Chapter 352: The Residual Value of Return to Void

After changing his clothes, Zhang Long's suffering began.

Twenty-four hours a day, every single minute, White Crane Boy had training tasks arranged for Zhang Long according to Su Ping's instructions.

Even during the three hours allotted for sleep.

White Crane Boy would use a Dream Entry Artifact to enter Zhang Long's dream realm to continue supervising him as he recited cultivation scriptures.

While Zhang Long was complaining incessantly.

Su Ping turned his attention elsewhere.

For instance, stuffing Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui into a spaceship headed for Mars.

And providing strong support for the aerospace project to probe the Sun.

Using technology from the Cultivation World, he carried out Dharma Artifact modifications on tens of thousands of detection satellites.

Afterward, these satellites were stuffed into disposable detection rockets and sent rushing toward the anomaly near the Sun.

He wanted to rely on the advantage of quantity and cultivation technology.

Hoping to thereby see what that anomaly really was.

It didn't matter if he failed; he could just keep trying.

Under Su Ping's influence, the current Water Blue Star is, in a sense, undergoing a new industrial revolution.

As time passes, it is becoming increasingly prosperous and powerful.

In the near future, let alone launching ten thousand stars with one rocket as they do now, they could completely launch ten, or a hundred rockets at once!

Using absolute quantity to guarantee the success rate.

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Biyuan World formed a sharp contrast with the Small Thousand Worlds outside.

Everywhere was a scene of prosperity.

The cultivators from other Small Worlds who originally had a few complaints, after seeing the miserable state of the outside world, also felt a sense of happiness and secret joy from the comparison.

When working, they also had much more energy.

And Tian Rulai, after seeing that Su Ping had mastered the Heaven-Turning Seal and the speed at which the Sun Moon Star Chart refined the Small Worlds.

Especially after seeing the astonishing progress of the fusion with the World Consciousness.

It also increased its investment in Su Ping.

It even passed down a Secret Technique, allowing the young Abbot to build a Bronze Buddha Pagoda on Chiyuan Main Peak.

Inside the Buddha Pagoda, three hundred High Monks chanted the Great Freedom Bright Light Mantra day and night.

A Great Freedom Bright Light Buddha Statue was built inside the pagoda.

Then, the three Return to Void bigwigs that Su Ping had suppressed in the Sun Moon Star Chart were transferred into this Bronze Buddha Pagoda.

While being suppressed, they became the energy core components of the entire Bronze Buddha Pagoda.

They were all renowned Return to Void bigwigs from the Five Elements World.

A single word from them could decide the joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness of hundreds of millions of people.

But now, their physical bodies were destroyed, and their Primordial Spirits were extinguished.

Only their Divine Souls, containing a sliver of original spirit, could maintain an Undying state, as difficult to erase as those Mysterious Remains.

But that was all—just difficult to erase.

Facing Tian Rulai's Bronze Buddha Pagoda.

Once they entered it and saw the Avatar of Tian Rulai.

Their minds were shaken to the core.

The old Sect Master of the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Sect couldn't help but roar in his heart:

"I knew it! All that talk of saving the world and slaying evil was fake!"

"The mastermind behind the scenes is clearly a child of an Evil Spirit, and a high-ranking, unfathomable child of an Evil Spirit at that!"

Red Eyebrow Abbot, meanwhile, sent a message wanting to surrender.

However, the Buddha Venerable Avatar of Tian Rulai lowered its eyes and gave a shallow smile, refusing the other party.

If it were in the past, and a High Monk of the Return to Void Realm were willing to defect.

It naturally would not have let the opportunity pass and might have even made a small investment.

But now, however.

Tian Rulai's habit was to place both sides on the scales in its heart.

And the result was naturally self-evident.

A mere one, or even several, Return to Void cultivators, compared to the miracles Su Ping brought... were still too light.

"Amitabha."

"The three benefactors have deep sins; the resentment you carry is more than hundreds of millions."

"Rest assured and recite the Great Freedom Bright Light Mantra with me to atone for your sins."

The Buddha Venerable Avatar of Tian Rulai spoke.

Afterward, in the small space of this Bronze Buddha Pagoda, boundless Buddha light filled every inch of space.

At the same time, scripture sounds of various tones and different rhythms appeared simultaneously in the consciousness seas of the three Return to Void bigwigs.

Leaving these three Return to Void bigwigs with no way to think about anything else.

In their minds, apart from the sound of the scriptures, nothing remained but the content of the scriptures.

Facing this method of Tian Rulai, they had no other choice but to seal their original spirits and let their Divine Souls become foolish.

And this was also Tian Rulai's goal.

To have no subjective initiative.

Only these three Return to Void bigwigs can become qualified cores for the Array.

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"Look quickly, that Bronze Buddha Pagoda is glowing!"

On a large Immortal Boat transporting supplies.

