Su Yuan's speed wasn't particularly fast—on this Heart Refining Path, he moved like an ordinary mortal jogging.
But this was the Heart Refining Path.
Everyone else would take one step and rest for several days before taking the next step. The contrast in speed between them could only be described as heaven and earth.
Su Yuan quickly caught up again, immediately drawing everyone's attention.
The fan in Zhuge Tao's hand nearly dropped as he stared in shock at Su Yuan's speed: "How is this possible! How can you run so fast!"
Sword Immortal Wine stared dumbfounded: "Incredible, who is he? Who exactly is he?"
Bai Bing exclaimed in amazement: "So the true expert is here!"
Feng Ling glanced at the top-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure in her hand and smiled. She had to admit that while Bai Bing seemed foolish on the surface, it was just an appearance. Now she had secured her gains too.
Zhuge Tao's face turned green. Seeing Su Yuan about to catch up, he didn't dare waste time with words and said to Sima Nan: "Let's join forces to stop him."
Sima Nan's mouth twitched: "With his speed, is there any point in trying to stop him?"Zhuge Tao found Sima Nan's attitude strange, but he couldn't afford to care anymore. He immediately ordered the others he had recruited to attack Su Yuan.
Sword Immortal Wine and the others had no choice—having accepted benefits, they felt obliged—so they launched attacks against Su Yuan.
Several attacks landed on Su Yuan's body.
Zhuge Tao had expected Su Yuan's speed to immediately slow down.
But Su Yuan's speed wasn't significantly affected, decreasing by only ten percent. He continued running forward at an astonishing pace, with his speed actually showing a tendency to gradually increase.
"This..." Zhuge Tao was utterly shocked.
Sima Nan frowned, a trace of wariness flashing in his eyes: "This guy was actually deceiving me earlier! He's completely unaffected by attacks!"
He immediately recalled when he had attacked Su Yuan before—the other's speed had clearly decreased by fifty percent. Comparing that to now, he suddenly understood that Su Yuan had been pretending earlier! Not only had he deceived Sima Nan, but he had fooled everyone else too!
Su Yuan laughed heartily and cupped his hands toward everyone: "Fellow cultivators, I'll take the lead!"
In just half a day, Su Yuan overtook Zhuge Tao and reached the first position. Then, after another two hours, under everyone's amazed, jealous, and helpless gazes, Su Yuan reached the end of the Heart Refining Path.
The sky suddenly erupted with brilliant radiance as three beams of light descended, floating before Su Yuan.
Through some mysterious connection, Su Yuan also received a piece of information!
He could choose any one of three types of law origin qi!
A gleam of sharp light flashed in Su Yuan's eyes.
"Time Law Origin Qi, Dimension Law Origin Qi, Creation Law Origin Qi!"
These three types of origin qi were subordinate laws of Time Law, Spatial Law, and Fate Law respectively. While they were good, they felt somewhat lacking. After all this effort on the Heart Refining Path, to only obtain one type of law origin qi—it was truly too little!
Su Yuan looked them over and chose the third type of origin qi. However, before making his selection, Su Yuan focused his mind and placed mental markers on the other two types of law origin qi.
When Su Yuan selected the Creation Law Origin Qi, the remaining two law origin qi directly disappeared on the spot.
Simultaneously, Su Yuan's mental markers disappeared along with them.
Su Yuan felt slightly pleased.
But before he could check the subsequent results, he was instantly teleported away as if by instantaneous movement.
In an instant, Su Yuan appeared in a dim battlefield.
A blade light immediately came slashing toward him!
Behind the blade light was a dark figure emitting strange black energy—no, it wasn't ordinary black energy, it was calamity energy!
Su Yuan's pupils contracted, and he instantly teleported away.
The blade light swept through the space where Su Yuan had just disappeared, tearing through reality and creating a spatial rift.
But it could no longer hit Su Yuan.
"Huh?"
The shadow solidified, revealing a gloomy-faced old man.
"Where did he go?"
The old man scanned the area but couldn't find Su Yuan's location, which greatly annoyed him.
He searched the area for a while but, confirming he couldn't find anyone, could only leave reluctantly.
Shortly after he left, several white ghostly figures drifted over. They lingered for a moment before pursuing in the direction the old man had gone.
Su Yuan's clone returned to his main body and merged into it.
In his hand, two types of origin qi suddenly appeared: Fire Origin Qi and Creation Origin Qi.
Su Yuan focused his mind and locked onto the locations of the other two mental markers.
He then discovered that the marked locations were precisely where the two origin qi were—Time Law Origin Qi and Dimension Law Origin Qi, each sealed within separate formation restrictions.
Unfortunately, he didn't see any other origin qi.
After some thought, Su Yuan activated the teleportation ability of [World Traveler].
Instantly.
Two strange objects appeared before Su Yuan out of nowhere.
One object was a canvas wrapped in the aura of time, containing within it a strand of Time Law Origin Qi.
The other object was a dodecahedron crystal that also contained a portion of Dimension Law Origin Qi!
Thus, Su Yuan now possessed four portions of law origin qi!
What an enormous harvest this was!
