Chapter 505: The Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain, descends!

After the Star Mirror and the Primordial Order merged, once his soul consciousness entered, it felt as if he had stepped into a real space.

Zhao Xing flew through the clouds, silently chanting "Ten Thousand Star City" in his heart. Before long, he flew out of the clouds and saw an ocean.

The ocean was illusory, containing all things; this was an ocean of the heart, and Ten Thousand Star City sat beside it, with ten thousand stars overhead.

*Whoosh~*

Zhao Xing descended quickly, following Five Poisons into Ten Thousand Star City, arriving at the Heart Sea Pavilion.

The Heart Sea Pavilion was bustling with figures; some faces Zhao Xing could see clearly, even sensing their aura, while others were blurred.

Differences in cultivation realm and the strength of one's soul consciousness led to this result.

For instance, although he and Five Poisons were both 12th-tier Demigods, Zhao Xing's mental will was at least eighty percent occupied with official and private matters, so at this moment, Teacher Five Poisons' mental power was much stronger than his.

If Five Poisons did not wish to be seen by Zhao Xing, he could also appear blurred, or even become completely invisible.

Inside the pavilion, many spiral staircases were in motion. Five Poisons gestured casually, and a staircase automatically appeared beneath their feet.

Following the spiral stairs upward, the two arrived before a luxurious private room, where four people were already waiting outside to welcome them.

"Disciple, the one at the very front is Venerable Wanying. He is a mental illusionist."

"The other three are his close friends: Venerable Haoyu is a Fate Master, Venerable Shengyi is a Martial Artist, and Venerable Fuping is a Mechanist."

Five Poisons introduced them via voice transmission.

Because they were not hiding, Zhao Xing clearly saw the four people's faces and temperaments. Venerable Wanying was all smiles, while the other three had been grumbling, but upon seeing the two approach, they instantly straightened up.

"It's him?" Zhao Xing was somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected to see Venerable Fuping here; he thought he would only be meeting Venerable Wanying this time.

"Hahaha, you've arrived, you've arrived."

"Brother Wuxing, Agricultural Official Zhao, thank you both for gracing us with your presence." Venerable Wanying laughed as he walked up to greet them. From his mental resonance, Zhao Xing could perceive that Venerable Wanying was very enthusiastic, and upon seeing him, there was even an added sense of joy.

This stemmed from the ability he had gained through dual cultivation of the "Desire Dream Art" with Fu Mengzhen.

"Disciple, Wanying and the others made a bet to see who could call you over for a gathering. Each put up twenty units of contribution points, and in the end, Wanying won against the other three." Venerable Five Poisons said with a smile: "He and I split it, thirty thousand each. We'll divide the spoils when we return, master and disciple."

"Master, you really are something." Zhao Xing gave a thumbs up.

"Greetings, fellow brothers." Five Poisons was rarely serious, but he broke character quickly. "Wanying, pay up my disciple's appearance fee."

Venerable Wanying laughed: "No problem, it has already been transferred to you."

Contribution points could not be traded, but items exchanged for contribution points could be.

Zhao Xing was also a bit puzzled; had his reputation already grown so high that people were actually spending money to invite him to a party?

Although it was just a bet driven by interest, it still required sufficient prestige to get these four excited.

However, since Five Poisons and Wanying called each other brothers, how should he address these people?

"Little Brother Zhao, let everyone address each other as they please." Wanying seemed to see what Zhao Xing was thinking. "That way, it's more comfortable."

Zhao Xing stopped being coy and immediately cupped his hands: "Greetings, Brother Wanying, Brother Haoyu, Brother Shengyi, Brother Fuping."

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"Please, sit." Wanying led the two into the private room.

The room faced the Ocean of the Heart, offering a unique view, and the surrounding decorations were luxurious, making one feel relaxed and happy. Zhao Xing even felt his own mind being soothed.

After taking their seats, Five Poisons and Wanying took the lead in opening the conversation. Haoyu the Fate Master, Shengyi the Martial Artist, and Fuping the Mechanist all joined in, though Zhao Xing spoke relatively little, mostly listening.

After chatting for a while, seeing that Zhao Xing had also joined in, Five Poisons did not stay much longer.

He stood up with a smile: "Everyone, I have busy affairs in the Primordial Realm and cannot spare more attention. I'll sell this disciple to you all."

"Hahaha, we couldn't afford him." Venerable Wanying and the other three burst into laughter.

"If you don't name a price, how do you know you can't afford it? If the price is right, I'd sell myself." Zhao Xing joked as well.

"If there were a mechanical puppet of Little Brother's caliber, I'd sell everything I own to buy it." Venerable Shengyi raised his wine glass. "Fuping, can you build one according to Little Brother Zhao's template? Just having half of Little Brother Zhao's ability would be enough."

