Chapter 499: 499

Chapter 499 Choice

Where is this? On the other side of the towering mountain, Supremacy Qing Gu looked around the mountainside dazedly . Who am I? Why did I appear here? Supremacy Qing Gu forgot his cultivation and climbed the mountain dazedly .

Elsewhere .

Meng Chuan had a seventh-level Essence Soul after all . Furthermore, he cultivated the Essence Soul Star formulation; thus, he could maintain his lucidity .

This is an illusory world . Only an Essence Soul Tribulation Eminence can create an illusory world . Experts with eighth-level Essence Souls were known for creating ‘a world with a single thought . ’ It was the most basic technique .

This bearded man should be the owner of the cave abode . However, the owner of the cave abode… is probably already dead . This is just an illusory world he left behind before he died .

For example, Archean Mountain’s Heart Sea Palace contained an illusory world . Furthermore, it can exist for a long period of time . If the owner of the cave abode was still alive, he could have done anything to him . Meng Chuan had no way of resisting . “You should be able to guess . ” The bearded man sat cross-legged on the mountain peak . He looked at Meng Chuan from afar and smiled . “I’m already dead . Only a sliver of my will is left in this illusory world . ”

Meng Chuan bowed respectfully . “Greetings Senior, I’m Eastcalm . ” The accomplished came first in the path of cultivation .

An Essence Soul Tribulation Eminence was worthy of him bowing! Furthermore, it was the most basic thing one had to learn if they wanted to live a long life in the outer realm . They had to stay ‘respectful’ when facing experts in the outer realm .

“Eastcalm?” The bearded man smiled and nodded . “I’ve waited for over 30,000 years . My luck isn’t bad enough to have a human come . ”

Meng Chuan listened obediently .

“My name is Pang Ming . My hometown is a low-level world, Pang Ming Realm,” said the bearded man .

Pang Ming Realm? His homeworld is named after him?

“You didn’t guess wrongly . I had the highest cultivation realm in the Pang Ming Realm’s history . ” The bearded man nodded slightly . “It has been more than 600 million years since my homeworld was born . It’s considered a relatively young world that supports life… Eighty million years ago, my homeworld barely managed to create a path to the Imperial Lord realm . As for me, I’m the second Tribulation Eminence in my homeworld’s history . I cultivate both the Essence Soul and the physical body,” said the bearded man .

Meng Chuan was secretly astonished when he heard that .

Double cultivation?

“I ultimately stopped at the Fifth Tribulation realm . I failed to withstand the sixth Essence Soul Tribulation . ” The bearded man shook his head gently . “I originally wanted to reach the Sixth Tribulation realm in this life . I wanted to spend more time upgrading my homeworld to a middle-level world . Unfortunately, I was just one step short . Of course, this step is as difficult as ascending to the heavens! Perhaps my years of cultivation had been wrong from the beginning . The Fifth Tribulation realm was my limit . ”

Meng Chuan listened obediently . He understood what the other party meant . He had read Archean Mountain’s intelligence dossiers before . He knew that after reaching the Sixth Tribulation realm, one could raise a low-level world to a middle-level world if they paid a sufficient price .

Many low-level worlds had long histories—the younger worlds had over 100 million years of history . Some had billions of years of history . Although they had long histories, it was extremely difficult to upgrade a low-level world to a middle-level world .

In Heaven Peak River System, there were only over 600 middle-level worlds out of the 100,000 worlds that supported life .

“The Supremacy realm is the gradual perfection of the Grotto-Heaven realm,” said the bearded man softly . “The Imperial Lord realm is the gradual perfection of the worldly laws . One can raise their cultivation with the knowledge gleaned from clearly feeling the worldly laws… But at the Tribulation realm, it’s just groping about in the darkness . “What realm has one reached? Even the person in question isn’t sure . Has one cultivated rightly or wrongly? That’s unclear too . ” The bearded man looked at Meng Chuan . “Perhaps, there’s no right or wrong for a Tribulation Eminence’s cultivation . Maybe there’s only the difference between the strong and the weak . The stronger ones can survive the Heavenly Tribulations, while the weaker ones will die if they fail to transcend them . ”

Meng Chuan listened to the bearded man silently . Meng Chuan recalled that Eminence Fei Yu—the creator of the Essence Soul Star legacy that he discovered in his homeworld . Eminence Fei Yu had mentioned that he taught 12 disciples when he was alive . All of them learned the Essence Soul Star formulation, but all 12 went down different paths . Some had similar insights to Eminence Fei Yu, while others had completely different insights . The disciple with the highest accomplishments went down a completely opposite path to that of Eminence Fei Yu .

The bearded man said that Tribulation Eminences simply groped about in the darkness . There was no right or wrong during cultivation . There was only the difference in strength that separated them . It was indeed a reasonable statement . “The Sixth Essence Soul Tribulation arrived without any warning as usual,” said the bearded man . “I was still chatting with my good friend when this Heavenly Tribulation directly descended upon my body and struck my Essence Soul .

“After I failed my tribulation, I didn’t have time to escape back to my distant homeworld . All I could do was rush into the River of Spacetime and the nearest outer realm desert,” said the bearded man . “I only had time to make simple arrangements . ”

The bearded man stood up .

