Paragon of Sin

Chapter 1986 Chapter 1978: Inner Ascendant Battlefield

Inner Ascendant Battlefield, Access Point.

A torrential cascade of clear spatial energies crashed into a white platform etched with esoteric mystic runes derived from the essential blueprint with the Way of Mysticism: Spatial Rune. The torrent of energy contained illusory runes that danced rhythmically, resonating with the platform. A bubble was revealed after the torrent dissipated, revealing two figures: one tall, one petite.

Wei Wuyin and Tilly Winehart had finally arrived! However, the latter was heaving breaths laced with disbelief and shock, her eyes bulging slightly as she gazed intently at Wei Wuyin's side profile, admiration and awe flashing incessantly within them.

Since they left the Stellar Battlefield's Chaos Realm, only five days had passed, not the expected two weeks. After four days of conducting their mutual activity, Wei Wuyin had, without warning, summoned a spherical object of condensed mystical unfathomability. Without asking anything, the sphere merged with the spatial bubble housing them safely, and then she felt a wave of vertigo as they zoomed faster than before.

"See," Wei Wuyin chuckled heartily, "It worked." After spending so much time as a passenger, Kratos' complaints were unending, so he decided to test out hijacking the spatial shuttle by reapplying the changes that once took hold and transformed the Transit Stellar Light all those years ago, transforming the multicolored radiance into grey, emulating annihilation.

He was a little hesitant to bypass the standard procedure due to potentially drawing greater attention from Overseers or Moderators that existed, but after a while, he realized that Kratos' emotions were only reflections of his own thoughts, impatience, and dissatisfaction. Tilly was an amazing companion to spend time with, but he couldn't take this slow snail-like pace with each transport.

Retrieving the Mystic Rune Sphere condensed from six hundred billion illusory Mystic Runes, he absorbed it back into his body, allowing each rune to disperse, smoothly flowing through his physique like an assistant to every system within his body. He had long since reached perfection, ready for the Stellar-Paragon Physique to bridge that gap and fully enter the Mystic Dao's domain.

Tilly's heart throbbed fiercely within her chest upon seeing the Mystic Rune Sphere. Despite its illusory runes, she felt an unbearable urge originating from her Mystic Core. She almost leapt toward it like a starving beast. Sensing her acute reaction, Wei Wuyin conjured the Mystic Rune Sphere again with perfect ease. Tilly's eyes focused so intensely on it that she seemed to have lost sight of everything else.

Holding it in his palm, he brought it before the hyper-focused yet equally as dazed Tilly whose lips were on the verge of trickling down with saliva. He didn't tease her, only spoke out words laced with his Spiritual Strength: "You can touch it."

She didn't react with shock or joy, only a soft, acknowledging grunt, reaching out in a zombie-like fashion, touching the sphere with her fingertips. Suddenly, her eyes erupted in an outburst of mystic radiance. The Mystic Runes within her body react, glowing so brightly that they bled through her skin, bones, and organs. She had attained the Demi-Mortal Lord Phase, and thus had a Refined Physique, specifically a High-World Refined Physique known as the Worldbreaker War Physique, born from the advanced cultivation method of the Warring Soul, Triumphant World Method, which cost 8,000 War Souls.

Despite her petite figure, she possessed world-shattering physical strength, and this contributed heavily to her superb stamina. If not, she would have long since been exhausted after their activities a long time ago.

"Oh?" Wei Wuyin watched as Tilly's body seemed to awaken with the Ways of Mysticism. This sensation brought forth his feeling of observing Wu Yu ascend into the Earthly Saint Phase. She was awakening her Mystic Intent!

"OH! OH! OH! Do that! Hurry! Hurry!!" Ori immediately leapt out, urging Wei Wuyin to act quickly. Seeing the suppressive force and overbearing pressure cascade upon Tilly, he knew that she couldn't undergo any serendipitous enlightenment here. It was explicitly forbidden.

"Only because this should help her," Wei Wuyin retrieved his Mystic Rune Sphere and then touched Tilly's glabella as he enveloped her in Void Energy. With a slight pull, she was brought into his Primordial Expanse.

Immediately, within the Primordial Expanse, Tilly called forth the Earthly Ascension Tribulation Gate! Despite existing as an Internal World, Wei Wuyin's blessing of the Mystic Dao thrummed with activity as it seemed to defy time and space, assisting in the descent within the space. However, it sought out Wei Wuyin's permission to do so.

