xkarnation
patreon
[Tree] Chapter 490: Eternal Realm
🕑 Added 2025-07-18 14:49:41 +0000 UTCDiana was taking a much-needed break on the bow of Willow after a few days of battling the beast tide. In her hand were a few beast cores fr
Diana was taking a much-needed break on the bow of Willow after a few days of battling the beast tide. In her hand were a few beast cores from which she was siphoning demonic Qi. Not to refill her Qi reserves—her 9th-stage Star Core passively produced the Qi she needed to endlessly fight these weak monsters—but to progress her cultivation to the Nascent Soul Realm.
"I might reach the Nascent Soul Realm before the next Mystic Realm cycle at this rate," Diana said.
"Really?" Stella replied.
Diana turned to look at Stella. She was lying on her back with her eyes closed. Despite her peaceful appearance, if one looked below Willow, they would see a swarm of swords wreathed in aether Qi tearing cleanly through the rotting monsters.
"Yeah, I think so," Diana continued. "What about you?"
"Mhm, I feel closer than before. I overcame a mental hurdle I was facing and discovered a new application of aether Qi before we went hunting for Astralis. Now I just need to gather enough Qi," she tilted her head, looking at her with one eye open. "But unlike you, I can't absorb Qi from the beast cores, so I'm actually losing Qi right now, killing these monsters."
Diana raised her brow in surprise. "Your Star Core's regeneration can't keep up?"
Stella snorted. "Of course not. Do you see what I'm doing to these beasts? This isn't some low-effort application of aether Qi, you know? It takes some real concentration and way too much Qi to telekinetically control and teleport around a hundred swords."
"That's fair," Diana said, nodding. "But if that's the case, why don't you just control twenty swords, or ten? Why a hundred?"
Stella closed her eyes once more and tilted her head away. "You wouldn't get it."
"Oh, I think I do. Aren't you trying to prove yourself useful by gathering as many corpses as possible for Ashlock? I respect the effort, but this is a marathon, not a sprint," Diana said, looking at the dulling beast cores in her hand. "It's already been days, and there are still so many monsters coming."
"You're wrong. This is a good time to practice my control over my Qi and bloodline while also gathering lots of corpses for Ashlock... okay fine, you are kinda right," Stella said, huffing the hair out of her eyes. "I just want to be useful to the sect, you know? Be seen as part of the team."
"Relax, Stella, nobody looks down on you. Ashlock is just understandably protective of you, so unless you are stronger than the opponents, he will be more inclined to hold you back."
"Exactly," Stella said, pursing her lips. "That's why I need to get stronger. The Qi around here is too weak for cultivating, especially with Ashlock's desolation Qi everywhere. So I'll await the Mystic Realm to advance to the Nascent Soul Realm," she quickly shot a glance at her and stuck out her tongue, "I won't let you overshadow me, Diana."
"You're so childish sometimes," Diana chuckled.
Stella ignored her, focusing on controlling the swords below.
Diana spent an hour watching the purple-tinted horizon through Willow's spatial Qi shield. Occasionally, she would see corpses being telekinetically lifted and deposited through portals by Willow as the Bastion slowly inched further into the beast tide. Sometimes, desolation rifts would tear open on the battlefield below, and a few Ents made from the corpses that had been deposited moments earlier would fall out and join the slaughter.
It was a slow, methodical, but utterly unstoppable conquest of the beast tide. Diana wondered if such a feat would be possible by anyone other than Ashlock. "Probably not, he is one of a kind," Diana muttered. Having drained all of the beast cores she had collected, she stood up and spread her wings.
"I'm thinking of heading out."
Stella lazily raised her arm in response. "Have fun."
Diana scanned the land below. "How long do you think this will go on for?"
"Maybe a week or two more," Stella said, yawning. "If we had to kill all of the monsters, it would take months, but we just need to kill the ones in the middle so they get the message and divert around our lands."
