While I am in Reality, I Can Enter the Singularity Universe

116: Chapter 116 Betrayal and Siege on Kunlun Mountain! The Supreme Treasure, the Bronze Tree Lamp!”Back when I was in school, the teacher once said that in ancient myths and legends, the Demon Emperor Di Jun ruled the Heavenly Court, governing an era of great kalpas, his aura swallowing ten thousand miles like a Dragon or tiger.”

Looking up at the dazzling Golden Eagle in the sky, Norbu’s eyes flashed with brilliance.

”Di Jun had nine sons, known as ’Golden Crows.’ When they roamed the skies, new suns would appear beyond the horizon... In my opinion, it is not impossible for Little Eagle to evolve into the Golden Crow Bloodline in the future.”

Human evolution is about elevating one’s own life level, similar to shedding an old body and living a new life.

Beasts are different; their evolution is essentially about increasing Bloodline purity and Rank, returning to their ancestors, and pursuing the mythical creatures at the end of their Bloodline.

Therefore, as long as it keeps moving forward on this path, Little Eagle’s Bloodline will eventually evolve into the Golden Crow lineage.

Besides, even if Little Eagle finds it difficult to complete, isn’t he still here?

Norbu was confident that he could step onto the peak of the mountain, take in the full view of the path of Cultivation, and helping Little Eagle complete its ultimate evolution would naturally be a trivial matter.

”Screech—”

”Master, thank you!”

The Golden Eagle, flying joyfully in the sky, seemed to vaguely perceive Norbu’s thoughts.

It landed on the ground, the fear previously in its sharp eyes gone, and affectionately rubbed its head against Norbu’s hand.

”You have also reached the second-Rank Domain; you should be able to fly over the Kunlun Mountains and find traces of the Ice Mountain Snow Lotus...”

Norbu bent his knees slightly, his body agile, and jumped onto the Golden Eagle’s back, laughing happily:

”Let’s go, to the Kunlun Mountains!”

After its second evolutionary transformation, the Golden Eagle’s size was more than double what it had been before.

With a wingspan of nearly ten meters, it could easily hold seven or eight people standing, and Norbu could even lie flat and sleep on it alone.

”Screech— Understood, Master!”

Little Eagle let out a high-pitched cry, flapping its wide wings, which stirred up a small whirlwind in the surroundings, scattering and flattening the knee-high vegetation.

A few moments later, Little Eagle flew into the sky, heading against the sun toward the towering Kunlun Mountains, which stretched endlessly into the clouds.

The Kunlun Mountains stretched for ten thousand miles from north to south, wreathed in clouds and mist, ethereal like a fairyland.

It is the largest mountain range in the East, long known as the ”Ancestor of All Mountains” and the sacred mountain guarding the East.

In the Daoist system, and even in primordial myths, the Kunlun Mountains are renowned as the cultivation grounds for many top-tier experts, yearned for and sought after by countless immortal cultivators.

In the past, apart from a very few cold-resistant plants, the Kunlun Mountains were almost barren, with desolate rocky peaks and vast, snowy mountains.

With the Spiritual Energy Revival, the Kunlun Mountains underwent great changes; the snowy mountains remained, but they were now covered with plants that could never have survived there before.

These plants were naturally Spiritual Plants; each Spiritual Plant was like a miniature ecosystem, providing favorable conditions for the growth of surrounding vegetation.

Although the plant ecology of the Kunlun Mountains was not as terrifyingly lush as that below the mountain, it still showed green vitality amidst the white snow, speaking to the resilience of life.

Norbu sat on Little Eagle’s back, his gaze occasionally scanning the mountainside below, searching for the growth site of the snow lotus from his memory.

During holidays in the past, he often followed the town’s herdsmen here to search for mountain goods, digging up precious medicinal herbs like snow lotuses and caterpillar fungus.

He could still recall a thing or two about some of the easy growth locations.

Anyway, there was no need to rush, and sitting on Little Eagle’s back, Norbu felt quite comfortable.

The higher the evolutionary level of a Transcendent, the stronger their sensory perception becomes.

Even if one were nearsighted, after several promotions, eyesight could recover to 2.0 and evolve toward a ”super-visual scale.”

Therefore, even from the sky, his eyesight was stronger than an eagle’s, making it not difficult to find the locations from his memory.

Suddenly, Norbu’s expression changed drastically, as if he had discovered something below,

”...Huh? That is, is someone fighting?!”

”Little Eagle, go to the top of that mountain quickly!” He pointed, and Little Eagle, through their spiritual contract bond, understood his intent.

Flapping its large wings, its speed suddenly increased, like a golden lightning bolt, racing toward the site of the battle.

Three minutes later, Little Eagle circled in the sky, and Norbu stood up, his eyes fixed on the bloody battle scene below.

He did not rush to approach, intending to observe for a while and figure out the situation before making a plan.

Things are different now; at this turning point where order has collapsed, all interpersonal relationships have regressed to the dark Law of the Jungle. Acting as a soft-hearted fool would likely result in dying without even bones left!

On the summit of a secondary peak, where bare rocks were exposed and patches of snow occasionally lay,

four middle-aged men wearing mountaineering protective gear, with greedy expressions and sinister, fierce eyes, were surrounding and killing a strong young man.

The young man’s face was deathly pale, his protective suit was tattered, and his body was covered in hideous bloody wounds hacked by the four men with hard ice axes.

