Chapter 219: Cultivation

"However, you helped me in the end, so I owe you a favor for this matter."

Chen Mo did not refute her words, but simply smiled and spoke.

"I am planning to return to Absolute Sword Valley next. What about you? Do you intend to head to another world to cultivate?" Bai Yuxia's face revealed a smile, her expression gentle.

She did not like owing others favors; it made her feel very uncomfortable. But regarding others owing her favors, she was quite happy to see it happen.

By now, she and Chen Mo had spent some time together; the relationship between the two could not be called intimate, but they were friends.

That was why she asked about Chen Mo's upcoming plans; if it were before, given her personality, she would never have asked so much.

"Inside the Heavenly Court Secret Realm, there is a palace named the Hengyu Asking Dao Hall. It contains the Time Subtle Method; cultivating inside for ten days is only one day in the outside world.

Not only that, but within it, thousands of Dao methods evolve; although the effect is not as good as being in a Dao Domain, it is still a rare Blessed Land for cultivation. I intend to go there to seclude myself and cultivate for a period of time.

Because in the future, our world may have to face some things, you should also try your best to improve your cultivation and combat strength, so that you can be safer."

Chen Mo spoke slowly to explain. Bai Yuxia listened carefully; she did not focus on the trouble that was about to come, but instead hurriedly asked, "Hengyu Asking Dao Hall? Where is that?"

Moreover, the stronger one is, the more tempting they become to the creatures of the Mirage Sea.

When the Catastrophe has not yet arrived, the creatures of the Mirage Sea will not risk forcibly stepping into the realm.

Except for her, there are no other top-tier powerhouses who can escape these Mirage Sea Catastrophes.

"I understand. I will go back and try to prepare as early as possible, but should this news be spread out first?"

Chen Mo smiled immediately, reached out to point at the palace not far away, and at the same time explained the subtleties of it to her in detail.

Chen Mo sighed softly and repeated to her, basically word for word, the things he had previously told the Ancestral Spirit.

But not only was she an ancient Great Ability herself, in order to escape the Mirage Sea Catastrophe, she even merged herself into the Netherworld of the Cangxuan World.

Other weaker ones hide in specific Dongtian Fudi to seal themselves, forgetting most of their memories, and still have a chance of survival.

At least in the situations Chen Mo knows of, the only powerhouse in this world who has repeatedly escaped the Mirage Sea Catastrophe is Fengdu Niangniang.

"Then, can this palace accommodate two people cultivating at the same time?" Bai Yuxia asked in a focused voice.

The reason Chen Mo told her this was because, with her strength, she had no means to protect herself.

Compared to the problems she would face in the future, she was more concerned about the current cultivation.

The longer the time, the longer the time left for them to protect themselves, and the more fully they could prepare.

But if there were a powerful existence that forcibly stirred up the power of the Mirage Sea to submerge their world, many Mirage Sea creatures would inevitably take the opportunity to rush into the realm.

Even in this situation, she paid a considerable price, forgetting many things, and her strength could not be fully preserved, only able to recover step by step along with the world.

Then they must work together to find a way to deal with this problem.

For a Martial Artist at this realm, wanting to avoid the Mirage Sea Catastrophe is not an easy matter.

Chen Mo's body gestates the Myriad Phenomena Power, equivalent to the embryo of a world.

If a Mirage Sea creature were to devour him, the effect would be no less than a rare, peerless medicinal herb.

In the Supernatural Power Realm, a Martial Artist also begins to truly accept the Heavenly Law, not comprehensively, but a portion of it.

Because the time is too short, self-preservation can only manage to leave behind some sparks; more power will be used to deal with the current crisis.

Bai Yuxia then spoke again, asking another question.

Because for this kind of disaster, the stronger one is, the more clearly they perceive it.

There is still a long time before the arrival of the other Heavenly Court Fragment; waiting another year or so to gather the world's powerhouses will still be in time.

"It is possible, but it requires consuming more resources."

"Also, what exactly is the trouble you mentioned? With your and my strength, I am afraid there is no problem within this realm."

But Bai Yuxia cannot; she is too powerful, her perception of the Mirage Sea is increasingly sharp, and many things in her memory cannot be stripped away or discarded.

Chen Mo nodded in response, immediately guessing her thoughts.

Bai Yuxia's brows furrowed slightly, and she also realized the problem hidden behind this matter.

The worst case is nothing more than this era being forcibly interrupted, the surging Mirage Sea Water submerging this era, but in the end, there will be sparks left behind.

She is too strong, so strong that when the Mirage Sea arrives, it is impossible for her to escape with her strength.

Conversely, if the crisis and catastrophe are about to arrive, they will not have time to make too many responses.

"Good, then I will have to trouble you." Bai Yuxia smiled; she naturally understood the rarity of such a cultivation opportunity.

Many factions face danger together; some factions want to respond, while some factions inevitably want to protect themselves.

If the one who controls the Heavenly Court Fragment is truly a Mirage Sea creature, Bai Yuxia will inevitably have to use all her strength to deal with it.

Even if resources need to be paid, so what? There are countless factions that have many resources in their hands but cannot find such a Blessed Land for cultivation.

