Perhaps it wasn't the Piaomiao World, but a fanfiction world with The Ethereal as its setting!

"This is so fake!" Li Qiang said, circling around Ling Yi.

"There's nothing I can do; I can only Simulation this level." Ling Yi shrugged.

The Dark Gold Divine Power was like a vast ocean, boundless and limitless. After learning that dark gold energy could be converted between true Yuanhe and Divine Power, Ling Yi covered the surface with a layer of True Yuan as a concealment.

But to outsiders, his current state makes him look like a complete novice who has just Entry immortality.

It's not that Ling Yi doesn't want to Simulation a higher realm, but that Simulation can't.

But it doesn't matter anyway. His cultivation level is fake anyway; he's just a minor cultivator in the Spiral Illumination Stage, which makes it easier for him to play Tiger and take advantage of others.

"Hehe, anyone who tries to bully me because of my low cultivation level, tsk tsk."

Hou Pijing nodded. The difference in cultivation level didn't matter, as long as Ling Yi could conceal his Dark Gold Divine Power.

He paused for a moment and then said, " Laozi 'll take them to the capital first. It's been a long time since I've been back to the palace to see the younger generation. Laozi getting impatient."

"But Laozi can't carry you. Your power is too strange. You'd better head to the capital on your own."

"You can study this thing. I'm off!"

After saying that, Hou Pijing tossed a jade slip to Ling Yi, and then, ignoring the reactions of Li Qiang and the others, waved his hand and disappeared with them.

"Damn, what a random surname?" Ling Yi took the jade slip, looked at the empty forest, and didn't know what to say.

"At least leave me a GPS tracker! Huh, a GPS tracker? If you won't leave me one, can't I just make my own?"

With a wave of his hand, Ling Yi sent a black ball the size of a basketball falling from the sky and hovering directly in front of Ling Yi.

This is the " Satellite " that Ling Yi had handcrafted earlier, specifically for amplifying signals.

This " Satellite " can pinpoint the location of all the phones Ling Yi sends out, and Ling Yi can naturally use this function to create a GPS Map on the phone.

Ling Yi wasn't in a hurry to leave, so he simply sat cross-legged on the ground. Adding a GPS Map function wasn't difficult, and Ling Yi planned to add the Space Array Pattern that had just been generated on the sea of Divine Power as well.

The Space Array Pattern had already conveyed enough information to Ling Yi the moment they were generated.

This ensured that Ling Yi wasn't completely ignorant of Space Array Pattern.

The next step is to test the Space Array Pattern.

Ling Yi took out a Shitou from his storage bracelet. It was one of the refining materials that Fu Shan had left inside, and it was called Blue Resonance Stone.

Its main characteristic is its strong elasticity, but it's not very hard. With just a little heating, it can quickly turn into a lump of soft clay that can be easily molded into various shapes.

It's easy to imprint Formation on it.

Ling Yi unleashed his Divine Power, and in the next moment, the Blue Resonance Stone softened, gradually transforming into a smooth, round, thin sheet of blue cesium under Ling Yi's control.

It looks just like a pancake laid out.

With a thought, Ling Yi instantly imprinted the Five Elements Formation elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth onto the five directions around the circular piece.

Finally, the Space Array Pattern was imprinted in the center.

As the six Formation Pattern patterns connected with each other, the Blue Resonance Stone began to appear and disappear intermittently.

It looks like it could disappear at any moment.

But the next moment, the Blue Resonance Stone, which had been spread out in a thin sheet, began to automatically curl and shrink, eventually turning into a round blue cesium sphere that looked only the size of a ping-pong ball.

It slowly floated in front of Ling Yi.

Ling Yi initially thought it was over, but the next moment the blue cesium sphere continued to shrink and become smaller, until it turned into a small blue cesium bead less than one millimeter in size.

It looks like a Little Shui floating in mid-air.

Ling Yi knew that this was a self-adjustment process after the Formation Pattern connected with each other, somewhat similar to a program's self-check.

This is also what makes the Heart Refining Method so impressive.

After waiting a moment and finding that the blue cesium droplet remained Changes, Ling Yi waved his hand, and the droplet fell into his palm.

Because no "safety lock" was set up, anyone could use this magic weapon that Ling Yi had temporarily crafted without any restrictions.

But when Ling Yi's Spiritual Sense Probe inside, he himself was astonished.

Inside, there was a small, square world with a diameter of over ten miles.

At this moment, the small world is undergoing a simple evolution: the pure air rises to become the sky, and the turbid air descends to become the earth.

Ultimately, this formed a small world composed of a blue sky and a black earth.

It has its own five elements system, contains air, and contains a faint Spiritual Qi.

With a thought from Ling Yi, the ground began to rumble and shake, and in a short while, small, undulating mountains and rivers were formed.

Clouds gathered in the sky, and in a moment they turned into rain and fell. The rain fell into streams, as if they had transformed into a rushing river, flowing and wandering between mountains and rivers.

As rivers flow, water vapor rises with the temperature, and this rising and falling process creates wind, which in turn carries the water vapor, forming drifting clouds.

The clouds rise into the sky, the temperature drops, the clouds Luoyu... and so on in a never-ending cycle.

As a modern time traveler, Ling Yi at least understands the principles of weather Changes.

Even so, Ling Yi never imagined that generating a complete ecological cycle would be so simple.

This is merely an imprint of the Five Elements Formation (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth) and Space Array Pattern.

No, that's not right. If it were just these six Formation Pattern, it wouldn't have this effect.

Perhaps, it's also due to the enhancement of his Dark Gold Divine Power.

