The glowing golden rings appeared within Hengsheng's eyes.
[Heavenly Insight Mode: Activated]
[Insight Cost: 100 System Points/sec]
By activating this mode, his Inspection function's power will be boosted severalfold—nothing escapes his gaze!
Hengsheng quickly swept his gaze all over the place, hoping to find whatever it was as fast as possible, since every passing second meant a loss of system points.
He gazed at the tree next to him.
[Description: An ordinary pine tree, standing 69 meters tall…]
He gazed at the pebble under his feet.
[Age: 8,999,999,89… years]
[Description: An ordinary rock, 64 mm in size…]
Then, he gazed at the karma threads and causality lines; these threads and lines were deeply intertwined, almost becoming one—very hard for Hengsheng to comprehend at his current cultivation realm.
However, the Heavenly Insight Mode helped him in this regard—he didn't need to understand them, as the system had already unfolded them for him.
He ignored the karma threads, and the next moment, they faded from his vision and disappeared one after another as the system filtered them out.
Until they were all gone, he filtered the karma threads out from his vision because he thought what he was looking for might not be related to people—the karma threads would not help him much.
He focused all of his energy on the causality lines.
Everything had a causality line attached to it, since everything had a beginning—the cause of the beginning resulted in all things.
Before Hengsheng’s eyes, countless causality lines faded one after another as the system filtered out those unlikely to be related to what he was looking for.
Not long after, only a few lines of causality remained, each much more prominent than the others.
But only one caught his attention. He removed all the other lines from his vision, leaving only that one before him.
Hengsheng observes this causality line with caution.
This causality line was very special compared to the others present here, because it was ancient—so ancient, it was almost as old as the Nine Heaven Realm itself.
“Bingo!” Hengsheng exclaimed. He thought he had found what he was looking for.
He followed the causality line to its source, with his feet, step by step, and it only took him 50 steps before he reached the point where the causality line originated.
He bent down and gazed at the thing that was the source of the ancient causality line.
"What the…" Hengsheng murmured in confusion at the appearance of the thing before him.
Because it was too normal.
He was gazing at a natural stone slab the size of a palm. It looked like an ordinary stone slab—if not for the causality line leading him to it, he might have thought it was just another stone on the ground.
Hengsheng thought for a second about what to do next, because he had no clue what it was. It couldn’t be just a stone—would it be dangerous if he touched it?
"Meow?" Yunsu meowing.
Before Hengsheng could do anything, Yunsu jumped off his shoulder, curious about why her human was intensely gazing at he stone slab.
'How dare a mere stone get more attention than me!' Yunsu thought indignantly.
Hengsheng tried to grab her, but she was faster than he was; she quickly slipped away from his arm and landed gracefully with her paws right on the stone slab, looking at it from an above angle with contemptuous eyes.
Then she smirked proudly as if she had won over the stone.
“No! Don't do that again! Why are you so reckless?! You should be more cautious!” Hengsheng scolded the cat for her reckless behavior. Still, he was relieved that she seemed fine—the stone slab didn’t appear to harm her.
“Meow…” Yunsu cried, rolling her eyes upward. She didn’t understand why her human had to make such a big deal. It was just a stone, after all.
'What's good about this stone?' Yunsu thought.
Driven by curiosity, she sent her spiritual sense into the stone—and then, she sensed something…
“You know the world is a dangerous place! If you were injured, how could I…” Hengsheng began lecturing Yunsu with a serious tone, but suddenly, something incomprehensible happened.
Yunsu, who stood on her four feet on the ground, had disappeared right before his eyes without a trace, and the feeling of soul connection between them also disappeared.
“What…” Hengsheng stared with confused eyes at the spot where Yunsu had just been.
The next moment, his senses returned from the shock.
Hengsheng shouted, panicking, and tried to look around to find where Yunsu had gone.
How had it happened right before his eyes without him noticing?
His glowing golden eye flickered as he searched, and he also realized that the mysterious stone slab was gone.
Hengsheng opened the dimensional map, trying to observe the place with it as he tried to find her, yet he only saw the blank spot—no suspicious movement around here.
