"Just a little more, with another three to five years, I could have transford into a pure-blooded Azure Dragon..."
His eyes brimd with reluctance, yet in the end survival took precedence. By escaping the present deadly predicant, he could undergo the transformation into an Azure Dragon another day.
The transformation within the Four Spirits Sanctuary not only changed Ao Qin’s blood and bones, but his very soul had also morphed into that of an Azure Dragon. Essentially different from ordinary dragon kin, even with a re wisp of soul remaining, he could congeal dragon’s blood.
Watching the screen shatter continuously signaled that the Corpse Demons had breached the laboratory; layers of defenses proved insufficient against their onslaught.
"Golden Corpse, this king will surely return for revenge!"
Ao Qin waved his hand and seized one of his descendants, seemingly his three-thousandth so son, whose body surged with dragon blood, which he then fully transferred into the progeny.
Roar!
The dragon offspring let out a heaven-shaking roar, revealing its true form—a hybrid of dragon and fish—beginning to transform into a complete dragon under the nourishnt of the Azure Dragon’s blood.
"The Demon Monarch’s Divine Skills are extraordinary, to borrow your body as a ans to delay pursuit!"
Ao Qin rged all his vital essence into his son’s body. A semi-translucent dragon soul, carrying the lineage of the Azure Dragon, burrowed into the ground, fleeing towards the direction of Cloud Continent.
A mont later.
Following the bloodline secret technique, the Golden Corpse found his way to the center of the laboratory, only to see the trapped dragon fish.
"That little mud loach sure knows how to run!"
With a wave of his hand, he pulled the dragon fish into his grasp, sensing the rich blood of the Azure Dragon within it and nodded in satisfaction.
"Although their bloodline doesn’t compare to that of a true dragon, the dragon offspring cultivated are sowhat inferior. However, combined with the secret techniques of the Heavenly Corpse Sect, the refined corpse dragons are powerful enough to sweep across the Nine Continents!"
The Golden Corpse sealed the dragon fish’s soul and flesh, then captured a clan of monkey demons, ordering them to continue cultivating fierce dragon beasts.
The beasts they cultivated were imdiately slain, then revived with an infusion of Yin Sha demonic qi. It could be said that the process from catalysis to refinent was a one-stop service, never-ending production of Corpse Demons.
With the Golden Corpse overseeing the laboratory, his underlings, the Corpse Demons, did not rest. Following his orders, they dispersed in all directions.
Every living being they encountered was either devoured to increase their strength or slain and transford into new Corpse Demons.
Under the influence of the Yin Sha demonic qi, even plants mutated, turning into withered, pitch-black trees, their twisted and sharpened branches like vicious claws.
Sensing the presence of living beings, the branches twisted and snatched them, pulling them into the trunk to be consud alive, which contributed to the growth of the trees’ sentient spirit.
In just one year’s ti.
The entire Qiong Continent no longer harbored any living beings; they had all turned into the ghastly and stout Corpse Demons!
By now, the number of Corpse Demons was beyond estimation, like a tide, they began to ooze and spread out, starting to invade other continents.
...
Binhai.
The port.
Hundreds of thousands of people lined up in over a dozen queues, undergoing inspection by the Alliance Army.
Anxious waiting, tearful goodbyes, faces filled with hope...
The theater of life unfolded here.
n holding their young children bowed tearfully to their parents. Lovers embraced tightly, swearing oaths to the sky to express their loyalty to their love.
Rich n handed over gold, silver, and jewels to their departing sons, along with amulets stealthily acquired at great cost.
Even ordinary people were not entirely defenseless; they were ard with various light and heavy weapons, resembling elite soldiers.
Everyone understood that today’s parting might an they would never et again, yet they kept saying they would wait for ten, twenty years...
Ancient law cultivators mingled among the crowd, continuously using the Heart Cleansing Technique and Soul Condensing Technique to prevent large-scale turmoil.
Ard helicopters flew overhead constantly. Should any signs of malicious intent be observed, the lightest response was to inform the patrollers to take the offenders away, while the most severe was to shoot them dead on the spot.
Ahead of the lengthy queue was a colossal structure, resembling a steel island floating on the sea.
