Chapter Eleven: Mount Taiyi

  When the thick and ancient aura of Honghuang was no longer effective on Ye Qing, he stopped cultivating the Evolutionary Mantra. He knew that he still couldn't break through to the Quasi-Saint Realm with his current physical body, and without immense pressure, it wouldn't be possible for him to break through in a short period of time. During Ye Qing's cultivation of the Evolutionary Mantra, his cultivation of the Jie Mo Dao didn't stop either. When he reached the 15th layer peak of the Evolutionary Mantra, he also cultivated the Jie Mo Dao to its 6th layer peak. When Ye Qing finished cultivating the Jie Mo Dao, for a moment, he couldn't control the surging knife intent, causing a thread of the Jie Mo Dao's knife intent to leak out. This single thread of leaked knife intent caused all living beings within a hundred million miles around Ye Qing to suddenly feel an enormous sense of terror in their hearts, as if they had no power to resist, and were instantly destroyed by the massive knife intent.

  After Ye Qing finished his cultivation, he retracted his aura and the fear of the Hong Huang's living beings dissipated. Ye Qing slowly stood up, feeling an explosive power surging throughout his body. With a light grasp of his right hand, the spatial spiritual energy violently shook, and a clear wave of power rippled around him. He even felt that with just one more effort, he could tear apart space. The new evolution key to the 15th layer peak was completely different from the previous 15th layer peak. Ye Qing found that both his physical strength and defense had increased greatly, almost tripling compared to before. The Xian Yuan in his body had also been refined to be much purer, nearly five times more than before. Although Ye Qing hadn't advanced yet, his actual power had increased greatly, and when combined with his combat skills, it was nearly a hundred times stronger than before.

  This is the pros and cons of Gong Fa, which has a huge impact in cultivation. A good cultivation method not only cultivates quickly but also produces very pure Xian Yuan inside the body, with a much larger quantity than inferior methods.

  Ye Qing stood still for a moment, then continued his journey through the Desolate Expanse, heading in the direction of the Zhoushan Mountains.

  In the billion years that Ye Qing was in seclusion, many of the pre-heavenly gods of the Honghuang universe emerged to seek opportunities for breakthrough. Among them, the strongest cultivators were Luo Lao and Mo Yun, who had reached the peak of the first heaven of the quasi-saint realm. Others like Yin Yang Lao Zu, Wu Xing Lao Zu, Qian Kun Lao Zu, Zu Long, Tian Feng, and Mo Yun had also reached the first heaven of the quasi-saint realm. The rest, such as Dong Wang Gong, were at the level of Da Luo Jinxian.

  Although Ye Qing's cultivation is not outstanding among the Xiantian Divine Sect, his combat power can be ranked in the top few among the Xiantian Divine Sect.

  Ye Qing had traveled through the desolate wilderness for ten thousand years, only to obtain a few congenital treasures. Today, Ye Qing arrived at the outside of a mountain valley. With a sweep of his divine sense, Ye Qing surprisingly discovered that there was no sign of this mountain valley in his divine sense. Ye Qing didn't believe it and scanned again, but still found nothing in his divine sense. Then he knew that this mountain valley was hidden by a large array. Ye Qing was extremely curious about what kind of spiritual treasure would use such a powerful formation to guard itself.

  Ye Qing still learned this big array first, and then broke the array. The vast spiritual power covered the entire array, deducing the principle of the array. As Ye Qing deduced, he became more and more surprised. This array was actually a simplified version of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Array. Now Ye Qing is getting more and more curious about the Lingbao inside.

  A thousand years later, Ye Qing finally fully grasped this simplified version of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array. In his heart, Ye Qing was extremely excited and he believed that as long as he had this simplified version of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array, he could create a complete version of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array or an even more powerful array.

  After fully understanding the grand formation, Ye Qing withdrew it. After the formation was withdrawn, a massive starlight burst into the sky from the valley. Ye Qing didn't intercept it in time and it rushed out. Although the starlight had escaped, Ye Qing didn't take it to heart. Looking towards the valley, he saw a giant tree that reached a height of one thousand zhang, its trunk as deep as the starry sky, with 365 branches, each branch bearing a fruit that shone like stars. Ye Qing knew this was the legendary top-grade spiritual root, the Starlight Tree, and the fruits on it were the first batch of Starlight Fruits produced by the tree. The effects of the first batch of fruits were extremely against the heavens, while the subsequent batches didn't have such great effects.

  Ye Qing was delighted to see this Starfruit tree, Ye Qing put this Starfruit tree on the last page of the Divine Spirit Treasure Book and prepared to leave.

  Just after Ye Qing left the valley, several innate gods arrived here, took a look and didn't find anything, then each of them left.

  But after Ye Qing obtained the top-grade congenital spiritual root, Star Cherry Tree, he didn't want to continue wandering in the Desolate Expanse. This was because Ye Qing had sensed several powerful auras, which belonged to those congenital gods who had arrived at the mountain valley. Although they weren't stronger than him, they weren't weak either. This made Ye Qing feel a sense of crisis, so he didn't want to waste any more time and planned to go into seclusion to cultivate after finishing his tour around Mount Buzhou.

  Ye Qing used his Void Slash technique and flew towards Bu Zhou Mountain with all his might.

  Finally, after millions of years, Ye Qing arrived at the foot of Mount Buzhou. Mount Buzhou was a vast and boundless mountain range that stretched for billions and billions of kilometers in all directions, with peaks that reached as high as billions and billions of meters. Even from the foot of the mountain, Ye Qing could feel the enormous pressure emanating from it, making it hard to breathe. Looking up at Mount Buzhou, Ye Qing couldn't believe that it would be destroyed by Gonggong in the future. It was impossible to even create a dent on this massive mountain, let alone destroy it. Mount Buzhou was the pillar that supported the entire Honghuang universe; if it were to collapse, it would be a disaster for the entire cosmos. Ye Qing absolutely did not believe the legend of Nüwa using the four limbs of the first primordial turtle to support the universe. If that were possible, Pangu could have used the four limbs of the Honghuang demon god to hold up the sky.

  Ye Qing didn't know that the pressure of Mount Buzhou would weaken with time, and its essence would slowly be exhausted, only to be knocked down by Gonggong during the Great War of the Witch Demons. The four limbs of the first Xuanwu turtle in heaven and earth were not used to support the entire Honghuang universe, but only to support the immortal realm. At that time, the universe could have done without Mount Buzhou's support.