Chapter 861: Dungeon ClearThe Dungeon boss took an incredibly long time to beat. The boss was a giant version of the Ore Beast with a much higher DEF stat such that even when Ning did land a hit on him, half the time it barely did any damage.

He seemed to also have a passive that blocked off a portion of all types of damage making it hard to kill him swiftly.

The boss wasn't very fast, but it was still faster than the other golems Ning had seen, and it used the 'Rock Spikes' skill quite frequently.

Ning had seen the other Ore Golems use it from time to time, but he was always on top of them, so the golems rarely ever hit him with it.

However, it was hard for Ning to do the same now, and as such he was forced to fight while constantly moving around to dodge the attacks.

When the boss got to 50% health, Ning wondered what the next phase of the battle was going to be.

That was when the boss suddenly lost his health bar and crumbled into many pieces of rocks on the ground.

While Ning was confused, the stones moved back up to form 2 different smaller bosses who had half of his health and slightly lower DEF.

Overall, their HP was still the same as the Boss's when it was 100%, but with lower damage reduction, Ning had a slightly faster time killing them.

Although that also meant that he had twice as many attackers he had to dodge around. And he definitely had to dodge around.

A level 150 boss, even if he could damage it, dealt insanely high damage. Even at half-state, it dealt over a thousand damage on each hit, making it pretty much impossible for Ning to stay in their attack range for a long time.

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As such, the time it took to kill them ended up being significantly longer.

The two golems split up once again to become 4 different golems once they both reached 50% health. Ning was worried that it would continue doing the same for a while, but fortunately, that was the last time they would split.

After continuously dodging around for a while, Ning finally managed to kill all of them and successfully cleared the dungeon.

In doing so, Ning leveled up with just that single boss. If he went through the entire dungeon again, he would surely reach 103 with ease.

He got a few ores, most of which were Black Iron, and a skill book for the rock spikes. He also got a defensive item, but Ning didn't want to wear it so he let it be.

The armor decreased attack speed to give you defense, and Ning didn't like that.

Aside from that, Ning also got a single stat to his STR stat due to his Demon's stat skill, but that wasn't as important to him since he had been getting them the entire time he fought the other golems on the outside.

The portal to leave appeared and Ning walked through it. He arrived on the other side, holding a pickaxe in his hand with a few people walking past beside him.

They looked at him curiously and wondered if he was perhaps a high-ranking player since he had soloed this dungeon.

A few of them even asked him that, which made Ning think about what he was doing. He was beating a level 150 dungeon as a level 100 player.

"Ooh, this should make the highlights, right?" Ning thought. He looked at his inventory quickly and saw about 160 different Black Iron ores in there. If he did everything right, he would surely have about 200 definitely. This meant that in just 2 more dungeon runs, Ning was going to find all the ores he needed to complete the quest.

Ning wanted to speedrun the dungeon, but the quest came first. So, he walked into the dungeon again and spent a lot of time mining for Black Iron.

This time around, he ended up gathering about 180 Black Iron ores.

Ning came out as a Level 103 player and went back in again to find more Black Iron. He came back out with 185 this time around.

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The number he had now was easily over the 500 required to defeat the dungeon, so Ning decided to see how fast he could clear it. If he got a record, he would post it online.

Ning stayed outside for a while making the perfect preparation to defeat the solo clear record of 15 minutes. Once ready, he went it.

It took Ning 3 different times to beat the record. The first time around, he fought everything around him quickly, while also finding his way to the boss's room. That turned out to be a bit too slow.

The second time around, he went into the boss's room directly and the other beasts followed him. However, Ning was too focused on dodging and forgot to attack quite a few times due to the sheer number of enemies.

Finally, the 3rd time around, he got himself a defensive spell and an offensive one to compensate for what he lacked, and easily cleared the dungeon in just 9 minutes.

Ning could only wonder how well he would've done had he more levels.

After coming out the third time, Ning left the mines and went back to the keep where he found the blacksmith and gave him the ores.

"Woah, you really did it? I'm very surprised," he said. "Let's see… 688 ores. Well done. Here's your reward."

Ning saw a bunch of notifications telling him that the quest had been cleared. He also got a bunch of money and enough experience to level up 3 times over. Now, he was close to Level 115.

"Tell me, what sort of weapons do you want?" the man asked.

Ning thought for a moment and told the blacksmith exactly what he wanted. A single-handed spear with rather heavy damage.

"Hmmm… that will take some time," the blacksmith said. "It will take at least a month for sure, but don't worry, I will make it in time before the major war ."

Chapter 862: AccusationA few days passed and Ning arrived next to a beach on the westernmost southern end of the Starsoar continent.

He had learned that there was a dungeon here, underwater at that, and so he walked in.

The dungeon looked like a long-lost palace, hidden underneath the sea and as soon as Ning entered, the palace would seep with water. So, there was only so much time Ning could spend in there before he fully drowned.

Ning wasn't worried though as he had cards to help him end this quickly, and he did. The Legendary class was so good that he ended up getting an overwhelming single clear, far faster than any party clear could be.

Once Ning cleared it several times, he found the best of his run and uploaded it online.

"That is sure to get them agitated," Ning giggled as he thought to himself. The last few days, he had been going through every single one of the dungeons around here and uploading the 5 to 8 minutes-long clip of how ridiculously easily he beat the dungeon.

That sparked a lot of controversies online, bringing both fans and haters to his channel. The fans were fine, but it was the haters that gave Ning the most pleasure.

Seeing them angry on every single video, and calling him a cheater was a fun sight for him. What was more fun was knowing that he cheated and there was nothing they could do about it.

He giggled a bit more as he made his way back to the keep.

"That's him! That's the guy," someone shouted and before long there were a group of people that surrounded Ning.

Ning looked around, confused before one of them spoke up.

"Are you the one called Immortal Energy?" the man asked. He wore green armor with a black helmet and had purple butterfly wings that seemed to create some smoke on their own.

"I am," Ning said. He was surprised to see a group fo humans in this land that was now occupied by the demons.

The 12 or so people that surrounded him suddenly perked up when he acknowledged his name.

"You cheater!"

"Stop playing the game!"

"How did you cheat? Tell us!"

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The people there immediately started shouting at him in words that were barely discernible due to how jumbled they shouted.

'Ah, I expected them to come faster,' Ning thought and crossed his arms.

"What do you have to say for yourself, cheater?" one of them asked.

"What cheater? How dare you call me a cheater! Do you have any proof?" Ning said back at that person.

"If you didn't cheat, then how did you beat the dungeon so fast? How do you kill the boss in such little hits?" another person asked.

"That's because I'm strong," Ning said conclusively.

"Bullshit! You're level 150 at best. There is no way a level 150 should ever be able to beat the Hydra in just 3 attacks," the man at the front said.

Ning shrugged. "What can I say? I'm just that good. Maybe you guys should get good too," he said.

"This bastard! I'll kill him," one man shouted and came at Ning while slashing a sword at him.

Ning stood where he was, not even moving to dodge at all. When the sword fell on him, it simply passed through him like he was a ghost.

"Evasion?" the man was a little taken aback.

He tried to cut Ning again, but the sword passed through him once more.

"What the hell? 2 misses in a row?" the man frowned.

Ning crossed his arms and watched as the man cut his 10 times, and 10 times in a row he missed.

"You… you're clearly cheating," the man said. The others that stood behind him also started accusing Ning once again.

"Am I?" Ning asked the man. "Or are you just unlucky?"

"You!" the man's face turned to anger as he used a technique.

Two cards appeared in front of Ning at the same time, and he used both of them.

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A bolt of lightning fell onto Ning, but it didn't hit him. Instead, a magical mirror appeared in front of Ning that reflected the attack back to the man.

The card Ning had pulled was a spell reflection card that created a mirror shield.

The second card he pulled was a skill that amplified his magic damage by 500% for a single attack.

On top of that, after activating the cards, his debuff aura that reduced magic resistance had been applied to everyone around him as well.

That was to say when the bolt of lightning landed back on the man, he instantly took 5000 magic damage, removing half of his health at once.

He was a magic swordsman, so he was used to dealing magic damage to his enemies with this spell. However, never in his life had he ever dealt even a fifth of this damage.

The man started fearing that he might die right now and lose some of his precious items.

"You say you're not cheating, and that you're just that good, huh?" the man with the purple wings spoke up. He had to de-escalate the situation from going any further or the cheater might actually kill them all and loot them.

With his cheats, who knew what he could do to their dead bodies?

"Of course," Ning said. "I'm very good."

The man sneered. "Are you that good in real life too? Do you have any talents?" he asked.

"Hmm…" Ning thought for a moment. "No."

The man finally smiled. He thought he finally had found an edge over Ning and was going to use it. "Then stop—"

"I'm better in real life," Ning interrupted. "What? You thought I was going to go back on my words?"

The many people standing there were getting really annoyed by him.

The purple-winged man spoke after thinking for a while. "Then do you think you're good enough to beat me in a 1 vs 1 match of Burst Shooter in real life?" he asked.

Ning didn't even hesitate. "Of course," he said. "Although, what's a burst shooter?"

Chapter 863: Burst ShooterNing wore a white t-shirt on his way to the central hub of the service station. The lift took him away from the outer ring and soon enough he arrived at the center.

Just a few hundred meters away from him was the location where all the food in this place was grown. A few hundred meters further was the room where the main fusion reactor of this service station was located.

A few hundred meters beyond that was the room where all the Space stones were located.

Ning ignored all of these for now and went to the other side of the hub, to the top. When he arrived there, he walked over to a location he was told to visit.

At the very end of the hub was a massive glass dome that created a special room that could not be found anywhere else in this station.

It was a room with absolutely no gravity at all.

Ning walked up to a counter and said his name. The nearby people heard him and turned around immediately.

"That's him. That's Immortal Energy."

"He really came," a few of them were surprised.

Ning looked back at the people and recognized a few of the faces there. "Of course, I came," he said. "What reason do I have to run away?"

"We'll show you the reason," one of them said. Ning recognized the man's face to be similar to the one who had attacked him first.

"So… what are we doing here?" Ning asked. "What's Burst Shooter?"

"Are you serious? Have you really not played it yet?" someone asked.

"Nope, first time," Ning said as he looked around waiting for an explanation.

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"Well, I would explain, but surely someone as good as you don't need my pitiful explanation right?" the man asked.

"Well… yes, you're right. I don't need your explanation at all. Let's get on with whatever I am here to do. I don't have much time to waste," Ning said. "After all, I have so many more dungeons to clear."

The group frowned and the man walked forward before entering the room. The rest of the group followed him and Ning followed them as well, wondering what exactly he was supposed to do here.

As he went in, he felt the gravity slowly get lower and lower, until he was freely floating through the air with nothing pulling him anywhere.

Ning was surprised that there was such a place, but he didn't think much of it at the moment.

"So, what do we do now?" he asked.

