Chapter 413: 【Xuandu Blessed Land!】

Dragon Palace, Lü Yang silently walked out of the treasure vault.

Suo Huan considerately helped him close the door. Then Lü Yang saw him silently snap off the dragon head ornament on the door and stuff it into his own pocket.

His movements were practiced, natural, as if born to do so.

Lü Yang frowned instantly when he saw this. Hands and feet so unclean—where did he learn that from? If others found out, they might think we were here to strip the place bare!

Thinking of this, Lü Yang decided he must severely scold Suo Huan.

“Make a fake one and put it back.”

On the other side, Suo Huan also noticed Lü Yang’s look of disdain.

At first, he thought Lü Yang was dissatisfied with his actions and was about to plead guilty. But the moment he heard those words, he suddenly realized:

‘So he looks down on me for not being professional enough!’

It was his own narrow perspective!

“This was this subordinate’s mistake.”

Suo Huan quickly cupped his hands, then took out a piece of refined iron, forging it into the likeness of the dragon head, striving to make it identical in form and expression. Afterward, he imbued it with a layer of shimmering spiritual light, making it appear as though crafted from a rare treasure, before installing it back onto the great door.

“This is more like it.”

Only then did Lü Yang nod in satisfaction. With a wave of his hand, under the guidance of the Heavenly Jiao, he retraced their path, leaving the Dragon Palace silently through the secret passage.

Even now, the inside and outside of the Dragon Palace were still in chaos.

Lü Yang came quietly, left quietly, not taking away even a wisp of cloud.

‘But I took away the Dragon Palace’s treasure vault. This way, even if the palace is breached, those bandits won’t get anything. That, at least, counts as a contribution to the dragon race!’

—Overseas, on a remote island—

“I must immediately enter seclusion. All of you, guard me!”

The moment he left the Dragon Palace, Lü Yang prepared for closed-door cultivation. He had no choice—the harvest this time was simply too great. Unless he quickly consumed it, his heart could not rest.

‘But this should not be the entirety of the Dragon Palace’s collection.’

‘At the very least, the Dragon Monarch’s personal treasures were certainly not there!’

It was undeniable—the items within the Dragon Palace’s vault were all incomparably precious. Yet, in truth, few could be of use even to a Golden Core True Lord.

‘But of course—how could things useful to Golden Core True Lords possibly be left in the vault? They must be kept on the person, for only then would one feel secure. Moreover, the orientation of these resources was clear—most were meant to quickly elevate a Blessed Land to perfection, preparing for the Golden Core breakthrough.’

Thus, for Lü Yang at present, these resources were immensely useful.

Enough to greatly shorten the gap between him and those old Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators!

After all, he had not even refined a Blessed Land yet. 【Lihen Heaven】, though called a small Blessed Land, was ultimately not the same as a true one.

‘Originally, I was worrying over how to elevate it into a real Blessed Land.’

‘Now, I no longer have to worry!’

Inside the temporarily excavated secret chamber, Lü Yang calmed his heart and mind. With a single thought, he shed his human form, revealing once more the true form of 【Lihen Heaven】.

“. Begin!”

Without the slightest hesitation, he poured an entire jug of 【Heavenly One True Water】 into 【Lihen Heaven】—extravagant and wasteful to the extreme.

One must know, even a single drop of 【Heavenly One True Water】 could nourish a Blessed Land, requiring thirty-six days of careful refinement to draw out its greatest efficacy. Yet Lü Yang dumped in an entire jug at once—compared to careful refinement, he wasted nine-tenths of its effect!

But for Lü Yang, the calculation was different.

‘A single drop needs thirty-six days of slow refinement? What I lack most now is time! Even if only one-tenth of the effect remains, that is already enough for me.’

He triumphed through sheer quantity!

As for wasting another’s fields—why should he care? After all, this was a gift from the true dragon clan.

Use it first, consider later!

“Rumble!”

In that instant, Lü Yang clearly saw 【Lihen Heaven】 undergoing tremendous change, and even the five divine abilities he had cultivated manifested before him.

【Exquisite Heart】, 【Containing True Qi】, 【Returning Origin Art】, 【Heaven-Bearing Net】, 【Same as the World】!

The five divine abilities all poured into 【Lihen Heaven】 at once. Then, like snow melting into water, they began merging into a single whole.

Yet at that very moment—

“Shhhhhh!”

Suddenly, Lü Yang felt a familiar gale surge forth from the void, like a thousand blades slashing down upon 【Lihen Heaven】.

‘Bi Wind!?’

Lü Yang’s pupils shrank abruptly.

This was a tribulation that only appeared at the 【Foundation Establishment Realm】. Yet now, as he refined his Blessed Land, Bi Wind had blown forth!

‘Why is this so?’

‘No… wait. What is a Blessed Land?’

At once, Lü Yang recalled the teachings of True Person Chong Guang:

‘A so-called 【Blessed Land】 is the transformation of the Dao Foundation—expanded after being supplemented by innate divine abilities—refined from the very life-foundation of a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator.’

The essence of a Blessed Land was none other than the Dao Foundation itself!

