Deciding to ignore useless thoughts, as he would know the answer once it started, Alexander's clone soon noticed multiple beasts rushing in a specific direction.

Making his clone move like a puppet gave Alexander a good laugh, seeing a weird, funny clone of himself beat up beasts, a clear contrast between seriousness and comedy.

You have killed a [Greater Green Feather Ghy] !

Experience gained : +174 Level up ! You have broken through to the first condensation of the Saint Embryonic Realm ! Experience needed to level up : 171 / 182

Such notifications kept ringing again and again as Alexander's ridiculous clone butchered all of them.

Slaying the last beast, Alexander looked at his shortened status screen, not bothering with details.

Name : Player Age : 0 Cultivation : Saint King Realm (Second layer) Cultivation Art : Ascension Chasing Art (Copy) HP : 100% DAN : 64% STR : 6 030 (Mountains) DIVINE SENSE (Radius) : 10 000 meters

Recovering his depleted Qi, Alexander was curious of what would happen when breaking through the Saint Emperor Realm, would the system regress him to an Inferior Emperor, or follow the normal path and turn him into a Supreme Emperor.

'Let's test this out ! It's gonna be quite easy, maybe I'll change the leveling system a bit...'

Once done with replenishing his Saint Core, Alexander flew into the distance, ready to slaughter some more beasts.

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'Alright, let's see then !' Tearing the Dao Heart from a giant tiger beast, ending it's life, Alexander looked at the pop up.

You have killed a [Giant Greadit Tiger] !

Experience gained : +183 Level up ! You have broken through to the Saint Emperor Realm ! Experience needed to level up : 87 / 212

'Sure, but that still doesn't tell me what I want ! [Status] !'

Looking over his status he soon read something quite strange.

'So I am a... 'Saint Emperor Realm (Inferior Emperor)'... I somewhat expected it, but it's just so dumb I can't fathom why it happened... I even checked the clone's Saint Core myself, it had all 108 Supreme Crystal Saint Marks on it... so why did the system bother throwing everything away, to just forcefully increase the cultivation base to... like come on !'

Sigh

'Man... if Saint King Realm and Saint Emperor Realm cultivators heard of this, they would all cry in denial. I would've as well back then !'

Alexander could not help feel his past self suffer as the system forcefully crippled the clone's cultivation base just to recover everything after, but worse. Since technically, a peak Saint King Realm expert would be promoted to the Saint Emperor Realm as a Supreme Emperor right off the bat.

This was almost a sin to the Martial Dao and martial heart.

'This is just bad taste at this point...'

Shaking his head, Alexander decided to change world, flying higher and higher, soon crossing the world's bondary.

Now in space, he immediately darted ahead, soon arriving below a Tier-6 World.

'Before seeing how this clone will ascend, let's cause a little ruckus.' Floating down, Alexander landed on a bustling road, right in the middle of an enormous city spanning dozens of millions of kilometers into the distance.

Being right in the middle, Alexander not only caught the attention of others, but also was in a perfect spot for causing trouble.

Jinggle~

Entering a random shop, his clone's weird movements immediately caught the shop keeper's focus.

What this shop keeper did not expect, was Alexander's clone breaking everything, crouching and getting back up multiple times while also running everywhere.

You have broken [Ordinary Bottle] ! Reputation -1 !

Such pop ups spammed Alexander's field of vision, but he did not seem to care.

Once he estimated his reputation to be negative a hundred, he payed close attention to his clone.

'I see !' Noticing the clone oozing out a berserk aura of malice, Alexander understood how reputation would work.

'So it uses my Demonic Dao and Wrath Dao along some others, so that random people will get mad at me out of reflex.'

Exiting the store, Alexander saw the bustling roads turn silent, as all passersby immediately got into a fighting stance, releasing their auras, artifacts and other means, their hatred and malicious intentions clearly directed at him.

'Time to level up !' Releasing his clone's Saint Emperor Realm [Qi Pressure], causing most to kneel, he immediately ignored the strongest ones, attacking the already kneeling, free targets.

