Chapter 881: Robbing"Come on, bring out those spirit stones. I don't have much time," Ning said with a hurrying gesture.

Prawn Greenhorn looked at him with an angry look on his face. He looked at his son once before turning towards Ning.

"Why are you doing this? Did our family do something to antagonize you?" the man asked.

"No, I just need money, and this is the fastest way," Ning said with a bright smile that gave the man no reason to suspect him at all.

The man frowned for a few seconds and brought out 40 spirit stones before throwing them over to Ning. "Give me back my son now," he demanded.

"Of course, of course," Ning said. "Here you go."

He sent the kid back to his father. The man caught his son and looked him all over to see if there was anything wrong with him.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"Yes, father," the young man said. "But he took everything from me."

The man's eyes darkened as he looked toward Ning. "Kill him," he ordered.

Instantly, the 4 men that were behind him jumped forward to attack Ning.

One sent out a blinding red serpent on his way. Another sent out an arrow made up of glittering white power. The third one's sword enlarged to the point it could almost cleave Ning in half just by falling on top of him. And the last one sent out a billowing gust of wind with thousands of small blades hidden in them.

Ning kept his smile as he stood there, unmoving.

The different attacks all landed on him while he put up not a single defense. And yet, to their surprise, none of the attacks managed to do anything apart from destroying his clothes, which quickly came back again.

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Ning grabbed the sword that was on his shoulder and tugged it. The man grabbing it was pulled along with it as he came towards Ning.

Ning then grabbed the man by the neck and searched around his body to look for a storage bag. He quickly found one and took it out.

"I'll be taking this for your attacks," he said and kicked the man away while still keeping his sword. He looked at the sword and nodded to himself.

"Right, are you going to leave or do you want to give me more money?" Ning asked.

The people there were all shocked at how strong Ning was. He was so strong that the attacks of 4 people with a higher cultivation base hadn't even phased him one bit.

And what was worse was that he wasn't even using his Qi, but rather just his physical body.

'He must've had a really tough body before he reached the Immortal realms,' the man thought.

"So? Are you gonna leave or not?" Ning asked.

"Father, that man still has my storage rings, and he took everything from them," the young son told his father.

The father frowned. The items in the storage ring were one thing, but the storage ring instead was quite expensive. Sure, it wasn't the best grade of storage rings and wasn't that well refined, but it had still cost him a few dozen or so Divine grade spirit stones.

It was what he had used before he made enough money to get himself another one.

"Give me my son's storage ring back," the man said.

"What? No," Ning said. "This is going to make me very rich. You can buy if off me, or I will find another buyer."

The man finally couldn't stand it at all. "Take my son away," he told the others, who quickly nodded and took away their young master.

Then, the old man prepared to fight. He didn't care how strong this younger-looking man in front of him was, he was going to kill him today.

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So, he attacked without hesitating this time around.

Ning saw the space bend around the man's attack as it reached for him, and yet when it did land on him, nothing happened.

The man couldn't help but be shocked. He hadn't thought much when Ning had survived the attacks of the other 4 because they weren't that far higher than him.

However, he was. He was in the divine realms, a realm that was entirely different from the immortal realms, and yet he was still not able to harm him at all.

"Seriously, you really do want to make me rich today, don't you?" Ning asked with a bright smile.

He suddenly teleported and arrived in front of the man. The man reacted, but somehow Ning was faster than him.

He grabbed the man's left arm with both his arms and ripped it apart with his raw strength.

The man was pushed back, reeling in pain, but he quickly got back up as his hands stopped bleeding. As soon as he had some free time, he could cultivate it for a bit or eat some pills to regenerate it, but in the midst of the battle, he couldn't do so.

He looked at Ning with fear this time around.

Ning turned to look at the man and gave him a mocking smile. "And for attacking me, I get to keep your storage ring," he said as he picked the ring away from the fingers on the torn-off hand.

"Go, we are done here," Ning said. "Unless you still have more things to give me."

The man grunted for a bit. "What's your name?" he asked.

"Ning Ruogong," Ning said without hesitation. "Bring your friends next time if you want some revenge. I will be in the city for a few more days."

The man noted his name and turned around to leave.

Ning watched him fly away and smiled at his newfound wealth of his. "That should be enough to kickstart my plan," he thought to himself.

He then walked back into the city to buy himself a place and the various resources he would be needing for the Secret realm he was going to be making.

Chapter 882: AnythingNing's plan was simple. He wanted to gather up some resources to build the interior of the secret realm, some treasures to lure them in, and then some reputation to make it worth it.

He could have the first of the 2 easily, but the 3rd one was hard. So, he had decided to go about it in his own way. Along the way, he could also fulfill the first and second plan without having to use system.

The many spirit stones Ning had gotten from the Prawn family were used up to buy many different types of treasures for his secret realm.

There were a few that tried to rob him, but he robbed them instead and used that money to buy some treasures too.

Then, with almost no spirit stones with him, he walked back out of the city and near the gate planeted a post with something written on it in big, bold letters.

'Anyone who can defeat me in a battle will get whatever skill or treasure they want.'

Ning pulled up a chair and sat down as he waited for the people that were going in and out of the city to come up to him.

The people did give curious look towards him after seeing the words written on the post, but no one actually came up to him.

"Do you think they will come?" Saphandra asked.

"I can only hope so," Ning said. "I might have to put on some show to prove that I'm legit though."

He thought about doing something, but decided to wait and see for now. He would only go with his plan in the most extreme of conditions.

He had stopped his cultivation halfway through the Immortal realm in hope of getting more people to come for him here. He had to make a reputation for himself for sure.

As he waited, a young woman who saw his post came up to him and curiously looked at him.

"What does this mean?" she asked.

"What do you mean? I don't remember using any hard to understand words," Ning said as he pointed to the post. "Exactly what is says."

"No, what do you mean by any skills and treasures? You certainly don't mean any, right?" she asked.

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"No, I do mean any," Ning said.

The girl thought for a moment and looked at him skeptically. "Any?" she asked to confirm.

"Yes, any," Ning said.

She thought to test him. "Do you have the Fiend's Thousand Daggers skill?" she asked.

"I do," Ning said without hesitation.

"Prove it," the girl said.

Ning pointed back on the post next to him. "Only if you defeat me," he said.

The girl hesitated for a bit. She had only come here due to her curiosity and thus had no plan on fighting. Besides, this was such a shady situation that she simply didn't want to waste any spirit stones here.

"I'm sorry, I don't have any spirit stones to spare at the moment," she said and turned around to leave.

"When did I ask for spirit stones?" Ning asked to her back.

The girl stopped and turned around. She glanced at the board once again and realized that he wasn't asking for any moeny to start of the fight at all.

"You take nothing?" she asked.

"Nope," Ning shook his head.

The girl frowned. There had to be some sort of catch here. There was no way a man would try and give away treasures and skills without gaining something in return.

She wanted to turn around and not do anything, but she was too curious. She really wanted to find out if this man in front of her had her family's most dangerous secret art, the Fiend's Thousand Daggers technique.

"Alright then, I want to fight you," she said confidently.

Ning smiled and gestured to her, "Just this way."

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The girl followed Ning about 10 steps away and got ready to fight back. "So, what are the rules? No weapons? No attacking quickly? What?"

"There's just two simple ruless to the match," Ning said. "First, I cannot fight back at all. I can only dodge you. Second, if you manage to move me further than 5 meters in a radius around me, you win."

"That's it?" the girl asked with a surprised look on her face.

"That's it," Ning said.

"And weapons?" she asked.

"Whatever you want," Ning said.

The girl wasted no time after that. "I'm coming," she announced and ran at Ning.

Ning saw her come close and try to throw a punch to his face. However, along the side with her left leg, she kicked Ning on his shin.

There was a dagger hidden in her leg that she was using to attack him with.

Ning saw it both, but he didn't move. The punch landed on his face and the kick on his shin. And yet, it was the girl that moved back with a pained look on her face.

Her hands hurt like she was a mortal who punched a thick sheet of iron. Her feets hurt as well, but it was the loss of her weapon that pained her.

She looked up and saw that Ning hadn't moved a single step. "How?" she couldn't help but ask.

"You wanna try again, or do you give up?" Ning asked.

"I'm not giving up," she shouted and got on the offensive once more. A thousand different daggers appeared all around her all of sudden from inside of her body and she empowered every single one of it with her Qi.

After that, one after another, she started throwing them at Ning.

Ning once more did nothing but stand there as that was all he ahd set himself up to do.

A thousand daggers hit him, but not a single one could affect him. The girl stood with wide eyes and even some other people behind her were looking in surprise.

Ning looked at the small audience he had managed to gather for himself and smiled. 'Now we're getting somewhere.'

Chapter 883: Sage of Ten Thousand TreasuresThe audience started taking parts one by one to fight against Ning, who didn't lose at all.

They tried everything they could and yet it was simply impossible to send Ning out of the small area he had set up for himself.

That was until an old man came to him to fight as well.

"I hear I can get anything I want," the old man said.

"Any skill or treasure, yes," Ning said.

The old man nodded. "Do you have a treasure that can help me learn about Time?" he asked.

"Time, huh?" Ning thought and asked his system. 'System, do we have something like that?'

"I do have treasures for learning about time too, you won't have to worry about it," Ning said without hesitation.

"I see. I hope you stay true to your word," the old man said. "May I begin?"

"Go ahead," Ning said and stood firm.

As everyone watched, the old man slowly walked up to Ning. He looked lean and weak and didn't seem to hold much power in him. Only his Qi felt strong, but even then, Ning trusted his physical body.

Ning prepared himself as he expected the old man to attack. However, when the old man placed his palm on his chest, Ning felt no intent to attack.

Instead, something weird happened. He felt a familiar aura inside of him and at the next moment, his vision shifted as he arrived a few dozen meters away from where he stood previously.

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Ning looked at himself in shock and then back at the old man. 'He teleported me,' he thought. He had never seen anyone capable of teleporting someone else, so this truly came as a surprise.

"Wow, you're the first one to do it," Ning said. "Congrats."

"Haha, you don't have to praise me. I know I still have a lot to learn about," the old man said.

"Here," Ning brought out something he asked the system to create and gave it to the old man. The old man caught it and looked at it carefully.

What he had just acquired was a house glass with sand filled in it that was flowing down through a small slit.

The old man was confused for a second when he noticed something. The flow of sand inside the hourglass made no sense given how big the hole actually was. It was as if the…

"The time has slowed down for the sand inside of it," he understood. He once again fell into a daze as he looked at the new treasure he had just received.

"Yes, that's it," Ning said. "I hope that works for you."

"Sorry?" the old man was pulled out of his thoughts and didn't realize what he was doing. "Ah, yes. This works. But are you really going to give it to me for free?"

"Of course, that was the deal when we started. I don't go back on my words," Ning said.

The old man stared at the hourglass for a few seconds before looking back at Ning. "May I ask what your name is?"

"Ning Ruogong. Tell your friends about me too," Ning said and walked back to the spot to wait for more people to come to challenge him.

The old man muttered the name once under his breath and left the outside to go back into the city.

"Who's next?" Ning shouted at the gathered crowd who had just seen that it was in fact possible to remove him from his spot.

Without hesitation, they all raised their hands as they too wanted something that would otherwise be impossible for them.

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Ning smiled and got back to work as he once again squashed the dreams of everyone that wanted to gain something from him.

After the old man, he didn't let anyone catch him off guard, and thus in almost a month of him being there, no one was able to win against him.

