580: The Silent Changes

The Silent Changes

With the Dao Flowers falling into his body, Zhong Yue could clearly feel his True Spirits growing at an incredible rate. The Sui Tree and Innate Tai Yin Qi would ensure his True Spirits' advancements into the Innate Trie Spirits, while the Dao Flowers were the assurance that the two True Spirits would not be killed!

The Innate True Spirit was the prerequisite to enter one of the state of extremities in the True Spirit level—the awakening of the Innate True Spirits, a state of extremity only achievable by the innate spirit bodies.

If one wasn't the innate spirit bodies, they would never be able to cultivate this state of extremity, and would slowly be distanced away from the innate spirit bodies in the future.

This was one of the many advantages of the innate spirit bodies, none of the races could ever force do it.

Thus, when given the opportunity. Zhong Yue would do anything he could to get it done!

The Dao Flowers were consumed by the two True Spirits, boosting their powers.

When the 39th Dao Flowers was fully consumed, Zhong Yue's mortal body shuddered lightly. A marvelous sense of realization rushed into his head; his Golden Crow Yuan Shen was soaring and fluttering, totem patterns that were even more profound and abstruse than before emerged from its body!

The knowledge and abstrusities of these totem patterns rushed into his head; they were the innate totem patterns, far beyond the Great Sun Totem Patterns he has attained!

With the help of the Sui Tree and Dao Flowers, the Great Sun True Spirit has advanced one step faster into the Innate Golden Crow True Spirit!

Zhong Yue's heart throbbed in excitement, the Innate Golden Crow True Spirit brought a huge leap in his prowess. His attainments in the Great Sun and True Spirit skills were wider and deeper, even his controls over the Pure Yang Qi were boosted!

Furthermore, it was the sun that gave lights to the moon; with the succeed of the Innate Golden Crow True Spirit, he could feel his Star Toad True Spirit growing at a faster rate toward the innate state!

"Good, good! It's all worth my hundreds of years of cultivations!", Zhong Yue was overjoyed. He now turned all of his focus onto the Star Toad True Spirit. In comparison, his Star Toad True Spirit was more inferior to his Golden Crow True Spirit, its foundation was not as strong.

He didn't cultivate the Star Toad True Spirit as much as his Golden Crow True Spirit, and also because it was taken from Xiao Chuqing instead of him manifesting it on his own, it was much weaker than the Golden Crow Yuan Shen.

However, the Dao Flowers and the Innate Tai Yin Qi, in addition to the newly cultivated Innate Golden Crow True Spirit, the Star Toad True Spirit was enhanced at an incredible speed!

"Six more Dao Flowers left…"

"Two more…"

"Here comes the last Dao Flower…"

Zhong Yue tensed his heart, he was getting nervous as there was only one last Dao Flower left he could use, and his Star Toad True Spirit was on the verge of advancement!

He could feel it lingering just one step away from turning into the innate state, all he needed was a kick strong enough for it to advance one step further!

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Meanwhile, a divine tree with a leafy treetop has arrived in the edge of the Ancestral Star's galaxy. It stopped and rooted itself in the center of the sun, shrouded the sun core away with its tree branches.

Its branches have extended out in all domains to every corner of the galaxy; the Celestial Water Star, Celestial Gold Star, Ancestral Star, Celestial Fire Star, and eventually, the whole Solar System!

Then, the leaves and branches grew fainter as the whole divine tree hid itself into the void, turning invisible and imperceivable to the world. Ever since then, the fundamental principles that dictated the galaxy here were changed!

At the same time, a huge scroll was rolled out above the Solar System. It covered the whole galaxy like a screen of light.

The scroll first wiped the surroundings back into a state of chaos; then, right inside of the the scroll, the light and dark was separated within the endless chaos, the endless elements of nature emerged, and also the beginning of life—it was reenacting the birth of a universe!

Eventually, the Ancestral Star became one of the many stars and planets of the reenacted universe inside the divine scroll.

The Technology Divine Tree and Skymetrical Scroll were coexisting like a single entity; one changed the fundamental principles of the surrounding and the other replaced the surrounding of the Solar System with a whole new universe.

The two divine weapons arrived silently without making any entrances at all, they have already covered the Solar System even without any of the races' attentions.

Only some of the gods were able to pick up a slight sense of oddness; they looked up into the sky and found the stars lights blurred out for a split second as if a piece of silk has flashed over, but the feeling was gone in the next second when they looked back again.

On one of the moons orbiting around the Celestial Wood Star, Qiu Jin'er abruptly raised her head and gazed into the endless space, she felt an invisible barrier flowing across the top, but the feeling was vague and indistinct.

Like boiling a toad with a bowl of warm water, all of the livings in the Solar System, including the gods were the toads in the bowl of warm water. The bowl of water would be slowly boiled hotter, until the livings were unable to leave anymore!

"Lie Shan Clan, your little fire spark has burnt a huge hole!", on the edge of the Solar System, King Zi Guang mumbled in dissatisfaction as he saw the large hole present in the supposedly flawless Skymetrical Scroll.

He shook his head and sighed while randomly picked a star and tucked it over to corked the large hole. Hence, the Solar System has welcomed its eighth member that orbits around the sun.

"All done, I should go back now!", King Zi Guang laughed and left.

Ever since, the path of cultivation in the Solar System would slowly wane and dies off!

