Chapter 536

The first opportunity event ended, and Zhao Xing obtained a total of 9,734 units of Earth God Crystal, low-level artifacts + inheritance of warriors, and one Heavenly Divine Blade.

One "Divine Pulse Traveling Boat" of the Beast God Tibu.

"The Heavenly Divine Blade is worth about 300 million contribution points, and the Divine Pulse Traveling Boat is valued at 1 billion contribution points," Zhao Xing pondered.

Since the recycling price of artifacts is unstable, he could only estimate that these two items could be exchanged for about 1.3 billion contribution points.

But for Earth God Crystals, the Profound Spirit Treasure Pavilion has an accurate recycling price.

Zhao Xing possessed 9,734 units of Earth God Crystal; assuming he didn't use them and sold them all to the Profound Spirit Treasure Pavilion, he could exchange them for 9.734 billion contribution points!

Earth God Crystals belong to pure divine-level origin; the earth encompasses everything. It is not only usable by Agricultural Officials; other professions also want to use it as a source of divine power.

Therefore, the price of Earth God Crystals is extremely high.

"Wow, is today the Harvest Festival?" The Flower Li Divine General in the internal world couldn't help but be surprised to see so many Earth God Crystals descend.

"Zhao Xing, how long have you been on the Universe Boat, and you've already managed to get so many Earth God Crystals?"

"Good luck," Zhao Xing said modestly.

It was indeed good luck.

If there hadn't been so many other descenders nearby this time, Zhao Xing would have had to rely on himself to fish them out.

The causal pressure of 9,734 units of Earth God Crystal was immense; even with the Golden Cicada True Form dual-body, it could absolutely not be resolved within the short twelve-year window.

Half of the causal burden of the 9,734 units of Earth God Crystal was shared by the other descenders.

"Zhao Xing, if you use these 9,734 units of Earth God Crystal now, it will be more than enough to become a Free God of the Earthly Benefit School."

"However, I don't think you would break through right now, would you?" Flower Li Divine General asked.

"Hmm," Zhao Xing nodded. "If I break through on the Universe Boat, my identity will change."

"The Profound Spirit History transcript has a huge effect on me as a demigod, but for a Free God, the protection effect is not that strong."

Assuming he only wanted to become a god of the Earthly Benefit School, he could become a god now; becoming a god on the Universe Boat would also make his divine position very stable.

But in this way, because it would be impossible to balance, the cultivation of the True Self School and the Heavenly Timing School would be in vain.

If it were in his previous life, Zhao Xing would certainly be very happy, but his horizons are different now.

What is the point of becoming only one-third of a god? To become a god, one must cultivate all three schools and become a god simultaneously!

Flower Li Divine General naturally knew that with Zhao Xing's foundation, he couldn't just want to become a god of a certain Agricultural Official school.

If it were someone else, Flower Li, as a Divine General of the True Self School, would have long ago advised him to give up dual cultivation; the Dao of the True Self is, of course, the first!

But Zhao Xing, in the Dao of Earthly Benefit, was someone who could create the Eight Methods of the Overlapping Boundary Mountain, the Three-Era Boundary Division Theory, and the Ten Directions Mountain Classic.

Even though Flower Li Divine General felt that the True Self School was the head of the Agricultural Official Great Dao, he couldn't say anything to make Zhao Xing give up cultivating the Earthly Benefit School.

Even for the Heavenly Timing School, Zhao Xing had a masterpiece like the "Annihilation Star Six Qi Theory" that could change the heavenly timing of the Desolate Realm.

"9,734 units of Earth God Crystal, plus the contribution points of two divine objects—let alone becoming a Free God of the Earthly Benefit School, even a Free God of the True Self School would be enough."

"But if you still want to become a god of the Heavenly Timing School, then this harvest is not enough," Flower Li Divine General said.

"You should know that safely sending a demigod to the last solar year of the Luo Emperor era requires 100 billion contribution points."

Zhao Xing nodded. If he just sent them over without caring whether they lived or died, it certainly wouldn't require that much money.

Ensuring safety is what makes it extremely difficult.

If it were a divine-level being, it would be different; a divine-level being can achieve a certain degree of divine concealment on their own, so they wouldn't need to spend so much money.

