Chapter 1085 - 713: The 29th Heaven of the Spiritual World

ps: The Spiritual World’s layer count was previously reversed; the highest is the Thirty-Three Heavens, and below is the First Heaven. It has now been corrected, apologies to everyone, and correction is made here.

In the Spiritual World, Zhang Chen’s Primordial Spirit stood in front of the Alchemy Furnace, his eyes observing the world ahead. He sensed the elusive ’fortunes,’ and the formation of the Innate Primordial Embryo would happen today.

Looking over the entire world, the scene formed a stark contrast with the previous Ice Seal. At that time, snow and ice covered everything, freezing all life, but there was still the energy of life beneath the ice. Once the Ice Seal was resolved, the world would transform again, full of vitality, into a small thriving world. But now, there was no sign of vitality in the world.

The earth cracked, forming a web of fissures, and the ground turned into Yellow Sand. The mountains and great lakes became scarlet-red, with no trace of life.

The sky was gray and dim, as if the world had reached a dreary dusk, an indescribable silence filled the Heaven and Earth.

Inside the Alchemy Furnace, the Sun True Flame roared, with the tremors of the power of wind, fire, water, and earth, and constant thunder emanating from within.

"Boom~"

Suddenly, a distant mountain collapsed like gravel, turning into dust and scattering, raising a sky full of smoke.

"What is that..." Zhang Chen was shocked at this scene.

"All things in Heaven and Earth are connected by Qi, with Qi as the order and support. The mountain in front of you collapsed into dust because its Qi was drained." The Great Freedom Celestial Demon stepped forward to explain.

Such theories were too profound for Zhang Chen to grasp at the time, he simply couldn’t understand.

Wasn’t the world’s operation based on Law? How did it involve the existence of Qi?

Not only did the mountain collapse, but the ground began to sink like brittle cookies, and the sky started to disperse like clouds, scattering in all directions, as void storms blew in from outside, the whole world seemed like paper-mache and was shredded, turning into powder in the space waves.

"The Origin of the entire world has already been drained by you, you can’t stay here any longer, let’s quickly move to a higher layer of the Spiritual World, or else you’ll get lost in the directionless space waves." The Great Freedom Celestial Demon urged constantly.

Zhang Chen extended his hand, and the Eight Trigrams Furnace rose into the air, then shrank into his palm, the next moment Zhang Chen activated the Power of the Mind, his figure disappeared from the Fourth Heaven of the Spiritual World.

As Zhang Chen disappeared, the entire Fourth Heaven of the Spiritual World suddenly dispersed like smoke, swept away by the space wave, vanishing into endless void.

In the Fifth Heaven of the Spiritual World, Zhang Chen had just appeared, when suddenly he heard bursts of metallic sounds, a massive sharp Qi rushed to the sky, transforming into blades, aiming directly at Zhang Chen.

"What the hell is this?" Zhang Chen landed, only to see endless golden sharp Qi filling the void, surging towards him like a tide from all directions.

Such terrifying waves of sharpness, Zhang Chen was sure, even his Ice Domain couldn’t withstand or hold it.

"Be careful, that’s Acquired Gold Qi, every strand of Gold Qi is no less than a Flying Sword. If you get stabbed by it, you’ll be beheaded instantly." The Great Freedom Celestial Demon quickly identified the origin of the terrifying sharpness and reminded: "Your Fire of the Sun restrains Gold Qi, quickly utilize the Sun True Flame to protect yourself."

Upon hearing the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, Zhang Chen quickly used the Sun True Flame to see a layer of Sun True Flame encasing him, securely protecting him, then the overwhelming Gold Qi had already approached him. It felt like a storm hitting a banana tree, the vast Gold Qi, when approaching Zhang Chen’s Sun True Flame within three feet, was entirely refined into mist and returned to the Heaven and Earth.

No matter how powerful the external storm may be, once it approached Zhang Chen within three feet it was directly vaporized from sharpness to mist.

"Where did so much Gold Qi come from?" Zhang Chen stood inside the Sun True Flame shield, observing the endless Gold Qi outside that completely obscured the Heaven and Earth, preventing his sight from projecting beyond the perimeter set by the Sun True Flame, feeling somewhat frustrated.

The feeling was akin to being in the dark night where the fires only illuminated three feet around, unable to see anything beyond, causing great oppression and irritation.

"The whole world is already filled with Gold Qi, who knows what really happened." The Great Freedom Celestial Demon sensed briefly and said to Zhang Chen: "The whole world has turned into deathly silence; all life has been destroyed by Gold Qi, now the only vitality in this world might be just you."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen scratched his head: "In my current state, I can’t continue the Sacrificial Refining of the God-Beating Whip. It seems now I can only go to the Heaven-Supporting Pillar to acquire that Divine Power to supplement my Buzhou Seal, then find a way to leave here and move to the Sixth Heaven of the Spiritual World to search for a location to set up an Acquired Eight Trigrams Array."

"Where’s the center of this side of the world?" Zhang Chen asked.

