The Talent known as Perseverance

[Name: Yong Yunzi

Rank: 1st Overall Ranking

Points: 3,897

Comprehension: 4,978(+)

Spiritual Root: Flame Heavenly Grade

Level: Meridian Opening 3rd Stage

True Level: Meridian Opening 6th Stage

The opening of Meridian Opening 4th Stage is Next Month]

"Nice, my original 3,200+ Comprehension became this much thanks to the tutorial and the 10,000+ points enemies I had slain. A pity if I ever perfected it, it would certainly be a 100% increase. Let me take things slowly." Yong Yunzi thought while overlooking the pile of corpses she was stepping into.

A First Level Meridian Beast is 1 Point with higher the Level, the higher its point.

It's been 3 months and she was honing herself. Her fighting experience, instincts, and intuitions from her previous timeline and the current one are slowly integrating.

The integration may be a slow one but it can naturally top all the Eastern Heaven Chosens that participated in this Path of Heaven.

She was thinking about the future as she was stocking resources to open her 10th Meridian. The 10th, 11th, and 12th Meridian are harder to get than to advance in the Qi Sea. She could wait for Heaven's Advent to complete it but her intuition says she would be stronger if she opened it in times of Heaven's Absence.

And she was thinking of 13th Foundation Uniqueness. In every 13th Foundation, she could create and plan a Uniqueness.

Like Yun Haoran who created Uniqueness 100 times faster than the Original Cultivation Speed and the Central Continent's Hong Tianya who could store Spiritual Qi in her Meridian.

Those 100 times can only be found in his Spiritual Roots. Absorption, Refinement, and Tempering without outside interference. In other words, Yun Haoran's original speed is about 1,000, and 100 times is 100,000. He was quite surprised when it became 200,000 but he attributed it to the World Tree seed.

The reason it was only 100 is because it was the only limit he could get and a frightening tribulation would come down if ever he tried doing anything more.

As to how she would open it? No one knows and even herself didn't know. The two who knew it would never say it to anyone. Hong Tianya only had hints coming from her and even then she needed to think it herself.

"Maybe a Uniqueness about my favorite? Flames, it shall be." She said as she leaped through the air gracefully and threw the spear with great skill.

"Will Form of Spear. It could transform into anything as long as it was directly linked into a spear." She smiled as she saw a one-eyed monster with four arms and wings as its ears. Its eyes had been pierced then its body was incinerated in a blazing inferno.

+8 Points

[Title Evolve: The One who Slaughter

You would aggregate any monster nearby.]

"8th Stage Meridian, not bad not bad." She nodded. At this time of the year, she could not easily defeat an 8th Stage Meridian with only having a 3rd Stage Meridian but as an Empress and also a Peak Existence, it should be a breeze for her. It was also thanks to her weapon that she could even kill it in one hit.

[The Weekly Challenge: The Indomitable Dao Heart is now open. Do you want to test your Willpower?]

"Hmm, is that the time already? Alright. Test my Willpower." She then disappeared from her original site.

Indomitable Dao Heart, as the name suggested was the test of the Heart. It would appear every week to challenge the Dao Heart.

Some establishments test the Martial Arts, Intent, Techniques, and Spells but only the Dao Heart remains and no particular establishment has been created for the past few months. Even Yong Yunzi didn't know why the Dungeon Master or rather her Senior Brother and Heaven is not creating one.

Yong Yunzi opened her eyes. She could see people also appearing at this stage. They have a hopeful expression with a mature and serene aura surrounding them.

She also saw her Niece and Nephew waiting for the test to begin. This is the test that would show their Demon Heart, their negative and positive aspects in life.

A Demon Heart could be bred everywhere. Even if that environment is a safe haven or a dangerous area, it is all the same. A Cultivator should know themselves to not be tempted into the shadow of a Demon.

[To get to your destination, you must strive and persevere. A spoon-fed child would not grow into a capable adult. A green-housed Cultivator would never be as capable as those wildgrass. Even a talented individual would never become a Hegemon without experiencing hell. Try to know your Demon Heart while experiencing Perseverance. This is the Trial of a Persevering Demon.]

"Someone laughed the first time but no one could do it anymore, because anyone that did it would be electrocuted." Yong Yunzi said with a smile on her face.

People laugh because of the pride they have. That even if they are in the sect or clan training, they would be capable of overturning hell itself. Those who did that had a Point deduction via paying a price to be unbanned. No one would want to be banned forever because of the increase in talent and comprehension.

The sect and clans in the outside world had also been finding loopholes. Only a minute had passed and those loopholes were already fixed. And they had been banned only to be unbanned if they paid a price.