In the meantime, Ning's name was being passed around the city and even further as a man that would grant them their deepest wish, so long as they could beat him.

However, after a month, Ning changed his approach which made a lot of people frown.

People walked by his place and saw multiple rings drawn around him with the board next to him that read something different from what it used to.

'Pay a single treasure to try and push me out of this circle. The higher the grade of the treasure, the smaller the circle will be. All treasures that you lose will go into the winning pile that will be won by the first person that can push me out.'

'On top of all that, you will also gain any treasure or skill of your choice. Good luck.'

Ning had put 10 of his own treasures onto the pile, to begin with, and waited for people to come.

At first, it didn't look like they would come, but soon enough they started coming one after another to try their hands at getting something.

They would pay Ning a treasure which he put onto the pile next to him and started the match. The men and women would try and fail and leave dejectedly.

Some would actually come back multiple times, but even so, they would leave dejectedly.

Ning smiled as he watched the treasures pile up and soon enough, he had nearly a hundred of them.

He continued doing that for a week, and by the end of it, Ning had nearly a thousand different treasures, perfect for luring in even more people to him.

He now had enough treasures to establish a small-scale inheritance site. But he wanted more.

Soon enough, more people started talking about him, and this time they even gave him a title he would have never hoped to get.

Sage of Ten Thousand Treasures.

Chapter 884: ArtifactsNing stayed in the city for a few months, gathering tens of thousands of treasures from the many men that came and went. From what he could see, Divine was the highest realm one could get to in this world, which he had also reached, so no one had any chance of defeating him.

After months, Ning went back to his secret realm once to dump all of his many treasures there and left. However, this time around, he went to a different city, where he would do the same thing all over again.

People there recognized him as they had been to the other city and started calling him the title he had gotten back in the other city.

The Sage of Ten Thousand treasures.

Ning's reputation was incredible at the moment and so many people came to try it. Without even having to do anything, his work here was a massive success.

People basically handed him their treasures so he could take them. After a few months of staying here again, Ning left.

He went around the Emerald Continent and in just a few years made a solid name for himself.

Ning's reputation went far and wide, just as he had hoped to do. That came at a cost, however.

Since he was now popular, people knew better than to wager their treasures against him.

"Time to go to another continent, I suppose," Ning thought. He wondered which one he should go to first, the Ruby or the Amber continent.

The Ruby continent had an easier way to go to appearance, but it didn't matter to Ning as going anywhere was easy for him.

So, instead of using the teleportation formation that helped anyone travel anywhere, Ning instead just teleported away to the Amber continent that was far away.

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His plan was that he would spend a dozen or two years here, and by the time he got to the Ruby continent, they would've forgotten what little they had heard about him. In this way, he could put himself at a massive advantage to receive more treasures when he got there.

So he did just that and restarted his thing all over again.

The people in the Amber continent had no idea about him, so he stole a lot of treasures here too.

There were also many, many people that tried to take advantage of him by stealing the treasures while he worked, so he either crippled them or killed them all out.

Whether it was delinquents, young masters, or a corrupt law enforcer, Ning always did his best to no discrimination among the three and beat stole from them equally.

He also stole from those that came after the three to save them. Those were the times he truly earned a lot.

Even then, whatever he earned, he brought back to the secret realm to help build it up.

A few more years went past and Ning returned back to the Ruby continent.

His time on this continent started off easy, but soon enough, people recognized him and as such he could no longer get the treasures the usual way.

With no choice, Ning had to change his ways.

Instead of taking other people's treasures, he decided to make his own. He used the system's help to do so for most of the treasures as with over 655 Billion Energy every single day, Ning had more than enough to just throw around.

Still, he didn't make any treasure with less than a Trillion of energy in total. It only required a few days' worths of energy anyway.

In the meanwhile, he also took up Artifact forging and started making artifacts of his own. He knew a bit about making artifacts as Ely had taught him just as much, but he also bought some knowledge from the system, and soon enough, he was making artifacts to rival the ones he got from the system.

Instantly, Ning became a very popular figure in the Ruby continent and even the greatest of Divine realm cultivators came to get treasures from him.

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Ning accepted their orders and made them their artifacts. He needed the spirit stones anyway.

New names started popping out for him that called him various things, but one old one stuck to him once again. The Sage of Ten Thousand treasures.

Ning continued making treasures that were one-of-a-kind, and very soon his reputation transcended even the Three Jewel world itself.

Ning was working in his own shop, making a lantern for someone when a person appeared out of nowhere.

The people that Ning had employed went to talk to him to see what he wanted, but to their surprise, the man only wanted him and him alone. He was also very rude to them and acted all high and mighty.

The man all but demanded Ning arrive in front of him immediately, but Ning took his sweet time, making the lantern the best he could.

After 30 minutes of his work Ning finally finished working. And then, he took another 30 minutes of rest just to spite the man that had arrived at his workplace.

Finally, Ning walked out to the fuming man and asked, "How can I help you?"

"Is this how you treat your customer? By making them wait for an hour?" the man asked.

"Yes, that is usually how we treat them. The longer they wait, the more valuable the guest. Most people only have to wait around for 5 minutes, but you waited for an entire hour. You cna see how much we appreciate you," Ning said with a genuine smile on his face.

The man got confused for a bit, unable to tell whether or not Ning was serious. In the end, he couldn't see through the obvious sarcasm and started speaking.

"So, are you the Sage of Ten Thousand treasures that can make any treasure in existence?" the man asked.

"Who's asking?" Ning asked as he looked at the man up to down.

"I am Fire Grim," the man introduced himself. "You can also call me the Sword god."

Chapter 885: Sword God"Sword God?" Ning turned around to look at the man. "Is that a cultivation realm you've reached?"

"What? No, it's my title," the man said. "How have you never heard of a god before?"

"Well, the last person that called himself a god died by my hands, so forgive me if I'm not really interested in you," Ning said.

Fire Grim's eyes narrowed. "You've killed a god?" he asked.

"Yes," Ning said. But he didn't elaborate on it. It would be hard to elaborate on Genesis without going into more detail about what he was.

"Whatever, it doesn't concern me," the man said. "I am here to recruit you. Will you come with me?"

"Recruit me?" Ning gave a confused look. "For what exactly?"

"What do you mean what? The war of course," the sword god said.

"Ah, right. I forgot it was still ongoing. Just how long do you guys plan on continuing this war exactly?" Ning asked.

"Until the demons are dead of course," the sword god said.

Ning shook his head. "You haven't seen demons," he said. "Anyway, I'm not interested in your war. Please go back."

"Why not?" the sword god asked. "Well, if you're not interested then help me make a sword."

"Oh, now you're talking," Ning said as he curiously asked. "What sort of sword do you want?"

"I need one that can kill the demons. Especially one that keeps coming back no matter how many times I cut him down," the man said.

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"What?" Ning's eyes narrowed. "I asked you what sort as in the shape, size, and material of the sword. I'm not going to make you a specific sword to kill the demons. Go ask other people for your murder plot. I don't have the time."

"Bastard, are you denying me? Do you not realize who I am?" the sword god asked.

"I don't care," Ning said. "If you really want a sword made, give me the shape and size and I will make one for you."

The sword god frowned for a bit and remembered something. "I heard you used to fight to give people what they want. Is that true?" he asked.

"That was centuries ago," Ning said. "I don't do that anymore."

"Come on! Fight me. If I win, make me the sword I want," the sword god said. "If you do, I will even bring up the topic of you becoming the Artifact God. That title will be worth a lot more than the Sage title you have right now."

"I'm not interested. Please leave," Ning said.

The sword god watched as Ning turned around to leave. "Hah! I had heard the Sage of Ten Thousand treasures was a brave man that wouldn't hide from anyone. It turns out that it was a lie."

"To think you would be such a coward," the sword god said.

The workers that were working area had already stopped the moment they realized it was one of the well-renowned gods that had appeared in their workplace. And now that he had called Ning a coward, they wanted to see what their employer would do.

Ning turned around to face the sword god and chuckled. "Was that you trying to get me angry?" he asked. "I'm sorry, I'm way too old to be riled up by petty words. Do keep trying though, I wish you success."

The Sword God was getting angry, but his words weren't reaching Ning at all. "If my word won't reach you, then my sword will," he said.

A sword of golden light formed in front of him as he held it in front of him. "You will do what I say or I will destroy this little establishment of yours," he said.

Ning turned around. "Why are you like this? Can't you just leave? Why do you have to ruin people's livelihood?" he asked.

"I don't want to," the man said. "But I will since I have to."

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"You don't have to," Ning said.

"You leave me no choice. You are trying to ruin my reputation by refusing to work with me. I have to protect it and I can only do so with this sword," the sword god said.

Ning sighed. "Fine, go ahead," he said as he walked back toward the man. "Attack me."

The sword god hesitated. "I don't want to hurt you. Get away," he said.

"You can't hurt me," Ning said. "You are too weak to do so."

"What? I am weak?" he asked.

"Very," Ning said. "I've seen mindless beasts stronger than you. You are nothing."

The sword god did not hesitate to attack. Even if there were people behind Ning, or in the vicinity, he used his full power to attack Ning.

The sword he had created caused the world to dim as it came down trying to cut existence itself.

The power behind his sword wasn't one that just anyone could produce. And yet, Ning caught it with his bare hand.

The massive energy that was strong enough to destroy the city was stopped with a single bare hand as Ning grabbed it before it went anywhere.

"You crazy bastard. You really were trying to kill me." Ning's eyes turned cold. He grabbed the sword in his hand tighter and it splintered into a hundred different pieces of golden light as it drifted away into space.

Then Ning put as much power in his hand as he could and punched the sword god in the stomach.

The sword god's body was instantly destroyed as his Immortal soul came out of the dead body both confused and horrified at what had just happened.

"You killed me," the soul spoke out loud.

The many people all around them looked with clear shock in their eyes as it only registered to them that the Sword God had died.

"Next time, make sure to have the strength to back your words," Ning said and grabbed the storage ring that was amongst the pile of meat.

"I will be taking this for your insolence here today. Don't ever show your face in front of me again."

Chapter 886: Sky God PalaceNing killing the sword god quickly made the rounds all over not just the Three Jewels World, but the other worlds as well.

The Sky God palace also heard of him and called him over to have a talk with him.

The Sky God Palace was considered one of the important bastions of the human race, where all the different gods and major figures of the human race converged every time something important happened.

For the last hundreds of thousands of years the Sky God Palace had become the place where humanity gathered to talk about the war.

Ning absolutely did not want to go to this place, but since he had been called, he decided to go there just for the sake of his reputation. If he could improve it even more than he already had, he could possibly get a lot more people to come to his secret realm, and that way the world could hopefuly find the ones that could help it.

Men in bright blue armor, all of whom were in the lower Divine realms stayed outside of Ning's workplace, waiting for him to finish his last few artifacts before he left.

Ning took his time making the artifact for he knew that a meeting between godly figures in this world took years to actually happen.

He was easily going to be gone for over a decade even for just this 'small' talk.

Once he finished, he finally put one of the better artifact master in charge of the shop and left. If all went according to plan, it was more than likely that he was actually never going to return this place for a very long time.

Ning flew with the men, going towards a teleportation formation that lied in the Emerald Continent.

He had heard of it when he had been there, but had never actually went to check it out. This time around, he was going to be using that teleportation formation himself.

Ning arrived outside of a city where the teleportation formation was guarded by many strong individuals. When he went there, the people naturally parted to let him in.

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Ning looked around at the formation that lay in front of him. It was about 300 meters wide in a circle and have various lines drawn all over it.

