Chapter 1128: The Development of the Times

Everyone was speechless upon seeing Autumn Mountain Speed's antics. This guy never has a normal day. He's getting bolder and bolder; his sharp turns caught them completely off guard.

Autumn Mountain Speed, naturally unaware that he had just skirted the gates of hell, gleefully exclaimed, "Hahaha! You're all still too young; you can't see the truth of the matter! I just casually pointed out a few contradictions, and you couldn't find the answers, or rather, you're still confined by a ninth-tier perspective, your vision too narrow to think from a tenth-tier framework!"

A tenth-tier framework?

Everyone watched Autumn Mountain Speed's pretentious display, utterly bewildered.

Autumn Mountain Speed continued, "If you use ninth-tier thinking, everything I just said was perfectly correct! But if you look at it from a tenth-tier perspective, and we re-examine our thoughts from the beginning, you'll find that my previous statements were full of flaws."

Amidst everyone's confusion, Autumn Mountain Speed triumphantly stated, "Let's start from the beginning. First, Moon Goddess Ji, a tenth-tier ultimate, attacked the Buddhist and Daoist civilization system and killed Hermes, who was actually an ancient ancestor of the Buddhist and Daoist paths, right? He acquired the opponent's Great Dao bloodline and integrated it. No mistakes there, right?"

Everyone agreed there were no mistakes.

Autumn Mountain Speed went on, "So, Moon Goddess Ji acquired the Great Dao bloodline of an incredibly powerful Buddhist and Daoist ancestor and integrated it. This Great Dao bloodline contains immortal blood and requires a period of dormancy. Any issues there? No! And while Moon Goddess Ji could naturally remove this Great Dao bloodline, would she be willing to discard it?"

As soon as he said this, everyone grasped the key point of Autumn Mountain Speed's argument! Such a powerful bloodline, Moon Goddess Ji naturally wouldn't want to discard it; it would be too wasteful. This was a Great Dao bloodline, incredibly powerful, even comparable to her own! So, choosing to accept the side effects and cultivate a protector to guard her during her dormancy is theoretically perfectly fine!

What about the Primordial God? For the Primordial God, cultivating a protector presents even fewer issues! Firstly, his own Great Dao bloodline cannot be removed, meaning that even upon achieving tenth-tier ultimate status, he would still need to enter dormancy. If another ultimate protector fell, he would simply seek a new one. Is there any problem with that?

Naturally, there's no problem. All of this logic now perfectly aligned.

Upon hearing this, everyone fully understood, feeling a sense of sudden enlightenment. What seemed illogical at the ninth-tier level became perfectly reasonable at the tenth-tier ultimate level. However, they could only discern this now because they had been exposed to the various rules and characteristics of the tenth-tier ultimate realm. Otherwise, being completely in the dark about this realm, they would have been unable to deduce it.

This was the entire truth, perfectly logical.

Autumn Mountain Speed burst out laughing. "This is the importance of knowledge! With extensive knowledge, there will be no secrets left in this world! I'm giving you all a lesson, because although we're still in the ninth-tier era, we're already beginning to touch upon the pinnacle of the tenth-tier ultimate realm! For instance, the Azure Blue Divine Realm outside—while we won't show ourselves or interfere with them for a while, letting them develop freely (as we need to conceal our identities from high-dimensional beings), they are genuinely tenth-tier ultimates. Everyone, it's time to work hard!"

Hearing this, everyone's expressions immediately turned serious. Indeed, this battle had fully revealed Emperor Ziun's power and the true trump cards of the Primordial God and others! It also unveiled the future of the tenth-tier path. It could be said that this was a massive turning point. Without hard work, one would fail; falling behind the times would mean demise.

Emperor Ziun had even forcefully repelled a nine-headed ancient mother, an ultimate being with three Great Dao bloodlines. How much more powerful must the Primordial God and the others be? And they all harbored fears of some enemy, secretly concealing their identities and unknown aspects, daring not to show themselves. One can only imagine how terrifying such a formidable foe must be.

