Chapter 163 Messing Up

While the mistake chapter wasn't up for very long, it still was up for a decent amount of time, so I'd like to say once again, for anyone who read that chapter, please know it was a mistake and a past version I had already scraped. This chapter is the correct one.

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Messing up

"You damn ingrate!" The Great Elder cursed, "If it weren't for your arrogant behavior, we wouldn't have been in this mess!"

"Duan Zhen is an arrogant fool who ignores everything that has nothing to do with his Duan Imperial Family!" Wang Yichen retorted, "It was Yue Zifeng who figured something out, not Duan Zhen. I had nothing to do with that man. Obviously, he found something out from the disciples we sent over."

Wang Yichen was indeed a smart man, and even with his limited information on what was happening in the outside world, he could find out something that was close to the truth.

Though he was angry at the fact his son was still arguing, since their time was greatly limited, the Great Elder didn't respond but only put more effort into powering up the array formation.

This array formation was something that an Elder of the Blood Saber Sect gave to them. It was a large cross-continental teleportation array that could, once fully built and powered up could, teleport people to and from the Central Continent.

However, its cost was something far beyond the Wang Clan's financial ability. So in order to make it, the Wang Clan has been diverting most of their income into it over the past almost century.

And because of their efforts, the Wang Clan finished constructing it. After that, the only thing they needed was to power it. Now, all the Wang Clan needed was a few years to slowly gather enough of the space element that was naturally in the air to be able to fuel a trip without alarming the rest of the continent.

After they fueled the first trip, then they could wring the entire continent dry for all they cared, as by then, the Blood Saber Sect would've turned their clan into their new base. Who would dare to ask the Blood Saber Sect to stop?

But now, at its last step, when they only needed a few more years at most to fully fuel it, Yue ZIfeng, that sword maniac, had discovered something and didn't even intend to reason.

Now without care for their appearance, the Wang Clan could only forcibly activate the teleportation array by using the blood essence of the Great Elder in hopes that it would speed up the Spatial Element Gathering Array quickly enough to save their lives.

Yue ZIfeng was a man far beyond the capabilities of the Wang Clan, and they knew that there wouldn't even be a fight if he arrived before they left.

Time quickly passed, and eventually, Wang Yichen looked around at the people around him and realized something. After some quick thinking, he made a firm and resolute decision.

Looking at the few hundred core members of his family that were waiting for the Great Elder to power the teleportation array, he knew that because of the number of people here, the cost of the teleportation was being increased.

'Some of these useless people don't even have high yellow-grade martial veins. Taking them to the Central Continent is useless. A Qi Sea realm cultivator is not even worth a fart over there.' Wang Yichen thought.

Thinking that far, Wang Yichen didn't have much more hesitation.

Unleashing his domain, he summoned his Blood Spirits and sent the blood-colored ghastly figures loose into the crowd.

"Partiarach, what are you doing!"

"Wait, no stop!"

"Great Elder, help us!"

Countless cries came up, but no one dared to move to help lest they angered Wang Yichen and join the list.

The Great Elder witnessed this, raised an eyebrow, and was about to yell at Wang Yichen to stop, but after receiving a voice transmission from him that conveyed his thoughts, the Great Elder didn't say anything, tacitly agreeing.

It was better to sacrifice the useless so that the rest could survive.

Very soon, due to the overwhelming strength that Wang Yichen possessed, the once few hundred people were reduced to just over two hundred.

Now, after Wang Yichen's quick massacre, the group was much smaller and, therefore, less costly to teleport. The people who survived were the core of the Wang Clan and either had the most future potential or were now in their prime with a few hundred years ahead of them.

And the effects of Wang Yichen's quick thinking showed, as almost instantly, the teleportation array started to power up, and the passageway started to form.

However, at the same time, Yue Zifeng also arrived.

Not bothering to say a word in response, Yue Zifeng slashed at the protection array that protected the Wang Clan's ancestral hall.

Sadly it was too late. The second Yue Zifeng broke into the ancestral hall, the void had already been torn, and the group of Wang Clan was leaving.

"HA! Yue Zifeng, you idiot!" Wang Yichen mocked as he teleported away, "I'll be back! The day we return marks the end of your sect and every being you care about!"

