The Lord of Yuanzhong who Devours the Starry Sky

Chapter 861 Acquisition of Military Merits, Research on the Mental Will System

As the first city for cultivators in the Dark Holy Realm, Hunyuan City is ancient, magnificent, and vast.

Furthermore, since the only large-scale Hunyuan Palace in the Dark Holy Realm is located in Hunyuan City, the number of cultivators in Hunyuan City exceeds that of the other four cities.

Li Qi and his two companions had just emerged from the large Hunyuan Hall.

"Daoist Yuanqi, Daoist Jifeng has prepared cultivation caves for you," Daoist Fuguang said proactively. "I will now lead you to the new caves."

"That will be troublesome." Li Qi nodded upon hearing this, and then led Luo Feng to follow Daoist Fuguang on their flight.

Just like when they first entered Hunyuan City, when cultivators noticed Li Qi's aura and appearance, their faces showed more or less astonishment.

Li Qi, Luo Feng, and Fu Guang Daojun ignored this, having already become accustomed to seeing so much since entering Hunyuan City.

Not long after.

When Li Qi and his two companions arrived at the location of the new cave dwelling, they could see many cave dwellings standing in an orderly fashion. Because the energy density of this place was second only to the large Hunyuan Palace, it was the most expensive cave dwelling in Hunyuan City.

Daoist Fuguang led the way, and soon they entered a cave.

Inside the cave.

"Yuan Qi, Luo Feng."

Daoist Jifeng and Palace Master Zhenyan were standing beside a stone table, smiling as they watched the three people enter the cave.

"Jifeng and Zhenyan, thank you for preparing our cave dwelling." Li Qi nodded his thanks and led Luo Feng and Daojun Fuguang to the stone table.

The group took their seats one after another.

"It's just a ten-thousand-year lease, nothing much." Daoist Jifeng shook his head slightly and said, "When I came to Hunyuan City, I had already heard the news of your return. You really don't hide anything."

“We’ve been hiding for too long, I don’t want to continue,” Li Qi said calmly. “Let them come as they please.”

After exchanging for the inheritance of spiritual will, Li Qi only had a rough understanding of it, but he knew that these inheritances would be useful to him. However, he would need to go into seclusion to study them in detail before he could know the specifics.

If it is truly of great use, then his Infinite Dao can continue to expand. Once the Infinite Dao is upgraded to the late stage of God Emperor, and he can control his massive divine avatars, what is there to fear from the current peak experts of the Dark Holy Realm?

In today's Dark Holy Realm, there is no invincible being.

The closest to being invincible are Long Jiu Daojun, who seeks to control more than half of the Origin World's Great Dao, and Ji Ke Shendi, who has fused with a world-class Hunyuan bloodline.

In Li Qi's opinion, both of them are good and have the potential to become world-class Chaos Origin Lifeforms in the future, especially Daoist Long Jiu, whose future is limitless!
……

“Ji Feng, Zhen Yan, Luo Feng and I have just arrived in the Dark Holy Realm and exchanged a lot of cultivation resources at the large Hunyuan Hall, so we need to go into seclusion.”

Li Qi said, "We want to acquire a large number of battle merits, and we need your help."

"How many battle merits do you want to buy?" Daoist Jifeng asked. "If you need them urgently, you need 130,000 Hunyuan Crystals to buy one battle merit. If you are not in a hurry, you can buy one battle merit for 120,000 crystals."

"Luo Feng, how many Hunyuan Crystals do you have left?" Li Qi communicated with Luo Feng telepathically and quickly determined the number of Hunyuan Crystals needed to acquire battle merits.

“No urgent need.” Li Qi replied after discussing with Luo Feng, “We plan to purchase one battle merit for 120,000 Hunyuan Crystals, for a total of 15 million battle merits.”

"That requires 1.7 trillion Chaos Origin Crystals?" Daoist Jifeng asked in surprise. "Where did you get so many Chaos Origin Crystals?"

"This is the reward from the Hundred Hearts Divine Emperor," Luo Feng said with a smile.

"Since you can produce 170 billion Chaos Origin Crystals, the reward that the Hundred Hearts God Emperor gave you should be 2 trillion Chaos Origin Crystals."

Daoist Jifeng sighed and shook his head, "They really are generous enough to exchange for twenty city-building tokens from the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm."

“Controlling a city with a long history is worth far more than two trillion Chaos Crystals,” the Palace Master Zhenyan said in a low voice. “As long as Emperor Baixin controls Fengbo City, he can continuously obtain Chaos Crystals, and it’s only a matter of time before he recoups his investment.”

"That's true, but to come up with two trillion Chaos Origin Crystals, even a late-stage God Emperor cultivator would probably have to empty his coffers," sighed Daoist Jifeng.

“I’ve heard that Emperor Baixin was born in the Origin World. I imagine that with his strength, he could control the entire Origin World and gather two trillion Chaos Origin Crystals with the resources of the entire Origin World wouldn’t be a problem,” said Daoist Fuguang.

