Chapter Fifty-Three: Blue Martial City

  Looking at the three 999,000-meter-high treasure pagodas in front of him, emitting a faint yellow glow, Yang Le felt an overwhelming will to suppress everything. After probing the quality of the three treasure pagodas, he found that they were all high-quality acquired spiritual treasures. With the current power of the three treasure pagodas, Yang Le estimated that even if the gods were imprisoned inside, they would be helpless and waiting to be slaughtered like lambs.

  As for the gods, anyone who poses a great threat to Yang Le will be annihilated on the spot, in order to eliminate hidden worries. In fact, those who can achieve the position of god are all wise and talented individuals, if they were to achieve the position of quasi-saint, facing an enemy who often lurks in the shadows would also make them uneasy at heart.

  Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The three pagodas suddenly shrunk and transformed into three streams of light that flew into Yang Le's brow, hovering beside the Creation Knife as they continuously rotated. Afterwards, Yang Le released Xia Lin and Qiu Man, his two maidservants.

  The two maidservants had just woken up from a deep sleep, feeling somewhat dazed. After a moment, the lively Xia Lin said: "Young master, what's going on? I feel like I've just woken up, all dizzy and confused. Hey, how did we end up at sea? Weren't we just in Lin Zezhou?"

  The autumn beside also looked at Yang Le with a puzzled face, hoping to solve this problem.

  "Cough cough", "Nothing, just met a strong enemy and took you into my palm of the universe, now I'm letting you out."

  A long silence ensued.

  "What are you staring at me for?" Yang Le saw the two maids who were usually chattering away, now silently staring at him with a hint of puzzlement.

  "Young master, you look different from before. How should I put it? You seem more handsome and have a bit of a masculine charm now." Xia Lin said weakly.

  "Mmm," Qiu Ming nodded in agreement beside him.

  "Is that so? Haven't I had a manly spirit before?" Yang Le said somewhat sternly, but indeed, to inherit Wu's will and pursue the great love of Pangu's father god, was a firm goal and pursuit in Yang Le's heart. After tempering his soul, Yang Le could be said to have already possessed an unyielding will, no longer wandering aimlessly, and being more decisive in his actions. As a result, Yang Le found that he had seemingly put down the invisible shackles, with an unprecedented clarity and openness in his mind, his thoughts clearer and faster than ever before, and an indescribable joy overflowing in his chest.

  The tempering of the soul is the most difficult to obtain, with a strong heart and unwavering determination, it is an indispensable factor in reaching the pinnacle.

  Yang Le took his maid and set off again. Since they happened to come to Nanhai, they might as well take a good stroll around!

  Yang Le drove the cloud forward, flying for dozens of days, and found that around him, one by one, gods with different cultivation levels appeared, either driving divine artifacts or hiding in water or air, coming and going from one direction. They were also unmoved by Yang Le's arrival, seeming very ordinary.

  Yang Le followed many gods and flew forward.

  Before long, a magnificent underwater city unfolded before Yang Le's eyes. The city wall was over 10,000 feet high and more than 100 feet thick, stretching out to occupy an area of millions of miles. Countless grand temples were arranged in a majestic manner, with countless gods entering and exiting the thousand-foot-high city gate, presenting a prosperous scene that was completely different from the desolate landscape of the Honghuang Continent where beasts roamed everywhere and gods were scarce.

  On the wall are engraved three heterodox divine texts of Blue Martial City. On the city walls, true gods wearing formal divine armor are constantly patrolling under the leadership of a supreme god. At the gate, there are also several divine soldiers collecting low-grade water-based spirit crystals from incoming and outgoing divine people.

  Yang Le led the two maidservants to the front of the divine soldiers, just as he was about to take out a few pieces of spiritual crystal to pay the entrance fee. The two divine soldiers at the city gate immediately bowed respectfully and said: "This God Master, you can enter, neither you nor your maidservants need to pay the entrance fee."

  Two clever door gods looked at the transparent orb in their hands, which was changing colors rapidly, exchanged a glance, and hastily spoke to the young man who looked like a playboy in front of them.

  To know that the energy bead in hand is a divine artifact specially refined on top, only those who are gods with a bit of real power can sense the energy bead, and according to the color displayed on the bead, one can know the level of the god. However, this energy bead has lost its spiritual nature in front of this young man, there is only one explanation, this young man in front is an existence at the level of a divine master.

  Why do you think Yang Le is a divine master? Mainly because the gods in the vast wilderness are too scarce, even the gods of the Lingwu Tian Dynasty are only divine masters. When they go out, aren't they opening the way with dragon courts and giant ships? The existence of divine masters is much more numerous, even the five-product god position of the Lingwu Tian Dynasty's temple is not a divine master, and even the lord of this Blue Martial City is only an ancient god position. Therefore, it is normal for two clever guardian gods to think that Yang Le is also a divine master.

  For existences above the Ancient God position, they do not need to pay the entrance fee in the cities of various major forces in the Desolate Lands, because the Ancient God position is already recognized by heaven and earth, with the same longevity as heaven. Regardless of whether it is for the power of the Ancient Gods or out of respect for the Ancient Gods, this is universally applicable in the Desolate Lands.

  Although Yang Le has undergone spiritual tempering and tempered a strong heart, his habitual thinking has not changed yet, which requires time to grind him.

