The ancient giant bear hiding in the world of immortal cultivation

Chapter 556 Small Steps, Great Luo

In just three days, Wang Wu used the Heaven and Earth Shield to drain fifteen spatial rifts, including the chaotic spiritual energy inside and some tiny spatial rifts themselves.

Yes, spatial rifts can be smoothed out, filled, or even eliminated.

This was like a fantasy before, but when Wang Wu's resistance to the three calamities reached its maximum value and the evolution of the three calamities reached its most perfect state, everything went smoothly.

Because the three calamities themselves can evolve heaven and earth, and can evolve space.

It's not limited to the idea that Yin Fire can evolve into the Creation Fire Spirit Pill, or that Evil Wind can evolve into the Wind Spirit Pill.

Now everything can evolve.

Therefore, he couldn't bear to waste his three calamities on a spatial rift that was more than a meter long, so he really couldn't fill it.

As for those spatial rifts less than one meter in diameter, he filled them in as he purified the chaotic spiritual energy.

In this way, while obtaining a total of 20 trillion points of spiritual energy in one go, he also cleared out five safe zones for himself, just like a nested doll.

One spatial rift connects to another. After filling most of the smaller rifts and blocking the rifts at the key nodes, he essentially created a small world for himself out of thin air.

"This should buy me five hundred years of safety."

Wang Wu pondered for a moment, "The chaotic spiritual energy can never be completely purified. The chaotic ecosystem following the collapse of the entire cultivation world is also beyond my control."

His Heaven and Earth Shield isn't that powerful.

He simply wanted a secluded space where he could temporarily remain undisturbed and untouched by corruption.

Because he is going to upgrade the Foundation Establishment Formation from the fourth rank to the fifth rank.

It's no exaggeration to say that he maxed out his resistance to the Three Calamities and perfected his evolution of the Three Calamities. This was just one very important step for him to reach the half-step Great Luo realm, but it wasn't the only one, nor was it a one-time solution.

He needs to deploy and upgrade the fifth-order foundation-building array to complete this historically significant process.

At this moment, as Wang Wu pointed into the void, the Heaven and Earth Shield rose into the air on its own, from which tiny specks of starlight emanated. These specks of starlight then transformed into dazzling and colorful lines, combining to form a series of grand curtains.

Once the curtain had gathered sixty-four layers, an almost identical Great Wilderness Sin Prison Tower was formed.

It is no different from the former Great Wilderness Prison Tower.

At least in terms of functionality and effectiveness, that is the case.

The only difference is that it will only last for three hundred years. After three hundred years, this temporary Great Wilderness Sin Prison Tower will collapse and disappear.

Because this was evolved from Wang Wu.

Instead of being made of real materials.

Although theoretically, it is possible to achieve that level and a permanent effect using the three-hazard evolution.

But the resources required were simply beyond Wang Wu's means.

He does indeed have 20 trillion points of spiritual energy now, but in reality, if he were to truly evolve the Heaven and Earth Shield into a real Heaven and Earth Tower, he would need to increase that number a thousandfold, and it still might not be enough.

This also made Wang Wu realize that the closer he got to the half-step Great Luo, the more resources he needed. The Great Luo could not have too many resources, but without resources, he could never become a Great Luo.

The Sin Prison Tower that he has just evolved, which has a validity period of only three hundred years, has actually consumed ten trillion points of his spiritual energy.

Next, Wang Wu dared not be negligent. He flashed into the temporary Great Wilderness Prison Tower and casually made a move. A thick, clear, and magnificent yin and yang energy pierced through the tower from top to bottom. It was no different from the yin and yang energy in the cultivation world and the yin and yang energy that Tian Shu Lao Deng had transformed from his own proof of yin and yang.

"This is the guiding light that illuminates the way forward!"

Wang Wu felt a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, mixed feelings) and a deeper understanding. He realized more urgently that in the future, he must find a way to build and refine a truly permanent Heaven and Earth Tower, and then form a small world inside it to cultivate billions of mortals and create a small cultivation world. He did this not for any other reason than to have a chance to cultivate a prophet from the Imperial Observatory.

Because this thing is really delicious when you need it!

The illumination of Yin and Yang energies is extremely important.

Wang Wu even suspected that even the Great Luo, at certain times, needed this kind of illumination.

At this moment, bathed in the light of Yin and Yang energies, Wang Wu experienced a surge of enlightenment. Every thought became clear, and every idea was imaginative and extraordinary.

So delicious.

However, he no longer needs those low-level, intermediate, or even high-level epiphanies at this moment. These epiphanies, in theory, are the understanding of knowledge and the world, which are not only related to cultivation but also to all matter.

It's no exaggeration to say that after being directly exposed to Yin and Yang energies, even an ordinary, foolish person could, after a period of time, become the most outstanding mathematician, physicist, chemist, biologist, writer, historian, astronomer... everything, without any pressure.

He can grasp all knowledge as vast as mountains and seas, as long as his little brain can store it and process it.

Therefore, Wang Wu understood this point. This knowledge was not useless; it was useful. He could even see different paths within it, including the path taken by Earthlings, mechanical ascension, digital information, and so on. If he wanted to, he could build a massive star fleet in just a few hundred years.