"If an Agricultural Official of the Heavenly Timing School wants to become a god, they must go to certain limited space-times of the Five Emperors era; the cost is too high, and 100 billion contribution points might not even be enough," Flower Li Divine General sighed.

"The two major camps of Righteous Gods and Evil Gods each have their own advantageous resources; we have no advantage in this regard."

What the father of the Ancient Luo River did was equivalent to taxing the Heavenly Timing School until after the Desolate Realm era.

This resulted in the Heavenly Timing School Agricultural Officials of the Desolate Realm camp having few who could even become demigods.

It was a complete monopoly of cultivation resources.

However, Zhao Xing was not discouraged. He smiled and said, "Paths are walked out by people; as long as you work hard, there is always hope for success."

"If one doesn't even try to become a Free God, how can one talk about verifying the Dao of Heaven and Earth?"

"My current harvest has already exceeded 10 billion contribution points; perhaps on the Universe Boat, I can get a ticket to the Heavenly Timing Great Dao."

Flower Li Divine General looked at Zhao Xing's high-spirited appearance and couldn't help but reveal a smile: "Good, you are very right; I am optimistic about you. The Divine Mountain Earth Change has a total of three opportunity events."

The first occurred in year 325, the second in year 452, and the third in year 574; these are the fixed event time points on the Universe Boat.

The first opportunity event has already passed; it is already year 338, and there will be 114 years of preparation time ahead.

Zhao Xing's next plan is to cultivate the "Golden Cicada True Form: Dual-Body" well, resolve the causal burden, and prepare for the next opportunity event.

Occasionally, he would also pester Bowei in his internal world to give him lectures:

"No matter how many reincarnations, the characteristics of the Universe Boat determine that its opportunity event time points will not be affected."

"However, as the number of reincarnations continues to increase, the total amount of matter on the Universe Boat will continue to decrease."

"For example, when you came for the first time, after the first opportunity event ended, you obtained 9,734 units of Earth God Crystal, the Heavenly Divine Blade, and the Divine Pulse Traveling Boat."

"Assuming you come again a second time, the Heavenly Divine Blade and the Divine Pulse Traveling Boat will definitely be gone. Even if the rest of the process and experience remain unchanged—for example, if you still encounter Lei Hong, Chu Ji, and Liu Qingci—the Earth God Crystals you finally obtain will not be as many as before. Unless someone deliberately adds material origin to the Universe Boat."

"This is the Theory of Origin Constancy in the 'Space-Time Theory'."

"You cannot obtain the same artifact twice in the same space-time; even if you do, you must suspect whether you have obtained a Void History artifact."

In the internal world, Zhao Xing flipped through the "Space-Time Theory" with some curiosity: "Elder, why is this book unsigned? Did you write it? Or is it a great god who is hiding?"

"Not me, and as for who it is, I don't know either," Bowei shook his head. "The time I spent using the Transmission Realm Tower to traverse historical space-times was too short; I only know it is a classic work of the 'Real History Party'."

"'Real History Party'?" Zhao Xing was startled. "What kind of faction is this?"

"Where there is a Void History faction, there is a Real History faction," Bowei shook his head and said, "It is not convenient for me to say more. In short, if one day you encounter a god of this faction, run as far as you can and as fast as you can."

"Oh, oh." Zhao Xing closed the Space-Time Theory and continued to ask for advice: "Elder, how should the next step of the Golden Cicada True Form Triple-Body be cultivated?"

"You cannot go any further for the time being," Bowei said indifferently. "The Golden Cicada True Form is essentially different from clone techniques or straw man methods."

"Without Dao, nothing stands; without Law, nothing exists."

"Almost all clone techniques cannot be stronger than the original body; they only exist briefly and belong to rootless wood and water without a source. The reason I say 'almost' is because divine power incarnations are an exception."

"Divine-level divine power incarnations, because they combine with the Space-Time Great Dao itself, can result in situations where the elderly original body is not as strong as the divine power incarnation from its younger days; such individual cases will not be discussed much."

"The straw man method, however, has the possibility of being stronger than the original body, such as your Primordial Straw Man Method, because it has Dao, Law, and origin support."

Zhao Xing nodded. At one point, his study-abroad clone at the Primeval Hill and his clone in the Black Heaven Desolate Realm should have been stronger than his original body.

