Fantasy: I Am the Villain.

Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Secrets of the World (Part One)

After thousands of years of exploration, the world of mountains and seas has long since developed a complete and effective method for judging small worlds.

The worst kind of small worlds are those that are unsuitable for human habitation and spiritual practice, and can only be used for resource extraction. These are the most frequently discovered.

This is similar to the rich coal mines and other mineral veins that were discovered in Bai Ke's previous life.

Although it is still valuable and has even spawned many so-called "coal bosses" who spend lavishly and extravagantly, in essence it is still a nouveau riche.

Only small sects that rely on behemoths like the Tian Ce Palace care about these small mineral worlds.

They exchange their own mineral resources and spiritual plants for the protection and support of major sects such as Tian Ce Palace; this is the way of survival for cultivators in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Like the most tightly woven pyramid structure, with each link interlocking, no one can escape, while the Tian Ce Palace and others stand high above, enjoying the generations of offerings from their subordinate sects and states.

Having been in Ning Fengyi's position, they no longer cared about exploring a few small mineral worlds.

As the cultivation system of the Mountain and Sea Realm becomes more and more complete, the grandeur of the ancient cultivation world is gradually being discovered.

More and more cultivators ventured out of the Mountain and Sea Realm, and in the beginning, a new small world was discovered almost every few days.

But why are fewer and fewer people now willing to risk being torn apart by void storms to explore the stars?

The reason is simple: precious small worlds are becoming increasingly difficult to discover, and most of the planets that have been surveyed by the public are mineral-rich planets of low value.

Even though they already knew the secrets of the starry sky, the cultivators of the Mountain and Sea Realm still preferred to call those spherical celestial bodies "small worlds".

Most people have a stricter judgment of the world, and cherish the small world that people live in the most.

These were all pieces of information that Bai Ke had retrieved from the original owner's memories, but he still didn't quite understand why Bai Yan and Ning Fengyi cared so much about the small world of Tian Long Ba Bu.

"That's a bit strange..." Bai Ke rubbed his temples. He wanted the Tian Long Ba Bu small world to have a greater presence among the higher-ups of the Tian Ce Palace.

Although the goal has indeed been achieved, it's... but it's really quite inexplicable...

Shouldn't Ning Fengyi and the others have become very interested in the precious martial arts techniques in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils after hearing their introduction, and then sent people to explore them?

Judging from their actions, it's as if they want to lock up the world of Tian Long Ba Bu and prevent anyone from discovering it...

Bai Ke was somewhat melancholy, realizing he had suffered from his initial inexperience upon arriving in this new place. He still didn't understand enough about this world.

It seems we'll need to try to get more information from Baiyan indirectly in the future, otherwise we'll be at a disadvantage.

Actually, this was also due to the fact that it was the darkest place under the lamp. Bai Ke traveled from Earth and then went directly to the small world of Tian Long Ba Bu.

It can be said that his impression of the Mountain and Sea Realm comes entirely from the memories of the original owner. However, as we mentioned earlier, the original Bai Ke was a complete otaku!

How much can you expect someone who spends all day practicing swordsmanship and ends up killing himself from it?

For transcendent sects like Tian Ce Palace, which occupy their own territory, they are actually more interested in exploring those small worlds inhabited by people.

In other words, it is a world with a nascent, small Heavenly Dao. Regardless of its perfection or imperfection, as long as it has basic natural cycles, it is of immeasurable value.

Not to mention that the small world Bai Ke discovered could even accommodate cultivators at the Nascent Soul Realm, which was an incredible surprise.

Ning Fengyi swore that he had never heard of such a high-level small world being discovered in the past few hundred years.

Even though Tian Ce Palace has always been the ancestral land and a place of inheritance, it is only slightly better than this small world, and can only provide a place for Nascent Soul cultivators to live.

This was after the three major sects of the Central Three Regions joined forces to explore the ruins of the ancient cultivation world and discovered a star map of the surrounding area of ​​the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Whether the Tian Ce Palace sect leader and his men seized a small world at the time, or whether they made any other discoveries, is not for outsiders to know.

The fact that Bai Ke has discovered this small world is comparable to the one he discovered back then is quite remarkable.

"Father, why do you and Master Uncle, the Sect Leader, value that small world so much? I think it's just an ordinary place."

Bai Ke secretly followed behind Bai Yan and whispered, "I have a feeling that my father and the sect leader's attitude is strange."

Bai Yan glanced back at his son following behind him, a hint of hesitation flashing in his eyes, before saying to Bai Ke:

"I was going to tell you this a few years later, but now that you have broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, I will tell you now."

"To explain why your sect leader and I are so concerned about this small world you discovered, we have to start with the secrets of this world."

Bai Yan's eyes held a hint of reminiscence. Back then, he had stared at his master with the same curiosity as Bai Ke, asking the same questions.

"Haha, Xiaoyan, Fengyi... do you know what this world is like? And what shape our Mountain and Sea Realm is?"

An elderly man in gray robes, with an air of otherworldly wisdom, patted the heads of the two boys in front of him, then asked with a smile.

“I know, Master. Ancient books record that the pure qi rises and floats like a canopy, while the turbid qi sinks like a chessboard. Therefore, the sky is round and the earth is square!”

At that time, Bai Yan was still young and not yet the taciturn and cold-hearted person he is now. He hurriedly answered.

The old man laughed heartily, "Little Yan is indeed clever; he remembers every word of the book perfectly. However..." The old man sighed, then said to the two of them:

"Since the destruction of the ancient cultivation world, our understanding of the world has been limited to the records of the ancients. But now, with the many powerful predecessors traveling through the starry sky time and time again, we have discovered that this is not the case at all."

"Huh? Then Master, what exactly is this world like? Is our Mountain and Sea Realm flat?" A young man who was slightly older than Bai Yan and Ning Fengyi asked.

"Heaven and earth... it's just a ball..." The old man blurted out this earth-shattering secret as if he were swearing.

"So, Father, you're trying to tell me that the world is just a ball?" Bai Ke looked at Bai Yan in disbelief. Even a three-year-old knows that, right?

"Otherwise... as our exploration of the world becomes more advanced, it's not just the shape of the world that will be completely revealed..."

A glint of fervor flashed in Bai Yan's eyes, "Moreover, we discovered that some small worlds even retain some incomplete minor Heavenly Daos, whose internal laws manifest even more easily..."

He looked at Bai Ke intently. "Do you know what these small worlds have in common?" Bai Ke was dumbfounded. Could it be... could it be...?

“That’s right…” Bai Yan took a deep breath, “Without exception, all of these small worlds are inhabited…”