Chapter 643 Golden Mist

"Milky Way, your strength…?"

Chiyan Celestial looked at Lin Yuan, waves stirring in his heart.

Before asking, he had already deduced that it was Lin Yuan fighting with Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable.

After all, that scorching Blazing Sun aura could not be faked; it was definitely an expert from Blazing Sun Ancient Kingdom, and at that time in that region, only Lin Yuan came from Blazing Sun Ancient Kingdom.

Although this possibility was extremely incredible—could Milky Way Heavenly Lord be a Peak Heavenly Venerable?—it was the only possibility.

"I made a Breakthrough not long ago," Lin Yuan said.

This was also the truth. If he hadn't condensed the crucial Blazing Sun Seed and formed a large Blazing Sun circulation within his body, allowing his strength to undergo a qualitative change…

At most, Lin Yuan would only be at the same level as Honglian Celestial.

After all, Lin Yuan's true life Realm was currently only at the Sovereign Realm.

Under the premise of not crossing major Realms, it was very difficult to jump straight from a Peak Heavenly Venerable to a Peak Heavenly Venerable.

"Hahahahaha, good, good, good!"

Guanglie Celestial burst into loud laughter, looking at Lin Yuan with full appreciation: "With you, Milky Way Heavenly Lord, this time our Blazing Sun Ancient Kingdom will have four top Peak Heavenly Venerables, giving us even more means to compete for and refine the core pillars."

The Ancient Countries certainly had more than four top Peak Heavenly Venerables, but most top Peak Heavenly Venerables, and even the strongest Peak Heavenly Venerables, were in seclusion attempting to impact the Thirteenth Order. As for competing for newly born treasure lands? It was hard to attract these Peak Heavenly Venerables.

As for the top Peak Heavenly Venerables that the Blazing Sun Ancient Kingdom could mobilize at any time, there were only three: Chiyan, Guanglie, and Hengyang.

The other Ancient Countries were about the same, with Da Fu Ancient Kingdom having slightly more.

With Blazing Sun Ancient Kingdom gaining another top Peak Heavenly Venerable combat power, its foundation would definitely increase by a notch. It might not be obvious in the early stage, but by the Late Stage, when fighting and killing against other Ancient Countries, it would be extremely useful.

"Milky Way Heavenly Lord was able to shatter the right eye spirit prison of Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable. Compared in terms of killing power, he can be considered very strong even among top Peak Heavenly Venerables."

Hengyang Celestial looked at Lin Yuan thoughtfully.

He had fought with Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable and knew the other's methods well. Even if Lin Yuan was taken into the right eye spirit prison out of contempt, wanting to shatter it? That was still very difficult.

Unless it was the kind of instantaneous killing power that exceeded the bearing limit of the spirit prison, otherwise, even a slight delay would allow Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable to react and completely expel the Lin Yuan inside.

"It was just luck," Lin Yuan said.

"Hahaha, the stronger Milky Way Heavenly Lord's strength is, the more advantageous it is for us to compete for the treasure land," Chiyan Celestial said with a smile on his face.

He hadn't expected that Lin Yuan, squeezed in by the emperor, would give him such a big surprise.

The gazes of the other Peak Heavenly Venerables looking at Lin Yuan were somewhat complex. Originally, Lin Yuan was at the same level as them, yet in the blink of an eye, he was already a top Peak Heavenly Venerable?

"Milky Way Heavenly Lord… I actually sparred evenly with him back then?"

Honglian Celestial looked at Lin Yuan, myriad thoughts swirling in his mind.

Not long ago, he had still sparred with Lin Yuan, at that time still shocked by this Milky Way Heavenly Lord's strength.

Yet how long had passed? Let alone sparring with Milky Way Heavenly Lord now, being able to protect himself in the other's hands would already be considered rare.

"That treasure land's core pillar is just a tiny bit away from being fully refined."

Lin Yuan looked toward the three top Peak Heavenly Venerables—Chiyan Celestial, Hengyang Celestial, and Guanglie Celestial—and spoke.

