"Hahaha, a fine Kunpeng bloodline indeed!"
Qi Ping commanded his several thousand-zhang Kunpeng body, weaving back and forth between heaven and earth.
Under the extreme profound mysteries of the Roc form, a thousand miles passed in but an instant; in the blink of an eye, he reached the clouds of the Nine Heavens.
He performed Yin-Yang divine abilities with casual ease, and every gesture or movement received the favor of the Laws of Wind.
At this moment, he truly became the darling of heaven and earth.
Divine beasts were exactly as the name implied: naturally divine and holy beasts that could inherently obtain the blessings of heaven and earth.
At this moment, Qi Ping also truly felt the immense advantage of being a divine beast; between his breaths and the raising of his hand, there were powerful divine abilities that others could only look upon but never reach.
Because switching from the Kunpeng form to a human form required the consumption of a massive amount of energy, Qi Ping did not choose to switch back to his human form.
He decided that for a long time in the future, he would exist in the form of a Kunpeng. He would maintain this until he obtained enough Mahayana Stage cultivation methods.
Or rather, he was also considering refining the Kunpeng form of the Druid Beast King True Body into his second clone, sharing his soul, so that the clone could advance to the Eighth Rank in its Kunpeng form.
After soaring simply for a long time at an altitude of ten thousand miles, Qi Ping dove downward, landing steadily before the Bald Golden Crow.
"Big Brother Jin, I must thank you for your assistance in allowing me to obtain such a fortuitous opportunity this time."
Qi Ping used the wings of his Roc body to cup his hands before him, expressing his sincere gratitude.
Although there were calculations and exchanges of interest involved, Qi Ping did not feel anything was amiss; one naturally had to pay a price to obtain things, and at the very least, the Eighth Rank Resentful Tea obtained during this trip was real, as was the bloodline inheritance of the Kunpeng Ancestral Beast.
"Good fellow, it truly is you, Brother Qi! How did you actually achieve this? How did you turn into a Kunpeng?"
Upon hearing the words of Qi Ping, the look of shock on the face of the Bald Golden Crow grew even more intense:
"Surprisingly, even I cannot determine whether you are a real Kunpeng or a fake one? If I had not known you previously, I absolutely could not have detected that you are a member of the Human Race; is there any difference at all between you and a real Kunpeng now?"
As the Bald Golden Crow spoke, his form shifted, instantly transforming into a massive Golden Crow exceeding ten thousand zhang in size.
"Since you have also transformed into a divine beast form, I shall no longer manifest a human shape; being cooped up in such a small body is more uncomfortable than being in prison, and the form of my original body is truly more comfortable." The Bald Golden Crow sighed with emotion.
However, at the instant the Bald Golden Crow revealed his Golden Crow True Body, golden-red Solar True Fire began to burn fiercely throughout the entire space; the terrifying pressure caused the Kunpeng body of Qi Ping to tremble involuntarily.
'What terrifying bloodline power!' Qi Ping was shaken in his heart.
Compared to a human body, this Kunpeng physical body with an Eighth Rank lower-grade bloodline could more truly feel the horrifying pressure coming from the Eighth Rank Golden Crow before his eyes.
'This is definitely bloodline power that far exceeds the early Eighth Rank!' Qi Ping was incredibly shocked in his heart; the powerful oppression made him nearly unable to speak, and it seemed as though every pore flashed with an intense sense of crisis.
Fortunately, after a moment, the Bald Golden Crow quickly seemed to realize that his aura affected Qi Ping, so he hastily restrained his aura.
Only then did Qi Ping breathe a sigh of relief.
"My apologies, Brother Qi, I momentarily forgot to restrain my aura; speaking of which, you still have not told me how you turned into a Kunpeng?"
"Then I must at least be able to speak first!" Qi Ping could not help but roll his eyes at the Golden Crow before him, and then he explained:
"This is an innate divine ability of my physique; I can perceive a type of demon beast bloodline power and then transform into a true demon beast, which belongs to a type of bloodline power that is harmonious with demon beasts."
"However, this transformation can only be performed once, and after transforming into a demon beast, the difficulty of transforming back into a human body is very high, and the consumption is also extremely large; because the Star-Sea World currently lacks cultivation methods to break through to the Mahayana Stage, I intended to use a demon beast body to break through to the Eighth Rank first, as the probability of me obtaining Mahayana Stage cultivation methods would be much higher that way."
Qi Ping did not hide much regarding this, nor was there any great necessity to do so; for the Forest-Sea Demon Domain, there were plenty of bloodline divine abilities even more powerful than this, and if a true battle occurred, even a Kunpeng Ancestral Beast might not necessarily win, much less someone like him.
There was another even more important point: Qi Ping also wanted to consult the Bald Golden Crow regarding the experience and insights of breaking through as an Eighth Rank demon beast.
