Chapter 36: The Path of Fusion

Qu Yi had spent a year concentrating on crafting weapons inside the stone fortress at San Ding Gate. Thanks to his ability to create a hundred divine weapons at once, he had now finished crafting all ten thousand divine weapons for the villagers of Bai Shou Village. At this moment, Qu Yi put away the Xing Luo Ding, stretched lazily, and wore a satisfied smile.
“I promised the villagers I would give them the divine weapons after ten thousand years, but it hasn’t even been ten years yet, and I’ve already crafted all of them. Well, I’ll wait a bit longer. I’ll deliver these weapons in five thousand years. If I give them now, the villagers will be happy, but I’ll be in trouble.” Qu Yi said thoughtfully while standing in the spacious stone fortress.
After that, he sat down on the ground out of boredom.
“Weapon God, do you really think that if I increase the number of fire spirit entities in my body to one million, I’ll be able to glimpse the basics of the Path of Fusion?” Qu Yi suddenly asked.
Crafting weapons no longer posed a challenge to Qu Yi; what concerned him most now was his own cultivation level.
“Give it a try. Your chaotic energy is too unique, and I don’t know how to guide your cultivation. But based on your past cultivation patterns, I infer that your next step is the Path of Fusion,” the Weapon God replied calmly.
Qu Yi became puzzled. Throughout his adventures in the realm of cultivators, the realm of immortals, the realm of demons, and the realm of monsters, none of his cultivation practices seemed related to the Path of Fusion.
“Weapon God, could you explain it in more detail? I have no idea what the Path of Fusion is. Your explanation is too vague,” Qu Yi asked, confused.
After a while, the Weapon God spoke again, after careful consideration.
“Qu Yi, do you know the cultivation levels in the Divine Realm?” the Weapon God suddenly asked, seemingly intent on enlightening Qu Yi.
Qu Yi certainly knew the cultivation levels in the Divine Realm. Before arriving at Bai Shou Village, he had asked Xu Ming along the way and learned about them.
“Based on the number of laws understood, they are divided into the Divine Human stage, the Divine Weapon stage, the Divine General stage, the Divine Marshal stage, and the Divine King stage,” Qu Yi replied immediately.
The Weapon God smiled briefly before asking again, “In the Divine Human stage, one complete law is understood, resulting in one soul sphere in the soul space. In the Divine Weapon stage, two soul spheres coexist in the soul space. In the Divine General stage, three soul spheres coexist. In the Divine Marshal stage, four soul spheres coexist. So, Qu Yi, do you think that in the Divine King stage, five soul spheres coexist in the soul space?”

Upon hearing the Instrument God’s words, Qu Yi almost blurted out an affirmative answer right away. But since the Instrument God had asked in such a way, and it was clearly related to his own path of fusion, Qu Yi realized the answer couldn’t be that simple.
“Instrument God, stop keeping me in suspense. Just tell me—during the Divine King stage, are there five soul orbs in the soul space?” Qu Yi asked with a smile.
After a brief silence, the Instrument God seemed to make up his mind and replied softly, “No. The moment the fifth complete law is understood and the fifth soul orb is formed, the five soul orbs in the soul space merge directly, and the soul transforms into another form of existence.”
“What? Five merged into one? Instrument God, are you serious? During the Divine King stage, does the soul change from soul orbs to another form?” Qu Yi stood up in surprise and immediately entered the Inch Realm Sphere, sitting down on his soft chair.
The Instrument God smiled and nodded.
Qu Yi calmed down and thought carefully, realizing that the path of fusion the Instrument God had pointed out indeed made sense.
By now, Qu Yi had already understood the complete laws of the five elements, and the five soul orbs had been formed, surrounded by invisible Chaos Orbs. According to the normal cultivation methods in the Divine Realm, one should understand the laws one by one, forming each of the five soul orbs before merging them all together during the Divine King stage.
Yet after forming the five soul orbs, Qu Yi hadn’t merged them into one to reach the Divine King level, which seemed strange. Therefore, the Instrument God deduced that Qu Yi’s cultivation path was to use the Chaos Orbs to merge all five soul orbs together.
“Merging… embracing…” Qu Yi murmured softly, as if contemplating something.
“Instrument God, I think you’re right. I just circulated the chaotic energy in my internal world and connected it with the Chaos Orbs in my soul space. I have a feeling that my cultivation path should involve both merging the soul orbs and merging my internal spiritual entity,” Qu Yi said calmly, his expression seeming to have gained clarity.
“Then give it a good try. Your cultivation path is extremely unique, but I believe that once you succeed, you will undoubtedly be invincible in the Divine Realm,” the Instrument God affirmed.
Qu Yi nodded.
At that moment, Qu Yi’s identity card moved.

