Chapter Ten Arrives at the Desolate Expanse

  The vastness of the Desolate Expanse was truly too enormous. After Ye Qing created the Flight Divine Ability, Void Slash Technique, he flew towards the Desolate Continent with all his might. As Ye Qing became more proficient in the Void Slash Technique, his flight speed continued to increase, from an initial 160,000 miles per breath to 360,000 miles per breath. However, even at this rate, it took five thousand years for Ye Qing to reach the edge of the Desolate Continent. When he finally arrived, another hundred years had passed, demonstrating that the vastness of the Desolate Expanse was truly beyond measure.

  Ye Qing gazed at the vast and majestic Honghuang Continent before him, feeling a sense of melancholy. He had thought that his island home was already large enough, but it turned out that compared to the Honghuang Continent, his dwelling place wasn't even worth mentioning as a speck of dust. He really had been narrow-minded, Ye Qing gathered his emotions and began to roam the Honghuang Continent. The Honghuang universe had only just opened up tens of billions of years ago, and due to the massive energy and matter being highly concentrated, the Honghuang Continent was still very desolate at present.

  Ye Qing continued to trek through the desolate wilderness. Whenever he came across good spiritual roots or medicines, he would collect them and store them in his Xiantian Lingbao and Lingbao Book.

  Because the Primordial Universe has not been destroyed by living beings, there are more or less some heavenly rules contained within. Ye Qing continued to travel and comprehend the heavenly rules, slowly advancing towards Mount Buzhou.

  Unbeknownst to him, Ye Qing had been wandering in the vast expanse of the universe for nearly a billion years. During this time, his cultivation had made tremendous progress, and he had reached the late stage of the Mahayana Golden Immortal realm. Perhaps it was because Ye Qing had been constantly comprehending the rules of the universe during these billion years that his Heart Sutra had advanced by leaps and bounds, causing his soul's power to increase nearly threefold. The color of his soul slowly shifted towards purple, becoming even more refined and pure.

  Ye Qing felt that he needed to establish his own cultivation method, and also sort out the insights he had gained over the past billion years. Therefore, Ye Qing prepared to find a place to retreat and cultivate, striving to create a follow-up cultivation method for the Evolutionary Key and the Tribulation Path. Moreover, the Precise Key was no longer suitable for his cultivation, and needed to be re-derived.

  However, before that, he had to find a safe place. The primordial spiritual energy of the vast wilderness was abundant and there were few living things. Such places were not difficult to find, but they still needed to be carefully searched for.

  Therefore, Ye Qing carefully searched for an ordinary-looking mountain peak. In fact, after going around it, there was a steep cliff, and hidden in the cliff was a narrow gorge. Going through it was a not-so-large canyon, but the innate spiritual energy inside was extremely dense, almost liquefied.

  Soon, Ye Qing made a big hole in the cliff of the canyon, and the Thirty-six Heavenly Spirits Array protected himself from being disturbed by living things.

  Ye Qing sat in the cave, first preparing to deduce his own Heart Clearing Technique. As Ye Qing deduced, a vast spiritual power continuously emanated from around him. The strength of the spiritual power caused Ye Qing's deduction of the Heart Clearing Technique to accelerate. Although the speed of deduction accelerated, the Heart Clearing Technique became more and more profound, making the difficulty of deduction greater. This time, Ye Qing spent an extremely long time trying to create a powerful cultivation soul technique.

  Just as Ye Qing was closing his doors for 40 million years, Ye Qing finally created a profound cultivation method for the soul, which was still called Jing Xin Jue. The new Jing Xin Jue is divided into nine layers, corresponding to the nine-layered cultivation method of Jie Mo Dao. Jing Xin Jue and Jie Mo Dao are similar in that the spiritual power produced by each subsequent layer is ten times that of the previous layer, corresponding to the cultivation of Jie Mo Dao. Jing Xin Jue and Jie Mo Dao complement each other, with progress in Jing Xin Jue promoting progress in Jie Mo Dao, and progress in Jie Mo Dao also driving progress in Jing Xin Jue. Without the assistance of Jing Xin Jue, it is very difficult to cultivate Jie Mo Dao to the eighth layer, even if one can cultivate to the eighth layer, it will take a lot of time, because there is no strong spiritual power to support the cultivation of Jie Mo Dao.