He didn't have much idea about the formations of this universe, so he couldn't really tell much of what was happening, but his divine sense did let him know something which immediately shocked Ning to his core.

'Space Stone!' he thought when he saw part of what empowered this formation. And to add to his shock, it was massive.

The space stone was probably around the size of a normal human head if not bigger. Compared to Ning's tiny pea sized Space stones, it was dozens of times better.

'It's so big. It could probably help me tear up this universes wall and go back to my world, and it could help go directly to Kumia,' Ning thought.

Ning was a little surprised to hear his system suddenly speak. "What do you mean?" he asked.

"Are you saying the space stone here is not only large, but also contains a lot more space in it in comparison?" Ning asked.

The teleportation formation activated as Ning was speaking with his system. The sky tore itself a vortex as the space twisted to grab onto them and sent them away from this world, directly onto the world that was the Sky God Palace.

"How big is it by comparison?" Ning asked. "Give me an estimate."

"I see," Ning said. His divine sense went around the world, and while he sensed a higher level of Qi, he also saw a space stone the size of a boulder.

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"Holy… that's a big one," Ning said. He didn't even have to ask the system to know that the space in it would be massive.

However, there was one question he wanted to ask the system and he did. "Can I fit a world inside of it?" he asked.

That was the only thing he really cared about after all.

"That's all I really need anyway," Ning said with a smile on his face.

He hadn't even been in the Sky God Palace for a single minute, and he was already making plans to steal the giant Space stone there.

He finally looked up and saw the world for what it was. He found himself high up a mountain in the clouds, surrounded by many trees of magnificent origin, as the guarnds that came with him took him towards the court of gods.

Along the way, he saw various different people of incredible cultivation base simply walking around, doing nothing.

He saw tall pillars made up of metals and minerals, any single one of which would be enough to pay for everything in his storage space.

He saw a tree that glowed yellow as the sun itself.

He saw a massive piece of black rock with words written on it that he didn't have time to read about.

After walking for a while, Ning arrived in front of an azure door that was at the front of a palace that was made otherwise entirely of Jade and Gold.

"Please stay here for a while. We will call you when the gods ask for you," the guards said and left.

Ning turned around to his new room and sighed. "Well, I guess I will have to spend a few years in this place then."

Chapter 887: New BrillianceNing was surprised how long it took the high-level cultivators that gave themselves the title 'gods' to gather up for a simple meeting.

He had been in the Sky God Palace for the last 5 years and yet people still hadn't finished arriving.

The guards guarded him day and night, and he couldn't even leave the area without their supervision.

With nothing else to do, Ning had spent the last 5 years simply cultivating. Before he knew it, another 10 years had passed in the blink of an eye and now his cultivation base had reached halfway through the Celestial birth realm.

'Its getting harder to cultivate fast after reaching this much cultivation base,' Ning thought. Still, he had a cultivation base that barely anyone else would have, so there wasn't much he could complain about.

Even gods would be envious of his cultivation base if they saw it right now.

Ning heard a knock on the door and was surprised to find a new person waiting for him there.

The one that had appeared outside of his door was a girl with features so good that Ning was stunned for a while.

If not for knowing any better, he would've thought that this girl was a Manifested Will just like Alexis in why she was so pretty.

Her pitch black hair fell by her shoulders, framing her fair and smooth face. Her left eye was bright green while her right eye was pale silver, making her look almost fantastical.

"Greetings, sage Ning," the girl bowed a little.

"Greetings," Ning bowed as well. "Who might you be?"

"I am New Brilliance," the girl introduced herself. "Disciple heir of the Sky God, Old Brilliance."

By now, Ning had already been used to the naming system of this world, so he didn't bat an eye when he heard those names.

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"It's nice to meet you," Ning said. "So you're senior Sky God's daughter?"

"No, just a disciple," the girl said.

"Is that so? My bad then. Since you both have the same surname, I thought you guys were related," Ning said.

The girl gave a confused look. "But we don't have the same surname," she said.

"Huh?" Ning threw a confused look back at her.

The girl didn't understand what was happening, so she proceeded to explain. "My surname is New and my name is Brilliance. My master's surname is Old and his name is Brilliance," she said.

"Is that so?" Ning said understanding a little more now. "So it is just a coincidence that you both happened to be named Brilliance huh?" he asked.

"No…?" the girl started suspecting that Ning was either feigning stupidity or was actually stupid. There was no one that could make such a simple mistake after hearing it twice.

"My name is Brilliance, and my Master's name is Brilliance. They are not the same," she said with a slightly annoyed look on her face.

"But they're the same though? They're both Brilliance," Ning said.

"How are they the same?" the girl asked. "My name is Brilliance, and my master—"

She paused and shook her head. "You must be teasing me for some reason. I won't play along with it," she said. "I came here to tell you that my master and the other seniors await your arrival in the Hall of Gods."

"But… fine, let's go," Ning said. Bothering with this argument any longer was going to make his head hurt. The last thing he wanted to care about in this world was names.

Ning walked out of the courtyard he was staying in and started moving towards the massive building in the distance which was the Sky God's Palace. This building was what the entire world was named after.

As they walked, Ning's eyes fell on something close by that felt important in his eyes. "What's that?" he asked the girl.

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The girl turned to look towards the open building with various things kept inside for the show.

"That's the Hall of Treasures," she explained. "That's where we keep humanity's best treasures."

"Where did you get the treasures from?" Ning asked. "Or does it all belong to the Sky God?"

"Oh no," the girl said. "These are lent to us by various families, sects, and individuals. They allow it to be kept here to show our allies the strength of human kind, but also because the sky god palace is the most fortified world in all of the different realms."

Ning nodded when he heard that. "I see," he thought.

They continued walking through a road that was covered in flowers and various patterns on the ground.

Finally, Ning arrived at the Sky God palace, a building made with materials he wouldn't even have ever heard of.

The jade doors of the palace opened and Ning was taken inside. Everywhere they went, the servants and workers stopped to bow.

Ning was surprised at how devoted they were to their guest at first, but he soon realized that they were bowing toward the girl next to him.

'Of course,' he thought. 'She is the next Sky God after all.'

Ning was then taken to the main hall of the palace. The doors opened, and he walked in.

As soon as he did, he saw nearly 20 different figures, all of whom had a cultivation base in the Celestial realm.

Ning was surprised at how many figures were waiting for him. He walked in and bowed once before looking around for a place to sit.

Surprisingly, there were none for him.

All of a sudden, a barrier erupted around him, confining him in the middle of the hall. Ning was surprised as to what was happening when he saw the smiling face of a person sitting there.

Ning couldn't help but be surprised when he realized that the young man was actually the sword god. He was confused as to how quickly the man had found his body back.

"Good, now we can begin," a man in green and silver robes at the front spoke. "Let us begin the attempted murder trial of the Sage of Ten Thousand treasures."

Chapter 888: TrialNing was confused for a moment. "Wait, my trial?" he asked as he looked around the room.

The many high-ranking figures of the human race were all looking at him with judgmental eyes.

There were men and women of various different features. Some were buff, and some were lean. Some had long hair while some were bald.

Their clothes also were as unique as they could possibly be, each one wearing robes that could buy continents in other lands

The Sky God, Old Brilliance that had just spoken up, was perhaps the most extravagant-looking figure in the whole room. His green and silver robe was covered in jade as well as a silver piece of rock that Ning was surprised to realize were Space stones.

'Goddamn! He's using Space Stones as jewelry,' Ning thought.

The Sky god also looked at him with highly judgmental and even angry eyes.

It only dawned on Ning what was happening when he saw the sneering look on the Sword God's face.

"Wait, surely you are not trying to judge me for attacking this man, right? He was the one that attacked me first. I didn't even kill him, to begin with," Ning said.

"You will remain quiet until asked to speak," the sky God said. New Brilliance went by her master's side and remained there as well. It seemed she was in on the situation as well.

"You tried to kill the Sword God, so we will judge you for attempting to kill him," the sky god said.

"Sword God, tell us what happened," the Sky God said.

"Yes, senior," Fire Grim stood up from his seat and started addressing the people that were around him.

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"16 years ago, I went down to the Three Jewels continent after hearing about this Sage of Ten Thousand treasures who could make any type of treasure the people wanted," the sword god said. "I had wanted him to make me a sword that could help us kill the cockroach, but—"

"Wait, what do you mean by a cockroach?" the Sky God asked with a confused look.

"Ah, my apologies, senior. That is what the people on the battlefield have started to call the demon that simply won't die," the sword god explained.

"Ah, him," the Sky god realized who he was talking about. "I understand. He is a cockroach. However, we have killed his predecessors before, we can kill him too."

"I am sure you can, senior," the sword god said. "But the last times we did so, we had to lose many of our own people. So, this time I wanted to kill the demon without any casualties. You see I had a plan on how to kill this one without losing any men."

"Oh? How?" the Sky God asked curiously.

"I had planned on making a sword that could put in so much death aura and dark aura that the demon's regeneration couldn't keep up and he would die," the man said.

The Sky God's eyes narrowed. "What are the chances of that working?" he asked.

"Quite a lot, senior. So long as we can keep the life aura at bay, we should be able to kill him," the sword god said.

"I see," the Sky God nodded in thought. His disciple nudged him from the side and gestured towards Ning.

"Ah right, back on the topic of the attempted murder. What happened next?" the Sky God asked.

"Right, senior. When I asked him to make me a sword so it can help us in war, he said that he doesn't care about the humans and so he won't help us at all."

"Then, when I tried to confront him, he killed me," the sword god said. "If it were not for me finding the Ocean god and having him use his treasure to heal my soul, I wouldn't be standing here today, senior."

The man gods started talking amongst themselves. They cast their judgmental eyes toward him before he even got to say anything.

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"What do you have to say?" the Sky God asked.

"Well, first of all, he attacked me first. If I hadn't stopped him, he would've destroyed the city I was in," Ning said. "As for not caring about humans, that's false. I just don't care about the war."

"Other than that, I can't really see anything wrong with his explanation." Ning shrugged and stayed inside the barrier that blocked him.

"If that is all you have, then I convene with the gods here and see if you deserve any punishment or not,' the Sky God said.

Immediately, the group started speaking only through their divine sense and nothing else. So, Ning remained in the unknown for a while.

After 3 minutes, the gods finally stopped talking as the Sky God now had the verdict for the trial.

After hearing from both the Sage and the god, we have come to the conclusion that the sage should be crippled for his actions.

"What?" Ning exclaimed in surprise. "Crippled? Are you serious?"

He couldn't understand how they could have possibly reached this conclusion. "You will cripple me for defending myself?" he asked.

"You tried to kill one of our best warriors during these times of war. Killing you wouldn't be enough of a punishment for the crime you did," the Sky God said.

"But, we can also not punish you. In fact, we could reward you and see if you have what it takes to be a god as well," the Sky God said.

"Oh? And what's the catch?" Ning asked.

"You will have to make Fire Grim the sword he wants and take part in the war," the Sky God said. "Do you guys agree with me?"

The other gods made noises of approval as they were all okay with him being let free as long as he helped them in the war.

"So, what will it be?" the Sky God asked him.

Ning looked at them with a sneer on his face. "Do you really think that I will accept such a bogus offer?"

Chapter 889: Death of Gods

"Sage of Ten Thousand treasures, your title alone won't be able to save you here," the Sky God said. "You hurting us during wartimes is worthy of the punishment you are receiving. Be glad that we are not calling you a demon spy."

