Chapter 463

After Zhao Xing took out the statue of Qing Yuzi, he used it as a medium to carry the mysterious technique found on the Ancestor of Void's molted bone.

"Crack, crack, crack~"

The statue soon developed ten cracks, and the once lifelike carving was instantly rendered unrecognizable.

Fortunately, after the tenth crack, no new ones appeared; the statue of Qing Yuzi had ultimately managed to bear this secret technique.

"Old Qing is really useful! Awesome!" Zhao Xing couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

After the rubbing was complete, he did not linger.

After all, the divine patterns had been copied and the True Spirit Heavenly Poison had been cleared; coming in this time could already be considered an over-fulfillment of the mission.

No one knew what other tricks were hidden on the Ancestor of Void's molted bone, and Zhao Xing did not want to invite more trouble, so he immediately returned his soul to his body and headed back the way he came.

Upon returning to the internal space of the clone's body, Zhao Xing sent a message to the Five Poisons Emperor: "Teacher, I am coming out. Are you ready on your end?"

His own Grand Void clone still could not escape, being pressed firmly by the mountain.

He had no other thoughts; he retracted his split soul with a single thought and prepared to exit.

Since he only had one clone, he still had to borrow Zuo Qiyu's clone as a medium this time to complete the Distance-less Teleportation.

"Rest assured, I have checked it thoroughly. Zuo Qiyu's clone is practically an empty shell; you can use it without worry." The Five Poisons

Emperor looked at the motionless Primordial Beginning clone beside him.

"Good, I'm coming."

Zhao Xing took a deep breath, then first activated 【Dao Control】, locking onto the Zuo Qiyu clone outside the mountain.

Since this Primordial Beginning clone of Zuo Qiyu was now just an empty shell, Zhao Xing easily completed the control, molding it into his own shape.

Immediately following with Distance-less Teleportation, Zhao Xing's true self instantly appeared inside Old Zuo's Primordial Beginning clone.

"Whoosh~"

Having emerged for only an instant, Zhao Xing immediately flew out of the Primordial Beginning clone's body.

This was because he felt that even though Zuo Qiyu's split soul was not there, the residual Dao rhyme was still repelling him, filled with killing intent.

"Withdraw."

Once Zhao Xing's true self was out, the Five Poisons Emperor immediately withdrew the empty shell clone to avoid any negative impact on the two of them.

"Phew~"

The Five Poisons Emperor let out a long breath.

He hadn't been serious many times in his life, and balancing the conflict between Zhao Xing and Zuo Qiyu counted as one.

Fortunately, there were no major problems.

"How was it?"

"I gained something." Zhao Xing nodded.

"You must return quickly." The Five Poisons Emperor returned the Flower-Amongst Chair to Zhao Xing. "Do not stay here."

"Teacher, am I just leaving like this?" Zhao Xing asked. "Now that

my True Spirit Heavenly Poison has been completely eliminated, perhaps I can help a little..." He couldn't help with the Monster Race Emperor, but Zhao Xing was still confident in dealing with a Monster Race Lord.

"Go, go, go. What can you help with? Zuo Qiyu has already gone; you will only add to the chaos if you go."

"After you return, go immediately back to the Primordial Realm and report to Senior Guluohe!"

The Five Poisons Emperor forcibly pressed Zhao Xing onto the Flower-Amongst Chair, urging him to leave.

"Alright, take care, Teacher."

Zhao Xing no longer insisted on staying; after all, if Zuo Qiyu was there, a second person was indeed not needed.

"Flower-Amongst Chair, activate!"

Clutching the Qing Yuzi statue, Zhao Xing and the chair began to dematerialize.

Boundary-Crossing Tower, eighth floor.

Bowei followed a mirror, slowly flying through a space filled with light orbs.

Compared to the seventh floor, Bowei had obtained greater authorization.

Here, there were red light orbs everywhere; he could view the causal disturbances of space-time that had truly occurred in history, and he even saw Qing Yuzi!

