power that could not be ignored.

Inside the Xuanyou Hall, which was built of white bones, Yin Jiu sat upright on a wide bone chair pieced together from hundreds of Mortal skulls.

His face was sinister, and his gaunt, bony fingers were toying with two dark red, dragon-patterned walnuts.

"That Qianlong Su Family, a mere local upstart, actually occupies the Langhuan Mountain Range, such a seventh-grade superb Spiritual Vein; it is simply a waste of heaven's gifts."

Yin Jiu's voice sounded like two rusted iron plates rubbing against each other, harsh and unpleasant.

Below, the Grand Elder of the Xuanyou Sect bowed and reported, his expression revealing a hint of caution.

"Sect Master, the scouts have reported back that the Qianlong Su Family cannot be underestimated. They have dozens of Golden Core Elders within their clan, and it is rumored that the Su Family Old Ancestor, who has been in seclusion, and his Dao Companion are both Nascent Soul Late Stage Revered Masters. If we attack by force..."

"Attack by force? Naturally, I would not do such a foolish thing that would damage our strength."

Yin Jiu snorted coldly and gripped his palm tightly. The two dragon-patterned walnuts, whose texture was comparable to Magic Treasure, were actually crushed into dark red powder by him and spilled through his fingers.

"So what if they are at the Nascent Soul Late Stage? They are bumpkins who have never been to The Great World. They have the Realm, but do they know any profound killing techniques?"

"Half a month from now, the Spiritual Veins of the Langhuan Mountain Range will welcome a once-in-a-century Spiritual Qi tide. At that time, the Spiritual Vein will surge, and the Foundation of their clan-protecting Formation will inevitably be unstable."

A gleam of extremely cruel calculation flashed in Yin Jiu's eyes.

"In my early years in The Great World, I risked my life to seize a set of incomplete 'Nine Nether Soul-Extinguishing Formation' Formation Plate. This Formation does not attack the exterior; it specifically pollutes the Spiritual Vein!"

"At that time, I will personally lead the team to sneak to the periphery of Langhuan Mountain. Taking advantage of the weakness in their Formation, I will trigger the Nine Nether Earth Fiend Qi of this Nether Blood Valley and, following the texture of the Spiritual Vein, pour it directly into Langhuan Mountain!"

"Once the Earth Fiend enters their bodies, it will pollute their True Essence. Even if those two Nascent Soul Late Stage experts of the Su Family have heaven-reaching abilities, their cultivation will plummet on the spot, dropping to the Early Stage or even the Golden Core Realm!"

"When that time comes, the tens of thousands of people in the Su Family will be excellent blood food for us to slaughter and refine into Blood Pills!"

Yin Jiu's calculation was undeniably vicious and undeniably thorough. Avoiding their sharpness, attacking when they were unprepared, and using Formations and the environment of heaven and earth to carry out a dimensionality-reduction strike—this was indeed a common tactic used by those battle-hardened Old Monsters from The Great World.