"Do you think I give a damn what you call me?" Ning asked.

The Sky God got a little angry at being spoken back at. "Choose, will you make him a sword or will you become a cripple?" he asked.

Ning turned to look at the sneering face of Fire Grim, who would be happy with either outcome. "I'm not doing anything that will make this bastard happy," he said.

"Fine then, cripple it is," the Sky God said and brought out a staff made out of intertwining green and silver, that ended at the head to form a big bird with its wings spread wide.

The Sky God slammed the ground as Ning felt something contricting around his Sea of Qi in his naval area.

His eyes narrowed as he looked at the Sky God in front of him. "You can't do this," he said.

Fire Grim started laughing out loud when he heard that. He felt happy listening to Ning's words of despair.

"You had it coming, you demon-loving idiot," the sword god said.

Ning saw some of the gods around him show pity and even some hesitance at letting what had happening to happen.

He realized that they weren't the worst, but they were being led by someone that was.

"You can't do this," Ning repeated to the Sky God.

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The Sky God harrumphed. "Your plea won't work now. Unless you speak an oath to make the sword that can help us, you will leave here a cripple," he said.

Ning glared back with clear anger on his face and repeated his words one last time. "You can't do this."

"I should just kill you for forcing me to cripple a prodigy," the Sky God said finishing the job. He destroyed Ning's sea of Qi.

Or so he thought. He used his powers the best he could. The Celestial Qi should have been enough, and yet he couldn't do anything to the young man in front of him.

"I think you misunderstood," Ning said. "When I said you can't do this, I wasn't talking about some unfairness that was happening to me."

Ning pushed against the barrier that stopped him and it broke into a million pieces. He stepped out to the horror of all the gods that were in there.

"I said you can't do this because you have no such ability over me," he said as he stared at the Sky god. "You are too weak."

The Sky God stared back in shock. "Ho-how are you not affected by my techniques?" he said. "Your cultivation base is leagues worse than mine."

"Yes, it is," Ning said. There was no denying that. "But you know what is better than your cultivation base? My body cultivation."

Ning took a strong step and the ground cracked beneath him. The gods shuddered at the single step as they realized that the person they were passing on the judgment was the strongest person in the whole of humanity.

The war would have been easily won had this man decided to side with them, and yet, they had decided to antagonize him.

Fearing for their own life, the gods started leaving one by one without hestiation.

Ning watched the gods vanish away, but he did nothing to stop them. His beef wasn't with them, but with the few that remained.

"Yaah!" the Sword God shouted as he came to attack Ning, bringing with him mysteries of the world that he did not know about.

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Fortunately for him, he didn't need to know about them to grow strong. All he needed to was wait and his supremely talented body would grow on its own.

Ning teleported away from the location and arrived right in front of the sword god to grab his sword. The sword god was stunned and wanted to pull back, but Ning had grabbed onto the light sword.

He crushed the sword and suddenly the sword god backed away in pain. The light sword was a creation of his soul, so destroying it hurt his soul to a certain extent.

Having already been hurt quite a bit less than 2 decades ago, the Sword God couldn't afford to be killed while under this much pain.

"Ocean god! Heal me!" he shouted at the man with the braided blue hair. The ocean god was a man of darker skin who hadn't left the establishment yet.

"Get away from him," the ocean god created a massive figure behind him, one of a deity he had in his heart.

The figure behind him was a 6 armed figure with each arm holding a separate weapon. The hand with the trident fell on Ning, while the Ocean god himself ran up to the Sword God that was in pain.

Ning blocked the attack from the trident easily and saw the Ocean god bring out a spherical, crystalline ball and try to heal the wounded spirit of the sword god.

However, before he could do so, Ning appeared next to the Sword God and smashed his head into the ground.

The blood of the sword god glowed into the cracks of the floor as he was without a doubt dead in body. The confused soul of the sword god flew out of his body, which Ning caught immediately.

"Be a better person in your next life," he said as he crushed the soul of the one that was called the Sword God.

Ning then looked at the Ocean god and said, "Leave, this is your last chance."

However, the Ocean god didn't leave. Instead, he stood up to fight against Ning.

So, Ning killed him as well and took away his treasure for himself.

Two gods died that day, but they wouldn't be the last as the remaining gods stood up to fight off Ning as well.

Chapter 890: Void

Ning fought 5 different gods, and he killed 4 different ones. The last one simply ran away after seeing the first 4 die.

Along with the previous two, 6 gods had died against Ning and now, only one remained.

The Sky God.

The Sky God slammed his staff on the ground as space twisted around Ning, trying to rip him apart. He sent out blades of space that cut off Ning's limbs. Regardless of how strong Ning was, he couldn't stop space from affecting his body.

However, each time he did lose an arm or a leg to the spatial blades, Ning's limbs would simply reconnect themselves back.

When the Sky God saw this behavior, he couldn't help but be shocked. "You… You are in leagues with the enemy for real," he said.

Ning remembered the man he fought when he had just arrived, the one that could heal after being hurt just like him. He understood that the Sky God was talking about him most likely.

He didn't care what the Sky God was talking about. All he cared about was killing him so that the human could have a better figure to look up to.

The Sky God continued his attacks, regardless of the destruction that he was causing around him.

The palace was made up of materials that were so strong that most wouldn't even be able to scratch it, and yet the Sky God actively destroyed it all.

And yet, he couldn't destroy Ning.

The Sky God realized that he was in trouble, so he tore a hole in space and jumped into it, leaving behind New Brilliance that was huddled in the corner over the fear of her own life.

Ning arrived in front of the hole in space and looked at it weirdly. "What is this?" he asked. The hole was filled with silver and purple color, with energies moving around wildly.

It is the Void, a place of contorted space and time remaining from the days when the Universe couldn't form.

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These space and time were supposed to merge together, but now they remain separate from this world.

"I see," Ning said. He had been worried that it was something like the portal he had seen inside the Black Hole, which could possibly kill him had he gone in.

"So can I go in here?" Ning asked as he looked at the Void.

Yes, but there is no point. Anyone who enters here must come out at another location in space. The Sky God has already appeared somewhere else.

"Ah," Ning exclaimed. "Let's bring the bastard back then."

Ning teleported away and arrived inside a hut in the middle of a beautiful bamboo forest made up of entirely jade.

When he arrived, he stared into the horror-filled face of the sky god. "Let's go back to your court."

He grabbed the man and returned back to the palace hall that was in ruins. And yet, neither the old man nor the young woman could focus on anything other than what they had just seen.

There was absolutely no manipulation of space when Ning teleported. If there was, it was way too subtle for them to notice it.

Even at the death's door, the Sky God wanted to learn more about the mysteries behind how Ning could teleport so simply.

Alas, He could never know to learn as the next moment Ning attacked him.

Ning's punch landed on the man but nowhere other than this navel area. He had destroyed his Sea of Qi, turning him into a cripple.

"No!" the old man shouted as he turned visibly older after losing his cultivation base.

While the old man looked at himself in shock, Ning reached the old man's hands and took away the storage ring he wore. It was filled with treasures, but they were surprisingly not of any good qualities.

At least, not ones that would befit a god of such high status.

"Where's the staff?" he wondered for a moment, but his thoughts quickly changed when he saw New Brilliance attack him.

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Ning dodged and turned around to attack, but stopped. "I have no quarrel with you," he told New Brilliance.

"But I have with you, bastard!" she shouted with red eyes that were filled with tears. "You crippled my master."

Ning felt no remorse when he heard that. "I did to him what he tried to do to me," he said. "If you didn't try to stop him when he was going to cripple me, you have no right to avenge him when I do so."

"He is my master!" she shouted.

"Yes, and you are his disciple. You will now inherit this Sky God's Palace," Ning said. "Make sure to become a fair ruler, not one plagued by war like this one."

"I will kill you," New Brilliance shouted, but Ning didn't listen to her.

He took the few storage rings that were around him and turned around to her to say, "I'm sorry, but I will have to take away a few more things," he said and teleported away.

He appeared inside the hall of treasures, where the treasures of humanity were in display in the Sky God's palace for many to see.

Ning started stealing them one by one. There were perhaps 30 treasures in there when Ning entered, and when he left, there were zero.

A few people saw him and came to stop him, but if their gods couldn't stop him, how could they?

Ning walked away unabashedly and made his way towards the teleportation formation.

New Brilliance had realized his location by now and came running after him. Her cries were evident and soon people learned that Ning had killed their gods.

"Please just forget about me," Ning said.

"I will follow you till the end of this world, and kill you," New Brilliance said.

Ning turned around. "Well, in that case, I will have to make sure you cannot do anything like that," he said and sprinted towards the Space stone.

The woman couldn't understand what he was trying to do, but before she knew it, Ning grabbed the Space Stone and teleported away.

She was left behind in a world with no way out without finding a strong Space stone like the one before.

Her pursuit for Ning was already at a rough start as Ning got a massive headstart.

Chapter 891: Black HaloPeople flew out from the Sky God's palace to find another Space Stone to make the Teleportation formation work.

New Brilliance frowned at having to wait, but she had no choice. There were no Space Stones in the Sky God's palace after all as they had all been used up by her master and her.

The Sky God had now become a cripple, and so New Brilliance took up his mantle as the next Sky God. The transition of power should have been a massive fanfare with guests from all over the many worlds. It should have been a happy event.

Unfortunately, times weren't of the happy sort for New Brilliance. The only thing she cared about right now was finding Ning, and that was impossible at the moment when she was glued to the Sky God's Palace thanks to the lack of Space Stones.

She also needed to take care of her master. His body had been healed, but he was already of old age.

He was after all one of the oldest beings amongst both humans and demons. He was said to have been alive hundreds of thousands of years ago when the war broke.

So many people from that age had either died in the war, of old age, or to complications in cultivation. However, the old man had managed to survive through all of that.

And yet, he was going to die in just a few years. New Brilliance wanted to be there for her master's final days.

She stayed with him a few years, long enough for her people to find another Space Stone to use.

This one wasn't as big as the last one, but that would be fine. They would search for more in the coming days and replace them when they could.

For now, she wanted to find Ning and take her revenge no matter what.

However, finding Ning proved harder than she could imagine. No one had seen him for the past few years. He had not been to any of the different worlds as their teleportation formations hadn't accepted him.

Ning was in hiding from what she could tell, and that made it hard for her to find him. Even her own seer couldn't tell where he was.

So, she decided to call upon the strongest seer in the whole world.

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Black Halo, also known as the Divination god.

A middle-aged man with pure black hair walked into the now reformed palace hall. He arrived to see the new Sky God sitting on her throne.

"You have arrived, Divination god," New Brilliance spoke.

"Yes, senior. But I would appreciate it if you simply call me Black Halo," the man said.

"You have been given the title of god. Be proud when you're called one," she said.

"Not of my own volition, senior," the man said. "Anyway, let us not argue about my name. What did you call me here for?"

"I need you to help me find someone," she said.

"Finding someone? Not for divination?" the man was surprised. "Surely your seers could help you with that too."

"They can not," she said. "They do not know the mysteries that you have already laid your eyes upon."

"I see. I shall do my best then," he said. "Who is it that I need to find?"

"The Godkiller, Sage of Ten Thousand treasures, the one who goes by the name Ning Ruogong," New Brilliance said.

"I shall find him," Black Halo said and sat down right there to divine Ning's location.

After a few minutes, he opened his eyes. "He is in the Three Jewel world, senior."

New Brilliance's eyes narrowed. "Three Jewel world? We already searched there," she said.

