Bam! Bam! Bam!
Powerful clashes emanated from an ample space. Luckily, a mysterious power prevented the attacks from destroying the surroundings. A few minutes later, the fighting stopped.
Wang Wucheng looked at the young man before him and sighed. “You indeed have the strength of 2-Root Dao Ancestor.”
Wang Wei smiled before saying: “Can you show the power of each root?”
“Sure,” said Wang Wencheng before waving his hand to manifest an enormous hand manifested before him.
“How do you feel?”
“I feel like I could not withstand five attacks.”
“Most 3-Root Dao Ancestors could defeat 2-Roots with one attack. You can survive more than one because of your law and the many ways you have to defend yourself.”
Wang Wucheng then used another attack, but a more powerful one. “That’s 4-Root.”
Wang Wei nodded; he wouldn’t survive one attack. Finally, Wang Wucheng displayed the 5-Root Dao Ancestor strength, and Wang Wei could only shake his head.
“You should know there are differences between the roots–especially the 5-Root Level. The difference between controlling 4% and 4.9% of the Grand Dao Source is enormous.”
“I understand,” replied Wang Wei. With this knowledge, he has better ways to gauge his strength. According to his calculation, if he does not do anything else, once he finishes with his 9 Extremity Dao Foundation, his strength will reach 4-Root Dao Ancestor, while Di Tian is likely to be 5-Root.
‘Hopefully, the Fate Palace and Fate Incarnation can give me the final boost. Otherwise, I will have to find other methods.’
“How are things going in the Commercial Hub?”
“Shadow One has already investigated things, and we can set a booth there if needed. Are you worried about something?”
“Mu Lei seems to have eyes for Tong Ruobing; I’m afraid he will terminate our partnership and ally with the Great Talisman City instead.”
“He does not seem the kind of person to put business above his personal feelings.”
“We don’t know nearly enough about him to make such an analysis.”
“True. Having someone from the Star Beast World would make our integration into the Hub smoother. Ultimately, we do not need to rely on them if necessary.”
Wang Wei agreed. The Commercial Hub will be very significant to his plans, so he needs to begin planning for the future. After chatting with Ancestor Wucheng, he handed him the Sovereign Dragon Qi and returned to his room.
Wang Wucheng was in charge of finding someone that could make use of this unique energy.
As for Wang Wei, he activated the Array Virus once again to spy on everyone and see if he could catch something new. But, once again, he felt he had forgotten something after finishing.
Wang Wei instantly became alert as he knew there must be a problem. He reviewed the footage of all the participants the virus recorded, but he could not find anything. So, he asked Ancestor Wucheng to check if there were any abnormal individuals amongst the participants. But the latter also discovered nothing.
He closed his eyes and activated his Paragon Soul to its full effect. He felt he had caught something for a brief moment but could not remember. Wang Wei decided to be on guard at all times; he did know the reason for this anomaly, but it was worth keeping an eye out.
Afterward, Wang Wei used the reward he received for the Soul trial, which was the unique energy from the Body Trial. With it, he opened a total of 500,000 Acupoints, nearly half of them. And his fleshly body increased to 23 Primordial Dragon Force, and his main body had the battle strength of 2-Leaf Immortal.
‘The True Power Dao Realm’s increase was smaller than expected.’
He knew it would be more challenging to go to higher realms, but he did not expect the increase to be as harsh as this. However, considering that no one has probably opened that Gate in the lower dimension, it made sense for True Power Dao cultivation to be so infamous.
Nevertheless, the difficulty made him even more excited about what would happen once he opened the gate. Hopefully, it won’t be disappointing.
Finally, Wang Wei went to check on his incarnations and their missions. He did not check on the Space-Time Incarnation since the latter already succeeded in using the flaw in the River of Fate to explore parallel timelines.
So, he first checked on the Free Will Incarnations. This one’s mission was to remove the Great Thousand World’s River of Fate, granting absolute freedom to all cultivators and mortals.
“How are your injuries?” Wang Wei asked.
“I’m completely healed now.”
After removing the River of Fate from the Great Thousand World, both of them did not expect that the sealed Heavenly Dao would find a way to release Thunder Punishment on them. Luckily, the Free Will Incarnations borrowed power from the other incarnations and survived.
“So, how did the world operate after giving them freedom?”
“They acted the same,” replied the incarnation as he overlooked the entire world like a God looking at ants. “The mortals continue their daily life as if nothing changed. The only difference is that way because of their own volition, not because fate dictated it.
“The more intelligent ones fell into an existential crisis when they realized their previous lives were dictated at birth. Some even lost their sense of purpose because of their newfound freedom.”
Wang Wei watched the same them as him with calmness.
“Without fate’s control, all of them now have the talent to cultivate. Although 99% of them have poor talent, it is still talent. So, I pass a cultivation technique to all of them.
“Unfortunately, they give up because of the slow progress. The ones who took this opportunity of freedom are few and between.”
“What about the cultivators?”
“Them? You could say they changed, but you could also argue they did not. Without any Fate Nexuses to restrain them, they became out of control. They no longer respected rules and regulations and turned the world into chaos.
“One person became obsessed with replacing the role of Fate and began a mission to conquer and enslave the world. And so many cultivators follow him.”
“So, they want to take the freedom of others now that they are free?” said Wang Wei as he shook his head. He should have expected this outcome since cultivators are creatures of habit.
In most worlds, things rarely change–even after billion of years. And that’s because the long lifespan of cultivators that makes them both more conservative and sentimental.
“I’m starting to think the existence of the River of Fate is necessary. Without it, most people seem lost.”
“Maybe,” muttered Wang Wei. “Alright, I’ll go check on the others.”
He used the Trans-Planar Transmission Array to teleport to the Yin-Yang Incarnation. This incarnation looked slightly different from the others; he had black and white hair and was more feminine.
In general, it could be debated to be more handsome than the others–but it will depend on an individual’s taste.
“Do you want to say something? I know you do.”
“I don’t have to say anything,” replied Wang Wei as he tried hard not to laugh, making the Yin-Yang Incarnation snort coldly, deciding to ignore this insensitive jerk. After taking a moment to regain his bearing, Wang Wei reviewed the latter’s experience.
The Yang Incarnation became the devil’s incarnate. With the Devouring System, he made up for his lack of talent by swallowing others. As he grew stronger, he became a tyrant who did whatever pleased him: he was full of sins and negative Karma.
Meanwhile, the Yin Incarnation was the opposite. She saved many people and became a chivalrous individuals as she dreamt. As for their desire to become a man? It only partially succeeded.
The Yin Incarnation was the embodiment of Absolute Yin, so when she created a method to revert Yin to Yang, she did transform into a man. Unfortunately, the transformation was only temporary. And she grew more powerful, the time she could be a man became less until she accepted her new gender.
The two incarnations eventually clashed against each other. Their battle divided the world into sides: The Light and Dark Realms, forever changing the fundamental structure of the world.
The Light Realm was beautiful, full of happy people, and was generally a good place. The only downside was that it was always day, the sun shining brightly as the night never came. The Yin Incarnation had to use special formations to create the illusion of night.
As for the Dark Realm, it was the opposite. Cruel and cunning devil cultivators ruled with chaos and destruction. It was always night as the moon shone on them 24/7 for millennia.
Once the incarnations reached the peak of the Supreme Realm, they had a legendary battle that resulted in their unexpected fusion and entering the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
“Everything went smoothly,” said Wang Wei. He could feel that his Dao Heart would sublimate after he vividly relieved the experience of his incarnation after the final fusion.
He then left to check on the Luck Incarnation.