Chapter 2 Two Stars

Two stars...

An Qisheng raised his eyebrows slightly, but he was not too surprised.

By now, he couldn't say he knew nothing about the realm divisions on the Da Dao Ji, but he didn't understand them very well either.

First, there were not enough reference objects.

Second, different environments could create different systems due to differences in heaven, earth, space, and rules. Under vastly different environments, the effects of the same power were also different.

Dividing all living beings and objects into star ratings was unimaginably difficult.

At least, An Qisheng at this time could not know what the standard for this star rating division was.

However, he knew that this two-star corresponded to the Heavenly Mandate realm in the Human Path.

And in the Da Dao Ji, two stars were also called Clarity.

[Clarity]

Cast a Dao foundation, walk your own Dao, have a clear mind, embody the laws of heaven and earth, understand the changes of the four seasons, and remain steadfast before the Dao. This is Clarity.

As if sensing the doubts in An Qisheng's heart, the Da Dao Ji moved slightly, providing an explanation.

"Grading is determined by Dao, not by the amount of power..."

An Qisheng understood.

Grading by Dao instead of power was easy to understand.

For example, in Xuanxing, he used his own 'Qi Seed' to replace the essence of heaven and earth, transforming cultivators into 'Qi Refiners' in one fell swoop, with Qi reaching the four seas and five continents, which was two stars.

And back in Xuanxing, the 'Qi Seed' that could not connect to the Human Path was still two stars.

Because power might fluctuate, but Dao would not. Attaining Dao was attaining Dao. A Dao that could regress was not a true Dao.

However, he also knew that without enough power, there was no way to build one's own Dao. In the end, this star rating division could not ignore power.

Because without power, one could not bear the Dao, or rather, when the Dao was formed, supernatural powers would come naturally.

This dream journey to the Great Thousand was extremely rewarding. Being a teacher, a national preceptor, and a celestial master brought various insights, not to mention the tens of millions of Dao points, which further proved his gains.

Dao points were not any form of energy, but rather a person's understanding of the laws of heaven and earth. They could not only drive the various supernatural powers of the Da Dao Ji but also truly become his foundation.

Although he didn't want to use Dao points for the time being, this thing was like currency in Xuanxing. No one would嫌多 (xián duō - dislike having too much).

Better safe than sorry.

Huff~

After taking stock of all his gains, An Qisheng slowly opened his eyes.

The starry sky was vast, dotted with stars. Dawn had not yet arrived. The scarlet, blood-like Mars was still conspicuous. A gentle breeze came, blowing across the grass in front of him, causing ripples.

Xuanxing, Qi Dao Hui... Yan Changsha, Wang Zhixuan, Qinglong, Juechen Daoist... the indestructible Zombie King Zhu Shang... the disappeared first highest mountain in the solar system.

And Russell, a descendant of the Nightmare Nine-Headed Serpent from the Youlin Great World under the Wushen Realm, who was displaced by the universe.

The past events stirred up a ripple in his eyes like smoke.

A trace of unfamiliarity caused by dreaming in the Great Thousand then disappeared, and the familiar breath flowed from his mouth and nose into his body and mind.

An Qisheng couldn't help but feel a sense of peace in his heart.

Every moment of dreaming in the Great Thousand, his spirit was highly tense. From the poisonous spiritual energy at the beginning of the dream, to the later Heavenly Will Sect, the Imperial Heaven Ten Vices, the Netherworld Monarch Sacrifice, the attention of the 'Heavenly Duke' of the Human Path, and the cataclysmic disaster.

One thing after another, no matter how indifferent he appeared, there was a hint of fatigue in his heart.

Only now did he truly relax.

Compared to this ease, losing the great power formed by the Qi Seed of the Human Path permeating the heaven and earth was not something he cared about.

Dreaming in the Great Thousand piled up Dao with supernatural powers, while returning to Xuanxing allowed supernatural powers to arise naturally from the Dao.

With the Dao present, the coming and going of all supernatural powers was a matter of course. He didn't care about it at all.

A person with a sharp weapon will have murderous intent, and a person whose supernatural powers leave his body and whose state of mind collapses cannot be considered a true Dao seeker.

"Nightmare Nine-Headed Serpent..."

Looking into the starry sky at the star burning like fire, with An Qisheng's current perception, he could even see the sandstorm sweeping across half of Mars.

And the looming shadow behind the sandstorm.

"Hmm?"

But after just one glance, An Qisheng frowned, and a thunderous sound came from his abdomen.

He almost forgot that his body was not comparable to that of the Taiji Daoist. The five viscera and twenty-four body gods had only just condensed their prototypes, not to mention the unity of the three hundred and sixty-five body gods.

And his current divine intent was far stronger than before he entered the dream. Even with just one glance, his body was somewhat unable to support it.

Pa~

He casually opened the wooden box he carried with him, and then opened his mouth.

Huff~

As if a gust of air blew past, a hundred golden Bigu Pills (辟谷丹 - food pills) the size of longan fruits, arranged in ten rows and ten columns in the wooden box, had already been swallowed into his stomach.

With a crushing force from his five viscera, the Bigu Pills, which were harder than steel, were completely crushed. Then, with a super-high efficiency thousands or tens of thousands of times greater than that of ordinary people, he absorbed them.

Strands of heat spread throughout his body, flowing along the extremely complex Qi Seed meridian network, and were input into the smallest and most subtle places, such as his limbs and bones.

Relieving the pressure on his body, strands of slightly turbid gas were discharged from his expanded pores.