"Sovereign of Tianyou..." Bowei reached out to manipulate them, and about thirty red-glowing orbs appeared in a row in front of him.

In every orb, there was a Qing Yuzi; although their images differed, they were connected in a string.

In the last orb, it showed the very scene of the Yuanhai Ancient Kingdom Dharma Assembly, where Qing Yuzi became a god.

"So that's how it is, so that's how it is." Bowei suddenly realized: "The seventh floor allows me to absorb power, and the eighth floor allows me to observe the God Realm preliminarily. So this is how Qing Yuzi became a god."

Bowei could see the movement trajectory of the current Qing Yuzi in space-time. With the help of the Boundary-Crossing Tower, he could spy on the past and present of the God Realm and understand his origins!

For example, in the space-time of the 22nd era before the Desolate Domain, there was also a 'Qing Yuzi' there.

Bowei looked over curiously and found Qing Yuzi saying something in grief and indignation, like "no" or "you bastard."

"What is he saying?" Although Bowei could see, there were still many things he did not understand.

However, seeing Qing Yuzi so grief-stricken, even without knowing why, Bowei still revealed a smile.

Because this meant that the God Realm was not high and mighty; they could also be angry and had things they were powerless to change.

"It sounds like Zhao Xing did something that displeased him." A smile appeared on the corner of Bowei's mouth. "Caught you!"

Being able to see clues was a very good start. In the future, he would inevitably be able to spy on more information and uncover the secrets of the God Realm!

"Hum~"

Suddenly, the entire eighth floor of the Boundary-Crossing Tower began to shake.

"Teacher, what happened?" Bowei looked at the Knowledge Realm beside him. At this time, besides Zhixin, there was already a phantom of the Boundary-Crossing Tower inside the Knowledge Realm, which meant his teacher had also taken the first step.

The first step to becoming the artifact spirit of the Boundary-Crossing Tower.

"Zhao Xing is returning through your Flower-Amongst Chair." Zhixin answered quickly, "But it seems there is a problem."

"What problem?" Bowei asked.

"The Flower-Amongst Chair was crafted by you, which is equivalent to replacing the original function of the Boundary Jade. You hid three strands of power inside the Flower-Amongst Chair. Because of your endowment, the Flower-Amongst Chair is equivalent to a Boundary Jade with no upper limit on credit."

"It is rapidly consuming the Boundary Spirit credit of the Boundary-Crossing Tower, currently exceeding 300 million." "How much?!!" Bowei could no longer smile.

He immediately took out a Boundary Jade with an ancient design; this was one of the cores of the Boundary-Crossing Tower and the mother of all Boundary Jades.

After Bowei refined it, he gained a function: Displacement.

That is, taking matter from this space-time to exchange for Boundary Spirit credit, and then endowing practitioners with Boundary Spirit credit to enter the Boundary-Crossing Tower.

The higher the Boundary Spirit value of the Mother Jade, the more spots Bowei could issue, and the greater the help in controlling the Boundary-Crossing Tower. Functions like the 【Six-Pillar Jade Tablet】 also could not do without it.

In other words, Bowei was accumulating Boundary Spirit value through the Mother Jade to achieve his goal of becoming the master of the Boundary-Crossing Tower.

When Bowei first discovered the Mother Jade, it only had 100 million in credit. After the first batch of spots was opened, Bowei earned about 2. billion in Boundary Spirit value credit.

But now, the credit inside his Mother Jade had suddenly decreased by 300 million, and it was still decreasing rapidly.

In the time it took to chat with Zhixin, it had already reached a staggering 500 million!

"My god..." Bowei was completely dumbfounded.

He had just mocked Qing Yuzi for falling into Zhao Xing's trap.

He didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, he would become the victim himself.

The Boundary Spirit value was being consumed like flowing water, and the numbers appearing on the mirror were shrinking rapidly.

Bowei subconsciously reached out to grab, as if trying to catch something.

But in the blink of an eye, the teleportation was already complete.

