Qin Renhuang just became an immortal, and you told me this is the prehistoric time

Ying Shaoyang was indifferent to this. He withdrew all the divine sense he had spread out and focused on himself again.

He stood atop the main island's mountain peak and began to circulate his internal energy.

With a thought, the "Subduing Dragon and Tiger" divine power rune, representing the ultimate power and restraining dragons and tigers, and the "Heaven and Earth" divine power rune, which enables the body to stand tall and upright, reappeared from the depths of his primordial spirit, emanating profound Daoist charm, and slowly merging into his flesh, bones, and internal organs.

Boom!

With the integration of the two Heavenly Divine Powers, a raging storm seemed to surge within Ying Shaoyang's body! The spiritual power stored in his cells and the energy condensed in his newly opened acupoints were like being thrown into two bottomless pits, beginning to be consumed frantically!
However, in contrast, his physical strength was increasing at a clearly perceptible rate, bit by bit! His muscle fibers became more resilient, his bone density increased again, and the vitality of his internal organs became increasingly vigorous!
"It really works!"

A glint of light flashed in Ying Shaoyang's eyes.

He discovered that he seemed to have found another way to strengthen his physical body. Compared to the body-refining techniques of the Yangshen world, he trusted the Heavenly Gang Divine Powers, which were orthodox Qing Dynasty inheritances from the Liaozhai world, much more! These divine powers were not only incredibly powerful, but their cultivation and operation were themselves an ultimate tempering and sublimation of the body!

He planned to test the limits of how these two supernatural abilities could improve one's physique.

However, just as the cellular energy was being rapidly depleted, a mutation began to recur!
Those acupoints that had been opened and stored some spiritual energy seemed to have developed some kind of instinctive need, and began to exert a powerful attraction on the primordial spirit located in the dantian between the eyebrows!

Ying Shaoyang's expression changed slightly. He could feel that his primordial spirit was shrinking under the suction force! Although it was extremely slow, it was indeed losing the most fundamental spiritual power of his primordial spirit!
"no!"

He immediately stopped the probing. With a thought, the two divine runes that had just merged into his body were forcibly separated, turning into two streams of light that returned to his primordial spirit and stabilized.

The suction between the body and the primordial spirit gradually subsided.

……

Meanwhile, in the depths of the Imperial Palace in Jade Capital, inside the Ship of Creation.

Emperor Yang Pan of the Great Qian Dynasty and Marquis Hong Xuanji of Wuwen sat facing each other. The screen displayed the scene after the great battle in the distant sea had subsided.

"This person's abilities are so great that he was able to force Meng Shenji to retreat, causing him to lose the Nine Flaming Dragons..."

Yang Pan's eyes flickered, and his fingers tapped lightly on the armrest of the dragon throne.

"Two consecutive emperors have fallen at the hands of Meng Shenji. This villain is a major threat to our Great Qian Dynasty! If we can win him over, we might be able to borrow his strength..."

He looked at Hong Xuanji.

"Minister Hong, what do you think?"

Hong Xuanji's face was cold and stern. After a moment of contemplation, he slowly shook his head.

“Your Majesty, this person has a mysterious background and unfathomable strength. We know nothing about his needs or purposes. Judging from his actions, he is extremely domineering and dares to confront even Meng Shenji head-on. He is definitely not someone who will submit to others. If we rashly try to win him over, we may not only fail to achieve our goal, but we may also bring trouble upon ourselves. The difficulty is… extremely high.”

Upon hearing this, Yang Pan's eyes flashed with disappointment, but he also knew that Hong Xuanji's words made sense.

He sighed and didn't mention it again.

Hong Xuanji fell into a brief silence.

He felt that his long-dormant strength seemed to be loosening due to the series of stimuli today, and the bottleneck that had been troubling him for so long was showing signs of loosening.

His emotional turmoil caused by Meng Bingyun was once again replaced by his unwavering martial will.

A massive aura, heavy as a mountain and refined as steel, involuntarily emanated from him, causing the space inside the Creation Ship to tremble slightly.

However, the moment this aura emerged from the body, it was quietly blocked and absorbed by the power of the Creation Ship itself, and was not transmitted to the outside world.

……

At the summit of the main island in the sea, Ying Shaoyang sat cross-legged and began to form a mysterious and complex hand seal.

His primordial spirit power began to interact and circulate with his body's qi and blood, and the energy of his acupoints, in a deeper and more precise way.

During his cultivation just now, he had already opened up more than half of the acupoints in his body.

But at that moment, he stopped on his own.

"The body began to instinctively suppress the primordial spirit, and even absorb its spiritual power..."

