Chapter 551: Aurora light reflects, Nine Marshes Divine Domain!

Viewed from the side, Mount Liuyi looks like wings, as if surrounded by six pairs of wings.

Viewed from above, it is heart-shaped, with a flat top, as if it had been sliced in half.

When the Si Nong of the Primeval Hill opened Mount Liuyi with the Mountain-Opening Method, everyone preparing to climb the mountain heard a huge "whoosh" sound.

It was rapid and sharp, as if a burly man with a rough voice was shouting at the top of his lungs.

Many demon clans could not stand firm, their legs went soft, and some weak demon clans, terrified in their hearts, prostrated themselves on the ground, kowtowing incessantly, believing they had offended the Mount Liuyi God.

"Envoy Lang Ping, go maintain order." The sovereign of the Wanhe Demon Kingdom immediately ordered a wolf demon beside him.

"Spirit Mountain roars, Spirit Sea screams; people often say 'mountain roars and sea screams,' which refers to the sounds emitted by spirit mountains and great seas. This is a normal phenomenon, do not let the people of the Primeval Hill see us as a joke."

"Yes, Sovereign." A wolf demon wearing a crown and robes immediately went to maintain order in the Wanhe Demon Kingdom's phalanx. These young demon clan royals had only recently left chaos and ignorance; although their bloodlines were powerful, they could still only be considered youths who had not yet experienced the world.

In the climbing team, Zhao Xing stood at the very front, with the four Mountain Lords of Yuan, Yun, Lu, and Hong behind him, as well as the thirteen Peak Lords of Meishan.

"It is clearly a joyful mountain, yet it calls out so unpleasantly." Palace Master Lu Ya stood on Zhao Xing's shoulder, flapping his wings in disgust.

Zhao Xing chuckled, then immediately took out the divine artifact 【Yuanji Mountain】 to stabilize the fluctuations of the mountain's spiritual veins.

After the first roar, the sound of flowing water and the light chirping of purple bamboo immediately changed from thick and rough to clear and pleasant.

Winding upward along the mountain path, after walking for less than two days, they reached a mountain spring, and Zhao Xing ordered a halt.

"Where is the Mountain Lord of Venerable Hong Shan?"

"This subordinate is here." Venerable Venerable Hong Shan immediately stepped forward.

"Lead the Society Office to open an altar here at the mountain spring using the Earth Palace Method. Connect the four veins, suspend it at the ninth latitude of the half-pole, sit facing south with your back to the north; this is the first auspicious location."

"As you command."

After winding through the mountain for another half day, Zhao Xing found a purple bamboo forest.

"Where is the Mountain Lord of Emperor Lushan?"

"This subordinate is here."

"Lead the Society Office to deploy the Spirit-Returning Earth-Treasury Array. You must include the three peaks of Jinyi, Ziyi, and Shuangxingyi, and the array must connect thirty-six ridges; this is the second auspicious location."

"This subordinate obeys." After noting it down, the Mountain Lord of Emperor Lushan immediately went to deploy it.

"Opening the mountain to receive auspiciousness is a method with great nuances." While deploying on the side, Zhao Xing was also teaching the Peak Lords, Mountain Lords, and disciples of the Primeval Hill.

"For ordinary blessed lands, building cultivation caves or constructing tombs only requires following the Five Elements Earth-Splitting Method or the Earth-Movement Transport Method to easily condense auspicious fortune."

"When earth veins produce ridges and ridges rise to form peaks, and the Earth-Treasury Five Fortunes rise with them to condense within the mountain body, the situation becomes much more complex. One must consider not only vein fortune and seasonal fortune but also shape fortune."

"Using methods to harvest mountain fortune is like cutting vegetables in the field; cutting too deep will damage the foundation, affecting the next growth, or even destroying a spirit mountain, while cutting too shallow will waste the earth's gift."

"In the Known Mountains of the world, the frequent changes in rankings are mostly due to improper harvesting methods."

