Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?
Chapter 749 - 751: Moths Flying in the Light, Origin of Cosmic Dao

Chapter 749 -751: Moths Flying in the Light, Origin of Cosmic Dao

“Indeed, it is capable of accelerating time; the speed is truly fast.”

Qin Muye, quick-eyed and deft-handed, grasped the Xuan Life Moth instantly, and as it had not yet established a contract, the moth instinctively tried to escape.

It even activated its Innate Spiritual Beast Technique, Cosmic Light Ebbing, using time to accelerate itself.

But for Qin Muye, this was still way too slow.

“Time acceleration that only affects oneself is not bad,” Qin Muye said, holding the palm-sized Xuan Life Moth. After evolving, even its physical constitution had improved greatly, jumping to the Third Rank when the original caterpillar was barely hanging on to the First Rank.

However, this was just the basics. Its potential had broken through as well. Generally speaking, the evolutionary type of green caterpillars mostly stopped at the Fifth Rank, and it was rare for one to break through to the Sixth Rank. The upper limit for the Xuan Life Moth was to contend for the Eighth Rank, and whether it could reach the Ninth Rank was something even Qin Muye couldn’t guarantee, considering he was at the Ninth Rank himself.

“Using time acceleration to speed oneself up is indeed a bit lame, but that’s all the use you’ve got,” he commented.

Qin Muye casually stuffed the Xuan Life Moth into a high-strength glass bottle, then screwed the cap on tightly. With its strength, even if it accelerated tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, or even ten thousandfold, it would still be no more than a snail’s pace for Qin Muye.

“These days, I’ve been pondering how to destroy the entire Spirit Control System, and only later did I realize how simple it is — as simple as just needing to slightly change a concept.”

Qin Muye examined the Xuan Life Moth. In the Spirit Realm, Spirit Masters and Spiritual Beasts worked harmoniously, seldom encountering betrayal, whether it was from the Spirit Masters or the Spiritual Beasts.

Just like those Evil Path Spirit Masters who committed murders and arson, they would dote on their own Spiritual Beasts immensely, no matter how vicious they had been before.

It was only through his deeper research that Qin Muye discovered this was an issue with the contract.

The contract ensured the loyalty of the Spiritual Beasts, but it also guaranteed the Spirit Masters’ affection for their beasts. Therefore, Qin Muye did not use a contract for the Xuan Life Moth.

This was a rule, one not inferior to the Heavenly Dao in the Xuanzhen Realm.

Just the disruption of this rule would cause the Foundation of the Spirit Realm itself to collapse.

Hence, he developed an entirely new sect.

“Refining Spirit Sect, capable of refining Spiritual Beasts into one’s own powers. In doing so, one could not only gain the powers of the Spiritual Beasts but also need not cultivate them. Just by cultivating oneself would suffice.”

“Not even a contract is necessary, just a small spell is all it takes to change the direction of the entire world.”

Qin Muye gazed at the Xuan Life Moth struggling in the glass jar and with a sweep of his hand, extracted its essence, which contained powers of the Insect Dao and the Cosmic Dao. He split the essence into two parts.

The essence of the Insect Dao was stored away, while the Cosmic Dao fell into his hands, converted into multiple data backups.

“Data on time; this is the most direct approach.”

“Originally, I thought I would need a large number of Xuan Life Moths, but with the Refining Spirit Sect, everything is no longer an issue.”

Spiritual Beasts are the essence of the Spirit Realm, and through the entirely new sect system he created over these three months, Qin Muye had effectively resolved this issue at its root.

So, Qin Muye effectively extracted a set of data related to time in the Spirit Realm through the Xuan Life Moth.

The emergence of the Refining Spirit Sect further weakened the foundation of the Spirit Realm through contract disruption, causing it to fall to a lower Energy Level.

Unlike the Divine Dao System of the Xuanzhen Realm, the Refining Spirit Sect was outright evil, but he was certain that absolutely no one would reject this sect.

More importantly, the Spirit-controlling Sect and the Refining Spirit Sect could not coexist; one could only choose one sect to grow with.

The Spirit-controlling Sect could transform into the Refining Spirit Sect, the malice left behind by Qin Muye. However, once someone became part of the Refining Spirit Sect, they could never return to the Spirit-controlling Sect again. It was his way of disrupting the World Energy Level, so there was no way he would allow for a change of heart.

“Next, I need to figure out how to disseminate this Dharma Door of the Refining Spirit Sect,” Qin Muye mused as he stored away the essence of the Cosmic Dao, contemplating his next move.

Based on his comparison of time across the two worlds, he estimated that in about five years, the communities of both worlds would encounter each other, while they would be able to detect each other in just two years.

As for the releaser of this black one-eyed spiritual beast, Qin Muye was also investigating, but without any results. He suspected that it was due to some accident that it had ended up in the Xuanzhen Realm.

