Chapter 958: A Millennium

Watching this expression of Nuwa's, Yin Qi was also left between laughter and tears.

This was no Saint; she was simply a petty-minded little woman.

He took out a Space Ring, handed it to Nuwa, and said, "Inside are five hundred Seven-Turn Golden Pills, ten portions of Daluo Immortal Liquid, as well as ten Daluo-level Warships and one hundred Golden Immortal-level Warships; your followers and disciples should be cultivated as well."

Nuwa was his woman now, so he naturally had to support her with all his might.

She was a Saint after all; it would be one thing if she couldn't compare to the other Saints, but if she couldn't even compare to the likes of Minghe Laozu, then she would truly lose face.

"Thank you, Yin Lang!"

Nuwa felt moved in her heart.

She hesitated slightly, then accepted it.

As long as she digested these resources, her followers and disciples would be able to surpass the other Saints in one fell swoop.

"Between you and me, why the need for such courtesy!"

Yin Qi dotingly ruffled Nuwa's hair; if outsiders were to see this sight, they would likely be shocked to the point of dropping their spectacles.

……

Time drifted by, and a millennium passed in the snap of a finger.

Generally speaking, this millennium in Honghuang was relatively calm, but in reality, undercurrents were surging.

It was like a Volcano about to erupt, frantically accumulating energy.

Because all parties knew that the contradictions between them could no longer be reconciled, and what followed could only be a battle of epic proportions, just like the Dragon-Han Calamity and the Witch-Demon Calamity of the past; no one could retreat.

Thus, all parties buried their heads in conquering the Heavens Demon World, while the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty buried its head in expanding its territory, neither interfering with the other.

……

In the span of a millennium, the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty was already far from what it used to be.

Wherever the great armies passed, all parties surrendered at the mere sight of them.

This allowed the territory of the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty to expand extremely rapidly, and by now, it already occupied a territory of nine trillion li in radius, which was roughly one light-year in radius.

But such a vast territory was still very small compared to the entire Primordial Continent.

The current Great Shang army still consisted of the Thirty-Six Great Legions, but the number of people in each legion had already exceeded one hundred billion.

However, the proportion of Immortal Dao cultivators had already dropped to less than one in a thousand.

There was no help for it; the speed of the army's expansion was too fast.

Even if Yin Qi could scrape together resources from the entire Honghuang, he still couldn't quite keep up.

To avoid provoking the various forces, Yin Qi strictly controlled the number of Golden Immortals under his command these years, only adding one Golden Immortal every few years; as for Great Luo Golden Immortals, there wasn't a single one added.

He could not let the various forces know that he possessed the ability to cultivate Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Nor could he let the various forces know that he possessed the ability to cultivate Golden Immortals in large batches, otherwise, he would become the target of everyone.

Benefiting from the Spiritual Roots and Immortal Seeds within his Inner Heaven and Earth, Yin Qi could refine twenty Eight-Turn Golden Pills every five years; a millennium meant four thousand pills, which could cultivate four thousand Great Luo Golden Immortals—what a terrifying number this was.

In reality, four thousand Great Luo Golden Immortals were indeed born under Yin Qi's command.

However, they were all inside his Inner Heaven and Earth.

As for Golden Immortals, they reached a terrifying thirty thousand, and likewise, almost all were inside the Inner Heaven and Earth.

What Yin Qi put out into the world was primarily Warships.

For instance, the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty currently possessed ten Daluo-level Warships on the surface and one thousand Golden Immortal-level Warships, but the number of Golden Immortals had only increased by less than one hundred, and the number of Great Luo Golden Immortals had only increased by two.

These two were both Innate Humans, formerly under the command of the Three Sovereigns, who later joined the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty.

A millennium in Honghuang meant two million years within the Time Array.

Yin Qi basically cultivated within the Time Array, and his cultivation level naturally reached the peak of the Quasi-Saint Mid-Stage. He was only one opportunity away from severing a corpse again.

Not only his cultivation, but he had also refined the Innate Restrictions of the Human Emperor Bell and the Taiji Diagram to the fortieth layer.

