The Great Heavenly Deity's Corpse, Jubi Shi (23)

"Has it started?"

Feeling the surge of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, Li Boyang, who had already arrived near the Fourth Heaven, smiled.

Unlike the ruins of the White Jade City in the Fifth Heaven, and unlike the Eighth Heaven piled with the corpses of gods.

The Fourth Heaven was unexpectedly vast and empty.

As far as the eye could see, there was a plain covered with "plants".

Of course, the Heavenly Emperor's Capital had long since ceased to have any life.

Therefore, the "plants" here are in quotation marks, not actual living organisms.

To make a perhaps imperfect analogy, the plants growing in this region are dead.

It's like a lifeless rock.

The plants here grow like dead trees, without a trace of life or vitality.

However, after the upheaval of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, the vitality of the [Southern Brightness Vermilion Bird Great Formation] began to spread throughout the entire Capital of Heaven and Earth.

This place, originally used for growing Immortality Herb, was the first to be affected by this vitality.

Buzzing...

Those plants, which resembled withered trees and rocks, began to stir at a visible speed.

Unfortunately, this activity remains a lifeless activity, merely a natural phenomenon like an earthquake or tsunami.

Fortunately, Li Boyang didn't care about these things and immediately opened the Heavenly Eye between his eyebrows.

With the keen insight of the Heavenly Eye, Li Boyang quickly located the central hub where the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi converged—the core that caused the abnormal movements of the plants throughout the region.

"That's the origin of the Immortality Herb?"

With a hint of surprise, Li Boyang vanished from his spot in an instant.

When he reappeared, he was already thousands of meters underground in the Earth's crust.

There was no space for Li Boyang to maneuver here, only layers of rocks and soil.

Yet, in this almost desolate place, lies a completely plant-like human form.

It appeared to be a young boy, but his death was extremely gruesome.

His neck was broken off, his head was hanging diagonally off his body, and his hands were completely gone.

Even so, the boy's expression remained indifferent, as if he himself hadn't died.

Just by looking at the expression on the other person's face, Li Boyang couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.

[Jubi Shi? Is he the reincarnation of the Netherworld Lord?]

With this thought flashing through his mind, Li Boyang almost immediately confirmed his guess.

Apart from the reincarnated body who was killed by Hao Jun.

Li Boyang couldn't imagine who else could be buried in this place where the Immortality Herb grows.

Moreover, Hao Jun only cultivated the Immortality Herb after he abducted and killed the reincarnation of the Netherworld Lord.

[Using the blood of Great Heavenly Deity to nourish the immortal herb—that Heavenly Emperor truly has no scruples when it comes to doing things!]

Li Boyang quickly shifted his gaze from the reincarnated body and saw the petrified plants growing along his body.

That was the Immortality Herb, or rather, the original plant of the Immortality Herb.

After the turmoil in the Heavenly Emperor's Capital, and the passage of ten thousand years...

The Immortality Herb had long since lost all vitality, turning into a lifeless object like a fossil.

If it weren't for the unique properties of the Immortality Herb itself...

Those fibrous root plants that have branched out cannot even move an inch.

This is the real Immortality Herb!

It takes root in the reincarnation of the Netherworld Lord, and then draws nourishment from the entire earth to grow.

The petrified plant resembled a towering tree, having grown from thousands of meters deep into the earth's crust to the surface.

Even after being petrified for nearly ten thousand years, these petrified plants can still sense changes in the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, and adjust their own evolutionary direction accordingly.

--Dead, yet not completely dead.

This is the current state of the Immortality Herb, and also the survival instinct of this fossilized plant that has penetrated thousands of meters into the earth's crust.

It seems I'll have to put in some more effort...

Li Boyang's target was never those Immortality Herb growing on the ground.

His target was this Immortality Herb rooted in the reincarnation of the Netherworld Lord, which had been petrified for nearly ten thousand years.

Only by obtaining the complete plant of the Immortality Herb can Li Boyang continue with subsequent planting, cultivation, grafting, and even optimization and promotion.

If it were an ordinary person, faced with this Immortality Herb that had taken root thousands of meters underground and absorbed nutrients from the entire earth to grow, they probably wouldn't have a good way to extract it.

However, Li Boyang was never an ordinary person, and his actions never followed common sense.

Call!

He then removed his Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe and threw it violently at the reincarnation of the Netherworld Lord.

During this process, the Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe expanded rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the solid geological structure also trembled and turbulent.

Rumble...

In an instant, the tremors from beneath the earth reached the surface.

The entire plain where the Fourth Heaven fell was covered with dense, spiderweb-like fissures in the earth's strata.

The geological fissures grew larger and denser, quickly spreading to other parts of the Heavenly Emperor's Capital, resembling a massive earthquake.

More importantly, deep within those fissures in the earth.

A faint red light could be seen penetrating the crack in the ground, surging from underground to the surface.

Boom!

Just then, directly above the Immortality Herb.

A streak of crimson light blasted through the earth's crust, shooting into the sky like a volcanic eruption—that was Li Boyang manifesting his physical form.

At this very moment, Li Boyang transformed into a hundred-zhang giant, a rare occurrence.

This is a real and undeniable physical transformation, and also the most powerful application of the [Thousand Transformations Divine Ability] on Li Boyang.

--Essence, Qi, and Spirit operate in sync.

--The body, Yuan Qi, and Primordial Spirit unite to exert their power.

"Drink!"

The hundred-foot-tall giant hung high in the sky, his red hair dancing in the wind.

With a simple thought, a vast amount of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi followed, forming a tangible vortex of primordial Yuan Qi.

The [Black and Yellow Qi] flowing around his body then fully manifested, vaguely transforming into the shape of a pagoda.

"Get up!"

This was accompanied by Li Boyang's earth-shattering roar.

The entire Great Plain was stripped away at that moment.

Soil, rocks, roots, and plants rose from the ground and then gathered in mid-air in an almost unbelievable way.

No, it's not a convergence...

Instead, it was forcibly wrapped and lifted up by the Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe coat.

From afar, the enormous Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe, whose boundaries were no longer visible, enveloped the earth, carving out a huge basin in the center of what was once a plain.

Buzz!

The sky seemed to turn into an endless expanse of red in that instant.

Visible Maxims Talismans moved and changed on the enormous Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe, echoing the hundred-foot-tall giant above.

Immediately afterwards, the Immortality Herb, along with the Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe that enveloped the plain, began to spin at high speed under Li Boyang's control.

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