Everyone listened very carefully; even the accompanying Sovereign of the Wanhe Demon Kingdom and the several envoys of the Demon God Palace pricked up their ears to listen, even if they did not understand.

"Zhao Xing, according to your words, the previous Mountain Head Wei Zizhan lowered the ranking of Mount Liuyi by three places; was his method of receiving auspiciousness too crude?"

"You say the Known Mountains are like this, then what are the Unknown Mountains like?"

"The Ten Directions Mountain has been climbed so many times, does its magical effect have a day of attenuation?"

Palace Master Lu Ya on his shoulder seemed very interested in talking and asked several questions in succession.

In professional fields, there are specialists; even though Palace Master Lu Ya was a Divine General, he did not understand the nuances within this, only vaguely feeling that the several places where Wei Zizhan had performed his methods back then seemed to have left tiny scars on Mount Liuyi.

His first question was very rude; although others could not hear the conversation between the two, Wei Zizhan was Zhao Xing's senior brother, and could even be said to be half a teacher, so how could one speak ill of him to his face?

However, the little yellow duck did not care about this at all. Wei Zizhan? Being willing to comment on him was already giving him face!

"Returning to the Palace Master, I can only say that each generation has its own ideas." Zhao Xing said, "Senior Brother Wei must have had his reasons for doing so back then."

This was a disguised admission that Wei Zizhan's harvesting back then had caused the ranking to drop by three places, but it was said very tactfully.

"As for the Unknown Mountains, it is difficult to judge by common theory." Zhao Xing said, "Like the Overlapping Boundary Mountain, even if seventy percent of the mountain soil is dug away, it will still recover to its original appearance after many years, or even become larger."

"Whether the effect of the Ten Directions Mountain is constant, this junior also finds it difficult to know." Zhao Xing thought of the Eight Directions Divine Mirror that the Senior Ma Yi had, and said thoughtfully: "Perhaps it has decreased, perhaps not; we do not yet know where the limit of this mountain lies."

Opening the mountain to perform methods and receiving auspiciousness to move fortune, the entire process lasted for one year and nine months.

Waiting until everything was ready, the climbing team had already arrived at a valley halfway up the mountain.

The final collection point was set by Zhao Xing in a place called "Chess Valley."

Zhao Xing placed Yuanji Mountain on the altar, with twelve Earth-Treasury Divine Needles inserted around it.

"Whoosh."

A green wind circled the valley, and hundreds of flowers bloomed from between the stone walls, quickly covering every place. Waterfalls gushed out from the cracks in the cliffs behind the altar, and heavenly fire dyed the clouds red.

The desolate valley suddenly turned into this appearance, and everyone felt that something good was about to happen.

The little yellow duck had already flown off Zhao Xing's shoulder; if he were here, this mountain fortune would gather towards him. He flew into the sky and stood with Yan Ao.

"Quack, seven little demon clan fellows have had their fortunes drastically changed, undergoing a rebirth on the spot, and their future potential has risen by a level. Yan Ao, you also protected the path for Wei Zizhan back then; how does today's scene compare to the past?"

Yan Ao had been looking up at the sky, and hearing Lu Ya's voice, he lowered his head, as if he had detached himself from some state and descended into the human world.

He glanced at the valley where hundreds of flowers were blooming and nodded gently: "It is three parts better."

"Why only three parts?" The little yellow duck felt a bit disappointed. Wasn't it said that Zhao Xing was the most talented Mountain Head of the Primeval Hill?

Yan Ao looked at the sky speechlessly.

Zhao Xing held Yuanji Mountain in his hands, quietly observing its changes, and then looked up at the humans and demons present.

"The fortune of Mount Liuyi has caused me to fluctuate from the 31st derivation towards the 32nd derivation."

Reaching the level of the 31st derivation, it is as difficult as ascending to heaven for fortune to rise another level.

The Fortune Divine Bone of the Old Xue Rui Zizai God was already the limit of the bonus; since then, his fortune had stabilized at the 31st rank and had never broken through.

