I Cheated While Cultivating

Chapter 380: 100: The Bizarre Xuanteng Realm

Chapter 380: Chapter 100: The Bizarre Xuanteng Realm

For the Zhou Tian Boundary Officer, the Xuanteng Realm was a rather special world.

This world wasn’t part of the jurisdiction of the Zhou Tian star maps, and the guiding information wasn’t obtained through the usual two methods. Instead, the “Heavenly Prison” Star Officer happened to come across it while traveling through the star gates across countless worlds.

Although the Zhou Tian Boundary Officer claimed to be able to descend upon all the worlds under the heavens, in reality, arriving at any world required explicit guiding information.

This guiding information was like a lighthouse in the vast ocean, directing the way. Without it, even if one could open the star gates, there would be no path to follow, let alone talk about descending upon the worlds under the heavens.

The Zhou Tian Boundary Officer had three sources of guiding information.

The first was the worlds under the jurisdiction of the Zhou Tian star maps. Even though Da Qi only had a portion of the Ziwei sector and Azure Dragon constellations, the number was still quite substantial and constituted the main body of travel across the countless worlds under the heavens.

The second was that occasionally, an Upper Third Rank powerhouse wandering beyond the heavens would come into contact with stray traces of information in the void. Through deduction using the Zhou Tian star maps, the spatial-temporal coordinates and a general overview of these worlds could be analyzed, thus acquiring new guiding information.

The third occurred when slaying evil creatures; the masks could pick up interwoven legal principles from the creatures’ essence. These usually bore the traces of the worlds touched by the evil creatures, and through analysis and deduction using the Zhou Tian star maps, there was also a chance of obtaining guiding information.

However, the probability for the latter two methods was actually quite low; from three thousand years ago until now, fewer than two hundred pieces of guiding information have been acquired through these methods.

Compared to the number of worlds under the jurisdiction of the Zhou Tian star maps, this was negligible.

But Xuanteng Realm was different.

The source of this world’s guiding information didn’t stem from any of the three sources mentioned before, but rather it was a method of acquisition that the Zhou Tian Boundary Officer had never heard of.

It was almost as if some powerful entity had assembled the world’s information and actively sent it out.

Moreover, the creator gods “Fuxi” and “Nuwa” worshiped by the people of that world were remarkably similar to the “Xi Emperor” and “Wa Emperor” revered by the Youhuang Sect.

According to the Youhuang Sect, these two were among the most supreme immortals from the Ancient Mythological Era, possessing boundless Mana, vast Great Divine Power, and unimaginable might.

The higher-ups of the Zhou Tian Boundary Officer speculated that if the “Fuxi” and “Nuwa” worshiped in Xuanteng Realm were indeed related to “Xi Emperor” and “Wa Emperor,” then it was indeed possible that the guidance information received by Heavenly Prison was sent out proactively.

As for the purpose, it remained unknown.

Although Heavenly Prison had previously completed a mission there, they didn’t gain much understanding of that world and didn’t discover any valuable information.

Thus, the leaders of the Azure Dragon and Tianyi decided to continue sending people to explore Xuanteng Realm.

“But since the Zhou Tian Boundary Officer from Southern Jin showed some activity, the progress in exploring Xuanteng Realm was also put on hold,” Zhou Heng felt somewhat regretful internally but then thought, “However, nearly half a year has passed since Heavenly Prison last reported on Xuanteng Realm, so perhaps there have been some new findings.”

With this thought, Zhou Heng went to seek out the Five Emperors’ Inner Seat to inquire about which Star Officers had gone to explore Xuanteng Realm during this period and whether he knew some information about it.

He attached great importance to this journey to Xuanteng Realm.

Unlike the people of this world, who were unaware of “Fuxi” and “Nuwa.”

For Zhou Heng, these two names were as familiar as thunder, absolutely the prime ancestors of civilization and the Human Race, and potentially held clues related to Earth.

After all, it was Fuxi and Nuwa that were passed down on Earth; there had to be some connection, right?

Therefore, before truly descending to the past, Zhou Heng planned to inquire about Xuanteng Realm from someone.

—Although when traveling through the star doors, he would gain some general knowledge about the world from the guide information, it was after all only an overview and not detailed, far less reliable than directly asking someone who had been there before.

Zhou Heng had already communicated with the Zhou Tian Boundary Officer on that matter, and since he was not currently in Purple Tenuity Palace, the Upper Third Rank Celestials recommended a high-ranking Star Officer to Zhou Heng who was at the Celestial Man level.

Gou Chen.

Such a high-ranking Star Officer at the Celestial Man level had a separate palace in the Ziwei Palace, which was naturally formed after she achieved Celestial Man status, called the “Gou Chen Palace.”

“I have seen the Star Lord.” Gou Chen bowed slightly in greeting, she seemed to be a gentle woman, her entire demeanor was very warm, making her easy to approach.

This was starkly different from her demeanor when she appeared in County City, Fengzhou, joining forces with many Celestials to confront Master Yuxin; at that time, she wore a purple star robe, pure and noble, exalted to the extreme, like an Empress.

Now, she seemed like a virtuous wife, greeting her husband with a bow.

Uh, wife…

Zhou Heng suddenly realized that among the thirty-nine Star Officials in Ziwei, the position of “Gou Chen” was actually that of the principal wife to the Ziwei Emperor, which was closely related to his own position as “Ziwei.”

Even in some other systems of lore, she was revered as the “Gou Chen Supreme Heavenly Emperor,” said to be the biological brother of the Ziwei Great Emperor, assisting the Heavenly Emperor in governing all deities and presiding over all matters of warfare among humans.

Her status was undoubtedly high.

However, judging by the attitude of the Gou Chen before him, she clearly still saw herself in the role of the Gou Chen star position.

“I have seen Elder Gou Chen.” Zhou Heng also bowed with his hands clasped together and smiled, “I heard from the Upper Third Rank Celestial that elder had been to Xuanteng Realm before, could you introduce me?”

As a Celestial Man, Gou Chen certainly deserved his title of “Elder.”

“Of course.” Gou Chen nodded gently and then invited Zhou Heng to sit down, “Please take a seat, Star Lord. Xuanteng Realm is indeed very special, if you plan to descend there, it would be best to do so as a Divine Soul.”

“Oh?” Zhou Heng raised his eyebrows slightly and asked with curiosity, “Why is that?”

“After the first Zhou Tian Boundary Officer descended there, the world’s rules of Heaven seemed to have become aware and began to reject outsiders who descended.” Gou Chen explained, “If you descend directly through the star door, it’s very likely you’ll be discovered on the spot and targeted by the rules of Heaven and Earth.”

“Is that so?” Zhou Heng was surprised and then frowned, “Is this a natural rejection or a man-made one?”

Although there had been instances in the past where, due to differences in world rules, he could not fully utilize his strength or even practice various martial arts, it was still the first time he had heard that the Heavenly rules would actively reject outsiders.

Moreover, if this rejection was man-made, the problem would be even more significant.

“It should be man-made.” Gou Chen nodded, “The first time the Zhou Tian Boundary Officer descended there, he did not encounter any rejection, but later, two other Star Officials experienced increasingly severe rejection.

“By the time I descended, I could only walk in that world for less than a day before I had to leave, otherwise, there was the possibility of suffering divine retribution.”

“Divine retribution? It’s that serious!” Zhou Heng was astonished and said, “But isn’t the guide information about Xuanteng Realm broadcasted by the world itself?”