Chapter 205: Ten Thousand Swords Return to One (Two-in-One, Please Subscribe)

The pitch-black sphere formed by the earth vein began to pulse abruptly under the sword Qi.

It seemed to contain the embryo of some living entity.

The Evil Qi within a radius of a hundred miles, which had originally vanished due to the white light, began to quietly emerge once more from various cracks in the ground.

Seeing this scene.

The phantom of the Daoist who had wielded that sword let out a long, soft sigh.

Just hearing this sound, a figure of a female Cultivator filled with sorrow and unwillingness could not help but emerge in Su Ping's mind.

And then, the situation changed abruptly once again!

The Daoist phantom above the white light cast the Long Sword directly down from high in the sky.

After the Long Sword flew out of the white light's height, it immediately transformed into a residual shadow and plunged into the pitch-black sphere at the bottom of the tens-of-thousands-of-meters-deep pit.

The blade of the Long Sword sank completely into the pitch-black sphere, leaving only the red hilt visible outside.

This hilt erupted with a blinding red light that illuminated the deep pit.

Following the sound of a phoenix cry.

A phantom of a crimson Red Kite emerged, then transformed into a crimson Seal that wrapped around the pitch-black sphere.

This caused a Red Kite pattern to appear on the surface of the sphere, looking like a tattoo.

As this pattern was imprinted onto the pitch-black sphere.

The Evil Qi that had been emerging continuously from the surroundings suddenly lost its momentum and was quickly dissolved by the white light.

"Impressive!"

The face of Evil God Nicu emerged within the sealed pitch-black sphere; he looked up at the sky and sighed in admiration:

"To have only the cultivation of the fifth rank, yet achieve such a degree... who would have thought such a genius could exist among low-rank creatures!"

"I must admit, the living beings of your world have made me look at you with new eyes."

"Pity, you were born at the wrong time! Born into a world destined to be completely digested by the Mother God, every earth vein beneath your feet has already been polluted..."

"You!"

"No longer have any possibility of advancing further!"

"A pity, truly a pity!"

"For those of you who have paid such a great price, the best result is merely delaying a mealtime that is not worth mentioning in our eyes."

"The world you want to protect with your lives is destined to head toward destruction!"

"Hehehe! Continue your death throes!"

"The process of you struggling in despair before the world is destroyed is the seasoning we like best!"

Boom!

The red light of the Red Kite tattoo on the surface of the pitch-black sphere became increasingly blinding, accompanied by a humming sound, causing the bewitching voice emitted by Evil God Nicu to vanish without a trace.

However, as this red light intensified.

Above the white light, the phantom of that Daoist also vanished along with it.

The monk put away the Spirit Treasure and, after saying "Amitabha" while looking in the direction where the Daoist had disappeared.

This High Monk suddenly struck down with a palm.

A Golden Light barrier suddenly appeared in the deep pit, covering the sealed earth vein to prevent any Cultivator from accidentally breaking the Seal.

After completing this arrangement, this High Monk also vanished instantly from high in the sky.

Not long after these two Transformation God phantoms disappeared, and the white light in the sky vanished.

This patch of sky actually revealed a normal azure blue!

A cool breeze blew, and the air seemed to have become much fresher.

Except for the fact that the area within a hundred miles of Yunshan had vanished and turned into a ten-thousand-meter-deep pit, and the pit itself had clearly become a Forbidden Land among Forbidden Lands.

Everything in the surroundings seemed to have returned to the normal environment from before the mutation.

But Su Ping knew that normal days were gone forever.

The white light had indeed eliminated the Evil Qi and Evil Spirits present at the time.

After sealing this polluted earth vein, it also prevented Evil Qi from emerging on a large scale to pollute this world.

However, the various environments and even the Spirit Veins that had already been destroyed could no longer be restored.

Many Secret Realms in this world were already in a precarious state.

It would not be strange at all whenever demons or ghosts ran out from within them.

But, in the end, the greatest trouble in this region had been resolved.

Thus, it regained the value of being occupied and having production restored.

Moreover, this Seal was not like others; it was certainly necessary to prevent evil Cultivators from coming to break the Seal.

The Immortal Boat of the Artifact Heart Sect flew back not long after, and after the largest few Immortal Boats were connected to each other.

They actually transformed into an aerial Immortal Palace seven or eight hundred meters high, covering an area of over one hundred thousand square meters.

This Immortal Palace became the location of the main peak of the Artifact Heart Sect.

And then the entire sect used this as a base to become the sect guarding the Seal here.

Besides the Artifact Heart Sect, other sects, both large and small, also sent some disciples and clansmen to places where the Spirit Veins were still relatively intact to farm and mine.

There was no help for it; for most Cultivators, as long as they were not dead, life had to go on.

