**Chapter 0: The Limit of the Dharma Aspect Realm**
“Lord Qin, you’ve broken through again?” Yi Chengying’s clear eyes widened, her pretty face filled with joy and admiration.
Little Chair knew that Qin Gou had already entered the Dharma Aspect Realm. In the Cultivation World, the fastest known breakthrough speed in the Dharma Aspect Realm required over a decade to advance to a minor realm.
As for back then at Arc-Moon Mountain, Qin Gou and his old pal had discussed a hellish cultivation method, pushing themselves to the brink. In just twenty years, he had advanced from the early stage of the Dharma Aspect Realm to the unprecedented limit of the Dharma Aspect Realm. This fact had never been publicly revealed.
Qin Gou nodded with a smile and said, “After all, I am a person who has cultivated again, and even now, it seems I’ve cultivated more than once. My speed naturally cannot be compared to ordinary people. However, I’ll have to trouble Little Chair to protect me again.”
“No problem, Lord Qin, please rest assured. Little Chair isn’t going anywhere these days. I will stay by your side at all times and guard Lord Qin diligently.” Yi Chengying nodded obediently, like a chick pecking at rice.
“It won’t take that long.”
With that, Qin Gou smiled and entered the cave, finding a quiet space to stand and concentrate. He then spoke in his heart to the system, “Begin.”
In an instant, Qin Gou’s roughly 200,000 Merit points were all depleted. His spirit focused on his dantian, and his essence flowed through his purple mansion. A massive and terrifying amount of spiritual power surged within him.
The Thousand Refinement Domain possessed a natural barrier, so the external celestial phenomena would not be overly affected by Qin Gou’s breakthrough. However, everyone within the Thousand Refinement Domain at this moment clearly felt the terrifying power radiating from Qin Gou’s cave, surpassing the might of Mount Hua and shaking the Northern Star.
It wasn’t until an hour later that the surging majesty abruptly vanished without a trace.
Everyone was astonished, feeling as if they had lived through ages. During this time, they had all benefited greatly. While others’ breakthroughs in realms were at most accompanied by frightening phenomena and spiritual energy colliding from all directions, Qin Gou’s occasional leaks of pure spiritual energy were shared with everyone in the gentlest manner, like silent spring rain, pleasing and subtle. The others’ own spiritual power did not resist it in the slightest.
“Peak of the Dharma Aspect Realm!”
Indoors, Qin Gou examined his dantian, carefully sensing his spiritual power, and smiled knowingly. “It’s precisely a breakthrough, not an iota more or less. I also have to thank my own original cultivation speed; it wasn’t considered slow.”
“Ding!” a System prompt suddenly sounded.
“What’s wrong?” Qin Gou asked, puzzled.
“Just the peak realm, can this truly satisfy the Host? Recalling back then, you were at the limit of the Dharma Aspect Realm, unsurpassed by anyone in the world! Before, the Dragon Saint Qingyu also emulated the Host, breaking through to Realm Lord from the limit realm, and now her strength far surpasses that of other Realm Lords! This system sincerely hopes to witness the earth-shattering power of the Host, after reaching the limit of the Dharma Aspect Realm for a second time, and then transforming into a Realm Lord in one fell swoop!”
Qin Gou laughed heartily, understanding tacitly. “I knew you were waiting for me. You’re even directly addressing me as ‘you’ now, how can that be?”
“Ding. Furthermore, due to the Host’s successful initial breakthrough to the limit of the Dharma Aspect Realm back then, there are no longer any impediments on the Dao heart and soul levels. Only sufficient Merit points are needed for a smooth breakthrough. And at this very moment, the value of the Godplunder Altar is undeniable as the Host’s best aid!”
“I understand. However, after I sell the Godplunder Altar to you, will I be able to redeem it someday… No, just renting it for a while will suffice. Because regarding some secrets about the Abyss, that guy might still be useful.”
“Of course, you can.”
“Alright!”
At the same time.
Still in the Thousand Refinement Domain, amidst countless artifact spirits radiating brilliance, the soul body of the Godplunder Altar sat cross-legged beside its main body, a hint of smugness in its eyes.
“Let you brats absorb to your heart’s content. The massive cultivation of countless powerful figures from the Fire Crow Bi Fang and Mi Tian Ye Huang clans, even if you take it from me day and night, it will take at least a hundred years! Furthermore, it’s unlikely Qin Gou can always be present. Even if I deliberately release only the minimum amount of spiritual power each day, deliberately delaying the deadline, who can discipline me? And during this long period, variables are not small.”
“Initially, Bi Fang’s Lord Yan Shang’s attitude towards me wasn’t very polite, was it? But in the end? After witnessing the true benefits, people’s hearts become more greedy. That fellow surnamed Qin can be sharp-tongued and tough in words for a while, but now he still can’t bear to truly destroy me? In this case, I want to see how long he can resist, and delay continuing negotiations with me! Can he truly endure it?!”
However, in an instant, the Godplunder Altar realized it couldn’t move at all, and was horrified to discover that its main body had inexplicably become a translucent shadow…
Ultimately, everything about it completely descended into eternal darkness.
And even at this moment, the Godplunder Altar did not understand the fatal flaw in all its assumptions about Qin Gou.
Bi Fang’s Lord Yan Shang indeed couldn’t resist the temptation and willingly treated the Godplunder Altar as an honored guest, gradually releasing all his madness and cruelty. But the problem was, by Yan Shang’s ear, there wasn’t that inseparable, intimate little ghost that followed him, almost mentioning it in every three sentences and constantly fanning the flames with its bedside manner, changing its tune to be completely obedient.
It didn’t even know that beside Old Qin, it had such a hidden enemy who stirred up trouble out of jealousy, and it lost in a state of utter confusion.
…
Stepping out of the cave.
The Master of Arc-Moon Mountain had returned to the limit of the Dharma Aspect Realm.
And if not for the title of ‘Demon Saint’, a complete slander of a good person, Qin Gou now finally admitted that the inscription Lin Boyuan, the Human Emperor Daojun, had written for him back then, ‘Those who see him in the Profound Realm before he is complete shall die,’ was indeed no longer an exaggeration.
“Congratulations, Lord Qin, on your successful breakthrough!” Yi Chengying, who had been quietly waiting outside, greeted him with a delighted, sweet smile on her pretty face.
“Yes, Little Chair, I have now returned to my former peak cultivation. Everything is ready.” Qin Gou reached out and gently stroked Little Chair’s fair and lovely face, smiling knowingly.
“Everything is ready?” Yi Chengying immediately replied intelligently, “Does that mean, Lord Qin, you are about to do something big?”
“That’s right. I will be going to a very distant place, and it seems I can only go alone,” Qin Gou nodded, not hiding anything.
“But…”
“I know you’ll be unhappy if Little Chair can’t come along. How about this, I promise you…”
For a moment, Qin Gou seemed to be indulging in a playful prank, but in reality, he was speaking sincerely through a joke.
He suddenly lowered his head and chuckled softly in Little Chair’s tender ear, “When the war is over, *cough*, I misspoke, when I return from this journey… Cheng Ying and I will immediately return to your hometown, Chenglu City, become Dao Companions, and have a wedding ceremony, how about that?”