Fuping glanced at Shengyi: "How about I build you a Great Expansion Divine Weapon instead? Since it's all a dream anyway, might as well dream big."

"Hahahaha." Everyone roared with laughter.

The four of them intended to befriend talent like Zhao Xing, so their conversation was all about flattering him.

They were all Demigods who had lived for a long time, so they naturally didn't lack social skills; they usually couldn't be bothered with worldly formalities, but it was different when facing Zhao Xing.

The reason they were so enthusiastic was mainly due to something the Fate Master Demigod Haoyu had told them:

This Demigod Fate Master knew more details about the Yuan Sea Dharma Assembly incident.

At the time, he had used Qing Yuzi, whom Venerable Shengyi knew well, as an example: "In the process of that person from the Reincarnation Temple becoming a god, Zhao Xing's influence was not insignificant. As for the specifics, it is not convenient for me to say more."

"But, if you can gain Zhao Xing's friendship, perhaps your hopes of becoming a god might be a little higher!"

As long as it involved the hope of becoming a god, one would rather believe it to be true than not.

Thus, when Zhao Xing came to attend the four's gathering, he was immediately treated with great hospitality.

Of course, no one acted too deliberately; after all, even without Haoyu's words, they had originally intended to befriend Zhao Xing.

The topic soon turned to contribution point missions.

"—Speaking of which, you all wouldn't believe it. Last time I was doing a contribution point mission, I don't know how, but I got bitten by a Demigod of the Demon race."

Venerable Fuping drank his wine, feeling somewhat depressed: "We were getting along fine, everyone minding their own business, but on that last trip, that guy went crazy. He insisted on fighting me to the death."

Wanying asked: "Did you find out the reason later?"

Zhao Xing also pricked up his ears to listen. He felt a bit awkward; this was purely caused unintentionally.

He hadn't expected to meet Venerable Fuping here later.

"No, I came back and asked Haoyu, but he didn't calculate anything."

"I asked the Profound Official God, he knew, but refused to tell me." Venerable Fuping still felt that battle was inexplicable to this day.

A classic case of being caught in the crossfire for no reason; he couldn't figure it out no matter what.

"Contribution point missions aren't that easy to do? Accidents can happen at any time." Venerable Shengyi also sighed: "I previously ran to the Dark Star Cave, entered through that entrance of the Pan-Ox Demon Kingdom, but came out in the Sky Demon Kingdom."

"I spent three hundred years just spinning around in the Dark Star Cave, and didn't get a single Dark Star Source Stone."

"Clearly, before setting off, I had specifically asked Haoyu to analyze it; I shouldn't have returned empty-handed."

Venerable Haoyu put down his wine glass and said: "Fate is impermanent. In a place like the Dark Star Cave, everything is hard to explain clearly."

Zhao Xing asked in confusion: "What kind of place is the Dark Star Cave?"

Venerable Haoyu said: "The Dark Star Cave is a peculiar region in the Black Sky Desolate Domain, where there is a probability of finding 【Dark Star Source Stones】."

"What its function is, the higher-ups haven't specified; they just collect them at a rate of one hundred thousand contribution points each."

Zhao Xing was stunned. So valuable?

"How come I don't have such missions?"

Venerable Shengyi said: "Little Brother Zhao, you haven't been a Demigod for long. The Dark Star Cave is quite dangerous. The missions given by the higher-ups are a form of training, not meant to send people to their deaths. If a place is judged to be too dangerous, it won't be unlocked for you. You need to be a 14th-tier Demigod to go to the Dark Star Cave."

Zhao Xing suddenly understood. It seems contribution point missions are also tiered.

On the surface, he was still a 12th-tier Demigod. Even now, using the Nine Mars Divine Transformation, he possessed combat power comparable to the 14th tribulation, but it would be difficult to persist for long in the Dark Star Cave.

After all, the transformation had a duration, and Shengyi had gained nothing in three hundred years in the Dark Star Cave; clearly, such a place required a war of attrition to yield results.

Over the next half year, Zhao Xing often gathered with Shengyi, Wanying, Haoyu, and Fuping in Ten Thousand Star City. He gradually learned a lot of information not available through official channels.

One day, Zhao Xing came to the outskirts of Ten Thousand Star City again. He was there to watch Venerable Wanying "build a house."

"The City of the Heart is constructed from mental power. At the very beginning, it was just a 【Mental Hall】 built by three mental gods,"

"for the higher-ups to communicate with each other."

"Later, it expanded to include more God-General and God-Soldier levels, and even Demigods were often summoned here. The hall alone could no longer accommodate them, so it was slowly expanded into the City of the Heart."

Matter constantly emerged before Venerable Wanying, stacking upon itself.

"The public areas of Ten Thousand Stars are all constructed from the mental power of the God Realm. As for private areas, they are expanded by the God Realm and Demigods who enter, which is why the scale of Ten Thousand Star City is growing larger and larger."

