My Core is the Boss

The others fell silent as if deep in thoughts. The dozen or so Nascent Soul realm cultivators here represented the ten great sects. Their ancestors had long ago secretly allied with one another. Naturally, they hadn’t come to Arch Star out of kindness to spread immortal arts.

The female cultivator’s gaze became murderous. "The Heaven Upheaval Plan cannot fail. The New World must come into existence!"

The spiritual qi of the Three Worlds was growing thinner. At this rate, even Nascent Soul realm cultivators would eventually cease to appear. Thus, these Nascent Soul cultivators had devised a plan to alter their fate.

Within the Three Worlds existed a vast secret realm known as the Heaven Upheaval Realm. Their objective was to pour all spiritual qi from the Three Worlds and Arch Star into said realm. There, they would create a cultivation world overflowing with spiritual qi. With the Three Worlds and Arch Star serving as mere sacrifices, their sects would become the new rulers of the world.

Their plans within the Three Worlds were already complete. All that remained was to make preparations on Arch Star. Now that spiritual qi had begun recovering on Arch Star, they could not afford to waste this chance.

At last, the Nascent Soul realm cultivators reached a consensus.

"For now, we should proceed quietly with the Heaven Upheaval Plan. Do not provoke him."

"Agreed. The mission comes first. Let him be arrogant for a while longer. In a few hundred years, he will understand just how weak and powerless he truly is."

"Anyone who obstructs the Heaven Upheaval Plan shall be killed without mercy!"

Furthermore, the body of a Violet Palace cultivator would serve as excellent nourishment, greatly enriching the spiritual qi of the Heaven Upheaval Realm.

Just then, a curvaceous female cultivator said, "The Heavenly Origin Sect’s stone seems to have detected our plan. Recently, they've been repeatedly petitioning the Arch Star royal family to establish the Douzhuan Heavenly Origin Formation to uncover more information."

In reality, she had simply misunderstood. The danger the Heavenly Origin Sect had detected on Arch Star was not the Heaven Upheaval Plan.

"The Heavenly Origin Sect is proving troublesome. Our mole has sent back some important information. The Heavenly Origin Sect has established contact with their ancestor in the upper world. He’s taken quite an interest in Arch Star and will descend in roughly a hundred years."

"What? A Yin Spirit is going to descend?"

The atmosphere grew heavy. Everyone was shaken. After all, before a Yin Spirit expert, every scheme and trick would become laughably fragile.

"According to my information, he will descend no earlier than a hundred years from now, and no later than two hundred years from now!"

"Is the information reliable?"

"Absolutely. The mole I planted—"

"Then, it seems we must complete the Heaven Upheaval Plan within a hundred years!"

***

Meanwhile, the destruction of the Fighting God Sect caused an enormous uproar. After all, the sect master who had single-handedly uprooted a skyscraper had fallen to a mysterious expert carrying a mental illness certificate. He died from a casual punch, no less! The already privileged mentally ill suddenly became the elite among elites. Whenever people saw one, they no longer dared provoke them.

As the world buzzed with discussion over the destruction of the Fighting God Sect, the people of Arch Star witnessed the ruthless reality of the cultivation world for the first time. A disagreement could end with an extermination of an entire sect.

Nevertheless, Grandpa Delivery Net's mission of bringing warmth and love to the world continued in full swing. Countless blood samples were shipped to Tianyue. Qi Yuan selected suitable individuals and gave them a grandfather or a grandmother. As for those who lacked affinity, Qi Yuan was still generous. He simply recorded voice messages.

"Granddaughter, Grandpa is with you."

"Grandson, Grandpa is still here."

Anyone who submitted a blood sample to Grandpa Delivery Net would receive the two recordings on their phone. Qi Yuan did not send different recordings based on gender because he refused to assume anyone's gender. What if that delicate, fragrant boy was actually a cute tomboy?

For a year, Grandpa Delivery Net flourished before gradually fading away. After all, those willing to offer their blood had already done so, while those unwilling were not forced. There were already enough people for his Nascent Souls to find grandchildren. Besides, countless dead ancestors were still waiting to be revived in the Origin Land. Qi Yuan eventually found himself running low on Nascent Souls.

Within a few years, Grandpa Delivery Net vanished from public attention. Most people merely received a custom voice recording and five hundred dollars. They had no idea what the site was truly for. Those who had received a grandfather or grandmother, however, were overjoyed and quietly went into hiding.

Many years passed in the mortal world. On Arch Star, ordinary people gradually accepted the existence of immortal cultivators. Cultivation alliances were established, and cultivation academies appeared one after another.

Martial arts became increasingly niche. Martial arts gyms closed one after another, replaced by independent immortal cultivation halls. Though martial arts declined, the Martial Arts Tournament continued to be held every year. The participants were mostly elderly men and women who lacked talent for the immortal dao and stubbornly clung to the passions of their youth.

The Martial Arts Tournament went from niche to niche within niche. Every championship match attracted only a handful of spectators. People even jokingly referred to it as the Nursing Home Smackdown. After all, for all these years, the champion had always been the same person: Qi Yuan. He was also nicknamed the Elder Slayer.

As time passed, Qi Yuan's opponents grew older and older. Young people all pursued immortal dao. No one remained in martial arts, which gradually became a private domain for the elderly.

Every tournament ended up being Qi Yuan fighting old men or old ladies. The championship was never in doubt. It was always Qi Yuan! How could those elderly competitors possibly defeat him? Thus, the Martial Arts Tournament sank completely into obscurity.

Meanwhile, the spiritual qi of Arch Star grew increasingly dense. Dangerous undercurrents were gathering beneath the surface.

Of course, none of that concerned Qi Yuan as he was busy completing missions in the Death Qi World. Within that world, Qi Yuan had earned quite a reputation and was known as the Blood-Clothed Mad Demon. It was a title somewhat similar to his old one, Blood-Clothed Sword God.

Every time he entered a Mission World, he would kidnap the mission target and slaughter his way across the entire world. This left his fellow mission participants both delighted and miserable. After all, although they could treat the mission as a vacation and simply sit back and relax, no one knew how long Qi Yuan would take to exterminate every last demon.

Once, there had simply been too many demons, and Qi Yuan spent five full years killing them all. Everyone else had to wait five years before they could leave. One mission participant even had a child during that period.

***

At this moment, within Mission World. Deep within a great mountain covered in lush forests, straight fir trees stretched toward the sky, while countless pine needles hung from their branches.

Ahead lay a cemetery. Though its appearance suggested that it had been forsaken, yet it was spotless, suggesting that a gravekeeper regularly maintained the grounds.

A green-robed young man yawned lazily while munching on a watermelon, murmuring, "I've been guarding this grave for three years already. Why hasn't anyone come to pay their respects? If nobody comes to visit the grave, how am I supposed to wipe out their entire clan?"