Chapter 565: Rich Harvest!

Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi rested for a long time, finally getting rid of their respective shadows and getting back together.

"The Sword Guest and Dou Shen trials were easy to pass. I entered the internal world for a few years and arrived at the boundary monument on the periphery of the God King Tower."

"Wait a minute, in the Dou Shen trial, the artifact spirit said you were shameless. How exactly did you play it?" Zhao Xing was very curious about the details; it was not easy to withstand the influence on the mind.

"Hou Bian Technique." Qing Yuzi smiled: "There is a rock life called 'Demon'. After becoming it, I can enjoy the soul enhancement, but I won't be counter-controlled."

"This is what I got from the Wushu God King City, but it's only a remnant. It is said that Demon Ember is a chaotic life from the early universe."

"It can only be cultivated with the divine power of the Heavenly Timing school."

Zhao Xing was extremely interested, but felt a bit regretful when he heard the latter part; he couldn't cultivate it yet.

Old Qing was a god of the Heavenly Timing school and had unique cultivation advantages in this regard.

"After entering the level selection, I chose the Transformation Life Swamp trial." Qing Yuzi continued.

"Why didn't you choose the troop forest in the east?"

"I don't have the divine power of the True Self school, nor do I know powerful True Self spells. At that time, I judged that the difficulty of breaking through this level would be very high." Qing Yuzi said: "The western level is the Four Realms, taking the dangerous places naturally formed in different stages of the universe. Finally, I set my goal on the Transformation Life Swamp."

Qing Yuzi sighed: "Looking back now, this was a terrible choice."

"The Transformation Life Swamp is a life forbidden zone. It has intelligent life created by Yuheng, specializing in three major categories of spells: derivation, mutation, and parasitism. Once you enter, you will be parasitized unknowingly."

"At the beginning, facing the pursuit of God General Ze and the others, I could still hide, turning into an elm tree in the wild, and then sending you the Space-Time Incense Technique for help."

"However, later the parasitic species in my body began to erode my divine power, making me unable to maintain the Hou Bian Technique to hide. What's more fatal is that the same parasitic species can sense each other and will transmit the situation in my body to the mother species."

"Like a bee colony? A consciousness collective?" Zhao Xing asked.

"Yes." Qing Yuzi nodded: "About thirty years after I sent out the call for help, I was discovered by God General Ze."

"Don't you have the World Heart? Did this thing not protect you at all?" Zhao Xing pointed to the World Heart pendant.

"Useless." Qing Yuzi tore it off and said angrily: "Not only is this useless, but the Dou Shen I obtained is also useless."

"Grass, the gatekeeper of the second level pitted me. I only found out when I was fighting that as long as I use more than a hundred times the power of a God General, the Chaos Demon Fungus and grass will slowly die, and it won't last long."

"This led to me being trapped in the Dou Shen instead, and I was quickly captured."

Zhao Xing felt a bit emotional. What Qing Yuzi got from the gatekeeper was exactly the Dou Shen he had destroyed himself. One drink and one peck, cause and effect retribution.

"After God General Ze captured me, he used me as an experimental subject for 375 years, 6 months, 18 days, 3 hours, and 5 quarters!"

Zhao Xing patted Old Qing's shoulder silently.

Remembering so clearly, the torture Old Qing suffered in the Transformation Life Swamp was probably unimaginable.

Being able to persist for so long under the perverted True Self school, that was Old Qing's firm Dao heart.

"Just as the East Camp Forest has the Battle of Overlords, there is also contention and promotion among the major God Generals in the Transformation Life Swamp."

"After God General Ze obtained me, a God of Heavenly Timing, his various experimental spells quickly made breakthroughs. In a very short time, he defeated other competitors and obtained the reward of the internal world, being allowed to come to the core area of the God King Tower to pay a visit."

"As his proud work, I was also brought along." Qing Yuzi sighed: "I was originally enslaved by him. I didn't expect to arrive outside the God King Tower and actually see your things floating at the gate, including the Cinnabar Book."

"You know what happened after that. I summoned the Cinnabar Book and released the True Body of God King Jin, one of the three God Kings. It was a Martial God King. The moment it appeared, its powerful bloodline power cleared the source, and I instantly got rid of the control."

