Martial Conquest of the Nine Desolates

From Liu Yan’s mouth, Xiao Ye and others learned a lot.

The so-called Three Thousand Great Realms refer to the heavens and earth beyond the True Spirit Continent. Each realm can be said to be boundless, possessing many planes and star domains, and nurturing countless cosmic races.

Even a Great Emperor, exhausting their entire life force, cannot traverse a Great Realm, ultimately dying halfway through.

Unless one can reach the Holy Rank, only then can they single-handedly cross a Great Realm, fearless of any danger, and suppress a side of the Great Realm.

Moreover, they are only facing the Three Thousand Great Realms!

As for the True Spirit Continent, it’s just a low-level plane among them. Besides True Spirit, such as ’Fenglei Continent’ where Liu Yan was born, it’s also a low-level plane where only Mortal Rank Martial Artists are nurtured, and it takes thousands of years to possibly nurture a Spirit Rank Martial Artist.

To achieve another breakthrough, one must step out of the low-level plane.

Of course, besides this, there are intermediate planes where Spirit Rank life can be directly nurtured, high-level planes nurturing Holy Rank, and Divine Planes directly nurturing Divine-class Martial Artists.

However, for Xiao Ye and others, these are still too distant.

"A Great Realm is composed of countless planes and star domains; star domains are the core area of a Great Realm."

"For example, the Great Realm we are in now is named ’Void Great Realm,’ named by the ’Taixu Great Saint’ who has ruled the Great Realm for countless eras."

"And under the Void Great Realm, there are countless star domains, and the closest star domain to us is the ’Blue Demon’ Star Domain."

"Luckily, I fortuitously obtained a defective spiritual artifact. Otherwise, relying solely on our flight, it would probably take hundreds of years to reach Blue Demon Star Domain," Liu Yan said with a wry smile.

He, like the Unrivaled Emperor, has been cultivating for ten thousand years. Stepping out of his plane was also in pursuit of a breakthrough.

And in the vast starry sky, trying to rely solely on independent cultivation for a breakthrough is incredibly difficult. Moreover, after shedding the Mortal Body, how should they cultivate was unclear.

Only by entering a core star domain of a Great Realm can one possibly obtain opportunities for a breakthrough.

But trying to establish oneself within the Three Thousand Great Realms is extremely difficult.

He had previously attempted nine times to go to Blue Demon Star Domain but encountered dangers along the way, having to retreat each time without success. However, on the way, he learned quite a bit about matters in the Three Thousand Great Realms.

Thus, he gathered nine crossing Spirit Rank Martial Artists to attempt again heading to Blue Demon Star Domain.

"Fortunately, we met Senior Liu Yan, or else we wouldn’t be able to leave True Spirit to reach even the nearest Blue Demon Star Domain, wasting time,"

Xiao Ye expressed gratitude.

He constantly remembered his parents, who only have twenty years of lifespan left.

"In the Blue Demon Star Domain, there must be higher-grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Anyway, I need to get a subspiritual artifact!" Xiao Ye’s eyes burned with desire.

He felt that coming to the Three Thousand Great Realms finally gave Time Tower a place to be utilized.

On the True Spirit Continent, it was simply a waste!

According to Liu Yan, even with a subspiritual artifact, reaching Spirit Demon Star Domain would still take about two years.

At present, the group was sitting cross-legged on the flying sword, surrounding them only the flickering starlight.

They all came for the pursuit of breakthroughs, gathered together because of Liu Yan, after all, they were of the same level of strength.

Moreover, because of jointly exploring the Three Thousand Great Realms, they developed feelings of mutual empathy, invisibly closing the distance between them. They quickly became familiar and engaged in Martial Arts exchanges.

Liu Yan’s entourage came from three different low-level planes.

The Martial Arts from these three low-level planes were entirely different from those of the True Spirit Continent. After the Human Race Four Emperors interacted with them, they were filled with sighs and gained much benefit.

Of course, they all chose to ignore Xiao Ye.

After all, a Mortal Rank Martial Artist is just cannon fodder in the Three Thousand Great Realms, not even qualifying to protect themselves.

Xiao Ye didn’t bother caring about this.

Only a certain comment from within the group, a two-meter tall young man with red long hair named ’Mo Wen,’ occasionally with cold and sarcastic words made him slightly annoyed.

However, considering that this young man and Liu Yan both came from Fenglei Continent, and being a junior talent favored by Liu Yan, he didn’t take it to heart and continued to cultivate quietly.

In the blink of an eye, six months passed.

During this period, they encountered many strange Martial Artists who cast unfriendly gazes at them, all being Spirit Rank Levels.

But when they noticed Xiao Ye’s party of sixteen, fifteen of whom were Spirit Rank Martial Artists, they didn’t dare to act recklessly.

Occasional skirmishes were soon crushed quickly, given Liu Yan’s subspiritual artifact was quite terrifying.

"Truly strange."

"Back when Unrivaled Emperor broke out from True Spirit Continent, he encountered Spirit Demons; why are there none now?"

"Could it be that because True Spirit Continent was closed for too long, they have withdrawn?" Xiao Ye pondered silently.

Initially, he thought stepping out of the True Spirit Continent would mean facing an endless stream of Spirit Demons, but he hadn’t seen a single one thus far, making him feel very puzzled.

Having no clue about this, he shook his head and stopped dwelling on it.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Suddenly, the starry sky began to tremble, and arrow-like rain suddenly shot over from a distance, like a violent storm, flickering with cold gleams, covering Xiao Ye and others, each containing astonishing power.

"Everyone be careful, danger is coming!"

Liu Yan shouted, immediately launching defenses, terrifying momentum sweeping across the starry sky, deflecting all incoming arrows.

The group came to a halt, Liu Yan raised his hand, gripping an ancient longsword, with vigilant eyes staring forward.

"Haha, truly unexpected, to find a subspiritual artifact; what luck!"

"Handover peacefully, or die!"

Seeing figures flashing in the starry sky ahead, about twenty figures emerged from an Ancient Star, each shadow shrouded in starlight, wearing peculiar outfits, with strange appearances, and eyes flickering with greed.

"Not good, these people might be Boundary Bandits from the Three Thousand Great Realms!"

Although only twenty Martial Artists appeared before them, matching their realm, Liu Yan’s expression became grave.

The vastness of the Three Thousand Great Realms makes acquiring cultivation resources more difficult than on low-level planes; naturally, many Martial Artists are willing to become Boundary Bandits, banding together for robbery.

In the Three Thousand Great Realms, there are even powerful Holy Rank Boundary Bandits forming notorious Boundary Bandit forces.

Seeing these Martial Artists recognize his weapon—a subspiritual artifact—and still dare to charge, they were undoubtedly not simple, likely with ambushes present.

"Kid, we’ve protected you for so long; it’s time for you to repay us."

"Handle those dozen fellows ahead. If you can’t solve this little trouble, don’t travel with us anymore."

At that moment, Mo Wen, with red long hair, suddenly flew forward and said.

His words immediately drew the attention of those twenty Martial Artists, following Mo Wen’s cue, they collectively looked toward Xiao Ye.

"Damned thing, truly think I’m easy to bully?"

At this moment, a fierce cold gleam flashed in Xiao Ye’s eyes.

(Apologies, the new plot requires more consideration, hence written a bit slowly.)