Chapter 552 – Legendary Treasure Land

The pale golden cubic veil that had enveloped Tianyuan City had dissipated, allowing the gentle sunlight to once again shine upon the city.

People gazed into the distance, where the light seemed brighter and more sacred than usual, as if they could see pure white feathers slowly drifting through the air.

Tianyuan City had returned to peace once more.

Only the massive craters left by the Epic Mage Towers outside the city walls, the charred marks from thunderous impacts, and the shattered earth churned by ink-green vines revealed how ‘brutal’ this battle had truly been.

Before the Angel King Lapis departed, she plucked a pure white feather between her fingers and blew gently.

“Hoo~”

Thousands of beams of light seemed to descend upon the frontlines hundreds of miles away.

The fallen Tianyuan City warriors—all except the undead—immediately resurrected within these rays of light. Clad in tattered armor, they emerged like heroic spirits returning with unstoppable momentum.

The light also enveloped all other non-undead warriors.

Their stamina restored, wounds healed, spirits revitalized… warriors who had fought to exhaustion now brimmed with boundless energy once more.

Except for the undead.

The fallen undead could only obediently resurrect through the Hall of Heroic Souls, watching enviously as their comrades continued fighting on the frontlines.

In the past, it was the undead who fearlessly resurrected without regard for death, but times had changed!

“Only life-and-death battles can truly unleash a warrior’s potential. Even the reserve troops can be completely transformed after such a battle.”

Mu Yuan stroked his chin, revealing a paternal smile of satisfaction.

Had it not been for his intention to temper his warriors, he actually had numerous means to annihilate these monster tides and legendary monsters. To name just one example, if Lapis took a single flight around, she could easily eliminate millions of ordinary monsters.

“But there’s no need for complete extermination. The existence of these monsters is, in its own way, a form of resource.”

Therefore, Mu Yuan didn’t send Lapis and the angels to pursue the fleeing legendary monsters.

Tianyuan City’s elites had indeed experienced countless battles, having fought their way through one difficult war after another. The aura of blood and slaughter surrounding them was so thick that experienced individuals could detect it from hundreds of meters away.

However, in reality, these elites had experienced very few genuine ‘life-or-death struggles’ or ‘victory against overwhelming odds.’

Hundreds of elites joining forces to slay an ordinary legendary monster couldn’t be considered victory against odds—it was simply numerical superiority.

This was something Lord Mu had to take responsibility for himself.

He had always orchestrated battles with ‘overwhelming numbers’ and ‘superior strength against weaker foes,’ maximizing the safety of his elite troops.

This approach wasn’t wrong—any lord with the means would do the same.

The resources required to train an elite warrior to the Third or Fourth Order were immense. How could such valuable elites be casually exposed to danger?

Yet lords couldn’t deny that great enlightenment and breakthroughs often came from life-and-death situations.

Especially for the major barrier between the Fourth Order and the Legendary Realm.

If a Fourth Order peak expert could experience several—or even a dozen—genuine life-and-death battles where survival hung by a thread, they would most likely be able to ignite their Willpower Light and create their own Domain.Though the greater probability was dying early in some battle.

“But our Tianyuan City has such training conditions.”

“From now on, the exploration and development of the Ten Directions Island Region can be entirely handed over to elites below the Legendary Realm. Let them truly face legends with mortal bodies, carving a bloody path through the monster tides. I believe this will greatly shorten their time to reach the Legendary Realm.”

Even among those elites who gained opportunities in the World Secret Realm and developed Domains, many still hadn’t ignited their Willpower Light.

They still needed tempering.

The previous Ten Directions Island Region was too safe – even if scattered legendary monsters dared appear, they would be surrounded by elite exploration teams and hunted down.

But now, after the celestial rift disaster, the danger level of the Ten Directions Island Region is just right.

There are enough monsters, with numerous legends either openly establishing dominant forces or secretly roaming about.

This was why Mu Yuan spared the fleeing monsters – to leave them for his elites to temper themselves, adventure, and level up through combat.

Of course, this was only possible because Tianyuan City now possessed powerful strength, heritage, and confidence. In the past, even with the Hall of Heroic Souls, he would have eliminated them all, ensuring complete eradication.

Tianyuan City warriors were still eliminating remaining monsters in the periphery.

But now, with the legendary monsters having fled, the area within two to three hundred miles around Tianyuan City had completely calmed. Only a few massive monster corpses remained half-buried in craters. Within sight, spheres emitting green or blue radiance floated in the wind.

Mu Yuan hardly cared about these rare and excellent grade treasures anymore.

Occasionally, they might yield one or two excellent grade construction blueprints, which he considered pleasant surprises.

He was more interested in the small sphere held in Lapis’s hand.

At first glance, it seemed she had merely contained Firewing Grand Duke’s sacrificial self-destruction, but Lord Mu had an intuition that it was a treasure.

