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The precursor, greatly aiding those who follow, this kind of scenario typically exists only as a beautiful notion. For if everyone reached this state, how then would the cultivation resources of this realm be divided?

Adding just one more peer in the realm means having to allocate some of one's own cultivation resources.

And if not divided?

Then an inevitable confrontation would surely occur.

After the strife, even if one could temporarily suppress and achieve victory, could this endless suppression continue?

By then, there would no longer exist a precursor helping those who come after. Thus, precursors often set numerous limitations for their successors!

But not entirely blocking the path for successors.

Merely blocking ninety-nine percent of the routes upwards, leaving that one percent for the successors to brutally fight among themselves, struggling to snatch up opportunities.

This, apparently, is the true essence of the Ten Desolations "Tribulation."

Ten reincarnations, thirty-three-layer heavenly punishments, serving the heavens and earth under such harsh conditions, were meant to obstruct those succeeding, yet a lifeline remains.

"This strategy seems even more ingenious than the Ancestor of the Dao..." Tan Shuchang inevitably thought.

After all, as far as he knew, the Ancestor of the Dao not only turned against his disciples but also often faced assassinations by groups of disciples and other Heaven's Authority's True Immortals.

Although a single Heaven's Authority's Righteous Law True Immortal getting involved in such matters might appear overly ambitious, True Immortals don't perish, so a bit of early practice doesn't hurt.

Though there were speculations that the Ancestor of the Dao could annihilate Heaven's Authority, since Tan Shuchang had never personally witnessed it nor could he verify it, this remained a mere suspicion.

Thoughts slowly clarified in Tan Shuchang's mind; thinking of what he had gained from this journey, a smile couldn't help but appear.

Because, for a long while, he need not worry about the matter of True Immortal Souls of the Ghost Path. The trades made in End-law Mountain and the gains from Earth Yin Valley would suffice to advance him on the path when Earthly Evil ascends to Heavenly Gang in ten years.

Hence, Tan Shuchang returned to the last place left after the inception of the world.

Knowing a potential battle with his mentor could happen, he naturally didn't dare return to Tianchang Palace; otherwise, he wouldn't have sought to gather some treasures before descending.

This last place remaining after the inception of the world, Tan Shuchang had already adapted to; his Dao Fruit also closely connected here. Originally capable of temporarily exerting power equivalent to Heavenly Gang Righteous Law, it now reached the temporary level of the Extreme of Heavenly Gang.
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"Leaving back then, I had only recently refined the Earth Fiend Orthodox Law Dao Fruit, yet now I possess the cultivation of Earthly Evil Extreme. The opportunity in the Ten Desolations is indeed vast, but still, one must be cautious..."

Tan Shuchang thought, preparing to transform the six Spirits of Immortal Technique he still held into Immortal Techniques.

But before that, there was one more thing he had to do.

"Congratulations on your return."

With a spread of his hands, Tan Shuchang revealed a surge of Blood Spring in his palm, the spring swirling as if harboring a world within, with various figures rising and sinking in it.

This Blood Spring directly entered that eerie game world.

Transforming into a blood rain, drifting down generously, while the figures within manifested themselves in various parts of the Snake Desire Realm of the eerie game world.

Among them were the old sincerely hearted Death-speaking Yin God, the initial flesh-players of the eerie game world who would rather be ghosts than humans, joining under the Dao of Langshu, and Tan Shuchang's initial military advisor, the Yin God Scholar...

These Yin Gods and fierce ghosts were all bundled off to unknown places by the eerie game world early on but then very naturally fused into the Ten Desolations during the changes of the world.

Originally, all their past stories had scattered with the wind.

But as Tan Shuchang cultivated to the extreme of Earthly Evil, with the blood water flooding the cliffs behind, their memories gradually restored.

In the eerie game world, the core Ghostly Path "Numerals," though lacking self-awareness, always managed to stir up some matters, causing it to be dismantled by other Ghostly Paths.

Nevertheless, "Numerals" remained an indispensable core among all Ghostly Paths.

Therefore, every time "Numerals" were dismantled, other Ghostly Paths helped it return.

However, after several times, the self-awareness-lacking Ghostly Path "Numerals" chose another way of stirring things up—silently merging with the flesh-players.

And following Tan Shuchang, under the name of King Langshu, subduing all flesh-players, the Ghostly Path "Numerals" originally merged into all flesh-players, then all returned to Tan Shuchang.

The Living Dead Yin God was the first Yin God that Tan Shuchang refined, and the fearful words it spoke before being refined in the Blood Pool ominously came true.

Back then, Tan Shuchang wasn't a part of the Ghostly Paths, but now he indeed can be considered one.

However, the merged Ghostly Path "Numerals" with Tan Shuchang doesn't speak or leave any related information, so currently, Tan Shuchang is unaware of this.

And those aware of this matter are merely three people, one being Tan Shuchang's mother who bore him. Though she can't entirely sense Tan Shuchang's transformation, a glance reveals much.

The other is Chi Quanzi, currently hiding somewhere. This ordeal turned fortuitous for the Old Demon of Red Spring, otherwise, with his Heavenly Gang Cultivation, ordered by the Ancestor of the Dao to restore the world to right, he would have had to endure a very long slumber.