Missing

Tianxuan city is one of the 9 great cities of earth and the most prosperous city.

In the past when the earth was at war, many countries and cities were destroyed. Many lives were lost.

And humans gained peace after the war but human lifestyles cannot be the way they were.

There had to be new rules and new ways they had to come up with to survive in this world.

So all the warriors and bigshots of humans in this world held a meeting to organize new rules and their structure of influence.

The main base of humans was decided to be kept in the Kunlun realm.

This does not mean they are abandoning the earth. They decided to protect the earth with all their might and it is their home. So how can they abandon it?

They decided to create 9 great cities on earth. The rulers of this city should be at the Nascent soul stage.

These 9 great cities each have 18 sub-cities. These sub-city's rulers should at least be at a golden core level.

You may be wondering, why only nascent soul and golden core level cultivators are kept at rulers.

This is because of the level cap on earth. There can only be a cultivator of the maximum level of the nascent soul peak level. And beyond that should leave this earth or they will attract thunder tribulations from the heavens.

This is one of the reasons the leaders of humans decided to develop their base in the Kunlun realm.

And currently, in this Tianxuan city on a street, a young man with black eyes and long hair tied up, wearing a white shirt and black pants, was walking with a delighted face.

" I never thought that I, the emperor of mysteries, Have stayed in the cultivation world for 500 years, and on earth, only 5 months have passed. This is really a piece of good news for me, and this is also a golden era of cultivation at this time," said Xiao fan.

When he came back to Xiao fan, using a mysterious method he calculated the time and fate of this world. And he was indeed surprised to know that only 5 months had passed in this world after his disappearance and this era of this world, is a golden cultivation era.

The golden cultivation era means that in this era, cultivation geniuses are born. A genius who may be one in a thousand is like clouds and birds in this era.

An era where cultivation itself will prosper.

If you fight for fate, You can increase your strength and luck. In short, You'll have countless opportunities to become stronger.

"hmm... how should I have fun? With my current strength, I can kill anyone without even a thought.

this is too overpowered. if it's like this I can't have fun trampling on others' faces."

"Oh yeah. I'll just restrict my cultivation base to 1st evolutions body refining stage. No ill make it to the qi refining stage. That way no one can know my true strength and I can have a reason for my disappearance." laughed Xiao fan.

You know there is a saying that 'It's lonely to be invincible' and this is exactly what Xiao fan is feeling right now. He is too bored!

But If his enemies in the world of cultivation know what he is thinking, they may be crying with happiness, and they will be thanking the heavens and even Xiao fan for his decision to return to earth.

Or else who knows he may 'visit' his 'old friends' for 'tea' due to his boredom.

...

Tianxuan park is a famous park in tianxuan city.

It was a daily visiting place for both upper-class and lower-class people in the city.

It was a beautiful place with lush green trees in the surroundings. from time to time, you will hear the happy peals of laughter of kids or some live fights going on in this place.

Overall it was a very lively place in tianxuan city.

In a quiet corner of this place, an old man with a steady face and straight body was deeply meditating.

Beside him was a beautiful girl 17 years old practicing her techniques.

Suddenly the surroundings beside the old man had changed.

Dense winds started to blow and clouds gathered in the skies above. The surrounding Qis gathered at a rapid pace and it was dense.

After gathering together to form dense clouds, the qis started to move towards the body of the old man.

But akin to a broken dam, the qi entering the old man's body was leaking outwards at a rapid pace.

The inward flow couldn't compare to the outward leakage.

After a few moments, everything returned to normal.

The old man opened his eyes and couldn't help but sigh. "Is this my limit? Can I never reach the other stage in my life?"

"Grandpa you can't give up like that. I'm sure that there is a way to reach a higher realm.

"you don't understand Qing'er. I don't see any hope of reaching the next realm. I hope that with your talent you achieve what I couldn't."

"You should not give up hope for just a small matter old man." said a voice at their backs.

