Chapter 633: Choose One Out of Three
[Month 352: You are severely injured and discover that the power within you is difficult to heal as an inexplicable force suppresses you.]
[Month 353: Your injuries worsen.]
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[Month 387: Wars erupt across the Great Thousand World. However, while Zi Yan, Medusa, Ying Huanhuan, and Qing Yanjing are at the forefront of the Skylaw Continent, leading the defense of the Heavenly Court, you find yourself somewhat incapacitated by your injuries. Despite the years that have passed, not only has your strength not progressed, but your combat effectiveness has also been greatly reduced, making you unable to make a difference in high-level battles. Yet, during this time, you gain a clear understanding of your injuries and decide to embark on a solo mission to infiltrate the territories occupied by the Fiend Clans in the Great Thousand World.]
[Month 388: You charge into the territories of the Fiend Clans, crossing seventeen polluted continents, annihilating twenty-one Fiend Races, and executing thirty-two Demon Monarchs. You are then heavily besieged by the Fiend Clans.]
[Month 389: You continue to devour several continents, and your injuries finally heal. Your speculation is confirmed; devouring territories occupied by the Fiend Clans does not cause much rejection. You even use this opportunity to absorb the inexplicable force within you, and you perceive what is being nurtured within your body...]
[Month 390: You are ambushed by ten Sky Monarchs. After a bloody battle, you return to the Heavenly Court unscathed.]
[Month 408: You fight against the Heavenly Evil Monarch and die at the hands of the fully-powered Heavenly Evil Monarch. Before you die, you detonate the world power of the small world within your body, severely injuring the Heavenly Evil Monarch and simultaneously sending the Skylaw Continent to the outer realm.]
[Simulation ends—]
[Drawing items—]
[Available options: <Dimension Fetus> <Sovereign Celestial Body Cultivation Method: Myriad Spirit Floating World Body (guaranteed)> <Divine Ability: Wind Summoning Art>]
The simulation finally ended.
Xiao Ming fell into deep thought as he looked over the contents of the simulation. The simulation revealed an overwhelming amount of information.
He died at the hands of the Heavenly Evil Monarch in the 408th month, which was only 34 years. This meant that the Great Thousand World had only 34 years left.
Xiao Ming wasn't surprised by his death at the hands of the Heavenly Evil Monarch. After all, a fully-powered Heavenly Evil Monarch was truly terrifying. Without those unreasonable clones stubbornly cultivating five Primal Celestial Bodies to forcibly enter the Ranker Stage, no one could stand up to him.
Moreover, he had never come in contact with the Great Thousand World's Firmament Board during the entire simulation. The fact that he was still able to severely injure the Heavenly Evil Monarch was already quite impressive, or rather, quite powerful.
Xiao Ming even felt that, given enough simulation time, he might have been able to kill the Heavenly Evil Monarch without relying on the Great Thousand World's Firmament Board. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time.
'However, now that I have the simulator, 34 years should be enough.'
Gathering his thoughts, Xiao Ming began to consider the three options.
The first one was the Dimension Fetus. Its function hardly needed any explanation: It allowed one to advance to the Heavenly Sovereign Stage and control a plane. Although the Dimension Fetus produced by the simulator might only have the former function, it was still a valuable item. With some luck, one could even gain partial control over a plane.
The second option was the Sovereign Celestial Body he created in the simulator, the Myriad Spirit Floating World Body.
Only a true Sovereign could refine a Sovereign Celestial Body, thereby controlling heaven and earth and possessing the power to destroy and create with the wave of a hand.
In the Great Thousand World, the Sovereign Celestial Body served as the symbol of a Sovereign's existence, yet there were differences in ranks among them. As far as Xiao Ming knew, in the current world, the Sovereign Celestial Bodies were divided into ninety-nine ranks!
Each rank among these ninety-nine ranks of Sovereign Celestial Bodies was extremely formidable. Moreover, the methods for cultivating them were often the most closely guarded secrets of certain clans or powers. Only their core members were allowed to cultivate them.
