Chapter 437

A month passed in a flash, and when Chu Yang left the Purgatory Space, there was an extra black-haired youth by his side.

The youth was thin, and a pair of purple-gold pupils were revealed between his flying hair, as if filled with endless vicissitudes.

"Undying, tell me in detail about the origin of the black crystal..."

On the way to the Sword Domain, Chu Yang deliberately slowed down his speed, asking the question he cared about most.

After the Qilin True Spirit and the Undying God Tree successfully fused and gathered spirits, Chu Yang took him and left the underground world immediately.

Along the way, Chu Yang had been cooperating tacitly with Pan Gu, constantly maintaining the stability of space.

Only now was he finally able to spare the attention to mention this matter.

Undying nodded and said in his old voice, which was extremely incongruous with his appearance, "Master, that is a crystal of the Great Thousand World's world origin..."

Through Undying's description, Chu Yang quickly figured out the origin and function of the black crystal, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a little pleasantly surprised.

This trip to the Purgatory Space was truly a fruitful one!

Not to mention the Undying God Tree, just the discovery of the fire brains and the black crystal obtained without any effort were both great opportunities for him.

The black crystal is a crystal of the Great Thousand World's world origin; simply put, it was when the Great Thousand World was in its most prosperous period, the world origin was too strong, and therefore the power overflowed, condensing into this kind of crystal.

This kind of crystal has no value to the vast majority of living beings because they cannot absorb it directly and cannot stimulate its power.

Only for extremely special creatures like the Undying God Tree is the origin crystal a supreme treasure.

To give a simple example, if the Undying God Tree could completely absorb that origin crystal, it could complete a transformation in the essence of its life.

At that time, the Undying God Tree would break away from its body and become a "spirit," similar to a plane spirit, but it would not need to rely on a lower plane to exist.

Or rather... a controller of some kind of rule in the Great Thousand World! That origin crystal was transformed from the earth origin of the Great Thousand World; after the Undying God Tree absorbs it and completes its transformation, it could become a "spirit" that controls the earth rules of the Great Thousand World.

As long as it had a thought, it could control the changes of the continents in the Great Thousand World, and moving mountains and filling seas would be a matter of course.

Of course, this is only a theoretical situation, because the world will would absolutely not allow such a "spirit" to appear.

This would mean that the world will would be "decentralized"; once a precedent was set, it is very likely that more and more "spirits" would appear, leading to it, the world will, being "hollowed out."

In the Heavenly Sword plane, the reason the marine life around the island where the Undying God Tree was located was affected was because it used the earth crystal to completely stimulate the life aura it had accumulated for countless years, which then radiated to the surrounding creatures.

After understanding the detailed situation, Chu Yang was lost in thought along the way.

He had never thought that after he fused with that earth crystal, he would be able to control the earth rules of the Great Thousand World.

As the saying goes, only a very small number of special creatures can become "spirits," but Chu Yang is a human, and besides, he doesn't want to abandon his physical body and become a neither-human-nor-ghost existence.

In this way, the value of the earth crystal is greatly reduced.

When he arrived at the Sword Domain again, Chu Yang's tightly furrowed brows had slowly relaxed, because he had thought of a feasible plan.

Once successful, the value of the earth crystal could be maximized!

Chu Yang visited the Green-Shirt Sword Saint again, but this time it was a low-key visit, without causing too much of a stir, and no outsiders knew about it.

He briefly explained the vibration of the Purgatory Space, and then gave some suggestions for improvement regarding the seal left by the Green-Shirt Sword Saint in the underground world.

Finally, he left behind a formation scroll and then said his goodbyes.

That formation scroll recorded a defensive spiritual array of the Saint Product Grandmaster level; it was a brand-new spiritual array created by Pan Gu by combining the principles of arrays with the arrays of the Xianxia world, and its defensive effect was extraordinary.

With the formation map, the Green-Shirt Sword Saint only needed to invite a Saint Product Spiritual Array Grandmaster to be able to set up the formation and make it the protective array of the Sword Domain.

This could also be considered as selling a favor in advance; after all, if Chu Yang wanted to obtain a large number of fire brains in the future, he would inevitably have to toss and turn in the Purgatory Space, and it would be inevitable to trouble the Green-Shirt Sword Saint for help.

After leaving the Sword Domain, Chu Yang sent Undying directly to the Northern Wilderness Hill.

The line of Grave Keepers possesses some of the Immortal Emperor's inheritance to varying degrees, and Wuming even more so.

These inheritances are extremely suitable for Undying; presumably, after learning that he had successfully fused with the Undying God Tree, the Undying Lord and Wuming would not be stingy with their treasures.

Having arranged everything, Chu Yang headed straight for the Endless Fire Territory.

