Chapter 624

Time passed leisurely, and in the blink of an eye, another three years had passed.

Mount Buzhou.

An unnamed valley.

Suddenly, the originally calm spiritual energy of heaven and earth was disturbed, gathering from all directions and pouring madly into the valley; at the same time, various strange phenomena appeared in the valley, and immortal light overflowed.

They wanted to burst outward, but were restrained by an invisible force.

At this time in the valley, time was chaotic, space was folded, yin and yang were divided, the five elements were manifested, and accompanied by bursts of thunder, countless lightning bolts appeared out of thin air, raging within the valley.

In this extreme environment, the plants in the valley all withered and died.

The originally beautiful valley with lush flowers and plants soon became a barren land, exposing black soil.

After a long time, when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gradually returned to calm, the various strange phenomena also dissipated rapidly, and then a strange fluctuation swept across the valley; soon, countless flowers, plants, and trees sprouted from the soil.

In less than half an hour, the valley had returned to its original appearance, which was truly miraculous.

"Three years, I have finally achieved the Golden Immortal status, and I am a dual Golden Immortal of both Martial Dao and Immortal Dao!"

At this time in the valley, a joyful voice came out.

Yin Qi stood up; because he had just broken through, he could not yet retract his aura at will. At this moment, he was like the center of heaven and earth, emitting a terrifying aura, and also a scent of immortality and indestructibility.

He had become a Golden Immortal!

After leaving Zhaoge, he had come all the way to Mount Buzhou, stopping and going.

Along the way, he had seen many landscapes, wiped out many demon clans, obtained countless cultivation resources by plundering them, and finally, through the Devouring Divine Ability, completed his transformation shortly after arriving at Mount Buzhou.

To tell the truth, Mount Buzhou had disappointed him greatly.

As the absolute center of the Primordial Continent and the former channel between heaven and man, Mount Buzhou was vast and majestic enough, and the spiritual energy was incomparably rich, but Yin Qi had not found any innate spiritual treasures, nor had he even discovered any acquired spiritual roots.

His biggest gain was finding a top-grade immortal medicine.

This was because there were too many cultivators on Mount Buzhou.

Mount Buzhou is the holy mountain in the hearts of countless cultivators in the Primordial World, and coupled with the rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it is comparable to a top-tier blessed land, so every year a large number of cultivators rush from all directions to settle down.

No matter how good the conditions of Mount Buzhou are and how many treasures it has, it cannot withstand having even more cultivators.

The valley where he lived belonged to the edge of Mount Buzhou, because further inside, many territories had already been occupied by others, including many Golden Immortals.

"It is time to go back."

Yin Qi whispered.

He looked around the valley and then stepped into the void in one step.

There was nothing worth lingering over on Mount Buzhou.

……

Three days later.

Yin Qi crossed a vast distance and returned to Zhaoge.

Although he was only at the early stage of Golden Immortal, his speed of travel was absolutely comparable to a peak Golden Immortal, because he had a very deep understanding of the laws of space, and his combat power was now also comparable to a peak Golden Immortal.

Of course, this also included the blessing of the Human Emperor Armor.

If there were no Human Emperor Armor, his combat power would be estimated to be equivalent to the late stage of Golden Immortal.

This late stage of Golden Immortal was benchmarked against the Golden Immortals of the various sects.

If they were not Golden Immortals of the various sects, even if they were peak Golden Immortals, Yin Qi could easily behead them, because he was a dual cultivator of Immortal Dao and Martial Dao, and was proficient in the laws of all systems.

Golden Immortals of the various sects did not lack innate spiritual treasures, so they all had a very deep understanding of the laws, unlike other Golden Immortals who only had the realm and power of a Golden Immortal but were very weak in their understanding of the laws.

Moreover, in terms of cultivation techniques, non-Saint inheritances were far from being comparable to Saint inheritances.

The "Eight-Nine Mysterious Art" that Yin Qi cultivated belonged to the Saint level, and the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" could barely be said to be one as well; this was his confidence in benchmarking his combat power against the Golden Immortals of the various sects.

