Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

This Deceit Buddha is clearly not right.

The way of sacrifice is even more bizarre; if someone resurrected through such means could be normal, I'd see a ghost. Sometimes it's even hard to tell if they are still the same person.

"..."

After pondering for a while, Chen Qiu waved his hand and summoned Xing Dou, instructing it to take out some high-grade healing medicine, weaken its potency, and then hand it to the Li Family Master, "There's one more thing, but we don't need to resurrect someone. Just ask around, see which of our continuum's lowest grade continents has recently experienced a collapse of the underworld."

"No problem."

After the Li Family Master had absorbed all the potency of the medicine, flesh began to regrow rapidly on his body. Such high-grade pills were not available on the Peihong Continent. Then, in front of Chen Qiu and the others, he took out a knife and sliced off a large chunk of his flesh, placing it on the left palm of the Deceit Buddha and respectfully murmured in a low voice.

"Deceit Buddha, I dare to ask which lowest grade continent in our continuum has recently experienced a collapse of the underworld."

He didn't fully understand the specific meaning of this sentence, but since the senior had asked him to say so, he simply did as told without any change.

After the words were spoken,

the whole ancestral hall stayed silent without any changes, and the Li Family Master, accustomed to such oddities, cut off another piece of flesh from his body, placed it on the left palm of the Deceit Buddha, and repeated the sentence once again.

This process was repeated five times.

Until the Li Family Master's face had turned deathly pale, finally... a Buddha bead in the Deceit Buddha's palm, originally dull and lightless, flashed a glimmer. Soon, a cloudy panel popped up in front of them.

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"The Eighteenth Vow."

"With this flesh, fulfill this wish, Seven Maiden Continent's underworld collapsed yesterday!"

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"Seven Maiden Continent."

Chen Qiu's eyes narrowed slightly. Wasn't this the same continent that the Bai Family Patriarch had just mentioned as the showy continent? Was this continent part of their continuum? If it wasn't, he couldn't travel there.

"I'll thoroughly check the information on Seven Maiden Continent," the Bai Family Patriarch said immediately with a serious expression, pulling out the Sound Transmission Ring from his robe. He had only gleaned some information about the Seven Maiden Continent through casual conversation and hadn't thoroughly investigated it.

But now that the matter concerned the underworld, he couldn't afford to be negligent.

He naturally knew why Chen Qiu was searching for the entrance to the underworld; it was all for the sake of his daughter's laborious journey. Under such circumstances, he naturally couldn't hold him back. If there was an opportunity for him to exert his influence, he definitely wouldn't miss it.

A hundred breaths later,

much more detailed information was quickly transmitted.

"Master Chen."

"We have the specific information on Seven Maiden Continent now, it's a Fourth Grade Continent and, together with 'Jiang Taiping Continent', it belongs to that Fifth Grade Immortal Realm. It's just that..."

Chen Qiu sighed softly, he obviously knew what the "just that" implied - that he had no way to go there.

The title of "Heavenly King" only allowed him to travel to lower-grade continents and those that were one grade higher. So, theoretically, he could only travel to the lower-grade continents beneath the 'Qi Tian Continent' and the 'Jiang Taiping Continent', which is a higher-grade continent relative to Qi Tian.

To a continent like Seven Maiden Continent, which is parallel to Jiang Taiping Continent, it was an unreachable village.

Unless he ascends to the Immortal Realm in the future, then he would be able to freely enter and exit Seven Maiden Continent.

But...

That is not possible now.

With so many lower-grade continents, none have experienced the collapse of the underworld in this period? Furthermore, such a collapse often indicates that a continent is already on the verge of breaking apart. Seven Maiden Continent is a Fourth Grade Continent, and signs of collapse in such a continent would shock everyone.

To his knowledge, the highest grade continent to collapse so far has only been a Third Grade Continent.

If... if the Seven Maiden Continent were to collapse, then countless other continents would follow suit, and the resulting death toll of living creatures would be astronomical, marking an extremely destructive disaster.

And the Bai Family Patriarch also realized this, his expression complex as he said in a low voice, "At least it's not the underworld collapse of Jiang Taiping Continent."

Should the underworld of Jiang Taiping Continent collapse, it would mean that all its subordinate lower-grade continents would disintegrate into nothingness along with it. For now, they have narrowly escaped a disaster, but what about later...

What if the underworld of Jiang Taiping Continent collapses later?

Or what if the Fifth Grade Immortal Realm collapses?

What if even the Ninth Grade Immortal Realm collapses?

No matter how hard they try, they can't avoid dying alongside the collapse of their continent, unless... unless they can reach a high enough position, the highest grade. Otherwise, being highly cultivated or lowly cultivated holds no meaning; everyone is just waiting for death.

"It shouldn't be like this,"

Fat Long said with a grim face, shaking his head, "There must be some problem. The operational rules of a world can't be such an elimination system. This isn't a normal world order. Going on like this, as long as the time span is long enough, there may only be one highest-grade continent left in this world."

"Everyone else will be eliminated and erased."

"Like Pingxi Continent."

Among the group, he was the one most impressed by this event—he had been to Pingxi Continent, even had conflicts with people there, and made a name for 'Brother Qiu'. However, not long after his return, the Pingxi Continent collapsed.

This matter had always been hard to forget.

He struggled to imagine, a continent that was thriving one moment, gone the next.

What about those living creatures on that continent who cultivated every day and fought viciously over minor opportunities? What had they become, a joke? Like crickets in a cage, no matter how strong they aspire to be, when one day the whole cage is stomped by someone, those crickets can't decide anything.