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

Ying Shaoyang's divine sense acted like the most efficient scanner, instantly locking onto all abnormal energy reaction points covered by the array.

His attention was mainly focused on the main islands simulated by the core of the formation.

On one of the larger "islands," a towering goblin, over two meters tall and muscular, roared furiously at the chaotic scene around it, where people were going crazy and even attacking their own kind. Unlike the other goblins, it did not struggle pointlessly.

Instead, it suddenly swung its giant, fan-like hand, creating a fierce wind, and directly smashed several of its crazed brethren who rushed at it into a bloody pulp! The wind from its hand contained a savage power.

On several other "islands," several gaunt old goblins, wielding simple bone staffs or wooden sticks, behaved in an even more peculiar manner.

Faced with the chaos, they appeared panicked, but they chanted incantations and waved their "staffs." Instantly, some goblins formed thin, yellowish-brown light shields in front of them, barely managing to block the claws and bites of their own kind;

Some of them shot out a faint green beam from the tip of the stick, and the goblins hit by it visibly slowed down; one old goblin even summoned a small clump of floating flames, scorching the madmen who approached.

"It's you!"

Ying Shaoyang's gaze sharpened.

He could see clearly that the energy source of both the brute strength of the tall goblin and the weak spells cast by the old goblins did not come from the meridians or dantian, but from a special point within their bodies!

With a thought, he slightly adjusted the power of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation.

The next moment, the tall goblin and the other old goblins who were casting spells felt an irresistible suction force. In a flash, they were forcibly pulled out of the chaotic city and thrown onto a relatively flat open space at the edge of the formation below.

Ying Shaoyang's figure then appeared in front of them.

He immediately stopped breathing, as the air here was filled with too much filth and stench.

Without a word, Ying Shaoyang's powerful divine sense, like the most precise scalpel, instantly pierced into the bodies of these special goblins, carefully examining their physical structure.

Sure enough! Just like when he investigated ordinary goblins before, these special individuals also lacked the meridian system that humans have.

However, slightly above their hearts, there was a gem-like energy core, about the size of a fingernail, with irregular polyhedrons!
This energy core displays different colors; the core of the tall goblin is earthy yellow, while the cores of the older goblins are pale yellow, dark green, and crimson, respectively. The core is not isolated; several thick, simple energy channels extend from it, connecting the limbs and head.

Ying Shaoyang instantly understood.

This energy core can directly absorb and purify the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which is used to subtly strengthen the host's body, explaining why goblins are naturally strong.

On the other hand, when needed, the host can release the energy stored in the core in a crude way through those few simple energy channels to form a power amplification or basic elemental attack!
"This... is similar to the magic core of a magical beast? But it is fundamentally different from the golden core condensed by human cultivators or the primordial spirit condensed by martial artists."

Ying Shaoyang understood. The human cultivation system, whether it is the Golden Core or the Primordial Spirit, is a high-level integration and sublimation of one's own essence, energy, and spirit. It is a leap in the level of life and a resonance with the laws of heaven and earth.

This energy core is more like a naturally formed, highly efficient energy conversion and storage organ, leaning more towards innate instinct and lacking an understanding and application of the "Tao".

To verify, he once again scanned the millions of goblins in the city with his divine sense.

He precisely identified several hundred individuals whose life strength had broken through to the first level. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that only a small portion of them had begun to condense the rudiments of this energy core within their bodies, while most of the goblins that had reached the first level of strength still had empty cores, their only difference being their superior physical attributes.

"Sure enough!"

Ying Shaoyang was completely relieved.

"This energy core is not a product of systematic cultivation techniques, but more like a bloodline mutation or individual evolution caused by some kind of coincidence! It is an extremely low probability event."

In this way, his biggest concern was eliminated. The goblin world may have a very small number of individuals with special talents, but it has not formed a widespread cultivation civilization capable of training strong individuals on a large scale.

Their development model remains centered on their terrifying numbers and strong basic constitution.

At this moment, under the continuous suppression and energy extraction of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation, the goblins in the city completely descended into hysterical madness.

