Chapter 795: Chapter 630: Castrating a World

“Guardian Spirit reaching the pinnacle, Alder Sword Seal power fusion, Cat Fraction heritage limit enhanced, inheritance progress optimized.”

Slowly, the Guardian Spirit, emitting a metallic luster, stretched its body; nine cat tails flew up behind it. Between illusion and reality, the nine tails of the Guardian Spirit converged, and even its size started to shrink.

Eventually, the Guardian Spirit leaped into the air, its body spiraling into a ball, and transformed into a distinct mark that disappeared into Roger’s body.

Roger’s form trembled slightly, and at that moment, he could no longer feel the original form of his Guardian Spirit. In his mind, the distinctive inheritance mark of the Cat Fraction appeared.

Within the shadow of the mark, the symbol of the Alder Sword Seal emerged, and the two gradually fused into one, indistinguishable from each other.

The next moment, a powerful energy radiated from the new mark, the increase in energy even surpassing the total of what Roger’s Guardian Spirit had gained when it evolved to Eight Tails!

It was a leap from a quantitative accumulation to a qualitative transformation.

Roger couldn’t help but let out a low roar toward the sky; the sound reverberated through the entire space, and the Giant Dragons slumbering in the heavens seemed to be affected by it.

“So this is what being a true Sword Master is like!”

Previously, on Flounder Mountain, Roger had once borrowed the power of killing and briefly possessed the strength of a Sword Master tier.

He had thought that was the full extent of a Sword Master’s power, but now, as his Guardian Spirit evolved to Nine Tails, he realized just how wrong he had been before.

Not to mention anything else, the sheer richness of the Spiritual Power alone was twice what it was before!

And this was not the end.

Energy continued to flow into his body from the space around him.

Many had told him that the gap to Fourth Tier for a Transcendent was vast, divided into various stages.

Even though he had now entered the Sword Master level, he had not yet touched the ceiling of power.

With the plundering of the Nekomata’s energy, special insights began to emerge, aligning with the changes in the entire space and the Guardian Spirits imprisoned here, Roger vaguely grasped something.

“So that’s how it is.”

Before the Silver Dragon came to Everworld, the promotion of Cultivators wasn’t like this. Back then, once the strength reached the Sword Master level,

most Cultivators pursued not what they called their own path but to find special Guardian Spirits that had been transformed by the Power of Rules of Everworld.

These Guardian Spirits could be seen as a type of creature or as energy; no one knew how they were formed.

After reaching the Sword Master level, if a Cultivator wanted to advance further,

they needed to find a special Guardian Spirit that matched their own attributes.

Then they would undergo fusion and transformation.

This was mentioned when Uma controlled the Nekomata but was only briefly touched upon and not detailed.

Thinking back, the Mountain Woman had once mentioned to Roger the higher level ascension requirements; High Tier Transcendents needed to merge with unknown World Fragments.

In order to break the suppression of the original world.

Roger thought this seemed more like looking for a small loophole outside the world rules within the existing rule system.

Because only by doing this could one step outside the original rules and ascend again.

Of course, the more the World Fragment matched one’s own power, the greater the benefits.

It was clear that the rules of Everworld were not perfect, relying on Sunrise to exist, with both a limited scope and an upper limit on power.

In Roger’s view, these special Guardian Spirits formed under the rules of Everworld and the World Fragments merged by the Western Transcendents had the same ingeniousness.

Only one was more developed while the other had more limitations.

However, after the Silver Dragon came to this world, she likely started a war, destroying all the High Tier Cultivators that could have been a threat to her at the time.

After the death of these High Tier Cultivators, the Silver Dragon then imprisoned those Guardian Spirits that only existed in legends.

These Guardian Spirits, existing between creatures and energy bodies and formed according to the rules of this world, could not really solve the actual problem if they were all annihilated.

As time passed and rules evolved, these Guardian Spirits would still reappear.

But by imprisoning and sealing them away, it was akin to cutting off the space for all Cultivators to advance further.

As this went on, the strength of the entire Everworld declined sharply.

Until no Cultivator could rise to the required level again, discover the truth of this world, and then pose a threat to the Silver Dragon’s true body.

Roger was not sure if the Silver Dragon had been adding injury to injury during the original battle in Everworld, but her actions were very effective, at least keeping herself undisturbed during the lengthy recovery.

But at the same time, such actions were incredibly selfish.

Because she had neutered the whole world.

Perhaps it was from that time that the life of Cultivators here could not surpass the limit of 150 years.

And Sword Master and Divine Master became insurmountable chasms.

However, as time went on, there were still extraordinarily talented Cultivators who found another way at a level above Sword Master and Divine Master, without merging with Guardian Spirits that possessed the Power of Rules to advance further.

That was through their own enlightenment, discovering the power of the Guardian Spirits, finding their own path.

Then there were top-tier experts like Sword Master Cold Crow and Tengu Divine Master.

In fact, in Everworld, most Divine Masters and Sword Masters only had the corresponding level of power without a special realm.