Chapter 660: The Continent Formed by the Small Thousand Realms

As the first tricolored tribulation lightning descended, a graceful figure shot skyward, flying straight into the lightning tribulation.

The one undergoing the tribulation was Ye Qingshuang, who had been in seclusion within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Wave after wave of tribulation lightning crashed down, constantly weakened by the rule attacks unleashed by Ye Qingshuang as she soared skyward.

Yet these weakened lightning bolts did not strike Ye Qingshuang; instead, they were all drawn into the small world within her dantian that she had opened.

Suppressed by her dantian small world, they were transformed into nourishment and absorbed by it.

Indeed, during her years of seclusion, Ye Qingshuang had first switched to cultivating the Fortune Cultivation: Self Dao taught by Ye Qingxuan before breaking through to the Void-Seeing realm.

Because she had opened her dantian small world in advance, Ye Qingshuang's cultivation base had firmly stepped onto the threshold of the Void-Seeing realm the moment she broke through, even before she had weathered the lightning tribulation.

Facing the first few lightning bolts, Ye Qingshuang could easily withstand them without needing to use any magic treasures.

The reason she did not completely shatter the first few lightning bolts was not that she could not.

It was simply that Ye Qingshuang wished to turn her tribulation lightning into nourishment to accelerate the growth of her dantian small world.

"Bang! Boom! Boom!"

Thus, with every lightning tribulation she weathered, her dantian small world expanded slightly, and her strength increased accordingly.

As the tricolored lightning tribulations, imbued with the energy of heaven and earth, were swallowed by her dantian small world, Ye Qingshuang's cultivation aura grew increasingly formidable.

Before the lightning tribulation was fully weathered, Ye Qingshuang's Void-Seeing realm cultivation base had already stabilized completely.

As a result, dealing with the subsequent lightning bolts was equally effortless for her.

"Boom!"

As the final lightning bolt descended, it was weakened by Ye Qingshuang's rule attacks, then drawn into her dantian small world to be suppressed and devoured.

Ye Qingshuang successfully weathered her Void-Seeing lightning tribulation.

Hovering in the high sky, after her dantian small world had finished devouring the final lightning bolt.

Ye Qingshuang moved slightly, instantly appearing not far before Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cailier, and asked in a cold voice:

"Who are you? Why are you here?"

Sensing the cold aura unconsciously radiating from Ye Qingshuang, Liu Cailier, whose cultivation had not yet broken through to the Void-Seeing realm, instinctively hid behind Liu Yun'er.

Seeing this, Liu Yun'er frowned slightly and looked at Ye Qingshuang with some displeasure.

At that moment, Ye Zhaoheng stepped forward, sized up Ye Qingshuang's ice-cold face, and spoke:

"Our Young Master is Ye Qingxuan. We four are the Young Master's attendants, and this space is the Cave Heaven opened by our Young Master."

"Ordered by the Young Master to guard a fellow Daoist breaking through in seclusion within the Cave Heaven, we four arrived here while you were undergoing your tribulation."

Although Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cailier had been attendants following Ye Qingxuan for a long time.

Ye Qingshuang had not known Ye Qingxuan's identity before; she had always obeyed the orders of Ye Qingxuan's Outer Body, the Lord of Dongxuan City.

Furthermore, with Ye Qingxuan's indulgence, Ye Qingshuang did not need to accept or complete missions for Dongxuan City; she had always been training in the outside world, seeking opportunities to hunt down the Green Demon Clan.

Therefore, during this period, Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cailier did not know Ye Qingshuang, nor did she know them.

Precisely because of this, Ye Qingshuang became alert upon discovering the four of them.

Hearing Ye Zhaoheng's words, Ye Qingshuang's expression softened slightly; after scanning the surroundings with her gaze, she asked again:

"Where is Qingxuan? Where is he?"

Hearing Ye Qingshuang's address for Ye Qingxuan, Ye Zhaoheng felt a stir in his heart and replied with some curiosity: "Our Young Master has now entered deep-level seclusion. May I ask who this fellow Daoist is?"

Learning that Ye Qingxuan was in seclusion, Ye Qingshuang felt some disappointment, yet her face remained expressionless as she replied calmly:

"My name is Ye Qingshuang. I am a close friend of Qingxuan from the same clan."

"Ye Qingshuang?"

Hearing Ye Qingshuang's words, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu beside him wore expressions of contemplation; both felt the name seemed somewhat familiar.

"Like us, you are from the Ye family?"

After pondering for a moment, Ye Zhaoyu suddenly widened his eyes, looked at Ye Qingshuang, and said in disbelief: "You... you are the Clan Aunt? A member of the Ye family from the same generation as our Young Master Ye Qingxuan?"

Ye Zhaoheng beside him also reacted at that moment, looking at Ye Qingshuang with great shock.

Although Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu were both from the Ye family, just like Ye Qingshuang.

Before becoming Ye Qingxuan's attendants, Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, and Ye Qingshuang had all lived in the original Ye family.

However, at that time, there was little interaction between Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, and Ye Qingshuang.

