Chapter 541: Chapter 39 Eighth Realm! (Requesting Yue votes!)_2
“Already found out? Tell me about it, let’s see what’s the deal with these secret realms.”
“Other secret realms aside, the strongest ones number only three, which they themselves call Qi Blood Heaven, Eternal Life Heaven, and the Endless Sea… Inside each dwell Fifth Realm powerhouses, and like I’ve mentioned before, these Fifth Realm beings temporarily can’t come out, and I think I know the reason.”
“Eternal Life Heaven… That’s quite a bold name.” Secret realms aren’t all that large in scale, and to call themselves such denotes no small amount of audacity.
“They call it Eternal Life Heaven, and though they might be a bit boastful, it’s actually quite fitting. The population within that secret realm is not large, only about a million people, but these million people have mostly lived for thousands of years. It’s no mistake to call it Eternal Life!”
Planet Will revealed a piece of information that surprised Wang Sheng deeply.
“A million people have lived for so long. Before we even discuss how they did it, wouldn’t there be a population explosion with that many people living for so many years?”
Thousands of years passing is akin to countless generations for ordinary people.
“Or is it because of their longevity, their fertility is impacted?”
Planet Will confirmed the second guess.
“It’s similar to what you’re thinking, but there’s a slight difference. It’s not that they’re restricted; it’s that they outright cannot reproduce. The million people there, their lifespans are essentially fixed.”
“Lifespan fixed… But how have they done that? A million people living for thousands of years is indeed astonishing.”
“Because the lifespan rules in their secret realm are pervasive, and all the treasures born there relate to lifespans. Consuming these treasures can extend life by at least a hundred or two hundred years, but the most extreme among them is a substance called ‘Eternal Life Qi,’ which can add twelve thousand years to one’s lifespan. A certain quantity of it is born every thousand years.”
“You mean ‘Eternal Life Qi’?” Wang Sheng suddenly thought of the number one being of the Demon Clan—Zhong, who had consumed Eternal Life Qi and lived for so long.
As it seemed now, the secret realm that the number one being of the Demon Clan entered was Eternal Life Heaven.
“Can people who enter the secret realm come back out?”
“It’s possible, but the odds are low.”
Planet Will was born too late to know of Zhong’s existence, thus was somewhat puzzled as to why Wang Sheng would ask such a question.
Wang Sheng did not offer much of an explanation, as it wasn’t a matter of great importance.
Planet Will did not press further.
The conversation turned back, and Wang Sheng continued his questions about Eternal Life Heaven.
“People from Eternal Life Heaven can live for so long without any drawbacks?”
If one could live for ten thousand years, they would be at a huge advantage in the outside world.
Keep in mind, even he had only stretched his lifespan beyond ten thousand years after entering the last major phase of Refining Qi into God.
But obviously, nothing so advantageous came without a catch.
“It’s not that simple. The treasures in Eternal Life Heaven that prolong life are indeed precious, but these items that directly extend life actually fix it as well. Once a person from Eternal Life Heaven uses these treasures, their maximum lifespan is fixed at twelve thousand years unless they improve their cultivation levels. Otherwise, when their lifespan ends, death is all that awaits.”
“That still sounds pretty good. Twelve thousand years of cultivation time—if they came to the outside world, they’d have plenty of time to improve their cultivation levels and extend their lifespan.”
“That might be true, but what if the highest cultivation level one can achieve in Eternal Life Heaven after using Eternal Life Qi or other eternal items is only the Fifth Realm? The average lifespan of the Fifth Realm is around twenty-five hundred years. This means that even if someone cultivates to the Fifth Realm, their maximum lifespan would only be fifteen thousand years. That cannot be changed, and besides, the aptitude of those who have consumed Eternal Life Qi will be limited. Very few of them can cultivate to the Fifth Realm. It’s a restriction of the rules, and even beings from the planet are subject to certain effects after using it.”
Eternal Life Qi, extending life by twelve thousand years, from any angle, that would be an artifact capable of shocking the world.
But for those naturally gifted cultivators, it wasn’t quite the same.
To spend an entire lifetime at the Fifth Realm awaiting death, for those brilliant talents, they might as well be dead.
Yet, Wang Sheng still felt some sentiment, “Twelve thousand years of life, one wouldn’t know which realm you had to reach to attain it. For the vast majority of people, it’s already a great treasure.”
Even with a place as bountiful as Great Harmony, with its abundant resources and the Spirit World, many still could not break through to Great Grandmaster of the Third Realm or even Grandmaster of the Second Realm.
These individuals were not geniuses by any means, and for them, Eternal Life Qi would be an item worth going mad over.
“Indeed, that’s true. But that doesn’t include the Fifth Realm dwellers of Eternal Life Heaven.”
“Oh, why is that?” Wang Sheng was curious.
Planet Will surely knew.
“The rules of the secret realm are not complete; they only support reaching the Fifth Realm, and to reach the Fifth Realm, one must merge with the secret realm. This is also why the Fifth Realm beings of the secret realm can’t leave temporarily. Only by the secret realm beings consuming outsiders to supplement and perfect themselves can they gradually break away. And of those who are willing to merge and connect with the secret realm, which one isn’t an ambitious individual?”
Planet Will explained thus, and Wang Sheng understood—while those from other secret realms in the Fifth Realm might still hold some hope, the Fifth Realm beings of Eternal Life Heaven who had taken “Eternal Life Qi” had none, even with the completion of the rules.
They had already reached their peak!
“How ironic, to live for thousands of years, yet they can never achieve what they desire…”
Wang Sheng suddenly found it amusing.
“What about the other two powerful secret realms, are they the same?”