Chapter 22: The Five-Element Heavenly Formation

Qu Yi used the Star Luo Ding to absorb all the energy within the Rock Giant’s body, completely refining it. At that moment, he emerged from the Star Luo Ding and was pleased to find a Soul Yellow Pearl on the ground, along with a divine artifact—the Earth-Piercing Spear. The Soul Yellow Pearl represented the complete laws of Earth, which was extremely useful for Qu Yi; it allowed the Earth Lord to refine it, eliminating any worries about his soul realm in the future. As a divine artifact related to Earth, Qu Yi naturally had ways to utilize the Earth-Piercing Spear as well. He immediately put away the spear, tried it out a few times, and stored it in the Dimension Ball. Then, he carefully examined the Soul Yellow Pearl, laughed happily for a while, and also placed it in the Dimension Ball, sending it straight to the place where the Earth Lord practiced within it. By now, the Dragon Emperor and the Phoenix King had already left the planet with their surviving subordinates. Thus, when Qu Yi landed on the planet’s surface, there was no trace of them. “The Dragon Emperor and the Phoenix King tried to scheme against me, but now they’ve suffered a huge loss, allowing me to reap the benefits. With such a significant setback, I doubt they’ll dare to enter dangerous planets again. Their journey in the Divine Realm of Meteorites is almost over,” Qu Yi said calmly as he stood firmly on the ground. Currently, only fifty of the Golden Dragon Alliance’s Heavenly Soul Demons remained, and only forty of the Phoenix Alliance’s Heavenly Soul Demons survived. With their current strength, if they encountered Soul-Body Humans again, they would likely be defeated. Therefore, Qu Yi was certain that the Dragon Emperor and the Phoenix King didn’t have the courage to search for divine artifacts anymore. At that moment, the Artifact God, who had remained silent for a long time, transmitted a message: “Qu Yi, the cultivation levels of the Five Lords are all about to reach that of Lower Heavenly Soul Immortals. Within a month, you too will become a Lower Heavenly Soul Immortal. In this Divine Realm of Meteorites, you’ll be able to confront all the Heavenly Soul Immortals, Heavenly Soul Demons, and Heavenly Soul Demons head-on.” The Five Lords—Gold Lord, Wood Lord, Water Lord, Fire Lord, and Earth Lord—had obtained six spiritual essences from Qu Yi, allowing them to easily form spiritual bodies in their internal worlds. However, endowing those bodies with special attributes required some time. It was like raising a baby to adulthood; it took time for a person to truly mature. After five years, the Five Lords finally reached the point where they could make a real breakthrough in their cultivation. Hearing the Artifact God’s words, Qu Yi smiled even wider and replied, “Then I’ll wait another month. After that, I’ll go and compete directly with those alliance leaders for the divine artifacts.”

This one month was more than enough for Qu Yi to fully refine the three divine artifacts he had obtained: the Flowing Cloud Sound Chain, the Falling Fire Blade, and the Earth-Shattering Spear. Of course, if the Five Lords needed more, Qu Yi wouldn’t mind returning to the Origin Heavenly Vein Cave to catch a few spirit beings and give them to the Five Lords to increase the number of spirit entities in their inner worlds.

For powerful Immortal Souls, the key factor in determining strength lay in the number of spirit entities in their inner worlds.

Qu Yi directly entered the Inch Realm Sphere, ready to devote himself entirely to scanning the “Origin Space Dao” formation, aiming to fully comprehend it within ten years.

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The Nine Alliances of the Immortal Realm—Jin Xuan Alliance, Mu Feng Alliance, Tu Gui Alliance; the Demon Realm—Jin Zhan Alliance, Huo Tu Alliance, Tu Mi Alliance; and the Fiend Realm—Mu Lin Alliance, Shui Yang Alliance, Tu Ba Alliance—were now united and stationed on a planet.

Chang Xin, Ji Qiong, An Yu; Si Ren, Zhong Lei, Yang Gui; Kong Xu, Yan Shui, Liu Ying—these nine alliance leaders were already well-acquainted with each other, having all visited the Ruins Divine Realm before. They had already made thorough plans: they would let cultivators from the three realms search for treasures in the Ruins Divine Realm, while they would simply appear at the exit to seize the treasures obtained by those cultivators.

The reason the cultivators of the Nine Alliances were stationed on a planet was so that their powerful members could work together to practice coordinated attack formations, preparing to explore dangerous planets.

For cultivators at the levels of Human Immortals or Earth Immortals from the three realms, the chances of obtaining divine artifacts were extremely slim. Therefore, the nine alliance leaders decided to have their subordinates unite and head to dangerous planets to confront the Soul Body People head-on.

Although the Soul Body People were strong, they still had their limits. If the cultivators of the Nine Alliances mastered the coordinated attack formations skillfully, they could still kill the Soul Body People.

At that moment, the nine alliance leaders sat on a bare mountain peak.

Chang Xin’s avatar, Ze Di, had left on his own and was now on a planet nearby. Naturally, Chang Xin also knew that the Mu Fa Alliance and Shui Yan Alliance of the Demon Realm had already been destroyed.

“Gentlemen, I’ve received news that Sha Xi, Kong Jiu, and Hua Xiu have all been killed by the Soul Body People. Add to that Huang Xu, who died long ago. It can be said that out of the fifteen alliances in the three realms, only eleven remain now,” Chang Xin said calmly as he gazed at the starry sky.

The other alliance leaders were unaware of this news. Upon hearing Chang Xin’s words, they were all shocked, then burst into laughter.

