Chapter 1690: A Solo Game

Chapter 1690: A Solo Game

Within a six-planetary starfield with a small-sized blue, luminous, and young Solar Star burning blazingly and beautifully at its center was a black and silver robed figure walking lazily through the near-empty space filled with tiny meteoroids, just barely on the outskirts of a luscious, water-rich planet. The figure looked the epitome of relaxed and at-home.

Since obtaining his True Void Dragon Bloodline and the ability to soar through space, exceeding the boundaries of continental flat earths and planets, Wei Wuyin had always found the vast expanse of space comfortable and familiar. The Original Dawn Palace was often established within the empty void of space, acting on its own like a roaming dragon within the void.

After concocting the Sky Origin of the Nine Waves using the Thirty-Three Heavenly Concoction Method, fully confirming his status as a Senior Worldly Saint Alchemist. In the Mystic-Rank of the Alchemic Dao, the skill classifying titles were: Junior, Senior, and Exalted! By Wei Wuyin's standards, he had just entered the stage as a Senior Worldly Saint Alchemist.

If other Alchemists learned that his absurd standard taught by his late and first Alchemical Master had been upheld through his career and cultivation, they would certainly gawk in horror and disbelief for several years, remaining speechless throughout. If his current age was considered, it might kill some seniors then and there out of sheer frustration.

"Do you want to take that boy as a disciple?" The Heavenly War Spirit asked curiously, her attention focused on the planet that Wei Wuyin lazily orbited. A short while ago, Wei Wuyin had left behind an opportunity for a young boy by burying a Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill at the transcendent-quality. While it was an exceedingly short period of time, mostly for cultivators at their level, for that young boy the Soul Idol Phase, was enough for him to overturn his entire course in life.

Wei Wuyin had taken a light interest in his activities. It wasn't anything too attentive, but he sent his gaze over from time to time. The young boy's cultivation soared. With a Transcendent Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill, he had a genuine Domain Seed that was already larger than the genius-level talent on his planet, had the innate ability to convert light energies into pseudo-Soul Light energies, and a greater grasp of spatial energies.

By sheer virtue of the pill, he rapidly tempered his physique and ascended to the Spatial Resonance Phase, the fourth stage of the Astral Core Realm with nine ripples, and his grasp and insights of pseudo-Soul Light Energies was enough for him to acquire the Primary Violet Light Source, the highest form of natural occurring Primary Light Source beneath True Light and Soul Light. With the transcendent Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill, when he reaches the World Realm Phase, the Seventh Stage of the Astral Core Realm, and forms a Domain Seed, not only would the Neo-Dawn Domain Seed merge with this one, but his Primary Light Source will likely evolve into True Light, and if he was lucky, Soul Light.

A single pill had established heaven-blessed foundations for an ordinary young boy, allowing him to leap two stages in the already difficult Astral Core Realm, and become a growing star within his world.

"Disciple?" Wei Wuyin asked with a flat tone, completely disinterested in taking one. The young boy might be considered 'young' by the Astral Core Realm's average standards, but he was already over two hundred years in age, and by the logic of a mortal, he was in his late teens to early twenties. He was a young man if anything. Even then, Wei Wuyin was far too young to take in a disciple.

"..." The Heavenly War Spirit silently thought for a while. "Are you...are you playing a solo game of Mystics?"

Wei Wuyin revealed the smallest of smiles with his eyes closed shut. The game of Mystics was an ancient one designed around selecting a piece and calmly navigating around and manipulating its fate for a specific goal, often competing with others. Su Nianzu and Jia Yang had competed to see which could reach the Yin Form Phase, the fourth stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, first with multiple selections.

Jia Yang had lost back then.

The goal then was for one of the selections to reach the Yin Form Phase before the other person, categorized as a subcategory of Mystics referred to as 'Mystics: Cultivation' and both sides had positive and negative interference options that could lead to the participants experiencing fortunes or suffering calamities. Jia Yang's most invested piece had died due to a love-rival plot established by Su Nianzu and she died to a competitor.