She then started walking then a white wall appeared. This is the Persevering Demon Trial where she remembered how far someone could go with their Perseverance. There is a particular reason why every time she would join even if she knew it would be a breeze for her.

It was not to synchronize her Dao Heart, it was because she wanted the prize. Or rather, she wanted to change her prize this time.

When she walked into the white wall, she became blind for a while and she felt she became a normal human again.

A mortal who is powerless as ants in the eyes of Cultivators. A mortal with only a little lifespan and someone who would be forgotten by the world.

"You are here, my Heart Demon." Yong Yunzi said it was like greeting an old friend. She was waving her hand to a woman with the Dao of Flame, not any normal Dao of Flame but the Great Dao of Divine Flame that could sunder even the Divine Earth, the place where Peak Existence resides.

It could also evaporate the River of Time or the River of Fate. It could sunder anything and be capable of Healing it. She had a flame that would incinerate forever and a flame that would explode once every thousand years.

She had a Spear on her right hand with the power to empower all her Flames. She is a mature version of Yong Yunzi but with red hair and Phoenix Eyes. To even think of breathing the same air as her is a grave crime worthy of death itself.

"The Divine Flame Empress, how did you become so weak?" The Demon Heart asked with a taunting smile on her face.

Yong Yunzi only smiled and walked, she was then being followed by her Demon Heart. While walking, she is experiencing her first timeline. All her setbacks, tribulations, and how envious she was of the talents her Senior Brother and her generation have. She saw how she was hated by the Phoenix Clan and other Flame-related clans because of how she hunted down their own kinds.

She may have a Heavenly Grade but that is not enough, she must have a Dao Grade or higher. If her Spiritual Root transformed into a Physique, the better.

"Are you despairing right now because all your hard work has been gone and you need to experience all of this again?"

"You should despair because you need to envy again your overly talented Senior Brother."

"Envy is why you become an Emperor, right? Let it out, become more envious of the world and you will be more powerful."

"Your Uniqueness should be Envious, no? Hahahaha. Creating the 13th Foundation. That is all a child's dream. Only your Senior Brother could do that."

Yong Yunzi walked while watching her experiences, the cries, and her enviousness to the world. She walked until no person was ever in her sight, they were despairing and their heart had been crumbling.

Her Dao Heart had been forged too many times, it also cracked too many times that defeating them alone would not be enough. She despairs many times just to stand up again.

There is only one thing she did not forget.

"Listen Junior Sister, in the grand scheme of things, Perseverance only matters. However don't become obsessed or rather, try to be an Extreme Opposite. Work hard like your life is dependent on it while rest like you are the laziest person in existence." She smiled when she saw her Senior Brother.

She woke up neither early nor late but she managed to reverse things.

"If you are me, you should know that I have defeated you too many times to count, right?" Yong Yunzi asked her Heart Demon while looking at her.

"Right, I know you. I am the struggle of your resistance and the resistance between your struggle. I am not merely a Heart Demon but I am you. You who had everything that tried with nothing." The Heart Demon replied looking at Yong Yunzi.

"So why are you here? You should be me so you know I would breeze this out and come out even stronger. I would find my Senior Brother and Master this time around." Yong Yunzi said then finally looked at her memories.

"Because I am you, I know that all your struggle would only be futile until the end. You would die again when you become an Originator. You would repeat into an eternal struggle until the very end.

Why not give up, and enjoy your life, or else you will despair and despair again until you are an empty husk." The Heart Demon explained until she controlled Yong Yunzi's memories which is not yet even happening.

She was always regressing in the past, becoming an empty husk. She would always meet her Senior Brother and Master but never resolve all of it. She would always be in the step to become an Originator but she would be hunted by the World for it. She would see all her friends die again and again, even if she knew everything, nothing she could escape from it.

Even Yong Yunzi even believed that this was real but her heart never wavered even a bit.

"You are becoming more and more wild as time goes on. Why not just finally fuse with me because I have known all of me the day I prove to myself I am me?" Yong Yunzi replied while watching it happening.

"So what if I walk and walk until it becomes an obsession? That obsession is the reason why I become stronger. I am not Senior Brother who had the time to rest, I could only walk forward without looking back." She added.

The Demon Heart became quiet then Yong Yunzi found that light wall again.

When she is walking to the white wall, the Demon Heart asks again, "Did you become the Divine Flame Empress because you are Yong Yunzi, or are you Yong Yunzi because you are the Divine Flame Empress?"

"Hmm, I am…" She answered while walking on the light wall