Nuwa, the goddess of immortality, said that cultivating immortality does not require spiritual energ

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

A full year has passed since Qin Le and his group ascended to the Heavenly Realm.

With the help of the convenient teleportation network, Qin Le quickly toured almost all the dangerous battlefields that required Golden Immortals or even higher-level experts to be stationed there.

At this moment, he arrived at the last stop of his journey—Star Moon City.

Without lingering inside the city, Qin Le went straight through the city gate and stepped into the great formation outside the city that covered the heavens and earth and isolated the inside from the outside.

Inside the formation was the front line of the battle against the Chaos Beast.

After traversing the battlefield filled with smoke and turbulent energy for about an hour, Qin Le finally arrived at the core area of ​​the formation.

The Jade Emperor himself was sitting cross-legged in the void, his eyes slightly closed, as if he were regulating his breathing and resting.

Beneath him, the immense power of the array transformed into invisible shackles, suppressing thousands of ferocious and varied quasi-saint level chaotic beasts, rendering them immobile and only allowing them to utter silent roars.

Sensing Qin Le's arrival, the Jade Emperor slowly opened his eyes, a gentle smile in them: "After wandering around for so long, have you discovered anything?"

Qin Le bowed respectfully, then moved swiftly and sat cross-legged in the void opposite the Jade Emperor, answering earnestly:

"have."

"Oh? Tell me about it." The Jade Emperor looked quite interested.

In the year since Qin Le ascended to immortality, aside from dealing with some personal matters at the beginning, he spent most of his time idly wandering around various battlefields.

The Jade Emperor was naturally aware of this matter, but he never inquired about it or interfered with it.

In fact, there were dissenting voices within the celestial realm.

Someone once suggested to the Jade Emperor that Qin Le should be assigned a battlefield that required a Golden Immortal to guard, so that he could also assume corresponding responsibilities and avoid being idle all day long.

However, the Jade Emperor rejected this proposal.

In the Jade Emperor's view, Qin Le's very existence, as well as his potential and uniqueness, determined that he was not suitable to be confined to one place.

Forcibly confining him to a certain battlefield might actually limit his effectiveness.

More importantly, the Jade Emperor absolutely refused to believe that Qin Le had truly spent the entire year simply sightseeing.

Meeting the Jade Emperor's gaze, Qin Le slowly shared his observations: "Having traveled to so many places, I always feel... that Chaos's side doesn't seem to have used their full strength."

Upon hearing this, the Jade Emperor did not show any surprise on his face. Instead, he smiled and nodded, "As expected, you noticed it too."

"I don't know much about the past," Qin Le continued, "but ever since the discovery that Chaos Beasts might develop intelligence, combined with the battles I've witnessed along the way... I feel like something is amiss."

This was one of the purposes of his spending more than half a year observing various battlefields—to intuitively assess the relative strengths of both sides.

However, the results of the assessment made him feel strongly uneasy.

The mindless Chaos Beasts possessed an overwhelming numerical advantage over cultivators of the same level from the Three Realms.

It should be noted that the total number of Golden Immortals in the entire Three Realms is less than three hundred, and Great Luo Golden Immortals and Quasi-Saints are even rarer.

The battlefield that the Jade Emperor is currently suppressing alone has over a thousand quasi-saint level Chaos Beasts!

This number already exceeds the sum of all Golden Immortals, Great Luo Golden Immortals, and Quasi-Saints in the Three Realms.

And this is merely a battlefield.

If all the Quasi-Saint level Chaos Beasts suppressed in all the battlefields of the Heavenly Realm are added together, the number would probably be ten times that!

This doesn't even include the much larger number of Chaos Beasts at the Great Luo Golden Immortal and Golden Immortal levels.

Admittedly, cultivators in the Three Realms have a wide variety of methods, including formations, magical treasures, and inheritances. However, the fact that they can maintain the current state of the battle line despite such a huge numerical disparity is itself quite strange.

