At this moment, within the King of Mad Blood's Little World, in the middle of a colossal valley, dark red, blood-like magma flowed, and a blood-red, nearly seventy-meter-tall beast, resembling a male lion, roared furiously!
"Dead rat, you dare show your face again! Die!"
A blood-flame-burning claw descended directly upon the newly appeared Plague Lord!
Seeing this, the Plague Lord's figure flickered slightly, disappearing from its original spot and reappearing several hundred meters away, not at all annoyed, merely stating, "It seems the plan failed? That kid Lu Chenxing didn't die?"
"Whether that kid died or not, I don't know, but I only know that my Fifth-Tier Divine Emissary died because of this matter! How am I supposed to improve my strength now! You truly deserve to die!" Before the words even finished, another blood-flame claw print descended.
Interrupting someone's path of cultivation is like killing their parents. The reason they established the so-called Divine Emissaries in the Church of the Myriad Gods was largely because it allowed their strength to increase rapidly!
The King of Mad Blood required the blood of powerful professionals, and the Plague Lord needed the corpses of those who died from the Plague. All of these could be transformed into their power through specific sacrificial rituals!
Now, the King of Mad Blood's strongest Fifth-Tier Divine Emissary had died because of the Plague Lord's so-called threat, and the King of Mad Blood's rate of strength improvement would plummet, as the blood of professionals below Fourth-Tier was already useless to him!
The more he thought about it, the angrier the King of Mad Blood became, attacking the Plague Lord frantically, his aura fully exposed, clearly having reached Sixth-Tier Perfection and advancing towards Seventh-Tier!
Seeing him so frenzied, the Plague Lord also became irritated, its aura suddenly rising, clearly also at Sixth-Tier Perfection, and purple-black flames began to rise, countering the blood flames!
Beasts of lower racial tiers, like them, did not have so-called promotion missions; they only needed to accumulate energy to complete their advancement!
Only ancient races like dragons, phoenixes, and Qilins, like humans, needed to undertake promotion missions. Humans believed this was a recognition of racial potential by this world.
Therefore, this time, the Plague Lord bestowed its blood precisely to obtain a large number of sacrifices, thereby breaking through to Seventh-Tier in one fell swoop!
Seventh-Tier, also known as the King Tier, involves a fundamental leap in life at the genetic level, and for beasts, this term is called Ancestral Reversion!
Although the Plague Lord was a big rat now, who among its ancestors hadn't been glorious? Even obtaining a trace of ancestral bloodline would be a huge improvement for it and its entire race!
Previously, the King of Mad Blood had the same intention, but a while ago, this big rat came to him, saying that humans had discovered a way to break his Blood Frenzy, which startled him, but he didn't easily believe it.
However, upon hearing that the Plague Lord's minions were almost wiped out to deal with this First-Tier little thing, he had no choice but to believe it.
Both of them knew very well that they had survived until now by rapidly infecting large numbers of low-tier humans, thereby making humans hesitant to act. If Blood Frenzy and the Plague were truly cracked, then their demise would not be far off!
That was why he agreed to the Plague Lord's plan and spent a huge price to send down a drop of his essence blood, but among those costs, he had never imagined that his Divine Emissary would also be sacrificed!
Now that his Divine Emissary was dead, he even felt that this big rat was trying to scheme against him!
After a few clashes, the Plague Lord was sent flying; there was nothing it could do, as its frontal combat strength was inherently not strong.
Seeing that the King of Mad Blood was truly enraged and beyond communication, the Plague Lord no longer sought trouble, leaving with a remark: "I'll come back when you've calmed down."
Afterward, it directly left this Little World.
At the same time, it issued an order to its Divine Emissary, Zhang Er, to confirm whether Lu Chenxing was dead or alive!
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At this moment, Lu Chenxing was immersed in his own mental world. Due to the replenishment of his mental energy, his mental world had slowly returned to normal.
Flowers, green grass, flowing water, gentle breezes, cicada chirps and bird calls, and even snow-capped mountains in the distance—it was no different from the real world, except this world only existed within his mind. Only after reaching Seventh-Tier could the projection of the mental world be transformed into an attack method.
Lu Chenxing was currently facing a problem: his self-created cultivation visualization diagram now needed to be modified and upgraded because he had already advanced to Second-Tier.
"So, how should I modify and upgrade it?" Lu Chenxing's mental body sat in the grass of his mental world, scratching his head and pondering deeply, but he couldn't come up with any ideas.
A moment later, he picked up a small stick and began to draw and write on the ground, muttering to himself.
"Should it become bigger? Or more numerous? At Second-Tier, I can visualize some large animals and such, but they can't be ordinary animals, because the Second-Tier visualization diagrams on the market have already started to involve some extraordinary things; they can't be solved by ordinary world visualization diagrams."
Second-Tier visualization diagrams had already begun to significantly amplify a magician's magic. For example, a fire-elemental magician's Second-Tier visualization diagram, "River of Lava," could significantly increase the temperature and power of their fire magic. The same was true for lightning-elemental magicians' "Heavenly Thunder," "Thunderfall," and similar visualizations.
"But how am I supposed to handle this all-elemental transcendence? And it needs to form a closed logical loop to achieve the maximum power amplification... It's so difficult!"
Lu Chenxing currently felt like he was playing an extremely high-freedom exploration game, but precisely because of the high freedom, he didn't know what to do now, nor did he know what he should do first!
"Sigh, if only there was a template... I could just copy it directly... Hmm? A template?" Lu Chenxing suddenly froze. That's right, he could copy a template!
All-elemental transcendence, logical closed loop, world construction... This made Lu Chenxing suddenly think of something: the novels he had read in his previous life!
And among them, the most well-known, the most widely recognized by the public, loved by both old and young, and featuring all-elemental transcendence, there was only one such novel!
That was the chapter-based long-form mythological novel created by Wu Cheng'en of the Ming Dynasty, "journey to the west"!
"That's right, I can use journey to the west as a template! Doesn't it encompass everything from mountain spirits and wild beasts, mortal dynasties, the Underworld, immortals, and demons? Heavenly thunder and earthly fire, tidal waves and dragon ascensions, the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the Peach Garden, the Heavenly Court, the Underworld—isn't this a perfect all-elemental template?!"
The more he thought about it, the more feasible Lu Chenxing found it; the more he thought, the brighter his eyes became!
"Who cares so much, let's just try it first! If it works, then I'll hit the jackpot!!!"