Ying Shaoyang frowned slightly, sensing that the delicate balance within his body was being disrupted.

"If this continues, and all the acupoints are fully opened and the blood and qi become extremely vigorous, the primordial spirit will probably not be able to survive in this powerful physical body for long. It will either be rejected or assimilated and absorbed."

He finally understood how correct and prescient he had been in consistently cultivating essence, energy, and spirit simultaneously, and striving to maintain a balance among them. Pure physical strength to the extreme might suppress the spirit; while pure spiritual strength, without the support of a robust physique, is like a rootless duckweed.

"However, spiritual energy does become more condensed and pure after it flows and is tempered through the body."

He observed that the spiritual energy, guided by the incantation, flowed through his limbs and numerous acupoints before returning to his primordial spirit, and its quality had noticeably improved.

The hand seals in his hands were perfectly synchronized with the fluctuations of his primordial spirit. With each hand seal he cast, the light of his primordial spirit would become slightly more concentrated, and its size would shrink imperceptibly.

This is not a loss, but a deeper level of refinement.

Back in the Qin Imperial Palace, he was able to grow his primordial spirit to a height of over a thousand meters by using the power of the world's core, but that was more of an accumulation of quantity.

Now, what he needs to do is to truly integrate spiritual energy with the primordial spirit, eliminate the dross and retain the essence, and achieve a qualitative leap.

His gaze swept over the star-shaped bead floating to the side.

Inside the sphere, the hundreds of thousands of starlight and shadows had completely stabilized, their light constant and interconnected, forming a mysterious balance. This meant that at least hundreds of thousands of sea monsters and sea demons had become sacrifices for the formation of this magical artifact.

In the distant sea, the number of sea beasts attracted by the medicinal herbs has decreased significantly. Clearly, the previous frenzied "harvesting" and the retreat of the Silver Shark King have temporarily plunged the ecology of this sea area into a slump.

"The starlight is stable and balanced... This treasure is not far from being fully formed and displaying its true power."

Ying Shaoyang was filled with anticipation.

Just then, a voice suddenly rang out from the outer edge of the formation, breaking the tranquility of the sea and sky.

"By order of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty, I have come to pay my respects to the Immortal! I humbly request that the Immortal appear and have a conversation with me!"

A general dressed in the standard armor of the Great Qian Dynasty, whose cultivation level was roughly at the Grandmaster level, stood at the bow of a warship flying the flag of the Great Qian Dynasty. Facing the island shrouded in mist, he gathered his inner strength, bowed respectfully, and shouted loudly.

However, before he could finish speaking—

Boom!

Without warning, a bolt of lightning struck down from the clear sky, hitting the warship precisely! In the blinding flash of lightning, the general and the entire warship instantly turned to ashes, disappearing without a trace, leaving not even a speck of dust behind.

Immediately afterwards, a chilling word, imbued with supreme authority and rage, reverberated like thunder across the sea for thousands of miles around.

"roll--!"

Wherever the sound waves passed, the sea surface caved in, and the invisible probing thoughts that permeated the air vanished instantly, like ice and snow exposed to the scorching sun! Some experts who were hiding in the shadows and trying to spy on the situation all groaned, their souls injured, and they were so frightened that they dared not stay for even a moment longer.

The next moment, the powerful and imposing Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Array that covered the sea suddenly shrank, turned into a stream of light, flew back to Ying Shaoyang's waist, and transformed back into that seemingly ordinary jade pendant.

Ying Shaoyang himself transformed into a dazzling light, soaring into the sky, instantly breaking through the clouds and disappearing beyond the horizon.

"The nine-layered tribulation of lightning is a transformative opportunity for cultivators of divine souls in this realm. For me, it is also an excellent opportunity to temper my primordial spirit and comprehend the laws of lightning, providing the greatest assistance."

But we must wait until the springtime lightning tribulation manifests spontaneously…

During the high-speed flight, Ying Shaoyang's mind was clear. Now that the sea monsters had been mostly eliminated and the Star Bead had stabilized, he naturally needed to find new targets.

His divine sense perceived the energy beyond the Yangshen World, an energy far purer and more abundant than that of the Great Qin World, and a hint of envy flashed in his eyes. The foundation of this world was indeed profound.

His goal was clear—the stars!
Before long, a star, floating in the void, its entire body a dull yellow, lifeless and desolate, appeared in his field of vision.

"You are the one!"

Without hesitation, Ying Shaoyang raised his hand and waved it. The jade pendant at his waist transformed into a huge array diagram once again, unfolding like a sky curtain and quickly covering a large area of ​​this star!
The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation unleashes its full devouring power!

