Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 918: Chapter 565: Finally Entering _2

“Who are you calling trash!”

“I said me, got a problem with that?”

“…”

“Ah, the Sky-reaching Tower, Sky-reaching Tower, you need connections and power to ascend to the heavens in a single step. For nobodies like us with no backing or resources, it’s already not bad to become a little lord and safely scrape by for food and shelter.”

“Exactly, aren’t there plenty of new lords every year? How many of them manage to rank up? The vast majority end up working for others, selling their lives, waiting for death. Advance, with no talent, no resources, what do you use to advance? Unless you have some freakish luck, otherwise, just wait for the next life to be born into a better situation.”

“Hey, isn’t that Lin Yue up ahead?”

“And there’s Zhang Meng, the two campus beauties of our batch, my goddesses!”

“Then may I boldly ask, who is that handsome guy up ahead, laughing and chatting with your goddesses?”

“Wang Long, damn it, it’s that guy again, so annoying, he’s scooped up the two big campus beauties of our batch in no time.”

“What can you do, he’s rich and powerful, excels in his studies, and looks good, naturally he can win the ladies’ favor.”

“Tsk, if I had a high-order lord for a dad, I could do well in studies and be good-looking too!”

“I heard that Wang Long’s dad is a fourth-rank lord, the filthy rich kind, who prepared a newbie gift pack for him early on, complete with troop equipment, and even a first-rank hero…”

“No way, even a hero, that generous?”

“What can you do when his dad is a fourth-rank lord…”

“Fourth-rank lord, so what? Nothing impressive. Once I enter the Sky-reaching Tower, I’ll for sure advance to the fourth level, no, the fifth…”

The crowd was abuzz with chatter, but a few remained silent and patiently waited.

Xu Yang stood among them, calm and undisturbed, his mind in disarray.

He had arrived!

He had finally made it!

After spending a hundred years and encountering countless failures, he had managed to “smuggle” himself over when his primordial spirit was greatly damaged.

The hardships he endured were unimaginable, and only because his will was extremely firm, and he was very curious about the Black Water World did he not give up earlier.

Fortunately, heaven favors the diligent, and he finally returned to this… Black Water World?

He couldn’t be sure.

Because the situation in this world was a bit different from what he had imagined.

“Number 96820—Xu Yang!”

At the end of the line, a call for his number interrupted his thoughts.

“Here!”

Xu Yang’s eyes focused as he stepped forward and handed his identification documents to the instructor at the door.

The instructor checked the documents and nodded, “Go ahead, good luck!”

Xu Yang nodded and quickly walked towards the towering building in front.

The tower was made of stone and appeared extremely rough on the outside, but as soon as he entered, the scene changed instantly, and he found himself in an unknown space amid a magnificent and mysterious flash of light.

“Newcomer entering!”

“Identity being generated!”

“Attribute panel opening!”

Name: Xu Yang (492784370001)

Race: Human

Level: 1 (First-Order Lord)

Strength: 5

Agility: 5

Intelligence: 5

Charm: 5

Reputation: 0

Basic Skills: First-Order Strong Body LV1, First-Order Strong Strike LV1, First-Order Strong Bow LV1, First-Order Martial Arts LV1, First-Order Riding Skill LV1, First-Order Logistics LV1, First-Order Command LV1.

Weapon Skills: One-handed Weapon (Proficient), Bow and Arrow Weapon (Proficient), Long Pole Weapon (Proficient)

Territory World: Not opened

…

“Finally, it has opened!”

“Attribute panel!”

“Lord World!”

Feeling the “attribute panel” with all sorts of data and information presented within his sea of consciousness, Xu Yang’s expression remained unchanged as he silently began practicing the Martial Arts Mental Skills, attempting to circulate his qi blood and even absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

However…

It was like clay oxen entering the sea, with no response whatsoever!

His body’s Qi Blood was utterly still, and the Heavenly Earth Prime Spirit was completely unresponsive, too. Multiple lifetimes of hard cultivation and the wisdom accumulated in the Martial Arts Scripture, as well as the tried and tested methods of cultivation practice, had all lost their effectiveness.

Although he had mentally prepared himself, Xu Yang still furrowed his brow and silently switched to running the Taoist Scriptures.

However…

It was like clay oxen entering the sea, with no response whatsoever!

With nothing more to say about this outcome, Xu Yang fell into silence.

This world had some major problems!

Using the Divine Travel Through Worlds, after countless failures, he ultimately “sneaked” into this world.

But after sneaking in, he discovered a problem.

