Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” - Chapter 700: The Current State of the First Frontline
This was completely different from the First Frontline Su Yuan had imagined!
The legendary First Frontline was actually a prison?
Su Yuan found this unbelievable.
Whether Chaos Dominators or Nothingness Dominators, all were striving desperately to reach the Second Frontline, yet the truth was utterly shocking.
This was actually a meticulously crafted deception!
Su Yuan examined the young man’s cultivation—merely a sixty-fourth-order Nothingness Dominator.
As for the elder from just now, his cultivation was indeed profound, reaching the height of ninety-second order, but still within comprehensible bounds.
Su Yuan furrowed his brow and continued observing through the young man’s perspective to understand the situation of this faction.
Finally, he figured out the specific circumstances.
This Nothingness Prison faction was indeed within the First Frontline!
But internally, it wasn’t a war between Chaos Dominators and Nothingness Dominators—it was the territory of three Nothingness factions!
In ancient times, this had indeed been a battlefield between Chaos Dominators and Nothingness Dominators, but after both sides fought, they startlingly discovered that this battlefield had been artificially arranged, with some supreme existence controlling everything.
Thus, conflicts between Chaos Dominators and Nothingness Dominators decreased, and both sides entered into cultivation competition instead.
Eventually, three beings nearly simultaneously broke through the ninety-ninth order, advancing to the final perfect hundredth-order level, becoming Lords of Nothingness.
Yet they still remained stuck at the hundredth order, completely unaware of what lay beyond.
Unable to break the seal of this battlefield, they instead chose to seize its resources, each establishing their own faction.
This ultimately formed three independent factions, dividing all the resources of the First Frontline among themselves!
Each Nothingness faction possessed a hundredth-order Lord of Nothingness as their pillar, keeping each other in check.
The three factions were the Nothingness Prison, the Ultimate Dueling Arena, and the Chaos Immortal Alliance.
The Chaos Immortal Alliance evolved from the Chaos Alliance, favoring Chaos Dominators—if a Chaos Dominator were fortunate enough to be teleported there, they might survive.
The Nothingness Prison evolved from a Nothingness Dominator faction, advocating the use of both Chaos Dominators and Nothingness Dominators teleported there as materials for pill refining and artifact crafting, treating them as consumables in a cage—extremely cruel.
The Ultimate Dueling Arena was established by a rogue cultivator after their ascension—anyone teleported there would face round after round of duels, ultimately unable to escape their doom.
Su Yuan was unlucky; his teleportation location fell precisely within the Nothingness Prison’s territory.
Of course, there were also fortunate individuals who weren’t teleported into any of these three factions, landing exactly at the borders between them—that kind of luck was decent enough to temporarily preserve their lives.
Su Yuan was quite surprised by this outcome.
So this was the legendary First Frontline.
Su Yuan sank into thought.
Clearly, the First Frontline was far too dangerous.
This place was far more brutal than the Second Frontline—either used as consumables or taken for battles. Even the seemingly wonderful Chaos Immortal Alliance likely had its own hidden schemes.
Su Yuan truly had no interest in going to the First Frontline.
He made up his mind to just stay holed up in the Nine Stars Land and never leave. He was pretty carefree here anyway; his thoughts could observe the myriad heavens, and all changes lay within his sight.
He took a deep breath and permanently stationed this strand of consciousness within Changsun Jiliang’s mind.
Then he once again considered whether to upgrade traits or draw new ones randomly.
In the end, he chose to upgrade traits.
“Ding, consumed 1 million mixed-void units to upgrade [Great Power Bearing] to [Borrowing Dominator].”
A full one million mixed-void units were consumed to upgrade Great Power Bearing, and the resulting Dominator-level trait made Su Yuan pause—it was actually [Borrowing Dominator]!
At that moment, Su Yuan suddenly understood. The underlying logic of his previous Great Power Bearing had been borrowing others’ prestige to offset their prestige, naturally rendering him immune to its effects.
His ability to increase his strength by one or two orders was also achieved through borrowing!
The damage-ignoring effect similarly borrowed others’ power or even their bodies to block attacks, naturally preventing harm from reaching him.
This kind of “borrowing” was extremely domineering—it could forcibly borrow others’ power without them ever knowing.
Su Yuan locked his thoughts onto the elder, Changsun Xuzhu, and casually borrowed the old man’s prestige.
In an instant, the prestige and aura of a ninety-second-order Nothingness Dominator appeared on him, identical to the elder’s.
The elder didn’t even notice that someone had borrowed his prestige and aura!
Su Yuan once again used [Borrowing Dominator], borrowing the elder’s appearance, Pill Dao power, Pill Dao insights, and even his Nothingness Origin!
The borrowing process was incredibly easy. Things like aura, prestige, appearance, and Pill Dao insights—borrowing them didn’t affect the original at all, completely escaping the elder’s detection.
Even the Origin, as long as the borrowed amount was small enough, wouldn’t be discovered.
But if the elder did discover it, the borrowing behavior would be terminated—that wouldn’t be called borrowing, that would be called stealing.
As long as the other party didn’t notice, and he returned it afterward, that was borrowing.
This trait made Su Yuan’s methods extremely flexible.
If before Su Yuan only knew the effects of the Great Power Bearing trait without understanding its principles, now he could precisely grasp the basic mechanism and use it with unparalleled flexibility.
Su Yuan had a thought and borrowed Zhou Hao’s power and aura, then personally walked out of the Nine Stars Land.
To Su Yuan’s delight, that teleportation force didn’t lock onto him at all.
His Borrowing Dominator had directly borrowed Zhou Hao’s identity, True Spirit, and even true name!
He could say he had completely become Zhou Hao himself—it was understandable that the teleportation force couldn’t lock onto him.
“Hahaha, now I won’t be teleported to the First Frontline!”
Su Yuan chuckled lightly, but then became curious about the First Frontline—how exactly did people there manage to advance to the hundredth order? He now felt that cultivation was extremely difficult; going from seventy-third order to seventy-fourth order was far harder than before.
