Senior Brother Xinghe Let Our Civil Engineering Department Down in the End!

Chu Xinghe was not convinced!

Oh, Misfortune Compass of Misfortune Compass, today you've reduced my Peak Martial Emperor to that of a newly initiated Martial Emperor. I remain silent.

After all, you did do something decent, and I Chu Xinghe, can't really say anything about it.

But what about all those rewards that the sect used?

Do you know how much our Vast Heaven Sect has consumed?

All of Little Bear King's snacks have been put into the Spirit Gathering Formation. If you, Vast Heaven Sect, can still find a single spirit stone, then Vast Heaven Sect has lost!

This has completely drained our Vast Heaven Sect...

Under these circumstances, it would be perfectly reasonable for me, Chu Xinghe, to directly become Main God, okay?

Even without Main God, giving me a Mystic God wouldn't be too much to ask, would it?

What do you mean by staying silent now? Are you playing dead with the Misfortune Compass?

Just as Chu Xinghe was preparing to settle accounts with the Misfortune Compass, Ma Liang's roar shook the surroundings.

"This... this place is full of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones..."

With Ma Liang's shout, everyone looked in the direction Ma Liang looking, and what they saw nearly caused an uproar!

Good heavens! At this very moment, Ma Liang dug up the ground somewhere... and guess what... beneath the earth, the light of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones was shimmering!

Just now, a group of experts were discussing whether the concentration of Spirit Power in the Vast Heaven Divine Domain was too outrageous.

This is ten times the size of the outside...

Moreover, "outside" doesn't refer to the outside world, but to the Vast Heaven Sect outside!

That's a phenomenon from the Vast Heaven Sect, a phenomenon at the Vast Heaven Limitless Realm level... that's a level of Spiritual Qi that surpasses even the Five Aspects Paying Homage to the Origin Converging to the Origin phenomenon.

This level of damage is probably a hundred times worse than in ordinary areas.

In this situation, the concentration of Spirit Power in the Vast Heaven Divine Domain is ten times that of the Haotian Mountain Range. Isn't that a bit too outrageous?

And now the case is solved... At this moment, countless people dug away the soil beneath their feet, and when the soil was dug away, even the bigwigs of various forces couldn't help but gasp...

The entire world we live in... is actually made entirely of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones.

This means that beneath the entire Vast Heaven Divine Domain, all the land is covered with Nine-Colored Spirit Stones...

Not only the land... but also those mountain ranges... are all made of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones...

If it weren't for the surface soil covering it, you would see a world made of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones!

But everyone was completely dumbfounded...

Everyone has been to this ancient Ancient Divine Domain before... and everyone has dug into its lands. It wasn't a world of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones before...

Why has it now become a world of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones?

Isn't this a bit too outrageous?

Just as everyone was completely bewildered, the Great Sage spoke.

"If I'm not mistaken, this Ancient Scroll should have been crafted from a single Chaos Spirit Stone. The Chaos Spirit Stone forms the entire Ancient Scroll... It can freely expand and contract in size. The previous Ancient Divine Domain should have been the maximum size of this world. When the world is expanded to its limit, that's when this world is most consumed, so Spiritual Qi becomes scarce and resources disappear."

"But now the Ancient Scroll has shrunk to the size of only the Haotian Mountain Range. In this way, it no longer needs to consume Spirit Power, so the Spirit Power directly condenses into the Nine-Colored Spirit Stones we see!"

The Great Sage's explanation is now clear to everyone.

No wonder the Spiritual Qi here is ten times denser than in the Haotian Mountain Range outside! It turns out this whole place is made of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones. Standing here is like standing on an enormous Nine-Colored Spirit Stone —how could the spiritual energy not be dense?

"We've struck gold... we've struck gold... how many Nine-Colored Spirit Stones is that... all the spirit stones we spent have been recovered! All of them have been recovered! This is probably much more than what we spent!"

Ma Liang, like a greedy miser, picked up a Nine-Colored Spirit Stone from the ground and shamelessly put it in his mouth to bite it... Did you think Nine-Colored Spirit Stone was gold, biting it to determine its purity?

Whether Ma Liang was greedy or not was unknown, but as soon as Ma Liang spoke, everyone in the Vast Heaven Sect's eyes lit up!

No problem, Ma Liang was right this time... The Nine-Colored Spirit Stones here are as big as the Haotian Mountain Range... Not only did we recover all the losses, we were so full we almost peed!

Chu Xinghe was dumbfounded... No wonder the Misfortune Compass didn't give him the reward he was entitled to!

That just went off!

You bastard Beast God... what happened to our reconciliation?

Wasn't that stab a little too violently?

I, Chu Xinghe, was about to take off... I was almost at the Thirty-Three Heavens... and now I've been pulled back down? What does this mean?

Weren't you asleep?

You can betray me even when you're asleep?

The sect used up this many opportunities at once, how long have I, Chu Xinghe, waited for this one... and you just broke them like that?