"He is there," Black Halo said. "But I cannot confirm his exact location."

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"Learning of the world he is in alone is enough. We can find him there and kill him," she said.

Black Halo closed his eyes for a few seconds before opening them back. "I'm not sure you can do so, senior. My visions of people that try to fight with him end with that fight," he said. "You will die."

"What if I bring along 10 gods with me and we catch him off guard?" she asked.

Black Halo closed his eyes. "You still die."

"How do I kill him then?" she asked.

Black Halo divined the future of the one that the Sky God called a Godkiller, and when he looked for his death, he found nothing.

"Hmm?" the man was surprised. He divined regarding Ning once more, but no matter what he saw, he could not find death in his future.

He saw hundreds of thousands, even millions of years in the future. But even when everything else died, even when the sun went dark and the moon lost its silver shine, and when the many worlds were but simple pieces of forgotten rock, Ning would still remain.

"Don't treat him as a human, senior," Black halo said. "Treat him as a force of nature. What happened here was a tragedy, but treat it the same as the mortals do to flood and drought. Humans, even gods, cannot fight against nature itself."

The Sky God was surprised to hear such judgment from the one that had the most knowledge of the future. She was angry that she wouldn't be able to do anything, but she trusted the Divination god's words more than anything.

So, she swallowed her anger and decided to not pursue Ning. There was already a war going on that needed her attention, the last thing she needed to do was cause another tragedy by finding Ning.

"Thank you for the information, Divination god," she said. "You may leave."

Black Halo left the palace hall and New Brilliance went back to Old Brilliance to tell him what she had learned.

"It's fine. It was my fault to anger him," the old man said. "But now we need to focus on the war. Humans will die soon if we don't gain some sort of victory."

"What sort of victory are you talking about, master?" New Brilliance asked.

Old Brilliance got close to her as he whispered, "You need to destroy the World Tree."

Chapter 892 Conversion

Ning spent a few years in his secret realm, crafting the dungeon that one would have to go through. Saphandra helped him with the work, telling him what to do and not to do.

She was bored of the crafting job Ning had been doing for many decades and had decided to return to her space, but now that the task was more interesting she had stayed outside, helping him with the design.

He was barely done with the frameworks of the design in those few years he had spent after killing the many gods, but that alone was way more than anything he had done in the previous few decades.

Those decades weren't wasted either. He had been spending those years gathering treasures. He had many now, but he still needed many more if he wanted to keep his secret realm open for hundreds of thousands of years.

After being done with the work, Ning decided to finally proceed to do something he had been excited about for quite a while.

He was going to use the Space Stone.

Ning went to go get the massive boulder-sized Space stone that he had stashed somewhere in the secret realm since he could not store it in his storage space.

Once he got it, he took it out to an open space in the secret realm where he was now going to absorb the space stone into his body.

He went to a random world where he could spend the many years the System had told him would take for him to absorb it all.

Saphandra wanted to watch how it was done, so she was also outside.

"How do I begin?" Ning asked his system.

You need not do anything. The System will do everything at the cost of 26 Quintillion Energy for this size of Space stone.

That was a massive number, but it was half of what Ning had collected after coming to this universe, so he was more than okay with it.

"That's fine," Ning said.

Place your palm on the space stone and the system will start.

Ning nodded and touched the space stone. As soon as he did, he heard a few notifications at once as the light shone from his palm and energy entered the Space Stone.

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Conversion of Space Stone has begun

Securing all the space in the Space stone.

Creating an Inner World

Consuming Space

Consuming Space

Ning lost track of time as he heard only the same thing from the system for a long time. He tuned out everything he was hearing and sensing and focused on absolutely nothing.

Time passed and the space stone in front of him shrunk very slowly, but it did shrink. At some point, even Saphandra got bored because of how long it was taking, and so she went back to her own spirit space.

Ning's mind stayed numb to the passing of time until he felt the energy transfer being cut off. His mind woke up and he saw that the space stone in front of him was no more.

Conversion complete

"Oh," he looked surprised. "So… it's gone."

Ning took a few seconds to take in what had happened and then tried to look inside himself.

When he did, he saw exactly what was inside of him.

Nothing.

More accurately, there was a vast amount of nothingness. Everything was pitch black since there was nothing.

"So this is the world inside of my body?" he asked with a surprised expression on his face.

Yes

Ning continued looking around. He could tell that he wasn't physically present there, but he did have every single sense his physical body would have had it been there.

"It's so weird how I feel like I am everywhere at once," Ning said.

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You are. You are the owner and creator of this world, thus you are its god.

You are omnipotent and omniscient in this world.

"But not omnipresent?" Ning asked.

You can either be present outside of this world or inside of this world. You cannot be present in both places at the same time.

"Oh, does that mean I can come here with my physical body?" Ning asked.

Yes. However, it makes this world vulnerable when you are in here, so you should not come here unless you are perfectly safe in the outer world.

"I see," Ning said. "I will make sure to not mess that up. But I should be fine coming here like this right? I'm just a thought here after all."

Yes, this is fine.

"Well, I should be fine going in right now too," Ning thought. He called out Saphandra and together they went into this new world that existed in his body.

"Wow, that is so easy," Ning thought. He had only wished for it and the both of them had appeared inside.

"Wait, where am I? I can't see anything," Saphandra complained. Ning could hear her through their bond and created some light that only lit up the two of them.

There truly was nothing to do inside, so after spending some time there, the two of them left outside.

Once out, Ning asked the system. "How am I supposed to fill the space up? I need sun and some planets," he said.

You will need to either create whatever you want inside yourself with the energy you have or steal them from the other universes.

however, you do not have nearly enough energy for either task.

"Of course, I don't," Ning said and shook his head. Now that he was done here, it was time for him to leave the place and continue on his task of finding resources to build up this secret realm."

Ning chose randomly a world to visit and arrived in the forest of a world called Medicine Heaven.

He arrived at the outer edge of a forest and slowly walked out towards the outskirt of a town.

When he did, a man walked up to him and bowed.

"Greetings, Sage of Ten Thousand treasures. I am honored to have finally met you."

Chapter 893 Curse

Ning looked at the black-robed man in front of him. "Do I know you?" he asked. He didn't remember meeting this man anywhere, but then again, he didn't really bother remembering most people.

"This is the first time we are meeting, senior," the black-robed man said.

"Then?" Ning looked around where he was at. The edge of a random forest near a random city on a random continent on a random world. "Is our meeting here an accident?"

"I'm afraid not, senior. I have waited nearly 20 days for you here," the man said.

"Why?" Ning asked curiously.

"Because I wanted to meet you, senior," the man said.

"No, why did you wait here for 20 days? I just made the decision to come here moments ago, so why were you aware of where I was going to be?" Ning asked.

"Ah, it's because of what most people would call a blessing, senior," the man said. "Although, I would call it a curse myself."

"Curse? Who are you exactly?" Ning asked.

The man bowed once more to explain himself. "I am named Black Halo, senior. Otherwise sometimes known as Divination God," he said.

Ning's eyes narrowed. "God?" he asked. He could only imagine what a god would be here for after what he had done in the Sky God's palace.

Black Halo saw Ning's face and quickly shook his hands to explain. "I'm not here because of what you might be thinking. You are known as the Godkiller, and I would never dare try and ambush you," he said. "I have seen what has been to those that angered you, and what will be."

"Then why are you here?" Ning asked.

"I was called by the new Sky God to divine your location. I managed to persuade her to not find you as anyone she sent would die."

"However, in the process, I also learned that you are a True Immortal, not a fake one like us. So, I was hoping you could help me with my predicament," Black Halo said.

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"And… what predicament would that be?" Ning asked.

"I am cursed with the ability to see the past and future of anyone I look at. Because of that, I am unable to live in the present," Black Halo said desperately.

Ning's eyes narrowed. "You can see the future?" he asked suspiciously. He had never heard of someone being able to do that.

"Y-yes, I can," Black Halo said.

"You're not lying, are you?" Ning asked.

"I… I am called the Divination God for a reason, senior. It is because of my ability to see the future," he said.

Ning was quite surprised. 'Is he telling the truth system? I feel like he's lying.'

He's telling the truth. He can indeed see the future thanks to learning some mysteries of Time.

'Oh wow! So he isn't lying?' Ning thought. 'Can I learn that power?'

Future sight will cost a lot of energy to buy, and energy to use. Also, the future grows more uncertain the more variables there are.

In this universe where there is only a single sun and a few hundred floating rocks, gazing into the future returns somewhat truthful results.

however, if you were to leave and go back into the other universes with billions of galaxies with billions and billions of stars with many planets of their own, future sight becomes very useless.

'I see,' Ning thought. 'So no point huh?'

He looked back at the man. "They call you a god, so you must be quite good, right?" he asked.

"Somewhat, yes," Black Halo said.

"Then would you mind if I tested you?" he asked.

"I… don't, but senior, I came here to ask you to remove this curse from me as I saw the future and learned that you were the only one who could do so," Black Halo said.

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"It will take some time, but I can," Ning said. "Meanwhile, you will have to help me with something instead as well. So I need to test you if you're up for it or not."

"I can," the man said and immediately straightened up. "What can I do for you?"

"Since you say you can tell someone's future so easily, I need you to divine my future. Write down everything you can see will happen to me by this time tomorrow."

"A single day's divination?" the man was surprised. "I… suppose I can do that. Do you not want me to tell you what I write?"

"No, that would defeat the purpose of the task," Ning said. "Go on, divine it."

Black Halo nodded and sat down in front of Ning on the grass. He then employed the ability that he had been working so hard to stop and glimpses of the future bombarded him.

He was seeing so many scenes from the future that it was hard to make sense of them. Black Halo focused a lot more and only saw scenes from now until tomorrow.

The visions got a lot more vague and uncertain the further in the future they were, but just one day ahead, they were the most accurate they could be for him.

Black Halo saw a certain someone in his visions and without him knowing it, he was starting to divine the future of that someone as well.

When Black Halo saw what was in the future of that person, he couldn't help but be shocked.

He quickly opened his eyes and looked at Ning with an extremely astounded face.

"What's wrong?" Ning asked.

Black Halo shook his head and quickly wrote down something before handing over the talisman to Ning.

Ning placed the talisman in his storage without looking at it and turned towards the town in the distance.

"I will know if what you said was true or not tomorrow. For now, let us move away from here," he said.

"I will follow wherever you go senior," Black Halo said.

"Very well, follow me then," Ning said. He called out Saphandra, and then the three of them walked on away from the forest, towards the town.

Chapter 894 Healer

"Senior, is she an artifact spirit or a nascent soul? I can't seem to be able to tell," Black Halo said.

"She… is not of this world," Ning said as he looked towards the Divination God. "Just like me."

The man was surprised but not very much. He already knew Ning was not a human, so anything else that he said wouldn't be very surprising either.

They arrived at the town where Ning was planning to set up some sort of place to sell his artifacts to gather up some information when he realized that the town was exceptionally weak.

"Should we go somewhere else?" Saphandra asked. She looked around at the mortal town. They did seem unusually enthusiastic about what they were doing, but it was still a mortal town, so Ning's task to find some resources for his own secret realm wouldn't be complete here.

"It's fine. We can afford to waste a few days," Ning said and wanted to see what the townsfolk were so rowdy even during the afternoon.

It was almost as if there was some sort of festival going on here.

"Travelers, if you are here to get treated, you should start lining up. The healer should be coming anytime now," an old man said while passing by.

"Oh, a healer, huh?" Ning got curious. "Let's see what sort of healer it is to make the whole town go crazy."