Beyond these ninety-nine ranks of Sovereign Celestial Bodies, there were other Sovereign Bodies as well. However, these types seemed to be rather ordinary. Most of these were merely formed through the condensation of one's Spiritual Energy and lacked many special abilities, hence they did not qualify to be included in the ninety-nine ranks.
If one were to ask what was most attractive to a Sovereign powerhouse, it would likely be the cultivation methods of the Sovereign Celestial Bodies ranked within those ninety-nine ranks.
For such cultivation methods, some Sovereign powerhouses were willing to pledge themselves to some powerful clans and powers. One could imagine how much they valued these cultivation methods!
Even though the Myriad Spirit Floating World Body was ranked below the Primal Celestial Bodies, the latter were the most powerful in the world. They represented the power of the world itself! Moreover, if the Myriad Spirit' Floating World Body was further cultivated, the small world within it would actually possess the power of a world!
The fact that he was able to injure the Heavenly Evil Monarch with his world power meant that it was no ordinary small world power.
It was known that in the Great Thousand World, in order to control the power of the world, one had to leave one's name on the incarnation of the World Will, the Firmament Board.
However, his experience of cultivating this Celestial Body in the simulator was fraught with difficulties. It was as if the Great Thousand World itself was targeting him. He had good reason to believe that his lack of contact with the Firmament Board in the simulation was due to the cultivation of this Celestial Body.
'Let's choose the Myriad Spirit Floating World Body!'
Xiao Ming made his decision without even considering the third option. Being targeted by the Great Thousand World itself had already proven the potential of this Celestial Body.
A cluster of white light appeared in front of him as he sat down to decide. Within the light, a golden book with strange patterns was silently floating. These patterns gave off an extremely ancient and profound feeling, as if they contained the mysteries of the universe.
Xiao Ming reached out and the book fell into his hands.
He could feel a warm, smooth texture in his hand as he held the book, resembling gold yet not gold, like jade yet not jade. Subsequently, his soul brushed against it.
Buzz! Suddenly, rays of golden light erupted as Xiao Ming's soul touched the mysterious paper. The light formed a screen within which ancient texts seemed to slowly flow.
It was as if a grand and familiar voice echoed in his mind, bringing a sense of enlightenment to his bewildered heart as some obscure information flowed within.
"Myriad Spirit Floating World Body!"
Rumble! Above the sky of the Hundred Spirit Continent, countless dark clouds gathered like thunderbolts as violent thunder roared from the horizon. Lightning bolts, partly hidden and partly visible, sliced through the clouds resembling golden dragons as they released a terrifying pressure.
And at the center of it all was the Hundred Spirit Imperial City.
All the eyes within the Hundred Spirit Imperial City looked up, their expressions changing involuntarily.
Everyone could feel the extremely terrifying ferocity within the sea of lightning.
"Why is this happening?!!"
"This is bad. If this thunderstorm descends, no one in the Hundred Spirit Imperial City will survive!"
"Hurry, tell the Hundred Spirit King to ask the Palace Master of the Northern Profound Palace to intervene!"
As everyone panicked, the lightning above seemed unable to find its target and gradually faded until it disappeared completely, leaving everyone utterly confused.
Inside the inn.
Xiao Ming's consciousness had already awakened. He was now familiar with the cultivation of the Myriad Spirit Floating World Body.
It was indeed worthy of being a Celestial Body targeted by the Great Thousand World. It was absolutely terrifying!
The cultivation of such a Celestial Body had a prerequisite: one must be the master of a plane and comprehend the laws of a world's heaven and earth.
Then, one had to find an item with spirituality as the foundation and use the laws to carve out the prototype of a world within it.
This step could eliminate ninety-nine percent of the people in the Great Thousand World.
Moreover, this was only the foundation. In order to fully construct the Myriad Spirit Floating World Body, it required countless Heavenly Treasures with attributes and a continent to fill its interior before it could truly grow continuously.
One could imagine how many resources it would need to grow to a level comparable to the Primal Celestial Bodies.
No wonder the Great Thousand World targeted it; not being directly struck dead by lightning was already considered lenient by the World Will.
Of course, even though cultivating the Celestial Body required countless resources and carried the risk of being targeted, Xiao Ming had no intention of giving up.