Su Yuan temporarily stored these four portions of origin qi for later use. He decided to cultivate four Mixed-Origin clones, but this was a long-term plan that required gradual development.
He waited for a moment, but no countermeasures from Primordial Isle appeared, which made him slightly pleased. Indeed, [Mind Echo] and [World Traveler] were still powerful—when combined, they truly formed a divine theft technique!
He recalled his recent experience of being attacked. A Mixed-Origin Great Luo Golden Immortal actually ambushed him the moment he teleported over—how despicable!
He projected his consciousness to see what that old man was up to.
As the stars shifted, his consciousness returned to that strange battlefield.
The old man appeared in his vision, but he looked quite disheveled, currently fighting against five white ghostly figures.
When Su Yuan saw the white ghostly figures, his pupils sharply contracted!
Calamity energy!
Calamity energy again!
These five ghostly figures were clearly Mixed-Origin soul entities contaminated with ghost energy!
During the battle, Su Yuan could see that the calamity energy on those ghostly figures was gradually transferring to the old man.
The old man's Mixed-Origin Great Luo Dao Fruit was slowly grinding away the calamity energy.
After fighting for a while, the old man immediately seized an opportunity to flee thousands of miles away, finding a corner to meditate, recover his magic power, and cleanse the contamination.
Su Yuan focused his attention on the five ghostly figures. He noticed that wisps of calamity energy from heaven and earth were reattaching to the five white ghostly figures, restoring their calamity energy to pre-battle levels.
Then these ghostly figures began wandering aimlessly again, searching for new living targets.
Combining this with existing information, Su Yuan drew a sharp breath.
"Primordial Isle! This is actually a calamity dissipation ground!" Su Yuan said in shock.
Looking at the formations on Primordial Isle, Su Yuan faintly detected traces of calamity energy being drawn from the Three Realms into the island and absorbed!
This calamity energy would then enter the center of the island, waiting for later generations to come and clean it up.
This was an enormous undertaking and also a world-shaking lie.
But those who entered here would inevitably be contaminated with boundless calamity energy. Even Mixed-Origin beings could inexplicably fall here. Was coming here really not just seeking death?
Moreover, because no one had come to Primordial Isle's inner island to take over the calamity cleansing for a long time, Su Yuan could see that the accumulated calamity energy in the battlefield sky had reached an unimaginable level. Once this calamity energy burst out from Primordial Isle, the Immortal-Demon Realm Sea would inevitably fall into immeasurable calamity!
Su Yuan immediately felt a layer of mist shrouding his heart, and then... Su Yuan curled his lip: "What's it to do with me!"
"If the sky falls, tall people will hold it up. I don't need to handle this!"
Su Yuan remained calm. Currently he only saw danger and no benefits, so he had no intention of getting involved now. Let Zhuge Tao and the others test the waters first—he would assess the situation later.
As for Zhuge Tao and the others reaching the end of the Heart Refining Path, it would probably take them several years. There was no hurry at all.
Su Yuan then opened his system panel after a long time.
【Name】: Su Yuan
【Region】: Boundless Realm Sea of All Heavens
【Level】: lv1: Cross-Realm Traveler (2/100)
【Realm】: Early Stage Great Luo Golden Immortal (7/100)
【Eternal Entry 1】: Star Progenitor
...
【Region】: Immortal-Demon Realm Sea
【Level】: lv10: (1000e/1000e)
【Realm】: Early Stage Great Luo Golden Immortal (7/100)
【Innate Entries】: Balanced Work and Rest★, Daoist Techniques Naturally★☆, Seven Stars Shine Bright★, Mind Echo, Great Being's Form, Rise to the Challenge in Crisis, World Traveler, Corridor of Time, Tempering Heart in Mortal Dust
...
【Region】: God Realm Sea
【Entry 1】: Twice the Result with Half the Effort
【Entry 2】: Wind Messenger
【Entry 3】: Multiple Doppelgangers
【Entry 4】: Travel Expert
【Entry 5】: Sky Dominator
【Entry 6】: Hidden Walker
【Entry 7】: To be selected
【Entry 8】: To be selected
【Entry 9】: To be selected
Su Yuan checked his system panel and discovered that unknowingly, entries 8 [Corridor of Time] and 9 [Tempering Heart in Mortal Dust] in the Immortal-Demon Realm Sea had both reached level 9 and become innate entries.
All entries had been unlocked in the God Realm Sea, which also owed credit to Seven Stars Sect disciples. Su Yuan had sent many disciples to spread his fame throughout the God Realm Sea, and over decades the results had been quite good.
He had discovered that aside from the Immortal-Demon Realm Sea, the system panels opened in other realm seas didn't have entry upgrade capabilities.
This wasn't because other realm seas weren't his main realm sea, but because other true spirit divided souls similarly couldn't perform upgrades. For example, that Su Ji had long ago unlocked 9 entries but similarly hadn't upgraded any entries, which greatly puzzled Su Yuan.
It was as if the system panels these true spirit divided souls obtained were incomplete versions.
Could it be possible that he was the true spirit main soul, while these divided souls were merely divided souls?