A Personal Disciple of a Vice Sect Master from a certain Small World, attracted by the Buddha light, saw the radiance on the summit of Chiyuan Main Peak and could not help but speak out in curiosity.

His master, a middle-aged Cultivator with a long red beard, also curiously peered over.

He was, after all, a standout among Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Thinking he would be able to discern something, the middle-aged Cultivator's mind was shaken the moment he unleashed his divine ability.

He was startled by the scene manifested within his Dharma Eye by the Bronze Buddha Pagoda.

That Bronze Buddha Pagoda had, shockingly, an Avatar of a Buddha Venerable of unknown origin sitting cross-legged on a lotus pedestal.

And that was not the point; the key was that what was being suppressed beneath the Buddha Venerable's lotus pedestal were clearly three Return to Void Great Abilities!

Buddha light was continuously entering the bodies of those three Return to Void Great Abilities, and after being transformed, it entered the lotus pedestal, making the patterns on the pedestal increasingly clear and bright.

It also caused the aura of this Bronze Buddha Pagoda to become increasingly ancient and long-standing.

"Hiss!"

This middle-aged Cultivator took a large step back, completely lacking composure.

Too preoccupied to care about losing face in front of his disciples, he hurriedly gripped a Jade Slip to send a message to a familiar Daoist.

They, coming from the same Small World, naturally had formed an alliance.

Not long after this middle-aged Cultivator made contact, he discovered that all the Daoists near Chiyuan Main Peak had noticed the anomaly of the Bronze Buddha Pagoda.

Among them were many Return to Void Daoists who were at the peak of their Small Worlds.

All of them had seen the same anomaly.

"That... no, the Alliance Leader seems to have truly suppressed three Return to Void Great Abilities!"

"And, judging by what Sect Master Cang said, those three Return to Void are all famous big shots in the Upper Realm!"

"One of them seems to be the old Sect Master of the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect!"

Other sects were too unfamiliar to these Lower Realm Cultivators.

But whenever the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect was mentioned, these Lower Realm Cultivators were basically all familiar with it.

There was no help for it; when it came to extracting human and material resources from the Lower Realm, the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect was the most aggressive major sect.

And just as they were curious about what such a big move was for.

The Bronze Buddha Pagoda had another new anomaly.

A beam of golden Buddha light shot from the entire body of the Bronze Buddha Pagoda toward the high sky.

It directly pierced through the world bubble of the Biyuan World, and then, after arriving in the Dark Void.

This beam of light suddenly split into hundreds of thinner Golden Lights, after crossing the long Dark Void.

The targets were shockingly the various Small Worlds within the dilapidated Small Thousand World!

At the same time, around Chiyuan Main Peak in the Biyuan World, Su Ping's voice descended.

He required every group to be prepared to receive the newly arrived Cultivators and mortals.

And in those Small Worlds pierced by the beams of light.

Su Ping's voice also rang out, informing them that this beam of light was the only path of survival for their Small Worlds.

If they were unwilling to believe, or were determined to surrender and become members of the Evil Spirits.

Then they could just not come over.

Everything was fate; Su Ping had provided a way out, and the rest was entirely up to them.

Of course, another reason was that Su Ping currently could not do as he had before, running off to have heart-to-hearts with each Small World, and then taking them into the Sun Moon Star Chart to let the World Consciousness become a member of the array map.

After discussing it with Tian Rulai.

Su Ping discovered that in this short amount of time, there was truly too little he could do.

In the end, he could only compromise, borrowing Tian Rulai's help to create a temporary passage for those pitiful Small Worlds.

So that the survivors in those Small Worlds could at least have a path of survival before the world was about to be destroyed.

Of course, those who could still survive at this time either had great fortune or one or two trump cards as Cultivators, and there was even the possibility of a Child of the World, which was also within Su Ping's calculations.

Letting them die in vain in the Small Worlds.

In Su Ping's view, it was truly too much of a pity.

Rather than sacrificing them in vain, it was better to come to his side and accumulate strength.

And then contribute strength together to the great plan of escaping the Mother God.

So as to live on properly.

It could also be considered not letting their homelands be destroyed in vain.

Watching the white light of the Bronze Buddha Pagoda enter those Small Worlds.

Su Ping was not idle either.

He had his Primordial Spirit set out, and together with other Cultivators above the Return to Void level who had received orders, they all entered the Bronze Buddha Pagoda.

And then, acting as guardians, they released their respective Primordial Spirits or Nascent Soul Avatars, and were teleported into the Small Worlds that the beams of light had entered.

They were responsible for receiving the survivors who had learned the news and rushed over to escape.

With Tian Rulai taking action to provide protection.

All the Evil Spirits retreated.

And among the children of the Evil Gods, there were not a few who wanted to make a move.

But they were all deterred by Tian Rulai's aura.

Thereby learning the information transmitted by Tian Rulai.

Upon learning that the World Consciousness would not strike at the Core Earth Vein.

