Chapter 885: Chapter 53: Quicksand Transmission Array
Zhou Yan rebuilt his foundation and then used the art of Xingyi transformation to simulate various War Beast Sword Souls from reality, enhancing himself within the Soul Sea by using parts of the fragmented soul body left by the Soul Slash. With these soul bodies, he managed to complete the Twelve Sword Souls along with his original soul.
In this way, Zhou Yan successfully used the ‘Twelve Sword Souls’ to unlock the first treasure within his body, allowing the ‘Twelve Sword Souls’ to comprehend the corresponding Xingyi War Beast domain over these ten-odd days and imprint the War Beast Sword Soul mark into the Soul Sea.
However, Zhou Yan suppressed his realm without breaking through, choosing not to comprehend the Divine Second Transition domain rules, because this was just a simulation by Xingyi transformation, not reality.
Moreover, as a result of these actions, the instability of his soul body’s injury increased from eighty percent to fifty percent.
The injuries to his soul body became more serious, yet Zhou Yan activated various corresponding abilities, no longer unable to wield them, but rather able to utilize a slight transformation of various Daos.
For example, Soul Slash Supreme Dao, Void Silent Annihilation Purple Flame, Killing Spirit Divine Dao, True Void Heavenly Prohibition, Netherworld Life and Death Bridge, Ten Thousand Ghost Sword Dao, and other techniques.
However, since these were activated with difficulty, the power indeed increased significantly compared to the past, but the improvement was limited, merely granting Zhou Yan the strength to nearly cross two realms to slay enemies.
The cultivators of this Dark God Domain are not the cultivators of the True God Plane, capable of crossing two realms to kill enemies. Zhou Yan feels he has reached the limit.
Of course, once the Dao injury left by the soul body heals and once the other Twelve War Beast Sword Souls are truly activated, Zhou Yan believes his combat power breaking three or four and even higher will be no problem.
His profound foundation is incomparable to that of other genius cultivators.
Over these ten-plus days, Zhou Yan completed a true transformation, and some of the Daos he couldn’t employ were merged into the texts of Xingyi Ancient Scripture and Ruoshui Scripture, and other Supreme Daos, laying an incredibly solid foundation for the future, despite merely activating the power to use them without major power increases.
And during these ten-plus days, it was also a time for Zhou Ying, Ping’er, and Xiong Ba to undergo another transformation. The methods Zhou Yan passed down, and the further teachings of True Void Heavenly Prohibition, allowed each of them to gain insight and incorporate it into their domains. Thus, when their domains crushed and suppressed others’ domains, they secretly absorbed a portion of the rule energy from others’ domains. Except for themselves, no one else could sense it; they would merely feel their domains were damaged and severely depleted.
After all, rule power is an incomprehensible deep secret technique, understood only by immortal beings.
Because Zhou Ying, Ping’er, and Xiong Ba received this inheritance, their strength significantly increased, and the initial realm of Divine Spirit First Transformation gradually became more stable, stepping into a truly stable realm.
When Zhou Yan felt it was about time, he was also preoccupied with the matter of the ‘Heart-soothing Spring,’ and the annual talent evaluation, badge marking, and recruitment of disciples by various Great Sect powers of the ‘Dark God Domain’ were nearing.
Therefore, Zhou Yan planned to take Xiong Ba, Zhou Ying, and Ping’er to Tianxing City, to truly enter the sect powers and complete the subsequent true growth and progress.
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Quicksand Town did not change due to the loss of Fang Tianhao, Lan Ji, and a series of clan members; it remains prosperous.
Although named ‘Quicksand Town,’ the area far exceeds the size of the entire planet of the Sword Burial Ancestor Star.
Thus, relying on Sword Flight alone to travel from Quicksand Town to Tianxing City is utterly impractical.
When Zhou Yan and the others arrived at Quicksand Town, they did not attract too much attention, and they maintained a certain level of discretion, not deliberately making a statement.
Zhou Ying and Ping’er even appropriately concealed their aura and appearance to avoid attracting too much attention and causing trouble for Zhou Yan—despite Zhou Yan not caring and never fearing trouble.
“Brother Zhou Yan, we’ve been walking for half a day in Quicksand Town and haven’t yet passed through the town’s main area. This is indeed astonishingly large.”
Zhou Ying was somewhat shocked.
“Therefore, those with the artifact refining ability to manipulate space should hold high status, and those possessing speed-enhancing divine artifacts or supreme artifacts will be high-priced items.”
Zhou Yan nodded and replied.
Ping’er and Xiong Ba, however, did not interrupt; they merely listened to Zhou Yan and Zhou Ying discuss these topics.
“Indeed, Brother Zhou Yan, it seems you’ll soon have plenty of opportunities to showcase your abilities.”
Zhou Ying’s eyes sparkled with affection, admiration, and even worship.
“It’s a bit challenging. Hmm, we are close; the Transmission Array ahead is the ‘Quicksand Heavenly Star’ Transfer Array, which can transport us to Tianxing City. Once there, things will be somewhat easier. However, by then, I may still need to rely on your talents to enter a sect; otherwise, those Great Sect powers won’t look at me twice.”
Zhou Yan said somewhat helplessly.