"Of course, if a Demigod dies, all the buildings built in this Ten Thousand Star City will cease to exist, which can also be used to judge the life or death of Demigods."

Zhao Xing nodded. Among these people, only Venerable Wanying, this Mental Venerable, could build a house in the area near the core of Ten Thousand Star City. Everyone else's houses were in the suburbs, which could also be considered a symbol of status and position.

Zhao Xing's current mental will matched that of a 12th-tribulation Demigod, more than enough to control his own power, and he was considered very outstanding among 12th-tribulation Demigods.

However, if placed among the 13th-tier, he was only at a medium level.

As for 14th-tier Demigods, he was completely out of the running. Over the past six months, watching Venerable Wanying build houses in the City of the Heart had also been very beneficial, and Venerable Wanying was happy to teach.

"Zhao Xing, you try it. See if you can leave something behind in this area." Venerable Wanying pointed to an empty plot of land.

"Alright." Zhao Xing was eager to try.

The land chosen by Venerable Wanying was such that if one's mental will wasn't particularly outstanding, even a 14th-tier Demigod would find it difficult to condense matter that could exist for long.

"Where the heart points, the Dao manifests. Condense!"

Zhao Xing pointed at the target land.

*Clink~*

A grain of sand the size of a rice kernel appeared out of thin air.

This was the specialty of the City of the Heart; as long as one's mental will was strong, one could conjure anything.

The grain of sand gradually expanded, and Zhao Xing also felt a powerful pressure, the burden becoming heavier and heavier.

*Pop!

After one breath, when the grain of sand expanded to the size of a thumb, it could no longer withstand the pressure and collapsed.

"Still not working." Zhao Xing shook his head.

Venerable Wanying, however, smiled: "Little Brother, your progress is already great. Half a year ago, you couldn't even condense a single grain of sand."

"Now you can increase it to the size of a thumb."

Venerable Wanying had a sharp eye; he could see that Zhao Xing used mental power to manifest matter, and if he only maintained it at the size of a grain of sand, it could exist indefinitely.

"Even smaller, as long as you can successfully condense it in this area, your mental will will have stepped into the 14th tier. You are only a 12th-tribulation Demigod; this is truly rare to see."

Half a year ago, Zhao Xing couldn't condense anything, but half a year later, he could do it. Venerable Wanying was also amazed at Zhao Xing's comprehension.

He had only watched him "build a house" for half a year, and this speed of progress was simply terrifying.

"Not even one-billionth of Brother Wanying's." Zhao Xing looked at the mansion that was more than half finished.

Wanying's mansion covered a thousand acres, with tall palace walls, over ten million bricks and tiles, and inside were pavilions, towers, water corridors,

main halls, side halls, gardens, and lakes—by comparison, he could only condense a single grain of sand.

"Hahaha, I specialize in this, you're comparing yourself to me?"

"Little Brother, don't be too competitive. You're an Agricultural Official, do you want to leave me, this Mental Venerable, with no way to make a living?"

Wanying smiled and led Zhao Xing into a palace to sit down.

After chatting for a while, Wanying suddenly said: "Zhao Xing, we are about to enter the Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain."

"I think you also know some of the gods' predictions regarding the Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain."

Zhao Xing nodded with a heavy expression. Now, there were less than forty years left until entering the Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain.

Among the gods' predictions for the Third Epoch, the most serious disaster was the chaos caused by 【Spacetime Memory】.

"The impact of Spacetime Memory will cause many people to be unable to remember their relatives and friends, or even unable to remember that their own minds are in chaos. The most serious consequence is that the person will go crazy, and even their true spirit will fall into collapse."

"Haoyu, Shengyi, and Fuping are either in seclusion or collecting mental-type treasures to guard against such things happening."

"Of course, candidates for the God Realm like us, who can enter this City of the Heart in Ten Thousand Stars, will also receive some protection. As long as you can build a mental palace, even in the suburbs, you will be blessed by the power of the God Realm. You will only lose some unimportant memories, and if you are lucky, you might be completely fine."

Zhao Xing asked curiously: "Then what about everyone else? I'm not worried about myself, but my relatives and friends,"

"Will they not remember me? How sad that would be, and how chaotic the entire Desolate Domain would be?"

"It's not that serious." Venerable Wanying said, "I have experienced several large-scale Spacetime Memory impacts."

"When the impact occurs, the Profound Spirit History Books, as well as the history books of various ancient kingdoms and the Red Star Empire, will produce a large-scale protective effect. The existence of the Historians will also stabilize the major regions."

"The Spacetime Memory impact actually doesn't have a particularly large effect on those with low cultivation."

"If you are lucky and not in the affected area, those with low cultivation might actually be safer."

