He let out a low shout, swiftly forming a Seal Technique with his hands, thumbs locking into an Earth seal, index and middle fingers together pointing to the ground, while the ring and little fingers curled tightly into the palm.
An arcane Seal Technique coalesced in his palm, and on this Seal Technique, countless tiny earth-based runes seemed to come to life, swirling rapidly around it, emanating a heavy and dignified aura.
"Turn the world upside down!"
With a low, deep command, Chen Sheng thrust both hands forward, and the earthy yellow Seal Technique in his palm suddenly transformed into a beam of yellow light as thick as a person's height, like a yellow dragon reaching out with its claw, diving with a dull whistling sound into the Earth Veins beneath his feet.
The moment the yellow light entered the ground, the earth trembled slightly, and a visible ripple of earthy yellow spread rapidly outward from where Chen Sheng stood.
Where it passed, the ground cracked with fine lines, from which faint earth-based Spiritual Qi emerged, resonating with the power deep within the Earth Veins.
In an instant, a rumble came from beneath the valley, as if a giant beast was awakening underground.
The stone buildings on the edge of the plaza were the first to collapse, black stone walls seemingly crushed by invisible giant hands, shattering instantly into countless pieces, the gaps between the stone blocks widening, and the entire structure crashing down like a house of cards, raising a cloud of dust.
Next, the central altar began to sink, and at the spot where the Bronze Coffin once rested, a massive chasm opened in the ground, from which copious amounts of silt surged out, swallowing the fragments of the altar bit by bit.
The hidden passageways underground also collapsed under the pressure of the Power of the Earth Veins, with fragments of Evil Artifacts and Demon Cultivator skeletons within being thoroughly enveloped by the yellow earth of the Earth Veins.
Chen Sheng closed his eyes slightly, his Divine Sense sinking into the Earth Veins, precisely controlling the power of the Dharma Seal.
He could clearly sense the earthy yellow Spirit Light turning into numerous tendrils of energy underground, ensnaring every inch of the Earth Veins in the valley, tightly pulling inward like a drawn bowstring.
"Boom——!"
With a thunderous roar, the entire valley began to shake violently, the ground sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the black hills seemed to lose their foundation, with massive cracks forming across their surface and stone blocks continually tumbling down, landing with dull thuds.
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More astonishingly, the barren ground surrounding the valley began to rise gently, surging toward the center of the valley like a tide.
Yellow sand, rubble, and withered grass, guided by the earth-based magic, formed streams of earthy yellow torrents, completely covering the collapsed stone building, altar, and chasm.
The once towering black hill was swallowed half by the earthy torrents within a few breaths, leaving only a small portion at the top, stubbornly resisting the earth's embrace.
Chen Sheng opened his eyes and pressed forward with both hands once more, uttering a low shout:
"Merge!"
The earth-based power from the depths of the Earth Veins erupted once more, causing the ground at the center of the valley to cave in rapidly, forming a large funnel-shaped pit, into which the surrounding torrents of earth raged wildly.
The top of the black hill finally gave way, collapsing with a tremendous crash, turning into countless fragments, merging with the earth flow to fill the pit.
A moment later, the tremors gradually subsided, and the dust slowly settled.
The valley that had once been hidden in the wasteland had now completely vanished, leaving only a flat wasteland, the yellow sand covering all traces.
No one would ever suspect that this had been the hidden base of the Demon Sect.
The wind blew once more, swirling the sand on the ground, as if no one had ever stepped here, thoroughly burying all traces of the Demon Sect beneath the earth.
Chen Sheng slowly withdrew his hands, the earthy yellow Spirit Light in his palm gradually dissipated, and as he gazed upon the calm wasteland before him, a faint trace of satisfaction flickered in his eyes.
This endeavor not only completely destroyed the old lair of the Demon Cultivators but also reshaped the terrain using the power of the Earth Veins. Even if someone were to investigate this place in the future, they would find it nearly impossible to detect anything unusual.
A faint purple Void Spiritual Light emerged around him once more, and with a flicker of his form, he merged into the void and disappeared.
Two hours later, a wisp of pale purple ripple quietly emerged in the void, like a stone thrown into a lake, disappearing in an instant.
Chen Sheng's figure slowly emerged from the ripple, standing above the sky, surrounded by a nearly transparent void spiritual light.
This is the invisibility technique from the "Void Qi Concealment Skill," which can isolate one's breath and avoid a cultivator's divine sense, like a ghost integrated into the world.
"I remember it's right here!"
