Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 205 First Entry into the Heavenly Court
Ten thousand years ago, the Kunlun Realm was a subordinate mortal realm of the Heavenly Court Realm, and the strongest realm in the Western Universe. It had an ancient sacred path that directly connected to the Heavenly Court, which was light-years away.

After the fall of the gods of Kunlun Realm, the Ancient Sacred Path was sealed off, and cultivators of Kunlun Realm could no longer travel to the Heavenly Court to cultivate.

After becoming a goddess, Empress Chi Yao used her divine power to open up the Holy Road and traveled along the ancient Holy Road to negotiate with the Heavenly Court.

Today, cultivators from the Kunlun Realm are also following this path, leaving the Kunlun Realm and heading towards a completely new and unknown world.

Emperor Yi led all the cultivators of the First-Class Hall of the Central Region Black Market who had reached the level of half-saint to embark on the path to sainthood, accompanied by evil figures from the five regions of the Kunlun Realm.

The Evil Emperor, Nangong Shi, the Nine-Headed Qilin... from Great Sage to Saint King, from Saint to Half-Saint, they all came out in full force.

From this day forward, in the vast Kunlun Realm, apart from a few cultivators with special missions, the strongest will be only those at the Ninth Transformation of the Fish-Dragon.

The Heavenly Realm, located at the very center of the universe, is the heart of all realms, hundreds or even thousands of times larger than any other great world.

Beyond the Heavenly Court, a vast celestial river encircles the area, spanning eighty thousand miles in width, with swift and rapid currents. Within the river, endless and bizarre rules flow along with the water.

The Milky Way hangs in the starry sky, with stars lining its banks, forming river embankments.

All the mortal realms under the Heavenly Court have a "Book of Merits" stored on the Merit Star.

The Merit Star is located on the banks of the Milky Way, and is shaped like a staircase. Each step represents a great world, and each step is one li (a unit of distance). There are currently 8,940 steps, which is 8,940 li.

At this moment, the name "Kunlun Realm" is clearly written on the first step of the Merit Star.

Above, there is only one name, 'Chi Yao'.

The position of the Merit Star on the ladder indicates the ranking of the mortal realms under the Heavenly Court within the Heavenly Court. There are many aspects to measuring the strength of a great world, and the Heavenly Court uses the most direct method.

Ranking is based on merit points.

By participating in the Merit Battle and killing cultivators from the Hell Realm, you can obtain corresponding merit points. All the individual merit points combined constitute the merit points of the entire Great World.

The cultivators from the Kunlun Realm had not yet participated in the merit battle, so their merit points were zero, naturally placing them last.

It is worth mentioning that the Moon Goddess's Guanghan Realm is ranked fourth from the bottom. Apart from the Kunlun Realm, the second and third from the bottom of the Great Worlds do not belong to the Western Universe.

In other words, without the Kunlun Realm, the Guanghan Realm would be the weakest realm in the Western Universe today.

Emperor Yi left his name in the Book of Merit, officially gaining the qualification to set foot in the Heavenly Court.

One by one, all the cultivators of the Kunlun Realm left their names in the Book of Merit, announcing that after 100,000 years, the Kunlun Realm would officially return to the Heavenly Court.

After registration was completed, celestial boats sailed from the opposite bank of the river, carrying the people of Kunlun Realm across the Milky Way and into the Heavenly Court Realm.

The mortal realm, subordinate to the Heavenly Court, is qualified to enter different levels of the Heavenly Realm for cultivation based on their ranking on the Merit List.

The celestial realms are divided into four levels: lower-level celestial realms, middle-level celestial realms, upper-level celestial realms, and the highest-level divine celestial realms.

The celestial domain to which the saints of Kunlun Realm were assigned was called the 'Shatuo Celestial Domain,' a most barren and inferior celestial domain.

Besides Kunlun Realm, there are six other worlds, all ranked near the bottom in the Western Universe, including Guanghan Realm.