Then it was necessary to cultivate the Spirit Fields and mine the Spirit Mines.

Even Su Ping's Nine Leaves Mountain encountered sect Cultivators who came to inspect it after a period of time.

Fortunately, Su Ping had discovered this change in advance by relying on the Memory Illusion.

Acting on the thought that there were at least Spirit Fields to farm and a Market to open to obtain information.

Su Ping, having already clarified the situation in advance with the Cultivators who were still willing to farm at Nine Leaves Mountain, used a Cloud-Riding Talisman to take them back to Nine Leaves Mountain.

Then, after repairing the core nodes of the Array and installing the mid-grade Spirit Stones, the Array was activated.

The sect Cultivators who saw that the Array was in an activated state immediately abandoned their thoughts of seizing it by force.

Coupled with the knowledge that this True Person Baihe only occupied a place with a First Grade Low Grade Spiritual Vein.

Their tone of voice also became much gentler and more pleasant.

Su Ping made Manager Dongfang the head manager of Nine Leaves Mountain, holding the Array Talisman to manage the tenant farmers who were primarily Loose Cultivators.

Afterwards, he himself hurried back to the migration team of Nine Leaves Mountain.

Cultivators have high mobility, and there were indeed many Cultivators willing to take risks for the chance to continue their cultivation.

That is why they were willing to return to Nine Leaves Mountain.

These hundreds of thousands of mortals who had already migrated, however, hoped even more to head to a safer place to live.

Su Ping also intended to continue the migration plan and take them to the Overseas Islands.

On the road of migration, Su Ping received messages from time to time from fellow practitioners he had met at the Artifact Heart Sect.

There were even cultivation alliances formed by small and medium-sized sects that deliberately distributed Jade Slips containing current affairs news.

The goal was naturally to hope that the Foundation Establishment Cultivators who read them would develop a sense of crisis, thereby tending to huddle together with them for warmth.

It was also from this information that Su Ping learned about the current cultivation world.

Almost all sects, large and small, had learned of the incident where Chiyuan Xianren took action to seal the Avatar of the Evil God that the Supreme Elder of the Artifact Heart Sect had turned into after falling into the Demonic Path.

Regarding the matter of Chiyuan Xianren displaying Immortal might again after so many years.

Major sects and above were all desperately promoting it, attempting to use this to soothe people's hearts and deter those Demon Beasts, the Demonic Path, and evil Cultivators.

As for those small and medium-sized sects mixed with the Demonic Path and evil Cultivators, they naturally launched a counterattack.

Regarding the fact that it was not Chiyuan Xianren himself who took action, but merely an Avatar of Chiyuan Xianren manifested by a Secret Treasure of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect that had absorbed the killing move of Chiyuan Xianren.

Once the Secret Treasure exhausted the stored Chiyuan Immortal power.

The Avatar of Chiyuan Xianren would no longer be able to appear in the world.

And that real Chiyuan Xianren is still in the Main Peak, with life or death unknown!

Otherwise, why would the Chiyuan Immortal Sect Main Peak still have its gates tightly closed, and all Immortal Sect disciples above the Golden Core stage are gathered on the mountain and not allowed to descend!

Su Ping's heart also tended to agree with this speculation.

If Chiyuan Xianren had really come out of seclusion, he wouldn't need much, just fly around this continent with his sword.

The trend of the Dao rising and the Demonic falling could immediately be reproduced everywhere.

The Demon Beasts of the Ten Thousand Mountains would probably also shrink back and choose to continue watching, right?

Su Ping sighed and suddenly realized that the seaside had arrived.

He flew over and looked at the Tall Ships prepared by the managers who had arrived in advance.

The main force stayed at the coast to set up camp.

Using the Tall Ships as the main means of transport, they were responsible for transporting these mortals to dozens of islands of varying sizes in the distance.

Half of these islands already had family Cultivators and their clansmen who had seen that the situation was bad and run away in advance.

It is just that these people numbered only a few thousand at most, and only a few hundred at least.

After seeing the Tall Ships breaking through the sea surface and coming, they chose the latter option between the two choices of resisting with force and negotiating a compromise.

And not long after, these families were quite glad that they had made the right choice.

After Su Ping arrived, he swept his Divine Sense across.

He helped them find the evil Cultivators hiding inside.

These evil Cultivators were lurking in this place with insufficient spiritual power, waiting for an opportunity.

When the trace amounts of Evil Qi on this sea surface started to increase or they found an opportunity, they would perform a sacrifice to turn this region into an Evil Domain!

After Su Ping found them, he took action directly to suppress them.

Among them, there was even an evil Cultivator who had sat in the position of family patriarch, and had even engaged in political maneuvering to become the Alliance Leader of the families on several nearby islands.

This Alliance Leader had Qi Refining Perfection cultivation and a high-grade Dharma Artifact to protect his body.