Just as Chu Xinghe was filled with despair, the Great Sage spoke up, "Ma Liang, you're wrong!"

Upon hearing the Great Sage's words, everyone quickly turned around, only to see Great Sage calmly say, "Ma Liang... although these nine- Nine-Colored Spirit Stones can be mined, they originate from the very source of the Vast Heaven Divine Domain. If they are over-mined, this place will lose its spiritual essence over time!"

Hearing the Great Sage's words, Chu Xinghe's spirit was rekindled!

What? Over-mining will cause it to lose its spiritual essence? Does that mean the Nine-Colored Spirit Stones here are unusable?

If it doesn't work, that's good! What's the point of just looking at it if you can't use it?

Before Chu Xinghe could even feel happy for a second, Ma Liang spoke up, "Great Sage, how do we determine if we're not over-exploiting?"

The Great Sage surveyed his surroundings, then used some secret technique to explore the area further. After calculations, Great Sage slowly spoke, "According to my calculations... we can only mine a maximum of half of the Nine-Colored Spirit Stones here at a time. This way, we won't damage the spiritual essence of the Vast Heaven Divine Domain. As long as we don't mine more than half, the Ancient Divine Domain can gradually recover and eventually give birth to new Nine-Colored Spirit Stones, although this process will take a long time!"

Chu Xinghe, who had just risen from the ashes... died again...

Even if they only mine half of it, it still exceeds the sect's previous consumption...

And if you mine only half at a time, how the hell can this stuff regenerate?

Did this turn me directly into a renewable resource?

Is the Misfortune Compass a massive, epic difficulty buff for sects?

Everyone frowned as they listened to the Great Sage's words, which seemed to take a long time.

You see, the Great Sage has no concept of time... He, being immortal, speaks of a relatively long time... just how long would that time be?

"Great Sage, can you calculate exactly how long it will take?" Ma Liang asked cautiously.

The Great Sage pondered for a moment before speaking, "I'm afraid it will take more than ten years to regenerate... that's quite a long time!"

The audience. "???"

Chu Xinghe: "??????????????"

At this moment, Chu Xinghe felt as if he were dying...

Hey... Great Sage, do you have any shame?

You call this "a bit long"? Can a batch of Nine-Colored Spirit Stones, equivalent to half the size of the Haotian Mountain Range, be mined in just over ten years?

Is this considered long?

I know you, Great Sage, have no concept of time... but I didn't know you had no concept of the opposite!

What's so long about these ten years...? Just say that from this moment on, our Vast Heaven Sect is just going to give up... that we're not going to make any more effort... that as long as we harvest resources from the Vast Heaven Divine Domain every ten years or so, we'll just get richer and richer, right?

Is this what you call long?

Are you sure you mean a few decades and not tens of thousands of years?

Chu Xinghe first apologized to the Misfortune Compass... Chu Xinghe said, "I'm sorry, Misfortune Compass, I spoke too loudly just now... I misunderstood you..."

You've already been very kind of you by not dragging me down to the deepest hell...

This sect suddenly became a holy land... and even produced a tenth-level extraordinary phenomenon... and even obtained the Vast Heaven Divine Domain... That's bad enough... but why did all the resources it consumed also come back?

It's like there's an invisible knife stabbing me from the shadows!

The sect has been completely wiped out...

Now that we look at it, not only have the resources not decreased... they've actually increased!

Is this even safe to live?

Chu Xinghe wore a calm expression... but inside he was filled with confusion...

Beast God! You bastard! I fought alongside you, and you betrayed me like this! You heartless, scumbag god!

"Senior Brother Huang... Senior Brother Huang, what's wrong... Nangong from the Everlasting Spring Palace, come quickly to save him..." Just as Chu Xinghe was confused, a cry for help came from afar. The next moment, Nangong Yan from the Everlasting Spring Palace led a large number of the Everlasting Spring Palace disciples toward the Civil Engineering Department disciples.

Along with Huang Ritian, the Civil Engineering Department students were either stunned or dumbfounded... But Huang Ritian was in the worst shape; he was lying on the ground, looking somewhat dead...

The sect used two-thirds of its resources to build the Spirit Gathering Formation, leaving the Civil Engineering Department disciples with teary eyes...

Whether the other disciples are excited or not, the Civil Engineering Department don't know. All they know is that once this is over, we can finally have our annual leave!

No! We're on vacation for a whole year!

While others get one annual leave, we get a whole year's vacation!

This has truly made us Civil Engineering Department students stand out!

Before the Civil Engineering Department disciples could even get excited... these Nine-Colored Spirit Stones Civil Engineering Department their last glimmer of hope...

At this moment, countless Civil Engineering Department students looked at Senior Brother Xinghe with teary eyes...

Senior Brother Xinghe! We don't know if the Beast God wronged you, but in the end, you wronged us, the Senior Brother Xinghe of the Civil Engineering Department...