Chapter 43 Looting
Chapter 43 Looting
Mo Yun's sword light sliced through the Netherworld, and Jiu You's golden light rewoven the severed Netherworld. The two joined forces, one breaking and the other establishing, and the evolution of the Netherworld began to accelerate at a visible rate.
Strands of Heavenly Dao merit descended from the void, merging into Mo Yun's body and then being transferred into the Milky Way Axis.
The starry world within the Milky Way axis continues to expand under the infusion of merit, with more and more stars and denser star orbits, but it is still far from a true transformation.
The battle between Mo Yun and Ji Du made him realize one thing: the enhancement that innate treasures could provide to oneself far exceeded his imagination.
Jidu's Four Swords of Zhuxian are not entirely compatible with him. The Four Swords of Zhuxian are treasures for killing, while Jidu's swordsmanship is a sword of extreme speed. Although both are swords, their principles are different.
Even so, the boost that the Four Swords of Zhuxian provided to Jidu was enough to allow him to fight Moyun to a draw.
The Zhongtian Gate in Mo Yun's hands was completely incompatible with him. Mo Yun's foundation was Yin and Yang, the Star Sea Heaven Realm, while the Zhongtian Gate was a spatial treasure, which was incompatible with him. Mo Yun could not even unleash one-tenth of the power of the Zhongtian Gate.
Therefore, Mo Yun wanted to refine the Milky Way Axis into a treasure of acquired merit.
The acquired merit treasure is comparable to the innate treasure. More importantly, the Milky Way Axis is Mo Yun's natal object and is perfectly compatible with him. The stronger the Milky Way Axis becomes, the stronger he becomes.
But one merit point is not enough; Moyun needs an even greater amount of merit.
Jiuyou sat cross-legged in the center of the golden lotus, watching Moyun, who was constantly slashing into the darkness with his sword, feeling utterly bored.
Inside the Nine Nether Cauldron, flames blazed, and numerous rare and precious materials were slowly merging together.
During the First Era, Zi Chen traveled throughout the primordial wilderness, collecting a vast amount of rare and precious materials, including branches of the Fusang tree from the Sun Star, branches of the Laurel tree from the Moon Star, divine metal, true water, heavenly fire, spiritual roots, and countless rare treasures plundered from the lairs of ferocious beasts. These rare and precious materials piled up like mountains. Zi Chen himself wanted to refine a great treasure, so he took ninety percent of them, and gave the remaining one percent to Jiu You.
Jiuyou is the most skilled at crafting artifacts among the six incarnations. The Jiuyou Cauldron itself is a supreme treasure acquired through cultivation. The Earthly True Fire within the cauldron can melt all things. Therefore, Zichen asked Jiuyou to craft exclusive supreme treasures for his many incarnations.
Mo Yun has the Ten Bright Swords and the Milky Way Axis, which are sufficient for the time being; Wu Shi, Wu Liang, and Zi Chen's true form are a trinity and will not be separated unless necessary, so they don't need to be concerned for the time being. Therefore, the only things that Jiu You needs to refine are Jiu You's own magic treasures and the magic treasures of Kong Xuan, the incarnation of the Red Dust Prison.
Jiuyou possesses the Jiuyou Cauldron, and Kong Xuan possesses the Red Dust Prison. Neither of them actually needs a supreme treasure to support their own foundation; they only need a weapon that they can use in their daily lives. Jiuyou needs to forge four pillars, and Kong Xuan needs to forge fifty jade platforms. The number is relatively large, and the forging time is also relatively long.
With a flash of golden light, Mo Yun vanished from the Netherworld and stepped back onto the Primordial Continent.
Jiuyou remained in the Netherworld, intending to continue perfecting the evolution of that dark world and, incidentally, to plunder the deathly essence, earth energy crystals, and turbid essence that had accumulated over countless years deep within the Netherworld.
The Netherworld is the final resting place for all yin and turbid things between heaven and earth. Since its birth, it has accumulated too many good things, all of which need to be collected by the Nine Netherworlds.
Zi Chen wants to advance to the Creation Realm, but his accumulation is not enough.
