Chapter 450: Black Wind, We Are Brothers!

"Hide the Five Element Root Vessels?"

Chen Yi had originally planned to carry the Five Element Root Vessels with him, then after the simulation began, squat in the human world for a few decades fishing for lawbreakers. If the Black Hand struck like in the last simulation, he would be able to find out who he was.

But doing it this way wouldn't necessarily lure out the Black Hand, because Chen Yi's deterrent power was also quite significant.

Moreover, this would delay the simulation's time progression, causing many paths already forged in the sixth simulation to diverge greatly due to different arrival times.

That way, he couldn't speedrun the second playthrough.

"Hiding them is also an idea. Worth a try. Plus, I can take a trip to the Dragon-Man Realm and give the Dragon-Man tribe a little shock from a Real Realm big shot!"

In the past, crossing planes in the Void Realm was very troublesome, and for the vast majority of people, it was simply impossible.

But now, Chen Yi had nine methods to achieve planar crossing.

"The mission only requires hiding three, and I already have three on hand - the Qiankun Mirror, the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and the Sun Moon Tower - but it would be best to hide the Mountain River Armor as well."

If he knew where the Heaven and Earth Sword was, Chen Yi would hide that too.

Unfortunately, Chen Yi estimated that the Heaven and Earth Sword was in the Black Hand's possession.

The Mountain River Armor was still on Hua Wuyan, so Chen Yi first needed to go to the Southern Borderlands to find this human Guardian.

Before setting out, Chen Yi first adjusted his trait tags.

[Name: Chen Yi]

[Lifespan: 25/1000]

[Realm: Extreme Terrain Middle Stage (True Realm: Extreme Terrain Early Stage)]

[Cultivation Techniques:

- Qi Refining Arts: Three Flavors Body Forging Mystic Art (third-grade, Transcendent Mastery)

- Body Refining Arts: Vermilion Bird Flame Scripture (fifth-grade, Return to Simplicity), omitted

- Soul Refining Arts: Myriad Dragon Divine Art (fifth-grade, Return to Simplicity), omitted

- Spells: Divine Armament Revelation (fourth-grade, Pinnacle), omitted

- Killing Moves: Stellar River Divine Art (fifth-grade, Pinnacle), omitted

- Divine Abilities: Mountain-Bearing, Divine March, Wind-Riding, Pot Heaven, Premonition;

- Divine Arts: Light Speed Fist (third-grade, Pinnacle), Quantum Ghost Step (third-grade, Pinnacle), Traffic Light (third-grade, Transcendent Mastery), omitted]

[Equipped Trait Tags (33/33):

Prismatic - Proficiency, Simulator, Enhancement!, Calamity of Ten Thousand Races, Simulation Clone, Unlimited White Porridge, Eavesdrop on Heartstrings

Gold - The Most Severe Father to Non-Humans, Trait Slingshot, Materialist Warrior, High-Grade Bone Structure, Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages, Heartsteel, Chinese-Style Succubus, Leader Aura, Civil War God, Super Saiyan, Wolverine, What Is a Divine Mark, Dragonbane, You Get Stronger Just by Breathing!

Purple - Irritable Constitution, Qilin Arm, Photographic Memory, My Knowledge Has Become a Jumbled Mess, Green Giant, Reverse Engineering, Unrestricted Communication, The Aura of Ten Thousand Races, Treasure-Sniffing Nose, Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger

Green - Serious Punch, Human Body Detector]

[Acquired Trait Tags (597): Venom[Gold], Mortal Bones[Gold], omitted]

[Current Draw Probabilities for Each Trait Quality:]

[White Common 15%, Green Rare 39%, Purple Epic 35%, Gold Legendary 10%, Prismatic Mythical 1%]

Having watched the simulation all night, in the past, Chen Yi would have needed to rest a bit to recover his energy.

But now, his cultivation at the Extreme Terrain Realm made him practically a deity in the Void Realm, where the laws of heaven and earth were weaker.

He could basically go without sleeping, eating, or answering nature's call, all while maintaining vigorous energy and stamina, like a nuclear-powered donkey.

It wasn't that Chen Yi couldn't feel tired or hungry anymore - it was just that the consumption required to sustain his life state was like a small creek compared to the vast ocean of divine power flowing through his body.

