Chapter 483: Fishing for Calamity

"Fishing? Fellow Daoist Li, what are you trying to do?"

The spirit of the Heavenly Palace was suddenly startled, feeling that something was amiss.

Li Heng smiled and did not answer; his fingers condensed a ball of light—this was his Power Seed. The Power Seed soared upward, roaming in all directions across this static plane, reaching every area.

Subsequently, the spirit of the Heavenly Palace sensed that in some areas, the Calamities or monsters within the seals were sending out fluctuations, seemingly yearning for something, stirring restlessly.

"Fellow Daoist, you must not! This will cause problems with the seals!"

The spirit of the Heavenly Palace was shocked and hurriedly spoke to stop him.

He thought Li Heng was also going to perform the same act of self-Calamity as before. Although he had just pacified the chaotic seals in other areas, that did not mean he could pacify them a second time.

"Fellow Daoist, stay calm; it is merely bait."

Li Heng smiled slightly.

If one were to view this static plane of seals as a place containing many ponds, each pond would correspond to the seal of a certain Calamity or monster.

And Li Heng was now treating this Power Seed as bait, letting it constantly roam above these ponds to see if it could attract the attention of the Calamities or monsters within.

Thereby determining which were stronger and which were weaker.

His Power Seed was not of a high grade, merely at the level of Initial Holy, so it could likely only attract the attention of Calamities or monsters that were Initial Holy or infinitely close to Sacred.

This level happened to be one he could handle.

As for the Gospel of War or levels above that, he would find them difficult to deal with, and there would even be a danger to his life; the investment and the harvest would not be proportional, so he had to avoid them from far away.

However, he did not know if it was because the Calamities or monsters in this static plane were all of high quality, but there were only three areas in total currently attracting the attention of his Power Seed.

It was a bit too few.

This meant that perhaps only the Calamities or monsters in these three areas were Initial Holy or infinitely close to Sacred, while the other Calamities might all be stronger than Initial Holy.

Yet, after Li Heng thought about it carefully, he did not find it strange.

After all, these were the Calamities and monsters capable of breaching the Heavenly Court and causing its collapse; if they could not even reach this level of cultivation, and a bunch of small fry could breach the Heavenly Court...

Then the value of the Heavenly Court would be greatly diminished.

Never mind, it was still better than returning empty-handed.

Three areas—it was just right, neither too many nor too few.

Li Heng composed himself, chose the area closest to him among the three, and then had the roaming Power Seed, bolstered by Source Power, submerge directly into that area's seal.

It did not stir up any ripples.

Seeing this, the spirit of the Heavenly Palace was even more bewildered; what on earth was he trying to do?

In fact, in the current situation, he should have stepped in to stop him. But after some thought, Li Heng's unfathomable strength made him decide to wait and see, lest things turn sour and become difficult to resolve.

However, he also had to keep a constant watch on that area's seal.

To prevent the seal from shattering the next moment.

But after a while, the abnormal fluctuations he had expected to occur with high probability did not appear, let alone the worst-case scenario of the seal shattering.

At this moment, he finally could not help but speak up, intending to continue questioning him.

"Fellow Daoist Li, shouldn't you explain the reason?"

"That way, everyone can be at ease."

The spirit of the Heavenly Palace was puzzled; what was the point of sending a Power Seed into a seal? Could he possibly want that Power Seed to finish off the Calamity or monster inside?

But that was merely a Power Seed; how could that be possible?

Of course, what shocked him even more was Li Heng's ability to easily send his own Power Seed into the seal.

The seals were established by His Majesty, isolating the inside from the outside; the Calamities and monsters inside could not get out, and beings from the outside could not get in. It should have been like this, and it had even been inscribed as a fact, unchangeable.

Yet Li Heng was able to break this fact; it was incredible.

"Fellow Daoist, stay calm. Look?"

Li Heng smiled mysteriously and pointed at that area.

The spirit of the Heavenly Palace looked carefully and was instantly stunned.

Because the seal in that area had dissipated.

It was dissipated, not shattered.

It was not that the seal had been attacked by external forces and shattered, but that the seal had actively dissipated, diverting the sealing power originally acting on this area to other areas.

This meant that the Calamity within the seal had completely perished.

But how could this be?

The Calamity sealed in that area had clearly been perfectly fine just a moment ago!

How much time had passed, and yet it had already perished completely?

He looked at the area that had become empty; the Calamity within was nowhere to be found, and he fell into deep thought. Moreover, if he remembered correctly, Calamities were immortal; there was no such thing as perishing completely!

Therefore, such a situation should not have been possible at all!

How did this Fellow Daoist Li Heng manage to do it!

Li Heng sighed slightly.

After his Power Seed entered the seal just now, it began to connect the inside and outside, communicating with his true self's power to shake the Calamity within to death, and then very quickly succeeded in doing so.

Because this Calamity was not even Sacred, just Half-step Divine, he casually exerted his power and added a bit of Source Power to ignore the Calamity's immortal nature, and it perished completely, nice and easy.

However, "easy" also meant that his harvest this time was not much; setting aside the Source Power, he had only obtained two hundred Golden Source Points.

Should this be considered an unlucky start, or a smooth one?

Li Heng felt somewhat conflicted.

Although the others did not know the inside story, seeing the spirit of the Heavenly Palace shocked and conflicted, they immediately realized that Li Heng's action this time was certainly no small matter.

However, they were also used to it, and even comforted the spirit of the Heavenly Palace.

"Don't be so surprised, don't be so surprised; you'll get used to it."

The spirit of the Heavenly Palace was speechless upon hearing this.

This was something that could shatter common sense!

How could one be so surprised by this?

"Fellow Daoist, you should have seen it too; this is fishing."

At this moment, Li Heng spoke up to explain, intending to fish once more.

"Mm, alright."

The spirit of the Heavenly Palace responded with some numbness.

If the situation from just now could be recreated, then he truly had no reason to stop Li Heng; being able to make a Calamity perish completely and be unable to return would indeed alleviate his pressure.

However, this was just too incredible.

He condensed a Power Seed once again and flew it into another region.

Subsequently, Li Heng's eyes lit up.

The fish this time was larger than the previous one; it was at the Shengsheng Cengci, and its power was about the same as the Disaster Calamity, which he could handle.

However, this took a long time; it was only after an hour that Li Heng completely crushed the Calamity within. Yet, because of this, he harvested an astronomical number of Reasons, as well as five hundred Golden Source Points!

The total number of Li Heng's Golden Source Points broke through the one-thousand mark once again.

It reached as many as one thousand one hundred!

Having tasted a great benefit, Li Heng did not stop to rest and immediately condensed another Power Seed, which submerged into the third, and final, region. However, the next second, Li Heng's face turned black.

That Power Seed was instantly killed by the monster within.