destiny eternal calamity

Li Wei put one arm around Xie Youshan's slender waist and reached into her hair with the other, gently stroking it as if he were grooming a cat.

"Shanshan, tell me what has happened in the past thousand years. Why has your relationship with the Queen Mother of the West become so good?"

He knew that Xie Youshan had already shrouded the room in mirage energy, so he didn't need to worry about the Queen Mother of the West spying on him, and therefore he didn't shy away from talking about her.

Xie Youshan narrowed her eyes slightly, revealing an expression of enjoyment.

"After you left, I continued to lead the Mirage Clan to fish in troubled waters within the Bifang Alliance. Although the Mirage Clan did not gain any benefits from the subsequent siege of the Bifang and Taotie clans by all races, they also suffered no losses."

Afterwards, the demon race fought several more wars. Because the mirage race lived in the sea, they avoided the center of the wars and neither declined nor developed.

The human race, however, has changed a lot.

Ever since Ji Yuanhong came to Kunlun to ask the Queen Mother of the West to save you, there has been a lot of dissatisfaction within the clan towards the Xuanyuan clan, but I have suppressed it all.

However, Ji Yuanhong later took the initiative to lead the Xuanyuan clan and the Lilou clan away from the Shenzu, established the Xuanyuan Alliance, and submitted to Kunlun.

He also declared himself emperor, a position he still holds to this day.

As for me and the Queen Mother of the West, we were originally enemies, but she came from heaven and had a higher perspective than us demons from the lower realm.

She told me that a calamity would descend upon this world in the future, and all cultivators of the Supreme Realm would be hunted down by the calamity, ultimately perishing in life and death.

Moreover, the life-giving substances in the world will quickly dissipate, and even if one does not break through to the supreme realm and escape the pursuit of the calamity, one will not live for long.

She said she had a way to help me avoid the disaster, which is why I decided to cooperate with her.

I'm afraid that when disaster truly strikes, I won't live to see you again.

But it seems things aren't as bad as I thought. You're back now, aren't you?

"She's right, the calamity should be coming soon, and when I came back this time, I did find that the substances for longevity are not as abundant as they were a thousand years ago."

When Li Wei last came, he could clearly feel that his body had become lighter and more energetic. Although he still felt that way this time, it was not as noticeable.

If I'm not mistaken, the concentration of longevity substances is indeed decreasing.

"Actually, I also felt it. Previously, the clansmen in the Spirit Bridge Realm could live for a thousand years, but now they only have a lifespan of about six hundred years."

For example, your human race's Divine Treasure cultivators, who could originally live for eight hundred years, have seen many die before reaching six hundred years of age in recent decades.

"And your lifespan..." Li Wei asked nervously.

He worried that Xie Youshan might have escaped the heavenly calamity, but would eventually die of old age.

"I'm different. I'm a fifth-level Supreme Realm cultivator, and I've also refined the Dream Authority, which has long since broken through the limitations of lifespan. As long as I can avoid the Heavenly Tribulation, I'll practically be immortal," Xie Youshan said confidently.

"What does 'Five Revolutions Supreme Realm' mean?" Li Wei was a little confused.

He could roughly guess that the Supreme Realm was the name for the Eternal Tribulation Realm before the Heavenly Tribulation descended.

What does "five turns" mean?

"He is a supreme realm cultivator who has mastered five supernatural powers." Xie Youshan naturally answered all his questions.

As she recounted her story, Li Wei finally understood the view from this high vantage point in the world.

It turns out that after reaching the Supreme Realm, which is also the Eternal Tribulation Realm, an important criterion for judging the strength of a cultivator is the number of supernatural abilities they have mastered.

Generally, it's considered good if an Eternal Tribulation cultivator can master two supernatural abilities.

Mastering five supernatural powers is enough to be called an Earth Immortal, and even in the Immortal Realm, it is the strength of an Immortal General.

