Shennong Dao Master

Chapter 1862: Chapter 13: The Secret of the Upper Three Realms, A Moment of Life and Death!

He wasn’t needed in fights, and even in support he couldn’t compare to others.

His presence in the team was very low; apart from occasionally cracking some "mystic" jokes, he had no use at all.

Yet Ji Yuan followed Zhao Xing and earned fifty to sixty million merits!

When others questioned his very existence, it was Zhao Xing who kept suppressing those voices; otherwise Ji Yuan probably wouldn’t have been able to stay.

So he really was eager to be put to use, to not let down Zhao Xing’s trust in him.

Now that Zhao Xing suddenly said he had a big mission to hand to him, Ji Yuan was extremely excited, even feeling a surge of impulse to die for Zhao Xing.

The words just blurted out: "No matter what the mission is, I’m willing to die for you, my lord!"

Zhao Xing smiled and waved his hand lightly. "It’s not that serious. You’ll be acting together with me. If I don’t die, you definitely won’t die either."

"It’s just that right now you must learn this Marquis Transformation Method first."

As he finished speaking, Zhao Xing lightly tapped with his fingertip, and that modified version of the "Spirit Void Turtle Transformation Technique" was transmitted into Ji Yuan’s mind.

"My lord, you actually created a Marquis Transformation Method for the Spirit Void Turtle in just eight years?" Ji Yuan sensed it and was immediately stunned. "My lord’s talent is truly rare in a lifetime."

Zhao Xing ignored Ji Yuan’s flattery and asked directly, "How long will you need to learn it?"

"Just to learn it, about three years will be enough." Ji Yuan said.

"What about to reach perfection?"

"Only three hundred years!" Ji Yuan said confidently.

"Still three hundred years?" Zhao Xing frowned.

Ji Yuan instantly deflated; he suddenly remembered that the man in front of him was the strongest genius of the Primordial Realm, a genius even acknowledged by the Ancient Hill as a Saint Heir.

Him taking three hundred years to master it—what the hell was he proud about?

"I’ll specifically assign an avatar to teach you," Zhao Xing said. "You only get fifteen years."

"If you can’t learn it in fifteen years, then I can only think of another way."

Zhao Xing calculated the timing; it wouldn’t be long before the local forces of the Spirit Void Realm would start mobilizing manpower to fully resist the invasion of the Xuanling Star Domain forces.

He had to collect enough of the four kinds of Boundary Stones within twenty years and then sneak into the Rain Immortal Realm.

The Marquis Transformation Method was the best disguise Spell.

If he was late and the great war broke out, once the Upper Realm forces sealed the entrances, sneaking in would become far too difficult.

However, finding a suitable Priest to follow him and complete the ritual really wasn’t easy; Ji Yuan was already the optimal choice.

"I’ll definitely give it my all!" Ji Yuan said loudly. "Please teach me, my lord."

"Alright."

...

"Mr. Zhao, why not sell all these Guyu Stones and then split the merits?" Youling Fairy lay on the desk, tossing a stone up and down in her hand. "What’s the deal with directly splitting the stones?"

In the past, whenever they got spoils of war, they rarely kept them; they would directly dispatch an Unmanned Boundary Boat, have Gu Ming’s Mechanical Puppets send them out of the realm to be traded for merits, and then distribute the merits.

There were now seven bases orbiting outside the Spirit Ruins Origin Realm, making merit exchange extremely convenient.

But now Zhao Xing was directly splitting stones instead of selling them first and then splitting the merits.

"Is there some trick in this?" Tuoson also asked curiously.

"When Brother Yu and I discovered the Holy Land of the Ape Eagle Clan, we found these Grain Rains being used as offerings for sacrifice," Zhao Xing said. "Maybe these Guyu Stones have other uses."

"You think they’ll appreciate?" Daoist Miao Song toyed with a Three-striped Valley Rain Stone. "Although it’s a specialty product, its efficacy isn’t much different from the various World Stones produced elsewhere."

"My Origin Space has absorbed a few, and they all feel about the same."

These days, things from the Spirit Void Realm that could appreciate in value were extremely rare; on the contrary, devaluation was far more common.

After all, a million people were like locusts swarming through, crazily plundering resources. Whatever increased in quantity would naturally depreciate.

"Whether it’ll appreciate or not, everyone can judge for themselves. I’m just giving a suggestion."

Matters succeed through secrecy; he couldn’t talk about the secrets of the Upper Three Realms yet. Zhao Xing could only hint this much.

He was leaving these friends a bit of an opportunity; whether they could grasp it depended on whether they were willing to listen.

"I’ll keep mine." Youling Fairy caught the stone she had tossed up.

"I’ll keep mine too. Anyway, my merits are currently second only to Zhao Xing’s." Tuoson also indicated he’d accept the suggestion.

"I’ll just sell mine." Daoist Miao Song shook his head. "If we wait a few more years, the price might be cut in half."

"I’ll sell mine too," Gu Ming said.

...

In their subsequent actions, Zhao Xing’s group mainly focused on looting World Stones.

The Lower Three Realms’ Boiling Sea Realm, Qinghe Realm, and Yangshan Realm.

They were fully excavated very quickly, in just the twenty-third year after exploration began.

A massive superpower, with a million Tao Domain Realm cultivators, had terrifying mobility.

In just twenty-three years, the Lower Three Realms no longer had any secrets.

During those twenty-three years, some chose to sell their World Stones for merits, while others chose to keep them.

Zhao Xing, however, went the opposite way and purchased high-quality Boundary Stones of the four realms from forces that were not part of the Red Star Empire.

His more than six hundred million merits grew smaller and smaller, until the twenty-fifth year.

Zhao Xing had only a bit over five hundred thousand merits left, in exchange for more than 1,800 stones.

Their gains were gradually shrinking.

The Lower Three Realms no longer had much oil left to squeeze.

On the nineteenth day of the eighth month of the twenty-sixth year, Zhao Xing led the team to ’unintentionally’ step into a vortex passage.

They were the first to discover a spacetime passage leading to the Middle Three Realms!

As a result, the Middle Three Realms were soon discovered as well.

They were named "Volcano Realm," "Feixing Realm," and "Four Yang Realm," respectively.

By being the first to discover the entrance to the Middle Three Realms’ passage, and by reporting the related Earth Advantage, Heavenly Time, and race intel inside and outside the entrances, Zhao Xing’s team earned 1.2, 1.5, and 2.4 billion merits respectively.