Added with the means of an evil Cultivator, he would have at least a chance to entangle an ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Unfortunately, he met Su Ping, who was already at the Foundation Establishment Mid-Stage.

The second after he was exposed.

While the sky was still echoing with the sound of "True God help me."

The evil Cultivator Alliance Leader himself had already had his entire body blasted apart by Su Ping from a distance with a punch.

Directly ending this battle that was not even as good as beating up a kindergarten.

"I am at the Foundation Establishment Mid-Stage and also used the North Star Divine Art."

"It seems that in these Overseas Islands where even the Qi Refining Late Stage is extremely rare, this is a bit of a dimensionality reduction strike!"

After Su Ping suppressed the evil Cultivator Alliance Leader with one punch, he immediately discovered that there was nothing left for him to do.

He was slightly stunned by this, but after deep thought, he didn't find it surprising.

After all, what kind of place are the Overseas Islands.

A remote and desolate place where even the Qi Refining Mid-stage cannot make any progress due to the Spirit Qi environment.

It is only because the current general environment is too dangerous; otherwise, Loose Cultivators would rarely appear in these places.

Those sent by the cultivation families are mostly branch families and lineages, and the clansmen are also mainly mortals.

Even if there are a few Foundation Establishment Cultivators leading the team, the Foundation Establishment individuals themselves will not stay in the vicinity for long.

Over time, the strongest combat power in the Overseas Islands is mostly at the Qi Refining stage.

That Qi Refining Great Perfection who was killed by one punch was already the extremely rare highest combat power here.

Su Ping chose the island with the largest surface area.

This island was approximately over seven hundred square kilometers.

By transporting soil via his Storage Bag and Storage Spirit Tool, most parts of the island could also be used for farming and planting trees.

Water sources could also be self-sufficient, relying on the seawater distillation Array that Su Ping had set up.

He built a simple office location, set up Arrays on the island, and named it Yunlai Island.

After Su Ping announced his new title as the Master of Yunlai Island starting from today.

Feeling that he finally had some free time, Su Ping returned to the Pot Heaven.

Then, having witnessed Chiyuan Xianren battle the Avatar of the Evil God, Su Ping urgently wanted to improve his self-preservation abilities, while also feeling that he truly needed to organize and draw inferences from the new knowledge he had accumulated during this period.

After Su Ping finished preparing Pills and other necessities, he took out the Spirit Light Misty Fish he had caught last time.

This was the second Spirit Light Misty Fish he had caught.

Having already known its specific effects, Su Ping believed that this time he could utilize the fish's effects even better!

Su Ping chose to use it, and suddenly, the fat-headed fish in his hand jumped violently.

Immediately, it transformed into a seven-colored bubble with a diameter of over five meters in front of Su Ping!

【The Misty Illusion has been activated!】

【Remaining time: 24 hours】

Not daring to waste time, Su Ping gripped his left hand and took the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon, which was lying in the room absorbing Spirit Qi, into his hand.

He immediately stepped into this seven-colored bubble.

He appeared in the somewhat familiar blank room.

After feeling that he, the peerless genius, had returned.

Su Ping wept with joy for his own cleverness.

He sat cross-legged and, after holding a Pill in his mouth.

Su Ping began to organize and analyze the profound and mysterious Array knowledge he had forcibly memorized in his mind.

Among these, the most important were the Sword Arrays inherited within the sword spirit of the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon.

These Sword Arrays were the crystallization of the experience of the Golden Core and Nascent Soul experts of the Heavenly Sword Sect over hundreds and thousands of years.

After Su Ping learned and absorbed them, he integrated, deduced, and improved them in his mind.

Ten swords, one hundred swords, one thousand swords, ten thousand swords... corresponding to the difficulty of First Tier, Second Tier, Third Tier, and Fourth Tier Arrays.

While the mysteries of the Slaying Evil Sword Array opened Su Ping's eyes.

Its difficulty was equally astonishing.

Even with the annotations of his predecessors.

Su Ping still used half of the Misty Spirit Light time before he managed to master it thoroughly, and subsequently, beyond the ten thousand swords.

Combining the Immortal text revelations of the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon and the sword strike he once saw from Chiyuan Xianren that tore apart the sky and the earth, he comprehended a Fifth-Tier Array beyond the Fourth Tier... Ten Thousand Swords Return to One!

One sword breaks ten thousand techniques!

"A Fifth-Tier Array!"

"If people from the outside world knew that a Foundation Establishment cultivator could comprehend a Fifth-Tier Array, they would surely think I am actually an Avatar of the Evil God, right?"

"However, this is also my destiny!"

"After all, even if there were a peerless genius in the Array path in the Cultivation World, it would be impossible for them to have my opportunity to come into contact with so many Array secrets at the Foundation Establishment stage!"

