The Midcontinent Immortal Collection.
Xu Qingnian slowly opened his eyes.
During this period of time, he had read all of Zhu Sheng’s books, understood many truths, and his entire state of mind, too, had been greatly enhanced.
It was not quite a half-step on the path, but it was a step on the path to sainthood.
But to truly walk the first half of the path, one needs to truly metamorphose oneself, and the only way to walk the first half of the path is to comprehend it oneself.
The Sacred Realm.
The supreme.
With understanding, Xu Qingnian also understood more and more why saints were revered by the people of the world.
As for why Wu Ming and the other First Grade, would say that saints were not that strong, it was mainly because, the world did not understand saints, and saints did not strike a few times, and even when they did, it was to subdue demons.
Naturally, in the eyes of the world, saints are favoured by heaven and earth and have absolute dominance in the area of subduing demons and removing devils.
But in reality, saints are beyond everything.
It is not that they do not understand this truth, but that they have not been exposed to it. Or even if they have some suspicions, how many of them are willing to admit that others are better than them as first cla*s?
But either way, it is undeniable that as long as one becomes a saint, then all problems will be solved.
In the valley.
The sound of hammering iron still rang out.
As Xu Qingnian opened his eyes, the voice of the Dan Shen Ancient Scripture also rang in his ears.
“Little friend, you are finally awake.”
The Dan Shen Ancient Scripture spoke, looking somewhat depressed.
“How long have I been in meditation?”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth and looked at the Dan God Ancient Scripture.
“It’s been a month before and after.”
Dan Shen Gu Jing replied.
“A month?”
Xu Qingnian frowned, calculating again that he had been here for more than a month.
It had been more than two months before and after, and he didn’t know what was going on outside now.
“How is the Dan refining going?”
Xu Qingnian did not dwell on this topic, but asked how many dans the Dan God Ancient Scripture had refined.
“Fifth grade realm-breaking pills, almost twenty thousand of them too.”
“Fourth grade realm-breaking pills, ten thousand of them.”
“Third grade realm-breaking pills, one thousand.”
“A second-grade realm-breaking pellet is not bad, a hundred.”
“Don’t even think about the first grade.”
The latter replied, causing Xu Qingnian to feel joy.
This amount was already terrifying, as long as he left the Central Continent Immortal Collection, Great Wei could have hundreds more second-grade martial artists, thousands of third-grade, and even tens of thousands of fourth-grade and fifth-grade in a matter of months.
This is very exaggerated.
After the number of pills was known, Xu Qingnian turned around to check on the refinement of the Divine Martial Cannon.
With the a*sistance of this group of ferocious beasts, a divine Martial Cannon appeared in all its glory.
The material of each Divine Martial Cannon was made of the worst quality spirit gold.
It was a strengthened version of the Divine Martial Cannon.
The current Divine Martial Cannons of Great Wei could only be released twenty times, and only about five times in a short period of time before they would collapse.
It has to wait at least a month before it can repair itself.
And it also requires year-round maintenance.
Now the enhanced version of the Divine Martial Artillery can be released ten times in a short period of time, but the limit is also ten times, but no maintenance is required, and the use period has been increased from twenty times, to one hundred times.
There is no way out of the material problem,wanting to release heavenly thunder all the time, the extremely high quality spirit gold is still unaffordable.
The strengthened version of the Divine Martial Cannons, at a glance, there were at least thousands of them,but these Divine Martial Cannons had not yet been infused with formations and needed to be tossed by Xu Qingnian.This group of ferocious beasts could refine weapons and condense formations, but they did not have the power of the major systems.
There were only fifty Immortal Gold Cannons made from extremely high quality Immortal Gold.
The extremely high grade immortal gold can withstand the power of heavenly thunder, so in theory it can be released all the time, more than one grade stronger than the divine martial artillery, the power remains the same, only the material changes.
But to compare the effects, these fifty immortal gold cannons are more powerful than these thousands of divine martial cannons.
The last one is the Divine Martial Cannon created from the Immortal Gold Root, which Xu Qingnian named the Heavenly God Cannon.
There were only two Heavenly God Cannons at present, mainly because there were few ore materials.
However, the hardness of the Immortal Gold Root was even more terrifying, and Xu Qingnian planned to continue to strengthen it in terms of power.
The number of Divine Martial Cannons was almost enough.
It would be enough to add a thousand more cannons, mainly the Immortal Gold Cannons, which would need to be increased to two hundred, and as for the Immortal Gold Roots, ten would be enough.
Thinking of this, Xu Qingnian told the group of ferocious beasts to start mining desperately, while part of them did their best to refine the formation.
After the cannons were ordered down, Xu Qingnian looked at the things the beasts had collected.