Firstly, Mo Yun's Heavenly Dao Merit was insufficient. The Milky Way Axis devoured a Merit Dao Fruit and absorbed ten thousand years of merit in the Netherworld, yet it only completed half of the transformation.
The origin of heaven and earth is insufficient; the celestial realm needs the Way of Heaven, the underworld needs order, and the human realm needs spirituality. Although the framework of the three realms has been established, the flesh and blood are far from complete.
If the rare and precious materials are not enough, Zi Chen needs an extremely vast amount of rare and precious materials to advance to the Creation Realm. The stockpiles that Zi Chen collected in the First Era are simply not enough.
Mo Yun's purpose on this trip is to plunder the five regions of the primordial wilderness once again.
The first stop was the Western Regions.
Ten thousand years ago, a great war turned this wasteland into scorched earth, but beneath the scorched earth lie the remains of countless ferocious beasts.
These corpses were soaked in malevolent energy for thousands of years, and then purified by the light of merit for thousands of years. Their bones turned into fossils harder than divine metal, and their flesh turned into spiritual soil containing immense vitality.
The ferocious beast race occupied the Western Regions for countless years, accumulating countless corpses. After the great war, the allied forces of all races only took away the surface portion, while the vast majority of corpses sank deep into the earth, merging with the earth's veins.
When Mo Yun stepped into the Western Regions, he encountered a sandstorm. Yellow sand filled the sky, turning the heavens into a dim yellow.
Standing in the center of the sandstorm, Mo Yun flipped his right hand, and the Milky Way unfolded, a scroll stretching across the sky, with the light of the sun, moon, and stars pouring down from the scroll and illuminating the depths of the earth.
The fossils of ferocious beasts buried thousands of feet underground trembled and broke free from the earth's veins, transforming into streaks of dark red light that were absorbed into the Milky Way axis.
One yuan, ten yuan, one hundred yuan, one thousand yuan, ten thousand yuan, one hundred thousand yuan...
Fossilized beasts flew out from the depths of the earth like a torrential rain, converging into a dark red torrent that poured into the painting.
The starry world within the galactic axis swallowed these fossils, and the starlight repeatedly melted and refined them, stripping away the evil energy and purifying the essence.
The metal element power from the fossilized bones was extracted and integrated into the mineral veins of the Star Sea World; the life force from the fossilized flesh and blood was extracted and transformed into the spiritual energy of the Star Sea World, nourishing many nascent stars.
Mo Yun traveled through the Western Regions for three thousand years, collecting ninety percent of the ferocious beast carcasses beneath this scorched earth. Fossils that had slumbered for thousands of years, bones wrapped in earth veins, and crystals that had been forged in magma for countless years were all collected by Mo Yun into the Milky Way Axis. As a result, the land of the Western Regions collapsed by hundreds of feet, revealing dark red rock layers deep underground.
After collecting the beast's corpse, Mo Yun turned and stepped into the sea of blood.
The great war ten thousand years ago caused the Blood Sea to swell several times over. The blood of countless living beings flowed into the Blood Sea, the corpses of countless ferocious beasts sank into the Blood Sea, and the resentment and malevolent energy of countless war dead merged into the Blood Sea. The area of the Blood Sea expanded to nearly three times its original size, with turbid waves surging on the surface. The blood-red waves crashed against the void, turning the sky into a dark red.
Above the sea of blood, demonic cultivators dwell.
After Luo Hou established the demonic path at Tianmo Mountain, the Blood Sea became a gathering place for demonic cultivators. The baleful energy and blood energy here were highly nourishing for demonic cultivators. Many demonic disciples opened caves in the Blood Sea to absorb its power and refine their demonic skills.
As Mo Yun rode the waves, thousands of demonic cultivators were cultivating on the Blood Sea. These people sat cross-legged on blood lotuses, their demonic energy surging around them, drawing out the blood energy from the Blood Sea bit by bit and merging it into their bodies.
Upon seeing Mo Yun, the demonic cultivators were initially taken aback, then revealed their wariness. The leader, a demonic cultivator at the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, stood up, a jet-black longsword appearing in his hand, its blade pointing at Mo Yun: "This is the Blood Sea Dojo under the Demon Ancestor. Those who come, stop."
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