Chapter 390: North King Time Domain, Dark Catastrophe

Do not underestimate how the battles between the Mother Goddess and the clones of the Lord of Flesh and Blood affected many large and small worlds.

In fact, the Shikong Haiyu is extremely vast; the sea area where one is currently located alone is no smaller than a Galaxy.

Because of this, there exist thousands of large and small worlds with intelligent life and cultivation civilizations.

Between world and world, there is usually a distance that is difficult for the vast majority of Cultivators to reach in a lifetime.

Furthermore, the environment of the Shikong Haiyu itself is extremely complex and changeable.

There are all kinds of space-time whirlpools and Time-Space Turbulence that cannot be observed at all without getting close.

These often make spatial distances difficult to gauge.

Airspace that looks quite close will, upon entering, reveal its true size to be more than a hundred times larger than it appeared.

Coupled with the fact that the worlds themselves are moving and can teleport following sudden Space-Time Torrent,

the large and small worlds in the Shikong Haiyu are often difficult to find as long as they do not wish to be exposed.

And this is also the way of survival for Small Worlds in the Shikong Haiyu.

It also gives some peerless geniuses time to grow.

Of course, the peerless geniuses born in Small Worlds will eventually embark on the Great Dao of leaving their hometowns to head to the Great World and major sects to continue seeking the Dao.

With the guidance of the Fishing Compass, Su Ping, this fisherman, does not need to worry about losing his way in the Shikong Haiyu or failing to find those hidden large and small worlds.

However, the long distances still require a certain amount of time.

Su Ping is in no hurry regarding this.

He might as well take this opportunity to rest and take stock of the gains from this trip.

The difficulty of this Super Nightmare Abyss Challenge was two tiers higher than the previous Lord of the High Tower.

After the Mother Goddess helped complete this challenge mission,

Su Ping heard the reward notification and saw that he had obtained five million Fishing Coin.

Five million Fishing Coin!

Fifty thousand Experience Book!

One Peerless Partner Invitation Letter and two Rare Partner Invitation Letter.

Su Ping felt that the strength of his Pot Heaven partners could take off directly from this.

The Peerless Partner Invitation Letter naturally required no consideration; he gave it directly to Valkyrie Kong, his only peerless-quality partner.

Valkyrie Kong advanced to Senior Valkyrie; although she had not yet activated her exclusive building, she activated the ultimate move Void Queen, which, in addition to the previous normal summoning of Void Creature, could also simultaneously summon a large number of Void Creature projections to assist in battle.

Su Ping continued to give the Rare Partner Invitation Letter to Fire Knight Alwin.

This directly allowed Alwin, who was already a Great Knight, to advance to Knight King Alwin.

Having become a Knight King, Alwin's Fire Mark generation increased from one per month to one per week.

At the same time, he could unconditionally summon and keep at least two Fire Knight phantoms by his side at all times.

His base attributes also doubled based on the original, and his fire-based divine abilities gained the Undying and Ignore Domain characteristics.

Added to this were more rich and seasoned combat techniques.

At this moment, Knight King Alwin already possessed some of the confidence and potential of Great Ability like the Fox God phantom to kill enemies across tiers.

Su Ping also felt that the Fire God Knight who succeeded in slaying a god in the exclusive building Fire Sanctuary was actually the future projection of Fire Knight Alwin.

Pot Heaven.

Su Ping nodded with satisfaction and looked at the Pot Heaven level:

Level 4 (910/1000)

"Still 90 points of Spirit Qi concentration short?"

"Hmm, I'll organize and utilize the special buildings I extracted that increase Spirit Qi, and then retrieve the special catch I've been keeping on Water Blue Star first."

Su Ping did as he thought, rearranging the layout of some peaks in the Pot Heaven.

He placed the extracted special buildings and main buildings in their respective categories.

Even if some were clearly useless and not aesthetically pleasing, Su Ping didn't care about that just to make up the numbers.

Before long.

Through Su Ping's tireless efforts, the Pot Heaven successfully advanced to Level 5.

Current Pot Heaven level: Level 5 (10/2000)

The successfully advanced Pot Heaven not only had a higher Spirit Qi concentration than before.

More importantly, the Travel Cabin had more items available for purchase.

For Su Ping, who was already free to spend Fishing Coin, this was quite important.

Furthermore, Su Ping discovered that the Pot Heaven also had two additional buildings that could be placed.

One was the Equipment Cabin.

One was the Resource Exchange House.

As the name suggests, the Equipment Cabin allows for the direct customization of equipment needed by partners, as well as strengthening, to further enhance partner strength.

The Resource Exchange House allows for the use of Fishing Coin to purchase Resource Pack.

Resource Pack can yield all non-specialty catches.

Su Ping understood at a glance that this was for exchanging Fishing Coin for breakthrough resources for partners.

Under normal circumstances, both of these are major consumers of Fishing Coin.

They are also basic operations that spur players to work hard after the Pot Heaven reaches level five under normal development progress.