He had already received news that the Great Thousand Demon Buddha had begun to take action in the outer realms!

Now, the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and many top Heavenly Demon Emperors of the Outer Evil Tribe were all held back by the Great Thousand Demon Buddha; this was the best time for the operation to begin! Actually, come to think of it, if it were just one Great Thousand Demon Buddha, it would not be enough to hold back the many top powerhouses of the Outer Evil Tribe.

But the problem lies in...

The Great Thousand Demon Buddha held a will to die and had no intention of coming back alive at all!

In this situation, the Heavenly Demon Emperors had to weigh things carefully.

If they ignored it, with the strength of the Great Thousand Demon Buddha, he would inevitably turn the outer realms upside down and cause serious losses!

This was something the power-holders of the Evil Tribe absolutely could not tolerate, so they must find a way to stop the Great Thousand Demon Buddha, or even surround and kill him.

But this led to a more critical question...

Who should do this?

Apart from the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor, the number of Heavenly Demon Emperors in the outer realms with strength comparable to the Great Thousand Demon Buddha could be counted on one hand.

If they all took action together, it would naturally be foolproof.

But the Great Thousand Demon Buddha held a will to die; anyone could understand that participating in the encirclement and killing would mean facing the risk of being traded life for life.

At their level, who doesn't have some trump cards?

Facing the desperate counterattack of a giant-level powerhouse, even the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor was not confident of retreating unscathed, let alone other Heavenly Demon Emperors?

No one wanted to be that unlucky person who was traded for, so the situation was deadlocked for a time, and the Heaven-Defying Demon Emperor could only take people to find ways to drag out the Great Thousand Demon Buddha.

Chu Yang knew very well that the Great Thousand Demon Buddha would take the initiative to attack before long.

And what the Endless Fire Territory and the Martial Realm needed to do was to take people to "smuggle" into the outer realms before the Great Thousand Demon Buddha died and prepare everything.

While the Great Thousand Demon Buddha was taking action, they would launch their attack together! By the time the Heavenly Demon Emperors solved the Great Thousand Demon Buddha, the action plan would be nearing its end, and everyone would naturally be able to retreat unscathed.

On the Martial Realm side, the Great Xia Dynasty and its three affiliated forces would participate, with Tang Huo'er presiding over the overall situation.

On the Endless Fire Territory side, it would receive the full support of the Yunlan Sect, but compared to the Great Xia Dynasty, the overall strength of the Yunlan Sect was weaker after all.

So Chu Yang's trip to the Endless Fire Territory this time was also to make some preparations in advance so that the action process could go more smoothly.

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Soul Palace. After the Douqi Chu Yang finished sharing with everyone, everyone's eyes focused on the black crystal placed in the center of the table.

"Earth Crystal? This is a good thing!" Marvel Chu Yang's eyes lit up.

He always felt that the principle of this earth crystal had the same effect as the Infinity Stones.

Douqi Chu Yang nodded and said, "Indeed, this is a rare treasure for us."

"I plan to refine the earth crystal into my right leg through the Treasure Refining Art; this is the only way I can think of to maximize the value of the earth crystal!"

Chu Yang did not intend to cultivate a "spirit" in the Great Thousand World through the earth crystal; this had no great significance for him.

After all, he had full confidence that he could destroy the Outer Evil Tribe, so why bother doing something extra? Moreover, cultivating a "spirit" meant that he would sooner or later fall out with the world will of the Great Thousand World, and since there was no direct conflict of interest, it was completely thankless.

As for conducting comprehensive research on the earth crystal and extracting part of its power so that he could control the power of the earth to a certain extent in the Great Thousand World?

For Chu Yang, this was only a last resort.

The earth power of the Great Thousand World could not affect the earth rules of other worlds.

But if the earth crystal were refined using the Treasure Refining Art, the power of the earth crystal would essentially break away from the Great Thousand World.

In the end, no matter how much power could be retained, it would increase Chu Yang's overall strength in various worlds.

"This is indeed the optimal solution..." Wuxia Chu Yang stroked his chin and nodded.

Pirate Chu Yang was the most direct; he picked up the earth crystal on the table and waved his fist, saying, "Leave it to me!"

Douqi Chu Yang nodded and then asked, "How is the research on Ye Tao's bloodline progressing?"

Magic Chu Yang said softly, "Very smoothly; it can now be confirmed that Ye Tao's bloodline is extremely powerful!"

"If it weren't for the deliberate suppression by the world will of the Great Thousand World, even if she didn't cultivate, once her bloodline naturally grew to its peak, she would be at least at the Sovereign Realm!"

Hearing this, Douqi Chu Yang couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

To give an intuitive example, this is equivalent to a magical beast on the Douqi Continent that could reach the Dou Di realm upon adulthood just by relying on its own bloodline!

