Chapter 348 - 346: Shangyang Investigates a Secret, the History of the Heaven’s Collapse

Chapter 348: Chapter 346: Shangyang Investigates a Secret, the History of the Heaven’s Collapse

A month passed.

Su Qing’s Skill Level increase finally reached five points per day.

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Host: Su Qing

Realm: Ascension Realm (Shaping Immortal Soul) [Immortal Shedding Creation Technique: Mastery (831/1000)] [God Demon Devouring Universe Map]

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’I still haven’t broken through to Minor Achievement, and there are only a little over two years left.’

Su Qing felt a little anxious.

A sweep of his soul revealed quite a few people within the Immortal Realm.

They were all inside, engaged in Cultivation.

"Xiaoqing, come here for a moment."

After Su Qing waited for a moment, Xiaoqing arrived.

"Master," Xiaoqing called out enthusiastically.

"Run an Inference. Using the Ninth Realm of the Demon Realm as a benchmark, how many such Ninth Realms could the Greed Realm defeat?"

Upon hearing this, Xiaoqing’s tone turned cold as it replied, "Countless... It cannot be measured."

Su Qing found this strange.

’Why can’t it be measured?’

But Su Qing immediately figured out the answer. Take his current self, for example. No matter how many opponents two full Realms below him appeared...

...he could annihilate them all with a single move.

Anything within his attack range would be utterly obliterated.

He had been thinking about this for the past month. The comparison of combat power was inherently asymmetrical.

’I shouldn’t have been so confident.’

As expected, Xiaoqing’s reply confirmed his suspicions. Su Qing’s expression grew even more complicated.

’Next month, I must investigate whether this is the work of that fellow from the Demon Realm who released the insects.’

...

"Growth."

"Growth."

Su Qing used Growth on the Immortal Enlightenment Tree King a few times.

It made the entire world tremble.

Annihilating the Earth Great Immortal.

Eating Spirit Fruits.

...

...

「Within the ruins of the Abyss Sea.」 Before Shangyang lay a Jade Slip made of Spirit Jade Marrow.

He picked it up to examine it.

’The Elder Epoch... It’s so vague. I hate researching history the most.’

"Gengjia..."

"The heavens collapsed?"

"Black... colorful... world..."

Shangyang began to connect the dots.

’Beneath the brilliant river of stars, a black shadow carrying boundless, colorful light?’

’Colorful light?’

Shangyang had finally found the record.

Unfortunately, too much time had passed, and large portions of the Jade Slip had decayed.

Even by the end, Shangyang couldn’t make out any details.

He only saw the last line of text.

"All gone, all gone."

’All gone?’

’No, I have to keep looking.’

Shangyang was unwilling to give up. He still hadn’t found out why these insects made him so uneasy.

He couldn’t rest until he solved this matter.

After searching for a long time,

Shangyang found an exceptionally well-preserved Jade Slip.

He happily and contentedly brushed the dust from the Jade Slip.

’This is a proper Jade Slip. It was clearly made by someone who knew to use pure Spirit Marrow; it’s obviously no ordinary item.’

Shangyang skimmed past the irrelevant content, just getting the gist of it.

...

"Sinners... My Mangchen Family has become the Spirit Realm’s sinners!"

"I, Mangchen Feiyu of the 129th generation of the Mangchen Family, its last descendant, atone for our sins with my death."

"If any descendants see this, you must eliminate all the Greedy Insects. Slay every last one, leaving no future trouble. Less than one-tenth of the Spirit Realm remains, hehe..."

"It seems only the Immortal Race managed to escape. Hehe."

"It’s just as well. They entered the Void Realm to escape the disaster, preserving descendants for the Spirit Realm."

"The colorful sky falls, the homeland is no more; approaching Greedy Insects sever a thousand ages."

"The distant Stars are now my tomb; I, of the Mangchen line, apologize to history this day."

...

Shangyang finished reading.

His expression slowly changed, turning solemn.

His face was taut, and even his aura seemed to freeze.

He recalled the few insects he was keeping in his Pocket World.

’This is bad!’

’This is bad!’

’This is bad!’

Shangyang repeated grimly, ’This is bad!’

He was already tearing through Space, rushing back to the Three Yang Temple.

As soon as he entered his personal Pocket World, he saw the insects were still tirelessly emitting some kind of signal.

He casually exterminated them.

He quickly found a Daoist who had just returned from exterminating the insects.