“Haha, Wu Yuan and Wu Qing, you two have finally found a group of Fire-type beasts. Great, I’m heading to the Beast Mountain Range right away!” Qu Yi exclaimed happily after scanning the information on his identity card.
Immediately afterwards, Qu Yi left the Dimensional Ball, took out the Boundless Star Compass, and teleported straight to the Beast Mountain Range.
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When Qu Yi arrived at the Beast Mountain Range, Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui were looking around anxiously as he landed.
“Ugh, Qu Yi, you’re here at last.”
“Look over there—there’s a group of Fire Rock Frogs.”
As soon as they saw Qu Yi, Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui spoke up immediately.
Qu Yi glanced around. The entire area was surrounded by red rock peaks, as if scorched by flames, radiating intense heat.
Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.
Sounds came from all directions—those were the noises of countless Fire Rock Frogs. Upon sensing them with his mental power, Qu Yi realized that these frogs were almost everywhere in this area, with their numbers likely in the hundreds of thousands.
After finishing his sensing, Qu Yi looked at Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui excitedly and said, “Wu Yuan, Wu Qing, thank you! My plan to expand my Fire-type spiritual entities can finally begin.”
Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui smiled, then pointed at the group of Fire Rock Frogs jumping towards them.
Indeed, Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui had been cultivating in the Beast Mountain Range and had now reached this area filled with Fire Rock Frogs, whose presence blocked their path forward.
“No problem. Let me show you how I’ll deal with them,” Qu Yi said with a smile.
Each Fire Rock Frog was half a meter tall and a meter long, their bodies resembling melted rock, giving them a terrifying appearance. These Fire Rock Frogs were all Fire-type beasts that attacked by spewing out Fire-type spiritual entities.
Over the decades of refining weapons, Qu Yi was most familiar with the Black Tide Divine Fire. Thus, facing nearly ten thousand Fire Rock Frogs charging at him, he showed no fear at all. As for the hundreds of thousands more following behind, he was even overjoyed.
As soon as he finished speaking, Qu Yi took out the Star Luo Ding, grabbed one of its legs with his right hand, and charged at the Fire Rock Frogs holding it high.
“Come on, spit out your fire at me! Let’s see whose flames are more powerful,” Qu Yi shouted arrogantly in front of the lead Fire Rock Frog.
Sure enough, the group of Fire Rock Frogs collectively spat out flames.