Moreover, back then Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu were young; now, a thousand years have passed, and everything between them has changed drastically.

Therefore, relying solely on their faces, Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, and Ye Qingshuang would find it difficult to recognize one another.

It was only upon learning Ye Qingshuang's name that Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu searched their distant memories and retrieved information related to Ye Qingshuang.

Across from them, hearing Ye Zhaoyu address her as Clan Aunt, Ye Qingshuang immediately showed displeasure on her face and demanded:

"Who exactly are you? Why do you address me as Clan Aunt?"

Seeing Ye Qingshuang's displeasure, Ye Zhaoyu hurriedly explained: "My name is Ye Zhaoyu, and the one beside me is my elder brother Ye Zhaoheng. We two brothers are both from the Ye family."

"According to the seniority in the Ye family at that time, we two brothers should address the Young Master as Clan Uncle, so naturally, we should address you as Clan Aunt."

Hearing this, Ye Qingshuang looked at Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu with some surprise.

She never expected that, besides herself and Ye Qingxuan, there would be other surviving members of the Ye family in this space.

After a moment of silence, Ye Qingshuang still said with some displeasure:

"Regardless, from now on, you two must not address me as Clan Aunt."

Seeing this, Ye Zhaoyu awkwardly scratched his head and said, somewhat at a loss:

"Then, how should my elder brother and I address you from now on?"

Ye Qingshuang was indeed an elder of the original Ye family; not allowing them to call her Clan Aunt left Ye Zhaoyu truly unsure how to address her.

Or perhaps, they should simply address each other as 'Fellow Daoist'? They two would not mind, but it was obvious that the relationship between Ye Qingshuang and their Young Master Ye Qingxuan was not ordinary.

Before receiving a signal from their Young Master Ye Qingxuan, the two of them dared not address Ye Qingshuang casually.

Upon hearing Ye Zhaoyu's question, Ye Qingshuang fell silent for a moment, unsure how to reply to the two brothers, Ye Zhaoyu and his sibling.

Just as the atmosphere in the arena grew somewhat strange, Ye Zhaoheng suddenly spoke up, changing the subject:

"By the way, not long ago, surviving members of the Ye family arrived at the Xuantian Sect to find the Young Master. With his help, they have now rebuilt the Ye family in the outside world."

Hearing this, a rare ripple appeared in Ye Qingshuang's pair of ice-cold eyes. She instinctively asked, "When was the Ye family rebuilt? Where is it now?" Indeed, the complete destruction of the Ye family back then had always been a wound in Ye Qingshuang's heart that was difficult to heal.

The fall of her grandfather and the destruction of the Ye family, a series of events, were what caused Ye Qingshuang's personality to change drastically later on, becoming increasingly cold.

This was also the main reason she had been so obsessed with hunting the Green Demon Clan before.

Now that she learned the Ye family had been rebuilt, although this Ye family might no longer bear the traces of her memories, Ye Qingshuang still felt an involuntary stir in her heart and wanted to return to the Ye family to take a look.

Facing Ye Qingshuang's inquiry, Ye Zhaoheng did not conceal anything.

He recounted the story of the Ye family's reconstruction and then told Ye Qingshuang the current location of the Ye family's ancestral lands.

After receiving the Ye family's address, Ye Qingshuang was about to turn and leave, but her figure suddenly froze. She turned her head to look at the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, and instructed them:

"After Qingxuan emerges from seclusion, you two should tell Qingxuan that I have gone to the Ye family and may stay there for some time."

Having finished speaking, Ye Qingshuang flew towards the boundary gate established by the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, which led to the outside world.

Only after Ye Qingshuang departed did the somewhat embarrassed Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The expressions of Liu Yun'er and Liu Cailier, who had dared not interrupt to speak, instantly relaxed as well.

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Liu Cailier stepped out from behind Liu Yun'er, patted her own chest, and said, "The aura of this Clan Aunt Qingshuang is so cold!"

"Could it be that Clan Aunt Qingshuang has comprehended the Ice Rule? However, the aura she emits also seems to vaguely reveal a bone-chilling killing intent."

Hearing this, Liu Yun'er tapped Liu Cailier on the head and scolded, "Cailier, do not be rude. You must not discuss the Young Master's friends behind their backs."

Speaking thus, Liu Yun'er looked in the direction where Ye Qingshuang had departed, her eyes thoughtful as she said:

"Perhaps the change in this Clan Aunt Qingshuang's aura is related to her physique?"

Ye Qingshuang's seemingly cold aura was actually derived from an extreme killing intent.

But Liu Yun'er could vaguely perceive that within Ye Qingshuang's body, besides the power of the Rules, there seemed to be hidden an extreme source of killing power inherent to her very physique.

On the other side.

After leaving the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, Ye Qingshuang did not appear in the Eastern Region but instead arrived at a stronghold established by Ye Qingxuan in the Southern Region.

Previously, the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land could only condense seven boundary gates.

