Chapter 25: The Global Grand Canyon

In the Meteor Domain Divine Realm, Qu Yi has now obtained four Soul Beads—the Soul Blue Pearl, Soul Red Pearl, Soul Yellow Pearl, and Soul Gold Pearl. This means that it’s only a matter of time before the Water Lord, Fire Lord, Earth Lord, and Gold Lord master the complete laws of water, fire, earth, and metal, with no obstacles left in their way.

Similarly, Qu Yi has acquired four divine artifacts: the Flowing Cloud Sound Chain, the Falling Fire Blade, the Earth-Shattering Spear, and the Soul-Sealing Gold Ball. Although their quality is not as high as the divine artifacts he once possessed, they are the most useful treasures for him at present.

For Qu Yi right now, the top priority is to find a person with a wood-elemental soul body in order to obtain the Soul Green Pearl, which will help the Earth Lord master the complete laws of wood as well. Only when all five lords achieve breakthroughs in their cultivation can Qu Yi advance himself, so he certainly doesn’t want any of them to fall behind.

The Soul Green Pearl is Qu Yi’s most urgent goal at the moment. Of course, he won’t travel everywhere personally—after all, the Meteor Domain Divine Realm is extremely vast. With only a hundred years, it’s likely he won’t even be able to explore a single galaxy, let alone star clusters, star regions, or entire star domains. The Meteor Domain Divine Realm alone spans six star domains!

Therefore, Qu Yi has placed his hopes for finding the Soul Green Pearl on the Nine Alliances. The Immortal Realm’s Golden Mysterious Alliance, Wood Maple Alliance, and Earth Gui Alliance; the Demon Realm’s Golden Slash Alliance, Fire Slaughter Alliance, and Earth Destruction Alliance; and the Monster Realm’s Wood Forest Alliance, Water Ocean Alliance, and Earth Trample Alliance. After obtaining two Soul-Sealing Gold Balls that couldn’t be refined, the cultivators of these nine alliances continued to fly around in the Meteor Domain Divine Realm.

Qu Yi has successfully attached the Dimensional Sphere to one of the cultivators from the Nine Alliances. Thus, as long as the cultivators of the Nine Alliances find a person with a wood-elemental soul body, Qu Yi will emerge and immediately attack that person to seize the Soul Green Pearl. Meanwhile, Qu Yi remains lying on the soft chair inside the Dimensional Sphere, fully focusing on scanning the “Origin Space Dao” formation. It won’t take several years for him to complete the scanning, and now is the perfect time for him to devote himself to the formation.

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Chang Xin, Ji Qiong, An Yu, Si Ren, Zhong Lei, Yang Gui, Void, Annihilation Water, and Flowing Shadow—these nine alliance leaders have now brought the cultivators of the Nine Alliances to a peculiar planet. According to reports from the scouts, over a billion cultivators have already arrived on this planet, all searching for treasures in its Global Grand Canyon.

This planet has an extremely strange geographical shape—only land, with no lakes, rivers, or oceans at all. In both the northern and southern regions, there is a global canyon running in an east-west direction, roughly parallel to the equator.

In the northern global canyon, rare minerals, medicinal herbs, and treasures can often be found, and they keep reappearing. Just like how a cultivator might find a medicinal herb in a certain spot in the canyon on the first day, and after a month or a year, another identical herb grows there.

This global canyon is truly a treasure trove, which naturally attracts cultivators from the three realms who enter the Meteor Domain Divine Realm, causing them to abandon searching for treasures on other planets. With such a readily available source of treasures, who would take the risk of searching elsewhere?

In contrast, the southern global canyon is synonymous with danger. Countless cultivators who enter this seemingly peaceful canyon never come out again, and those outside the canyon cannot sense any activity inside, meaning those cultivators have all died.

As a result, cultivators from the three realms gather in the northern global canyon, while few venture to the southern one.

However, after the explorers sent by the Nine Alliances reported on the situation in the southern global canyon, the nine alliance leaders deduced that there must be soul entities inside. Thus, the cultivators from the Nine Alliances have now arrived at the southern global canyon.

The nine alliance leaders released their immortal senses, demonic senses, and fiendish senses to sense any movements at the bottom of the canyon, but they detected no signs of danger. The bottom of the canyon appeared completely natural and unadulterated—a canyon formed purely by nature.

Yet, even facing this seemingly safe canyon, the nine alliance leaders did not dare order everyone to descend.

If there were only one or two soul entities, they were confident they could handle them. What worried them was the possibility of there being a group of soul entities in the canyon!

“Everyone, what do you think we should do next?” Chang Xin asked calmly to the other eight alliance leaders.

They were hesitant to descend but unwilling to leave. Chang Xin himself was confident he could return safely alone, but he didn’t want to reveal his strength yet, so he politely sought others’ opinions.

“My idea is that we all go down together. There are at most two or three soul entities in this canyon, and we can easily deal with them.”

“I agree too. Based on our experience, no planet in this Meteor Domain Divine Realm has more than five soul entities. With ten or fewer, our Nine Alliances can handle it.”