Divine Travel Through Worlds is different from Zhuang Zhou Mengdie. The latter shuttles through worlds in a “Zhuang Zhou dreams of a butterfly, the butterfly dreams of Zhuang Zhou” manner, directly becoming another person. The hunting man Li Qing Shan in the Great Zhou World, the beggar known as Little Dog in the Divine Martial World, and the scholar Ma Wencai at the beginning of the World of Dao and Law, all followed this pattern.

Divine Travel Through Worlds is different. It sends a divided soul, an “incarnation,” directly to the target world without inheriting any identity or memory, like Li Liuxian, who came after Ma Wencai in the World of Dao and Law: an incarnation of a divided soul.

But this time, returning to the Black Water World, the incarnation that was supposed to have been directly sent, sneaked in through an unexpected method.

That was… reincarnation!

Through reincarnation, he was born into this world, rather than descending as a split part of his spirit.

Without a doubt, this was a manifestation of the skill characteristic “finding loopholes, taking shortcuts,” the barriers of this world were so strong that it even changed the effects of the skill characteristics, turning the divide-spirit descent of Divine Travel Through Worlds into reincarnation.

Thus, he was not some identity-less illegal resident, but a student of the Ninth Campus of the Heaven-Connecting Academy, an orphan of war martyrs raised by the academy, with both parents deceased, having no sisters nor property.

But that’s not the point. The point is that in this world, one cannot cultivate in the conventional way.

Because Divine Travel Through Worlds had turned into reincarnation, he was also clouded by the mystery that enshrouds a soul in the womb until half a month ago, when he turned eighteen. Only then did his True Spirit and inborn intelligence recover, reclaiming his original consciousness.

After his True Spirit recovered and his inborn intelligence awakened, he followed the opening strategy he assumed would work and prepared to practice martial arts and Taoism to strengthen his abilities.

And then… there was no ‘then.’

The Martial Arts Scripture was useless!

The Taoist Scriptures were also useless!

Even the Earth Deity Cultivation Method from the Black Water World, belonging to “local” methods, had no effect.

And that wasn’t even the most frightening part. The scariest thing was the disappearance of the attribute panel and skill characteristics, his foundational starting point, his greatest reliance—they had all vanished!

This once again caught Xu Yang by surprise!

In all his travels, it was the first time he encountered the disappearance of the attribute panel.

How could he not be shocked?

The disappearance of the attribute panel was indeed the most terrifying, but what Xu Yang found even more incomprehensible was the invalidation of methods like the Martial Arts and Taoist Scriptures.

The Martial Scripture couldn’t move Qi Blood or strengthen the body.

The Taoist Scriptures couldn’t absorb Spiritual Energy or cultivate the spirit.

You have to understand that these two cultivation methods are universally applicable in many worlds, the employment of matter, reasoning, and laws, not the unique art of false cultivation toward truth found only in the World of Dao and Law.

The invalidation of these methods meant what?

It meant that water was no longer water, fire was no longer fire, Spiritual Energy was no longer Spiritual Energy, flesh and blood were no longer flesh and blood.

The alteration of matter, the change of laws, the basic laws of this world had been altered by someone, altered to such a degree that they were entirely different from other worlds. That was the only way to make the universally applicable Taoist Scriptures and Martial Scripture ineffective, non-functional.

This kind of might, barring Golden Immortals and those above them, Xu Yang could think of no other possibility!

So what exactly had happened to this world after he died in battle at Blackwater River, and why had it ended up like this?

After half a month of investigation, Xu Yang had some clues, but there was too little information to jump to conclusions rashly.

For now, he could only ascertain one thing—that this world could not be cultivated in conventional ways, not even by entering this “Sky-reaching Tower.”

Sky-reaching Tower!

Ten Thousand Demon Abyss!

The structure of this world is quite simple: it’s the conflict between the Sky-reaching Tower and the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss.

Sky-reaching Tower, its origins unknown, is believed to have shattered the eternal reign of the Devil Race. Including the Human Clan, countless races enslaved by the Heavenly Demons were able to receive the favor of the Sky-reaching Tower. Upon reaching a certain age, they could enter the tower and become a glorious “Lord” to fight against the Devil Race.

And the Devil Race built the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss to wage war with the races under the Sky-reaching Tower, vying for control of this world.

In short, this is a world of good and evil confrontation, where everyone can be a Lord, and everyone battles.

“Lord?”

Gazing upon this resplendent and magical space, Xu Yang gently smiled to himself, murmuring, “A territory that’s a realm in itself, a Lord who rules a land, isn’t this just…”

“Please choose your initial territory!”

Before he could finish speaking, a cold voice interrupted, halting the Cultivator’s speculation.