Diana nodded and agreed with Stella's assessment. Two weeks more of this sounded like a lot, but without Ashlock covering the land in desolation Qi and weakening the monsters, even that would be optimistic. Thankfully, since the beasts were so weak, they had to expend far less effort wiping them out. While Ashlock's own horde of Ents was helping, he had requested that they focus more on gathering corpses than making more Ents, so their numbers slowly diminished each day.
Just thinking of how many monster corpses were being gathered hurt Diana's brain. The sheer scale of this massacre was unprecedented.
"Every time Ashlock gets his roots on a load of corpses, he does something ridiculous or powers up," Diana muttered to herself. "I wonder what he will do this time?"
Spreading her wings further, she leaped off the side and glided over the ruined land in search of a group of monsters worthy of her attention. Stella's sword swarm had this area mostly under control, so she headed westward as pillars of fire from the Redclaw Grand Elder could be seen to the east.
In the distance, she saw a Bastion that seemed to be engaged in some serious aerial combat with a group of wyverns, so she decided to head over to offer her assistance.
***
Ashlock awoke with a start. Power pulsed through him, making the entire mountain tremble. He had felt this incredible sensation many times before, yet it felt like forever since the last time.
His cultivation had advanced to the next stage.
[Demonic Demi-Divine Tree (Age: 10)]
[Nascent Soul Realm: 6th Stage]
[Soul Type: Nine Moons (Desolation)]
"Ahhh, finally the 6th stage. It was only a matter of time after all the Qi I absorbed from these corpses," Ashlock said, as he glanced around. It was morning, the early rays of sunshine casting their glow on the horrors of Red Vine Peak. All around him were ten-story-high piles of half-consumed rotting corpses. In fact, there were so many that he had started dumping them in the citadel, filling up the hole. A few portals spanning between his branches were permanently open, and corpses endlessly tumbled through them, rolling down the piles and into his waiting roots and thorn-covered vines.
At this point, he was almost buried in corpses, with the pile directly around his trunk nearly reaching his canopy.
It was grotesque, and the scent of death hung strongly in the air along with the buzz of flies. Vultures circled greedily overhead, with many daring to dive down and join the piles after failing to fly away under his soul pressure.
Ashlock felt like he should be disgusted by what surrounded him, but he wasn't. Instead, it all looked so delicious. For the first time in what felt like forever, he was living the life of a demonic tree he had dreamed of. For the last week, all he had done was spend his days eating, and come nightfall, he would peacefully slumber under the nine moons while ignoring Astralis's deranged rantings.
Sure, he had some things to deal with—a lot, actually. He was managing multiple Bastions, moving corpses around through portals and micromanaging his Ent army. But all of that was worth it for the reward.
"It took far longer than a day, like I thought, but I should be reaching the fabled ten thousand credits today," Ashlock mused as he looked around at the corpses. Although the quantity was impressive, the quality had fallen short of his expectations. His desolation Qi, while effective at weakening the monsters, also degraded the value of their corpses. So by the time they reached him, they were hardly worth a handful of credits.
But if there was one thing the beast tide had a lot of, it was monsters. Even if each of them gave him only a single credit, it was inevitable that he would save up enough. He had several skills he wanted to upgrade, so he decided to take a look.
"System, show me my credits."
Idletree Daily Sign-In System
Day: 3693
Daily Credit: 13
Sacrifice Credit: 10271
[Sign in?]
There it was, over ten thousand credits. It was around the limit of what Ashlock's sacrificial credit forest in his Inner World could handle, so he had to get to spending.
"This feels like Christmas," he chuckled, swiftly navigating his system menu and bringing up a skill that he had been intending to upgrade as soon as his life wasn't in immediate danger.
[Directly upgrading the skill {Mystic Realm [S]} will consume 8127 credits]
This was hopefully going to be the first of many skills he would upgrade from devouring the monsters from the beast tide. As the days went by, the efficiency of his army in harvesting corpses increased, and the monsters' cultivation levels also rose the deeper they went.