“A treasure?”

“It does seem to be one?”

「Chaotic Constant Sun」

「Grade: High-Epic」

「Description: A product born from coincidence, created through Firewing Grand Duke’s specific ritual sacrifice and stabilized by Angel King Lapis’s guardian authority. This treasure continuously generates vast amounts of berserk, fire-natured energy from nothingness until reaching its storage limit.」

Lapis blinked. “This… is a treasure?”

This wasn’t in her inherited knowledge.

“Here, you can have it.”

She directly tossed it to Isloria, who appeared eager-eyed, then hurried back to her private residence in the living quarters behind the Grand Cathedral.

Lapis bounced onto the large bed and picked up the tablet she had hastily thrown on the pillow earlier.

The screen was dark, with blood-like crimson bordering the frame, featuring a prominent bloody character in the center – “NOOB”.

She had died.

How annoying!

It was all that big dragon’s fault!

She would remember this grudge!

Unaware that Lapis had been corrupted by Dolai, Mu Yuan only knew that this unintentionally created High-Epic treasure ‘Chaotic Constant Sun’…

“Fantastic!”

Before this, his Tianyuan City only possessed two High-Epic items, both recently gifted by enthusiastic individuals.

In Mu Yuan’s view, this High-Epic treasure held greater value.

It wasn’t meant for personal use – it was more suitable for application to the territory itself.”The Radiant City Defense Barrier, Lapis, and others are major energy consumers for the territory. At this stage, the supply from the territory’s Energy Wells is already quite strained.”

If Lapis were to unleash her true power and engage in prolonged combat, drawing energy from the territory, the balance between energy supply and demand would be disrupted.

What about constructing more Energy Well buildings?

That’s not entirely feasible.

The operational principle of Energy Well buildings is to gather energy from the heavens and earth or extract energy from the earth’s ley lines, storing it within the well as a spatial vessel to supply the territory.

However, whether it’s energy from the heavens and earth or the earth’s ley lines, the amount that can be extracted within a single city’s region has an upper limit.

The Tianyuan City Region can sustain the continuous extraction of six Energy Wells only because they relocated numerous mineral veins, significantly boosting the ley line energy.

In the future, as the mineral veins fully integrate with the land and the ley lines gradually strengthen through nurturing, Tianyuan City might be able to establish a seventh or eighth Energy Well.

For now, even if ten more Energy Wells were built, the maximum energy they could provide would remain the same.

But the High-Epic Treasure ‘Chaotic Constant Sun’ is different.

The sacrificial self-destruction of the Firewing Grand Duke should have rapidly expanded in energy and unleashed destructive power capable of sinking continents. This energy was violent, chaotic, and extremely short-lived from birth to dissipation. Yet, through a stroke of fortune and sufficient power, it became ‘eternal.’

The Chaotic Constant Sun generates energy out of nothing and can exist perpetually!

“Generating energy out of nothing” is the key point.

“Such violent energy is unsuitable for direct extraction and use by Legendary Realm experts, but after being processed by the territory, it’s perfectly suited to power the various Miracle Buildings.”

“Brilliant, simply brilliant!”

As for how this High-Epic Treasure will supply energy to the territory? The ever-capable Isloria will solve this minor issue.

Mu Yuan felt his plan was foolproof.

And…

Mu Yuan gazed into the distance at the churning white mist, his vision seemingly piercing through the mist, through the World Secret Realm, through the Western Wasteland Domain and the Twilight Great Domain, all the way to his own Tianyuan City.

There, specks of Miracle Light were bursting forth from one after another citizen of Tianyuan City who had ‘survived the calamity.’

The particles of light converged into rivers.

A multicolored river of light traversed countless layers of space, gathering in the palm of Mu Yuan’s hand.

「Miracle Power +500,000」!

「Miracle Power +500,000」!

「Miracle Power +500,000」!

…

…

The plan was working even better.

He had squeezed an immense amount of Miracle Power from his own citizens.

This was also one of the reasons he didn’t let Lapis go all out.

Mu Yuan suddenly felt a twinge of shame. Ah, this damned conscience.

……

The massive influx of Miracle Power replenished the nearly depleted Miracle Evolution Pool after Lapis’s evolution.

In due time, Tianyuan City would experience another peak of evolution.

At this moment,

Tianyuan City had calmed, but the atmosphere inside the World Secret Realm grew increasingly tense.

Isloria had already entered the Tower of Gods to seize opportunities.

Mu Yuan stood guard outside the tower, arms crossed.

“Not many are disturbing us.”

Boom!

With a thunder-and-flame-imbued great hand seal, he crushed a powerful Legendary Realm monster to death, then couldn’t help but think this.

However, the Tower of Gods couldn’t really be called an exceptionally coveted Treasure Land.