Most of them were some spiritual medicines, which were extremely valuable to individuals, but to Xu Qingnian, they meant very little, after all, he had the entire Great Wei behind him.
Only soon, among the treasures collected, Xu Qingnian found some seed rice ears, which were much better than the current rice ears of Great Wei, each one full and three or four times as many as the current rice ears of Great Wei.
Moreover, the quality of the rice was extremely good.
This kind of thing was better than all spiritual medicines and was a huge harvest. Xu Qingnian put these ears of rice away and then let the ferocious beast lead the way.
The next moment, he came to a plain and found that this kind of rice was everywhere, growing extremely wildly.
No one ever lived here, so naturally no one would eat it.
Without any hesitation, Xu Qingnian harvested all these ears of spiritual rice.
Of course, Xu Qingnian knew one thing clearly, that is, these ears of spiritual rice were born here, and each grain of rice contained a trace of spiritual energy.
If they were grown in the soil of Great Wei, they would certainly not have this ability.
But what Xu Qingnian was looking for was not this, but quantity, and growing such ears of rice was enough to withstand the pitfalls of a future population explosion.
Now in Great Wei, with the improvement of the Dragon Cauldron in the Middle Continent, the grain grown was enough for the people of Great Wei to eat, and there would even be surplus grain.
But this is because the population of Great Wei has not yet been completely boosted.
When it does go up, and triples or quadruples, it will be terrifying.
Food is something that any dynasty needs to prepare for, no matter how much the population is now, sooner or later it will be raised in large quantities, and with this, there will really be no shortage of food in Great Wei in the future.
Xu Qingnian harvested a large amount of rice ears, tens of thousands of mu, and loaded them into the Zhongzhou Dragon Cauldron to be distributed and planted on top of Great Wei’s land when the time came.
After this matter was settled.
Xu Qingnian then began to look for a way to leave.
Once the exit was found, everything could be prepared.
According to a few days of exploration, within the Immortal Collection, there was a valley that towered in the centre.
The valley seemed to have been engulfed in fire, forming ruins, and this group of fierce beasts did not dare to approach.
Xu Qingnian prepared himself, took the Dan Shen Ancient Scripture with him and rushed towards the valley.
Beyond the ruined valley, there was a straight pa*sage.
Without any fear, Xu Qingnian stepped into the valley.
The whole valley looked cold and dark, and there were indeed traces of fire here, and on both sides of the pa*sage, there were some murals.
Most of the murals appeared to be in disrepair, but there was still a part of them, which was relatively well preserved.
Look away.
It soon became apparent that something was wrong.
Among the murals was a picture of a falling immortal, and next to it were some words. As a saint, Xu Qingnian could sense the meaning of whatever the words were.
“There is yin and yang in heaven and earth, when yang is extreme, all the worlds will be peaceful, when yin is extreme, demons will rise, gods and devils will coexist and plague the earth, the heavens will descend on immortals to cut down the demons.”
Standing under the Falling Immortal diagram, Xu Qingnian carefully understood the words on the diagram.
“Immortal corpse.”
“Cut down the demons and remove the devils.”
Xu Qingnian looked somewhat silent as he instantly guessed what this meant.
The Great Wei Dynasty had suppressed an immortal corpse, which he had thought was a demon, but he had never thought that this immortal corpse was actually evolved by the heaven and earth to specifically remove some demons.
This result was something Xu Qingnian really did not expect, but the reason for his silence was because of the Three Demon Seal inside himself.
If I had to say it, I was also considered a demon, would this immortal corpse have an effect on me?
After thinking for a while and not getting any answer, Xu Qingnian shook his head and didn’t bother to think more about it.
But soon, Xu Qingnian keenly noticed that Dan Shen Gu Jing looked at the Falling Immortal Figure in silence for a long time.
This was somewhat odd.
“What’s wrong?”
Xu Qingnian spoke, somewhat curious.
“Nothing, I just feel curious.”
Dan Shen Gu Jing replied casually.
After saying this, he changed the subject.
“Keep going and see if we can find the exit, I am not wanting to stay here anymore.”
He said so.
Xu Qingnian was curious in his heart, but there was nothing to say, everyone had their own secrets, as long as it wasn’t bad for them, he didn’t care where Dan Shen Gu Jing came from, nor did he care what he had in mind.
In this way, one person and one furnace continued on their way.
As they kept moving forward, the murals became more and more numerous, and a large number of stories about the Three Fierce Gods appeared.
After reading the whole thing, Xu Qingnian probably knew the meaning of the murals.
The story was that the Three Fierce Gods were demonic gods born from the convergence of the yin forces of heaven and earth, with the power to destroy the heavens and the earth.
