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Chapter 1986: Innate Essence

Emperor Meng Tian looked at Xiao Zhi and said, "The top ten have been decided. Lord, when are you going to start the third round?"

The other masters of the most powerful halls also looked at Xiao Zhi.

"No hurry. They must be tired after continuous high-intensity fighting. Let them have a good rest." Xiao Zhi swept his eyes over the masters of the Strongest Hall and said, "If you have anything to deal with, you can leave on your own. Just leave one of your clones here."

No one left.

Xiao Zhi closed his eyes, as if he was resting.

In fact, he was looking for the feeling he had before.

That feeling of the bottleneck in cultivation starting to loosen.

This feeling was very obvious before, but now it is not so obvious.

Xiao Zhi didn't know why this happened.

Therefore, he decided to suspend the game, calm down and consolidate his previous feeling.

Changshan Realm.

This is the world where Jing Yuan was born and where he grew up.

In the prosperous Jing clan territory, in the reception hall specially used to entertain distinguished guests, the clan leader of the Jing clan, accompanied by several clan elders, was meeting the distinguished guests.

The patriarch of the Jing clan is a burly middle-aged man with a majestic square face. He is facing Xiao Zhi, Emperor Meng Tian, ​​the Great and Powerful Buddha and other people from the Origin Heaven.

Of course, those who came were just clones.

Although they were just clones, they were enough to make the patriarch of the Jing clan feel terrified.

He was just a low-level deity. In this small Changshan Realm, he could dominate and protect his people. However, these 'uninvited guests' before him all exuded the terrifying aura of a high-level god.

This high-level god-level aura was not deliberately emitted by Xiao Zhi and the others, it could only be said to have been leaked inadvertently, but it was terrifying enough.

Seeing that the chief of the Jing clan was so nervous that even his hand holding the teacup was shaking uncontrollably, Xiao Zhi smiled faintly and said, "Chief Jing, there is no need to be like this. We came here with no ill intentions. We just want to ask you something."

The chief of the Jing clan forced a smile on his face and said, "If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. As long as I know something, I will tell you everything I know!"

Several elders sitting next to him also echoed his words, their attitudes respectful but with a hint of flattery.

Xiao Zhi picked up the teacup in his hand, blew gently, and then took a sip. He could smell the fragrance of the tea, which was sweet in the mouth and had a long aftertaste.

The tea is good tea.

Xiao Zhi couldn't help but take another sip.

Emperor Meng Tian, ​​who was sitting next to him, said, "Jing Yuan, should be born in your Jing family, right?"

The smile on the Jing clan leader's face froze.

He didn't know what these people wanted to do by coming here, whether they were enemies or friends. With so many concerns, he didn't know how to start talking.

Ling Ao sneered and said, "Chief Jing, didn't you just say that you would tell me everything you know? Why are you hesitating and refusing to speak when I just started asking you questions?"

"If you ask me, there's no need to waste time talking to him. Just grab any old guy around him, search his soul and take away his spirit, and everything will become clear." Hong Zu spat out his bright red snake tongue and hissed.

The patriarch of the Jing clan is a nascent god, and they are all just clones. It may be difficult to search for the patriarch of the Jing clan, but these clan elders of the Jing clan are all just cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage. It is easy for them to search the souls of these Nascent Soul cultivators.

When Hong Zu said this, the faces of the elders changed drastically.

The expression on the face of the Jing clan leader also became extremely ugly.

“Everyone…” The chief of the Jing clan forced out a smile that was uglier than crying, and said, “Don’t misunderstand, great gods. I was just intimidated by your divine power and lost my mind. Jing Yuan was indeed born into my Jing clan and is the pride of my Jing clan. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.”

Xiao Zhi took another sip of tea and said calmly, "Next, the two of you should stop talking."

"Oh." Hong Zu was a little unhappy, but still agreed.

Lingao's expression also looked a little unhappy, but he nodded and said no more.

"Meng, keep asking." Xiao Zhi said again.

"Okay." Emperor Meng Tian nodded.

Next, Emperor Meng Tian asked the Jing clan leader and others many questions.

The chief and elders of the Jing tribe did not dare to hesitate and answered truthfully to the questions asked by Emperor Meng Tian.

According to the patriarch of the Jing clan, Jing Yuan was born one hundred years ago, which was the first year of the new calendar.

