Chapter 355: Cultivation
But this majestic Black Dragon had been reduced to a slide. Gu Zi Yun, Zheng Duo En, and Rogue stood between Xiao Hei's dragon horns. From his nearly ninety-degree body, they leaped down, sliding with a whoosh along the smooth dragon scales into the azure seawater.
Xiao Hei, whose body was being used as a dragon-shaped slide, still had to control the surrounding water vapor from time to time.
Under his control, the surrounding seawater sometimes turned into massive waves and sometimes formed huge seawater whirlpools.
In the rumbling seawater whirlpools, Skye, Mariko Yashida, Selene, and the other women were riding skateboards, playing to their hearts' content in the sea amusement park designed by Xiao Hei.
After undergoing closed-door cultivation in the Great Luo Heaven, the women's physical quality and cultivation base were all quite impressive, subtly possessing strength comparable to Core Formation Cultivators.
Waves tens of meters high were just simple play for them. With Xiao Hei's water control ability, they didn't need to actively chase waves; each wave surged, pushing them high up. Only the poor working dragon was pitiful, his dragon eyes staring piteously at Tang Someone lying on the beach not far away.
On the beach, Tang Song ignored the resentful gaze in Xiao Hei's dragon eyes, showing no intention of rescuing Xiao Hei from his predicament. He held Hela and watched with great interest as the others played on the sea surface.
The beach lounge chair Tang Song was on was made from materials taken from the branches of the Moon Tree in the Elf Kingdom.
After learning that the Heaven Dimension had been occupied by Odin's cheap son-in-law, coupled with the support from several Worlds like Asgard, Jotunheim, Svartalfheim, and Midgard (Earth), Boss Tang's influence once surpassed that of his cheap Father-in-law.
After all, even at his peak, Odin merely maintained the reputation of King of the Nine Realms, not actual rule.
Therefore, upon learning that Boss Tang needed materials to build his palace, the King of the Elf Kingdom, Hela's cheap uncle, King Freyr of Vanaheim, specifically ordered people to send a batch of precious wood, including three hundred Moon Trees as thick as an adult's thigh.
The Moon Tree, a treasure of the Light Elves, is said to be a companion plant of the Moon Well. Its branches and leaves condense the essence of the Moon Well water.
The Moon Tree is a treasure from head to toe. Its branches are excellent materials for the Light Elves to craft longbows and arrows. Its leaves have the effect of reviving the dead and regrowing bone. There is even a legend that these Moon Trees are seedlings of Yggdrasil, the World Tree that connects the Nine Realms.
The older the Moon Tree, the higher its overall value. A Moon Tree needs at least a thousand years to grow to the thickness of a bowl.
A Moon Tree as thick as an adult's thigh is at least several thousand years old, if not tens of thousands. It can be said that if a single Moon Tree were sold on the Interstellar Black Market, its value would be completely comparable to a high-grade spaceship.
Besides these precious magic plant wood materials, Freyr also specifically selected three thousand beautiful Light Elves maidservants from his subjects to help his cheap nephew-in-law manage the Heavenly Court Garden.
Clearly, this God of Fertility was a smart person.
Of course, in return, Boss Tang also sent back a return gift of considerable value to express his gratitude.
On the wide lounge chair emitting a faint radiance, Tang Song reached out and wrapped his arm around Hela's waist. The two of them squeezed onto the cool lounge chair.
"Not going surfing with them!" Tang Song said, his hand reaching into Hela's dark green dress. The smoothness of the Goddess of Death (Hela)'s waist made Boss Tang reluctant to let go.
"You think I'm as bored as these little girls?" Hela's expression remained cold, she said irritably.
As a god who had lived for thousands of years, only power and slaughter excited Hela. Now there was one more thing: cultivation.
She half-lay in Tang Song's arms. Although Tang Song's hands weren't idle, his cultivation never stopped. He narrowed his eyes.
With a bell toll, the Primordial Spirit Infant, standing on a Taiji Diagram, soared up from Tang Song's body, carrying streaks of black and white spiritual light. The spiritual energy converted from the energy of several Dimensional Realms gathered in the Great Luo Heaven instantly surged in, continuously pouring into Tang Song's Primordial Spirit Infant.
Massive amounts of energy surged like a tide. Around Tang Song's Primordial Spirit Infant, countless spiritual energy poured in, forming an energy vortex even larger than an Inland Sea hundreds of kilometers wide.
