Chapter 596 Breakthrough

Chiyang Heavenly Venerate had flames burning between his brows, resembling a miniature blazing sun, and he cooperated extremely happily with Lin Yuan to take charge of the Black Jade Nest.

"Back then, I sensed that there were hidden dangers in my mental will, and it cost me a heavy price to obtain the opportunity to act as the garrison of the Black Jade Nest. Now, I have finally made up for those hidden dangers almost completely."

Chiyang Heavenly Venerate thought to himself.

The special resource of the Black Jade Nest, black jade, has great benefits for the mental will of living beings.

It is just that black jade is hard to come by; Chiyang Heavenly Venerate needs it, and other Celestial Reverends need it as well.

Only by becoming the acting garrison of the Black Jade Nest can one stably acquire black jade.

Since the hidden dangers of his mental will have been resolved, Chiyang Heavenly Venerate couldn't be bothered to continue occupying the Black Jade Nest, especially with the currently extremely famous Galaxy Great Venerable coming to take over.

"With my mental will mended, the next step is to prepare to impact that step."

Chiyang Heavenly Venerate's thoughts wandered.

In this heaven and earth, all the Celestial Reverends of the Six Ancient Kingdoms yearn to step out that step.

It is said that in extremely ancient years, there was only one Ancient Kingdom in the world, and later the second Ancient Kingdom and the third Ancient Kingdom were born successively.

Until now, the Six Ancient Kingdoms stand side by side.

"If I can step out that step, I will open up the Seventh Ancient Kingdom, shining upon this heaven and earth like the First Ancestor, eternally immortal, knowing the past and the future."

Chiyang Heavenly Venerate felt an incomparable yearning in his heart.

Why do Celestial Reverends take orders from the Ancient Countries? Isn't it just to increase the possibility of stepping out that step?

"Over these years, the merits I have accumulated are almost enough, enough to redeem an opportunity to possess the First Ancestor, allowing me to experience and feel the height and horizon where the First Ancestor resides in advance."

Chiyang Heavenly Venerate had served the Blazing Sun Ancient Kingdom for a long time. With the strength of a Heavenly Venerate, he had experienced hundreds of all-out wars with other Ancient Kingdoms, coupled with the gains from garrisoning resource treasures.

He had already saved up a hundred billion merits.

Enough to possess the First Ancestor once.

"I have lived long enough. To continue living would be nothing more than endless repetition."

Chiyang Heavenly Venerate was very clear about the risks of stepping into that step. Even though he had prepared for many years, coupled with the final possession of the First Ancestor, the hope was still minimal.

But no matter how minimal, it was still hope. Chiyang Heavenly Venerate felt that he should also give it a fight; at worst, he would be completely immersed in a certain period of looping time.

Chiyang Heavenly Venerate continued to give Lin Yuan a few instructions. Since he was preparing to step into that step soon, Chiyang Heavenly Venerate had also seen through everything.

What did the struggles between the Celestial Reverends and the imperial family amount to?

If he could succeed and open up the Seventh Ancient Kingdom, these struggles would naturally vanish into thin air.

If he failed and was immersed in the time loop, the so-called struggles would have no meaning to him whatsoever.

Therefore, Chiyang Heavenly Venerate's instructions to Lin Yuan were quite sincere and did not contain any secret misleading.

After finishing his instructions, Chiyang Heavenly Venerate left directly, entering the spacetime teleportation array and disappearing into the Black Jade Nest.

Lin Yuan successfully took charge of this first-class resource treasure land, wielding all the grand array killing formations of the Black Jade Nest.

"Being able to go so smoothly this time is all thanks to Brother Crimson Treasure," Lin Yuan said with a smile, looking at Crimson Treasure King.

"Strange."

Crimson Treasure King, however, frowned and pondered, "This Chiyang Heavenly Venerate has always acted extremely domineering. Back then, in order to compete for the opportunity to act as the garrison of this Black Jade Nest, he almost completely offended four or five other Celestial Reverends to death, which is why the outside world deduced that Chiyang Heavenly Venerate had a huge demand for black jade. Now he has given it up so easily?"

