Infinite people, start speedrunning

Chapter 283 The End of Numerical Inflation [3k views, requesting monthly votes]

Murong Ziying soon discovered something strange.

That group has never all returned since that day. Apart from the four who followed him to learn the art of sword forging, the others are practically never seen again…

If you happen to run into them and ask about it... they'll say that there are signs of a breakthrough and that they need to go into seclusion to cultivate.

Murong Ziying could understand, but these people were going into seclusion far too often, and their strength was improving far too quickly.

Back in the Qionghua Sect, Su Yao was jealous of his talent and neither allowed him to practice advanced sword techniques nor let him manage any affairs.

Fang Ge is now acting like a hands-off manager, seemingly entrusting everything at Qionghua to him. It's as if he's the one in charge...

Murong Ziying was a responsible and honest man, and feeling guilty for failing to rebuild Qionghua, he was willing to do more.
Seeing the Qionghua Sect recruiting so many disciples, he was probably the one who was truly happy.
There's something else that's rather strange... This person named Chu Xuan is hard to fathom, but his talent seems extremely exaggerated. He doesn't seem like the type to follow Master Zong Lian's notes to forge a broken flying sword.
Li Shuaixi, who is slightly less talented, also performed admirably, and was no less impressive than he was in his younger days.
As for Haotian and Liu Yu... the former seems to have some problems with his academic performance, but he is clear-headed, values ​​relationships, and has good comprehension, which makes Murong Ziying think of his old friend.

The latter is a minor with considerable talent, but... he's a bit too playful and needs more guidance.

Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

If you can just sit back and do nothing, who's going to work hard?

Fang Ge, far away in the outer realms, couldn't be bothered with all that.

Because Li Shuaixi and Chu Xuan were busy draining Murong Ziying's resources, only... remained here.

He and his two lovers, but Fang Ge had already gained a basic understanding of the "Huangdi Neijing" (Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic), which avoided the need for shift work.

The energy accumulated over the previous sixty days was equivalent to five thousand S-grade energy crystals. If converted to A-grade energy crystals, that's over one hundred thousand. This efficiency is somewhat related to Zhan Lan's Star Forger Dragon King bloodline, as she can make stars cooperate more effectively.

Incidentally, when Fang Ge defined energy crystals, he calculated them based on the energy pools of powerhouses of the corresponding level. In reality, at the Main God's place, obtaining an energy crystal equivalent to an S-level powerhouse only requires one A-level side quest.

For the Zhongzhou team, the cost is around 4 reward points.

To improve work efficiency, half of them were fed Void Devouring Flame.

If the Void Devouring Flame of Battle Through the Heavens knew about this, he would probably drool with envy at such unrestrained eating...

After all, whether the energy of the entire Battle Through the Heavens plane can compare to that of a star is still unknown.

Li Shuaixi's control ability has an upper limit; any excess energy can only be transformed into secondary fire.

There are one Heavenly Fire, one Earthly Fire, and nine Ordinary Fires, for a total of eleven.

These sub-flames are currently under Fang Ge's control. Once cultivated, all of them combined will have a brick-moving efficiency of two-thirds that of the Void Devouring Flame main body. That is, they can move 48 S-grade energy crystals per day.

With the life-giving flame left by Li Shuaixi for energy conversion, the two divine trees did not have any energy shortage problem. In addition, with Zhao Yingkong's daily care, everything was thriving.

Zhan Lan's work is very simple: the goal of this interlude is merely to strengthen and reinforce the 365 main stars of the Zhou Tian constellation into mini-stars. On average, it takes only ten days to accumulate star power for each star.

While comprehending the S-level cultivation manual, Fang Ge controlled his inner world to absorb energy, strengthen his foundation, and advance his cultivation level.

When he strengthened his two physiques, his inner world mainly became more profound. Apart from being smaller in size, the Taiyin and Taiyang stars were no different from real ancient stars!

Now they're using their cultivation level to expand their reach... it's simply outrageous!

