Chapter 537

Chapter 537: It’s Time to Let Them Return

In the Huayang secret realm, a woman was hiding her figure, glancing sideways at the front. She didn’t even dare to look directly, fearing it would alert the other party.

In front of her was a beast tribe creature at the initial stage of Integration.

The woman did not know the creature’s name, but it was very large.

This woman was Yun Lan, who had cultivated from low-level spirit roots to the Great Perfection of the Divine Transformation stage.

According to the game rules, by defeating a beast tribe creature of a higher level, she could earn extraordinary game rewards.

After reaching the Great Perfection of the Divine Transformation stage, Yun Lan felt that her cultivation bottleneck had become stable, so she needed better resources to break through the bottleneck.

Soon, the beast approached Yun Lan’s position.

In the next moment,

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two indistinguishable beams of light flashed past.

The next instant, two long arrows pierced deeply into the beast’s eyes, even reaching its tail feathers.

Roar! The beast, struck so suddenly, went mad.

With its eyes blinded, it immediately began to scan using its divine sense.

However, the woman had long anticipated this. A jade tablet on her person began to shine with true essence.

Within a three-meter radius of the jade pendant, a protective shield formed, appearing like an eggshell. The beast’s divine sense scanned the shield but found no living beings inside.

Roar!

Realizing its divine sense couldn’t locate the enemy, the beast expressed fear. In the next moment, it tried to escape.

But in an instant, countless attacks descended upon it.

A few minutes later, the enormous beast fell to the ground unwillingly.

Once the beast collapsed, Yun Lan’s game inbox soon showed a game reward.

After receiving the reward, Yun Lan nodded in satisfaction and quickly approached the beast’s body.

Before long, she extracted a massive beast core.

Though she didn’t know what the beast core was useful for, it didn’t take up much space, so she collected many, most of which were from beast tribe creatures above the Nascent Soul stage.

After storing the beast core, Yun Lan swiftly left the scene.

Not long after, she appeared in a valley.

Upon entering the valley, she activated a formation.

The formation was one from the Divine Transformation stage, which she had obtained after defeating a Divine Transformation stage beast.

After activating the formation, Yun Lan made her way to the valley’s bottom, where there was a deep cave that she had transformed into a dwelling.

Entering the dwelling, she sat cross-legged on a cushion and finally opened the game mail.

As soon as the mail opened, within a second, a spatial passage appeared. The next second, a box, neither metal nor iron, appeared before Yun Lan’s eyes.

Receiving the box, the spatial passage vanished.

Opening the box, Yun Lan discovered a fist-sized, pure white Essence of Origin inside.

"Such a large piece?"

Yun Lan was taken aback.

Though she had obtained this Essence of Origin before, it had always been just a wisp, sealed within a special elixir.

Now, with this large piece of Essence of Origin, it was her first time acquiring such a quantity.

So much Essence of Origin would be enough for her to cultivate for many years, right?

"Just in time, I can use it to break through my bottleneck. Even if I fail, with so much Essence of Origin, I can try two, three, or even more times."

After obtaining such a substantial Essence of Origin, Yun Lan had no more reservations, and she began to push through her bottleneck.

Days later, Yun Lan spat out a mouthful of blood.

It was clear that she had failed in her attempt to break through.

Quickly taking out some healing elixirs and Essence of Origin, Yun Lan started to heal her injuries.

Days later, her wounds stabilized.

Three months later, her cultivation level reached the Great Perfection of the Divine Transformation stage again.

Once fully recovered, Yun Lan continued to attempt breaking through her bottleneck.

Days later, Yun Lan once again spat out blood.

She had failed to break through yet again.

However, Yun Lan was not discouraged. Months later, she tried again, only to fail once more.

In the following years, Yun Lan continued to challenge her bottleneck. On her tenth attempt, an overwhelming divine sense pressure suddenly spread out.

After many failures, Yun Lan finally broke through to the Integration stage.

When Yun Lan broke through, not far away, Li Xiaojun was also observing her.

Seeing that Yun Lan finally reached the Integration stage, Li Xiaojun smiled.

Although Yun Lan’s spirit root talent was lacking, her comprehension was remarkably high, even surpassing that of Li Xiaojun’s daughter, Yan Qingling.

So for someone like her, if she ascended and lived long enough in the Immortal Realm, her breakthrough to the Golden Immortal Realm was nearly guaranteed.

Upon reaching the Immortal Realm, the spirit roots of the mortal world no longer held any effect. The ascension tribulation would reshape their spirit roots into Immortal spirit roots. Even their physical bodies would turn into spirit bodies.

Thus, after ascending, most people’s spirit roots would be the same, all being Immortal spirit roots.

The following developments would depend on individual comprehension.

Those with high comprehension could easily understand the laws and thus have a long-lasting journey.

Those with poor comprehension would need to spend most of their time grasping the laws, making it immensely difficult to elevate their cultivation level.

Therefore, in this survival game, the person Li Xiaojun particularly favored was Yun Lan.

No matter what, he was determined to help her become an Immortal, to honor his over one hundred years of mentorship.

…

On Huayang Star,

After more than a hundred years of development, Huayang Star had become a planet where technology and cultivation were equally advanced.

Unfortunately, after over a hundred years, most cultivators on Huayang Star had only reached the Foundation Establishment level, with just a few attaining the Golden Core or even Nascent Soul stage.

Additionally, the technological advancement on Huayang Star had stagnated due to the emergence of spiritual energy and cultivation techniques.

This led to cultivators being too low in level to venture into outer space, and technology had not progressed to the point of being able to colonize Mars. Therefore, for over a hundred years, humans on Mars had not been discovered by people on Huayang Star.

The inhabitants of Mars were, of course, the failures of the ocean survival trials.

However, although they were failures, some of them had only failed later on, so their cultivation levels were generally quite high.

For example, on Mars associated with Huayang Star, there were three Transformation stage cultivators and over fifty at the Nascent Soul stage, with countless others at the Golden Core and Foundation Establishment stages.

However, everyone was protected by formations, which also acted as a form of confinement, meaning that even if there were Transformation stage cultivators, they couldn’t leave Mars to return to Huayang Star.

Without the formations, several Transformation stage cultivators would have returned to Huayang Star long ago.

So the current situation was that the people on Mars knew they were not far from Huayang Star,

while the people on Huayang Star were unaware that others still existed on Mars.

One day, a meteor streaked across the atmosphere of Huayang Star, but there were no sparks.

Upon closer inspection, one would realize that it was a creature resembling a feline.

As the feline-like creature appeared in the atmosphere, a formation that enveloped the entire planet flickered slightly but did not impede its arrival.

In the Huayang secret realm, Li Xiaojun received a message from his avatar.

The avatar informed him that an Integration stage beast had arrived at Huayang Star, asking whether he wanted to intervene.

Sensing the message from the avatar, Li Xiaojun thought for a moment and then commanded the avatar that as long as this beast did not cause a slaughter resulting in over a thousand deaths on Huayang Star, there was no need to intervene.

The people on Huayang Star had been under his protection for over a hundred years; it was time for them to encounter the true beast tribe.

Additionally, those who had trained in the secret realms for over a hundred years should be allowed to return to fend off the beast tribe’s invasion on their own.