Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

313: Chapter 314 Extra Chapter 5 of the Myriad Realms: Russell’s Story - The End!When Russell opened his eyes, he had already returned to the Tianheng Realm.

The radiance of the Gate of the Heavens slowly dissipated behind him, and the plaza beneath his feet remained exactly as it was when he left.

The Spiritual Qi of the Tianheng Realm was dense and familiar.

Compared to the oppressive feeling of that Minor Thousand World, which was completely devoid of Spiritual Qi, this place was simply a fairyland.

Russell took a deep breath, feeling the rotation of the Golden Core within his body.

Wait, that’s not right.

It wasn’t a Golden Core anymore.

He was slightly stunned. Using his Divine Sense to look inward, he saw a phantom in the shape of an infant sitting cross-legged within his Dantian, its entire body flowing with a lustrous radiance.

A Nascent Soul.

He had broken through to the Early Nascent Soul Stage?

Russell was dazed for a moment before he realized what had happened.

Although he had only received a Grade C rating for this mission, the blessing of thirty-six thousand Karma points, combined with the insights from his one hundred and thirty-seven years of experience in the Minor Thousand World, had long since elevated his state of mind far beyond the Golden Core stage.

With Karma and insights combined, breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage was merely a natural progression.

He opened the System panel and glanced at his remaining Karma.

[Current Karma: 36,000 points (Consumed: Approximately 2,000 points for Spiritual Qi conversion during the Breakthrough; Remaining: 34,000 points).]

Russell rubbed his chin.

Thirty-four thousand Karma points—it wasn’t a huge amount, but it wasn’t small either.

Among Nascent Soul Cultivators, it could be considered a modest fortune.

He couldn’t help but remark, ”It would be great if there were more missions like this.”

A single mission had allowed him to jump from the Middle Golden Core Stage to the Early Nascent Soul Stage.

If he did a few more, wouldn’t that be incredible?

Russell enthusiastically opened the mission panel, prepared to take another job.

Then, he froze.

On the mission panel, a long list of missions was densely packed.

[Mission: Quell an internal Sect conflict in a certain Middle Thousand World. Time limit: 50 years. Reward: 5,000 Karma points.]

[Mission: Travel to a certain Minor Thousand World to spread the Philosophy of Great Unity. Time limit: 30 years. Reward: 3,000 Karma points.]

[Mission: Assist a certain Major Thousand World in suppressing a Demonic Beast tide. Time limit: 20 years. Reward: 8,000 Karma points.]

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Russell counted them; there were thirteen missions in total.

As he looked through them one by one, his face grew increasingly grim.

Among these missions, the highest reward was only eight thousand Karma, while the lowest was a mere two thousand.

Furthermore, the mission descriptions all contained detailed restrictions.

Some forbade the use of Magical Artifacts, some forbade revealing one’s identity, and some even required completion within a specific number of years.

Compared to the first mission, the difference was like night and day.

The first mission had given thirty-six thousand Karma, allowed him to choose his own Magical Artifacts, and had a generous time limit.

The total Karma from all thirteen of these missions might not even match the first one.

Russell couldn’t help but mutter, ”Is this System deliberately lowballing me because I earned too much on the first job?”

As soon as he spoke, a prompt popped up from the System.

”Ding! Friendly Reminder: The first mission for members of the Great Alliance of the Heavens and Universe is always part of the ’Beginning of Great Unity’ series. These have lower difficulty and more abundant rewards, designed to help new members familiarize themselves with the mission process.”

”Subsequent missions will have their reward amounts determined based on the member’s actual abilities and the mission’s complexity. They are not directly comparable to the first mission.”

After reading it, Russell’s mouth twitched.

So the first mission was just a newbie gift pack?

And these were the normal rates?

He sighed and resignedly began picking a mission.

Mosquito legs are still meat; it’s better than nothing.

Besides, Karma is something that adds up over time.

Russell casually accepted a Minor Thousand World mission with a three-thousand Karma reward and stepped into the Gate of the Heavens once more.

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And so it continued, cycle after cycle.

Spring went and autumn came; the cold of winter gave way to the heat of summer.

Russell lost track of how many missions he had completed.

Some missions were simple, taking only three to five years.

Others were complex, consuming decades.

He had visited prosperous Major Thousand Worlds and desolate Minor Thousand Worlds.

He had been a general, a merchant, and once his soul had even transmigrated into a female body, experiencing what it was like to be a woman for several decades.

After returning from that mission, Russell stared at his own face in the mirror for three full days before he was convinced he had changed back.

He secretly swore that if he ever received another female-body mission, he would rather give it up than do it.

It was too tormenting.

Regardless, Russell was now a veteran of the Great Alliance of the Heavens and Universe.

He handled missions with ease, knowing when to be firm, when to be gentle, when to use someone else’s strength, and when to intervene personally.

After completing over a hundred missions, Russell’s understanding of the Great Alliance of the Heavens and Universe grew deeper.

Especially regarding the rumors of that ”eternal myriad heavens world tree.”

During one mission, he had accidentally entered an extremely remote Minor Thousand World.

There was no sun in the sky of that world, only a vast, boundless leaf that blotted out the sky, casting a ghostly green light.

He later learned that this Minor Thousand World was a world inside a single leaf of the eternal myriad heavens world tree.

One leaf, one world.

A single leaf was a complete Minor Thousand World, with its own heaven and earth, all things, and living beings.

How many leaves were on a single tree?

They were countless.

This was the eternal myriad heavens world tree.

And all of this was merely derived from a single divine tree within the Supreme Creation Great Daluo Heaven.

Russell knew that the Tianheng Realm he resided in was also one of the worlds manifested by the Supreme Creation Great Daluo Heaven.

One was derived from the Origin, while the other was born from the divine tree.

The difference in their levels was like clouds and mud.

Whenever Russell thought of this, a sense of awe would inevitably rise in his heart.

But more than that, there was a sense of longing.

The Supreme Creation Great Daluo Heaven.

That was the place of Origin from which all worlds were derived.

According to legends, countless Immortal Venerables resided in that world.

Russell didn’t know if he would ever be able to go to that place.

But he wanted to try.

He began to deliberately accumulate Karma, no longer using it to break through his cultivation.

Middle Nascent Soul Stage, Late Nascent Soul Stage, Soul Transformation...

These Realms he could slowly break through via bitter cultivation.

He would save his Karma.

Save it to exchange for that opportunity.

Rumor had it that as long as a member of the Great Alliance of the Heavens and Universe accumulated enough Karma, they could apply for Ascension to the Supreme Creation Great Daluo Heaven.

It wasn’t Ascension to a Major Thousand World in the ordinary sense, but a true Ascension directly to the place of Origin.

Russell didn’t know how much Karma was needed.

But it didn’t matter; he could save up slowly.

If one mission wasn’t enough, he’d do ten.

If ten weren’t enough, he’d do a hundred.

One day, he would save enough.

One day, he would see with his own eyes what that legendary place of Origin, where Immortal Venerables were said to be everywhere, actually looked like.