Entering the West Mountain outside the Sun Moon Empire's Mingdu, after obtaining the permission of the residual divine soul left by the Goddess of Love, Chen Junting followed the same method, shrinking the entire Qiankun Love Querying Valley and holding it in his palm.
As for where to place it...
Chen Junting directly chose to open up a small plane.
He tore through space and arrived in the boundless void.
The moment the Seven Kill Sword fell into his hand, an extreme sharpness suddenly thrust out, like a single point tearing through eternity. Where the sword tip passed, the void was forcibly cleaved open, chaotic energy spewed out, and paradoxical turbulent currents of time and space howled as they gushed from the rift.
Chen Junting hovered in the center of the storm without moving a muscle, as if this world-shattering might was merely a gentle breeze. Watching time and space shatter and heaven and earth separate, four divine swords also soared into the sky from behind him, their killing intent and sword will sweeping across the void!
Slay! Massacre! Trap! Annihilate!
The four swords stood within the cleaved nothingness, forming a killing formation.
As the array diagram spun, the forcibly torn rift was violently propped open and solidified. A barbaric, unformed space twisted and expanded madly within the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
As the chaotic energy gradually shattered, the evolved earth, water, fire, and wind were forced out from the depths of the void by the supreme killing intent of the sword formation. Under their mutual collisions, they constantly reconciled, roaring, crashing, annihilating, and being reborn like raging dragons within the narrow space. They exploded into brilliant bursts of light that stilled all life, turning this space into a purgatory furnace that constantly collapsed and reshaped.
At this moment, outside the sword formation, Chen Junting observed everything happening. When he saw with his own eyes that the sword formation was domineeringly combing through the earth, water, fire, and wind, yet making them even more frantic, causing the waves of destruction to rise higher and higher, he realized the time was ripe. Chen Junting waved his hand, mobilizing the power of time and space outside the formation, and formed a light membrane using an extremely crude but effective method.
And this light membrane was exactly the rudiment of a boundary wall.
As time passed and the light membrane became increasingly solid under the infusion of time and space power, Chen Junting made his move again.
Clang—
Suddenly, a clear sword hum suppressed all sounds, and the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation instantly vanished. Although the rampaging earth, water, fire, and wind lost the power that maintained and restrained them, they didn't completely explode. Instead, it was as if their energy had been sucked away, calming, settling, and freezing in an instant, becoming the most fundamental cornerstone of a plane.
Looking at the dead, silent small plane before him, Chen Junting immediately communicated with the Douluo Plane's Plane Spirit and the Core of Life. Although They had fallen into slumber, the plane's instinct actively accepted the newly born small plane opened up by Chen Junting.
In an instant, the Douluo Plane's origin laws and life energy seemed to find a breach in this small plane, madly pouring into it. Meanwhile, the laws and energy of the small plane also seemed to have found a home, thoroughly forming a connection with the Douluo Plane.
Seeing this, Chen Junting tossed down the Qiankun Love Querying Valley.
At the same time, dense array patterns, centered around the Qiankun Love Querying Valley, enveloped the entire small plane. For a time, this originally dead and silent small plane not only became vibrant but also filled with mist, giving off an extremely fantastical feeling.
Once someone stepped into it, they would immediately fall into an illusion. While experiencing trials of their state of mind, they could also temper their spiritual power.
With the setup of another checkpoint complete, Chen Junting incorporated this small plane into the path to godhood and left once again.
Next, he also visited the island chain where the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life had descended together, as well as the Dragon Valley found around the Douluo Plane, incorporating both into it one after another.
After that, he continued to open up multiple small planes, setting up simple checkpoints that would wait for Ning Tian and the others to fill in after they became gods. Each of these small planes was finally stably connected by Chen Junting using teleportation arrays, forming a path of planar trials.
Looking at his masterpiece, Chen Junting was thoroughly satisfied.
But in reality, there was still a treasure land in the entire Douluo Plane that Chen Junting had not incorporated into this path to godhood.
Thinking of this, Chen Junting's mind moved.
In the next second, he arrived above the Sunset Forest.
That's right, the treasure land he spoke of was exactly the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
As his gaze swept over the Sunset Forest, which was enveloped in miasma and poisonous fog and had no life other than venomous creatures, a chill that froze everything suddenly burst forth from around him!
Wherever the chill swept, everything turned into ice crystals.