Black Halo followed Ning and together they walked to the front where a group of people had already gathered up.

Then, a few minutes later, a man came flying through the sky and landed in front of the townsfolk.

"I'm sorry, I was a little late," he said as he quickly took his station in front of the group of people.

Ning was a little surprised when he saw the healer that these people were waiting for. 'So young,' he thought. The healer was barely 18 years old, going by his face.

When he asked the system, he learned that the boy was in fact 63 years old. For a Foundation realm cultivator in this world, that was still very young.

"He's quite talented," Ning made a passing remark. Black Halo said nothing as his eyes focused on the young man at the front.

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"Please come," the young man said and one by one the villagers started walking up to him to get treated.

Ning watched as the young man started diagnosing the villagers and giving them some sort of pill to get them treated.

As he watched, Ning started frowning. There was nothing wrong with the treatment itself or the diagnosis, but it felt halfhearted as he wasn't giving them the most optimal treatment at all.

Ning stopped an old woman that was returning with a wide smile after getting her treatment and asked how much she was paying for this healer.

"Little Flower? He doesn't take any money from us. He treats us with what he has for free," she said.

"Oh," Ning was taken aback. "So… he's helping your town out of goodwill?"

"Yes," the woman said. "Not just our town, but every other town and village that is struggling financially. God bless the little Flower's soul."

'Ah, is that why he's doing a halfhearted job? Because he isn't getting paid so he can't afford to do it well?' Ning thought.

He continued watching the young man treat the villagers until he heard something. The young man gave a wrong diagnosis.

"That's not it," Ning sent a message through his divine sense directly into the young man's mind. "He has a parasite in him, not some random disease. Give him a pill to remove parasites."

The young man's eyes narrowed before checking the man in front of him again. His eyes widened when he realized he was wrong and quickly gave the right diagnosis and treatment.

Ning waited for a while and after 2 hours, the young man was done.

After finishing, the young man quickly walked up to Ning and thanked him for the help.

"Its fine," Ning said. "But why were your diagnosis and treatment so… inefficient?"

"I'm sorry, senior," the young man said. "I am not very knowledgeable, so I do the best I can."

"You don't know much? You should try learning more then. Being a half-leanred healer can sometimes do more bad than good," Ning said.

"I… I understand, senior," he said. "I will try my best to gather up some money for healing and alchemy books."

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"Gather up some money? Do you not have enough money?" Ning asked.

"What I make, I end up spending for ingredients to make pills that will heal the poor," the young man said. "I can never have enough for myself."

"Why do you spend so much on them then?" Ning asked.

"I can't help it, senior," the young man said. "I come from a poor town, just like this one, so I can understand the struggle a common man has to go through to get treated for any injuries or diseases."

"After finding out that I had talent in cultivation, I made it my life's goal to heal people, and I have been doing just that for the past few decades," he said.

Ning heard the young man and smiled. "You're a good man," he said and patted him on the shoulder.

Right then, a light shined in front of the young man as 3 books appeared out of nowhere.

Ning handed the books to the young man, who could only stare at them blankly. "You will never need to buy another book to learn about Alchemy or Healing people."

Ning pointed at the first of the 3 books in the young man's hands.

"This book has everything you will ever need to learn about healing. It contains knowledge of all injuries, disease, and their treatments," he said.

He pointed to the second book. "This book has all the information about every single plant in existence and how they can be used to make pills. You will find these quite helpful when trying to come up with a pill to help people."

Ning then pointed at the final book. "And finally, you have this book. This will help you come up with recipes for any type of pills that could possibly be made with the ingredients that are available for you," Ning said. "All you have to do is write down what ingredients you have in it and it will come up with a recipe on its own."

"I guess this last one is more of an artifact than an actual book," Ning said.

"I have made sure they are bound to you, and none of these can be taken away from you except when you willingly give it away or die," Ning said. "This is a gift I give you for your kindness."

"Continue doing what you are doing. I wish you the best of luck."

Ning walked away as the stunned young man stood where he was, too stunned to move. The gift he had just been given were treasures that would make any man jealous.

Black Halo followed behind Ning as he walked away too, but he couldn't help but stare back from time to time at the stunned young man.

The visions he saw a few hours earlier were true. He had indeed witnessed it.

The Birth of a God.

Chapter 895 Divination

The next day, Ning pulled out Black Halo's talisman and read it out loud.

"Goes to a town… healer… gives him books… goes to another town… tries delicacies… stays in a tavern for the night… leaves for a major city. Hmm, everything is here. Not bad, you really can divine quite accurately," Ning said to Black Halo.

"Thank you for your praise, sage," Black Halo said.

"Now that I know you're good, I need your help," Ning said.

"Anything," Black Halo said.

"Good, let's go then," Ning said and grabbed Black Halo before disappearing from where they were. When they reappeared, they were inside the secret realm.

Black Halo looked at his changed surrounding with a wide eye. He couldn't help but be shocked at what had just happened.

"How did we…?" he looked around, very much sure that they were not in the same space anymore.

Ning had teleported somehow, and he hadn't used any skill, law, talisman, or formation to do so.

"Don't mind that and follow me," Ning said and walked away. Black Halo quickly followed him through a half-built tomb of some sort towards a massive hall that was the only thing that was built.

"What is this?" Black Halo asked.

"Try opening the door," Ning said.

Black Halo nodded and pushed the door, but it didn't work. "Can I use force?" he asked.

"Any method you can use," Ning said.

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Black Halo then attacked the door. With his cultivation base, any door should have crumbled in his might, and yet this one didn't.

Various scripts and formations lit up, shocking the god as he had never seen anything like it before.

Then, he placed his palm on the door and looked for a future where he opened the door. There was none.

"I… I can't open it," he said.

"Good, that was my intention," Ning said. "Behind this door is something that I have left behind for the people of this world. However, the door is set to open up for a single person based on a characteristic that I know would belong to their Qi."

He turned to Black Halo and asked, "Now I want you to tell me when that person if ever, will open this door."

"When will this door be open?" Black Halo looked back at the door. Divination between something that wasn't living was virtually impossible. But it was possible to see who would interact with it.

So, he closed his eyes and began his divination.

Ning waited patiently as he understood that this was an incredibly difficult future to see. Not only would it possibly be forever in the future, but it could also just never happen.

"When the silver stone leads a way back home, the hands that open these doors will be born," the Divination god said.

"What?" Ning asked with a confused look.

"I'm sorry," the Divination god said. "I couldn't see exactly what happens, so the best I could do was make a prophecy out of what I saw."

"Oh, so that was a prophecy huh?" Ning said as he thought about the prophecy.

"Silver stone leads a way back home… that's definitely talking about me leaving with the space stone. So… whoever is supposed to open this will only be born afterward huh?" Ning thought.

"I… suppose?" Black Halo said.

"Great, so I can spend as long as I need to make this place. I should go gather some reputation amongst the weaker folks who do not know about me," Ning said.

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Then, the two of them went back to Medicine Heaven where Black Halo split off from Ning.

"I will call you if I ever need you," Ning said.

"Thank you, senior," Black Halo said and left. He wasn't worried about Ning not helping him with his curse. He had already seen how it was going to be fixed.

All he had to do now was live until the day Ning left this universe.

Ning went around with Saphandra, living a carefree life, attacking those he wanted to steal from. As long as the person had a divine realm of cultivation base, he would steal from them openly, letting them know about him.

It wasn't just Medicine Heaven where he did so. He went through every world, becoming a menace.

Infernal Realm, Frozen Haven, Forest Moon Realm, Sun's Talon, Mystic Demon Realm, Heavenly Fate realm, Fiend's Sanctuary, Bloodhaven, Spring Water world, and many more such worlds were visited by him. By the time they left, even if they did not know the name Ning Ruogong, they knew of the Sage of Ten Thousand Treasures.

The higher-ups knew an even scarier name that made the rounds once the gods revealed the truth of how the Sky God had died.

The Godkiller.

Afterward, whenever Ning arrived at a place, the people would simply just invite him to their house as a guest and hand over every treasure they had.

Ning didn't bother to check if they were handing over their best treasures or not as the only thing he was looking for was the quantity of treasures, and a reputation that he held a vast amount of treasures.

Ning did so for the next 300 thousand years. He spent a couple of hundred years stealing and a few years building his secret realm, and then the rest of the time he simply spent in the sky, close to the sun.

Ning's body had grown so strong at this point that it was impossible for him to lose to anyone. Not just his body, but even his cultivation base was now strong enough to rival any gods.

After so many years, he was also finally done with fully creating a tomb that could run for generations. As for when it would start opening up for the public, he had a vague idea.

"Time to go get my last piece of reputation then," Ning thought and teleported away. When he reappeared, he appeared in the Sky God's palace.

Many gods were present here today, so it would be the best place for what he wanted to do.

Chapter 896 Death

The gods were gathered in the Sky God's palace to discuss the possibility of peace with the demons that they had been at war with for over a million years.

New Brilliance wasn't as influential as her master, and as such, the gods were never reaching a conclusion in their meeting.

Some factions wanted the war to end, some wanted it to continue. New Brilliance however just wanted peace. There had been too many casualties on both sides to keep the war going.

'I need to get stronger, as strong as my master was,' she thought.

The group of gods quarreled with each other, mostly about the decreasing Qi in all the different worlds.

Just then, their words stopped as they sensed the arrival of someone. Before they could check who it was, Ning arrived inside the palace.

"Yo! How's everyone doing?" he asked with a smug look on his face.

The gods recognized him immediately, and immediately they feared him. New Brilliance looked at him with wide eyes, remembering the memories of the divination god that called him a natural disaster for cultivators and couldn't help but be scared.

"Why are you here?" she asked. "Are you planning to steal more treasures from us?"

"Treasures? Haha!" Ning suddenly laughed. "You all think too little of me."

"Then why are you here?" she asked.

"It's simple really," Ning said as he looked at all of them. "I'm here to kill you all."

Just as Ning said that a barrier sprung up trapping the gods. "I shall rid the world of gods today," he said.

The gods all stood up in horror when they sensed killing intent from him.

"Wh-why?" New Brilliance asked with clear fear in her eyes.

"I don't need to tell you," Ning said and brought out a spear to perform the first attack.

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He sent a slash, targetting one of the gods to the side. The god tried to move away, but the attack reached her first.

Her right limb was lopped off and she smashed into the barrier.

The other gods saw that and got ready to attack. They instinctively feared Ning, but their bigger instinct for them was survival. So, when he attacked, they all attacked as well.

A cacophony of skills landed on Ning, while Ning returned the favor with just as strong a skill. He fought the gods with a single spear in hand and carved through many of them.

The gods fought back, even when wounded. They worked together with the other gods for their own survival and after a long time of fighting, they finally managed to kill Ning.

Ning fell to the ground, his spear and a metal sphere falling from either arm. He had been hit so hard that his nascent souls didn't even survive.

The gods watched in awe as the Sage of Ten Thousand treasures, the one called Godkiller, died at their hands that day.

New Brilliance quickly checked for his soul and he had in fact died. She couldn't believe it. None of them could.

She then checked his soul space and realized that it had nothing. He didn't have a storage ring or even just storage bags.

"Isn't he supposed to be the Sage of Ten Thousand Treasures? Where are the treasures?" the gods couldn't help but ask themselves.

Black Halo walked up front from amongst the group of gods and sat in front of the dead Ning as he performed a divination on the spot.

"He knew he was dying here," Black Halo said. "So, he has left behind a Tomb where he stashed all of his treasures."