Upon hearing this, Daoist Jifeng's expression turned strange. He said, "I heard that a world-class Chaos Origin Treasure and several fragments of Chaos Origin Life have flowed into the Dark Holy Realm. Could it be that Emperor Baixin sold them?"

"That's possible," the Palace Master Zhenyan nodded.

Li Qi was not surprised to hear this. With the strength of the Hundred Hearts God Emperor, if he wanted to raise two trillion Chaos Origin Crystals, he would have to sell the Chaos Origin Secret Treasures and Chaos Origin Life Remains on his body.

“We can help you acquire them, but we don’t have that many Chaos Origin Crystals,” Daoist Jifeng said with a smile. “You’ll have to deliver at least half of the Chaos Origin Crystals in advance.”

As a powerful figure who has controlled Fengbo City for countless years, Daojun Jifeng is richer than many peak experts. However, he has also used a lot of Hunyuan Crystals, so he doesn't have many Hunyuan Crystals left.

“No problem.” Li Qi nodded slightly, then handed over the storage treasure containing 850 billion Chaos Origin Crystals.

"Wait for our good news." Daoist Jifeng accepted the storage treasure. "If you cultivate in seclusion for thousands of years, fifteen million battle merits should be enough to acquire the entire collection."

"Thank you," Li Qi nodded in thanks.

“It’s just a small matter, and we can even make a profit.” Daoist Jifeng stood up. “I won’t disturb your cultivation any longer. Farewell.”

After the Extreme Wind Daoist and the Palace Master of the Array Glow departed, the Floating Light Daoist also tactfully rose to say goodbye, leaving only Li Qi and his disciple in the cave.

Luo Feng watched as Daoist Jifeng and the other two departed, a hint of doubt in his eyes. He could tell that his teacher trusted Daoist Jifeng very much, giving away 850 billion Chaos Origin Crystals so readily.

Li Qi saw through Luo Feng's thoughts and explained, "Ji Feng seeks to break free from constraints and will not abandon our friendship for 85 million Hunyuan Crystals."

"Because the teacher was once invincible?" Luo Feng asked curiously.

"Not only that, it's also because of our potential," Li Qi said softly.

Luo Feng nodded thoughtfully. He had become a peak expert in Fengbo City in less than ten thousand years, which was indeed enough to make Daoist Jifeng take him seriously.

“We’ll each take half of the energy access to this cave.” Li Qi picked up the cave token on the table and began to refine it.

Then, with a thought, the cave was immediately divided into three areas, the smallest of which was the common area where they were, and the remaining vast space was divided into two halves.

"I've exchanged a lot of inheritance resources from the Hunyuan Palace and need to go into seclusion to cultivate," Li Qi said, then headed towards the left side of the space. "If you're stuck in a bottleneck and can't break through, you can try to comprehend higher-level Hunyuan life forms." Luo Feng was taken aback upon hearing this, but gradually understood.

"Yes, we cultivators who grope in the darkness take the Primordial Life as our lighthouse, comprehend the profound mysteries of the Great Dao contained within it, and continue to move forward in the darkness."

"The reason why I am stuck in the bottleneck of the Great Dao of Life and Death is because my divine body is too large to control. The bodies of the Primordial Beings are even larger, and they can control their enormous bodies with ease. There must be some kind of mystery within them that I do not understand!"

Luo Feng's eyes lit up. "The remains of high-level Chaos Origin life forms are precious. I need to use my Chaos Origin Crystals to buy battle merits, but low-level Chaos Origin life forms also have huge bodies. Perhaps they also have the mysteries I need."

With that thought in mind, he decided to go to the shops in Hunyuan City to see if they had the low-level Hunyuan life forms he needed. If not, he would go hunting in the wilderness on his own.

With his strength surpassing that of ordinary peak experts, he only needs to find Daoist Fuguang to guide him to the wilderness for hunting, and then share a portion of the hunt's spoils with him.

Afterwards, Luo Feng refined the token on the table, gaining the right to freely enter the cave. He then contacted Daoist Fuguang through the communication token and left the cave.

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the other side.

After Li Qi entered his own space, the space immediately changed with a thought.

A vast, boundless grassland appeared, with only one tent in the middle of it—this was where he secluded himself for cultivation.

Li Qi entered the tent, sat cross-legged, and carefully examined the spiritual will inheritance exchanged.

Even with his fast-thinking mind, it still took him a long time to fully understand the basics of exchanging inheritances, but he did not cultivate any spiritual or mental inheritances.

The reason is simple: what he needs to do is perfect the infinite path he has opened up. This path pursues the infinite growth of the divine body, the infinite expansion of the world, and the infinite evolution of life, so his own divine body must be incredibly large.

If one merely learns the transmission of spiritual will rather than integrating the spiritual will system into the infinite path one has created, then one's path will be flawed, one will have gone astray, and one will be destined to be unable to reach the semi-primordial level in the future.

