Primal Era: Desolate Ancient Great World

Perhaps noticing the doubt in Mercenary Tao’s eyes, Jia Qi did not hide it. Mercenary Tao could always find out about such things anyway, and as a knight, Jia Qi disliked deception.

"Don’t overthink it. The Ten Fiends Precious Art naturally can’t be recorded by a vessel of this quality. Besides, even in a Native World, an item of that level would be something everyone fought over. There’s no way I could obtain it and trade it to you for Duke’s relic."

Jia Qi spoke calmly. He neither lied nor put on an act. If he had truly obtained an ability on the level of the Ten Fiends Precious Art, he felt that, given his temperament and cultivation, he probably would not have been able to resist keeping it for himself. He would not trade it for Duke’s relic, even if Duke had been his best friend.

"This Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art is a special ability produced in the Primal Era: Desolate Ancient Great World. It is an imitation forged by a great existence based on the Hundred Days Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art within the True Phoenix Precious Art."

"If you’ve encountered information on Native Worlds, then you should know that the current reincarnators are not considered particularly powerful in such worlds. But just as novice reincarnators can survive in mission worlds and gain rewards, top-tier reincarnators can naturally obtain unimaginable treasures in Native Worlds."

"But even a treasure that can only simulate one or two ten-thousandths of its essence under harsh conditions is still a precious treasure to you and me, isn’t it?"

Jia Qi did not exaggerate the value of his item, while also indirectly revealing some information about the Native Worlds entered by the very strongest reincarnators.

Bai Cangshu had already experienced Derivative Worlds and Secondary Worlds. At last, he understood what sort of places top-tier reincarnators would ultimately be sent into.

Primal Era: Desolate Ancient Great World… In other words, there was more than one Native World. Since the Desolate Ancient Great World existed, there could naturally be others as well.

Yet one thing remained the same: the power level of these Native Worlds was likely terrifyingly high, and the worlds themselves had structures sturdy enough to accommodate unimaginable beings acting without restraint.

"Since it isn’t the True Phoenix Precious Art itself, and I don’t have True Phoenix essence blood, what use is this thing to me?"

Bai Cangshu seemed to have regained his calm. He was fanatical about power, and the power systems in all sorts of webnovel worlds—ones that casually broke through to multiversal limits—naturally fascinated him. Yet that realm was simply too distant.

The current reincarnators had not come anywhere close to reaching it. Even the Three Supreme Kings, rumored to be the most mysterious figures, had not reached that level in Bai Cangshu’s view.

He was gradually coming to understand the unique nature of reincarnators as a group.

Reincarnators were unimaginably short-lived beings, with a shockingly high elimination rate. Probably only a world with as many humans as Earth today could sustain reincarnators replacing themselves at such a pace.

Yet this extremely low survival rate and extremely short life cycle also granted reincarnators growth potential far beyond that of any other race.

Yes, Bai Cangshu now believed that reincarnators could be regarded as a new race. Unlike the various races formed through bloodlines, cultural identities, and the like, reincarnators relied on special information.

Reincarnators used information, a higher-dimensional form of power, to grow far more efficiently than through internal energy, Battle Aura, magic power, or any other kind of energy. One month in the real dimension was enough for an ordinary person to grow into a Supernatural Being capable of destroying a city alone.

Compared with gods, dragonkind, and the like in countless legends, whose growth periods often lasted tens of thousands of years, reincarnators grew so quickly that those supernatural races would find it incomprehensible.

Under this unique model, the population of reincarnators within Infinite Dimensional Space, the number of reincarnators at every tier, and the strength of high-level reincarnators were all constantly changing.

Reincarnators advanced toward life through death. So long as they continued to survive, their strength was bound to grow rapidly.

Bai Cangshu himself might have been growing stronger at a rate beyond that of ordinary reincarnators, but no one else would stand still either.

An ordinary reincarnator from two months ago, if he had not died two months later, would definitely have grown stronger, whether by purchasing items, abilities, cultivation specializations, or adding attribute points. Reincarnators who could not keep up with the pace of improvement would be eliminated.