Today, opening the mountain to receive auspiciousness and harvesting fortune, he had briefly reached the 32nd rank.

However, it was not stable; once he left the mountain, it would still be the 31st rank.

But Zhao Xing's inherent fortune had risen to the 23rd rank, which meant that even if the bonuses from the Five Emperors Money and the Fortune Divine Bone were removed, his own fortune was already at the 23rd rank.

"Elder Bowei, may I ask what level one needs to reach to become a God of Free Will of Luck?" Zhao Xing separated a sliver of his consciousness to converse with Bowei, who was within his internal world.

"A God of Free Will of Luck only requires the twenty-fifth stage, but that is merely a prerequisite," Bowei said. "To become a God of Free Will of Luck, one also needs the method of refining luck."

"Without the Divine Art of Luck, even if one continues to grow, they cannot be called a God of Free Will of Luck."

"If one does not become a God of Free Will of Luck, the inherent luck one possesses is capped at the thirty-first stage. Even if one has a stroke of fortune and briefly breaks through the thirty-first stage limit, one will eventually fall back down."

Bowei pondered: "It is rumored that becoming a god at the twenty-fifth stage of luck makes one a God of Free Will, while refining at the thirty-first stage makes one a True God, immune to tribulations. However, this method has already been lost."

Zhao Xing: "Elder, you are learned; do you not know the Divine Art of Luck?"

"The more one knows, the less one knows." Bowei mocked himself: "When I first broke through to become a god, I thought I knew all the mysteries of the universe. Later, I discovered that my knowledge was still but a drop in the ocean compared to the mysteries of the entire universe."

Just as they were chatting, the Sovereign of Wanhe and three envoys from the Demon God Palace came to thank Zhao Xing.

"Many thanks, Si Nong Zhao, for bestowing blessings upon the geniuses of our clan."

"Indeed, many thanks, Si Nong Zhao; the changes this time are too obvious."

"In the past, we never had clansmen who were reborn so suddenly."

"Si Nong Zhao is truly worthy of being the youngest Mountain Head."

The four Demon Clan demigods were all heaping praise.

The Wanhe Demon Kingdom was not experiencing the Mountain Opening and Fortune Gathering of Mount Liuyi for the first time.

When Wei Zizhan had performed the Mountain Opening and Fortune Gathering as Mountain Head, the benefits he gave them were far inferior to those of Zhao Xing.

"This is not my merit, but the merit of the previous Mountain Head, my senior brother, Venerable Wei Zizhan," Zhao Xing said. "If he had not sealed the mountain and set its name for ten epochs, there would not be such great fortune today."

"Si Nong Zhao is right." The four Demon Clan demigods all echoed him. Although they said this, in their hearts, they all felt that Zhao Xing was far stronger than Wei Zizhan.

Because the Mountain Head before Wei Zizhan had also sealed the mountain for about the same amount of time, so why was it that when it came to Wei Zizhan, he needed to absorb so much luck himself, leaving less for the Demon Clan?

It was simply because he was weaker than Zhao Xing!

Therefore, the four Demon Clan demigods' evaluation of the new Mountain Head was naturally higher than that of Wei Zizhan.

"Sovereign of Wanhe, three divine envoys, I would like to take a trip to the Desert Sea after the mountain sealing ends. I wonder if I might go there to take a look?"

"The Desert Sea? Of course you can go!" The Sovereign of Wanhe and the three divine envoys exchanged glances and immediately agreed readily.

The Desert Sea was the birthplace of the Nine Marshes God, but who knew how many years had passed since then; it had already lost its former divine charm and was now just an ordinary ruin of a deity.

If he had asked to visit the ancestral land of the Demon Gods in the Demon God Palace, they probably wouldn't have agreed so readily, but they certainly wouldn't refuse such a small request from Zhao Xing.

"Many thanks to you all."

Zhao Xing cupped his hands, and after ending the conversation, he quickly moved to the next step.