Crimson Treasure King's expression was full of suspicion, "But he did indeed cede this resource treasure land, left directly without doing any tricks, and Brother Galaxy, you have also completely taken charge of all the grand array killing formations of the Black Jade Nest."

"No matter what Chiyang Heavenly Venerate's style and personality are like, he has indeed treated me quite well."

Lin Yuan also said, "Those things he instructed me just now also make a lot of sense."

"They do make a lot of sense."

Crimson Treasure King nodded, "So I didn't speak from beginning to end. Those things Chiyang Heavenly Venerate told you are all precautions needed when garrisoning border resource treasure lands."

"Forget it," Crimson Treasure King thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Anyway, this matter is a good thing. Entering the Black Jade Nest so smoothly has saved a lot of time. Originally, I was planning to have a good word with that Chiyang Heavenly Venerate."

"Right, it's a good thing."

Lin Yuan nodded.

Taking charge of this first-class resource treasure land without any effort was indeed a good thing.

Even holding the decree of the Ancient Kingdom's emperor, if an expert like Chiyang Heavenly Venerate secretly obstructed it, it would also be very troublesome. Now that these annoying things didn't happen, Lin Yuan was very satisfied.

"Brother Galaxy, how do you plan to garrison this resource treasure land?" Crimson Treasure King looked at Lin Yuan and asked.

"I will garrison it with a Clone." With a slight movement in Lin Yuan's mind, the Taiyin Primordial Spirit stepped out, entered the core of the Black Jade Nest, and took charge of all the grand array killing formations.

The garrison of a resource treasure land rarely guards it with their true Physical Body; they generally use a Clone, an Incarnation, or simply assign subordinates to guard it.

Every resource treasure land has a spacetime teleportation array, guarded by grand array killing formations. Once any accident occurs, as long as it holds out for ten breaths of time, it is enough for the garrison to provide support.

"A Clone is the best."

"After all, it is a first-class resource treasure land."

Crimson Treasure King nodded. Even Chiyang Heavenly Venerate garrisoned the Black Jade Nest with a Clone.

First-class resource treasure lands are incomparably precious. Sending an Incarnation or subordinates to guard it is still somewhat insecure.

"Let's go, let's head to the next treasure land."

Crimson Treasure King immediately led Lin Yuan into the spacetime teleportation array to head to Lin Yuan's second resource treasure land.

Deep within the Black Jade Nest.

Lin Yuan's Taiyin Primordial Spirit sat cross-legged.

"Is this black jade?"

A pitch-black, deep jade stone materialized in front of Lin Yuan.

Faintly, a Soul-captivating aura circulated within it.

There were still tens of thousands of years before the next condensation of black jade, but the condensation of black jade here was completely and thoroughly comprehensive.

At present, a small portion of black jade had also condensed in advance, similar to 'ripening' early. As the garrison, Lin Yuan could naturally take it out.

Merely feeling the aura of the black jade up close made Lin Yuan feel as though he were experiencing layers of illusions, and his mental will was also honed and enhanced invisibly.

"My current mental will index has almost reached seventy million points."

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

After stepping into the Twelfth Order, Lin Yuan's mental will index skyrocketed to sixty million points.

Several thousand years had passed since then, and his mental will index had increased by ten million points. The speed of progress could be described as unimaginable.

A mental will index of seventy million points completely reached the Peak Sovereign Realm, and even the early entry into the Chaos Realm Domain.

But compared to Lin Yuan's current strength, a mental will index of only seventy million points could be considered a weak point.

You must know that Lin Yuan's current combat power could completely benchmark against a normal Chaotic Great Saint. A mental will index of seventy million points was very unremarkable among Chaotic Great Saints, and could even be considered weak.

Which Chaotic Great Saint has not gone through successive cosmic eras? Their mental will indices generally exceed one hundred million.

However, the impact of the mental will index on strength is not that huge, unlike the gap in the Physical Body which is visible to the naked eye.

