This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder - Chapter 499

Normally, a true immortal should never travel in the Vast Void, as they were likely to run out of qi before reaching another realm, much less an injured immortal. Only immortal monarchs had the prerequisite power to traverse the void, though it was still dangerous. However, Tianyi did not have that problem. His connection to the Nine Heavens Universe supplied him with an infinite amount of qi, and his mastery over spacetime increased his travel speed dramatically.

Tianyi’s body flew toward the boundary of the unranked realm and slipped through without causing a ripple. Upon entering the Vast Void, he stilled.

He originally thought it was a misconception and because he was in an unranked realm. Now that he entered the Vast Void, he was sure that his senses did not deceive him. The restriction on his Nine Heavens Universe had weakened and the Vast Void was not as stable as the prime timeline.

Although the Vast Void is said to contain nothing, it is still much more habitable than the True Nothingness beyond the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. Naturally, something must keep the system stable for it to be habitable. And that something was the Heavenly Dao. For the Vast Void to be less stable compared to the prime timeline, then it meant that the Heavenly Dao had weakened.

This was a manifestation of the weakening timeline. Once too many timelines split off, the Heavenly Dao would have to spread itself out thin. The more timelines, the faster the weakening. When the Heavenly Dao lost its power in the split timeline, then the timeline would disappear, pruned. The energy used to maintain and support it would be fed back into the prime and other timelines.

Tianyi knew that timelines would eventually be pruned, but not the process. Now he knew. He didn’t expect that he would be able to exert more power in the split timelines than in the prime timeline.

Now, he needed to find out whether the worldly laws would be easier to comprehend in the split timeline. The waning Heavenly Dao didn’t just mean that the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System would be weakening, but also that the worldly laws would become incomplete. After all, the Heavenly Dao was, in essence, the source of all worldly laws.

He shook his head. Right now, it wasn’t the time to ponder, but to investigate. Tianyi’s target was naturally the Primordial Realm. Only by entering the realm he was most familiar with could he learn how advanced the timeline was.

Tianyi didn’t find the Primordial Realm. Or rather, he found its predecessor. It was only natural. After all, he was the one who transformed the Huang Realm into the Primordial Realm, and reincarnators like himself did not appear in split timelines.

When he entered the Huang Realm, no one noticed. After visiting various locations in the Heaven Continent, Tianyi couldn’t help but sigh. The world with Xiyi talismans and one without was as different as heaven and earth.

Thanks to the ease of dissemination of information, a good deal of knowledge that was hard to learn became common. Of course, cultivation methods and secret techniques were strictly kept confidential, but non-unique knowledge was no longer restricted by the upper class. Without restricting the spread of knowledge, society advanced by leaps and bounds.

It hadn’t advanced to the extent of the modern era, and it may never reach that point. Part of the reason people on Earth advanced to such a state was because of their powerful souls. Anyone born on Earth that reincarnated into the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System would be a genius at comprehending the myriad laws.

Society changed, and the only thing the upper class could use to restrict the common people was resources. The friction between the common people and the rulers was a conflict that would never cease. When the common people overthrew the rulers, they would become the new rulers and a new common people would be born.

This only applied to mortal countries. For the greater cultivation world, strength still reigned supreme. Reason and logic meant little if one had absolute power.

Tianyi only spent a few days in the mortal world. After the novelty wore off, he moved toward the Buzhou Immortal Sect. Once he reached the Mortal Severance Gate, he immediately noticed something amiss.

Although the Buzhou Immortal Sect seemed full of holes and immortals could sneak in everywhere, there was actually an undetectable guardian formation protecting it. The only entrance was the Mortal Severance Gate. If invaders tried to sneak in, they would find themselves lost and eventually moving away from the sect. If they instead tried to brute force their way in, the guardian formation will change from passive to active and attack.

But now, Tianyi could sense that something crucial was missing. That was not to say the formation didn’t work. It absolutely did and could repel immortal emperors, but sovereigns? At most lasting tens of attacks. Tens of attacks sounded a lot, but it was not long in a battle between immortals.

He could already guess what was missing. The Immortal Court and the Immortal Court Spirit should have already disappeared from this world.

Tianyi paused at this. Shouldn’t the Saintly Scholar School have replaced the Cultivator Alliance on the Mortal Continent by now? And what did they mean disappear”? How could an entire continent just disappear?

He paused as a name flashed in his mind. Confucius, the founder of the Saintly Scholar School.

Tianyi spread his senses and sucked in a cold breath. He had thought the Huang Realm was smaller than he remembered, but he chalked it up to himself remembering wrong. Now that he specifically sensed it, a third of the Huang Realm had disappeared, along with the Mortal Continent!

The most terrifying part was that there was no damage to the Huang Realm at all. Everything still functioned perfectly, as if a third of the Huang Realm had always never existed. Splitting a realm, even if done with care, would result in aftereffects.

Even Tianyi could not claim to have a such an ability, even if he had ten thousand years to devote solely to it

When Confucius split the Mortal Continent and formed the Virtuous Realm in the prime timeline, did he actually also absorb chunks of the Huang Realm from other timelines? This feat far exceeded Tianyi’s ability to travel to other timelines. It even exceeded a divinity’s ability.

Of course, this was just a hypothesis at this time. He would have to visit other timelines to see if the Huang Realm had also shrunk.

Just who was Confucius? Was he a divinity that mastered the Law of Time or the Law of Spacetime? A survivor of the primordial era?

Tianyi originally thought that the Primordial Realm was the strongest of the three immortal-rank realms, but it seemed he severely miscalculated. No, he had to tell the Immortal Court Spirit.

His conduit in the prime timeline’s Primordial Realm entered the Broken Heaven Valley. Moments later, Tianyi had a strange expression on his face.

The Immortal Court Spirit only told him that he didn’t need to worry about it. It seemed that the court spirit already knew.

Tianyi wanted to ask more questions, but since the Immortal Court Spirit didn’t want to tell him, he could only stop. It made him wonder just what trump cards the Immortal Court had to be so unfazed. More importantly, just how deep the waters went.

Before he could think for too long, the team’s conversation broke him out of his thoughts.

“Alright, enough!” the leader, a unity venerable, admonished. “We’re here to seal Jade Peak off and take away Jade Peak Palace. Don’t slack off or you’ll make Elder Nine Thunders displeased.”

Upon mentioning Elder Nine Thunders, all the cultivators showed excited expressions. It was full of respect and yearning.

“Elder Nine Thunders is amazing, a role model for us all. Although both he and that Xi Longtian are known as the twin stars of the Buzhou Immortal Sect, that Xi Longtian is too despicable!” a soul nourishing grandmaster said with gritted teeth.

Another cultivator agreed. “Yeah! Both of them became true immortals after a few hundred years of cultivation. I don’t know about that Xi Longtian, but I heard Elder Nine Thunders has already reached the peak of the Seamless Immortal Realm!”

‘Nine Thunders? It sounds close to my title of Nine Heavens.’ Tianyi thought. He didn’t have any dissatisfaction toward this Elder Nine Thunders. After all, he knew how powerful the Dragon Emperor’s aggro skill was. ‘I wonder who he is.’