Meng Chuan turned solemn .

Whoosh .

The bearded man instantly appeared in front of Meng Chuan . Meng Chuan continued standing there, listening humbly .

Gulp! Gulp! Gulp!

The bearded man grabbed the calabash hanging from his waist and drank a few mouthfuls of alcohol . He smiled and said, “The taste of alcohol is truly wonderful . Unfortunately, I won’t be able to maintain this illusory world after activating it once . I won’t be able to continue drinking either . ”

Meng Chuan looked at him .

It was very difficult to maintain an illusory world for extended periods . For example, the Heart Sea Palace was a treasure that Ancestral Master Archean Eon had found .

“I have sent back many treasures I accumulated in my life to my homeworld . ” The bearded man looked at Meng Chuan . “However, I kept quite a number of treasures with me when I was out adventuring . I possessed three treasures that were most suitable for me . One is a Seventh Tribulation treasure, while another is a Sixth Tribulation treasure . I have over 3,000 cubes of Outer Realm Essence Crystals, a fully-grown Eight-Headed Star Swallowing Snake’s corpse, as well as a piece of flesh from a Seventh Tribulation Dark Peacock . There are also many other items that are much less valuable . ”

Meng Chuan was alarmed when he heard that . He knew that Ancestral Master Archean Eon had left behind many things for his descendants . However, considering how humanity continued developing in Archean Eon realm, there were very few treasures that could be taken out by Supremacies, Imperial Lords, and even Tribulation Eminences .

If Ancestral Master Archean Eon allowed any junior to take the treasures out as they pleased, his future descendants would have none remaining in no time .

Therefore, when Meng Chuan left the Archean Eon Realm, the most precious treasure he had on him was a Tribulation treasure-Bloodblade Disc . He was poorer than Fang Chang, who had been roaming the outer realm for many years . Of course, Meng Chuan had more life-preservation items than Fang Chang . The treasures carried by a Fifth Tribulation Eminence during his adventures in the outer realm . Meng Chuan was secretly excited . All of them are now in my hands?

“Since you breached my cave abode, I can’t give it to anyone else . ” The bearded man smiled at Meng Chuan . “But we don’t know each other, so I can’t give it to you for free . ”

“I understand . Senior, please state your conditions,” said Meng Chuan humbly .

The bearded man nodded slightly . “The conditions are very simple . Since you received my treasures, it means you owe me karma . This karma can only be resolved if you accept a Supremacy from my homeworld, Pang Ming Realm, as your disciple . Furthermore, you have to guide him until he becomes an Imperial Lord . You can’t have any intentions of harming him in this life . You have to treat him like how you treat a normal disciple . ”

“I have to recruit a Supremacy from Pang Ming Realm as my disciple?” Meng Chuan frowned . “Pang Ming Realm is a low-level world . How long does it take for a Supremacy to be born in the world?”

“My homeworld has quite a rich heritage . I estimate that it will take 1,000 years for a Supremacy to appear,” said the bearded man with a smile . “Therefore, it’s not difficult for you to find a Supremacy from Pang Ming Realm after you reach the Tribulation realm .

“By the way, Pang Ming Realm is in Ancient Magus River Zone’s Myriad Horn River System,” continued the bearded man . “The karma you owe doesn’t have much of an effect on you in the early stages . After you reach the Tribulation Realm, the greater your realm, the greater the influence karma will have on you . Therefore, you can take in the disciple after you reach the Tribulation Realm . ”

Meng Chuan listened carefully .

“If you don’t agree to my conditions, the treasures I hid in the space will instantly be obliterated . Some of the items inside will be shattered and destroyed . Some will be swept into chaotic spacetime turbulences and sent to various places in the River of Spacetime . You won’t be able to obtain anything,” said the bearded man .

“Furthermore, my illusory world will deliver its strongest attack before it’s destroyed . Your Essence Soul is at the seventh level . Furthermore, your Essence Soul seems to have cultivated a special formulation . Although I’ve been dead for 30,000, I have a 50% chance of destroying your Essence Soul by using a rare treasure . ”

Destroying all the treasures? He would even attack his Essence Soul?

Meng Chuan didn’t find the bearded man’s words strange . After all, he had breached the cave abode forcefully! Apart from giving him the treasures, this Tribulation Eminence could only have the two go their separate ways .

“Don’t be in a hurry to agree . ” The bearded man tipped his head and drank a few more mouthfuls of alcohol before leisurely saying, “Back then, I, Pang Ming, did some things to become stronger . I captured a Sixth Tribulation Eminence’s son and forced them to teach me powerful techniques . Two Sixth Tribulation Eminences are my mortal enemies . Therefore, even if you do obtain my treasures and weapons, you have to sell them secretly . Don’t get implicated because of me . ”

“Besides, it’s only been over 30,000 years since I died . I’m guessing that the two of them are still alive . One of them is called Chang Jue . My other mortal enemy is called Immortal Lan Ming,” said the bearded man with a smile . “Alright, I’ve told you everything that needs to be said . It’s your turn to choose .

“Do you choose to accept my treasures or not?” The bearded man looked at Meng Chuan . “You have 30 seconds to consider . After 30 seconds, my strongest strike will descend before this illusory world collapses . ”