They no longer distinguished friend from foe, frantically attacking anything moving around them, whether it was their own kind or their hut. Terrified screams, dying wails, the sound of bones cracking, and brutal trampling as they fought for escape routes... transformed this area into a true hell on earth.

Ying Shaoyang hovered in mid-air, coldly looking down at the bloody and chaotic scene below.

He clearly recognized that the rules of this world were simple yet cruel—the most primitive law of the jungle. Might is everything; the strong possess everything, and the weak can only be devoured.

The so-called camps, small towns, and big cities, beneath their seemingly social systems, still conceal a naked survival of the fittest.

He thought of goblins, pigmen, and perhaps other similar races, with their terrifying rate of reproduction.

If we consider them as the main characters in the world, their total number would probably be astronomical—hundreds of billions? Trillions? It's all possible.

"If I were to activate the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation and annihilate all the goblins and pigmen in this world, their immense life energy and soul essence might truly allow the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation to break through in one fell swoop and be promoted to a true immortal artifact..."

A thought flashed through Ying Shaoyang's mind.

But he immediately shook his head, rejecting the idea. First of all, while immortal artifacts are indeed powerful, forcibly enhancing them through such bloody slaughter would likely cause the malevolent energy and resentment they contain to erode one's mind and spirit, which might not be a good thing in the long run.

Secondly, the Qin world has been at peace for a long time, and the generals in the army have long lacked the tempering of high-intensity, large-scale war, which is not a good thing.

They need a fierce battle, even one where they are evenly matched or slightly disadvantaged, to unleash their potential and break through their limitations.

With that thought, Ying Shaoyang slowly descended and appeared directly in front of the tallest stone house in the city, which originally belonged to the leader.

The room was a mess, with various bones scattered on the floor—pigman bones, goblin bones, and a type of slender bone he had noticed before, resembling a fishbone, covered in teeth marks and emitting a strange stench of decay and fishiness.

His divine sense locked onto the fishbone, and then he found more fragments of the same bone in other corners of the room and in some garbage dumps in the city. "Fishman..."

Ying Shaoyang murmured the name of the newly deduced race. Goblins, pigmen, mermen... these creatures share the common characteristics of rapid reproduction, low environmental requirements, and terrifyingly strong survival ability.

A slightly absurd yet extremely tempting idea even arose in his mind.

"If these creatures were introduced into the Great Qin World, their sheer numbers and energy absorption capacity might greatly accelerate the energy cycle and growth rate of the Great Qin World..."

But the thought only flashed through my mind.

He was well aware that this development model, which relied purely on quantity, had a huge weakness—a quality bottleneck.

The goblins that can condense "magic cores" within their bodies may be the elite representatives who, in the course of countless years of evolution, have been born by chance and are trying to break through the "quality" barrier in this world that is trying to break through the dimension with quantity.

However, such a breakthrough seems too random and primitive at present.

However, such a breakthrough seems too random and primitive at present.

Ying Shaoyang took a step forward, and his figure already appeared inside the tallest stone house. The house was filled with a strong, pungent, and putrid stench, and various gnawed bones were scattered on the ground.

His gaze first fell on the head of the house, where a relatively complete set of rough armor made of some kind of black metal and thick leather was placed, next to which leaned a double-edged battle axe that was much larger than that used by ordinary goblins.

Dark red bloodstains remained on the axe blade, emanating a fierce aura.

"This should be the equipment of the city's leader."

Ying Shaoyang examined the outfit. It did indeed have some symbolic meaning of a warrior, but when he thought of the fear and helplessness of those goblins with energy cores when they faced him, he felt that this armor and weapon were really hard to reconcile with their temperament, as if a child was wielding a sledgehammer.

His gaze shifted to the wall to one side. A huge, roughly drawn picture was painted on the wall using some kind of mineral pigment. The main subject of the picture consisted of countless tiny dots, which formed several irregular areas, separated by simple circles.