Xie Youshan was able to comprehend so many supernatural abilities mainly because she was exceptionally gifted and naturally close to the Great Dao of Dreams.

However, this is not the reason why she is able to live forever.

The Mirage Clan is blessed by Heaven and Earth, yet it can only support one queen, her, with the full strength of the entire clan, to protect the Mirage Clan.

She used the fortune of the Mirage Clan as a bargaining chip to gain control over dreams in this world.

A thousand years ago, she wasn't so radical. Back then, she relied on the sustenance of the Mirage Clan and felt that she was close to immortality.

Therefore, there is no need to be reckless.

But ever since she learned that the life-giving substances in this future world would be depleted, she began to plot to seize the power of dreams.

After all, if they don't fight for it, they will eventually grow old and die, and the Mirage Clan will lose its protection and inevitably perish.

When she inquired with the Queen Mother of the West and learned that there weren't many immortals in the Heavenly Realm who cultivated the Great Dao of Dreams, she decided to take a gamble.

As the saying goes, the bold get rich, while the timid starve.

A hundred years ago, she exhausted the accumulated fortune of the entire Mirage Clan over thousands of years and finally touched the power of dreams.

And indeed, the power of dreams in this world has not yet been taken over by anyone else.

She has now refined about one percent of it.

This mere one percent was enough to give her a leap in strength, allowing her to reach the level of a Venerable in the Immortal Realm, and lifespan became completely meaningless to her.

Upon hearing this, Li Wei broke out in a cold sweat.

He never expected that Xie Youshan, who was lying in his arms, would be so strong.

It has already reached the strength of a "Celestial Venerable".

The ultimate resource in this world is undoubtedly the "power" that Xie Youshan mentioned. Li Wei never expected that he could obtain such an ultimate resource in the mortal realm.

So it seems that the difference between the mortal realm and the immortal realm is not as great as he had imagined.

Li Wei voiced his question.

"That's not the case. There's still a big difference between the mortal realm and the immortal realm."

The reason I was able to seize the power of dreams is mainly because the Mirage Clan is favored by heaven and earth, possesses extraordinary fortune, and the Dream Path is quite unpopular, with few powerful competitors.

Moreover, I received help from the Queen Mother of the West, a celestial being; otherwise, I wouldn't even know how to use my luck to touch upon authority.

In contrast, it is much easier for the immortals to touch power. I suspect that the Queen Mother of the West has completely grasped a certain power, or even touched other powers!

The demons who followed her from the celestial realm also held power to varying degrees.

Among the native inhabitants of the mortal realm, those who can touch upon authority should number no more than ten.

Moreover, the foundation of the mortal realm is far weaker than that of the immortal realm.

The Queen Mother of the West often complained to me that she couldn't find the medicinal materials to refine elixirs in the mortal realm.

The celestial realm possesses spiritual energy, a level higher than the primordial energy of the mortal world, capable of nurturing spiritual herbs, and making advancement for cultivators much easier.

Xie Youshan explained.

After listening to Xie Youshan's words, Li Wei fell into thought.

Having such a celestial girlfriend allowed him to fully understand the scenery beyond eternal tribulations, which naturally brought him countless benefits.

However, in order to avoid embarking on the path of ruthlessness, he bypassed the path of destiny to advance.

Supernatural powers are acquired through the path of cultivation. I wonder if I will be able to acquire supernatural powers if I insist on not embarking on the path of ruthlessness.

This is indeed a difficult problem facing him.

Never mind, things will work themselves out. Trust the system.

Besides that, he was more concerned about another piece of information.

The Queen Mother of the West seems capable of easily defeating all the demon kings in this 'mortal realm'.

So if she truly wanted to support the human race, she could have done so by force long ago.

However, she chose to teach martial arts to the human race, letting them fight the demon race for their lives.

Perhaps it was because she was under some kind of restriction, or perhaps this was just part of her pre-arranged plan?

For example, her real purpose was to teach humans martial arts, and the demon race could serve as a whetstone for humans.