Furred and Horned

"Project the Heavens, Gather Reality, Occupy Timelines, Create Myths... This was the Taiyi Golden Immortal!"

Scenes of Heavens' Birth and Death flashed through Fang Yang's eyes. Every strand of his hair, every fine hair, every cell was filled with mana. He felt that with a mere flick of his finger, he could destroy his former Golden Immortal Realm self.

He could not help but sigh. Realm suppression would always be stronger than a Level-Up Challenge!

Level-Up Challenges only happened before the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. After becoming a Great Luo Golden Immortal, challenging higher realms became an unimaginable luxury.

Some might say that the Twelve Heavenly God-Demon Array and the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array could contend with Saints, but that was merely contending!!!

To contend meant that the weak declared war on the strong and could slightly withstand the other party's attacks.

It was like a lion challenging a tiger in a zoo. The one with a perm definitely could not beat the one with tattoos, but could still go up and swat them a couple of times.

A Saint's combat power belonged to them personally, whereas a Saint-level Array's combat power only arose when countless experts operated the formation.

For a short time, a Saint-level Array could match a Saint. Once too much time passed, however, the experts maintaining the formation would no longer be able to hold on.

Fang Yang faced Great Luo Golden Immortals in much the same way.

His mana could allow an Innate Spiritual Treasure to unleash a certain degree of power, enabling him to contend with a Great Luo Golden Immortal. Yet he could only sustain that explosive output for a while. Once that time passed, his mana would be exhausted, and he would no longer have the strength to resist a Great Luo.

The gap in realms was still not something he could break at his current stage.

Then, could Fang Yang draw even with a Great Luo Golden Immortal while still at the Taiyi Golden Immortal stage?

It was not impossible. He had the World Tree. As long as the World Tree grew to the point where it could draw Chaos Qi across space, he could rely on it to sustain Great Luo Level combat power over the long term.

If he could cultivate a powerful formation, he might even have a chance to defeat those Great Luo Golden Immortals who were not especially strong.

However, neither of those things would be easy to accomplish. It would depend on fate.

As for cultivating formations, he wanted to wait a little longer. He had yet to decide which Formation Dao Path to pursue.

When formations were cultivated to their peak, they sought only a few kinds of power. The Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array sought Pangu Primordial Spirit Power, the Twelve Heavenly God-Demon Array sought Pangu Physical Body Power, and the Mysterious Heaven Seven-Section Sword Array cultivated Tongtian Power...

The essence of these formations was to Derive Dao with Formations, recreating the power of those mighty beings through formations.

Therefore, before cultivating formations, Fang Yang had to carefully consider his own Formation Dao Path.

Nurturing the World Tree was also an immensely difficult task.

The World Tree could only grow by devouring World Origin, but Fang Yang did not dare recklessly devour the origin of the Primordial World—not even the origin of a minor world!

If he truly devoured it, Karmic Debt would certainly come knocking.

He had not even earned any merit yet. If he first burdened himself with Karmic Debt, how could he Prove Dao to Grand Unity?

For now, Fang Yang could only take one step at a time and place his hopes on fate.

"Since I've broken through, it's time to make a trip to East Pole Heaven. I only hope the Azure Dragon Clan won't throw me out of East Pole Heaven as one of those furred and horned, born from wetness and eggs."

The East Pole Divine Lord was also called the Green Dragon Saint Venerable or the Divine Lord Mengzhang. Because he often manifested before others in dragon form, he came to be known as the Azure Dragon.

In truth, the Divine Lord Mengzhang was formed from the Four Symbols Qi of Heaven and Earth. From the moment of his birth, he bore the duty of Suppressing the Four Extremes of Heaven and Earth.

A water buffalo was a buffalo, but a snail was not. By the same logic, the Ancestor Dragon was a dragon, but the Azure Dragon was not.

After the Dragon Clan declined, they had once sought to attach themselves to the Azure Dragon Clan, hoping to steal the merit of East Pole Heaven and cleanse their Karmic Debt.

Because of this, the Azure Dragon Clan had placed the Dragon Clan among the ranks of "furred and horned, born from wetness and eggs."

