Translator: CinderTL
An hour later, Li Chunjun reappeared in the Void.
The entire surface of the Lesser Thousand World was now pitch-black, resembling a freshly charred piece of coal.
"Let's go to the next Lesser Thousand World," Li Chunjun said to Su Fang.
"Yes!" Su Fang replied fervently, his eyes blazing with excitement.
In that moment, they felt as though they were witnessing the birth of a legend.
A Primordial Spirit!
While it wasn't impossible for others to destroy all life within a Lesser Thousand World, the methods they used were never as simple and direct as Li Chunjun's.
A single strike to annihilate everything!
Was this the power of a Primordial Spirit True Monarch? Even a Void Refining Great Power might not possess such might!
What Su Fang found most astonishing was that Li Chunjun had only weathered six Thunder Tribulations. This meant his comprehension of certain fundamental Daos hadn't even reached the entry level, leaving him ample room for growth.
If Li Chunjun continued to develop at this rate, his overall combat prowess would surely ascend to unprecedented heights. What level of power would he attain then?
Would he sweep through the Cosmic Light List with unstoppable momentum, claiming the top spot?
Or perhaps...
Li Chunjun would become the first legendary cultivator in history to rival a Void Refining Great Power while still in his Primordial Spirit form!
If he truly achieved this, he would be rewriting history!
His impact would far surpass that of merely topping the Cosmic Light List.
He might even reshape the very course of the Human Race's cultivation system.
His name would be indelibly etched into the long annals of Human history.
And they...
They would all be witnesses to this legend!
Whoosh!
Rainbow light flooded the sky!
Li Chunjun rode the Seven-Colored Rainbow Light back to the Azure Star Minor Realm.
Upon arriving, he swept his Divine Sense across the entire realm, confirming that no unfortunate Heart Demon had infiltrated during his absence. He quickly boarded the Golden Crow Battleship.
But as he stepped aboard, something seemed to occur to him.
With a flick of his Divine Sense, he located Jiang Wanyu.
He wished to avoid further entanglement with Senior Sister Jiang, but...
Having promised to fulfill her wish, he must honor his word.
In the next instant, all the profound insights, experiences, and techniques Li Chunjun had gained from excavating the fifth and sixth revolutions of the Flaming Phoenix Blood, including a glimpse into the mysteries of the seventh revolution, coalesced within his Divine Sense. He poured this entire trove of knowledge into Jiang Wanyu.
Jiang Wanyu, who was deep in cultivation, paused slightly. "Junior Brother... Sword Prodigy?"
"Contemplate this carefully," Li Chunjun replied.
After transmitting these insights to Jiang Wanyu in an almost first-person perspective, he withdrew his Divine Sense.
Feeling Li Chunjun's Divine Sense fade away, Jiang Wanyu felt a pang of wistful loss.
She had so much she wanted to say to him, so many questions about how he was faring. But...
From snippets of casual conversations between Jiang Yuqiu, Huan Ming, Shadowless True Lord, and others, she had gleaned that she, and the entire Taixu Sword Sect, were now worlds apart from Li Chunjun.
He stood aloft, like a deity or immortal.
While she remained grounded in the mortal realm, indistinguishable from ordinary people.
Under these circumstances, she ultimately refrained from activating her Divine Sense to trace the lingering fluctuations of his departure and find him, or say anything more at all.
Li Chunjun witnessed the scene unfold.
But he quickly averted his gaze, focusing his Heart-Mind on the Scarlet Sky Sword within his body.
More precisely, he concentrated on the Gold Fusion, the Dao-infused material that the sword had yet to fully assimilate.
Having cultivated the Flaming Phoenix Blood to the sixth transformation, the newly unearthed Flaming Phoenix Power will allow me to undergo Nirvana three more times, he mused.
In the next instant, his entire being—his Essence, Qi, and Spirit—began converging toward his Lifebound Flying Sword, initiating a new round of Sword Sacrificial Refinement.
His experience from the previous three cycles made this process effortless.
Although the transformative effects of using Flaming Phoenix Power for Nirvana refinement couldn't match the metamorphosis brought about by elevating his Life Level, this round still resulted in the complete assimilation of Gold Fusion into the Scarlet Sky Sword. This propelled his Lifebound Flying Sword to the absolute peak achievable for a quasi-Dao Artifact.
Over the next two months, Li Chunjun's tasks became remarkably straightforward.
He dispatched Yu Jin and Su Fang to different Lesser Chiliocosms to assist the native forces in eradicating Heart Demons.
With Elsa leveraging the Spirits of Nature to provide intelligence, Li Chunjun maintained overwhelming initiative in every Lesser Chiliocosm he visited, swiftly annihilating the Heart Demons infesting those factions.
When he encountered Evil Factions or Foreign Races who targeted Yu Jin and Su Fang as prey, Li Chunjun showed no mercy, wiping them out along with the Heart Demons.
Now wielding Seventh-Rank combat power, he stood at the apex of the food chain in this Land of Buried Demons, slaughtering without restraint.
He cleansed one Lesser Chiliocosm after another at an astonishing rate, averaging one every six days.
By the end of the two months, he had purged nine Lesser Chiliocosms and eliminated over seven hundred Heart Demons. The number of Foreign Races that had fallen to his sword for various reasons was equally staggering.
Just as Li Chunjun finished cleansing his tenth Lesser Chiliocosm, good news finally arrived from the Azure Star Minor Realm!