Rumble...!
The mountains, boulders, and soil on the surface of the stars were wiped away as if by an invisible giant hand, disappearing in large swaths and being swallowed, decomposed, and refined by the great formation! Inside the great formation, the 108 core star projections became more solid at a visible speed, and their area was slowly increasing!
At the same time, Ying Shaoyang also summoned the dark silver star bead, which hovered above the array diagram, emitting a hazy starlight that enveloped the desolate stars below.

Under the starlight, the stellar matter disappeared even faster! The hundreds of thousands of stable starlight inside the sphere also became more brilliant and condensed.

Ying Shaoyang looked at the star that was rapidly "wasting away," his eyes showing little emotion. "To form a grand array composed entirely of real stars would require countless resources and is unnecessary. My Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Grand Array has already formed its own array space with boundless potential. With continuous refinement, its power may not be inferior to that kind of grand array purely made of stars."

With a thought, he slowly channeled his primordial spirit into the core of the Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiends Grand Formation. This formation was personally crafted by him, incorporating the essence of many world-class artifact-making techniques. It was already connected to his mind and spirit, making it a veritable natal magic weapon. Only by deeply integrating his primordial spirit with it could he control it with perfect ease and maximize the true power of this peerless grand formation!
In the void, a massive array enveloped the desolate star, devouring it frantically.

Ying Shaoyang's primordial spirit merged with the array diagram, sensing its every change and growth.

His journey through the world of Yangshen is far from over; the plundering of resources and the strengthening of himself continue.

Under the continuous draining of the hazy starlight, the already barren star below grew dimmer and dimmer at a visible speed, as if its life force was being rapidly drained away.

Ying Shaoyang focused most of his mind on the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation, pushing it to operate with all his might.

Rumble…

The enormous array, which originally covered a radius of thousands of miles, began to slowly expand outward after absorbing a massive amount of stellar matter!
Inside the array, the 108 core star projections, like thirsty sponges, frantically absorbed the essence of various ores and soil that had been refined and decomposed by the array. Their area also continued to increase, and the star power they emitted became more and more magnificent and profound.

The millions of spiritual roots and herbs that were originally planted densely and vibrantly on the 108 islands have now become somewhat sparse and have gaps due to the rapid expansion of the islands.

However, the efficiency of these spiritual roots and herbs in absorbing and releasing spiritual energy did not decrease. On the contrary, because of the larger space, they absorbed more stellar essence and refined pure energy, and grew even stronger.

After an unknown amount of time, the swallowed star finally reached its limit.

Bang! ! !
A deep, muffled roar, seemingly emanating from within the star's core, echoed through the void! The entire star could no longer maintain its structure and exploded, turning into countless fragments and dust!
The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Array, which had already expanded to a radius of more than two thousand miles, seemed to have been prepared in advance. The array diagram shone brightly and generated a powerful suction force, like a giant whale sucking in water, drawing all the shattered star fragments containing rich minerals and energy into the array space!
At the same time, Ying Shaoyang keenly sensed that the massive amount of incense and spiritual power accumulated by the Taoists who migrated from the Song Dynasty world, as well as the loyal Jinyiwei and Dongchang inner guards, in their daily rituals in the Qin world were being rapidly depleted!
Although these priests do not absorb much incense offerings individually, they are powerful, mostly top experts in the Great Qin Dynasty, many of whom have broken through to the first level of life and even cultivated primordial spirits.

The incense and spiritual power they provide are of extremely high quality! The incense of an ordinary person may only be equivalent to the effect of a Nascent Soul cultivator refining a spell once, but the incense of these first-level beings or even Nascent Soul cultivators is almost equivalent to the effect of a spell refining by a cultivator at the Earth Immortal level!

Such high-quality incense and spiritual energy were poured in frantically, supporting the expansion and refining of the great formation.

However, even with such powerful assistance, when the formation expanded to a range of about two thousand miles, the rate of expansion inevitably slowed down and eventually came to a standstill.

"It seems that, given the current quality of the materials and the level of refining, a radius of two thousand miles is the limit that this treasure can expand to."

Ying Shaoyang understood immediately.

This is not due to insufficient energy, but rather the upper limit of the scale that the magic weapon itself can support at this stage, given its structure and materials.

Inside the formation, 108 main stars slowly rotated, and with each rotation, a massive amount of materials were decomposed, purified, and absorbed.

The illusory islands formed from fragments of the star continued to expand, but their total volume was more than ten times smaller than the original star! Over 90% of the matter was removed as impurities during the refining process, turning into cosmic dust. (End of Chapter)