"Next, this Primordial Spirit's task is to refine the black jade as much as possible and enhance the mental will."

Looking at the black jade floating in front of him, Lin Yuan directly began to refine it.

Instantly.

Streams of Soul-shaking aura poured into the depths of Lin Yuan's Soul, invisibly tempering the strength of his mental will.

Although the strength of the mental will is not that useful when fighting enemies, it cannot be too weak, especially when breaking through a Bottleneck; if the mental will is too weak, it will lead to failure in the Breakthrough.

The stronger an expert is, the more they value their own mental will. Chiyang Heavenly Venerate would rather completely offend four or five other Celestial Reverends to death than occupy the Black Jade Nest, precisely to make up for the hidden dangers in his own mental will.

Another first-class resource treasure land was named Bibo Cliff.

The acting garrison was named Chi Kui King.

Unlike Chiyang Heavenly Venerate, Chi Kui King was a core member of the imperial family who had grown to the limit.

"Hahahaha, Brother Galaxy, I just received Your Majesty's command stating that you are to take over Bibo Cliff, so I've been waiting here since early morning."

Chi Kui King was a very majestic man with a hearty laugh and extreme enthusiasm, "Come, come, come, this is fine wine I have collected for many years. This fellow Crimson Treasure has never tasted it."

"Chi Kui, you're saying this right in front of me?" Crimson Treasure King rolled his eyes.

"What's wrong with saying it to your face?" Chi Kui King said nonchalantly.

"Thank you, Chi Kui King," Lin Yuan said from the side.

In Crimson Treasure King's initial estimation, among the three major treasure lands Lin Yuan needed to take charge of, the most difficult one was the Black Jade Nest.

After all, it involved a titled Heavenly Venerate, and moreover, Chiyang Heavenly Venerate who acted extremely domineeringly among the Celestial Reverends.

As for the other two resource treasure lands? Basically, there would not be any problems.

The acting garrison of Bibo Cliff was even one of the imperial family's own people.

The three of them drank fine wine and chatted for a while.

Chi Kui King then actively handed over Bibo Cliff's grand array killing formations to Lin Yuan.

He stood up and left through the spacetime teleportation array.

Once Chi Kui King disappeared, Crimson Treasure King chuckled at the side.

"Chi Kui, that fellow, is probably feeling very aggrieved inside," Crimson Treasure King said with a smile.

"Aggrieved?" Lin Yuan looked at Crimson Treasure King, his expression thoughtful.

"How could he not be aggrieved? To cede such a first-class treasure land—if Your Majesty hadn't specifically greeted him, Chi Kui King probably wouldn't have been so smooth about it."

Crimson Treasure King said casually.

"Your Majesty has great prestige among the imperial family?" Lin Yuan said.

"Do you think a place like a first-class treasure land would fall into the hands of a titled imperial prince if Your Majesty hadn't intentionally favored them?" Crimson Treasure King asked.

"Probably not."

Lin Yuan nodded.

If Your Majesty did not favor them, wanting to obtain a first-class treasure land would rely on one's own strength.

And even for a core member of the imperial family who had grown to the limit, in terms of strength, they could at most challenge those titled Celestial Reverends; if they were to truly fight to the death, they would definitely lose.

"Therefore, Your Majesty has carried out a large degree of resource tilting toward the imperial family, and the imperial family's Experts must unconditionally support Your Majesty's commands," Crimson Treasure King said.

If those titled Celestial Reverends felt unhappy in their hearts, they might comply on the surface but oppose in secret regarding the emperor's decree, and obstruct it covertly.

But titled members of the imperial family? Naturally, they wouldn't dare do that.

"I see."

Lin Yuan suddenly understood in his heart.

True.

For the high and aloft Fiery Sun First Ancestor, the so-called imperial family and the so-called Celestial Reverends actually had little difference.

They were all descendants of his own Bloodline, which could be seen from the fact that the possession opportunity was also open to Celestial Reverends.

