"This Lord of Bones is incredibly physically strong!" Hao Gongming thought to herself.

She then teleported to the Lord of Bones, who was looking at her doubtfully, and threw a punch.

She felt as if she had hit a rock, so hard that her hand's bones immediately broke, without leaving a scratch on the Lord of Bones at all.

"The difference between each cultivation step is unbelievable! I'm already quasi-7th step, but even a billion of me couldn't even scratch it! I can't break through its defense!" Hao Gongming lamented.

Each cultivation step had multiple realms, and each realm had multiple stages, including early, middle, late, and peak stages.

It was difficult but possible to challenge someone in a higher stage but in the same realm.

However, it was nearly impossible to challenge someone who was a whole realm stronger.

As for Challenging someone who was an entire step stronger, it considered laughable unless there were special circumstances or assistance, such as Hao Gongming having the system and the 10th step sword.

When one enters a higher step, they get countless times stronger, rendering everything in lower steps as weak as ants in comparison.

"But really, if it weren't for the system, I would have no chance against any of these 7th steps!" she admitted.

The Lord of Bones looked annoyed and shrank its size to that of a mountain, then swiped at Hao Gongming with its paw.

Hao Gongming was completely unable to react and didn't even see the paw coming.

Her shield activated, and a golden light appeared around her.

The paw struck the shield and was completely deflected, leaving even some cracks on the bone paw.

The Lord of Bones recoiled in fright, seemingly not expecting Hao Gongming to be able to harm it.

"I don't want to waste time on you," she remarked, truly looking down on these creatures.

They were incredibly powerful, yet they behaved like beasts.

According to Gray, they were once intelligent beings, but after absorbing the worm's source, they all turned into mindless beasts.

She deleted useless skills and created two new ones instead.

"Seal 7th Step": Completely seal a 7th step creature in a specific location in space."

"Space Hardening": Solidify space to prevent a 7th step creature from being able to move it."

She spent a significant amount of reality points to create these two skills and immediately put them into action.

The Lord of Bones froze in place, locked within the sealed space.

It then attempted to expand and push the space to free itself, but it was completely unsuccessful.

In fact, some of its bones even broke in the process due to the strain of expansion without success.

"Now just wait there for a while until you die," Hao Gongming smiled coldly.

She drew out Brightness and started slashing.

One week later...

Hao Gongming looked at the pile of bone powder in front of her and sighed from exhaustion.

Of course, it wasn't physical exhaustion but mental exhaustion.

This 7th step creature was so difficult to kill that she had been slashing at it continuously for an entire week, striking 10 million times per second to try to eliminate it.

"The vitality of these 7th step creatures is truly terrifying," she thought to herself.

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She had already explored the entire soil world and discovered all the 7th step beings within it.

There were a total of twenty 7th step beings in the soil world, and all of them behaved like territorial beasts, never venturing beyond their own lands.

"It's quite troublesome, but with these two skills, I'm guaranteed to be able to kill them all within a year."

Two years later...

Hao Gongming let out a tired sigh and jumped into the portal to the Hao Harem Sect.

She had decided to rest and celebrate for a year.

Exploring the 8th step worm creature could wait.

Now she wants to rest!

In the past two years, she had successfully killed all 20 of the 7th step beings and now ordered her followers to collect anything useful and bring it back to her world.

Initially, she had expected it to take no more than a year, but some of the 7th step beings were incredibly bizarre and took months to defeat.

One of them even resembled a jellyfish and was almost immune to slashing damage.

It had taken nearly a year to kill that particular creature.

She had attempted to use various skills, but the reality points required to directly kill a 7th step being were too high.

"Alright, it's finally done. Now let's have some fun!" she exclaimed with a smile.

She called for Su and looked at him.

As always, Su looked serious, but more importantly, he was in the peak of the 2nd step.

"His progress is so fast. It won't take long for him to reach the 3rd step with the available resources," she thought.

Su spoke, "Gongming, the situation is excellent! The world's space is expanding, and the number of harem members has reached a level of 75 digits."

"Great, now go prepare the entire sect. Su, I want to be satisfied and entertained. Show me what you have accomplished during this time," she commanded.

Su nodded solemnly and left.

Soon, dancing teams, art teams, Kang's special team, stripper teams, and many other specialized teams were assembled to please her.

Hao Gongming was impressed, particularly with Kang's spatial team.

While the details were too graphic to describe, it could be said that Kang's team focused on fulfilling specific desires of women and was extremely successful.

As her people were gathering resources, she enjoyed and had fun for an entire year!

...

The sky was clear and blue.

Inside a building at the headquarters of the Hao Harem Sect, a woman sat on the sect master's chair.

She was Hao Gongming, with black eyes and black hair, resembling an ordinary mortal.

However, she was, in fact, the strongest human being in the entire universe.

She was a 19th step being, one of only thirteen in existence.

In this moment, she was studying a map.

The map displayed numerous ongoing simulations, where she had dispatched many of her clones to recruit new members for the Hao Harem Sect.

Each clone was equipped with a cheat that she gave them to speed up the process.

The success rate was remarkably high, all thanks to the system she had bestowed upon her clones.

These clones retained memories of her transmigration when she first came to this world, but had all other memories removed.

Her true cheat, however, was not the system.

In fact, she didn't have any system when she first transmigrated.

She just created a harem because she believed that protagonists should have one.

As her harem grew larger, she started receiving reality points.

Reality points were initially mysterious to her, and she didn't understand their significance at the time. However, now she is very clear about their purpose.

She realized that reality points were generated because her harem members relied on her, and as a result, a portion of their power continuously transferred to her.

Once she discovered this, she made it her goal to gather more and more harem members. Eventually, the entire human race became her harem, with many members unaware of their involvement due to her sophisticated control.

To optimize the acquisition of reality points, she created numerous clones with different appearances and genders among the human race.

Periodically, she sends these clones to gather more humans from simulations. After the clones return, they lead all harem members to her, and she absorbs them into her harem.

However, when it comes to other races, she has no choice but to send them away.

The other twelve rank 19 beings are individually weaker than her, but combined, they could pose a threat.

To maintain peace, they made an agreement: she would send all members of their respective races to them, and in return, they would leave her clones alone. This deal has been in effect for countless years.

At this moment, a specific spot on the map began to shine. "Another clone is delivering harem members, and the number is huge!"

Typically, it is around 65 digits, but this time it's even larger, 75 digits.

"This clone seems promising. I'm looking forward to absorbing it!"

Her cloning technique was unique. Every clone resembled her, but not completely. They differed in subtle ways.

That was intentional because Hao Gongming desired to become the perfect being.

She absorbed every clone that was exceptional, assimilating their positive qualities and discarding a bit of her own negative traits.

As a result, she is now the strongest among the 19th step beings, nearly perfect in every aspect.

"There is no true perfection, and there are always ways to improve," Hao Gongming murmured to herself.

She set aside the map and sighed. "Only the worm race lacks a peak 19th step being. When that worm reaches its peak, then all of us can be promoted to the 20th step."

The rules of the real world were unbreakable. The only way to progress from the 19th step to the 20th step was for all fourteen original races to reach their peaks. Since the worm race hadn't achieved this yet, no one could be promoted.

"If I had more harem members, it might have been possible to bend the rules slightly," she mused.

the rules were considered unbreakable, and even bending them seemed impossible.

Yet, she discovered that her reality points had the power to bend the rules to some extent.

Sighing once again, she dismissed these unrealistic thoughts and focused on the simulated worlds to determine where she would send her clones next.