AnnouncementJust a head's up, I might not update around the 16th since the family friend who is hosting me wants to take me skiing and from the 26th to 29th because I'll be entertaining the child of one of a friend that is coming to Japan.

  Realizing his mistake, Tianyi appeared in front of Ba Shifang and collected his blood after the tter’s consent. He formed the body again and possessed it to ascend the cultivation realms once more. The difficulty of creating the body was the same, but the compatibility was much greater.

  There was no question about it. After all, Ba Shifang’s body was originally copied from him, a perfect replica sans the Dragon Emperor’s influence. His compatibility was over ninety-five percent, unlike the fifty percent of Meng Tingfeng. Or maybe it was lower. Perhaps it was his mindset. Just because he didn’t kill him didn’t mean he liked his sperm donor.

  Still, Tianyi couldn’t raise the body’s level to the Immortal Realm. Once it stepped onto that threshold, the body would still disintegrate. Well, not that it would halt its eventual doom. Tianyi’s split soul would still cause it to disintegrate, just not as fast.

  “It’s much more difficult than I expected,” Tianyi muttered. He thought he would have succeeded by now. Of course, he had also tested it with his original blood and created a blood and flesh avatar, but he had not possessed it yet.

  He could control it and use it to copute with Daoyi, but that just felt wrong. Besides, he wasn’t in a hurry to have a child. Although Tianyi was thousands of years old, he felt that it was a bit hard to accept suddenly having a child.

  More than that, he was troubled. After studying the Law of Blood and attempting to recreate his body, Tianyi discovered that humans born in the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System had a special connection to it. Which also meant they were much more likely to be influenced by the Heavenly Dao.

  If that was all, it wouldn’t be too much of an issue, but Tianyi knew that the Heavenly Dao was hostile to him. Although the Heavenly Dao was bound by rules, what if something out of the ordinary or unexpected happened?

  Should he have his child in the Nine Heavens Universe? It seemed safer that way, but it was too desote compared to the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. Could his child who was born in the Nine Heavens Universe enter the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System? He didn’t want his child to live in a cage.

  “Maybe I should try it in the Primordial Realm?” Tianyi muttered. Reincarnation was incomplete in the Nine Heavens Universe and human births were much rarer. For the humans on Sixth Heaven, they have gotten used to it. The higher the spirituality, the rarer the birth.

  After a moment of hesitation, Tianyi recreated Ba Shifang’s body again and possessed it. Just before reaching the Immortal Realm, Tianyi opened a portal to a remote location in the Primordial Realm and sent his avatar through it. The moment the avatar appeared, the sky rumbled and bck thunderclouds gathered.

  To many people who sensed it, they might have mistaken it for heavenly tribution, but Tianyi knew it was heavenly punishment.

  Tianyi frowned as he watched the punishment lightning fall down. He didn’t take any action to save it. After all, even without the heavenly punishment, his avatar would disintegrate. There was no point in wasting energy against the Heavenly Dao to save what would eventually perish.

  “Now that I think about it, there’s no one in my Nine Heavens Universe that reached the Immortal Realm,” Tianyi said. He thought it was because not enough time had passed, but now, it seemed that it was not the cultivator’s problem but his problem.

  “My soul has changed, and the method of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System is no longer suited to me, nor is it suitable for the life born here,” Tianyi said in realization.

  If history pyed out without his interference, life in the Nine Heavens Universe would have spent countless generations deducing a perfect method. Countless sacrifices would be made on the way, but it wouldn’t be as bad as it could have been because they had access to the Five Element Method, saving them countless detours.

  And now, Tianyi wanted to create a suitable cultivation method for life born in the Nine Heavens Universe.

  “Should I create a method first or form the Sixth Paths of Samsara first?” Tianyi asked aloud. Although he comprehended the Law of Life-and-Death, it was still a way from the Law of Samsara. The time it took him to create the immortal method would undoubtedly be much shorter than forming the Six Paths of Samsara.

  It was an easy decision to make. Develop both sides simultaneously. After all, he was the ruler of the Nine Heavens Universe and his mind was far stronger than all life combined. Had he not been restricted by the perception of his conduits, his rate of comprehending the ws would be even more astonishing.

  He set aside part of his focus to comprehend the Law of Samsara while his conduit appeared on Sixth Heaven. Not all of Sixth Heaven was allocated to Cultivation Online. Most of it was left for humans to naturally reproduce.

  The new generation of humans only heard stories of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System and regarded it as nothing but a myth. Only some of those who reached the Foundation Establishment Realm and above knew that it was not a myth.

  Most of those foundation establishment students that knew were employed as NPCs in cultivation online. They swore to not leak the reality of the world and allow the pyers to think they were illusions. Few denizens of Sixth Heaven were averse to this employment. They only needed to act a bit and they could receive a rge amount of resources without needing to risk their life. How easy was that?

  Naturally, those with higher realms benefitted more. In this way, many transcending mortality saints appeared.

  At the core of Sixth Heaven’s civilization was the Nine Heavens Temple. Tianyi directly appeared on the throne. Although it was located at the core of the temple, it was empty except for two guards. It was a sacred pce to the denizens of Sixth Heaven and only when Tianyi appeared would people enter the room.

  “Nine Heavens Emperor!” the two guards shouted in excitement and kneeled. They both feared and venerated Tianyi. Tianyi’s attitude toward them was rather gentle, but it still couldn’t settle the anxiety in their hearts. He was simply too powerful, and they weren’t even as strong as ants to him. This was like a fear engraved into their blood and soul.

  Tianyi waved his hand. “Summon all the saints who aren’t busy.”