Zhao Xing suddenly understood. So Historians and the Profound Spirit History Books had such a function. No wonder Bowei had unified the star-sky historians and history scholars without much resistance; the strong also hoped that the History Dao would become stronger and more prosperous.

"The stronger the cultivation, the greater the impact received; the weaker the cultivation, the smaller the impact."

"In the end, this is a premeditated flood discharge of the spacetime dam, a targeting by the Evil Gods." Venerable Wanying said.

"Facing such a disaster, many in the Reincarnation Realm will choose to actively reincarnate to avoid this calamity."

"However, once this happens, after reincarnation, the origin returns to the universe. When the spacetime flood rolls back, the Evil God camp can smoothly sweep away a portion of the origin and take it back to ancient times."

Venerable Wanying waved his hand, and a river appeared: "You can imagine such a scene."

"Upstream flood discharge, the surging time flood sweeps in. First, it will force some strong people to reincarnate, or their true spirits will collapse."

"At this time, a large number of strong people who cultivate the path of origin-becoming-god will return a portion of their origin to the universe and heaven and earth."

"And when this manipulated flood hits the channels set up one by one, a backflow is created."

Venerable Wanying waved his hand, simulating the scene of the disaster.

The long river of time was originally flowing peacefully, when suddenly in a certain river section of the past, a powerful God Realm figure appeared on the bank, stirring up a monstrous flood.

One after another, wave troughs appeared, as if some giant beast were lurking underneath.

When the giant beast swept past, a large number of light clusters dimmed; that symbolized the death of strong individuals, their origin disintegrating and returning to heaven and earth.

*Boom.

At a certain moment, the flood hit another large dam, forming a backflow.

The backflow was also very turbulent. Ancient Evil Gods stood on the banks of different river sections, taking the opportunity to collect origin from the backflow.

In this way, the past camp completed an origin plunder of the Desolate Domain Epoch camp.

"Brother Wanying, what is this?" Zhao Xing pointed to the wave troughs in the river section; he vaguely saw the figures of some giant beasts.

"Heaven-Dimension Giant Beasts." Venerable Wanying said, "It is rumored to be a type of time giant beast, born in the God Realm, capable of freely swimming through the river of spacetime. However, I have never seen one up close."

Heaven-Dimension Giant Beasts? Did this have anything to do with the Heavenly Time faction? Zhao Xing was thoughtful, wondering if what Yun Tiandao saw at the site of the old Yuan Sea Ancient Kingdom was a Spacetime Giant Beast.

"With my understanding of the Dao and my knowledge of God Realm methods, I can only describe it to you like this. Such methods cannot be used often; I have lived for thirty-six epochs and have only encountered them three times."

"The first time, I forgot many things, and even my basic worldview collapsed. I was muddled and became a madman who only knew how to cultivate."

Venerable Wanying sighed: "It wasn't until three epochs later that I was lucky enough to become an 8th-tribulation Mental Emperor. I was discovered by Palace Master Lu Ya and brought back to the Origin Heavenly Palace, where I used the Ten Tables and Eight Books of the Profound Spirit History Books to help me recover my memory."

"The second time, I was already a Demigod who had passed the 9th tribulation, but I still forgot that I had been a part of the Origin Heavenly Palace."

"The impact at that time was accompanied by the descent of a God-Soldier-level Evil God. I thought I was a rogue cultivator, and that Evil God was full of temptation; I almost knelt to him as my master."

"However, the Palace Master appeared and beheaded that Evil God. After returning to the palace, I recovered my memory again."

Zhao Xing listened quietly to Venerable Wanying's past. He hadn't expected the other party to have such experiences. Indeed, making more friends was never wrong. This kind of experience was very valuable.

"Brother Wanying, what about the third time?"

Venerable Wanying recalled: "The third time, I was already a 13th-tier Demigod. I was adventuring in a secret realm at the time. Although I was very strong and had received warnings early on, the warnings didn't know the specific time, and everything happened too suddenly."

"Because I was outside the Spirit Domain, the protective power of the Profound Spirit History Books was weakened, and I was hit."

"However, this third time, I only lost some unimportant daily memories, such as what I ate on a certain day,"

"The Profound Spirit History Books didn't waste power recovering those memories. 'After the third time, I was promoted to a 14th-tier Demigod, and my mental secret techniques were greatly improved." Venerable Wanying smiled, "The Palace Master said that because I walk the mental path, I have an advantage in resisting this kind of spacetime turbulence, and my secret techniques are also quite special—after that time, I entered the list of God Realm candidates. It was a blessing in disguise."

Listening to Venerable Wanying's experience, Zhao Xing also felt a bit emotional. Three major impacts, and Venerable Wanying had survived them all, and even become a powerful 14th-tier Demigod.

