Chapter 1088: Obtaining The Five Color Mountain’s Opportunity

Boom!

There was a loud boom, and the torrential flood was forcefully split into two. It looked as if he had beheaded an evil serpent.

With that done, Ye Qing leisurely ran through the gap he had created and scaled up the mountain.

The technique was, in fact, called “Slaying Evil Serpent”. It was a saber technique from a saber art invented by a Dragonslaying Taoist from a thousand years ago. Specifically made to kill dragons and serpents, “Slaying Evil Serpent” was the most powerful technique in the saber art.

He had unintentionally read about the saber technique during his stay in the Nanjiang Royal Court. He decided it was useful and memorized it.

Although he had used his hand instead of a saber to execute the technique, its effects were... not bad.

What came after the blue layer was the red layer. It represented the Fire of the Five Phases.

As a matter of course, the fire burning in the red layer was no ordinary fire. It was the Innate Bing Fire Spirit. The spirit of fire, it could ignite anything and everything. Even the world could be burned down given enough Innate Bing Fire Spirit.

As soon as he set foot inside the red layer, the world immediately exploded into an inferno. Even the ground was bright red in color.

To anyone else, the Innate Bing Fire Spirit was a deadly power they must avoid at all cost. But to Ye Qing, it hurt him less than even the Innate Geng Metal Qi from earlier.

He was a fire expert to begin with, not to mention that he possessed the Earthly Sovereign True Body and the Profound Yellow Mother Qi. As a result, the Innate Bing Fire Spirit failed to even burn the hair on his person. It took him almost no effort to pass through the sea of flames.

Finally, he arrived at the last layer, the yellow layer that represented the Earth of the Five Phases.

At first, Ye Qing was eyeing his surroundings carefully and walking forward with the utmost caution. He thought for sure it would be filled with dangers like the previous four layers.

To his surprise, he did not encounter anything. All he saw was flying yellow earth.

Of course, just a short while later, he was proven wrong and naive.

As he ventured deeper into the yellow layer, Ye Qing realized that the yellow earth in the air was growing thicker and denser. It eventually got to the point where even the sky was blotted from view.

Not only that, the more he progressed, the heavier his body felt.

His weight hadn’t increased, of course. He felt heavy because the amount of yellow earth in the air had increased.

Every speck of yellow earth was like a giant boulder. They easily weighed over fifty kilograms.

A “boulder” weighing fifty kilograms was nothing to Ye Qing, but thousands and thousands were flying in the air right now. One could only imagine the sheer weight pressing down on Ye Qing’s body right now.

There was no doubt about it. The yellow earth floating in the air could only be the Innate Wu Earth Radiance.

The Wu Earth belonged to the Earth of the Five Phases, and the Innate Wu Earth Radiance was the essence of the Wu Earth. It was thick, heavy, and dense.

Yes, Ye Qing had singlehandedly pushed open the entrance of Kunlun Tomb a few days ago. The stone door weighed over thousands of kilograms, and not even a hundred Innate Wu Earth Radiance were heavier than the stone door. But what about a thousand? Ten thousand?

Besides, there were hardly just ten thousand specks of Innate Wu Earth Radiance in the air right now. At first glance, there were easily a hundred thousand, a million, maybe ten million of them.

Therefore, it was almost a pipedream to pass through this area via brute force.

Ye Qing’s eyes were shining though. The corners of his lips were curling up as well.

He was... grinning?

Yes, he was. Yes, Ye Qing was grinning from ear to ear.

It wasn’t because he had gone stupid, of course. He was grinning purely because he was happy like a wolf who found a herd of goats, a cat who encountered a pond of fishes, or a dog who... ahem...

The Profound Yellow Mother Qi was the mother of all qi and the origin of all earthly qi. That said, it was vast, heavy and dense. Strictly speaking, closer to the Earth of the Five Phases. The “Earthly Sovereign True Scripture” was the same.

Although the Innate Wu Earth Radiance was the essence of Wu Earth, it still belonged to the Earth of the Five Phases and derived from the Profound Yellow Mother Qi. That was why the Profound Yellow Mother Qi possessed the capacity to accommodate it—or to put it in simpler terms, it could be

absorbed

and

refined

by the Profound Yellow Mother Qi.

