Cosmic Trading System

He was right in his initial thoughts; taking over the Immortal Origin World was indeed not as good as creating his own force from scratch.

Picking peaches?

Are peaches so easy to pick?

A misstep, and one might fall off the tree!

Initially, the True Martial Saint Lord and the Holy Mother promised him many benefits to make him the Lord of the Immortal Origin, but now? The Immortal Origin World was mostly destroyed, hardly different from not having any so-called blessed lands and havens!

Those millennia of gathered origin energy within the Immortal Origin World... he suspected they were now out of reach. This battle wasn't even certain to be won; by then, they would be lucky just to save their own lives!

As for the matter of breaking through the New Layered Heaven, he still had no clue how to achieve it!

He gained nothing, yet ended up in such a predicament!

"Fortunately, Qingqing and the others have already left this place..." Lin Yun's gaze swept over some spaces of the Layered Heaven below, as he thought to himself.

Previously, he had arranged for Xia Qingqing and her party, according to their abilities, to cultivate in different spaces within the Immortal Origin Holy Land.

At the outbreak of the war, he gave the Holy Mother an opportunity to inform Xia Qingqing and her group to immediately take all the people from Qingyun Company and leave for Earth.

Moreover, he instructed to take as many of Earth's elites with them as possible.

Lin Yun understood that, if they lost the battle, they might not be able to look after others while trying to save their own lives.

The Langya Saint Lord had always been cultivating in the Immortal Origin Holy Land. By then, he might not necessarily do anything to the cultivators there, but he might target the humans of Earth. Lin Yun knew that the Langya Saint Lord had never thought highly of Earthlings, not seeing them as the same type of humans as those from the Immortal Origin Holy Land.

"True Martial Saint Lord, we must leave this place now, otherwise, as your injuries worsen, we might not be able to leave at all..." Lin Yun looked up at the True Martial Saint Lord and rapidly sent a telepathic message.

Xia Qingqing and her group had the universe's top battleships; in two hours, they should have already moved a great distance away.

Plus, with them holding off the Saint Lords, leaving now should not impact Xia Qingqing and her group's safety.

"Lin Yun, I'm sorry, I didn't keep the promises I made to you earlier, and now I've dragged you into this mess..." The True Martial Saint Lord gave a bitter smile and communicated telepathically.

"Why speak of such matters at this time? Let's hurry and leave!" Lin Yun shook his head and sent a telepathic message back.

"Alright, in a moment, I'll hold them off, and you escape with the Holy Mother!

This is the method to break through New Layered Heaven, remember it!

Actually, breaking through New Layered Heaven doesn't necessarily require the setup from the Immortal Origin World!

That's a setup to deceive the heavenly secrets, allowing many to break through New Layered Heaven together!

But if one's power is sufficient, one can break through New Layered Heaven alone without relying on that setup or needing a specific place... However, if a person fails to break through New Layered Heaven on their first attempt, then much greater power will be required for subsequent attempts!

So, I've always wanted to wait until your power was even stronger before telling you this, to be on the safer side!

Now though, there is no need. Without the millennia of accumulated origin energy from the Immortal Origin World, the time you'll need to break through to the third level of the supreme realm is uncertain. Meanwhile, once the Langya Saint Lord and his ilk occupy the Immortal Origin World, they'll probably soon try to break through the thirty-fourth Layered Heaven!

You must break through the thirty-fourth Layered Heaven before them; otherwise, the thirty-fifth Layered Heaven will be even harder to break. You might not be able to achieve it. By then, their power will keep growing, making your life in this universe increasingly difficult!

As Grand Master Taoist Ancestor Er Lee said, if you break through the New Layered Heaven at the core of the universe, the power required might be less!

Take the Holy Mother and head to the core of the universe, to the Heavenly Principle Tower. Once inside, inform the spirit of the Heavenly Principle Tower about this situation. Even if it won't help you, it should at least offer you protection..."

As the True Martial Saint Lord communicated telepathically, he also transmitted the method to break through New Layered Heaven to Lin Yun.

"True Martial Saint Lord, what are you saying? Aren't we going to leave together?"

Receiving the transmission from the True Martial Saint Lord, Lin Yun was shocked and said.

Why did the True Martial Saint Lord's words sound like he was giving his last words?

"There's no need. The poison of the Netherworld Water is difficult to remove. Once it erupts, the poisoned person's power will continuously deplete. If we try to leave together, chances are, in the end, none will be able to escape. And even if I did manage to escape, my power would eventually fade, leading to senility and demise.