Unlike the Ascension Altar.

The Ascension Altar aids in breaking through the limits of one’s Domain and forging a stronger Foundation, which is why so many Heaven-Earth Realm experts flock to it.However, the Tower of Gods merely shortens the cultivation time in the Soul Realm.

The upper limit of one’s Divine Soul at Perfection depends on the Foundation and Divine Foundation forged before the Breakthrough to the Soul Realm.

Even without relying on such Opportunity Treasure Lands, most Soul Realm cultivators can still reach the Peak of the Soul Realm after spending several years, over a decade, or even decades. Although the disparity between different Peaks is immense.

Compared to Divine Soul cultivation, the powerful pay more attention to the increasingly precious Treasures deep within the Secret Realm.

The strong are even speculating whether there exists here…

It is highly likely to exist deep within the Secret Realm!

If it truly exists, countless people will go mad for it.

…

Golden light!

A golden pillar shot up into the sky, its brilliant radiance visible even from afar through the thick white mist.

Rather, no matter how dense the white mist was, it could not block this ‘vast golden light that exists in the form of golden radiance but is actually the external manifestation of great power.’

Compared to the Epic Treasures completely hidden within the white mist, this golden brilliance was so conspicuous that it could be seen from hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of miles away.

The first-tier powerhouses who had reached the depths of the Secret Realm widened their eyes one after another.

“G-g-g-golden light?!”

“Golden… could that be…?”

“The light of legend!!”

One invincible Heaven-Earth Realm expert after another, along with top-tier Soul Realm cultivators, no longer bothered to conceal their presence, erupting at full speed. Violent chaotic currents surged through the white mist, and multicolored streams of light streaked across the sky.

In the distance,

At the source of the golden light eruption, rumbling sounds soon began to spread, and disordered heaven and earth elements rapidly diffused in all directions.

The various powerhouses grew even more anxious.

…

“Urk!!”

Not far from the golden pillar, two top experts of the Heaven-Earth Realm—one had pierced through the other’s chest, clutching a still-beating heart; the other had cleaved his battle-axe diagonally, nearly splitting his opponent’s body in half from the neck down.

These two top experts, blinded by bloodlust, perished together on the spot.

Their eyes wide open, they died before the Legendary Treasure Land, unable to rest in peace!

In the distance, a third Legendary Realm expert arrived at the scene, glanced at the two dying legends but did not approach.

“Fools! Even Epic Treasures require overcoming numerous obstacles to obtain, let alone legendary divine objects!”

The golden light shimmered in the distance.

The treasure enveloped in golden light and a golden sphere was unclear to see.

No one doubted that this was a genuine heaven-ascending object—something that even world-class experts, Law Realm powerhouses, and those beyond the Law Realm would spare no cost to compete for.

However, the area outside the golden pillar was equally eye-catching.

On the ground was a massive array diagram with a radius of several kilometers, inscribed with millions of profound markings.

On this mysterious diagram, hundreds of smaller array diagrams of varying sizes floated in the air.

They were incredibly profound yet seemed to contain lethal intent.

The newcomer summoned a Legendary Realm Puppet. The puppet riding a black warhorse charged through the air, but when it stepped into the Array Diagram Land, the first small diagram lit up, followed by successive sounds of clashing and explosions.

In just two or three seconds, the legendary puppet was sent flying out, its black body covered with scratches and slash marks, sporting dozens of gaps of varying sizes.

It crashed heavily to the ground.

And it seemed that it had advanced less than three meters on the array diagram with a radius of several kilometers.

“Hiss—”

The Legendary Realm expert inhaled sharply, his scalp tingling with numbness.At this moment, several, then over a dozen Legendary Realm experts arrived in succession. Beyond the thick white mist, in the distant horizons, numerous powerful auras were rapidly approaching.

The experts who had already arrived dared not delay.

“Charge!”

“Go all out!”

“The legendary Opportunity lies right before us! If I don’t seize this chance, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life!!”

A red-armored youth with wildly flowing hair, his eyes blazing with fervor, erupted with overwhelming force that pushed surrounding Legendary Realm experts far back.

Boom!

A colossal, deity-like shadow rose behind the red-armored youth as he violently plunged into the mysterious formation.

…

“Boom—!”

The red-armored youth was sent flying high into the air, pale golden blood spraying continuously.

He was flung back hundreds of meters before crashing to the ground and tumbling several more circles from the momentum. His mouth filled with blood, he coughed incessantly, now barely clinging to life.

Several other Legendary Realm experts who had exerted less force retreated in terror.

“Cough, cough!”

“The barrier is too perilous. We couldn’t even cross one percent—no, one thousandth of the distance.”

“This Treasure Land likely can only be entered by those at the Law Realm or above!”

(End of Chapter)