I Can Traverse Multiple Worlds

’They didn’t follow.’

Wang Xiao’s eyes shifted.

It seemed his warning had been effective.

These people weren’t fools.

They must have realized that with their strength, they stood no chance of stopping him.

They might even be killed by him instead.

So, none of them wanted to be the one to stick their neck out.

Wang Xiao paid them no more mind.

He had just broken through, and the Grotto Heaven inside him was still unstable. He needed to find a quiet place to properly refine and stabilize it.

SWOOSH!

He was incredibly fast, covering tens of thousands of miles in an instant.

This world was also exceptionally vast.

It was divided into Four Continents.

The Eastern Continent, the Southern Continent, the Western Continent, and the Northern Continent.

Each continent was boundless, spanning almost dozens of light-years.

The life forms within were as numerous as the stars, numbering in the quadrillions.

And each continent was controlled by a supreme power.

Wang Xiao already knew from the information he had obtained from Zheng Xuan.

The continent he was on was the Southern Continent.

The supreme power controlling this continent seemed to be called the Great Li Dynasty.

However, he didn’t seem to have spotted anyone from the Great Li Dynasty just now.

This wasn’t surprising.

The territory of each continent was so vast that not even a Tier Eight Life could possibly manage all of its affairs.

The gathering of experts like Zheng Xuan in the Fate-Knowing Realm had been a mere coincidence.

A short while later, Wang Xiao flickered and arrived in a desolate, mountainous area.

He moved and slipped into a cave, making it his temporary abode.

Immediately after, he waved his arm to set up a temporary Barrier outside, then closed his eyes to rest and recuperate.

The mysterious starlight inside him had not yet completely faded.

This meant his strength could still increase a little more.

’With my current strength, I should be considered at the Peak of the Fate-Knowing Realm in this world. I might even be comparable to some of the weaker experts in the Infinite Realm.’

Wang Xiao thought to himself.

The Realms in this world were divided into Bone Marrow Cleansing, Sitting Meditation, Fixed Star, Gathering Star, and Fate-Knowing.

Each Realm was further divided into four levels: early, middle, upper, and peak.

The Fate-Knowing Realm corresponded roughly to Tier Seven Life in the Real World!

Of course, the Fate-Knowing Realm experts of this world were generally a bit stronger than Tier Seven Life from the Real World because they had gone through the Gathering Star stage.

The so-called Gathering Star process involved first using one’s Divine Thought to perceive the position of a Star in the heavens that was compatible with oneself.

Then, through a Cultivation Technique, one would draw the power of this Star into one’s body.

Finally, this power would be transformed into various usable abilities, allowing one to vaguely sense their own Destiny and predict certain dangers in advance.

This was the Fate-Knowing Realm!

’So, the reason people in this world can break through to Tier Seven Life without refining a planet is because of Gathering Star. The power of these Stars comes from the Outer Heaven!’

Wang Xiao processed the information he knew as he cultivated.

The Outer Heaven was the place where people from this world could ascend after reaching Tier Eight Life!

It was said that Tier Nine Life, and even Tier Ten Life, existed there.

It was completely incomparable to this world.

However, ascending wasn’t so simple.

It was said that the people of this world only had one opportunity to ascend to the Outer Heaven every ten thousand years, during a great cataclysm of Heaven and Earth.

Currently, nine thousand years had passed since the last cataclysm.

In another thousand years, the chance to ascend to the Outer Heaven would arrive.

’The Outer Heaven must have a special channel connecting it to this world, similar to the Celestial Gate I encountered in the Xianxia World, or like when Xu Muying ascended to the Daoist Lord Realm.’

’However, this type of ascension doesn’t affect one’s original body. Whatever your strength was before ascending, it remains the same after.’

Wang Xiao mused.

His goal, naturally, was to find a way into the Outer Heaven.

Because only there could he find a Cultivation Technique to break through to Tier Ten.

Just like that, a month passed unknowingly.

Inside the cave.

Wang Xiao gently exhaled a breath of turbid air.

In that instant, the Space couldn’t bear the immense force and was directly crushed.

After a month of refinement and Cultivation, he had finally stabilized his Grotto Heaven at an area of ten billion miles.

Although it was still far from the limit of one hundred light-years, it was more than enough.

One had to know that for an ordinary Tier Seven Life, having a Grotto Heaven with an area of one hundred million miles was enough to be called a master.

’But my foundations are almost depleted now. If I want to advance further, I’ll have to find resources on my own to break through.’

Wang Xiao shook his head slightly.

It wasn’t that he absolutely had to reach the limit of one hundred light-years.

After all, a Grotto Heaven of that size was something that could only be chanced upon, not sought.

He had only managed to achieve an Extreme Grotto Heaven of one hundred light-years through the Cutting the Three Corpses Technique, supplemented by an Immortal Object like the Chaos Cyan Lotus, which was a level above even Marvels!

Even he might not be able to replicate it if he tried again.

’Forget it. I should focus on how to seize the opportunity to ascend to the Outer Heaven when the great cataclysm arrives in a thousand years.’

Wang Xiao stood up.

After a month of Cultivation, his body had reverted to the appearance of a seven or eight-year-old, which wouldn’t attract too much attention.

’They say that to ascend to a certain realm, you need to practice that realm’s Magic Technique. My current Cultivation Technique doesn’t belong to any realm, so how am I supposed to ascend?!’

