Chapter 737

"Eight Directions Locking Dragon-Imprisoning Formation!"

Following the sharp shout of the scholar Dragon Guard, chains hung down from the sky, firmly locking the corpse dragon and merging with the seven-colored chains on its body. Then, they lifted the corpse dragon into mid-air and teleported it several hundred li away, hanging it over the great sea.

This grand formation was urgently exchanged by Little Wei Yuan from the Merit Hall, and it shared the same origin as Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi's Dragon-Trapping Lock. Although Little Wei Yuan had no immortal power, the mortals in the Human World of Renjian Yanhuo all had spirituality but no physical bodies, equivalent to tiny formation spirits. Using them to set up the formation could integrate a grand formation beyond imagination.

Little Wei Yuan's first step was to separate the corpse dragon from the land beneath its feet.

In Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi's eyes, that piece of land was the true harvest, so Little Wei Yuan prepared to investigate it thoroughly. And after leaving the land where it grew, the corpse dragon's strength should be greatly reduced and not worth worrying about. However, just in case, Little Wei Yuan still drew a bit of phoenix fire to burn slowly on the corpse dragon's body; as long as it recovered a bit of corpse energy, it would be burned away by the phoenix fire as fuel.

Little Wei Yuan flew down to the small island exposed to the water again. The island was still permeated with mist, and in this mist, spiritual sense could not even reach ten zhang.

Little Wei Yuan's spiritual sense probed underground, searching constantly, but found nothing. However, he had a strong intuition that something seemed to be hidden deep underground, to the point that the entire Human World of Renjian Yanhuo was tilting slightly toward this piece of land.

Little Wei Yuan summoned four Dao foundation warriors, each casting the Water Blade Technique to dig underground. This land was quite soft and very easy to dig. Under the combined force of the four water blades, a shaft several feet in radius extended continuously into the deep underground.

After digging down nearly thirty li, a surging starlight suddenly gushed out from the hole, turning into a green beam of light that shot straight into the sky! Around the beam of light, ribbon-like starlight lingered, and stars were constantly born and destroyed.

From this starlight, Little Wei Yuan sensed the purest power of new life.

He immediately leaped into the deep well, flying downward rapidly. When he reached the bottom of the well, his eyes were filled with starlight as thick as nectar! In the center of the light, a stone the size of a human head was bobbing up and down.

Little Wei Yuan did not dare to be careless, operating the orthodox treasure-collecting formula of the Tai Chu Palace, binding this stone bit by bit. It took a full incense stick's time before he initially refined and bound it, and all the starlight returned to the inside of the stone. Only then did Little Wei Yuan reach out and hold the stone.

When he flew out of the hole, the cultivators all came over, looking at the stone in Little Wei Yuan's hand with some curiosity. They all knew this was a heavy treasure, but none recognized the origin of this stone. Even Bao Yun indicated that she had never seen or heard of this object.

Little Wei Yuan was just preparing to go to the Merit Hall to search for information when a green-robed cultivator suddenly appeared in front of him; it was Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi.

The cultivators hurriedly saluted, and then Little Wei Yuan said: "Is the battle already over?"

Yanshi said: "No, it's still ongoing. This time we broke seven of their small worlds in total. Although they were all primary worlds, adding them together is equivalent to wasting fifty years of cultivation for the two of them. Those two old fellows suffered such a big loss, how could they let it go? This battle will continue for a while."

Little Wei Yuan wanted to ask if they could win, but felt it was too impolite. True Lord Yanshi knew what he was thinking and laughed, saying: "You have seen my mind-reflection worlds; how could they be broken? At most, I'll suffer some minor injuries, and I'll recover in less than two years."

Speaking of this, Yanshi suddenly sighed and said: "If I could have another few decades, the number would be far more than this."

Little Wei Yuan knew this secret, so he could only remain silent.

Yanshi's disappointment was only for a moment. In the blink of an eye, he perked up, pointed at the stone in Little Wei Yuan's hand, and said: "This object is called the Star Pivot Stone, one of the three major origins that allow a world to grow. The Lei Lang tribe is an extremely talented combat race; more than half of the tribesmen can cultivate to the Dao foundation, and they start at the Earth-rank."

"I was wondering why such a powerful race would be placed in a dead land. It turns out the Left Xianwang, that old fellow, likely borrowed the dead victims of generations of Lei Lang tribesmen to nourish that world, using resentment and karmic fire as a lure to seize the creation of heaven and earth, igniting a shred of vitality in an absolute dead zone."

"Given time, that revived world would at least develop to a level second only to the immortal heaven. The old fellow's strength would increase by a large margin because of this, perhaps similar to the strength of your Ancestor Xuan Yue when she ascended to immortality."

"It's just unknown how many people of the Lei Lang tribe would be left by then. If there aren't enough people, that world would be cheap for others. Hehe, now we don't need to worry about the Lei Lang tribe; that shred of vitality of that world is already in your hands."

