Chapter 48: Formation of the Exit Passage

“Thinking you can make me surrender? How dare you! I am the leader of the Golden Slash Alliance—how could I ever surrender to someone as despicable as you?” Si Ren replied coldly.
Although it was obvious that Si Ren had no chance of escaping, he was determined. As a leader, he deserved to maintain his dignity.
Upon hearing this, Qu Yi didn’t act immediately. Smiling, he said, “What, do you still have the strength to escape?”
Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui, seeing that Qu Yi wasn’t acting right away, also didn’t rush. They calmly watched Si Ren, waiting to see how he would deal with the three of them.
“I’ll escape? Why would I escape? I’ll die with you!” Suddenly, Si Ren’s face twisted in fury as he shouted wildly.
Instantly, the demonic energy in his body began to circulate rapidly, aiming to gather in his dantian before detonating his entire body. At the same time, he flew swiftly toward Qu Yi, clearly determined to die with him.
“Ah, another person who wants to die with me. How many times now? No one has ever succeeded in self-destructing.” Qu Yi spoke with a sigh, showing no signs of panic.
Suddenly, Qu Yi transformed into lightning and appeared in front of Si Ren. He pulled out a divine formula card, and its eerie purple light pierced through Si Ren’s protective barrier, entering his body directly.
Chaos energy flooded into Si Ren’s body, blocking the circulation of the golden demonic energy within, preventing him from gathering his demonic energy. Naturally, it was now impossible for him to self-destruct.
Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui stood in the air, smiling as if watching a joke, enjoying Si Ren’s predicament.
“Ugh, trying to self-destruct? You can’t do it.”
“I thought there might be some new method of self-destruction, but it seems nothing new after all.”
Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui expressed their amusement.
Si Ren now looked lifeless, standing there in a dazed state, utterly confused about how any energy could stop the circulation of his demonic energy.
Since ancient times, no one had ever been able to prevent self-destruction!
Realizing this, Si Ren stared at Qu Yi in terror, his mind gone blank as he gazed at him in shock.
Qu Yi shrugged, smashed Si Ren with his glowing seal, knocking him unconscious, then quickly threw him into the Dimensional Ball.
With a few more quick movements, Qu Yi went to space and gathered the six unconscious Heavenly Soul Demonic Warriors from the Golden Slash Alliance, throwing them into the Dimensional Ball as well.

Thus, Qu Yi now had seven Golden Element Heavenly Soul Demons, enough to ensure that after absorbing the Five Elements, his cultivation would reach the level of a Higher Heavenly Soul Fiend. However, to reach the peak of a Higher Heavenly Soul Fiend, these seven Heavenly Soul Demons were still not sufficient.
“Qu Yi, on that black planet, there is a mine of the Golden Element primordial spiritual bodies. Once you obtain it, it will definitely help Wu Yuan break through to the limit of a Higher Heavenly Soul Fiend,” the Voice of the Divine Tool suddenly rang out.
As one thinks, so it happens.
Hearing this, Qu Yi happily rushed to the black planet and, looking at Wu Yuan, shouted, “Wu Yuan, you’re so lucky! On this black planet, there’s a mine of the Golden Element primordial spiritual bodies—enough to meet your needs for cultivating the Golden Element laws.”
Hearing this, Wu Yuan started dancing with joy.
Soon, Qu Yi, Wu Yuan, and Qing Wu Gui followed the guidance of the Voice of the Divine Tool into the planet’s core and quickly found the mine of primordial spiritual bodies.
In a vast cavity, there was an opening continuously emitting Golden Element primordial energy. The condensed Golden Element primordial energy kept spinning, gradually forming Golden Element spiritual bodies.
On the ceiling of the cave, there were around seventy to eighty thousand Golden Element spiritual bodies hanging there.
“We’re rich!”
“Wow, so many…”
“What a bargain for Wu Yuan.”
Qu Yi, Wu Yuan, and Qing Wu Gui each had their own thoughts.
“Wu Yuan, hurry up and catch all these Golden Element spiritual bodies!” Wu Yuan urged anxiously, looking at Qu Yi.
Qu Yi patted Wu Yuan’s shoulder and immediately flew above the cave. With swift movements of his hands, streams of chaotic energy spread out like nets, covering those Golden Element spiritual bodies one by one. Soon, he had gathered them all.
Wu Yuan let out a sigh of relief, filled with energy and confidence.
With these Golden Element spiritual bodies, along with the seven Golden Element Heavenly Soul Demon warriors he had already captured, Wu Yuan would surely be able to master the Golden Element laws to perfection.
For the five elements—Golden, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—Qu Yi had already helped Wu Yuan gather enough Heavenly Soul Fiend warriors and sufficient energy.
“Alright, now that we’ve destroyed the Golden Saber Alliance, it’s time for us to hide and cultivate. We just need to wait for the exit to the Divine Realm of Ruins to appear—then it will be time for our final battle against the warriors of the Nine Alliances,” Qu Yi said with a smile as he landed.
Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui nodded.
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Forty years passed.

Since attacking the powerful Tianhun demons of the Jinzhan Alliance, Qu Yi returned to the Cunjie Ball with Wu Yuan and Qing Wugui, and has been cultivating there ever since. He has fully mastered the formation of “The Path of the Origin Space.” Over the years in the Cunjie Ball, he has continuously used the Xingluo Ding to become familiar with various materials used in artifact crafting. All the materials gathered by cultivators from the Three Realms in the Ruiny Realm and Divine Realm have now fallen into Qu Yi’s hands—such an abundance that it’s impossible to count.