[Do you want to upgrade the skill {Mystic Realm [S]} now?]
"Yes, let's do it," Ashlock said, waiting in anticipation. While not a direct combat skill, the Mystic Realm skill was what allowed his sect members to keep up with his rapid jump in cultivation. It was an imperative part of the sect's strength, so he was eager to see how the system would upgrade it.
[Sign in successful, 8127 credits consumed…]
[Upgraded {Mystic Realm [S]} -> {Eternal Realm [SS]}]
Ashlock felt something shift in the beyond. He looked to the sky—it appeared normal like always, a blue expanse decorated by lazy clouds passing by. Yet he could sense something happening beyond that façade. It was hard to describe; it was an odd feeling, as if something greater had taken notice of him.
His unsettled thoughts were interrupted by his system informing him of the changes to his Mystic Realm skill.
[{Eternal Realm [SS]} Gone are the time limits—the Mystic Realm can now remain eternally open. Time dilation is now directly proportional to the number of people present in the Eternal Realm. If a single person is inside, time flows thirty times faster, meaning for every day that passes outside, a month passes inside. This time dilation is divided by the number of people inside, capping out at a 1:1 time dilation for thirty people. Permission to enter the Eternal Realm has to be granted by you, and you can forcefully pull people out. Furthermore, upon exiting, a portion of the Qi cultivated and any dao insights users of the Eternal Realm gained will be mirrored to you]
That was a lot of text. Ashlock read over it a few more times and decided he was pleased with the changes. The removal of the time limit meant his life wasn't bound to an eternal monthly cycle where he had to say goodbye to most of his sect members for a week.
"It's a change for sure. If I'm reading this right, then if I were to send in a single person for a month, they would experience 900 days inside—almost three years. However, if I send in three people for a month, the time dilation is reduced to only 300 days, or almost a year. While that eclipses what the old Mystic Realm was capable of, as it only sped up time by four times, the penalty for sending in many people at once is something to note," Ashlock paused. "However, since it's open all the time, I could cycle people in and out almost daily if I needed to train many people at once. After all, a single day in there is a month if I only send in one person."
That aside, there was more. Ashlock could now pick and choose who went in, pull people out on a whim, and best of all, a portion of the Qi they cultivated and any dao insights they gained would be mirrored to him. That implied that he would benefit greatly without having to ever enter the Eternal Realm himself.
"I've been wondering how I could improve my dao insights to further the strength of my desolation Qi against multiple Qi types, and here comes the system offering me a lazy but greatly appreciated solution."
As a tree, if there was one thing he didn't like doing, it was studying. Hell, he also disliked the act of cultivating. Instead, he preferred to absorb Qi from monster corpses and siphon Qi from the World Tree. He then spent his nights sleeping under the nine moons. It was a slothful and oddly effective existence. If not for him having to use so much Qi to taint the land with desolation, he might have risen many stages and be touching on the Monarch Realm by now.
"No use complaining. If not for the beast tide, I wouldn't have this many corpses to snack on for credits. Actually, speaking of credits, I have around two thousand left. Mhm, all the skills I want to focus on upgrading are S grade or higher, so I'll keep them in the divine stock market for now."
It was actually insane how much value he was getting from it. Apparently, fending off the beast tide warranted him enough respect and awe from the monsters and cultivators alike, and it was only growing with time.
"Now, about this Eternal Realm, where should I put it?" Ashlock glanced around. There was literally nowhere on Red Vine Peak where he could place it, as the area was covered in rotting flesh wrapped up in his vines and roots. In fact, he didn't even want any of his sect members returning and seeing this gluttonous side of himself. While he didn't find it grotesque, he doubted his more sane human cultivators would agree.
"Putting it in my Inner World is probably safer anyway, even though I can pick and choose who enters."