"It really is a problem with my mental will. My use of mental will is too crude, which is why my control over my divine body is extremely inefficient..."

Li Qi thought to himself, "It is no exaggeration to say that as long as a divine body becomes large enough, it will inevitably need to reshape a new system of mental will, preferably by integrating it into its own Great Dao."

Those who attain enlightenment through cultivation construct their divine bodies using the mysteries of the Great Dao and integrate their mental and will systems into the Great Dao. This results in a more powerful and easier-to-control divine body, rather than simply relying on a strong mental will to forcibly control the divine body.

"According to these traditions, the mind and will can be subdivided and can be subdivided into various emotions."

Li Qi learned through inherited knowledge that some cultivators with a mental will system construct their divine bodies from a single negative emotional will, making their divine bodies and mental will extremely pure, and thus extremely adept at mental will attacks and defenses.

Of course, the cultivator lineage still focuses on comprehending the Great Dao, and the mental and will system is only an auxiliary cultivation method. It is a system created by the Hunyuan experts of the cultivator lineage, referencing the systems created by certain races or life forms in the infinite Hunyuan space.

It is said that the system of mind and will can be considered part of the great path of the soul!

……

"Whether it was me in the past or me now, I am a cultivator who has grown step by step from weakness, and I have complex emotions."

Li Qi pondered, "A single emotion-based will is undesirable, so the will must be subdivided and integrated into the divine body, each governing a different part of the divine body..."

With a preliminary idea in mind, Li Qi then released a clone, which only consumed a small amount of its divine power to condense a clone with the divine power reserves of the Infinite Divine Body of the Origin Continent.

"The energy reserves accumulated over nearly ten thousand centuries can finally be fully utilized."

With a faint smile on his face, Li Qi then used his clone, which possessed infinite reserves of divine power, to conduct experiments, beginning to construct a new system of mental will on his divine body.

time flies……

Tried again and again, failed again and again.

Having exhausted the energy reserves of seven enormous divine bodies, each with tens of thousands of times the energy of a perfect divine body, Li Qi stopped the experiment and began to ponder.

"Is it because we've taken too big a step that we can't achieve integration?"

He tried countless times to disperse his mental will, to separate the mental will of various emotions, and then to control a portion of the divine power of each emotion, so as to achieve control over the entire divine body.

These experiments all failed for the same reason: the mind and will could not be unified, and the efficiency of controlling the divine body was only slightly better than before.

However, the cost is that the mind and will are too scattered. Once attacked by the opponent's mental will, the divine body will likely lose control immediately, and may even collapse!

Is it integration? Or collaborative communication?

Li Qi fell into deep thought, "Perhaps the answer lies in the higher-level Chaos Origin life forms. Those massive Chaos Origin life forms must contain the secrets to controlling their bodies."

Despite thinking this, he did not rush to comprehend the three high-grade primordial life fragments he had exchanged, but instead prepared to open up the Infinite Great Dao to the late stage of God Emperor.

Because he has found a way to control his divine body, and he also needs a lot of energy for experiments, improving his understanding of the Great Dao and increasing his energy absorption efficiency are his current priorities.

Time flies, and two centuries have passed in the blink of an eye.

With the semi-primordial level of the Great Dao of Life and the Great Dao of the World as his foundation, Li Qi successfully opened up the Infinite Dao to the late stage of the God Emperor level by comprehending the low-level primordial life forms he had previously purchased that contained the mysteries of the Great Dao of Life and the Great Dao of the World.

In fact, the time he spent opening up the Great Dao was far less than the time he spent carefully studying the corpses of low-level Chaos Origin life forms.

After all, as his understanding of the Great Dao of Life and the Great Dao of the World improved to the semi-primordial level, opening up the infinite Great Dao of the late God Emperor stage was a fairly easy thing, which was only slightly inferior to doing it naturally.

"I have reached the late stage of the Infinite Dao. Next, I will study the remains of a high-level Primordial Lifeform. I hope I will make some discoveries..."

Li Qi first dispatched an avatar in the appearance of the Sky River God Emperor, carrying the remains of a high-level Hunyuan life form and the weapon Youlong on his body back to the Origin Continent.

This is because the Origin Continent possesses the world-class Chaos Origin Treasure, the Eye of Illusion, which can assist him in comprehending the remains of advanced Chaos Origin life forms. Furthermore, the Wandering Dragon also contains remains of advanced Chaos Origin life forms. These were all deliberately incorporated into the Wandering Dragon by the sect leader during its refining process.

Having completed all preparations, the avatar from the Origin Continent began to examine the remains of the advanced Chaos Origin life form that had been brought to the forefront using the Eye of Illusion.

Although both higher and lower primordial life forms are born from primordial life, the former are at a significantly higher level of life, making them much more difficult to comprehend.

However, Li Qi had already had the experience of comprehending the remains of a high-level Hunyuan life form, and gradually discovered the mysteries contained within one of the remains...

(End of this chapter)