"A tomb?" New Brilliance's eyes shined. "Where?"

"In the Three Jewel continent, there will open a secret realm every thousand years. There you shall find the treasures of the heavens left behind by the killer of gods," Black Halo opened his eyes.

That was all it took for the gods and everyone that wasn't a god to go crazy over the treasures that the Godkiller had gathered for the past 300 thousand years.

"So it is done?" Ning asked Black Halo.

"Yes, senior. They have received the information and so have the common folks. I even told them when the next opening would be," Black Halo said. "In a thousand years, the Emerald Continent will be swarmed with people trying to test their luck."

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"Did you tell them about the tickets?" Ning asked.

"Yes, senior," Black Halo said. "People have already started searching for tickets as well."

"They won't find it for the next 500 years, haha," Ning laughed.

"How did you create such a good fake body of yourself?" Black Halo asked.

"I didn't," Ning said. "Technically, I have no fake body. You could consider this one fake as well. You wouldn't understand, so let it be."

"Alright, you can go now. Survive for a hundred thousand years and you will be free of this blessing you call a curse," Ning said. "I will let you know where to meet when the time comes."

"I know where we will meet, senior," Black Halo said.

Ning smiled. "Well, don't spoil me on it."

The Sage and the Godkiller were dead, so Ning was free to live the remainder of the years as he pleased. He had no more responsibility he had put on himself, and that only made him freer.

So, for the next few tens of thousands of years, he went around the world, going through places he hadn't been to before.

After some time, he ended up in a world where the beasts were the ruler and lived in the forest of that world as a hermit.

He spent most of the time just sleeping, but occasionally, he did wake up to go around the forest.

On one of that occasion, he met a cub of a tiger clan that lived nearby. The little cub was nearly in tears and seemed to have been lost in the forest.

"Hey little one, are you lost?" Ning asked.

The little cub was scared to see a human and started crying out loud. Ning didn't know how to handle a child, so he could only do a single thing.

He dominated the little cub to force it to stop crying.

"Stop crying," Ning ordered. "What's your name?"

The cub finally stopped crying. "My name is White Depth Field, master."

Chapter 897 White Depth Field

"So, White Depth Field, why are you crying?" Ning asked the little white cub.

"I ran away from home and came here to fight against the other beasts to get stronger," the little cub said.

"Oh, you wanted to get stronger, huh? Did you do it?" Ning asked.

"No, master. All I did was I ended up getting lost. Now I can't find my way back, and I… " the little cub started crying.

"Hey, hey, don't cry," Ning said. "I'm here, so you will be fine."

Ning took the little cub and petted it for a while. "Tell me, why did you want to become strong? You are so young, you have plenty of time to get stronger."

"I need to do it fast, master. My cousins who are the same age as me, and started cultivating at the same time as me are all at least 3 minor realms higher than me," the little cub said with a sad face. "They always tease me, they call me the trash of our family."

"I want to show them that I am not the trash they think I am," he said.

Ning couldn't help but smile when he saw the little cub's determination. A mischievous smile formed on his face as he thought of something that would keep him entertained for the next 40 or so thousand years.

"Do you want my help in getting stronger?" Ning asked.

The little cub looked up curiously. "Can you help me, master?" he asked.

"Hehehe," Ning laughed as he moved his hands. Suddenly, 10 drops of crimson blood appeared in front of him. "Take this."

"What is this blood, master?" the little cub asked.

"I will tell you once you are old enough to know," Ning said and made White Depth Field ingest all the 10 drops of the blood through his forehead.

The little cub growled in pain but within a few minutes, he managed to get a handle on his pain. The black stripes on his white fur became darker after combining the 10 drops of blood into his bloodline.

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"Oh, you are quite compatible with the blood. I guess it's better since you don't have to evolve at all," Ning said. "All the other ones I had, Night, Aegis, and Blue had to evolve."

"Who are they, master?" the little cub asked.

"They are my friends," Ning said with a melancholic smile. "Just like you."

"Oh, we are friends?" the little cub asked.

"Yes," Ning said. "Now, since we are friends, how about I give you a small gift?"

"Oh, what is it, master?" the little cub got excited.

Ning smiled and brought out a book. "Here," he handed it over to young Depth Field. "It's a cultivation method. Use it and you will improve very quickly."

"Oh…" the little cub's face darkened a little.

"What's wrong?" Ning asked.

"I can't read," the cub said.

"You can't read?" Ning asked. "Do beasts not read in this world?"

"They do, but not me," the little tiger said. "They tried to teach me many times, but I just can't read. The letters look jumbled to me. Sometimes upside down, sometimes backward."

"Oh," Ning thought. "I didn't know beasts even had dyslexia. Wait, let me get you a picture version that should help you a bit."

Ning changed the book to just pictures and with that, the little cub could now understand everything.

"Thank you, master," he said.

"Come on, your parents must be getting scared. Let's get you back," Ning said.

"But I don't want to leave, master," the little cub said.

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"Weren't you scared because you could find a way?" Ning asked.

"Yes, but not anymore. I want you to stay with you," he said.

"I'm sorry, but you can't," Ning said. "But you can come to meet me from time to time. I won't leave this place for a very long time, so you should be able to come to meet me."

"Is that true?" the little cub asked excitedly.

"Of course," Ning said. "I can't leave just yet. Come, let's go."

Ning took the little cub back to the edge of the forest, where he could walk back to his family on his own.

He told the little cub to only come to meet him again when he reached the next major realm.

Ning went back to his hut and stayed around for another few years, which was what it took for the little cub to reach the major realm before the one where they could properly use their Sea of Qi.

He talked with the slightly grown beasts and realized that he had become strong. However, he was quite fascinated to learn that the little cub was actually hiding his abilities from everyone.

"Didn't you want strength before? Why do you hide it then?" Ning asked.

"I didn't want strength to be better than anymore," the now-adult White Depth Field said. "I simply wanted others to not look down on me and treat me as not their equal. You will be surprised how harsh our family can be to those that don't show potential."

"I see," Ning said. He was quite enjoying the current situation.

The tiger went back and Ning told him he would meet him once he entered the Qi Condensation realm.

It took more than a few decades for the tiger to do so, but that was only because he was taking his time with his cultivation. Any faster and he would be considered a genius, wherein he would have to take more responsibility than he would like.

The next time he came, Ning was happy to see that he had grown big.

"You are growing quite well. I almost didn't recognize you," Ning said.

They talked for a while, and White Depth Field even talked about a Lynx beast he had fallen in love with and was planning to marry soon.

"Would you like to come to visit our family, master?" White Depth Field asked.

Ning thought for a bit. "Sure, why not? I'm a little interested in your family as well."

Chapter 898 Ready to Leave

Ning arrived at the bright, golden city with beasts roaming the lands mostly. Nin knew that the beasts here had set up land not that different from the humans, but Ning was still surprised to see how developed it was.

There were houses, roads, street lamps, and everything in between. While these beasts were beasts, they were still civilized.

White Depth Field took Ning towards the massive golden palace in the distance that was wider than multiple cities combined. Ning could only wonder just how much metal was used to make that palace.

The guarding feline beasts were surprised to see someone without a beast core coming to their place. However, since White Depth Field was with him, they had no reason to deny entry.

Ning went in with the tiger and roamed the insides of the giant palace. There were places that he wasn't allowed to go, and he respected that.

He was only here to visit after all.

Ning met up with White Depth Field's parents. He met up with his cousins, and various other elders from the clan that he really wanted him to meet.

Aside from his parents, no one truly cared about Ning enough to hide their disdain at a human coming to their family palace.

White Depth Field then took him to some place where he wanted to show the palace's features. There were gardens, a spirit vein that was filled with nothing but metal Qi in it, and a mural that was said to be left behind from the times when the war between humans and demons had just begun.

Ning looked at the mural and his eyes went wide in shock. "They know!" he spoke out loud.

"Hm? Who knows?" White Depth field asked.

"Do you know what this mural is about?" Ning asked.

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"No, it was left behind from the days of our progenitor. He was said to be the one who made this and since after his death, no one knows what this means," White Depth Field said.

"I see," Ning thought. "It is vague enough that people wouldn't understand. Still, to think there was something that hinted at the truth that was once lost."

"Truth?" White Depth Field looked back at the mural. "Is this important, master?"

"Very," Ning said. "But not to the people that do not understand it or can't make sense of it."

"Oh," White Depth Field's eyes went back to the mural. "It's important, huh?" He had always seen this as an art piece, but to think it was something important. White Depth Field got quite interested in the mural.

Ning went around the place a bit before leaving White Depth Field and returned back to the hut in the forest.

A few hundred years later, Ning was once again visited by White Depth Field. He had formed his Core and was just moments away from breaking through and forming his soul.

White Depth Field had successfully hidden his prowess and was thus deemed as someone that was necessary for the clan, but not enough for him to lead. As such, he was going to be married to his long-time love, the Lynx for political reasons.

White Depth Field couldn't care less about the reason and was just happy to be getting married.

Ning attended the wedding and was shocked to find that he wasn't just marrying the Lynx, but a few other beasts as well.

"This little kid has a harem, huh? He's living his life," Ning thought.

Ning had to give some sort of gift to the married man, so he crafted an artifact. Two tiny golden spheres with spikes on them were tied to a small chain that ended on a pin to put into one's ear.

It was an artifact that was created using the system, so it was way stronger than anyone in there could imagine.

With the two earrings alone, White Depth Field had ended up becoming one of the strongest individuals in the entire clan, and Ning made sure to tell him that so that he could plan accordingly.

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White Depth Field was shocked and thanked Ning profusely. Ning didn't mind giving such a gift as it had cost him barely a fraction of the quintillions of energy he had.

Once done, Ning returned to the hut, to be left alone for thousands of years.

White Depth Field returned sometime later and let Ning know that he had got himself a few concubines. Aside from that, he had finally become immortal.

Then, he was gone for thousands and thousands of years and only came to meet him one time to let him know that he was leaving this world.

"Where are you going?" Ning asked.

"To a small world without immortals," he said. "My clan took upon some responsibilities after the war ended, and I have to go fulfill them. I will come back once I'm done there, will you wait for me?"

Ning thought for a second and shook his head. "I will be leaving at any year now. The most I can stay is 5 to 10 thousand more years. If you will be back by then, then we can meet."

White Depth Field was saddened but he didn't let his emotion stop him from his responsibility. "Then this is goodbye, master."

"No it is not," Ning said. "I will come to meet you before I leave."

"Oh!" White Depth Field was surprised. "Then I will meet you then," he said smilingly.

The tiger left, and Ning stayed in the forest. After a while, he left as well, roaming around the world one last time before he was to leave.

After 9 thousand years, Ning was finally ready to leave this universe. "Right, I need to find Black Halo," he thought.

He asked the system and found out where he was.

He was in a minor world, on a continent with barely any humans living on it.

Ning arrived at the continent and found the man. "We will be leaving soon," he told the man.

"I know," Black Halo said. "I arrived here and have remained in wait of you ever since I divined that this is the place from where we will be leaving."

Chapter 899: Preparation"I… am supposed to leave from here?" Ning asked with a curious look on his face. All he had bothered learning was that it was time to leave, and before he could think of where to open the portal, he had decided to come to find Black Halo.

'System, is he right?' Ning asked.

"I see," Ning thought. "Then I suppose we should get ready to leave."

Ning turned towards Black Halo and said, "I will be back soon. There's someone I will need to meet."

"No you won't," Black halo said. "The tiger will come here to meet you himself."

