Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal

That beam of light moved with incredible speed. Bai Muye flicked his left hand, and layers of his domain contracted, instantly manifesting fifteen layers of Domain Shield before him.

With a series of soft, muffled thuds, the red beam pierced through all fifteen layers of the Domain Shield. However, its power and speed diminished with every layer it shattered. By the time it reached Bai Muye, he struck it with his God Slayer Spear, pouring his full strength into the blow to disperse it.

Bai Muye felt his blood surge from the impact, and his entire body was sent flying back hundreds of meters, yet he remained uninjured.

The Pig Monster cast an unwilling glance at him, but ultimately, fearing the threat posed by Zhu Ang, it retreated to its own camp—if it didn't return now, a few of its teammates would likely be killed by the human side.

"Are you alright?"

After he returned to the squad, Zhan Qiu looked over. Seeing him shake his head to indicate he was fine, Zhan Qiu couldn't help but smile and say, "It's fortunate you discovered it early, and that you could take a direct hit from a Monster Race World Lord and remain unscathed. Impressive!"

He suddenly switched to telepathic transmission: "In the past, the alien World Lords we faced were almost all suppressed by Lord Zhu Ang and the others, leaving them little opportunity to ambush us Domain Lords. But this time is different; the strength of the World Lords on both sides is evenly matched, so it's possible for them to spare some manpower... A tree that stands above the forest will surely be destroyed by the wind!"

"Thank you," Bai Muye replied via telepathy.

In the ensuing battle, he restrained himself, no longer specifically targeting the Domain Lords of the Monster Race. Instead, he coordinated with his teammates and helped Zhan Qiu kill a few Domain Lords.

Ultimately, after lasting for over ten minutes, the battle ended as the Immortals on both sides reached a tacit agreement to cease hostilities.

They boarded the spaceship, and Gong Nuoxiao piloted it toward their temporary military camp on Chaotic Star Isle.

"This time, it's all thanks to you," Bai Muye said, his consciousness sinking into the Singularity to speak to Xiao Si. "If I had waited until that Pig Monster got close to notice it, I'm afraid it would have been too late..."

"Hehe..." Xiao Si said smugly, "I told you I could scout, didn't I?"

"I know you're amazing... By the way, did you devour the soul of that Guyou Race World Lord who was blown to bits earlier?"

"Of course. Do you want to see it now?"

"Wait until we get back to the temporary camp..."

After several days of flight, the spaceship returned to the outskirts of Chaotic Star Isle, where the human camp had established a temporary base.

This camp was set up on a fragment of a celestial body with a diameter of one million kilometers. It occupied a vast area, and everyone was allocated a reasonably sized living space.

Back in his temporary quarters, after confirming that no one would disturb him, Bai Muye took the crystal out of his storage space.

It was a polyhedral crystal sphere about the size of a soccer ball. It was almost entirely transparent and looked quite unremarkable.

"I seem to have some impression of this," he pondered to himself, and then his eyes lit up. "It seems to be a 'Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal'..."

Bai Muye held it in his hand and probed its interior with a wisp of origin energy. The crystal sphere instantly lit up.

Five-colored light erupted from the sphere, and the entire object seemed to transform into a colorful sun. The light instantly filled the entire cultivation room, though fortunately, it had no penetrative power and did not leak outside.

Under the shroud of colorful light, the hair on Bai Muye's body stood on end, and he felt a tingling sensation as if he were being caressed by lightning.

Chi chi chi~~~

Characters began to appear on the crystal. The strokes of these mysterious characters looked like secret patterns. Although he didn't recognize them, he understood their meaning the moment he saw them.

The content of the text was:

This is the "Heavenly Punishment" Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal. Any World Lord Rank life form with a soul may accept the complete inheritance of the Heavenly Punishment Divine Envoy.

Upon accepting the inheritance, one may begin practicing the "Heavenly Punishment Divine Envoy Secret Technique."

Once the entire secret technique is cultivated to the Great Completion, one can become a Divine Envoy candidate. A candidate may fuse this crystal sphere into their body; if successful, they will become the new "Heavenly Punishment Divine Envoy."