He looked inside himself. The outlines of the five viscera were beginning to appear, and the twenty-four body gods also had their prototypes. The extremely complex Qi Seed operation diagram was interspersed with the five viscera, covering all organs, flesh, muscles, and fascia, down to the smallest and most subtle places.

Then, through the pores of his body, he breathed in and out, communicating with the earth's magnetic field.

To some extent, with the blessing of the earth's magnetic field, his reliance on Bigu Pills had been greatly reduced. However, his gains from dreaming in the Great Thousand were too great.

After the condensation of the divine flower, his divine intent was more than a thousand times stronger than his physical body.

Any fluctuation could completely drain his entire body. His Qi Seed had not yet replaced Xuanxing's magnetic field, and the energy it supplied could not support the vast needs of his current divine intent.

Moreover, Xuanxing was even more stringent than the Human Path, where 'spiritual energy was poisonous'. Even his current divine intent could not leave his body and could only be used through a medium to affect the heaven and earth.

In other words, even if a Heavenly Mandate giant from the Human Path came to Xuanxing, his physical body could still survive for a short time. But if his physical body was not present, he would instantly be crushed into powder by the spirit-severing land.

The absence of spiritual energy did not mean that the spirit-severing universe where Xuanxing was located was small. In fact, this spirit-severing universe was far larger and more vast than ordinary worlds.

Neither the Jiufu Realm nor the Human Realm could compare to it. Of all the worlds he had experienced and seen, the only one that could surpass this universe in size was probably the Imperial Heaven Realm.

Neither Heavenly Mandate nor Supreme Beings could resist this great universe, which was nearly a trillion light-years across in observable distance alone. One had to know that the observable universe did not represent the entire spirit-severing universe.

The size of this universe was beyond imagination.

It was precisely because of this that this universe was truly An Qisheng's home field.

Once his Qi Seed reached completion and his Dao was truly accomplished, even if someone with a much higher realm and a hundred times his cultivation came to this universe, he would be——

Beaten to a pulp!

.......

The wilderness was not small, but An Qisheng's pace was even faster.

The sky had not yet brightened, but he had already walked out of the mountains. He had unknowingly arrived at Luo City.

Luo City could not be considered very prosperous, far less so than the Magic City, but its atmosphere far surpassed that of the Jiufu Realm and the Human Path.

There were no cultivators who could fight against an entire country on their own, no martial arts experts who could fly over rooftops and take people's heads from a thousand miles away, no brutal cultivators who could casually massacre cities, and no妖鬼 (yāo guǐ - demons and ghosts) jumping out to take people's lives from time to time...

Ordinary, but peaceful.

"Unfortunately, the tree desires calm, but the wind will not stop..."

A trace of涟漪 (lián yī - ripples) appeared in the depths of An Qisheng's eyes.

Apart from a few people, the vast majority of people were unaware of the huge storm that was about to come.

And only he knew that the Zombie King Zhu Shang and the descendant of the Nightmare Nine-Headed Serpent, Russell, might just be the beginning. As the universe revolved, more and more things, people, or monsters would be displaced.

The seemingly peaceful Xuanxing was likely to face something a thousand times more terrifying than the Human Path.

Beep beep beep~~~

The sky was dimly lit, but there were already many pedestrians and vehicles on the road.

All kinds of noisy sounds entered his ears, but An Qisheng did not find them annoying. After dreaming for ninety years and entangled with the heavens for three hundred years, almost four hundred years of long time, he once again heard the language of Da Xuan.

Even the national curse sounded more pleasing to his ears than those of other worlds.

"Cao ni ma! Are you fucking crazy?!"

The piercing sound of a horn was mixed with a national curse. A burly man poked his head out of the car window, glaring and still in shock.

An Qisheng looked at him indifferently.

On the sidewalk, a teenager wearing a white tracksuit had just put down a little girl he was carrying in his arms.

The teenager looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a somewhat immature face. But his eyes were extremely steady, and his muscles were well-proportioned. Underneath his thin body, he possessed a powerful explosive force.

"Little sister, don't be afraid."

The teenager touched the little girl who was about to cry. His body darted forward and slammed the car door that was about to open shut with a 'bang':

"Drive more carefully in the future."

The burly man looked tall and strong, but he was knocked over onto the passenger seat.

"Little Wang..."

The burly man was about to curse, but he couldn't help but shiver.

From his angle, he could see that a huge bulge had been forced into the car door from the outside.

What kind of freak was this?

The burly man sucked in a breath of cold air and immediately forced a smile: "Yes, yes, I will definitely drive more carefully in the future, definitely more carefully."

The teenager did not respond. He reached into the car, and his body suddenly tensed under his tracksuit. In the burly man's cringing gaze, he pressed the bulge in the car door back.

Then he casually reported a string of phone numbers:

"After repairing the car, call me and tell me how much it costs."

"不敢 (bù gǎn - I dare not), I dare not."

The burly man waved his hands repeatedly.

The teenager ignored him and walked to the side of the road. He lifted his foot and threw his broken shoe into the trash can.

When he saved the person earlier, he had suddenly burst forth with hidden force and stepped through his shoe.

"Quiet as a virgin, quick as a rabbit, with both brightness and darkness, skilled in tendons and bones. He is indeed a good hand at practicing boxing..."

Hearing the voice coming from his ear, the teenager turned his head suddenly like a frightened cat and was shocked:

"You!"

"My name is An Qisheng."

An Qisheng smiled slightly and extended his hand:

"Su Jie, hello."