Unconvinced, Yue Zifeng ignored the cheap snarky remark from Wang Yichen and slashed his immortal sword at the group, but before he could, it disappeared from his line of sight in a flash of purple radiance.

"Damn it!" Yue Zifeng cursed.

Both angry at his incompetence and some other form of anger deep inside him, Yue Zifeng started to destroy the ancestral hall of the Wang Clan, hoping that it would vent some of it.

"Core Elders!" Yue ZIefng yelled, "Kill all of the remaining members of the Wang Clan! They are traitors of the righteous alliance and subordinates of the Blood Saber Sect!"

Giving one last look at the now-destroyed ancestral hall, Yue Zifeng flew out, planning to follow his own instructions.

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Still sitting on the Firmament Sword, Xue Bai was both patient and aggrieved.

He was confident in Yue ZIfeng's ability, so there was little chance the Wang Clan would escape, but he was also annoyed that he wasn't taken along to see the end of Wang Yu and Wang Yichen.

The former was a rather important character in the story, which he would like to see croak, while the other was the man who poisoned him.

However, as he was feeling the two emotions, he suddenly felt a sudden huge decrease in the spatial element that was in the air.

Anyone with an elemental affinity can sense the corresponding element in the air with little to no effort. After all, they had an affinity to the element. How could they not sense it as it disappeared in such huge amounts suddenly?

So the second that Xue Bai felt almost all of the surrounding space element disappear, he knew something had gone terribly wrong down there.

'They succeeded? There's no way. Master went down there personally. How could they have gotten away with him? Also, at the rate they were absorbing the spatial element, it would've taken them another 15 minutes to get enough to teleport so far. So how did they teleport out so quickly?' Xue Bai's mind raced.

Hundreds of thoughts poured into his mind as he tried to figure out what happened down below, but before he could, his attention was snagged by the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

Living in the Soaring Sword Sect, Xue Bai constantly sensed the massive amount of teleports that happened throughout the Soaring Sword Sect, but he could never manage to comprehend anything from it leading to his Space Law progress to stay at 0.

It was as if he saw the entire process of a painting being created sped up to the point where it only took a second.

How could he understand anything from it?

It'd be a miracle if he could even tell what the hell was going on.

However, now, in front of his eyes, he could see everything about it from the Wang Clan's teleportation.

The spatial runes that were allowing them to travel, the Void Traversal Array that was allowing them safe travel across the void, and even the Space Element Gathering Array that allowed them to power up the spatial runes they needed for the travel.

Everything was in his senses, and he could see it all happening.

From step 0 to completion, the act of the Wang Clan teleporting gave Xue Bai so much information it made him feel like his brain was being overstuffed.

But even as his mind was being stretched, he didn't feel any pain or any type of discomfort, but rather instead, a deep sense of euphoria.

Like he was a man on the verge of dying of dehydration, Xue Bai's brain soaked up all of the information it could see.

He even unconsciously changed his forms and activated his Nine-Tailed Celestial Void Fox bloodline.

And when he activated the bloodline, the enlightened process only sped up.

Seconds quickly passed in the real world. However, to Xue Bai, whose mind had been entranced by the beauty in front of him, it was like days.

Only until Xue Bai felt that the Wang Clan had traveled too far away from him that he was taken out of the trance.

But by then, it was too late.

He understood it.

The Dao of Space.

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When Xue Bai played the game 'Children of the Plane,' he was a fire cultivator who mainly focused on the Fire Law, and through his efforts, he managed to bring his comprehension of the Fire Law to 99% comprehension just before his ascension.

However, because of the fact that he never took the final step to 100%, he never did know what the stage of comprehension above 'Law' was.

But now he did. It was 'Dao.'

Each Law could eventually advance to the Dao level if the cultivator comprehended it enough. However, when it came to the supreme basic building blocks of reality, like creation, life, and space, there was no Law realm of comprehension, but only the Dao.

Like in math, there was no basic form of calculus. After all, how could you simplify such a supreme building block of reality into a form of law?

Not only was it impossible to simplify complex things as The Dao of Space, but it was also an insult to its prestige to do so.

'Dao' was also the realm above Sword Law that the Soaring Sword Sect Founder hadn't told Xue Bai about.

Which was right on his part, as it was almost impossible for a being to comprehend a Dao before the Immortal Origin realm; however, who was Xue Bai?