The stage for this game was performed by a newly created World Realm that was actively sped upwards by Temporal Acceleration so that a few days was several years. A feature only possible in low-level games of Mystics with Qi Condensation Realm cultivators or mortals by those who were Ascended beings. The game itself was created by Heavenly Seers to emulate the vague influences of heaven and fabled divinities.

The failed participant was then revived and given the blessed opportunity of gaining Jia Yang's recognition for her efforts, becoming his maidservant, and might later have the chance for significantly greater heights. Whether this would exceed her former destiny or not was unable to be calculated, but becoming the maidservant of a World King was no small accomplishment.Ne/w novel chapters are p/u/blished at novelhall.com

The Northfrost Royal Duke had notoriously once been a participant in the game and had exceeded one of the most difficult challenges and overcame a lengthy game of Mystics and became a Mystic Ascendant Realm cultivator. Within the Onestar Galaxy, he was one of its most prominent figures now, with a greatly recognized status, on the verge or potentially at the Mystic Overlord level despite his origins.

Wei Wuyin's alternative self had been interested in practicing the game of Mystics to better understand the Heavenly Daos and emulate its commonly used strategies and tactics. To that version of himself, it was a mere pastime that was more akin to idle interest, but Wei Wuyin had taken the term 'exploitative' to the limits of what's acquirable at every opportunity, and his understanding wasn't just deeper but the game itself delivered far greater benefits.

One of the most critical aspects of the game: Momentum.

The Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill could only give the young boy a limited amount of momentum and his environment, innate talents, allies, and previously established cultivation foundations were harshly gatekeeping him from further fortune. Furthermore, while his personality was likable, he lacked ambition and a forthrightness toward seizing opportunities. He was traveling down a path paved by his planet's history rather than exploring further.

Using the mutated Minor Law of Time, Wei Wuyin glimpsed into a potential future of the young boy, and while it was simply one of his unsubstantiated futures, he could only sigh with disappointment. Looking at five other alternative futures, they led to similar ends.

The boy never once travels outside his starfield or seeks out opportunities in the unknown. If fortune wasn't laid at his feet, he simply wouldn't try to grab it. It was incredibly disappointing.

The Heavenly War Spirit exclaimed in understanding, her little girl voice pouting slightly. "So you'll leave him like that?"

Wei Wuyin chuckled at her judgmental attitude. She clearly wanted him to follow through with a little more, curious about his developments, unaware of that critical personality flaw of his.

"How do you suggest I continue his fortune? A trial? Find him a cultivation master to learn from? Or should I leave him another ancient treasure, material, or alchemical product?" Wei Wuyin mused how this Spirit of the Dao of War would try to nurture a cultivator. Perhaps send him to the Battlefield without any safe net and see how he develops? If he survives, of course.

"..." She remained silent for a long while. Clearly, she didn't know herself. She knew of the game of Mystics, formerly known as Heaven, but she wasn't adept at how to win or play a solo game. "What's your purpose?"

"I've already completed it," Wei Wuyin replied.

"Mm," the Heavenly War Spirit thought long and hard before her golden mass form glistened and sparkled. "Let's give him a scavenger hunt! You gave him a Neo-Dawn Eclipse Pill, now leave him clues to a greater fortune out there. Who knows how he'll develop?"

"That requires extensive planning, you know? I have to ensure he has the tools to survive certain situations, and each location had to be either increasingly perilous or require a test of wit, will, strength, or intelligence to overcome. There needed to be hints at certain points to progress to the next hunt. I'll also need actors to..." As Wei Wuyin thought about this, a spark flared within his mind as ideas conjured with each syllable.

That's right!

He could develop...a Blessed!

What type of Blessed?

Let's see the end result!

"Let's do it!" Wei Wuyin, for the first, felt incredibly excited. The game of Mystics revolved around using Heavenly Daos tactics, but the extension of which was limited. What if he decided to...

The mere thought of it was insane! But he was willing to do it!