Retreating into his soul, he looked at his Inner World from afar. It had notably grown bigger with his advancement to the sixth stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.
"Now, where would be good?" Ashlock mulled over the options. Unfortunately, around half of his Inner World was corrupted with desolation, making it hard to build anything on and deeply uncomfortable for anyone visiting. "This place could work," he said after finding a large cave deep in the mountain range that bordered the desolate half of his Inner World.
"System, place the entrance to the Eternal Realm here," Ashlock said.
[Opening gateway to the Eternal Realm...]
The air shuddered and twisted as the space slowly filled with the celestial fog he was used to from the Mystic Realm. That same odd feeling from before of something connecting to the beyond crept into the deepest part of his soul, making him feel uncomfortable.
[Eternal Realm established]
[Current occupants: 0]
The feeling thankfully subsided, leaving Ashlock with a choice to make as he stared at the zero current occupants.
"Who should I put in first?"
[Author Note]
Book 7 is finishing today on RoyalRoad, and RR will be going on a one-week break. I was originally going to keep patreon going during this short break, but my little brother, whom I haven't seen in a year, booked a spontaneous trip to Tokyo to come see me and is landing in a few hours. While he said he has some things to work on, possibly giving me time to write, he's only here for a week, and I want to spend time with him. I've got book 7 edits for the Amazon launch to review and a few other side projects that need attention, so I've decided to take next week off. (I've found that forcing myself to write during stressful weeks just results in bad chapters and burnout that takes a while to get over.)
I'm really sorry to do this, leaving you all on a big cliffhanger! But do let me know who Ashlock should send in first... I've not decided yet.
Additionally, I wanted to address another point: some people accused me of 'double dipping' by having a second Patreon for my other story. It really is done to reduce clutter, rather than extract more money out of you guys. As I put in a previous post, there's a 6-month free access link, and if that ever runs out and you are still a supporter of this patreon, just shoot me a message and I'll send you a new code to get more access :)
Free access link: https://www.patreon.com/XkarnationAlt/redeem/C61FD
I truly appreciate the support for Shapeshifter. Tree is my bread and butter, but I need some other projects to keep writing as a stable career, as this series will one day end... in many years to come, though. We aren't even halfway done lmao.
Have a great weekend, everyone, and I look forward to seeing you on Monday, the 28th, for more Tree! In the meantime, there may be the odd Shapeshifter chapter posted from my backlog :)
Comments
Victor DoUrden
Holy the fuck up! You lucky wanker moved to Tokyo?
DeadHydromancer
I believe Stella and Diana would be the best to keep the rivalry going
DeadHydromancer
Today's the day! Happy to see my favorite book return 😁
Nic Peacock
Mathematically speaking Ashlock and the sect gain the most by having as many ppl as possible in the eternal realm at any given point in time – if 1-30 ppl are in for 1 day then the sect gains 30days worth of realm training and Ashlock gains 30 days worth of Qi taxes. But since the time dilation stops at 1:1 then each person above 30 gives an additional days worth of training/taxes. So if 90 ppl are in for a day then Ashlock and the sect will gain 3x the benefit training/taxes compared to having 30 or less ppl inside. – there could be benefit in throwing all of the grand elders who are not in the nascent realm yet inside until they ascend to power level them up, but in the long run having less than 30ppl inside is the least efficient use for the sect as a whole add for Ashlock specifically
David W. Baijense
I personally think that having them separate is good. I really dislike it when authors are making 3+ books and don't really care for 2 of them. Sometimes you just want the one story and having multiple can make it slightly frustrating. Thank you xKarn.
forwad Nothing
Ty for the free access to ur other story. I consider it a bonus/privelage not a right.