Five Poisons said that a 14th-tier Demigod like Wanying could exert his strength wantonly without fear of triggering the True Spirit Tribulation, which showed how strong Wanying's talent was.

Usually, in such a situation, one had absolute certainty of passing the next True Spirit Tribulation; it just depended on whether Wanying was willing to trigger it. This was also relatively rare among Demigods.

Like the Ice Venerable of the Carlos family, triggering the True Spirit Tribulation had led directly to his death.

"Mental level, will-type secret techniques, time-type treasures, history-type treasures, all can help you cope with this disaster and maintain your true self-spirit so it isn't shaken during the disaster."

"You might even make progress because of it." Venerable Wanying imparted his experience without reservation.

"Secondly, hiding in certain places can also increase safety, such as the core lands of super powers. For example, the Primordial Realm of the Red Star Empire, Yan God Star, the three realms of the Primordial Hill, or beside the Profound Spirit History Books, or the Taishi Palace of the Ancient Kingdom."

"However, hiding is ultimately not the best strategy. The Third Epoch is so long, who knows which solar year or which boundary-star year it will be launched? We can't just keep hiding in safe areas."

"It is more appropriate to master powerful coping methods yourself. Haoyu, Shengyi, and Fuping are all preparing for this."

Venerable Wanying's advice was undoubtedly very important. The Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain might start in the first boundary-star year, or it might be launched in the last solar year.

An epoch had so many boundary-star years; if one kept hiding, would there be any development?

"With less than forty years left, I also need to go into seclusion to prepare." Venerable Wanying said, "I invited you here today,"

"just to say these things."

"Thank you, Brother Wanying." Zhao Xing bowed.

"No need to be so polite. If I didn't say it, someone in the Empire would teach you."

"Written words, how can they be as profound as Brother Wanying's personal experience?" Zhao Xing still bowed; he accepted this kindness.

"I hope that in the Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain, you and I have not forgotten each other." Wanying returned the bow.

Wanying was about to go into seclusion, and Haoyu, Shengyi, and Fuping were the same.

Their act of getting to know Zhao Xing before their final seclusion, although a bit deliberate, was not something Zhao Xing felt disgusted by.

Not every friend had to be like Old Chen or Xia Jing, having to go through life and death; there were also those like Wanying and the others, who could talk well and help each other.

Zhao Xing had indeed gained a lot from these people, and had even obtained some clues regarding the "Polar Star Origin."

For example, Shengyi had provided a clue that there were some like-minded Demigods in the Profound Spirit Star Domain who had formed a loose organization called the "Light Chasing Society." The purpose was to chase and explore the light once left behind by the Polar Star.

However, Shengyi had joined for thousands of years and hadn't found a single wisp of polar light, so later he gradually stopped contacting them.

Joining the Light Chasing Society was done through internal member introductions, and Shengyi could act as an introducer.

"Time is running out. There are less than forty years left in the 2nd Epoch. In such a short time, it's impossible for me to gather enough contribution points to become a god. I'd better improve my life-saving skills first." Zhao Xing thought to himself.

Ordinary wealth couldn't buy divine objects, and in the upcoming Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain, only divine objects could improve one's survival probability.

"There are a total of twenty-one divine objects in the red jade thumb ring left by Wei Tianchen. After I handed over the Eight Directions God Realm to Ji Si, there are twenty left."

"The Clear Water Gold God Gourd, the Yuan Wheel, and the White Jade Five Mausoleum Ship are all Great Dao Divine Artifacts, and I can use them, so it's not good to use them for exchange."

"Among them, seven are the divine objects for Wei Tianchen's 'Mending Heaven Method.' Don't even mention selling them; it's best not to even bring them up."

【Three Beam Crown】, 【Star Luo Imperial Physician Robe】, 【Li Emperor Jade Belt】, 【Ten Thousand Phenomena Spirit Physician Cauldron】, 【Spirit Rhyme Rejuvenation Needle】,

【Black Cloud Boots】, 【Mending Heaven Seal】. These seven are all Great Dao Divine Artifacts.

Five of them are treasures for physicians, and the remaining two, Zhao Xing vaguely felt, were also imbued with some extremely powerful divine power, making it impossible to take them out for exchange.

"The Seven Star Cabinet also cannot be taken out for exchange."

"The remaining nine can be taken out for exchange; I have no use for them at all." Zhao Xing thought to himself.

Profession-exclusive divine artifacts cannot be used if one does not cultivate the corresponding profession. Apart from the Medical Dao, Zhao Xing had no intention of dual-cultivating anything else.

Dual-cultivating the Medical Dao was mainly because of Wei Tianchen's Mending Heaven Method, which was related to Heavenly Time and had a complete inheritance laid out.

"Take all nine out for exchange, mainly for mental will-type treasures, spacetime-type treasures, and history-type treasures."

