Chapter 159 - One Hundred and Fifty-Nine: The Lowest Amount

Chapter 159: Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Nine: The Lowest Amount

Volume One: The Devil’s Nature Never Changes

End of Arc: The Strategic Sect War

One hour later, a room had been prepared with various instruments for measuring strength, including striking power, an independent spatial world for measuring destructive power, objects for testing lifting strength, and devices for measuring speed.

Since this was only a primitive test, there was no examination for special abilities, as the First Dimension did not have a main branch of the Limit Evaluation Guild.

All the competitors stood beside one another as Sect Master Da Fu began explaining.

Kuang Wei merely stood there watching with imposing dignity, his long black hair, tied behind him, shifting slightly whenever he turned his head.

"First, striking power."

"This is the Striking Power Scale. It measures the raw physical force of your strike from 1 to 100,000,000."

"The higher the number, the stronger you are."

"If your strike registers 5 internal points on the device, you are slightly stronger than an ordinary human."

"At 10,000 or above, you are a Qi Gathering cultivator."

"At 100,000 or above, you are a Qi Refinement cultivator."

"At 1,000,000 or above, you are at Qi Condensation."

"At 10,000,000 or above, you are at Path Initiation."

"This scale only measures striking power according to the standards of the First Dimension."

"An ordinary cultivator from the Second Dimension could shatter the device with a snap of their fingers."

The disciples stepped forward one after another until it was Ikalat’s turn.

He stepped forward, raised his fist, and struck the device, which took the form of a large suspended red punching bag.

The bag barely moved from the impact.

A number appeared above the device:

35,900,130.

Lin Yuan stepped forward and did the same.

The device displayed:

33,400,060.

Scarlet King then stepped forward and struck the device.

But the result was shocking.

Only—

5,300,000.

Everyone was surprised.

They looked toward Scarlet King and thought:

(Why is his result below Path Initiation when he’s already at Path Initiation?)

(It seems the demonic methods he used to increase his cultivation so quickly have weakening side effects.)

(He isn’t even as strong as someone at the first level of Path Initiation.)

Scarlet King’s face remained expressionless.

He showed no concern whatsoever.

Da Fu simply gestured toward him.

"Gu Yue, return to your place. Your test here is finished."

Meanwhile, the man concealed beneath the cloak thought:

(How did he defeat me when his strength doesn’t even exceed ten million?)

Scarlet King stopped between Lin Yuan and Ikalat.

Ikalat contacted him spiritually.

(Are you really this weak?)

Scarlet King did not answer.

A faint smile merely appeared on his face.

The speed test began.

There was a running platform where, whenever someone moved forward, the ground beneath them moved backward in the opposite direction, allowing them to remain in place.

The competitors began their tests.

Most of them displayed speeds at First-Rank Absolute Infinity, including Ikalat.

Then Lin Yuan began running.

He ran and ran while thinking:

(Ikalat beat me in physical strength.)

(I have to beat him in speed.)

He pushed himself to his absolute limit.

The scale actually showed that he had reached Second-Rank Absolute Infinity.

Lin Yuan stepped back, sweating and panting heavily, while many disciples whispered among themselves.

"His result is extremely good. He’s incredibly fast."

"Yeah. He surpassed Ikalat in speed, though both of them are still second and third behind the cloaked man."

Scarlet King stepped forward with one hand behind his back, repeating something to himself.

(Sometimes, you need to look like an easy cake to eat...)

(While hiding dangerous poison inside.)

Scarlet King began running.

After one minute, Da Fu gestured toward him.

"Speed that barely reached Infinity."

"Return to your place."

Scarlet King went back.

The remaining tests continued.

During the destructive power test, the others managed to destroy quadrillions of ordinary and Mortal Universes.

Scarlet King, however, barely reached millions of Mortal Universes.

During the lifting test, everyone lifted tremendously heavy weights, with some carrying the equivalent weight of an entire universe.

Scarlet King barely lifted a galaxy.

And with that—

the test ended.

Everyone’s attention was focused on the other competitors.

Scarlet King alone remained in the shadows.

Each person received their own evaluation.

Ikalat: D-2 High.

Lin Yuan: D-2 High.

The Cloaked Man: D-2 Existential.

The others were within the same rank, with their grades ranging between Mid, Low, and High.

As for Scarlet King—

D-3 Low.

Kuang Wei raised his hand and gestured.

"The test is over."

"The children of this generation are truly interesting."

"The final competition will begin in one month."

"Everyone should prepare themselves."

"Good luck to all of you."

Kuang Wei turned and left, followed by several elders and Sect Masters.

[Elsewhere]

A girl sat beside a river with her lover.

The two beautiful youths gazed at the moon.

The girl wondered:

"The moon is beautiful and symbolizes Yin."

"But the source of Yin is Ghairamengi Darkness, and yet... I’ve never once read in any book that he actually spoke or directly communicated with anyone."

"Unlike Ghairamengi Light, who communicated with existence several times."

The young man replied while resting her head against his shoulder.

"That’s wrong, my dear."

"Ghairamengi Darkness spoke before Ghairamengi Light."

"The very first words ever spoken into existence, nothingness, and the Primordial Origin World came from him."

The girl wrapped an arm around the young man’s waist.

"Tell me."

"What did he say?"

The young man answered immediately:

"At the center of all infinity, the fundamental words of the Source emerged."

"They were—"

"I am Darkness."

"Everything that exists, and everything that does not exist, emanates from me and returns to me."

"The Primordial Origin World is mine, for I am Darkness without impurity or deficiency, surpassing perfection."

"I am the beginning and the end, what came before the beginning and what lies beyond the end."

"Nothing transcends me, and nothing contains my truth."

"I do not exist within time or space, for I am the fundamental primordial essence, transcending what lies beyond everything."

"My existence is a foundation that predates the Laws and stands above everything that emanated from me."

"I am Truth itself, and Truth requires no justification."

"I am the Source, and the Source requires nothing behind it."

"I am not contradiction, nor am I perfection."

"I am that which exists beyond the boundaries of strength and weakness."

"Light does not make me weak."

"It reveals my superiority."

"And I do not submit to the fundamental systems that emanated from me."

"I do not appear upon the pages of definitions, nor can comprehension reach me."

"I am my own essence."

"I am Ghairamengi Darkness—the supreme fundamental primordial source essence, transcending all incomplete additions."

Meanwhile, Scarlet King walked alone beneath the moonlight through the darkness of the forest, a jar of wine in his hand.

He suddenly sneezed lightly.

"Hah. Looks like they’re talking about how badly I performed in today’s test..."

"That’s good."

He raised the wine jar slightly.

"Well then..."

"Let’s spend another night drinking wine."