Chapter 2
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He exhaled, tapping his fingers against his knee.
"Hmm, human essence doesn't taste good." A sigh left his lips. "But who knew my little explosion would shake the entire continent?"
A faint smirk tugged at his lips. Did they really think I'd die that easily?”
He closed his eyes, recalling the moment it happened. A sea of divine light. Laws shattering.
The heavens themselves bearing down on him like a mountain.
Then—detonation. His body reduced to dust. His soul fractured, scattered into the void.
Or at least, that's what they believed. A small fragment had slipped away, hidden within his greatest creation—this new vessel, this anomaly. His fingers curled.
"The heavens think they've won. Good. Let them celebrate while they still can."
His gaze fell back to the corpses beneath him. He stood and dusted himself off. "Still, I need to confirm something… and gather a lot of information."
Yanwei shifted his appearance, molding his flesh and bones to match one of the corpses beneath him.
“Merit… Let me see how useful you really are."
“Senior Brother! Where have you been? The competition is about to start in a year or two! Did you go out to train?"
A boy—no older than fourteen or fifteen—rushed up excitedly.
"You're right, Junior Brother." Yanwei—now fully disguised—replied smoothly. "I had to sharpen my skills. The competition isn't just about talent—it's about being noticed."
The boy chuckled. "Senior Brother, you're still chasing after Senior Sister? But I saw her getting close to that kid. She was even laughing with him."
Yanwei sneered. "Hmph. Once I make a name for myself, Senior Sister will definitely notice me. As for that kid…"
He waved his hand dismissively. "Make his life harder."
"I definitely will, Senior Brother!"
Yanwei didn't respond immediately. His mind was elsewhere.
Now's a good chance to test it.
He focused inward, channeling a sliver of his energy into the space within his body.
The Growth Space—his first merit—was still barren, a hollow void waiting to be cultivated.
It's stable, he noted. But without life, it's just an empty shell.
His frown deepened slightly. "Junior Brother, will there be any valuable herbs in the secret realm?"
"Of course! The sect is even offering Profound Meridian Pills to those who perform well! Even low-ranking disciples are preparing. If someone gets lucky and finds rare medicine, they might trade for one."
Yanwei smirked. That simplifies things.
"Guess I have no choice but to enter," he said lazily. Then, after a brief pause, his smirk deepened.
"…But don't worry, it's not like I'm going there to rob anyone." He turned away, his smirk lingering. Lying had never been so easy.
Yanwei exhaled slowly, a faint smirk tugging at his lips—a sigh of satisfaction. “I finally refined that 5 corpses reaching 5%, i’m comparable to rank 1 peak right?? How many months have anyway??”
A guy named Xiao ge, he’s the kid who talked to Yanwei before he went to seclusion, he kept finding a way to give his senior brother’s enemy a hard time, but now there is a problem.
“Senior brother!! Senior brother are there?!” Xiao ge stated. “Senior brother we have a problem!!”
“Come on in” stated by Yanwei.
“Senior brother we have a big problem!!
Yanwei raised his eyebrows “What? is it? also how many months have passed since i went to seclusion? when is secret realm competition going to start??”
“Senior brother 1 and a half year has already passed. Also senior brother, the problem is that kid was found out as a genuis that has high talent, and now sect master took him as a disciple!!”
Yanwei looks flat in the outside but quite surprised inside “One and a half a year? it seems like devouring is quite slow, well who cares”
Yanwei says “So that is how it is huh, is he trying to retaliate against you? don’t worry i’m going to solve him in competition”
“Thank you senior brother! he already knew that you’re the one behind me and the one who’s giving orders to me that i should give him a hard time” Xiao said.
“Don’t worry don’t worry, anyway who’s the enemy for the upcoming competition? only those 3 sects?”
“There is more senior brother! Let’s start to rules first, the only eligible to get into secret realm is rank 1 only, if some rank 2 also get in then the realm would be unstable and all of the people inside would die”
“Also other than divine sword who specialized in sword, us who’s the most mysterious, and gentle breeze sect that specializes in purging demons, there is also marquis, they are strong, has rank 5 ancestor and there is a genuis that has high rank that would participate especially that fierce guy in divine sword sect, it was stated that he managed to kill a rank 2 injured demon.”
“There is also a strong nun in gentle breeze sect, it was stated that she has a lot of subordinates and that is because she’s so kind. About strong marquis family, they are mysterious and low-key” Xiao ge said.
“I see junior brother, thank you for giving me information, now go first i am going to prepare” Yanwei said as he threw one spiritual stone. As for why he did that after what happened more than a year ago? it’s because this sect’s disciple aren’t as poor as those shitheads.
“Thank you senior brother, i hope you would get a good ranking so u can become a rank 2 cultivator, by then you can become a core disciple!!”
Yanwei smiled and nod while closing his door. “It seems like that kid is one of the son of the heavens, how about those genuises in other sect? hmm, i hope you would give me good treasure” he said while smirking, if someone sees this they would find out right away that this smile is much more fiercer than a demon.
