Watching Gulanxiu leave, Barbarian Hammer King murmured to himself, "I wonder if that kid can break through those dragons' blockade and enter the Dragon God Tower. With his willpower, once he gets inside, he should be able to climb to at least the eighth floor and become an eighth-level Dragon Blood Warrior, reaching nine times his normal genes and a height of 256 meters. With that foundation and the Blood Warrior's boost, he'll have a huge advantage when he breaks through to become an Immortal!"
Gulanxiu didn't hear Barbarian Hammer King's later words. Back in the real world, he returned to his dull, monotonous routine of cultivating, fishing, and fighting Blood Demons every day!
Before long, another eight hundred years had passed. Holding a Bloodfall Crystal, Gulanxiu cut open his arm once more and murmured, "This is it! If it doesn't work this time, then I'll give up. I can look for another chance to upgrade later!" As he spoke, he sliced his arm and pressed the Bloodfall Crystal into the wound.
Even Gulanxiu hadn't expected that a mission on Bloodfall Continent would cost him a thousand years.
The main reason was that Green Bud was an incredible glutton. Since its last upgrade, it had devoured 999,999 Bloodfall Crystals, yet nothing had changed. Although Gulanxiu had a vague feeling that one more Bloodfall Crystal would make Green Bud bloom, he couldn't be sure.
So before merging with the one-millionth crystal, Gulanxiu had made up his mind: if Green Bud still didn't bloom and upgrade this time, he would give up for now and wait for another chance!
Fortunately, hard work paid off. As soon as Green Bud absorbed the final Bloodfall Crystal, it suddenly burst into brilliant green light inside Gulanxiu's Sea of Consciousness.
It began spinning rapidly within Gulanxiu's Sea of Consciousness.
As it spun, the bud slowly grew larger and stretched outward. A moment later, it opened completely, revealing a lush green lotus revolving in the center of Gulanxiu's Sea of Consciousness.
The lotus had three layers of petals, with a tiny Lotus Platform nestled inside the innermost layer. As Gulanxiu focused on sensing the green lotus in his mind, he felt a faint connection of blood—as if the lotus were a part of his body.
Just then, the green lotus blazed with light and instantly broke through the confines of Gulanxiu's Sea of Consciousness, emerging into the outside world.
Once outside, the lotus grew rapidly, swelling to a hundred meters across in an instant. A shaft of green light shot into the sky, purifying all the Baleful Qi within a radius of ten thousand meters.
Gulanxiu was seated on the Lotus Platform.
The lotus slowly closed again, returning to the shape of a bud.
Within the bud, streams of green energy gathered and seeped into Gulanxiu's body, constantly transforming it.
Gulanxiu felt completely at ease. Slowly, he drifted off to sleep...
Ten thousand meters away from Gulanxiu, in a huge pit, a Realm Lord with a face covered in long hair suddenly spotted a flash of green light not far ahead.
"What's that?" the Realm Lord cried, then hurried toward the glow.
The moment he entered its reach, the Realm Lord felt his whole body relax. Under the influence of the Baleful Qi in the Ancient God Ruins, every cultivator there was consumed by bloodlust, even if they hadn't fallen into madness. The slightest disagreement could spark a fight.
But as soon as he stepped into the area bathed in green light, the Realm Lord's mind immediately settled. His distracting thoughts vanished, and even his thinking seemed to grow a little quicker.
Within moments, the Realm Lord reached the closed lotus. Seeing the enormous flower radiating green light, a trace of greed flashed in his eyes. He hurried forward, trying to take it into his Inner World.
Yet no matter what he tried, he couldn't move the lotus even a fraction.
Seeing this, the Realm Lord gave a wry smile. "Looks like I can't keep this treasure to myself. Baleful Qi is thick here, and few people come around, but if enough time passes, this place is bound to be discovered. What a shame to lose such a treasure!"
As he spoke, he took out a communication device resembling a token and contacted his teacher, a venerable elder of the Immortal Temple.
The Immortal Temple stood in the Core Region of the Ancient God Ruins.
The land stretched vast beneath the sky, with mountain ranges rising and falling. Swamps, lakes, forests, enormous pits, and other features dotted the landscape... Across an area ten million kilometers in radius, Baleful Qi Vortices were everywhere—atop mountains, deep beneath lakes, at the bottoms of enormous pits, and suspended in midair...
At the heart of every Baleful Qi Vortex was a brilliant red sun.
Within an area ten million kilometers in radius, there were a full 10,081 Baleful Qi Vortices, as red as blood,
varying in height, size, and position.
The 10,081 Baleful Qi Vortices were scattered across the sky, lakes, mountain peaks, deep valleys, and other places, naturally forming a unique pattern!
"Rumble~~~"
"Shriek!"
"Roar!"
It was as if an ancient beast were bellowing, its cry crossing billions of years to echo through the region.
At the center of the 10,081 Baleful Qi Vortices stood an ancient temple covering roughly a million square kilometers, its entire structure built of black and red stone. Its surface was etched with incredibly intricate carvings: beasts roaring, Immortal Gods battling. Surrounded at its core by the 10,081 Baleful Qi Vortices, the ancient temple radiated an aura of age.
How vast was an ancient temple that covered a million square kilometers? Ordinary life-bearing planets seemed tiny beside it.
The temple was as large as a star!
At that moment, in a grand hall in the central part of the Immortal Temple, an elder dressed in a blood-red robe and cloaked in an aura of evil jolted awake from his cultivation. Looking down at the message on his communicator, he cried, "What is this thing? Even a World Level Peak expert can't move it. It must be something extraordinary—worth going there myself!"
He rose and walked out of the hall. The moment he stepped outside, his figure vanished from where he stood. If an expert proficient in Space Law had witnessed the scene, he would have exclaimed that the elder was at Peak King level. The elder had used Teleportation, one of the Three Ultimate Moves of Space Law.
After just a few breaths and several consecutive Teleportations, the elder arrived at the spot where the Green Lotus was. Seeing it radiate green light across ten thousand meters, he trembled with excitement and exclaimed, "It's a Heavy Treasure!"
The Realm Lord with the long hair covering his face hurriedly asked, "Teacher, what's a Heavy Treasure?"
The elder had regained control of his emotions. He was still excited, but no longer trembling. Lowering his voice, he said, "A Heavy Treasure is an incredibly precious treasure! At the height of my Bloodfall Continent, only the most powerful God Kings had the right to use Heavy Treasures. After the ancient war, the God Kings fell, and those despicable Extraterrestrial Races seized all the Heavy Treasures on Bloodfall Continent. We haven't had a Heavy Treasure for countless years. Morrison, you've done a great service by discovering this one. When we return to the Immortal Temple, I'll reward you handsomely!"
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