However, his progress in the various Laws was not significant.

Improving Law cultivation was far more difficult than improving cultivation level, and it became harder the further one went.

However, having fused the Pure Yin Qi of the Dragon Clan and Qilin Clan, he had already gathered seven types of the Nine Yin Qi for the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon," which were: Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, Asura, Demon, God, and Human.

He was only missing the final two, Witch and Ghost, to be able to cultivate a power infinitely close to Chaos.

……

While the strength of Yin Qi and the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty increased rapidly, the various forces were actually not slow either.

Like the Witch and Demon races, they had already breached over a dozen Demon Worlds.

Aside from Nuwa and Houtu, the other Saints had also breached several Demon Worlds; after obtaining the origin of the Demon Worlds, they each arranged for suitable people to refine them, cultivating quite a few powerhouses.

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For example, in the Chan Sect, Guangchengzi and Antarctic Immortal were in seclusion to sever their corpses.

Yunzhongzi, Yuding Zhenren, Huanglong Zhenren, and Daoxing Tianzun had all successively achieved the Great Luo realm, and the number of Golden Immortals in the sect had broken through five hundred; they could be described as having powerhouses like clouds.

The Ren Sect also had Great Luo emerging one after another, and Xuandu Dafa Shi had already achieved the Quasi-Saint realm, walking ahead of the first generation of disciples of all the sects.

In the Jie Sect and the Western Sect, the number of Great Luo Golden Immortals had also increased by five or six, and the number of Golden Immortals exceeded one thousand.

However, the ones with the greatest increase in strength were still the Witch and Demon races.

The number of Quasi-Saints of the Demon Race had increased from two to five, and the number of Great Luo exceeded forty.

The number of Ancestral Witches of the Wu Clan had also increased to five, and the number of Great Witches exceeded fifty.

The expansion of their strength made them incredibly excited.

However, none of them easily restarted the war, because they knew that the strength of the Heavenly Court and the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty had not increased any less than theirs, and they still needed to continue conquering the Heavens Demon World to increase their own strength.

In reality, the strength of various forces such as the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin, the Sea of Blood, and the Heavenly Court had also increased very rapidly.

Especially the Heavenly Court.

The Heavenly Court possessed the Investiture of the Gods, and the deities on it were immortal and indestructible, so they feared no death when attacking the Heavens Demon World.

In truth, these deities did not wish to obey the order.

It was just that the true bodies of the Sages had been driven out of Honghuang, and the Heavenly Court had formed an alliance with the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty; even if the Good Corpses of the Sages wanted to coerce Haotian, they had to weigh their own strength first.

Without the backing of the Sages, the deities on the Investiture of the Gods naturally dared not defy the order.

After all, their own lives were still held in the hands of Haotian.

The number of Heavens Demon Worlds conquered by the Heavenly Court was even greater than that of the Witch and Demon, but limited by the shallow foundation of the Heavenly Court, although Haotian had obtained a great deal of World Origin, he had only managed to cultivate a dozen or so Great Luo Golden Immortals.

As for Quasi-Saints, none had been born yet.

Haotian did not have a Time Array, nor did he have the "Great Desolation Game" to temper one's state of mind; he could only cultivate his subordinates one step at a time, with no shortcuts to take.

In reality, the Time Secret Realm and the Trial Secret Realm (Great Desolation Game) of Great Shang had long since been known to various factions, making them green with envy and helping them "understand" why the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty developed so rapidly.

Possessing these two great Mijing was equivalent to cheating at cultivation.

However, they still did not take the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty to heart, because the history of the Human Race was too short and its foundation too shallow; even with these two great Mijing, its speed of development could not compare to theirs.

The only things they feared were Yin Qi, as well as the Golden Immortal-level Warships and Daluo-level Warships that were being born in a steady stream.

Yet they also believed that resources were finite, that the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty could not refine warships without limit, and that as they continued to conquer the Heavens Demon Worlds, their own strength would continue to expand indefinitely.

(End of this chapter)