The difficulty for a spirit beast to break through to the Eighth Rank was the same as that for a human breaking through to the Mahayana Stage—it was exceptionally great; in particular, the bloodline power had to possess the potential to reach the Eighth Rank, otherwise, a forced breakthrough would surely result in death.
However, with the help of the bloodline inheritance of the Kunpeng Ancestral Beast, the form Qi Ping first converted into for his Beast King True Body was an Eighth Rank lower-grade bloodline, so the difficulty of breaking through to the Eighth Rank next would be much smaller.
Nevertheless, he still knew very little about the cultivation of demon beasts, so he could have greater certainty only by understanding more.
"So that is how it is; this path is indeed viable!" The Bald Golden Crow suddenly understood.
"Speaking of which, Big Brother Jin, what exactly was the situation just now? After I entered that altar space, it was filled with endless eerie beings; if I had not previously grown accustomed to your Mahayana Stage pressure and refined the power of that Eighth Rank Resentful Tea, I estimate I truly would have perished inside... those things inside were truly bizarre to the extreme..."
"That is the power of the Sky-Evil!" The expression of the Bald Golden Crow sank rarely, becoming incomparably solemn:
"Brother Qi, it is not that your elder brother sought to trap you, but rather that besides this, we had no other way..."
"Before you, we sent more than one Seventh Rank demon beast from the Demon Domain inside; this included the strongest contemporary geniuses from the powerful divine beast clans such as the True Dragons, Black Tortoises, and Heavenly Phoenixes, who were considered invincible among their peers at the Seventh Rank combat level, but without exception, every single one of them failed; even when we sent a batch at once, it was the same, and in the end, they all turned into nourishment for those beings within the altar."
"Fortunately, your appearance gave us hope once more; within the Seventh Rank level, you possess power that countless beings find difficult to rival, otherwise it would have been impossible to slaughter that demon race, but that still was not enough—only after you successfully absorbed the Eighth Rank Resentful Tea did you truly possess the qualification to venture into the center of the altar!"
"Fortunately, your power did not let us down; you truly are worthy of being the person who can lead the Star-Sea World from ruin toward recovery!"
The Bald Golden Crow, this famous super demon, rarely raised several feathers burning with fierce Solar True Fire toward Qi Ping to express his admiration.
"Then why did you not simply let a Mahayana Stage existence go inside?" Qi Ping asked in return.
Since Seventh Rank demon beasts could not kill them, would it not have been better to directly send an Eighth Rank one?
Although those existences within the altar space were difficult to kill, as long as an Eighth Rank demon beast took action, there should not have been much pressure to kill them all.
However, upon hearing this, the Bald Golden Crow shook his head with a bitter smile:
"No, during this stage of the Sky-Evil, Seventh Rank existences cannot enter; once one forcibly enters, the Sky-Evil Altar will detonate and flee. In that case, it would only lead to a result we are even more unwilling to face; we spent a great deal of energy just to seal it in this position."
"What exactly is this Sky-Evil? Why did I never see any records regarding this Sky-Evil when I was in the Star-Sea World?"
Thinking of that final figure that looked exactly like Elder Zhou, Qi Ping felt somewhat uncomfortable in his heart.
"Sigh." The Bald Golden Crow let out a sigh, "The Sky-Evil is not any kind of living being, but rather one of the evil calamities within the universe!"
"As one of them, the Sky-Evil is a type of tumor that parasitizes worlds; they seem to be able to project themselves onto completely unrelated worlds through some mysterious means, and once a world is targeted by the Sky-Evil, a terrifying catastrophe will erupt within an extremely short period."
"It can manifest hundreds of millions of life seeds smaller than dust, scattering them to every corner of the world, and then these life seeds will parasitize the bodies of various beings to grow secretly, controlling them to devour and slaughter in order to grow rapidly!"
"This method is too stealthy; even I cannot completely eliminate them, and once the hundreds of millions of clones of the Sky-Evil grow to a certain degree, they will begin to spread at an explosive speed, causing an unimaginable super catastrophe for the beings of the world!"
"In this way, the losses are unpredictable; because of the Sky-Evil, more than one race in the Forest-Sea Demon Domain has already gone extinct, including the Black Tortoise Clan, of whom only some mixed-blood demon beasts with weak bloodlines remain."
"There is only one opportunity to deal with the Sky-Evil: after they have devoured enough providence, bloodlines, and souls, they will uncontrollably gestate an individual of the greatest strength, one so powerful that we must gather the strength of the entire world to shatter the Sky-Evil completely!"
"However, at the final moment, it self-detonated and escaped; after a million years, it was reborn, and an unstoppable catastrophe broke out once more... Fortunately, that old tortoise calculated the weakness of this branch of the Sky-Evil, and finally sealed it in an altar state, which is the scene you just witnessed; you know the events that followed."