As he did, a bunch of droids came flying through many holes in the ground of this dome that also turned out to be spherical as well.

From what Ning saw, they brought out some sort of clothing, maybe armor, and a few guns.

'Guns?' he thought. 'So we really are shooting something. Each other maybe?'

"Wear it," the man who was challenging him first asked.

Ning shrugged and wore the armor. The armor seemed to glow on its own as it glowed red the entire time he was wearing it, and once he was done, it glowed green once he was done.

Then, another droid came up to him and gave him two guns to use. Ning looked at the futuristic gun that didn't even have a proper hole for the bullet to come out of.

'Do they even use bullets?' he wondered.

Just then, he heard a high-pitched sound and turned around to see the man firing his gun. However, while he did fire the gun, and the gun did make some sound, there was no bullet coming out of the gun.

At least, not one he could see. Still, the droid he shot showed red light, making Ning think there were indeed invisible bullets.

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"Are you ready?" the man asked him.

"Uh… one second," Ning said and pointed both his guns towards the droid that the man had shot and pulled the trigger himself.

Suddenly, a burst of air flew out from the gun, and Ning was sent tumbling backward aas that was the only force acting on his body at the moment. With no gravity, it would take him forever to stand upright in this place.

Although, the concept of up and down didn't make much sense here anyway.

Ning didn't understand what had happened with his guns, so he shot them again to see if they would push him back.

They did, and so Ning used it to get himself back into stability. He looked at the gun, wondering if he was given the wrong one.

That was when he noticed something.

At the side of the gun where his thumb was, there was a button with two words written on each side of it.

Burst and Shoot.

At the moment, the guns were in 'Burst' mode.

"Maybe…" Ning thought and changed his guns to 'Shoot' and shot again. This time no powerful burst of air came out. What came out was only a small sound that told him he had fired.

Ning couldn't see the 'bullet', but something had landed on the droid and it had turned red for a few seconds before changing back to regular white colors.

'Oh,' Ning thought and shot again. He tried to count the time it took for the invisible bullet to land and it was about 0.5 seconds to 0.8 seconds at most.

Ning changed the guns back into burst mode and shot it towards his right at a certain angle. The moment he shot, the burst of air pushed him aside, fast enough so that he could dodge any attacks that might come his way.

"Oh… so that's what it's all about," he understood. He was supposed to use 'Shoot' mode to shoot the target and use 'Burst' mode to dodge. He looked toward the man and said, "Let's fight."

The rest of the group cleared up, going to the outer edges of the dome, ready to watch this round of Burst Shooter between the two of them.

Chapter 864: Matches in Zero GravityThe droids carried the two of them and flew them to either side of the nearly 100 meters wide spherical room and left them in the air.

With zero gravity, both Ning and the young man in front of him were hanging in the air unable to move at all.

If they wanted to move, they would have to use the Burst mode on their gun. Ning prepped his two guns. He placed the left one on Shoot and the right one on Burst.

"How many rounds would you like the battle to be?" A robotic voice asked from below them at the hub.

"3," the man said. "Are you okay with that?"

"First one to get shot twice loses? Yeah, I'm okay with that," Ning said.

"Game mode set to 3 rounds. The game will start in 15 seconds."

The voice started counting down, and Ning and the man prepped themselves to fight.

"3… 2… 1.. Begin!"

Ning shot his right gun toward the young man and shot his left gun to his left. Instantly, he was pushed to the right by the burst from his gun.

The young man instead put both his guns at burst and pushed himself in the other direction. Then, he instantly changed it to Shoot and shot at Ning.

Ning heard the sound of the gun being shot and burst himself towards the left even more while shooting back at the man.

The young man moved downward and then shot behind him to move towards Ning.

Ning was surprised that he was willing to come into close combat, but he wasn't scared. Instead, he took the chance to shoot the young man using both his guns at a slight angle.

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The young man saw this and shot downward to move upward before shooting behind to move forward.

Ning shot upwards and flew down while switching his guns back to shoot at his opponent.

Ning found it annoying that he wasn't getting the hang of the power behind his gun fast enough. More than anything, he wasn't sure how the gun registered a hit, but he did see that they did, so he didn't question it.

Just then, the young man pointed towards him and shot at Ning. Ning dodged the moment he heard the sound, but then another gunshot fired, and this time, his gun simply couldn't shoot fast enough for him to change the direction he was moving in.

As such, he felt a slight vibration on his chest from his armor and saw it glow yellow.

He had lost once.

"Hah! You were quite arrogant that you could win. Where's that arrogance now?" the young man shouted at Ning from not far away.

Ning didn't say anything and just smiled. "It's alright. I'm only just learning, so you can't expect me to get good at once," he said. "However, I think I'm now so ready that you shouldn't be able to win at all."

"Heh… we'll see," the young man said.

The droids came to pick both of them back to their original position before asking them if they were ready.

Ning spent split second thinking about what he had learned from the match just now.

For one, there was a reload time between each shot of the gun. So, it was better if Ning didn't shoot both guns at once and instead left one active at all times so that he could use it in the case of an emergency.

Other than that, there was also the fact that the 'bullet' or whatever signal the machinery was using was rather slow.

As long as someone knew it was coming and had a good enough reaction speed, they could always dodge it.

Which was to say, if you didn't want them to dodge easily, get close and shoot.

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'No wonder he came towards me,' Ning thought.

The droid at the bottom of the room started speaking once again, counting down from the start until it reached 1.

After that, the 2nd round began.

As soon as that happened, Ning rushed forward. He alternated between using his guns as he shot forward in a zig-zag manner.

The young man frowned and instantly sent himself tumbling sideways, and shot at Ning. However, Ning always had one gun active, so he used it instantly to dodge.

Ning then got closer once again, while dodging another attack. When he arrived less than 5 meters away, he pointed the gun in his right hand and shot.

The shooting sound made the young man in front of him immediately send himself flying upwards to avoid it, but he realized something was wrong when Ning smiled.

Ning's hands simply moved upwards along with the young man's current path, and before the young man could use his guns again, Ning shot.

Yellow light glowed from the young man's armor as he was shot right in the chest.

"You cheated!" he cried out immediately. "Your gun reloaded way too fast. You must've tampered with it."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk," Ning shook his head. "Is that all you can say when you've been outmaneuvered? Going straight to the accusation of cheating. Don't call others cheaters when you're the one that is bad at the game."

"Bronn! He didn't cheat," a man spoke from the side. "He used his other gun to make you think he shot the actual one."

Ning looked at the man that just revealed his secrets and smiled back at the young man in front of him. "See? You're so bad that you didn't even realize what had happened just now. If not for your friend there, you would've remained ignorant your whole life."

"You bastard! Stop acting as if you've won. There is still one more round for us," he said.

"Sure! Whatever makes you feel happy," Ning said while laughing and letting the droids take him back to the fighting position.

Once they were both ready, the countdown from 15 started, and when it reached 1, the final round began.

Chapter 865: New SkillsNing shot forward again, closing his distance with the young man in front of him.

The young man, now having seen Ning's way of fighting, also went forward to close their distance. Instead of being the one running away, he wanted to face Ning at his own game.

When the two of them got close, Ning suddenly pulled the trigger, shooting the young man. However, the young man was prepared for this, so he easily dodged it by propelling himself upward.

Ning pointed up and shot again, but the young man changed direction one more time, dodging the shot.

The two of them passed each other without neither being shot, so they turned around and started blasting at each other again.

The more Ning fought, the better he got. The incredible talent he had bought from the system allowed him to master the maneuverability he could do with the guns at an incredible speed.

And with his ability to slow down time, his reaction speed was so fast that he dodged every attack.

The same however could not be said about the young man at all.

Very soon, Ning ran circles around the young man, frustrating him to no end. He propelled himself at the young man at incredible speed and dodged the attacks along the way.

He didn't shoot a single time and only used his guns to speed himself up. At some point, he arrived right in front of the young man who was ready to shoot him up close, and in an incredible show of feat, Ning instantly changed his direction to go downwards, canceling all the momentum he had been carrying.

The young man was awestruck with how easily Ning changed his direction. Then, he heard a gun go off from out of his vision.

He instantly shot himself around to dodge and looked at where Ning had gone to, but to his surprise, he was missing.

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The man turned his head a full 180 degrees from left to right and up to down, but he didn't see anyone around him.

'Where did he go?' the young man wondered. 'Behind?'

He immediately turned around, but no one was there. He turned around again, but no one was there too.

It was only when he turned around the third time did he notice the smaller strip of cloth floating away. Ning was behind him the entire time, but he was so good that the man simply could see him anymore.

Ning chuckled from behind, letting the young man know he was there and that he was watching his every move.

The young man did whatever he could to turn around to Ning, but the most he was was just his cloth.

Then, a gun shot, and the young man saw his armor go from Yellow to Red. He had lost.

Ning finally arrived from behind him and showed a mocking expression. "I thought you would be quite good at this, given it was you all who challenged me. And yet, you lost to a first-timer. Tsk, tsk, tsk," he said.

"Cease your lies. There is no way you played this for the first time. You made me think you were a newbie and took advantage of my lack of judgment," the young man said.

"What? No way you're going to tell me I cheated here too right?" Ning asked.

"My turn!" someone else came from the side and the young man was forced to leave in a fit of anger.

Ning chuckled even as he went out and started his match with the newly arrived person.

As soon as the match started, Ning shot toward the girl and got behind her. Once he was there, there was no way for her to see him again or even target him.

As such, without even the least bit of hassle, he beat the girl and moved on to the next set of opponents.

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One by one, the ones that wanted to humiliate him flew down and were beaten down easily.

The more they fought in the matches, the more they realized how good Ning was in it. It was almost as if they had fallen into his trap and that this was all his plan from the beginning.

Ning on the other hand was having the time of his life, moving around using the guns. He could surely fly on his own, but he was playing by the rules.

The last man to come down to the battlefield was the one that originally accused him of cheating. It was the man with purple wings.

Even without them, he didn't look that far off as he seemed to have made very few changes to his in-game character.

They fought for 2 rounds, and while Ning did find this one to be the hardest of all, he was still able to defeat the man in less than 5 minutes.

The young man had a disappointed look on him and he sighed. "Ok, you defeated us," he said. "So we will give up on accusing you of cheating… for now," he said.

"For now? What will you do later on?" Ning asked curiously.

"Later, I will defeat you in the game and prove that you really are cheating," he said.

"Oh, I will look forward to that then," Ning said.

"Don't worry, you won't have to wait for too long," the young man said. "Once the game allows us neutral factions to use more skills, I will come to defeat you."

"More skills?" Ning looked confused. "What more skills?"

"You don't know?" the young man asked. "Very soon, the game is going to add more variety of skills, better skills for the neutral faction and that is going to help us all a lot."

"Oh…" Ning was surprised. He hadn't heard about it yet. "Good luck then."

