Chapter 534: The Mysterious Fourth Layer of Yang God

Chapter 534: The Mysterious Fourth Layer of the Yang God

Qi Yuan glanced at Chen Kangbao, his face full of disdain.

If Chen Kangbao was his servant.

What did other people's slaves wear, and what did they carry?

And his?

Comparing people only infuriates you.

"Alas, at least I still have my White Moonlight."

Qi Yuan looked at the distant corpse of the Blade Demon, a smug expression in his eyes.

With the power of Divine Descent, combined with Xiao Jia's "Same Robe," his combat prowess had reached a terrifying level.

In some ways, it even surpassed the full-strength Divine Presence.

Divine Presence's realm was higher than Qi Yuan's, but when it came to the application of divine power, he naturally couldn't compare to Qi Yuan, who had slain the Yang God Dazhi.

"Level 150."

Having slain the Blade Demon, a Divine Weapon Master, Qi Yuan's realm had reached level 150.

Translated into this world, that meant he was a Divine Weapon Master.

Now, without relying on the power of Divine Presence, he was a god!

Moreover, on the Blade Demon's body, Qi Yuan had made a new discovery.

"This is..."

Though far away, Qi Yuan's eyes still caught something unusual on the Blade Demon's corpse.

[Blood soaked by Dark Light Spirit—any artifact stained by this blood becomes tarnished, its power now less than one ten-thousandth of its former might.]

This information set Qi Yuan thinking.

"Was the Blade Demon's blood once altered by someone?"

Many thoughts surged in Qi Yuan's mind. He looked at the Blade Demon's severed arm, his suspicions growing more certain.

It seemed that, to deal with Divine Presence, someone had used Dark Light Spirit to soak the Blade Demon's blood.

When Divine Presence faced the siege of the gods, he had wounded the Blade Demon.

Thus, the artifact was tarnished, and Divine Presence's strength declined.

"Hey, you there?" Qi Yuan began consulting the Thornblood staff again.

He took out the Divine Wood Token.

"First, my name isn't 'Hey,' and second, if you have something to say, say it—don't ask 'you there?'"

"Have you ever heard of Dark Light Spirit?"

Since he was playing the role of Divine Presence, he had to understand the cause of Divine Presence's death.

"Never heard of it," the other replied.

Qi Yuan was a bit disappointed. It seemed he would have to sweep through the Raksasha Kingdom dungeon to find out who else had made a move.

"But then again, if I pay some price, I might find out what this thing is," the Thornblood staff member said.

"If you help me uncover its information, I'll remember this favor. If things ever go south for you, come to the Underworld."

"Heh heh..."

On the other end, the Thornblood staff member let out a cold laugh.

He pushed open the window, gazing at the hazy world outside as if admiring a beautiful view.

"Posting a quest: detailed information on Dark Light Spirit, 1 point."

As a seasoned Void Walker, he had the authority to issue quests.

The Void Paradise had deeply infiltrated this embryonic universe.

Even something like the *Green Mountain Scripture* was accessible to him.

Information on other items could be easily obtained with a simple search.

After a few breaths, his eyes lit up.

"Found the info on Dark Light Spirit."

"This thing comes from the Radiant Assembly. Its greatest trait is that it can taint divine artifacts, reducing their divine power..."

"Thanks."

Qi Yuan expressed his gratitude, his mind racing.

"The Radiant Assembly again."

Of the Radiant Assembly's people, he had only met Fang Shisan and one dead man.

But the Radiant Assembly had been deeply entangled with him throughout his journey.

At the start, when Qi Yuan was a live-in son-in-law, Fang Shisan of the Radiant Assembly had tried to ambush him, even assassinate him.

Later, Qi Yuan went to the Ten Thousand Mountains Absolute and saw the many corpses of those who had once forged the fragments of the Radiant Divine Artifact in the Strange Domain.

He encountered Radiant Assembly members again.

Among them, the thirty thousand artificers who had gone to the Strange Domain to forge the Radiant Divine Artifact fragments were also led by the Radiant Assembly.

Now, Divine Presence's death seemed to involve the Radiant Assembly as well.

This Radiant Assembly was like a stubborn patch of psoriasis.

"Do you know about the Radiant Assembly?" Qi Yuan asked again, like a curious child.

The Thornblood staff member's gaze sharpened. "The *Green Mountain Scripture* records that the Green Mountain Realm is about to be destroyed.

This is not just the fate of the Green Mountain Realm; in truth, it is the ultimate fate of your entire universe.

No world, no living being, can escape the end of destruction.

Unless... one can transcend.

Enough said. Let's talk about the Radiant Assembly.

The world you live in, or rather the universe, is heading toward annihilation.

The people of the Radiant Assembly see themselves as the saviors of this world. They have been striving... to save it."

"A righteous faction?" Qi Yuan was surprised.

A righteous faction had been trying to kill him—did that make him the villain?

He was lawful good, unable to bear even stepping on an ant—how could he be a villain?

But then, thinking that self-righteous goodness wasn't true goodness, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"The Radiant Assembly isn't strong; it's merely a nuisance. But what lies behind it..." At this thought, the Thornblood staff member's face showed awe and fear.