Gonvas
Stella and Diana are the 2 people Ashlock cares and trusts the most. With both of them at the same time, time is x15. Less than a single real day, is enough for them to reach NS. Then every 2 real days is equivalent to a month, i.e., a Mysthic Realm. And they are both able to gain multiple stages per Mystic Realm session. Stella already has Aether law so she shouldn't even need to wait for dao comprehension. Around 1 week should be enough for Diana and Stella to reach Monarch.
NoLifeNeeded
Stella is the best choice. Diana can reasonably cultivate just by virtue of her affinity so i'd say elaine should be after.
Tryptic
And even moreso, by sending Primal Overlords in, he stands to gain the most dao comprehension from them. Some of their incredibly long experience will bleed into him. For example, once Astralis is healed enough, putting him in the ER is Ashlock's best source of Cosmic Dao.
Tryptic
I think the first people he puts in should be primal overlords. They're already subservient to Zephyrine, but the fact is he has the world's best value proposition for them. Giving them a taste of it now would go a long way to securing their loyalty (and maybe get a little rebellion out of them so he can squash it and exert dominance). The truth is, the biggest power boost his faction can get now is advancing every primal overlord to Monarch realm, since they've spent a long time at the peak of Nascent Soul realm. But he needs to secure their loyalty beyond any doubt. Giving them an alternative to the spiritual spring shows the benefits of joining up, and giving them priority shows that they won't just be treated as fodder (which is how monsters would expect humans to treat them). If he strikes while the iron is hot, he could gain ALL of them as powerful fighters.
Gonvas
Stella and Diana are the best choice. They are the only ones close to a major breakthrough, so they get the biggest power-up while consuming the least amount of time.
darkhawke
This was my thought. It's a significant enhancement for himself with the Dao thing and for rapidly strengthening a few people, since a single person can gain much more time inside. But for the way he's been using it? It's a massive nerf. It no longer makes sense to send much of the sect inside. Why would any of the younger red claws ever get to go inside again? It's not like they'll offer much Qi or Daos to him. Same with the mudcloaks. Why send them inside ever? This upgrade effectively favors a small but diverse affinity group to power level so he can maximize his gains. It also heavily penalizes the use of pets and guardians. Bringing in maple, Larry or the bastions is just cutting your time dilation. I assume the ents won't count since they can't cultivate. The net result is that Ashfallen will go back to a normal sect where only the strong get stronger and the weak fall further and further behind. He can't continue power leveling hundreds or thousands of people anymore. That's maybe not a bad thing, but it is a significant departure from their approach so far.
Cory Crowell
Sam should go in first
Sam
Furthering on pairs: Sam and Jasmine
Amosz
I think Ashlock should put 2 pairs. First pair is Stella and Diana- Stella needs to grow stronger but to keep her even more motivated and keep up her competitiveness let's add Diana. Second pair is Douglas and Elaine- Douglas needs a reward for all his slave work lmao, and I want to see Elaine's mother reaction on her daughter reaching nascent soul wich she through is impossible, and lastly Elaine and Douglas will compete with each other. Also as someone else noted, will someone reflecting on their current DAO will give Ashlock the same benefits as if gaining new insights?
Thomas Meta
You could let families battle or compete in gifts for ashlock letting the red claw family go in first into the eternal mist cave. Perhaps letting the family decide what length of time and who will spend time in the eternal mist.
Amosz
"However, since it's open all the time, I could cycle people in and out almost daily if I needed to train many people at once. After all, a single day in there is a month if I only send in one person." To "However, since it's open all the time, I could cycle people in and out almost daily if I needed to train many people at once. After all, a single day in here is a month out there if I only send in one person."
XKARNATION
yeah thanks! I'll fix it
Taggs
Yeah Stella was my first thought, with Magnus in the nascent soul realm she needs to at least tie with him. Also get the crestfallen family op AF for when they rescue their mother, so send all three as soon as.
Memnun
TFTC! Enjoy your time with your brother, every last second is precious. My own brother passed away a few years back, you truly never know when you're gonna get these chances so take them and cherish them and if anyone gives you shit for it, whack their peepees
welp
Thanks for the chapter! And I hope you have a good visit with your brother!