Within each celestial realm, there are varying numbers of sacred realms. Each sacred realm is 30,000 li square. Only a Great Sage can occupy a sacred realm as their own cultivation ground. Other cultivators who wish to stay in a sacred realm to cultivate must rely on the Great Sage of their respective world.

The number of Great Saints among the human race in the Kunlun Realm is only a dozen or so, and even including the emperors of the four desolate seas, there are no more than forty.

In other words, the territory that cultivators in the Kunlun Realm can occupy is only about thirty sacred domains with a radius of thirty thousand miles.

This area, if placed in the Kunlun Realm, might be larger than the territory of a seventh-tier savage beast, but in the Heavenly Court, thirty-odd sacred domains are more than enough for the tens of thousands of cultivators in the Kunlun Realm.

Although the Shatuo Heavenly Domain is the most barren of the lower-grade heavenly domains, it depends on what it is compared to. Compared to other heavenly domains, it is naturally inferior, but compared to the current Kunlun Realm, it is ten or even a hundred times better.

The sacred veins that are extremely rare in the Kunlun Realm can be found in almost every sacred domain here, and in the divine-level heavenly domains, there are even more than one sacred vein.

In just a few days, the Great Saints of Kunlun Realm occupied a total of thirty-seven Sacred Domains, forming a continuous expanse.

At the center of this area stands a seven-colored temple, the site of Empress Chi Yao's Daoist practice.

Deities cannot participate in the struggle for sacred domains, but they can establish their own sacred domains within the sacred domains they occupy in their respective worlds. The sacred domains of the other six deities in the Seven Realms of Shatuo are all located within the sacred domains occupied by the Great Saints of their respective worlds.

The two sacred domains occupied by the Evil Emperor Xia Han and Nangong Shi are adjacent to each other, one is the 'Meteor Sacred Domain' and the other is the 'Crimson Cloud Sacred Domain'.

Within the Meteorite Sacred Domain, there is a cultivation holy land formed from a meteorite, which has a certain effect on the cultivation of evil paths.

The Crimson Cloud Sacred Domain is named after Crimson Cloud Mountain within its territory, and it is also a sacred place for cultivation. The evil cultivators from the Central Region Black Market and the Northern Region Black Market are all placed within the Crimson Cloud Sacred Domain.

Nangong Shi's Taoist temple was established in the sacred land of Chiyun Mountain.

Emperor Yi, Illusion Saint, and their close subordinates, friends, and disciples were all able to stay in the Holy Land to cultivate.

The resources produced by a single sacred domain in the Shatuo Heaven Domain are enough to support tens of thousands of saints, and many of these resources are simply unavailable in the Kunlun Realm.

One type of cultivation resource, called "Condensed True Dew," can accelerate the condensation of rules by Saint Realm cultivators above the Tongtian Realm, allowing them to quickly break through their realm.

The Kunlun Realm had just arrived at the Heavenly Court, and the amount of Condensed True Dew they could obtain was not much. Of the portion that Nangong Shi obtained, half of it ended up in Di Yi's hands, helping him break through to the peak of the Supreme Saint realm.

Inside a palace in the holy land, Emperor Yi was flipping through books that recorded the affairs of the Heavenly Court, with a tea set on the table in front of him.

It doesn't contain tea, but rather the Essence of True Dew.

Han Qiu poured him a full cup of Condensed True Dew, and looking at Di Yi who was engrossed in his book, asked curiously, "Hall Master, have you been reading these past few days to understand the rules of the Heavenly Court?"

Di Yi put down the book in his hand and said, "When you come to a completely new place, the first thing to do is to thoroughly understand the rules of this place, so as to avoid a lot of trouble."

Han Qiu glanced at the book on the table and saw that its cover read "Merit Points and Rules of Merit Battles".

"Did the hall master gain anything?"

"Of course there are. Kunlun Realm has returned to the Heavenly Court after 100,000 years. While they can enjoy the superior cultivation environment within the Heavenly Court, they also face the possibility of annihilation at any time."

"The War of Merit is a sacrifice used to balance the war between the Heavenly Realm and the Hell Realm, and it began 100,000 years ago."