Even if he wanted to cut off the teleportation function of the Flower-Amongst Chair and leave Zhao Xing stranded in historical space-time, it was already too late.

The number finally settled.

Bowei was dumbstruck.

"What, what on earth is going on..."

He originally had 2. billion in Boundary Spirit value, but now only 100 million remained!

Zhao Xing's one return had actually consumed 2. billion of his Boundary Spirit value credit!

Collecting fees from practitioners to convert into Boundary Spirit value credit, working hard to maintain operations, the 2. billion Boundary Spirit value accumulated was now just a fraction!

Back to square one overnight!

Bowei felt completely numb.

How was this any different from robbery?

"Why, why on earth is this happening??" Bowei muttered to himself; he couldn't understand it at all.

Zhixin was also shocked to the point of speechlessness.

After a long while, he spoke to comfort him: "Bowei, I think you shouldn't mess with him again in the future."

Even a God Realm being like Qing Yuzi could be trapped; Zhixin suspected that if

Bowei continued to list Zhao Xing as a member of the God-Making Project, it would be a very dangerous thing.

... nlike the return teleportation of the Boundary Jade, the return relying on the Flower-Amongst Chair felt very long to Zhao Xing.

A bizarre world appeared before his eyes, filled with red light, and countless lines intertwined above the long river. These red lines also passed through his body, but he felt nothing unusual, only occasionally seeing images and shadows flashing by, which was terrifying.

It seemed as long as an era had passed before Zhao Xing discovered that these visions dissipated, and he appeared in the hall on the sixth floor of the Boundary-Crossing Tower, chair and all.

"Back?" Zhao Xing looked around; he seemed to have returned, but this process was different from usual, and he dared not be sure.

Swish~

It wasn't until Bowei's figure appeared that he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Greetings, Great Elder!"

"Fortunately, I did not fail the mission; I returned alive!"

Zhao Xing was completely unaware that he had consumed 2. billion Boundary Spirit value from Bowei. Being able to return to the 2nd era of the Desolate Domain made him feel close to even a dog, let alone Bowei, who had truly cured his illness. At this moment, his attitude toward Bowei was much better.

Bowei, however, was expressionless.

Fortunately, did not fail the mission?

Why didn't you just die there?

Taking a deep breath, Bowei managed to force a smile: "Zhao Xing, I'm very glad you're alive."

"Elder, my True Spirit Heavenly Poison has been completely cleared, and the space-time of the Boundary-Crossing Tower has also completed its closed loop. I wonder if I can next time??"

Next time? He still wanted a next time?!

"Zhao Xing, you go back first. We'll talk about entering the Boundary-Crossing Tower later." Bowei waved his hand, directly reclaiming the Flower-Amongst Chair, and then a force surrounded him, throwing Zhao Xing out.

"Eh? Great Elder..."

After Zhao Xing was thrown out, he spun hundreds of times before stopping. During the spinning process, he seemed to hear someone whispering.

"Yo, who is this guy, flying so uniquely."

"Seems to be the Agricultural Official Zhao who wrote the Earthly Changes of the Soil Era."

"In the Holy Land of the Academy, such behavior, what kind of decorum is this!"

"Get lost, where did this old pedant come from? Why do you care how our Agricultural Official Zhao flies?"

"Old senior, run quickly, those surrounding us are the Agricultural Officials from the Mound of Antiquity. If you keep badmouthing the Holy Son, you'll get beaten."

"..."

Hmm? Why does it seem like I've heard this passage somewhere... Zhao Xing stabilized his figure and looked up, only to find that there was no one around, just some illusory figures flashing by, as if it were a space-time illusion.

"Could it be that Bowei kicking me out is the real closed loop? But I haven't exchanged yet, right?"

He felt Bowei's change in attitude, a feeling of being somewhat disgusted with him.

However, he didn't think too much about it, just assuming Bowei was helping him close the loop.

Yet he hadn't performed the exchange yet; could it be that he returned empty-handed again?

