Chapter 696: Chapter 458: 1.2 Billion Merits! _2
How many ghosts are there within Fengdu City?
Perhaps only Lord Cui, who controls the “Book of Life and Death,” knows the answer.
The earth-yellow halo formed by the Earth Emperor’s Book covers the entire Fengdu City, and the invisible pressure it exerts terrifies countless ghosts… Even if each ghost contributes just one merit point to Xu Yang, the accumulated amount would be terrifying!
Hum!
Xu Yang’s thoughts flickered.
The floating Earth Emperor’s Book fell and its opened pages closed.
The earth-yellow halo that enveloped the entire Fengdu City instantly dissipated.
Having already refined the “Earth Emperor’s Book,” Xu Yang naturally understands its abilities, such as the earth-yellow shield just now, called “Xuanhuang’s Womb,” which has protective and defensive effects.
Its defensive power is so strong that even a Da Luo might not be able to break through it.
This is because Xu Yang is only in the mid-stage of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, limiting the power he can exert with the “Earth Emperor’s Book.” If Emperor Dongyue were to control the “Earth Emperor’s Book” and activate “Xuanhuang’s Womb,” he could probably protect an entire realm, making it extremely difficult for even Emperor Oliver of the Netherworld Blood to break through.
Of course.
Being an “Innate Spirit Treasure,” this “Xuanhuang’s Womb” is just one of the great abilities of the Earth Emperor’s Book.
Each page of the Earth Emperor’s Book forms its own independent space, named the “Shanhai Realm.”
Within the “Shanhai Realm” are ancient behemoths suppressed by Emperor Dongyue!
Each of these behemoths is a Space Behemoth, and even the juvenile behemoths possess the might of heavenly immortals… Adult behemoths can fight with Golden Immortals, and the strongest among them can even match a Da Luo!
It’s just that behemoths are scarce, and even when Emperor Dongyue traveled through the three realms’ interstellar space back then, he only found nine.
And of these nine behemoths, seven have died in the course of endless years.
In the “Shanhai Realm” now, there are only two behemoths left.
One is called the “Flameheart Behemoth,” and the other is called the “King of the Hills.”
Having refined the Earth Emperor’s Book, Xu Yang possesses absolute control over these two behemoths. With just a flicker of his thoughts, he enters the “Shanhai Realm” and sees the true forms of these two behemoths.
The “Flameheart Behemoth” resembles an enormous crocodile with flaming wings.
It has a layer of lava-like skin on its body, with a length of more than 28,000 kilometers—larger than the Earth!
Compared to the “Flameheart Behemoth,” the size of the “King of the Hills” is smaller.
It looks like the legendary “dragon turtle,” covered in a spiked shell.
“The Flameheart Behemoth is an ancient giant beast born within the star nuclei of constant stars. It naturally mastered the way of fire from birth. An adult Flameheart Behemoth has a body about 20,000 kilometers long and possesses strength comparable to a Golden Immortal!”
“This Flameheart Behemoth is more than 28,000 kilometers long, obviously much more formidable than ordinary Golden Immortals. Its strength should be on par with the peak of the Golden Immortal Realm!”
“The King of the Hills, a favored creature of the earth’s origin.”
“It is naturally born with the mastery of the earth element, and its adult strength is on par with a Golden Immortal. It is the most defensively powerful beast among all ancient behemoths.”
Information about the two giant beasts quickly flows into Xu Yang’s mind.
His gaze slightly flutters as he secretly devises a plan in his heart.
Perhaps…
By doing so, he can save the Earth from the suffering of war!
“The Earth Emperor’s Book has an internal space that can suppress enemies…”
“Furthermore, the Earth Emperor’s Book has numerous other uses. As one of the books of Heaven, Earth, and Mortals, it can naturally communicate with the source of the earth and suppress space and time.”
Xu Yang’s gaze flickers.
Since seeing countless ghosts outside of Fengdu City, he has been brewing a bold plan in his heart!
With the Earth Emperor’s Book now in his possession, he might be able to carry out this plan.
Xu Yang put away the Earth Emperor’s Book.
He glanced at Yue Yuluo.
Yue Yuluo’s earth-yellow “cocoon” around her body has not disappeared; instead, it has become even thicker. It seems that only when the “cocoon” breaks can Yue Yuluo refine the “Wu Earth Pearl,” and this might take a long time.
With a sweep of his divine senses,
He looked at the thirty-eight newly-promoted heavenly immortals in the courtyard.
They were all refining their respective immortal artifacts, and the process might soon be over. Therefore, he sent a message: “Everyone, I will retreat and cultivate for a few days… After you have refined your immortal artifacts, you can explore Fengdu City or cultivate in my mansion.”
After giving his instructions, Xu Yang took out the remaining six jade volumes of the high-grade celestial arts from the nine doors offered by Lord Cui.