To most others, the Innate Wu Earth Radiance was probably worse than multiple Disaster-class Strangers. But to Ye Qing, they were the best cultivation resources he could ask for. To him, it was even more valuable than the five-color fruits at the mountaintop.

Ye Qing did not hesitate. He immediately sat down and circulated the “Earthly Sovereign True Scripture”.

In an instant, the yellow earth engulfed Ye Qing like a dragon. Despite this, more were flooding in from every direction. It took only a dozen breaths or so for Ye Qing’s spot to turn into a hill of its own.

Peace and tranquility slowly returned to the yellow layer after Ye Qing was buried, and the spot he was at had turned into a hill.

However, an observer would notice that the hill burying Ye Qing was growing dimmer and smaller over time.

An incense stick later, the hill had disappeared completely and exposed Ye Qing.

Right now, Ye Qing was overflowing dark yellow light. He looked as dazzling as brilliant as the sun itself.

A few breaths later, the dark yellow lightly sank into Ye Qing’s body completely. Then, he slowly stood up.

The earth trembled when Ye Qing climbed to his feet. It was almost as if he weighed as heavy as a god or a demon.

When Ye Qing opened his eyes, light strong enough to pierce mountains and rivers illuminated the entire hill.

“Phew... as expected of the Innate Wu Earth Radiance. It is most extraordinary.”

Ye Qing let out a murky breath. As he felt the vast power surging inside his body, excitement thumped loudly inside his heart.

Technically speaking, his cultivation level barely changed at all. In reality, he was much stronger than the him from an incense stick ago. Why? Because the Innate Wu Earth Radiance had singlehandedly improved his Earthly Sovereign True Body by thirty percent or higher.

Some people might say that it was “just” thirty percent, but at his current cultivation speed, assuming he wasn’t boosted by any opportunity, it would have taken him decades of hard work to reach this level.

Therefore, this opportunity was life-changing to say the least.

“Hmm? Did the color fade?”

It was at this moment Ye Qing noticed something. The yellow layer was yellow no longer.

There was no longer any yellow earth in the air or the ground.

He understood why the yellow earth in the air had disappeared. They were all Innate Wu Earth Radiance. Since he had absorbed it all, it made sense that they would disappear into nothing.

But what about the ground? How did the entire layer go poof just like that?

Of course, that remark wasn’t entirely accurate. The bright orange yellow ground hadn’t gone poof, it had just faded into grayish white, dim and completely mundane. It was quite the odd transformation to say the least.

Ye Qing tried grabbing a handful from soil and played with it for a bit. He could not feel the slightest bit of spirituality or life force from them. It was worse than even a speck of dust.

Ye Qing rubbed his nose thoughtfully. “Did I drain the earth of all of their energy as well?”

It wasn’t impossible. Now that he thought about it, the yellow earth was probably connected to the Innate Wu Earth Radiance in some way. Since he had completely absorbed the Innate Wu Earth Radiance, it made sense that the yellow earth would lose its spirituality and life force and become completely mundane.

Ye Qing decided it wasn’t worth mulling over any longer. He walked away from the yellow layer and finally reached the mountaintop.

As soon as he reached the top, the branches and leaves of the Five Color Tree swayed even though there was no wind, and the five-colored lights mingled with each other. It was quite the picturesque sight.

The lights also made the five fruits looked increasingly mysterious. A, rich delicious scent permeated the entire mountaintop and caused saliva to gather in his mouth.

Smirking, Ye Qing walked toward the Five Color Tree.

The Five Color Tree wasn’t very tall. Specifically, it was only a head taller than Ye Qing. Therefore, the five fruits were right within reach.

It was at this moment a path opened between the spiritual light. The branches and the leaves were also swaying gently as if in welcome. It felt as if the Five Color Tree was sentient.

When Ye Qing finally reached the tree and held out his hand, the five fruits automatically fell off their branches and landed in his palm. He did not need to do anything.