Xu Yuan naturally felt the Blood Demon's confusion.
However, he didn't offer any explanation to the Blood Demon.
Since Falan Planet held the opportunity for Tang San to achieve supremacy and Tang San's fate was almost fixed—anchoring the past through his future achievement of supremacy—Xu Yuan would inevitably encounter a future version of Tang San here.
Perhaps not at his peak strength.
After all, even if the future was predetermined, it still didn't exist yet.
Thus, Xu Yuan guessed that he would most likely encounter a future Tang San with the strength Tang San currently possessed.
"Break it, then find him."
One of Xu Yuan's current goals was to deal with Tang San.
After all, as long as Tang San lived, Xu Yuan couldn't rest easy.
Given their current state as mortal enemies, if Tang San were given time to grow stronger and Xu Yuan didn't take the initiative to act, unexpected situations might arise.
The fortune of Falan Planet was key to Tang San achieving supremacy. So, break it.
To shatter the opportunity tied to fortune, one had to start with fortune itself.
"Qian Nian is the catalyst."
Xu Yuan's shadow watched the process of Qian Nian forming a contract with the Sky Devouring Hound from afar, his gaze distant.
In his vision, the material world began to disintegrate, gradually revealing scenes that didn't exist in reality.
It was as though countless threads were extending outward. Among them, on one thread, Qian Nian's strength grew increasingly powerful, ultimately achieving God King status!
This thread shifted position, moving from the periphery to become the main thread, expanding from a single strand and rapidly infecting and occupying the surrounding threads.
In countless futures, the possibility of Qian Nian becoming a God King occupied nearly half!
In the scene, a vertical mark appeared on Qian Nian's forehead. Between the opening and closing of his skin, an eye that seemed to pierce the soul emerged. He wielded a Fangtian Halberd, surrounded by deep red energy, with a large black dog by his side.
Although the image left Xu Yuan somewhat speechless, he also found it reasonable.
Wasn't Qian Nian currently forming a contract with a Sky Devouring Hound?
This man and dog, walking this path together, might replicate someone else's journey, especially with Xu Yuan influencing them from behind.
Xu Yuan focused on the Fangtian Halberd, feeling it was almost identical to the Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd.
Had the Fangtian Halberd been given to this kid too?
The contract process took three full days.
Something magical seemed to have occurred between the Blood God Transformation and the Demon God Transformation.
When the contract was completed, Qian Nian looked excitedly at the big black dog before him, unconsciously beginning to stroke its head, even forgetting the disparity in their strength.
"Boy, you might not understand the difference in strength, daring to provoke my majesty!"
The Sky Devouring Hound initially thought it normal but soon realized and bared its fangs at Qian Nian.
Even though they had formed a contract and he confirmed that Xu Yuan was correct—that the contract was an equal relationship—it did not change his inner anger.
What gave this human boy the right to form a contract with him?
Because of the contract, the Sky Devouring Hound became even more aware of Qian Nian's aptitude.
It was so poor it was beyond evaluation!
With such aptitude, even with the enhancement from his bloodline, his cultivation talent was only on par with ordinary cultivators. Fundamentally, there was no hope of surpassing the first stage. With a bit of hope for reaching the fourth stage, with enough effort, he could definitely reach the peak of the third stage in his lifetime. With sufficient opportunity, there was a slight chance of reaching the fourth stage—average aptitude among Holy Domain cultivators.
With such poor aptitude, how dare he!
The Sky Devouring Hound looked at Xu Yuan, not daring to show a fierce expression, but his eyes were filled with unwillingness and humiliation.
How could this human possibly be my opportunity?
"I've done what I can to help you. How far you can cultivate from now on depends entirely on yourself." Xu Yuan looked at Qian Nian, ignoring the Sky Devouring Hound's gaze.
He grabbed the Sky Devouring Hound and sent it back to its original area.
Qian Nian knelt before Xu Yuan's shadow and bowed three times.
"Thank you, Senior!"
A Demon King at the peak of the ninth stage would be his greatest assistance on the path of growth.
The Sky Devouring Hound harbored great malice towards him. Even after being sent away by Xu Yuan, Qian Nian could still sense the faint malice through the contract, but it didn't affect him.
He knew the Sky Devouring Hound's feelings were justified.
At present, he didn't qualify to be acknowledged by the other party.
But possessing the Blood God Constitution and mastering the Demon God Transformation, he had already embarked on the orthodox path of cultivation.