As for the Eastern Region where the Xuantian Sect was located, the spatial node of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven's blessed land was situated within the Xuantian Sect itself.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan, Ye Zhaoheng, and others did not need a boundary gate to appear within the Xuantian Sect from the Qingxuan Blessed Land; they could then travel to various places in the Eastern Region.

Thus, the boundary gate established in the Starlight Mountain Range of Xingzhou in the Eastern Region had already been transferred by Ye Qingxuan's clone to another major region.

Since Ye Qingshuang did not possess a token of the Xuantian Sect, appearing rashly within the Xuantian Sect would likely cause the sect's protective great formation to suppress, or even annihilate, her.

Therefore, Ye Qingshuang planned to teleport to the Southern Region first, and then return to the Eastern Region to head to the Ye family's new ancestral lands.

In a core area of the Southern Region, within a prefecture city, lay an ordinary courtyard behind a nondescript shop.

With a flash of light, Ye Qingshuang's figure instantly appeared in this place.

After teleporting over, Ye Qingshuang immediately scanned and observed the surrounding environment, then offered a slight bow to an old man sitting with his eyes closed in meditation nearby, whose depth was unreadable.

Afterwards, Ye Qingshuang quickly left the place and flew towards the outskirts of the prefecture city.

Not long after, the old man in the shop's courtyard, who had sensed the teleportation fluctuation, slowly opened his eyes. Various profound mysteries appeared in his pupils, as if he had not yet fully awakened from a deep state of Dao comprehension.

Looking in the direction Ye Qingshuang had departed, he murmured:

"Is that the aura of Qingshuang? Has she emerged from seclusion?"

Having finished speaking, he closed his eyes again and returned to his previous state.

Ye Qingshuang did not know that the old man in the shop's courtyard was actually a clone of Ye Qingxuan.

Not only the boundary gate in the Southern Region, but basically every boundary gate connecting to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven was guarded by a clone of Ye Qingxuan.

Over these years, Ye Qingshuang had traveled through the boundary gates to various regions for training. She knew that a senior of unfathomable depth guarded each boundary gate.

However, she did not know that these people were actually clones of Ye Qingxuan.

Up to now, Ye Qingshuang had only known, through previous speculation and face-to-face confirmation with Ye Qingxuan, that the City Lord of Dongxuan City and the mysterious merchant from before were clones of Ye Qingxuan.

Regarding Ye Qingxuan's other clones, Ye Qingshuang knew nothing.

Therefore, after arriving at the location of the Southern Region boundary gate, Ye Qingshuang, just as before, offered a slight bow to the powerful figure guarding the place and then departed directly.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Several huge streaks of light tore through the sky, plummeting towards the endless seas of the Di Xuan Realm.

Wrapped within these streaks of light were small thousand realms that had lost their spatial coordinates; under the pull of the Di Xuan Realm, they were being sequentially drawn into the Di Xuan Realm.

With the acceleration of the plan to integrate various realms, many small thousand realms had been struck down in rank and fallen into the Di Xuan Realm over these years.

These small thousand realms, after falling into the Di Xuan Realm, were compressed and reinforced by the heavenly and earthly rules of the Di Xuan Realm.

After their area was significantly compressed and reduced, they finally fell into the depths of the endless seas of the Di Xuan Realm in various directions, becoming large continents that settled within the Di Xuan Realm.

However, because the resources within these continents had already been completely stripped by cultivators of the Di Xuan Realm in advance, it would take a considerable amount of time for them to fully integrate into the system of the Di Xuan Realm and regenerate various supernatural resources.

Therefore, in the short term, no human factions occupied these continents.

After all, for the major factions, spending a little time in the endless seas of the Di Xuan Realm to casually find an unowned large, or even medium or small, island.

The resources occupied there were far superior to those of the continents formed from these small thousand realms.

As time passed, seeing that no faction stepped forward to take over these continents formed from small thousand realms.

For the development of these continents, the major hegemonic factions of the Di Xuan Realm moved the mortal humans from these small thousand realms back to the various continents formed by the small thousand realms to develop.

To protect the safety of these mortal humans, the major hegemonic factions also established large barriers around these continents, forbidding any cultivator from entering them without permission.

However, to ensure that the path of immortality within these continents did not become completely severed, and to avoid delaying some human geniuses with considerable talent among them.

All major hegemonic powers have left behind legacies in these continents that allow cultivation up to the Nascent Soul realm.

If, relying on the cultivation environment of these continents in the future, someone manages to cultivate to the Nascent Soul realm, then naturally someone will come to guide them and integrate them into the true Di Xuan Realm.

Although they have just merged into the Di Xuan Realm, and before that, cultivators from the Di Xuan Realm had already stripped all spiritual veins and various resources clean.

As a result, these continents formed from the small thousand realms are now even inferior to the desolate regions of the Di Xuan Realm.

But these continents are ultimately formed from small thousand realms, and with the subsequent transformation by the rules of the Di Xuan Realm, the speed of their recovery will accelerate.

For those with truly outstanding talent,

cultivating to the Nascent Soul realm within their lifetime on these continents formed from small thousand realms is not a difficult task.

(End of this chapter)