Dread

"I've become weaker..." mumbled the Yang Incarnation as he raised his hand and stared straight at it.

"It's only natural, the amount of Yang Essence that existed within us back then was quite a bit smaller than the amount of Yin-Essence, the fact that you've become only a slight bit weaker than before if quite good..." mumbled the Yin Incarnation as she stared at her counterpart.

The words of the Yin Incarnation were in fact true, as after the breakthrough, the Yang Incarnation himself was just a bit weaker than the former Lin Xue was back then.

As for the Yin Incarnation herself, or both of them when they combined their powers?

The former Lin Xue didn't stand a chance.

"That's true, but still..." mumbled the Yang Incarnation, who was Lin Xue just a few moments ago, and as such, stronger than he was now.

The feeling of loosing strength is perhaps the most hated feeling of any cultivator, no matter how weak or powerful they had originally been.

But as the Yin Incarnation stared at her counterpart, who was still standing there, deep in thought, she couldn't help but slightly bite her lips.

"I'm a little bit hungry..." mumbled the Yin Incarnation, causing a confused look to appear on the face of the Yang Incarnation.

A moment later, the Yin Incarnation appeared behind her counterpart before suddenly grabbing him, and placing him on her shoulder without him resisting in the slightest.

After just a fraction of a second, a bed appeared in front of the Yin Incarnation, causing her to suddenly throw her counterpart on it without any remorse, before jumping onto the bed herself.

...

Nearby Spirit Source Continent

As he stared at the tribulation clouds above him, which were slowly but surely dissipating, Xu Si, whose soul had almost been destroyed just a few moments ago, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"My accumulation was not nearly as large as I thought it was..." mumbled Xu Si as he touched his white beard.

Soon after reaching the Void Refinement Realm, after a short seclusion, Xu Si finally left the Spirit Source Continent behind, not before leaving the enemies of the Xu Clan completely destroyed.

Interestingly, not long after he left the Spirit Source Continent, Xu Si actually encountered something that he had not encountered for many, many years.

An inheritance.

Back in his youth, Xu Si, whose only backing was the Xu Clan, which was not nearly as strong as it was right now, relied on inheritances and hidden treasures to obtain resources and cultivation techniques.

Even though he was very weak back then, Xu Si was actually pretty lucky, and was able to survive over a dozen inheritances.

Sadly though, after Xu Si reached the Golden Core Realm, things pretty much came to a complete halt, making Xu Si have to slowly but surely cultivate in seclusion, as the inheritances left on the Spirit Source Continent didn't have anything much to offer him.

Not long after exiting the Spirit Source Continent, Xu Si actually encountered the Inheritance of a cultivator at the Human Immortal Realm.

In the end, after fighting against cultivators at both the Void Refinement, and the Tribulation Realm, Xu Si was actually able to obtain the bulk of the inheritance, with the rest of it going to a female cultivator he had met at the very inheritance, called Zhao Mingyun.

In the end, Xu Si used the resources obtained from the Inheritance, as well as his previous accumulation to quickly go through the Void Refinement Realm, luckily not encountering any sort of heavy bottleneck, and reaching the Tribulation Realm.

But although the resources from the inheritance only took him this far, Xu Si was very satisfied with his gains, as he had gained something far more important.

"Who could have thought that there was still so much of the path of cultivation left..." mumbled Xu Si as he stared at the jade slip in his hands.

Before leaving the Spirit Source Continent, Xu Si originally thought that he was relatively close to the end of cultivation, with the highest realm he was aware of being the Ascended Immortal Realm, which came after the Tribulation Realm.

But as it turns out, there were actually seven different realms beyond that one.

Human Immortal

Earth Immortal

True Immortal

Golden Immortal

Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal

Quasi-Sage

Sage of the Heavenly Way

If Xu Si had not left the Spirit Source Continent at that moment, even if he managed to reach the Tribulation Realm after a long time, he knew that his cultivation path would've been completely cut off after that.

Right now though, as he read through the relics of the Human Immortal whose inheritance he obtained, Xu Si couldn't help but feel both eager and a bit demoralized.

Not only did the inheritance contain cultivator techniques and different spells, it also contained a large amount of information about the world itself.

Reading about the Golden Immortal clans the inheritance described, about the geniuses who reached the Human Immortal Realm after a Hundred Years, before he himself had even reached the Golden Core Realm, Xu Si couldn't help but feel a sense of dread at what he read.

As it turned out, of these geniuses who reached the Human Immortal Realm after only a hundred years of cultivation, only 1 percent of them actually reached the True Immortal Realm, which was the realm at which the cultivator became truly immortal and ascend to the upper realm.

As for the Golden Immortal Realm, the Human Immortal only knew of its existence, and was not aware of anything else about it.

Such things were true about every realm above it as well.

A few moments later, after reading through all the information the inheritance had in it, Xu Si suddenly made a radical decision, and retreated back to the Spirit Source Continent.

"A little Tribulation Realm Cultivator like me can die at any moment, I need to become way stronger before going out of the continent again..." thought Xu Si with a determined look on his face.