The Strongest in the Caverns of the First Volume Chapter 20: Spatial Shift

  Returning to his residence, Chu Yi's divine consciousness stirred slightly. The next moment, he had already entered the Hongmeng Pearl. As before, it was empty and desolate. The half-acre field where he had previously planted the nine-leafed Lingzhi fruit had lost all its spiritual energy, and the soil color had turned back to its original blood-red hue.

  "Old White, hurry up and come out, there's something good."

  This time, Bai Qi didn't keep Chu Yi waiting for long. He suddenly appeared beside him, his face as expressionless as ever, and said in a stern tone: "You little brat, you're really good at wasting resources! The 1.5 elements of the source power that I condensed from the grievances of hundreds of thousands of souls on Earth were all used up by you in an instant..."

  Chu Yi smiled and said: "This is called small investment, big return. Bai Shu, how many crystals of the five elements are contained in that banner?"

  "Over two thousand crystals." Bai Qi said with a hint of doubt.

  "With this Hongmeng space, it's really a profitable business that will never lose money, with a profit of 700%, and this is just the beginning..."

  Chu Yi nodded in satisfaction, took out the Leishen Purple Dragon Wood, Blue Crystal Ice Soul Liquid, and Qingjin Wang Stone, "Bai Shu, these three spiritual materials contain 15,000 crystal five-element source power, I suppose they'll be of some use."

  Before Chu Yi finished speaking, Bai Qi had already snatched the three spiritual materials and a rare smile appeared on his expressionless face, "Not bad, haha, kid, you really have something."

  Bai Qi tightly hugged the three spiritual materials in his arms, and the feeling was like a child protecting their favorite toy, making Chu Yi really laugh and cry at the same time.

  "How can we utilize the five elements' source power within these three spiritual materials?"

  "The five elements of yuanqi complement and restrain each other, these three spiritual materials have different attributes, it's a bit troublesome to deal with them, it will take at least half a month, or as short as ten days, I'll give you a surprise."

  "It's been so long..."

  "If it weren't for me staying in this Hongmeng space for thousands of years, and having fully grasped the rules here, you little brat would be struggling on your own, and wouldn't have achieved anything in three to five years." Bai Qi said gruffly.

  "Alright then, I'll leave it to Uncle Bai."

  Chu Yi has already bought enough "Three Yang Rebirth Dan" and is not in a hurry to sell the rare spiritual materials grown in Hongmeng space. Seeing Bai Qi holding three spiritual materials with a happy expression, he didn't bother to argue with him anymore. After saying goodbye, he left Hongmeng space.

  Time was pressing, Chu Yi didn't dare to delay, with sufficient spiritual elixir, he immediately devoted himself wholeheartedly to cultivation.

  From the initial stage of Xiantian to the ninth stage of Xiantian, it is a purely cumulative process. For others, it is a process of enhancing one's true yuan power, and for Chuyi, it is a process of thickening his spiritual yuan power.

  Eight hundred "Three Yang Rebirth Pills" in hand, combined with Chu Yi's powerful meridians cultivated through his divine yuan force, completely eliminated the need to consider the factor of being unable to withstand the intense medicinal force. Within less than half a month, Chu Yi had consumed an astonishing two hundred and sixty "Three Yang Rebirth Pills".

  The quality of this batch of Dan medicine can't be compared to those refined by Chun Yangzi, but it has the advantage of being in large quantities. Chu Yi actually broke through his boundaries continuously and reached the peak of the Eighth Heaven of Xiantian.

  The remaining hundreds of Spirit Pills were enough for him to cultivate up to the Ninth Realm of Xiantian, but thinking that the day when he would meet Tie Niu and Dongfang Ruo was approaching, Chu Yi didn't rush at this moment.

  It's still early in the first year, and with a sufficient supply of spiritual elixirs, building his foundation is simply a matter of course for him.

  After suspending his cultivation, Chu Yiyu immediately entered the Hongmeng space, recalling the changes within the Hongmeng Pearl.

  "What... nothing has changed..."

  Everything in sight is old scenery, which makes Chu Yi greatly disappointed.

  At the same time, Bai Qi appeared in front of Chu Yi like a ghost. "Young man, you're quite good at calculating dates, coming just in time. I'll let you see the true mystery of the Hongmeng space."

  No need to wait for Chu Yi's response, but Bai Qi raised his hand and threw out a blue banner. The banner swelled in the wind, stirring up an area of hundreds of feet around it. Thunderclouds rolled in, followed by a loud clap of thunder, and bolts of green lightning struck down.

  Although the coverage is not large, its momentum is astonishing. In just a few dozen breaths of time, the thunder gradually stopped, and the ground under the flag was blasted out by more than 100 green lightning bolts, forming a deep pit with a diameter of over 50 meters and a depth of over 10 meters.