……

Imperial Palace.

Zichen Hall.

Yin Qi retracted his clone, and countless memories surged into his mind.

For these three years, in order to concentrate on cultivation and not be distracted by government affairs, he had cut off the connection between the clone and himself.

Since he had returned to Zhaoge, he naturally had to understand the current situation.

Soon, Yin Qi digested all the memories.

These three years were undoubtedly three years of rapid development; although wars were still being waged externally, this did not drag down Yin Shang's development, but instead, because of the Creation Heavenly Bead, it developed even more rapidly.

The Creation Heavenly Bead, in coordination with the Immortal Court, could continuously produce various pills in batches.

Not counting others, just the immortal-path experts registered in the Martial Hall reached 25,285 Earth Immortals, including Martial Dao Earth Immortals; Heavenly Immortals also reached 5,563, though there were currently no Martial Dao Heavenly Immortals.

As for Mysterious Immortals, there were only two hundred and sixty-five.

The Creation Heavenly Bead could ripen top-grade immortal medicine, but it could not ripen supreme immortal medicine, which greatly limited the birth of Mysterious Immortals.

These immortal-path experts were all fighting outside, opening up territory for Yin Shang and conquering nearly three hundred million li of territory, covering the southern and northern parts of Yin Shang.

However, in order to hide the secret and avoid causing the Saints to be wary, these territories almost cut off contact with Yin Shang, and the Martial Hall established various countries and sects to exercise indirect control.

In the eyes of the Saints, although Yin Shang still had a large area of territory outside, it was only twenty million li.

It looked large, but in reality, it was just like that.

For example, Xiqi, after three years of effort, had also conquered twenty million li of territory outside.

According to the news from the clone Jia Ren, Xiqi had completely digested the cultivation resources bestowed by Yuanshi Tianzun and was now discussing when to raise an army and how to raise an army.

With rapid development outside, Yin Shang naturally flourished internally as well.

Thanks to the Taiji Rice and the spread of martial arts throughout the world, almost everyone in Yin Shang was a martial artist, because the cultivation techniques promulgated by the imperial court were simple to enter and easy to cultivate, resulting in seventy or eighty-year-olds also being able to become Mortal Realm martial artists.

If they could obtain spirit pills to cleanse the marrow, it was not impossible for them to have the possibility of becoming Heaven Realm experts in the future.

Yin Shang had successively expanded its army to fifty million over these years, most of whom possessed Earth Realm cultivation, and Heaven Realm experts also accounted for one-fifth, which was absolutely unimaginable in the past.

After all, in the past, Heaven Realm experts were basically generals.

Fortunately, the Taiji Rice had been fully promoted; otherwise, it would have been impossible to support universal cultivation.

Besides military strength, agriculture, industry, and commerce were also flourishing; not counting the artifact refiners and alchemists in other factories in the country, just in the artifact refining industrial zone directly under the imperial court, there were more than five million artifact refiners.

Even in the alchemy industrial zone, there were nearly two million alchemists.

Without the Immortal Court, the artifact refining industrial zone could now independently refine Heavenly Immortal-class warships, but the speed was somewhat slow, with an annual output of about ten ships.

The alchemy industrial zone could also refine immortal pills, but it could only refine four-turn golden pills.

Compared to artifact refining, alchemy was more technical, because artifact refining could be divided among people, but alchemy could not; alchemy required precise control of temperature at all times, without the slightest error.

Yin Qi nodded secretly.

He was very satisfied with the development over the past three years.

Besides this, the operations against Donglu, Youzhou, and Qingzhou were all within his plan.

Three months after Yuan Futong rebelled, Wen Zhong finally sent out troops, launching an attack on Yuan Futong, severely damaging Yuan Futong's great army in one battle and forcing Yuan Futong to retreat one hundred thousand li and reorganize his defenses.

This was thanks to the two Mysterious Immortals of the Western Sect who intervened urgently, which was the only reason they blocked the offensive of Wen Zhong and the Yin Shang great army.

Since then, both sides had fallen into a stalemate.