‘Every step of the Dao Foundation’s growth must be tempered through the Three Disasters. To reach perfection, one must even endure the Five Decays of Heaven and Man before success becomes possible.’

‘And so it is for a Blessed Land.’

‘Ordinary Foundation Establishment Perfection true persons need not undergo this again, for their Dao Foundations have already faced such tribulations.’

‘But I am different.’

‘My cultivation was rooted entirely in 【Lihen Heaven】, directly absorbing the essence of Heaven and Earth from the Seven Luminaries through Qi-gathering methods.’

‘Thus, 【Lihen Heaven】 has never endured the Three Disasters nor the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.’

“And so, if I wish to refine a true Blessed Land, I must now make up for this step!”

Realization dawned on Lü Yang. “No wonder other Realm Heavens, such as 【Xuanling Realm】, have no such concept as a Blessed Land.”

No wonder this phenomenon existed only in this broken place!

‘Crossing tribulation—if one fails, it is calamity. But if one succeeds, it becomes opportunity!’

“Rumble!”

The next second, before Lü Yang could react, a mass of Yin Fire silently ignited within 【Lihen Heaven】, threatening to consume everything.

“. Well come!”

Lü Yang dared not hesitate. With a thought, he brought forth from his storage all the Five Elements spiritual materials he had looted from the Dragon Palace’s treasure vault—piled like mountains.

The moment countless spiritual materials appeared, the Yin Fire burned them, melting them, while the Bi Wind scoured away their impurities, leaving only pure essence to be absorbed into 【Lihen Heaven】. Gradually, the aura of this small Blessed Land climbed higher and higher.

Until—

“Rumble!”

A thunderclap resounded as an enormous lightning bolt fell from nowhere, shattering 【Lihen Heaven】 and the spiritual materials, only to fuse them into one.

Bi Wind for polishing, Yin Fire for tempering, Heavenly Thunder for coronation!

The three disasters arrived one after another. Were it not for Lü Yang having long since reached Foundation Establishment Perfection, and his five divine abilities stabilizing 【Lihen Heaven】, it would have collapsed instantly.

Yet soon after the Three Disasters, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man descended!

The Dharma body became defiled, the Dao Foundation stained, divine abilities withered, mana dissipated, inner demons swarmed—five distinct tribulations descended all at once!

As the fivefold calamity fell, 【Lihen Heaven】’s brilliance dimmed instantly.

Without hesitation, Lü Yang threw out a fragment of 【Heaven-Covering Purifying Profound Cave Heaven】, hurling it into 【Lihen Heaven】!

This fragment of Cave Heaven had been intended for the Dragon Monarch to enhance a new 【Heaven River Water】 True Lord’s Cave Heaven. Yet now Lü Yang used it to stabilize his Blessed Land—a peerless case of misapplied greatness. But precisely because of that, its effect was extraordinary, instantly steadying 【Lihen Heaven】!

“Rumble!”

At this, the Five Decays surged even stronger, as though unwilling to relent without destroying Lü Yang.

Seeing this, Lü Yang quickly formed a seal: ‘【Same as the World】!’

“.”

The very next instant, all calamities froze.

Clearly, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man had been brewing long, ready to strike him mercilessly. Yet now, they hung motionless in place.

Lü Yang smiled at once.

【Same as the World】 was not omnipotent. Each transfer of calamity inflicted wear upon the divine ability itself, and once the limit was exceeded, it must cease.

Moreover, the bond between 【Same as the World】 and Heaven and Earth was not unbreakable.

At least, Lü Yang was certain—with the heritage of the Four Great Powers, if their cultivation was high enough and their mastery of karma profound, they could surely find ways to counter it.

But this one divine ability was truly unsolvable for Heaven and Earth themselves—especially here, where Heaven and Earth were severely weakened. They could do nothing against Lü Yang!

“Come then, strike me if you can.”

Time and again, the Five Decays swelled, only to falter beneath the radiance of 【Same as the World】.

At last, like a deflated balloon—

All calamities dissipated.

Only Lü Yang remained, seated in mid-air, 【Lihen Heaven】 reverting into his fleshly body. From within this small Blessed Land, however, a brand new radiance was born.

Like a butterfly breaking free of its cocoon.

“This is my Blessed Land.”

The next moment, Lü Yang raised his head to the sky. The new radiance shone upon his brow, filled with myriad wondrous scenes.

A name surfaced naturally within his heart:

【Xuandu Blessed Land.】

In that instant, 【Xuandu Blessed Land】 became a lens. Through it, Lü Yang’s formerly clouded vision now clearly perceived this realm of Heaven and Earth.

“Holy shit!”

Lü Yang’s expression froze stiff.

He saw—the once-complete Heaven and Earth was now like a colossal honeycomb, riddled with holes in every direction!

The largest thirty holes were none other than the thirty Fruit Positions!

While the rest, large and small alike, were Blessed Lands of Foundation Perfection and Cave Heavens of Golden Core True Lords—this realm of Heaven and Earth had long been torn into a thousand wounds!

—I no longer owe anything~