Chapter 44: The Void Mountain

“Qu Yi has arrived.”
At that moment, the top ten figures on the ranking list noticed Qu Yi and let out a low murmur.
Qu Yi quickly approached them, smiled generously, and then bowed as a greeting, showing a friendly attitude.
“Everyone, I’m Qu Yi. It’s finally a pleasure to meet you all,” Qu Yi said with a smile.
Guo Huo, Liu Shi, Mu Rong, and Pang Shu also bowed in return, then studied Qu Yi with great interest, trying to discern his strength. However, even these top four figures couldn’t see through Qu Yi’s true strength or determine the number of spiritual entities within him.
“Qu Yi, the aura around you is quite strange,” Guo Huo said with a faint smile.
As the number one on the ranking list, Guo Huo didn’t need to hide anything and simply asked if he had any doubts.
Qu Yi smiled calmly and replied, “Guo Huo, your strength is quite impressive.”
By now, the number of the four fused spiritual entities within Qu Yi had reached ten million, reaching the limit his body could tolerate. It could be said that his strength had already surpassed Guo Huo’s. Yet, Qu Yi had no intention of revealing his true strength—he saw no need to expose it for a mere title.
At that moment, Qiu Tong, Tian Wen, Bai Fang, Sang Guang, Gong Ye Bo, and Jin Mu Qing all focused their auras on Qu Yi. Especially Gong Ye Bo, whose eyes were filled with hatred upon seeing Qu Yi appear.
“Qu Yi, you’ve finally shown up. It’s time to settle our score,” Gong Ye Bo shouted angrily.
In Beiluo City, in front of so many cultivators, Qu Yi had killed his subordinate Sun Wu and left calmly—something that had haunted Gong Ye Bo and become a source of frustration in his cultivation. Without eliminating Qu Yi, Gong Ye Bo knew his progress would stop there.
The other nine people laughed upon hearing Gong Ye Bo’s words. They had never fought against Qu Yi and didn’t know his true strength. With Gong Ye Bo taking the initiative to provoke him, they saw an opportunity to observe and assess his abilities.
Qu Yi looked at Gong Ye Bo calmly and smiled, “Gong Ye Bo, your strength is improving too slowly. During this chaos, you’ve already obtained a vast amount of spiritual essence. Even if you bathed in it every day, your number of spiritual entities should have increased significantly. Unfortunately, yours has only risen by less than three hundred thousand—much slower than mine.”
With that, Qu Yi pulled out the divine artifact, the Black Rod.
Heh…
Instantly, Guo Huo and the other nine burst into laughter.

Gongye Bo’s expression immediately darkened, his heart filled with madness as he suddenly shouted, “Qu Yi, if you’re seeking death, don’t blame me.” With that, he drew out his divine weapon, the Heart-Piercing Spear, and thrust it at Qu Yi. A long spear formed from the Golden-Water Spirit Body appeared out of thin air, radiating icy cold and murderous intent, quickly reaching Qu Yi’s side and seemingly about to penetrate his body. “Still using this trick? Gongye Bo, you really haven’t improved at all,” Qu Yi said with a faint smile. In an instant, as the spear formed from the Golden-Water Spirit Body neared his chest, a divine talisman card appeared on Qu Yi’s body, blocking the spear’s attack. At the same time, Qu Yi swiftly swung his Black Tree Staff, causing the Golden-Earth Spirit Body to form another spear that was thrust at Gongye Bo. “What? Three million spirit bodies?” As Qu Yi launched his counterattack, Guo Huo, Liu Shi, Mu Rong, Pang Shu, Qiu Tong, Tian Wen, Bai Fang, Sang Guang, and Jin Muqing all exclaimed in shock. They never expected Qu Yi’s strength to have grown to this extent. Back in Beiluo City, Qu Yi only had two million spirit bodies, yet now he had risen to three million—such rapid progress was unbelievable. Undoubtedly, Gongye Bo, with only two point three million spirit bodies, was now far inferior to Qu Yi. Qu Yi’s attack struck Gongye Bo’s body but was blocked by a defensive armor suit, causing no harm. At this point, Gongye Bo stopped attacking, realizing there was a significant gap between his strength and Qu Yi’s. Continuing the fight would yield no good results. Seeing Gongye Bo cease attacking, Qu Yi merely chuckled and did not force his way to kill him. After all, Gongye Bo was from one of the eight royal families. Killing him in front of so many people would be an open challenge to the Gongye family, bringing future troubles. However, if given the chance later, Qu Yi would definitely not spare Gongye Bo. “Qu Yi, your strength is truly hidden deep,” Guo Huo said immediately. The others agreed wholeheartedly, nodding unconsciously. These were all elite figures who had always looked down on other cultivators, but after witnessing Qu Yi’s strength, they felt a hint of envy. Rising from two million to three million spirit bodies in less than a hundred thousand years was an almost unimaginable feat even in the divine realm.