Just as he was about to find Bowei to reason with him, a look of confusion appeared on Zhao Xing's face.

"What's going on, I..."

Opening his Origin Space to check, Zhao Xing was instantly stunned. At this moment, three things had appeared in his Origin Space.

One was the Black Sky Moon Tree, the second was the Spirit-Devouring Grass, and the third was the Qing Yuzi statue.

However, these three things had changed drastically in appearance!

First was the Black Sky Moon Tree; it was originally only as tall as a person, but now it exceeded ten thousand feet in height. Panel detection showed that it had entered its peak period.

【Black Sky Moon Tree】

【Quality: Emperor Grade】

【Status: Peak Period】

【Innate Secret Technique: Taiyin Moon Radiance, Darkness Domain】

【Description: A variant moon tree produced from the Black Sky Desolate Domain that absorbed moon radiance fragments. Growing to its peak period, it is equivalent to a human race Reincarnation Emperor level, an auxiliary type unit.】

【Spirit-Devouring Grass】

【Quality: Legendary】

【Status: Adult Period】

【Innate Secret Technique: Nine Abysses World-Devouring】

【Description: Spirit-Devouring Grass produced from the Li Star River Domain, living by devouring the void's

Six Qi. Upon reaching the adult period, it is equivalent to a human race Reincarnation Emperor level, a combat type unit.】

"The Black Sky Moon Tree and the Spirit-Devouring Grass were both in the seedling stage. How are they now one in the peak period and one in the adult period?" Zhao Xing was confused.

He felt he was hallucinating, because logically speaking, his cultivation in the Hunyuan Realm was still only at the second level.

The Origin Space is not an internal body world. At this time, two major plant units comparable to the Emperor level appeared; logically, the Origin Space should have collapsed.

It wasn't until Zhao Xing saw the third thing that he understood.

"The statue, it's restored!"

The Qing Yuzi statue was originally full of cracks, but now it was flashing with golden light, with a divine pattern circling it. Where were there any cracks left?

It was precisely this divine pattern that suppressed the two major plant units, preventing them from destroying his Origin Space.

"Is this reasonable? I clearly didn't exchange, but they..."

Everything before his eyes exceeded Zhao Xing's cognition.

He looked at the two major plant units with trepidation; assuming there was no statue of Old Qing to suppress them, he would probably have been blown up.

"First, follow what Master said, return to the Primordial Realm and find Guluohe to report!" Whoosh~

Zhao Xing turned into a rainbow light, drilled into the Dao Manifestation Layer, and left the Academy City.

In the bizarre Dao Manifestation Layer, a flying boat shaped like a lynx was shuttling through the void river.

Because it was in the Xuanling Star Domain, the void river was very stable, and Zhao Xing's Lynx-class boat still flew very fast even though it was only a Sun Dao unit.

"For some unknown reason, my two seedlings have obtained tremendous growth."

"The originally ordinary Qing Yuzi statue has now also become extraordinarily miraculous. Could it be that rubbing the Ancestor of Void's mysterious technique caused this? This doesn't make sense."

After experiencing the initial panic, Zhao Xing quickly accepted the facts.

The Qing Yuzi statue was originally an ordinary wooden carving, but now it carried the Ancestor of Void's technique and had become miraculous.

He couldn't figure this out, but he could take a look at the two major units.

"The Seven Domain True Spirit Bamboo is also of Emperor quality, but it is still in the growth period and has not undergone transformation. Only the Black Sky Moon Tree and the Spirit-Devouring Grass changed. It seems something happened in the Boundary-Crossing Tower that I don't know about." Zhao Xing secretly thought.

"Regardless, these two major units are not something I can control now. I can't even raise them, let alone control them, but I can take a look through the panel."

"The Black Sky Moon Tree has two innate talents, Taiyin Moon Radiance and Darkness Domain, both of which are auxiliary functions. They should be able to provide convenience in the Black Sky Desolate Domain."

If the Chenluo Desolate Domain is not counted, the Black Sky Desolate Domain should be the most special and mysterious forbidden area among all Desolate Domains.