'I won't bother with the Supreme Emperors and Divine Realm ones for now, even with my superior battle experience and reaction time, the clone won't follow through, especially with such an insane difference in cultivation base.'

Alexander was not new to this Universe, having lived in it for over 25 millions years, so he of course knew how tough it truly was to bridge a difference in cultivation, this was no novel, story or fantasy, it was real. Here, everyone was talented, let alone the Saint King Realm and above, where talent and potential were increased dramatically. Since all had similar talents, using fairness to win was near impossible.

Controlling his clone from a third person perspective was very entertaining for Alexander, watching leasurely as his clone followed his commands, crushing, impaling or even slicing citizens of this city with his bear hands.

Already expecting it, Alexander received many different notifications, be it from killing, reputation, experience gained or even level-ups.

Once he killed 20 of them, Alexander managed to break through the Divine Realm, not only a major increase in strength, but also an absurd upgrade to his defense, promoting his physical body to the Divine-Tier. This only doomed his opponents even more, as even managing to hit him would not cause much damage under the Divine Realm. Of course, making things easier for Alexander meant an even faster increase in cultivation, this time targetting the Supreme Emperors and some low stage Divine Realm experts, ending their lives in a bloodbath.

'My reputation has gone thousands in the negative... What a great reputation ! I'm so popular, I might blush !' Joking inside while ripping the head of a peak Divine Realm expert, before throwing it at a random Saint Emperor Realm one, killing him in the process, Alexander appeared to the maddened citizens as the plague.

Looking below, he saw his clone standing on a one hundred meters tall mountain of corpses, rivers of blood flowing freely, submerging the streets.

'I've been at it for a few hours now... this is getting boring. [Status] !'

Name : Player Age : 0 Cultivation : Divine Realm (Peak Stage) [+] Cultivation Art : Ascension Chasing Art (Copy) HP : 55% VIT : 99 999 999 999 DAN : 13% QI : 99 999 999 999 STR : 99 999 (Mountains) DEF : 500 000 000 000 AGI : 99 999 999 999 ENERGY TYPE : Qi / True Qi Mood : Doesn't have any ? Well if he did, it would be a weird one ! DIVINE SENSE (Radius) : 15 Stars

Title(s) :

[Are you even alive ?]

[Clone]

[Overlord's Clone]

[Player]

[Slaughterer]

[King of the Hill]

[Bloody Disaster]

[Just why ?]

[Unreasonable]

[Demon]

[Butcher of Valisdiz]

[Golden Deity] >>> [Immortal] >>> [Saint] >>> [Great Deity]

Skill(s) :

[Qi Pressure] (lvl : 18)

[Qi Overload] (lvl : 18)

[Blazing Palm] (lvl : MAX)

[Yin-Yang Union] (lvl : MAX)

[The Great Yin And Yang Palm] (lvl : MAX)

[27 Heavenly Steps] (lvl : MAX)

[Wrath State] (lvl : MAX)

[Earthly Judgement] (lvl : MAX)

[Grasping The Nine Heavens] (lvl : 2)

[Bloodline Curse] (lvl : MAX)

[Heavenly Bloodline Judgement] (lvl : 4)

[Dao Blast] (lvl : MAX)

[Heaven's Fall] (lvl : MAX)

[Soul Shattering Finger] (lvl : MAX)

[Death Aura] (lvl : 3)

[Great Palm] (lvl : MAX)

'Some of my martial arts either upgraded or completely appeared. I suppose this comes from not only the increase in strength, but also race and energy type. The [Great Palm] needs to True Qi to function, compared to others who have other requirements...'

'Though my Death Aura reaching level 3 should be the equivalent of Tier-3, which is...' Looking around, Alexander estimated his massacre to have taken over 20 thousand lives.

'...understandable !'

Alexander knew that the third tier required ten thousand kills, which he did not thought he had caused... at first.

'Time sure flies by ! But what's with that plus thing next to the cultivation base... Is that why I stopped feeling an increase in strength at some point ?'

Pressing the '[+]' sign he saw, Alexander felt his clone's Dao of Space circulate, immediately teleporting him again and again until he reached the barrier seperating the Upper Realms from the Main Realms.

