Chapter 994: Jieyin's Speculation

After arranging everything, Yin Qi also entered his Inner World to go into seclusion and cultivate.

Before his seclusion, he also instructed the Immortal Spirit to increase the sales volume of Seven-Turn Golden Pills in the Primordial Mall, raising it from one every hundred years to one every ten years, while simultaneously auctioning one Eight-Turn Golden Pill every thousand years to obtain more high-quality resources.

In the past, the Primordial World was rich in resources, and everyone's extraction of resources was limited to the surface.

But as people's demand for resources intensified, the development of underground resources became increasingly deep; for instance, the Automatic Mining Machines of the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty could already reach ten billion li underground.

The deeper one went underground, the more abundant the mineral deposits were, and the higher their grade.

There were even all kinds of Divine Stones, Heavenly Gold, and the like that had never appeared before, as well as Saint-Grade Materials that could be used to refine Saint-Grade Warships.

It was also because these materials were constantly being developed that Primordial Artifact Refining ushered in an unprecedented great development.

Factions like the Demon Race, the Wu Clan, and the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin clans were all stepping up the re-equipping of their military forces.

In the past, a common soldier's full set of standard magical artifacts might have been Top-grade Spirit Tools.

But now, they were at least Mid-grade Immortal Artifacts.

For warships below the Quasi-Saint level, the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty had enough.

But Quasi-Saint-level warships, and even Saint-Grade Warships, all required a massive amount of top-tier artifact refining materials.

If he did not bring out good things, the various forces would not trade with him.

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As the focus of the Primordial World, any move by the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty was under the gaze of countless people, so the matter of Yin Qi scattering a large number of Eight-Turn Golden Pills and Seven-Turn Golden Pills could not be hidden from the outside world at all.

Not long after, this news spread throughout the Primordial World.

The Primordial World was in an uproar!

"Dao Ancestor above, Heavenly Dao above, one hundred Eight-Turn Golden Pills, ten thousand Seven-Turn Golden Pills, and even ten thousand Golden Immortal-level Warships—how on earth did Di Qi manage to bring them out!"

"In the past, when the Great Shang did not attack the Demon World, I thought they didn't have many Great Luo Golden Immortals; it turns out they were just cherishing their lives. With them casually bringing out a hundred Eight-Turn Golden Pills, who would still go to the Demon World to risk their lives?"

"These are Eight-Turn Golden Pills! I don't even know if Laozi has ever successfully refined one!"

"We were right before; Di Qi must have cultivated all the Innate Spiritual Roots, otherwise where would he get a hundred Eight-Turn Golden Pills!"

"Damn it, it's unreasonable, too unreasonable. Eight-Turn Golden Pills, and even ten thousand Seven-Turn Golden Pills, could be explained as being refined by Di Qi, but what about the ten thousand Golden Immortal-level Warships? Even if he is a Peak Quasi-Saint, it shouldn't be easy to refine even one."

"The Human Race is already the number one race in the Primordial World!"

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Countless people were discussing it heatedly.

Besides amazement, there was envy, and also resentment.

Especially the Demon Race and the Wu Clan; they were jealous to the point of madness.

They had painstakingly mined for tens of thousands of years and finally managed to recover their strength to their peak period, only to be surpassed by the Human Race in the blink of an eye—and surpassed to a degree that was beyond their reach.

Just the power of the Great Luo and Golden Immortals alone, let alone the Wu and Demon races, even if the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin clans were added, they probably couldn't compare.

As for the power below the Golden Immortal level, there was no need to compare at all.

If they knew that Yin Qi planned to increase the proportion of Immortal Dao cultivators in the Great Shang army to one percent, they would probably be scared to death.

The point was not the one percent ratio, but the total number of Immortal Dao cultivators.

Currently, Great Shang possessed Thirty-Six Great Legions, each legion exceeding a trillion people, which meant thirty-six trillion troops; if calculated at a ratio of ten percent, that would be 3.6 trillion.

3.6 trillion Immortal Dao cultivators—this was simply terrifying. At the peak of the Wu and Demon races, the scale of Immortal Dao cultivators was only a few hundred billion.

Not to mention now; combined, their Immortal Dao cultivators probably didn't even total five hundred billion.