"At the same time, I also ordered the killing of God General Ze and his other experimental subjects."

Hearing Qing Yuzi finish reviewing the process, Zhao Xing couldn't help but applaud: "Amazing, amazing, you can survive like this."

"You flatter me." Qing Yuzi smiled lightly. "You are not simple either. I didn't expect you to be only a Demigod—is this the Ancestral Dynasty, faked?"

"Yes." Zhao Xing took back the many treasures that Old Qing had taken away and re-absorbed the Ancestral Dynasty. "The Palace Master of the Moon God Palace gave it to me, the specific process—"

"Hey, don't tell me about this." Qing Yuzi waved his hand to interrupt: "I already know enough. You don't have to tell me about the White Phoenix Pavilion. Just the things inside the God King Tower, if you don't want to say or can't say, you can skip them all."

"Being able to survive is already pretty good. My curiosity is not that heavy."

Qing Yuzi was also bitten by a snake once and was afraid of the rope for ten years. Now he was not even curious.

Zhao Xing then briefly narrated: "The divine tree in the God King Tower has been subdued by me."

"There is some luck involved. Your appearance bought me some time."

"Thank you."

Looking back now, Zhao Xing found that Old Qing's appearance was truly indispensable.

The tree son sensed the crisis, and opening the blockade took time. If Qing Yuzi hadn't ordered God King Jin to punch in the void, affecting Zhou Yuan's invasion progress, the final outcome would have been Zhou Yuan winning everything, and he would have become a walking corpse.

And Qing Yuzi's subsequent encouragement indeed gave himself great help, working inside and outside with the tree son to open the blockade of the World Core, which led to him mobilizing the power of the internal world and concentrating it on the Keyang God Tree, which in turn could swallow Zhou Yuan.

In the current internal world, Zhou Yuan is still alive, but it has been blocked by the tree son in the Yin-Yang binary star area, slowly swallowing it.

The divine wood is too big, and the Keyang God Tree will have to spend a lot of time to slowly eat it.

Before Zhao Xing came out, the Keyang God Tree had already grown its ninth leaf and was about to enter the growth stage from the seedling stage.

And the moment it enters the growth stage, it will be Zhou Yuan's death date.

"It's good that you're okay." Qing Yuzi said: "Although the Cinnabar Book was consumed once, and I shattered quite a few treasures, coming for nothing is better than losing your life."

"Not coming for nothing." Zhao Xing smiled: "The offense and defense have changed. I have already squeezed God King Yuheng's core secret techniques and inheritance treasures from that divine wood."

"Oh?" Qing Yuzi immediately got into the spirit. "Really?"

"Look." Waving his hand, four light clusters appeared in front of him.

"We said beforehand, if there is a harvest, then half each." Zhao Xing said: "However, I cannot teach you God King Yuheng's core secret techniques, I can only share the treasures with you."

"These four treasures, plus the Cinnabar Book, will all be given to you."

"What? You're actually giving me so much?" Qing Yuzi was shocked.

"Actually, I still took advantage." Zhao Xing smiled.

"Why divide it so clearly?" Qing Yuzi excitedly played with the four treasures, "They look awesome at first glance, hahaha, introduce them to me quickly, these goods are too high-end, don't let me break them."

Zhao Xing smiled and reached into the first light cluster, inside was a bracelet: "This is a storage divine artifact, with God King Yuheng's divine power left behind."

"Yuheng is skilled in arrays and also understands artifact refining. The three holes on the Samsung Treasure Bracelet are inlaid with precious pearls refined from the World Heart."

"Each stores a ray, which are: Lethal, Boundary-Breaking, Life."

"Lethal is easy to understand, whoever you hit dies. Inside is the God King's Tear, a poison extracted by Yuheng from the Huang Great World, bound by the World Heart, and mixed into the aurora."

"Its disguise is very strong. On the surface, it looks like an ordinary aurora spell. If you dare to take it, you will find that you are poisoned by the God King's Tear."

"It also has a storage function. Suppose your physical body is destroyed and you accidentally lose this bracelet, if someone else gets it, it will still be triggered."

"As expected of the True Self school, really insidious!" Qing Yuzi praised.

"It also has a storage function. Suppose your physical body is destroyed and you accidentally lose this bracelet; if someone else gets it, they will trigger it just the same."