  Yang Le brought Xia Lin and Qiu Ming into the city, and then the two divine soldiers guarding the gate reported to the supreme god on the city wall.

  Entering the city called Blue Martial City, walking on a street about one mile wide, with temples of thousands of feet high on both sides. Some temples have their doors tightly closed and are fully defensive, while others have opened their gates, with treasures shining inside or spiritual materials emitting fragrant aromas. The divine inscriptions on the temples include Lingyun Sect, Quanwan Palace, Shenshuo Sect, and other forces that have set up trading shops. However, these forces are all distributed within the Lingwu Heavenly Dynasty or nearby, and even the strong forces' shops are limited to this region of Nanhai.

  In the past, due to the vastness and danger of the Desolate Expanse, as well as its boundless nature, it was difficult for gods, demons, and spirits to intersect with one another. The various regions of the Desolate Expanse were like separate worlds, and if not for the extreme danger posed by this Beast Calamity, they would not have gathered together.

  However, the illusory sacred god has now established a platform called Starry Sky Island that can trade with the entire Desolate Expanse, so the situation where it was previously limited to the Desolate Expanse and could not be communicated has been resolved. The transactions of various major forces in the Desolate Expanse have also become more frequent, and the gatherings are more numerous.

  Naturally, transactions between various large and small forces as well as those between the massive loose cultivator troops also rose sharply. However, with more intersections, it was inevitable that some conflicts or even hatred would arise.

  Having a space gate that can reach the Starry Sky City, the various superpowers are naturally the gathering places for all large and small forces and scattered cultivators in their respective regions, which further drives the resource collection of the entire force.

  For example, the city entrance fee, construction fees for building temples in the city, protection fees, etc., are all settled with spiritual crystals. Of course, other heavenly materials and treasures can also be used to replace the fees, but a certain appraisal fee will be charged.

  Ling crystals are also a kind of spiritual energy condensed into spiritual stones, but they can't be compared to the top-grade crystal stones collected by Yang Le. Ling crystals are formed by the condensation of various elemental energies, meaning there are ling crystals with different attributes. These ling crystals are ten or even a hundred times more refined than innate spiritual energy and can be converted into divine power much faster than ordinary cultivation that absorbs heaven and earth spiritual energy.

  Spirit crystals are also divided into four types: low-grade spirit crystal, mid-grade spirit crystal, high-grade spirit crystal, and top-grade spirit crystal.

  Low-grade spirit crystals are ten times purer than ordinary spiritual energy and can be converted into divine power relatively quickly. Mid-grade spirit crystals are a hundred times purer than ordinary spiritual energy and can be rapidly converted into divine power. High-grade spirit crystals, on the other hand, are over a thousand times purer than ordinary absorbed spiritual energy and can be extremely rapidly converted into divine power.

  As for the top-grade spirit crystal, it's a difference in quality, no longer just a piece of spirit stone, but rather filled with extremely pure and refined spiritual liquid inside, wrapped in a hard and transparent outer shell. It can directly replenish divine power, magical power, etc. Once cut, a layer of transparent outer shell will immediately form to protect the flow of spiritual energy. The outer shell gradually hardens over time, making it even difficult for a heavenly god holding an inferior divine artifact to break through the shell.

  These spirit crystals are not something that scattered cultivators and demons with low strength can afford to squander. Although the resources of the Desolate Expanse are rich, it's not an exaggeration to say that precious materials and treasures are everywhere, but some precious materials and treasures are guarded by ferocious beasts and strange creatures, so even if they're discovered, people don't dare to go and pick them up. Some blessed lands and caves are occupied by major powers, and various resources are also monopolized by the high-ranking members of these powers, leaving the scattered cultivators at the bottom with scarce resources.

  Those truly precious and invaluable treasures are either hidden deep in the ocean, buried beneath a layer of ten thousand feet, or located in areas with treacherous terrain such as landmines and volcanic veins. Without extraordinary abilities, one wouldn't even have the chance to discover them, and even if they knew where they were, all they could do is gaze out at the sea and sigh!

  Even if a divine treasure is luckily found, it's only occasional and not daring to be used, but only for trading and selling to exchange for the needed divine instruments and skills.

  So the existence of strong and powerful beings will not lack various heavenly treasures, only need to carefully search for them in the vast wilderness, there will be great gains. However, for those low-level gods and demons, the rare and precious heavenly treasures are not attractive at all, the heavenly and earthly spiritual roots, the congenital spiritual treasures are their goals.

  Yang Le had also discovered enormous water-elemental crystal mines and fire-elemental crystal mines while treasure hunting in the Eastern Sea and Lin Zezhou's Billion Fire Mountain. Yang Le, who had a peculiar possessive desire for heavenly treasures and earthly riches, dug up two water crystal mines while searching for treasure in the Eastern Sea, and five fire crystal mines in Lin Zezhou's Billion Fire Mountain.

  In the cave mansion opened up by Yang Le, the floor was paved with top-grade water spirit crystals, and the palace was carved out of a huge piece of top-grade fire spirit crystal. In the distance, piles of small hills-like spirit crystals were scattered all over, emitting blue and red lights. Various heavenly materials and earthly treasures were casually planted and discarded everywhere. If those low-powered gods and demons were to see this scene, wouldn't they be stunned with their eyes wide open and drooling? This was simply a treasure trove.