Once it was all over, the group left the dome and went back home. Ning too left the place and went back to his room on the other side of the station and went back into the game.

Chapter 866: Changing Fate[Corrosive Black Spear (Unique)

STR: 60

AGI: 25

HP: 400

Mana: 500

Has a 10% chance to ignore your enemy's defenses.

Corrode (Passive): Places a corrosive debuff on your enemy dealing 15 damage every second for 5 seconds. The debuff stacks with itself, refreshing the duration of each hit.

Cyro Cuts (Passive): Your attacks freeze enemy, slowing their movement speed by 25% and reducing their health regeneration by 60%. ]

"Ooh, this is a nice spear," Ning said as he looked at his new spear. "Thank you."

"No problem, lad," the demon blacksmith said. "That's the least I could do to help you after what you've done for me. Although, I hope you will put it to good use tomorrow."

Ning looked at the spear. "I will beat the biggest and baddest with this, I promise," he said.

"Hahaha! Go on then, I got work to do." The blacksmith turned around to do his job, so Ning walked away.

'Tomorrow huh?' he thought.

The war that everyone was getting hyped up about was right around the corner and Ning was intending to take part in it.

From what he had heard, the small skirmishes in the north were already a good place for people to earn their experience, but since the war was going to be big, Ning could only imagine how much experience he himself would get.

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'I should be able to, at least after I complete this quest, right?' he wondered. 'The battlefield should be the prime location for me to do so.'

Ning had reached Level 150 in the last few days and his class quest was here. However, unlike the previous time, his class quest this time was quite unique.

[Class Quest

You are the master of Fate, and as such you should be able to alter the fate of not just yours, but others as well.

Interfere and change the fate of 10 different beings for the better.

Fates changed: 0/10]

Ning found a few carriages outside the keep that was taking people to where the demons had set up tents for the war and got on it.

Before he knew it, he was on his way to the war.

Along the way, Ning thought about his class quest.

'Changing fate… how exactly do I do that though? In the first place, how can I even tell what fate a person has?' he thought. He didn't think fate was as easy to see in his current situation as everyone around him was player.

There was practically no way the game knew the fate of these very players. Which was one of the reasons why Ning was going to the battlefield to find people whose death were more than confirmed and save them.

That way, he could have their fates changed.

It took half a day for the carriage to reach the location of the war site and Ning quickly found himself a place to stay for the time being.

He sat there, thinking exactly who he could help with their fates. He had taken a look at the place and there were quite a few NPCs whose fates must've been set already.

'Can I change that?' he wondered. He most likely could, but then he needed to know what would happen to them.

"Wait a second, wasn't there a card that helped me see things in the future?" Ning thought as he pulled out a card.

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[Clairvoyance: Helps the user see far in the distance. Gain temporary, unobstructed vision of a location or individual within 10 kilometers. The vision lasts 10 minutes.]

"Wait no, that's wrong," Ning thought. He had pulled out the wrong card by accident due to the wording on the description.

He pulled another card. "There it is," he thought.

[Future Sight: Helps the user see far in the future. Gain a bird's eye view of the future exactly 1 day from now.]

"Hmm… I wonder how the game could possibly know what would happen tomorrow. Is it perhaps set in stone?" he thought. "Activate!"

Ning lost his sense of sight as he was teleported into a dreamesque realm where he was in the sky, looking down at the battlefield.

Ning saw the battlefield with clear eyes and the destruction that lay there. So many dead people, both demons and angels, could be seen sprawled on the ground.

He saw the people that still stood that fought. However, what surprised Ning the most was the fact that everyone was fighting a single enemy.

A woman.

The woman had long black hair that flowed in the wing, stark white clothes that did not get dirtied at all, and finally, the most curious part of her physique, wings.

Every player had wings, so that wasn't very amusing. What was unique about her wings was that her left wing was an angel wing with feathers of various different colors, and her right wing was that of a demon, which also seemed to be an amalgamation of various different types.

One of those very segments of wings was one that Ning remembered very clearly. It was a clear patch of wing that was mostly colored by the white light that shined through the fractures of what seemed like glasses.

In those shards of glasses were visions of the future, all the different possibilities.

'Trenzelgor's wings?' Ning looked with surprise. 'How did she get Trenzelgor's wings?'

Ning was a little confused as well. 'Who is this woman?' he thought as he watched the battle.

The girl used skills and abilities that shocked him to his deepest core. Each one of her attacks destroyed parts of everyone on the battlefield. Each time she used a skill, someone died.

More and more deaths piled up on the battlefield, both demons, and angels, until the woman was the only person that lived.

Then, the woman slowly turned to look up, looking straight toward Ning.

For a moment, Ning's eyes went wide. He couldn't believe that he knew this person. After all, the woman was Gariin, the female leader of the humans that had left the continent in the south.

Chapter 867: Clairvoyance[Future Sight has ended]

Ning came out of the dream-like state, confused and worried about what he had seen. How could the female leader of the humans that couldn't even survive the demons in the south suddenly kill both demons and angels with such ease?

'How did she get those wings? Only players should have wings,' Ning thought. This was getting all too confusing for him at the moment.

"Damn, should I just ask the system for answers? I might be able to—"

Before Ning could finish his words, his vision twisted as he appeared somewhere.

'Huh? Where am I?' he thought. The place he was in looked like a dungeon that lay underneath a castle. At least, the walls looked just like that.

Ning suddenly saw someone pass next to him.

'Gariin?' Ning was confused. 'What is this? Another vision?'

Ning saw Gariin again, but this time she had no wings on her back. She looked normal without any changes and so he called out to her.

It was only then that Ning noticed that he couldn't speak or hear what was being said. He couldn't even see his own body.

'What sort of vision is this?' he wondered. However, before he could think anything in regard to that, Ning saw Gariin enter a room and so he followed her.

When he entered the room again, he was horrified. Along the side of the walls and on the various tables were wings that were obviously cut off from demons, angels, and even humans.

There were various NPCs there that experimented on the wings and Ning couldn't help but wonder why she was doing that. Was this how she got her wings in the future?

Ning remembered the first time he met this woman. She was wearing a pair of dragonfly wings at the time that she mentioned had come from a dead 'blessed one'.

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Blessed one was what they called players, and there was no way a player could ever die in this game.

This was to say, the girl had to have used some other methods for acquiring her wings.

Ning saw Gariin look through the various wings that the people in the room showed her, but she shook her head at every single one.

She didn't like those wings at all. Of course, she didn't. Ning knew exactly which one she liked.

'Is this perhaps not the future I'm seeing?' Ning started wondering. It was only then that he remembered he was holding a Clairvoyance card before he was sent into the future sight.

'Ah, the Clairvoyance card must have timed out and activated on its own,' Ning thought. Which was to say that Gariin was in a 10-kilometer radius around Ning.

After rejecting the people and their wings, Gariin left the room and went to some other place in the dungeon.

When she entered, Ning got another shock when he saw the state of the room. There were hundreds of candles lit around the room, all of which glowed with reddish light for some reason.

There were people inside the room who she spoke to and they said something.

Ning didn't know what they said but seeing their heads bob up and down, they seemed to be affirming something.

The girl walked to the center of the room, where there was a massive, complex magic circle that was meant to do something.

Ning wondered what it did, but he couldn't read the magic circle at all. It was likely that the game developers didn't care to put anything important into the magic circle itself.

The girl sat in the center of the room and said something. Ning tried reading her lips, but it didn't work either. So, he could only wait and see what happened.

His vision slowly started to dim as his Clairvoyance was ending soon. Even as it did, Ning saw what happened next.

20 different people, 10 demons, and 10 angels were brought into the room. To Ning's surprise, they were all players.

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With his last bit of vision, Ning's eyes focused on a single angel.

[Clairvoyance has ended.]

"… Saphandra?"

Ning found himself back in his tent, with both of his cards missing from his hands. "That was Saphandra, right?" he thought to himself.

It had been months since he had seen her since they were both so into the game. The times they were out were few and they usually missed each other. However, there was no way he would miss what Saphandra looked like.

'It is definitely her,' Ning thought. 'What did she get herself into? Was that a ritual? Are they going to kill her?'

Ning quickly looked for the Clairvoyance card again to check the situation, but the card had gone on a 10 hours cooldown.

He was annoyed at how long of a cooldown the individual Unique and Legendary cards had.

"I was seeing a real-time vision, right? Not a vision of the future," Ning thought to himself. "Which means she is in trouble right now."

Without a single hint of hesitation, Ning left the room and walked out. He quickly left the tent area to go into the human side of the battlefield.

Ning didn't know where exactly Gariin was, but he had a way to find out. He quickly brought out a card that was able to figure out the locations of players you had partied with or are friends with, or NPCs that you had active quests with.

Ning still had the quest with Gariin where he was supposed to kill Demon commanders for her, but he had kept it at bay for a long time.

Finally, the quest was coming in handy, but not in the way he would've assumed it to.

"Activate! Find Gariin," Ning said.

The card suddenly burst into Orange light and disappeared, leaving behind a red arrow that pointed to Ning's left.

'That direction?' Ning thought. He wondered how far it was going to be. There was only one way to find out.

So, Ning started running in the general direction that the arrow was pointing towards.

Chapter 868: The Castle DungeonNing appeared on the outskirts of a village with no one living in it. He looked around, wondering where the people were, and came to the conclusion that they must've moved once the demons launched their invasion.

Ning ignored the emptiness and looked towards the castle up north and walked towards it. The red arrow that had appeared in his vision had already turned yellow and was now slowly turning green.

'I should be close,' he thought. He could tell that the castle in front of him was most likely where everyone was hiding, just like they did back in Highcastle.

As he got close, suddenly an arrow flew from somewhere, landing next to him. "Hmm?" Ning looked up. Then, he saw a dozen different arrows in the sky, whistling their way down at him.

Ning dashed without a moment's hesitation and not a single one of the arrows landed on him at all. When he got close to the castle, a bunch of humans walked out, wearing full-body armor and holding swords and spears.

"Move away, I'm not here to hurt you," Ning said. He couldn't waste his time fighting these people since he needed to go down quickly.

"Hah! Do you think we would ever fall for a demon's trickery? Men, charge!" one of them shouted.

Ning frowned and looked at the men coming here. Since they were so intent on attacking him, he cared not much for them either.

A bolt of lightning escaped from his hands, a skill from the Thunder Lizard's Blessing necklace that arced between the humans, dealing 120% of his 800 INT to every single one.

The men looked at the damage they just took with a shocked and pained expressions on their faces. The leader who had asked them to charge immediately noticed the damage in their morale and spoke up.

"Don't worry, he can't use that for lon—"

Another bolt of lightning struck the man, and the lightning arced in between everyone, once again dealing over 1000 damage to them.

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"What?" the leader looked back in shock. How could anyone possibly use such strong skills so rapidly?

After 3 seconds passed, Ning used the lightning bolt again.