He could even choose the path of fusion between machine and body, or the path of nothingness, abandoning the physical body and existing only as a soul in the form of superdimensional information, thus becoming a deity…

Etc., etc.

Under the illumination of Yin and Yang energies, countless possibilities exist. However, Wang Wu neither wanted to take the risk nor had any interest in it. The reason was simple: many seemingly incredible paths had likely already been trodden by predecessors.

There were many abandoned, masterless Towers of Sin in the cultivation world, some of which had existed for countless years. He hadn't counted them precisely, but there were probably several thousand.

He now understands how many resources and what level of skill are required to build a Tower of Sin; in other words, it requires at least the skills of a half-step Great Luo Immortal.

But where are these half-step Grand Luo, or even Grand Luo, now?

Were they all old and died because so much time had passed?

That's possible, but Wang Wu thinks it's more likely that they explored different paths, many, many paths, because before Da Luo, there were too many paths that seemed incredibly impressive and awesome at first glance.

Then, once they embark on this path, perhaps they will succeed and reach a larger, broader, and higher-dimensional world.

Perhaps, as we walk along, it will all disappear.

The path of cultivation leads to the one true path, through which one can organize the Yin and Yang energies, the evolution of the Three Calamities, the Five Elements of Living Beings, the Nine Absolutes as Tribulations, and the Twenty-Four Solar Terms to find a safe path.

This is probably the result of countless predecessors constantly exploring, hitting walls, and forging it with their lives.

I wouldn't say it's the most powerful, but it's definitely the safest.

And it must be the one with the best cost performance.

In any case, Wang Wu would never take a new path.

At this moment, within the three major sequences, the three foundation-building formations slowly began to operate. Under the illumination of Yin and Yang energies, he calmly carried out the deployment and upgrade. With his deployment, a massive amount of spiritual energy was also consumed.

After a long while, he suddenly paused the Five Elements Puppy and Five Elements Bird Foundation Building Formations because he realized that he could not upgrade all three Foundation Building Formations to the fifth level at once.

Ten trillion points of spiritual energy are only enough to upgrade one building.

They were even struggling to make ends meet.

Wang Wu implemented various streamlining measures, mobilized resources, and even extracted resources from the Heaven and Earth Shield, reducing the Heaven and Earth Tower, which was originally designed to last for three hundred years, to only fifty years.

Only in this way could the Five Elements Cat Formation be barely upgraded and deployed, becoming a fifth-order foundation-building formation that could resonate synchronously with the evolution of the Three Calamities and reach the same level.

At that moment, he finally caught up and came infinitely close to the half-step Great Luo.

Or you could say he's a miniature Ronaldo with quick, nimble steps.

It's a beggar's version of the half-step Great Luo.

Because I’m poor.

The moment the Five Elements Cat Array was deployed and upgraded, the Heaven and Earth Tower collapsed and dissipated, and the Yin and Yang energies disappeared as well. It was a close call that the operation was almost interrupted.

It's not easy!

Wang Wu smiled slightly. He should be proud of himself. It had taken him 50,000 years to get to this point.

The Five Elements Cat Array slowly activated, giving off a completely different feeling. With a wave of his hand, the spatial rift that was dozens of miles long in the distance was smoothed out in an instant, and then with a casual pull, the spatial rift was formed again.

At this moment, he became very clear that the multidimensional state he had experienced in the cultivation world was artificial.

He suddenly understood the half-step Great Luo, and even partly understood the behavior of the twelve Great Luo.

"This world doesn't need too many Great Luos; it would be best if there was only one of me."

Wang Wu seemed to be deep in thought. He didn't continue collecting chaotic spiritual energy, but instead turned around and went to the tomb that was suspected to be that of a Great Luo Immortal.

When those terrifying sword energies came crashing down, he didn't use the Heaven and Earth Shield to block them, but instead let those terrifying sword energies strike his body.

With a flash of light, he was not only unharmed, but he also instantly transformed and contained these terrifying sword energies.

At this moment, he could recognize the true nature and origin of these terrifying sword energies without needing spiritual insight.

"This should be called the Three Calamities Radiation Sword Qi. It is the radiation wave amplitude stirred up by the Three Calamities Evolution Matter in its most perfect state. Because it is too sharp, it looks like sword qi. Of course, if it were me, I would also like to regard it as sword qi."

Wang Wu slowly stepped forward, absorbing all the Three Calamities Sword Qi.

This is much more cost-effective than absorbing the essence of chaotic spiritual energy.

Absorbing a wisp of Three Calamities Sword Qi is equivalent to absorbing one trillion points of regular spiritual energy.

In the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, he had absorbed all 108 Three Calamities Sword Qi. Under the operation of the fifth-order cat formation, this was truly an easy task.

Now, the situation inside the Great Luo Tomb has finally become clear.

The last time he came here, he felt that the place was too quiet and eerie, so he didn't dare to go any further.

It seems right now.

Because he didn't absorb the 108 Three Calamities Sword Qi, it was equivalent to not breaking through the trap. Daring to advance rashly was courting death!
(End of this chapter)