At present, the number of parallel spaces within the Xingluo Ding under Qu Yi’s control has reached one million. No amount of energy could fully burn through all of them. It can be said that in terms of artifact crafting, Qu Yi is the one who knows the most materials in the entire universe—possibly even surpassing the Artifact Gods.

Wu Yuan, inside the Cunjie Ball, has been devouring powerful Tianhun demons of the demon class, constantly awakening the Soul Beads within his soul. His cultivation level has now reached that of a mid-tier Tianhun demon. Qing Wugui, using his Five Elements Heart, rapidly connects with the energy of the five elements, delving into their essence, and continuously forming Five Elements spiritual entities within his body. His cultivation level has also reached that of a mid-tier Tianhun demon.

The five masters, following the cultivation path set by Qu Yi, have been practicing the “Art of the Divine Weapons Realm,” eventually mastering the laws contained in the five divine weapons. Their cultivation levels have now reached that of mid-tier Tianhun immortals. Naturally, Qu Yi’s own cultivation level has also risen to that of a mid-tier Tianhun immortal.

In the Spirit Cultivation Realm, with Bai Man in charge, the entire realm has now been taken over by Qu Yi’s forces. Soon, a San Ding Sect was established in the Asura Realm as well, and the realm was transformed according to the methods of the Cultivation Realm, aiming to make its cultivators worship Qu Yi. Now, Qu Yi possesses the power of worship from two cultivation realms.

During these forty years, Qu Yi has received no news of any powerful Tianhun immortals from the Nine Alliances, so he has not pursued them, instead focusing on cultivating peacefully within the Cunjie Ball.

In the Immortal Realm, Emperor Hao, along with Qu Yi’s forces, has completely taken control of it, bringing all factions under Qu Yi’s rule. In the Demon Realm, the Mulin Star Region, Shuiyang Star Region, and Tuba Star Region, following Qu Yi’s orders, launched fierce attacks on the Jinlong Star Region and Huofeng Star Region, swiftly eliminating the resistance there. Thus, Qu Yi now has complete control over the entire Demon Realm.

In the Demon Realm, under the fierce attacks of Longhu Wei, one after another demon was killed by him. Without any powerful figures to maintain order, the entire Demon Realm was in complete chaos, with battles raging on every planet and heavy casualties. Qu Yi brought the forces from the Immortal Realm and the Fiend Realm to the Demon Realm, quickly subdued its forces, and thus took control of it as well. The three realms were now all under Qu Yi’s control.

Over the next ten years, Qu Yi and the others continued to cultivate quietly within the Dimensional Sphere.

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Within the Divine Realm of the Fallen Domain, remnants of the nine alliances’ strong warriors were still there, and they all rushed back to the peripheral areas of the Divine Realm. As a hundred years was approaching and the exit passage to the Divine Realm was about to appear, the various strong warriors hidden deep within it could no longer stay hidden and had to return quickly to leave as soon as the passage appeared.

Chang Xin, along with his clone Ze Di, had already returned to a peripheral star region and had been lurking there the whole time.

Ji Qiong, the leader of the Wood Forest Alliance; An Yu, the leader of the Earth Pillar Alliance; Yang Gui, the leader of the Earth Annihilation Alliance; Kong Xū, the leader of the Water Ocean Alliance; Yin Shui, the leader of the Earth Traversal Alliance; and Liu Ying, the leader of the Earth Shadow Alliance—these six leaders abandoned their subordinates and returned alone to the peripheral star region, quietly waiting for the exit passage to the Divine Realm of the Fallen Domain to appear.

Si Ren, the leader of the Golden Slash Alliance; Zhong Lei, the leader of the Fire Slaughter Alliance; and Huo Feng, the leader of the Fire Phoenix Alliance—these three had already been captured by Qu Yi.

As for Sha Xi, Kong Jiu, and Hua Xiu, those three leaders, they had long been killed by the Soul Body People.

The last leader, the Dragon Emperor, had ascended to the Divine Realm after passing through the divine tribulation.

As for those strong warriors at the level of Heavenly Soul Immortals from the nine alliances, they each went their own way, returning to peripheral planets alone or in groups, also waiting for the exit passage to form.

The ten million cultivators under Qu Yi’s control, riding on one hundred thousand starships, patrolled the various planets in the peripheral region more frequently, but still found nothing—unable to detect those strong warriors at the level of Heavenly Soul Immortals at all.

Qu Yi had expected this outcome, as those ten million cultivators did not possess a powerful immortal sense like that of Qi Shen, and thus could not uncover the invisibility abilities of those strong warriors.

Therefore, Qu Yi did not blame them.

A hundred years passed in no time.

Suddenly, a grayish mist appeared in the peripheral areas of the Divine Realm of the Fallen Domain. This mist then began to spread throughout the realm, as if aiming to cover it entirely.

At the same time, the area around the perimeter shook violently, with deafening noises constantly arising, and then a huge black vortex storm appeared, spinning rapidly.

In three days, a grayish haze covered the planets in the entire border region. Meanwhile, the black vortex stabilized, forming a massive spatial passage. The exit passage has been created!