He had already used a card that lowered the mana cost of his spells by 80%, so he wasn't even using much mana for the lightning bolt. And since the Thunder Lizard's blessing gave him Chain Lightning with a 3-second cooldown on it, that became the best spell to use right now.

Aside from that, there was also the fact that he had lowered magic damage reduction on all enemies in a certain range as that was the debuff he had set.

Thus, every time a lightning bolt struck the humans, it did far more damage than it ever could to them under normal circumstances.

The men were stubborn, but even they could see how futile what they were doing was. So, when Ning continued spamming Chain Lightning, they had to retreat.

Ning continued forward even as the men retreated and he finally arrived at the doorway to the castle. The men had nowhere else to retreat to, so they attacked him one last time as a final do-or-die attack.

They died.

Ning entered the castle and saw the green arrow pointing downward. 'I knew it,' he thought. 'So there is a dungeon down there.'

He searched for a way down but was unable to find any. As such, he was forced to use a card to show him hidden traps and doors.

Once he found one along the wall, he entered it and started going downstairs.

The archers flooded the room behind him and rushed down the stairs to attack him. Once again, Ning used his Chain Lightning skill to deal with them, while he himself evaded every single one of the arrows.

A few skills landed on him as they were too big to avoid simply, but it was barely any damage to Ning. Once he dealt with the many archers, he finally arrived at the underground dungeon.

The people in there had already heard of the commotion and were ready for Ning.

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Ning looked at the group of people that blocked his path from getting over to the other room and frowned.

So, he finally took his spear and pulled out a single card. He activated the card and suddenly had quite a lot of STR.

Then, Ning started fighting.

He weaved through the group, cutting those he could, and dodging those that were far away. Bolts of lightning shot out from him and hit the other people, and his Zap skill also dealt a good bit of magic damage.

The people around him were strong and did quite a lot of damage when they did hit too, but Ning was more elusive than any they had come across and it was incredibly hard to hit them all.

Ning stabbed one man, then ducked a weapon before stabbing the man behind him. He swung his spear at the first man while shooting a bolt of lightning at the second man.

He then moved on to the third man and continued.

It was nearly 5 minutes before he managed to clear the hallway of his assailants and finally got to go forward.

'I've wasted too long,' Ning thought as he rushed over to the room where the ritual was happening.

2 strong men guarded the room, but before Ning, they weren't very strong at all. They fell within a few hits and died.

Ning pushed open the door and entered inside to see a scene that seemed out of this world.

20 men and women, 10 demons, and 10 angels were tied on the ground, unable to move. They had their eyes closed, so Ning assumed they were unconscious for now.

Instead, his eyes shifted from them to the chains on their back. The chains floated to the sky and wrapped around 20 different figures.

Ning recognized one of those figures, a woman with shards of glass for wings.

Trenzelgor.

Chapter 869: BoringNing looked at all the 20 figures and frowned.

If he was to go by Trenzelgor's presence here, then every single of these 20 beings were the Demon Lords and the High Angels, the god-like figure of the game who was responsible for granting everyone with unimaginable power.

And yet, they were all tied for some reason.

He looked down at the woman in front of him that was behind all of this.

"Gariin! What are you doing?" Ning asked.

The woman was relishing in the power she was about to draw from the gods and didn't even care for Ning's presence.

Ning looked at the wings that formed in her back, one that looked eerily similar to the one he had seen in his future vision.

If he was to let it continue, he knew what would happen tomorrow on the battlefield.

"Gariin!" Ning shouted at her, finally catching her attention.

"Demon, have you come to tell me of the Demon commanders you have killed for me?" she asked.

"What are you doing?" Ning asked. "You're hurting my friend."

"Your friend? The demons? Why would you care what happens to the demons? I thought you were ready to kill them all," she said.

"These aren't my friends. She is," Ning pointed to the unconscious Saphandra whose chains tied down a heavenly figure with broad and white bird wings.

"Your friend… an angel? Do you think I'm stupid?" the woman asked. She continued absorbing the powers of the gods that were chained up and grew strong.

"Don't do this," Ning said. "Don't force me to kill you."

"Hah! You can't kill me? I have the power of gods in my hands now. Do you know how long I've waited for this moment? To gain power that rivaled the strongest being in this world?" she asked.

"No longer will the humans have to suffer from the demon invasions. No longer will the humans have to live under the thumb of the angels, begging them to help us in every crisis and have them look down upon us."

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"No longer will the humans remain powerless. Today, I shall hold the powers of the gods in my own two hands and distribute them to every corner of the world. After today, the humans shall all receive powers that the demons and angels have boasted so much."

"Today shall mark the beginning of humans gaining back their authority in this continent. Today, the humans shall reign supreme."

The woman laughed uncontrollably as more powers gathered in her.

Ning gripped his spear tightly before loosening it. "I'm afraid I have no other choice but to kill you then," he said.

"Go ahead," the girl asked. "If you think your power rivals one of the Demon lords then you may try as much as you like. I won't attack you, but be careful about attacking me. You made an oath, remember?"

Ning stopped in his tracks. He remembered the oath that stopped him from attacking a human that wasn't attacking him already.

Gariin saw Ning's frowning face and smiled. "Stop trying to be a hero. Didn't you say you would be fine killing all the demons? I'm doing exactly that. After today, the demons will all die, and the angels will be forced to go back to their realm as well."

"The humans will finally rule over everything," the girl said.

In the end, Ning couldn't help but sigh. He looked towards Saphandra and looked back at the woman in front of him.

"Yeah, I'm not going to let that happen," Ning said as he reached for a card from his deck, the strongest card he knew of.

"Are you seriously going to attack me?" the girl asked. "Do you know what will happen to you if you do that?"

"I know," Ning said. "I'll get cursed, lose my skills, and will have to start it all over again."

"And you're willing to still do it?" the girl frowned as she asked.

Ning smiled back at her with a sneer on his face. "Why not?" he asked. "It was getting boring anyway."

"Activate!"

[Instant Death: Kills the enemy in front of you regardless of levels. Has a cooldown of 1 month. Doesn't work on dungeon bosses.]

Gariin's heart beat once, and then Ning used the card. The next heartbeat never arrived.

She fell to the floor in the middle of the magic circle. She had died.

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The chains broke and the various godly figures disappeared from the sky. Ning himself disappeared as well.

When Ning opened his eyes, he found himself back in the demon world, with the crimson moon in the sky, lightning in every little desolate spot in the city in red.

Ning looked at the notifications he received. He had lost his class 'Master of Fate' and instead received a simple 'cursed' class.

He kept his equipment, but he lost his main skills, and instead was switched with some other skills for his new 'cursed' class.

Ning's class was quite unique. He had 10 times more STR, AGI, and INT from every stat he received, but instead, he had 0 DEF and VIT. He also had a single point of HP and could never be increased from that.

A single point of damage that came from enemies or neutral forces killed him, but to compensate for that he no longer took damage from Area on Effect skills.

"Well, that's not so bad," Ning thought. He wasn't even sad about losing his class. It was indeed getting boring on his end, so he was happy getting rid of it.

So, Ning started using his new class. It would take him a while to get used to it, but he would make proper use of it, he had enough time.

Due to Ning's intervention, Gariin couldn't fully harness the powers and thus the humans never got any new skills that they were promised. Instead, it was postponed for a few months later.

Had Ning not made the oath, he would have managed to change the fate of hundreds of thousands of people, easily completing his class quest.

Alas, that never came to pass.

With his new class, Ning would take some time getting used to it, but once he did, he would once again make a name for himself.

Ning would meet Saphandra in the Starsoar continent again and start partying with her to play the game.

Together, they would come to be known as the Cursed and Divine Duo, which were considered the greatest team in the game.

Ning would always be very hard to kill due to his high AGI, and when he did die, Saphandra was there to resurrect him.

Five years later, the final stages of the game would come, and the two of them would be the ones to beat it.

Once that was done, the games they played would change to something else. Games with guns, games with spaceships, games where the only point of the game was to raise a family and be better than others— various games would come to the space station from time to time, and everyone would go on to play that.

After 100 years of playing, Ning would finally decide it was time to leave the place and continue his journey.

It was time for him to go to the center of the galaxy.

Chapter 870: LeavingNing prepared to leave the Service Station.

He looked at the black sphere in front of him. It was so dense that even his super-strong arms could somewhat feel the weight.

It was apparently made up of a metal that was foreign to this universe and could only be found in some select universes.

The metal was called Aulcron, and it had cost Ning over 3 Quintillion energy to make just the smallest piece of it.

"I would've expected something so expensive to look more… expensive," Saphandra said from the side.

"As long as it does its job," Ning said. "Are you sure it will be alright? I won't lose any energy right?"

"I don't know if that is what matters though," Ning said. "Since I won't be doing any traveling in this."

"I think it's fine," Saphandra said. "Come one, let's go."

Ning nodded, but there was one more problem he had to think about. 'It should be okay,' he thought and immediately transferred over his consciousness to the small metal ball.

His body flopped over, giving Saphandra a bit of a surprise. He instinctively pushed it away from her and the body went flying to the wall.

"Hey! That's my body. Don't treat it like that," Ning said.

"You should've told me you were going to do it. I got spooked," she said.

Ning took his body into his storage and spoke from the ball. "Come, I can't go without you going in first," he said.

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"Yeah, yeah," Saphandra said and entered the Spirit space in him. Once she was gone, Ning thought of the room with the space stones and teleported in.

As a small metal ball that did not exist in this universe, the censors never noticed he was there.

Ning flew over to the two largest pieces of space stones and saw not much had changed. The largest piece of space stone was still about 300 cubic centimeters in volume and would take him about 3600 lightyears away.

Not only did Ning need about 4000 lightyears worth of space stone, but he also needed another good bunch to break through the fabric of space when the other universe came floating around.

"How do I keep it though?" Ning thought. "Should I make a larger hole perhaps?"

"I cannot use two at once?" Ning asked.

Ning frowned as he thought for a bit. "How much space stone will I need to break through the walls between the universe?" he asked.

"That's like a dozen of these," Ning thought. He looked at the rest of the items in the room and frowned to himself.

The rest of the space stones weren't as large at all. And if he were to carry them all with him for the 4000 cubic centimeters he needed, that would make an annoyingly large shape that would decrease his distance that he could teleport by a lot.

So, the only way to get find enough space stones was to do so after he had teleported to the other side. 'How am I going to collect 4000 Cubic centimeters of these? From the federation?' he wondered.

That was the only way as far as Ning could tell.

"By the way, what should I do regarding the space stones?" Ning asked. "Do I need to find the right amount of space stones? Or can I get any?"

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"Right, so I have to determine a destination now," Ning thought. That was a bit problematic as well.

Due to the time shenanigans that happened the closer he reached the center of the galaxy, he needed to find a way to quickly get his hand on some space stones.

"Wait, I just need to find myself another service station or even just the federation headquarters, don't I?" Ning thought.