"Xiang Qingde, come here."

"Master Shangyang." Xiang Qingde was confused.

"Did you go eliminate the Greedy Insects?"

"I did."

"Did you notice anything strange about the Greedy Insects?"

Xiang Qingde’s eyes lit up. He was only a Golden Core Cultivator and assumed Shangyang, with his vast Divine Techniques, had figured it out with a simple calculation.

"Master Shangyang’s Divine Techniques are truly vast! The Greedy Insects were indeed acting strangely."

"At some point, the Greedy Insects stopped devouring their surroundings. Instead, for some reason, they just started loitering around. They wouldn’t even react when we attacked or killed them."

Shangyang’s expression turned even uglier. ’This is bad,’ he thought.

In a flash, he vanished from before Xiang Qingde’s eyes.

...

...

「Another month passed.」

Su Qing once again summoned Xiaoqing.

Su Qing had just broken through to the Minor Achievement stage with his Cultivation Technique.

His Skill Level now increased by almost seven points a day.

At this rate, he could reach Great Success in ten months and Perfection in about twenty-four months.

And that wasn’t even counting his constant consumption of Spirit Fruits.

Su Qing had already annihilated the Earth Great Immortal countless times.

’Anyway, all this lifespan would go to waste if I don’t use it.’

’When the time comes, I’ll synthesize a Technique that consumes lifespan to increase power.’

’With so much lifespan, it’d be a waste not to use it. I just hope I can escape this disaster.’

Su Qing no longer had any desire to fight.

He knew that no matter how hard he tried, if the situation was truly helpless...

...his only option would be to take everyone on Qingsu Island and flee.

’As long as I’m alive, what’s to fear about not being able to deal with the Greed Realm in the future?’

If he used the Immortal Qi Emitter, Su Qing could only take the Greed Realm down with him, which was not an ideal outcome.

With no way of knowing the Energy of a single "bullet," Su Qing didn’t dare to risk it.

...

"Master, I’m here."

Xiaoqing announced its arrival.

"When the Greed Realm destroys the Spirit Realm, how do I escape?"

Su Qing asked softly.

"To escape being devoured by the Greed Realm, you can hide within the Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Dao Rule Will. There is a fifty percent probability that the Greed Realm will not devour it."

"The Void Realm..."

...

"If, at the moment the Greed Realm is Breaking the Boundary, Master escapes through the shattered Spirit Realm barrier, the probability of success is eighty percent."

’The last option has the highest probability.’

According to Xiaoqing’s Inference, he still didn’t have a one hundred percent chance of escaping the Greed Realm’s devouring.

This was a terrifying thought.

"Xiaoqing, you can go cultivate now."

"Yes, Master." Xiaoqing usually cultivated by coiling on a branch of the Immortal Enlightenment Tree King, as this maximized the efficiency of its Visualization.

Its Cultivation speed was fast, but it was useless.

Because Su Qing knew that Xiaoqing would be of no help in this catastrophe.

"By the way, Master, there’s an Eighth Realm Cultivator outside waiting for you."

Xiaoqing added as an afterthought.

Su Qing was taken aback.

’Who could be looking for me?’

’Could it be that Eighth Realm from the Demon Realm, Delusional Dream?’

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Shangyang had been waiting on Qingsu Island for the Isle Lord for a week.

He was looking over the descriptions of the Void Realm he had found in the ruins.

He had also seen how certain Cultivators had used various methods to escape the "heavens collapsing" incident in history.

They had even left behind a few ancient books, which, fortunately, had been well-preserved by the Three Yang Temple.

"And you are, Daoist Master?" Su Qing didn’t recognize the man.

But his Daoist Robe greatly resembled the one worn by Qing Yang Daoist.

"Shangyang, Observatory Lord of the Three Yang Temple." When Shangyang saw Su Qing tear through Space and appear silently beside him,

...he couldn’t help but be astonished. ’Could this be a technique from an Array?’

He refused to believe Su Qing could have begun comprehending Dao Principles so quickly.

Shangyang couldn’t see Su Qing’s Cultivation clearly.

"Shangyang of the Three Yang Temple? I am Su Qing. It’s a pleasure to meet you, fellow Daoist."

"What business might you have with me, fellow Daoist?" Su Qing looked at him, puzzled. He was the only one on all of Qingsu Island with an Eighth Realm Cultivation.

’He must be the one Xiaoqing mentioned.’

’I just don’t know what he wants with me.’

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