His aptitude had greatly improved. By continuing to devour and fuse other bloodlines, his aptitude would repeatedly break through barriers, transforming him into a true genius!
Xu Yuan's shadow dissipated, no longer responding to the outside world.
Similarly, the Blood Demon God King remained silent. Qian Nian couldn't even feel the unusual heartbeat from the Blood God Egg in his heart, as if both had left his body.
Time passed.
Without Xu Yuan and the Blood Demon, Qian Nian embarked on his own cultivation path.
Three months later.
Tianshan Mountain Range, core area.
In this core area, everywhere were demons of the fourth to sixth stages, and each region had a seventh-stage Great Demon.
However, in such a dangerous place, there was a human youth laughing heartily, his expression slightly crazed.
His demonic power aura was only at the third stage.
At the third stage of demonic power cultivation, every step was difficult in the core area of the Tianshan Mountain Range.
Yet the youth seemed to enjoy it immensely. Before him lay the corpses of three demons. Among the three, there was a seven-colored bird demon whose flowing blood emitted vitality. There was also a fox demon, which even in death still clung to the bird demon's neck.
A huge snake coiled around the bird and fox demons. Its upper body resembled a human female's, and its snake head distinctly bore the features of a human face.
Her vertical pupils stared at the bird and fox demons respectively. Her snake body tightened, binding them firmly.
Aside from the bird demon, neither the fox nor the snake demon had fatal injuries. Yet at this moment, they lay unconscious alongside the bird demon.
"This is the toxin of the sixth-stage Heart-devouring Grass. It can paralyze nerves, and the longer the poisoning lasts, the more severe the nerve damage becomes!" Qian Nian thought with satisfaction.
Recalling the scene when he discovered the origin of the Heart-devouring Grass while being eroded by its toxins, Qian Nian still felt a chill.
He discovered the origin of the toxin only after being poisoned by it and fell into despair.
However, through the connection transmitted via the contract with the Sky Devouring Hound, he never completely died. Instead, during this process, he gradually adapted to the Heart-devouring Grass's toxins through the power of devouring, even storing some of the poison within his body.
Of course, that wasn't enough.
The toxin of the Heart-devouring Grass was potent. If one couldn't detect being poisoned in time, death would come silently and unnoticed.
However, this state wasn't hard to detect, making it difficult for targets to simply wait for death without taking measures after being poisoned.
Therefore, other means were needed.
For instance, this bird demon.
Possessing a trace of Phoenix lineage, this bird demon didn't possess the powerful flame abilities of the fire phoenix but instead inherited the vast vitality of the Phoenix clan.
Qian Nian planted the Heart-devouring Grass's toxin in its body. The erosion of the toxin couldn't match its self-healing speed, making the bird demon completely unaware.
Later, Qian Nian found an opportunity to significantly boost the bird demon's life force, making its vitality even more enticing.
Then he lured the snake and fox demons.
Every step of the entire plan was fraught with danger, or rather, this plan was gradually established while Qian Nian teetered on the brink of death time and again.
There was no meticulous calculation from start to finish. Instead, Qian Nian adapted to each crisis, linking them together, and then acted, guiding the three sixth-stage demons together.
Each crisis brought Qian Nian unexpected benefits. Despite his ordinary aptitude, he advanced from the first stage to the third stage in just three months.
"Three sixth-stage demons, I wonder if they can further enhance my aptitude!"
Qian Nian's eyes gleamed with excitement.
He began to harvest.
Three thousand kilometers away from the Tianshan Mountain Range, a shadow turned to look deep into the Tianshan Mountains.
"There is a slight possibility of becoming a God King, and it's not without reason."
Xu Yuan gained some understanding of Qian Nian's luck.
The possibility of Qian Nian becoming a God King existed inherently; it wasn't something Xu Yuan created out of nothing.
It was just that the previous timeline was too weak, the kind that couldn't be found even with purposeful searching.
Xu Yuan merely made that weak possibility slightly larger.
Moreover, he only provided assistance twice.
Three months ago, he truly left Qian Nian, leaving only a rune on him to sense his condition once a month. The Blood Demon God King also controlled the Blood God Egg to go to the Beast Domain.
During these three months, Xu Yuan hadn't left the Holy Domain.
It wasn't that he wasn't interested in the cultivation systems of the Law Domain or Blue Domain, but he was still busy.