"Then how should this object be used?" Little Wei Yuan asked again.

"There are three ways to use this object. One is for me to refine it, and you can get a boundary stone equivalent to half an Azure Void. But this method is putting the cart before the horse, and it would be a bit of a waste of heaven's gifts."

Half an Azure Void was still a waste of heaven's gifts? Little Wei Yuan clearly still underestimated the value of this object.

Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi continued: "The second way is to put it into your Primordial Spirit to nurture it. Currently, it looks like it will take several hundred years. Once successfully nurtured, it can give birth to the Great Dao of heaven and earth, creating a world with vitality out of thin air. It can serve as your second mind-reflection world. After ascending to immortality, not to mention taking a step to the sky, at least you can directly skip the most difficult link."

"Finally, I can help you integrate the Star Pivot Stone into your Human World of Renjian Yanhuo, which can allow your Dharma Form to break the shackles of heaven and earth and raise the upper limit. Naturally, it is also good for your own cultivation."

Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi pointed to the distant sea again and said: "After integrating the Star Pivot, some of those people might take a step forward and achieve the Dharma Form."

Little Wei Yuan looked in the direction Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi was pointing and saw Han Li and Jun Weizhi, each leading several ships, searching for something in the sea a hundred li away.

The three methods actually each had their own advantages.

With another half of an Azure Void, plus the Chunhua Dao Stone in the Nether Cold Realm, the future would be the land of seven commanderies. If he conquered one or two more commanderies, he could try to squeeze into the Nine Kingdoms. Under the current management model of the Azure Void, these lands would have massive human luck, all of which were resources for Little Wei Yuan's ascension to immortality.

The second way also went without saying; directly skipping the first threshold after ascending to immortality, except for the slightly higher difficulty during the heavenly tribulation of ascension, the benefits were too many to describe.

The benefits of the third way were not so obvious; it was mainly to improve current combat power.

Little Wei Yuan pondered for a moment, weighing it repeatedly, before saying: "Integrate it."

Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi did not comment, directly pointing at the Star Pivot Stone. It instantly turned into an incredibly huge phantom and then integrated into the Human World of Renjian Yanhuo.

Han Li, Jun Weizhi, and Fu Yao, who was boating alone on the sea, all looked up at the sky at the same time; they felt an invisible shackle on their bodies disappearing.

But Little Wei Yuan himself only felt that his spiritual sense was clearer and more lively, and then there was nothing else.

Yanshi said: "The power of the Star Pivot lies in accelerating the speed of absorbing the origin of heaven and earth, but it doesn't have much of the origin of heaven and earth itself. Within the next thirty years, your cultivation speed can increase several times."

When Little Wei Yuan heard this, he felt it was not bad, equivalent to saving nearly two hundred years of bitter effort.

Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi finally said: "You have gained quite a bit in this battle; it is time to shoulder a heavier burden. Wait two days until I have thought it through before telling you. That demon beast is useless; you can refine it with a formation, turn it into a puppet, or refine it into treasure materials or pill materials, depending on your wish. You... hmm?"

Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi suddenly stared at Little Wei Yuan, looking at him carefully. Little Wei Yuan didn't know why and could only stand there honestly.

After looking for a long while, Yanshi said: "Strange, why has your fate and luck suddenly changed subtly, as if... it had been repaired by someone."

Currently, Yanshi's true body was still fighting in the immortal heaven. This was not a manifestation, but just a point of immortal thought, so naturally, he couldn't see anything.

Little Wei Yuan was also somewhat puzzled. He was reborn after death, although it was only a moment, but Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi actually didn't see it? Others also felt nothing at all. Could it be that the karma of that moment had been completely erased?

After Tinghai Xianjun Yanshi left, Little Wei Yuan was preparing to fully inspect the Human World of Renjian Yanhuo when another thought suddenly emerged: what if he cultivated the Star Pivot Stone into a second mind-reflection world? That seemed not bad, right?

This mind-reflection world should be able to choose environmental attributes, right? It should be able to freely cultivate the power of heaven and earth, right? It should be able to choose some kind of powerful immortal heaven characteristic, right?

As for the several-hundred-year nurturing period, that was not a problem. There must be many ways to accelerate it, just like Little Wei Yuan swallowed several Dragon Descendants and became a Dharma Form in just two years.

Little Wei Yuan suddenly felt some regret; if only there were two Star Pivot Stones, he could have no regrets. But then he thought, if he had two, he would want to see what the third mind-reflection world was like, and so on, endlessly.

Little Wei Yuan stopped letting his imagination run wild and began to think about the corpse dragon's destination. At this moment, a dragon head suddenly poked out from the clouds in the distance, just happening to meet Little Wei Yuan's gaze. He saw the dragon stretch out two small claws, put them together, and bow to Little Wei Yuan several times.

(End of chapter)