"So, after all this time, it turns out I can only attain the Dao as a Lower Grade Immortal?"

At this point, Ning Xunqiu came to a realization.

No wonder in his previous life, despite perfecting the ’Cyan Mountain Seal’, he still couldn’t attain the Dao; it wasn’t just because of his unresolved karma with Duan Hong.

Even the ’Divine Land Orthodox Sect’ disciples couldn’t attain the Dao in one go; they had to be reincarnated multiple times and go through tribulations to finally have the chance and fortune to attain the Dao as an Upper Grade Immortal.

Each life would span hundreds of thousands of years, while he only cultivated for a few hundred years in the book, a stark difference.

He realized he had oversimplified things; this wasn’t something that one or two lifetimes of accumulation could easily catch up to.

Ning Xunqiu felt a deep heaviness in his heart.

"The Eighth Realm of Martial Arts requires the birth of more Martial Heroes and Divine Beings. It’s unlikely this life, since Qin Country has only given birth to three Divine Beings in a few thousand years, and time has set my limits."

"I hope I’m able to successfully seal the Ancestral Dragon."

He continued to look at the Celestial Derivation Life Record.

[Junior Sister Gao Fei Xue came to Jade Sky Immortal Island to find me, and the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth outside had reached a critical point; I had no choice but to bid farewell to Master Liuli and return to Cyan Mountain Heaven and Earth.]

[I must deal with the ’Barbaric Realm’ before the Ancestral Dragon discovers it.]

[At this time, in Qin Country, more than ninety percent of the Immortal Martial Heroes chose to leave their names on the ’Martial Arts Golden Stele’, and over the course of several thousand years, 179 strong individuals accumulated, with two to three ’Martial Heroes’ born per century on average.]

[This flourishing martial era only had three Martial Dao Divine People alive. Besides Zhao Qingzhou, the other two Divine Beings, named ’Xia Ying’ and ’Zhang Chao’, were nurtured in the battles against the Barbaric Realm. The youngest, ’Zhang Chao’, entered the Seventh Realm Divine Person by slaying a ’Barbarian God’ in the Barbaric Realm, yet he is still only fifty years old.]

[The Red Flame Army, meticulously selected, now numbers 100,000, and using the ’Supreme Divine Weapon Flame Sparrow’ to activate the ’Red Lotus Demon Slayer Guard’, they form a giant god ten thousand feet tall, with strength far surpassing Divine Beings.]

[Dongfang Mingyue transforms herself into a sword, manifesting true intent, capable of casually slaying a Barbarian God.]

[This time, I led the army, dividing it into five teams to suppress the strongest five Barbarian Gods—Lion, Tiger, Whale, Snake, and Elephant—in the ’Barbaric Realm’, with the mission to conclude everything within ten years.]

[Once again, I chose world destruction!]

[I left a few survivors, discovering that in the ’Barbaric Realm’, tribes had sensed the might of the ’Great Dragon’ ten thousand years ago and began worshiping this ’Great Dragon’ thereafter.]

[Ten thousand years ago? I am truly impressed; it seems that arriving in advance cannot erase these traces.]

[I ascended above the ’Barbaric Realm’, a world with the ’round heaven and square earth’ concept, with seven layers in total, where the lower is the residence of Barbarian Gods, and the upper is filled with endless fierce winds and rampant thunder.]

[I stayed here to adapt to these powers for ten years before heading to the edge of the ’Barbaric Realm’. A golden aura enveloped me as I executed a hundred strikes of the ’Infinite Heaven-Flipping Seal’, finally shattering the celestial vault of the ’Barbaric Realm’.]

[A chaos-colored aura poured down like a river; I was in a state of golden flowing light yet unable to shield against this river, but upon touching my flesh body, it felt painless and sensationless; the river seemed nonexistent with no abnormalities.]

[I must wait outside for the Ancestral Dragon’s arrival.]

[I ascended against the river to reach the outside of the ’Barbaric Realm’, where the naked eye saw nothing but darkness. It was only through my Primordial Spirit’s perception that I saw a vast ocean.]

