Chapter 777
The Price
"Interesting, it has actually generated the power of immortality."
"It's somewhat beyond my expectations that such power could break through to the Golden Immortal realm." Xu Chen's gaze fell on the Eighth Human Emperor.
In Xu Chen's divine sense, this power, which should have never been able to break through to the Golden Immortal realm, actually broke through to the Golden Immortal realm under the influence of a force that even he could not perceive.
More importantly, after this power broke through to the Golden Immortal level, it seemed to have a tendency to transform into other powers, which aroused Xu Chen's attention even more.
"Continue to develop this power~"
In the end, the eighth Human Emperor broke through to the Golden Immortal realm and suppressed Xu Qinhu on the spot.
The victor of the first cycle in the Dream World was the Eighth Human Emperor.
Xu Chen originally wanted to start the second cycle directly, but an idea suddenly popped into his mind.
So he gathered all the powerful humans together and released a replay of the first reincarnation, which immediately caused a huge uproar.
"So it was you who ambushed and killed me! You're despicable! Why didn't you just fight fair and square instead of resorting to such underhanded methods?" Xuan Ding glared angrily at Zhang Zhisheng.
"The key is the terrain. I have a huge geographical advantage. The positions of your city's night sentries are so obvious that they are too easy to eliminate."
"I couldn't resist for a moment, and my hunting spirit was piqued." Zhang Zhisheng chuckled.
Xuan Ding snorted coldly
The first emperor looked at the seventh emperor with a somewhat unfriendly gaze.
"No wonder your methods seemed so familiar. It was you! I almost took down that force back then, but you were the one who stole my home from behind. I was just one step behind. How despicable!"
"What's there to say? In the end, I died too, and the person who killed me was Qingzhu."
The seventh emperor's gaze, spanning thousands of meters, landed on Qingzhu.
At this moment, Qingzhu was surrounded by a group of people.
Seeing such a joyful scene, Xu Chen found it amusing and then started the second round.
As soon as the second cycle began, many powerful human race members started their unconventional tactics. Instead of gathering forces or building cities, they formed small teams to establish secret bases in multiple locations and then began to advance their technology.
Some had one person, some had four or five, some had seven or eight, but the maximum number would not exceed twenty.
These squads are densely distributed throughout the Dream World. They fight whenever they encounter an enemy they can, and run away when they can't win. Their numerous secret bases make them extremely adept at guerrilla warfare.
For a moment, the entire Dream World was in chaos.
Just as Xu Chen was observing the Dream World, a special Starfield Seed was born in the chaos.
But this star field seed instantly put Xu Chen on alert, because he sensed a power unique to the Chaos God within it.
"Interesting. You think you can detect information within the abandoned land just by using the Star Seed? What made you so eager to do this?" Xu Chen said, a slight smile playing on his lips.
When a force containing the causal power unique to the Chaos God entered the abandoned land.
Before they could even probe, they were trapped by Xu Chen.
"What do you think this abandoned place is? You think you can just come and go as you please?" Xu Chen said casually.
"Human God Lord, after all these years, you have still not perished!" The voice of the Calamity King rang out.
"Surprised? You'll be surprised by many more things in the future."
"Tell me, why did you come to the Abandoned Land? Is it because there is less and less Chaos, and the Will of Chaos is starting to be dissatisfied with you Chaos Gods?" Endless power of cause and effect and time flashed in Xu Chen's eyes.
"It's just that you felt bored after you left. Human God Lord, wouldn't it be better if you acted like you posed no threat?"
"Under our captivity, you and the human race can live forever in chaos, forever engaging in activities that amuse us."
"It's a pity that even if you survived for a long time in this ruined land using methods we don't know, you will eventually perish along with this abandoned place."
The power of the Calamity King coalesced into a strange face that looked at Xu Chen.
"Let's get down to business. If you don't speak now, I'll kick you out." Xu Chen's gaze seemed to see through everything.
"If we, the Chaos Gods, join forces, we can open a passage to allow the power of chaos to flow in."
"And the cost?"
"The banished star system has led to the return of half of it to chaos."
"From now on, your human race can eke out a living in the wasteland. How about this deal?" The Calamity King looked like he had Xu Chen completely under his thumb.
"You're so kind, opening a passage to chaos."
"I'm afraid that after I bring half of the star field back, I can only transfer a pitifully small amount of chaotic power."
Xu Chen didn't believe a single word the Chaos God said.