In the Real Realm, this "creek" was a great river, so cultivators of his level there still had to eat, drink, and relieve themselves.

The sky was already fully bright.

In Baiyun County, people heading to the market hawked their wares along the streets and alleys.

The servants of the Chen Mansion were preparing breakfast for their master Chen Yi and beginning the day's cleaning duties for the residence.

Looking at the guards in the mansion, Chen Yi felt he should lay them off.

Since when did a deity need guards?

Who's protecting whom?

However, considering that working for him allowed them to support their families, he dismissed the thought.

Besides, he wasn't short on money anyway.

If he ever ran out, he could just find a wealthy old landlord nearby and ask them to donate some.

Black Wind saw Chen Yi about to head out and followed from behind.

"Black Wind, stay home. No need to follow."

"If Boss is going on a long trip, why not let Old Black serve as your mount? It'll be more comfortable."

Chen Yi patted Black Wind's shiny, jet-black mane.

"Black Wind, from now on, unless there are special circumstances, you are no longer my mount. We are brothers."

"Boss..."

"Besides, I can fly faster now. Having you carry me would actually feel too slow."

With that, Chen Yi stood completely still.

No - it wasn't that he had stopped moving. It was that he had flown so fast that the afterimage he left behind was too realistic.

Black Wind let out a sigh.

"Boss seems to have gotten even stronger. Every time he just sits there in a daze for one night, he becomes several times more powerful than before. Truly a divine man..."

After leaving Baiyun County, Chen Yi roamed across the human world, just like at the start of the sixth simulation, borrowing several immortal artifacts he frequently used, such as the Heavenly Dragon Blade and the Immortal-Binding Rope, from places like the Myriad Methods Sect and the Free and Unfettered Holy Land.

...

High in the sky, above the clouds.

"BOOM!!!"

This was the sound of Chen Yi flying. His speed was so extreme that the air itself was being crushed by him.

Trailing behind Chen Yi for tens of thousands of meters was not white mist or light shadows, but spatial cracks.

These spatial cracks weren't caused by his flight energy being too powerful and collapsing the surrounding space - rather, his physical body was so fast that it forcibly sliced through space itself.

Fortunately, the Five Element Root Vessels in the human world were still functioning normally, and the world still possessed its self-repair capabilities.

These spatial cracks healed on their own shortly after Chen Yi flew past.

However, a squad of Shen Family Star Martial Corps soldiers patrolling the Starry Domains cast a casual glance down through the Sky-Earth Barrier. Seeing this scene, they were utterly stunned.

"Holy crap! Look! There's someone flying down below!"

"Ha, what's so new about that? What's strange about someone flying? My Shen Family has Martial Kings in droves!"

"No, that's not it! How is he flying so fast?! He's slicing through space itself! I've never seen flying speed like this!"

"True enough... Last time when the Qiankun Mirror caused trouble in the Starry Domains, I saw it slice through space like that too when it flew."

The few of them discussed it and suspected that the thing that had just flashed past, too blurry to tell if it was human or ghost, might very well be connected to the Qiankun Mirror.

These low-ranking soldiers didn't know much about high-level affairs, so they hurriedly rushed to report, thinking that if they submitted important intelligence, they might earn some merit.

Although Chen Yi had already flown far away.

Everything along his path was still within his Divine Sense perception.

Including the conversation and reactions of those Star Martial Corps soldiers just now.

"My Divine Sense can already encompass most of the human world!"

Not only was the range larger, but the precision of detection was also astonishing.

Any rustling in the wind, a butterfly's wingbeat, details beneath the earth - all of it was laid bare before him.

The processing speed of his brain was simply a different species compared to when he was in the Real Realm!

"This is what they call a dimensionality reduction strike."

Carrying the cultivation realm of the Real Realm, in the Void Realm he didn't even need to use it - just revealing a sliver was endlessly beneficial.

"Still no sign of where the Heaven and Earth Sword might be..."

In the sixth simulation, the Nine Provinces Cauldron had even fought against the Heaven and Earth Sword.

This meant that at the current point in time, the Heaven and Earth Sword at least still existed and hadn't been destroyed.

Not in the human world?

Where could it be hidden?

"Could it be that this Black Hand thought the same as me and hid the Heaven and Earth Sword in another plane?"

That would be hard to find.

There were so many planes in the Void Realm. Searching them one by one would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.