Announcing this news in advance now may not necessarily achieve the best effect.

"There is no rush for this; waiting for another period of time is fine. Once you and I finish our seclusion and our cultivation and strength have both improved to a certain extent, we will gather the many powerhouses of the world to announce this matter," Chen Mo said.

"If you can bring some heavenly treasures for me to use to support the operation of the Heavenly Court Secret Realm, then you can also enter it to cultivate."

At that time, the weak will still have a glimmer of hope, because the Catastrophe, after all, has not truly arrived.

"Good." Bai Yuxia nodded slightly; she naturally understood this point as well.

Unless that powerful Mirage Sea creature does not leave, otherwise the Mirage Sea Water will likely retreat.

But for top-tier powerhouses like Chen Mo and Bai Yuxia, there is absolutely no way to survive.

That powerful Mirage Sea creature, in order to replenish its own power, will inevitably not let them go.

"Then I will take my leave first." Bai Yuxia bowed in salute, did not continue to stay in the Heavenly Court Secret Realm, and turned to leave on her sword.

Chen Mo watched her leave and stepped into the Main Hall of the Heavenly Court Secret Realm.

Behind the Main Hall, there is a unique space where Creation Qi nourishes the interior, and all spirits and things seem to have received grace.

Inside the space, there is a divine pool, one zhang square, and no more than three chi deep.

The divine pool appears empty, but if one senses it carefully, one can discover a trace of extremely obscure power fluctuations lurking.

The thousands of changes in the surroundings are all caused by it.

This is the Creation Divine Pool, where a wisp of the Creation Mechanism contained within the Heavenly Court Fragment lingers.

Chen Mo currently has no way to observe or comprehend this wisp of Creation Mechanism; although this power is extremely weak, its essence is too high, and it can be said to be infinitely close to the essence of the Creation Great Dao.

With his current cultivation and strength, there is simply no possibility of comprehending it, and forcing a comprehension might even lead to a deviation in cultivation.

Chen Mo poured all the heavenly treasures and Heaven and Earth Spirit Liquid he had previously obtained into the Creation Divine Pool before him.

The Creation Power is profound, containing within it the changes of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements.

Especially this wisp of Creation Power left behind by the ancient heaven and earth, it is even more profound and sufficient to alter all things between heaven and earth.

Even lifeless objects devoid of vitality can give birth to life and consciousness under its nourishment, though the price to be paid for this is very high.

As the Creation Mechanism flowed, Chen Mo felt an extremely profound power shifting.

The heavenly treasures and Heaven and Earth Spirit Liquid he had taken out were being baptized by this power.

In just an instant, the myriad heavenly treasures dissolved, and the Heaven and Earth Spirit Liquid was also constantly changing.

Golden Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid was derived from the Creation Power, and with this divine liquid, the entire Heavenly Court Secret Realm could be activated.

The heavenly treasures Chen Mo had brought this time were not many, but the quantity of Heaven and Earth Spirit Liquid was quite abundant.

He had taken at least half of the accumulation from the previous era of the Cangxuan World.

These powers were constantly being converted into Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid, and the thirty thousand drops of Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid originally possessed within the Heavenly Court Secret Realm were growing at an extremely fast speed.

Forty thousand drops, fifty thousand drops, finally reaching over sixty-seven thousand drops.

Such a large amount of Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid, while not enough to activate the Heaven and Earth Profound Gate, was enough to support his own cultivation for a long time.

It was just that to stimulate the Transformation Pearl next, he would still need to consume a portion of the Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid.

Chen Mo stepped into the Creation Divine Pool, and drop after drop of Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid, under his guidance, continuously burrowed into his physical body.

These powers were incomparably pure; as long as a Martial Artist had sufficient strength, they could refine and absorb them.

Chen Mo would also use this Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid for his subsequent cultivation; he was currently only at the initial stage of the Myriad Phenomena Realm First Layer and had not yet reached perfection.

The Small World opened within his body still had many deficiencies that needed to be constantly completed.

However, there was no bottleneck between these stages; he only needed to replenish his own power.

At the Myriad Phenomena First Layer, a Small World is opened, and by gradually supplementing it to perfection, the prototype of a world appears.

The Second Layer requires the Heavenly Law of the Small World within the body to gradually reach a state of balance.

Chen Mo's Small World currently had its Yin and Yang and Five Elements inverted and agitated, with all kinds of laws in a state of chaos.

This was because his Small World had only just been opened; it possessed all kinds of laws, but heaven and earth were not yet settled.

The Small World was still in a state of chaos.

To break through to the Myriad Phenomena Second Realm, he needed to make this world stable.

Regardless of the strength of the Small World itself, as long as it stabilizes, a Martial Artist can reach the Myriad Phenomena Second Realm.

As for the Third Layer, it is to further allow this Small World to achieve normal operation.

Although it was only the operation between the powers of the Heavenly Law, that was also extremely rare.

Once this step was reached, this world already possessed the possibility of giving birth to life.

It was just that this possibility was also highly likely to remain just a possibility forever.