It is infinitely close to the legendary 【Dead Domain】, with very little spiritual energy

produced, and even the vital energy is pitifully scarce. Moreover, there is no 'void river' in the Black Sky Desolate Domain, which means the void in the Black Sky Desolate Domain only has one layer, which is the 'Elephant Manifestation Layer' of the real world.

Like the Chenluo Desolate Domain, they all have void turbulence, but the Black Sky Desolate Domain simply doesn't have this, as if the laws of the universe are missing a link there.

"Historically, the Black Sky Desolate Domain was not as extreme as it is now. People could still see the Star of Taiyin, and could also find plants like the Moon Tree, but later these things could no longer be seen." Zhao Xing felt that this variant Black Sky Moon Tree could be of great help.

The Black Sky Desolate Domain involves two theories.

One is the Minggu Mountain, rumored to be the largest mountain in the universe. It is precisely it that blocks the existence of the Extreme Star, and its shadow is cast on the territory of the universe, thus forming the Black Sky Desolate Domain.

The second is the Extreme Star. Assuming the first theory holds, then finding the Minggu Mountain might very well lead to the discovery of the existence of the 【Extreme Star】.

"Compared to the Black Sky Moon Tree, the Spirit-Devouring Grass only has one innate ability." Zhao Xing looked at the other plant life.

It had nine leaves, the leaves were incomparably wide, presenting a dark cyan color, with mysterious black patterns on them. It was a dynamic spiral shape, like a bottomless black vortex.

When Zhao Xing looked over, it felt as if his gaze was about to be absorbed into it.

The nine vortexes on the nine leaves constantly pulled at the Origin Space, but the existence of the Qing Yuzi statue made it unable to pull.

Although the Spirit-Devouring Grass only had one innate talent, Zhao Xing felt it was billions of times more dangerous than the Black Sky Moon Tree.

"I used to want high-level units, but it's not a good thing if the units are too high-level." Zhao Xing was both excited and melancholy.

Taking a careful inventory, Zhao Xing discovered that this trip had been very rewarding. The True Spirit Heavenly Poison was eliminated, and he had also cultivated the Primordial Beginning Straw Man Technique.

He had obtained two powerful plant units and brought back a fragment of a god-level technique suspected to have been created by the Ancestor of Void.

"However, if I don't open up an internal body world, I absolutely cannot withstand two Emperor-level plants, let alone the Spirit-Devouring Grass, which can be comparable to a demigod if it reaches its peak period."

"The mysterious technique on the Ancestor of Void's molted bone must definitely be handed over. When the time comes and there is no suppression, should I transplant the two major plant units together? I don't know how the Empire will arrange me."

Zhao Xing felt a bit uneasy in his heart. The harvest was too great, and he might not be able to keep it. He even felt that the journey back to the Empire was not safe.

The Ancestor of Void's molted bone is a secret of the Origin Heavenly Palace. The Monster Race Emperor fell into a causal trap because of him, Jin Yan also knew that he had cultivated the Primordial Beginning clone, and he had obtained two powerful plants in the Boundary-Crossing Tower. The True Spirit Heavenly Poison was gone; would Wei Tianchen know?

As Qing Yuzi said, he was a "hot commodity" after passing through the 【Causal War】. On the way back, would someone assassinate him?

The interior of the Xuanling Star Domain was not absolutely safe either!

Zhao Xing tried to call out to Qing Yuzi, but there was no response.

Just as mentioned before, Qing Yuzi would no longer respond to him, and the Sovereign of Tianyou in the 22nd era before the Desolate Domain was just a pre-arranged means.

Just at this moment, the Lynx-class Boundary Boat suddenly decelerated passively, and a triple-pointed tower building appeared in the void river ahead.

It appeared abruptly, the surrounding void river was directly intercepted, and Zhao Xing's Lynx-class flying boat was pulled toward the triple tower.

"What?!"