Chen Sheng looked down, beneath him was a bustling mortal city, completely different from the scene hundreds of years ago.
At this moment, the streets paved with bluestone were bustling with traffic, vendors carrying goods shouted loudly, children in coarse cloth clothing chased and played at alley entrances, and the signs of restaurants swayed in the wind, exuding the aroma of wine and food.
This city is the capital city of the secular Tang Dynasty. Although it's rare to see cultivator's spirit light surrounding it, it exuded a strong sense of worldly life.
"A secular dynasty, yet it has a bit of vitality."
Chen Sheng murmured in his heart, his divine sense slowly spreading like a tide. The light golden divine sense waves spread from him in all directions, every alley, and every house in the city clearly reflected in his sea of consciousness.
In just an instant, the divine sense covered a radius of a thousand miles—for a Nascent Soul True Monarch, such a range of exploration was just a matter of raising a hand, and this vaguely exceeded the borders of Tang Country, encompassing the entire kingdom with his divine sense.
The divine sense swept over the central imperial palace of the capital, where the high palace walls stood, and the glazed tiles glimmered with a golden hue under the sunlight.
In the depths of the palace, several cultivators wearing cyan Daoist robes were meditating, surrounded by faint fluctuations of spiritual Qi—at a late-stage Qi Refining level, they should be the cultivators tributed by the Tang Dynasty.
Chen Sheng's divine sense did not linger too long, only lightly brushing over the library pavilion of the imperial palace, quickly capturing key clues from a roll of yellowed scrolls.
"Imperial Mausoleum? Great Tang?"
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Chen Sheng's lips slightly raised, a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes. This secular small kingdom was built by the descendants of the Tang Clan, who he specifically looked out for when he left Chu Country five hundred years ago.
When he left Chu Country, he came to mourn his children and spouse of his second life and gifted the then Tang Clan leader, Tang Xinzu, a scroll of Tier Two Alchemy inheritance.
It was this scroll of inheritance that made Tang Xinzu the first Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Tang Clan and allowed the Tang Clan to evolve from an ordinary Qi Cultivation Clan to a Noble Family with successive generations of Foundation Establishment cultivators.
After obtaining the inheritance, Tang Xinzu searched through the Tang Clan genealogy, trying to find records related to the elder who granted him the technique, but found nothing.
Latterly, after breaking through to Foundation Establishment, he vaguely realized that the "senior" who taught him the Alchemy Dao was no mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, and held him in greater reverence.
Because of this reverence, Tang Xinzu pondered Chen Sheng's words repeatedly, remembering firmly the phrase, "The Tang Clan's ancestral tomb is well built!"
Consequently, to protect the burial site of the Tang Clan ancestors, he had people establish a kingdom there, designating the burial site as the imperial mausoleum, guarded by the power of the entire kingdom.
This kind of action, "for the sake of a jar of vinegar, wrapped a plate of dumplings," led to the scene Chen Sheng saw today!
"Five hundred years have passed, and the Tang Clan is doing quite well."
Chen Sheng nodded lightly, not surprised. In the cultivation realm, though danger lurks around every corner, a well-managed Foundation Establishment family that lasts a thousand years is not uncommon.
Especially a family like the Tang Clan, which possesses Tier Two Alchemy inheritance, a Foundation Establishment cultivator's two hundredth birthday, five hundred years is merely two or three generations!
With a flicker of his body, he appeared instantly in the depths of the imperial mausoleum.
The imperial mausoleum was located on the plains at the core of the capital city, guarded by the forbidden army. Inside, the tomb was built with huge stones engraved with Tang Country's unique blessings runes.
Chen Sheng did not alert anyone, he went straight to the deepest chamber of the mausoleum, where he saw a few tombstones with familiar names engraved on them—"Huang Wangyou," "Tang Xichen," "Tang Yun," "Qin Yuan,"...
Old friends had long passed, leaving only clothing and crowns in the tombs for people to pay their respects. Images of the past resurfaced in his mind, filling Chen Sheng with an indescribable grief.
He slowly walked to Huang Wangyou's tomb, his gaze falling on the two words "Wangyou" on the tombstone, murmuring in his heart:
"It's been five hundred years, I have cultivated to Nascent Soul, and I have returned again, Wangyou."
The burial chamber was quiet, with only the faint sound of air currents reverberating, as if responding to his whispers.
After standing still for a moment, Chen Sheng suppressed the emotions in his heart, just then, his divine sense suddenly stirred—a faint but distinct spatial fluctuation came from two hundred miles away.