Most of these flames were white Ashen Heaven Flames, with only a beam of black Black Tidal Divine Flames at their center. Yet the flames spat out by these ten thousand Fire Rock Toads were sufficient to burn Qu Yi to ashes if they hit him.
“Xingluo Ding, set fire!” Qu Yi cried out, not fearing but rather delighted.
Immediately, he grabbed the Xingluo Ding and began swinging it, while black Black Tidal Divine Flames continuously erupted from within it, meeting head-on those Ashen Heaven Flames flying toward him.
Fire against fire!
The Xingluo Ding was filled with Black Tidal Divine Flames, which erupted violently, instantly extinguishing the Ashen Heaven Flames spat out by the Fire Rock Toads. The Black Tidal Divine Flames within the Ashen Heaven Flames were crushed upon contact with this fierce flow of Black Tidal Divine Flames, leaving no chance of resistance.
The Black Tidal Divine Flames unleashed by Qu Yi had a clear advantage in both quality and quantity.
Soon, Qu Yi arrived in front of the Fire Rock Toads, and the endless waves of Black Tidal Divine Flames swept over them.
The bodies of the Fire Rock Toads could originally resist the attack of Black Tidal Divine Flames, but only for a short time. The Xingluo Ding, like an endless source of fire, erupted with a torrential flow of Black Tidal Divine Flames, instantly igniting their bodies.
Wherever the Black Tidal Divine Flames reached, the bodies of the Fire Rock Toads caught fire.
In an instant, all ten thousand Fire Rock Toads that had rushed toward Qu Yi first began burning, turning into moving flames that scurried around the open area. At the same time, their agonized cries frightened even the Fire Rock Toads coming from behind.
“Wuyuan, Qingwu, take care of these Fire Rock Toads here.”
Qu Yi showed no pity for them. Ignoring the already burning Fire Rock Toads, he held the Xingluo Ding and ran toward the group behind.
There were hundreds of thousands of Fire Rock Toads behind, and Qu Yi certainly wouldn’t let them go unharmed—he would spare no effort to slaughter them.
“Ugh, Qu Yi, go ahead. Leave these ten thousand Fire Rock Toads to me,” Wuyuan said excitedly, picking up his divine weapon, the Glorious Light Seal.
“Okay,” Qingwu replied promptly, immediately grabbing his divine weapon, the Golden Patterned Sword, and flying forward.
The ten thousand Fire Rock Toads had already been severely damaged by the Black Tidal Divine Flames and hadn’t yet been extinguished. Under the attacks of Wuyuan and Qingwu, they had no chance of resistance and died one after another.

Qu Yi had already rushed into the hundreds of thousands of Fire Rock Toads in the back. The Star Luo Ding in his hand was like a divine fire that could destroy the heavens, continuously unleashing fierce Black Tidal Divine Fire, which mercilessly spread in all directions, leaving no refuge for those Fire Rock Toads trying to escape.
The Black Tidal Divine Fire spread at an extremely fast rate, much like tides.
Those hundreds of thousands of Fire Rock Toads, sensing the power of the Black Tidal Divine Fire, were terrified and scurried into the surrounding mountains at all costs—any cave they could find, they would dive into. Yet, most of them surely didn’t have time to escape.
Qu Yi was far faster than these Fire Rock Toads, and the Black Tidal Divine Fire also moved at incredible speed.
In just a short while, over a hundred thousand Fire Rock Toads caught fire simultaneously, thrashing about, crying out in pain as they struggled on the open ground.
The rest were lucky enough to hide in the nearby rocky mountains.
Qu Yi had no intention of chasing down and killing every last one of the escaped Fire Rock Toads. He only needed ten thousand of their beast cores to increase the number of Fire Element Spirits in his body to one million, so he could focus on cultivating his fusion techniques.
With over a hundred thousand Fire Rock Toads now, there were also over a hundred thousand Fire Element Beast Cores—enough for Qu Yi.
Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui quickly killed those ten thousand Fire Rock Toads and had already extracted ten thousand beast cores. They then came to Qu Yi’s side.
“Ugh, Qu Yi, all ten thousand Fire Element Beast Cores are in this space ring. Take them,” Wu Yuan said happily as he handed the space ring to Qu Yi.
“I’ll take care of killing these Fire Rock Toads by myself,” Qing Wu Gui said. As a practitioner of the art of killing, he loved combat and immediately wanted to take on this task.
Qu Yi took the space ring and nodded at Qing Wu Gui.
Unhappy, Wu Yuan didn’t bother asking Qu Yi for permission. He immediately picked up his Glowing Seal and joined in the killing of the Fire Rock Toads.
Soon, Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui dealt with all over a hundred thousand Fire Rock Toads. Naturally, Qu Yi quickly obtained over a hundred thousand more Fire Element Beast Cores.