"The battlefields are all selected from the mortal realms under the Heavenly Court. The number of merit battlefields in the Western Universe has always been maintained at ten. When a battlefield is completely destroyed, a weaker realm will be selected according to the merit ranking to open up a new merit battlefield."

"As far as I know, the Ancestral Spirit Realm, one of the ten merit battlefields in the Western Universe, is on the verge of destruction. Soon, the Heavenly Court will select the next merit battlefield from the Seven Realms of Shatuo. The Kunlun Realm is currently ranked last on the merit list."

Han Qiu's expression changed drastically, and he said in a deep voice, "So, does that mean there's a high chance that the Kunlun Realm will become a new battlefield for merit?"

“That’s right. Among the seven realms of Shatuo, Kunlun Realm is the weakest in terms of strength. Even if the Heavenly Court allows the seven realms to compete fairly, the final loser is very likely to be Kunlun Realm,” Di Yi said calmly.

"Is there no way to avoid this?" As a cultivator from the Kunlun Realm, Han Qiu naturally did not want the Kunlun Realm to become a battlefield. When the hellish army marched into the Kunlun Realm, it would be a hundred or a thousand times more cruel than the previous Undying Blood Clan.

Yes, and there is more than one.

"As is customary, the new merit battlefield is selected from the lower-ranked major worlds. The Heavenly Court will organize a special merit battle, with a limited time and location, to allow the saints, saint kings, great saints, and gods of the major worlds to participate. The final merit battlefield will be determined based on the merit points they have obtained."

"The higher the total merit points ranking, the stronger the world is, and naturally it won't become a merit battlefield. In addition, there are some special cases that can prove that the cultivators in this world have great potential, and can also avoid becoming a merit battlefield."

"In the Saint Merit Battle, Saint King Merit Battle, and Great Saint Merit Battle, as long as you rank first in any battlefield, you can avoid becoming a merit battlefield."

As Di Yi recounted the story, Han Qiu listened with a furrowed brow.

In terms of any realm—god, great sage, holy king, or saint—the cultivators of the Kunlun Realm cannot compare with those of the other six great worlds of the Shatuo Heaven Domain.

Ranking high in total merit points and achieving first place in any merit battlefield are both very difficult things to accomplish.

In terms of individual combat strength, cultivators from the Kunlun Realm may have the advantage at the same level, but the difference in numbers is too great. Even in the weakest Guanghan Realm, the number of Saints is more than twice that of the Kunlun Realm.

The strongest Great Demon Realm, the Ten Directions Realm, can even reach nearly ten times the power.

Even a powerful realm like the Great Demon Realm of Ten Directions only ranks seventh from the bottom in the Western Universe.

"Any other options besides this?" Han Qiu continued to ask.

After a moment's thought, Emperor Yi nodded: "There is one, but it is even more difficult to achieve than to rank first in the Merit Battle. It has only happened once or twice in the past 100,000 years, and it is very difficult to replicate."

Han Qiu's heart sank, but he quickly regained his fighting spirit and looked at Emperor Yi: "I am not familiar with the merit battles of the God Realm, Great Saint Realm, and Saint King Realm, but with the Hall Master here, I believe that Kunlun Realm definitely has a chance to compete for first place in the Saint Merit Battle."

"The power of one person is insignificant in the face of the fate of an entire realm. No matter how strong one person is, they cannot change the general trend." Di Yi sighed softly and pushed the pot of Condensed True Saint Dew on the table in front of Han Qiu: "This pot of Condensed True Saint Dew should be enough for you and A Le to raise your cultivation to the True Saint level. Among my subordinates, you two have the highest potential. Seize this time to improve your cultivation so that you can lend me a hand on the battlefield of merit."

Han Qiu was flattered and dared not accept the gift.

"Master, what will you do without the Condensing True Dew?"

"I am already a Saint, and the True Saint Dew has limited effect on me. I have more suitable treasures to enhance my cultivation, so you don't need to worry about it."

(End of this chapter)