“Pfft—”
Zhou Ying couldn’t help but laugh: “With you being so talented, Brother Zhou Yan, even my combat power has broken through two, yet I am no match for you in a single encounter. You are truly formidable, Brother Zhou Yan, though outsiders just can’t discern your talent from soul energy alone.”
Zhou Yan smiled wryly and said: “After understanding the basics of the Dark God Domain, we all know that possessing several soul energies is the only measure of a cultivator’s talent. A cultivator with one soul energy with pure and strong soul power is considered an Eternal Level genius. As for me, while each soul is top-tier, they are suppressed to twelve. The remaining one is injured, half-dead, and likely to appear incredibly mixed.
Adding the impression of thirteen soul energies… I fear I will embarrass you all.”
Seeing Zhou Yan’s troubled expression, Ping’er could not help but chuckle and said: “According to the information you provided, young master, typically, a cultivator’s worst situation is having impure Three Souls and Seven Spirits, leading to ten soul energies. Your thirteen soul energies, young master, might astonish the detecting cultivators. It should be unprecedented and unheard of, but young master, don’t worry. Ping’er and Sister Zhou Ying will protect you and defend you from harm by bad people.”
Ping’er said these words in a cute, coy manner, deliberately joking with Zhou Yan.
She knew that Zhou Yan actually didn’t care about these things at all, let alone what others thought.
Zhou Yan was just saying these things to have fun with everyone, nothing more.
“Alright, from now on I’ll be a kept man, hugging left and right, letting two fairies share a bed with me and bully me together every day, enjoying the happiness that comes with that. That would be so comfortable and blissful.”
Zhou Yan laughed.
“Young master, you’re really bad!”
Ping’er said teasingly.
Zhou Ying blushed slightly, but her gaze was full of affection as she looked at Zhou Yan, seemingly quite moved by his suggestion.
“Saint Master, the teleportation array is almost full, let’s go over there now.”
Xiong Ba suddenly said.
He completely didn’t understand romance, often doing things that disrupt the mood.
However, Zhou Yan and the others were used to it, so they didn’t mind.
“Yes, it is indeed almost full. There are only four spots left once we’re inside, and this teleportation array isn’t of high quality, it actually has such limitations.”
Zhou Yan glanced slightly, having roughly seen the shortcomings of the teleportation array, but he casually mentioned it to Zhou Ying and the others.
Then, the sword light from Zhou Yan’s Xuanyuan Sword flashed, carrying Xiong Ba and the others into this teleportation array.
“Four thousand one-star soul stones.”
Suddenly, a flash of light appeared in the array, revealing a burly man in black armor, cold and indifferent, carrying a giant axe that resembled a sky-opening axe.
The burly man’s voice was cold, his face expressionless.
Zhou Yan nodded slightly, and with a thought, he took out forty pieces of three-star Green Water Soul Stones and handed them to the burly man, who glanced at them, expressionlessly took them, and said, “Go ahead.”
Then, the burly man suddenly looked up, addressing a distant traveler in a formal voice, “Cultivators, the teleportation array to Tianxing City will open in half an hour for the last time this round. After this, the next opening will be in ten days. If you need to take the Purgatory Refiner exam, talent assessment, enter Dark God Domain Tianxing City sub-domain to submit or accept tasks, or take part in the Great Sect power selection, please come quickly, or you will miss it. The transport fee is one thousand one-star soul stones per person.”
The burly man shouted and then said no more, silently waiting.
Zhou Yan and the others stood in the array, in a somewhat crowded four-person area.
However, due to the crowding, Zhou Yan was almost pressed against Zhou Ying and Ping’er, while Xiong Ba stood behind Zhou Ying and Ping’er, feeling somewhat neglected.
Fortunately, this suited Xiong Ba, as he found Zhou Ying and Ping’er pleasing to the eye, he didn’t find them captivating otherwise. Of course, their personalities were indeed very attractive, and their voices were beautiful, but beyond that, Xiong Ba didn’t feel there was much else to it.
“Swish, swish, swish—”
Suddenly, the array patterns trembled slightly, a sword light whistled by in the air, followed by two white-robed men carrying silver-white long swords, arriving with four women in pale green dresses.
The six people were not very old, but their aura was exceptionally strong, especially the knife Dao domain aura, which was extremely intimidating and made one hesitant.
Upon seeing the six appear, the burly guardian of the ancient teleportation array suddenly showed up, bowed slightly, and said, “Young Master Mo Bei, Young Master Mo Nan, and four Fairies Mo, are you also planning to go to Tianxing City?”
“Yes. Here are six four-star soul stones.”
The leading white-robed youth had a cold expression, seemingly not fond of talking.
He handed over six four-star soul stones.
The higher the soul stone’s star level, the more difficult it is to acquire, and the purer and stronger the soul power it stores.
“Young Master Mo Bei, all six of you are Divine Level Three-Star Purgatory Refiners, entitled to free use of the Town-level teleportation array. So, there’s no need for payment.”
The burly man hurriedly explained.
“It’s not a payment; it’s a reward for you. This teleportation array is full, let two people step out, and I can compensate them ten or even a hundred times over.”
The white-robed youth frowned slightly, but still explained.