"System, where's the federation headquarters?" Ning asked the system.

The star chart popped up once again and a location was pointed out on the map. "Oh… it's on the other side?" Ning felt a little disappointed.

"I guess I will have to find a service station then. Show me one that is closest to the black hole on this side," Ning said.

The image changed once more and this time he saw exactly what he wanted to. About 10 lightyears away from the black hole, there was a service station hovering next to a gas giant.

Ning decided he wanted to go there, take some space stones from there, and fly over to the black hole.

"Which two should I get for the job?" Ning asked.

The system pointed out multiple combinations for him to choose from, so Ning chose two Space stones that together had about enough size to transport him over without wasting as much.

Once it was chosen, Ning pulled them out using his telekinesis powers, and immediately, the systems started blaring loud.

"Shut them off," Ning said and the alarms instantly disappeared. "Let's start it then."

Ning pulled the Space stones close to him until they were both in contact with him. Then, a vast amount of energy escaped from him, he started using the space stones.

Ning had seen the space stones used in a ship before, but it was always hidden from sight due to being in a container.

However, now he could see it fully.

The space stones practically melted, turning into a vast amount of silver-colored spatial energy that covered him. In the next moment, the system used the energy to connect two points of space in this galaxy, and then Ning vanished.

Chapter 871: NothingnessNing appeared out of the portal into an open space. He looked around to find the service station and found it floating next to a gas giant.

The blue gas giant glowed brightly from the sun that was behind him, and almost looked like a hospitable planet with water in it.

If there were some green parts on the surface of the planet, he would've thought it was a planet with a thriving life.

Ning looked away from the planet and toward the Service Station. He was here to steal from it, so he was going to do so.

Just then, a shadow fell on the Service Station. Ning wondered what was happening when he also saw it fall on the planet behind it.

He focused on the sun and saw something weird around the sun.

"What is that?" he asked.

"Damn, how big is that?" Ning wondered.

"I see," Ning thought. "I wonder how useful that is."

"I didn't expect to see something like this today," Ning said. "Good to know."

Ning ignored it for now and looked at the Service station. It looked different from the one he was in before, so he had to ask the system for a blueprint of the entire station.

Once he got it, he had a general idea of where exactly he had to go.

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Ning teleported into what he guessed was the room full of Space stones and was happy to see that he was right about it.

There were some people in the room, but they couldn't see the small, non-reflecting metal hovering in the air.

Ning looked around to find the biggest pieces of Space stones. He needed quite a few of them, so he located the ones he needed.

Once he did, he started taking the cylinders.

He didn't need to take the space stones alone since henceforth, he was going to be traveling by his ship. As such, it was better to take the cylinders themselves.

Once he took all the cylinders, before the people could realize they were missing, Ning teleported away.

He appeared outside of the station a few hundred kilometers away. Ning's body appeared out in space, and Ning quickly switched over to his body.

Ning then grabbed his cylinders and pulled out his ship from his storage. He appeared inside the ship and placed all the cylinders on the bridge of the ship.

Once done, he started getting ready to leave when he saw the shadow fall on him. He stopped and thought for a second.

"System, if I were to leave now, how many years would it take for me to reach the wormhole?" he asked.

20 years

"And how many relative years will I have before I need to reach the location on the other side?" Ning asked.

"I see," Ning thought as he looked towards the sun. "I can do it after going to the other side."

He started the engine and before he knew it, the ship was flying through space at the speed of some of the fastest spaceships out there. Ning had upgraded it to be so.

Saphanrda came out after Ning let her, and she looked around with a confused look on her face. "We're on a spaceship? What happened to going to the other universe? Are we there yet?" she asked.

"No, we're only on our way to the wormhole right now," Ning said.

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"What? I don't want to wait. Call me out when you're done," she said and returned to the spirit space.

Ning chuckled a little. "I wish I too could just—"

Ning paused. "Wait, I can," he thought and quickly brought out the black metal again. Now that he had this small metal sphere, he too could sleep without the fear of losing his 52 Quintillion energy.

So, he quickly set up the spaceship for what it needed to do, and after consulting with the system, he switched his body with the small metal.

"Wake me up in 20 years as long as everything in the ship goes without any trouble. If there is trouble, wake me up immediately," Ning said.

Ning slowly felt his mind slip away as, after many, many years, he found himself falling unconscious. It was a familiar feeling that he had forgotten long ago and was happy to remember.

As soon as he lost consciousness, Ning found his consciousness resurfacing as his mind focused back. He quickly remembered what he was doing and looked around to see if there was any problem with the ship.

"Any diversions?" he asked.

"That means I've arrived at the black hole?" Ning asked.

"Really?"

Ning walked up to the front window of the ship and looked outside. He saw a line of spaceships flying towards the distance to a giant hole in space.

"That's not it, right? No, that's the wormhole. Then… is the black hole belo—"

Ning's sight fell below, but he saw nothing there. However, the vast nothingness was very scary for him, since he could see no star or any other sources of light.

The nothingness was surrounded by a giant ring of glowing light, letting Ning know that what he was looking at was in fact the black hole.

He tried to think of words to say, but the majesty of the Blackhole struck him speechless. As such, he spent the entire time staring into the abyss.

Chapter 872: Black HoleNing found it incredibly hard to focus on anything as he looked down into the void. For some reason, he was feeling scared.

He never felt this sort of fear when he was flying through space, and yet, he felt it now.

"System, is my emotion natural right now? Why do I feel like it is your doing?" Ning asked.

Ning kept watching without saying anything. He quickly called Saphandra out as well. "I thought you would want to see it too," he told her.

"What am I looking at?" she asked. He couldn't see anything after all.

"That down there is a black hole," Ning told her. He simply couldn't keep his vision away from the thing down below.

"I've never seen something simpler and yet more horrifying in my life," Ning said as he felt the fear very clearly.

They were so far from the accretion disk that it didn't even register in their vision.

Ning finally gained back some focus and pulled out his body before changing back. He put the metal ball away and looked below at the black hole.

"Alright, I've looked at it. Tell me what you've been keeping to yourself about black holes," he asked.

"What? Look, I'm looking at it. See?" Ning asked while pointing out of the window.

"Into… oh," Ning looked down at the Black hole. Of course, he couldn't see anything in it, so there was no way to look into it.

A black hole, as far as Ning knew, was something with immense gravity, so much so that even light couldn't escape from it. If even light couldn't escape from something, then looking at it was impossible.

However, what if one didn't need light to look at something?

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Ning had bought his Vision III skill long ago, which allowed him to see things as they would under light even in the absence of light entirely.

Ning took a deep breath as he was finally going to look into a black hole. He activated his vision skill and gazed down from the spaceship window.

"… what?" he looked confused. "Why… is it empty?"

Inside the black hole, there was nothing. There was no object inside the black hole at all, let alone having a high concentration of matter that created this massive gravitational pull.

In fact, this only made Ning even more confused as to where the gravity even came from if everything was empty.

"It's empty?" Saphandra asked after hearing him speak out loud.

"Yeah, it's empty. There's nothing in there. What the hell?" Ning was beyond confused at this point. He was in fact starting to believe that everything he had learned and knew about black holes until now was a lie.

"System, you need to explain right now why it is empty," Ning said.

"There is?" Ning looked back into the black hole and saw the emptiness again. However, this time around he tried to find something, anything.

His vision zoomed to the most it could until Ning actually found something at the center of the black hole.

There was a crack in space, one that did not give off much light, but it was visible thanks to a mild glow around its edges.

"Hmmm?" Ning focused even more and looked at the crack, but he couldn't tell what exactly it was. As he was wondering, a few words came to his mind.

Ning was too confused to give a crap about the notifications and kept staring at the crack at the center of the Black hole.

Rather, there was no black hole, there was only this crack.

Ning watched the matter in the accretion disk slowly fall into the range of the gravitational pull where it couldn't resist but go inside.

Ning expected the matter that entered the range to continue spinning, but to his surprise, it instantly lost all momentum and fell to the center where the crack lay.

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The object went into the crack and disappeared.

Ning looked at the thing down below with a surprised look and asked, "System, just what exactly is that?"

"Take back everything that has been given? What do you mean?" Ning asked.

"So… a black hole is like a recycling bin for the galaxy where everything goes to die?" Ning asked curiously as he looked below.

"I see," Ning contemplated the information for a while. "Wait, where is it getting sent to again?" he asked.

Ning remembered something that he had known for a long time, but he hadn't thought about it since it never came up again.

"Wait… this world, do you mean the place where everything is Energy and I can die?" Ning asked.

"So, a black hole is nothing different than an Origin," Ning said. "No, wait, they do the opposite things, right?"

"A galactic Origin?" Ning questioned curiously.

Chapter 873: Through the Wormhole

White holes create space and matter, and Black holes took them away. Together, the two phenomena kept an equilibrium on the amount of energy that existed in a galaxy at every time.

White holes only appeared once towards the start of the universe formation when galaxies were already starting to form.

The White holes spewed out as much matter and space as they could and then went dormant. The galaxy at that moment would be in equilibrium that nothing could disturb. After that, the galaxy would go on to create billions of stars and planets.

And then, the problem would arise when the planets would start creating life, and along with them create an Origin of their own.

Now there was more energy in the Galaxy than the galaxy could possibly handle. In such conditions, the galaxy would fester until it was ripe with a lot of energy.

When the dormant White hole noticed the excess amount of energy, it would go active again, however this time, instead of sending out matter and space, it would start dragging it in.

The portal to the dimension of Energy would open with a strong gravitational pull of its own to drag things towards it. Once enough matter had been dragged, it would form an accretion disk, and become the Blackhole everyone came to recognize it as.

This wasn't the only way black holes were created. When there was a massive star, there would sometimes be so much heat and pressure at its core that the space there would slowly become fragile.

Then, when the star lost the heat and pressure, the fragile space would tear itself, inadvertently opening a portal back to the dimension of Energy, more time than not.

As such, more black holes would come to exist in the world that had way too much energy, leeching it all back. Once that started, the black holes would never end until the day the universe died.

Ning stood by the window with a thoughtful look on his face, learning something he would've never expected to learn.

"So wait, what happens if I ever accidentally fall into a black hole? Is it instant death?" Ning asked.

No. Due to the way momentum is conserved, you will almost never fall directly into the black hole. Instead, you will go on an orbital part around the black hole, becoming part of the accretion disk for an unfathomably long time.

if you can get out from there, you survive.

however, if you cannot and do somehow get dragged into the portal, you will lose your physical form and all of your gathered energy, and become just simple energy.

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You will still be the energy with the system, so you will have a much higher chance of survival. Still, you will have to avoid making obvious blunders and quickly find yourself an Origin to come out of.

If you can do that, you will survive.

"Oh," Ning said. "So it is not instant death, huh?"

No.

"Good… that's good to hear," he thought. There was a lot in his head at the moment. Even as the ship came close to the wormhole, his mind still remained on the black hole below him.