"The weapon, detection, and defense systems will still take time to fully repair, but thanks to everyone's tireless efforts, the Golden Crow Battleship's propulsion system has been completely restored. Once we reinstall the engines we removed earlier, the ship will be able to start smoothly and reach fifty percent of its peak speed, setting course for the Immortal Great Wall and beginning its journey back to Human Territory."
Onboard the Golden Crow Battleship, Chief Technology Officer True Monarch Yuan Ji announced this with palpable joy.
"Finally repaired," Li Chunjun murmured.
Though his mood had lightened somewhat, his face betrayed little exuberance. Beside him, True Monarch Huang Tian and Zuo Cheng exchanged knowing glances, silently guessing his thoughts.
"Conduct another round of inspections," Zuo Cheng ordered. "We're embarking on a year-long voyage, and we must ensure the Golden Crow Battleship experiences no unexpected issues during that time!"
Yuan Ji, though inwardly scoffing at a year-long voyage as "long," immediately replied, "I'll begin re-inspection right away to eliminate all malfunctions and ensure the ship's operational stability throughout the voyage."
After speaking, he quickly departed.
Once he was gone, True Monarch Huang Tian, who had been standing nearby, remarked, "Swordmaster Li... what's troubling him?"
"The Golden Crow Battleship's maximum capacity is only ten million, right?" Li Chunjun asked.
"That's correct," Huang Tian nodded. "But our cultivator forces number only in the tens of thousands. Even combined with the native cultivators from Blue Star, we won't reach a million. The Jade Hill Clan has a few hundred thousand, and the Wood Spirit Clan's elite forces are a bit larger, but we can make adjustments as needed. The Golden Crow Battleship has ample space for everyone."
"Cultivators..." Li Chunjun murmured the word, the word hanging in the air.
Even now, Zuo Cheng, Huang Tian, and others still considered it self-evident that their evacuation should prioritize cultivators over the lives of ordinary people.
Ordinary people...
Perhaps they didn't truly count as people at all.
But what had he sworn when he first embarked on the path of cultivation?
To uphold his identity as one among the ordinary masses...
The ordinary masses.
"I promised the Wood Spirit Clan protection for their entire people," Li Chunjun declared.
True Monarch Huang Tian paused for a moment, then quickly said, "We can reserve space for four million people on the Golden Crow Battleship without significantly impacting its internal operations. That's more than enough to preserve the Wood Spirit Clan's legacy. If we find them a secure location, they'll flourish again within a millennium."
He immediately added, "In fact, I believe the Wood Spirit Clan would be perfectly content with just a hundred thousand slots."
Li Chunjun remained silent.
Zuo Cheng, observing the scene, couldn't help but entertain a bold speculation. Yet the idea seemed so outlandish, so unbelievable, that he hesitated to voice it.
After a long pause, carefully choosing his words, he asked, "Swordmaster Li, are you suggesting... that we evacuate all three billion remaining inhabitants of the Azure Star Minor Realm?"
"The Azure Star Minor Realm isn't like other Lesser Thousand Worlds," Li Chunjun replied, glancing at Zuo Cheng and True Monarch Huang Tian. "It's a standard-grade realm, only fifty thousand li across, making it relatively small."
Li Chunjun paused. "Do you think," he asked, "if we used the Golden Crow Battleship as a propulsion system, could we possibly move the entire Azure Star Minor Realm through the starry sky and send it hurtling toward the Immortal Great Wall?"
Huang Tian and Zuo Cheng's eyes narrowed sharply at his words.
As expected!
Swordmaster Li was indeed thinking along those lines.
But...
Since the Sword Master held this vision, they naturally had to devise a way to make it a reality, no matter how seemingly absurd.
For if Swordmaster Li had spoken it, that alone gave the goal its significance.
Huang Tian pondered for a moment before replying, "Once fully deployed, the Golden Crow Battleship possesses the power to propel the Azure Star Minor Realm through the starry sky. That wouldn't be difficult."
"But the speed would be agonizingly slow!" Zuo Cheng emphasized gravely. "Extremely slow! If we could reach the Immortal Great Wall in a year by piloting the Golden Crow Battleship ourselves, moving the entire Azure Star Minor Realm would take a hundred times longer—at least a century!"
"A century..." Li Chunjun frowned slightly.
For the Azure Star Minor Realm...
For the world of his birth, to interrupt his cultivation for a century...
To postpone his ascension to immortality by a hundred years...
That's far too long.
"I understand."
Li Chunjun instantly stifled the chaotic thoughts swirling within him.
Nothing, and no one, should obstruct his path to immortality.
Not even this Lesser Thousand World that had birthed and nurtured him.
At that moment, True Monarch Huang Tian suddenly spoke up. "Actually, Sword Master, if you're determined to protect this Lesser Thousand World, there might still be a way."
"Hmm?" Li Chunjun turned his gaze to Huang Tian. "What way?"
"A Cave Heaven Supreme Treasure!" Huang Tian exclaimed. "A supreme treasure crafted primarily from Dao-infused materials rich in Spatial Dao Rhythm, containing an internal space capable of housing living beings—a veritable miniature world in itself!"
He continued rapidly, "If Sword Master could acquire such a treasure, you could evacuate all the inhabitants of the Azure Star Minor Realm. With a top-tier Cave Heaven Supreme Treasure, even transporting the entire realm itself wouldn't be an impossible dream."
(End of the Chapter)
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