Chapter 34: New World

Brothels were also popular in the Source World, and the girls there shared similarly tragic backgrounds: gambling fathers, sick mothers, brothers in school, shattered lives…

Many righteous heroes often gathered there, generously donating and freely spending to rescue others from dire straits.

Not to mention others, Yu Longqing, in his younger days, also performed many such heroic deeds, even taking the most destitute among them as his concubine.

I thought this young man was using all sorts of methods to resolve his identity issues for the sake of becoming stronger. I hadn’t expected him to walk out the door and immediately start “generously donating, acting heroically” … the difference was too great.

So thirsty!

Could this be the reason he managed to get close to Primordial Beasts… possessing a strong beast nature within him?

“That’s not it…”

Guessing the city lord’s puzzlement, Hu Haiming hurriedly explained, embarrassed: “He disappeared right outside the brothel but did not enter, because … after I discovered he was missing, I rushed in to search, even interrogated the madame, but he had not entered. It felt as though he had suddenly vanished into thin air! ”

“Disappeared in an instant, elusive even to a Physique Realm expert like you who excels in tracking…”

City Lord Yu’s brow furrowed.

Previously it was just a suspicion that something was off with this fellow, now it’s almost confirmed.

With no cultivation whatsoever, yet able to detect the tracking of a Physique Realm expert and easily shake them off, even he would find it difficult to achieve.

After a moment’s hesitation, Hu Haiming bowed, “City Lord, shall we deploy the guards to search the entire city?”

“No need!”

Yu Longqing shook his head: “He hasn’t done anything wrong, nor has he broken the law. Searching the entire city would be the same as arresting him, which is inappropriate.”

It was only a suspicion that he used some method to absorb Heavenly Mandate Vitality, without any evidence. There was no need to make a big fuss about it.

Moreover, even if it was confirmed to be his doing, it was he who had allowed the person to stay in the Book Collection Vault, so even if it was absorbed, he couldn’t blame anyone else.

“You may leave now!”

Yu Longqing waved his hand. After the other party left, his gaze flashed, and his eyes narrowed, “To be or not to be, we’ll know tomorrow! As long as this guy goes to Baiyan Academy for the Source Pool evaluation, being there in person, I can definitely see something…”

Thousands of people absorbing Heavenly Mandate Vitality at the same time is indeed hard to notice, but if you lock onto the target from the start, the results are quite easy to find.

We’ll see how you keep a low profile then!

…

“What did I do wrong…”

In an alley not far from the City Lord Residence, Zhang Xuan rested his chin in his right hand, full of doubts.

Since entering the City Lord Residence, apart from beast taming, he had been very low key, very discreet, fearing others would notice something. By rights, his actions should have been perfect, so how did he get tracked the moment he left? And by a captain of the City Lord Residence no less!

This isn’t right!

—Being low key is really hard… even when I exert all my efforts!

Sighing in his heart, Zhang Xuan thought for a long time and couldn’t figure out what exactly went wrong, so he simply shook his head and put the matter aside, “Forget it, first find a place to stay and figure out a way to practice, other matters can wait…”

Knowing that the city lord meant no harm, after all, if there were any malicious intent, with his current situation, he wouldn’t have been able to leave alive.

Continuing to gamble, the money earned from Mo Yanxue and Yu Xiaoyu wasn’t much, but it was enough for lodging and food for a short while. Soon, he found a silent chamber for practice and moved in.

The hotel was still somewhat expensive; the silent chamber, on the other hand, would be about half the price.

A sovereign of the Conferred God King from the nine heavens, reduced to penny-pinching… it was indeed sad to think about.

After eating the buns he had bought, Zhang Xuan felt around to make sure no one was following him or had discovered him, then he sat down cross-legged. The next moment, he vanished from the room, as if he had never been there at all.

Once again, he appeared, now suspended over a vast expanse of mountains and rivers, surrounded by countless dense trees with various spirit beasts traversing back and forth and birds flying about, creating a harmonious scene.

His self-created new world!

The current Library of Heaven’s Path, which was the Heavenly Dao of this world, stemmed from this place, including killing Suxiang, subduing the Cangbai Eagle, and the burning mountains and oceans.

This was the universe he had created, where a single thought was all that was needed.

He looked up.

Above the new world, at an unknown height, there was a pitch-black area where countless gray-blue currents, like tornadoes, kept churning, and below, streaks of primordial energy flashed, subsequently forming mountains, rivers, and various vegetation.

The gray-blue currents were Origin qi drawn from the Source World, while the primordial energy flows were his means of creation.

The entire new world was derived from Origin qi.

The reason he risked entering the Source World was because, a few days ago when the new world was absorbing Origin qi, turbulence occurred that caused the currents to become chaotic and nearly caused the Heavenly Dao of this world to collapse, and even he sustained severe injuries which had not yet fully recovered.

“Back then, the Heavenly Dao of Empyrean faced an issue in the Source World. Suddenly, a hand appeared, dividing the Heavenly Dao into three—Empyrean Kong shi, myself, and Nie Lingxi each took one part…”

Recalling what Nie Yun had once told him, Zhang Xuan’s expression grew grave.

He certainly did not want to face the same crisis himself, despite being the sovereign of a realm, he still couldn’t control his own life or death.

He flipped his wrist, and a book appeared in front of him.

It was the very tome that contained Heavenly Mandate Vitality.

Whoosh!

Heavenly Mandate Vitality appeared in the new world, instantly triggering a massive tornado spanning thousands of kilometers, dispersing an extremely powerful force. Mountains collapsed upon contact, unable to withstand the force for even a fraction of a breath. The immense power shook all directions and even completely obscured the sun and moon in the sky.

Zhang Xuan was shaken.

As expected of Heavenly Mandate Vitality, far beyond what the new world could withstand.

“Store!”

With a thought, the book snapped shut again, enclosing the Heavenly Mandate Vitality within and, with a slight tap, the book fell to the ground, transforming into a mountain range thousands of kilometers in diameter.

Yet this mountain was barren, devoid of vegetation, soil, or springs, resembling a colossal rock.

Zhang Xuan frowned.

As the creator of the Suspended Realm, naturally having the method to transform Origin qi into all things, normally, with the nourishment of primordial energy, creating a mountain range would spontaneously generate rocks, trees, flowers, ores, springs… everything in an instant.

But this, creating only a huge stone, appeared very peculiar.

After hesitating for a moment, he threw another book, and immediately, a vast river spanned tens of thousands of kilometers from east to west, yet the water was devoid of weeds, fish, shrimp, and even plankton couldn’t be found.

“Although Heavenly Mandate Vitality can also generate any item, it loses creativity, and once used, it can only derive a single item…”

After studying for a moment, Zhang Xuan understood.

All things complement each other, so-called purity has its advantages and disadvantages.

Just like the purified silicon wafers in his previous life, which were very pure, achieving 13 nines, yet they also lost the diversity and moldability of alloys.

It seems that absorbing Heavenly Mandate Vitality into the Library could build a bridge between the Library of Heaven’s Path and the Source World, yet it couldn’t be used to maintain the operation of the new world. If he wanted this world to be stable and stronger, then rampant Origin qi was the best choice.

“Heavenly Dao Pool-Seeking Method, I’ve never been able to find the Source Pool… What if I treated the new world as the Source Pool? I wonder if that would work?”

Suddenly, an idea sprung up, making Zhang Xuan jolt sharply.