“Yes, with our strength from the Hundred-Yuan Five-Element Heavenly Formation, no soul beings in the Fallen Realm Divine World can stop us now.”
“Go down—definitely go down.”
The leaders of each alliance shouted firmly, having already made up their minds.
Seeing this, Chang Xin immediately smiled and said, “Good, all the cultivators from the Nine Alliances, let’s go down together.”
With the nine alliance leaders in agreement, there was no hesitation—they immediately gave orders to their subordinates.
Thus, the cultivators from the Nine Alliances flew swiftly into the canyon.
From above, no dangers seemed to be present in the canyon, but as soon as the cultivators entered, they sensed a pervasive sense of danger everywhere.
First was the gloomy wind in the canyon.
This wind was seemingly ordinary, yet it persisted relentlessly. It tried to be repelled, but it was unyielding, filling the entire canyon and leaving no place to hide.
It was like a mirror—shiny on one side, dark on the other. From above, the wind couldn’t be seen or sensed, but once inside, its presence was immediately felt everywhere.
This wind could erode the body.
As long as one’s cultivation reached the levels of Heavenly Soul Immortal, Heavenly Soul Demon, or Heavenly Soul Monster, the wind in this canyon wouldn’t pose too much of a challenge to the cultivators from the Nine Alliances. But with the wind surrounding them, three soul beings appeared in the canyon—those with attributes of metal, wood, and water.
Due to the special influence of the wind, the cultivators from the Nine Alliances couldn’t sense the true situation in the canyon through their spiritual perception, so they hadn’t noticed the soul beings. As soon as they entered, they were attacked by the three soul beings, making it impossible for them to fly out immediately.
Thus, forced by the wind and the soul beings, the cultivators from the Nine Alliances could only fall downward, quickly reaching the bottom of the canyon.
Once at the bottom, they stabilized their situation. Each held a magical artifact, staring fiercely at the three soul beings above, ready to fight back and take revenge.
The three soul beings each wielded a divine weapon and didn’t underestimate the strength of the cultivators from the Nine Alliances—of course, this was because they still didn’t know that these cultivators possessed the Hundred-Yuan Five-Element Heavenly Formation.
The metal attribute soul being held a golden crescent sword, its eyes filled with murderous intent. The wood attribute soul being held a green branch without leaves, which emitted a strong aura of wood energy. The water attribute soul being held a white jade shard shaped like a water droplet, radiating a chilling and deadly aura.

The nine alliance leaders stared at these three soul-bodied beings and finally understood why those cultivators entered this gorge and died silently. With the gloomy winds everywhere in the gorge blocking the perception of immortal energy, coupled with the attacks from these three extremely powerful soul-bodied beings, any cultivator from the three realms who entered alone was doomed to death.

“You three soul-bodied beings, you’ve come at just the right time. Today is the day of your death,” Chang Xin shouted loudly.

With the formations currently mastered by the cultivators of the Nine Alliances, dealing with these three soul-bodied beings was quite easy.

The cultivators of the Nine Ming showed cold expressions and immediately let out cold sneers.

The three soul-bodied beings, on the other hand, showed a hint of confusion. How could these cultivators of the Nine Alliances not be afraid of them? What did they rely on?

In that brief moment of hesitation, the cultivators of the Nine Alliances quickly moved, reassembling hundreds of Five-Element Heaven Formation arrays. They immediately surrounded the three soul-bodied beings.

“Hmph, you bastards dare to confront us? You really want to die. Great! My Broken Moon Golden Blade is only good at killing some Immortal Humans and Earth Immortals. Now that you guys, Heavenly Soul Immortals, have shown up, it’s perfect for my Broken Moon Golden Blade to drink blood.”

“You’re overestimating yourselves. My Leafless Green Branch has already killed hundreds of thousands of cultivators, but I’ve never killed a Heavenly Soul Immortal before. Get ready to die.”

“Great, great! My Cold Sea Spirit Jade also needs a lot of the life force of Heavenly Soul Immortals. Finally, I can have a satisfying fight this time.”

The soul-bodied beings of Metal, Wood, and Water types shouted with fighting spirit.

With both sides ready for battle, it was time to fight.

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Qu Yi was inside the Dimensional Sphere, which was attached to one of the powerful cultivators of the Nine Alliances. Naturally, Qu Yi was already aware of what was going on outside.

“Vessel God, there are three soul-bodied beings here. Good thing there’s a Wood-type soul-bodied being. I wouldn’t mind stepping out at the right moment and stealing one from the Nine Alliances,” Qu Yi said happily, lying on a soft chair.

It seemed as if the Wood-type soul-bodied being already belonged to Qu Yi, as he laughed, causing the chair to bounce up and down.

At that moment, the Vessel God opened his eyes and said calmly, “Qu Yi, it’s truly amazing. Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui have also arrived on this planet and are heading toward the Southern Global Grand Gorge. It seems they’ll enter this gorge soon.”

Hearing this, Qu Yi was surprised for a moment before laughing and saying, “I haven’t seen Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui in many years. Now, coincidentally, we’ve both ended up on the same planet.”

After saying that, Qu Yi fell silent and quietly observed the battle between the two sides outside.