Wang Xiao furrowed his brows.

The information he had analyzed before was, after all, incomplete.

To truly understand the secrets of this world, he had to make direct contact himself.

Wang Xiao’s figure flickered as he quickly left his temporary abode and flew toward a nearby city.

He had already come up with a rough idea of how to make contact with the Outer Heaven.

SWOOSH!

Wang Xiao’s figure turned into a stream of light, continuously tearing through Space as he shuttled forward.

He had already discovered a city several billion miles away.

It was also the largest city in the vicinity.

Although the population of this world was large, they were scattered like stars in the sky.

Ordinary people might never leave a thousand-mile radius in their entire lives.

Even accomplished Cultivators would find it difficult to cross countless mountains and rivers to travel to another continent.

This was because this world also had many perilous and deadly lands.

Even a Tier Seven Life at the Fate-Knowing Realm would likely not survive if they were trapped in one.

Legend has it that five thousand years ago, a monk from the Great Li Dynasty traveled to the Buddhist Sacred Land in the Western Continent to seek a True Scripture.

He journeyed for a full thousand years before obtaining the True Scripture from the Western Continent and returning to the Great Li Dynasty.

This monk was also called the Buddha by the Buddhists of the Great Li Dynasty.

However, in the present-day Great Li Dynasty, both Buddhism and Daoism had declined, leaving the Great Li Dynasty as the sole dominant power.

Previously, those Daoist, Buddhist, and Demon cultivators hadn’t dared to pursue Wang Xiao partly out of fear of encountering the Great Li Dynasty’s patrol envoys.

Every patrol envoy was at the Fate-Knowing Realm.

And most of them were at the Peak of Fate-Knowing.

「Half a day later.」

Night fell.

Wang Xiao’s eyes suddenly lit up.

A massive city wall, spanning tens of thousands of miles, lay before him like a colossal dragon.

Within the walls, specks of lamplight could be seen.

Tall buildings and grand halls were arrayed in a dazzling display.

Outside this enormous city, villages were scattered here and there.

These were the common folk at the bottom of this world’s society.

After all, not everyone had the money to live inside a city.

As far as Wang Xiao knew, every city was protected by a Grand Array Barrier and garrisoned by troops from the Great Li Dynasty.

Even Cultivators at the Fate-Knowing Realm wouldn’t dare to fight recklessly within a city.

Those living in the villages outside weren’t so lucky.

A battle between two powerful experts could easily result in an entire village being wiped out.

’The people suffer when the state prospers, and the people suffer when the state falls. In this great age of cultivation, what a tragedy it is to lack sufficient opportunity and aptitude.’

Wang Xiao shook his head and was about to land and enter the city ahead.

There were flight restrictions within the city.

Although he could easily break them, he didn’t want to attract unnecessary attention and cause trouble for himself.

However, just as he was flying over a village about a thousand miles from the city...

RUMBLE—

A thunderous explosion erupted from the village below.

The next moment, a power that knew no bounds suddenly raged forth.

In the blink of an eye, the village was annihilated, erased from this world!

Countless villagers died under this power.

Accompanying the thunderous roar was a low, grim shout.

"Xu Changyi, your time is up! To think you’d delude yourself into escaping the Underworld’s Reincarnation. You even dare to resist arrest! Once we capture you and take you to the Underworld, we will cast you into the Eighteen Layers of Hell to suffer endless torture!"

"I am from White Cloud Temple in the Northern Continent! I am not under the jurisdiction of your Great Li Dynasty! How can you arrest me?!"

"All land under heaven is the king’s! If you die within the borders of my Southern Continent, you must enter the Underworld of my Great Li Dynasty! This is the Celestial Dao, and it cannot be changed!"

"Hei Shi, no need to waste words on him. Just arrest him!"

"Hmph, you two aren’t qualified to arrest me."

RUMBLE—

Another earth-shattering sound echoed.

The area for ten thousand miles around shook violently, kicking up a vast cloud of dust.

The next moment, a streaking beam of light suddenly flew toward Wang Xiao!

Within the light, the faint, translucent figure of a Daoist in a Daoist Robe could be seen.

When this Daoist saw Wang Xiao, his eyes lit up slightly. His entire Primordial Spirit transformed into a sharp blade and slashed toward Wang Xiao.

’He wants to possess me?!’

Wang Xiao’s eyes shifted, a playful look appearing on his face.

He had intentionally concealed his aura, which had given this Daoist the idea of seizing his body.

Just as the blade formed by the Daoist’s Primordial Spirit was about to charge into his body, he raised his palm. Endless Divine Thought surged forth, instantly forming a cage that captured the Daoist’s Primordial Spirit in his hand.

This Primordial Spirit contained the Daoist’s Divine Soul and True Spirit.

As long as the Primordial Spirit was not extinguished, the Daoist would not be truly dead.

"Ah! Senior, spare me!"

Seeing Wang Xiao capture him so easily, the Daoist’s face filled with terror.

Just then, two figures flew up from below in pursuit.

They were dressed in black and white robes, were roughly at the level of Tier Six Life, and exuded a chilling aura.

Upon seeing Wang Xiao, their eyes showed unconcealed shock.

This was because they discovered that the Book of Life and Death within them—which was supposed to record the names and lifespans of all living beings in Heaven and Earth—showed no reaction whatsoever when faced with the person before them.

The person before them had no name in the Book of Life and Death!