Su Ping did not continue to delve into the mysteries of the Fifth-Tier Array.

The gap in foundation and basics was too large; every bit of progress from here on would consume a massive amount of Essence, Spirit, and Qi, as well as time.

And there was a high probability that he wouldn't gain anything useful.

Su Ping did not dare to continue being greedy.

After touching the edge of the Fifth-Tier Sword Array, he spent his time on other Array knowledge.

He raised his overall Array realm from the Second Tier to the Third Tier.

He gained the ability to draw inferences and deduce improvements for Third-Tier Arrays.

And he gained the possibility of successfully setting up a Fourth-Tier Array with the power of Foundation Establishment and then relying on High-grade Spirit Stones to activate it.

As for the Fifth-Tier Slaying Evil Sword Array, it was due to the special nature of this set of Sword Arrays.

The more small and medium nodes involved in setting up the Array, and the larger the range, the easier it would be for the final stage of Ten Thousand Swords Return to One to take shape, thereby unleashing the divine might of the Fifth-Tier Sword Array!

Taking advantage of his peerless genius state, Su Ping estimated the situation in the final moments.

He discovered that if it were a Slaying Evil Hundred Sword Array hosted by a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he would need ten thousand such Foundation Establishment Sword Arrays to have a chance at successfully achieving Ten Thousand Swords Return to One.

And if it were changed to a Qi Refining Sword Array hosted by Qi Refining cultivators... it would fluctuate greatly due to the differences in Qi Refining Sword Arrays; perhaps it would take a million-unit scale of Sword Arrays to have a chance for Ten Thousand Swords Return to One to appear!

"A million Sword Arrays!"

"Wouldn't that require finding a million Qi Refining cultivators?"

"More than that... if you count the auxiliary cultivators, this number would have to be multiplied by three to five times!"

"Of course, Sword Arrays hosted by Foundation Establishment cultivators only need Qi Refining cultivators to assist, and Loose Cultivators can also assist in Sword Arrays hosted by Qi Refining cultivators."

"The number of cultivators required for this is still enough to make one's scalp tingle!"

"It is no wonder that the Sword Elder of this generation of the Heavenly Sword Sect did not continue to deduce it further."

"The previous time, they spent so much effort and only found a little over a thousand Foundation Establishment hosts for the Sword Array!"

"The current Cultivation World... no longer has the conditions to deploy such a Slaying Evil Sword Array!"

"Furthermore, for the Cultivation World, the cost-effectiveness is clearly not worth it; after all, in the end, it is only equivalent to the power of a single strike from a Transformation Deity sword cultivator!"

"And for the same Transformation Deity means, other Immortal Sects more or less have trump cards that can achieve similar effects."

"However, it can still be considered my trump card."

"After all, the fifth-tier Ten Thousand Swords Returning to One is not easy to achieve, but aren't there still Ten Thousand Swords or Thousand Swords?"

"That is also a great power sufficient to change the landscape!"

One day in the outside world, one month in the Hazy Illusion.

The seven-colored bubble suddenly burst and vanished.

Su Ping reappeared in the Pot Heaven and felt the Spirit Qi surging in from all around.

At the same time, perhaps because the Sword Array he had comprehended was in some sense also closely related to this Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon.

Su Ping could feel that this divine weapon had become much more compatible with him.

At the same time, when looking at the sword body, the relevant Heavenly Sword Technique immortal scripts could also emerge in his mind.

Only!

After leaving the Hazy Spirit Light Illusion.

Su Ping's brain returned to its normal state.

His ability to understand these immortal scripts greatly diminished.

With his current comprehension, he could not achieve enlightenment of the Heavenly Sword Technique like the founding ancestor of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

"Falling from the state of a peerless genius back to a normal state, even though I have experienced it once, a very strong sense of loss still strikes me now!"

"Fortunately, I can now be considered a genuine Third-Tier Array Master!"

"Even if I go over to the Immortal City, I could be called an Array Grandmaster!"

"However, even with array ability, without sufficient Spirit Stones, an array would be like water without a source!"

"To fully unleash my ability as an Array Grandmaster, Spirit Stones are indispensable!"

"For a period of time before, relying on the gifts of kind-hearted Cultivators, I had accumulated quite a few Spirit Stones, and there was even no lack of High-grade Spirit Stones."

"But to set up high-tier arrays, these accumulations... are far from enough!"

Su Ping quickly realized his own strengths and weaknesses.

He raised the priority of earning Spirit Stones to the top in his heart.

Fortunately, the mortals under his jurisdiction are now concentrated on the relatively safe overseas islands.

In these places, the arrays he set up are enough to protect these mortals.

He no longer has any worries behind him.

He can fully take the initiative to go out and earn Spirit Stones.