Inside the temple.
“Oh? The Golden Core Bloodforge King of the Bloodforge Battle?”
At the far end of the temple, a deity-like figure in purple robes frowned slightly. “Get his combat footage and conduct a comprehensive talent assessment. I want his sequence number.”
Buzz~ The enormous light screens projected in front of the purple-robed figure began swiftly flashing through the massive quantity of data collected on Wu Yuan, including combat footage and other intelligence.
It also included the growth trajectories of other geniuses from the eldritch world.
Talent assessment was based on facts and figures, not imagination. The Voltari Temple and Cang Feng Eldritch World had battled for trillions of years across spacetime territories spanning billions of light years.
The amount of intelligence and data each side collected on the other was unimaginable!
The pressure to survive, combined with the support from the Eldritch Court and Immortal Court, made the two great factions superior to the Eternal Sun Immortal World in many aspects.
Time passed.
“Astral Monarch. Based on Wu Yuan’s performance in the Bloodforge Battle, a comprehensive assessment places his assassination sequence at 1848.” A black-robed, bald High Immortal respectfully reported.
“So high?” The purple-robed figure was puzzled.
The Voltari Temple strived to collect as much intelligence and information as possible on members of the five Origin Eldritch Fields from Cang Feng Eldritch World.
Based on their talent, they were added to an assassination list. The smaller the sequence number, the higher the threat level, and the more urgent it was to eliminate them.
“Astral Monarch, the entire assassination list currently includes 14,592,894 individuals, most of whom are High Immortals and High Eldritches, all from the First Origin Eldritch Field,” the black-robed, bald High Immortal respectfully said.
“These High Immortals and High Eldritches may not have been too well-known in their early years, but surviving life-and-death trials time and again indicates their strong providence.”
“Once they become Archimmortals or Archeldritchs, they’ll pose a great threat to our temple. Therefore, High Immortals and High Eldritchs generally rank higher in the assassination list.”
“Wu Yuan is just a Spiritual Body cultivator. Yet he is ranked around one thousand. A bit high, isn’t it?” Someone asked.
“Talent-wise, this Wu Yuan isn’t dazzling. He would normally be ranked over ten thousand on the assassination list.” The black-clad, bald High Immortal replied, “But the strange thing is, despite his average talent, he was specially recruited by the Cang Feng Eldritch World and became an earth-tier member. It’s rare.”
“So, we suspect he harbors secrets beyond our understanding.” The bald High Immortal continued.
“Therefore, his hidden abilities contributed heavily to his score. His final assassination ranking is set at 1848.”
The over ten million individuals on the Voltari Temple’s assassination list were all peerless geniuses who were still alive in the Cang Feng Eldritch World in the last million years.
To rank around one thousand, it meant he was the number one genius of the Cang Feng Eldritch World in an era (one hundred years).
“Hm, fair enough. But with such talent, his chances of becoming an Eldritch Sovereign’s disciple are slim. There are too many geniuses with similar talent.” The figure in purple robes said indifferently, “Place him in the third tier and monitor him closely.”
“We can’t assassinate him while he’s at the Spiritual Body phase. When he reaches the ninth-stage Shambhala phase, he should join the Eldritch-Immortal Battlefield for his first field trial.”
“Yes.” The black-clad, bald High Immortal responded respectfully.
For different tiers of geniuses, their assassination methods varied accordingly. The Voltari Temple didn’t expect to kill all the geniuses of the Cang Feng Eldritch World.
“Our top priority is still the number one ranked Jiang Huan.” The figure in purple robes said coldly, “The last assassination attempt failed; four Archimmortals were killed by him, a heavy loss. He must have fully comprehended an Intermediate Law.”
“Revise the plan. I will ask the Immortal Sovereign to retrace his past from a higher spacetime dimension, to judge possible future locations for close monitoring.” The figure in purple robes said coldly, “I do not wish for another Astral Monarch to emerge in the Cang Feng Eldritch World.”
“Understood.” The group of High Immortals below responded respectfully. They were merely analysts, not directly involved in combat.
…
Fifth Origin Eldritch Field, Wu Yuan’s void continent
Inside the Essence Tower, within a spherical space of about fifty-five li in diameter.
Buzz~ Dazzling streaks of earthy yellow light flickered, swirling around Wu Yuan.
Countless rays converged, faintly forming innumerable, complex cryptic patterns, each pattern brimming with the profundities of the Dao.
Dao comprehension truly gets harder the deeper you go.
My understanding of the Celestial Body Dao is already deep, my perception of the Dao exceptionally clear, and I have the Essence Tower aiding me.
But as an Intermediate Law, the operating principles still feel like a tangled mess to me. I’m still far from breaking through from the ninth-level Domain stage to the True Intent stage. Wu Yuan pondered silently.
Three days!
Since entering the Essence Tower, he had been meditating for three days, yet still couldn’t figure out how to go about breaking through to the True Intent stage.
I have not accumulated enough insights. Gao Yun could break through to the Dao Field stage because he had many years of accumulation, and fought numerous battles on the Bloodforge Battlefield. The final push was the special environment of Bloodforge Spacetime. Wu Yuan thought to himself.
As for Wu Yuan?
Since the Bloodforge Battle began, he had made breakthroughs rapidly, and only just reached the ninth-level Domain stage of the Celestial Body Dao.
Even with the Celestial Divine Body, this bottleneck was a difficult obstacle. There were too many gaps in his understanding.
It’s still too early. Wu Yuan shook his head slightly.
He was only fifty-five years old.
My master gave me sixty Dao Temple points. For now, I should check out the Dao Temple of the Eldritch Court. Wu Yuan decided.
