Ruler of the Zhen Realm

The Zhen Realm. After the Baihe Continent was blasted apart, it automatically began to repair itself. Island after island seemed to possess gravitational pull, slowly piecing back together. The process was exceedingly slow—so slow that even after Yu Xian slaughtered every class user in the entire Zhen Realm, it was still slowly repairing. Following Gong Yinhu's defeat, the Zhen Realm no longer had any respectable adversaries. Yu Xian needed only to dispatch his summoned beasts to conquer cities and seize territories with ease, driving every last class user out of the Zhen Realm. An old tactic didn't matter so long as it worked. Yu Xian simply took the playbook from the Baihe Continent and applied it across the entire Zhen Realm. First, he had his summoned beasts surround the cities: anyone who stepped out died, and those who dared not step out starved to death. In short, not a single class user would be left alive. After dealing with the class users, Yu Xian began claiming city after city. He only had to file the application, while the trials were handled entirely by his summoned beasts; after all, aside from the trial monsters, the surrounding area was packed with his summons. Busy with this routine, a year slipped by just like that. Once Yu Xian had established complete dominion over every city, the entire sky of the Zhen Realm was blanketed in iridescent light. Then, the Heavenly Dao of the Zhen Realm offered congratulations to Yu Xian for becoming the veritable sole ruler. For completing this achievement, Yu Xian also received an ultra-rare [Guaranteed Enhancement Talisman]. …… On an isolated island in the Baihe Continent. The Astral Black Tortoise lay on the ground asleep. On its back, Yu Xian, Chi Feihong, and Little Nora sat side by side in a row. "This afternoon, the two of you should each shatter the void and leave the Zhen Realm," Yu Xian said to them after finishing an apple and tossing the core onto the Astral Black Tortoise's back. The Astral Black Tortoise activated its ability. The seeds inside the core quickly sprouted, grew into a fruit tree, and swiftly bore fresh apples. Chi Feihong nodded. "All right. Once I'm out, I'll start searching for the members of the Sparkle Legion. I just hope they haven't died of old age yet." Time flowed at different rates in different worlds. Transcendents were one thing, but many people had been ordinary mortals before entering the Zhen Realm. If time in their respective worlds flowed at the same rate as the Zhen Realm, they would have died long ago. After all, more than a hundred years had passed by now; how many ordinary mortals could live past a century? Moreover, even long-lived Transcendents could have been killed or suffered cultivation deviation and died after failing a breakthrough. Chi Feihong could only promise to do his utmost to find everyone, but he couldn't guarantee he could bring them all back. "Just do your best," Yu Xian comforted him. Chi Feihong and Little Nora were both fully enhanced. That afternoon, the two directly shattered the void and departed the Zhen Realm. With a single thought from Yu Xian, the Great Dao True Beasts spawned by the shattering of the Heavenly Dao during the void-shattering were instantly reduced to fragments, returning to the sky. The event was over before it could even begin. [Congratulations, Class User Yu Xian, on completing the hidden achievement: Sole Ruler. Reward: Administrator Privileges.] [Congratulations, Administrator Yu Xian, on completing the hidden achievement: Solitary King. Reward: Invitation Privileges.] Having seen off Chi Feihong and Little Nora, Yu Xian had just sat down when he saw two achievement prompts appear before him. "Because I'm the only person left in the Zhen Realm?" "No, it's probably because I'm the only player in the entire Zhen Realm who is max level, fully enhanced, and rules every city—that's why I unlocked these two achievements." Looking at the achievement prompts, Yu Xian swiftly reached a conclusion. He first inspected the first set of privileges, discovering that he could modify the rules of the Zhen Realm according to his own whims, and could even freely edit monsters. However, upon trying it out, he found he could only edit based on what already existed. For instance, he wanted to edit a Dung Slime into a super divine beast, but that was completely impossible because a single Dung Slime only had 10 edit points. Appearance cost 5 edit points, skills cost 3, and stats cost 2—and that was it. Of course, there were powerful monsters available to edit; the more absurd a skill, the more edit points it required. After tinkering for a day and a night, he finally edited together something rather bizarre. Dimwitted Puppy -> Genius Puppy. Through the editing function, Yu Xian directly boosted the Dimwitted Puppy's intelligence to roughly that of a human, but the trade-off was that the pup became hideously ugly, and the immortality granted by its skill was weakened. From infinite death-splitting, it became death-splitting that could only occur ten times a day. Once he finished editing, Yu Xian summoned a Genius Puppy. The first thing he saw was an egregiously hideous canine face. It was originally a white dog, but it had black markings on its face that made it look somewhat human, yet exceptionally, profoundly ugly. After being summoned, the Genius Puppy looked into a mirror, then decisively killed itself—ten times in a row, crisply and cleanly wiping itself out of existence. Before dying, it even shot Yu Xian a look of deep resentment, looking as though it could not die in peace. Truly, Yu Xian understood the message conveyed by its gaze: intelligence was fleeting, but being handsome and cute was a lifelong matter. It would rather die than be that clever—not only knowing it was a dog, but knowing it was a hideously ugly dog. "Looks like I still have a long way to go before becoming a qualified game designer," Yu Xian said to himself, deleting the edited data and sighing wistfully. He realized something: designing monsters to be too smart wasn't a good thing. It was torture for class users, and overly cruel to the monsters themselves. It was better to set all monsters as mindless beings devoid of self-awareness. That way, class users grinding monsters to level up wouldn't have much of a psychological burden either. Administrator privileges didn't just allow designing monsters; they also allowed creating events, designing items, and even setting up backdoors for himself. When other class users shattered the void and re-entered the Zhen Realm later, all their abilities would still be suppressed, forcing them to start grinding levels from scratch. Meanwhile, he could design an item to return to the Zhen Realm at any time, continuing to exercise his privileges and act as a power-tripping admin. So he designed a GM Ring. Equipping the ring granted GM privileges, such as instantly returning to the Zhen Realm from the outside world, as well as functions like Invincibility, Mute, Penalty Stand, and more. Invincibility meant that after equipping the ring, no ability whatsoever could take effect on the wearer. Mute allowed targeting a specific class user to forbid them from speaking through any channel, rendering them a true mute; even if they tried communicating through sign language or writing, others would only see a bunch of pixelated mosaics. Penalty Stand designated a specific class user who was forbidden from moving until the punishment ended, though during the time-out, that person would gain a minor invulnerability effect. Yu Xian forged six of these power-tripping admin rings in one go, all configured to be usable only by designated individuals. "All right, next let's look at this invitation feature. I wonder if it works the way I think it does." Yu Xian slipped the GM Ring onto his index finger and turned his attention to his other achievement reward, muttering with a hint of anticipation. Invitation Privileges—if it worked like he thought, perhaps Chi Feihong wouldn't need to run around rushing across the myriad heavens and realms.