"Wait, so black holes don't have energy aside from the gravitation pull right?" Ning asked.

Yes.

"Then when you said in regards to how much energy I need to travel the multiverse, that was…"

It was the constant gravitational energy being used by such black holes.

Ning thought to himself for a moment. "Wait, then doesn't that mean it is way cheaper than I thought?" he asked.

If you expected the amount based on your misconception about the black holes being full of matter, then yes.

Still, you have to remember that the ones we talked about are Supermassive black holes. The one you see currently could be considered a dwarf Supermassive black hole at the center of your galaxy.

You will need energy equal to 12 black holes that are at least 10 times larger than this.

"I see," Ning said.

The ship got closer to the wormhole and Ning let the AI handle everything. Ning just stood there, looking at the brilliant nothingness below him.

Then, after a few minutes, they all passed through the wormhole, undergoing a bit of turbulence, before coming out on the other side unharmed.

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Once they were on the other side, the spaceship moved away from the wormhole and flew out.

Now that Ning was finally not able to see the black hole anymore felt the lack of fear in his heart. He thought of what else to do next when he remembered something.

"Oh, right," he thought.

"System, the next energy costs 1 Quintillion, right?" he asked.

Yes

"Alright, buy it," Ning said.

Confirmed.

All Conditions have been fulfilled.

Congratulations. You have now Unlocked Gravitational Energy.

You can now absorb Gravitational Energy.

"I should find some places with strong gravity," Ning thought to himself. He thought of a location and asked the system for direction.

Ning realized that there was one close by, so once again, Ning took his spaceship and flew in the direction of the closest Service Station in the Federation.

When he arrived close by about 2 years later, he put away Saphandra and the Ship and teleported right next to it.

Ning needed more Space stones, and this was the way to get it. But aside from that, the Service station was also close to a bright sun that not only would provide him with the gravitational energy he required, but would also make his physical body stronger.

Ning had about 18 years before he had to arrive at the location where the two universes would come to be the closest.

Since that was less than 25 light years away, Ning could travel that distance with just a small piece of Space stone.

Ning flew right next to the sun where his skin started blistering and floated there, orbiting the bright star as well as he could without being noticed by the federation.

And he did so for the next 17 and a half years.

Chapter 874: A New StepNing improved his body quite a lot in the 17 and a half years he had spent there. Thanks to being so close to the sun's radiation, his body reached a toughness he would've never hoped to reach before.

Then, when there were only about 2 or so months left before the universe reached the location, Ning decided to leave.

Before leaving, however, he needed to take some more Space stones.

So, Ning teleported over to the station that was next to him and stole away some more Space stones that he would've needed.

Then, he got into his ship and left.

"How much longer?" Saphandra asked.

"Until?" Ning asked.

"Until this ship reached the place of course," she said.

"Well, it will take the ship about 19 years to reach the location," Ning said.

"What? Aren't we going to be late then?" she asked.

"That's why I got more of these," Ning said as he showed the cylinder to her. The space stones in it were rather large as well.

Saphandra chuckled when she saw those. "I wonder how much trouble those people must've gotten in because you keep stealing Space stones from wherever your go," she said.

"Well, I can't help it. I've got to look out for myself first, right?" he said and turned towards the ship's AI.

He quickly set up the path and teleported to the room with the Space drive. Then, he placed a cylinder in the empty space drive and went back to the bridge to use the ship.

Ning teleported back to the bridge and activate the space drive. Once activated, the silver light surrounded the ship, and a second after that, they teleported.

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Ning arrived in a different part of the sky, but this wasn't their destination. He went back into the room at the back and looked for the perfect space stone to swap in.

There weren't any perfect ones, but one did come very close, and that was enough for Ning. He quickly swapped that in and went back to the front to teleport once again.

Once again, the silver sparks surrounded them entirely and at the next moment, they arrived at another location.

"How much longer now?" Saphandra asked seeing that Ning didn't bother going back to the room to switch the space stones.

"Let's see," Ning did some quick calculations on the dashboard in front of him and came back with an answer.

"Our destination is about 420 Billion kilometers away," Ning said looking at the map. "So, it's not that far away."

"What is that? 2 months away?" Saphandra asked.

"More like 36 days," Ning said. "I could teleport us there right now, but then we would have to wait for a while before the Universe got in position. I don't want to wait."

"Can't you just sleep again?" Saphandra asked. "You were content with doing that the 2 years it took to reach the station we just left."

"That's what I'm going to do," Ning said. "But I can't do it while the ship is stationary. I need it to keep moving and be alert to dodge any asteroid or small space bodies that it might have to avoid."

"Ah, that makes sense," Saphandra said. "Then, I will go to sleep, okay?"

Ning nodded and watched Saphandra go in. He went up to the window once more and looked out to the dark space in front of him.

Then, he too switched over to his metal ball and quickly fell asleep.

The spaceship flew through space, unobstructed by anything. The distance of 420 Billion kilometers became practically nothing when the ship flew at 40% of the speed of light.

After a month of flying, the spaceship finally slowed down. It started turning itself around a certain path, falling into an orbit along an imaginary location in space.

After nearly a month of being there, the ship finally stopped.

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Ning woke up from his slumber and looked outside. "… wow!" he thought to himself when he saw a giant blue and orange nebula in front of him.

2 more minutes

"Oh," Ning was taken out of his thoughts when he heard the system. He quickly went to the back of the ship and again gathered all the Space Stones.

Then he teleported outside the ship and took it back into his storage. Now, he only have a bunch of Space stones in the few cylinders in his hands.

"Alright, let's do it," Ning said as he got ready. He flew to the perfect spot from where the system could use the Space stones to rip a hole in space.

As he waited for the single minute to be over, he thought of how he came to be here.

To be truthful, he had been very lucky on his journey here. There were instances where had he chosen a different path, he would've likely never arrived at this place.

There was the planet with the zombies. Had he never decided to nuke it, he would've never arrived at Genesis.

Had he not managed to defeat genesis, he would've never had enough energy to make his travel to this galaxy.

If he had even slightly more or less energy from Genesis and made his way over to some other galaxy instead, he would've never found out about the galaxy passing through or the space stones.

Those things would have certainly never made his path back to Kumia so much easier.

Ning opened a cylinder and put his hand into it. The cylinder was full of Space Stones, and Ning was touching all of them.

"Open!" Ning said and suddenly he felt some sort of emptiness grow inside of him all of a sudden. A vast amount of energy, probably a few quintillions of it was used at once to activate the space stones.

Then, the space tore itself in front of Ning. A vertical slit came down from the top to the bottom, about 4 meters tall and 2 meters wide.

There was a layer of silver and purple beyond the crack in space, but it was small and Ning could cross over it in a single step.

"Well… here I go," Ning thought and took his first step onto a different universe.

[End of Book 5: Yomire Galaxy]

Chapter 875: Straight into FireNing stepped out of the portal into a different universe and set his eyes on it for the first time.

As soon as he did so, he was immediately confronted with something he absolutely did not expect to see.

A million different eyes stared back at him.

He was close to some sort of planet but still so high in the atmosphere that he required his skill to even be able to breathe. And yet, there were hundreds of thousands of people already floating in here, without the assistance of any technological devices.

They saw the rift behind him, but they didn't seem to care. They only cared about Ning who had arrived.

Ning was very confused at the moment. He had thought this world had no life in it. The system had said this was a universe that died in its infancy and that it only had a single sun.

However, it turned out that it managed not to tell him about the planets that were there.

"Who are you?" a man with crystalline blue eyes asked.

Ning looked at the big, buff man and was a little surprised by the horns on his head. He looked around briefly to see that about half of the people here had horns.

And they seemed to be fighting against the people that didn't.

"Please don't mind me, I'm an outsider," Ning said and tried to get away from whatever the current situation was.

"No one who travels through space to come here is an outsider," the man said. "If you won't tell me who you are, then you can die unknown."

The man suddenly moved. Ning's perception slowed down as he saw the man move at a 5 times slower speed. And yet somehow, he still moved faster than Ning could perceive.

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The man punched Ning as hard as he could, and while Ning's body was very strong at the moment, it still popped like a balloon filled with water, spreading into space.

Ning's body quickly reforged itself in front of the man's eyes, and this time around both of them were shocked.

Ning was shocked at how strong the man in front of him was, and the man was shocked that Ning was able to regenerate despite being so easily broken apart.

"How did you… How did you get that ability?" the man asked with more than shock hidden behind his eyes.

"Fuck! It's my skill," Ning shouted and pulled out his spear to fight back. As soon as he did so, he sensed something that he had been way too caught up in the moment to feel.

Qi.

This was a world of Qi and Cultivation.

'No wonder he is so strong,' Ning thought.

"I do not know what is going on here, but you made a bad choice trying to make an enemy out of me," Ning said as out of nowhere Spear Qi flew all around him.

Ning felt an intense pressure fall onto him since he was forcing out a Spear domain while not having any cultivation base at all. However, his body was strong enough for him to handle it, albeit uncomfortably.

He used the Spear Domain to force out an attack on the man in front of him. Spear attacks flew towards the man and struck him directly, creating a massive explosion even this far up in space.

"Hmph! That's what you get," Ning said as he finally breathed out in relief and looked around at what was going on.

However, just then from the corner of his eyes, Ning saw the man walk out, practically unharmed.

"What?" he turned around to look in surprise. The man's arms were full of fur and he had used them to block Ning's attacks. And somehow there wasn't even a drop of blood coming from the man's arms.

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Before Ning could even do anything else, the man sent out an attack that struck Ning once more, destroying him into a million pieces, that quickly reforged.

The man's eyes were cold when he saw Ning's body reform again. He was getting angry to the point where he didn't even view his surroundings.

Ning quickly thought of something as soon as his body was forged. He couldn't keep getting beat with every single attack he took, so he decided to end the match early.

As he prepared his attack, massive amounts of energy appeared in his palm. Nearly a Quintillion energy was spent on this attack as he slashed his palm like a sword.

A massive Air Cutter flew out, so sharp and so fast that the man didn't even have time to react. Before he knew it, Ning's attack had landed on him, carving him in half as his eyes went dull in his death.

"Phew!" Ning sighed in relief finally. He looked around him at the fight that was going on, no, war. So many people were fighting each other. So many attacks being thrown around, so many abilities.

And from what he could see, it was just about impossible to say who was winning. He couldn't help but wonder why they were fighting at all.

Then, Ning saw something move in his perceptions and his vision shifted there. When he realized what he was seeing, he was shocked again.

The man he had just used over a Quintillion energy to kill was slowly regenerating half of his body to get back into the fight.

"What the hell? You can do that?" Ning was surprised. How was he to kill a man that couldn't die?

"I will destroy your soul," the man grunted and came at Ning with a newfound ferocity.

"Screw this," he thought. "System, get me someplace safe and without any people."

