There was actually no trick to it.
It was just that stamping the Qualified Stamp onto a person gave off a rather bizarre feeling.
It was pretty much like a meat inspection stamp on a pig. Ever since Yu Xian stamped one onto Zhang Shou's back, he had quietly resolved in his heart that even if someone beat him to death, he would never let himself be stamped with it.
Naturally, the fact that stamping it on someone looked rather like an inspection seal on an old sow was something he would never, ever tell Zhang Shou.
"Then how about this?"
Yu Xian stowed the stamp back into his storage ring, rummaged around inside again, and brought out a seed.
"No," Feng Mingge refused outright, having lost even the slightest curiosity about what kind of seed it was.
"Don't be like that, this is—" Yu Xian began to explain.
"I have no need for external objects. External objects are, in the end, nothing more than external objects," Feng Mingge cut in.
True enough.
Treasures created by Transcenders possessed unimaginable might.
He himself found it difficult to refuse such treasures, yet he would never rely entirely upon them.
Just like his ancestor, Feng Laixian—he had possessed inexhaustible treasures, but was that of any use? In the end, didn't he still fail transcendence and die?
This proved that although these treasures were good, they offered zero help toward transcendence; reaching transcendence still had to depend on one's own capabilities. This was the shared consensus throughout the entire Fengxian clan, and indeed of many Mighty Ones.
"All right, then."
Seeing that Feng Mingge was truly not interested, Yu Xian could only put the seed away.
This seed was called the Seed of Epiphany. As long as one used it during cultivation, it could maintain a continuous state of epiphany. Furthermore, after being used a billion times consecutively, it would take root, sprout, and bear a Dao fruit.
A Dao fruit could allow a cultivator to instantly max out a specific ability.
Yu Xian hadn't used the Seed of Epiphany simply because he didn't cultivate at all, but he knew very well that this thing should be quite useful to an overachiever.
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The Chuyuan Realm.
This was a world that cultivated 'yuanqi.'
All things possessed yuanqi; cultivators gathered yuanqi to strengthen themselves and ultimately attain supreme divine abilities.
A powerful yuanqi master possessed a flawless body with practically no weaknesses; apart from direct, head-on confrontation, all underhanded tricks were useless against them.
At this moment, a great number of yuanqi masters, their hands and feet shackled, were being escorted toward Mo'ai Tower by a troop of black-armored yuanqi masters.
These black-armored yuanqi masters were subordinates of the reigning strongest yuanqi master, the Red Emperor. After unifying the Chuyuan Realm, the Red Emperor had slaughtered yuanqi masters on a massive scale, forging 'Mo'ai Tower' from their flesh and blood in hopes of advancing further and breaking into the Mighty One realm.
Mo'ai Tower rose tier upon tier, an absolute, colossal monument of corpses.
The terrifying yuanqi had degraded into rancorous energy; ordinary beings would be driven mad simply by drawing near. Yet the Red Emperor sat cross-legged at the very summit of Mo'ai Tower, completely shrouded in horrific crimson yuanqi. This was his unique Slaughter Yuanqi—fueling slaughter with slaughter, rendering him ultimately invincible under heaven.
The moment he truly unified the Chuyuan Realm, his yuanqi had already become invincible.
Such was the nature of the myriad worlds of the heavens.
A broader horizon didn't guarantee greater strength, nor did roaming across the myriad worlds inherently make one stronger than a native who had never stepped beyond their home world.
Sometimes, in certain worlds, there existed individuals who had never left their world—never even left their homeworld—yet were unfathomably powerful.
They didn't even possess the concept of 'transcendence.'
When they hit a bottleneck, they strove to break through it, growing terrifyingly powerful without even realizing it.
Even they themselves had no real, clear idea of just how strong they were; they simply kept getting stronger and stronger.
The Red Emperor was one such individual. He believed himself to be invincible under heaven, entirely unaware that even in the context of the myriad worlds, he was an extraordinarily horrifying existence.
At this time, another batch of yuanqi masters was herded to Mo'ai Tower.
The Red Emperor opened his eyes, casting merely a glance at these yuanqi masters. Instantly, they dissolved into raw materials, merging into Mo'ai Tower as their yuanqi was thoroughly absorbed by the tower.
The name Mo'ai Tower had no particularly profound meaning; it was simply that the tower's primary foundation had been a yuanqi master named 'Mo'ai.'
This yuanqi master was once the world's number one, who, after being slain by the Red Emperor, became part of Mo'ai Tower.
"Your Majesty, we caught him! We've captured Mo'ai's only son, Mo Si!" At that moment, a squad of black cavalry arrived, their leader shouting excitedly.
Behind the black cavalry, an iron cage imprisoned a youth.
"A prophecy-type yuanqi master once claimed that my life would be ended by the son of the world's number one. Heheheh, looks like that was nothing more than nonsense," the Red Emperor said leisurely after glancing at the youth.
The leader of the black cavalry bowed. "Your Majesty is the greatest under heaven! How could a mere prophecy possibly constrain Your Majesty?!"
"Hahahaha! Well said! From this day forth, my fate is mine to dictate, not heaven's!" The Red Emperor burst into hearty laughter.
Just then, however, the youth inside the cage spoke up: "Zhou Hong, your sins are full to overflowing, monstrous and unpardonable! It is time for you to die!"
With that, he fiercely surged the yuanqi within his body, violently slamming together two anomalous treasures concealed inside him—the very treasures prophesied to kill the Red Emperor.
Although prophecy-type yuanqi masters were rare, there was not only one.
Mo Si's younger sister, Mo Li, had also been a yuanqi master endowed with the gift of prophecy. At the cost of her life, she had found the method to kill the Red Emperor.
And Mo Si was the sole executor.
"No!"
The instant the two anomalous treasures collided, the Red Emperor caught the scent of death and couldn't help roaring in terror.
But it was too late. Though he instantly disintegrated Mo Si, the two anomalous treasures within Mo Si's body were already radiating intense white light.
These two treasures were the Spear of Piercing and the Shield of Indestructibility.
Anything struck by the former was guaranteed to be pierced through; the latter possessed defenses so immense that nothing could destroy it.
When the Spear of Piercing and the Shield of Indestructibility collided, two entirely antithetical forces generated an infinite annihilation.
BOOM!
In an instant, the Chuyuan Realm was gone.
The Red Emperor, the yuanqi masters—all of them were obliterated in a flash.
Then the radius of annihilation continued to expand, destroying everything at a speed of billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions of trillions of light-years per second. Countless worlds neighboring the Chuyuan Realm suffered pure misfortune, erased before they could even react.
In a certain world, a Mighty One sensed danger and immediately flew out of the realm.
He was extraordinarily fast, pulling away a vast distance almost instantly. Yet before he could even rejoice, his body was annihilated in the very next second, dying without a sound.
Across the Tree Universe, a single branch vanished without a sound, followed by an even thicker bough disappearing, along with the countless branches stemming from it.
The annihilation spread all the way to the main trunk of the Tree Universe. Countless Transcendents were fleeing in a frenzy, yet there was no escape—the speed of the annihilation was simply too fast.
In the Death Calamity Sea, Yu Xian and Feng Mingge were drinking wine and singing songs when Feng Mingge suddenly sensed something and looked in the direction of the annihilation.
Chapter 431