Ning stayed around the sun for so long that he lost track of all time. Most of the time, he wasn't even awake at all. The times he was awake, he asked the system how long had passed and then went right back to sleeping again.
He went back and forth between being awake and sleeping for so long that even worlds would've had enough time to change altogether.
In the meantime, his body improved continuously until so many years before he finally woke up one day and decided to stop.
"How many years have passed?" Ning asked the system.
<245,353 years have passed.>
Ning wasn't even surprised when he heard that. He was surprised the first time he heard 10 thousand years had passed, and maybe once when he heard 100 thousand years had passed, but after that, he just let it be.
After all, he had to spend roughly 500 thousand years at the minimum before he could leave this place.
"Are the humans even alive anymore?" Ning wondered. He knew they were cultivators, but 245,353 years was surely too long for even them.
He teleported back to the desert where he had stashed his Space stones and found them buried under nearly 3 meters of sand over the course of the many thousand years.
Once making sure they were safe, Ning looked at the map of the world to figure out what was the best place to cultivate.
'This place's Qi is very low,' Ning thought to himself. He doubted he could go anywhere with the Qi in this world since even the beasts didn't have much cultivation base here.
They were strong because of their bloodline and natural body cultivation that came with fighting all the time.
Ning wanted to test his newfound strength, so he flew up high and found some beasts that were fighting close by.
He flew down towards the beasts and landed next to them. The lizard and the bull that were fighting each other stopped when they saw Ning arrive.
"Would any one of you like to fight against me?" Ning asked politely.
The beasts only made a low growling sound in response.
"Hm? Can you not understand what I'm saying?" Ning asked. 'Do they not have intelligence?'
Such strong beasts usually had intelligence back in Kumia, so he was surprised these beasts didn't. Either way, however, the beasts seemed ready to fight, so Ning didn't mind either way.
The lizard attacked him to start, sending out its long tongue to strike at him. Ning prepared for the tongue to hit him on his naked body.
When it did, nothing happened. He wasn't even pushed back at all. Aside from a few spots of the beast's saliva on his body, he was totally fine.
"Wow, I barely even felt the force behind the attack," Ning thought. He was so strong that the lizard was far beneath his strength now.
The bull rushed at him and slammed its horns directly on his chest. As a result, the bull broke both its horns and its head started bleeding.
"Oh wow, I really am strong," Ning thought. He placed his palm on the bull's head and healed its wound. The broken horns healed too once he used the horns that were on the ground.
The two beasts ran away in fear and Ning let them be.
"How strong were they?" Ning asked.
<They had the strength that only an Immortal Transcendence realm cultivator could pull out.>
"Immortal Transcendence?" Ning was confused. "I don't think I've ever heard of that realm. Doesn't the cultivation realms in the Immortal realm go Low Immortal, High Immortal, Full Immortal, Immortal Saint, Immortal King, Immortal Emperor, and finally Immortal God?"
<That is the case for most worlds, but this one is different>
<Because of the state of the universe, they have to go through an additional 3 cultivation realms, all of which do different things from the other universes.>
<The cultivation bases all have their own function as well since Qi has just manifested like that>
"I see," Ning thought. "Give me the new list and I can go."
The system provided him with the list of cultivation bases, which surprised Ning quite a bit because of how many there were.
"Holy shit, there are 25 cultivation realms in this world? What the hell?" Ning was surprised when he saw the list of realms.
<That is how people are forced to use Qi due to the stringent requirement because of the state of the universe.>
<It isn't just Qi, even space and time is affected by the universe.>
"I can see that," Ning thought as he looked at the list. "To think one would have to go through so much before they can even start Qi condensation here. It took me just under a month in Kumia, and that was white I was very bad."
"Anyway, I need to go to some other place. What's a world with not as many cultivators, but a good amount of Qi?" Ning asked.
The system told him a certain location and teleported away.
It was weird for him to be able to teleport away so easily, but since none of these worlds were considered a planet, he didn't have the same stupid requirement where he had to either have a lot of energy or leave the place before being able to teleport away.
Ning arrived at a different location, a world with a lot of forest from what he could see and very few humans in it.
He wondered why that was but then he learned from the system that it was considered sacred to many people and thus people rarely stepped foot in there.
"Well, I hope they don't find out I am here," Ning thought. He walked around, trying to find himself a location to sit down and cultivate, but just then he felt something.
A familiar feeling returned to him as a wave of sense released from his mind going all around.
"Oh…" Ning thought. "I already broke through so much?"
