Chapter 228: Probing a Large World

“Hu!”

Within this vast and magnificent extraordinary large world, inside an identical scene of the Illusory Realm, Dongbo Xueying, clad in red robes, was flying low over the grasslands at high speed. The wind whistled past as the wild grasses below him blurred into streaks. Even when encountering undulating hills, he simply passed straight through them, as if everything were an illusion.

The Illusory Realm reflects the real world. Dongbo Xueying’s current strength allows him to control an Illusory Realm spanning a thousand li!

Above and below, in all directions,

Within a spherical range of a thousand li in diameter, everything was within his field of observation.

“There’s quite a lot of extraordinary materials,” Dongbo Xueying observed the entire thousand-li range and naturally discovered many extraordinary substances. In the human world, things are too stable for such materials to appear.

Flying along,

Occasionally, when encountering particularly valuable extraordinary materials, Dongbo Xueying would reach his hand into the real world and directly take them.

After flying and observing for tens of thousands of li, the collected extraordinary treasures were already worth more than thirty thousand jin of Yuan stones! An extraordinary large world that had long gone untapped was indeed a great treasure trove. However, nowadays, large worlds were rare, and the native demigods were not easy to provoke, for each of them was like an ancient lifeform, possessing terrifying innate talents.

“Hmm?” Dongbo Xueying’s expression suddenly changed as he flew close to the ground at high speed.

Boom!

A bolt of lightning, like a serpent, struck down in the distance, accompanied by a deafening roar. The electric serpent writhed, turning that thousand-li region into a land of thunder and lightning.

Within that thunderous expanse lay a towering giant dozens of meters tall, fast asleep, with lightning crackling and darting from his nose and mouth.

“Extremely powerful,” Dongbo Xueying sensed an immense threat. Even from afar, he felt that this colossal giant’s strength was clearly far superior to his own, with a noticeable gap. “He should be among the top ten on the Demigod Rankings!”

Human extraordinariness lies in ‘True Intent’ and ‘Divine Treasures,’ and thus does not outwardly exude an overwhelming sense of danger.

But the native extraordinary beings are different!

Beyond the ability to cultivate True Intent and wield divine artifacts, their most terrifying aspect lies in their innate talents! In ancient times, the earliest ancestors of the Xia Clan were these primordial beings. Back then, there existed no cultivation of battle qi or arcane energy—they relied solely on raw physical prowess, bloodline gifts, and the profound mysteries of True Intent.

Even so, the ancient lifeforms were incredibly powerful, with the most elite among them even reaching the divine realm!

Take the ‘Demon General’ for example—because of his powerful physique and bloodline talents, he could battle against the Xia Clan’s demigods who wielded divine treasures.

“According to the annotations and descriptions on the map from Senior Blackwind, this vast extraordinary realm has remained completely isolated from the outside world. Thus, there exist no cultivation techniques for either Dou Qi or magical energy here,” Dongbo Xueying murmured as he gazed upon the terrifying native extraordinary being still deep in slumber, its presence alone conjuring a thousand-mile radius of crackling thunder and lightning. “If he remains asleep, he clearly hasn’t awakened his True Intent. Yet merely through innate talent alone, he can summon lightning across a thousand miles even in his dormant state?”

“His body radiates an immense aura; his physical strength alone must be at the peak of the demigod realm.”

“With such high lightning talent, his speed must be extremely fast, and his attacks would be ferocious.”

Dongbo Xueying quickly made some deductions.

You must know,

Demons are categorized into lower, middle, and upper ranks, primarily based on their innate talents.

The native extraordinary beings are the same; their talents are also ranked as lower, middle, and upper! Among them, the upper-tier extraordinary natives are in no way inferior to the Xia Clan’s top ancient lifeforms.

“His talent must be among the top middle ranks, or perhaps even upper-tier,” Dongbo Xueying speculated. “His strength must be within the top ten of the Demigod Rankings. I wonder if he has already refined this large world.”

Native extraordinary beings, within their own large worlds, can harness more of the world’s power, making them even stronger.

And if their cultivation reaches a high enough level, they might even refine the ‘Heart of the World,’ fully controlling the entire large world. At that point, they could command boundless cosmic power… which would truly be terrifying.

The Second-ranked Demigod, the Emperor of Flame, refined his Divine Heart and completely controlled the ‘Heart of the World’ of that large world, fully mastering it. Therefore, within his world, he was invincible!

“Encountering a Flame Emperor, this Thunderous Demigod probably isn’t that formidable,” Dongbo Xueying mused inwardly.