It's just... Su Ping looked at his Fishing Coin, which started with a five and had reached seven digits.

Hmm... this should be a great help in letting himself take off, right?

The wealthy and confident Su Ping waved his hand.

Not only the companions, but even White Crane Boy had upgraded his gear, with a Wanfu Daoist Robe Set added to his person.

Furthermore, the companions' exclusive sets had also been strengthened to the rare quality that the hut could achieve.

The only pity was that this equipment could not be taken out of the Pot Heaven; it could only be manifested indirectly through the effect of the Memory Scepter on the memory phantoms of the summoned companions.

Otherwise, Su Ping still had his eye on the unique effects of some of this equipment.

The Resource Exchange Hut could exchange for one hundred Resource Packs every week.

Each time required one hundred Fishing Coins.

Su Ping saw that it was acceptable, so he directly spent ten thousand Fishing Coins to exchange for all the Resource Packs.

This caused the raccoon in charge of the hut to stand up in a human-like manner and stare at Su Ping with wide eyes.

It seemed to be confused as to whether a normal player would have so many Fishing Coins at this time.

Could it be that the other party was not spending Fishing Coins elsewhere?

After Su Ping bought out the Resource Packs, he specifically ran to the Fox God's Shrine to pay his respects, and then went to the True Martial God Temple to offer incense.

Then he ran to the Fire Sanctuary to wash his hands.

Only then did he open these Resource Packs.

Then he saw a large pile of Small Green Fish, Big Green Fish, and Small Flowing Pattern Fish, etc., pop out.

Su Ping silently estimated that if these catches were exchanged back into Fishing Coins, they would not exceed five thousand Fishing Coins at most.

So, in terms of cost-effectiveness, buying Resource Packs was actually a fifty percent loss.

But obviously, it could not be calculated this way.

For Su Ping, who was not short of Fishing Coins, this saved a massive amount of time spent accumulating ordinary catches.

With these catches, plus the large number of Experience Books obtained from completing challenge missions.

The companions under Su Ping's command ushered in an era of great upgrades.

First were the Fox-Masked Shrine Maiden and Qumo Zhenren Yunkong.

After all, their quality was low, their upgrade requirements were few, and it was easier to raise their levels.

So this time, Su Ping let the Fox-Masked Shrine Maiden and Qumo Zhenren Yunkong both rise to the Sixth Realm, which was the Return to Void Realm in the Cultivation World.

The remaining resources were naturally insufficient; Su Ping thought for a moment and let Valkyrie Kong and Knight King Alwin reach the Fifth Realm.

Finally, the Water Priestess... he had no choice but to let her suffer a bit and continue to maintain the status quo as a support.

However, it would not be for long.

With the Resource Pack Exchange Hut, and with the help of sufficient Experience Books.

Every week from now on, Su Ping would be able to have a certain improvement in the strength of his companions.

Having all companions at the Sixth Realm, and even breaking through to the Seventh Realm later, were all visible futures in Su Ping's view.

Biyuan World continued to maintain a state of high-speed movement.

In the Shikong Haiyu, it was just like a lighthouse in the middle of the night.

In the eyes of some powerful beings in Small Worlds who observed this.

Anyone who dared to do this was either a fool or had great skill and bold courage, deliberately attracting outsiders to visit.

It was just that perhaps because they had just experienced the Dark Catastrophe.

The Small Worlds and Big Worlds hidden in the complex environments throughout the Shikong Haiyu were all extremely cautious.

Even though they saw Biyuan World parading so ostentatiously, no one came over to greet Su Ping.

One week after entering the Shikong Haiyu.

Su Ping finished fishing and obtained three Red Blood Dragon Carps, causing his Immortal Body progress to increase to 42 percent.

Seeing that a few more times would bring the progress past the halfway mark.

After Su Ping returned to Biyuan World, he learned that the avatar of Tian Rulai was waiting for him.

Su Ping headed to the Bronze High Tower.

He sat in the Tea House at the top of the tower with the avatar left behind by Tian Rulai, sipping tea while conversing.

It turned out that Tian Rulai was doing quite well; in just one week, he had already discovered an entrance to a Buddha Realm.

And after entering the Buddha Realm, he was very smoothly accepted by the Fomen there.

Now he had become a proper Great Freedom Mingguang Ancient Buddha World Honored One in the Nine Mercies Buddha World, enjoying the incense offerings of thousands of Buddha Kingdoms, and was able to build his own Buddha Pagoda in the Buddha Realm.

"Your identity hasn't been exposed?"

Su Ping asked curiously, but saw Tian Rulai shake his head slightly and smile:

"Amitabha, benefactor, you are attached to appearances."

"Fomen only looks at whether a cultivator is a Great Awakened One, and never asks about their background."

"My true self cannot be hidden from those with Great Divine Abilities in the Buddha Realm."

"However, since I have already cultivated the Great Divine Ability of Fomen and become a Great Awakened One."

