Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 744

(AN: It's later, and I'm sleepy. So, the chapter is not edited and should have more grammar mistakes than usual. Sorry, I'll edit it later.)

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"I see this is your main body. Did you finish your retreat?" asked Wang Wei.

"Yes," nodded Wu Hong with shining eyes. However, they quickly dimmed as worry felt her eyes.

"What's wrong? Is the method not feasible?"

Wu Hong paused for a moment before waving her hands to seal the surroundings. Then, she talked to him only through Divine Sense.

"I did finish the method of casting a Perfect Foundation. Well, a better name for it would be Transcendent Foundation."

"You mean, it can help people become detached?" asked Wang Wei with shock; he only thought this method would drastically increase his strength, make his cultivation path smoother, and maybe allow him to intervene in the perfection taboo.

"It's not as Heaven-Defying as you think. It only increases a person's chance of becoming Half-Step Detachment by a few percent."

"Even then, it's style a technique that could cause chaos and disaster in the entire Chaos Universe."

Wang Wei knew his Wu Hong, Sword Empress, Qiyuan, and many of his ancestors were peerless talents who reached the pinnacle of the universe. Yet, none of them could find a path forward to transcendence.

Finally, Qiyuan planned a heaven-shaking plan to gather the luck and power of sentient beings to summon the Ultimate Taboo–giving the entire universe a chance or path toward detachment.

But even then, he still technically failed even though countless Half-Step Transcendent Beings suddenly appeared in the universe.

(AN: Half-Step Detach will now be referred to as Half-Step Transcendent. I like the name better.)

But this [Transcendent Dao Foundation Technique] could increase the probability of someone reaching this realm pursued by countless Paragons, Fiengods, Dao Monarchs, and even Immortal King.

Wang Wei took a moment to inhale and exhaled, calming down, "So, what exactly is this method? How does it work?"

"Grand Dao forbids the existence of [Perfection] because only Transcendents are perfect. You can say the process of becoming detached is a process of becoming the perfect being."

Wang Wei frowned, "I always felt Grand Dao wanted more powerful beings to appear in the universe–including Transcendents. Was I wrong?" He could not think why perfection would become taboo if Grand Dao wanted all sentient beings to reach higher realms.

"You're correct, hence why the Perfection Taboo is divided into Mortal and Perfection, allowing people to slowly study this taboo. However, how could becoming Transcendent be so easy?"

"So, the process of becoming Transcendent is a Hell-Level Copy, but by making Perfection a taboo, Grand Dao elevated it to Nightmare-Level?"

According to the game analogy he used to understand the cultivation world, players began their journey with the Mortal Copy, where their objective is to reach the peak of mortality or the Quasi-Emperor Realm.

The copy has different maps (Great Thousand World or Heaven Will World] and based on the maps and the player's luck, the Mortal Copy has different levels of difficulty. But as their level (cultivation) rises, the difficulty will also increase.

Afterward, it is the Immortal Copy where they have to become eternal by proving the Dao. Once that copy is finished, they have to change the setting (Eternal Ascension World.)

The end of the Immortal Copy is the highest level (Paragon Realm.) Finally, it's the Transcendent Copy, where they have to go beyond the level ceiling of the game.

Unfortunately, the Game Master or Artificial Intelligence (Grand Dao) who controls the game raised the difficulty of the Transcendent Copy from Hell Difficulty to the Nightmare Level by making Perfection a taboo.

Wu Hong was momentarily speechless as this was the perfect analogy to summarize the situation.

"You can think of it that way," she replied.

Wang Wei nodded, "Can you briefly describe this technique?"

"I used the Three Flower Condensing Method to sublimate the Dao Foundation to a sense of perfection," she explained. "Upon success, your three flowers should reach the Zero Level."

She succeeded so quickly because she remembered how he complained about going beyond the First Level Flower and thought of using this method as the foundation for her research.

"Is there something wrong with your method?" asked Wang Wei, remembering her worried look.

"Yes," nodded Wu Hong. "Grand Dao will not allow someone to easily condense such a foundation, and most likely will directly kill you or lower a tribulation even worse than the Supreme Outlaw Trial.

Wang Wei shuddered thinking about these words; he almost died during the Supreme Outlaw Trial, so he could not imagine how terrible the Perfection Trial would be.

"Could we condense the Transcendent Foundation in a place where Grand Dao's power does not exist or is weakened?"

"That's the only way to deal with this problem," replied Wu Hong. "However, the places that fit these criteria are few, and most are Forbidden Lands in Primordial Chaos; they are as dangerous as Grand Dao itself."

Wang Wei frowned, "With the Eternal Ascesion's current situation, we will have to deal with the parasites before searching for these places. No, even if they were not present, I would need to reach a high enough cultivation realm to enter these Forbidden Lands."