Not to mention, the newly emerging intelligent Chaos Beasts that understand tactical coordination pose a far greater threat than their unintelligent counterparts.

Upon hearing this, the Jade Emperor gave a wry smile: "It's normal that you find it unreasonable. In fact, we old folks also find it unreasonable."

How could the Jade Emperor and others not know the problems Qin Le pointed out? As high-ranking officials in the Three Realms, their understanding of the strength of friend and foe was far more profound than Qin Le's.

But the problem is, they also can't figure out what's really going on in this confusing mess.

"Then... do you also have no clue about the true purpose of Chaos?" Qin Le couldn't help but ask.

"I can't figure it out." The Jade Emperor shook his head solemnly. "But in order to reduce unnecessary casualties, even though the situation is strange, we can only choose to maintain the status quo and wait and see."

Qin Le remained silent.

He could not fully comprehend the heavy pressure on the shoulders of the Jade Emperor and other high-ranking officials, but he could understand the helplessness and caution behind such a choice.

The current seemingly balanced battle situation is certainly strange, but at least it is controllable and can minimize the losses of the three realms.

No one dared to easily break through that barrier, because no one could predict whether the Three Realms could bear the consequences of disrupting the status quo.

Qin Le's respawn point certainly gave them some confidence, but if possible, they still hoped to end the war in a safer and less costly way.

For example... waiting.

They await Qin Le's personal strength to grow to the level of a quasi-saint, capable of sweeping across the battlefield. At that time, wielding the three Great Daos, he might become the key to breaking the stalemate.

Of course, before Qin Le appeared, the Heavenly Realm wasn't just sitting idly by. They placed their hopes on a few other people: Erlang Shen and Nezha.

These two exceptionally talented and accomplished war gods have a strong chance of wielding a portion of the Heavenly Dao's authority, reaching the Quasi-Saint realm, and becoming the sharpest blades to turn the tide of history.

There's also Li Jiuyuan. However, her situation is more special. The Heavenly Realm is trying to alleviate the immense bloodshed she carries in order to reconnect her once severed path to sainthood.

If she can truly take that step and attain sainthood, it will undoubtedly be great news for the Three Realms.

However, how easy is it to eliminate such a level of killing?

Despite exhausting all means, the results were minimal, even less than the merit gained from Qin Le's revival of ten clans.

Qin Le shook his head, casting aside his somewhat heavy thoughts, and a relaxed smile returned to his face: "It seems that the only way to find out the answer is to ask Chaos Himself."

Upon hearing this, the Jade Emperor couldn't help but chuckle: "It might not tell you."

Run to the enemy's lair and ask them: What exactly do you want to do?

It's likely that only Qin Le could say something like this so matter-of-factly.

"Why not give it a try? Maybe it'll be willing to talk?" Qin Le shrugged and joked, "After all, Chaos... doesn't have a brain."

The Jade Emperor smiled and said, "That's not wrong."

Chaos is formless and without appearance, neither alive nor dead; it is merely a special existence possessing self-awareness.

Qin Le's statement that it has no brains is, in a way, quite insightful.

The atmosphere eased slightly, and Qin Le remembered something else, asking, "By the way, how's the research on that intelligent Chaos Beast going? It's been almost a year, any discoveries?"

He still remembered the special sample that he and Ye Hongli had jointly presented to the Heavenly Court.

Mentioning this, the Jade Emperor's smile deepened: "You know what, there's actually some progress."

"Oh? Tell me about it." Qin Le became interested.

"After repeated comparisons and studies," the Jade Emperor's tone turned serious, "we have discovered that within that intelligent chaotic beast, there seems to be... a unique 'reincarnation system' of its own. This is very likely the key to their ability to generate and maintain intelligence."

During this period, the researchers in the Heavenly Court not only studied the intelligent entity that was captured alive, but also captured a large number of ordinary Golden Immortal-level Chaos Beasts for comparison, and even invited several Saints to come and observe.

The core conclusion reached ultimately points to this peculiar built-in cycle.