Realms In The Firmament

There was a reason why there weren’t so many Undead Stage cultivators in the Human Realm Upon Heavens. For the same reason, a level-two Undead Stage cultivator could easily crush a level-one Undead Stage cultivator. The difference was huge. It was like a thirty years old man crushing a one-month-old baby.

There was a good example.

If reaching the first level of the Spirit Origin Stage needed one glass of water, then it took two glasses to reach the second level, and three glasses to the third level… Reaching the next stage needed two times of the water. Reaching the ninth level of the Spirit Origin Stage needed nine glasses then reaching the next stage needed eighteen glasses, not ten. To get one level higher, it required eighteen glasses of water… Thirty-six for the second level, fifty-four for the third…

Reaching a new stage required twice the spiritual energy than earlier, so when it came to the Undead Stage… To reached the Undead Stage, it required tens of thousands of glasses of water…

Water was just a metaphor. The calculation could drive any cultivators crazy!

People always said it was an astronomical number when it was too big. The spiritual energy accumulation for an Undead Stage was truly an astronomical number!

When a cultivator started cultivating, he needed one glass of water. When a level-one Undead Stage cultivator wanted to reach the next level, it needed all the water in the Pacific Ocean!

That was why it took an Undead Stage tens of thousands of years to reach a new level!

That was a normal process for cultivators!

To gather so much spiritual energy in a short time was unimaginable. Even with all those supreme dan beads, it was impossible for the three guys to reach the next level in a short time!

If they wanted to go out, they had to do it. Ye Xiao’s rules were strict…

The three of them had just reached a new level, and they really needed to go out and enjoy their power, but they couldn’t. That was upsetting!

Well, they had to endure it. The four forevers’ rules were so strict. Anybody who violated any of the rules would be expelled!

That was more unacceptable than being grounded. Therefore, people of the Monarch’s Hall were cultivating in full efforts.

Going out to get a bigger territory?

“If you are not strong enough, what is the point in getting more territory?” Ye Xiao said. “The Hall of Returning Nature has just destroyed everything you have gotten in the past! We recruited so many men, and where are they? Dead! If you go out and restart the expansion, how can I be assured that we won’t lose again like that?

“We have over four thousand and one hundred men. Let me be clear. We won’t have more than five thousand!”

Ye Xiao said, “We don’t recruit more men. We have to control the number!

“If you are strong enough, you can go out there and be kings in the world!

“I want you to be monarchs out there, not just some fools to be killed easily!

“If you go out there and put yourselves in danger, why don’t you just stay here safely and cultivate as hard as you can!

“Nobody has any excuses!

“Whoever disobeys my word will be expelled!”

The four forevers became a chain on everybody’s feet.

Some guys were lucky because they were already at the top of the ninth level of the Saint Origin Stage. They were allowed to go out.

That was right. They did go out!

When they returned, they would be grounded again. They had to reach the sixth level of the Immortality Stage before they could go out again.

When they reached the sixth level, they could go out again. When they returned, they had to reach the Undead Stage!

When they came back after reaching the Undead Stage, they had to reach the second level of the Undead Stage!

That was the rule.

It was a strict rule.

Even Ye Xiao himself had to follow the rule. Yue Shuang, Yue Han, Xuan Bing, they were all the same. No exception!

Things became weird because of the rules.

There were people of the Monarch’s Hall showing up outside, but not many. After some days, powerful ones disappeared. Some went out, some were gone.

Nobody dared to mess with these people. They were powerful and unusual. They stayed in the martial world for a short time. When the enemies finished their plan to attack, they were gone…

Some other guys came out, who was usually stronger than the previous ones.

If the enemies wanted to deal with these men, they needed time to make new plans. They needed time to estimate the power of these men, to gather enough people, to decide the location and time… No matter how powerful they were, they needed one to two months to plan an attack…

When they were ready, when they were confident, the targets were gone… Other people came out…

The point was that the new ones were usually much stronger than the previous ones… The plans had to change. They needed more time to reschedule…

They just couldn’t catch up with the change!

The enemies were so frustrated.

Meng Wuzhen was so mad that he almost broke his house apart!

Ye Xiao was the most difficult enemy he had ever dealt with in his life.