"Go back home~"
Xu Chen shattered the divine sense of the Heavenly Calamity King with a single palm strike.
The entire ruined area returned to normal.
A butterfly flew in from afar and landed beside Xu Chen.
"I just sensed the aura of the Chaos God, it should be the Calamity King, what is he here for?" Wan Huan asked curiously.
"If half of the star field wants to return to chaos, it must be because the Great Dao of Chaos and the Great Dao of Origin are out of balance, and those nine Chaos Gods can't hold on any longer." Xu Chen said with a hint of schadenfreude.
"So, did you agree?"
"If you can bring half of the star field back, you can draw on the power of chaos from that half of the star field to allow the wasteland to develop faster."
"No, half of the business was just for playing with. They joined forces to seal these star systems, so I can't absorb any energy."
"So let's take it slow like this. Sooner or later, it will become a chaotic entity."
"At that time, I will turn the situation around."
"The wheel of fortune turns, and my original Dao can't gain the upper hand in the chaos," Xu Chen said with considerable confidence.
"Okay, I'll wait until that day."
Wanhuan, who had transformed into a butterfly, was about to leave.
"The primordial power generated daily in the life zone is now somewhat abundant. I will expand the Dream Realm of the human race and allow the powerful beings of those alien races to enter as well."
"Sleeping in a wasteland for too long may lead to succumbing to its influence, eventually causing the body to decay and the consciousness to vanish into nothingness."
This is a problem that Xu Chen only recently discovered. For powerful individuals who have not yet stepped onto the Great Dao, their bodies begin to rot after a long period of slumber, and their consciousness and soul in the Dream Dao Realm are gradually weakened by an inexplicable force.
Those who are powerful on the path to greatness all have this kind of reaction.
To this end, Xu Chen also infused more primal energy into the body, keeping the strong's body constantly vibrant.
“They all have their own methods, which may not be as free as your human race’s strongmen, but protecting most of the strongmen is not a problem.”
“If the power of origin is truly abundant, we can merge these worlds together, saving us the trouble of wasting energy expanding them,” Wan Huan said. “Then let’s merge them together; more living beings will make it more lively.”
"It's a good opportunity to let them join this celebration of the pursuit of power."
Xu Chen lightly touched the void with his finger, and in an instant, countless illusory, dreamlike, or dream-path worlds within the star field merged into the human race's dream realm.
At this moment, the humans who were scheming against each other in the Dream Realm instantly united when they learned that other races had also joined in.
However, the human race did not bully the newcomers. Instead, they shared the power the newcomers had gained with them, since they had once been comrades-in-arms.
The human dream world was thrown into even greater chaos.
In just a few billion years, countless methods of cultivation for the Great Dao have emerged that are adapted to abandoned lands.
Although these cultivation methods ultimately stop at the Golden Immortal realm, Xu Chen collected each one he created.
Xu Chen gazed upon the entire Dream Realm of the Human Race.
"The source power is being consumed rather quickly, but it can still last for a while."
At this moment, Xu Chen not only looked at the Dream Realm of the Human Race, but also separated a wisp of his divine sense and entered the Sea of Myriad Paths. At this time, many more Star Domain Seeds appeared in the entire Chaos.
Each star field seed was sealed with a special seal, completely preventing Xu Chen from exploring it, let alone absorbing the power of chaos through it.
"They're really keeping a close watch on me, but so what?" Xu Chen chuckled, conveying a thought to the entire chaos through a newly born life seed.
After receiving the Time Dao authority from Wan Huan, Xu Chen vaguely probed a corner of the future. Although it was blurry, he made ample preparations for it.
As Xu Chen's will swept across the entire chaos, some special life forms within the chaos began to revive.
These beings can transform between the Chaos Dao and the Origin Dao; this was one of the backup plans Xu Chen left in the Chaos.
Xu Chen directly pulled all these special life forms into the Myriad Dao Sea, and they then quietly entered those star field seeds along the Myriad Dao Sea.
"We won't lack the power of origin from now on~"
"Hopefully, these gods and demons will discover these special life forms a little later."
Although Xu Chen has more authority over the Great Dao of Life than the Chaos God, it is only because of the special nature of life. In the long run, if a Chaos God really pays attention to these special life forms, he will definitely find out that it was him who was behind it.
After these special life forms entered the star field seed, they began to transform the innate life of this star field.