"As expected of the Self-Nature Sect, truly insidious!" Qing Yuzi praised.

"Breaking the Boundary is easy to understand; it works on the same principle as the talent of the Tongyuan Divine Beast in the Divine King City of Xi Tian. It can be used to escape trouble or hunt for treasure."

"Good, good, good, this is good."

"The Life Ray is used for healing. The origin of the Life Dao bound by the Heart of the World contains Yu Heng's understanding of the Life Dao. If you shine it on yourself, your injuries will heal immediately."

"This one doesn't have much use, though." Qing Yuzi shrugged.

The Death Ray could ambush a Divine King-level expert, and the Life Ray was primarily for healing, but Qing Yuzi felt that the level of pursuit he faced was too high, and he might not necessarily have the opportunity to use the Life Ray.

"It also preserves some trinkets left behind by Divine King Yu Heng. There are about a hundred divine objects of various kinds; I haven't looked at them in detail, so you can check them yourself." Zhao Xing tossed it over.

Qing Yuzi put on the bracelet, overjoyed.

Suddenly, he let out a strange cry: "Hmm? There's actually a top-grade divine object inside!"

Zhao Xing: "Damn, for real?"

Qing Yuzi: "Fooled you, hahaha."

Zhao Xing rolled his eyes.

"Then what about this treasure?" After putting on the bracelet, Qing Yuzi pointed to the second ball of light: "It looks like a token."

"It is indeed a token." Zhao Xing took it out from inside; as he reached for it, the light ball's restriction dissipated.

The token was gray and made of wood, with the three large characters 【Chaos Order】 written on the front.

On the back, it read 【Dark Source Realm】, with a line of small text underneath: 【Crafted by Empress Li in the 46th Year of Tianyuan】.

"What is this? It's quite heavy." Qing Yuzi held the token.

"A token crafted by Empress Li, leading to the Chaos Era. It can be used to enter the Dark Source Realm region," Zhao Xing said. "This is the most valuable of the four treasures."

"Chaos Era? Dark Source Realm?" Qing Yuzi didn't know much about this space-time, but since it was crafted by the Five Emperors, it couldn't be simple, so he kept it carefully.

"Heng Realm Dao Fruit, a fruit produced by the native species nurtured in Yu Heng's internal world. It was a Dao Tree he specifically cultivated for Zhang Yue during his early days as a Divine King."

"I know this; I've seen it in the memoirs," Qing Yuzi said with emotion. "Divine King Yu Heng was truly a sentimental soul. As a combat-type Divine King, he almost never cultivated auxiliary-type plants, yet he made an exception for Zhang Yue and planted an auxiliary-type Dao Tree."

"He was indeed deeply in love with Zhang Yue." Zhao Xing nodded.

The Heng Realm Dao Tree contained Yu Heng's understanding of the Dao origin; cultivating such a Dao Tree was not simple.

Zhang Yue's ascension to Divine King was inseparable from this Dao Tree. Eating a Heng Realm Fruit was equivalent to comprehending the Dao with the body and mind of a Divine King, experiencing the Divine King realm in advance.

"The memoirs say Zhang Yue ate seven Heng Realm Fruits and became the Free Divine King. Afterward, Divine King Yu Heng cut down this divine tree that took up space." Qing Yuzi held the fruit and examined it: "This is good stuff. Why don't you keep it and grow it into a tree?"

"Impossible," Zhao Xing shook his head. "Dao Trees are quite special. Even if I grew one, it would be my understanding of the Dao; the effects would be completely different. It's not the same thing."

"Alright." Qing Yuzi accepted it.

"What about the fourth item?"

"A symbiotic divine seed." Zhao Xing waved his hand, the green light faded, revealing a vine inside that looked like a swimming dragon.

"No, no, take it away quickly." Qing Yuzi's expression changed, a storm divine mark instinctively appeared on his forehead, and he retreated at high speed.

"..." Zhao Xing couldn't help but smile bitterly.

He had specifically used the word 'symbiotic' rather than 'parasitic', yet Qing Yuzi still jumped up as if electrocuted.

Old Qing was truly traumatized from his time in the Transformation Swamp.

"Whoosh~" Qing Yuzi returned after leaving, took a deep breath, and only then sat down slowly, taking a long while to squeeze out one word: "Damn!"

