Chapter 20: Settling Down Overseas on Carefree Island

  Yang Le retrieved the sap of the World Tree and flew back in the original direction.

  However, this time Yang Le was alone, and his strength had also increased greatly, making it much safer for him to travel through the desolate expanse. Thus, a tiny black dot silently streaked across the sky like a shooting star, leaving behind billions of miles of mountains in an instant.

  Yang Le's top priority now is to find a haven as his home in this alien wilderness, with a place to settle down he won't have to drift around aimlessly without a sense of security. Not to mention Yang Le was a hardcore otaku back on Earth and was quite dependent on his home.

  Yang Le's chosen cave is now outside the East Sea. To say that Yang Le learned from Yun Tian about the current distribution of forces in the Desolate Expanse: The Eastern Divine Clan resides on the endless floating islands in the east, the Western Demon Clan gathers in the Dark Abyss, adjacent to the Devouring Abyss, which ranks second among the top ten absolute lands in the Desolate Expanse.

  Due to the prevalence of ferocious beasts, some small families of gods and demons, as well as scattered cultivators, choose to settle in the Endless Floating Islands or the Dark Abyss. After all, the Twelve Great Sacred Tribes of the Primordial Chaos are located in these two places, which can be said to be the safest places in the Primordial Chaos.

  The vastness of the Desolate Expanse is simply too great, whether it's the endless floating islands or the Dark Abyss. The breadth of its territory is unimaginable. Even in the two sacred lands with the densest populations of gods and demons, there often isn't a single god or demon within a range of tens of millions of miles.

  However, these two most famous sacred places only occupy a very small area of the East and West, while other places are filled with ferocious beasts and strange creatures. Of course, there is also the third major force in the Desolate Expanse, that is, the demon tribe of the Ruins of the Ji Boundary Mountain. The number of demons in the Desolate Expanse far exceeds that of gods and devils, and they are spread all over the Desolate Expanse, but their overall strength is relatively low, and their high-end strength is not strong.

  The north is the arena of ferocious beasts, where the environment is harsh and icy all year round, with countless ice mountains everywhere. The star-sand-like ferocious beasts are constantly engaged in a life-and-death struggle, their strength so powerful that some of them can rival the sacred gods and demons since the beginning of time.

  The south is a land of billions of volcanoes, where countless poisonous insects and ferocious beasts inhabit. Almost all the famous exotic species in the vast wilderness live in the swamps, volcanoes, and forests.

  The entire Desolate Expanse is divided into four plates: east, west, south and north. The periphery is surrounded by the boundless sea water in a dome shape. The four seas are separately known as the Eastern Sea, Southern Sea, Western Sea and Northern Sea. Countless islands of varying sizes dot the endless ocean like stars adorning the vast expanse of the deep blue sea.

  However, those so-called islands are only relative terms. Generally, the size of an island can be hundreds of millions of li, and some larger ones are as vast as a continent, with billions of li in circumference.

  As for Yang Le, he is a pacifist. To avoid getting entangled in various disputes, Yang Le had to leave the chaotic continent of Honghuang and flee overseas, becoming a carefree wandering immortal... err, wandering witch.

  Yang Le flew at a speed even faster than that of ordinary divine masters, and there was nothing on the road that could catch his eye.

  After hundreds of years of flying at full speed, Yang Le finally crossed the entire Eastern land and arrived at the boundless East Sea.

  Yang Le couldn't help but sigh: If only there was a small Qian world, how great would that be! Having a small Qian world would allow one to directly open a passage from the small Qian world to the Hongyuan by sensing the spatial markers in the cosmos crystal wall.

  Yang Le then headed straight to the depths of the East Sea, observing no less than ten thousand large and small islands along the way, which were either too desolate or did not conform to aesthetic standards.

  In the depths of the East Sea, I wandered for three months, in vain. As far as my eyes could see, a seven-colored rainbow encircled an island that was like a star in size, looking like a dream, like a fantasy, like a paradise.

  Yang Le immediately flew towards the island, and the distance of ten thousand miles was only a moment.

  What unfolded before Yang Le was an island of billions of miles in circumference, or more accurately, a continent. The end could not be seen at a glance, and a massive mountain range, about 100 million feet high, stretched across the entire island for tens of millions of miles. The island was covered with dense forests, countless lakes, and misty vapors, which were the condensation of rich primordial spiritual energy. From time to time, the sounds of insects chirping and birds singing came from the island, accompanied by the fragrance of flowers, creating a harmonious atmosphere.

  Yang Le did not expect that on this island, there was actually a Zǔ Lóng Mài (Ancestral Dragon Pulse), the highest form of Líng Mài (Spirit Pulse). The Ancestral Dragon Pulse is known as an undying Spirit Pulse, and the innate spiritual energy it releases is extremely pure.

  Yang Le decided that if this island didn't have an owner, then it would be his future home. Thinking about it, Yang Le couldn't help but feel a little excited.

  Yang Le surveyed the vast island, but didn't find any palaces or anything like that. Instead, he discovered several extremely powerful demon kings: one was a thousand-year-old turtle in a deep pool, one was a silver gibbon in a mountain cave, one was a double-winged tiger in the forest, and one was a golden-scaled fish in a lake.

  Yang Le searched for a long time in the vast mountain range and finally chose a good place. Next to it was a waterfall of ten thousand feet, strange mountains and rocks, ancient cypresses and pines, mountains and water blending together, with a misty atmosphere, truly a fairyland!