  “Yes,” the two guards said and immediately left the throne hall. As for whether anyone would invade? They would cp their hands in admiration and mockery if anyone dared to sneak in while the Nine Heavens Emperor sat on his throne.

  Soon, over twenty-one saints filled the throne hall. Most of these saints possessed a peaceful aura with no hidden edge, as if they hardly experienced any battles. It wasn’t strange. Most of them relied on resources and their talent to reach their current realm. Part of the reason was the sary given by Tianyi. They did not have any need to explore the wilderness for opportunities.

  Such a thing would have never happened in the Immortal Court or other forces of the Primordial Realm. However, Tianyi didn’t care. The human popution on Sixth Heaven was too weak, and he originally pnned to lower the benefits once a few immortals appeared. Now, it seemed that he needed to change his way of raising them a bit.

  Tianyi didn’t speak and looked at their bodies. The mortal cultivators remained ignorant with their heads bowed as Tianyi’s senses revealed their every secret. Inside the Nine Heavens Universe, Tianyi didn’t need to use his immortal sense. He could simply summon the information by focusing.

  ‘I should have noticed sooner. The Five Element Book is a cultivation method created for all humans of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System, but even then, it is not all-encompassing. So why would it be a perfect fit for the humans born in the Nine Heavens Universe?’

  When his senses penetrated their bodies, Tianyi realized that most of the saints no longer cultivated the orthodox Five Element Book. Each one made a slight modification. Perhaps that’s why they became saints while the others remained as venerables.

  “You have all contributed greatly to the development of Sixth Heaven. Therefore, I will reward you. I will grant you a new method to reach immortality. But be warned, ascending to the Immortal Realm is a step you cannot stop once taken. Either you become an immortal or perish,” Tianyi said.

  For the saints, they all showed signs of fanaticism. Especially the ones nearing their lifespan limit.

  Although Tianyi could remove the restriction on lifespan and allow them to live until their willpower reached their limit like true immortals, he felt it was unnecessary. Death provided an excellent motivation for them. He would only make an exception for a few people, like his disciple’s mother, Ziye.

  He dismissed the saints and began to create some tailored cultivation methods for each of them. Eleven years ter, he summoned them again and handed out the cultivation method to them. When the saints obtained the methods, their emotions became agitated.

  After Tianyi dismissed them, they couldn’t wait to return to their abodes and study the methods. After reading it, they marveled at the method. They could feel the shackles on their body loosening. Before, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t break the limit of the Transcending Mortality Realm. Now, it was different.

  Tianyi watched them leave. His eyes never left them and waited to see how they would enter the Immortal Realm. Although he was confident in his creation, he was not arrogant about his abilities.

  Another five years ter, a saint attempted to enter the Immortal Realm.

  In a hundred kilometers, the spiritual qi gathered toward a certain point. The commotion drew the attention of all those nearby.

  “What’s happening? Is a natural treasure of heaven and earth being born?”

  The onlookers didn’t question for long as bck thunderclouds gathered above.

  “It’s tribution clouds! Someone is undergoing a heavenly tribution!”

  “But who? Even a grandmaster’s tribution isn’t so grand.”

  “Do you think it could be the legendary Immortal Ascension Heavenly Tribution?”

  At this, the onlookers turned silent and stared at the gathering thunderclouds.

  Tianyi was also watching, but for a different reason. His Heavenly Dao self could easily judge most people’s strength in his universe. It would send a heavenly tribution that would push their limits, but not sentence them to death. As long as they did not have any accidents, they should be able to survive. Compared to the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System, it was very generous.

  Of course, this generosity would change as more immortals appeared.

  One by one, the tribution lightning fell. It seared and crashed into the saint, but he roared and resisted. Finally, after over a hundred bolts, the tribution ended. Spiritual qi of heaven and earth automatically transformed into true qi before transforming into immortal qi and entering the saint’s body.

  Just as it seemed that the saint would become a true immortal, his aura declined. He had an immortal body, but his soul was in the same state as an earth immortal. From Tianyi’s gaze, he could see that he had entered a state simir to someone who had failed their tribution. ‘Strange, he passed his tribution. Why did this happen? Was it because I deliberately weakened his tribution? Next time, I won’t do the same.”

  However, the next three saints who underwent their tribution failed. The st one failed because his heavenly tribution was too powerful and killed him. ‘It’s not the power of the heavenly tribution that is wrong. Is it the cultivation method? However, there shouldn’t be anything wrong.’

  Tianyi reversed the time and restored their soul’s state, but their souls would become injured again. Tianyi could only reverse their immortal body, returning them to the Transcending Immortality Realm. As the creator and ruler of the Nine Heavens Universe, it was simple for him to do this.

  Although Tianyi could save them, the rest of the saints became much more cautious. Tianyi even helped them and lent them transformation belts to let them experience the wonder of the worldly w first hand.

  Five hundred years ter, a saint successfully comprehended an entire w, and he underwent the Immortal Ascension Heavenly Tribution. However, he still failed despite his mastery of a worldly w.

  Tianyi had refined the cultivation method many times, but once he saw the failure, he couldn’t help but doubt himself. ‘Just what went wrong?’

  After some deliberation, he slowed the time on Sixth Heaven except for Cultivation Online and returned to the Primordial Realm. He was going to watch someone undergo the Immortal Ascension Heavenly Tribution in the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System.

  With the boost in strength of the Immortal Court, it became more and more common for true immortals to appear, and Tianyi successfully observed one. The new immortal wasn’t from the Immortal Court but a loose cultivator. However, the answer he found chilled him.

  D.C.Haenlien