"What does Your Majesty mean by this? Even if Galaxy's potential is greater, he has not truly broken the Heavenly Venerate shackles, yet Bibo Cliff is directly enfeoffed to him? And that Black Jade Nest? This is simply too biased."

Chi Kui King walked out of the spacetime teleportation array and entered his own mansion, his expression not looking very good.

Back when he was titled a prince, he was only enfeoffed with a fourth-class treasure land.

To this day, he had never garrisoned a truly first-class treasure land.

Bibo Cliff was only temporarily garrisoned by him.

But now? Two first-class treasure lands were directly bestowed upon that Galaxy?

Those were first-class treasure lands! Even someone as strong as a Heavenly Venerate needed to make great contributions to receive such an enfeoffment. Although the difficulty for a titled imperial prince was slightly lower, it was still very hard to be granted an imperial decree.

"With Your Majesty being so biased, what other methods do I have?"

Chi Kui King sighed. From the perspective of the entire imperial family, Galaxy Great Venerable had hopes of breaking the Heavenly Venerate shackles that trapped the imperial family, so bestowing two first-class treasure lands was not excessive.

But the acting garrison treasure land that he had worked hard to strive for happened to be one of them, which made Chi Kui King feel rather uncomfortable inside.

Entering both first-class treasure lands went smoothly, and the remaining second-class treasure land likewise had no twists or turns.

Lin Yuan had the Taiyin Primordial Spirit and the Solar Nascent Soul garrison the Black Jade Nest and Bibo Cliff. As for that second-class treasure land, he split out an Incarnation to garrison it.

The preciousness of a second-class treasure land could not compare to a first-class one, and the danger was not high. There was not much problem for an Incarnation to garrison it.

Even if danger arose, the Incarnation only needed to hold out for more than ten breaths until Lin Yuan's true Physical Body arrived to support.

"For the three treasure lands, in addition to obtaining ten percent of the produced resources, for every ten thousand years of garrisoning, one will receive a bestowal of merits."

Lin Yuan returned to his mansion and calculated in his heart.

Among them, a first-class treasure land would bestow one hundred merits for every ten thousand years of garrisoning, and a second-class treasure land ten merits for every ten thousand years.

That is to say, from now on Lin Yuan would have two hundred and ten merits coming in every ten thousand years.

Two hundred and ten merits, although seemingly not much, came continuously, once every ten thousand years.

For Great Venerables and Celestial Reverends, ten thousand years of time is nothing more than a brief closed-door cultivation.

Many Great Venerables and Celestial Reverends calculate a single closed-door cultivation in millions of years.

Two hundred and ten merits every ten thousand years amounts to twenty-one thousand merits in a million years.

It could be considered a very considerable income.

Many powerful Celestial Reverends fought for the Ancient Kingdom for hundreds of millions of years without even garrisoning two first-class treasure lands.

"Continue comprehending the Chaotic Mystery Diagram."

Lin Yuan reined in his thoughts and continued to comprehend the Chaotic Mystery Diagram.

The three Chaotic Mystery Diagrams that Lin Yuan had redeemed were enough for him to comprehend up to the Chaos Third Realm.

Time flowed.

In the blink of an eye, over half a year passed.

"The twenty-seventh mystery diagram."

Lin Yuan looked at a 'diagram' wreathed in Chaos Qi.

Wisps of Chaos Qi continuously formed mystery patterns, resembling some kind of ultimate principle between heaven and earth, causing numerous flashes of inspiration and comprehension to surge into Lin Yuan's mind.

Although every wisp of Chaos Qi looked ordinary, it was like the Origin of the Dao. Wisps of Chaos Qi intertwined, deriving an unknown amount of profound mysteries.

[Your Comprehension Ability is Heaven-Defying. Watching the Chaotic Mystery Diagram, your comprehension of the Chaos Rules has greatly improved.]

In a trance, the twenty-seventh mystery diagram before Lin Yuan's eyes began to become simple and clear.

"I understand."

Lin Yuan's eyes were bright, as if parting the clouds to see the blue sky.