Qing'er and the old man were stunned. They both turned back suddenly and couldn't help but release a sigh of relief.

What they saw was a boy at seventeen. The boy had a profound air about him.

His gaze was deep and sharp. One look and you feel like everything about you is known to him.

The old man was stunned by him. he couldn't help but think, 'how did he appear here without me knowing?'

due to excitement, His heart lit up a speck of hope.

"Friend can you elaborate on what you said just now?" asked the old man.

"I Meant what I said just now. And I have a way to help you," said Xiao fan.

"But how do you know what helps my grandpa needs?" this time it was Qing'er who asked.

She thought that she has seen him somewhere. But she couldn't remember where. But it does not matter, right now grandpa's wish is more important.

Seeing the girl's way of speaking, Xiao fan was not surprised. When he was walking in the city, he sensed the aura of someone breaking through. So to see who it was he came here. But when he saw that the old man failed to break through, He was slightly disappointed.

But sensing his cultivation Xiao fan was surprised. Because the Old man's cultivation base was a late dharma fusion realm cultivator. One step away is the tribulation realm.

When thinking of this Xiao fan thought of a way to make money..hmm..no to help him and thus here he was.

"It's simple I can tell you my analysis."

"Ohh.." hearing his words Qing'er and the old man were immediately intrigued.

"please go on." said the old man.

"First let me start from the realms.

The body refining realm is the first foundation for our strength. You know mortals cant use their soul or qi, they can only use their body. Only when the strength of the body reaches its peak, we can endure the power of Qi.

Then comes the Qi refining realm. in this realm, you are converting the qi in the atmosphere to pure qi and storing it in your body. The amount of Qi and the purity of the qi determines your strength.

After the purity of your Qi reaches a certain threshold can you use it to reach the depths of your body? This gives you the chance for innate reformation. Thus developing your innate strength even more.

After that, you are fusing your body and qi to form a foundation. At the late stage of foundation establishment, your foundation will be solid and lets you reach your next goal in the Heart casting realm or heart stability realm.

This trains your mind and heart to have a temperament of an expert. If your mind cant follow your body and soul, then it will be corroded with time and you will die without taking another step. Thus his stage helps to stabilize your mind and heart and your journey will continue smoothly.

At first, I sensed that you are trying to break through. But the phenomena you caused while trying to break through is not for one to go from heart casting realm to the golden-core realm Because this kind of phenomenon is not possible for this kind of breakthrough. During the breakthrough to the golden core realm, the Qi in the surrounding directly goes to your dantian and this fuses with your trained qi and is compressed to make a core. That is the golden core.

It is also not related to the breakthrough to the nascent soul realm because the nascent soul realm is about strengthening your soul with the help of your core and it's not possible to bring upon the phenomena of your breakthrough.

Soul formation is out of the question Because you are fusing your golden core and nascent soul to form this soul. Qi is not the main thing here.

Void-breaking realm means having the strength to break the voids, which means being strong enough to establish a base to comprehend dao. But for this, you would need more qi and more pressure. And the current amount of qi on earth is not suitable for this.

And then comes the Dao fusion realm. In the Dao fusion realm, you can comprehend multiple dao or a single dao. After comprehending your own choice of dao to the late stage, You are combining your transformed soul, body,y, and days. Contrary to others' expectations this does not need too much qi. Because the word 'Fusion' is the most important aspect of this world. The way you fuse, how you fuse it, what it's a specialty, and other important aspects determine your true strength for the dao fusion realm. After fusing these, you are ready to be immortal.

But the heavens are not so kind. You used the resources and Qi of the heavens to reach this stage. So how can it not test you? How can it let you go away so easily?

And that's where the tribulation realm comes in. It's the test from the heavens to you. If you want to become immortal then you have to face the heavens and their test. Heaven will give you nine tests and these tests are a disaster as well as a blessing in disguise.