"Yes, we must work hard.""We really must!""Go, go, go! We need to research evolving bloodlines!""What about the God of Destruction in the dimension next door, is that Death God still viable? We need to accelerate our pace!"

They were all greatly excited.

"Wait, so according to this, wouldn't immortal-type bloodlines become useless at the tenth-tier ultimate level?"

As soon as this was said, everyone felt that it seemed to be true. Not only immortal blood, but also the bloodline of the Azure Blue race; they have entered the tenth-tier ultimate realm, but their cultivation speed remains slow, which is also a powerful side effect. It seems that while immortal bloodlines are incredibly powerful in the lower tiers, allowing one to stably reach the ninth tier, and even the Great Dao ultimate, possessing them after entering the Great Dao ultimate realm, along with their side effects, indirectly weakens one's combat power! Strong in the early stages, but less effective later on. These are considered early-stage bloodlines. Quantum bloodlines, however, are only able to entangle with their own quantum battle bodies at the eighth-tier divine level, making them bloodlines that gain power in the later stages.

Autumn Mountain Speed coughed. "Cough, cough, cough, that's not entirely accurate. While dormancy is required, perhaps dormancy can even resist the erosion of the Great Dao? It can also extend lifespan. Moreover, we haven't yet developed the true power of this immortal blood. If we develop it to the limit of burning life, its combat power certainly won't be inferior to that of the Azure Blue race's bloodline."

Everyone considered this and agreed. Immortality is still very powerful. It means that as long as there's enough time and one isn't killed, they can steadily reach the tenth-tier ultimate. One can first break through to the tenth tier and then consider what comes next. Moreover, the combat power of immortal bloodlines is still quite strong—not bad at all.

They organized their thoughts, quickly integrated the new information, and began a lively discussion.

Xu Zhi watched this scene, set down his teacup in front of the computer, and shook his head, chuckling. "This Autumn Mountain Speed, always driving wildly. Thankfully, he made a timely turn back; otherwise, I almost wanted to kill him."

He glanced at them, and only after confirming they weren't causing any more trouble did Xu Zhi relax and begin to attend to serious matters. After all, he had just engaged in an intense battle and was utterly exhausted. Although he had crippled his opponent, the storage of the Zerg sub-brain was almost depleted. He had also just broken through a realm, acquiring far too many resources and bloodlines: the Cloud Star Dao Fruit, Azure Blue bloodline, Yusa bloodline—there was simply too much. He needed to meticulously organize this massive harvest.

Furthermore, the tenth-tier ultimate realm, for Xu Zhi, felt like a veiled truth that had finally been unveiled, revealing its true nature.

"Tenth-tier ultimate, huh..."

Xu Zhi gently twirled his teacup and said nonchalantly, "It seems I'll have to find a way to accumulate more power. Perhaps I'll need to open a new super-dimensional sandbox world, as I still need to work on bloodlines, making them composite..."

This was Xu Zhi's first true civilization war against an external force, separate from his own race. Although the players still thought it was an internal conflict, similar to previous struggles involving Caroline or Emperor Qi, this was an external war, and he had recognized certain shortcomings.

"At the same time, I also need to re-cultivate my realm." He pressed his temples in frustration. "If I continue like this, it definitely won't work. A tenth-tier without a Great Dao bloodline is ridiculously weak. If it were anyone else, they would have accepted their fate long ago, but I'm different. I need to cultivate a Messiah, have him break through to the tenth-tier ultimate, form a Great Dao bloodline for me to seize. Perhaps not just one Great Dao bloodline, but five..."

Xu Zhi already had new plans. After all, his current tenth-tier ultimate status was simply inadequate; he merely possessed the realm without true power. If Emperor Qi and others broke through, they could easily beat him to tears.

As he thought of this, he looked at the Cloud Star Dao Fruit, a strange smile curling at the corner of his lips. "And in my eyes, this bloodline is the strongest..."