Jing Yuan was different from ordinary people since childhood. He began to practice at the age of three, entered the innate realm at the age of four, and entered the Dao realm at the age of five. He is the youngest person to enter the Dao realm in the tens of thousands of years of history of the Jing clan.

Afterwards, Jing Yuan successfully attracted the attention of the Jing clan leader.

The patriarch of the Jing clan began to devote all the clan's strength to cultivating Jing Yuan.

Jing Yuan lived up to everyone's expectations. He formed a golden elixir at the age of seven, a Nascent Soul at the age of nine, and then perfected the law of time at the age of twelve, becoming the second deity of the Jing clan.

He is also the youngest deity in the entire Changshan world.

Because he became a god at a very early stage when his body was still not fully developed, Jing Yuan's appearance was frozen at the age of twelve and has not changed since.

Becoming a low-level deity naturally cannot be Jing Yuan’s final destination.

Afterwards, Jing Yuan continued to practice while traveling in Changshan Realm.

He became a mid-level god at the age of twenty-one.

He became a high god at the age of thirty-six.

Now, Jing Yuan has been a high god for more than sixty years...

During these sixty years, he defeated all the gods in Changshan Realm and the surrounding world planes.

Changshan Realm is not big, it is just a small realm, and the supreme god here is also relatively weak, only a middle-level god.

With Jing Yuan's strength, he can completely replace him and become the new supreme god of Changshan Realm.

But Jing Yuan did not choose to do so. First, the Supreme God of Changshan Realm had given him some help when he was cultivating, and Jing Yuan did not want to be ungrateful. Second, he was not interested in this. He just wanted to continue cultivating and strive for the realm above the Supreme God...

Standard protagonist template.

Xiao Zhi was listening nearby, his face looking very calm.

He has seen too many standard protagonist templates like this.

Almost every genius who rose from humble beginnings follows this template.

The difference is that Jing Yuan is more evil and more talented than the other geniuses.

The most important thing is that what Jing Yuan comprehended is the law of time.

"Where is the place where Jing Yuan was born? Can you take us to see it?" The Great and Powerful Buddha, wearing a golden robe, said with a smile.

"Yes, of course!" The Jing clan leader nodded.

He ordered the elders below: "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and clean up the place where Jing Yuan was born. The gods want to go over and take a look!"

"Okay, okay, clan leader." Immediately, a younger elder of the clan ran out of the hall at great speed, then soared into the air, turned into a stream of light, and flew into the distant sky.

The chief of the Jing tribe said with a smile on his face: "My great gods, please wait a moment..." However, the words just came to his lips and stopped abruptly.

  At this moment, is there anyone beside him?

All the great gods followed the elder to the place where Jing Yuan was born.

Soon after.

In front of a wing room in a quiet courtyard, the elder pointed at the wing room in front of him and said in a trembling voice: "My fellow gods, Jing...Jing Yuan was born here."

No one paid any attention to him.

With a creaking sound, the room was opened. Xiao Zhi took the lead and walked into this old room. Others followed in...

Origin of heaven.

Above the slightly rolling gray clouds, Xiao Zhi, who was sitting with his eyes closed, suddenly felt something in his heart.

He sensed that the Great and Powerful Buddha, who was sitting not far away, had left here silently, leaving only his body here.

Except Xiao Zhi, no one could sense his departure.

Not long after, the Heavenly Buddha returned to his position.

Xiao Zhi still sat with his eyes closed, and sent a message to the Great Power Buddha: "Heavenly Buddha, what did you find at the place where Jing Yuan was born?"

The voice of the Great and Mighty Buddha sounded beside Xiao Zhi's ears: "Essence of the Universe, little friend Jing Yuan was born when the world was first created. When he was conceived, there was an essence of the universe in his body, which was conceived at the same time as him."

Even Xiao Zhi could hardly control his expression after hearing the news.

He has seen many geniuses who are born with spiritual bodies.

This was the first time he had seen something that gave birth to the essence of the universe.

No wonder Jing Yuan's path of cultivation is like a cheat, leaving countless people far behind.

The fact is: he really did cheat...

  I came out of my mother's belly with a piece of the essence of the universe. If this isn't cheating, then what is it?

Moreover, it is not an ordinary cheat.

His cosmic essence came from his mother's womb, so it can be called innate essence, which fits him perfectly.

And what they found from the chaotic void can only be regarded as the essence of the acquired nature...

The innate essence...

The law of time...

Even Xiao Zhi was a little jealous of this lucky boy.