That one majestic being—even imagining it made one's heart tremble with terror.

If he called him by name directly, with malice, and meaningfully, not a namesake.

Before he condensed his divine domain, that one could, even across a universe, with a single thought, annihilate him.

Only by condensing the divine domain, deepening his connection to the universe, could that one not slay him with a single thought.

But if one thought is not enough, a single finger would suffice, wouldn't it?

“Who is behind this?” Qi Yuan felt he knew too little about the game’s background.

“The Radiant Light Path Lord!” The staff member of Thornblood typed these four words tremblingly.

Radiant Light Path Lord!

Lord of a Path!

“Who is he? What realm? Is he strong?” Qi Yuan was astonished.

Hearing this, the Thornblood staff member was even more certain that Qi Yuan was a native of this world, who had never even heard of a Path Lord.

“Do you know that above the divine-level Weapon Master, there is the true god level that condenses a divine domain.

Above true gods, you here call them Ancestral Gods.

But in our other universe, they are called Yang Gods.

There are five layers of Yang Gods, and the gap between each layer is greater than the heavens.

In our Zhou Universe, any Yang God could devour an entire world alive.

Such a majestic being, with a single yawn, could kill the strongest of your Qingshan Realm, Shenlin.

And this is merely the first layer of Yang God.

As for those at higher realms, their power is even greater.

The founder of our Void Paradise is the strongest in the Zhou Universe, the Void Realm Lord!”

This time, the Thornblood staff member did not conceal his identity.

After so many days of communication, unless the other party was a fool, they would surely know he was not merely a member of Thornblood.

“What? You’re from another universe?” Ji Wuyun came online again, his face full of shock.

The Thornblood staff member was speechless, ignored him, and continued.

“The Void Realm Lord is a strongman at the perfected third layer of Yang God, the strongest in our Zhou Universe.

The Void Realm Lord is capable of opening heaven and earth, creating a world like Qingshan Realm, and even creating living beings out of nothing.

If he were to act, no one in your embryonic universe could withstand him.

When mentioning the Void Realm Lord, his face was full of pride and reverence.

This was the emperor admired and worshipped by all cultivators in the Zhou Universe.

“Somewhat strong,” Qi Yuan evaluated seriously.

At least now, he could not create a world, nor could he create any living beings. Remodeling, however, was possible.

Last time he obtained the token of the Void Paradise, he also learned much information.

The third layer of Yang God is divided into the realms of Rules, Myriad Things, and Heaven-Opening.

The Great Principle of comprehending the supreme truth in the Six Heavens of the Immortal Realm, in terms of combat power, could be considered a weak Rules realm.

The Thornblood staff member was already familiar with Qi Yuan’s reaction.

“The realm of the Void Realm Lord, we can only look up to for our entire lives.

But the Radiant Light Path Lord… is actually an existence at the fifth layer of Yang God, two layers higher than the Void Realm Lord, and is called a Path Lord!

The so-called Path Lord, Lord of a Path, is unique, eternal, and fixed!

Once one becomes a Path Lord, it is true transcendence: the universe may be destroyed but the body is not destroyed; the universe may perish but the spirit does not perish; one roams the river of time, able to travel through past and future.”

An ancestor in his family was a Yang God and also a Void Walker, so he knew many secrets.

Moreover, these were not secrets to Yang Gods.

“Path Lord, Path Lord, Lord of a Path.

There are many cultivation systems in this world: martial path, shaman path, poison spirit path, demonic path, and so on.

When each system reaches its true end, with no further progress possible, one can be called a Path Lord.

At the moment of becoming a Path Lord, that system will be under his control, and the universe he is in will become his territory.

All later cultivators’ training is but making a wedding dress for him, and… they can never surpass him.

On each great path, there is only one Path Lord!

Each universe can also only support the existence of one Path Lord!”

The Thornblood staff member told Qi Yuan what he knew.

Of course, his realm was lowly, so what he knew was not accurate, and even had many errors.

But the above content was mostly correct.

“This is indeed strong,” Qi Yuan commented.

At the Moon God Palace, he had also learned that the fifth layer of Yang God was an existence that could gather all timelines.

Now, he knew more.

Not only gathering timelines, but also being a Lord of a Path.

Such as the martial path, such as the immortal path.

That is to say, if a cultivator reaches the fifth layer of Yang God, then he will be the only cultivator at the fifth layer of Yang God, the Lord of the Immortal Path.

In the immortal cultivation world, there will not appear a second cultivator at the fifth layer of Yang God.

The life and death of all other cultivators are also completely in the hands of this Path Lord.

He has become the end of the immortal path, the source of the immortal path.

At this moment, Qi Yuan suddenly remembered that the future of the Six Heavens of the Immortal Realm had been severed.

Could it be… that some cultivator had glimpsed such a future and with one sword cut off the future of the Immortal Realm?

The Immortal Realm is vast, probably no smaller than a universe.

To be able to sever the future of the Immortal Realm with one sword, it is estimated to be at least a Heaven-Opening realm expert.