From Qian Nian, Xu Yuan learned about the nine-gate families he belonged to. After pondering, he found the remaining five heirs of the nine-gate families in the Holy Domain within these three months, each receiving a bit of opportunity from him.
After all this hustle, Xu Yuan didn't leave empty-handed.
"This is fortune."
Xu Yuan could feel a familiar force enveloping him, as if it belonged to him.
"The residual fortune of the nine-gate families, though weak, has sufficient heritage."
Once a massive entity, even if now extremely weakened, could recover to its peak and rise again in a day.
"After devouring these three demons, Qian Nian's foundation will be laid. Let him take care of these five heirs of the nine-gate families."
Xu Yuan didn't plan to stay in the Holy Domain anymore.
"The cultivation of demonic power offers me too little inspiration. My research on qi and bloodlines is too advanced."
Although Xu Yuan didn't cultivate bloodlines, his research on them was profound.
Over these three months, including providing opportunities to the heirs of the nine-gate families, Xu Yuan observed the entire cultivation system of the Holy Domain.
"The Law Domain is strictly ordered, with methods akin to the use of laws, but the laws used seem to be a complete set of order laws constructed by humans, offering me references, though more useful for my teacher. On the contrary, the Blue Domain, with its mastery of elemental forces, follows a system of perceiving natural laws, which suits me better."
Having made up his mind, Xu Yuan didn't hesitate anymore.
In three months, his willpower had recovered to its peak.
That meant he was now invincible on Falan Planet.
Blue Domain.
In this nation that revered freedom, violence and bloodshed weren't uncommon.
Because of excessive freedom, it was difficult to impose constraints. And due to the existence of extraordinary powers, the entire Blue Domain revered strength.
Walking on the streets, one could always see people fighting, declaring they would go to the life-and-death arena.
However, in this land of freedom, countless talented individuals were born.
The Blue Domain's cultivation of primal energy leaned toward combining elements, merging various elements to unleash power surpassing that of a single law. Thus, battles suited the cultivators here.
"It's somewhat similar to the elemental forces summarized in the Sacred Heart Plane."
The cultivators of the Blue Domain combined laws, essentially exploring the characteristics of each single element. For example, combining wind and fire actually utilized wind to explore the burning characteristic of fire and used fire to explore the momentum of wind.
They complemented each other.
Through continuous exploration, they delved deeply into these characteristics, breaking through a point to penetrate the field of laws.
As more characteristics were explored, the same element was gradually analyzed, leading to a more profound understanding of the laws governing that element.
"Most importantly, the elemental laws here are directly connected to higher-level destructive laws!"
After understanding the cultivation methods of the Blue Domain, Xu Yuan went alone to the deep mountains and forests, gathering primal energy from heaven and earth. Using runes, he constructed and then borrowed the power of heaven and earth to nurture an energy-based body, beginning to practice the Blue Domain's system.
On the first day, he reached the fourth stage Operator level. On the second day, he broke through to the seventh stage, becoming a Judge, and began studying combined elements.
His study encompassed the nine elements.
Combining two of the nine elements yielded thirty-six combinations. Not to mention the eighty-four three-element combination techniques, one hundred twenty-six four-element combination techniques.
Such numerous combinations were quite time-consuming.
Fortunately, cultivation paths were interconnected. With a foundation, Xu Yuan combined them very quickly.
By utilizing the other eight laws, he gained new insights and developments in each law.
This development was something that couldn't be achieved by solely comprehending one law.
Or rather, it wasn't developing the inherent properties within the element itself. It was more like using other elements to strengthen or even inject entirely new properties into the element from scratch!
The power of this characteristic gradually enhanced the potency of the entire element.
For Xu Yuan, the greatest benefit was the perfect fusion of the nine elements.
After condensing an energy-based body, Xu Yuan completed all elemental combination techniques on the thirty-sixth day, perfectly fused the nine elements, advanced to the tenth stage, became a Star God, and triggered the descent of laws, forming a domain that perfectly integrated the nine laws—the Tianyuan Domain.
Domains were similar to fields, but domains were directly constructed by laws and were closer to the essence than fields.
Upon becoming a Star God, Xu Yuan's energy-based body collapsed.
He automatically dispersed this body.
Because the laws descended, while forming the domain, they were also reshaping this body, which Xu Yuan wasn't willing to allow.
If he were forcibly shaped and twisted by the laws into an energy state, Xu Yuan would have died in vain.
However, the construction of the Tianyuan Domain was completed.
"Plenty of gains, it's time to check out the Law Domain."
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