My Way

Chapter 1257 Strength Levels
The strength is good.

Internal unity.

The idea is well-developed.

It possesses a stable internal foundation.

Moreover, they share a common goal.

The entire plan has been progressing steadily throughout.

……

to be frank.

In every respect, Ke Mingyu and others possess the prerequisites for accomplishing great things.

As long as one can secretly develop and become the restorer of the [Evening Sky Immortal Realm], making the entire [Evening Sky Immortal Realm] bigger and stronger, it's by no means entirely impossible!

But...

Ke Mingyu and his companions, who ruled the entire [Evening Sky Immortal Realm], were ultimately destined for a calamity.

Before it had even fully developed, it ran straight into Ling Wuyuan's hands.

First, the meticulously crafted puppet was KO'd on the spot by Ling Wuyuan. Then, even the coordinates of their lair were forcibly locked by the [Heavenly Torrent]. Finally, their lair was forcibly destroyed by Ling Wuyuan, who had secretly developed his strength several steps ahead. They lost the opportunity to continue developing their strength secretly and could only serve as Ling Wuyuan's slaves from then on.

It evokes a sense of helplessness, like someone full of ambition trying to conquer the world only to be crushed to death by a meteorite falling from the sky.

Even though they did nothing wrong, it was still a complete tragedy, and no matter how unwilling they were, it was all in vain.

What a tragedy!
of course.

Yan Xiujin was naturally unaware of the bitterness in the hearts of Ke Mingyu and the others.

now.

Hearing Ling Wuyuan say that the target he encountered on this trip was fairly strong, she didn't doubt anything.

However, she was also well aware that the strength of various enemies was usually categorized by Ling Wuyuan into five simple levels: [Trash], [Weak], [Okay], [Very Strong], and [Can't Beat Them for Now].

Given Ling Wuyuan's current strength, to be rated as "not bad" by him, one must be at least at the "Eternal Life Realm" or even the "Undying Realm." Otherwise, Ling Wuyuan would never have given such a rating.

So Yan Xiujin couldn't help but be curious about what Ling Wuyuan had been doing before. She asked him a few more questions and quickly figured out Ling Wuyuan's previous plan.

"So you mean, Brother, you only spent a few hours to completely take care of that [Evening Sky Immortal Realm]?"

However, faced with a question that should have been answered instantly, Ling Wuyuan did not reply immediately. Instead, after thinking about it seriously, he answered somewhat indifferently:
"Almost~"

"Although I spent most of these hours traveling, and the actual combat time was only a few minutes, if you include the time I spent secretly sending out clones as scouts, it took me a full year and a half in the main timeline."

"As for whether the matter has been completely resolved..."

"I can only say that it's highly likely that it's completely resolved."

Listen to the genuine indifference in his words.

Yan Xiujin was speechless for a moment, and muttered while holding his arm:

"Is it so casual?"

What does it mean to have a high probability of completely resolving the issue?

"After your surprise attack, will they rebel against you once they've prepared for it?"

I'm not worried.

She was just a little curious whether Ke Mingyu and the others actually had the guts.

Ling Wuyuan's answer this time was quite straightforward: "Don't worry, they don't have that ability, and... to put it bluntly, although their strength is indeed quite good, they are ultimately just a bunch of guys who can't escape the [Twilight Immortal Realm].

"They actually had no choice at all."

Even though it was still in a rather indifferent tone.

But this time.

Ling Wuyuan's tone was undoubtedly much more certain than before. After all...

When he noticed the level characteristics of the Immortal King Realm in the [Evening Sky Immortal Realm]—what exactly was the [Immortal King Mark]—he immediately realized that Ke Mingyu and the others had no ability to refuse him.

Well known.

Everything has two sides.

When you gain a benefit, you inevitably have to bear the corresponding price.

The [Immortal King's Mark] is a special item that not only grants its owner unlimited health and mana as a basic passive ability, but also allows the owner to manipulate the rules of spacetime to perform various operations.

To put it bluntly, the [Immortal King Mark] is both a get-out-of-jail-free card for Ke Mingyu and the others, and a special kind of constraint that they can hardly get rid of. The existence of the [Immortal King Mark] is directly equivalent to them already being successfully registered in the [Heavenly Dao Consciousness] of the [Evening Sky Immortal Realm].

If the difficulty for other local powerhouses to leave the [Evening Sky Immortal Realm] is one, then the same thing for Ke Mingyu and others is one hundred million.

This is similar to the difference in difficulty between an unknown ordinary person who wants to become a "rich person" abroad and a high-ranking official who wants to become a "rich person" abroad.
Although the matter is the same.

However, the actual operational difficulty is on a completely different level.

Nobody cares about the former at all.

The latter, however, involves facing a truly inescapable net.

That's a world of difference!
In Ling Wuyuan's view, the core essence of the cultivation system in the [Evening Sky Immortal Realm] is the path of [unity of heaven and man], and its highest pursuit is to achieve the unity and coexistence of individual consciousness and the consciousness of the Heavenly Dao, thereby being able to control everything in the entire space-time!

to be frank.

That pursuit itself is certainly not wrong.

Even in the main timeline where the power system is more complex and powerful, many cultivators regard it as the ultimate goal of their cultivation path.

However, the problem lies in the fact that the actual upper limit of the [Evening Sky Immortal Realm] is not actually very high.

This resulted in Ke Mingyu and others forming a deep connection with the [Heavenly Dao Consciousness] within it, and their future was directly and firmly bound to the [Evening Sky Immortal Realm]... like being caught between the head of a chicken and the tail of a phoenix, they had already automatically chosen the head of the chicken, and it was very difficult for them to get out.

In the past, if it were any other time...

In a time when people had no choice at all, and were completely unaware that there was actually a much larger world outside.

Because there was no way forward.

Ke Mingyu and the others are certainly quite willing to act as the rulers of the [Evening Sky Immortal Realm], and they are not troubled by it at all.

But now.

As seekers of the Way.

When they realize that there are actually infinitely many spaces and times waiting for them to explore, how can they possibly sit still?!
The stronger one's desire for the Way, the more painful it will be to face this situation...

The desire for enlightenment among Ke Mingyu and others was so intense that even billions of years could not extinguish it.

So, that situation is like setting out a grand feast in front of a starving ghost, but only letting the ghost smell it from a distance...

Today.

The power of the past.

It had already become a life sentence in the eyes of Ke Mingyu and others...

Even if they were willing to destroy the [Immortal King Mark], they still couldn't get rid of it.

There is no other reason.

The relevant authority had long since been completely integrated into their souls and bodies, becoming an integral part of them.

Therefore.

Ling Wuyuan was not worried at all about them rebelling against him.

They couldn't run away, and they couldn't fight back. Apart from dying, Ke Mingyu and the others only had the option of obediently doing their jobs.

(End of this chapter)