Dragon Palace. Lu Yang walked out of the treasury silently.
Suo Huan considerately closed the door for him. Then Lu Yang saw him silently snap the dragon head off the door and stuff it into his own pocket...
The movements were practiced and completely natural.
Lu Yang frowned immediately upon seeing this. Such sticky finger—who did he learn this from? If others knew, they would think we came here to scrape the ground!
Thinking of this, Lu Yang decided to criticize Suo Huan severely.
"Make a fake one and put it back."
On the other side, Suo Huan also noticed Lu Yang's disdainful look.
At first, he thought Lu Yang was dissatisfied with his behavior and was about to ask for forgiveness. But upon hearing these words, he reacted instantly:
So he thinks I'm not professional enough!
His own perspective was too small!
"It is this subordinate's fault."
Suo Huan hurriedly cupped his hands, then took out a piece of refined iron and forged it into the shape of a dragon head, striving to make its appearance and demeanor exactly the same as the original.
He then plated it with a layer of shimmering spiritual qi, making its exterior look as if it were crafted from rare treasures, before reinstalling it on the main gate.
"That's more like it."
Lu Yang nodded. Immediately after, with a wave of his hand, he followed Tian Qiu back the way they came, leaving the Dragon Palace silently through the secret path.
Until this moment, chaos still reigned inside and outside the Dragon Palace.
Lu Yang came quietly and left quietly, not taking away a single cloud.
I took away the Dragon Palace Treasury. This way, even if the Dragon Palace is breached, those robbers won't get anything. Consider it my contribution to the Dragon Clan!
Overseas, on a remote island.
"I need to go into seclusion immediately. All of you, protect me!"
Upon leaving the Dragon Palace, Lu Yang prepared to go into seclusion immediately. No choice; the harvest this time was too big. If he didn't quickly find a way to use it, his heart simply wouldn't be at ease.
But this shouldn't be the entire collection of the Dragon Palace.
At least the Dragon Lord's collection is definitely not inside!
Undeniably, the items in the Dragon Palace Treasury were precious one after another, but truth be told, few were useful to a Golden Core Perfected Lord.
But that makes sense. How could things useful to a Golden Core Perfected Lord be kept in a treasury? They must carry them on their person to feel secure... Moreover, the purpose of these resources is very obvious. Most are to help someone quickly elevate a Blessed Land to perfection, preparing for Seeking Golden Core.
Therefore, these resources were extremely useful to the current Lu Yang.
Enough to greatly shorten the gap between him and those veteran Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators!
After all, he hadn't even refined a Blessed Land yet. Although [Li Hen Tian] was called a Small Blessed Land, it was ultimately not the same thing as a true Blessed Land.
Originally, I was worried about how to elevate it to a true Blessed Land.
Now I don't have to worry!
In the temporarily excavated secret room, Lu Yang calmed his mind and breath. With a thought, he shed his human form and re-manifested the true appearance of [Li Hen Tian].
"...Begin!"
Without any hesitation, a full pot of [Heavenly One True Water] was poured entirely into [Li Hen Tian] by Lu Yang, highlighting sheer extravagance.
It must be known that a single drop of [Heavenly One True Water] was enough to nurture a Blessed Land, and it even required thirty-six days of careful refinement to exert its maximum effect. Pouring a whole pot in like Lu Yang did wasted a full ninety percent of the effect compared to careful refinement!
But for Lu Yang, the calculation didn't work like that.
Refine one drop slowly over thirty-six days? What I lack most right now is time! Even if there's only ten percent effectiveness, it's enough for me.
He won by quantity!
As for wasting....
Anyway, it was all gifted to him by the True Dragon clan.
Use it first, talk later!
Boom!
At this moment, Lu Yang clearly saw the huge changes in [Li Hen Tian]. Along with it, the five Divine Abilities he had cultivated also manifested in sequence.
[Exquisite Heart], [Great Unity Embodying True Qi], [Convergence Origin Art], [Uphold Heaven's Principles], [One with the World]!
At this moment, all five Divine Abilities were thrown into [Li Hen Tian]. Then, like ice and snow melting, they began to merge into a single whole!
However, just then.
Whoosh!
In an instant, Lu Yang suddenly felt a familiar gale whipping up from the void, falling onto [Li Hen Tian] like a thousand cuts.
Bi wind!?
Lu Yang's pupils constricted abruptly.
This was a tribulation that existed only within the Foundation Establishment Realm. Yet at this moment, as Lu Yang refined the Blessed Land, the bi wind actually blew out from the Foundation Establishment Realm!
Why is this happening?
No, that's not right... What is a Blessed Land?
The teachings of Chong Guang from the past quickly surfaced in Lu Yang's mind:
The so-called Blessed Land is an object formed by a Great Perfected One at Foundation Establishment Perfection expanding their Dao Foundation, using their own life-bound essence as the base and innate Divine Abilities to supplement it.
The essence of a Blessed Land is the Dao Foundation!
Every step of a Dao Foundation's growth requires undergoing the tempering of the Three Disasters. To achieve perfection, one must undergo the tribulation of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man to have hope.
The Blessed Land is the same.
Ordinary Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators probably don't need this step to refine a Blessed Land because their Dao Foundations have long since experienced these tribulations.