Even the miasma and poisonous fog turned into solid entities, completely frozen. As for the venomous creatures in the forest... they were either frozen to death by the chill or thoroughly terminated by the contained aura of death.
Under the methods of a God King, the bane that had plagued the Sunset Forest for nearly ten thousand years was swept away. But even so, the entire Sunset Forest seemed dead, with colorful corpses as far as the eye could see.
Suddenly, a drop of emerald-green water slowly fell from Chen Junting's fingertip. But just as it reached mid-air, Hum—
This drop of the Life Gold suddenly exploded, but instead of turning into vapor, it burst into a circle of green halos so dazzling it was impossible to look at. Carrying incredibly rich life energy, it surged madly in all directions like a tsunami!
Seeing this, Chen Junting immediately waved his hand and scattered the most ordinary plant seeds, which, caught in the green halo, sank into this dead land and spread throughout every corner of the Sunset Forest.
That drop of the Life Gold dyed the entire forest green, purging the last trace of toxins from the corpses, and making the entire land welcome its revival at this moment.
Rumble—
Accompanied by loud rumbles, the flat land began to writhe madly. As the surface soil cracked, the scattered seeds sprouted, turning into tender seedlings that drilled out of the dirt. Blessed by the life energy, these seedlings began to grow rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In just a moment, the entire Sunset Forest was completely refreshed.
Although the forest's plant lushness after its revival couldn't compare to the Great Star Dou Forest, it was enough to rival the Evil Demon Forest. Later, as long as soul beasts were migrated over, the Sunset Forest would be able to restore the scene of being one of the three major soul beast habitats from ten thousand years ago.
"Let this be the starting point for humanity to maintain the ecology."
Looking at the refreshed and vibrant Sunset Forest, Chen Junting retracted his gaze, pointed remotely towards the location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and turned to leave. He didn't head to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, nor did he plan to touch that treasure land.
What he had just done was merely leave behind a divine sense.
The purpose of this divine sense was to protect those who entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, as well as to protect the cycle within it, but it did not protect the medicinal herbs and fairy herbs growing inside.
In the future, as long as the medicinal herbs and fairy herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well re-entered a flourishing cycle, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well would appear in the world. During this phase, anyone could enter and obtain a fairy herb, and fighting was strictly prohibited inside.
Once too many medicinal and fairy herbs were harvested, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well would seclude itself from the world, expelling all the people and soul beasts inside. While making it difficult to enter, the outer perimeter would also have all means restricted by the divine sense, turning a Soul Master or soul beast into a mortal or an ordinary animal, thereby preventing large factions from stationing outside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
In this way, it could be considered leaving a chance to change their fate for those lucky individuals who were not geniuses. Because the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in its secluded state was not truly inaccessible.
If a person with ordinary talent or a martial soul with a massive defect wanted to change, and possessed a resilient heart, as long as they weren't an evil soul master, they would be judged by the divine sense, thereby gaining a chance to change their fate.
Although Chen Junting knew that even so, people would still exploit loopholes, there was only so much he could do.
As for what the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should do?
The small plane he left for the sect was enough.
...
After all matters were resolved, Chen Junting returned to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's small plane. And on the next day...
"Teacher, you will soon be truly resurrected."
At this moment, in the core area of the small plane, Chen Junting was speaking to the residual soul of Electrolux floating in the air beside him.
In front of them lay a skeleton forged from an alloy of death and light attributes. Not only did every corner of the skeleton flicker with faint patterns, but a thin layer of battle armor was also attached to the surface of the skeleton. Although it was battle armor, it actually functioned somewhat like skin.
This alloy skeleton was forged by the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's research institute, which pooled the entire sect's strength to find the most suitable metals, and even combined artificial soul bone and battle armor technology.
It was precisely because they had to wait for the research institute to forge this skeleton that after Chen Junting became a god, he didn't resurrect Electrolux immediately, but dragged it out until now.
Now, the time was ripe.
"I've really troubled you."
Looking at this skeleton, Electrolux's mood was inevitably a bit complicated. He hadn't expected that a wisp of a residual soul like himself would actually still have a chance at resurrection.
He knew very well in his heart that for an existence with an incomplete soul like his to be resurrected, the price paid was not small at all. Therefore, even with his state of mind, waves of ripples couldn't help but rise in his heart.
"What are you saying, teacher."
Hearing this, Chen Junting's tone carried a hint of displeasure.
