Yang Jing believed there were still Evil Gods within the Nine Marvels Small Realm. However, with the ringleader sealed away, he figured the remaining ones couldn't cause much trouble.
After all, he wasn't a babysitter for this group of Golden Core Cultivators, responsible for cleaning up every last loose end.
What Yang Jing hoped for more was that after these Golden Core Cultivators left the Nine Marvels Small Realm, they would draw the attention of the Central Continent's Sects and Noble Families to the Mingfei Joyful Method.
After all, the Nine Marvels Sect's own Divinity Transformation Cultivator had already verified that even someone at their level would have difficulty spotting the flaw.
If the elites of the Central Continent were all implanted with Primordial Seeds, it would likely cause immediate and widespread chaos. Even with a Tier Six Spiritual Treasure to keep order, it would be difficult to set things right.
The balance between the cultivators and their external enemies in the other Four Continents was maintained only because the Central Continent served as a bulwark. If the Central Continent were to destabilize, the other Four Continents would immediately be plunged into a massive war.
The world that countless predecessors had painstakingly built over tens of thousands of years would be destroyed in an instant.
Yang Jing even hoped that an Evil God might escape from the Nine Marvels Small Realm. He didn't have the means to perform a Soul Search on an Evil God, but the Central Continent's Sects and Noble Families, with their legacies spanning hundreds of thousands of years, might not lack such methods.
The Nine Heavens World currently knew nothing about the Primordial Storage Realm. Perhaps they could torture some valuable information out of an Evil God's Divine Soul.
He suppressed his thoughts. 'If the sky were to fall, the tall ones would hold it up. As long as I do my part, my conscience will be clear.'
Over the next two days, he gathered another ten strands of Nine Marvelous Creation Qi. With a large number of Golden Core Cultivators having died at the hands of the Evil Gods, the intensity of the competition for the Nine Marvelous Creation Qi had dropped significantly.
Moreover, the remaining Golden Core Cultivators were all aware of Yang Jing's power, so they gave him a wide berth whenever they encountered him.
This made Yang Jing's process of collecting the Nine Marvelous Creation Qi incredibly smooth.
Back inside the Positive and Negative Five Elements Formation, Yang Jing sat cross-legged in the Quiet Chamber. This was the most crucial location within the entire Grand Array, completely sealed off from the outside by the Array's Power.
While it might not be able to block Nine Marvels' prying eyes, at the very least, Yang Jing would immediately sense it if it tried to peek in.
The Demon-Catching Tripod was placed before Yang Jing. It stood thirty feet tall. A White Ape, bursting with Evil Qi, was bound by countless Spiritual Light Chains and suppressed inside the tripod. Even while sealed, the White Ape's ferocity did not diminish in the slightest, and it struggled violently from time to time.
But imprisoned by the Demon-Catching Tripod, it couldn't break free in the slightest. Not even its roars could escape the tripod.
This White Ape was the leader of a pack of white apes, and its power was considered outstanding among the many Demons in the Nine Marvels Small Realm. While searching for Nine Marvelous Creation Qi, Yang Jing had discovered that this White Ape's aptitude was not bad, so he captured it.
Yang Jing ignored the White Ape's agitation. Instead, he took out the Nine Marvelous Creation Qi and focused on Refining it to compensate for the lack of Yin and Yang in his Five Elements Wheel.
As he began the Refining process, the Quiet Chamber suddenly fell silent, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
During this time, Yang Jing sensed Nine Marvels' prying gaze. His body, seated on the Meditation Cushion, was like an unmoving stone, showing no change at all. After watching him sit motionlessly for an hour, Nine Marvels lost interest and did not spy on him again.
Perhaps it was because the Yin Yang Dual Aspects within Yang Jing's Five Elements Wheel were of an Innate Attribute and thus of an extremely high order. Using the Nine Marvelous Creation Qi for the process of Transforming Void into Reality was proving to be exceptionally difficult.
Strand after strand of Nine Marvelous Creation Qi was Refined, yet it was still a long way from taking shape.
Fortunately, Yang Jing had anticipated this. The Evil Gods had been unable to refine the Nine Marvelous Creation Qi. After Yang Jing suppressed and Refined those Evil Gods, he obtained a considerable amount of it. He now had a total of twenty strands of Nine Marvelous Creation Qi on hand, which should be more than enough.
