Chapter 366: Event Horizon
The moment he upgraded the battle simulation function, he detected thousands of cultivators.
More importantly, he found eight earth immortal realm cultivators.
Xiang Yu instantly panicked. Eight immortal realm cultivators? He still hadn’t reached immortal grade formation making.
It was only when he received information about the function upgrade that he calmed down.
After the upgrade, the detection range of the simulation function had expanded to match his divine sense. Currently, his divine sense had a range of over four million miles, which meant he could easily cover the entire mortal world.
For the detection to work, he didn’t have to extend his divine sense actively. The detection range simply matched that of his divine sense, which was why he could detect them even without having to extend his divine sense across the world.
Even so, Xiang Yu was still a little nervous.
Even though these immortals were probably in the Central Continent according to his guess, they were still a threat to him. They had defeated Tianling, and it was safe for the immortals to assume that they had stolen the immortal treasure she possessed, which was from the Central Continent.
He sighed. If he really had stolen it, maybe he wouldn’t be so worried. Too bad it had been destroyed together with her.
As he was thinking this, he suddenly thought that maybe it wasn’t bad that they thought this way. The Central Continent didn’t know if he had the treasure or not. Since they were already wary of Tianling because of the treasure, then what about those who could defeat her while she had the treasure and now possessed it? Wouldn’t they be even more wary of them?
He nodded his head. He didn’t need to worry about them for the moment. He just needed to quickly make the immortal grade formation, and he could finally feel safe.
He looked around. The renovation process of the cave was still ongoing. Since there was no more cave and he could see the sky, he observed the rising sun. It was time to start preparing. He wondered if he should do a few simulations first to test out his strength. It wouldn’t take that long anyway.
He opened up his system screen to see the changes before entering the simulation:
[Realm: Body: 33rd Layer (5000/33,000); Spirit: Golden Core 1st Layer (120,000/1,100,000); Mind: Level 10; Soul: Infant (50,000/1,000,000)]
He was taken aback by the spirit cultivation. He was actually still in the Golden Core realm? But he had already formed a soul and transferred his core to the spiritual sea. He wondered if it was because his soul was still an infant.
He shook his head, his cultivation path was so messed up, he wondered if the new physique was maybe conflicting. Maybe he really should begin researching his own cultivation path.
Aside from that, his body refining had actually increased by two realms, as expected of the body he had made.
He was also surprised by the increase in soul exp.
Well, he guessed it was probably because of the two stars constantly gathering all the qi from the spiritual sea and growing endlessly, all while endlessly refining this qi into true qi.
The process was much faster than even the newly upgraded spirit vein. At this rate, he would probably be done in a week or less. This was mainly because as the stars grew, they became more and more efficient, and this continued exponentially.
Another added benefit was that after entering the golden core realm, his already nascent soul level qi quality had improved to the level just a step away from true qi. True qi relied on quality as well as being bathed in soul energy. Now he was complete in the quality aspect, he just needed to bathe it in a little soul energy.
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After entering the simulation, he was about to pick Tianling before he remembered that she was dead and couldn’t be simulated anymore.
He decided to go with Li Yao instead.
When he picked her, he was surprised that now he could actually pick a form of Li Yao, not just cultivation level.
"Finally," he thought. It seemed the system was listening to him.
This must have been made specifically for her, who else has forms? He began before he paused. "Ahem," he cleared his throat and selected the heavenly dao avatar above complete Li Yao. He wondered if this was the name of the form she had used earlier.
He readied himself for battle, but it never came.
Li Yao just floated in the air without doing anything. Xiang Yu facepalmed. "Ahh, it seems she can’t see me here as well," he thought. He canceled the simulation and decided to pick someone else instead.
With his now expanded detection range, he had quite a few to pick from.
He selected a peak tribulation master, Tian Wuji.
This time, the battle began, and it wasn’t pretty.
Xiang Yu’s body was instantly blown apart before he instantly regenerated and teleported away. But even with this, he still couldn’t escape as Tian Wuji appeared directly behind him and used some strange ability to freeze space around him.
Xiang Yu activated his void domain, instantly freeing himself from the frozen space. But as he was trying to escape, Wuji was already before him and stretched out his palm that had extremely dense energy. Xiang Yu gritted his teeth and also produced extremely dense energy within his palm, extending it to meet the opponent’s.
"Event Horizon..."
Suddenly, the entire world turned white.
Xiang Yu opened his eyes in the real world.
"I lost, huh," he thought. Just like his void domain, his gravity domain was also world level, yet he still lost. He sighed. He then scratched his cheek. "Umm, let’s lower the difficulty a little," he thought.
After lowering the difficulty to late stage, it was much more manageable.
Even so, it was still difficult to win and he found himself mostly running around. Even when he used his war god form and combined all his domains, he wasn’t getting much ground. From the stats, he knew Tian Wuji had a time domain of the level Absolute.
It was similar to the domain used by Tianling in terms of power. The difference in power was too huge, to the point of making his normal level domains completely useless. Only his two World level domains could even compete.
After failing this round, he lowered the difficulty again to mid tribulation.
In the mid stage, he could finally fight on equal footing and even manage to get an edge against him. This was mostly because his domain was now at the world level instead of absolute.
After he won, he thought to himself that he needed to upgrade his domains. In the higher realms, domains meant everything. Just a single absolute domain could render his twenty normal domains completely useless.
He restarted the simulation. This time he lowered the difficulty even more to early stage tribulation. He wanted to test if his pure physical strength had broken through to the tribulation realm.