Theoretically, the Profound Spirit Treasure Pavilion could recycle divine artifacts, but he was only a Demigod, and contribution points involved the opportunity to become a god, so this function would not be unlocked for Demigods.

Contribution points could not be traded, and all contribution point missions would be strictly screened. Even if there were missions to recycle treasures, they would be strictly screened to see if they were obtained by oneself.

If the mission materials were not obtained by oneself, one wouldn't even be able to pass the Mental God General's check.

Zhao Xing planned to dispose of these divine artifacts by finding suitable buyers for trade through Venerable Five Poisons, Venerable Hongshan, Venerable Lushan, and even Wanying and Fuping.

This was where the importance of having many friends was reflected. Mental will-type treasures, spacetime-type treasures, and history-type treasures were of great use in the Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain.

Very few people would sell them at this time, and if one wanted to trade, it was hard to find people.

Zhao Xing waited for a few years, and in the end, it was the Mechanist Fuping who was the first to find two potential buyers for him.

As a Mechanist, his social circle was very broad. Fuping agreed to help, and even delayed his seclusion for a few years because of it.

In the thirty-second year before the end of the 2nd Epoch of the Desolate Domain, Zhao Xing met the two buyers on an administrative star in a super-first-class star system of the Empire.

"Zhao Xing, these two are my friends, 'Yu Ye' and 'Sai Yan'." Venerable Fuping introduced them.

"Greetings, Venerable Yu Ye, Venerable Sai Yan." Zhao Xing cupped his hands at the man and woman sitting opposite him.

"Agricultural Official Zhao is too polite." Yu Ye and Sai Yan returned the salute in unison.

One was a Mechanist of the forging school, and the other was a musician. They were a married couple and both came from the Ancient Kingdom Alliance. Both were relatively wealthy Demigods.

After taking their seats, Zhao Xing didn't waste words and directly revealed his collection.

*Hum~*

Nine divine artifacts appeared instantly, overflowing with divine light and emitting powerful fluctuations.

"Please take a look, you two."

"This is my collection. Four are Great Dao Divine Artifacts, and five are Force Divine Artifacts."

Before coming, Yu Ye and Sai Yan had already learned some basic information, and now was the time to test them.

Sai Yan reached out and beckoned, and a dark green flute and a bronze horn landed in her hands.

Both of these were products of the Five Emperors era and were Musician Divine Artifacts.

Musicians didn't mind having many exclusive divine artifacts; they usually cultivated clones and held multiple instruments at the same time, with one person being an entire orchestra.

Generally speaking, the more clones and divine artifacts a musician had, the more powerful they were.

Musicians who could cultivate to the Demigod level were all the wealthiest of the wealthy.

*Ring~*

The five tones and twelve pitches emanated from Sai Yan's hands, and Zhao Xing instantly felt relaxed and happy.

Actually, he had another Musician Divine Artifact, the Eight Desolations Scorched Tail Zither he had snatched from Fu Mengzhen, but Zhao Xing didn't intend to sell it. Because Fu Mengzhen had said that this divine artifact required secret techniques to activate, and without the secret techniques, it couldn't be used. The others all had corresponding driving secret techniques, which allowed Demigods to exert their effects.

The five tones flowed, and the hall seemed to become an ocean of music.

Sai Yan tried it out lightly and was very satisfied.

She hadn't mastered the driving secret techniques yet, but just by trying it out, she could see that these two divine artifacts were very good.

Zhao Xing also felt it.

The collection of that old antique Wei Tianchen was full of quite rare treasures.

The Li Fire Divine Sword he had casually taken out as a reward back then had made Venerable Bamboo Sword willing to risk his life to capture Zhao Xing.

It was hard for Sai Yan not to be satisfied.

"Agricultural Official Zhao, I like both of these very much." Sai Yan raised her head, not hiding her liking at all. Divine artifacts had spirits, and she wouldn't say belittling words about instruments she loved.

"I just don't know if the treasures I've prepared will satisfy you."

"Please."

After saying that, Sai Yan waved her sleeve, and a divine object was pushed to Zhao Xing's side.

This was a sky-blue dharma robe, and its edge lines were the color of dawn.

At the lapel of the dharma robe, a pale green river flowed, and a phantom of a sun hung high.

"Hmm?"

After Zhao Xing got the dharma robe, an illusion instantly appeared in his mind; he seemed to be in a star-filled sky rich in spiritual energy.

Countless spiritual energy star lands and spiritual mountains floated, and there were star-sky giant beasts and fairies swimming.

*Splash~*

A fresh feeling came, and rain fell.

Zhao Xing looked up at the sky and instantly understood the function of this dharma robe.

He finished watching, surprised that the progress of the Great Sun Sea in his holy body had actually increased by 1 point.

"Spacetime Grain Rain Dharma Robe! This dharma robe also records a solar term of the universe's Great Four Seasons. The scope involved is wide, and the intensity is high; it is truly a proper divine artifact."

