The Heaven-Defying Effects of the Enchanted Golden Apple

After taking a bite, Taiyin couldn't taste anything at all, and his mouth felt empty, as if he had just bitten into a mouthful of air. The golden square fruit in his hand remained completely unharmed.

He hesitated for a moment, then tried a few more bites. Still, he bit into nothing in his mouth and tasted nothing, yet the golden square fruit in his hand had vanished into thin air.

Even with the reaction speed of a Supreme Being, Taiyin couldn't perceive how this thing had disappeared. It existed one moment, and the next, it was simply gone.

When the Enchanted Golden Apple was finished, a strange expression crossed Taiyin's face. He looked inward at his Sea of Wheels.

The Sea of Wheels is the first step in a cultivator's journey, located beneath the Dantian, representing the cultivator's vitality and life force. The Wheel of Life within the Sea of Wheels, like the rings of a tree, constantly bears marks as time passes, signifying the loss of life.

But now, though Taiyin had just lived out his fourth life and his Wheel of Life was still very smooth, a tiny, barely perceptible mark etched by time from the start of his fourth life to the present had suddenly vanished without a trace.

"It seems to have a similar effect to that potion that let me condense a wisp of Primordial Spirit and living blood from a single Lingering Regret."

Taiyin extended his hand and looked at his palm. He could still sense an invisible, mysterious force enveloping his body, providing an extremely weak defensive effect. "It could probably block a few attacks from a battlefield general among mortal warriors."

He frowned, tried waving his hand, and released a trace of Divine Power, forming an attack at the Sea of Wheels realm to strike the invisible force field on his body.

But as that force shattered, some strange residual power remained.

"Hm!" Taiyin's eyes flickered as he noticed something unusual.

After he shattered the fragile defensive force on his body, a small portion of the remaining attack's aftershock was directly erased into nothingness.

With a thought, a glimmer of light bloomed at Taiyin's fingertip, transforming into a swarm of lifelike little bees that flew one by one toward his body.

The first bee carried attack power at the Sea of Wheels level, the second at the Dao Palace realm, the third at the Four Extremes...

As the swarm vanished in an instant, Taiyin realized with shock.

"Fully two-tenths! This power surrounding me has erased a full two-tenths of the attacks directed at me!"

As a Supreme Being who had mastered power to its peak and constantly resided in the Divine Prohibition, Taiyin could unleash attacks ranging from Supreme Being killing moves to a gentle breeze against his own body. His control over power was so precise that he could clearly detect even the faintest fluctuations.

But now, whether it was an attack carrying the casual force of a Supreme Being, enough to instantly obliterate a Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven expert, or an attack too weak to move a single speck of dust—without exception, this strange power erased two-tenths of it.

No more, no less, exactly two-tenths!

And Taiyin couldn't detect any sign of this power weakening.

What a terrifying concept that was?

On the battlefield of Strong Individuals, a single flaw could be fatal. Being able to erase two-tenths of an enemy's attack meant that an opponent of similar cultivation would have their power reduced to a level he could completely ignore. And he could then force his way through their attacks and shatter their defenses in an instant.

If this miraculous effect held true in battles among Supremes, Taiyin was fully confident he could face a siege from three experts of the same realm and even kill them all! Even if they tried to flee, they wouldn't escape!

Shaken by this realization, Taiyin took out the other items made of small cubes from the box and tried them one by one: a Honey Bottle, a Healing Potion bottle, a Cake, and Bread.

Fortunately, aside from the red square potion—the Healing Potion—which had the miraculous effect of restoring marks on the Wheel of Life, the other items didn't display the heaven-defying effects of the square golden apple. This let Taiyin breathe a slight sigh of relief amid his shock.

He looked at the Block Person friend before him with a complex gaze and sighed, "Friend, your special power is so strong it seems endless! If someone with ill intentions discovered your power, they would stop at nothing to control you and use you for themselves!"

After a moment of silence, Fang Zheng looked at the silent, black-haired man and asked urgently, "So, how was it? How did it taste? Was the golden apple sweet or bland? What was the cake's texture like? And the Healing Potion, what did it taste like..."

Taiyin smiled. Looking at this Block Person friend whose face was expressionless but whose youthful spirit was palpable, he spoke in a clear, precise voice with the same accent as Fang Zheng: "These golden apples have no taste, but their medicinal power is indeed good."

"Huh?" Fang Zheng was stunned. "You can talk... no wait, you learned my language?"

Taiyin nodded with a smile. "I can roughly converse now. If we chat a bit more, I'll master it completely."

"How about we talk about the past to pass the time?"

Fang Zheng quickly spoke up: "Sure, let me start..."

Finally finding someone to talk to, Fang Zheng rambled on, telling his name, his past experiences, complaining about his situation, and describing the White Tiger and Vermilion Bird that had suddenly attacked him after he crossed into this world. He also asked Taiyin's title, his past, how he got here, why there was a lake of blood, whether the blade tip was his weapon, and why he had suddenly become young again...

Trapped and lonely, Fang Zheng poured everything out without holding back.

And Taiyin, who had lived over forty thousand years in life and then spent hundreds of thousands of years as a Lingering Regret without being completely erased, though he looked young, was still an elder. After listening, he smiled and slowly began to recount his own past.

Being able to chat with a living person made Fang Zheng very happy. He didn't know how long they talked, but he gradually felt calmer, no longer as restless and anxious as before. The marks left on his spirit by the despair of being trapped seemed to fade somewhat.

As they talked, Taiyin suddenly stood up and smiled as he invited, "Little friend Fang Zheng, after some calculations, I've re-locked the coordinates of my homeland."

"Next, I plan to break through this void and return to my homeland, which I haven't seen for hundreds of thousands of years. Would you like to come as a guest, so I can fulfill my duties as host?"

Fang Zheng was taken aback, then frantically nodded his blocky head and answered loudly, "Sure, sure, I'll go!"

Taiyin nodded, reached out his hand, and said, "Then first turn off your Flight Mode and stay in my hand for a while. I'm about to return home."

Fang Zheng quickly complied and deactivated Flight Mode. Taiyin extended his hand, his five fingers gently grasping. The space around Fang Zheng was instantly torn apart, transforming into a scroll that Taiyin collected into his palm.

This was exactly the same as when he had stored away the Bedrock earlier.

Although Creative Mode itself was impervious to any attack, by cutting through space itself, this invincible defense could be bypassed, temporarily trapping him.

Looking at Fang Zheng in his palm, defenseless and allowing himself to be stored away, Taiyin couldn't help but sigh. "This really is... possessing indescribably immense power, yet his mind is still that of an ordinary youth."

"The ability to create something from nothing and control infinite resources is so formidable, yet it remains constrained by a mortal's mentality, unable to bring out more of its wonders."

"This might be the balance of the Heavenly Dao."

"If he were to be discovered by some ill-intentioned villain, he could easily be tricked into running in circles."

However, Taiyin's tone shifted, and he laughed boldly. "But... a life-saving grace is beyond repayment. Since you trust me so much, then I will be your close friend."

"I will surely repay this kindness of yours with goodwill."