Ding~ !

You have accepted the quest ! Quest : Surpass your limits ! Challenge your accomplishments and ascend to the [Main Realms] !

Requirements :

>>>Break the Upper Realm's bondaries and survive the [Main Grand Bondary Tribulation] !

>>>Do not die or become crippled !

>>>Endure the entire [Main Grand Bondary Tribulation] by yourself !

>>>Ascend to the [Main Realms] !

Rewards :

>>>Free increase in level !

>>>All accumulated experience will be assimilated !

>>>Reach a higher Martial Dao !

Failure Penalty :

>>>Death.

Staring at the window of light, Alexander then looked above, at the colorful transluscent barrier.

Sigh

Done with recovery, he sighed, ordering his clone to send a [Great Palm] filled to the brim with True Qi to clash with the barrier, immediately cracking it.

*Crack~ !*

*Rumble !*

Watching the bondary shatter, he saw ominous clouds gather above, immediately striking the clone with blue and purple lightning, aware of the clone's identity.

Without a care in the world, Alexander struck each lightning bolt with a [Great Palm], not forgetting to make use of his now Tier-3 Death Aura to ever so slitghly slow the lightning down, giving him a small but significant advantage.

Waving his Dao of Time and Dao of Space, the clone waved it's arms, causing ripples on the fabric of space along the flow of time slowing down above.

'The Heavenly Way may be strong, but something meant for Divine Realm cultivators can't handle my current Daos, even while suppressed.'

*BOOOOM !*

*BOOOOM !*

*BOOOOM !*

Strike after strike of powerful lightning, Alexander easily dealt with each, barely sustaining any damage.

'The status screen say I'm at '80% HP', so I guess that's good.'

Done with the 'life-threatening' trial, he simply walked past the cracked barrier, entering the Main Realms.

Immediately, he felt his clone's cultivation base soar along many pop-up screens.

'Let's see... [Status] !'

Name : Player Age : 0 Cultivation : Perfected Divine Dao Union Realm (5th Stage) [+] Cultivation Art : Ascension Chasing Art (Copy) HP : 80% VIT : 99 999 999 999 999 999 DAN : 88% Qi : 99 999 999 999 999 999 STR : 99 999 (True Mountains) DEF : 500 000 000 000 AGI : 99 999 999 999 999 999 ENERGY TYPE : Qi / True Qi / Emperor Qi Mood : '...' DIVINE SENSE (Radius) : 18 000 000 Galaxies Title(s) :

[Are you even alive ?]

[Clone]

[Overlord's Clone]

[Player]

[Slaughterer]

[King of the Hill]

[Bloody Disaster]

[Just why ?]

[Unreasonable]

[Demon]

[Butcher of Valisdiz]

[Great Deity] >>> [Grand Deity] >>> [Dao Immortal]

[I wish I had that kind of cultivation speed...]

[System's nightmare]

[Overachiever]

[Speedrunner] Skill(s) :

[Qi Pressure] (lvl : 24)

[Qi Overload] (lvl : 24)

[Blazing Palm] (lvl : MAX)

[Yin-Yang Union] (lvl : MAX)

[The Great Yin And Yang Palm] (lvl : MAX)

[27 Heavenly Steps] (lvl : MAX)

[Wrath State] (lvl : MAX)

[Earthly Judgement] (lvl : MAX)

[Grasping The Nine Heavens] (lvl : 3)

[Bloodline Curse] (lvl : MAX)

[Heavenly Bloodline Judgement] (lvl : 6)

[Dao Blast] (lvl : MAX)

[Heaven's Fall] (lvl : MAX)

[Soul Shattering Finger] (lvl : MAX)

[Death Aura] (lvl : 3)

[Great Palm] (lvl : MAX)

[Domain] (lvl : 1)

[Silent World] (lvl : MAX)

[Emperor's Palm Strike] (lvl : MAX)

'...'

'......'

'Yeah... I should've expected that... With how easy it was to level up, killing over 20 thousand cultivators above the Saint Realm was a bit much...'

Staring at the screen of light, Alexander was not sure how to feel.