Cultivation, the Imperial Ultimate World-Shaking Tome

Mercenary Tao was now undoubtedly one of the most popular Reincarnators in the East District Slum Area.

Title-level Reincarnators formed their own circle and rarely interacted with low- and mid-tier Reincarnators. Meanwhile, even the most renowned among the low- and mid-tier Reincarnators were not particularly welcomed by High-tier Reincarnators.

Yet at this stage, Mercenary Tao was exceptionally unique.

On one side, the low- and mid-tier Reincarnators still believed he was in the same rank as them. After all, Mercenary Tao had yet to enter the Title-level and was still running a stall in the Slum Area’s low-tier section.

On the other side, not a single mid- or high-tier Title-level Reincarnator dared to underestimate this mysterious powerhouse shrouded in secrets.

Mercenary Tao had risen by stepping over the corpses of countless renowned Reincarnators. His strength had been forged from a vast number of Reincarnators’ Scarlet Drop Cards.

When Bai Cangshu arrived at the Slum Area, there were still plenty of people gathered before his stall. However, the women from the other districts and Black Butler were nowhere to be seen.

Bai Cangshu knew they were among the biggest clients he could currently encounter. Thus, he first sent Black Butler a message, informing him that he had returned to the space and would be heading to the Cultivation Institute to hone his abilities. He could be ready for a trade at any time.

Then Bai Cangshu plunged straight into the Cultivation Institute.

You have entered the Cultivation Institute. Time flow has been adjusted. From this point onward, 50 Dimensional Points will be deducted per minute.

Gravity adjustment: 1.5x (may be actively adjusted up to 3x)

Oxygen density: 0.75x (may be adjusted between 0.5x and 3x)

Extreme environment setting: None (environments such as waterfalls, lake centers, the seabed, volcanoes, and more may be selected)

"Adjust gravity to 3x, oxygen density to 0.5x, and activate Extreme Environment: Seabed."

The high-tech interior of the Cultivation Institute changed in an instant. An endless ocean seemed to swallow Bai Cangshu whole in a single moment.

The immense gravity immediately caused Bai Cangshu’s terrifyingly heavy body to sink, while the crushing pressure of the deep sea made the already thin oxygen nearly vanish.

Bai Cangshu’s body instantly entered an extreme state of high pressure and low oxygen. His heartbeat accelerated, and his blood began to surge like a rushing river.

This was not cultivation, but Bai Cangshu’s current warm-up method. He used it to swiftly awaken the "tension" in his body’s cells and bring his entire body into condition.

After all, with his current physical capabilities, relying on exercise to exhaust his body enough to get into condition was already a tremendous waste of time.

Ordinary-intensity exercise could barely make his body expend any energy at all.

A moment later, Bai Cangshu surfaced from the seabed and changed the terrain again, this time into a volcanic crater.

In the scorching air, Bai Cangshu sat cross-legged within the crater, his entire body covered in Armament Haki.

Bai Cangshu’s Armament Haki had not been acquired by learning it as an ability. Rather, he had mastered it through Corey’s abnormal learning ability while Corey’s soul had possessed him.

As a result, he could not simply spend Singularity to strengthen it rapidly.

Bai Cangshu could feel that, with the intensity of the enemies he faced rapidly increasing, Armament Haki at this level was beginning to fall short.

The small fry who could not break through his Armament Haki would usually be killed by Radiant Flame’s counterattack merely for attacking him.

But the enemies who could truly contend with him could also quickly shatter his Armament Haki, making his defensive capabilities seem severely inadequate.

As Bai Cangshu sat cross-legged, an emerald-green leaf appeared in his hand. The moment he took it out, an extraordinary fragrance entered his nostrils.

Bai Cangshu felt his mind turn cool and clear.

It was as if all barriers in his mind had vanished in an instant, leaving no obstruction whatsoever to his thoughts.

Every problem and manifestation of Armament Haki emerged within his mind.

Bai Cangshu leaped down from the volcanic crater, his blackened body scraping along its inner walls.