In this world, only Yin Qi had the ability to cultivate and maintain such a great army, supported by the resources of the Inner World and the Primordial World, plus the production capacity of god-level technology.

Not to mention anything else, the resources consumed by these 3.6 trillion Immortal Dao cultivators every day would be enough to bankrupt a Saint.

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The Primordial West.

Lingshan.

Zhunti Daoren said indignantly: "Senior Brother, we have all been deceived by Di Qi. Back then, he said something about spending thirty thousand years collecting alchemy materials, then using a thousand years to refine pills, and only then obtaining three Eight-Turn Golden Pills."

"But now, he casually brought out a hundred."

"In addition, there are ten thousand Seven-Turn Golden Pills and ten thousand Golden Immortal-level Warships; where on earth did he get them from?"

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The industrial production capacity of the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty was known to the entire Primordial World.

But the common people only obtained information on the Immortal Cultivation Hundred Trades up to the Mysterious Immortal level, so it was impossible for them to participate in the refining of Golden Immortal-level Warships.

As for the Lianqi Gongyequ outside Chaoge City, although there were many Golden Immortals and even Great Luo, with their production capacity, being able to refine one Golden Immortal-level Warship in a hundred years was already the peak.

This meant that Yin Qi had another secret base for refining warships above the Golden Immortal level.

Linking this to the Time Secret Realm of the Great Shang, as well as the small world that could isolate the Heavenly Dao and cultivate Innate Spiritual Roots, the answer was obvious: Di Qi possessed a mysterious small world that could isolate the Heavenly Dao and had a time flow faster than the Primordial World.

In this fiction, Di Qi not only cultivated all the Innate Spiritual Roots, as well as a large number of Acquired Spiritual Roots, Immortal Seeds, and medicinal herbs, but also had a warship production base.

This warship production base very likely possessed ten thousand Golden Immortal-level artifact refiners.

As for artifact refiners below the Golden Immortal level, there were certainly even more.

Only in this way could Di Qi continuously bring out various warships and magical artifacts.

Of course, that small world also had an alchemy base, and the number of alchemists was even greater than that of the artifact refining base, because the pills brought out by the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty were far more numerous than the magical artifacts.

Now the question was, where did that world come from?

Jieyin Daoren recounted his analysis and said with knitted brows: "Junior Brother, where do you think that world came from? It can actually isolate the Heavenly Dao and has an ultra-fast time flow; it is simply a supreme Sacred Land."

Zhunti Daoren said: "Senior Brother, could that world originate from the depths of Chaos?"

If it were located in the depths of Chaos, it could naturally be unaffected by the Primordial Heavenly Dao.

Jieyin Daoren shook his head and said: "This possibility is not high. To completely escape the influence of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, one must go at least ten billion billion billion billion li into Chaos, and one cannot traverse space in Chaos; even with our speed, a round trip would take at least one hundred thousand years."

Zhunti Daoren's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly: "Senior Brother, the Return Ruins, it must be the Return Ruins. In the Primordial World, only the Return Ruins meet these conditions. When the Five Emperors went missing back then, didn't we speculate that they might have gone to the Return Ruins? As the most accomplished Human Emperor among the descendants of the Five Emperors, the Five Emperors would certainly guide Di Qi to the Return Ruins."

A divine light flashed in the eyes of Jieyin Daoren: "If it is the Return Ruins, then everything makes sense. The legendary Return Ruins are incomparably mysterious and not within the Heavenly Dao; it is understandable that the flow of time there far exceeds that of Honghuang."

"Perhaps, a very long time ago, the Five Emperors were already planning all of this."

"They utilized the endless resources within, as well as the ultra-fast time flow, to spend millions, or even tens of millions of years, cultivating large numbers of alchemists, Artifact Refining masters, and the like—it is entirely possible."

"Di Qi is not the reincarnation of some peerless powerhouse, but rather someone who cultivated in the Return Ruins, avoiding the Heavenly Rule set by us, the Sages."

Zhunti Daoren continued: "In other words, it is not that Di Qi is particularly strong or mysterious, but rather that the Five Emperors are secretly supporting him from behind. What deep calculations; we all underestimated the Five Emperors. They have been playing us all in the palms of their hands." (End of this chapter)