[Yet here, there is no time, no space, no up, no down, no left, no right; it’s filled mostly with dead things, and I cannot find the entrance to the ’Barbaric Realm’.]

[Here, there is no distance; as soon as I stepped out, I was infinitely far from the ’Barbaric Realm’, unable to locate it or enter any other world.] 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

[I’m doomed.]

[I counted sheep for three years in my heart to keep track of time, discovering my flesh body starting to slowly become illusory, and soon, I couldn’t touch myself; this process was irreversible.]

[Everything about my existence disappeared.]

"Dead?"

The characters in the Celestial Derivation Volume stalled; Ning Xunqiu stared for a while, pondering:

"Everything about my existence disappeared? This water gradually turns one into nothingness, which means only worlds can exist above that ocean..."

This is awkward.

He is not the ’sacred of Dao attainment’, simply having no qualification to witness the true form of the Ancestral Dragon in that ’ocean’.

Didn’t even get a chance to draw his sword.

The problem is, if he successfully ’attains the Great Dao’, he would have the ability to protect himself; if anything displeased him in the Qingxu Realm, he’d surely flip the table immediately. Unconvinced? Look at my ’Sword of Chaos’ and say it again; anyone would have to bow and admit their mistake.

Just kidding, Ning’s greatest skill is shamelessness.

Ding dong.

[Congratulations! Your life of ups and downs has been evaluated as a Blue Life "Nonexistent Person": The end of all things does not mean ’death’; their traces still exist within all things of the world.]

Human beings have three deaths: the death of the flesh, the death in society, and spiritual death.

After experiencing these three deaths, one becomes a ’Nonexistent Person’.

Your mysterious disappearance, with the past unknown to the world for how many years, the footprints you once left slowly get covered, your past glorious deeds transformed into nothingness, with your Dao lineage dying out, and heaven and earth collapsing. When everyone forgets your name, everything you existed vanishes; that is true death.]

[You have received a Blue Life Achievement Award.]

[Would you like to immediately draw your Blue Life Achievement Award?]

"I destroyed the world again, and it’s just a Blue Life..."

Ning Xunqiu looked at the information on the panel, a knowing expression on his face, "A repetitive life carries no meaning, already overshadowed by the past."

If not, he wouldn’t have needed to go through so much trouble, finding a glitch, and repeatedly living the same life to farm ’Golden Life’ rewards, and he should have farmed over a hundred ’Swords of Chaos’.

Everyone gets a ’Sword of Chaos’.

"Draw the reward."

Ning Xunqiu silently recited in his heart.

[Drawing in progress...]

[Congratulations! You’ve received a Blue Special Achievement Award—"Liuli Immortal Venerable’s Enlightenment"]

"Enlightenment?" Ning Xunqiu was surprised and pondered slightly, "It’s worth a hundred points of fortune, exceeding the Blue Achievement Award significantly when translated to its value."

The next moment.

A massive amount of memories deeply imprinted in his mind.

"Dang!"

The sound of the Great Dao, profound and mysterious.

Ning Xunqiu seemed to gain some insight, but apart from a more peaceful mental state and a significant reduction of side effects from his Demon Sword Life, there wasn’t much growth in cultivation.

In a trance, a day gone by, he awoke.

Ning Xunqiu cradled the Celestial Derivation Volume, mired in contemplation.

"This Ancestral Dragon doesn’t reveal its true form... There’s no health bar, making it invincible."

"Even arriving early cannot erase the Ancestral Dragon’s traces; its true form cannot enter the ’Barbaric Realm’. Even if I suppress the East Sea Dragon King without killing, a Dragon Race Great Power would still come eventually, leading to the inevitable fate of being crushed by the Ancestral Dragon’s claw."

"In thousands of years within the book, Martial Dao has reached its limit, and Qi Cultivators have also reached theirs; repeating lives in the Qingxu Realm results in increasingly poor rewards. I can’t persist in the same way."

"I need to find a new world to nurture Martial Dao and Qi Cultivation."

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