SSS-Rank 10x Reward System: Accepting Disciples to Live Forever-Chapter 196: Evolved (II)

He exhaled softly.

But as his eyes moved downward and absorbed the full description, that faint disappointment vanished.

His pupils sharpened.

The effects were too good.

This was no ordinary concealment.

This was not hiding Qi.

Not masking aura.

Not suppressing presence.

This was exclusion.

Removal.

A rewriting of participation within the structure of reality.

Removed from fate calculations.

Excluded from karmic chains.

Untraceable through causal projection.

His heartbeat slowed slightly as he reread the warning.

Individuals who possessed prior confirmed awareness of the user’s existence retain memory...

He went still.

Does that mean...

Existences who are not yet aware of me would never realize I existed?

The implication struck him harder than any attack ever had.

That meant future divinations could not "discover" him.

Ancient beings scanning destiny threads would find nothing.

Time-based observers searching across past and future would encounter blankness.

Causal Immortals attempting to trace disturbances would hit an absence—like trying to grasp smoke that had never been there.

He felt a chill.

Not fear.

Satisfaction.

Every day, the beings appearing in his path were growing more ridiculous. Immortals from the Upper Realm. Domain Sovereigns. Entities capable of peering through timelines.

He had already felt their gazes once.

Those ancient eyes that brushed against him for a microsecond had been enough to remind him how fragile he truly was.

He did not want to fight beings like that.

Not yet.

He wanted to slip past them.

Move between their blind spots.

Grow quietly.

And this formation... this was exactly what he needed.

Within its domain, he was not hidden.

He was omitted.

Wang Chen slowly activated it.

There was no grand display. No roaring Qi. No dazzling light.

Instead, the world seemed to adjust around him.

The threads he had just learned to see—the subtle formation patterns woven through reality—shifted slightly near his body. It was not that they bent away from him.

It was that they no longer acknowledged him as part of their calculations.

He extended his Divine Sense.

It flowed outward smoothly.

Then he retracted it and examined himself through internal perception. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

There was a strange sensation.

He could feel himself.

But reality felt... indifferent.

As if the universe had quietly decided he was optional.

A faint smile curved on his lips.

Good.

Let the absurd existences keep looking for destiny’s chosen.

Let them trace karmic anomalies.

Let them fight over Dragon inheritances and ancient conspiracies.

As long as they had never locked their awareness onto him before—

He did not exist.

And that was more valuable than any offensive skill.

Wang Chen clasped his hands behind his back and gazed toward the horizon beyond the Yun Family estate.

The world was becoming more dangerous by the day.

But now—

He had stepped one level deeper into the shadows.

Not concealed.

Simply not existing.

Wang Chen originally intended to continue wandering through Ancient Sword City, perhaps observe the shifting currents a little longer.

But the more he thought about it, the more something felt off.

First Final Hour.

Now this.

Each ability that evolved under his hands was more broken than the last. Not powerful in the ordinary sense. Not merely destructive. They were conceptual, intrusive, the kind of skills that tampered with laws instead of following them.

Instead of feeling joy, a faint trace of urgency crept into his heart.

Why was everything escalating like this?

It felt less like growth and more like preparation.

As if unseen forces were rearranging the board.

As if he was being armed for something.

A mess.

A very big mess.

He stood silently in the Yun Family guest courtyard, hands behind his back, eyes calm. Outwardly, nothing changed.

But inside, the gears of his mind turned.

Still, he did not let the unease consume him.

With his breakthrough into the Nascent Soul Realm, he now effectively had two uses of Final Hour.

Two absolute reversals.

Two guaranteed kills.

That skill did not care about cultivation gaps. It did not care about talent, bloodline, or background. Once activated properly, it ended things.

With two uses in reserve, he feared nothing at the current level.

And once he stepped into the Deity Transformation Realm, he would have three uses.

Three.

Enough to deal with almost anyone in the Lower Realm.

That thought steadied him.

If trouble truly came, he would carve his way through it.

Time flowed quietly.

Two full days passed in what felt like a blink.

During that time, Wang Chen remained in seclusion, completely absorbing the Crystals of Enlightenment. The surge of Formation Dao comprehension had already reshaped his worldview, but the deeper assimilation took time. Concepts layered upon concepts. Principles interlocked. What had once seemed chaotic now formed a coherent structure in his mind.

When he finally opened his eyes, something had changed again.

He examined himself inwardly.

Inside the Garden of Eternity, the Eternal Flame Divine Core burned steadily like a miniature sun. Above the vast Qi Sea floated his Nascent Soul—radiant, vivid, almost tangible.

It had grown.

From Mid-Stage Nascent Soul...

To Peak Nascent Soul.

The transformation was subtle but unmistakable. The phantom body was denser now, more refined. Its features sharper. Its presence heavier.

He could feel it.

Just one slight push.

One more nudge—

And the Nascent Soul would transform into the Primordial Deity.

He did not even need to rush.

The Eternal Divine Flame constantly nourished his soul, refining and tempering it every moment. Even if he did absolutely nothing, simply breathing and existing, he would likely step into the Deity Transformation Realm within a few days.

That realization did not excite him as much as it once would have.

Power had become... expected.

Necessary.

With all this settled, Wang Chen finally made up his mind.

There was no longer any reason to remain in the Soaring Dragon Continent.

Too many variables were gathering here.

Too many eyes.

He inhaled softly.

"Time to leave."

Without any dramatic gesture, he began circulating One Thought to Cross the World.

Space responded instantly.

The invisible restriction that once felt like an iron wall now resembled thin parchment. He sensed the spatial membrane pressing faintly against him—residual resistance from the Spirit Locking Formation.

Before, he had been like an ant trying to pierce the surface tension of water.

Now—

He was the stone.

With a slight increase in force, the spatial layer crumpled.

No thunder.

No explosion.

It folded inward like a sheet of paper being crushed in a careless hand.

In the next blink—

Wang Chen vanished.

The courtyard returned to silence.

The breeze moved through the trees as if nothing had ever happened.

And the Yun Family Estate stood completely empty.