This is the advantage of the straw man method.

"As for the Golden Cicada True Form, the existence significance of the dual-body is to cut off the self, use it to sever karma, carry side effects, and then discard this cut-off part."

"The subsequent triple-body, quadruple-body... even ten-thousand-body—the essence is the same."

Zhao Xing said thoughtfully: "Elder, assuming it is used as a clone method, what would happen?"

Bowei took a square piece of white paper from his bosom, drew a dividing line in the middle, and drew a dot on the left side of the line: "Assume this represents your internal world, representing your True Self Great Dao."

"Rip~"

Bowei's palm cut lightly, and the white paper was divided into two, each holding half a sheet:

"At this time, your internal world is either on the dual-body or on the original body."

"If it appears on the dual-body, your original body is gone."

"If the original body exists, then the dual-body is still just white paper—a lump of dead meat."

Zhao Xing suddenly understood; the essence of the Golden Cicada True Form is cutting, meaning it is impossible to turn into two out of thin air.

Although this technique looks a bit like a clone technique, it indeed has nothing to do with clone techniques.

The Golden Cicada shedding its shell, breaking the tail to escape—the intent behind this technique was fixed long ago.

"Elder, the dual-body can sever karma; then to what extent can the subsequent ones achieve?"

"Alright, stop bothering me; today's lesson ends here." Bowei closed the door and ran into the transmission realm himself. The outside world was blurry, so Zhao Xing could only leave the internal world.

In the 341st era before the Desolate Realm, the first solar year soon reached the 400th year; at this time, only 52 years remained until the second opportunity event.

Zhao Xing cultivated the Golden Cicada True Form dual-body; at this time, the causal burden no longer existed, and the causal value fluctuated between 50 and 59 points.

This belongs to the normal fluctuations of daily life.

For him, a demigod Mountain Patrol Official, there were neither particularly good things happening nor particularly bad things appearing.

Zhao Xing also did not intend to actively seek additional opportunities; for descenders to actively seek event triggers, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Out of ten events, seven might have bad results.

Even with thirty-level inherent luck, Zhao Xing did not intend to be so greedy; he only occasionally looked to see if there were any descenders in other departments and observed their movements.

Year 401, deep in the seabed, City of the Arena; this is the venue for daily training and sparring between Mountain Patrol Envoys.

Xu Huai and Zhao Xing stood on the peaks of two mountains, facing each other from afar.

"Xu Huai, you are finally willing to initiate a challenge; I thought you wouldn't dare," Zhao Xing laughed.

"I wouldn't dare? I just spent some time resolving the causal burden. Han Bing, do you think I'm afraid of you? Ridiculous."

Xu Huai laughed and waved his hand: "Today, I want to take back everything that belongs to me!"

"Venerable Yusheng, please act as a witness."

Swish, Venerable Yusheng immediately flew to the center of the two.

Because Xu Huai and the other descenders came from past space-times, the challenge followed ancient rites, presided over by a priest.

In addition, Liu Qingci was also skilled in the Dao of the Mind and could form a sufficiently powerful 【Mind Battlefield】.

This could also avoid some accidents; assuming Zhao Xing and Xu Huai displayed strength exceeding that of Mountain Patrol Envoys, heaven-defying talent and comprehension could potentially trigger extra events, leading to increased causal burden or even identity changes.

"Fellow Daoist Han Bing, Fellow Daoist Xu Huai, thank you both for your trust in letting me preside over this challenge," Liu Qingci bowed to both of them: "However, I must state beforehand."

"On the Yuanzang Divine Sea Boat, there are Divine General-level existences. My Mind Battlefield may not be able to cover everything. If the two of you display super-strong strength and are spied upon by powerful existences in the event, it is still possible to trigger uncontrollable events."

"For example, identity exposure, identity change, etc."

There is also normal promotion and life on the Universe Boat. Descenders like Zhao Xing and the others are one in a billion, but the identities they play—Mountain Patrol Official and Deputy Envoy—should not be this powerful.

Identity exposure and identity change refer to uncontrollable events triggered by unreasonable behavior of descenders; as for whether it is good or bad, it is hard to say clearly.

It is possible to go further, or it is possible to be considered a spy and killed, or kicked off the Universe Boat.