It was the completed Fire Seed ship!
On the bow deck.
Zhou Yi stood against the wind, his Taoist robe fluttering and making a noise, watching the crowd boarding the ship.
"I hope everything goes smoothly, no matter how the great calamity unfolds, we must preserve the bloodline of humankind."
After three years, the Fire Seed had finally been successfully refined; it could be said to be the pinnacle of modern technology fused with the path of immortality.
The Alliance spent over half a year selecting, with elite technical personnel from all sectors, randomly drawn young passengers, and the soldiers escorting them, totaling up to one million and ten thousand.
In the past year, people tried every ans to obtain a ticket for the ship.
So went bankrupt trying to buy them legitimately, while to seize a ticket, others even resolutely killed their own kind!
For such people, they weren’t even sent to the front lines to face the fierce beasts, lest they sow discord among the troops, and were directly used as test subjects for new elixirs.
Today.
The Fire Seed officially began boarding, and the first batch of passengers were about to set sail, moving away from the Nine Continents to live deep in the Eastern Sea.
"Brother Tang, the deep sea is unlike the land, and with a ship full of people to worry about..."
Xiao Hong stood beside him and said somberly, "If the situation becos dire, it’s better to abandon the Fire Seed than to ensure your own safety. Your life and safety are more important to the human race than both this ship and its people!"
Because the sea was filled with fierce beasts, it was essential to have a strong mber of the human race accompany the ship.
Xiao Hong originally wanted to go oversea, but being a Martial Artist, he didn’t understand Formation and Prohibition, would find it difficult to speed up the Fire Seed’s journey, and in case of damage to the Formation and Prohibition, there was nothing he could do to repair it.
Thus, only Zhou Yi could accompany the ship to sea, protecting the million humans, and defending against the attacks of sea monsters.
"Brother Xiao can rest assured, if it’s beyond hope, I will not insist."
Zhou Yi may have compassion and spend great effort to rescue his kin, but he absolutely could not sacrifice himself as a result.
"It’s good that you understand,"
Xiao Hong was not overly worried; after all, Zhou Yi himself ca from the Eastern Sea, so ensuring his own survival should not be an issue.
"We’re heading to the depths of the Eastern Sea, tens of thousands of miles away; at the very least it will be three to five years before we return. So of my disciples might wish to attempt Core Formation."
Zhou Yi took out a storage bag from his sleeve and said, "Here are a few Spiritual Objects, and should anyone wish to attract the Heavenly Tribulation during that ti, you can give them two of these."
Ever since the era of decline, Core Formation Spiritual Objects had grown several cycles; even if they weren’t as plentiful as the millennia-old Spirit Ginseng, there was more than enough for his seven disciples.
Now that Zhou Yi’s disciple slots had been filled, his focus was on their temperant and destiny, planning to help them condense the Golden Core.
Humanity’s only Golden Core, that title was too heavy, too burdenso; with successors, Zhou Yi would also be able to pass away earlier.
"Rest assured, my friend, I will do my utmost to help!"
Xiao Hong had slaughtered countless fierce beasts and demons, his murderous aura almost solidifying into substance, truly a fearso figure of his era. Hearing words that seed like a final wish, he was deeply moved and couldn’t help but have tears in his eyes.
In Xiao Hong’s eyes, Zhou Yi was that saintly figure who would rather sacrifice his own lifespan to calculate the future path for the human race!
Should they truly encounter a beast tide in the Eastern Sea, he wouldn’t flee alone as he said, but would fight to the death to protect humankind.
"My seven good-for-nothing disciples, I entrust them to you. If anyone’s heart changes and they betray the human race, you can kill them outright!"
"Brother Xiao, holding the fort in the Nine Continents, you too must take great care!"
Zhou Yi, having been entrusted with many final wishes, had learned to respond in kind and appeared earnest as if he might not return.
Half a month later.
Whirring...
The sound of the Fire Seed starting spread for miles as it slowly left the port.
All passengers on board, cramd on the deck and at the windows, gazed out, etching the scene before them in their mories.
Many brought soil from the Nine Continents with them, knowing that if they ever returned in this life, they would pass this handful of ho soil to their descendants, a constant reminder of their bloodline’s origins.
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