Richard Lee
i think douglas should be first. Hes worked the hardest, and benefitted the least from his work. also, seeing as hes a non-combatant specialist, hed be the first supporter to reach nascent soul, which would be a huge boon to ashfallen, more so than another nascent soul fighter would. or maybe both douglas and elaine at the same time even. just because he COULD only send 1 doesnt mean he has too
Alexey Gladkich
I think Ashlock should first level up his weaker Grand Elders, Douglas and Elaine, to the peak of Star Core. Then he can get them all upgraded to NS Realm simultaneously, a competition of sorts. After which they should spend time practicing with their respective second soul.
Justice League
Tftc! And, enjoy your family! It will make your return all the sweeter. As for this “cliffhanger”, at least we have the view we have been craving for so long: Ashlock, up to his acorns in monster corpses, eating through the beast tide like Bruce from Rhoal Dahl’s Matilda! Eaters can be heroes! For the new mystic situation, I say, send Douglas and Elaine! Douglas in particular has been often sidelined from cultivation opportunities because the man’s been printing whole cities. Give that man some gifts!
Plateworm
Tftc. I think Stella is the only valid choice as Ashlock had to repeatedly keep her back and protect her cus she was too weak
Sargon Yami
With him positioning it inside his inner world it is similar tovthe world tree with its leafs in its inner world
Sargon Yami
The moons need a fragment
IdolTrust
That is crazy strong because he gains what the person or people gain in the realms. Thus improving his DAO insights on several types. Which could unlock more moons to make him stronger.
Basically God
At first when I read what the ability did I thought "oh that is neat" then seconds later got a fucking lightbulb above my head when I remembered desolation qi. Now the more diverse his sect is the stronger he directly becomes. Honestly wonder if he can also cheat it a bit by having people "recall their prior contemplations on the DAO". Don't understand the complaint about you double dipping - it is a different story with a different cast so it makes sense to pay for it separately. Thanks for the chapter and hope you enjoy your week break with the fam~♥
FallingToAsh
I feel like Elaine hasn’t gotten much focus or advancement recently. Maybe she gets the first crack at the eternal realm?
Kennyevilmonkey
For a guy that's writing a story about a lazy tree, you work too hard. Take the week and enjoy some bro time. Take him to a maid café or something. Should be funny. 😆
Lazy Monster
TFTC. Enjoy some time with your family.
Sargon Yami
i want S-rank Shroom skill and new sss-rank skill. but there is another factor that active skills that are to high of a rank can be dangerous for him.
Lion3125
Tftc! The part about absorbing Qi and insights will obviously be a boon. But was the upgrade supposed to be a nerf in terms of time dilation? Let's assume the ability text itself is wrong (it doesn't half with each person or it'd be below 1 for 5 people) and it instead works the way it does in Ashlocks example (factor is 30 divided by number of people), which would be the better case. 1 day with the new ability means 30 accelerated days within that time. Either for one person or for multiple. For an entire month (of 30(.3) days) that means it gives a cumulative time during acceleration of 900/909 days. Obviously it would have been 30 days anyways, so if it's only one person using it, the actual time gain would have been 870 days, for multiple people it would have been 900- (number of people). The old ability had a factor 4 acceleration (or at least that's what was said during the chapter). In terms of effective time gain that's 3 days / day and person. The old one had a duration of a week. That's 21 days of time gain per person. If you have 42 people that's 882 days, which would be beyond the maximum time gain of the new ability if you'd only send one person. The new ability is better if you want to boost a single talented person, or something like that. But for boosting an entire sect it's far worse. Even if you ignore the mudcloaks, even taking the core sect plus pets plus redclaws, it would at least get close or maybe be above that limit. So it gained flexibility, sure. But considering you'd only need to send in 7.5 people for it to be as 'slow' as the old variant, cycling through people doesn't gain that much. Unless it's supposed to be weakened that much, maybe it would be better to instead have the multiplier far higher, but with a lower cap for many people and an upper cap for fewer people? And if it's meant to be like this... shouldn't Ashlock be unhappy about this? Edit: Oh, and no need to apologize, do spend time with your family! Enjoy the break!