Gathering Mountain Spirits.

This stage was relatively secretive.

Zhao Xing would act alone, searching for the spirit bodies of Mountain Spirits within Mount Liuyi.

"According to custom, the Mountain Head of the Primeval Hill can only take one Mountain Spirit body from here."

"With one chance, if you're going to catch one, you have to catch a big one."

Zhao Xing held a divine artifact and escaped into Mount Liuyi.

Two months later, he returned, coming back to the valley.

When he returned, he was followed by a round Mountain Spirit with six light wings.

The Mountain Spirit looked like a jellyfish with wings inserted into it; with every breath it took, Mount Liuyi would emit a pleasant feather-like sound.

"Hmm? You actually caught a Six-Winged Mountain Spirit?" The Sovereign of Wanhe was immediately envious.

"Last time Wei Zizhan came, he only caught a Five-Winged Mountain Spirit. This Si Nong Zhao has such great ability."

The space within Mount Liuyi was also very large; Mountain Spirits had spirits and hid in the vast mountains, being extremely good at hiding.

Even Five-Winged Mountain Spirits were rarely seen, let alone the strongest Six-Winged Mountain Spirit.

"Congratulations, Si Nong Zhao." The Sovereign of Wanhe and the three divine envoys congratulated him in unison.

"Congratulations, Mountain Head!" The people of the Primeval Hill also offered their congratulations in unison.

A Six-Winged Mountain Spirit could be raised in the Extreme Land within the body to coexist.

At a critical moment, it could help a Si Nong survive a True Spirit Tribulation.

Of course, at the level of a fifteen-tribulation demigod like Zhao Xing, ordinary Mountain Spirits were already useless; only a Six-Winged Mountain Spirit could produce an effect.

"Thanks to everyone's blessing." Zhao Xing cupped his hands modestly. This was the territory of the Demon Clan; being able to obtain a Six-Winged Mountain Spirit was indeed something to thank the Demon Clan for.

After spending a few days taking the Mountain Spirit into his body to coexist,

this trip to Mount Liuyi reached its final step: sealing the mountain and setting its name.

Zhao Xing ranked Mount Liuyi fourteenth on the Knowledge Mountain, raising it by three places and restoring it to the ranking it held during the time of the Mountain Head before the last.

The ranking of a great mountain was a kind of glory; this rise in ranking was not considered large, but the Wanhe Demon Clan was already very satisfied.

Third Epoch of the Desolate Domain, 205th Boundary Star Year, Desert Sea.

After the mountain sealing ended, Zhao Xing was invited to be a guest in the capital of the Wanhe Demon Kingdom.

In reality, he had come to the 【Desert Sea】 region of the Wanhe Demon Kingdom.

The Desert Sea was a star region filled with sand and oceans; countless quicksands flew out of the ocean like comets, dragging long tails, flowing in the starry sky with uncertain trajectories, and finally falling into a primitive ocean.

In the Desert Sea region, many precious mineral stars and star lands would form, but life boundary stars and star lands were very rare.

Even the Demon Clan, which could endure harsh environments, rarely settled and lived in the Desert Sea region.

Except for the Demon Clan that mined and mechanical puppets, only one ten-thousandth of the Desert Sea region had Demon Clan residents.

Zhao Xing sat cross-legged on a meteorite, moving forward along a river of sand in the starry sky.

Pfft, pfft, pfft!

The Heaven-Changing Divine Needle was expelled from his body, and the purple hair on Zhao Xing's body gradually faded, turning into a human state.

"The fifth layer of the Nine Marshes God, finally achieved!"

After spending more than twenty years, Zhao Xing had cultivated the fourth layer of the Nine Marshes God Hou Bian Method to the fifth layer.

"The nine talents of the Nine Marshes God: Void-Breaking Claw, World-Burning Divine Eye, Heaven-Ruins Five Viscera, Longevity Wheel, Ten Thousand Tribulations Golden Marrow, Profound Underworld Transformation, Earthly Boundary Divine Walk, Thunder Body, and Instant Eternity. Now, after the Hou Bian, I also possess the fifth one: Ten Thousand Tribulations Golden Marrow."

