A moment later, Hengsheng found himself in an unfamiliar place. He looked around; nothing was visible. The area was filled with gray mist. He was not surprised to suddenly appear here; he had already expected it. This place was a mind tribulation sent by the heavenly dao to test his spiritual symbol strength.
Soon, Hengsheng frowned at the peculiarity of his mind's tribulation, which stemmed from his knowledge. The mind tribulation manifested as the Road of Dao Cultivation, The path that tested the cultivator on their chosen path. Only ten steps down the path would count as passing the tribulation.
But even though Hengsheng looked in all directions, he did not see anything resembling the Path. In fact, there was nothing at all, only empty space, just like his mind space. Except there was a gray mist that obscured his vision, making it impossible to see farther away. "What does this mean?"
Hengsheng thought briefly before deducting, "Is the Heavenly Dao trying to tell me that there is no path in my chosen path?" If that were the case, he would do what he intended to do in the first place—he would carve his own path!
With his resolve, he summons his Dao heart to this place. The Dao heart aura envelops him instantly, making his body shine with blue light! His eyes shine like a flashlight, seen through the gray mist. The mist is no longer obscured; what lies beyond is a countless number of paths stretching before him, each filled with different difficulties.
Some paths lead through the burning ground, while others traverse the Sharp Blade Road. Despite these challenges, it is all the same at the end of the road: the mountain. As he gazes at the mountain, he understands immediately what it signifies; if he reaches that mountain peak, he will become immortal!
Hengsheng, without hesitation, stepped into the empty space, a void without any road. As his first step touched the void, it caused a resonance throughout the whole space. Soon, under his foot, a new road floor slowly emerged. Hengsheng took another step, and with the resonance wave, another new road floor appeared. He continued to step forward, soon reaching ten steps. When he took the eleventh step and as the road appeared, he started to feel the pressure weighing down on him; it pressed right into his mind, making his thought process difficult.
As he continued to walk forward, the pressure increased with every step, and soon, an obstacle appeared in his path. It was a road covered in thin ice that would break if he stepped on it carelessly. However, he smirked at the obstacle, for as a system maker, he knew there were two ways to proceed in his path.
One was to find the shortcut and cheat like others could not, and the second was to break the obstacle with cheat-like power and reshape it to suit his purpose. As his Dao heart aura resonated with his thoughts, the aura around his body shone brightly. He stomped onto the thin ice road, shattering it into pieces. Despite this, he did not fall into the abyss; the impact of his stomp created a large wave of resonance, forming a bridge for him.
The bridge stretches straight up to the top of the mountain. Hengsheng continues his steps...
He can't remember how he returned to his cultivation cave without knowing when he passed the mind tribulation. Hengsheng Scratching his head in confusion, the last thing he remembered was stepping onto the bridge, then…nothing.
Hengsheng slowly observes himself; he can feel a newfound strength. It looks like he has succeeded in breaking through and has now become a Spiritual Foundation realm cultivator. He turns to see if Yunsu is doing what he saw. She is still in the process of breaking through to rank 3.
Hengsheng knows this is good for demon beasts or spirit races. The more time they take, the more powerful they will become. Even before, Yunsu was stronger than him in both pure power and fighting instinct due to her absurd, powerful bloodline, yet she was useless against the monster only because she did not have the means to kill it.
When he shifts his focus to himself, a new sense emerges from his Upper Dantain. It is similar to the Spirit body but more profound and potent—it is The Divine Sense! This is another perk that comes with the breakthrough. His spirit body has now evolved for the better. As he tested it out, a wave of Divine sense instantly enveloped the entire place. It was faster than light! He could feel anything inside his cave.
He takes his time to become familiar with the divine sense until it feels like another limb of his body. Curious, he sends the divine sense back inside his upper Dantian. He wants to see what his spiritual symbol looks like.
When his divine sense returned to the upper Dantian, Hengsheng saw that it had the same shape as his spirit core but was a red orb instead of a blue one. Its surface was decorated with Qi patterns and Qi runes that resembled when he brought the Infinite Evolution System outside his body to imbue Yunsu for hatching. Moreover, it also had patterns of the Red Chaotic Flame moving across the surface as if it would never be extinguished, even now that it had become his spiritual symbol. After he observed the true appearance of his mind space, he couldn't help but feel curious about its origin, murmuring, "Where did it come from?"
Hengsheng became serious. He needed to see what the world inside the system would be like. He closed his eyes and did the same thing he had done when he entered the mind space.
Not even needing a second, he appeared in the System world. Looking around, he murmured, "This was the same as Mind Space." It was totally the same in appearance, but he could feel something with his supreme authority. Here, he could clearly sense the laws of the outside world, not a law of heavenly Dao, but it was the Law of reality existence. This space was now somehow linked to reality, and the law of reality would grant many changes in it, such as he could properly use it as his space ring to store his things. He might also be able to store a living thing, but he will try that later.
Most importantly, he acts like the Dao of Heaven himself in the system world. Hengsheng was satisfied with this result. Even though he felt a little insecure, his feelings were within an acceptable range as long as he remained supreme in his own world; that was good.
Hengsheng opened his eyes and did one last check before proceeding with another plan: opening the main system panel.
Ding!
[Status]
Name: Lan Hengsheng
Race: Human
Age: 20
Spirit Core: System Neutral Spirit Core {Earth}
Cultivation Realm: Spiritual Foundation {0.01%}
Qi Cultivation Method: The System World Creation Manual
[Attributes]:
Physique: 784
Spiritual Qi: 3453
Mind: 2340
Divine Sense: 2450
Special Traits: The System World, Super Divine Sense, Vast Meridian, The Sun Gaze Genetic
Qi Techniques:
Mortal-Grade— Thousand Motion Art
Earth-Grade— Endless Step Technique, Horizon Shift Technique, World Shatter Palm Art, Qi Surge Cannon Technique, Heaven's Pulse Fist Technique, Pure Qi Rebound Technique, Hidden Mind Sutra
Auxiliary Systems Capacity {100/100%}:
Life Simulator System {100%}
[System Points]: {0/10,000 Points}
[Absorb] [Upgrade]
Hengsheng widened his eyes at the increased attributes he received from advancing his cultivation realm, but soon, he shook his head. "I have to get rid of this; what a useless function!"
He was really dissatisfied with his shortsightedness when he created the main system. Due to his lack of understanding of cultivation, he made everything merely reflect LITRPG, but it couldn't truly fit into this world as he had thought. At least the twelve main functions are working well.
After the breakthrough, he needed to stabilize his cultivation realm for some time before continuing to test his newfound power and practice his techniques. This left him time to update his main system.
Hengsheng brought out seven Dao treasures. These treasures held fragments of Dao essence representing the five elements and Yin-Yang, as he was in the most Abundant place on the entire continent. He had never discovered them all in one place like this.
He intends to refine all of them into one to create the Heavenly Dao Connector. This connector will be integrated into the main system and serve as the link between him and the seven Dao of heaven. Hengsheng intends to borrow the power of these Dao to sustain his main system.
The result is unknown to him now, but it can't be bad since he has already confirmed that his action is not violent under any Heavenly Dao rule with his Mind space power long ago. Hengsheng began to refine the Divine-grade treasure immediately.
He controls the seven treasures floating around him with his Divine Sense. He, who is now at the Spiritual Foundation Realm, is not strong enough to effectively refine a divine-grade treasure. However, he doesn't need to since he has an assistant. He activates the [Absorb] function, and moments later, the Qi thread emerges from his spirit core and makes contact with the treasure, beginning to absorb the divine-grade treasure's Qi essence into his spirit core.