Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin: I Set Taboos in the Heavens

The sacred spirit stone shimmered with nine-colored light in his palm, its inner galaxy swirling, each burst of light seemingly resonating with the laws of the universe.

Fang Qing sat cross-legged in the secret chamber deepest in Saint Peak, where he had set up layers of Five Elements Yin Yang Domain barriers to isolate him from all prying eyes.

"A single Saint-grade spirit stone is enough to drive a legendary ninth-stage expert mad, and even help a newly-entered Great Saint stabilize their realm. But it's not enough for me; the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Technique is still too late."

Fang Qing focused his gaze on the 840 million void orbits within his body. Countless void channels glowed faintly like the veins of stars, and filling them would still be quite difficult.

The answer is that they consume resources.

"The road must be taken step by step."

With a calm and tranquil mind, Fang Qing placed the sacred spirit stone above his dantian, using its pure and supreme energy field as a guide to refine and purify his existing abundant true qi and understanding of the laws.

This is like using the purest spring water to wash an already exquisite jade again and again, making it even more flawless.

At the same time, he did not completely shut himself away.

As a saint, he knew that the Celestial Academy was at a critical juncture of unprecedented change.

With the revival of the Lesser Universe Realm, a massive influx of advanced primordial energy has brought unprecedented abundance of resources to the academy. But how should these resources be allocated?
How can we guide our disciples to make good use of resources and improve their moral character instead of fostering arrogance, extravagance, and debauchery? These are urgent questions.

He would emerge from seclusion every few days to communicate with the many disciples of the Discipline Hall through divine sense, listen to their reports, and issue instructions.

He pushed the academy's leadership to pass the "Resource Grading and Merit Allocation System," which directly linked disciples' qualifications to obtain advanced primordial energy and enter spacetime wormholes for cultivation to their completion of academy tasks and moral evaluations, breaking the past bad habit of monopolizing resources based on status and party affiliation.

He advocated the principle of "cultivating virtue before cultivating the Tao, and cultivating the mind before practicing skills," and personally gave several lectures at Saint Peak, using his own experiences to illustrate the relationship between strength and responsibility. The audience was huge, and many disciples were deeply moved, bringing a fresh atmosphere to the academy.

In addition to handling academy affairs, he also began to consciously travel across the bountiful continent.

This time, he no longer concealed his identity, nor did he put on airs. He often traveled alone, like an ordinary ascetic monk, traversing the mountains and rivers of the continent.

He had visited the newly emerging spiritual spring after the spiritual energy revival. The spring water was sweet and contained a faint spiritual energy, nourishing the local people.

He had seen once barren valleys sprout spiritual herbs and be turned into medicinal gardens by small sects.

He encountered demonic beasts that had gained sentience through the infusion of spiritual energy. Instead of killing them, he guided them toward goodness and cultivation.

He also visited some ancient ruins, feeling the vicissitudes of time from the broken walls and occasionally obtaining scattered fragments of heritage.

Once one's cultivation reaches a certain level, simply accumulating knowledge through meditation is no longer the key. What is more important is the understanding of heaven and earth, the observation of the myriad aspects of human life, and the verification of one's own path.

In this peculiar state of half traveling, half cultivating, and half handling affairs, his cultivation broke through the final barrier of the legendary eighth transformation without any hindrance, and steadily stepped into the legendary ninth transformation, the immortal transformation!
Even the crown prince is only at this level.

After the Undying Transformation, the next step is Half-Saint, and then Great Saint!

Of course, the so-called "immortality" does not mean true immortality, but rather that the resilience of the body and soul, and the stability of the life imprint, have reached an unbelievable level.

Severed limbs can regenerate instantly, serious injuries can be healed in a very short time, and as long as a trace of the soul imprint remains, there is a possibility of reshaping the physical body.

This is the beginning of truly touching the mystery of "immortality".

Not long after Fang Qing entered the Ninth Transformation, he once again entered the endless void to kill demons. He encountered several legendary Ninth Transformation ancient demons who were entrenched there.

These demons were naturally very ruthless, but Fang Qing was no longer the same person he had been before.

He didn't even use his full strength; he merely unleashed the Great Five Elements Divine Light and the Witness Divine Light containing the meaning of "divine purification," and he slew and refined the three legendary nine-transformation demons one by one as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

These demons, with their accumulated vast demonic energy and insights into immortality over thousands of years, are the best supplement and teaching material for Fang Qing, who has just entered this realm.

He used his divine will to completely purify the evil thoughts and impurities in the demonic energy, leaving only the purest life energy and fragments of the immortal law. After absorbing them, not only did his cultivation level become completely stable at the ninth transformation realm, but he also gained a lot of wealth.

A legendary nine-transformation immortal transformation magic core is still very valuable.

Ordinary people simply have no way of obtaining it.

Even within the entire Heavenly Academy, how many masters are there who have achieved the Undying Transformation?

So after Fang Qing killed several undead demons, he also went to the Western Continent and obtained many spirit stones.

All kinds of spirit stones, such as king-grade, emperor-grade, and saint-grade spirit stones.

There are even legendary celestial-grade spirit stones. Of course, celestial-grade spirit stones are not found on the Abundant Continent; they are found in the legendary Immortal Realm or the even higher realm of Hell.

