Master of Strange Dao

Chapter 1809: Chapter 491: Ultimate Encryption, Unseen Moves

Yu Ziqing stayed in the Health Club, bringing the storage rings delivered by the Deceitful Ghost into the Dao Court one by one.

With a wave of his hand, he saw the vast amounts of Red Soil stored in those storage rings pour out continuously.

From the moment Red Soil first appeared, once its recipe was no longer much of a secret, its value first skyrocketed, then quickly fell to rock bottom.

After hitting the bottom, the price of finished Red Soil never rose again.

Instead, a few materials that made up only a tiny portion of the recipe, yet were already quite rare, saw their value soar.

The Deceitful Ghost had his eyes on those things from the very beginning.

He knew Yu Ziqing needed a massive amount of Red Soil; a few mu or a few dozen mu weren’t nearly enough, so he stockpiled a huge quantity of materials.

Now he continued buying up those worthless materials, refining large batches of Red Soil to supply Yu Ziqing.

As he watched, within the Dao Court, the size of the southern red land expanded at a rapid pace, yet no mountain peak rose in the middle of the red land.

Yu Ziqing understood then that his earlier guess had come true.

Red Soil truly did not necessarily come with the Kun Character’s power attached.

Looking at the red land in the south of the Dao Court, Yu Ziqing felt there was definitely a problem here.

The current output of Red Soil was something the Deceitful Ghost had roughly estimated.

In this world there should not be any place with even more Red Soil still bearing that portion of the Kun Character’s power.

And based on his experience, that portion of the Kun Character’s power should definitely be in the Red Soil.

In other words, the greatest possibility was that even after entering the Dao Court, that portion of power still could not be fully triggered.

He compared the size of the red land; by rights, there should already have been one.

Thinking it over, he thought back to the Yellow Soil from before.

The very first Yellow Soil had been formed by digging into the gut of a giant shark Great Demon, then having the Mixed Yuan Gold Bowl absorb its filth before it turned into Yellow Soil.

Each type of Five-Colored Soil appeared in a different way and carried different powers.

Could it be that the method of triggering them was also different?

Yu Ziqing thought for a moment, then summoned Wu Shuangge, borrowed Wu Shuangge’s Mixed Yuan Gold Bowl, and tried absorbing on the red land.

Only a scant bit of filth was drawn out; this Red Soil was very clean to begin with, and that tiny bit of filth didn’t affect anything at all.

Aside from becoming slightly purer, the circulation speed of the Five Elements within the Dao Court became a bit smoother, with no major changes.

Yu Ziqing wasn’t disappointed; even a slight use was still a use.

He brought Wu Shuangge along and purified the remaining four plots of land one by one, speeding up the Five Elements Rotation throughout the Dao Court, which could be considered a good thing.

After sending Wu Shuangge away, Yu Ziqing squatted on the red land for a long time in contemplation, then took out a sealed box.

This was the box sealing the Sixty-four-sided crystal.

Yu Ziqing had always been very cautious with this item, keeping it sealed most of the time and not wanting to use it for Divination.

The strangeness of the deep sea—or rather, the Ancient Sea God—had always wanted to obtain this thing.

Yu Ziqing had muddied the waters with a counterfeit Sixty-four-sided crystal, so now no one knew that the genuine article was in his hands.

The fact that even the Ancient Sea God could not find it proved that this object was innately impossible to tamper with, innately able to conceal itself; the key was not that he hid it well.

This thing had appeared together with the Yellow Soil, so if one were to say there was a connection, there might indeed be some.

After thinking it over, Yu Ziqing undid the Sealing and took out the Sixty-four-sided crystal.

Of all the things he could think of, this was the only one directly connected.

He took out the Sixty-four-sided crystal, and still there was no change within the Dao Court.

He thought for a moment, then casually tossed the Sixty-four-sided crystal down at his feet.

The instant that Sixty-four-sided crystal touched the red land, light blossomed within the crystal.

A strange divine charm emerged, gently yet irresistibly pushing Yu Ziqing away.

Even the Red Ape on the red land was pushed away, forced to retreat from where the crystal had fallen.

While the divine charm pushed away the nearby Living Beings, the halo of light kept spreading out, sweeping across the entire Dao Court with lightning speed.

At the same time, Yu Ziqing also sensed the power of the Dadui Divine Dynasty he bore on his body ripple slightly.

The next instant, Yu Ziqing perceived that the red land beneath his feet seemed to become half-transparent, and the crystal buried within began rotating of its own accord in a specific pattern, continuously shifting left and right, up and down.

When it finished traversing all sixty-four faces in its own special and intricate way, Yu Ziqing naturally perceived a line of words.

"Their end is this beginning."

As these words surfaced, Yu Ziqing saw the radiance of the Sixty-four-sided crystal resonate throughout the entire red land.

A strand of special divine charm emerged, continuously converging at the center of the red land.

He saw a mountain suffused with a dark red hue rise up out of the center of the red land.

In just half-incense burning, that mountain had already grown to match the height of the peaks on the east, west, and north sides.

Yu Ziqing also noticed that the progress bar of the new Divine Skills he was still brewing suddenly surged.

After leaping forward a segment, it returned to its original slow pace, even slower than before.

Yu Ziqing understood that his new Divine Skills came from forging the Dao Court and were naturally tied to the Five-Colored Soil and the Kun Character’s power within the Dao Court.

As long as he caused a fifth mountain to arise in the Dao Court, this Divine Skills would naturally manifest.

If he could not gather them all, then he could only rely on time to slowly grind away at it, and it would become slower and slower in the future.