His heart tightened, his figure instantly merging into the void, and in the next moment appeared in a valley two hundred miles away.
The valley was filled with dense green pines, but at the center of the valley's void was a special node, going through a violent spatial tidal change.
In the surrounding void, countless small spatial bubbles appeared like soap bubbles, some collapsing as soon as they took shape, turning into wisps of void energy, others causing tiny spatial vibrations when they collapsed, slightly distorting the branches and leaves of the surrounding pine trees.
Even more so, some of them emitted a faint black rift upon annihilation, like the eye of the void opening, only to close and disappear in an instant.
This special node was the perfect choice for array formation that Chen Sheng had been desperately seeking.
Looking at the void spiritual light in the center of the valley, Chen Sheng was suddenly moved—Huang Wangyou's cenotaph rested in the imperial mausoleum, and this spatial node happened to be located two hundred miles from the imperial mausoleum, as if specially prepared for him.
He murmured softly to himself, a complex look flashing in his eyes: "Could it be that Wangyou is protecting me from the shadows?"
Such a special node often exists only for a short time and is extremely difficult to find. Although Chen Sheng regarded it as his first choice, if he couldn't find it, he would have to settle for the next best option.
But now, it just so happens to be so coincidental!
Chen Sheng meticulously scanned this node with his Divine Sense, making a judgment in his heart:
"A temporary node in the space tide. If it's not stabilized quickly, it will likely completely dissipate in less than ten years."
He hesitated no longer, his figure flickering as he directly merged into the void above the valley.
In the void, the collapse and annihilation of space bubbles grew more frequent. The faint purple Void Power and silvery white space fragments intertwined, forming a dangerous energy turbulence.
Chen Sheng sat cross-legged, suspended in the center of the turbulence. The faint purple Spirit Light surrounding him suddenly surged, temporarily isolating the chaotic space around him.
His hands quickly formed seals, chanting continuously. The low spell sounded like ancient celestial music, echoing in the void.
"Void Seal, Condense!"
With a low shout, the Nascent Soul within Chen Sheng suddenly opened its eyes, and the Void Mark at its forehead erupted with dazzling silvery white light.
This mark was the original mark formed by the condensation of Void Power when he ascended to Nascent Soul, containing all his insights into the Path of Void.
The light spread, completely merging with the Void Power around him, and combined with Nascent Soul Level mana, forming a vast and pure energy torrent, rushing towards the surrounding space bubbles.
The energy torrent first touched the space bubbles, instantly halting the trend of collapse that was about to occur.
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The surface of the bubbles was suffused with a faint silver-white Spirit Light, as if coated with a protective film. Not only did they stop collapsing, but they also began to slowly rotate, absorbing the surrounding Void Power.
Chen Sheng's hands sealed even faster, with Nascent Soul Magical Power in his body surging out like a tide, continuously injecting into the energy torrent.
The mana of a Nascent Soul Cultivator far exceeds that of a Golden Core, and with the blessing of Void Power, this energy was enough to shake the local void.
"Go!"
He waved his sleeve, taking seventy-two Tier Four Array Banners from his Storage Ring. His fingertips flicked strands of Void Power, sending the banners into the surrounding space bubbles.
Each banner took root automatically upon landing in the bubbles, and the Array Patterns on the banners lit up, responding to the Spirit Light of the bubbles.
The seventy-two banners were distributed like stars in the void, forming a huge Array Pattern enveloping all the space bubbles—this was the Tier Four Array Banners he had previously refined.
Not only could they assist in stabilizing the bubbles, but they could also guide the orderly flow of Void Power, preventing the energy turbulence from destroying the node.
"Five-Colored Dust Transformation Cauldron, come forth!"
Chen Sheng shouted, raising his hands, and a brilliantly colored Pill Furnace flew out of his Storage Ring.
The furnace body was nearly a zhang high, engraved with Five Elements Runes of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth on its surface, each rune emitting corresponding attribute Spirit Light. This was the Tier Four Pill Furnace he had meticulously refined, the "Five-Colored Dust Transformation Cauldron."
He flicked his fingers, sending five different attribute mana streams into the Five Elements Runes on the furnace body. The Five-Colored Spiritual Light shone simultaneously, with a five-colored light curtain emanating from the furnace's mouth, covering the space bubbles.
The Power of the Five Elements and Void Power intertwined within the light curtain, forming a peculiar energy—the Void Power maintained the spatial structure, while the Power of the Five Elements expanded the bubble's range.
