Chapter 473: Damn, I'm Back Again!

[You need Chen Six to stay behind, go notify the Li Imperial Clan, pay attention to Li Lingyue, and after she comes of age send her to Hua Wuyan to train.]

[Inform Vajra Temple to secretly look after Zhen Pin.]

[Find a reason to keep the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey from taking the Path to Immortality, delay him until you return from projecting from the Real Realm.]

[Keep an eye on Elder Brother, make sure he endures hardship and grows up properly, absolutely do not let him take the easy, peaceful path through life.]

[Tasks like these.]

[All require Chen Six to remain in the human world to complete them, or to supervise from the side.]

[Also, Chen Six must notify every subsequent person who steps onto the Path to Immortality to choose the Death Path 999 times.]

[Although Fortune Star, a third-class star, lacks Immortal Qi,]

[you are about to take the lead and turn Fortune Star into a safe jump-off point for human-world ascenders.]

[Starting from Fortune Star is far better than randomly landing on other planets, or being taken to mine, or being suppressed and wiped out.]

[Chen Six looks exactly like you; apart from being unable to use trait tags, there is no difference.]

[Leaving him in the human world makes it feel to your relatives, old acquaintances, and friends as if you never left.]

["Oh, and Sotuofeiren and the Xuanlan Five Brothers — from next year, let Black Wind go up the Path to Immortality first, then arrange for those six to go up one by one."]

[Chen Six made an "OK" hand gesture at you.]

["Let them also choose the Death Path 999 times?"]

["Of course. Otherwise, scattered all over the place, they'd never meet in a lifetime. Why would I want them to go up?"]

[Sotuofeiren and the five Winged Clan Martial Gods would be ecstatic if they knew they could take the Path to Immortality to the Real Realm.]

[Especially the Five Talented Brothers of Xuanlan, who had been scheming to find a Path to Immortality to reach the Real Realm.]

[When they see "you" still in the human world and are told to go up the Path to Immortality, they'll probably be overjoyed inside, thinking they've finally gotten rid of you the plague-bringer for free!]

[Only to find you already waiting at the destination.]

[Just imagining the despair on their faces then makes you want to laugh.]

[Before your last ascension to the Real Realm, you wandered around the human world a bit.]

[After all, it was your first ascension, and your feelings were complicated.]

[This time you skipped those sentimental detours, you crossed the North Sea directly, arrived at the Path to Immortality, and strode up without hesitation.]

["Nine hundred ninety-nine Death Paths are by no means a dead end. This time I will turn death paths into lifelines, the lifelines for all human-world ascenders!

So that that evil cult can no longer force me to mine as a slave!

So that that wicked sect can no longer chase and ambush me!

So that those alien races can no longer decide my life or death!"]

[Second year, age twenty-eight.]

[Currently drawing a trait tag...]

[Draw failed!]

[Adjust trait tag?]

[Yes/No]

[You chose yes.]

[You replaced Human Body Detector with Running Playlist.]

["♫ Waited so long and finally today arrived~ Crouched so long and finally made the dream come true...♫"]

[You sang as you dashed along the Path to Immortality.]

[You discovered this Path to Immortality not only restricts flying, it also suppresses Divine Abilities.]

[If you could use Divine Abilities, with Quantum Ghost Step under your feet you could reach the end very quickly.]

[Still, this time you were faster than the last time.]

[After all, your realm had improved.]

["Xiao Wu, Master isn't going to eat you this time. You and Master go look around that patch of starry sky together."]

[The Five Regions Sacred Pill rode in your hair the whole way.]

[You sang and she sang too.]

[You sang to activate the trait effect and run faster.]

[She sang simply because she was happy to be with her master.]

[The extra lifespan granted by swallowing the Five Regions Sacred Pill is negligible compared to your current thousand-year lifespan—trifling, unnecessary.]

[As for the toxin-immunity effect, at best it's equivalent to the Senior Tomato User trait tag.]

[Even that trait cannot withstand the Dragon-Man Poison from the demon seed; it still dies, just more slowly.]

[Besides, now you have Wolverine's super-regeneration.]

[So the toxin immunity isn't that important.]

[Naturally, there is no need to consume the Five Regions Sacred Pill.]

["Master, have you eaten me before?"]

["Yes, but you didn't know, Xiao Wu."]

["Then Master, please eat Xiao Wu. Only if Master eats Xiao Wu can she help Master."]

["No need. I want Xiao Wu to witness the life I'm about to live, to see how far I can go this time."]

["Okay, Xiao Wu follows Master's plan, la la la~ la la la~"]

[Third year, age twenty-nine.]

[Currently drawing a trait tag...]

[Draw failed!]

[Adjust trait tag?]

[Yes/No]

[You chose no.]

[This time it took only a little over a year to reach the end.]

["Xiao Wu, up ahead is the nine hundred ninety-ninth 'Death Path' beacon tower."]

["Yes Master, Xiao Wu counted it too. After we cross this beacon will we reach the Real Realm?"]

["That's right. Strap in, we're going to charge out!"]

["Wooo!!"]

[The Five Regions Sacred Pill sat in your hair, several of your strands wrapped around her like twin ponytails on that little pill.]

[When one of your feet stepped, for the second time, onto the beacon with the character 'Death' on the Path to Immortality's nine hundred ninety-ninth stone plaque,]

[a familiar sensation of weightlessness came from beneath your foot.]

[Everything around abruptly vanished!]

[In that moment you were unconscious and unfeeling, like falling asleep without dreams.]

[When perception and vision returned, you were standing on a familiar plain.]

[Unlike last time, there was no pile of luggage dumped from a storage pouch ring under your feet.]

[Because you had already placed the supplies you brought up from the human world—such as the Demon Refining Pot and the Immortal-Binding Rope—inside the Pot Heaven space.]

[Xiao Wu curiously scanned the surroundings.]

["Master, is this the Real Realm? It doesn't look any different from our human world."]

["The Real Realm has an immense, boundless starfield. This is just one planet. Looking at a single planet, it indeed resembles the human world, but the Real Realm's grandeur lies out there among the stellar seas."]

["Wow... so many planets..."]

[You did not linger. You reviewed the memory from the sixth simulation and calculated the timing.]

["Arriving the same year but a few months earlier than last time. That guy should still be in the Winged God Church's main temple."]

[After confirming the direction, you leapt and directly used the Holy Dragon Clan's Dragon Transformation talent. With a piercing dragon roar, you soared among the clouds.]

["Master, where are we going?"]

["To find an old witch!"]

["Is she bad?"]

["Heh, thoroughly bad."]

["Is Master going to kill her?"]

["Last time I wanted to kill her, but this time for my plan I need to keep her. Hopefully she can be sensible!"]

[Last time you arrived in the Real Realm lugging a pile of Immortal Artifacts, clanking along on foot.]

[This time you flew through the clouds, gusting like lightning, a complete contrast.]