Of course, these ten people still didn’t know that Qu Yi possessed tens of millions of Golden Earth Spiritual Entities within his body. Moreover, within him, four types of fused Spiritual Entities also existed, each numbering in the tens of millions. If they were to learn this fact, it would surely scare them to tears.
“Guo Huo, you’ve held the first place on the rankings for a long time. I hope that after returning to the Divine Realm, I can challenge you and take that position from you,” Qu Yi said with a faint smile.
At these words, the others were once again surprised. Guo Huo, who ranked first, had faced countless challenges but had never lost. Even those from the eight great royal families who had reached the Divine Weapon stage truly admired his strength and accepted his top ranking without hesitation.
“How about we have a fight now?” Guo Huo immediately replied with a smile.
Qu Yi shook his head and smiled faintly, “I can’t beat you now; I don’t want to embarrass myself.”
Haha…
Instantly, everyone started laughing. They really appreciated Qu Yi’s straightforwardness in admitting his own strength.
But what these people didn’t realize was that Qu Yi simply didn’t want to reveal his true strength. Releasing tens of millions of Spiritual Entities would be too shocking, scaring those ten people and also hindering his future cultivation in the Divine Realm. Being low-key was always the better choice.
As everyone was laughing, a vast golden eggshell-shaped light screen suddenly appeared in the center of the galaxy battlefield. It rapidly expanded and soon covered Qu Yi and the others, along with 9 billion cultivators from the six realms.
Within the entire light screen, golden rays were clearly visible, stretching from top to bottom, dazzling the eyes. Everyone felt dizzy and soon could no longer see those around them, nor could they sense anyone nearby with their spiritual senses. All they could see was what was happening within the light screen.
A perfectly round golden star slowly rose, like a sunrise over the sea, emitting an overwhelming presence. Suddenly, the star stopped rising, and after a flash of golden light, three characters appeared above it:
Void Mountain.
No one knew the meaning of these three characters, but they appeared so brilliantly on the star that everyone in the light screen could see them clearly.
Guo Huo, Liu Shi, Mu Rong, and Pang Shu immediately joined hands the moment the light screen appeared and stayed together. They continued to huddle together, able to see each other.

“Haha, it seems that legendary artifact that appears once in trillions of years is on this golden star. I think ‘Void Mountain’ is a clue, indicating a certain place on the star. That artifact is right where this Void Mountain is,” Pang Shu exclaimed excitedly.

Guo Huo, Liu Shi, and Mu Rong immediately nodded, also looking excited, and then shouted, “Then let’s not wait any longer. We’ll head to this star right now to find that Void Mountain.”

Immediately afterward, the four of them—Guo Huo, Liu Shi, Mu Rong, and Pang Shu—grasped an iron chain together and flew toward that dazzling star.

Qu Yi naturally saw the words “Void Mountain” as well. After a quick thought, he immediately flew off toward that star.

In fact, everyone in the entire sky realm was heading toward that star at that moment.

Over nine billion people flew toward the star at the same time, yet none of them collided with each other, as if everyone’s space was isolated, with each person having their own spatial passage.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

One after another, cultivators emerged from the golden light and finally arrived on the golden star, only to find themselves surrounded by people. In the golden light, they had been invisible, but once they landed on the star, they all became visible.

“Get out of the way!”

Suddenly, Guo Huo, Liu Shi, Mu Rong, and Pang Shu also landed on the star’s surface and roared loudly.

Each of them held their own legendary artifacts. Seeing the cultivators around them, they immediately started killing them to clear a path and reach a certain place on the star.

They all wanted to seize that artifact that even divine kings would envy. Thus, anyone who stood in their way faced merciless killing from these four.

Powerful strength meant such tyranny.

Instantly, wherever the four of them flew, a path of blood was left behind. Thousands of cultivators were killed on the spot. The other cultivators were terrified and fled in all directions.

In a short while, Guo Huo, Liu Shi, Mu Rong, and Pang Shu flew away into the distance.

Qu Yi also landed on the star’s surface at that time and immediately noticed something special about it—once one flew in the air, they could see everything around, but only when their bodies touched the ground could they see their surroundings.

Realizing this, Qu Yi understood why Guo Huo, Liu Shi, Mu Rong, and Pang Shu started killing frantically as soon as they landed. These four must be up to no good; they surely knew there were secrets on this star, so they were eager to clear a path to find the treasures.

“Get out of the way!”

Upon realizing this, Qu Yi immediately grabbed his black staff, sneered, and got ready to start killing their way forward. Even if it weren’t Qu Yi, the six of Qiu Tong, Tian Wen, Bai Fang, Sang Guang, Gongye Bo, and Jin Muqing, after arriving on the star, began killing mercilessly in the same fierce manner and headed straight for other parts of the star.