Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 69 Five Elements Ruins
Since both the Purple Wind Star Envoy and the Azure Robe Star Envoy had reached the Fish-Dragon Realm and could not enter the Five Elements Ruins Realm, Emperor Yi let them leave on their own to find a suitable Ruins Realm battlefield for training and cultivation.

He himself, along with Han Qiu and Zi Yuan, remained at the Myriad Realms Restaurant to wait.

As Di Yi drank his wine, he looked out the window. In the distance stood a stone statue hundreds of feet tall, a woman of exquisite beauty, dressed in a dragon robe, with one hand resting on a giant sword, her holy eyes gazing into the endless sky.

It is a sacred image of Empress Chi Yao.

Above the statue's head is a crown burning with crimson flames, and at its center is a golden circular disc, one of the most supreme time-space treasures in the Kunlun Realm, the Heavenly Wheel Seal.

The Chaos Myriad Realms Mountain was able to construct spatial passages leading to various Ruins Realms thanks to the power of the Heavenly Wheel Seal.

Next to the statue of Empress Chi Yao stands a slightly shorter white jade stele, which is the legendary Heavenly Ranking.

The Heavenly Ranking is a special sacred artifact connected to the identity token on the body of every warrior in the Heavenly Realm Ruins. It can monitor everything within the Ruins, record everyone's battle achievements, and display the top-ranked individuals on the list.

Currently ranked first on the Heavenly Ranking is none other than Huang Shenyi, with military merits exceeding six million.

Huang Shenyi had already become a warrior of the Void Realm several years ago, and was now fighting on the battlefield of the Void Realm, rapidly accumulating military merits in order to break through to the supreme realm of the Heavenly Realm.

Huang Shenyi is already amazing enough, but he is still far from the 30 million military merits required to reach the Supreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.

Military merits are hard to come by; one can only obtain one point of military merit by killing ten Earth Realm Great Perfection cultivators or one Heaven Realm Early Stage native.

From the mid-stage of the Heavenly Realm to the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Realm, each native killed will grant two, five, ten, twenty, fifty, or one hundred military merit points respectively.

Even the natives of the Ruins Realm who have the highest military merit points at the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Extreme Realm need to kill 300,000 to reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.

Huang Shenyi was able to accumulate over six million military merits because his cultivation had reached the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Realm, giving him combat power close to the Eight Absolutes, enabling him to fight across borders and kill the native inhabitants of the Ruins Realm in the Fish-Dragon Realm.

A native of the Void Realm at the first stage of the Fish-Dragon Transformation is worth 1,000 military merits; at the second stage, 10,000 military merits; and at the third stage, 100,000 military merits.

The Fish-Dragon Realm is extremely difficult to cross each level, equivalent to three realms in the four realms of martial arts.

Even Huang Shenyi could only contend with the natives of the Void Realm who had reached the third stage of the Fish-Dragon Transformation; killing them would be virtually impossible.

For the top ten martial artists on the Heavenly Ranking, killing the first and second transformations of the Fish-Dragon Realm natives is the fastest way to accumulate military merits.

However, this carries endless risks. After all, not all natives are stuck at this level. If they encounter native beings at the fourth or fifth stage of the Fish-Dragon realm, or even higher, then death is the only outcome.

After waiting for several hours at the restaurant, several figures hurriedly arrived; it was Ah Le and the four Zhao brothers.

Although Di Yi had changed his aura, his attire was almost unchanged from when he was at Tianmo Ridge.

"Meet the Master."

"Greetings, my lord."

Ziyuan curiously sized up the group, but said nothing. Young Master had been away from Huanyu Heaven for several years, and these people were probably taken in during that time.

Han Qiu looked surprised. She had met A Le in Yunwu County and was deeply impressed by his outstanding talent, which was second only to Zhang Ruochen.

I never expected that Ah Le was actually the young master's disciple.

"No wonder! I was wondering how such a genius could emerge from a small place like Tianmo Ridge." Han Qiu muttered to himself. Zhang Ruochen was the successor of the Golden Dragon, and A Le was the disciple of the young master of the Black Market's First-Class Hall. They were not cultivated by any force in Tianmo Ridge.

"You arrived faster than I expected," Di Yi said with a faint smile.

"Upon receiving the order from the master, we set off immediately. The deputy hall master did not come with us because he had to participate in the assessment," Zhao Quanzhong replied.