The Spacetime Grain Rain Dharma Robe could be considered half an Agricultural Official-exclusive divine artifact.

It could be used by non-Agricultural Officials because it possessed the characteristics of spacetime origin and had the ability to resist spacetime-type secret techniques.

If used by an Agricultural Official, it would produce some additional effects.

First, comprehension. The Great Grain Rain solar term contained the changes of the universe's Great Four Seasons, which had great research value for the Heavenly Time Method; the increase in the progress of the Great Sun Sea was proof.

The production of this dharma robe itself used materials from this solar term.

It was somewhat similar to the Rain Immortal solar term sacrifice effect in the Spirit Void Origin Realm.

Second, spacetime travel!

It was a Great Dao Divine Artifact, but at the same time, the owner who made this dharma robe had also left a divine power mark.

Combined with this dharma robe, it could lead the owner of the dharma robe to travel back to the spacetime of this Great Grain Rain solar term. However, there was only one chance.

It belonged to a one-way ticket, and once this number of times was used, this dharma robe would also disappear.

Spacetime Grain Rain, dharma robe travel, its conventional function could be used for comprehension, and it could resist the impact of spacetime secret techniques, so naturally, it could also have the effect of resisting spacetime turbulence.

It could also perform one spacetime travel; it was simply too much to Zhao Xing's taste.

He also didn't hide his liking.

"Venerable Sai Yan, Venerable Yu Ye, I like this dharma robe very much." Zhao Xing praised.

Venerable Sai Yan smiled sweetly: "Since that's the case, how does Agricultural Official Zhao think it should be exchanged?"

Zhao Xing pondered: "Two for one, how about that?"

Sai Yan and Venerable Yu Ye looked at each other and then nodded: "Okay."

Yu Ye even specifically praised: "Agricultural Official Zhao has great boldness. I hope my wife and I can become friends with Agricultural Official Zhao."

Clearly, Sai Yan and Yu Ye thought they were the ones who had profited.

Zhao Xing also thought the same. The value of profession-exclusive divine objects could not be clearly divided; it depended on the needs of both the buyer and the seller.

If one really liked it, one for one wasn't impossible, but the Spacetime Grain Rain Dharma Robe, after all, involved the origin of the Spacetime Great Dao, so in this special period, its value was naturally higher.

If it were one for one, I'm afraid Venerable Sai Yan and Venerable Yu Ye wouldn't have agreed.

If it were just business, then how to exchange it would be unclear.

Better to be magnanimous, two for one, saving some effort in haggling, and also making a friend.

Seeing that both sides had reached a deal, Venerable Fuping, who acted as the middleman, also smiled: "Both of you have great magnanimity, making me envious. I also wish I could be so magnanimous."

Venerable Fuping also had divine objects, but he only had two Force divine objects. Great Dao Divine Artifacts? Don't mention those of his own profession; he didn't even have any of other types.

Zhao Xing taking out nine at once had truly shocked him.

What is a rich person?

Zhao Xing's family background was a tycoon among Demigods.

Of course, Yu Ye and Sai Yan being able to take out a spacetime-type divine object meant they were also wealthy.

"Two people making money is always faster than one." After the deal was struck, Venerable Sai Yan joked: "Brother Fuping, you should also find a Dao companion."

"I want to too, but I haven't found a suitable one." Venerable Fuping smiled.

The circle of Demigods wasn't small, but it wasn't big either. Dao companions had to share all secrets and live and die together. The longer one lived, the harder it was to be moved.

Just for selfish desires and enjoyment, what kind of mechanical puppet couldn't one build oneself?

"If only I had a biological sister." Venerable Sai Yan smiled.

"If you did, would you definitely introduce her to me?" Venerable Fuping asked.

"Of course I would introduce her to Little Brother Zhao; he is much wealthier than you." Venerable Sai Yan teased.

Zhao Xing laughed dumbly.

"Yu Ye, hurry and manage her, she's stabbing my Dao heart." Venerable Fuping clutched his chest with one hand and pointed at Sai Yan with the other: "Without a hundred or eighty thousand contribution points, I won't be able to recover."

"Fuping, do you think I can manage her?" Venerable Yu Ye said helplessly: "Losing money is even more impossible; it's all in Sai Yan's hands."

"What a sin." Venerable Fuping hammered the table.

"Hahahaha."

In the time that followed, Zhao Xing did not wait for any more suitable exchange opportunities.

The remaining seven divine objects still remained in his hands.

With the approach of the Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain, Zhao Xing's contribution point missions also entered a brief standstill.

He no longer left the spiritual energy star domain, and even his clones no longer left the Empire.

He was just doing the two super-difficult missions left behind by the Boundless True God.