"However, the talents of the Nine Marshes God are of no use to a human body." Zhao Xing felt a bit regretful.

As a natural deity, every talent secret art of the Nine Marshes God was divine-level. For example, the Ten Thousand Tribulations Golden Marrow was said to be able to endure ten thousand tribulations without dying?

Of course, there was a lot of exaggeration in that; who could endure ten thousand tribulations without dying?

However, after transforming, Zhao Xing felt that enduring the sixteenth tribulation would also be very easy.

"The sixteenth tribulation can be endured using the fifth layer of the Nine Marshes God Hou Bian Method. After all, my soul core is still human, and in essence, it is still me who is enduring the tribulation." Zhao Xing had expectations in his heart. "With the Six-Winged Mountain Spirit, I can endure another tribulation, and I will soon be able to reach the level of a seventeen-tribulation demigod."

"If I collect the Mountain Spirits of the first ten layers of the mountains in the Profound Spirit Star Region, it should be able to help me survive another tribulation, which would be eighteen."

An eighteen-tribulation demigod was the level Bowei was at during his demigod period.

"The more tribulations a demigod survives, the stronger their combat power will be after becoming a God of Free Will."

"Back then, Bowei became a God of Free Will as an eighteen-tribulation Venerable, and he could disregard the Hall Master of Tuning; he even alarmed the Great Emperor into personally capturing Bowei."

Zhao Xing still remembered the scene the Profound Spirit History Book had shown him. After Bowei became a god, if the Great Emperor hadn't appeared, the Hall Master of Tuning alone could not have made Bowei surrender.

"Bowei, who became a god at eighteen tribulations, became a Divine General not long after."

"Gu Luohe, who became a god at twenty-two tribulations, entered the Divine General level in one step."

Cultivating the origin to become a god, the more one accumulates during the demigod period, the stronger one naturally is.

Bowei and Gu Luohe were both children of the version; after becoming gods, they were also unimaginably strong.

"If all 200 of my true spirits experience eighteen tribulations, then after becoming a God of Free Will, I will have at least the combat power of a Divine General."

The deadline for the Protectors would also end once he became a God of Free Will.

"If I have the combat power of a Divine General, even if Yan Ao and Lu Ya leave in the future, I will have the capital to stand on my own and protect myself."

"As for whether I can reach the height of Gu Luohe, it depends on the Nine Marshes God Hou Bian Method." Zhao Xing thought to himself. "Using the Divine Art of the Self to survive the True Spirit Tribulation is currently quite difficult."

The five great divine arts of the Self are fine when facing tangible tribulations, but if one encounters intangible tribulations, they are very difficult to defend against.

World Law of Cangwu, Void Divine Seed, Divine Splendor of a Boundary, Mixed Origin Divine Foundation, and Self Divine Sacrifice.

Among the five great divine arts, the only ones that can be considered attack methods are the World Law of Cangwu, Void Divine Seed, and Self Divine Sacrifice.

However, the Self Divine Sacrifice is ineffective against the True Spirit Tribulation; this kind of parasitic method cannot parasitize a heavenly tribulation.

And the Void Divine Seed is a variant method; it first requires a certain amount of release time and needs to be used in conjunction with the World Law of Cangwu to be useful.

In the ultimate pursuit of surviving tribulations, the Nine Marshes God Hou Bian Method of the natural deity is still better to use.

"If I can reach the level of Gu Luohe, after I become a god, my divine power foundation will be solid, and it will definitely be able to support my three schools of secret arts advancing side by side." Zhao Xing thought to himself. There is also a trouble with practicing all three schools, which is that the magic power is not enough. Currently, the divine arts he has learned consume too much.

If he used them to perform the Divine Art of the Self, he would drain himself dry after just one use. The Layered Boundary Mountain, the Space-Time Earthly Communication Method, the Earth Palace Method, etc., would be completely impossible to perform.