Once they are revived, they will destroy everything in the world and bring everything back to the primitive.
Redefining good and evil.
In Xu Qingnian’s way of understanding, the Three Fierce Gods are like the clearing settings of the Heavenly Dao. Once they find that the Heaven and Earth, with their Yin power deepening and everything killing each other, cannot live in peace, then the Three Fierce Gods will revive and destroy everything, returning the Heaven and Earth to its most primitive time.
But it is not that easy to revive the Three Fierce Gods, for two conditions must be met.
One, the yin power is completely stronger than the yang power.
Secondly, a great killing, not a tiny bit of killing, but a terrifyingly great killing.
If these two conditions are met, then there is no longer any difference between stopping it and not stopping it.
When the great killing sins come, the world will be in chaos and everyone will be like a demon, and it is useless to stop them even if you want to.
The age of the great sages is just a revival of the demon gods.
But according to the murals, it is difficult to make the three fierce gods revive themselves, but there is a way to make them, in advance, revive.
If the first condition is fulfilled, create a great killing and find the marks of the Three Fierce Gods by means of blood sacrifice, they can be revived.
Obviously, this is what the person behind the curtain wants to do.
Resurrect the Three Fierce Gods, complete the great cleansing, return heaven and earth to the primordial, and then one would be able to enjoy the qi luck alone.
However, what made Xu Qingnian curious was what confidence these people had in thinking that they could survive after the resurrection of the Three Fierce Gods?
Xu Qingnian didn’t think much about it, if they dared to do so, they were probably already brainwashed, and no matter how they were brainwashed, the only thing they could do was to stop them from planning.
After the general understanding.
Xu Qingnian continued to walk towards the interior of the cave.
All the way to the deepest part, two pa*sages appeared.
One pa*sage, towards a large door, and the other pa*sage, which had completely collapsed, had been destroyed by man.
“This is the place of forbidden laws.”
Suddenly, the Dan Shen Ancient Scripture spoke up, informing Xu Qingnian where this was and telling him to pay careful attention.
“Land of Forbidden Laws, what does it mean?”
Xu Qingnian was somewhat curious.
“You’ll know if you take a step forward.”
He spoke.
Xu Qingnian took a step forward experimentally, and in an instant he understood what it meant.
After taking a step forward, a force blocked all the magical power in his body, including his physical body’s ability.
In other words, he was like an ordinary person.
Frowning.
Xu Qingnian swept a glance ahead, and then could not help but slowly speak.
“In other words, if you want to continue on, you can only take this path?”
Looking at the only pa*sage, Xu Qingnian could not help but frown, but soon he noticed a stone tablet not far away.
At a glance, the words on the stone tablet came to mind.
“Gate of Doom, those who step on this path can view future doom, be punished by the condemnation of heaven and earth, and be tainted with great unknowns, step on this path and do not turn back.”
“Activate the stone tablet, after ten years, you can avoid bad luck.”
The words emerged as if they were stained with blood, looking eerie and frightening.
As the words surfaced, the voice of the Dan God’s Ancient Scripture sounded out.
“I didn’t expect that there was actually a curse hidden within the Midcontinent Immortal Collection, it looks like the Martial Emperor should have chosen this path back then.”
“There was originally another pa*sage here, but it was damaged by someone, and I don’t know who did it, it’s really vicious.”
“But fortunately, in ten years, we will be safe and sound, little friend, hurry up and activate the stone tablet, let’s wait here for ten years, after ten years, with your ability and mine, it won’t be a problem to reign over the world.”
Dan Shen Gu Jing spoke up, certain that this was the only way out.
At the same time, he urged Xu Qingnian to hurry up and activate the stone tablet, and wait ten years before coming back.
But looking ahead, he looked at the Gate of Doom.
Xu Qingnian was somewhat silent, and instead of activating the stone tablet, he hesitated a little before turning around and leaving.
In a flash Dan Shen Gu Jing was a little stunned.
“Little friend, what do you mean by that?”
“What do you mean by not activating the stone tablet?”
“Don’t be a jerk, you.”
The Dan God Ancient Scripture was anxious.
He told Xu Qingnian not to be a jerk, but Xu Qingnian ignored him and instead walked bolt upright towards the outside of the cave.
On the way back, Dan Shen Gu Jing became even more agitated and said.
“Little friend, it’s not that I don’t believe you, this is the land of curses.
“This door of doom will show you future misfortunes and make you bear the misfortunes of heaven and earth, a pressure that is simply not humanly possible to bear, and even if you bear it, the great doom will befall you and be cursed by heaven and earth.”