And the clouds that had gathered above your head are the premature sign of crossing tribulations. Although it could not generate thunder, it was dense. This means that someone is so close to accepting the heavens test but they couldn't reach the final step of perfectly fusing their body, soul, and dao.

So I assume that you are a late-stage dao fusion realm expert and you failed to take the final step."

The grandfather and granddaughter pair were stunned and dumbfounded. They never thought someone could go into so much in-depth detail about a realm. Although these are the basics and everyone knows about this, the way he spoke about it was very detailed.

Especially the old man was much more stupefied. He never thought that someone will just expose his cultivation realm by just witnessing his failed breakthrough.

And when he checked the other party's realm, his heart couldn't believe it. The other party was just a late-stage Qi refining realm cultivator!!

He was exposed by a Qi refining cultivator? he didn't know whether he should laugh or cry.

But this also made the speck of hope lit in his heartburn more vigorously.

"Then do you have a way to relieve me from this predicament?" he couldn't help but ask.

"Of course I have. It just is a little bit expensive and I guarantee that it will not have any side effects," said Xiao fan.

Both the old man and Qing'er were ecstatic when they heard him. But they also felt a little helplessness in their heart. A breakthrough method to the tribulation realm!!

This is something that has not been seen since the start of the cultivating journey of humans.

Although there are some means to break through, those are all unconventional methods and leave incurable backlash. And they may not even be stronger than those who broke through naturally.

The risks outweighed the gains! so these methods were not worth mentioning unless it is a life or death situation.

But the method that Xiao fan was telling them is one with no such side effects. That means they will be as strong as those who naturally broke through. But the expense for this kind of thing may not be something they could give.

"please tell us what you need. My Tian family will do our best to fulfill your wishes." pleaded Qing'er.

"Okay fine." saying that xiao fan flipped his hand and a scroll appeared.

"Take this scroll. This has the formulae for the fusing dao pill." saying that he threw it to Qing'er.

Qing'er was flustered and hurriedly caught the scroll. This scroll had the method to form such a unique pill, How can she not b careful?

"please tell us what you need," said Qing'er.

At the same time, she was thinking of what he might need. Does he need rare herbs? or maybe he needs some treasures. Oh, wait what if he needs money? no that's impossible. A person like him who has the formula for such miraculous pills needs money? that's very unlikely.

Or wait does he wants to ask my hand for marriage? Oh, wait that's most probably it. Should I accept it? Well, he looks handsome and is my type. And I'm also a peerless beauty, so, understandably, he wants to marry me. I think ill first him or something. hmm...

While she was thinking Xiao fan spoke," I need 1 trillion union points."

"Oh wait let me think..hm? what did you say" asked Qing'er, not sure if she heard it correctly.?

" Did you not hear what I said? I need 1 trillion union points," shouted Xiao fan.

'he needs just money' Qing'er became frustrated. What she thought impossible is the thing he needs. And just her thoughts, She couldn't help but feel embarrassed remembering those. Her face became beet red.

The old man was also stunned. He didn't believe a pill formula like this would just cost 1 trillion. You know for an expert like him 1 trillion was just a trinket in a bucket.

"friend,d are you sure?"

"I'm sure old man."

"but only this much is very less."

"don't worry I just need this money."

"sigh okay, I'll give it. please if you need any help in the future ask our help. Qing'ergivese him the money."

"yes, grandpa" the embarrassed Qing'er quickly regained her composure.

She asked Xiao fan," Sir what are your name and bank details?"

"My name is xiao fan and my bank id is XXXXXXXX"

"Xiao fan...hm...Xiao fan?" as if a bell rang in her mind, Qing'er was stunned.

She curiously asked Xiao fan, "Ar. Are you...luo ruoxin's boyfriend?"

bewildered Xia fan said," yeah, how did you know that?"

Qing'er was shocked and said," You are the missing Xiao fan."

'what? missing?'