Gu Fang departed from the Ten Thousand Mountains, transmitting the response to the Alliance's high command.
Upon confirming that the blood rain would inevitably return and that its exact arrival time could not be predicted, the Alliance immediately announced this significant news to the world.
In no time,
The human Alliance's campaign against the monsters grew more intense.
With the accelerated pace of monster hunting by the human Alliance, Lu Qingyang had accumulated the cultivation points needed to break through to the fifth realm by the beginning of the second year.
However, Lu Qingyang did not rush to break through but chose to accumulate more cultivation points.
He realized that once he broke through to the fifth realm, the cultivation points he could absorb from lower-level monsters would drastically decrease.
In the past, breaking through was a necessary step to ensure his strength was unrivaled, whether against humans or monsters, no one could shake his foundation.
Now, having reached the pinnacle of the fourth realm, Lu Qingyang was confident that his power had surpassed all, unmatched by any.
Under these circumstances,
He did not need to rush to advance to the fifth realm. Instead, he took advantage of this loophole to continuously accumulate cultivation points.
However—
When his cultivation points reached fifteen million, Lu Qingyang found it difficult to suppress his cultivation level any longer.
Thus,
Breaking through became as unstoppable as the flowing river.
...
With a rumbling sound, the Ten Thousand Mountains trembled slightly.
The breakthrough to the fifth realm seemed like a boundary line. The immensely powerful aura ripple was almost beyond Lu Qingyang's complete control.
Fortunately, he had established the Heavenly Court Domain, significantly enhancing his spiritual power, allowing him to barely suppress this overwhelming aura.
The celestial tree body, originally nine thousand meters tall, surged upwards at an astonishing speed, surpassing ten thousand meters in an instant.
Eleven thousand meters!
Twelve thousand meters!
Thirteen thousand meters!
The rapid growth did not stop until the celestial tree body reached a height of twenty thousand meters.
At the same time,
The territory of the Heavenly Court Domain also expanded.
The original two thousand five hundred kilometers of the Heavenly Court Domain now extended to five thousand kilometers wide.
...
[Name: Lu Qingyang]
[True Form: Celestial Tree]
[Lifespan: 26/]
[Realm: Early Stage of the Fifth Realm (/)]
[Heavenly Court: Fourth Realm (/)]
[Divine Powers: Celestial Tree Spirit Root (Fifth Realm), Celestial Divine Fruit (Fifth Realm), Celestial Divine Whisper (Fifth Realm), Insightful Vision (Fifth Realm), Heavenly Court Domain (Fifth Realm), Control Wind and Rain (Fifth Realm), Memory Extraction (Fifth Realm)]
...
"Lifespan has finally broken the one hundred thousand year mark!"
Seeing the lifespan on the data panel, Lu Qingyang couldn't help but sigh deeply.
One hundred thousand years of lifespan,
Enough to witness the changes of the world and the shifting of the heavens.
Even the long history of human civilization does not match this long span of time.
Thus,
The significance of a one hundred thousand year lifespan is profoundly far-reaching.
Calling it immortality would not be an exaggeration!
In addition, there were changes in the divine powers.
As always, with Lu Qingyang's breakthrough to the fifth heaven, all his divine powers were upgraded to the fifth realm.
Among them, the Celestial Tree Spirit Root now passively increased twenty points of cultivation per day, up from twenty points previously.
The Celestial Divine Fruit could now directly help cultivators below the fifth realm break through a small realm.
However, the cultivation required to condense such a Celestial Divine Fruit had also increased.
A fourth-realm fruit required only one hundred thousand cultivation points, whereas a fifth-realm fruit required two million cultivation points.
The Heavenly Court Domain's suppression increased from suppressing three small realms below the fifth realm to suppressing two small realms below the sixth realm.
Although the exact enhancement of Celestial Divine Whisper and Control Wind and Rain was not detailed, Lu Qingyang believed they had certainly been strengthened to some extent.
The only thing that hadn't changed was Insightful Vision.
As in the fourth realm, Insightful Vision could still only detect life forms within three major realms below itself.
However, considering that Lu Qingyang had leaped from the fourth to the fifth realm, Insightful Vision had already been enhanced significantly in an invisible way.
Previously, in the fourth realm, Lu Qingyang's limit was to observe life forms below the seventh realm.
Now, having stepped into the early stage of the fifth realm, he could observe life forms below the early stage of the eighth realm.
As for the newly added divine power, Memory Extraction!
[Memory Extraction: Can forcibly extract the memories of a life form. The weaker the target, the more complete the memory obtained, and vice versa.]
The description of this divine power was concise but deeply shocked Lu Qingyang upon learning of its effectiveness.
Without a doubt,
The power of Memory Extraction was extraordinary.
According to the current description of the divine power, only living life forms could have their memories extracted, while it might not work on deceased life forms.
Thinking of this,
Lu Qingyang immediately issued a new mission in the Heavenly Court.
[A cultivator's strength lies in mastering life and death. Killing is not the only measure of strength!]
[Mission Requirement: Capture a live fourth-realm monster and provide a complete fourth-realm monster corpse, and deliver them to the Ten Thousand Mountains.]
[Mission Reward: Two hundred thousand contribution points!]
[Note: Only the first to complete the mission can claim the reward!]
With the new mission announced, the Heavenly Court chat group became lively once again.
Although the contribution points reward for this mission was only two hundred thousand, much less than the eight million for exploring the otherworldly portal,
It was important to note that the otherworldly portal mission was elusive, with no one able to find its trace or complete the mission for years.
In contrast,
Fourth-realm monsters were a concrete existence.
Thus, when the new Heavenly Court mission was released, many forces were eager to take action.
However, fourth-realm monsters were extremely formidable. Killing them was already difficult, capturing them alive was even harder. This alone deterred many forces lacking fourth-realm cultivators.
Nonetheless, for those forces with fourth-realm cultivators, they acted without hesitation, eager to be the first to capture a fourth-realm monster and complete the mission.
The reason was simple.
Offering a fourth-realm early-stage monster corpse only yielded ten thousand contribution points.
Two fourth-realm early-stage monster corpses totaled only twenty thousand contribution points.
But now, delivering a live fourth-realm monster and a fourth-realm monster corpse could earn two hundred thousand contribution points.
The difference was tenfold.
Moreover, the mission only specified fourth-realm monsters without specifying the level, as long as it was within the fourth realm.
Such an almost free benefit was not to be missed by those capable forces.
Furthermore, since the establishment of the Heavenly Court, missions had been few and far between. Everyone longed to be the first to complete a mission.
Regardless,
The reputation alone was enough to attract attention.
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