“Unless you become a saint, otherwise, this kind of great doom will definitely make your life worse than death, as well as being tainted with this kind of great doom, you will not want to become a saint even more.”
“This immortal realm is isolated from the world, offending this place will definitely lead to heavenly punishment, believe me, I will definitely not harm you.”
“It’s only ten years, can’t the Great Wei Dynasty last ten years?”
“Even if there is chaos outside, it won’t be there in ten years, think carefully.”
“Little friend, you absolutely must not put your life at risk, otherwise, if you go out, you will also be dead, really, I am absolutely not lying to you.”
All along the way, Dan Shen Gu Jing was persuading Xu Qingnian not to take risks with his life, not to be foolish, and to stay honestly for ten years.
However, Xu Qingnian did not speak all the way and did not listen to his advice at all, which made it even more difficult for Dan Shen Gu Jing.
Xu Qingnian did not reply, but returned to the middle of the valley and began to integrate the Divine Martial Cannon.
To him, the matter of going out was put aside for the time being, and there was little point in going out or not unless the Divine Martial Cannon was taken care of sooner.
Back in the valley.
Xu Qingnian began to condense the formation jade and forge a divine Martial Cannon into place.
Dan Shen Gu Jing still wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he fell silent.
He knew what Xu Qingnian was trying to do.
He also knew that there was no point in persuading him now, he had said everything he needed to say, but if Xu Qingnian did not listen, there was nothing he could do.
In this way, time pa*sed little by little.
In the blink of an eye, another two months had pa*sed.
During these two months, Xu Qingnian had been working day and night to synthesize the formation jade.
One thousand five hundred divine Martial Cannons.
Two hundred Immortal Gold Cannons.
Ten Heavenly God Cannons.
Xu Qingnian did not waste any more time on the Divine Martial Cannons, but instead focused on the Immortal Gold Cannons and the Heavenly God Cannons.
Especially the Heavenly God Cannons.
It was difficult to get an increase in the cannon’s power, so Xu Qingnian changed direction and instead of increasing its power, he gathered terrifying holy power to create a ‘Demon Subduing’ cannon that specialised in suppressing evil demons.
Previously, when various formations were fused together, they would collapse on themselves, causing the cannon to self-destruct.
But the Immortal Gold Root, with its stabilising properties, made the formations more stable, so these ten Heavenly God Cannons, under Xu Qingnian’s refinement.
They would not have a great impact on warfare, but once they encountered evil demons, their power would be extremely terrifying, several times that of ordinary divine martial cannons.
This is Xu Qingnian’s method of response to the chaotic times ahead.
However, the conditions for refining the Heavenly God Cannons were too harsh, and the root of immortal gold was required, otherwise, even if the refining or formation condensation skills were strong, it would be useless.
Ten doors were the limit.
And these ten doors were the bottom line for Great Wei to face the chaotic world.
One thousand five hundred conventional divine martial cannons were enough to sweep the world.
Two hundred Immortal Gold Cannons, all placed in Great Wei, to suppress everything.
The Heavenly God Cannons, to maintain peace under the world.
When the refining was complete, Xu Qingnian also played the last bit of role of this group of ferocious beasts, asking them to dig up a large amount of extremely high quality spirit gold at all costs.
Like a ploughing and sweeping, in seven whole days, a golden mountain, became full of destruction.
After collecting everything, Xu Qingnian also gave one last order, allowing the group of ferocious beasts to kill each other until the last one died.
They would not die, but turn into embryos and wait for thousands of years would come back to life again. The reason for doing this was that they were worried that someone would break into this place later and release them.
Doing everything right.
Xu Qingnian once again came into the valley.
A little more decisive than last time, Xu Qingnian stepped directly into the Path of Doom.
But just then, the voice of the Dan God’s Ancient Scripture rang out.
“Little friend, put me down, I’ll stay here, the pills have all been put into the Dragon Cauldron, the old man doesn’t want to go.”
There was silence for close to two months.
Dan Shen Gu Jing finally spoke out, he didn’t want to go straight away, he wanted to stay here and wait for ten years.
To him, ten years was not a long time.
However, when faced with the Dan God Ancient Scripture’s request, Xu Qingnian did not reply, but remained silent.
The Dan God’s Ancient Scripture came from a very strange place, and God knew where he came from.
What secrets were hidden, Xu Qingnian was not even sure.
Naturally, Xu Qingnian was unwilling to let him go.
But at that very moment, the Dan God Ancient Scripture sighed and slowly spoke out.
“Haven’t you always been curious about my identity, how about I tell you and you put me here?”
He continued.
When this was said, Xu Qingnian did come to be interested.
He was indeed curious about the origin of the Dan God’s Ancient Scripture’s identity.