That was the cultivation of the History Book Worm and the Fangji Flower God Seed.

Zhao Xing exchanged some ancient demon history books and rubbings of ancient kingdom history books from Feng Chen, the Great Elder of the Academy City, to feed the History Book Worm.

At the same time, he also began to cultivate the mental will technique "Great Dark Heaven" that Feng Chen had once given him.

Times were different now; this Demigod will secret technique could no longer affect his mind and give birth to evil split souls.

In the last boundary-star year of the 2nd Epoch of the Desolate Domain.

Zhao Xing stopped cultivating.

"The three realms of the Great Dark Heaven."

"Great Dark Heaven, One Thought Asura, Immovable Bright Venerable."

"I have already cultivated to the highest realm, 【Immovable Bright Venerable】."

"The split souls of the Primordial Grass Man have also reached 200 in these years. Excluding the study-abroad clone whose whereabouts are unknown, there is also the clone in the Primordial Hill that has not returned."

"I am now a 198-fold 12th-tribulation true spirit."

"Possessing a 13th-tier Qiankun Hunyuan Holy Body, while simultaneously possessing the skills and methods of the Heavenly Time, Earthly Advantage, and Self-True factions."

"31st-tier luck."

"Possessing twenty-one divine artifacts. Among them, the Heaven-Changing Divine Needle, the Clear Water Gold God Gourd, the Yuan Wheel, the White Jade Five Mausoleum Ship, the Spacetime Grain Rain Dharma Robe, and the Hunyuan Dao Tower are all things I can use."

Zhao Xing stood on the "Wall of Desperation" at Jia-Chen Pass, looking out at the universe's star sky.

He had made sufficient preparations to welcome the arrival of the Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain.

He and Ji Si had temporarily taken the important figures of the Great Zhou into the Eight Directions God Mirror, leaving only unimportant magic power clones to preside over daily operations.

At this time, the seven great ancient paths of Jia-Chen Pass had also been placed under martial law. The 【Wall of Desperation】, which was both a legion divine skill and an imperial divine artifact of the team type,

had also been activated.

This made the already massive Jia-Chen Pass even more majestic.

"Ji Si, is everything arranged?" On the lonely city wall, a second figure appeared; it was Ji Si.

"Great Agricultural Official, I have checked it several times repeatedly, and everything is arranged properly according to the plan."

"Is there any resonance?" Zhao Xing asked.

Ji Si shook his head.

Inside and outside the pass, everything was calm, but neither of them relaxed their vigilance at all.

Ji Si did not hide in the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and Zhao Xing did not hide in the Primordial Realm.

At this most critical moment, neither of them escaped; they had to stand out and actively protect the people of Great Zhou.

"An invisible enemy, not knowing when the war will happen. This is probably the most difficult war I have ever fought." Ji Si sighed with emotion. "Great Agricultural Official, do you think this era can win?"

"Success lies in human effort; man can conquer heaven."

Ji Si nodded, seeming to have gained confidence.

Then the two stood side by side in silence, quietly waiting for the last day to pass.

*Clang~~*

At a certain moment, inside Jia-Chen Pass, the clock on Crystal Island rang.

The Epoch Needle, the Solar Needle, and the Boundary-Star Needle all overlapped.

The clock in Zhao Xing's heart also crossed the fourth quarter of the Zi hour.

Inside and outside the pass, it was still calm, with only the sound of the bell echoing.

"Great Agricultural Official, is everything well?"

"Ji Si, I am well. Are you well?"

Zhao Xing and Ji Si greeted each other.

"I am also well." Ji Si breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems it's not now."

But just at this moment, Zhao Xing's eyes suddenly became sharp.

The Sea of Nothingness in his body churned.

The reflection of the Polar Star in the sea began to rotate.

*Hum~*

At this moment, Zhao Xing's Great Sun Sea churned. The reflection of the Pole Star, which had originally been fixed, began to rotate, and it seemed to resonate with countless sun stars.

Zhao Xing could clearly feel the rotation of the sun stars, which made his perception range become incomparably broad all of a sudden, many times larger than usual.

The next moment, Zhao Xing turned his head and looked to the south of the Profound Spirit Star Domain.

*Hum~*

In the Pan-Sea territory in the south of the Profound Spirit Star Domain, the nine top-level sun stars suddenly dimmed. Then, in a very short time, they were completely extinguished.

The chill in Zhao Xing's eyes deepened. Before the nine top-level sun stars were extinguished, he saw an unforgettable scene.

He saw that tens of thousands of star sectors in the Pan-Sea territory had all suddenly frozen; star lands and boundary stars were all as if frozen in ice.

Whether it was the material ocean or the void turbulence, they were rapidly condensing, and the ice layer was spreading, like a line of death, advancing toward the Profound Spirit Star Domain.

"No, Ji Si, it has happened."