Ten cycles of working at sunrise and resting at sunset have passed, and three hundred days have gone by in the blink of an eye.

Fang Ge's inner world expanded from a radius of six kilometers to a radius of thirty kilometers, increasing its land area twenty-five times. During this process, the World Tree underwent a transformation, which also brought certain enhancements to other spiritual plants.

Like magical artifacts, the conventional limit for cultivating spiritual roots is S-rank. However, unlike magical artifacts, which can be enhanced with materials and runes.

If one's spiritual root is inherently deficient, they can only rely on energy to sustain them. If this energy sustaining reaches level A, but there's no innate source or foundation to suppress the development of intelligence, they can easily become a tree spirit…

At first glance, the emergence of sentience seems like a good thing... but it's not. Because anything with sentience has to overcome its own damned inner demons!

When the inner demons of this spiritual plant flare up, it's no longer a matter of a person eating a peach; it could very well lead to the abstract scenario of the peach eating a person...

Therefore, Fang Ge only nurtured most of his secondary spiritual roots to the BB level. He only gave the World Tree and Bodhi Tree the opportunity to awaken their intelligence and advance to a higher level.

After all... they would soon obtain innate spiritual treasures, the Eastern Emperor Bell would be compatible with the World Tree, and the Bodhi Tree could be suppressed with the Creation Jade Disc...

Plants don't care about the intensity of spiritual light; they just need to be piled up with materials!
His cultivation level rose to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage without any obstacles.

Chu Xuan lived up to expectations and emptied Murong Ziying's pockets in just two months, while Li Shuaixi took two hundred days to complete his training.

Haotian and Liu Yu continued their studies with great difficulty... In fact, they had undergone the transformation of new humans, consumed Foundation Establishment Pills and Life Devouring Pills, and were also given peaches as a form of sustenance.

At this point, they had already reached the Golden Core stage. However, in Murong Ziying's eyes, they were still considered unqualified.

The two divine trees successfully bore their first batch of fruit.

In doing so, Zhao Yingkong's Rinne Sharingan was successfully activated.

Normally... only by eating a Chakra Fruit can one awaken their Sharingan. However, in the Naruto world, the Ten-Tails had already ate a fruit once before, and Kaguya had also eaten one.

Although the nine tailed beasts are cultivated entities, they are still the same nine tailed beasts. The Gedo Mazo is also still the same Gedo Mazo.

This means that this Rinne Sharingan is essentially still Kaguya's. Therefore, the divine techniques contained within it are still Amenominaka and Infinite Tsukuyomi... Infinite Tsukuyomi is clearly universal, while Amenominaka, according to the Z-series terminology, is probably Kaguya's Light of the Soul.

In a sense, this Rinne Sharingan is akin to a "godhood".

This allows Zhao Yingkong to spend time figuring out how to use [Heavenly Mind Control].

Zhao Yingkong's unique divine technique... or rather, her personalized spiritual light resides within her pair of Rinnegan eyes.

Its name is [Tai Sui Shen].

Tai Sui is the emperor of the year, and therefore should not be offended, for doing so will bring misfortune. He is the most powerful of all the gods, governing people's fortunes and misfortunes for the entire year and controlling their destiny.

It is a combination of the previous [Daohua Jinri] and [Shinji Naobi], and also the ultimate evolution.

Zhao Yingkong can use this to distort reality with her mind, which is somewhat similar to the logic of the heavens, but limited to misfortune and fortune... which leads to destiny.

"No matter what, we will have a happy and fulfilling life." The girl's lips curled up slightly as she declared her wish.

Fang Ge knew that spiritual light involving cause and effect often consumed luck when used... and the way to accumulate luck was often by eating.

The concept of "eating" here is abstract; it actually means merging with or taking away the luck of others... so the divine tree is also a solution.

Returning to the Divine Tree Fruit... if the goal is to maximize the absorption of its energy, having Li Shuaixi refine it into a pill is the best option.

However, from the perspective of obtaining bloodline, it would be more complete to eat the whole thing.