It was a strange sensation. A Great Dao seeking permission to descend within him. It seemed Ori and King's speculation was correct: the Primordial Expanse was an extraordinary spatial world, no different than a piece of the Void that all things inhabited.

"Incredible..." Wei Wuyin softly remarked. Soon, footsteps approached from afar. There were two cultivators, and just as before, they were an Entry Moderator and a Station Moderator. The former assisted the process of entry into either the Battlefield of Order or the Battlefield of War, while the Station Moderator determined the assignment of location and general zone.

They were both humans.

According to Tilly, Moderators had variant races, but like the majority of the cultivation world within the galactic cluster, humans were the majority. Their breeding and expansion tactics were first-class, causing them to be the dominant race in terms of population. The breeding largely had to do with the ability to become pregnant by and impregnate any race. They were universal breeders.

The Neo-Dawn Starfield prior to its destruction by Tiangou was evidence of this extraordinary racial ability. Da Shan, Nyla Shur, Lian Yu, and so many others had variant bloodlines from other races.

These Moderators had cultivation bases at the Heavenly Saint Phase and the Ascended Saint Phase.

Despite Tilly agreeing to act as his Entry Moderator, her serendipitous enlightenment from contact with his Mystic Rune Sphere had changed plans. He was given his Identity Rune, one that possessed Ascendant-grade War Soul storage capabilities. Moreover, his Stellar Identity Rune was absorbed, etching his past merits into it and transferring his War Souls.

After doing so, he was given a hesitant inquiry of his path-Order or War. Tilly had said that entering both Battlefields was possible, only that he could only select one during the Inner and Outer Battlefields as a Soldier and Commander. Since he was automatically relegated as an Ascendant Soldier, he could participate in either and then join the other when he wishes to be promoted to an Ascendant Commander.

He was left with a choice.

'Su Mei and the others are bound to be in the Outer Battlefield of War. But I did promise Magus that we would rely on his skills during the Battlefield of Order rather than using alchemy.' As he contemplated whether to enter the Ascendant Battlefield of Order as an Inner or Outer Entrant, Magus sent over a voiceless message carrying its meaning: 'Bring them to the Galactic Battlefield!'

Sensing that response, Wei Wuyin laughed. It seemed Magus prioritized Su Mei and the others over its ego and pride to test its mettle. Since it didn't have an issue with it, he decided to join the Inner Ascendant Battlefield of Order as a soldier. Hearing his choice, the two Moderators were rather accepting. Considering the system recorder Wei Wuyin's cultivation base as a Soul of Mysticism Phase cultivator, they thought he would choose to throw his life away on that bloody battlefield.

The Entry Moderator brought him away. It took three hours to arrive. But during that time, Wei Wuyin was taken aback by the prompting of his Identity Rune. The Neo-Byr Legion had experienced some deaths! When he investigated their progress through the rune, they had already marched onto the Outer Battlefield of War.

It was only half a dozen, but it was their first series of deaths. He didn't have to do much, simply pay a fee of War Souls generated from his merit in the Battlefield of Order, and they were promptly resurrected to fight again. Normally, he would be able to perform Creationist tasks to obtain their revival, but there was only one choice to do so. It seemed they got overly aggressive from his tiny bit of assistance and overestimated themselves.

Carelessness was certainly among the top reasons for sudden death on the battlefield. Sending a void-transmitted spiritual message to Wei Xiaotian and Yan Zhu, he left it at that. Those two were bound to aim for the stars, and he wouldn't have expected anything less.

Lower 44th Zone.

Unlike the Stellar Battlefield, the Ascendant Battlefield was plainly named, given designations of numbers.

When he landed amongst the Inner Ascendant Battlefield, he noticed that the Towers were floating mid-air, and they had Mystic Radiance Belts ranging from one to three. The vast majority possessed three, while those with two or one seemed to have suffered defeat or damage recently due to war. Their aura of unfathomability was weaker.

When his Globe of Creation was born, only a single meter in size, it possessed an illusory Mystic Radiance Belt, resembling a Solar Star even more.

He stretched his limbs.

"It's that time of the year again-one suited for winning a war." With a grin, he sauntered over toward the wall. Unbeknownst to the Inner Ascendant Battlefield's inhabitants, chaos was about to descend!