“Hu.”

Dongbo Xueying flew within the Illusory Realm, gradually closing the distance with the Thunderous Demigod.

“He’s still asleep and hasn’t discovered me,” Dongbo Xueying relaxed slightly.

The divine realm had long transmitted the information of the Nine Grades of True Intent, and the descriptions were indeed accurate!

Traveling within the Illusory Realm, he could probe the outside world.

Because the ‘Illusory Realm Reflecting Reality’ is a natural cosmic rule, Dongbo Xueying used this to discover some powerful beings in the real world. They would not sense him at all! Not only them, even gods would not feel anything when being ‘reflected’ by the Illusory Realm.

However—

While being reflected in the Illusory Realm would not be sensed, the presence of a living being within the Illusory Realm could be perceived.

Just like an extraordinary being using ‘cosmic power’ to probe would not alert others. But if an extraordinary being simply walked by, it would raise suspicion.

The same principle applied.

Dongbo Xueying was merely flying through the Illusory Realm!

The Illusory Realm and the real world are two sides of the same coin.

Powerful beings in the real world, if their cultivation is high enough, can sense an ‘invisible’ presence passing by. At their level, their perception of the surrounding cosmic rules is extremely sharp. Dongbo Xueying’s current observation range was only a thousand li in diameter, with a radius of just five hundred li.

Five hundred li? For many top-tier demigods, that was within their absolute perception range.

Take Dongbo Xueying’s Star True Intent, currently at the first stage, his absolute perception range was a hundred li from his body.

“I’m three hundred li away from him, and he hasn’t sensed me,” Dongbo Xueying continued to approach, two hundred li, one hundred li, fifty li…

“He’s still fast asleep,” Dongbo Xueying shook his head inwardly. “This Thunderous Demigod must be weak in the mysteries of cosmic rules.”

Swoosh.

Dongbo Xueying continued to explore other regions.

The Thunderous Demigod not discovering him was indeed good news. It seemed that sensing a living being flying through the ‘Illusory Realm’ beside them required an extremely high level of cultivation! This Thunderous Demigod, living in an isolated extraordinary large world without enemies, probably lacked in cultivation depth. He was stronger in physical body and bloodline talent.

“At least it proves one thing: weaker demigods cannot sense my presence in the Illusory Realm,” Dongbo Xueying mused.

Previously in the Blackwind Divine Palace, neither the golden figure nor the black rat could sense him. However, divine war instruments generally lacked in cultivation depth. This Thunderous Demigod was a real being, possibly slightly higher in cultivation than divine war instruments, but still couldn’t sense him.

“I hope the Demon Generals can’t sense me either,” Dongbo Xueying wished.

As long as they couldn’t sense him, he could eliminate them all at once.

Without those five Demon Generals, the remaining weaker demons would pose little threat. The Demon Generals, when inactive, were dormant, but once they moved, they would bring catastrophe. The deaths of hundreds of millions of mortals were commonplace.

Continuing his flight,

Dongbo Xueying was surprised to discover another native demigod. This one was a six-meter-tall man with deep blue skin and long, flowing cyan hair. However, judging from the aura he radiated, he was significantly weaker than the Thunderous Demigod. He was probably at the level of an experienced demigod. With his three second-grade True Intents, Dongbo Xueying might even be able to defeat him.

This time, Dongbo Xueying even approached within ten meters of this demigod in the Illusory Realm, yet the demigod remained completely unaware.

“Hmm?”

Since Dongbo Xueying wanted to test whether his movements in the Illusory Realm could be detected, his final destination was the location of the treasure.

After flying through most of the area, Dongbo Xueying finally showed a hint of excitement.

“Wa! A Yuan stone deposit!”

Dongbo Xueying was thrilled.

Deep underground, over three hundred li beneath the surface, there was a slender vein of ore. Inside this vein were clusters of Yuan stones, each wrapped in layers of rock and debris. If one were to break through the surrounding rock, one would find the ‘Yuan stones’ themselves. These stones were dull gray, unremarkable, shaped like pebbles, with a very smooth surface.

These Yuan stones contained the most primordial cosmic power, the very essence of this extraordinary large world.

Yes, mining these Yuan stones was essentially extracting the essence of this extraordinary large world. If too many were mined, the world would begin to collapse… eventually shattering completely. However, after a great destruction, this extraordinary large world would gradually regenerate, absorbing external forces to naturally replenish itself, and once again give birth to a new extraordinary large world.