Chapter 1520: Qinghuang Continent’s World Origin Source

"Why didn't you stop him?" After learning that Shang Xia planned to infiltrate the Essence Du World, Xin Lu grumbled after quickly locating Song Zhen.

Song Zhen was helpless and he couldn’t help but feel wronged. However... On one side was Shang Xia, a sixth tier True Immortal, and on the other side was a mighty Grand Stargazer of the Tongyou Institution. He couldn’t help but reveal a bitter smile. "I would if I could persuade him! Young Lady Xin, you are a Grand Stargazer now... Your words probably carry more weight than mine! I’m just his subordinate... Couldn’t you get through to him?”

Xin Lu huffed twice, her complaint evident, "We were about to head back, and he chose to make a detour to the Essence Du World now, of all places, where a Sage presides..."

Song Zhen tried to comfort himself as he mumbled softly, "Well, the lord is at the grand completion stage... He’s just a step away from reaching the Martial Emptiness Realm. The Sage of the Essence Du World just ascended. There shouldn’t be any problem...”

Xin Lu glared at him instantly. "Even at the grand completion stage, he’s still a True Immortal at the Martial Void Realm! Even a newly ascended Sage is still an expert in the Martial Emptiness Realm! You should understand the difference better than I do, shouldn’t you?!”

Song Zhen could only respond with a bitter smile.

Xin Lu felt helpless. She knew nothing could change the situation they were in and her main purpose in finding Song Zhen was just to vent her frustrations. Since she was done, she left in a hurry.

As a Grand Stargazer, she needed to navigate the Star Ship around the chaotic streams to pass the Essence Du World.

After Xin Lu left, the bitter smile on Song Zhen's face gradually faded.

Although Song Zhen was worried about Shang Xia entering the Essence Du World alone, his concern wasn't as pronounced as he had shown to Xin Lu.

As a cultivator in the Martial Dipper Realm, Xin Lu might not know the true extent of Shang Xia’s strength. However, Song Zhen had participated in the battle outside the heavenly screen of the Azure Ruling World. During the battle between the spiritual beast kings of the Azure Ruling World and Spirit First World, Song Zhen learned that Shang Xia’s combat strength was far from what was displayed.

Leaving other things aside, the mace-like projection Shang Xia summoned already had the ability to heavily injure the Ape King who was also at the grand completion stage of the Martial Void Realm. That was even when Shang Xia hadn’t fully recovered. Such a feat was far from what he, a third tier True Immortal, could comprehend.

Shang Xia gave Song Zhen the impression that he was a young expert, but his decisions were far from inexperienced. He always acted with deliberation and rarely made rash moves.

For him to dare to infiltrate the Essence Du World, he was definitely confident of returning safely.

Song Zhen's estimate was not entirely off.

Shang Xia believed that even if he had to face a Sage, he would be able to retreat safely.

He had a good reason for infiltrating the Essence Du World. It wasn’t just because he wished to place his Soul Calming Vessel in the World Origin Source. A more important reason was that his Crimson Soul Tablet was running out of world origin!

Because of the Azure Ruling World, Shang Xia set up his Heaven Supporting Jade Pillar within to unleash his martial intent. He also had to summon the projection of the Crimson Soul Tablet to force the Ape King back, and the tablet deduced the first part of his Seven Star Spirit Setting Pill. The world origin reserves had been used up.

Shang Xia had intended to replenish some world origin in the Spirit Frost World, but the Crimson Soul Tablet was already getting picky about the quality of world origin. The world origin of a Spirit World wasn’t enough for it to restore itself anymore and it couldn’t be used to continue deducing his advancement formula either. He was also discovered by the high-level spiritual beast kings of the Spirit Frost World in the process and nearly got beaten up.

With that, Shang Xia understood that if he wished to continue using the power of the Crimson Soul Tablet, he needed world origin from Essence Worlds.

He was also helpless at the fact that only the main medicine had been deduced. The rest were missing because it lacked world origin.

Among the Essence Worlds he knew about, Shang Xia knew that he couldn’t go back to a few of them. The Essence Ling World was one of them, but he crossed paths with the Sage of the Essence Ling World more than once. With news of the Essence Ling World’s Sage breaking through further, Shang Xia wasn’t stupid enough to walk right into the trap that was the Essence Ling Heavenly Field.

As for the Essence Xing World... It was even less feasible for him to head back there. After their internal conflict, in which he had a huge hand, the Sages would most likely watch their world even more closely. Moreover, there were more than 1 of them!

The Essence Hong World was too far away and the Essence Ming World seemed to have unified. There was no way he would make things difficult for himself to barge into their world.

Now that he was on his way back to the Heaven Observation Field, the only choice he was left with was the Essence Du World.

After infiltrating the Essence Du World with a Six Direction Teleportation Talisman, Shang Xia quickly hid his aura with the Spirit Abundance Banner and fled. He also started to change his aura and disguised himself as someone who hadn’t reached the Martial Void Realm.