Sargon Yami
XKARNATION: "This time dilation halves for each new person, capping out at a 1:1 time dilation if thirty people are inside." i think you made a mistake here (math). this would lead to a division of around 1.000.000.000. 2^30 what i think you meant to write is something like this "this time dilation is divided by the number of people inside. capping out at a 1:1 time dilation for thirty people." love the ability.
EbbieOsa
First and foremost I want to genuinely say I appreciate your work ethic and commitment to your readers. This litrpg story isn't entirely unique but it is one of a kind. I have thoroughly enjoyed Ashlock's story as a tree cultivator so far and I have to say you have earned at the very least week off from story churning. I hope to 'see/experience/read' you returned fresh and rejuvenated. Finally, i would like Stella to be the first one in. As the first member of the Ashfallen Sect and favored daughter of Ashlock it's only fair he spoils her and make her feel like she doesn't need to run away when the big boys in even bigger pants start fighting, as surely she would emerge from the Eternal realm in the Nascent Soul Realm giving her even more ammunition to show off on Diana
Noodle Man
TFTC! And enjoy your time off XK you deserve it. And in my opinion having both Stella and Diana go in seems like the best choice since both are basically about to step into the Nascent Soul Realm.
Beeees!
Just let em both go in at 15x dilation. A race to nascent soul realm
Lion3125
Yep. Otherwise it's below 1 for 5 people and up until 30
Billy Nguyen
Enjoy your time off! You deserve to relax too!
Ethan Barrow
TFTC!! Firstly, I think Stella is definitively the choice for entry if not her and Diana to keep the rivalry fair. Secondly, loving shapeshifter and am so glad for that link because I could not afford another 10 dollars a month lol.
Alexey Gladkich
"This time dilation halves for each new person, capping out at a 1:1 time dilation if thirty people are inside." This doesn't sound right. I think you meant to say that the time dilation factor is divided by the number of people present.
Manlor
Have fun!
Sargon Yami
Higher reach of realm levels?
Sargon Yami
My day 42069 mystic realm is gone. But nice update. Send the primal overlords amd zeph in. Or the entire redclaw family
TreeReader
Spend time with your family lol. Especially with lil ones haha. But 100% should be stella so we can see her reach nascent and her insights would be great as well lol
SDCard
Thanks for the chapter! Stella and Diana first probably makes the most sense, as they are about to reach nascent core realm... But isn't this sort of a nerf for his Mystic realm when it comes to many people? Before he could have hundreds of people inside for a month in only a week - the cooldown is gone but with hundreds of people they will also always have a time dilation of 1:1 from now on.
Phoenixdrop
Okay now that’s something very interesting so obviously he’s about to go on a upgrading spree but I kinda want him to upgrade his cultivation technique again maybe language skill as well for that sweet sweet ability to just straight up understand heaven’s whispers that will put rocket fuel into his ability to comprehend things and use techniques and. With the eternal realm well if he gets a big enough faction and sends enough people through it even if it takes a while he’ll eventually gain perfect dao comprehension of literally every affinity and dao and. Thanks to his desolation qi that will feed right back into his combat power as the more daos he comprehends the more things he can bring to desolation and I’m pretty sure it gets more efficient the more deeply he understands a dao can’t wait. But yeah you take your time and yeah obviously we aren’t even halfway I mean we’re still on the first layer monarch is still the highest realm we even have any confirmation on
darkmuch
It would be funny to send in Ryker and he comes out as the strongest human member of the sect.
Quentin Cozzi
Thanks for the chapter!