To truly give birth to life, there was still a very long road to travel.

One after another, Heavenly Divine Sources submerged into Chen Mo's physical body, and the power of the Transformation Pearl within his dantian was constantly surging.

Not until it reached the realm of perfection, and over five thousand Heavenly Divine Sources had been consumed, did Chen Mo stop his movements.

He was in no hurry to undergo his Mortal Transformation; every time he underwent a transformation, there was a power to baptize his physical body, and breaking through during this process was the best choice.

His cultivation had not yet reached the perfection of the Myriad Phenomena First Layer, so undergoing a transformation rashly would be somewhat of a wasted opportunity.

Now, every opportunity for transformation was quite rare, and he naturally had to seize it.

Chen Mo was in no hurry to leave the Creation Divine Pool; he reached out and took out a Putan.

This Putan appeared plain and unremarkable, yet it was radiating a sense of tranquility outward.

Chen Mo flicked his finger, and a drop of Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid submerged into the Putan.

As he had expected, this Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid could repair the Putan, allowing it to manifest its ancient abilities once more.

Chen Mo did not know the name of this Putan, but it was indeed something he had obtained from the cave dwelling of an ancient Great Ability.

Using his own True Qi to nourish it had an extremely weak effect.

Previously, while training in the Heavenly Court Secret Realm, the golden flowers scattered after passing the secret realm's trials were able to restore the power of this Putan.

Those golden flowers were essentially Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid, and now, using this Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid, it could indeed further restore its power.

Drop after drop of Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid was sent into the Putan, and the Dao Pattern power contained within this treasure gradually revived.

Not until over four thousand drops of Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid were consumed did the power restored to the Putan finally reach a certain threshold.

A wisp of spiritual power contained within the Putan transmitted a piece of information.

Chen Mo closed his eyes to perceive it, examining it extremely carefully.

The Putan's power had been restored to a higher level; now, besides being able to help a Martial Artist calm their mind, it could also help a Martial Artist resist external demons, and even when facing one's own inner demons, it possessed the power to resist.

These were only helpful when a Martial Artist was breaking through or trapped in some bottleneck of seeking but not obtaining.

Furthermore, there was the most important point, which was that this Putan could help people comprehend the Dao.

A Martial Artist's cultivation is about comprehending the Dao of heaven and earth; the Putan could self-evolve according to the Dao of heaven and earth that the Martial Artist was comprehending, thereby connecting more manifestations of the Dao of heaven and earth to help the Martial Artist cultivate.

This function could be called extremely powerful; based on this point alone, this Seeking Dao Meditation Cushion could be called a rare secret treasure in heaven and earth.

At this step, the Putan's power had been partially restored, and if one wanted to continue restoring it, the quantity of Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid required would increase tenfold.

Chen Mo could manage to gather enough, but doing so would be relatively wasteful.

The remaining Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid should still be used for cultivation.

Chen Mo put away the Seeking Dao Meditation Cushion, stepped out of the Creation Divine Pool, and walked toward the Hengyu Asking Dao Hall.

Although the power of time flows within this great hall, it is not currently activated.

Chen Mo's expression is indifferent as he takes out a Putan and sits cross-legged.

With a calm mind and clear spirit, he takes control of the Heavenly Court Secret Realm and triggers the changes in the Hengyu Asking Dao Hall.

In a mere instant, he feels himself moving at an extremely high speed, while the surrounding heaven and earth change in unpredictable and infinite ways.

The world seems to become extremely vast and expansive, and everything within the palace, including himself, is elongated.

The operation of the heaven and earth outside the palace suddenly speeds up, while he himself remains normal.

Chen Mo understands that it is not the outside world that has sped up, but rather his own time that has slowed down.

Therefore, observing from his own perspective, he can perceive how fast the flow of time in the outside world changes.

Chen Mo takes a Jade Slip from his Huai, which contains all the insights and experiences of a powerful expert cultivating from the Myriad Phenomena Realm all the way to breaking through to the True One Realm.

Triggering the power of the Jade Slip, countless streams of information flow through his mind, and Chen Mo carefully contemplates them.

The Heaven and Earth Divine Liquid that he had previously collected into his body is continuously merging into the Small World he has opened up.

Chen Mo browses through these insights and experiences left by his predecessors, ruminating on and digesting them, while constantly perfecting his own world.

As days pass, the Small World within Chen Mo's body, which initially had clear and turbid Qi intertwined in a state of chaotic ignorance, begins to change.

It starts to gradually shift toward a state of order, with the clear Qi rising to become the sky and the turbid Qi sinking to become the earth.

Yin Qi condenses into the moon, and Yang Qi transforms into the sun.

Although the twelve double-hours cannot be distinguished within the Small World, the alternating evolution of Yin and Yang ultimately provides a concept of time.

The Heavenly Laws are gradually being sorted out, but just as they are being sorted, they seem to show signs of merging once again.

Chen Mo dares not be careless and immediately triggers the power of the Transformation Pearl to help himself consolidate his realm.

Although he could easily consolidate this realm if he had the patience to spend time cultivating slowly,

given the current situation, it is best to save time if he can.

(End of this chapter)