Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

The heavy and wild aura surged in like a tide, pressing slightly weightily on Chu Zheng's Divine Soul.

Chu Zheng's eyes swept around, a hint of faint surprise flashing in his gaze; the current Cosmic Edge before him was entirely different from what he remembered.

There was no Ancient Boundary standing towering in later generations to ward off and isolate the two realms. As far as the eye could see, it was a shattered starry sky extending into endless distance.

At the end of the starry sky, there appeared a massive Celestial Chasm seemingly splitting the entire universe apart.

The chasm was not in a state of void but filled with a Space-Time Barrier flowing with billions of complex rune lights.

It was an extremely ancient spatial-temporal wave, seemingly separated not by space, but by eternal time.

Beyond the barrier, dense and indissoluble Yin Qi rolled continuously, like billions of imprisoned Fierce Beasts ceaselessly assaulting the Space-Time Barrier.

On the barrier, brilliant Divine Light occasionally flared, from varied sources including Immortal Light, traces of Martial Path, and totems from the wild Fierce Beasts, collectively forming an indestructible defense line, firmly blocking the world-destroying Evil Qi on the other side.

The vitality of the Great Universe and the stillness of the Universe were completely separated by this Celestial Chasm and barrier.

This was the boundary of the Universe and the venue of this Heaven Burial Ceremony.

Stepping out of the Boundary Gate, Chu Zheng stood on the remnants of the Stars, looking around.

The excitement of the Heaven Burial Ceremony was not beyond his expectations. Instead, under this vast, endless starry sky, which left the Stars dull and fragmented, human figures appeared sparse, even somewhat bleak.

In the field of vision, those Cultivators who emerged from the same Boundary Gate, along with those who had arrived earlier and not yet dispersed, totaled merely a few hundred thousand.

For a ceremony famed for gathering prodigies from the Myriad Heavens and Realms, this was not considered many.

However, Chu Zheng soon noticed an anomaly: far away in the starry sky, faintly visible Boundary Gate illusions were still suspended, scattered like stars.

Clearly, the Cultivators participating in the ceremony did not enter from the same entrance, but were dispersed and distributed.

Amongst the crowd from the Near Immortal Realm, he did not see the figure of Xue Qing; she presumably took the route of the Martial Pavilion.

Just as he was contemplating, a Cultivator clad in jet-black Battle Armor arrived by Space Shattering, with an aura as deep as an abyss, the Battle Armor covered with dazzling starry patterns that glittered brilliantly.

"Star Moon Ancient Clan, Xing Rui, here to welcome you all to the Border Wilderness Battlefield."

His gaze swept over the Cultivators gradually gathering near the Boundary Gate, his voice like a grand bell, clearly reaching everyone's ears, as he began to explain the basic rules of the Heaven Burial Ceremony:

"This Heaven Burial Ceremony will last for ten years..."

As Xing Rui spoke, Chu Zheng roughly grasped the basic rules of this Heaven Burial Ceremony.

The rules were not complicated: hunt down Evil Demons to earn points, and those with the highest points would be deemed the winners; there would be no platform competitions as in the past.

Yet one stipulation within it cast a shadow over Chu Zheng's heart.

Points are permissible to be seized!

Not only could one earn points by demon hunting, but defeating other living creatures allowed one to plunder all their accumulated points.

This meant that on this battlefield, everyone was both a hunter and a prey; Evil Demons were to be killed, but the Cultivators around were moving treasure troves of points.

Certainly, hunting Evil Demons could earn points, but ambushing other Cultivators to seize their hard-earned points was undoubtedly much faster and easier than doggedly killing Evil Demons. Especially in the later stages, preying on the weak was the best strategy for quickly accumulating points.

"During the ceremony, you may not give up or withdraw halfway. If any of you fear death, you may leave now."

Xing Rui added a remark, his expression indifferent as ice.

After surveying the group and seeing no one respond, he proceeded to explain the detailed rules.

To ensure fairness, the Border Wilderness Battlefield has been divided into five Space-Time Battlefields by the Ancient Ancestors using Supreme Divine Power, each isolated with variegated Laws intensity.

Except for Battlefield One, which only those of the Eighth Order Ninth Layer can enter, the other four their Laws do not allow a Cultivation difference exceeding one Great Realm.

Chu Zheng was assigned to Battlefield Five.

This battlefield is only for creatures of Eighth Order First Layer and Eighth Order Second Layer and Evil Demons; a Cultivator achieving a breakthrough will be automatically repelled by the field's rules into the next higher level battlefield.

In a certain sense, this was meant to ensure basic fairness, preventing some prodigies from being crushed by high-level Cultivators due to low Cultivation.

In practice, those who reached the Heaven Burial Ceremony were at least Eighth Order First Layer Perfection; in this ten-year life-and-death struggle, breakthroughs were almost inevitable, and Battlefield Five, where Chu Zheng was, would soon turn into a meat grinder of Eighth Order Second Layer Cultivators.

Ultimately, only one hundred thousand can enter the Heaven Burial Palace, but part of that quota has already been pre-distributed.

Firstly, the Ten Great Ancient Clans each took three thousand, making thirty thousand spots instantly predetermined.

Besides the Ten Great Ancient Clans, including powerful families like the Yun Family, they comprised eight thousand.

In other words, the remaining sixty-two thousand spots are left for various forces to contend.

From Xing Rui's words, Chu Zheng learned the exact number of participants in this Heaven Burial Ceremony.

The total number for this ceremony, though slightly less than before, still exceeded eight million.