“It’s fine to offend the Radiant Light Society, but don’t offend the Radiant Light Path Lord behind it.

But then again… you probably won’t have the chance to offend the Radiant Light Path Lord,” the Thornblood staff member said smugly.

He was smug, as if to say, you country bumpkin, frog in a well, now you know how vast the outside world is?

But then, he felt a bit disappointed.

These people, not having stepped into Yang God, seeing the Radiant Light Path Lord is like a frog in a well seeing the moon in the sky; but once they step into Yang God, seeing the Radiant Light Path Lord is like a mayfly seeing the blue sky.

Not reaching the Yang God realm, one cannot even imagine the power of a Path Lord.

“I have a question: the third layer of Yang God is Realm Lord, the fifth layer is Path Lord, what about the fourth layer?” Qi Yuan asked curiously.

Yaoguang Dao Lord was strong, far stronger than the one in Taihuang Palace by an immeasurable margin, but what did strength matter?

As long as there was a health bar, Qi Yuan could slowly hack him to death!

“This…” the Thornblood staff member was stunned, never expecting Qi Yuan to ask that. “Regarding the fourth layer of the Yang God, it is a taboo. Even in our Zhou Universe, few know what existence the fourth layer of the Yang God truly is.

According to ancient records, ordinary Yang God third-layer cultivators do not know what the fourth layer is like.

I fear only the Void Realm Lord, at the peak of creation, and Dao Lord Yaoguang, at the fifth layer of the Yang God, know of the fourth layer.”

“Is the fourth layer of the Yang God so mysterious?” Qi Yuan was astonished.

Everyone knew of the fifth layer, yet the fourth remained unknown—truly bizarre.

“According to some great beings, the fourth layer of the Yang God cannot be spoken, cannot be named, cannot be perceived; otherwise, great calamity will befall.”

“Thank you, guide,” Qi Yuan said earnestly.

He had not only learned more about the game’s setting but also gained a clearer picture of the cultivation system.

“The path of immortals should have no Dao Lord; otherwise, if one yawned… wouldn’t I be dead?”

“No, do I even cultivate the immortal path?”

“Hmm, I cultivate Schrödinger’s Immortal!”

If there were Dao Lords, his cultivation was false.

If there were none, he cultivated true immortality, striving to become a Dao Lord himself.

“I’m just a Purple Mansion cultivator, a Divine-level Weapon Master—why am I pondering this?”

“Better to first butcher that little rascal White Moonlight here!”

Indeed, hearing the title of Dao Lord, Qi Yuan felt even more that the Divine-level Weapon Master of the Raksha Kingdom was a mere thug.

Perhaps, with the revival of Divine Arrival, his current actions, in the eyes of beings like Dao Lords, would seem laughable and absurd.

Not even worth mentioning!

Yet Qi Yuan still held fast to his heart.

As an actor, he had to have professional integrity.

…

The royal capital.

In the great hall, Dingyuan King stood motionless as a mountain, yet his expression was taut with tension.

“Blade Demon is dead—Blade Demon actually died, slain with a single sword strike!”

Upon learning this news, he was both terrified and relieved.

Thankfully, his curiosity had not driven him to Linhai City to investigate whether Divine Arrival had truly revived.

Otherwise, he would be the one dead.

Now, four people stood in the hall, all Divine-level Weapon Masters, and their faces were grim.

“Blade Demon was killed with one sword stroke… it seems He has returned,” an old man spoke, his voice hoarse.

His face was deathly pale; even a corpse left for ten days would not be so white.

“He has revived, and… nearly at His peak!” another Divine-level Weapon Master said gravely.

He felt the urge to retreat, longing to flee.

But he also knew that leaving would mean a faster death; staying with the other Weapon Masters at least offered some warmth in unity.

“Even if we join forces, I fear we are no match for Him,” Dingyuan King said with deep worry. “He was dead, shattered into pieces—how can He revive?”

He was truly afraid!

After all, if Divine Arrival had been ruthless enough back then, killing the Blood Cloud Bandits and then pressing on, he might have died.

He also thought himself reckless for lingering so long in Dingbo Prefecture.

“Now is not the time to discuss why He revived; we must consider… how to deal with Him!

If we cannot kill Him, we will all die.

The eternal, undying empire we built with our own hands will be buried by Him!” the pale-faced old man said with bitter reluctance.

Just then, a majestic voice came from behind the bead curtain.

“A hundred years ago, I never had the chance to cross swords with Him—a great regret in my heart.

This time, I shall personally suppress and slay him!”

Hearing this voice, the Divine-level Weapon Masters present exchanged varied looks.

His Majesty… was going to act personally?

…

Where did he find such confidence and courage?

These men knew their emperor all too well. A hundred years ago, he dared not even watch the battle against Divine Arrival, let alone fight, for fear of being caught in the crossfire.

Over the years, though he had grown stronger, even praised as nearing the Divine Arrival of old,

Even so, with his timid and suspicious nature, would he truly dare to strike at Divine Arrival so recklessly?

That was Divine Arrival!

(End of chapter)