His performance just now had truly caused him to lose face in front of Zhao Xing, but Zhao Xing expressed understanding; Xia Jing had also been very traumatized by eating fish in the past.

"This is indeed good stuff. I'll keep it in this box for you for now." Zhao Xing put it inside.

He figured Old Qing wouldn't use it now; he would have to overcome his psychological trauma first.

"Good." Qing Yuzi used a wind to roll up the box and put it into the bracelet.

Qing Yuzi obtained four treasures, plus the ownership of the elixir book; the division of spoils ended here.

He recovered near the Divine King Tower, while Zhao Xing wandered around his internal world.

Compared to what he gave Old Qing, his own harvest was greater.

Old Qing had a three-star treasure bracelet, and he had one too, but it was a six-star one. This was what Yu Heng used himself, intending to leave it to his successor later.

Besides the three functions of Death, Boundary-Breaking, and Life, it also had Mind-Clarifying, Boundary-Guarding, and Six-Evasion.

Mind-Clarifying corresponded to mental protection.

Boundary-Guarding corresponded to physical protection.

Six-Evasion consisted of six powerful ways to escape, even including traversing the river of time.

Yu Heng once had three access tokens for Chaos Era space-time secret realms: Forest of the Universe, Primordial Extreme Land, and Dark Source Realm. He had already used the Forest of the Universe, leaving behind the Primordial Extreme Land and the Dark Source Realm.

The one given to Old Qing was the 【Dark Source Realm】 crafted by Empress Li, while the one in his own hand was the 【Primordial Extreme Land】 crafted by Emperor Yu.

The Heng Realm Fruit was truly split in half, as there were only two left to begin with.

As for the symbiotic seed, it was the 'Yuan Vine Immortal'.

The famous variant technique of the Primordial Realm, "Yuan Vine Immortal", was created based on this divine seed.

Now, he had truly seen the real thing from the myths.

Yu Heng left behind two Yuan Vine Immortals, one with thirty-two segments and one with sixty-four.

Zhao Xing could not give away the sixty-four-segment one; its starting point and growth potential were slightly higher than the one Qing Yuzi possessed.

"Excluding the Yuan Vine Immortal, Heng Realm Fruit, six-star treasure bracelet, and the Chaos Order for the Primordial Extreme Land, the biggest harvest is the branch of the World Divine Tree, 'Zhou Yuan', and the complete version of the Fighting God."

"It can make my native species grow rapidly; once the devouring is finished, it will at least be in the growth stage."

"The Fighting God, once fully mastered and its power fully unleashed, is Divine King-level combat strength."

"However, those treasures are too high-end. What can allow me to realize combat strength as quickly as possible are all the troop types in this internal world; I will inherit them all."

"I just need to uproot the Divine King Tower," Zhao Xing thought to himself. "However, bound by the agreement with Divine King Zhang Yue, I cannot do that."

Due to Zhou Yuan's interference, the causal heart oath Zhao Xing had made had changed to going to the Chaos Era's Forest of the Universe.

As for whether Divine King Yu Heng had originally left any last words or instructions? Perhaps, but Zhao Xing didn't know.

He could take away the Divine King Tower, and through it, control all the plant troops in the internal world and take away all the materials.

However, the agreement with Divine King Zhang Yue limited this.

"If I take away the Divine King Tower and all the troops, plundering all the spiritual energy and materials, then Yu Heng's internal world will completely collapse. According to Divine King Zhang Yue, there would be no hope for resurrection, so I cannot take them all; I can take at most one-tenth." Zhao Xing naturally had to follow the agreement and wouldn't take all the troops at once. Furthermore, in his own internal world, the tree-son was still devouring Zhou Yuan, and he couldn't support that many plant troops himself.

"One-tenth is already a lot for me; I can even only take one percent of the plant troops, otherwise my internal world will be burst open."

"And I must first master three of the seven great secret techniques before I can take the Myriad Dao Mother Tree at the southern checkpoint," Zhao Xing thought.

In terms of spells, Divine King Yu Heng left behind seven great secret techniques, and these seven were all divine arts of the Self-Nature Sect! Three of them were for controlling the Myriad Dao Mother Tree in the south.