At Tang Song's cultivation base, the cultivation resources needed were unimaginable for ordinary people. Even a Pure Yang True Immortal with excellent talent and high comprehension would need at least tens of thousands of years to achieve a breakthrough from the True Immortal stage to the Golden Immortal stage.
Some True Immortals even wasted several Cosmic Epochs at this realm. When their lifespan reached its end, they had no choice but to reincarnate and re-cultivate.
In the Jambudvīpa World, although True Immortals are called Immortals, they also experience the Five Signs of Heavenly Decay. Under normal circumstances, a True Immortal's lifespan is usually around two to three Cosmic Epochs.
One Cosmic Epoch, converted to Earth time, is 129,600 years!
This lifespan is incredibly long for humanity, no different from immortality, but for some True Immortals undergoing ascetic cultivation...
They might cultivate in seclusion for several Cosmic Epochs and still not touch the threshold of the Golden Immortal Realm.
There is no other reason, only a lack of resources.
The spiritual energy in the Jambudvīpa World seems abundant, but the Spirit Veins, Earth Veins, and even the essence of sun and moon emitted by the sun, moon, and stars have largely been monopolized long ago.
The Spirit Mountains of the Buddhist and Taoist Schools, the Pure Land of Bliss, the Three Pure Heavens of the Daoist Sect, the various Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands, plus the Heavenly Court's Thirty-Three Heavens, can be said to have monopolized eighty percent of the spiritual energy in the entire Jambudvīpa World.
Just like in places such as Spirit Mountain and the Daoist Sect's Three Pure Heavens, there is primordial qi everywhere between heaven and earth, and the quality of that primordial qi is like jade fluid and ambrosia!
Those Taoist True Disciples and Buddhist Arhats don't even need to cultivate intentionally. As long as they open their mouths, Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and spiritual energy will forcefully pour into their bodies. They can even increase their realm while sleeping! Otherwise, why would those Arhats and Bodhisattvas undergo ascetic cultivation for ten lifetimes if their purpose wasn't to desperately enter the Western Heaven's Spirit Mountain for cultivation?
Apart from the Sacred Places of the Buddhist and Taoist Schools, the place with the most abundant spiritual energy is the Heavenly Court. The Heavenly Court, which controls stellar power, has its core, the Great Luo Heaven, where the spiritual energy is completely comparable to Spirit Mountain and the Three Pure Heavens.
Next are the Thirty-Three Heavens. The Thirty-Three Heavens are the residences and cultivation places for the Immortals who have submitted to the Heavenly Court.
The spiritual energy between heaven and earth is still vast, but when distributed among those Immortals, it's only barely enough. To advance further, they can only rely on the principle of "water droplets wearing away stone," slowly honing their cultivation.
And to obtain cultivation resources, many True Immortals have no choice but to serve as officials in the Heavenly Court, holding divine positions and receiving cultivation rewards.
Unlike these struggling workers, Boss Tang is making great strides in the Marvel World, a completely blank market.
The spiritual energy gathered in this Great Luo Heaven is accumulated from six or seven Dimensional Realms, converted from the energy absorbed from thousands of stars within a dozen light-years.
Although this Heavenly Court is a "Pinduoduo" version, even the Immortal's Caves of ordinary Immortals cultivating in the Thirty-Three Heavens in the Jambudvīpa World might not compare to the abundant spiritual energy in Tang Song's Great Luo Heaven.
Not to mention Tang Song's own cultivation place.
If this were in the Jambudvīpa World, a guy like Tang Song, whose cultivation base isn't considered very strong, if he dared to take so much, he would have long been ganged up on by thousands of True Immortals and beaten to a pulp by thousands of magic treasures.
But this is the Marvel Universe. With no rivals whatsoever, he is free to leap like a fish in the vast sea and fly like a bird in the high sky.
While the Primordial Spirit Infant cultivated, Tang Song's physical body also absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy like a sponge. The spiritual energy entered Tang Song's body, nourishing every acupoint and every drop of his blood.
Even from a scientific perspective, every particle and cell in his body were being nourished by the spiritual energy, imprinting his entire biological information.
And once all of Tang Song's cells engrave this biological information onto the terminal of the DNA chain, Tang Song's physical body cultivation will reach the stage of revival from a drop of blood.
It can be called an undying body.
"Mmm!"
A blanket woven from golden wool sheep wool covered Hela and Tang Song.