But I am different.
My current cultivation is completely rooted in [Li Hen Tian], achieved by directly absorbing the world essence of the Seven Luminaries Heaven using the Qi Gathering Method.
So [Li Hen Tian] has not experienced the Three Disasters and the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.
"And to refine a true Blessed Land, I must make up for this step!"
Thinking of this, Lu Yang finally came to a sudden realization: "No wonder other World Realms, like the Mystic Spirit World Realm, don't have the concept of a so-called Blessed Land at all."
No wonder this was something unique to this wretched place!
To fail a tribulation is to meet disaster; to endure it is to seize a chance bestowed by Heaven.
Boom!
The next second, before Lu Yang could react, a ball of Yin Fire ignited silently within [Li Hen Tian], seeming ready to sweep in all directions.
"...Good timing!"
Lu Yang dared not hesitate. With a thought, he immediately took out all the five elements spiritual materials obtained from the Dragon Palace Treasury, which were piled into several large mountains.
As soon as the countless spiritual materials appeared, they were immediately burned and dissolved by the Yin Fire, then blown by the Bi Wind to scrape away impurities, leaving only the essence to fall into [Li Hen Tian]. Gradually, they merged into this small Blessed Land, and with the input of spiritual materials, [Li Hen Tian]'s aura also gradually climbed.
Until a clap of thunder rang out.
Boom!
A huge lightning bolt fell out of thin air, thoroughly shattering [Li Hen Tian] and the many spiritual materials, which were originally somewhat disjointed, and then fusing them into one body.
Polished by Bi Wind, tempered by Yin Fire, enlightened by Heavenly Thunder!
The Three Disasters appeared in succession. If Lu Yang weren't already at Foundation Establishment Perfection, with the round light formed by the five Divine Abilities firmly stabilizing [Li Hen Tian], [Li Hen Tian] would probably have collapsed by now.
However, soon after the Three Disasters came the Five Decays of Heaven and Man!
The true body bred filth, the Dao foundation was stained with dust; divine abilities withered, spiritual power failed to recover, and inner demons multiplied in swarms. In a single instant, five distinct tribulations erupted at once!
As the fivefold tribulation fell, the originally bright radiance of [Li Hen Tian] dimmed instantly.
Lu Yang did not hesitate. He immediately threw out the fragment of the [Heaven-Covering Mystic-Cleansing Grotto-Heaven], tossing it into [Li Hen Tian] without any hesitation!
This Grotto-Heaven fragment was originally used by the Dragon Lord to upgrade the Grotto-Heaven of a newly ascended [Heavenly River Water] Perfected Lord. Now, however, it was used by Lu Yang to stabilize a Blessed Land.
It could be called the ultimate misuse of great resource, but precisely because of this, the effect was ridiculously good for stabilizing the turbulence of [Li Hen Tian]!
Boom!
Seeing this scene, the intensity of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man instantly rose another level, seemingly determined not to stop until Lu Yang was destroyed.
Seeing this, Lu Yang hurriedly pinched a hand seal: [One with the World]!
"..."
The next second, the disaster came to an abrupt halt.
Lu Yang could clearly feel that the Five Decays of Heaven and Man seemed to have been brewing for a long time, planning to deal him a harsh blow, but now they could only freeze in place.
Lu Yang smiled instantly.
[One with the World] was not omnipotent. Every damage transfer caused certain wear and tear on the Divine Ability itself, and it had to stop after exceeding the limit.
Moreover, the binding between [One with the World] and heaven and earth was not unbreakable.
At least Lu Yang believed that with the foundation of the four major powers, if their Dao comprehension was sufficient and they were proficient in the dao of karma, they could definitely come up with a way to crack it.
This Divine Ability was only unsolvable for heaven and earth, especially the heavily restricted heaven and earth in this wretched place, which obviously had no way to deal with Lu Yang!
"Come on, come hit me."
For a time, facing Lu Yang's provocation, the aura of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man swelled several times, yet stopped several times before the brilliance of the [One with the World] Divine Ability.
Finally, like a deflated balloon, all disasters vanished into nothingness.
Only Lu Yang remained sitting in the air. [Li Hen Tian] transformed back into his physical body, but from within this Small Blessed Land, a brand-new brilliance was nurtured.
Like a butterfly breaking out of a cocoon.
"This is my Blessed Land."
The next second, Lu Yang looked up at the sky. That brand-new brilliance was added to the center of his brow. Within the light, thousands of magnificent scenes appeared.
A name naturally surfaced in Lu Yang's heart:
[Xuandu Blessed Land].
At this moment, the [Xuandu Blessed Land] was like a lens. through it, Lu Yang's originally clouded vision clearly saw the appearance of this world.
"Holy sh*t!"
Lu Yang's expression stiffened abruptly.
He saw that the originally complete and unified heaven and earth was now like a huge honeycomb. Up, down, left, right—it was actually covered with huge holes!
The thirty largest holes were impressively the thirty Dao Fruits!
And the remaining holes of varying sizes were the Blessed Lands of Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators and the Grotto-Heavens of Golden Core Perfected Lords... This world was actually already riddled with a thousand gaping wounds!