Chapter 706: Controlling the Origin

Close to the Void Abyss in the Beyond Heavens Pavilion, the Martial Dipper Realm Ancestors of the Changbai Holy Land and Tongyou Institution came to blows. With them finally taking action, it signaled the final phase of the fight for world origin in the battlefield between the two worlds.

However, the battle in the Beyond Heavens Pavilion wasn’t as spectacular as everyone thought it would be. Shang Xia was also slightly stunned when he saw them fighting.

Before the Origin Tide broke through the spatial tunnel to enter the Tongyou City, Shang Xia had been focused on refining his fate dipper essence and working on his rank five martial arts and secret art.

The instant the Origin Tide arrived, Chu Jia activated the connection to the Tongyou Mysterious World and sucked in a huge portion of the world origin that came from the Origin Tide.

Even so, the amount of world origin was far too large. It filled the city, causing the density of world origin in the surroundings to rise rapidly.

Such a sudden increase of world origin didn’t bring the slightest benefit to experts below the Martial Extermination Realm. In fact, it would cause them great harm!

“Hey! Don’t you have any way to deal with this?! Try to reduce the amount of world origin pouring into the city!” Chu Jia roared at Shang Xia.

Actually, she could easily increase the power of their formation in the Tongyou Mysterious World to suck in more world origin, but that would require a lot more resources and effort. Seeing how idle Shang Xia was, a wave of irritation rose in her heart. She decided to make things difficult for him instead.

She was even prepared to push the formation to its limits to deal with the issue in the city when Shang Xia admitted that he wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. In fact, she even thought of whatever sarcastic remark she wanted to throw Shang Xia’s way when that happened.

Unfortunately, she was bound to be disappointed. The words barely left her lips when she discovered a five colored light filling the lands. It disappeared the next second as though it was never there in the first place.

When Chu Jia turned to look, the world origin that filled the Tongyou City had been cleared!

That wasn’t all. Almost all the world origin that was pouring out from the spatial tunnel that was connected to the battlefield between the two worlds were directed into the Tongyou Mysterious World without the formation doing extra work. Only a tiny bit of world origin leaked out.

If not for the fact that Chu Jia saw what happened earlier, and could feel the slight twist of space around the spatial tunnel, she would have thought that everything earlier was an illusion.

How… How did he do that?!

Chu Jia couldn’t help but ask herself. The world origin doesn’t seem to be sucked into the Tongyou Mysterious World. Instead, it seems to be directed over by some invisible force!

Chu Jia turned to stare at the spot where Shang Xia was cultivating in the Tongyou Mysterious World. When she yelled at him earlier, she naturally wasn’t standing in front of him. Instead, she knew that he would be able to hear her wherever he was.

Because of the exchange between the Martial Dipper Realm Ancestors in the Beyond Heavens Pavilion and the sudden burst from the Origin Tide, Shang Xia didn’t continue hiding in the pocket of space he made. Even though a good portion of his consciousness was on refining the Primal Yang Copper Fate Dipper Essence and developing his rank five arts, he was still able to deal with matters concerning the Tongyou City.

From the looks of it, dealing with the overflowing world origin needed nothing more than a flick of his wrist.

What he could do with a simple gesture was something Chu Jia would need a considerable amount of effort to do. Even if she had the assistance of the grand formation from the Tongyou Mysterious World, she wouldn’t have been able to deal with the massive overflow of world origin as cleanly as Shang Xia did.

The more that was the case, the more annoyed Chu Jia became. She felt a fire burning in her heart and thought that Shang Xia made it look so easy on purpose just to make her feel inferior.

“Hmph! What’s so great about that?! Isn’t it just because he entered the Martial Dipper Realm?! In the future, I’ll also…” Chu Jia grumbled softly. However, she suddenly revealed a look of disdain as she raised her chin haughty. “This grandaunt here is his teacher anyway. Why should I be annoyed at him?”

After gaslighting herself, Chu Jia seemed to have thought of something and she yelled at Shang Xia again, “We might have a strong foundation right now, but ascending to a holy land isn’t as simple as it seems. You’re in charge of expanding the space here so that I can save a portion of the formation’s strength!”

Shang Xia just stepped through a new level of understanding of his Five Elements Origin and a good portion of his attention was placed on developing his rank five arts. He was interrupted by Chu Jia’s loud yell, but he was too lazy to think if she was doing it on purpose. He didn’t wish to mess around and get into a verbal battle with Chu Jia because of the matter and a five colored light quickly surrounded his body. The world origin that had been devoured by the Tongyou Mysterious World started to spread around into different spots as indicated by Chu Jia. They were used to expand the space it could contain.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

What Shang Xia didn’t know was his casual attitude when handling matters in the Tongyou Mysterious World caused Chu Jia endless shock. She gnashed her teeth in irritation and pouted to herself.