Although this lucky boy is now a hundred years old, to Xiao Zhi, he is still his junior, so it is not an exaggeration to call him a boy.

At this time, the voice of the Great Power Buddha sounded in Xiao Zhi's ears again: "I found that after the appearance of this friend Jing Yuan, my cultivation seems to have become smoother. Lord, do you have this feeling?"

Xiao Zhi was stunned when he heard this.

He thought of the feeling that the bottleneck in his cultivation had loosened some time ago.

Now that I think about it, this feeling seems a little strange.

After all, at that time, he had already passed the period when he had gone all out and used all his firepower to maintain the "order on the battlefield", so he was relatively free.

Moreover, he was not practicing at that time...

Xiao Zhi replied in a voice transmission: "Yes, I feel the same way."

The voice of the Great Power Buddha said: "Since the Lord of Heaven also has this feeling, then this matter is not my illusion."

Xiao Zhi thought for a moment and then sent a message to the Great Power Buddha: "Do you think this situation is related to the cosmic essence in his body or to his law of time?"

'It's not clear at this point.'

Xiao Zhi nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

He had made a decision in his heart.

He must take this Jing Yuan into his possession!

As if seeing what Xiao Zhi was thinking, the voice of the Great Power Buddha sounded in Xiao Zhi's ears again: "God, friend Jing Yuan and I are destined to be together. I think..."

As a result, before the Great Power Buddha finished speaking, Xiao Zhi interrupted him and said, "No, I also think that this friend Jing Yuan and I have a connection. I want to take him as my disciple and help him advance to the cosmic level."

The Great Power Buddha was somewhat helpless, and said in a voice transmission: "Lord, I was the first to discover the secret of little friend Jing Yuan, and then I told you."

Xiao Zhi replied in a voice transmission: "For a genius like Jing Yuan, even if he can't help me practice, I still want him to belong to the Dachang World."

After a pause, Xiao Zhi continued to transmit: "Once he returns to the Dachang world, I will be able to discover his secrets sooner or later."

The Great and Mighty Buddha was silent for a moment, and said helplessly: "You are the Lord of Heaven, I cannot snatch it from you."

Xiao Zhi felt somewhat pleased with himself, and said in a voice transmission: "Don't worry, if Jing Yuan returns to my Dachang World, I will place him in the Zhiqiang Palace for cultivation, and all of us will benefit from it."

Xiao Zhi has made a compromise.

He is not the kind of person who eats alone.

The voice of the Great Powerful Buddha said: "It is better to place little friend Jing Yuan somewhere else. Little friend Jing Yuan's secrets should not be disclosed, otherwise, once the confinement period ends, it may cause trouble."

Xiao Zhi thought about it carefully and felt that what the Great and Powerful Buddha said made some sense.

After all, the heavenly realm now is no longer a monolithic entity. Everyone has their own thoughts and is just waiting for the closed period to end before going their separate ways. Under such circumstances, the fewer people who know Jing Yuan's secret, the better.

Otherwise, once this secret spreads in the endless multiverse and attracts immortal-level bigwigs, it will be bad.

Xiao Zhi said in a voice transmission: "Then I will place him in Blue Star. My Blue Star will be open to you. If you want to see him, you can see him at any time."

"Okay." The Great Powerful Buddha nodded slightly.

At this time, Jing Yuan, whom they were discussing, was hanging on the Tree of Life, with green branches and vines all over his body, and it seemed that he was seriously injured.

Although the law of time is powerful, Jing Yuan's birth was somewhat too ordinary.

It is not easy for him to reach this point without any powerful magic or high-quality artifacts.

Jing Yuan, who was hanging on the Tree of Life to recuperate from his injuries, had no idea that his fate for the next period of time had already been determined in a somewhat casual discussion between two celestial bosses.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Xiao Zhi, who was sitting cross-legged on the gray cloud with his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes and said to the air in front of him: "It's almost time, let's start the third round."

"Okay, administrator." The system elf belonging to Xiao Zhi appeared out of thin air and said in an ethereal voice.

At Xiao Zhi's command, the third round of the Ascension Conference began.

At this moment, the ethereal voice of the Living Beings System rang in Jing Yuan's ears: "The third round of the Ascension Conference is about to begin. Contestant Jing Yuan, please prepare for the battle."

At this time, Jing Yuan was already sitting on the white cloud that belonged to him.

The ethereal voice belonging to the living being system continued: "Next, I will introduce you to the rules of the third round of the Ascension Conference..."