The surging spiritual energy, after being absorbed by Tang Song, was shared with Hela, nourishing the Nascent Divinity Inside her Body.
"Sister Skye!"
Rogue, riding her skateboard, slid down Xiao Hei's dragon back, chasing the waves and leaping dozens of meters high. Her gaze swept across the beach, noticing two shadows lying on top of each other.
Rogue, standing on her surfboard, came beside Skye, tugged on Skye's arm, and gestured towards her.
"I'm going to the Blood Sea Abyss first to prepare for the blood sacrifice!" Hela was immersed in the surge of powerful spiritual energy being poured into her body, the increase in her cultivation base making her sink into it. When she came back to her senses, several heads were already peering from beside her, having been watching for who knows how long.
Facing the teasing gaze of the Earth women, Hela didn't know why, but she suddenly felt a wave of flusteredness in her heart.
In her flustered state, she swept her hand over herself, and a dark green dress appeared. After saying a word to Tang Song, who was cultivating, she transformed into a streak of bloodlight and left the area.
"Is she shy?"
"The Goddess of Death (Hela), wow. My mother told me about Norse mythology when I was a kid—"
"Her skin is so nice, so smooth."
Hela, using her flight technique, heard the discussion behind her. The bloodlight she had transformed into nearly plunged directly into the Lotus Pond below. Listening to the increasingly outrageous comments from behind...
Hela simply waved her hand, using the authority Tang Song had given her, and directly opened the portal connecting to the Blood Sea Hell.
Hela calmed herself down, took a step, and arrived at the Blood Sea Hell.
Boom! The scale of the Styx Blood Sea was now more than ten times larger than when the Blood Daoist first opened it. Looking out, all that met the eye was a Blood Sea. Blood waves rolled, and every splash of a wave would transform into an Angel with blood wings on its back.
The strength of the newborn Blood Angels wasn't very high, but in the tens of thousands of miles of Blood Sea, with tides surging and waves rising and falling, the Blood Angels generated in an instant numbered in the hundreds of millions.
Of course, these Blood Angels weren't born out of thin air.
In the sky above the Blood Sea Abyss, several space rifts hundreds of miles long had cracked open. From these rifts, swaths of Demons and Devils poured out, crashing into the Blood Sea, turning into Blood Sea waves, and becoming nourishment for the Blood Angels.
"These Demons and Devils are born with incomplete souls, or no souls at all. The Blood Angels cultivated from them are naturally malnourished, unless they are High-Grade Demons. Generally speaking, these spoils of war can only be used to increase the Blood Sea's foundation."
"The sacrificial offerings you offered last time were quite good. They cultivated a batch of four-winged Blood Angels of decent quality!"
A wisp of red mist appeared beside Hela. From within the red mist, a woman in a red dress quietly emerged. Seeing Hela's curiosity about the Blood Sea, she offered an explanation.
Hela glanced at the woman beside her, knowing that this undead named Ba was Tang Song's closest protector.
"These are all the Blood Daoist's spoils of war?" Hela looked at the several space rifts leading to other Abyss Dimensions and frowned, saying, "Doesn't he worry about other Abyssal Lords launching an ambush from these space rifts into the Blood Sea Abyss!"
"Other Abyssal Lords? Are you referring to Lucifer, who was crippled and is hiding somewhere, or that Fly? Just two days ago, Beelzebub fell to the Blood Daoist's blade,"
The red dress behind her fluttered, like a blood river stretching for a hundred miles. Nv Ba parted her red lips, absorbing the blood qi from the Blood Sea to her heart's content. A pair of golden bat wings subtly spread out behind her. "Sister, what do you think I'm doing here?"
Hela followed Nv Ba to the center of the Blood Sea. The rumbling blood waves pounded against a Blood Jade-like Lotus Flower Bud, over ten kilometers in size. The Flower Bud was covered in the most vicious Asura magic.
Nv Ba raised her hand and performed a hand seal. Streaks of bloodlight shot out from her hand, transforming into tadpole-like talismans that landed on the giant Lotus Flower Bud. The Flower Bud's lotus petals unfolded one by one, revealing the Blood Jade Lotus Platform within.
At this moment, on the Lotus Platform, in the positions of the forty-nine lotus pod holes, two were filled with two skin-and-bone dried corpses. However, from the faint rise and fall of their chests, it was clear that the two dried corpses were still alive.
