Chapter 709: Achieving a Miniature Universe

Getting rid of Shangguan Ming meant that Ye Feng and Situ Xuan’s mission was almost successful. Ye Feng also knew that as the most favored descendant of the Shangguan family’s ancestors, Shangguan Ming might still cause him trouble. But this was no longer something he needed to worry about, as he was well aware that the ancestors of the Shangguan family would never dare to act against him personally, thanks to his backing from Immortal. If they did try, Immortal would surely intervene. Even if they didn’t intervene, they would still hate him deeply and send their subordinates to deal with him. And he could use those people to grow stronger.

The news of Ye Feng leading his men to wipe out the Shangguan family, one of the Ten Great Families, quickly spread throughout the True Realm. But at that moment, Ye Feng was busy with other matters in the Refinement Domain.

After plundering the Shangguan family, they reaped a substantial harvest. The Shangguan family had tens of thousands of members, and together with the numerous treasures in their vault, there were as many as 150,000 treasures in total, including three supreme true treasures and 33 peak true treasures.

Ye Feng threw all the true treasures below the peak level into the Void Treasure, allowing it to absorb them on its own. The reason he only included those below the peak level was that, with his current strength, he could only erase the consciousness of artifact spirits that were not at the peak level.

However, according to Ye Feng’s estimation, even if all these treasures, including the supreme true treasures, were absorbed, the Void Treasure would still struggle to complete the Eighth Domain. More treasures were needed to achieve that.

The absorption of true treasures was carried out autonomously by the Void Domain, a process that required a great deal of time.

In the Refinement Domain, Ye Feng found two of the earliest Mother Insect Ancestors. By now, the total number of Mother Insects in the domain had reached nearly 100,000, after dozens of generations of reproduction. The two ancestral-level Mother Insects had the highest cultivation levels and hardly stopped feeding for even a moment.

With Ye Feng’s endless resources, the cultivation levels of these two Mother Insects had barely reached the Half-True Realm. There were also nearly a hundred elite guards of the Mother Insects, all at the Half-True Realm level. As for the rest, most had reached the Cave Void level, with even those slightly lower at the Sky Void level. Despite the brutal breeding methods, their numbers still amounted to tens of billions. If it weren’t for such harsh breeding practices, the number of these insectoids might have already exceeded tens of millions times their current count.

After reaching the Half-True Realm, the cultivation progress of these insectoids began to slow down, as the Eighth Domain had not yet been unlocked. They no longer had enough food, which was why Ye Feng needed the corpses of warriors with cultivation levels below the Broken Truth Realm. Of course, before feeding them, Ye Feng extracted all the universes from those bodies. Although the universes from the second and third layers were of limited help in enhancing his own strength, according to the Sky-Piercing Tower, these universes would continue to evolve once they entered it and would surely assist his cultivation in the future. So Ye Feng followed its advice and absorbed all the universes into the Sky-Piercing Tower. He kept a close watch on the miniature universes within his body. Although the variety of life forms had reached saturation, their numbers were still slowly increasing naturally. Many of those warriors at the peak of the Saint level had also advanced to the Starlight level. According to the criteria for evolving a primary realm within a miniature universe—trillions of species, millions of beings reaching the Starlight level of the primary realm, and the presence of chaotic energy within the universe—it was only then that a primary realm could evolve. At this stage, the number of life forms became less important. After all, with trillions of species alone, the total number of life forms must be quite large. However, since Ye Feng could saturate the entire universe with the contracted species, the number of species naturally far exceeded trillions. As for these conditions, Ye Feng only lacked a sufficient number of Starlight-level warriors. But according to his calculations, even without reaching that number, it should be sufficient. As for chaotic energy, if it had to be generated on its own, it would take a long time. Fortunately, he already had a considerable amount of chaotic energy when bestowing blessings in the primary realm, so he wasn’t too concerned about this. Just as Ye Feng was thinking about his dantian, a strange pulsation suddenly came from within it. “Huh?” Ye Feng immediately delved into one of the miniature universes within his body. Then, an consciousness appeared in his mind: “The number of warriors at the Starlight level exceeds one million.” “So, this universe already meets the conditions to create a primary realm?” Ye Feng became excited upon hearing this. “Use the blessing authority once!” Before his words faded, he sat cross-legged, managed to calm himself down, and began guiding the universes within his body to construct a primary realm with the help of the blessing authority.

Within the Refining Realm, days passed by one after another, with Ye Feng remaining seated in meditation, motionless. Even Luo Yan had completed the creation of his descendants; the new Shangguan Ming had awakened, his aura being more than ten times stronger than before. After completing the creation of his descendants, Luo Yan glanced at Ye Feng, who was still seated in meditation, before starting to deal with those who were at the Broken True Realm level. As for Jin Wen, he remained by Ye Feng’s side, appearing to be dozing off. By using the Blessing of Evolution once, over three days, all three universes within Ye Feng’s body successfully constructed their primary planes, allowing him to officially become a powerhouse of a minor universe. But just as Ye Feng prepared to use the Blessing of Evolution a second time, a violent tremor occurred within the Refining Realm. Before Ye Feng could react, a strange beam of light penetrated through the extremely powerful Refining Realm and directly struck him. “Is this a blessing from the primary plane?” Ye Feng raised his eyebrows; he hadn’t expected the primary plane to bestow blessings upon him after he reached the level of a minor universe. The blessing then lasted for ten days. In just four days, Ye Feng constructed the primary planes for the remaining four miniature universes, elevating them to the level of minor universes. The Blessing of Evolution not only accelerated the evolution of universes but also greatly sped up the cultivation of life forms within them, even enhancing their cultivation potential. Thus, almost from the first day of using the Blessing of Evolution, the remaining six miniature universes within Ye Feng’s body met the conditions to construct their primary planes. After completing the evolution of the universes within his body, during the remaining six days, Ye Feng used the Insight Privilege twice to assist in his cultivation, aiming to merge the lightning and fire divine arts. In six days, most of the merging was accomplished, but it wasn’t yet complete. With no other choice, Ye Feng used the Insight Privilege and the Blessing of Evolution once more, finally merging these two great divine arts into a new dual-element divine art of lightning and fire, reaching the 18th level. Each of the single-element divine arts of lightning and fire also reached the 12th level. At this point, Ye Feng’s cultivation temporarily came to an end, as he only had two more uses of the Supreme Blessing of Evolution left, which was not enough to support further art mergers. He planned to wait until the Void Realm was fully consumed and he had enough privileges before proceeding with further mergers.