Even so, the overall hierarchy of strength among reincarnators would gradually stabilize as the number of missions increased.

The strong grew stronger, while the weak remained weak.

Put more simply, the gap between the strongest reincarnators and novice reincarnators kept widening, but the top-tier reincarnators still belonged to the same echelon.

The Three Supreme Kings were mysterious, with very little information revealed about them. They seemed like the true kings behind the curtain, ruling over the order of Infinite Dimensional Space and the real world.

Judging by the various cases so far, the three of them were probably indeed a full level stronger than the Supreme Experts, whose ranks shifted slightly every cycle.

But in Bai Cangshu’s view, that was probably the limit. As fellow top-tier reincarnators, their gap could not possibly span entire levels. For example, if one was surface-level, the other could at most be planet-level; it was impossible for one to rise to the cosmic level. Otherwise, the latter could completely dominate the former at will, and order and structure should not look the way they did now.

The strongest reincarnators all basically possessed the finest qualities, whether in physical talent or talent for temperament, intelligence, and strategy. Those who could survive and continue growing through brutal reincarnation missions would not have gaps between them as vast as chasms.

Unless… someone was not a reincarnator of this generation…

Bai Cangshu’s thoughts raced. His expression showed displeasure, but he did not refuse the trade.

Jia Qi did not deny it, merely saying,

"You have immortality, don’t you? I don’t know what bloodline you enhanced, but Information Brokers in the Space have spread word that you possess immortality and regenerative abilities. You only need to find a way to enhance that immortality into high-level immortality, and you can likewise use this ability to greatly strengthen your foundation."

"Among the countless abilities and items in Infinite Dimensional Space, someone will always come up with a better way to combine them."

Jia Qi showed no reaction to Mercenary Tao’s pretense of rejection in order to raise the price. In the short term, Mercenary Tao might indeed not profit much from this trade, but in the long run, Jia Qi believed few people could refuse it.

No matter how much of an imitation or false precious art the Ten Phoenix Nirvana Art was, it was still an ability created by imitating the Ten Fiends Precious Art. If it could truly be cultivated reliably, its rank would certainly be terrifyingly high.

The only factors restricting its value were the steep cultivation threshold and the uncertainty of its effects.

But he knew very well how the top-tier reincarnators in the Space thought. They would rather have it yield no effect than miss the opportunity entirely.

As long as something like this successfully took effect, it would inevitably become the foundation that allowed a reincarnator to advance toward the strongest tier.

"Hey, Jia Qi, if you’ve got something good, let me join the trade too. Your big brother can help drive up the price."

The voice was rough and booming. The man was bald and powerfully built, with a black tattoo stretching over his back, covering his neck and extending to the back of his head.

A battle axe hung at his waist. It was unclear whether it was merely an ornament on his Avatar or whether that was truly his preferred weapon.

Bai Cangshu recognized this man as well. He was a Title-level expert, Demonic Barbarian: Sokchakht. He was most likely a person from Southeast Asia, though some information brokers believed he was actually a person from East Xia deliberately posing as someone from another country. Their reasoning was that the codename Sokchakht sounded very much like a name formed by combining common names from two nations.

The man dragged along a huge piece of unusual skeleton. Judging by its shape, it resembled a gigantic alligator.

"Mercenary Tao, I’m very interested in that bitch Ling Xin’s Op-Op Fruit. I heard you’re planning to enhance your Dragon Bloodline. I think you’ll be interested in this."

Sokchakht raised his hand, and information appeared before Bai Cangshu.

Reincarnator AX50007434 has shown you Material: Alligator Dragon Skeleton (Extremely Rare)

"Oh? Where did you hear that I’m planning to enhance my Dragon Bloodline?"

Danger flickered in Bai Cangshu’s eyes. He sensed an undercurrent stirring within the Space. It seemed that someone was deliberately spreading information about him…