Everyone knows that practicing all three schools is stronger, so why are there so few who practice all three? It is mainly because practicing all three is filled with difficulties.

"Quack, Zhao Xing, I've found another familiar place." Palace Master Lu Ya flapped his wings. "Quick, let's go over there and take a look."

"Alright, Senior."

Zhao Xing immediately flew in the direction pointed out by Palace Master Lu Ya.

Lu Ya had once been to the lair of the Nine Marshes God. Even though it had become unrecognizable now, if Lu Ya could point it out, there would be some traces left behind by the Nine Marshes God.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, a hundred years had gone by.

In the vast Desert Sea, Zhao Xing passed through a river of sand.

"Splash~"

Suddenly, a wave swept over. This light was too fast, and Zhao Xing couldn't react at all, but Yan Ao immediately swallowed Zhao Xing in one gulp.

"Yu~"

The next moment, the light swept past the meteorite where Zhao Xing had been, the entire meteorite shattered directly, and the rushing river of sand was also suddenly pulverized, turning into even finer particle states.

"Quack!"

Palace Master Lu Ya landed on Yan Ao's shoulder at extreme speed; he had even lost a feather!

Zhao Xing, inside Yan Ao's belly, also felt a wave that made his heart palpitate, albeit a bit late.

Even after being swallowed by Yan Ao, he still felt a bit unsafe.

"Two seniors, what did you discover?"

Yan Ao frowned, scanning the surrounding starry sky. At this moment, after the light wave swept past, the entire starry sky had changed.

"We have entered an independent space-time, which is completely isolated from the Desert Sea."

Swish~

The next moment, after Yan Ao confirmed it was safe, he released Zhao Xing again.

Zhao Xing glanced at the panel and found that the coordinates displayed on the panel were still in the Desert Sea, but there was now a more specific domain coordinate.

【You have entered a grain of sand in the Desert Sea; the polar light reflects the former Nine Marshes God Domain.】

"A grain of sand, preserving polar light? And this wisp of polar light reflects the former Nine Marshes God Domain?" Zhao Xing couldn't help but be stunned.

According to the historical records of the Light-Chasing Society exploring polar light, the radiance of powerful polar stars can reflect the existence of the divine realm, giving birth to some "polar light reflection spaces," preserving extremely real and precious historical images.

Many starry sky historians discovered these polar lights, and their cultivation would advance by leaps and bounds, even being able to condense powerful original epochs and boundary-transmitting clones because of this.

Zhao Xing derived information from the coordinates, but he still released Bowei.

His own opinion could not be used as a reference; if Yan Ao and Lu Ya felt it was too dangerous here, they might break through space and take him away.

He released Bowei to identify it. This divine-level scholar did not disappoint; after just one look, Bowei reached a conclusion before Yan Ao could act.

"Polar light reflection space-time, like a mirage preserving historical scenes."

"However, it is unknown which segment of space-time scene is specifically preserved."

"If one can see the true body of the Nine Marshes God, it will be beneficial to Zhao Xing's cultivation."

"How dangerous is it?" Yan Ao only cared about whether there was danger and whether it belonged to the kind that Zhao Xing could withstand.

Bowei pinched his fingers to calculate, then said: "The polar light is mixed with time divine power, and it returns once every seventy-two hours in this space-time."

"As long as you collect it before the time divine power sweeps through, it is safe."

Zhao Xing looked at Yan Ao with eager eyes. The decision-making power of the Protector Divine Generals also had levels. Bowei only had the power of suggestion, while Yan Ao, as the first Protector Divine General, was fully responsible for Zhao Xing's safety.

If he felt it was dangerous and insisted on leaving, then Palace Master Lu Ya, who was best at running away, would definitely execute it.

Yan Ao ignored Zhao Xing's expectant gaze, pondered for a moment, and nodded:

"Let's take a look first, and make a decision after the polar light returns once more."