Ning suddenly teleported and found himself in a desert somewhere far away with a clear blue sky and not as much heat.

He finally felt relieved that he wasn't being attacked by a madman. However, just as he was feeling relieved, h realized something.

"Oh no!" he thought as he looked around himself. "The space stones are gone."

Chapter 876: Sun, Moon, and many Worlds"Where did the space stones go? They were in a cylinder. Did I drop it? I must've dropped it when that man killed me twice," Ning thought. He had been so in the moment with his fight against the man with horns and furry arms that he didn't even realize that he wasn't holding onto the cylinder full of space stones.

'Dammit, that's my one way back,' Ning thought. 'I need to go find it.'

However, Ning didn't immediately teleport back. He was still afraid of getting attacked by the man there, so he teleported over to his metal bead and only then teleported back.

He arrived on the battlefield again and looked around. The war continued to rage, but Ning ignored it. He only wanted to find his space stones.

"Where is it?" he asked the system just before he found it himself. A woman had found the cylinder and looked at it with evident greed in her eyes.

Ning slowly flew close to her to grab the cylinder himself when he heard her say something that surprised him quite a bit.

"Hehe! So many space stones. I'm going to be rich."

Ning paused. 'Wait, they know about space stones? So this world has space stones?' he wondered.

The woman who got it immediately flew away before Ning could do anything, but he didn't feel like he needed to do anything.

'System, does this world have Space stones?' he asked.

Ning smiled. 'So I don't need to get that back, right?' he thought. 'No I should take it away just in case I can't find anything.'

Ning teleported himself inside the cylinder full of space stones. The woman noticed the change immediately, but before she could do anything, Ning teleported away with the entire cylinder, arriving back in the desert he had been to just before.

He got back into his body and looked at the cylinder. Fortunately, he hadn't lost any space stones.

"Alright, that's good," Ning thought and finally looked at his surrounding. He was currently next to a giant rock-filled region of a desert with the solid ground around him. He looked around and didn't find anything worth noticing.

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Finally, he called out Saphandra.

"Are we here?" she asked excitedly.

"This time, yes," Ning said.

"How long have we been here?" she asked.

"Uh… 5 minutes maybe," Ning said. "I died twice though, and nearly lost the space stone, so it was a long 5 minutes."

"Oh, what happened?" she asked.

Ning explained the situation which Saphandra listened to curiously. "Qi huh? I remember fighting a few people who used that energy," she said. "They were one of the annoying ones to deal with, but fortunately that lion was there to take care of it all."

"Anyway, I need to learn more about this world," Ning said. "System, give me the information I need."

Ning was immediately parted with knowledge of the current world he was in, and he couldn't help but be shocked as a result.

"What the hell?" he thought.

"What? What's wrong?" Saphandra asked.

Ning explained to her the situation of this universe and she too was surprised.

This universe had a single sun, a massive one, and nothing else that was a source of light. There was also a moon far away, equally enormous, that could be called a planet by itself based on its size.

However, the people in this universe saw it as the 'moon' as it reflected light at the night, so it had become a moon.

Aside from there, quite a few different individual worlds with humans in here, and none of the world was actually a planet.

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They were just planet-sized, or even larger pieces of land, but they weren't round. They were instead just randomly shaped rocks, and only the flat side of the rock had an atmosphere with people living on it.

And they all revolved around the same single sun.

Ning had never seen something like this. 'Maybe that's just how this universe functions?' he thought.

He also learned about the war that was happening concurrently around the many different lands, and he found the root cause to be simply racism.

"Well, I don't have to worry about that. It's not my problem," Ning thought.

The world he was staying in was one without any humans at all. It was a world that was filled with beasts of all kinds.

They were ferocious beasts without minds and fought each other for the resources to keep themselves alive. The resources were always the other beasts.

Since ancient times, the beasts here had survived by killing each other and then eating them.

'No Qi, huh?' Ning thought. He desperately wanted to start his cultivation journey once again since his body actually wasn't that strong in this world apparently.

'Well, it's not like I have no way to improve it quickly,' he thought. He looked up at the sun and remembered the 500 thousand years he had to spend in this universe.

Aside from that, with the presence of Qi, he had many cultivation techniques he could use to strengthen his body itself.

"I will have to hide this then," he thought and found a place where he could stash his space stones. There was space stone in this world, so he might not actually need them, but he did keep it just in case.

The woman did make it sound like the Space stones were rare stuff.

After stashing them, Ning let Saphandra back into her spirit space and flew up to the sky, going towards the sun.

As he flew, he realized just how far the sun of this world actually was. It was billions of kilometers away and the only reason why the sunlight and heat even reached the other lands was because of its massive size which was easily hundreds of thousands of times the size of an average star in the other world.

Once Ning reached there, he started taking in the radiation from the sun, slowly improving his body even more than before.

He planned on doing it until he was stronger than the man that had killed him twice.

Chapter 877: Strong BodyNing stayed around the sun for so long that he lost track of all time. Most of the time, he wasn't even awake at all. The times he was awake, he asked the system how long had passed and then went right back to sleeping again.

He went back and forth between being awake and sleeping for so long that even worlds would've had enough time to change altogether.

In the meantime, his body improved continuously until so many years before he finally woke up one day and decided to stop.

"How many years have passed?" Ning asked the system.

245,353 years have passed.

Ning wasn't even surprised when he heard that. He was surprised the first time he heard 10 thousand years had passed, and maybe once when he heard 100 thousand years had passed, but after that, he just let it be.

After all, he had to spend roughly 500 thousand years at the minimum before he could leave this place.

"Are the humans even alive anymore?" Ning wondered. He knew they were cultivators, but 245,353 years was surely too long for even them.

He teleported back to the desert where he had stashed his Space stones and found them buried under nearly 3 meters of sand over the course of the many thousand years.

Once making sure they were safe, Ning looked at the map of the world to figure out what was the best place to cultivate.

'This place's Qi is very low,' Ning thought to himself. He doubted he could go anywhere with the Qi in this world since even the beasts didn't have much cultivation base here.

They were strong because of their bloodline and natural body cultivation that came with fighting all the time.

Ning wanted to test his newfound strength, so he flew up high and found some beasts that were fighting close by.

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He flew down towards the beasts and landed next to them. The lizard and the bull that were fighting each other stopped when they saw Ning arrive.

"Would any one of you like to fight against me?" Ning asked politely.

The beasts only made a low growling sound in response.

"Hm? Can you not understand what I'm saying?" Ning asked. 'Do they not have intelligence?'

Such strong beasts usually had intelligence back in Kumia, so he was surprised these beasts didn't. Either way, however, the beasts seemed ready to fight, so Ning didn't mind either way.

The lizard attacked him to start, sending out its long tongue to strike at him. Ning prepared for the tongue to hit him on his naked body.

When it did, nothing happened. He wasn't even pushed back at all. Aside from a few spots of the beast's saliva on his body, he was totally fine.

"Wow, I barely even felt the force behind the attack," Ning thought. He was so strong that the lizard was far beneath his strength now.

The bull rushed at him and slammed its horns directly on his chest. As a result, the bull broke both its horns and its head started bleeding.

"Oh wow, I really am strong," Ning thought. He placed his palm on the bull's head and healed its wound. The broken horns healed too once he used the horns that were on the ground.

The two beasts ran away in fear and Ning let them be.

"How strong were they?" Ning asked.

"Immortal Transcendence?" Ning was confused. "I don't think I've ever heard of that realm. Doesn't the cultivation realms in the Immortal realm go Low Immortal, High Immortal, Full Immortal, Immortal Saint, Immortal King, Immortal Emperor, and finally Immortal God?"

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"I see," Ning thought. "Give me the new list and I can go."

The system provided him with the list of cultivation bases, which surprised Ning quite a bit because of how many there were.

"Holy shit, there are 25 cultivation realms in this world? What the hell?" Ning was surprised when he saw the list of realms.

"I can see that," Ning thought as he looked at the list. "To think one would have to go through so much before they can even start Qi condensation here. It took me just under a month in Kumia, and that was white I was very bad."

"Anyway, I need to go to some other place. What's a world with not as many cultivators, but a good amount of Qi?" Ning asked.

The system told him a certain location and teleported away.

It was weird for him to be able to teleport away so easily, but since none of these worlds were considered a planet, he didn't have the same stupid requirement where he had to either have a lot of energy or leave the place before being able to teleport away.

Ning arrived at a different location, a world with a lot of forest from what he could see and very few humans in it.

He wondered why that was but then he learned from the system that it was considered sacred to many people and thus people rarely stepped foot in there.

"Well, I hope they don't find out I am here," Ning thought. He walked around, trying to find himself a location to sit down and cultivate, but just then he felt something.

A familiar feeling returned to him as a wave of sense released from his mind going all around.

"Oh…" Ning thought. "I already broke through so much?"

Chapter 878: Lost in Time"Right, I did buy a strong automatic absorption technique, didn't I?" Ning thought to himself. It had been a while, so he hadn't remembered that it was still active.

"I must've reached the peak of what was possible in that previous world, and now that I'm here I advanced to the next realm," he thought.

He was surprised at how fast he was doing it, but then he also remembered how much it had cost him. If he didn't even have this much speed after spending over sextillion energy on it, then it would definitely be a scam.

Ning no longer needed to cultivate now that he had the automatic absorption skill, so he walked around the place, looking at the scenery.

Saphandra came out not long after and stayed with him as he walked around the forest. Ning wondered what the significance of this forest was to make it so sacred to the people around here but there was something more interesting he wanted to learn about.

So, he started asking the system various questions about the world.

"All the different worlds here have Qi right?" Ning asked. He had learned that the worlds that did have life in them, and the atmosphere did also have Qi in some capacity.

"Then do they all have an Origin? That's a lot of Origins," Ning said.

"Oh," Ning was surprised. "Then only a few have them?"

Ning paused. "What? Then what has the Origin? The sun?" he asked.

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Ning couldn't help but frown at the answer. He couldn't help but wonder how else the world could have Qi in it if there was no origin to create it.

"Where does the Qi come from?" Ning asked.

"Oh, that works too I guess," Ning thought. Saphandra only listened to the two of them talk as she didn't know much about Qi at all. She did understand about Origin, but that too she wasn't completely understanding.

"What happened to the Origin then?" she asked after thinking for a bit.

"Right, what happened to the Origin?" Ning asked the system.

When he heard the reason for the nonexistence of the Origin, he was shocked, to say the least.

Even Saphandra couldn't help but gasp with her hands clutched to her mouth in shock.

The recounting done by the system had left them both speechless as the story of the past was not one they would've imagined in their wildest imagination.

The system didn't just explain why the Origin didn't exist any longer, but it also went in-depth into telling the two why the atmosphere of the world worked the way it did, and in some ways how that event had been the root cause of the war that had torn these lands for so many years.

"I see," Ning said. "They were trying to do the right thing, but in doing so they failed."