“He’s actually able to control so much world origin! That would mean that he reached an unbelievable level… For him to also send it so accurately to the various spots in the Mysterious World also shows that he can cover the entire space with his perception…”

“What’s more, he actually has a lot of energy left over!”

The easier Shang Xia made it seem, the more annoyed Chu Jia got. As such, she wanted to come up with even more ways to mess with him and she yelled again, “Hey! You have to stabilize the newly expanded space within the Mysterious World! You’ll ensure the stability while I continue to expand the space in our Mysterious World with the grand formation!”

Stabilizing space wasn’t as easy as purely expanding it. Moreover, With Shang Xia’s actions earlier, world origin had been directed to every spot of importance. All Chu Jia had to do was to focus on expanding the space and it wasn’t too difficult. It would be much more efficient when she used the power of the formation to do so.

Shang Xia would have to be greatly involved in the process if he wished to stabilize the greatly expanding Tongyou Mysterious World.

“Hey, great Formation Grandmaster, do you really have to do this?” By that point, Shang Xia knew that she was doing it on purpose. She was making things difficult for him, but he couldn’t deny that it would be useful for the ascension of the Tongyou Mysterious World. She probably just wanted him to show a little bit of weakness so that she could feel better about herself.

Chu Jia’s giggle came from the highest point in the upper sector of the Tongyou Mysterious World, “Wow! Looks like everything is different now that our great Ancestor Shang Xia has entered the Martial Dipper Realm. I don’t think we need to use the formation anyway! You can just complete the ascension process yourself!”

Shang Xia’s eyelids twitched unnaturally and he felt extremely uncomfortable when he heard the way she was addressing him.

However, her words made sense. Shang Xia was only using a part of his consciousness to deal with the tasks she had given him. He managed to do it without many problems, and if he had been fully involved in the process, Shang Xia felt that he might have been able to do everything himself.

Of course, he was thinking too simply. He completed the tasks one after another, but ascension to a holy land wasn’t as simple as it seemed. He might have expanded the space earlier, but Chu Jia’s formation provided massive support as it dealt with everything else that came with it.

At the end of the day, he had just entered the Martial Dipper Realm. He hadn’t completed the development of his rank five arts, and he was unable to withstand the huge consumption of energy required during the ascension.

However, that brought his attention to another matter. In the future… Would it actually be possible for him to carve out a holy land on his own?!

“Hey! What are you thinking about?! Didn’t you hear what I said?!” Chu Jia’s resentful cry rang in his ears again and interrupted his train of thought.

“Oh! Huh? Sorry, I thought of something related to my rank five arts. What were you saying?” Shang Xia replied.

Just like he expected, Chu Jia was no longer as snappy after his explanation. She quickly continued, “I was saying that you seem extremely talented when it comes to manipulating the tide of world origin. Even Patriarch Kou might not be comparable to you when it comes to how well you use your dipper qi…”

Shang Xia couldn’t help himself as he gasped, “Wow! I didn’t think that you would actually praise me to my face!”

“Scram! Don’t act sarcastic with me!” Chu Jia immediately snapped, returning to her original state.

Pausing for a second, she tried not to get even more annoyed with Shang Xia before muttering, “You better not blame me for not warning you… You better not flaunt your talent in front of others. Even in the institution, it’s best not to go around and show off to the others. It’s fine if the Martial Dipper Realm Ancestors and Deputy Patriarch Yun Jing know about your achievements…”

Shang Xia heard the sincerity behind Chu Jia’s warning this time and he replied seriously, “Many thanks for Teacher Chu’s reminder…”

“Heh…”

Who would have thought that Chu Jia would snicker softly after hearing what he said. “Damn fellow… You sound even more sarcastic when you’re trying to act all serious.”

What the fuck did I do?!

…

Back in the Celestial Remains, Shang Xia received pointers from the bossman himself. When the Origin Tide erupts and world origin poured into the city, Kou Chongxue told Shang Xia that he should try to withstand the Origin Tide with his physical body.

He personally confirmed that it was a way for Martial Dipper Realm experts to temper their physique.

Shang Xia obviously wouldn’t doubt him. He situated himself directly in the path where world origin would enter the Tongyou Mysterious World and it wasn’t long before he discovered that Kou Chongxue was right. The only problem that he might have was that the effects weren’t as good as he expected.

Shang Xia’s physical body was far sturdier than Kou Chongxue had expected. Trying to improve further posed a great challenge.

Standing in the way of the world origin tide, Shang Xia discovered a piece of good news, and a piece of bad news.

Good news was, Shang Xia discovered something he forgot when coming up with his rank five martial arts and secret art.

Now that he realized it, he would be able to progress much quicker than before. At the same time, his rank five arts would be much more refined when he created it.

With the good news out of the way, the bad news was also of a pretty huge significance. Even though his Crimson Soul Tablet wasn’t fully restored, it was no longer sucking up world origin!