He possessed the bloodline of a race of beings with the greatest affinity to Dao of Space, had a comprehension ability that rivaled Immortal Realm geniuses and had a soul strength that matched most Law Engraving realm cultivators.

With all of these qualifications under his belt, was it really so crazy for Xue Bai to understand Dao this early?

He didn't think so.

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Unlike Sword Law, Spear Law, or even Fire Law, which were the most common laws for people to first comprehend, a Dao was something else entirely.

Daos were the core building blocks of reality.

And because of that, they were also increasingly difficult to comprehend.

But when someone can comprehend one of them, almost unrivaled power is granted to them.

"I can interfere with the teleportation." Xue Bai mumbled.

Not bothered about his bloodline activated and the noble pressure it exuded being out in the air, or that it was pressuring the civilians below, or even Yue Zifeng, who had just arrived after exterminating the Wang Clan who was watching him, starstruck, nothing was in Xue Bai's mind right now but his desires.

He had just understood something, and the perfect test dummy was in front of him.

How could he hold back?

Raising his two fair white palms into the air, Xue Bai infused them with the space element before piercing them into the void.

Then with a flash of purple brilliance from every fiber of his being, Xue Bai sliced the void with his hands.

Following his actions, to the astonishment of everyone watching, whether it was Yue Zifeng, Duan Zhen, or even the commoners below like it were a sliding door, space opened.

In front of Xue Bai, as if it were a piece of paper, the air in front of him sliced open, revealing the mystical and terrifying void that no man under the Immortal Great Realm could enter.

Stepping into the void calmly as if he were strolling through a park, Xue Bai swept his gaze around the void, looking for something. And a few hundred meters in front of Xue Bai was a purple bubble flowing through the void calmly like a fish in water.

"Space is my domain," Xue Bai murmured unconsciously, "What I wish for must happen, and what I don't like cannot. You all have wronged me. Forever be banished into the void."

Raising his right hand, which was still covered in an otherworldly purple power, Xue Bai sliced at the Wang Clan, who was escaping.

His hand movement was followed by a purple slash which didn't take more than a second to reach its destination, and after coming into contact with the Void Traversal Array that was keeping the Wang Clan safe, it cut right through, exposing the Wang Clan to the crushing and terrifying void.

Wang Yichen and the other Wang Clan members, who were once excited and jumping with joy at their successful escape, had a cold basin of water dropped on them.

Their weak bodies didn't last very long, and within seconds of being exposed to the cold dimension of the void, they were compressed and turned into pieces of cosmic dust that drifted away peacefully.

Seeing the deaths of the only surviving Wang Clan members, Xue Bai was at peace and turned around to leave the void. However, before he could, he suddenly coughed out a mouthful of blood.

"Huh?" Confused for a moment, Xue Bai suddenly realized something. His Dantian was empty, and even his martial veins were wrung dry of any Spiritual Qi he once possessed.

There was not a single drop of Spiritual Qi in his body. And even his body had been sapped of more than half of his blood essence.

He looked like a mortal man who had been starved for more than a month. His bones were visible, and his cheeks looked hollow.

Daos were different from laws. With a law, Xue Bai couldn't control the output of its energy and was stuck firing on all cylinders when it came to it.

However, with a Dao-level comprehension, every movement and every action of his was something controllable. He could use a finger to slice a leaf or a mountain range. Whatever he wished to happen could. Nothing could stop him.

But Xue Bai, in the heat of the moment and with his wish on wanting to ensure the Wang Clan's extermination, hadn't held back whatsoever and unleashed a strike far beyond what his body could carry.

He was still too green using his Dao of Space. He had used his own blood essence and Spiritual Qi to power the slash, and now he was facing the backlash of it.

"I fucked up," Xue Bai could only curse in lament as his consciousness blurred and the crack in space he once created healed itself, locking himself in without a method of escape.

Volume 1 End

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Hey guys, slarbi123 here. This is the end of the first volume of Transmigration: Children of the Plane. To me, this is where the true start of Xue Bai is. I also can't thank you all enough for all of the support you all give to this novel. Thanks to you all. I think I'll be getting contracted soon.

Also, sorry to say, but the novel will take a small week-long break, so the next chapter will be uploaded Friday next week. Hope to see you all then!