Zhao Xing nodded: "Venerable Yusheng, rest assured, we both have treasures for protection, and this possibility is extremely small. If such a thing really happens, we will not blame you."

Xu Huai also said: "Start quickly; in any case, it won't take long to end."

Liu Qingci said no more, the mind spiritual river within her body rotated, and then she pulled Zhao Xing and Xu Huai into the 【Mind Battlefield】.

Swish~

Chu Ji, Lei Hong, and other deputy envoys also appeared in the stands.

"Xu Huai is really arrogant," Chu Ji snorted: "Venerable Han should have forced him off the Universe Boat back then."

Lei Hong looked at Chu Ji with a complex expression.

This little brother had completely become Han Bing's lackey.

But it's no wonder; Chu Ji made a fortune following the other party in the last wave of opportunity events.

Based on Chu Ji alone? Where would he get 2,000 units of Earth God Crystal?

Furthermore, half of those Earth God Crystals were "laundered" by Han Bing!

"Xu Huai is indeed a bit ignorant of the situation." Although Lei Hong was not as much of a lackey as Chu Ji, they had been safe and sound for decades, and Zhao Xing had indeed managed to protect them and reduce their causal burden.

In the Divine Mountain Earth Change event, only three descenders in the Mountain Patrol Divine Office were exposed.

However, a batch of people in the Divine Martial Office, Sea Beast Priests, and tribal leaders were executed.

Just thinking about it, one knows that there were descenders in those departments who bit each other, which led to so many people being purged afterward.

And the purge of the Mountain Patrol Divine Office afterward was quite small, precisely because Zhao Xing had integrated the Mountain Patrol Divine Office together.

Paying some protection fees meant losing some income, but if one could safely experience a few more opportunity events, the long-term benefits would far outweigh the disadvantages.

"I hope Venerable Han Bing wins," the others also prayed silently.

Inside the Mind Battlefield, Xu Huai and Zhao Xing appeared on the wilderness.

"One move," Xu Huai extended a finger, and a causal line extended from it: "Han Bing, as long as you can withstand one move of mine, this decisive battle will be considered your victory!"

"One move to decide the outcome? Fine," Zhao Xing nodded.

In a mind decisive battle, one cannot use artifacts or divine objects; it is purely a duel of the strongest spells learned by oneself.

Moreover, this duel method is also very unique: each draws out a causal line, and this causal line contains the scenes from when the spells are usually cast.

Transmitted through the Mind Battlefield, the divine-level dharma images and heavenly phenomena cultivated at that time can all be applied to the opponent's mind!

Who is stronger is clear at a glance.

For such a duel, one move is indeed enough!

"Watch carefully, this move is called 'Cang Change'!"

The causal line on Xu Huai's finger wound into a point of light and whistled toward Zhao Xing.

"Moo~"

A desolate sound came, and Zhao Xing felt as if he were on an ancient prehistoric continent; the surrounding trees were all towering into the clouds, and as a human, he appeared very small.

"Boom!" Just at this moment, a mountain flashing with gray-black light pressed down from the sky.

"Hiss~" Zhao Xing couldn't help but tremble in his mind, because this move of Xu Huai's had transformed into the divine beast "Cang."

The gray-black mountain peak was not a mountain at all, but one of Cang's hoof-horns!

The black airflow under the hoof-horn contained an aura that destroyed all things; before it even fell, the earth was crushed to pieces, the surrounding towering trees collapsed, and the mountain peaks were also crushed.

As an Agricultural Official of the Heavenly Timing School, Xu Huai's strongest spell was also the Marquis Change Law.

"Change!"

Zhao Xing acted after the enemy but arrived first, also burning a causal line in his hand into a ball and throwing it at Xu Huai.

Xu Huai found himself on a small star-land, with a brilliant starry sky overhead.

"Yu~"

A humanoid head with a demon horn appeared; one could vaguely see it was Zhao Xing's face, but its features were flattened. Xu Huai only remembered those fiery red eyes, as well as the purple hair and demon horn.

"Clatter~" The void river shook, and a nebula seemed to rush out from the void river, pressing down violently.

Xu Huai looked closely and saw that it was actually a giant hand!

"Heavens, what kind of monster is this?"