Streaks of blood qi overflowed from their bodies, following the complex patterns on the Blood Jade, extending into a sword casket in the center of the Lotus Platform.
A lotus-shaped blood cloud formed above the sword casket. Faintly, the sound of a sword roar could be heard, like human breathing.
Just by looking at this sword casket, Hela felt a wave of sharp energy assault her, subtly feeling as if a sharp sword was pressed against her body.
"One of them is the Hell Witch Lilith, and the other is the Blood God of the vampire clan. While the Blood Daoist was on a crusade against Beelzebub, they gathered a group of hell creatures and tried to occupy this Abyss. I captured them and put them here for sword sacrifice!"
"These two, they are the Lord's Lifebond Sword Artifacts! Having absorbed countless slaughter and resentment energy from the Blood Sea, plus the origin/source of two True Immortal Level Hell Lords, they can be said to be top-tier slaughter artifacts in this Universe!"
Nv Ba walked to the center of the Altar where the sword casket was placed and lit the sacrificial fire within the Altar. Instantly, the Blood Jade lotus petals on the four sides of the Altar clearly reflected the appearance of that Altar in the DC Universe.
The dense Parademon Legion, and the ground that had been corroded into crystal by the power of the Mother Box.
Having cultivated to the Supreme Realm, divine sense becomes even purer. Compared to the psychics in the Marvel World, a Cultivator's divine sense, upon reaching a certain level, can even split off a consciousness clone with just a single thought.
Although Tang Song's cultivation base hadn't reached that step, in the DC Universe, he could rely on the magic tools Star-Lord had brought over to send his thoughts, nurtured within the magic tools.
However, once they left the magic tools, his mental thoughts wouldn't last for too long.
Unless Tang Song intentionally preserved this thought, divided it into a clone, or transformed it into a Divine Path Avatar, the mental thought would dissipate within half a month at most, or as little as three to five days.
While Gu Zi Yun and the others were enjoying the geoduck buffet on the beach, in mid-air, Tang Song's Primordial Spirit Infant's consciousness was currently in a chaos state.
"Cough!"
In the DC Universe, Tang Song had just picked up his coffee and taken a sip when he suddenly felt something strange in his body. Realizing what Gu Zi Yun and the others were up to, he nearly coughed out the coffee in his mouth.
"Are you okay!"
Inside the largest library in downtown Gotham City, many people who were studying, learning, or looking up information were attracted by Tang Song's commotion and cast strange gazes towards him.
Diana, sitting across from Tang Song, cast a concerned gaze.
"I'm fine, this coffee is a bit bitter, I'm not quite used to it!" Tang Song offered an explanation, casually setting aside the coffee cup that was innocently taking the blame.
"Perhaps it's the regional influence. The coffee in Gotham City is indeed much more bitter than in New York. Mr. Tang, are you really here for tourism in Gotham City?"
Wonder Woman Diana said pointedly, "Very few people in New York are willing to travel to a chaotic place like Gotham City!"
"Isn't Miss Diana here too? If a weak woman like you isn't afraid, what does a big man like me have to fear?" Tang Song flipped through the Ancient Greek Mythology book in his hand, raised his head, and glanced at Diana, or rather, glanced at Diana's ears.
On her earlobes, she wore two exquisite gemstone earrings. However, Tang Song could feel an extremely faint energy fluctuation coming from these two earrings.
However, he only glanced once before putting his attention back on the Ancient Greek Mythology book in his hand. The Olympian Gods sure knew how to have fun, especially Zeus, whose hobbies not only crossed gender but even transcended race.
Especially the author of this Ancient Greek Mythology book, who used impressive writing to extensively depict detailed scenes and actions, even portraying them very beautifully.
Tang Song read with great interest. The fluctuation of his consciousness, along with his body's reactions, once brought a good experience to Skye and the others who were eating the buffet.
Diana, however, kept staring at Tang Song with a scrutinizing gaze. The reason she asked Tang Song to meet at the Hotel was because she remembered hearing Tang Song's name somewhere.
Star-Lord, that Star-Lord from the Parallel Universe, had told her that the magic weapons they held were gifted by a Magic User named Tang Song.
Was this person in front of her just a namesake, or...?
Diana subconsciously touched her gemstone earrings. This divine artifact, capable of detecting an enemy's hidden strength, didn't perceive anything on him.
Could it really just be a coincidence?
(End of chapter)