Upon hearing Zhang Chen’s question, the Great Freedom Celestial Demon said: "Wait here for a moment, I’ll go ahead and explore the path for you."

The words of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon fell, and his figure rushed out of the Sun True Flame, disappearing into the boundless Qi of Geng Metal.

"The Celestial Demon Race is indeed unique. Not only do they not fear the Sun True Flame, but even the all-encompassing Geng Metal True Qi cannot do anything to them." Zhang Chen was somewhat envious of the innate superpower of the Celestial Demon Race.

Looking at the boundless Qi of Geng Metal outside, recklessly colliding with the Sun True Flame, Zhang Chen was secretly shocked: "Such power, even a Twelfth Tier expert would be exhausted to death if caught in it."

Zhang Chen waited for about half a day before seeing the Great Freedom Celestial Demon returning from the sky, landing in front of Zhang Chen: "Kid, I have two pieces of news for you, one good and one bad. Which one do you want to hear first?"

"I’ll hear the bad news first." Zhang Chen said.

"The bad news is that this place is about ten thousand miles away from the world pillar, and the entire world, every inch of air, is filled with the Qi of Geng Metal. It’s not easy for you to reach the world pillar’s location." said the Great Freedom Celestial Demon.

"And the good news?" Zhang Chen inquired.

"The good news is that I detected the source of the Qi of Geng Metal between Heaven and Earth, right at the Heaven-Supporting Pillar. If you can seize that source of Geng Metal, it will surely bring you great benefits, possibly even granting you incredible powers." the Great Freedom Celestial Demon said.

"The source of this boundless Qi of Geng Metal is actually from the Heaven-Supporting Pillar? Truly astonishing." Zhang Chen clicked his tongue secretly, then said to the Great Freedom Celestial Demon:

"You said it’s difficult to journey, but you underestimate me. You don’t know my means."

Zhang Chen had mastered the Five Elements Escape Technique, and now that the Qi of Geng Metal permeated Heaven and Earth, wasn’t it just the right time to use the Geng Metal Escape Technique?

Zhang Chen activated the Gold Attribute escape technique with a thought, and indeed, as he activated the escape technique, his figure turned into a streak of golden light, vanishing into the boundless mist in the blink of an eye.

"Damn, when did you master such a skill?" The Great Freedom Celestial Demon was stunned by Zhang Chen’s move, then hurriedly followed Zhang Chen’s actions:

"I mean, when did you gain such a skill? You usually keep a low profile, showing no signs at all?"

Zhang Chen was in the state of the escape technique and could not answer the words of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon.

"The Five Elements Escape Technique is indeed useful, but the speed is just too slow. Unfortunately, upgrading the Five Elements Escape Technique requires an enormous amount of experience points, which I cannot afford." Zhang Chen sensed the Golden Finger Interface, and on the interface, the information of the Five Elements Escape Technique appeared before his eyes: [Skill 17: Five Elements Escape Technique (0\10000000000)]

"Upgrading a Five Elements Escape Technique actually requires ten billion points, which is just not worth it for me. For me, saving points to develop life-saving and protective skills is most important, everything else is secondary." Zhang Chen looked at his points again, decisively choosing to close the Golden Finger Interface, as he couldn’t bear the cost of a hundred billion points consumption.

Isn’t there something better to do with those points? Wouldn’t it be preferable to upgrade my time acceleration? My Heaven-Reaching Jianmu has, with two cycles of daily time acceleration, already grown into a towering tree, tens of meters high.

The innate Qi it provides daily has increased several times over.

Although the speed of the Gold Escape Technique is very slow, Zhang Chen persevered, it’s merely ten thousand miles, after all, he has time.

He has now cultivated the Primordial Spirit, not tiring even after a day and night of using the escape technique.

The next morning

Zhang Chen awoke as usual from his meditation, stretching slowly, with a wisp of Innate Qi flying out of the Ascension Pool, nourishing Zhang Chen’s weary Primordial Spirit.

At this time, the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu had grown from a sapling to a towering tree fifty meters high. You must know that one day Zhang Chen can accelerate it by two complete cycles, ten days equals one thousand two hundred years, and since Zhang Chen upgraded time acceleration, who knows how many years have passed, with its life cycle now unknown to be in the tens of thousands of years, the innate Qi it generates daily has increased dozens of times, and Zhang Chen’s Ascension Pool can now be seen covered with a shallow layer of Ascension Liquid.

However, Zhang Chen didn’t use the Ascension Liquid because he felt that with the upgrading of the Blood Sea Dao, his body seemed to be evolving to some higher level, and even though the Ascension Liquid could transform his physical body into an Immortal Body, it was too much of a waste for him.

He believes that his physical body, with the evolution of the Blood Sea Dao, will one day not be inferior to the Immortal Body.

It’s not that he doesn’t want an Immortal Body, he just purely feels that the Dao Body cultivated by his Blood Sea Dao will not be inferior to the Immortal Body.