In the vast universe, there is only one Heavenly Punishment Divine Envoy. If the current Divine Envoy is in office, other inheritors who have cultivated the secret technique to the Great Completion can only become candidates. Only when the current Divine Envoy falls will a new Heavenly Punishment Divine Envoy emerge from among all the candidates.

The inheritance crystal sphere can be used once every 10,081 epochs. The last inheritance from this crystal took place 10,081 epochs ago, and it will take approximately 58 more years before the next inheritance can be conducted...

"It really is a Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal," Bai Muye withdrew his origin energy, and the light from the sphere immediately faded. "I'm in luck; it will be ready for the next inheritance in fifty-some years..."

"But this inheritance crystal actually requires a World Lord Rank life form to practice it..." Bai Muye shook his head slightly. "I'm only a Domain Lord right now; I'll have to wait until I become a World Lord to accept the inheritance..."

He remembered that the original work had described that it was best not to cultivate this kind of inheritance to the Great Completion. Otherwise, one's potential would be locked; at best, one could reach the level of an invincible King, and becoming a Venerable would be impossible.

"If only it were a Beast God Inheritance Token, or even a Divine General Inheritance, that would have been great..."

He sank his consciousness into the Singularity, and Xiao Si's voice rang out: "What is this thing? It looks like it tastes delicious..."

"Don't you go messing around," Bai Muye said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "You want to taste everything; aren't you afraid of choking to death? This is a Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal from the Ancestral God Sect. It can pass on a powerful secret technique. If you want to eat it, you'll have to wait until I've finished accepting the inheritance..."

"Show me the memories of that Guyou Race World Lord; I want to see how it obtained this inheritance crystal."

After browsing through the memories, he realized that the Guyou Race World Lord had simply been lucky; it had stumbled upon it during a trial organized by its race.

Although it didn't know the value of the Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal or the existence of the Ancestral God Sect, that didn't stop it from keeping the crystal with it, waiting for the fifty-plus years to pass so it could accept the inheritance.

In its memories, it had fantasized about obtaining the inheritance, cultivating all the way to the top, and eventually becoming the strongest expert of its race, leading them to dominate the universe.

Unfortunately, it died before it could even begin; it was killed by a human Immortal before it ever had the chance to accept the inheritance.

The memories of the other World Lord were unremarkable, with almost identical experiences. The only slight surprise was that these two Guyou Race members practiced different laws: Light and Wood Law.

"This is good; it completes the eight lower laws for me..."

After he had previously fused the cultivation insights of those World Lords, he had already crossed the threshold of the other six lower laws, excluding Light and Wood.

"You've finished looking through the memories. Do you want to start deep fusion?" Xiao Si asked. "With your current soul consciousness, you shouldn't need more than a month to finish fusing one."

"Not for now!" Bai Muye shook his head. "They are different from other World Lords. They had a Venerable teacher, and strong Immortals often came to guide them. These scenes of guidance have a lot of reference value for me; I want to keep them and study them more..."

"You're right to think that way. After all, I don't understand your cultivation path, so I can't guide you..."

Bai Muye wore an expression of inexplicable anticipation as he said, "Do you know, the inheritance crystal actually wasn't the greatest harvest for me..."

"Then what was the greatest harvest?" Xiao Si asked curiously.

"Do you know why those two Guyou Race World Lords were able to possess the combat power of ordinary Immortals while still being World Lords?"

"Why?" Xiao Si performed the promising job of being a straight man.

"They each had a sliver of insight into the two Upper Laws of time and space," Bai Muye took a deep breath, "That is why they were able to use Telepathic Weapons similar to the Wood Divine Weapon and Light Divine Weapon among the nine great divine weapons of the human race's Controllers. Although they hadn't cultivated them to perfection, the two of them working together could indeed pose a threat to ordinary Immortals..."

"It's a pity that the divine weapons in their hands were all taken away by Gong Nuoxiao... but let's not talk about that. Although their comprehension of the laws of time and space wasn't deep, it allowed me to gain a basic understanding of these two Upper Laws. At the very least, I'm no longer as clueless as I was before—"

"This is my greatest harvest!"