Within the Interception Sect, those of corrupt conduct and ruined morality emerged one after another.

Fang Yang also worried that the Azure Dragon Clan would condemn everyone by association and place him on the list of "furred and horned, born from wetness and eggs."

"These furred and horned, born from wetness and eggs have ruined our sect's reputation. Once I Achieve Grand Unity Realm, I'll send every last one of these scum to the Investiture of the Gods."

Killing intent rose in Fang Yang's heart. He had clearly begun with a heaven-defying hand, yet these scum had forced him into survival mode. How could he not feel murderous intent?

Still, this matter required long-term planning. He could not rush it.

Worry was worry, but the matter still had to be done. Whether for merit or for the great undertaking of "Intercept a Glimmer of Life," Fang Yang had to give it a try.

Fang Yang returned to Qingcheng Grotto-Heaven and checked the Heavenly Wood Hall. The Divine Rice had already produced eight hundred batches of Divine Grain. Each batch contained three thousand grains, and each grain weighed approximately ten thousand jin.

Yes, a single grain of Divine Grain the size of a pomelo weighed ten thousand jin. That was the difference between a Heaven and Earth Divine Object and ordinary grain.

After a brief calculation, he learned that the Divine Rice bore grain once every thousand years.

The Divine Rice's maturation cycle was neither particularly long nor particularly short, but the seeds in Fang Yang's possession were absolutely sufficient for him to conduct cultivation experiments.

"Not bad! The more seeds there are, the greater the room for error. But if Divine Grain is to be spread among All Heavens and Myriad Races, I must find a way to shorten its growth cycle, even at the cost of the spiritual qi and vital essence contained within it."

Empress Houtu had left mortal cultivators enough Lifespan to break through, unless they were so hopelessly useless that they were eliminated by the Book of Life and Death.

However, their lifespans were still far too short compared to the Divine Grain's maturation cycle.

Fang Yang cultivated Divine Grain in order to spread it throughout the entire Primordial Wilderness and benefit all races. Its growth cycle had to be shortened.

How could merit possibly be so easy to earn?

After organizing his objectives, Fang Yang set off.

After his breakthrough, Fang Yang wielded Space Law with even greater ease.

Wherever his gaze reached, the space ahead automatically folded. Distances of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of li lay beneath his feet, compressed into a stretch of space even thinner than paper.

But this was merely the most basic application of Space Law.

Truly powerful laws would never exist in isolation; they would inevitably contain the mysteries of other laws.

During one of his lectures, Sect Master Tongtian had mentioned that Dijiang's Space Law possessed unbelievable manifestations such as Two Forms of Spacetime, Outer and Inner Space, Three Powers Dimensions, Four Symbols Law Domain, and Five Elements Heavenly Domain.

Everyone else's Space Law was like children playing house before Dijiang's,

Naturally, Fang Yang could not compare with Dijiang. His laws had only just begun, but his Space Law was more than sufficient for travel.

Fang Yang hoped his trip to East Pole Heaven would go smoothly, but heaven did not grant his wish. After one instance of shuttling through space, he witnessed a great battle.

On an immortal mountain along the Shore of the East Sea, the auspicious radiance and blessed qi of old had vanished. The entire mountain was shrouded in a foul, fishy stench, and endless death had descended upon it.

Above the immortal mountain, an enormous Azure Dragon coiled through the air, stirring the heavenly phenomena and turning wind and clouds, dimming sun and moon, as it confronted a Daoist with an indigo-blue face.

"Lü Yue, in order to cultivate your Heavenly Fire Plague Locust Array, you actually spread plague here, nurtured plague poison, and caused the deaths of countless innocent living beings. You are utterly unworthy of being a disciple of orthodox Xuanmen! Fellow Daoist Guangchengzi was right: the Interception Sect is full of furred and horned creatures, born from wetness and eggs!"

The words echoed between heaven and earth, and Fang Yang, who had just arrived, heard them clearly.

Fang Yang was utterly speechless. Guangchengzi had learned to use that catchphrase this early?