The moods of the children of the Evil God eased somewhat.

These were the children of the Evil God who ranked highly, or had even devoured their own kind.

They merely accelerated their feasting, without irrationally turning hostile toward Tian Rulai.

Tian Rulai could sense the malice directed at it by those children of the Evil God.

However, thinking of how the Mother God was about to awaken.

And that it could no longer hide itself regardless.

The day the Mother God awoke would surely be the time she devoured it.

These likes and dislikes of its kind, which might involve long-standing interests.

Tian Rulai no longer cared about them.

It now only wanted to cooperate with Su Ping to extract as much benefit as possible from this Small Thousand World.

And then head to that Great World to seize the Ancient Divine Tree, Jianmu!

To obtain the most crucial piece of the puzzle for its escape!

Amber World.

A Lower Realm separated from the Five Elements World by only three worlds.

Being relatively close, the Amber World had not been exploited quite as miserably.

Nor was it a Small World used for dumping trash.

Furthermore, the World Consciousness of this world was particularly adept at spatial defense.

This caused the Amber World to have far fewer Space Cracks appear during this period than the surrounding Small Worlds.

The pollution from the Evil Qi it received was also much lighter, with only the Five Elements World able to surpass it.

However, as the children of the Evil God got serious, combined with this Evil Qi Tide.

The World Barrier of the Amber World could not withstand the siege.

A black hole in space appeared in the sky, visible to any Cultivator regardless of where they stood if they looked up.

From that deep black hole, Evil Qi resembling solid matter poured down continuously.

Causing, in just two or three days.

Native Evil Spirits to appear everywhere in the Amber World.

The Terror Evil Domain spread across the land, the oceans, and even the sky like cancer cells.

The ten billion sentient beings originally in the Amber World.

Were reduced to less than one in ten within these few days!

The final struggle of the Amber World's World Consciousness.

Only resulted in the sudden appearance of continuous high walls formed by ten-thousand-meter-tall mountains in several regions.

In the basins surrounded by these mountains, Evil Domains would not appear for the time being.

Yet, before the natives could feel encouraged by this miracle.

The strong among them saw the demonic claws of the children of the Evil God emerge from the black hole.

They saw those demonic claws strike down, deep into the earth, digging out the entire Core Earth Vein that contained the World Consciousness and taking it away from the Amber World.

This caused one-fourth of the strong who observed this scene to go mad and choose to run out to perish together with the external Evil Spirits.

One-fourth suffered a cultivation deviation and transformed into Evil Spirits on the spot.

The remaining ones then engaged in a great battle with these Evil Spirits.

Although they eventually won by relying on their foundations, the remaining less than one-fourth of the strong were all injured, and their strength had declined severely.

This meant that when the white light of the Bronze Buddha Pagoda descended.

The Amber World was no longer shaped like a grape, but more like a grape skin that had been bitten several times, with the seed already dug out.

The mountain basins where survivors remained were just lingering on in that remaining grape skin.

Even if they were lucky enough not to be targeted by the children of the Evil God.

Relying solely on the erosion and pollution of the Evil Qi.

This safe zone would reach its limit in just three more days.

Therefore, when the beam of light pierced the pitch-black sky and landed on the ground.

The Cultivators of the Amber World who had received the message.

Only hesitated for a moment.

Before some Cultivators chose to take the bait.

"Biyuan World, Chiyuan Main Peak, Evil Exterminating Alliance Leader, Savior Heavenly Venerable..."

Watching another batch of Cultivators enter the beam of light with their families and then vanish.

A young Cultivator with a ponytail had a complex expression.

This young Cultivator was definitely the Child of the World of this realm.

Only sixteen years old, he had relied on various fortuitous encounters to obtain Secret Techniques of ancient heritage.

He had gained the recognition of a sect's divine weapon and awakened the extremely rare Amber Spirit Body.

Although he was only at the early stage of Nascent Soul, he was a dual cultivator of magic and body, capable of escaping the pursuit of a Spirit Severing Cultivator.

The only regret was that no matter how much of a genius he was.

The world was changing far too quickly.

The eruption of the Evil Qi Tide simply gave no time for World Consciousnesses to cultivate their own Children of the World.

This left the youth before him in a rather awkward predicament.

He was very strong, a true genius.

Yet in front of the Son of the Evil God... he could do nothing but flee!

"Uncle, I cannot die!"

The ponytail youth gripped the single-handed axe at his waist and whispered:

"I still have to take revenge for Father, Mother, and Little Sister!"

"I can only gamble... that what those people said is true."

Having said this, the ponytail youth ignored the middle-aged Cultivator's attempts to stop him and headed toward the distant pillar of light.

The middle-aged Cultivator in white saw the youth's determined expression.

He knew he could not dissuade him.

He sighed, and with a movement of his divine sense.

The area where the two were located was suddenly swept into a Small World by a Space Array.