In the span of the next hundreds or even thousands of years, the elements required for cultivations would slowly extinct and the skills would slowly wane away. After 5,000 years, even the strongest skill and art might not even be able to light up a box of matches!

Six thousand years later, the path of cultivation will be deracinated and a new world of technology has arisen.

"Roar— Who are you?! Why are you standing on my path!", a loud holler of indignation rumbled like thunders.

When the last Dao Flower disappeared into Zhong Yue's mortal body, it was also the time when the Technology Divine Tree changes the fundamental principles of the world around. As a result, the Dao Flower was flawless no more, its totem patterns were defected!

The Dao Flower was formed by the heaven and earth, and it carried the will of the world. And when the Technology Divine Tree has affected the rules of heaven and earth, and bent the fundamental principles of the world, the Dao Flower was affected as well!

It was just a merest blemish that burgeoned in it, but it was nevertheless a crucial element for Zhong Yue's success, causing him to fail in cultivating the Innate Star Toad True Spirit.

The sudden absence of the Dao Flower's energy has surged instability within the newly formed Innate Star Toad True Spirit, eventually leading to its reversion back out from the innate state.

Not only that, the lack of the Dao Flower's energy has left a small window in the Star Toad True Spirit's protection. Thus, the Innate Tai Yin Qi was allowed to struck on it, and nearly killed his Star Toad True Spirit!

If the Star Toad True Spirit was unfortunately destroyed, half of his prowess would distinguish as well along with it, and he wouldn't be able to cultivate the lost prowess back at all!

The swimmer knows best of the water's temperature. Zhong Yue was cultivating with the help of the Dao Flowers, he was in fact, the first to sense the sudden changes that occured in the world.

He quickly kept the Innate Tai Yin Qi away without hesitation. Then, he looked up into the sky and saw an invisible barrier dispersing away into the void.

"What is that… a barrier?", he cast out the divine third eye to look again with the Fuxi divine eyes, and he saw it.

There were the fake stars and planets duplicated in front of the real ones, but it couldn't be perceived while looking out from the Ancestral Star. And there were the tree branches and leaves that extended all over the space.

"This…", Zhong Yue's heart pounded in terror, he mumbled, "How large, these leaves are… this is a layer of… membrane? Is this the end for the Ancestral Star, the thing what moon god has talked about? It's finally here… Xin Huo, can you glean anything?"

Xin Huo glanced around through Zhong Yue's divine eyes. Moments later, he shook his head and said, "I've got nothing. You are still too weak, I can only see what you see. The stronger you are, the more I can perceive. These leaves and tree branches, it's no doubt they are from a tree. By the looks of it, whatever this tree is, it is surely strong enough to stop all cultivation activities, but what is this membrane about?"

The innate moon god once told him that the Ancestral Star would be sealed from cultivations, but she never said in what way.

"To end all cultivations, how strong must one be to be able to do this?", Zhong Yue's face darkened. If all the cultivation activities in the Ancestral Star were ended, all the races, even the ancient celestials and demons would end up the same—the Qi Practitioners will cease to exist!

But the rate of changes from the divine tree was slow, it would take many years for it to happen. Right now, the livings in the Ancestral Star could still cultivate, and even ascend into deityhood.

The Qi Practitioners would still not extinct in the near future, but would eventually if the divine tree was not destroyed.

"We humans are weak in nature, it is only because of the cultivations we are able to stand a chance against the other races. If the cultivations are stopped, we humans will never be able to protect ourselves in the face of the celestials, demons and insects!"

The celestial race and demon race have high intelligence and strong bodies, they have a long history and firm foundations; while the insect race has the strong mortal bodies with terrifying rate of reproduction and adaptation of environments, they are only less intelligent than the celestials and demons.

In stark contrast, the human race was the weakest, in each and every aspect!

The end of cultivations would greatly impact the humans, more than any other races!

"Brat Yue, the Ancestral Star's fundamental principles are impaired, this place is not suitable for cultivation anymore.", Xin Huo said decisively, "You need to leave this place already, either to the Kun Lun Realm, or activate the Heavenly Monarch Imperial Road in the Celestial Fire Star to go to the Zi Wei Galaxy. Force cultivating in a flawed environment like this will also leave flaws in your cultivation base!"

Zhong Yue nodded softly, he had the same thought a long time ago as well. He was already reaching to the limit of the Ancestral Star, he could feel the restraints acting him, like a dragon trapped in a small pool.

Now, he could finish traveling across the whole Ancestral Star in just less than three days, and he could stride across the ocean in two hours time. The Ancestral Star that seemed to be huge in the past now appeared to be incredibly small.2

A dragon would never be able to grow mighty enough in a small pool of water.

"But, if I've leave just like that, what will happen to the humans?", Zhong Yue mumbled softly, he raised his head up and said, "The cultivations are the only thing we rely on to protect ourselves, and with it gone in the future, our people will not stand a chance to live well in this cruel world… Xin Huo, I will leave with you, but before that, I need to do that one thing I have been wanting to do a long time ago."

"What thing?", Xin Huo asked curiously.

Zhong Yue inhaled deeply and sighed, his voice suddenly turned colder than ice as he said, "A blood ritual, one like what the evil existence had done to us Fuxi. With the blood of the celestials, demons and insects, I will execute a ritual to seal all of them into the likes of us humans!"

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