Martial Arts: I Have a Wilderness World

Chapter 550: Chapter 291: The Formed Wood Spirit Pearl; A Dialogue with the Ring Spirit

"But what this world was like in the past doesn’t affect the present. Now, as my Ability improves, my control over this world is becoming more and more comprehensive. We still complement each other."

After hearing this flood of information from the Ring Spirit, Cheng Zongyang quickly jotted down the key points. His expression turned serious as he asked:

"So, you were noticed after joining the Jade Stone Market, which is why you severed the connection and even shut down that function entirely?"

"Yes. Regardless of whether this world is as I suspect, I will not allow such a possibility to arise."

Cheng Zongyang was very much in agreement on this point. If another system’s owner had indeed moved to destroy this world’s owner, then severing the connection before having the power to defend oneself was the best choice.

He fell into thought for about half a minute, his mind rapidly analyzing the connections between various issues. Then he asked, "Based on all the clues we’ve uncovered so far, items related to the Divine Dao are far more numerous than those related to Cultivation Immortality. Surviving records also contain information about faith in the Divine Dao and its Deities—things like the Soul Crystals sacrificed to you, the River God, and the Earth Monarchs. Is this world primarily dominated by the Divine Dao?"

"According to the information I possess, Cultivators and Divine Daoists coexist and compete with each other. They are the two most powerful factions. As for the Beast Race, Demon Race, Elves, and all the other various races, they belong to other Levels."

Cheng Zongyang again quickly noted the main points. He was like a reporter conducting an interview, asking questions according to a set agenda.

"Then do you know anything about the Five Elements Spirit Pearls? The description says it takes a hundred years to reach First Grade and a thousand years to fully form. Except for the Wood Spirit Pearl, the rest are only at the Fifth Grade. Does this imply that the major change in this world occurred five hundred years ago?"

He asked this because it seemed connected to the decline and eventual disappearance of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power in the outer Martial Arts Realm, which also appeared to have happened a few hundred years ago. And it was precisely because all the Cultivators vanished and stopped meddling in the affairs of the Martial Arts Realm that the Noble Families rose to prominence, leading to conflicts between nations and the current situation.

That’s why he couldn’t help but draw a connection to this issue.

By the same token, this also touched upon the question of the relationship between the Wilderness World and the outside world.

"For Divine Daoists, the Five Elements Spirit Pearls aren’t used to arrange Spirit Veins. Instead, once fully formed, they are refined into Divine Weapons—these are weapons of the Divine Dao, not the so-called Divine Weapons of the mortal realm. For Cultivators, however, their power can be channeled and utilized through a Five Elements Spiritual Vein Array to form things like an Artificial Spiritual Vein, which then emits abundant Five Elements Spiritual Qi. And based on my knowledge, the cataclysm in this world did indeed occur about five hundred years ago.

As for the connection to the outside world, there is indeed one. According to some surviving records, my predecessor—the ’system,’ as you call it—should have established a connection to the outside world when its functions were fully operational, something akin to a passage for entry and exit.

Cultivators from the outside world entered this one and then brought the Cultivation Immortality System out with them. That’s how Cultivation Immortality came to exist in the outside world. Later, when disaster struck the Wilderness World, it indirectly caused the Spiritual Qi and Spirit Veins in the outside world to be damaged, destroying the foundation for cultivation.

Of course, this is just my speculation. Perhaps this so-called Realm of Ten Thousand Races has not had just two owners, but many more ’predecessors.’ I am simply the latest one."

Cheng Zongyang frowned. "The Ice and Fire Cultivation Immortality Realm has an added history dating back to the Ancient Era, so the development of Cultivation Immortality in the outside world seems to have taken a long time. Clearly, these teachings must be older than just five hundred years. Of course, your latter theory is also plausible. If you were to vanish unexpectedly in the future, the being that created you might just take back the Wilderness World and assign it to a new ’system’."

"This is why my understanding and control of this world are still far from complete. If there really is a passage to the outside world, then there should be passages to other worlds too. If so, my previous understanding was incorrect. The living beings of this world were not captured or created by the system. Instead, there must be passages here leading to different worlds. They all came here, creating the current situation where the various races are vying for supremacy."