SWDnovel Chapter 1862 The Beast Robber
Chapter 1862 The Beast Robber
Later, its cultivation deepened, and it gradually cultivated to the Taiyi level.
It refined that dragon scale into the core of the realm, making it the foundation of the entire Starry Sky Ancient Realm.
It created the Nine Towers and Nine Seals Grand Array, using the Sea of Calamity as its furnace and fragments of myriad worlds as its fuel, to extract the essence from the Great Dao Graveyard that could be cultivated by billions of living beings.
It is the current God-King of the Starry Sky Ancient Realm.
Its real name is long gone.
The cultivators of the Starry Sky Ancient Realm call it the Mysterious Turtle God King.
“The God-King spends most of his time in slumber,” Xingyaozi said. “Although Taiyi has an endless lifespan, the environment of the Calamity Sea is harsh, and maintaining the operation of this realm is extremely costly. The God-King awakens once every thousand years to handle important matters in the realm, and then continues to slumber. The last time he awakened was seven hundred years ago.”
Seven hundred years ago.
What is an unattainable history for mortals is merely a brief moment of clarity for Taiyi.
"Did the God King ever mention... the Holy Ancient Heavenly Dragon?" Zhang Xuan asked curiously.
Xingyaozi looked at him with deep eyes.
After a long pause, he said, "The God-King rarely mentions the ancient stories of the Holy Ancient, but every year on the Dragon's Birthday, the God-King would climb the Ninth Tower alone, facing the depths of the Sea of Calamity, and stand silently for a day and a night holding a dragon scale. That was the only time the God-King showed his emotions."
He didn't say what emotion it was.
But Zhang Xuan understood.
That is longing.
A little turtle demon who has cultivated in the Moon Palace for thousands of years but has never been able to awaken its intelligence watches the Heavenly Dragon Lord go to court and discuss matters every day in a corner of the palace.
It didn't understand what those people were saying, but it remembered the occasional glances that Lord Tianlong had given it.
Then the great calamity arrived.
Lord Tianlong has fallen, the Guanghan Palace has collapsed, and all the civil and military officials, heavenly soldiers and generals have turned to ashes in the great calamity.
Only it survived because of that dragon scale, because of the protection it received in the last glance from the Heavenly Dragon before its demise.
It drifted in the Sea of Calamity, carrying that dragon scale.
It built this ancient star realm, cultivated to the Taiyi God King realm, and lived for nearly 20 million years.
But it never got to see Lord Tianlong again.
That dragon scale was its only remaining thought.
By this time, it was nearly night.
Xingyaozi stood up: "You two fellow Daoists have come from afar and are injured in the Dao. Please rest for today. To thank you for bringing Xingyi's token back, tomorrow I will send someone to take you to the Medicine Garden Hot Spring. There is a healing array set up by the God King himself, which is quite effective for the injuries of the Crossing Dao."
Zhang Xuan thanked Jiao'er.
As he was leaving the hall, Zhang Xuan suddenly asked, "Senior, do cultivators from your realm often venture into the Sea of Calamity to hunt and kill Calamity Beasts?"
Xingyaozi paused, turned to look at him, a hint of surprise in his eyes: "How did you know, fellow Daoist?"
“Just a guess,” Zhang Xuan said. “Your realm uses the Sea of Tribulation as a furnace to refine the origin, but the richest resource in the Sea of Tribulation is probably not the fragments of the world, but the creatures native to the Sea of Tribulation—the Tribulation Beasts.”
During their drifting in the Sea of Calamity, he and Jiao'er encountered the Calamity Beasts several times.
However, they all kept their distance.
Xingyaozi smiled slightly: "Fellow Daoist has discerning eyes. Indeed, the Calamity Beast is one of the most important resources in our realm."
"The Calamity Beasts are creatures naturally born from the chaotic laws of the Calamity Sea. They come in all shapes and sizes, some like dragons, some like whales, and some are just a chaotic mass of energy condensed from countless fragments of rules. But they all have one thing in common—they contain a Calamity Core within their bodies."
Xingyaozi raised his hand, and a crystal the size of an infant's fist appeared in his palm.
"This is the tribulation core of the Thunder Abyss Whale, a tribulation beast in the early stage of Golden Immortal. The Thunder Abyss Whale has a huge body and its combat power is above average in the early stage of Golden Immortal, but it is slow. As long as the coordination is proper, it can be surrounded and killed by a mid-stage Golden Immortal."