They then used this star field to absorb the power of chaos and secretly transmitted it to Xu Chen.
Having obtained the power of chaos, Xu Chen immediately began to expand the life zone.
Unfortunately, this situation only lasted for hundreds of millions of years before the Chaos Gods discovered the anomaly.
They directly wiped out all the special life forms that had infiltrated these star systems.
Subsequently, the nine Chaos Gods, still uneasy, began to sweep through the entire Chaos and discovered many of Xu Chen's hidden plans.
Xu Chen remained calm as he sensed that his backup plans had been cut off amidst the ruins.
"We haven't completely wiped them out; we still have a ten or twenty percent left over, which is enough for me."
After 3 million years, with the continuous expansion of the primal power injected by Xu Chen, the life region is now one-tenth the size of the original Chaos Starfield, and the primal power it produces is enough for the Chaos Starfield to consume.
However, Xu Chen still kept the Chaos Starfield in a semi-sealed state, continuing to use the power of origin to expand the life-bearing areas.
The expansion of the life zone has caused the Great Dao authority gathered within it to become active.
A portion of the Great Dao's authority was reincarnated into the three races, while the majority of the Great Dao's authority transformed into beings similar to the spirits of heaven and earth.
This plunged the entire living area into chaos once again.
The three major clans lost interest in playing and began dealing with the spirits of heaven and earth that had been born within their own clans.
"What kind of trouble is that Supreme One causing now? The entire territory has inexplicably expanded, and those spirits of heaven and earth have inexplicably become stronger."
“Some spirits of heaven and earth reach the Saint Venerable realm from birth, and they are exceptionally strong. For every one we suppress, hundreds of Saint Venerables die in our race, and countless Great Venerable level experts die as well. It’s too difficult,” the Lord of the Myriad Demons Clan couldn’t help but say.
"You're alright. Your Demon Clan has the fewest spiritual elements in the world. Battles are constantly breaking out within our human territory."
“Spirits of heaven and earth at the Saint Venerable level are already quite common. Have you ever seen a spirit of heaven and earth at the Invincible Saint Venerable level?”
"The spirit of heaven and earth possessed the power to destroy the world with a single move. None of the strongmen of our human race could rival it. If it weren't for the fact that the spirit of heaven and earth was naturally quiet and not violent."
"If that were the case, our human race would truly be wiped out."
"Of course, if our human race is wiped out, your two races will not fare any better; you will both be buried with us," the Human Lord said leisurely, looking at the other two.
Upon hearing the words of the Human Race Lord, the other two Race Lords looked at him with some sympathy.
"However, logically speaking, the existence of that person will certainly not allow us to be easily wiped out. Let's hold on as long as we can, and it's a good opportunity to train the strong members of our clan."
After the three race leaders gathered together to complain for a while, they didn't get any useful information, but their mood did improve considerably.
The other two races, who were once enemies, were also at ease with each other.
Xu Chen was observing the life zone from another dimension, and from time to time used the collected primal power to expand the life zone.
"Consider these spirits of heaven and earth as trials for you. What you will face in the future will be far more terrifying than this."
At this moment, the spirit of heaven and earth, who had been invincible at the Saintly Venerable realm since birth, was huddled in his nest, trembling with fear.
He understood why he was like this, but he knew that once he left the nest, he would die.
At this time, within the Dream Realm of the Human Race, the Great War of Myriad Races was raging.
Even with equal numbers, the human race is not able to gain the upper hand among all races.
Especially during large-scale battles, when the opposing race's leader transforms into a commander, there are virtually no weaknesses to exploit.
The only way to win is to confront them head-on.
Inside a military tent in the Dream Realm.
Xu Qiangjia frowned slightly as he looked at the battlefield terrain before him.
"They're all like turtle shells, their defense is so perfect, there's absolutely no chance!"
"I used to fight alongside them, but I never imagined they would be so terrifying as my opponents!"
At this time, the army commanded by Xu Qiangjia was surrounded by the three races and was gradually eroding the human army.
Faced with this situation, Xu Qiangjia had no solution.
"Once Tianshan Pass falls, the entire human territory will be a juicy cake in front of the trio, and there will be no chance of turning the tide."
Xu Qiangjia stared at the topographical map, his eyes already red, like a lion trapped in a cage.
"There's absolutely no chance!"
"Disperse, break into smaller groups, and continue fighting independently, just like when we first formed squads!" (End of Chapter)