Ning's eyes narrowed. "Did you divine that as well?" he asked.

"I divined everything that is supposed to happen today," Black Halo said. "I know all the events that take place. You should know that the young tiger will be leaving with us today."

"He will?" Ning was surprised to hear that. "But why?"

"I am not sure yet as to why. All I know is that you will ask him and he will agree," Black Halo said.

"Well, I guess that is okay," Ning thought. "Also, stop spoiling me on what will happen next. Wasn't it you who said knowing everything was a curse?"

"My apologies, senior," Black Halo bowed a little.

Ning shook his head and looked around. "Are we supposed to leave from right here?" he wondered. The open grassland was fine, but he could sense some humans not far away.

"What if people notice and come here?" he wondered. The Qi in this land was not even that thick as if it held no spirit veins.

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"Send them away?" Ning looked at the humans. "I guess I can do that."

Ning quickly left and arrived around the teleportation formations that the people were using to teleport away.

"Everyone, you need to leave now," he told them. The humans didn't care about him at first. After all, the ones that were using these teleportation formations were the ones that were some of the strongest people in this weak little world.

Ning sighed and had to put on a show of force to force the humans to leave. Once everyone was gone, he took away the spirit veins from the teleportation formations to disable them.

Then, he returned back to the spot where Black Halo was and started preparing for the time when he would open the portal.

He pushed away the Qi in the area to make the space easier to manipulate, but the Qi quickly flowed back in.

Ning frowned and pushed it again, but the Qi continued coming back.

"Dammit," he thought and pushed it back again. However, instead of leaving it, he used his own Qi to move the Qi around.

He made the Qi move around like a cyclone, while he remained in the massive center where there was no Qi.

The sky crackled with lightning and struck him down for daring to use a higher form of Qi in a world that could not handle it, but Ning couldn't care less about some lightning strike from the heavens.

There was some time before he could leave so he sat around. "How long have you been in this place?"

"After you staged your death, and the people started to go to your tomb, many wanted me to divine regarding various treasures for them. I got fed up and left the place not long after. I arrived in this world a few thousand years before the war was over, and have remained hidden here ever since."

"I see," Ning said. "How was it? Staying alone?"

"It was fine," Black Halo said. "Seeing the humans and demons learn to live together was interesting."

Suddenly, both of their eyes turned towards the west as something came barging in through the circling Qi that had turned truly dangerous at this point.

Ning smiled when he saw who it was. "How have you been, Depth Field?" he asked.

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The young tiger who had come here after hearing the commotion couldn't help but believe who it was. "Master?" he asked. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm going to leave this universe now," Ning said. "I said I would come to visit before I left, didn't I?"

"Oh, you're leaving?" the tiger asked.

"Yes," Ning said.

The tiger's eyes moved around thinking of something.

"Ask him what you want to," Black Halo said from behind. "He will accept."

Ning gave a quick little annoyed look at Black Halo knowing everything that was going to happen but shook his head and looked back towards White Depth Field.

"Go on, what do you want?" Ning asked.

"I…" the tiger hesitated a bit. "I want to see how strong you are."

"Oh, I didn't expect that." Ning gave an amused look. "Sure, why not. Come attack me."

White Depth Field was surprised at how easily Ning agreed to his request.

"Really?" he asked.

"Of course," Ning said. "Be careful though, I will hurt you."

"I can handle some pain," White Depth Field said and immediately started the attack.

Ning had to do nothing and he was immediately winning. White Depth Field hurt himself every time he attacked Ning from up close. When he attacked from afar, it simply wouldn't affect Ning at all.

Ning held back, but just enough so that it would hurt the tiger. He hit him just hard enough so that it would cause superficial wounds.

The tiger bled all over, dyeing his white fur red, but he still fought Ning. In the end, Ning beat White Depth Field and dropped him to the ground.

At the same time, Ning saw Black Halo conceal himself. He wondered why, and just then he sensed something.

He looked towards the west and saw 4 other beasts coming towards him.

Chapter 900: DepartureThe 4 beasts arrived close to Ning and saw the bloody tiger standing in front of an unhurt Ning.

It didn't take the 4 beasts very long to reach a conclusion on their own.

"Who are these folks?" Ning couldn't help but ask.

A snake quickly flew next to White Depth Field and started healing him with his water skills. "We came as soon as we could. Were you fighting all alone?" he asked.

"Yes, I was," White Depth field said. But he couldn't bring himself to say that it was just a normal bout, nothing serious.

"Who is that person?" the bird asked from the side.

Ning narrowed his eyes when he finally realized who these beasts were. 'Ah, they're from that land,' he thought. He had remained in their world for a hundred thousand years, but he had only ever lived near the tigers.

The snake, bird, and the rest were the other beasts from the world that Ning simply didn't bother visiting.

They were of the same status as the tiger and were thus some of the most well-known families in the whole world.

Before Ning could explain that he wasn't here for trouble, the beasts immediately started attacking him.

'Well, whatever,' he thought and fought back. He didn't even try as much and the beasts were already getting hurt

The beasts were bloody and battered, and Ning felt a little bad about it all, but he couldn't help but put on a snarky little smile to chide them even more.

The four beasts were starting to get scared that they were going to die.

"Guys, let me handle this," the tiger said.

"You can—"

"Just leave, I will handle everything here. You don't have to worry about anything," the tiger said.

The beasts paused a little and decided to trust him. "Good luck," they said and left.

"Should I heal them?" Ning wondered. "Well, the snake looks like it can do that."

"They finally left," the tiger said. "I think they misunderstood your intention and believed you were here to cause trouble."

"Hmm, I can see why they would think that," Ning said.

"Anyway, you are truly very strong, master," the tiger said.

"Of course, he would be," Black Halo removed his concealment and spoke. "If the Sage of Ten Thousand treasures, the one named Godkiller was weak, then you would never find anyone strong in this world."

"Godkiller?" the tiger's eyes went wide. "He's supposed to be dead."

"Yeah, I faked my death to get away from it all," Ning said. He turned to look around and saw Black Halo giving him a knowing look.

Ning's eyes narrowed before he turned around toward the tiger and sighed. 'It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy,' he thought.

"Depth Field," Ning called. "I'm leaving for my universe. Do you want to come with me?"

"Me? Leave with you?" the Tiger asked. "Is where you are going too far away?"

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"Very far away," Ning said. "This is perhaps the only time anyone from your world would make contact with a different universe. No one else would ever get such a chance."

White Depth Field couldn't help but be interested when he heard that he was going to be the very first to bring in the other universe.

But…

"I'm sorry, master," White Depth Field. "I cannot leave with you. I have a family now that I can't leave."

Ning was a little surprised at the refusal. He gave a side glance towards Black Halo who showed no expression and sighed as he turned back. "Of course, I wouldn't want you to miss any years with your family."

"Miss any years? You say it as if I will only miss a few years," White Depth Field said.

"Of course. I wasn't going to keep you on the other side always. I would just find you a way back if you went along with me," Ning said.

"Wait, I can come back?" White Depth Field's eyes widened in unhidden glee.

'Ah, here's the future Black Halo was talking about,' Ning thought. "Yes, I can get you back. At most, you will miss about 10 thousand years."

"Then I want to go, master," White Depth Field said.

"You're fine now? Didn't you have some responsibility or something to this land?" Ning asked.

"I always stayed lowkey because I didn't want any responsibility anyway," White Depth Field said.

"You may not want responsibility over anything, but you will find the most important responsibility of this entire world thrust upon you," Black Halo said from the side.

"Well, then get ready, we will leave any minute now," Ning said.

"Wait, I need to tell my wives what I'm doing," White Depth Field said.

"Sure, but let's make it quick," Ning said. "We only have a few minutes."

Ning grabbed White Depth Field and teleported him to his room where the Lynx, his first wife, was sitting in worry.

"Honey!" White Depth Field went to her and told her everything.

"You're leaving for 10 thousand years?" the Lynx asked with shock. "What about—"

"I've thought about it," the tiger said. "You should be the one to lead this place."

The Lynx thought for a moment and sighed. "I've never seen you be this excited about anything. Go, I won't stop you," she said.

"Tell your sisters too. I don't have the time to meet them all," the tiger said.

"Okay, go on," Lynx said. "But you should go meet your daughter before you leave."

"Ah, right," the tiger thought. "Can we go over to my daughter? She got married a few centuries ago, and we haven't heard from her since. I've been worried about her as well."

"Your daughter huh?" Ning asked the system to find his daughter. "You have one in the other continent, is that it?"

"Yes," White Depth Field said. "That's her."

Ning grabbed the tiger and teleported again. This time, he arrived in a well-decorated room with a female cat laying on the bed.

When the two of them arrived, she jerked up in a hurry and got ready to attack. However, when she recognized who it was, her face went from anger and fear to one full of smiles.

"Father? How did you—"

"My daughter!" White Depth Field went ahead and hugged his daughter. "How are you doing?"

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"I'm doing very well father," the cat said. "Why are you here?"

"I am leaving for some time, so I came to meet you before I leave," he said.

"Leaving? For how long?" she asked.

"Ten thousand years," he said. "Don't worry, you will be surprised how quickly time passes."

"You will be gone for so long?" the daughter's eyes drooped in sadness.

"We will meet after we return," White Depth Field said. "I should go now."

"Wait!" she spoke suddenly. "Before you go, there's someone you should meet." She went over to the bed and removed the blanket to reveal a small kitten, sleeping without a care in the world.

White Depth Field saw the little kitten and couldn't help but be surprised. "Is… is she?" his face was blank.

"Your granddaughter," she said.

"Ha… haha… I'm a grandfather now?" White Depth Field couldn't help but smile with a face full of year.

"Here, hold her." She pulled up the kitten with her Qi and brought her next to White Depth Field.

White Depth Field immediately took a human form, one with white robes and golden hair, and held the little kitten in her hands.

"Master, look. It's my granddaughter," he showed her to Ning. "She's so cute."

"She indeed is," Ning said as he looked at the little cat. He thought for a bit and waved his hands. Immediately, 10 drops of blood floated next to Ning.

"Is that?" White Depth Field's eyes went wide.

"It is my gift to your granddaughter," he said and sent the blood into the little kitten. "It will remain dormant in her until she starts cultivating."

"What's going on?" the mother asked.

"Don't worry, it's fine," White Depth Field said. "In fact, it's more than fine." Only he understood the severity of the situation that had just happened.

"If she wishes for it, this little girl will now have the power to become a great ruler," he said.

"Oh," the girl said.

"We should leave," Ning said.

After a few more moments of looking at his granddaughter, White Depth Field gave her back to her mother. "I will leave for now, but I will come back soon."

With that, the two of them left and arrived back at the place with no Qi. "Don't change back to a tiger. I don't think the people of earth can handle seeing a giant tiger like you roaming around."

"Okay," White Field Depth said. He turned towards Black Halo and said, "I think I understand what you meant about me having responsibility thrust on me now. I saw my granddaughter."

Black Halo shook his head. "No, you don't."

Ning reached into the space in him. Not the interdimensional storage space, but the empty space he had created with the space stones.

That was where he had stored all the various Space Stones he had found in the last couple of hundred thousand years. Until now, he had gathered so many that it was large enough to be twice the size of the Space Stones he had used.

He brought one out from within himself and let the system use it. The system tapped into the Space Stone, empowering it to use the space within it to tear a hole in the fabric of space.

The world seemed to cave in on itself as the portal opened, and on the other side, Ning could see bright daylight with trees growing.

"Let's go," he said and stepped in.

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