It's not worth it..." the True Martial Saint Lord explained with a bitter smile via telepathy.

Not long ago, he was preparing to leave this universe and ascend to a higher level of space.

Full of pride and excitement, he was set to reunite with the Grand Master Taoist Ancestor and his many Senior Brothers outside the universe to cultivate in higher realms.

Unexpectedly, he now found himself in such a state, and the one who had led him here was a Junior Brother who had followed the Grand Master Taoist Ancestor from their early years into their present power.

Was it all for the origin energy that descended from heaven and earth when the thirty-fourth layer of the universe was broken through?

A feeling of bitterness, self-mockery, and absurdity welled up inside him.

"No, if we are to leave, we will leave together; I and the Saint Mother will not abandon you to leave alone…" Lin Yun asserted with a determined gaze, transmitting his voice with certainty.

Elsewhere, the True Martial Saint Lord received such a transmission from Lin Yun and couldn't help but feel very comforted in his heart.

Indeed, the Saint Mother and he had not misjudged. Lin Yun truly was someone worthy of trust.

By contrast, the Langya Saint Lord—who had cultivated alongside him for thousands of years, rising from weakness to strength, and with whom he shared a brotherly bond of mentorship—had plotted against him in secret, which was very ironic.

And then, there were those cultivators from the Immortal Origin World below…

"Thousands of years ago, Grand Master Taoist Ancestor entrusted the Immortal Origin Holy Land to me, and yet I failed to manage it properly, leading to what seemed to be a forever-leading force in the universe to suffer from restlessness and crises lurking at every turn, ultimately resulting in such a calamity.

I really have no face to report to Grand Master Taoist Ancestor; only by dying in battle here can I..."

The True Martial Saint Lord looked up at the devastated Immortal Origin World and slowly transmitted his voice to Lin Yun.

Thousands of years ago, when Grand Master Taoist Ancestor was still here, how glorious was the Immortal Origin Holy Land?

Now, it has fallen into such a state!

Thousands of years ago, when Grand Master Er Lee left, he entrusted the Immortal Origin Holy Land to him, and the current situation made him extremely ashamed!

During the fight with the Langya Saint Lord just now, he had also been reflecting!

Was the Langya Saint Lord always of this nature from the beginning?

Definitely not!

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been chosen by Grand Master Er Lee.

So, did he harbor thoughts of rebellion when Grand Master Taoist Ancestor left? That's also unlikely!

When Grand Master Taoist Ancestor left, even though he was only in the Saint Lord Realm, he was no ordinary Saint Lord. At that time, the Langya Saint Lord was still in the median Saint Lord Realm, and the power gap between him and Grand Master Taoist Ancestor was enormous!

Even if Grand Master Er Lee couldn't see through the nature of the Langya Saint Lord, he should have had a general sense of it and wouldn't have said those words to him when he left...

The thirty-fourth layer!

The thirty-fourth layer!

Heh, little did the Langya Saint Lord know, when Grand Master Er Lee led everyone to break through one layer of New Layered Heaven after another back then, he had calculated this possibility, contemplating whether this benefit could partly fall upon the Langya Saint Lord?

Of course, there was him as well!

This was also one of the reasons why Grand Master Er Lee left both of them in this universe and did not take them away!

The energy descending from heaven and earth after breaking through the thirty-fourth layer was extraordinary!

All turning points... lay within the reincarnation of a friend of Er Lee!

However, it was unexpected that the Langya Saint Lord would harbor such thoughts beforehand!

Perhaps this is fate!

Maybe the Langya Saint Lord did not have such intentions before Grand Master Er Lee left, meaning it was after Grand Master Er Lee's departure... The True Martial Saint Lord also felt very guilty, realizing that his infrequent communication with the Langya Saint Lord had led him down this path!

Perhaps the Langya Saint Lord was right; he cared too much about himself!

He promised Lin Yun various benefits, making promise after promise, yet he overlooked that these benefits could very well have been obtained by the Langya Saint Lord...

Because he was about to leave this universe, and the many benefits of this universe no longer mattered to him, could that be why he could afford to be so generous at the expense of others?

He had always been immersed in cultivating without paying too much attention to his own cultivation level, right?

Because of his selfishness, he caused these outcomes!

How could he face Grand Master Er Lee, who had once entrusted him to properly manage the Immortal Origin Holy Land?

(Recommendation for a new urban novel by a friend titled "Super Protector," by Tian Yuzhihuo, available on QQ Book City or Creation Chinese Net. It's a new pseudonym for a veteran author, worth a read for everyone.)