“Its flesh and blood can be used in medicine, its bones can be used to forge weapons, and the Tribulation Core…” He handed the Tribulation Core to Zhang Xuan, “Fellow Daoist, you can sense it.”
Zhang Xuan took the Tribulation Core and probed it with his divine sense.
In an instant, he felt a blur before his eyes, as if he were in a sea of lightning.
Billions of bolts of lightning danced wildly, each bolt containing a shattered rule of the Great Dao of Lightning.
They rampage through this tiny crystal, never stopping, just like the catastrophic sea itself.
However, at the deepest part of this chaos, there is a trace of ultimate order—the most fundamental truth of birth and death of the Great Dao of Thunder, which the Calamity Beast spent its entire life condensing and sealing within this Calamity Core.
Zhang Xuan opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air.
"The energy inside this Tribulation Core is completely different from that of the Immortal Essence Stone. The Immortal Essence Stone is a pure energy crystal, while this Tribulation Core... is more like a condensation of the Great Dao rules."
"Fellow Daoist is indeed insightful," Xingyaozi praised. "Indeed, the essence of the Tribulation Core is the crystallization of rules condensed by the Tribulation Beast using itself as a furnace to devour, refine, and purify the chaotic fragments of the Great Dao in the Tribulation Sea."
"The tribulation core of a tribulation beast in the early stage of Golden Immortal is roughly equivalent to the energy of a mid-grade immortal essence stone. However, because it contains a trace of the true meaning of the Great Dao, its effect on Golden Immortals to comprehend the rules and even repair Dao injuries far exceeds that of a mid-grade immortal essence stone."
Zhou Yishan was immediately startled upon hearing this.
The tribulation core of a Golden Immortal early-stage tribulation beast is equivalent to a mid-grade immortal essence stone?!
One mid-grade Immortal Essence Stone is equivalent to 100 low-grade Immortal Essence Stones.
Let alone the core of a Golden Immortal Beast, he had only heard of mid-grade Immortal Essence Stones and had never actually seen one.
Since none of the Nine Divine Realms possessed an eighth-order immortal vein, after several hundred years of depletion, he and Jiao'er had essentially exhausted their immortal essence stones.
Now that I've heard that the other party mentioned that the core of a Golden Immortal early-stage tribulation beast is equivalent to a mid-grade immortal essence stone, how can I not be excited?
Xingyaozi paused for a moment, then said, "The tribulation core of a peak Golden Immortal Tribulation Beast is comparable in grade to a high-grade Immortal Essence Stone. The Great Dao True Meaning it contains is more complete and profound, making it a rare cultivation resource for peak Golden Immortal cultivators."
Zhang Xuan understood.
No wonder the Starry Sky Ancient Realm was able to support nine Golden Immortals and one Taiyi God King, and continue to thrive for tens of millions of years.
For them, the Sea of Calamity was not a dead end, but a granary.
"Hunting and killing the plundering beasts must be extremely dangerous, right?" Jiao'er asked.
“Naturally.” Xingyaozi nodded. “The Tribulation Sea is the home ground of the Tribulation Beasts. When fighting the Tribulation Beasts in the Tribulation Sea, our cultivators need to devote half of their energy to resisting environmental erosion, which greatly reduces their combat power. Moreover, there are many kinds of Tribulation Beasts. Some are good at hiding, some are extremely fast, and some can even control the turbulent currents of the Tribulation Sea. If you are not careful, the whole army will be wiped out.”
“When we checked the tokens just now, we discovered that when Xingyi led his team deep into the Sea of Calamity, they encountered a Void Mayfly, a peak Golden Immortal Calamity Beast.” Xingyaozi’s voice deepened.
"That calamity beast was skilled in spacetime-related supernatural abilities, and could travel freely in the sea of calamity. Its whereabouts were mysterious, and it ultimately led to the annihilation of Xingyi's entire group."
"The core of the Void Mayfly contains the true meaning of the Great Dao of Time and Space. When the God-King awoke, he said that if this core were refined properly, it could help our realm gain another Golden Immortal skilled in the Dao of Time and Space. What a pity..."
The hall fell silent for a moment.
Zhang Xuan remained silent for a moment, then said, "Once we recover from our injuries, we are willing to help your realm hunt down this Void Mayfly."