The Martial Emperor, since achieving the Immortal-Demon realm, had for the first time been saved from death by this foresight.
"The utmost sincerity can foresee the future, but it is not omnipotence..."
"Beyond Immortal-Demon, is there another realm?"
Amidst the faintness, there was only a sigh.
The Martial Emperor was searching for a realm beyond Immortal-Demon.
In the Martial Emperor's own conjecture, the realm beyond Immortal-Demon should be where the power of the mind grows to its limit, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.
The river of time, as seen before, was formed by the power of the mind, but the Martial Emperor could only use it to glimpse the future and trace the past. This was ultimately an illusion, unable to affect real existence in the physical world.
If one reached the realm beyond Immortal-Demon, in the Martial Emperor's view, perhaps erasing a person from the river of time would also mean their true death in the real world.
It would not be impossible to return to the past with the collective will of everyone in the entire world.
This would be replacing illusion with reality, reaching true omnipotence.
Of course, this was merely the Martial Emperor's own hypothesis; he did not know if it could be realized.
He understood that his lifespan was nearing its end. Having lived for several hundred years, this was the limit.
Humans have limits.
Even Immortal-Demon level martial artists could not achieve eternal life.
With his lifespan ending, although he could still explore the path beyond Immortal-Demon, his hopes were likely not high.
Perhaps it would have to be left to the next generation of Immortal-Demon level experts to research.
But would the royal family still produce Immortal-Demon level experts?
The Martial Emperor shook his head.
...
One year later.
"Immortal-Demon supreme... boundless mind... opening one's own cave-heaven..."
"I am still a step short, ultimately failing to grasp the Way of the Immortal-Demon."
Fang Ming shook his head, casting aside his distracting thoughts.
Countless spiritual apertures roared within his body, the apertures opened within his physical form as numerous as the stars.
His physical body was immensely powerful, and his divine soul was unhindered.
Yet, he was just a hair's breadth away from forging his own Way of the Immortal-Demon.
To possess the seed of a cave-heaven, yet not form one oneself, meant one was still mortal, not an Immortal.
Before an Immortal-Demon, one was no different from the common folk.
A year ago, Fang Ming had arrived in this world. After killing the county magistrate, he had expected the Great Yi Dynasty to be enraged and dispatch countless martial artists to hunt him down.
He even expected the Martial Emperor, an Immortal-Demon of the Eight Supremes and the foremost expert in the world, to personally deal with him.
But the result was that he encountered no obstacles.
The Great Yi Dynasty was as if dead, showing no reaction.
Fang Ming had even gone to the imperial palace himself afterward.
Yet, he could not find any trace of the Martial Emperor.
And across the land, while Fang Ming could locate Grandmasters on the Earthly Ranking, he could not find any Immortal-Demons on the Heavenly Ranking.
The Eight Supremes of Immortal-Demon seemed to have vanished.
From then on, Fang Ming vaguely sensed that he might have underestimated the Immortal-Demon level martial artists of this world.
The Immortal-Demon level martial artists and those below them in this world could almost be viewed as two different entities.
In a pure power comparison, Immortal-Demon level martial artists might not be able to defeat cultivators, nor could they defeat him, but in other aspects, especially in avoiding danger, they likely surpassed him.
It was like the genetic abilities unlocked by the God Serum in the zombie world, which were different from the pure body refinement of cultivators.
The focus of this martial artist world was also different from other worlds.
It emphasized the mind, the power of spiritual will, and what was called the power of the mind.
He wondered if it had any relation to the fourth-tier gene lock.
The three extraordinary systems of microscopic gene manipulation, spiritual will, and cultivation clashed in Fang Ming's mind.
Fang Ming was not an absolute adherent of cultivation abilities.
Therefore, in the zombie world, he had directly taken the God Serum, allowing him to control his genes and possess microscopic abilities.
In this world, recognizing that the martial artist system here was beneficial to him, Fang Ming naturally did not reject cultivating the martial artist system.
Although he could not deal with the Eight Supremes of Immortal-Demon in this world, not knowing where they had gone.
Fang Ming could still deal with those Grandmasters on the Earthly Ranking and experts on the Human Ranking.
With the vast amount of elixirs, rare heavenly treasures, and numerous martial arts cultivation techniques he had harvested.
Fang Ming successfully opened numerous spiritual apertures in his body and began cultivating in this world's martial artist system.
And due to the abundance of elixirs, coupled with his existing strength as a cultivator, Fang Ming spent a year successfully pushing the martial artist system of this world to its limit below the Immortal-Demon realm.
"But this is already the limit..."
Fang Ming shook his head.
He began to use his world-traveling talent to travel to new worlds.
In the past year, he had been eager to cultivate the martial artist system of this world and had not used his ability to travel to other worlds even once.
This time, he would once again activate his world-traveling power.
To travel to a new world.
...
This journey of world-travel seemed particularly different.
Fang Ming felt as if he had been in a dark, lightless space for a very long time, and then he arrived in a new world.
This world was named World Number Five by Fang Ming.
"Great World of Kyushu?"
"This is actually a cultivation world..."
Fang Ming felt that this transfer was unusual.
And the reason for its unusualness also manifested itself.
That was, Fang Ming already knew it was a cultivation world, without needing any investigation.
And the reason Fang Ming knew directly was—
"I've changed bodies again."
"This is truly..."
Fang Ming looked at his body, which had clearly transformed from a boy to a youth, and sighed.
That's right.
Fang Ming had changed bodies.
Just like when he first traveled from Earth to World One, or from World Zero to World One.
Fang Ming had not traveled with his original body.
Instead, he had soul-traveled into a child's body.
It was only later, when World Zero could no longer be returned to, and Worlds One through Four allowed physical travel, that Fang Ming forgot about this matter.
Now, another soul-travel event had occurred.
Fang Ming then remembered when his world-travel talent was first activated.
It was through soul-travel, then acquiring memories.
Now, Fang Ming had also acquired the memories of the youth whose body had been taken over.
He knew that this place was called the Great World of Kyushu.
He also knew that this was another world where the cultivation system was practiced.
And unlike World One, where the "primitive" cultivation system was basically divided by the number of layers in the cultivation techniques, there was no unified realm name to encompass all cultivation techniques and power levels in the world.
For example, in the White Cloud Sect, cultivation was divided by how many layers of a particular technique were mastered. In such a small sect, with few techniques, it could be converted. But in the entire world, with numerous sects, each with many techniques, it was extremely difficult to correspond which technique in one sect to which layer mastered in another sect.
Such a cultivation system was relatively primitive.