Speaking to this point, the eyes of the Bald Golden Crow were full of helplessness and sadness, but there was also a hint of relief.
According to the words of the old tortoise, this branch of the Sky-Evil should no longer have the chance to stir up trouble in the Forest-Sea Demon Domain.
"How can such a terrifying existence exist?" After listening, the heart of Qi Ping was full of shock.
The terrifying beings existing in this universe simply exceeded his knowledge and imagination.
"Indeed, how can such a terrifying life exist?" The Bald Golden Crow sighed helplessly.
"Let us not speak of this; take this as my meeting gift to you; when you go to Chaos City and encounter difficulties, you can seek help from that white-feathered bird, if it is still alive..."
After the Bald Golden Crow finished speaking, he handed a feather carrying his own origin aura and will to Qi Ping.
"Many thanks, Big Brother Jin, but what kind of place is this Chaos City?" Qi Ping put away the feather, a flash of surprise appearing in his eyes.
"You do not know of Chaos City?" This time, it was the turn of the Bald Golden Crow to have a look of bewilderment appear on his face.
"I am not clear on it!" Qi Ping nodded with certainty.
"Then how did you dare to sail away from the World of Orderly Beings?"
"Do I still have a choice?" Qi Ping sighed helplessly.
"True..." The Bald Golden Crow recalled the appearance of the Star-Sea World over these years, and he could then understand, but he had not expected that the Star-Sea World had even lost the records concerning Chaos City.
"Since you are looking for Mahayana Stage cultivation methods, then you must certainly go to Chaos City; I shall put it to you this way:"
"Chaos City is the nearest outpost within the range of our Xuantian Universe; there, various experts and beings from the Xuantian Universe gather; in that place, the Void Refinement stage is merely the starting point, while the Integration and Mahayana Stages are the mainstream; many experts will cultivate and trade there, however, the primary function of Chaos City is not trade, but rather to resist calamities similar to the Sky-Evil, as well as other beings attempting to invade the Xuantian Universe!"
"Because outside of that world, there exist beings even more terrifying than the Sky-Evil!"
"What?" Upon hearing these words, a storm of shock suddenly surged within the heart of Qi Ping!
One reason was that he had not expected to find by chance what he had sought in vain; he might have a lead on the place to obtain Mahayana Stage cultivation methods; in that place, he would surely be able to obtain many things and information that he desired.
Perhaps if he wished to build a Myriad Worlds trade network and utilize the world-factory advantage of the Star-Sea World, a place like Chaos City would be the best point of entry.
The other reason was that Qi Ping had not expected that the place where he currently resided was originally the Xuantian Universe region, and outside of this world, there were even more terrifying enemies and disasters!
"I was just as shocked when I first learned of this news; generally, we do not reveal this information to demon beasts below the Seventh Rank; when I had just reached the late Seventh Rank as a demon beast, I followed the elders of the Golden Crow Clan to Chaos City to venture out..."
"In that place, you can choose to trade and cultivate, or you can choose to head to the Fiendish Battlefield; as long as you slay other threatening universal beings and obtain enough merit and contributions, you can exchange them for various rare items within Chaos City; perhaps the cultivation methods you require are among them... In truth, that place is the real battlefield for Mahayana Stage and Integration Stage cultivators; there, you can obtain the fastest speed of growth."
"It is only that the degree of danger in that place is too high; even Integration Stage or even Mahayana Stage existences will have a very high probability of perishing, so not everyone is willing to continue venturing there."
"If too many Mahayana Stage cultivators from a certain world perish, their own world will also suffer heavy damage as a result; for someone like me now, I have already passed the age for such risks; it is very difficult to move upward, so it is better to simply guard the home that is the Forest-Sea Demon Domain well; however, for you, Chaos City might be a very good opportunity... By the way, in that place, perhaps you can find the memory fragments left behind by the Star-Sea World once upon a time; you will surely be very shocked!"
Chaos City, the outpost battlefield, items that can be exchanged, the high death rate, the memory fragments of the Star-Sea World... hearing these words, the shock in the heart of Qi Ping could no longer be described with language.
'Chaos City? It seems the next destination can be determined!'
Qi Ping felt that this trip out was truly the right choice, otherwise, if he had stayed in the Star-Sea World, he truly would not have known how to obtain this kind of information.
Next, Qi Ping asked the Bald Golden Crow many more questions regarding Chaos City and how to get there.
At this moment, his journey through the universe finally had an extremely clear direction.
And in this way, his universe trade route and the route for earning resources seemed to also have a clear and definite goal, making things much simpler.
Thinking of this, the heart of Qi Ping could not help but burn with heat! (This chapter ends)