Chapter 3

Beiming Xue is one of the three main female characters in the original story. She grew up with the protagonist, Nangong Wentian, and can be considered childhood sweethearts, innocent and carefree. However, due to various misunderstandings, she has never been able to be with Nangong Wentian. It wasn't until the main story of "Shenbing Xuanyi" was nearing its conclusion, and the first female lead, Nangong Tixin, left, leaving a message for Beiming Xue to take care of her son, that the two finally came together.

Throughout the entire book, Beiming Xue's early personality is proud and willful. Although she possesses the powerful ability of innate telekinesis, her martial prowess is weak, and she mainly plays the role of a princess captured by the great demon to spur the protagonist's fighting spirit. In the later stages of the story, as the battles become more intense, she almost becomes a background character. If we were to talk about standout characters, even the first female lead, Nangong Tixin, with her distinct and stubborn personality, and the three-nothing girl Lingjianzi, who has a limited appearance, are more memorable.

Now, Dugu Feng has become Beiming Xue, and she cannot remain inactive as in the original story. Her main mission is a task so difficult that it is nearly impossible to complete—killing the Primordial Heavenly Demon.

Since she arrived in this world, the cycle mark has displayed the mission information for this world.

World: "Shenbing Xuanyi" (High-level Wuxia & Fantasy World)

Challenge Level: Seven Stars.

Faction Mode: Neutral Mode (No rewards for killing non-hostile cycle warriors, killing hostile cycle warriors grants the opponent's cycle wristband)

Mission:

1. Open the Divine Realm.

Reward: One AAA-level plot card, 50,000 cycle points.

Failure Condition: Not opening the Divine Realm.

Failure Punishment: None.

2. Kill the Primordial Heavenly Demon.

Reward: One S-level plot card, 100,000 cycle points.

Failure Conditions: 1. The Primordial Heavenly Demon has not been resurrected. 2. The Primordial Heavenly Demon has been resurrected, and the Demon Army has arrived.

Failure Punishment: Deduct one AAA-level plot card, 50,000 cycle points.

Mission Deadline: 30 years.

When Dugu Feng first saw the mission requirements, even with her calm demeanor, she was taken aback. The first mission is not a big deal, as the failure punishment is almost non-existent, clearly indicating it is not a mandatory task. However, the second mission, killing the Primordial Heavenly Demon, is clearly the main storyline of this mission.

As a major boss who spans the history of "Shenbing Xuanyi," the Primordial Heavenly Demon's strength is unquestionably formidable. Just the fact that his birth forced the strongest of the gods, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, to sacrifice himself to become a seal, and that the ten demonic pearls formed from his body forced the supreme goddess Nuwa to commit suicide, demonstrates his overwhelming power. Although in the original story, he was defeated by the protagonist Nangong Wentian and the six great divine weapons when he descended to the earth, this was only possible with the protagonist's aura. It cannot be used as a reference for the cycle mission.

Although Dugu Feng has never experienced a cycle mission before, she knows that the bosses in the mission world are bound to be vastly different from the original story. If we were to reason logically, the Primordial Heavenly Demon, who is even stronger than the gods, would not be defeated by Nangong Wentian, who has not yet opened the Divine Realm, even if the Primordial Heavenly Demon was at less than 60% of his power and Nangong Wentian held the perfect state of the Heavenly Crystal. Dugu Feng suspects that if she follows the original plot, she might face a Primordial Heavenly Demon at 100% power, capable of killing all experts below the Divine Realm with a single strike.

Dugu Feng is not entirely clear about the specific classification of the cycle space. However, from her own assessment, she was probably at a six-star level before breaking through the void, and after breaking through the void, her realm soared to nine stars, but her energy intensity and physical attributes were only at a seven-star level. Comparing herself and considering the mission hints and the original story, Dugu Feng estimates that the Primordial Heavenly Demon is at least a nine-star level in both energy and physical form.

Although the cycle space gives her a comprehensive evaluation of nine stars, this only refers to her martial arts realm. A realm is just a realm; without sufficient energy and a strong body to support it, she cannot fully exert nine-star power. For example, in the real world, great philosophers like Laozi and Siddhartha Gautama may have realms that are not below nine stars, but in terms of strength, they are clearly just ordinary people.

Moreover, and more importantly, because of the dimensional rebirth mode, she has undergone another cycle of rebirth. Her original eight-star spirit, seven-star true qi, and physical body cannot be brought into the mission world. Now, all she has, besides all the experience and memories from her two lives, is Beiming Xue's body and talents.

So, over these fourteen years, she has started from scratch, integrating the martial arts techniques from both worlds and re-practicing true qi. Due to the differences in the worlds, the martial arts system of the "Tang Dynasty Twin Dragons" and "Shenbing Xuanyi" worlds are quite different. The martial arts of the "Tang Dynasty Twin Dragons" world focus on the cultivation of the mind, emphasizing spiritual cultivation and realm, where true qi is more like spiritual energy rather than energy. The ultimate goal of martial arts is not combat but the pursuit of the meaning of life, from the Daoist "Longevity Sutra" to the demonic "Heavenly Demon Strategy" to the Buddhist "Cihang Sword Canon," all aim to elevate the level of life, with the highest realm "Breaking Through the Void" being the most thorough transformation.