The moment he infiltrated the world, he had already been noticed by Sage Yan Yu. However... Shang Xia was a sneaky bastard who had vast experience in infiltrating worlds. He quickly shook off Yan Yu from feeling his presence after he entered the world.

Well, that may be so, but it couldn't be denied that Sage Yan Yu noticed an outsider infiltrating his world.

The very instant Shang Xia fled, the powerful factions of the Essence Du World received a transmission from Sage Yan Yu.

Unlike the Essence Xing World where the dynasties were holding each other back along with multiple powers fighting against each other such that Shang Xia was able to move around unhindered, the Essence Du World was different. There was only a single Sage, and he held absolute authority.

Even though the factions might not truly respect the Sage and listen to his orders, but they wouldn’t dare to show it. They had to put on a show at the very least.

Moreover, the Essence Du World had been secluded from other worlds and the sudden appearance of an outsider brought huge excitement to the newly ascended Essence World.

Yet, with Shang Xia not exposing his tracks or aura, locating him wouldn’t be an easy task.

Under the lead of high-level experts of the various factions, the cultivators of the Essence Du World cleaned house. It took them several days, but it wasn’t as though they came up empty-handed. At the very least, they found many hidden chess pieces of the Spirit Tip World. Unfortunately, none of those they captured was Shang Xia.

Eventually, the Essence Du World returned to its original calm.

Although many powerful factions were still secretly looking for Shang Xia, on the surface, it looked like the world was no longer bothered about the presence of the hidden True Immortal.

"Hmm, pretending to let up their guard while still maintaining their vigilance... Are they waiting for me to expose myself?"

After spending over 10 days traveling covertly through several continents within the Essence Du World and gathering information from the Spirit Tip World, he gained a comprehensive understanding of the world he was in.

The Essence Du World ascended less than 100 years ago and only possesses 26 continents. Only the Liuzhang Sect in the West Sea Continent where Sage Yan Yu comes from reached a state of perfection with its continent reaching the size of 30,000 miles. There were only 4 or 5 other continents among the other 25 that had a size of 20,000 miles.

They couldn’t even be compared to the Essence Ming World or Essence Hong World, much less the Essence Xing World.

"If I hide here and do nothing, that will be one thing... However, if I absorb world origin or hide the Spirit Calming Vessel in the World Origin Source, I will definitely be discovered by their True Immortals or the Sage. When that happens, I won’t be able to avoid a fierce battle!”

Currently, Shang Xia was in the Qinghuang Continent. It was located in the southern central part of the Essence Du World with a size of nearly 20,000 miles. It was a relatively prosperous continent.

The reason he chose the Qinghuang Continent wasn’t just because of the World Origin Source. More importantly, no True Immortal had branded their soul into the world through the spirituality of the Qinghuang Continent.

𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Of course, that didn’t mean that the experts of the Qinghuang Continent were unworthy.

On the contrary, the experts of the Qinghuang Continent had always been actively planning to nurture a True Immortal.

It was a shame the Martial Dipper Realm experts of the Qinghuang Continent seemed to be down on their luck in recent years. While making their preparations for advancing to the Martial Void Realm, they would either have their foundations destroyed in conflicts, be killed, or fail to anchor their souls into the world. Among other issues, they might even be swallowed by the World Origin Source during the process.

But soon after Shang Xia sneaked into the Qinghuang Continent and sensed the connection to the World Origin Source, he discovered something interesting. Someone was stealing world origin secretly!

Upon further investigation, Shang Xia confirmed that the theft of Qinghuang Continent’s world origin wasn’t just by a single entity. There were at least 3 of them!

The forces were extremely covert in their methods of extracting world origin from the Qinghuang Continent. If not for Shang Xia’s far superior senses, even an ordinary True Immortal might find it difficult to detect.

Moreover, they not only had a certain understanding among themselves, but they also exercised restraint. They were well aware of extracting too much world origin in case the local forces noticed their presence.

As for whether other True Immortals had already noticed it... Shang Xia believed that they knew what was happening. After all... How could high-level True Immortals not notice that the World Origin Source of a certain continent in their world was being extracted by some other forces?

Shang Xia had a vague answer as to why no one had spoken up about it. He secretly traces the direction at which the world origin had been extracted.

The Qiulong Mountain, Origin Returning Valley, and Yuwei Gate were 3 powerful Elysiums of the Essence Du World. All of them had a high-level True Immortal in command.

They might not be beside the Qinghuang Continent, but they were close enough!

For them to join hands and do something like that, other than Yan Yu, no other sect or high-level True Immortal would dare to offend them easily.

As such, the Qinghuang Continent turned into a farm for the 3 of them to steal world origin.

Having figured it out, Shang Xia couldn’t help but feel a bit sad for the experts of the Qinghuang Continent.

Staying in the Qinghuang Continent for several days with his identity hidden, he could sense their desire to produce a True Immortal.

Little did they know, their fate had already been arranged by 3 powerful Elysiums and several high-level True Immortals.

However... That might be an opportunity Shang Xia could make use of!