  Yang Le immediately took out all the pre-heavenly Gengjin and some precious materials from Yun Tian's search, waved his hand, and the three flavors of true fire quickly wrapped up those materials and continued to burn and temper. The pre-heavenly Gengjin and those materials slowly melted until forty-nine years later, they were completely fused into a large cluster of dazzling purple gold. As his mind moved, the cluster gradually changed shape, slowly forming a miniature Suzhou garden-style courtyard, which gradually solidified.

  Forcing out a drop of fresh blood for a blood sacrifice, I feel a faint connection with it.

  This is a secret technique of the Wu tribe, as the Wu tribe cannot use magical artifacts, so they researched and developed a secret technique to refine divine soldiers through spiritual communication, making them large or small at will. Now Yang Le is treating this courtyard as a divine soldier's refining ground.

  Throw that miniature courtyard to the mountain waist just now. It can be seen that the courtyard suddenly becomes larger, and it falls on the mountain waist, occupying a thousand acres of land. The purple gold color of the courtyard also gradually turns white, and the pavilions and buildings inside are exquisite. Compared with the general Suzhou gardens, there is little difference, but its vast territory and the natural atmosphere that is out of the dust are incomparable.

  Yang Le then began to decorate the courtyard in the style of Suzhou gardens. First, Yang Le introduced several streams from the mountains into the courtyard, built a few ponds inside, and put some of the strange beasts he had collected on his way back into the ponds for breeding, such as the Ink Tortoise and other aquatic strange beasts. The others were thrown onto the outer islands, anyway, the entire island was their own. Moreover, the courtyard was filled with Xuan-grade and Huang-grade spiritual roots.

  Yang Le chose the backyard of the main courtyard as his own, and planted Tian Xian Ling Gen Zi Pu Tao Teng, Di Ji Shang Pin Wu Xing Guo Shu, and other Di Ji Ling Gen. Instantly, the pre-heavenly spiritual energy from all directions converged into the courtyard, making the entire courtyard seem like a place of spiritual elegance, with spiritual energy permeating everywhere, and even a faint mist of spiritual energy falling in the courtyard where Yang Le was located.

  After everything was done, Yang Le immediately rushed to the location of those few demon kings, transformed into his true form as Yu Wu, and brutally beat up the powerful beasts that were their strengths until they begged for mercy before bringing them back to the Xiangyang Manor. This Xiangyang Manor was the name given by Yang Le to this Suzhou garden-style mansion, and he also named the island Xiangyang Island.

  Yang Le said to the few exotic beasts after bringing them back to Xiangyang Mountain Villa, "From now on, this island will be Yang Le's Xiangyang Island. And you will become the guardian gods of Xiangyang Island from now on, and you must guard it well. By the way, do you have names?"

  Looking at the miniaturized version of the Honghuang alien beast in front of him, with its nose blue and face swollen, Yang Le couldn't help but smile slightly.

  "That silver gibbon said: 'I am called Silver King.'"

  Lao Gui said: "Kuba."

  ……

  "Stop, stop, I'm too embarrassed to call out such an unpleasant name. Alright, let me give you a new one." Yang Leba waved his hand and decided to rename them.

  Those few monsters had an expression of having known it all along, but they didn't dare to refute, and instead repeatedly praised him as wise.

  Yang Le pointed at the silver gibbon and said: "From now on, you'll be called Gingang. This old turtle will be called Xuanwu. And this tiger... Luohan, Fuhu Luohan, hmm, not bad. As for you, you'll be called Little Fish!"

  Yang Le Yi Ding Yin, and then named the future guardian gods of Penglai Island, the apes, old turtles, twin-winged tigers, and golden scales as King Kong, Xuanwu, Luohan, and Xiaoyuer.

  Yang Le waved his hands and four small dots appeared out of thin air, which had already drilled into the foreheads of the Four Beasts before they could react.

  After the four beasts returned to their senses, they immediately became teary-eyed, grateful and respectful, vowing to protect Xianyao Island and follow Yang Le Yun.

  Originally, Yang Le thought that their cultivation was only based on their extraordinary birth and the passage of time, and it would be very difficult for them to make progress in the future. Therefore, in order to give them some benefits and make them more devoted, as well as to enhance their strength, he passed down a few secret techniques from the Shu tribe's heritage that were obtained from the demon tribe, such as the technique given to Jīn Gāng was 《猿魔金身决》(Ape Demon Golden Body Decision) which was obtained by killing a demon emperor, the technique given to Xuán Wǔ was 《玄武真解》(Xuán Wǔ True Solution), the technique given to Luó Hàn was 《煞气锻体决》(Killing Qi Forging Body Decision), and the technique given to Xiǎo Yú ér was 《化龙决》(Transforming Dragon Decision).

  Yang Le waved the small knife with a thick, destructive aura on a smooth mountain wall fifty thousand feet high, carving out the words "Xiaoyao Island" in a majestic and powerful manner. The words "Xiaoyao Island" contained a terrifying destructive aura that even cultivators with deep spiritual roots could sense at a glance, and they did not dare to provoke it lightly. As for the smaller ones, there were those few subordinates who took care of them.

  Yang Le summoned a few servants, announced that he would be closing the door to cultivate himself, and seriously instructed them to take good care of the house. He also told them not to receive any visitors who came to the door, and if anyone was rude or violent, they should deal with it themselves.

  Then he entrusted Chubby to the care of the Four Great Divine Beasts and impatiently went into seclusion.