And it was possible that this thing was only one half, and that there was another eye similar to it.

The two eyes could connect to each other, commonly known as… the Two Realms Stream.

The people on the other side could use these eyes to locate and arrive at this time, which was also what Qin Muye had come to understand in depth after creating the Refining Spirit Sect.

In other words, one day in the future, a real “main character” might be transported here to his location.

At that time, he could give them this improved version of the Spirit Refining Technique, allowing them not only to control spirits but also to refine spirits, and the damage it would cause to the Spirit Realm would be multiple times greater.

“As for spreading it, first set aside the main character. The spread definitely can’t be direct; it can only be indirect through means such as relics and secret realms.”

Qin Muye knew that if he were to directly give the Spirit Refining Technique to the Spirit Masters, they would definitely become wary, since who would trust a stranger?

On the contrary, if they fought tooth and nail to snatch it from places like relics or secret realms, then it would definitely be perceived as a treasure, and they wouldn’t be suspicious.

“First, fabricate some secret realms, then propagate it through public opinion, and finally just let it spread. As long as the fact that the two schools cannot coexist is kept hidden, and there’s a time lag, it’s basically a done deal.”

“There’s a ninety percent chance of reducing the World Energy Level of the Spirit Realm to the Eighth Rank before the communities of the two worlds encounter each other.”

Compared with the Xuanzhen Realm, Qin Muye found it relatively easier to deal with the Spirit Realm, as the weaknesses of the Spirit Realm were too glaring; strengths were very obvious, and so were the shortcomings.

Unlike the Xuanzhen Realm, which is balanced and has developed to the extreme, it required a slow and steady approach.

Just one dose of this strong medicine would directly cause the upper limit to collapse.

According to Qin Muye’s conclusion, once the Energy Level of the Spirit Realm dropped, the upper limit would become the Eighth Rank, but this would only be the upper limit for the Spirit Masters, while the upper limit for the spiritual beasts would only be the Seventh Rank. This is because, under the effects of a contract, the rank of a spiritual beast would be one rank lower than its Spirit Master. The contract itself is part of the Spirit Realm’s rules, and it’s through its empowerment that a spiritual beast can maintain the same rank as the Spirit Master.

Of course, if the spiritual beasts cultivated on their own, there would be no suppression of their strength. However, typically, without a Spirit Master, spiritual beasts have no way to reach the Sixth Rank and can only stay at the Fifth Rank.

The difference between the Fifth and Sixth Ranks is the divide between the Mortal Realm and the Immortal Realm. Once one crosses this rank, it’s the distinction between mortals and immortals.

This is also naturally due to the contract. Perhaps it is related to the origin of the Spirit Masters; Qin Muye did not delve deep into this area but suspected that the fact that the Spirit Realm could reach the Ninth Rank was probably because of the contract.

From all aspects, the contract is the foundation of the Spirit Masters and the Spirit Realm; it is where their strengths and also their weaknesses lie.

The Spirit Emperor seemed not to have noticed this point, and it was highly probable that because he had invested all his energy into nurturing spiritual beasts, he had neglected to further explore his own system, being too busy to entertain such thoughts.

Unlike the Three Sects’ Sect Masters of the Xuanzhen Realm, after reaching the peaks of their lives, they actively explored the Immortal Path, and it was precisely because of this that they ran out of roads to follow, and even the idea to compensate their weaknesses with strengths became impossible, as it required the same rank of system to do so.

“As long as the Spirit Realm is reduced to the Eighth Rank, the subsequent tasks will be much easier.”

“However, it seems necessary to ensure that the Spirit Realm is not wiped out by the Xuanzhen Realm.”

Qin Muye felt a bit of a headache when he thought of this. As one of the targets for his debt repayment, it was okay for the Spirit Realm to be destroyed after Qin Muye’s departure, but it definitely could not happen during the term of his task – not because he was kind-hearted, but because he did not want any unnecessary complications.

Now was not the time in “Lord Era”; it was a time for repaying debts. What if there was a problem with the judgment if the Spirit Realm were to perish?

“At that time, I can only use the time difference to hold them off for a while. With this, the Divine Dao System of the Xuanzhen Realm also needs to be accelerated so that when the two sides weigh the same, it’ll be easier to resolve the conflict when they clash.”

Thinking along these lines, Qin Muye had to strike first and wait for the right moment. When the time was ripe, he would let the Supreme Dao of the Xuanzhen Realm have a conflict with the Spirit Realm first. This way, he could also delay the clash for a while, as the Spirit Realm, with an Energy Level reduced to the Eighth Rank, was definitely no match for the Ninth Rank Xuanzhen Realm if the Three Sects attacked together.

A Medium Thousand Worlds at war back and forth for over a thousand years would pose a significant issue.