  Although the Jingshen Jue is said to be ninefold, Ye Qing has only deduced the eighth fold of the Jingshen Jue at this point.

  Ye Qing began to mobilize the enormous spiritual power, following the cultivation method of Jing Xin Jue, and continuously operated it. In just a thousand years, Ye Qing had cultivated Jing Xin Jue to the sixth layer peak. The vast spiritual power was constantly shaking the space around Ye Qing, and the space was clearly abnormal.

  When Ye Qing reached the sixth layer of the Quiet Heart Technique, he stopped cultivating and felt his spiritual power, which was three times stronger than before without cultivating the Quiet Heart Technique. This was still due to the original realm not breaking through, showing the strength of the Quiet Heart Technique. After completing the cultivation of the Quiet Heart Technique, Ye Qing's vast spiritual power quickly refined the forty-fourth layer of the Breaking Sky Blade's seal to thirty-six layers, and all thirty-six layers of the Earth Spirit Treasure Book's seal were refined. He also transplanted the Life Source Tree to the last page of the Earth Spirit Treasure Book.

  Ye Qing sighed at the abnormality of his own creation, Jing Xin Jue, and then devoted himself to the derivation of Jie Mo Dao. Due to Ye Qing's spiritual power increasing threefold, the subsequent techniques of Jie Mo Dao emerged quickly, creating the eighth layer of mid-term cultivation techniques for Jie Mo Dao. This time, it only took 10 million years to derive the techniques of Jie Mo Dao. With the emergence of Jie Mo Dao's subsequent techniques, Ye Qing did not rush to cultivate, planning to cultivate all at once after deriving the final technique.

  The final derivation is the Evolutionary Key. Ye Qing's current cultivation can feel the roughness and imperfection of the Evolutionary Key, so Ye Qing plans to re-derive the Evolutionary Key. In the billions of years of wandering in the Desolate Expanse, Ye Qing observed the birth process of many living beings in the Desolate Expanse, thus having more confidence in creating the Evolutionary Key.

  In the span of 30 million years, Ye Qing created the Evolutionary Key, which consists of 18 layers from 1 to 15 corresponding to the realms of ordinary immortals to Mahayana Golden Immortals, each representing a different state. The last three layers correspond to the quasi-saintly realm of Heavy Heaven. The 16th layer corresponds to the first to fourth heavens, the 17th layer corresponds to the fifth to eighth heavens, and the 18th layer of the Evolutionary Key corresponds to the ninth to twelfth heavens.

  After finishing the evolution mantra, Ye Qing fell into cultivation. As he cultivated the evolution mantra and the Tribulation Demon Path, the aura emitted by his body grew stronger. The ancient, thick atmosphere of the Primordial Universe continuously flowed into Ye Qing's body along with the Pre-Heaven Spirit Energy. At first, he didn't feel anything unusual about this aura, but as it grew stronger, Ye Qing discovered that it was a unique aura of the Primordial Universe, or perhaps an aura left behind by Pangu after opening up the sky! As this aura increased, he found that his physical strength began to rise, and even his Still Heart Mantra and Tribulation Demon Path were slowly improving.

  Many unclear space rules and paths of destruction seem to be gradually becoming clear!

  At this moment, he knew how important the unique aura of the vast wilderness was, so he practiced even more diligently and absorbed as much of this aura as possible with all his might!

  When Ye Qing's Evolution Technique was cultivated to the 15th layer peak, that kind of thick and ancient aura no longer had any effect on Ye Qing's cultivation.