Flame Dragon Scales appeared in an instant, while his Armament Haki continuously fluctuated. The violent friction and the intense heat of the magma rapidly clashed against his Armament Haki.

Bai Cangshu placed the Bodhi Leaf in his mouth. The next moment, his Armament Haki recondensed in an almost visible manner, and he began using "aura" far more efficiently.

Bai Cangshu did not lack aura; he merely lacked technique. Now, accompanied by an insight that was almost instinctive, the strength of his Haki rapidly rose.

Realizing the power of this state of "enlightenment," Bai Cangshu did not waste much time.

He directly took that "heavenly tome"—the Imperial Ultimate World-Shaking Tome—from his Backpack!

This book, which had previously shown no connection whatsoever to martial techniques, recorded all manner of clashes between fates. As Bai Cangshu flipped through it, the electric current stored in his heart continuously gathered toward his eyes.

Bai Cangshu descended from the crater and sat cross-legged in a hollow at its center.

The temperature here was extremely high, and the air was thick with volcanic ash and the stench of sulfur. There was very little oxygen.

Yet Bai Cangshu noticed none of it. His eyes were open, lightning coursing through them. His gaze was vacant, his consciousness already wandering beyond the world.

Still feeling that it was not enough, Bai Cangshu began using Ororchi Yashiro’s Title Ability to draw upon the lightning in the atmosphere. In an instant, thunderclouds densely gathered above the crater, and the dark clouds nearly pressed down upon it.

Muffled thunder roared again and again.

Within this rare state, symbols began appearing one after another in Bai Cangshu’s mind. Those symbols then transformed into human figures, with information revealing its hidden mysteries in a variety of forms.

The Imperial Ultimate World-Shaking Tome contained some principle of martial arts, yet it did not appear in the form of words as humans conventionally understood them. It was merely stored within as special information.

Moreover, that information was neither fixed nor finite.

Bai Cangshu stared at the ever-changing symbols, which seemed to contain infinite transformations, his eyes unfocused.

The corners of his lips unconsciously lifted. He wanted to see clearly. He wanted to understand!

Buzz~

His long black hair began to drift behind him, while the invisible spiral within Bai Cangshu’s heart began turning once more.

A vast amount of information continuously shifted within Bai Cangshu’s mind.

He was beginning to understand why, in the original work, every person had comprehended a different technique from the Imperial Ultimate World-Shaking Tome.

Because information was simply information. It was not something ordinary humans could understand. Cultivators merely observed it from their own perspectives.

Whatever perspective you used to observe it was the result you would obtain.

Different people observed it differently and reached different results, so naturally, they gained different insights.

Blood gushed from Bai Cangshu’s mouth and nose, while the hair behind his head rapidly began turning white. Yet Bai Cangshu noticed none of it. He greedily wanted to see all the information clearly, to encompass all power, until the blood from his mouth and nose began staining the Bodhi Leaf.

Only then did he open his eyes, his greed receding somewhat.

"This kind of good stuff… Red Dust, you really should have traded it all to me~"

At the summit of Ancient Mount Nanyue in East Xia lay an enormous lake. Legend had it that this was once where Zuo Ci refined pills, and thus it was known as Alchemy Lake.

Red Dust lay alone in the lake, swimming Exhilaratedly. Having broken free of the Sage, he felt that the world was vast and he could go anywhere he wished. Moreover, Lord Eternal Destiny had already vanished, so the outcome could not have been better for him.

"Heh, if Mercenary Tao doesn’t want to take me in, then forget it. With my current strength…"

"Ah-choo!"

He suddenly sneezed. His immense true energy blasted him out of the lake, and the entire Alchemy Lake froze over in an instant.

Red Dust knew that with his current physique and internal energy, it was impossible for him to catch a cold. This was probably some kind of spiritual intuition—someone was maliciously thinking about him?!

Who could it be?!

Thinking of this, Red Dust decided to accept Song Xian’s invitation after all. He had heard that the protector behind East Xia was Azure Sky’s…