After obtaining the identity token and acquiring a wealth of information from it, along with his earlier knowledge, Wu Yuan had a good understanding of the Fifth Origin Eldritch Field.
With a thought, a strand of consciousness entered a mysterious place—the Cang Feng Eldritch Voidrealm!
It was the largest, more comprehensive voidrealm in the entire Cang Feng Eldritch World, its scale and features far surpassing the Redmoon Immortal Realm.
Inside his personal hall.
It appears to simulate reality with a hundred percent likeness, but there are subtle differences. Wu Yuan swiftly adjusted his personal appearance and pondered deeply.
This was his first time entering such a high-grade voidrealm. Even the Bloodforge Immortal Voidrealm paled in comparison.
Wu Yuan couldn’t pinpoint the exact differences in these voidrealms. But he could sense that the Cang Feng Eldritch Voidrealm felt more realistic.
It almost makes it hard to distinguish between virtual and reality. Wu Yuan’s gaze swept across various parts of the personal hall.
There were also various virtual immortal slips introducing its features.
Earth-tier disciple treasures, cultivation teachings, ether art, Eldritch Deity Tower, Fifth Origin Eldritch Treasure Shop, Archimmortal teachings… Wu Yuan browsed through them.
The information was overwhelmingly complicated. However, every member of the Origin Eldritch Field had to go through it.
I’ve gotten the gist of it; I’ll go over it in depth later. Wu Yuan closed his eyes gently, his avatar calling out, “Dao Temple.”
Boom! Wu Yuan felt his soul tremble slightly. Following that, he sensed his consciousness rapidly leaving the personal hall, hurtling toward an extremely mysterious and distant place.
Years ago, when he first visited the Dao Temple of the Taiyuan Divine Court, Wu Yuan was baffled, finding it all incredibly magical.
But now? Wu Yuan felt a sense of familiarity.
He sensed his surroundings morphing into a kaleidoscope of light and shadow, transforming into countless threads of light, then into an empty void, and finally, even the void seemed to vanish… This was an unfathomable place.
It’s a projection from a higher spatial dimension. Wu Yuan had a vague insight. The Dao Temple is located in an extremely high spatial dimension, far beyond the Vacuum Spatial Layer.
So, starting from the higher spatial dimension, descending in dimensions and expanding divergently until one reaches the Material Spatial Layer, this expansion can affect an unfathomably large region—tens of billions of light years? Hundreds of billions of light years… or even the entire river of space and time? Wu Yuan shuddered at the mere thought.
The endless river of space and time was constantly converging in higher spatial dimensions? What lay at the very top?
This was merely Wu Yuan’s speculation after his journey through higher spatial dimensions, but his current power and knowledge were far too limited to grasp the full picture.
It’s just that I am merely a strand of consciousness, not in my real body. Could it be that pure consciousness can also break through to higher spatial dimensions? Countless ideas swirled through Wu Yuan’s mind.
It was too mysterious. Too many aspects were involved, and Wu Yuan could only speculate.
Whoosh! Silently and without warning, Wu Yuan’s consciousness arrived in front of a towering black pagoda.
It was ancient and massive, suspended in the void. The Dao resonance radiating from it involuntarily gave rise to a feeling of reverence in any observer’s heart.
This feeling wasn’t directed at anyone, but towards the Great Dao.
However, while perceiving the mysterious Dao resonance, a thread of doubt sprouted in Wu Yuan’s heart.
Because, the black pagoda before him bore a certain resemblance to the black pagoda in his upper dantian lobe, not in appearance, but in that intangible aura.
Could the Origin Pagoda be related to the Dao Temple of the Eldritch Court? This thought suddenly flashed in Wu Yuan’s mind.
Just as Wu Yuan was pondering, an invisible force enveloped him, instantly bringing him before the pagoda. The closer he got, the more imposing the pagoda seemed.
Whoosh! Countless points of light converged, forming a massive light screen projection. On the projection were numerous characters, recording a few simple lines:
Awarded points: 60
Earned points: 0
Note: Awarded points can only be used once every hundred years; earned points have no restrictions on usage.
Master didn’t lie to me, he awarded me sixty points. Wu Yuan thought, his gaze sweeping over the points redemption rules at the bottom.
It was very simple.
One point to comprehend any Lesser Law once.
Two points to comprehend any Intermediate Law once.
…
One hundred points to comprehend a complete Essence Great Dao once. Wu Yuan was slightly stunned.
The redemption criteria were similar to those of the Taiyuan Divine Court. Only the last one was new.
The Dao Temple of the Taiyuan Divine Court can only simulate the comprehension of an incomplete Essence Great Dao, but here, you can comprehend a complete one? Wu Yuan mused. Essence Great Dao?
By the literal meaning, it probably meant comprehending the most fundamental essence of heaven and earth.
It’s too distant for me, the points Master awarded aren’t enough to experience it even once. Wu Yuan smiled slightly. But it’s enough for me to experience the Celestial Body Dao comprehension simulation thirty times.
If I experience the simulation once every hundred years, it’s enough to last me three thousand years of comprehension.
Moreover, Wu Yuan could still obtain points through normal means, and redeem them for more comprehension simulation opportunities.
“Would you like to redeem your points for a simulation opportunity?” A cold voice echoed in Wu Yuan’s mind, “If not, leave immediately.”
“Yes! Redeem the awarded points for one comprehension simulation of the Celestial Body Dao.” Wu Yuan promptly spoke. “Confirm.”
“Confirmed. Deducting two awarded points. Entering the second floor of the Dao Temple.” The cold voice spoke again.
In an instant, Wu Yuan saw his points drop from 60 to 58, and the floating light screen before him completely vanished.
The second floor of the black tower opened.
Whoosh! Wu Yuan flew straight in.