Xu Huai also trembled in his mind.

Before the two causal lines collided, the divine law phenomena had already oppressed the opponent's mind.

When they truly collided, the scene changed once again.

On the primitive and prehistoric land, the night sky was brilliant.

A Di-Cang roared at the sky, raised its hooves, trampled the earth, and spat out a cyan torrent from its mouth.

And in the starry sky, there was the palm nebula vortex of the Nine Marsh God, covering the firmament and pressing down with a boom.

Nine Marsh God VS Di-Cang!

A collision of two great Heavenly Timing divine laws!

They respectively represented the cultivation attainments of Zhao Xing and Xu Huai in the Marquis Change Law.

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

"Damn!"

Zhao Xing and Xu Huai screamed at the same time, broke away from the 【Mind Battlefield】, and fell from the mountain peak.

Liu Qingci couldn't help but curse out loud.

Because the decisive battle between these two people shattered her Mind Battlefield, which caused her to be affected.

However, Liu Qingci was only affected and was otherwise unharmed.

Just as his body was about to hit the ground, Zhao Xing shed a layer of physical shell and landed safely.

But Xu Huai smashed straight onto the ground, struggled twice but couldn't get up, and finally had to give up helplessly, lying on the ground panting.

"Fairy Yusheng is also a person of temperament," Zhao Xing's light stabilized quickly, and he teased Liu Qingci with a smile.

"Venerable Han, good skills," Liu Qingci looked at Zhao Xing, then at Xu Huai, and couldn't help but feel some admiration.

From the situation in the Mind Battlefield, the Marquis Change Law of both Zhao Xing and Xu Huai touched the divine level after being cast.

Cang and the Nine Marsh God are both among the natural gods; it cannot be said who is better than whom.

The reason why such a clear gap could be created is because the people cultivating the Marquis Change Law are different.

After Zhao Xing's Nine Marsh God Marquis Change Law transformed, its true form was more like himself!

Xu Huai was completely shrouded by the dharma image of Di-Cang.

The difference between the two lies in whether the person controls the divine body more or the divine true form influences the person more after transformation.

"Swish~" Zhao Xing flipped his hand and took a bottle from his internal world, poured out a drop of green source liquid, and covered Xu Huai with it.

"Sss~" Black smoke began to rise from Xu Huai's body, and he twitched constantly.

However, after twitching two or three times, he actually had energy and was able to stand up on his own.

"Xu Huai, you lost," Liu Qingci announced the result.

"My skills are inferior, I have nothing to say!" Xu Huai snorted, "I will hand over all the Earth God Crystals to you."

"You don't get to decide," Zhao Xing said indifferently: "You already handed over 70% before. My rules are rules; you don't need to give me the extra."

"Who cares about your peanuts and sesame seeds?"

"You..." Xu Huai was so angry his teeth itched.

Decades had passed since the last opportunity event ended; he had indeed consumed many Earth God Crystals to condense divine patterns, and there weren't many left.

Zhao Xing beat him and didn't want his Earth God Crystals; although this was a good thing for him, Xu Huai just felt uncomfortable.

"I will abide by your rules, but I will definitely win it back!" Xu Huai left a harsh word and then turned into a thunderbolt and left the City of the Arena.

In the stands, Chu Ji, Lei Hong, and other deputy envoys were shocked by Zhao Xing's strength.

"The Mind Battlefield formed by Venerable Yusheng with spiritual rivers covers the heavenly secrets; it cannot be broken without divine-level power."

A trace of fear flashed in Lei Hong's eyes: "This is a Mind Battlefield without the blessing of artifacts, which means Han Bing and Xu Huai both have divine-level combat power without relying on external objects?"

Chu Ji felt admiration in his heart: "Xu Huai fell into a disadvantage; assuming he only has early-stage Divine Soldier combat power, then Venerable Han definitely has mid-stage Divine Soldier combat power."

"As expected, geniuses from big places are just different."

"Worthy of being a disciple of a True God."

The duel between Xu Huai and Zhao Xing soon spread among the deputy envoys.

From then on, all descenders dared not have any other thoughts.

Being able to exert divine-level combat power on one's own without relying on divine objects is absolutely a unique existence.

