Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

"Second?" Fat Long raised an eyebrow and said, "Who do you think is first?"

"Well..."

The host suddenly reacted, a trace of panic flashing in his eyes, "Did I say something wrong?"

"You didn't say anything wrong." Chen Qiu tilted his head and looked at the host casually, "It's no big deal. There are many people stronger than me in this world, and I won't be narrow-minded to get angry just because I hear someone is stronger than me."

"They say serving a king is like serving a tiger, but I'm different from other people. My temperament is very gentle, and I basically won't get angry."

"Relax when dealing with me."

"Even if words are really wrong, it doesn't matter. After all, to err is human. Tell me who is first, I'm quite curious."

Hearing this, the host also relaxed and whispered, "The person is called Jiang Buping."

"Although, like you, his cultivation isn't high, only at the sixth level of Unification, the aura around him is terrifying. It's a kind you can easily feel; this person has at least tens of millions of beings' lives in his hands, a murderous aura so rich that it has coalesced into substance, forming black fog around him, making outsiders unable to see his appearance."

"Moreover, this person is in Demon Cultivation."

"But at the time, I had just awakened consciousness and didn't feel anything particularly terrifying about him, so it didn't matter to me. Later, as I awakened consciousness for longer and encountered more challengers, I realized how terrifying this person is."

"Jiang Buping..."

Chen Qiu silently repeated the name, it gave him a familiar feeling, somewhat resembling "Jiang Taiping." According to Ba Dan, Jiang Taiping was born with nine seven-colored terms, as an illegitimate child of some Immortal Emperor, and Jiang Taiping Continent was named after him.

However, Jiang Taiping was an ancient figure from twenty thousand years ago, and when he awakened, this Secret Realm hadn't been born yet.

This Jiang Buping is a figure relatively behind Jiang Taiping on the timeline, about a few thousand to nearly ten thousand years later.

Just.

The person's strength is naturally powerful, yet no one has heard of this name before, and it's unclear whether there is any relation between the two, possibly another illegitimate child of an Immortal Emperor.

"Quite interesting."

He casually shook his head, treating it like gossip.

After all, both Jiang Buping and Jiang Taiping are too distant from him, basically no chance of contact, so he can ignore them.

"Wait—"

A trace of hesitation flashed across the Secret Realm host's face, as if suddenly recalling something, he hesitated, "I suddenly remembered something, because I was quite impressed with this person at the time. In the days when no one was challenging, my only entertainment was reminiscing about these challengers, and I recalled this challenger quite often."

"Didn't I mention before, in these years of the Secret Realm, never has anyone cleared the ninth level?"

"This person is an exception."

"This person easily cleared the first eight levels, and was the first I saw reach the eighth level. Just when I thought he would easily clear the ninth level, unexpectedly, he stood silently at the entrance of the ninth level for a long time before suddenly giving up."

"He turned around and left the Secret Realm."

"This is the most troubling place for me because everyone knows being the first to clear all levels would surely bring massive rewards, yet he didn't even try, he chose to give up."

"Typically, reaching this stage, even knowing oneself is invincible, one would surely try; trying wouldn't delay anything, but this person just gave up there, which left a deep impression on me at the time."

"I've been to all places within this Secret Realm, except for the ninth level, where I don't know what's inside and haven't entered."

"Because the ninth level requires entering a special small world, only when a challenger enters, can I follow in to see. He didn't enter back then, which also meant I couldn't enter."

Fat Long standing beside, slightly frowned: "This is indeed a bit unusual."

"Since the person is so powerful, and you said he appears even more threatening than Brother Qiu, how could he easily give up like that? Was there anything unusual at that time? Think carefully."

"Uh..."

The Secret Realm host frowned and thought for a long time, then suddenly relaxed and brightened his eyes: "I remember, there was a small character at the entrance of the ninth level, it was the 'Chao' character."

"Jiang Buping was ready to stride into the level, but upon seeing the character, suddenly stood in place silently for a long time, and then left the Secret Realm without turning back."

"A single character, 'Chao'?"

Fat Long's face gradually became strange: "Is it ridicule, or mockery, or perhaps... Chao Tian Sect?"

The 'Chao' character.

Being placed alone at the entrance of the ninth level, even though knowing it's unlikely, he somehow feels the character represents 'Chao Tian Sect' these three words, besides Chao Tian Sect, it seems no word abbreviation can clearly be expressed through a single 'Chao' character, right?

But as far as he knows, Chao Tian Sect's history doesn't contain these, right?

To his knowledge.

Chao Tian Sect is a large sect established by a million transmigrators, once possessed high prestige on the First Grade Continent's Xuantian Continent, then gradually declined and collectively fled to Da Xia Country, sealed themselves within, allowing later generations to inherit it.