“During this time, I’ll see if I can succeed in cultivating the remaining six high-grade immortal arts… If I can master them all, my strength will make a qualitative leap, and even without relying on treasures, I’ll be able to defeat Golden Immortals!”
Xu Yang took out a jade volume and started browsing through it.
The high-grade immortal art recorded in this jade volume is called “Great Five Elements Art.”
Like “Five Elements Emperor’s Slash,” the “Great Five Elements Art” requires Five Elements Celestial Dao as its foundation.
Xu Yang has already mastered the Five Elements Celestial Dao in order to cultivate the “Five Elements Emperor’s Slash,” so naturally, he can cultivate the “Great Five Elements Art.”
“Five Elements Emperor’s Slash” is a purely offensive celestial art.
It is based on the Five Elements Immortal Dao and originates from the Dao of the sword, capable of slaying all the sins in the world.
As for the “Great Five Elements Art,” it is a purely defensive Immortal Art.
Once mastered, it can gather the “Five Elements Huagai,” which is impervious to all evil and unbreakable by any laws!
Of course.
The function of high-quality Immortal Arts is not just limited to defense!
Any Immortal Being who has mastered the “Great Five Elements Art” can have their cultivation and strength greatly enhanced!
After simply going through the “Great Five Elements Art” once, Xu Yang found that he had already comprehended all its mysteries, as if he had already practiced this Immortal Art.
With a puzzled heart, he tried to practice it.
Only once…
He got the beginner level!
With furrowed brows, Xu Yang opened the next jade scroll.
The Immortal Art recorded in this scroll is called “Apocalypse Heavenly Calamity,” which is based on the Daoist’s “Three Disasters and Nine Misfortunes” divine power. Once mastered, one move can stir up a multitude of “disasters,” such as the Great Sunfire, Dark Wind, plagues, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, Samadhi Difficulty, Original Nature Difficulty, Karma Difficulty, Heart’s Intention Difficulty, Soul Difficulty, and so on.
Once mastered, not only is its power immense, but also its mysteriousness is unpredictable, containing the supreme mystery of growth and decline, and the birth and death of Heaven and Earth.
Still, that inexplicable “familiar” feeling.
He flipped through it once.
Practicing…
It’s done!
“???”
“What the hell is going on?”
Heavenly and Earthly Phenomenon, Three-headed Six-armed, Five Elements Emperor’s Slash, Great Five Elements Art, Apocalypse Heavenly Calamity… any of these five high-quality Immortal Arts, taken out at random, possesses unpredictable power!
Immortal Arts are hard to master!
Even a lower-grade Immortal Art is not easy to master!
Any high-quality Immortal Art would take even a Golden Immortal hundreds or even thousands of years to practice, just to master it.
A handful of high-quality Immortal Arts?
Perhaps only Da Luo could master multiple high-quality Immortal Arts.
After all, Da Luo’s understanding of the “heavenly power” has reached an extremely deep level, so practicing Immortal Arts must be easier for them.
But I’m only in the middle stage of the Heavenly Immortal Realm!
Just casually practicing a high-quality Immortal Art and it’s done?
What Xu Yang feels is not surprise but shock!
“This is just unreasonable!”
Thinking of this, Xu Yang couldn’t even bother with practicing anymore and, getting up, rushed straight to the Underworld.
He planned to ask Lord Cui for a clear answer.
However, his trip to the Underworld came up empty.
Some underworld soldiers stopped Xu Yang and said, “Celestial Master Xu, Lord Cui has ordered that he has important matters to attend to in the Netherworld’s space-time plane to meet the Emperor. His body and avatars are all absent from Fengdu City… If you want to see him, you can wait. Lord Cui will be back in half a month.”
“Damn!”
Xu Yang said angrily, “Half a month? What the hell do I wait for half a month!”
He returned to his mansion in a huff and sat in his room for a long time, then began to study the remaining four jade scrolls.
“Screw it!”
“Anyway, these high-quality Immortal Arts are real!”
“Just try to master one at a time…”
…
At the same time.
In the Netherworld’s time and space, above the endless sea of blood.
Lord Cui stands behind Emperor Beiyin of Fengdu and asks, “Your Majesty, I don’t understand why you gave Xu Yang the Earth Emperor’s Book now?”
Emperor Beiyin of Fengdu glanced at Lord Cui and said indifferently, “The ancestral homeland is about to face disaster, giving him the Earth Emperor’s Book… With the Earth Emperor’s Book, we can defend the ancestral homeland.”
“Hahahaha!”
At this moment, the sea of blood in the netherworld began to boil again.
A rampant laughter came from the sea of blood.
“Old Emperor Beiyin, do you really think you can protect the ancestral homeland with just an Earth Emperor’s Book?”
“Unless Emperor Dongyue personally handles the Earth Emperor’s Book, maybe that’s possible… My will has already descended into hell, and the army of demons and undead led by Satan, Lord of Hell, will soon invade the mortal world and seize the ancestral homeland … by then, the Earth Emperor’s Book will be mine!”