"Now that everyone has arrived, let's set off." Di Yi suddenly stood up and walked out of the Myriad Realms Restaurant.

To reach the Five Elements Ruins, one can only travel by warship of the Imperial Army.

Very few Heavenly Realm warriors ventured into the Five Elements Ruins Realm; even including Emperor Yi's group, there were fewer than twenty Ruins Realm warriors.

As Di Yi boarded the warship bound for the Five Elements Ruins, a powerful holy thought swept over him, majestic and sacred—it was the spirit of the Heavenly Ranking artifact.

Very few people know the secret of the Five Elements Void Realm containing the Five Elements Spiritual Treasures. The Heavenly Ranking Artifact Spirit is one of them. It already knew Di Yi's identity when he received the identity token. At this moment, it swept his holy sense over him without any intention of stopping him. It just wanted to check whether he was carrying anything that violated the rules of the Void Realm battlefield.

As the warship entered the Void Realm Passage, Emperor Yi felt a sudden lightness in his body, and in the blink of an eye, he had already left the Chaotic Myriad Realms Mountain.

After a violent spinning sensation, Di Yi felt as if he had fallen into an abyss. Then, a light screen appeared before his eyes, and the warship passed through it, appearing above a mountain forest.

After the warships delivered them to the Five Elements Ruins, they were driven back by soldiers from the Ministry of War. If they wanted to leave, they would have to wait for the next warships from the Ministry of War to come and pick them up.

Emperor Yi landed on the ground, took a deep breath, and sensed this unfamiliar world. The concentration of spiritual energy was less than one-tenth of that in the Kunlun Realm, which was very thin, and the rules of heaven and earth were not complete.

In the lower realms, the heavens and earth are incomplete and the foundation is insufficient to support the birth of a semi-saint level expert.

The mid-level Void Realm can only support the birth of a peak half-saint. Even if a saint is born occasionally, he is only a saint who has just entered the saint realm.

The superior Void Realm is not too far behind the Kunlun Realm in terms of spiritual energy concentration and the rules of heaven and earth. It can support the cultivation of Saint Realm experts, and even Saint Kings and Saint Emperors can appear.

The superior ruins are the real extraterrestrial forces that can threaten the human race of the Kunlun Realm. They are closely monitored by the Ministry of War of the Imperial Court, and each superior ruin is heavily guarded.

The Five Elements Ruins Realm is considered second-best among the lower-level Ruins Realms. The strongest being there is probably only at the third or fourth stage of the Fish-Dragon Realm. It is not very dangerous, otherwise it would not have been used as an examination venue for the disciples of the Eastern Domain Holy Academy.

"Could such a rare treasure as the Five Elements Origin Spiritual Treasure really exist in a place with such sparse spiritual energy?" Zi Yuan was somewhat skeptical. The Five Elements Origin Spiritual Treasure was a rare treasure even in the Kunlun Realm, and the Black Market's Yipintang didn't have any in stock.

Primal Treasures are formed from the primordial power of heaven and earth. They are supreme treasures for martial artists, but for heaven and earth, they represent the loss of primordial power.

The Kunlun Realm possesses a powerful origin of heaven and earth, with the existence of a world spirit and a complete set of sacred rules that seal it off. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the power of the world's origin to leak out and condense into a source spirit.

This results in the extreme scarcity of primordial spiritual objects. Even saints would vie for a treasure land that can stably produce primordial spiritual objects.

Taking the Five Elements Origin Spiritual Treasures as an example, refining one of the Five Elements Spiritual Treasures will grant one the corresponding treasure body, allowing one to join the ranks of geniuses. Refining three of the Five Elements Spiritual Treasures will cultivate the Three Spiritual Treasure Body, which is comparable to an ordinary holy body. Refining four of the Five Elements Spiritual Treasures will create the Four Spiritual Treasure Body, which is comparable to top-tier physiques such as the Innate Extreme Yang Body and the Innate Extreme Yin Body. Refining five of the Five Elements Spiritual Treasures will transform into the ultimate Five Elements Chaos Body, granting one the strongest physique.

Of course, martial artists who can cultivate a three-spirit treasure body are extremely rare, but cultivating a single-spirit treasure body or a double-spirit treasure body is not too difficult. As long as there are enough resources, it is possible to mass-produce them.

Possessing such a treasure land is equivalent to being able to cultivate a large number of outstanding talents, which is an irresistible temptation for any power.

(End of this chapter)