Global Catastrophe: I Begin to Evolve from an Ancient Tree-Chapter 90: Divine Court Evolution

"It takes over a thousand years just to hope for a breakthrough to the sixth-rank intermediate level, this speed is really slow!"

Gu Qingyang looked up at the sky and couldn’t help but sigh.

Fortunately, he was already immortal; otherwise, how far he could go would have been an unknown.

After all, the higher the realm, the more evolution value required for a breakthrough.

From sixth-rank low-grade to sixth-rank intermediate-grade requires more than a thousand years, and by the seventh rank, it might take over ten thousand years, or even a hundred thousand years.

Even though Gu Qingyang originally had a long lifespan, he couldn’t endure such a prolonged period.

Ultimately,

it’s because the spiritual energy in the Cyan Yang Realm is too weak.

Compared to the Ancient Wilderness, the density of spiritual energy in the Cyan Yang Realm is shockingly low.

From Xue Wei’s memories, and the ancient wilderness spiritual energy sensed by Gu Qingyang from the Otherworld Gate, the gap between the two is as different as heaven and earth.

Generally speaking,

with the terrifying innate talents of the Heavenly Dao Spirit Root, breaking through from sixth-rank low-grade to sixth-rank intermediate-grade shouldn’t take too long.

But now it’s been dragged on for over a thousand years, showing just how significant a role the amount of spiritual energy plays.

With this in mind, Gu Qingyang sighed again, "It’s just a pity that my Heavenly Dao Origin is already nearly exhausted. There’s no way to continue condensing a Spirit Vein.

Although condensing a Micro Spirit Vein only requires a bit of Heavenly Dao Origin, it’s ultimately not cost-effective!"

A Small Spirit Vein requires ten points of Heavenly Dao Origin, while a Micro Spirit Vein requires one point of Heavenly Dao Origin.

The problem is, the spiritual energy density brought by the former is twelve times that of the latter.

This means,

if he could condense one Small Spirit Vein, it would equal twelve Micro Spirit Veins.

In such circumstances, Gu Qingyang naturally wouldn’t waste Heavenly Dao Origin.

Now with seven points of Heavenly Dao Origin remaining, as long as he accumulates a bit more, he could hope to gather ten points.

"For someone like me, who has achieved immortality, waiting over a thousand years is not a problem, even waiting ten thousand years is not an issue.

As long as the Cyan Yang Realm remains, one day I will be able to break through to a higher level!"

Gu Qingyang also discovered one advantage of having a data panel.

It’s that others face bottlenecks when breaking through; it’s not just a matter of reaching the level and the breakthrough naturally happening.

But Gu Qingyang’s breakthroughs never have the so-called bottleneck; once the evolution value reaches the required point, he naturally breaks through without lingering at any checkpoint for too long.

However -

Over these years, Gu Qingyang has always sensed a vague crisis, which has grown more intense over time, as if something bad is about to happen.

Gu Qingyang has tried to use his means to deduce and calculate, finding that the source of the crisis points directly at the Immortal Extinction Realm, indicating changes there that may threaten variations in the Cyan Yang Realm.

To this day,

this sense of crisis has become ever more intense.

At this moment, Gu Qingyang finally felt a bit restless.

Then,

he turned his gaze towards the entire Cyan Yang Realm, more accurately, the whole Cyan Yang Divine Court.

...

Over thirty years,

the Cyan Yang Divine Court has undergone tremendous changes.

Twenty-nine years ago, the Cyan Yang Divine Court established five great cities using five Ancient Trees as the foundation in the Northern Wilderness, dispatching cultivators to guard them, strictly preventing otherworldly invasions.

Twenty-five years ago, a powerful individual comprehended the world and created their own cultivation technique, then founded their sect, thus ushering the Cyan Yang Divine Court into the era of sects.

Twenty-three years ago, a fortunate person entered an Ancient Tomb, obtained a large number of Ancient Secret Scriptures, and followed the predecessors to establish a sect and dominate an area.