Especially Si Ren, Zhong Lei, and Yang Gui, the three leaders of the Demon Realm—since Kong Jiu and Hua Xiu were dead, the three of them could now divide the benefits of those two alliances between themselves.

“The three of them, working together, died so quickly. It seems the power of those Soul Body people in the Meteor Domain Divine Realm has grown even stronger,” said Ji Qiong, the leader of the Immortal Realm’s Mu Feng Alliance, calmly.

Based on their previous experience with nine people entering the Meteor Domain Divine Realm, they were well aware that although those Soul Body people were powerful at that time, they hadn’t yet made the alliance leaders feel desperate. But this time, with the opening of the Meteor Domain Divine Realm, those Soul Body people were almost invincible. Even three alliance leaders working together were defeated—this completely shattered the hopes of cultivators from the three realms of obtaining divine artifacts on their own.

The expressions of the alliance leaders grew even darker.

“It doesn’t matter. As long as all the strong warriors from our nine alliances master the Five Elements Heaven Transforming Formation, we’ll be equivalent to having a hundred elite Upper Heaven Soul Demon warriors. No matter what level of Soul Body people appear, we can handle them,” said Si Ren, the leader of the Demon Realm’s Jin Zhan Alliance, coldly.

It turned out that these nine alliance leaders had gathered all their Heaven Soul Immortals, Heaven Soul Demons, and Heaven Soul Monsters on this planet, forming teams of five each to practice the Five Elements Heaven Transforming Formation. This formation consisted of five people, each assigned to one of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. They would combine their respective immortal essence, demon essence, and monster essence, form a united front, and then train together to unleash a combined spiritual entity that could easily defeat even an alliance leader of the Upper Heaven Soul Immortal level.

It was precisely because of the power of this formation that the nine alliance leaders were willing to stay on this planet for several years, aiming to quickly kill those Soul Body people in the Meteor Domain Divine Realm and seize divine artifacts.

“By the way, I also heard news that the Dragon Emperor and the Phoenix, along with their subordinates, went to a planet and were attacked by a Fire Element Soul Body person. Although the Dragon Emperor and the Phoenix were unharmed, the Jin Long Alliance and the Phoenix Alliance suffered heavy losses and no longer have the strength to compete for divine artifacts in the Meteor Domain Divine Realm,” said Kuong Xu, the leader of the Monster Realm’s Mu Lin Alliance, with a faint smile.

Kuang Xu naturally had some people under his control in the Jin Long Alliance and the Phoenix Alliance, so he was aware of their situation.

The alliance leaders burst into hearty laughter once again.

In terms of individual strength, the Dragon Emperor and the Phoenix would definitely rank among the top three among the previous fifteen alliance leaders. But they were too arrogant, looking down on others’ bloodlines, which made them unsociable and left them with few friends. Now that the Jin Long Alliance and the Phoenix Alliance were in trouble, the nine alliance leaders only felt joy, without any sense of sorrow.

“Very good. Now, the Meteor Domain Divine Realm is the domain of our Nine Alliances. If the Dragon Emperor and the Fire Phoenix dare to harass us in the future, it will be their own choice to seek death. If they don’t interfere with us, let them live on in misery,” said Yan Shui, the leader of the Water Ocean Alliance in the Demon Realm, coldly.
The leaders of the various alliances nodded in agreement again.
Chang Xin glanced at everyone and smiled, saying, “Now, our subordinates from the Nine Alliances have mastered the Five Elements Heaven Transforming Formation thoroughly. It’s time to show our strength. The scouts we sent out earlier have explored the surrounding areas, and from the information they brought back, we can be sure that there are soul-bodied beings on at least ten planets. These ten planets are our next targets.”
The presence of soul-bodied beings meant the existence of divine artifacts, which was what the leaders of the alliances were after.
“Good, then let’s go conquer these ten planets,” the leaders agreed.
Immediately, the nine leaders took off and arrived at the place where the cultivators of their respective alliances trained together, issuing orders to go into battle.
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Inside the Inch Realm Sphere.
A month had already passed.
Qu Yi lay on a soft chair, calmly scanning the “Origin Space Dao” formation, gaining new insights, and remained immersed in the joy of these realizations.
Suddenly, Qu Yi opened his eyes and sat up in the chair.
“Haha, the Artifact God and the Five Lords have all reached the cultivation level of Lower Heavenly Soul Immortals,” Qu Yi exclaimed excitedly.
The Artifact God, who was sleeping nearby, lazily opened his eyes, pursed his lips, and said unhappily, “I already know. It’s a given that they’ve reached the level of Lower Heavenly Soul Immortals. There’s no need to get so excited. Stop making noise; I want to sleep.”
Qu Yi stopped paying attention to the Artifact God and immediately used his immortal consciousness to examine his dantian space.
In the center was still that colorless and formless Chaos Planet. Around it, on concentric orbits arranged according to the Five Elements, there were six planets each, meaning a total of thirty planets orbiting the Chaos Planet.
On these thirty planets, there was actually a spiritual body on each. In other words, the Five Lords had now condensed six spiritual bodies each, which also appeared correspondingly on Qu Yi’s internal planets.
Qu Yi wasn’t surprised by the appearance of these thirty spiritual bodies, as he had predicted it earlier. What surprised him now was that the central Chaos Planet also had a trace of spirituality, seemingly emitting Chaos energy invisibly to connect with the thirty spiritual bodies and nurture them.

The Chaos Planet is like a mother, and the spiritual beings are like infants. At this moment, the Chaos Planet is using Chaos Energy to nurture these spiritual beings and strengthen them. Qu Yi never expected that Chaos Energy could have such a function, and he is very eager to see its future development.