  Immediately afterwards, Bai Qi let out a light shout from his mouth, the blue banner shook violently and suddenly poured down a heavy rain, pouring into that circular pit.

  In an instant, the blue banner's magical effect was completely lost, turning into a gray mist. The round pit was filled with green rain, revealing a strong vitality and abundant heavenly spiritual energy floating around, making one feel carefree and joyful.

  Immediately after, Bai Qi threw out a purple flag, the flag transformed into a purple light, like a shooting star, circling around the circular pit.

  As the purple light faded, a nameless ancient tree with a trunk as thick as ten people hugging it together, towering to thirty or fifty feet high, with dense branches and lush leaves, exuding an aura that was both fascinating and intimidating, appeared at the edge of the pool where the green rain poured in.

  The ancient tree's roots are deeply buried in the ground, and they actually extend into the pool, borrowing water to nourish themselves, with wood nourishing water, presenting a harmonious and mutually beneficial state.

  The already astonishingly rich spiritual energy had actually increased again, and even if he was separated by a hundred feet, Chu Yi could still feel that unparalleled shock.

  "Water nourishes wood, wood nurtures water. Among the three spiritual materials you brought, only the Purple Dragon Wood and Blue Crystal Ice Soul Liquid can complement each other in a cycle. As for the Green Gold King Stone, it is useless for now because there is no source fire material to complement it."

  "This pool is the mother of the source water, although it's just a fledgling form, it can regenerate endlessly and never dry up. In the future, if you can provide more power from the five elements' source water, it can transform into rivers, lakes, and seas, boundless and endless, worthy of being called the best among all spiritual waters in the world."

  "This tree is called the Mother of Source Wood, it can bear a hundred kinds of spiritual fruits, bloom a thousand kinds of spiritual flowers, and spread ten thousand kinds of spiritual grass. It grows daily, its height reaching the sky, its roots piercing the nine underworlds, worthy of being called the first spiritual wood between heaven and earth."

  Chu Yi heard the words, but was unexpectedly calm, as if in thought, nodded and said: "Now they are just formed, if you want to reach the level that Bai Dashi said, I'm afraid it's extremely difficult?"

  "That's right, even if you bring all the spiritual materials with the five elements of the Xuan Yuan Star, it will still be far from meeting the demand. However, for every additional crystal of the five elements, they will become stronger and you will gain more benefits."

  Bai Qi said coldly, seemingly recalling something, and muttered: "Now that I've utilized the characteristics of the Hongmeng space to make water and wood complement each other in a cycle, it's still not the Five Elements returning to their origin, and can only drag on for a while."

  "You have three years, during which you must find and complete the five-element source power, thereby generating the 'Hongmeng Five Elements Return to Origin Great Array'. After that, at least 8 million crystal degrees are needed to restart the five-element source power cycle in the Hongmeng space, making it self-sufficient and circulating endlessly."

  "Otherwise..."

  At this point, Bai Qi's face turned solemn and he said in a resolute tone: "Not only will the newly formed Wood Mother and Water Mother be destroyed, but even the Hongmeng Space will also perish as a result."

  "If the Hongmeng space is destroyed, then you, Bai Daxiong..."

  Bai Qi Zhang maniacally laughed and said: "If the Hongmeng space is destroyed, then I will naturally cease to exist."

  "It's already like this, why take risks..."

  Chu Yihua spoke halfway, but understood Bai Qi's true intentions. He couldn't help but respectfully say: "Uncle Bai is indeed worthy of the name 'Killing God', ruthless to his enemies and even more ruthless to himself, only surviving after being placed in a dead-end situation. It seems that Uncle Bai has great faith in me!"

  "Little one, since you know my intentions, don't make me lose hope." Bai Qi had already stopped referring to himself as "this lord", and unknowingly, his relationship with Chu Yi had become even closer.

  "I can make it."

  Chu Yi's words were like thunder, and his eyes shone with an unprecedented resolute light: "For myself, for Bai Daxiong, I will not let this Hongmeng space disappear."

  "Alright, I trust you, kid. How to utilize the source water and wood is the key for you to fulfill this promise. This time, refining and transforming these two great five-elemental source powers has brought me to a point where I must thoroughly retreat and hide for at least a year before I can recover some of my original energy. Remember your own promise..."

  Before the sound of Bai Qi's voice had faded away, he had thoroughly disappeared from Chu Yi's sight. This time, however, Chu Yi was very clear that Bai Qi was not making an excuse to leave like the previous two times, but had truly sunk into silence.

  Although Chu Yi didn't know how Bai Qi refined the two great five-element sources, he was clear in his heart that the difficulty must be off the charts. Apart from consuming spiritual materials, the damage to Bai Qi himself was also enormous.