Twenty years ago, the Cyan Yang Divine Court fully entered the era of sects, with all civilian guilds establishing sects and widely recruiting disciples.

Fifteen years ago, Gu Fang, hailed as the strongest human, broke through to the fourth-rank high-grade, dominating his era, with the Cyan Yang Divine Court’s population surpassing fifty million.

Twelve years ago, all the elders of the Cyan Yang Divine Court jointly compiled the Cyan Yang Divine Scripture, containing methodical cultivation techniques, covering all cultivation methods up to the third rank, shocking the world.

Ten years ago, the Cyan Yang Divine Court promoted the Cyan Yang Divine Scripture, shaking numerous sects and significantly enhancing the overall strength of humans.

Eight years ago, the Divine Kingdom chat group updated, and the Divine List emerged, ranking all cultivators.

Five years ago: The number of fourth-rank cultivators in the Cyan Yang Divine Court surpassed three hundred.

Three years ago: The population of the Cyan Yang Divine Court exceeded one hundred million.

One year ago: A fourth-rank complete Fierce Beast wreaked havoc in the deep sea, and Gu Fang, the first mighty one of the Divine Court, descended from the sky, killing the beast in three moves, once again shocking the world.

...

Over the past thirty years,

the changes in the Cyan Yang Realm and the entire Cyan Yang Divine Court have been substantial.

With the population surpassing one hundred million, the amount of faith Gu Qingyang receives annually has also skyrocketed, from an initial one to two billion, to now a stable ten billion faith gathered annually.

Meanwhile, the number of Saint Apprentices also surpassed fifty thousand, providing Gu Qingyang with about one million faith each day, accumulating over three hundred and sixty million in a year.

So strictly speaking,

adding up the contributions from all Saint Apprentices and ordinary believers, Gu Qingyang gets over ten billion faiths throughout a year.

The sixth-rank Divine Kingdom,

requires trillions of faiths to break through.

But with the current growth rate in faith, Gu Qingyang calculated that it wouldn’t take a hundred years to let the Divine Kingdom break through to the sixth rank.

Moreover, it’s crucial to note,

that as long as the population of the Cyan Yang Divine Court continues to flourish, the faith power Gu Qingyang attains will only keep increasing, thus reducing the actual time needed for a true promotion to sixth-rank Divine Kingdom considerably shorter than the initial estimation.

"The Divine Kingdom store breakthroughs to the fifth rank, can condense a fifth-rank Realm-Breaking Pill; if consumed, it’s expected to enhance several fifth-rank cultivators in the Cyan Yang Divine Court.

In this way, dealing with the Immortal Extinction Realm later would become much easier!"

Gu Qingyang couldn’t help but fall into deep thought. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

He aims to enhance the strength of the entire Cyan Yang Divine Court but cannot bestow gifts unconditionally, as this would only create a dependency among others.

Thus,

Gu Qingyang always offered corresponding contributions as rewards through task issuance, adopting a contribution-exchange method to progress.

"Ninety billion faiths seem ample, but unfortunately the faith needed to deduce all fifth-rank items is a hundred times more expensive than at the fourth-rank.

Due to this, even a fifth-rank low-grade Realm-Breaking Pill requires ten billion faiths to deduce!"

Gu Qingyang shook his head helplessly.

Originally thinking the transition from fourth to fifth rank would still involve a tenfold increase, merely going from one million to ten million, unexpectedly it directly moved from one million to one hundred million.

This is just the change for ordinary items, while a Realm-Breaking Pill is ten times more expensive than regular items, so a fifth-rank low-grade Realm-Breaking Pill requires ten billion faiths for deduction.

In Gu Qingyang’s view, this change marks a huge gap between fourth and fifth rank, representing the reason for a watershed.

In Xue Wei’s memory, even in the Ancient Wilderness, there is a similar watershed existing between fourth-rank Dragon Transformation and fifth-rank Daoist.

This watershed differs significantly from the transformation of the second to third or third to fourth rank; the breakthrough from the fourth to the fifth rank is an extremely powerful metamorphosis.

To this,

Gu Qingyang can only accept it rationally.