Chapter 36: Chen Daoxuan Breaks Through – This... is the Sea of Qi Realm?

Void Mountain, Heavenly Dao Hall.

Chen Daoxuan lay comfortably on a Dao Comprehension chair, watching the system's notifications with great satisfaction!

[Disciple Leng Yanran has killed an enemy at the seventh Layer of the Profound Sky Realm, earning 7 system points.]

[Disciple Leng Yanran has killed an enemy at the fifth Layer of the Unity Realm, earning 50 system points.]

[Disciple Leng Yanran has killed…]

As the notifications kept coming, Chen Daoxuan didn't even need to think to realize that Yanran must have already bombarded the Luo Heaven Sect with full force!

Eventually, with the last notification:

[Disciple Leng Yanran has killed an enemy at the fifth Layer of the Extinction Realm, earning 500 system points.]

[Disciple Leng Yanran has completely annihilated the Luo Heaven Sect, earning an additional reward of 1,000 system points.]

With these final notifications, he knew the battle's outcome.

The Luo Heaven Sect was destroyed, and the Extinction Realm sect master had perished.

He hadn't expected that wiping out an entire sect would bring an extra reward; a thousand system points was no small amount, equivalent to the points earned from killing two Extinction Realm experts at the fifth Layer. An unexpected bonus.

"Check my stats."

Chen Daoxuan mentally commanded.

[Host: Chen Daoxuan]

[Race: Human]

[Special Physique: Hongmeng Primordial Dao Body]

[Cultivation Technique: Chaos Celestial Demon Art (Perfected)]

[Talent: Hongmeng]

[Cultivation Realm: Eighth Layer of Qi Condensation]

[System Points: 4,399]

Initially at just over 2,000 points, his points had doubled through this battle!

If he used them to boost his cultivation, it could provide over four thousand years' worth of progress.

The sect master and the extra reward alone had contributed 1,500 points, and the several Unity Realm elders earned him hundreds more. As for the Profound Sky Realm and lower realm disciples, they hadn't added much to his total.

"Tch, only a bit over 2,000 points?"

"Isn't the Luo Heaven Sect supposed to be one of the Four Major Sects? Why were there so few people…"

"How useless!"

Chen Daoxuan frowned, feeling a bit dissatisfied with the meager points. He was also displeased with the Luo Heaven Sect's lackluster strength and annoyed they had too few high realm cultivators.

Still, he thought back to the cost of annihilating the Luo Heaven Sect—it was only 200 points, so he let it slide.

"Looks like I'll have to send Yanran out more often. Any forces that cross her path would be live system points!"

"System, convert the remaining 399 points into cultivation!"

Chen Daoxuan made a mental note to send Yanran out for further training when she returned. She couldn't just stay on the mountain practicing all the time.

While he could earn cultivation and points when disciples broke through, it was nowhere near as profitable as taking on missions… or "upholding justice" by eliminating evil forces!

Feeling a bit discontent with his current realm—the lowest realm, just one tier above the Body Refining stage—Chen Daoxuan immediately spent 399 points to exchange for 399 years of cultivation!

[399 years of cultivation exchanged successfully.]

[Host's realm has been raised to the First Layer of the Sea of Qi Realm.]

"Sea of Qi Realm… first Layer?"

"First Layer!?"

"Three hundred years of cultivation, and I only gained two layers!"

Hearing this prompt, Chen Daoxuan was stunned.

To advance from the first Layer in the Qi Condensation realm to the last layer required one hundred years of cultivation, surely to advance from the first layer of the Sea of Qi Realm to the last layer couldn't be much more demanding—shouldn't two hundred years be enough?

By his calculations, he should have reached at least the second Void Sky Realm.

But now it seems different. It might take a thousand years of cultivation just to advance to the last layer in the Sea of Qi Realm!

"What a rip-off!"

"I need a hundred years of cultivation to break through a layer in the Sea of Qi Realm? then what about the Void Sky Realm, Profound Sky Realm, or even the Unity and Extinction Realms?"

"System, are you messing with me!?"

Chen Daoxuan was at a loss, continually questioning the system's sanity. 

If things kept going this way, wouldn't each breakthrough become more challenging than the last?

[Ding! Every individual has unique qualities. The host's Sea of Qi Realm is far beyond what this world's Sea of Qi Realm can compare to.]

[Your true power will require testing, and the host should inspect their Sea of Qi first.]

The system's reply mirrored its previous, cryptic responses, leaving Chen Daoxuan exasperated. 

Unique qualities? 

Yanran was breaking through a realm a day, and she was already in the Profound Sky Realm!

Yet here he was, her master, needing a hundred years of cultivation for a single layer?

Good thing he could use system points to exchange for cultivation. If he had to do it manually, it'd be agony.

Reluctantly, Chen Daoxuan followed the system's advice and focused inwardly on his Sea of Qi.

In the Heavenly Dao Hall, he was an all-seeing, omnipotent presence. Yet his actual body had been at the Qi Condensation stage, not even close to opening a Sea of Qi.

As his mind's eye focused, Chen Daoxuan was taken aback.

"Where's the Sea of Qi? System, come out! Where's my Sea of Qi?"

"I traded a thousand years of cultivation for this realm—shouldn't I at least have a Sea of Qi?"

To be fair, his frustration was understandable. When he directed his awareness toward where his Sea of Qi was supposed to be, he only saw… nothingness. No Sea of Qi to be found.

[The host is indeed viewing the Sea of Qi. Look closer.]

After a long pause, the system replied reluctantly.

Unhappy but curious, Chen Daoxuan took another look, extending his consciousness toward the supposed Sea of Qi.

At first, it seemed empty, devoid of any Sea of Qi. But… hold on! Were those tiny flickers of light?

A bit stunned, Chen Daoxuan leaned his consciousness closer, eventually immersing it within the boundless void of his dantian.

"…"

"What the—?!"

"Is this… my Sea of Qi?!"

Chen Daoxuan was dumbfounded as he beheld his surroundings. This was no Sea of Qi—this was a vast starry sky, an entire cosmos!

The faintly flickering specks of light were stars scattered throughout this universe!

Looking around, he saw galaxies, entire star clusters. Then, feeling a subtle warmth, he turned his attention toward it.

"Wait… is that a sun?!"

After a while, Chen Daoxuan pulled his consciousness back from the void in his dantian, utterly silent.

This… was supposed to be his Sea of Qi?

"Uh… why are you trembling?"

Chen Daoxuan suddenly noticed his Dao Comprehension chair shaking, making him uncomfortable. Then, through the tendrils on the chair, his Primordial Spirit Enlightenment Tea tree communicated.

[The aura you just emitted was too terrifying, Master. Tea-Tea is scared…]

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