Through the torn, bright red flesh, one could clearly see the exposed, ghastly white bone, making one’s scalp tingle.

”You four traitors, I have not treated you poorly all these years, and your salaries and benefits were at the top level in the industry. I never expected that while mountaineering, you would actually conspire to betray me!!”

The young man had lost a significant amount of blood, his consciousness was slightly hazy, but he still gripped a bronze tree lamp in his hand, refusing to let go.

He knelt half-way beneath a blue stone two people high, his eyes bloodshot, and roared angrily at the four men who were surrounding him to kill again:

”Do you have any humanity left? To seize a supreme treasure, you would commit such an act of murdering your master, which is worse than pigs or dogs!”

”Ye Tianyu, don’t talk so righteously and grandiosely!”

The oldest of the four, a middle-aged bodyguard with a thick beard, chuckled, his face full of disdain, and pointed at the young man:

”You just provided us with a bodyguard job. The fact that we were willing to risk our lives to follow you to climb ’Mount Everest’ is already enough!”

”Bullshit!” The young man, ”Ye Tianyu,” trembled, cursing in a hoarse throat,

”On the day we set off half a month ago, we already signed a formal agreement. If something happened to you, I would pay your families 5 million yuan!”

”Do you not know what 5 million represents? Some families will never see that much money in their entire lives! Even in the case of fatal accidents, the maximum is one million! But I am sentimental and gave you five million! And yet, you bunch of ungrateful wretches are still not satisfied! I really blame myself for being blind and hiring you into my family!”

”Ye Tianyu, stop talking nonsense! If you’re sensible, hurry up and hand over the bronze tree lamp in your hand. We four brothers will let you live a little longer in this permafrost zone to experience the last moments of your life.”

Another bodyguard on the side couldn’t wait, his greed undisguised, and walked up to Ye Tianyu, threatening him directly:

”Otherwise, we’ll strip off your clothes, freeze you into an ice pig, and stick you upside down on this mountain peak!”

”Impossible!”

”This bronze tree lamp was dug up by me from that ruined temple. How could I possibly hand it over to you?!”

”If you come any closer, I will throw it off the cliff, and none of us will get it!”

Seeing the four men’s impatient faces as they swung their ice axes to attack again, Ye Tianyu stumbled back a few steps. He was close to the large blue stone, and behind him was a bottomless, ten-thousand-foot cliff.

Stones thrown down made no sound, and if a person fell, not even a complete bone would be left.

The four men’s expressions turned ugly, and they stopped, fearing that this guy might really lose his head and throw the bronze tree lamp down.

The bronze tree lamp, mottled with green rust and about half a meter high in Ye Tianyu’s hand, was not just an antique from a thousand years ago; it also had an astonishing effect—lighting the wick could temper one’s Soul and spiritual Sea of Consciousness!

And this was only what had been discovered so far! Who knew if this bronze tree lamp, after undergoing a Transcendent transformation, might awaken other mysterious abilities?

When the five of them were climbing Mount Everest half a month ago, they suffered an avalanche and were trapped in a cliff cave, unable to escape.

They thought they had reached the final countdown of their lives, but when they managed to hold on until five days ago, they suddenly felt as if the world had changed!

The last remaining rations, half a cup that hadn’t been cooked, had a few grains fall to the ground, and they unexpectedly sprouted and grew to half a leg’s height overnight!

They walked out of the cliff cave, weak and frail, and discovered that this was not an isolated case; on the land that had been permanently frozen for years, specks of green vitality appeared.

Some unknown plants sprouted amidst the ice and snow, blooming with beautiful and colorful flowers.

Only then did the five of them finally realize that this was not a hallucination before dying of hunger, but that the world had truly undergone a mutation, suspected to be the arrival of the Spiritual Energy Revival from fantasy films!

Following that was a roar of ecstasy in the midst of despair!

The five of them collected the green plants, used ice axes to arduously dig out the roots, cleaned and cooked them, had a hearty meal, and then began to Cultivate in a proper manner.

Although they knew nothing and had never been exposed to Cultivation, the Spirit Energy Factor itself had a certain affinity. Even the most useless person, given enough time, could eventually sail smoothly and achieve Breakthrough after Breakthrough.

Of course, this was assuming one had sufficient lifespan; otherwise, if one decayed and died of old age, breaking through would naturally become a luxury.

Therefore, under the Spiritual Energy Revival, as long as one lived long enough and kept a low profile, one would eventually become invincible in the world, sweeping across one Transcendent era after another.

After stumbling around for two days, Ye Tianyu was the first to advance to the Transcendent Domain, and the four bodyguards followed, advancing one after another.

Their physical fitness improved significantly, and after eating plant roots for several days in a row, they finally had the confidence to walk out of the cliff cave, descend the mountain safely, and return.

But just as they were walking out of the cliff cave, tense, not far away, on a large platform crushed by the avalanche, they discovered a ruined temple site filled with debris.

At first, they were only slightly surprised; could there be ancient architectural ruins less than a thousand meters in a straight line from Mount Everest?

They passed by above the cliff wall, and one bodyguard screamed in horror, pointing to the west of the temple ruins, saying, ”There is an old monk there, wearing a red cassock, knocking on a wooden fish, twisting prayer beads, and chanting scriptures!”