"Without you, Teacher, I wouldn't be where I am today. I am not an ungrateful person. Besides, I made a promise long ago that I would resurrect you! Today is the time I fulfill that promise."
Saying this, he opened his palm, and a gray cluster with a colorful halo appeared on it.
This ball of light was the newly born small plane spirit of the small plane formed by the Undead Demiplane before it merged into the Douluo Plane, which Chen Junting had peeled away.
Because its predecessor was the Undead Demiplane, and the Undead Demiplane was opened up by Electrolux, there was nothing more suitable than the small plane's Plane Spirit to mend Electrolux's incomplete soul, as well as the origin and laws it contained.
Grasping the small plane spirit, Chen Junting refined it in an instant, and then slapped it towards Electrolux's residual soul.
The moment the two collided, Chen Junting made his move again. Starry specks of white light quickly gathered from all directions. Acting as a near "cure-all," the power of faith immediately turned into the purest refining agent, merging into Electrolux's residual soul to help him digest the small plane spirit. With Chen Junting's intervention, this step proceeded very smoothly.
"Teacher, next I will help you refine your body. Once successful, you will enter it and complete the final step of resurrection!"
As soon as his voice fell, Chen Junting's glabella cracked open, revealing the Heavenly Eye that had been promoted to monitor the world.
When a burst of emerald green appeared, a piece of the Life Gold the size of a human head shockingly floated in front of Chen Junting. Astonishing life energy diffused out, causing the entire small plane to churn, and many plants grew a lot in an instant.
This piece of the Life Gold was not only what Chen Junting possessed, but a part of it was traded with Di Tian after he left the Sunset Forest, which was why it was now a full human head's size.
In exchange, he opened up a small plane suitable for soul beasts to live in for the Great Star Dou Forest. In Di Tian's words, this small plane was both a pure land for soul beasts and a safe haven.
Looking at this staggeringly large piece of the Life Gold, Chen Junting did not hesitate in the slightest.
"Go!"
With a flick of his finger, the Life Gold seemed to melt, turning into a puddle of liquid metal that poured over the skeleton. The moment it touched the skeleton, the liquid Life Gold rapidly spread, enveloping the entire skeleton in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this, Chen Junting raised his palm.
As the skeleton automatically levitated, terrifying divine power surged out from him, enveloping the entire skeleton. He wanted to use the mighty power of a God King to make the Life Gold completely fuse with the skeleton; only in this way could this body be forged.
Accompanied by the continuous roasting and tempering of divine power, this rather time-consuming process lasted for nearly a full day.
At this moment, the emerald green on the skeleton was no longer so obvious, because the Life Gold had completed its fusion with the skeleton, filling the framework like flesh and blood.
Seeing that the time was ripe, "Teacher!"
Facing the most crucial step, Chen Junting immediately shouted!
"Alright!"
Having long absorbed the small plane spirit, Electrolux's figure instantly blurred, turning into a shadow that darted into the body.
Bang!
The moment Electrolux's soul entered the body, this meticulously forged body suddenly trembled. A brilliant light of the mind gradually condensed in its hollow eye sockets, and bizarre energy continuously spread outward from within this body.
Under the influence of the life energy, this body began a complete metamorphosis, starting to evolve flesh, blood, and meridians.
Looking at the Life Gold transforming on the body and the rapidly writhing flesh tissue, Chen Junting didn't dare slack off. He reached out and summoned a massive amount of the power of faith to infuse into it.
"Teacher, hold on!"
Maintained by the power of faith and intervened by divine power, the wriggling granulation gradually formed a bloody human silhouette. By the time skin tissue appeared, Electrolux's features also began to emerge under the effect of his soul.
When this body became completely identical to Electrolux's appearance and the light of the Life Gold thoroughly dissipated, Electrolux's soul had completely achieved resonance with this body!
Hum—
Suddenly, a powerful aura instantly erupted from Electrolux's body.
The moment before, the rather peaceful small plane was instantly swept by wind and clouds. The perfectly clear sky turned completely dark, and a thunderous roar echoed high in the air. In this instant, all light was completely obscured by darkness, and a pressure that made all non-god-level experts breathless, carrying terrifying divine sense, descended from the sky!
An aged and majestic voice also suddenly descended, as if declaring to this world.
"Holding the sun and moon in my hands, plucking the stars; there is no one like me in this world. I, have returned!"
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