According to the plan formulated at the beginning, all discovered treasure land core pillars were best handed over to the three top Peak Heavenly Venerables for refinement.

As for the other Peak Heavenly Venerables, their main task was to guard the treasure land's core pillars.

"Since you, Milky Way, are also a top Peak Heavenly Venerable, you can refine the core pillars of the treasure land you discover yourself," Chiyan Celestial said with a nod.

"Alright."

Lin Yuan's mind stirred slightly.

The true body stationed in front of that core pillar immediately completely refined the final remaining area of the pillar.

Hum.

The moment it was refined.

Lin Yuan vaguely established a connection with this core pillar.

"Now, as long as I am within the range of this treasure land, I can instantly descend beside this core pillar?" Lin Yuan thought to himself.

The plan formulated by Chiyan Celestial and others to have top Peak Heavenly Venerables refine the core pillars was based on this ability.

Top Peak Heavenly Venerables possessed the strongest strength. Having them refine the core pillars and instantly descend beside any core pillar was the only way to protect the pillars to the maximum extent.

Of course, the instant descent here had to be established on the premise that space and time were stable. If they were fighting and killing other Experts and the space-time around them was annihilated and collapsed, they wouldn't be able to escape or descend via the core pillars.

Previously, Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable had brought the main combat physical bodies of numerous Peak Heavenly Venerables to search for core pillars, having these Peak Heavenly Venerables refine the outer areas of the core pillars while leaving the final deep area for himself to refine.

This was the most efficient way.

"At the same time, I can feel that this treasure land's suppression on me has decreased a bit," Lin Yuan looked around.

Completely refining this core pillar made him notice many changes. Originally, his Divine Ability 'World' could at most carefully probe a radius of ten billion miles around him.

And now, the probing range had increased by about ten percent.

This probing referred to careful probing—the kind of probing capable of discovering core pillars.

It could be deduced that the more core pillars refined, the larger the probing range would be.

Great Spirit Capital.

An Incarnation of Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable sat here.

The other eleven figures looked at Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable with incredulity.

"Spirit Prison, are you saying that the one who fought you was Milky Way Heavenly Lord of Blazing Sun Ancient Kingdom? Not one of Chiyan Celestial, Guanglie Celestial, or Hengyang Celestial?"

Spirit Sense Celestial Venerable furrowed his brows tightly. Originally, he thought one of those three—Chiyan Celestial and the others—had made a move.

Who would have thought it was Milky Way Heavenly Lord? Spirit Sense Celestial Venerable had never taken Milky Way Heavenly Lord seriously; although he was the first Celestial Venerable with a First Ancestor's Bloodline, his growth time was simply too short.

"Yes."

"That Milky Way Heavenly Lord is a top Peak Heavenly Venerable."

Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable said with certainty: "My right eye spirit prison was destroyed by that Milky Way Heavenly Lord, and my strength is no longer at its Peak."

"Then what should we do?"

A third top Peak Heavenly Venerable asked.

Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable was very important for their competition for the treasure land this time. Trapping numerous Peak Heavenly Venerables with the spirit prison to weaken the other Ancient Countries' ability to search for core pillars was thus equivalent to indirectly increasing Great Spirit Ancient Kingdom's probability of finding more core pillars.

"I plan to use that rare treasure to recover the right eye spirit prison as soon as possible," Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable thought for a moment and said in a low voice.

"That rare treasure?"

Spirit Sense Celestial Venerable's expression changed slightly.

The twelve Peak Heavenly Venerables of Great Spirit Ancient Kingdom had carried some foundation rare treasures bestowed by the Ancient Kingdom before entering the treasure land.

These foundation rare treasures were incomparably precious and must absolutely not be used unless under desperate circumstances.

But right now?

Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable's right eye was damaged, which greatly reduced the efficiency of Great Spirit Ancient Kingdom in searching for core pillars next.

"So be it."

"As long as you, Spirit Prison, can recover in the shortest time possible, consuming those rare treasures won't be considered a loss," Spirit Sense Celestial Venerable said with a cautious expression and slowly.