In the "Shenbing Xuanyi" world, due to the existence of gods and demons, the elemental energy is abundant, and the cultivation of martial arts focuses more on the accumulation of "qi." In terms of "qi cultivation," it far surpasses the martial arts of the "Tang Dynasty" world. Even without mentioning the divine-level martial arts like the "Supreme Heaven and Earth Technique" and the "Rakshasa Supreme Technique," just the "Heavenly Freedom Chapter" passed down by the Beiming family is far superior to the "Tang Dynasty" world's martial arts in terms of absorbing elemental energy and refining true qi. Ignoring the realm and combat wisdom, purely in terms of the power of their strikes, Beiming Zheng, who has cultivated the "Heavenly Freedom Chapter" to the third chapter "Spirit Soaring Beyond," is not inferior to Xiang Yutian, the strongest opponent Dugu Feng encountered in the "Tang Dynasty Twin Dragons" world.

Each has its strengths and weaknesses. Although the combat power of the "Shenbing Xuanyi" world is several levels higher than that of the "Tang Dynasty Twin Dragons" world, the "Tang Dynasty" martial arts are not without their advantages. For example, the "Shenbing" martial arts focus on the cultivation of willpower, and while the strong have willpower as strong as steel, they lack good resistance to mental demons. From the great gods like "Primordial Heavenly Venerable" and "Nuwa" to human strongmen like "Xuantian Yedi" and "Nangong Wentian," they have all been plagued by the problem of falling into demonic states, mainly because the "Shenbing" martial arts lack the cultivation of the mind. Dugu Feng, who has cultivated the "Tang Dynasty" martial arts to the "Breaking Through the Void" realm, has an absolute advantage in the cultivation of the mind. Therefore, over these years, she has used the three top martial arts of the "Shenbing" world, "Heavenly Freedom Chapter," "Asura Annihilation Evil Technique," and "Bodhi Enlightenment Heart Technique," as references to revise her fundamental martial art, "Lingqing Heart Technique."

As a peak martial artist who has broken through the void, Dugu Feng already has her own martial arts path. Even if the "Shenbing" world's martial arts are hundreds of times more powerful than what she has learned, she cannot start over. What she can do is take the strengths and make up for the weaknesses, learning the essence of "qi" from the "Shenbing" world's martial arts to compensate for the lack of power in the "Tang Dynasty" martial arts.

However, although the "Heavenly Freedom Chapter" and other martial arts are top-notch, they are not the highest-level martial arts in this world. While Dugu Feng has made some gains, she has only improved her six-star "Lingqing Heart Technique" to a seven-star level. Although, with her martial arts realm, she could deduce eight-star or even nine-star techniques without more advanced martial arts manuals, it would take a lot of time. And what she lacks now is time. The 30-year mission time seems long, but for the task of killing the Heavenly Demon, it is quite tight.

Based on the mission hints and Dugu Feng's own speculations, the cycle space placing the non-mandatory task of "opening the Divine Realm" before killing the Primordial Heavenly Demon likely suggests that to kill the Primordial Heavenly Demon, one must first open the Divine Realm. The lack of failure punishment indicates that without opening the Divine Realm, one's combat power is simply not enough to complete the task of killing the Primordial Heavenly Demon. As for the consequences of failing to kill the Primordial Heavenly Demon, Dugu Feng can easily guess that, with no assets, if she is deducted plot cards and cycle points, she will be eliminated due to negative points.

This mission seems lenient but is actually a life-or-death choice. For Dugu Feng to return to the cycle space alive, she must first break through to the Divine Realm. The reward for breaking through the Divine Realm is exactly the same as the punishment for failing to kill the Heavenly Demon, clearly indicating that the minimum requirement for passing this mission is to open the Divine Realm.

The Divine Realm is the pinnacle of martial arts in the "Shenbing Xuanyi" world, similar to "Breaking Through the Void" in the Huang Yi Wuxia world.

However, reaching this realm is no easy task. The Divine Realm is the boundary between gods and mortals in the "Shenbing Xuanyi" world. Opening the Divine Realm signifies transcending the mundane and officially entering the realm of the gods. Throughout the history of "Shenbing Xuanyi," only a few have achieved this realm.

Excluding the ancient gods like Fuxi and Chiyou, whose histories are unclear, in the various stories of "Shenbing Xuanyi," the highly talented Xuantian Yedi spent at least a hundred years before touching the Divine Realm on his deathbed. Nangong Wentian, with his protagonist aura and constant good fortune, only stepped into the Divine Realm after the age of forty. Only Nangong Taiping, who was born with six divine and six demonic lives, managed to reach the Divine Realm in less than thirty years, but he is likely a reincarnation of the Primordial Heavenly Demon and can be excluded.

Although Dugu Feng has undergone the baptism of breaking through the void and has an incomprehensibly high martial arts realm, she has no confidence in advancing her martial arts to the divine realm in the remaining sixteen years without any external help. The only way to shorten the time is to find more advanced martial arts manuals, learn from their established systems, and enhance her own cultivation.

Just as Dugu Feng was deep in thought, she suddenly felt a slight tremor in the air. Then, from a thatched cottage near the lake, a loud rumble sounded, and several dozen-foot-long trigram energy beams shot up into the sky. The emerald trigram energy swirled and formed a massive trigram pattern in the sky,疯狂地吸收着数百丈内的一切天地元气。带着令人胆战心惊的庞大波动，轰然传遍整个北冥山庄。

“那是南宫问天。”独孤凤看了一眼那充满女娲灵力气息的卦象气劲，立刻就确定了制造这么大动静的人必然是神兵玄奇世界的主角——南宫问天无疑。

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(Note: The last part of the text seems to have a repetition or an error in the original Chinese. I have translated it as accurately as possible, but the last sentence might need a review for clarity.)

"Those are Nangong Wentian's trigram energy beams." Dugu Feng, looking at the trigram energy filled with Nuwa's spiritual energy, immediately determined that the person causing such a commotion must be the protagonist of the "Shenbing Xuanyi" world—Nangong Wentian.

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