In different areas, goblins, pigmen, and a fish-headed humanoid creature are depicted with simpler strokes, accompanied by symbols representing minerals and food.

In one corner of this "map", a small dot was deliberately painted over repeatedly with a dark color, making it stand out.

Next to this small dot is a depiction of an exceptionally strong goblin wielding a giant axe, seemingly symbolizing some special existence.

Ying Shaoyang had no interest in carefully interpreting the specific information contained in this original "map," which might mark other large settlements, mineral veins, or dangerous areas.

With a wave of his hand, he collected the entire wall panel, along with the paintings on it, the suit of armor, and the giant axe, into the stone gate space, to be analyzed by specialists later.

He walked through a narrow passage at the back of the house, and suddenly a huge warehouse, carved into the mountainside, appeared before him.

The scale of this warehouse far exceeds that of the cave in the small town before; it has almost hollowed out half of the mountain!
Inside the warehouse, piles of metal ores of various colors were haphazardly stacked like small mountains, exuding a strong metallic odor. Next to them were even more numerous and heavier weapons: giant hammers, spiked clubs, long-handled battle axes... Many of these weapons were so large that they seemed completely undesigned for a creature the size of a goblin.

"It seems that the creatures in this world vary greatly in size."

Ying Shaoyang recalled the goblin weapons he had seen before, and compared them with the ones in front of him, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

The casting style of this world seems to particularly favor the enormous and the heavy.

Without any politeness, he scanned the entire warehouse with his divine sense, and after confirming that there were no hidden traps or special items, he waved his hand again.

Like a whale sucking in water, the mountains of ore, tens of thousands of heavy weapons, and some equally huge, rusty suits of armor in the corner of the warehouse were all taken into the stone gate space.

"The abundance of mineral resources in this world is truly a natural treasure trove for our Great Qin!"

Ying Shaoyang sighed inwardly. The total amount of ore obtained from just looting two cities, large and small, already exceeded the total annual ore production of the Great Qin Empire! Although these ores were of various types and qualities, mixed with many useless rocks, he could use the Five Thunder Technique to violently purify them, taking only the most essential parts.

"Unfortunately, although the Stone Gate space is large, it is not infinite."

He glanced at the somewhat "full" stone gate space and decided to temporarily restrain himself, leaving more space for potentially more valuable items that might be discovered.

With a flash, he returned to the sky shrouded by the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends Formation. Looking down, the chaos and slaughter within the city continued.

Under the continuous stimulation and suppression of the array's energy, millions of goblins have gone completely mad. In their infighting, the ground is covered with a thick layer of corpses. At a rough glance, the number of dead and injured has exceeded one million, and the green blood has almost soaked into the cracks in the ground.

Ying Shaoyang's divine sense locked onto the several central "islands" simulated by the formation.

There also gathered some goblins whose strength had reached the first level of life, but who had not yet gone completely mad.

With a slight thought, a subtle yet precise fluctuation of his divine sense spread out like ripples.

"Puff! Puff!"

On the central island, the level one goblins who still retained a shred of sanity and were struggling to resist the attacks of their crazed brethren collapsed unconscious as if all their strength had been drained in an instant.

Ying Shaoyang raised his hand and gestured, taking the several hundred unconscious level-one goblins into the stone gate space. "Take them back and let Wang Jian, Yang Duan, and the others have a good 'experience' of what their future opponents will be like. Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated."

After doing all this, he considered that the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Array was in a critical period of transformation into a celestial artifact, and there were still 108 "Star Gods" being nurtured inside. If it were to be tainted with too much bloody and murderous aura, it might be inappropriate and affect its pure yang nature.

So he carefully controlled the formation, no longer actively instigating the killing, but instead gently pushed away the remaining ordinary goblins on the central island with the power of starlight, driving them away from the island's boundaries.

Without the special suppression of the core area of ​​the formation, these surviving goblins, like frightened birds, let out screams of relief and scrambled towards the city gate, or leaped off the tall city walls, fleeing for their lives away from the city without looking back, no longer caring about anything else. (End of this chapter)