With a little cultivation, if her comprehension were better, her achievements would be limitless.

Xianxia Chu Yang took over the conversation and continued, "Moreover, Ye Tao's bloodline has unique characteristics, similar to being stainless and flawless, perfect and immaculate!"

"Through Pan Gu's various calculations and analyses, we finally reached a conclusion: through the bloodline characteristics, the bloodline possessor will move toward one of two extremes."

"Either a flawless state of mind, extreme comprehension!"

"Or a flawless physical body, a perfect physique!"

"Of course, it is also possible to have both, but in that case..."

Xianxia Chu Yang's expression became a bit strange, "No matter how you look at it, it has a sense of being an Innate Dao Body Saint Fetus..."

Demon Slayer Chu Yang spread his hands and said, "It's meaningless to think so much; we conducted research through the extracted bloodline factors, and in the end, we could only guide the power of the bloodline factors toward one of the extremes."

"State of mind and comprehension don't mean much to us; the improvement of the physical body is what is needed at the moment."

"It's just that even if the bloodline factors are optimized, the final gene reagent cannot perfectly inherit the power and characteristics of the bloodline."

Douqi Chu Yang nodded, "No matter, as long as it can significantly improve the physical body, that is enough."

Flawless physical body?

The path of cultivation is endless, and there has never been absolute perfection, so this point did not attract Chu Yang.

On the contrary, the significant improvement of the physical body is the most intuitive enhancement! Don't forget the uniqueness of the One Qi Transforms Three Purities; if Chu Yang's physical body improves at this stage, after the new body and the old body alternate, this improvement will be magnified geometrically.

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Endless Fire Territory.

As an emerging force that has risen rapidly, compared to the other five major forces, the Endless Fire Territory has many controversies.

First of all, regarding the strength of the Flame Emperor Xiao Yan himself, many people don't know much; they only know that he once went to the Fire Spirit Clan and had a fight with the Fire Spirit Old Ancestor.

Later, when Black Earth came to the Endless Fire Territory in person, Xiao Yan did not take action, but the Fire Spirit under Chu Yang's command suppressed Black Earth with its own power.

Therefore, people could only judge Xiao Yan's strength through that battle with the Fire Spirit Old Ancestor.

Many people guessed that Xiao Yan might only be a Spiritual Product Tian Zhizun, or in the early stage of the Saint Product Tian Zhizun.

So for the Endless Fire Territory, most people looked down on it a bit, because it was just a small force under Chu Yang.

Of course, the so-called small force is only relative; after all, placed among the hegemon-level forces, the Endless Fire Territory is not weak at all.

The Endless Fire Territory is located on the Crimson Continent, which is the northern border of the Great Thousand World; it has been called the "Volcano Continent" since ancient times, and the continent is covered with active volcanoes.

Except for the Fire-Swallowing Clan, the original inhabitants of the Crimson Continent, almost no living beings can survive here.

However, Xiao Yan only spent a few months transforming the Crimson Continent in an all-around way, making it completely suitable for human habitation.

Now the Crimson Continent has formed its own system, with a complete industrial chain and a perfect system.

Of course, alchemy is Xiao Yan's specialty, which also makes the sale of pills the main "trade" of the Endless Fire Territory.

When Chu Yang arrived here, the first feeling he had was...

Yao Chen is truly a talent!

In such a short time, to turn a continent that was originally almost barren into an orderly force shows Yao Chen's management ability.

Chu Yang doesn't believe that all of this was done by Xiao Yan himself; that guy has always been used to being a hands-off manager, and managing forces and the like is often left to his teacher.

A few days ago, Xiao Yan completely sealed off the Endless Fire Territory, refusing all visitors, and no one was allowed to go out without authorization.

Chu Yang came all the way to the Burning Heaven Mountain Range; the base camp of the Endless Fire Territory is located in the northern and southern regions of the Burning Heaven Mountain Range, which is also the place with the richest fire attribute on the entire Crimson Continent.

Because in ancient times, there was a Burning Heaven Volcano here, and the underground magma nurtured the second-ranked strange fire in the Great Thousand World—the Burning Heaven Spiritual Fire.

Looking at the city in the mountain range, Chu Yang narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling a little surprised.

Because around this city, there was actually a Saint Product Spiritual Array! With the current foundation of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, it is not enough to set up a Saint Product Spiritual Array.

In other words, this spiritual array was most likely set up by Xiao Yan inviting a Saint Product Spiritual Array Grandmaster.

Chu Yang couldn't help but feel a little puzzled; is Brother Lucky so popular in the Great Thousand World? You must know that there seem to be only a handful of Saint Product Spiritual Array Grandmasters in the Great Thousand World today! (End of chapter)