Chương 24: Wearing Fur and Horns

"Projecting across the heavens, converging reality, dominating the timeline, creating myths... This is the Taiyi Golden Immortal!"

The scene of the birth and death of all beings flashed in Fang Yang's eyes. Every hair, every tuft of hair, every cell of his body was filled with magical power. He felt that he could destroy himself, a Golden Immortal, with a flick of his finger.

He couldn't help but sigh, "Overpowering someone's level is always stronger than challenging someone of a higher level!"

Cross-level challenges only occur before reaching the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. After reaching the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, cross-level challenges become an extremely rare luxury.

Some might say that the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation and the Celestial Star Formation can challenge even a sage, but that's just challenging!

"Challenging" means that the weaker party declares war on the stronger party and is able to withstand the opponent's attack to some extent.

Just like in a zoo, when a lion challenges a tiger, the person with permed hair can't beat the person with tattoos, but they can still paw at them a couple of times.

Saints possess inherent combat power, while the combat power of a Saint-level grand formation is generated by countless experts operating the formation.

In the short term, a Saint-level formation can hold its own against a Saint, but over time, those experts who set up the formations will not be able to hold out.

Fang Yang is now facing a similar situation when confronting a Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

His magical power allows his innate spiritual treasures to exert a certain amount of power, thus enabling him to contend with a Grand Luo Golden Immortal. However, he can only unleash his power explosively for a period of time. After that period, his magical power will be exhausted, and he will no longer be able to resist a Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

The gap in their levels of understanding is not something he can overcome at this stage.

So, is it possible for Fang Yang to fight to a draw with a Daluo Golden Immortal at the Taiyi Golden Immortal stage?

It's not impossible. He has the World Tree. As long as the World Tree grows to the point where it can absorb chaotic energy from a distance, he can use the World Tree to unleash the power of a Great Luo level for a long period of time.

If he could cultivate a powerful formation, he might even have a chance to defeat those not-so-strong Grand Luo Golden Immortals.

However, neither of these things is easy to accomplish; it depends on the right opportunity.

He wanted to wait a while before practicing array formations, as he hadn't yet decided which path of array formations to cultivate.

When all the array formations in the world are cultivated to their peak, they all pursue only a few kinds of power. The Zhou Tian Star Array pursues the power of Pangu's primordial spirit, the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Array pursues the power of Pangu's physical body, and the Xuan Tian Seven-Section Sword Array cultivates the power to reach the heavens...

The essence of these formations is to demonstrate the Dao through formations, using formations to reproduce the power of those powerful beings.

Therefore, before practicing array formations, Fang Yang must carefully consider his path in the art of array formations.

Cultivating the World Tree is also an incredibly difficult task.

The World Tree can only grow by devouring the origin of the world, but Fang Yang dares not devour the origin of the primordial world, or even the origin of a small world!

If he actually swallows it, he will definitely face karmic retribution.

He hasn't even earned any merit yet, but has already accumulated a lot of karma. How can he possibly attain the Great Luo?

Fang Yang can only take it one step at a time and hope for the best.

"Now that I've broken through, it's time to take a trip to the Eastern Celestial Realm. I hope the Azure Dragon Clan won't treat me like some kind of creature with fur and horns, born from a wet egg, and kick me out of the Eastern Celestial Realm."

The Eastern Divine Lord, also known as the Azure Dragon Saint Venerable or the Mengzhang Divine Lord, earned the name Azure Dragon because he often manifested himself in the form of a dragon before people.

In fact, Lord Mengzhang was originally formed from the Qi of the four elements of heaven and earth, and from the moment he was born, he had the responsibility of suppressing the four poles of heaven and earth.

A water buffalo is a cow, but a snail is not. Similarly, the First Dragon is a dragon, but the Azure Dragon is not.

After the Dragon Clan declined, they once thought of attaching themselves to the Azure Dragon Clan in order to steal the merits of the Eastern Heaven and cleanse their karma.