To verify this, Ling Yi took out another piece of Blue Resonance Stone. This time, Ling Yi deliberately used the reverse -Simulation True Yuan to circulate the Heart Refining Method. Sure enough, the same steps were followed, but the results were completely different.

First, the "self-check" process takes longer.

What used to take only a few breaths has now taken a full half hour.

Secondly, after the final design was finalized, the size was much larger, and it looked only slightly smaller than a ping-pong ball.

Furthermore, the space has shrunk considerably, with a diameter of less than two li, less than one-fifth of its previous size.

In the end, although this two-mile space still became a small world, it could no longer generate the cycle of wind and rain, nor could it control the Changes in the world within this small world.

"This difference is quite significant." It seems that his Dark Gold Divine Power is even more powerful than he had imagined.

But why?

They practiced the same cultivation methods, the same cultivation techniques—no, to be precise, Ling Yi's techniques were even somewhat inferior to Li Qiang's.

But I've cultivated Dark Gold Divine Power. Is it because my aptitude and talent have reached such a level? Or is it...?

Do I have a big secret?

But in any case, it seems that things are moving in a positive direction.

But who cares? Even if he has a big secret, it's not something I can explore right now.

As the saying goes, things will work themselves out in the end. Instead of getting bogged down in things you can't figure out right now, it's better to go with the flow.

Ling Yi even suspected that this was not a proper Piaomiao World at all, but rather a world with ethereal the Ethereal as its background.

The reason for such suspicion is that there are several bugs in this, which Ling Yi had overlooked before without giving it much thought.

For example Hou Pijing was only hunted down by the Poison Curse Sect for ten years, but here it has become a hundred years.

For example, the appearance of Ling Yi.

Ling Yi even suspected that Li Qiang wasn't the Protagonist at all, but rather he was.

I shook my head, trying to shake off these random thoughts; there was no point in thinking about them now.

Let's get down to business.

With a wave of his hand, Ling Yi destroyed both of the hastily crafted magical artifacts, directly shattering the connection points of their Formation Pattern.

Ling Yi refocused his attention on the " Satellite," intending to refining the Satellite he had previously handcrafted.

It not only needs to contain a world that can evolve, but it also needs to be both offensive and defensive, with as many functions as possible.

Ling Yi currently possesses only 321 Formation Pattern, including Space Array Pattern.

Ling Yi used every resource he could...

Meanwhile, in the capital of the Former Song Kingdom, Li Qiang, under Hou Pijing's influence, became a retainer of the Former Song Kingdom and is currently negotiating with the envoys of the Litang Kingdom.

As a business elite on Earth, Li Qiang easily discerned the true nature of the Litang Kingdom Litang Kingdom examining its trade activities.

In response to the powerful war threat from the Litang Kingdom, they launched a counterattack, refusing to provide money, grain, or land.

If you want war, then let's fight! If you don't want to fight, you won't fight. We have no choice but to fight. Former Song Kingdom have any face to save?

This unexpected manipulation completely baffled the envoys from the Litang Kingdom.

This also made Li Qiang a thorn in the side of the Litang Kingdom, and he was assassinated several times by the Litang Kingdom's retainers.

Fortunately, Hou Pijing secretly protected him.

Hou Pijing was originally from the Former Song Kingdom, and was once a prince of the Former Song Kingdom, almost ascending the throne and becoming emperor.

Hou Pijing simply felt that being an emperor was meaningless; nothing compared to the freedom of cultivating immortality.

But ultimately, they owed something to the royal family of the Former Song Kingdom. Keeping Li Qiang in the Former Song Kingdom was also a way of finding a sage king for the Former Song Kingdom.

It wasn't that Hou Pijing wanted to keep Li Qiang in the Former Song Kingdom; even if he wanted to, he couldn't, otherwise he wouldn't be able to explain it to Fu Shan.

He simply let Li Qiang bear that title.

Despite Li Qiang's immense shrewdness, he fell into Hou Bijing's trap through Hou Pijing and coercion, ultimately becoming the new sage king of the Former Song Kingdom.

The repeated assassination attempts Dawei angered Hou Pijing, who went directly to the Litang Kingdom's encampment, sealed the cultivation of the Litang Kingdom's retainers, strung them together with his True Yuan, and took them to the Holy King's Manor.

This is another difference from the original plot, and it could also be a butterfly effect caused by Ling Yi's appearance.

Mei Jingjing, also known as Niuniu, happened to see An Lang among these offerings from the Litang Kingdom.

This then led to the revelation of Mei Jingjing's mysterious identity.

Mei Jingjing is the daughter of Mei Ao, the third-ranking official of the Litang Kingdom. Her grandfather is Mei Youbing, an elder of the Spirit Banner Sect in the Rejuvenation Valley of the Frozen Ice Continent.

The Mei family is extremely skilled in alchemy, and their cultivation techniques mainly involve using the essence of the wood to refine the Grass and Wood Golden Core.

An Lang was the top honorific in the Litang Kingdom. He was extremely domineering. Once, he went to Mei Ao to ask for elixirs for his nephews but failed. As a result, he held a grudge against Mei Ao.

After much scheming, a great battle broke out on the border between the Litang Kingdom and the Former Song Kingdom. In the end, Mei Ao and his wife separated from Mei Jingjing. Mei Ao and his wife traveled to the Frozen Ice Continent, intending to go to the Rejuvenation Valley to ask Old Master Mei Youbing for help.

What they didn't know was that this played right into An Lang's true scheme. His target wasn't Mei Ao and the others' lives, but Mei Youbing's Pill Scripture.