Then, he opened the Supreme Administrator System and immediately navigated to the Contract Management function, then checked the soul contract between him and Yunsu.
He found that their soul contract still existed, and Yunsu’s soul was also in perfect condition, which meant she was still alive. But when he tried to see her location through the soul connection, he couldn’t—it was blank, just like the dimensional map.
"YUNSU, stop playing!" Hengsheng shouted again in a panic, calling out to her, hoping she hadn't actually disappeared and was just hiding nearby to prank him.
Hengsheng's mind was a mess.
His beloved companion had disappeared to who-knows-where—how could he remain calm?
Hengsheng immediately realized the flaw in his Dao Heart, he could not take the loss of his loved one.
As a cultivator, this is a significant flaw in the path toward immortality.
In despair, he was about to ask Blue for aid, since she was the system itself, and under her control, the system’s power would be at maximum potential.
However, before he could do that, out of nowhere, the missing cat appeared before him.
"Meow?" After Yunsu appears, she is meowing innocently while gazing at the incoming human.
Hengsheng violently snatched Yunsu's small body into his arms, which startled the cat.
"Meowwww!" Yunsu struggled to get out of his embrace, as her body felt uncomfortable.
Hengsheng didn’t let her go, afraid she might disappear again.
Seeing that her human had no intention of letting her go anytime soon, Yunsu gave up struggling and let out a soft meow, hoping her freedom would be regained once her human was satisfied sniffing her belly.
She somehow enjoyed the scent of her human as well.
With a smirk on her face, Yunsu proudly stood on her hind legs before Hengsheng, intent on showing him what she had discovered.
She raised her right front paw and brought out the treasure hidden inside her dantian.
Suddenly, above Yunsu's paw, the mysterious stone slab appeared out of nowhere.
Its emergence was undetectable through either spiritual or physical senses, as if it had been concealed behind the veil of void; its appearance had changed—it no longer looked like an ordinary stone slab.
The slab now glowed with a faint golden light, and on its surface, an ancient character was engraved: Tenth Heaven.
Hengsheng was stunned by its appearance!
No mistake—it was definitely a treasure!
Excitement surged within him. He had seen many Divine Treasures, each radiating a profound Dao aura and shrouded in mysteries beyond his current cultivation to comprehend.
Yet, even with his limited knowledge and just his naked eyes, he could tell—none of the Divine Treasures he had ever encountered could compare to the one before him.
The mysterious aura emanating from this treasure was on a whole different level!
‘Could this be an Immortal-rank treasure?’ Hengsheng thought, his heart pounding with anticipation.
The Mortal, Earth, Heaven, and Divine Grades are collectively known as the Mortal-rank classification system.
They are commonly used to categorize various aspects of cultivation by variable factors such as energy level, purity, or effect on the surroundings, depending on what they classify, from the ordinary mortal to the false immortal, such as spirit core grades, technique grades, pill grades, and artifact grades.
However, this mortal-rank classification system cannot classify things with energy levels beyond Tier 9 or the False Immortal realm.
Because things of this level of energy are beyond the mortal realm's worldly law, causing unimaginable effects or strange phenomena that are difficult to comprehend or predict, making classification with simple ranking difficult.
Such as an Immortal artifact created by True Immortals, a formation constructed by a legendary rank 10 Formation Master, or an Immortal Treasure containing energy levels of Tier 10 and above.
This is why ancient cultivators created a distinct classification system for such things, which they referred to as the Immortal-rank classification system.
The Immortal-rank classification system primarily classifies things based on their energy levels. For example, the weakest True Immortal artifact would be classified as a Tier 10, Rank 1 artifact—also referred to as a Rank 1 Immortal artifact.
Hengsheng recalled what he knew about the things beyond the Mortal-rank classification system from Wu God's memories.
From the Lord of All Senses' memories, the most hateful thing that he met in the Heavenly Dao World, classified using the Immortal-rank classification system, was the Five Elemental Seal Formation—Tier 11 Seal Formation that had sealed him beneath the Five Pillar Realm.