The two fruits are completely different in size.

The three-eyed innate new human fruit belonging to Luo Yinglong is only slightly larger than a fist.

Zhao Yingkong, this ultimate Frankenstein's monster... is as big as her face! Its color isn't pure red either; there's a strange light flowing around it.

Fang Ge first helped her safely refine the Void Devouring Flame Emperor Flame. Then, Chu Xuan used the Five Elemental Pearls as the array base to set up the [Four Symbols, Five Elements, Eight Trigrams Central Array], sealing her inside to ensure that the energy utilization rate reached the maximum point.

After that, Zhao Yingkong underwent her second transformation!

Emerging once more from the round egg, Zhao Yingkong's pair of Rinnegan each displayed six tomoe.

At the same time... Under normal circumstances, the Otsutsuki and the Ten-Tails cannot truly encounter bloodlines of the same level, but this time is different. The end of many bloodlines is to be on par with or even surpass the Otsutsuki.

There's a saying... that goes, "To the extreme, you become pure."

Zhao Yingkong's essence as a modified human of the Zhao family remains unchanged; her original witch bloodline is a product of the fusion of genes from countless races of the primordial era. The witch genes provided by Zheng Zha have further enhanced this.

She exhibited a phenomenon similar to returning to her original form; most of the Otsutsuki skin characteristics disappeared, and apart from her small horns and Rinne Sharingan, it was no longer possible to tell that she was an Otsutsuki.

Instead, some... peculiar patterns appeared on the girl's body. They were somewhat similar to those that appeared on Zheng Zha's body after he strengthened the Witch Clan, but they were also different.

The defining characteristic of witches is that they are "heretical," but Zhao Yingkong doesn't exhibit this trait; she still uses chakra...

After finding the corresponding cultivation manual in the Lingkong Pavilion, it can be further compressed and transformed into [True Essence].

This is the end of the Z-series... all enhancements are transformed into cultivation. Of course, the true energy of non-orthodox cultivation is a compressed, higher-level version of the original energy, and it's perfectly acceptable to call it "chayuan" or "layuan".

Besides compressing energy, its greater significance lies in enabling the use of [Cultivation Techniques] to gain further attribute bonuses.

"Their physical strength has been increased to an exaggerated level."

Zhao Yingkong felt an explosive power lurking within her body. "The ninth Truth-Seeking Ball has appeared, and the Ten-Tails has reached its perfect form. I feel extremely powerful..."

Fang Ge gestured for her to punch him.

Ultimately, Fang Ge concluded that their pure physical strength was roughly equal...

His energy level is at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. Due to the superposition of the double cycle, it is roughly the same as that of Zhao Yingkong, who ate the fruit.
This means the girl's physical strength is comparable to that of a witch and a superhuman at the same level. However, she likely lacks stamina, and as her level continues to rise, the gap will widen.

Unless we continue to eat and drink to make up for the difference.

Moreover, Zhao Yingkong did not possess the methods that Fang Ge and Zheng Zha had to amplify their physical strength a hundredfold.

As for things like the Eight Gates and Butterfly Transformation... Six Paths level cultivators can't use them. Firstly, the internal body structure of the Otsutsuki is completely different from that of ordinary ninjas.

Secondly, these amplification skills are still insufficient for the basic physical activation of a Six Paths Body. Low-level ninjutsu is not something a noble Otsutsuki should use. If they were to use it, they would have to go straight for heavy particles.

"Perhaps we need to use the Five Elemental Pearls to make up for your shortcomings in amplification."

Fang Ge quickly came up with a new plan: "As for growing fruit, there's no need to stop. The genome has been determined. To grow identical fruit, we just need to add energy."

In addition, Fang Ge has already figured out those S-level secret manuals with the help of the Great Luo Heaven during this period, and the next step is to teach them step by step.

However, after returning to the Main God Space, Haotian told him that there were more important things waiting for him to deal with.

Shushan has found Jinxi's reincarnation.

(End of this chapter)