If not for the tight time limit of two thousand years to compete for the treasure land…

Spirit Prison Celestial Venerable wouldn't have the opportunity to use that rare treasure either. The right eye spirit prison collapsed? Recovering slowly would have sufficed.

As time passed.

The matter of Milky Way Heavenly Lord being a top Peak Heavenly Venerable quickly spread to the ears of the many Peak Heavenly Venerables within the treasure land.

There was no way to hide this; there were only a dozen or twenty top Peak Heavenly Venerables, making it very easy to lock down a range, not to mention that Great Spirit Ancient Kingdom had no intention of hiding it either.

"Milky Way Heavenly Lord? The first imperial clan member to excavate their Bloodline to the Celestial Venerable level?"

In Da Fu Ancient Kingdom, Celestial Venerable Fu Xu, dressed in dark robes, fell into contemplation.

He had little interest in Lin Yuan reaching the strength of a top Peak Heavenly Venerable, but instead valued the Celestial Venerable-level First Ancestor Bloodline even more.

"With your strength, Celestial Venerable Fu Xu, even if that Milky Way grows to his limit, he might not necessarily be your match."

A nearby top Peak Heavenly Venerable spoke.

Celestial Venerable Fu Xu had already cultivated a certain supreme Legacy left behind by the first ancestor to a profound depth. His strength, not to mention being the greatest in the history of the Six Ancient Kingdoms, could at least be considered among the very strongest small handful.

The Six Ancient Kingdoms had been passed down for endless years. Even for the oldest Da Fu Ancient Kingdom, Celestial Venerable Fu Xu stood almost at the very Peak among combat powers at the Celestial Venerable level.

Going further up meant involving the power of the Thirteenth Order level.

"That might not be certain. After all, it's a First Ancestor's Bloodline; what if there's some kind of transformation in the future?"

Celestial Venerable Fu Xu smiled slightly and said casually.

"Transformation?"

This top Peak Heavenly Venerable of Da Fu Ancient Kingdom raised an eyebrow. Although he didn't quite agree, he didn't refute either.

After all, it involved the First Ancestor's Bloodline and was related to the lofty First Ancestor—even though the source of Milky Way Heavenly Lord's First Ancestor Bloodline was not the Da Fu first ancestor, but the Fiery Sun First Ancestor.

However, the First Ancestor could not be discussed; this was an ironclad rule.

"Alright, let's search for the core pillars as soon as possible."

Celestial Venerable Fu Xu spoke calmly.

"Yes."

The top Peak Heavenly Venerable of Da Fu nodded.

"Milky Way's strength?"

Blazing Sun Ancient Kingdom capital, imperial palace.

The Emperor of Lieyang Ancient Kingdom also received this news, but he was startled by Lin Yuan's strength.

He knew his own family's business best; he was well aware that decades or centuries ago, Lin Yuan wasn't even a Celestial Venerable.

Yet now he had stepped directly into the Domain of a top Peak Heavenly Venerable?

"Fortunately, fortunately."

The Emperor of Lieyang Ancient Kingdom muttered to himself, thankful that he had treated Lin Yuan quite well back then and managed to win him over.

Within the treasure land.

After refining that core pillar, Lin Yuan left a few Incarnations to guard it, while his true body continued searching along the direction.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, Lin Yuan stopped and looked in a certain direction. There was a valley where golden mist was faintly swirling inside.

Swish!

Lin Yuan took a step out, arriving outside this valley, gazing at the golden mist swirling within it.

"The mist in the valley should be the rare treasure nurtured by this treasure land?"

Lin Yuan thought to himself. The aura of the golden mist was vaguely connected to the entire treasure land, resembling a fruit on a fruit tree, brimming with a certain wondrous aura.

"Let me take a look."

Lin Yuan extended his right hand, fetched a wisp of golden mist, and began observing it carefully.

The rare treasures nurtured by every first-tier treasure land had different effects—for instance, the black jade of the Black Jade Nest could enhance the strength of mental will, while the limitless crystal in the Boundless Eye could grant a Boundless Divine Body.

"This mist…"

Lin Yuan observed intently, his expression gradually undergoing a change.