Thus, the Azure Dragon clan categorized dragons as "creatures with fur and horns, born from eggs in wet environments."

Within the Jie Sect, there were countless individuals of questionable character and moral depravity.

Fang Yang was also worried that the Azure Dragon Clan might generalize and include him in the list of "those who are covered in fur and horns and are born from eggs in wet environments".

"These creatures, covered in fur and horns, born from wet eggs, have tarnished the reputation of our sect. Once I reach the Great Luo realm, I will send all these scoundrels to the Investiture of the Gods."

Fang Yang felt a surge of murderous intent. He had a perfect start, but these scoundrels had forced him into survival mode. How could he not be filled with killing intent?

However, this matter requires careful consideration and cannot be rushed.

Despite his worries, the task still needed to be done. Whether for the sake of merit or for the greater cause of "seizing a glimmer of hope," Fang Yang was determined to give it a try.

Fang Yang returned to Qingcheng Cave Heaven and checked the Tianmu Hall. He found that the divine rice had produced eight hundred batches of divine grains, each batch containing three thousand grains, and each grain weighing about ten thousand jin.

Yes, a single grain of divine grain the size of a pomelo weighs ten thousand jin (5, 000 kg), which is the difference between a divine object from heaven and earth and ordinary grain.

With a quick calculation, he knew that the divine rice only yielded grain once every thousand years.

The ripening cycle of the divine rice is neither long nor short, but Fang Yang has enough rice seeds to conduct his breeding experiments.

"That's right! The more grain seeds we have, the higher the margin for error. But to promote the Divine Valley to all races in the heavens, we must find a way to shorten the growth cycle, even if it comes at the cost of the spiritual energy and essence contained within the Divine Valley."

The lifespan that the Goddess Houtu gives to mortal cultivators is enough for them to break through, unless they are so useless that they are eliminated by the Book of Life and Death.

However, their lifespan is still too short compared to Kamiya's maturation cycle.

Fang Yang cultivated the Divine Valley in order to spread it throughout the entire prehistoric world and benefit all races; therefore, the growth cycle of the Divine Valley had to be shortened.

Merit is not something that can be easily earned.

Fang Yang sorted out his purpose and then set off.

After the breakthrough, Fang Yang became even more adept at using the spatial laws.

As he looked out, the space in front of him automatically folded up, and the vast distance of millions of miles came to his feet, automatically condensing into a space thinner than a sheet of paper.

However, this is merely the most basic spatial law.

A truly powerful law is never singular; it must contain the mysteries of other laws.

In his sermons, Tongtian Jiaozhu mentioned that Dijiang's spatial laws possess incredible expressive power, including Yin-Yang spacetime, inner and outer space, three-dimensional space, four-symbol domain, and five-element celestial domain.

The spatial laws of others are like children playing house in front of Di Jiang.

Fang Yang was naturally no match for Di Jiang; his laws were only just beginning, but his spatial laws were more than enough for traveling.

Fang Yang hoped that his trip to the Eastern Pole Heaven would go smoothly, but things didn't go as planned. After one of his space travels, he witnessed a great battle.

On the shores of the East China Sea, a sacred mountain has lost its former auspicious light and aura. The entire mountain is now shrouded in a foul stench, and endless death has descended upon it.

Above the immortal mountain, a huge azure dragon coiled, stirring up the heavens and earth, causing the wind and clouds to change color and the sun and moon to lose their light, confronting a Taoist with an indigo-blue face.

"Lu Yue, in order to cultivate your Heavenly Fire Plague Locust Formation, you actually spread plague and cultivated poison here, killing countless innocent lives. You are utterly unworthy of being a disciple of the orthodox Xuanmen sect! Fellow Daoist Guang Chengzi is right, the Jie Sect is mostly made up of creatures with fur and horns, born from eggs in moisture!"

These words echoed throughout the heavens and earth, and were clearly heard by Fang Yang, who had just arrived.

Fang Yang was speechless. Guang Chengzi already knew how to use this catchphrase so early?