The Great Sun rose in the east and set in the west. In the blink of an eye, the one-year period for the Nine Marvels contest had come to an end.
The surviving Golden Core Cultivators had found a silver lining in the disaster, with most of them having made some gains. As beams of Divine Light enveloped them, they were instantly pulled out of the Nine Marvels Small Realm.
Upon exiting the Nine Marvels Small Realm, the crowd of Golden Core Cultivators was startled by the scene outside. The once desolate North Pole Heaven was now packed with over thirty Nascent Soul Cultivators. Their immense auras were so overwhelming that they had pushed back the ubiquitous Arctic True Thunder of the North Pole Heaven to over a hundred li away.
"Sun, Yue, come to your uncle's side, quickly."
Feng Zeyang was immensely powerful, yet he didn't stand out at all among this group of Nascent Soul Cultivators. When he saw Feng Sun and Feng Yue emerge completely unscathed, he breathed a huge sigh of relief and hastily summoned them with a Divine Thought.
Feng Sun and Feng Yue had been searching the crowd for Yang Jing. They only snapped out of it when they heard their uncle's voice via Divine Sense, and they flew over to his side.
"What happened in the Nine Marvels Small Realm? Why did so many people die this time?"
Not long after the trial in the Nine Marvels Small Realm began, some Sects and Noble Families discovered that their disciples' Divine Soul Tokens in the ancestral halls had suddenly shattered. This was a clear sign that the disciples had perished.
In the past, although the Nine Marvels contest was always fierce, there had never been so many deaths right at the beginning.
These Sects and Noble Families all had intricate connections with one another. After a quick comparison of notes, they concluded that a major upheaval had occurred within the Nine Marvels Small Realm.
How could those who had sent their future hopes—their chosen seeds—to participate in the Nine Marvels contest not be horrified? They all gathered outside the Nine Marvels Small Realm, desperate to get a glimpse of what was happening inside.
If some murderous star had appeared in this year's Nine Marvels contest, killing everyone they met, then so be it; they would naturally accept their losses. But if some other catastrophe had occurred, they would certainly pressure the Nine Marvels Sect to pull the disciples out of the Nine Marvels Small Realm.
The Nine Marvels Sect had no objection, but when they tried to investigate the situation within the Nine Marvels Small Realm, they were shocked to find that some kind of power was blocking them from the inside, preventing them from sensing anything at all.
The situation was urgent. The Divinity Transformation Cultivator of the Nine Marvels Sect immediately tried to communicate with the Nine Marvels Tripod within the Small Realm. However, they discovered that the Treasure Tripod, which suppressed the Sect's fortune, was still deep in slumber. After several attempts at communication, they only received a vague message: when the Nine Marvels contest ended, all the disciples would naturally be able to come out.
"Evil Gods?" "The Mingfei Joyful Method?"
As the emerging Golden Core Cultivators told their stories, the atmosphere grew even more solemn, and a pillar of Sword Qi shot into the sky.
That was a Nascent Soul True Monarch from the Celestial Sword Sect. Upon hearing the shocking news that Yin Yan, the Divinity Transformation Seed they had painstakingly nurtured, had actually died at the hands of Xiang Dingtian from the Divine General Sect, he was so furious his eyes looked ready to pop. He was about to attack the Divine General Sect's Nascent Soul Cultivator on the spot.
"What a fine Divine General Sect, hiding such filth! You actually condoned your disciple's practice of an Evil Technique, which cost my True Disciple his life! I will have justice today!"
The Divine General Sect's own Divinity Transformation Seed, Xiang Dingtian, had also perished. With one side being Sword Cultivators and the other Body Cultivators, neither group was known for having a good temper, and they were on the verge of coming to blows right then and there.
In the end, it was a Divinity Transformation Cultivator from the Nine Marvels Sect who intervened, suppressing both parties to prevent a real fight from breaking out.
"The most urgent task now is to conduct a thorough investigation into this Mingfei Joyful Method! This Evil Technique's poison is endless. Anyone in our sects who has practiced it must have their Divine Soul thoroughly inspected. Furthermore, we must trace how this Evil Technique found its way into the Central Continent!"
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