Under the five-colored light curtain, the previously scattered space bubbles began to merge with each other. Smaller bubbles merged into larger ones, and larger bubbles continuously expanded under the nourishment of the Power of the Five Elements.
"Five Elements Transformation, forge my Earth Veins!"
Chen Sheng shouted in his heart, pinching seals with his fingers to guide the Power of the Five Elements into the interior of the giant bubble.
The golden Spirit Light was the first to penetrate the bubble wall, condensing into countless fine metal threads within. These threads intertwined, quickly forming a web-like Earth Vein framework.
Next, the earth-element Spirit Light surged in, attaching to the metal framework, layer by layer like sand accumulating, gradually revealing a brown solid state layer within the originally transparent bubble.
As the earth-element Spirit Light continued to pour in, the solid layer extended downward and spread outward, gradually forming the embryo of land.
The most astonishing thing was the refinement of space fragments!
The dark space fragments that shattered in the space tide, originally carrying a sharp void edge that would cut energy upon touch, now became docile under the encasement of Void and Five Elements Power.
The refined fragment particles evenly integrated into the earth-element land embryo, and the brown ground suddenly exhibited a faint silvery luster. The previously soft soil layer instantly hardened like rock.
Immediately, more fragments were drawn in by Void Power and refined by the Power of the Five Elements. Some turned into fine grains paving the plains, while others formed larger rocks, stacking into rolling hills. A few larger fragments, reinforced by gold-element Spirit Light, rose straight up, gradually forming towering peaks.
The peaks' tops still bore the silver veining unique to space fragments, glistening with a cold sheen under the Five Elements Spiritual Light, resembling natural crystal ore veins.
When the last thread of earth-element Spirit Light was infused into the land, the topography inside the giant bubble was fully formed!
At the center was an expansive brown plain, with winding slopes extending from the plain's edges, transitioning toward surrounding peaks. The peaks were tinged by the Power of the Five Elements, appearing like a land of Five-Colored Divine Mountains.
Water-element Spirit Light accumulated in the plains' lowlands, forming small pools with glossy surfaces, reflecting the Five Elements light curtain above like broken mirrors set in the earth.
Thus, the inside of the formerly empty giant bubble transformed into a miniature world with mountains and land, with soil and water, though still encased by a transparent bubble wall, not yet isolated from the outside.
"Void Array Pattern, Stabilize!"
Chen Sheng took a deep breath, forming seals with his hands once more, casting strands of faintly purple Array Patterns, which seemed to come alive, merging into every inch of the Small Realm's space, linking up with the Tier Four Array Banners and the Five-Colored Dust Transformation Cauldron.
The banners were responsible for vigilance and defense, the cauldron for maintaining the Five Elements balance, while the Array Patterns integrated into the space barrier, strengthening the spatial structure.
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Time slowly passed, and with the final Array Pattern merging into the Small Realm, the spiritual light of the entire Small Realm abruptly stabilized, wholly isolating the effect of the space tide outside.
Even thousands of years later, as long as the Array Patterns weren't damaged, this Small Realm could remain stable.
Chen Sheng slowly retracted his power. Nearly seventy percent of his mana was consumed, and the Nascent Soul appeared somewhat exhausted. Although he had leveraged momentum, the difficulty of opening a Small Realm was still substantial.
"Fifty li in radius, it's done!"
Chen Sheng hovered at the center of the newly formed Small Realm, overlooking the mountains and rivers below with amazement. From the initial space bubble to the now complete Small Realm with mountains, land, walls, and boundaries, it took merely a few days.
He could distinctly perceive how deeply the land of the Small Realm was bound with the Power of the Five Elements. Even if Spiritual Qi fluctuations occurred later, the Earth Veins would not easily collapse, and the dark purple space barrier was gradually stabilizing, capable of resisting the erosion of space tides.
At this moment, the five-colored light curtain of the Five-Colored Dust Transformation Cauldron gradually retracted, leaving a faint Spirit Light Mark in the sky above the Small Realm, resembling a protective shield over the Small Realm.
The seventy-two Tier Four Array Banners were evenly distributed on the inner side of the barrier. The Array Patterns responded to the Void Power within the barrier, further reinforcing the spatial structure.
"This Void Realm is arguably the best place for an Array Formation, providing enough Void Power for long-distance transmission."
Chen Sheng nodded slightly, a faint smile on his lips.
He looked towards the entrance of the Small Realm, where it connected with the external void. It only required setting up another Teleportation Array to open a void passage between Yue Country and Chu Country.
This would be far more stable and long-lasting compared to setting up a "Long-distance Teleportation Array" elsewhere.