It really was a case of fearing what you don't want to happen. Zhao Xing looked closely and discovered that they were

the 'Que Heavenly Palace', 'Wuxiang Palace', and 'Qingxu Palace' of the Origin Heavenly Palace.

The Origin Heavenly Palace handles external affairs, and the most common one is the Que Heavenly Palace; it is rare for the three palaces to act together.

But now, they appeared together!

And they blocked him.

"That's right, the Origin Heavenly Palace has the Ancestor of Void's molted bone. Assuming I obtained information about another piece of molted bone, the first one to react would naturally be the Origin Heavenly Palace." Zhao Xing immediately felt that something bad was going to happen.

Because Guluohe does not manage the affairs of the Primordial Realm, which are mainly handled by the Five Poisons Emperor and Zuo Qiyu, Zhao Xing could not contact Guluohe immediately after leaving the Academy City. It was normal for the Origin Heavenly Palace to be a step faster.

"Boom crack~"

Amidst the thunder and lightning, the boundary gate of the Lynx-class boat opened automatically.

Above the three palaces, a mist staircase extended down to Zhao Xing's feet.

Zhao Xing looked up and discovered that there were three golden, brilliant, and majestic phantoms at the top of the staircase. The pressure permeated, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Although he knew the visitors were not kind, Zhao Xing still respectfully saluted: "Zhao Xing of the Primordial Realm, greetings to the three Palace Masters!"

"Zhao Xing, hand over the secret technique attached to the Ancestor of Void's molted bone." A voice came down from the top of the staircase. This voice was ethereal and indifferent, carrying no emotion.

It really was aimed at this! Zhao Xing knew he couldn't hide it, but he still wanted to delay some time.

He bent his waist and said with difficulty: "Three Palace Masters, this junior does not know about any Ancestor of Void molted bone."

"Even if there is, I, I don't want to hand it over."

"Are you not afraid of death? If we kill you, we can still obtain the things on you. It's just out of respect for the Empire that we don't want to use force."

Zhao Xing did not speak, just shook his head.

If he handed it over, would the Empire let him go?

The most fearful thing about taking sides is wavering. If he was killed by the three Palace Masters, the Empire might still resurrect him.

After all, he no longer had the True Spirit Heavenly Poison on him now, so the cost of resurrection was not as high as before.

The premise was that the three Palace Masters did not do things to the extreme.

After waiting for a long time, the imagined death did not come, and Zhao Xing heard a gentle voice.

"Very good, Zhao Xing, you may rise."

Feeling the pressure disappear, Zhao Xing looked up in astonishment.

Where were there any palaces or cloud ladders above his head?

Only two figures appeared in the original position of the palace: one was Guluohe, wearing a white dharma robe embroidered with a divine tree.

Beside him, a burly man was wearing a strange battle armor. The surface of the armor blended with the color of the void, as if it were inlaid with stars, sun, and moon. At first glance, it looked like the entire map of the Xuanling Star Domain was inlaid on the armor.

Guluohe and the Red Star Emperor?!

Zhao Xing frowned. Was just now an illusion? Or is it an illusion now?

But this was easy to judge.

The three Palace Masters just now did not appear in his line of sight, and his

detection panel couldn't even see their names.

But now, he looked up directly, and the names of Guluohe and the Red Star Emperor were displayed.

So that's how it is. It seems this was truly a test.

Thinking about it, since the Yuanhai Ancient Kingdom incident, he had encountered too many things, and there were too many abnormalities. Without some kind of test... that would be abnormal! Previously, he hadn't encountered any major events, and with Qing Yuzi's face, it didn't matter. Now it was different.

Only with a test could it represent that he would not be abandoned and would truly be accepted by the Empire!

Fortunately, he made the right choice and did not surrender to the Origin Heavenly Palace.

Otherwise, he would have been finished.

Instantly understanding everything, Zhao Xing tidied his clothes and saluted leisurely: "Your subject, Sea-Communication Envoy Zhao Xing, pays respects to Your Majesty!"