"Good people rarely have anything good happen to them," Saphandra said while she shook her head.

"Can things be changed back?" Ning asked the system. He was very invested in the story he had heard.

"How?" Ning asked.

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The system gave him the requirement on exactly how one could revert what had been done. The easy way was for Ning to do it himself, but that required him to have so much energy that he would have to stay around for billions of years without question.

Then the system gave him the other method. This method was very hard and was one that would not come to succeed without luck and fate working as one.

They would need a cultivator of this world to take up the mantle of that which had fallen. The strength they would need would be enormous and the cultivator also had to be the proper candidate.

Ning thought of telling the current world about this knowledge of his so they could do something about it. However, when he remembered the current war-torn world and the reason for it, he shook his head.

"They would instead kill each other to be this very person," Ning thought. That would be a bad idea.

"I need to think of another way for people to learn this, but just the right people," Ning thought to himself.

Then, he thought of an idea.

At first, he thought the idea was stupid and was about to throw it away, but the more he thought about it, the more it made sense for him to do so.

Ning thought of doing what he thought in this world, but then he remembered that this was a Sacred place for a few people and thus not many would come here.

So, instead, he needed to do it in a different place. The system found the perfect place for him.

Ning disappeared from this world from the forest and arrived in a different world on a continent that was over 13 thousand kilometers wide and 8 thousand kilometers tall. It was a massive piece of land and in it was a place that had remained untouched as of yet because no one had found it yet.

A Spatial pocket.

Ning entered the spatial pocket with the help of his system and arrived in a wide world that was filled with water sources and vegetation of all types.

However, Ning wanted interested in them at all. He instead looked around to learn in general what he could do with this spatial pocket.

After all, he was planning to make this a Secret realm where he would leave information for the cultivators. "

I will need the secret realm to be not just indestructible, but also survive for hundreds of thousands of years," Ning thought. "Also, I will need to attract people here."

Ning sighed at how much work he had in front of him.

"I will be needing a lot of resources."

Chapter 879: Young MastersNing's cultivation base increased on its own and before he knew it, he had entered the Immortal realms.

Strength-wise, it didn't make much difference for him however as his body was way stronger than what some measly Immortal realm could provide him.

The world Ning was currently in was known as the Four Jewels world. Most of its lands were covered in trees with leaves of one of 3 colors. Red, green, or yellow.

The continent with the reddest trees was called the Ruby continent, the one with shiny green leaves was called the Emerald continent, and the one with the yellow leaves was called the Amber continent.

Separating them was a vast body of water that had come to be known as the Sapphire seas.

Because it looked like a piece of four-colored jewelry from high in the sky, it had come to be known as the Four Jewels world.

Ning was currently in the Emerald continent, which for all he understood was just normal trees with normal leaves. He didn't give much thought to that however as he had other things to do.

There were 3 things he required to be precise.

He needed some materials to build the actual building inside the Spatial pocket, which he would be using to hide the truth of the world he wanted to pass along.

Then, he needed to gain some treasures. He needed things he could use to lure people into these locations and random treasures were the best way to go. Since he wanted to keep it going for a very long time, he wanted to do it forever.

Lastly, he understood that people wouldn't just come here if they never trusted his reputation. So, he needed some reputation. He didn't care if he was famous or infamous, as long as they knew his name, that would be all that he needed.

"Let's gather up some treasures for now and see how the people in the world live right now," Ning thought and went to the closest city.

Ning arrived in a city with massive barriers and floating lands. He was surprised for a bit but quickly lost it.

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"It's been a while since I've seen such a place," he said.

"You've seen floating cities before?" Saphandra asked.

"Yeah, the southern continent of Kumia has quite a few of them," Ning said. "They had all types of cities really."

Ning entered the city and walked around.

"What do we do now?" Saphandra asked.

"Well… this is a cultivation world, so the easiest way to do stuff would be to go to a restaurant, eat lavishly, and then have people follow you out of greed. Or you can go to a market and buy everything and have people follow you. Actually, going to an auction will have the same result," Ning spoke up.

"Hell, what's up with the cultivation world and people following you all the time?" Saphandra asked.

"Can't help it. People like money," Ning said. "Although the other worlds aren't that different either, only the cultivation worlds are usually more brutal and thus force people into such tasks."

"Is that so?" Saphandra asked. "So where are we going to go first? A restaurant? A marketplace? Or an auction house?"

"We… are going to all of those places," Ning said.

"What? Why all?" Saphandra asked. "You want to gather all the various delinquents?"

Ning chuckled a bit. "Of course not," he said. "What delinquent would follow a man with no money?"

"Then?" she questioned.

"We are going there because WE are going to be the delinquents," Ning said with a bright smile. "It's time to steal from someone."

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"Why steal?" Saphandra asked.

"In case you forgot, we are absolutely broke. I have no money at all. We need to make some money somehow, and we need to make it fast. This is the easiest way," Ning said.

"What about asking your little system? Shouldn't it be able to make money for us?" she asked.

"Not here, I'm afraid. Spirit stones without any Qi in them are never accepted as currency," Ning said. "Come on, we'll only be stealing from the rich young masters anyway."

Ning and Saphanra made their way to a market site in the city that was flying rather than the one on the ground and Ning went around the place looking for young masters to rip off.

The first 2 he found turned out to be using money given to them by their sects, but the third one they found was a bonafide young master who was buying everything that fell under his eyes using the excess money given to him by his father.

"Goddamn, he's even using Immortal-grade spirit stones while not being an Immortal himself. He's just asking to be robbed," Ning said softly.

"Follow him, he's getting away," Saphandra said.

"Don't worry, I have my divine sense on him," Ning said. With how many cultivation realms he had crossed, his divine sense was dozens of kilometers wide, easily covering both the sky and the ground."

"He's going to the ground," Ning said and quickly flew down.

The young man was with guards, but they couldn't do anything to him at all even if they were immortals.

Ning teleported over to the young man, grabbed him, and before any guards realized what had happened, he teleported away.

Ning arrived in a forest somewhere south of the city and threw the young man to the ground. The young man had yet to go through the physical transformation that came with being an Immortal, so he felt a sharp pain in his back due to how hard Ning had thrown him down.

"Wh-Who are you? Wh-where am I?" the young man shouted the moment he realized he had been taken away. He tried to pull out a teleportation talisman from his storage ring, but before he could do so Ning grabbed his hand and looked at the blue gem on it.

"Ooh, a space stone," he thought. "It's already being used though. Anyway, I'll be taking this."

Chapter 880: PrawnsNing pulled the ring out and put it on his own finger. He then scanned the young man for any other items he might have on him.

There was an amulet for his protection, armor too, and some sort of tattoo on him.

"Give me back my storage ring!" the young man cried out.

"Sure, why not?" Ning said as he looked at the storage ring on his finger. He sent a wave of Qi into it and within moments he refined it to make it his own, rather than the young man's.

He then pulled out every little item that was in the storage ring and laid it on the ground next to them.

The cost of some of the items in this storage ring was enough to make kings go to war in some smaller kingdoms, not to mention the storage ring itself.

And yet this young man had it on him without any care in the world.

'It's quite large too,' Ning thought to himself. The storage ring was nearly the size of his own storage space.

He took all the young man's items into his storage space and handed the storage ring back to the young man.

The young man's face was a mixture of anger, hatred, and fear, but he quickly moved to grab his own storage ring.

However, before he could, Ning pulled back his hand and looked at the ring for a bit. "Come on, now. You know you can't have things for free, right? If you want your ring back, you'll have to pay me for it."

"What?" the young man was speechless for a moment. "That's my ring. Give it back you bastard!"

"Uh-uh, you gotta pay it for it, or you can leave," Ning said.

"You!" the young man stared dagger at Ning. "You will die for this once my father learns about this."

"How will he learn it? Through that amulet of yours?" Ning asked.

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The young man immediately moved to protect his amulet, and Ning let him be. Instead, he crouched down next to the young man and said, "hey, who's your father?"

"What?" the young man asked.

"You said your father will kill me if he finds out, right? Then he must be a big man. Tell me, who is he? Is he the mayor of the city? Or someone big from some sect?" Ning asked.

"My father is the head of our Prawn family," the young man said proudly.

Ning shook his head a bit, thinking he had heard something wrong. "Prawn? Your family name is Prawn? What's your full name?"

"My name is Prawn BlueTail, son of Prawn GreenHorn," the young man shouted at Ning to threaten him with his family background.

Ning burst out laughing when he heard the name.

"Wait, wait, wait," he clutched his stomach as he found it hard to stop laughing. "Your family name is Prawn? And your name is Bluetail? And your father is Greenhorn? What the hell are you naming yourself?"

Ning couldn't stop laughing at all and even Saphandra laughed out loud while hiding inside Ning's robes.

"What's so funny?" the young man shouted at Ning, but Ning couldn't stop to speak at all.

In fury, the young man clutched the amulet on his chest and called for help. Within seconds, a divine sense fell on Ning and the young man.

Ning felt his own cultivation base tremble at the presence of the one that was coming. However, he didn't cower. Instead, he could only smile.

A big, buff man in a green robe with a thick mustache and beard landed in front of Ning. Not long after, a few more men landed behind the man and looked at the young man behind him.

"Father, help me!" the young man said as he stood up to run up to his father, but Ning grabbed onto the young man before he could get too far away.

"Greetings," he spoke. "I assume you are all from the Prawn family?"

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He had to hold his laughter back while he asked.

"Unhand our young master, you fiend, or we will kill you right there," one of the men said.

"Sure," Ning said. "But you'll have to pay me for it."

Just at that moment, the man at the forefront moved towards Ning with incredible speed. He had a cultivation base that was an entire realm above Ning's own, so his speed was not one Ning could produce with his own cultivation base.

However, he did have his own super speed skill and with that, he moved away from the man before he could grab the young man.

The man stopped where the young man previously was and looked at Ning a little further away, still clutching onto the young man.

"Father!" the young man shouted.

"Aha! So you're Prawn Greenhorn," Ning said. "Let's not get so hasty, now. You don't want to hurt your son, now do you?"

"Who are you? What do you want?" the man asked in a gruff voice.

"Payment," Ning said. "Pay for your son, and if he had anything important, pay for that as well."

"You expect me to pay you for something that is already mine?" the man asked.

"I expect you to pay me for something you care about. Or… at least I hope you care about your son. Otherwise, this might be an awkward moment for little Bluetail to find out."

The man judged the situation carefully. "How much do you want?" the man asked.

Ning thought for a moment as well and consulted with the system to learn about the finances of the Prawn family.

"40 Divine grade Spirit stones. How's that for your son?" Ning asked.

"Do you really think I have such a large amount of money lying around?" the man asked.

"I do actually. You did earn quite a bit of profit by exploiting those poor miners in the Threlfall mines up north. 40 Divine grade is but a fifth of what you made from those mines," Ning said. "But don't worry, I have other things to sell you for the rest of that money."

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