"Then whether I am the son of an evil god or a Heavenly Demon, it no longer matters."

"After all, what I have entered is the Buddha Realm, a place to cultivate true Fo."

"True Fo cultivates one's own awakening and seeks one's own awakening."

"Apart from this, everything else is just passing smoke."

"Those in storybooks who are full of great compassion and love to meddle in affairs, influenced by the hearts of the outside world, are not Fo, but Bodhisattvas who are justified by faith..."

Tian Rulai spoke thus.

However, the difference between Buddha Realms is as great as the gap between a genius and a fool.

The one Tian Rulai joined chanted Amitabha and did not care about his background or good and evil.

Naturally, there are also Buddha Realms that do not chant Amitabha and have many precepts; once encountered, they would slay the demon and eliminate the evil that is Tian Rulai.

However, it was fortunate that Tian Rulai had found an organization.

This allowed Su Ping to have a channel to understand the situation of the current Shikong Haiyu.

First of all, the Shikong Haiyu they were currently in was named the North King Time Domain.

No one knew exactly how large this Shikong Haiyu was, after all, it was nearly infinite in every direction.

After passing through the prosperous central area, the Time-Space Turbulence and whirlpools of the Shikong Haiyu would become increasingly frequent and terrifying.

Space was also extremely unstable.

Often, exploration fleets would struggle through a certain sea area with great difficulty.

Only to blink and find they had returned to their starting point, all their previous hard work wasted!

And the reason for this.

According to ancient rumors, it was intentionally done by ancient Great Ability to deal with various irresistible Dark Catastrophes.

It was done by ancient Great Ability on purpose.

To ensure that a single Dark Catastrophe would not affect too many worlds, causing the billions of civilizations incubated in the Shikong Haiyu to suffer heavy losses.

Those ancient Great Ability joined forces to divide the vast and boundless Shikong Haiyu into individual Time Domains.

And they caused the Time Domains to be physically disconnected, with communication possible only through special channels.

Thereby ensuring that if a Dark Catastrophe with a tendency to spread broke out in a certain place.

In the worst-case scenario, it would only result in one Time Domain becoming a dead zone, a desperate situation!

"The Dark Catastrophe is this terrifying?"

"It seems the Mother God is also one of them?"

Su Ping was quite curious about this.

Tian Rulai nodded slightly:

"The Mother God Catastrophe is indeed one of them, but it is also classified as the one with the least impact among the Dark Catastrophes."

"Although it is unstoppable and irresistible."

"But the Mother God is still very rule-abiding; every time she appears, she only takes a bite."

"After eating, she will sink and disappear into the Shikong Haiyu, and then will not appear again for thousands or even ten thousand years."

"Compared to that, the other types of Dark Catastrophes—Chaos, Decay, and Ancient God—are much more bizarre and terrifying, and they are very likely to show a tendency to spread, causing all the large and small worlds in the entire Time Domain to be affected."

"By the way, I also heard them mention the Abyss."

Speaking of this, Tian Rulai's gaze toward Su Ping became solemn.

"In their words, the Abyss... is an existence more terrifying than all the Dark Catastrophes combined."

"My friend, in my eyes, you are becoming increasingly mysterious and unfathomable."

Su Ping naturally knew that the other party suspected he was related to the Abyss.

After all, this was already the second time that the appearance of the Abyss had a certain connection to him.

Anyone who wasn't stupid could guess a thing or two.

However, Su Ping puffed out his chest and said honestly:

"The Abyss is the enemy of all intelligent civilizations."

"Naturally, it is also my enemy."

"This point is beyond doubt!"

After Su Ping finished speaking, he also felt some emotion:

"It seems that even in the free Shikong Haiyu, crises are everywhere, and civilizations do not live easily."

"..."

In Tian Rulai's eyes, the environment of the Shikong Haiyu was good enough; as for the so-called Dark Catastrophe.

Could the probability of danger be higher than what one encountered inside the Mother God?

However... Tian Rulai looked at Su Ping.

A certain intuition born from an impulse suddenly flashed in his heart.

The arrival of this variable.

Probably also meant that the peace of this Time Domain was coming to an end.

It wasn't to say that the peace was broken because of the Daoist before him.

But rather, under the arrangement of fate.

His arrival itself was a kind of omen, a kind of warning from fate to the billions of living beings in this Shikong Haiyu.

Tian Rulai changed the subject and continued to discuss other common knowledge about this Time Domain.

For example, in the Shikong Haiyu, the vast majority of large and small worlds were hiding their specific locations.

Without clues set in advance, even a Great Ability above Dao Integration could only rely on luck to find them.

If Su Ping had nowhere to go, he could keep flying toward the north.

There, there was a special Small World that actively exposed itself to receive practitioners from all directions: the Golden Crow World.

Many long-standing major sects had their strongholds there to recruit geniuses and collect heavenly materials and earthly treasures for their own sects.