Even so, many secrets of the world, and a grand map, are slowly unfolding.

The so-called Plenty Continent is a fragment of the Primordial Continent. Both the Plenty Continent and the "Primordial Fragment" spacetime in which it is located are extremely important, even strategic, cosmic space nodes.

Like a crossroads, this place provides a relatively stable connection to and jumps to multiple supreme planes that are renowned throughout the myriad realms, such as the legendary "Taihuang Heaven," "Lihen Heaven," and "Xiaoyao Heaven."

More importantly, deep beneath the earth of this continent, at the heart of ancient mountains, and even in certain folded dimensional spaces, there exist ancient teleportation arrays left over from antiquity that have not yet been fully discovered or activated.

The endpoint of these ancient formations may be those supreme planes, or a mysterious place that records a complete ancient star map and hidden coordinates.

This explains why the forces of hell are so persistent in their pursuit of this place, launching a "hellish monsoon" that has lasted for countless millennia.

They don't just want to devour a lower-level plane; they want to seize this key spatial node and transform it into a bridgehead and outpost for invading more higher-level planes.

The will of those ancient saints in the crystal wall system of the Abundant Continent is the tragic legacy of the guardians of this plane in ancient times, who voluntarily sacrificed themselves and integrated their will and laws into the crystal wall system in order to protect this node from falling into the hands of evil.

They had endured the torment of hellish winds and the corrosive influence of demonic energy for countless years, their will already on the verge of collapse. It was Fang Qing's act of purifying the dimensional bead that, like a torch lit in the darkness, completely awakened their dormant belief in protection!
Therefore, after Fang Qing activated the dimensional bead, some ancient spacetime fluctuation points in various parts of the continent that had long been forgotten or considered abandoned began to show signs of abnormal activity.

Fang Qing stood in the void, his divine sense like an invisible net, carefully sensing the subtle changes in the world.

He could sense that many previously closed and blocked spacetime wormholes were slowly but steadily reopening and stabilizing.

Even the spatial barrier of the Zhen Dan Continent, whose overall strength far surpasses that of the Feng Rao Continent, points towards the Feng Rao Continent.

During his travels, Fang Qing had already sensed the changes in the outside world through some special channels.

Some distance from the Bountiful Continent, there is a continent called the Zhen Dan Continent. The major powers, top merchant guilds, and even some desperate adventurer organizations on the Zhen Dan Continent have keenly detected the signals of the crystal wall system anomaly and the restart of the wormhole on the Bountiful Continent.

They acted swiftly, forming well-equipped and formidable pioneering mercenary groups, which were gathering and preparing to be among the first to venture into this "ancient treasure land that is awakening" through the newly opened wormhole.

Their goals were clear and greedy: to find the legendary fragments of the shattered Primordial Heart, to excavate possible ancient teleportation arrays, to plunder the rare and precious materials that had been reborn due to the revival of spiritual energy, and even to explore the military and colonial value of this node plane.

Any one of these gains would be enough to bring them enormous benefits and power on the continent of China.

"A storm is brewing, all living beings are suffering, there are too many maps, too many realms."

Fang Qing gazed into the void, his eyes deep and unfathomable.

The bountiful continent is about to be drawn from its isolated corner and internal strife into a massive vortex coveted by various high-level dimensional forces.

He himself has traveled to almost every corner of the bountiful continent.

He slayed the evil spirits that plagued humanity, enlightened the confused monsters, rescued the suffering people, and quelled the conflicts between the forces.

His deeds had long been known to every household and even deified through word of mouth among caravan travelers and monks.

Today, throughout the entire Bountiful Continent, from royalty and sect leaders to commoners and villagers, countless people sincerely recite his name, cherish his kindness, and regard him as the "Holy King" who protects the continent and the "Savior" who brings life.

In many places, shrines were even spontaneously built in the living quarters, with incense offered to the deceased every day.

This pure and intense gratitude, faith, and worship of hundreds of millions of people has invisibly converged into an unimaginably vast yet pure and gentle force of will among all living beings, like trickles of water flowing into rivers, continuously nourishing and blessing Fang Qing.

With the blessing of the wishes of all living beings, Fang Qing could clearly feel that his connection with this continent had become closer than ever before.

He could hear the flow of the earth's veins deep within the continent, feel the threads of prayers from all living beings, and see the aura of fortune gathering around him like a rainbow.

He even had a profound realization that he seemed to have become the "destined one" of this plane in this era, a representative and guardian naturally chosen, recognized and blessed by the original will of the continent when facing internal and external crises.

In this peak state of being revered by hundreds of millions of people, deeply resonating with the origin of the continent, and experiencing a surge of fortune, one day, when Fang Qing sat in meditation in the center of the continent, his body and mind completely merging with heaven and earth, his consciousness suddenly pierced through layers of the earth's crust, crossed the barriers of reality and illusion, and clearly sensed a call originating from the very core of the continent.

This call carries with it endless vitality and hope.

The heart of the primordial chaos!

Fragments of the shattered primordial continent's original core!
It's summoning Fang Qing!

"I truly am destined for greatness." (End of Chapter)