Coupled with Zhao Xing's dual-body being able to quickly resolve causal burdens, and his status being inherently higher than theirs, the descenders no longer had any thoughts of resisting paying protection fees.

Time passed, and soon the second opportunity event arrived.

First solar year, 452, Great Cold.

Inside Zhao Xing's cave dwelling, all descender deputy envoys were present.

"Everyone, the opportunity event is about to begin."

"This time, the Divine Mountain Earth Change will not be as easy to fish for Earth God Crystals as the last time."

"The Biluo Free God, or even higher-level Divine Generals, might suspect that someone inside is stealing Earth God Crystals."

Zhao Xing expressed his views in the Mind Hall built by Liu Qingci.

"Therefore, in this second opportunity event, no matter how many Earth God Crystals you find, do not go to take them immediately, but try to ensure your causal value is positive."

"Even if it is negative, it cannot be below negative 30, so as to avoid the causal mirror shining and exposing your identity."

"My plan is not to act uniformly, but to uniformly plan the causal burden and uniformly distribute the harvest."

"I will sit in the center; if anyone's burden exceeds the warning line, notify me immediately."

"I have finished speaking; does anyone have any objections?"

Chu Ji immediately jumped out: "Subordinate seconds the motion."

"Second the motion."

"Second the motion."

Seeing that everyone agreed, Zhao Xing immediately nodded and said: "Good, then let's set off and take our positions."

The second opportunity event was triggered from year 452 and ended in year 461.

Under Zhao Xing's leadership, the Mountain Patrol Divine Office descenders formed a temporary small group.

Due to proper planning and the existence of Zhao Xing, a bug-level existence, no one had any accidents in the second opportunity event.

The Biluo Free God shone the causal mirror for a long time but couldn't find anything wrong.

And after it ended, they took stock of the harvest.

Zhao Xing, as the leader, was the biggest winner; he obtained 15,748 units of Earth God Crystal!

And the person with the least in the team, Yi Kun, also had more than 2,000 units.

Such a huge harvest also gave this temporary small team something called cohesion.

The third opportunity event was in year 574, which was also the last Divine Mountain Earth Change.

After this, the great powers on the Yuanzang Divine Sea Boat completely stabilized the Divine Mountain, and also because the Universe Boat fleet had passed the "bumpy section" while sailing in the universe.

That is to say, there will be no similar opportunity events in the future.

Early 570, three years before the third opportunity event occurred.

Zhao Xing held another meeting.

"As the saying goes, in the way of luck, an upward trend can happen once or twice, but not a third time. The first two times were smooth, but by the third time, there will be danger mixed in."

"If anyone wants to leave or wants to work alone, you can bring it up."

No one spoke; now everyone had tasted the sweetness, and even Liu Qingci was willing to work with Zhao Xing.

"No one is quitting?" Zhao Xing smiled slightly, "Then I will talk about the plan."

"I recently read a Dao book called 'Space-Time Theory,' which mentions a theory that origin matter is constant."

"Venerable Han, what does this mean?" Lei Hong was a bit puzzled.

"Look, you're impatient again," Chu Ji said: "Don't interrupt Venerable Han."

"..." Lei Hong was also convinced; this kid had completely become Han Bing's shape.

He probably wasn't even this close to his own father.

Zhao Xing smiled and waved his hand: "Good, then I'll put it simply."

"Simply put, two Divine Mountain Earth Changes have already occurred in the Yas Sea area. After checking the accounts, it was always found that the leaked divine crystals could not be recovered."

"So the rules above have also changed, directly making the quantity of Earth God Crystals in various parts of the Divine Mountain into a real ledger."

"In this way, responsibilities and powers have been attributed to their places."

"No matter how well our Mountain Patrol Divine Office disguises itself, it will be hard to escape investigation."

"So this third time, we must not only keep the causal value as a positive number but also find a scapegoat!"

"Hmm?" Liu Qingci reacted immediately, "You mean to frame the descenders of other departments?"

"Yes, find someone, hmm, or a batch of people. Force them off the Universe Boat; in this way, the accounts can be balanced."

"But which department's people should we choose as scapegoats? And how do we know who the descenders are?"

Zhao Xing smiled slightly: "I think the Divine Martial Office is quite good, and as for who the descenders are, I have already found out clearly."