If you die, I will be able to inherit your cultivation.

Back inside the small world of the Qiankun World, Zhou Ming steadied himself and gently waved his hand.

Four streaks of light instantly appeared beside him, hovering steadily in mid-air; these were the four golden fingers he had always kept.

Zhou Ming's gaze fell on the grayish-white crystal core in his palm, and he asked in a deep voice the question posed to the consciousness curled up inside.

"Take a closer look. Aren't these items modified from the crystal cores of your kind?"

The consciousness within the crystal core immediately extended its divine sense to perceive the surroundings.

The moment it touched the four golden fingers, its consciousness visibly trembled, and its tone carried a hint of astonishment.

"Yes, boss! All of them! I never imagined you had accumulated so many crystal cores of my kind!"

As soon as it finished speaking, it quickly sensed the abnormality. After examining it repeatedly, it discovered that the four golden fingers were completely empty, without any trace of the aura of a similar consciousness.

At that moment, it panicked instantly, subconsciously thinking that all the consciousness entities within these cheat codes had been killed by Zhou Ming.

A tremendous fear instantly enveloped it, and its consciousness shrank frantically, repeatedly pleading for mercy.

"Boss, spare me! I was wrong! Boss, spare me!"

Hearing its frantic pleas for mercy, Zhou Ming frowned slightly, his face turning cold and stern, and he gave a low shout.

"Shut up."

The icy tone carried an extremely strong sense of oppression, instantly silencing the consciousness within the crystal core, who dared not utter another sound.

Zhou Ming ignored its panic and calmly continued to ask, "Can you replicate the functions of these crystal cores?"

Upon hearing the question, the consciousness immediately seized the opportunity to show itself, suppressing its fear and responding hastily with an extremely obsequious attitude.

"Sure! Absolutely! These crystal cores aren't bound by any consciousness; I can directly replicate all their functions!"

"Ah...no, it's not just copying, it's the ability to directly extract them!"

It was afraid that Zhou Ming would not see its usefulness, so it tried its best to show its value and only wanted to preserve its own intelligence.

Zhou Ming directly raised his hand and moved the four golden fingers over, placing them side by side with the gray-white crystal core in his hand.

"Let's get started. I want to see if you're really as useful as you claim."

"Don't worry, boss, you'll see!"

As soon as the consciousness within the crystal core finished speaking, it immediately activated its own power.

The entire grayish-white crystal core slowly glowed with a faint, soft light, and a gentle energy flow spread out from the crystal core, instantly enveloping and covering all four golden fingers.

Zhou Ming stood quietly to the side, observing and pondering to himself.

The fact that Huiming, Ren Nianci, and Weishun's special abilities have lost their function has little impact on him and is of little importance.

But his own special ability was far more complex, involving the lives of hundreds of millions of cultivators within the Qiankun World.

Currently, all cultivators in the Qiankun World are still in the growth stage and their cultivation is shallow. It would be too wasteful and a loss to harvest them now.

In a short time, the stripping was successfully completed.

The intricate causal network that was originally inside the golden finger was completely stripped away and transferred to this grayish-white crystal core.

Zhou Ming's eyes were calm, but his mind was churning with thoughts.

He never intended to give up the practice of "The Scripture of Crossing the World".

As long as the potential danger of being harvested by the Chaos Elder is eliminated, the "Crossing the World Scripture" is definitely the most top-tier cultivation method.

The most incredible aspect of this technique is that it can directly connect to the chaotic void, autonomously analyzing and absorbing pure spiritual energy from the chaos to supply cultivators for their practice.

This ability is extremely terrifying. Even a powerful cultivator who has reached the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm would find it difficult to directly analyze the chaotic energy for cultivation.

Yet, even mortals who have just begun their spiritual practice can easily achieve this by relying on the "Scripture of Crossing the World," which is enough to show how high its level is.

Even now, after repeatedly studying the technique, I have only grasped the surface-level cultivation method and still haven't been able to fully understand the core essence of this technique.

This is a typical case of knowing what happens, but not why it happens.

Therefore, Zhou Ming had already made up his mind that not only would he not abandon the "Scripture of Crossing the World," but he would also promote this technique throughout the entire Qiankun World.

The more cultivators there are in the Qiankun World, the more people will practice the "Crossing the World Scripture".

When everyone simultaneously analyzes and absorbs spiritual energy from chaos, it is, in effect, equivalent to helping the entire universe autonomously draw upon the energy of chaos.

The more chaotic energy absorbed, the faster the evolution of the origin of the universe will be, and the more the world's foundation will continue to surge.

Of course, there is also a shortcoming that cannot be avoided.

The current universe is still lacking in origin and does not yet possess the ability to autonomously conceive and evolve living beings and true spirits.

All cultivators who practice the "Scripture of Salvation" will have their true spirit transformed into energy and completely disappear upon death.

If this continues, the new life in the Qiankun World will not be able to keep up with the rate of death, and the total population will only continue to decrease, eventually leading to a problem of a life gap.

But Zhou Ming was not worried, as this problem was not unsolvable.

He has already made plans. Once his cultivation level breaks through again and his strength is completely stabilized, he will return to the human universe where he once lived and guide a large number of mortal beings into the Qiankun World.

As long as the population is continuously replenished, there is no need to worry about the loss of life.

Pulling his thoughts back, Zhou Ming looked down at the Origin Crystal Core in his hand.

At this moment, the interior of the crystal core is filled with a dense network of cause and effect, and at the same time, black energy spheres are slowly condensing and increasing in number within the network of cause and effect.

The scene I witnessed confirmed the consciousness's words; the other party had indeed not exaggerated its abilities.

Zhou Ming stared at the black causal chain extending from the crystal core and asked a question.

"Can these causal chains binding cultivators be directly removed?"

The consciousness responded extremely quickly, without the slightest hesitation.

"Reporting to the master, it won't work. Once these causal chains are removed, I will no longer be able to absorb and recover the energy they transformed from after these cultivators die."

Zhou Ming nodded slightly, and then spoke.

"I can spare your life and not erase your intelligence. But I must plant a restriction within your very consciousness. What do you say?"

The origin of this consciousness and crystal core is too special, involving the Chaos Elder's scheme and harboring great hidden dangers.

He did not fully understand this alien origin, and he absolutely could not allow it to exist freely in the world. He had to completely control it and eliminate all potential risks.

Upon hearing this, the consciousness within the crystal core panicked instantly, its fluctuations becoming chaotic and uncertain, stammering and unable to respond.

"Ah...this...this..."

Sensing the other party's hesitation and resistance, Zhou Ming's expression turned cold, and his tone became threatening.

"What? You don't want to?"

Extreme fear instantly enveloped the consciousness, which dared not resist in the slightest and immediately begged for mercy.

"I'm willing! I'm willing! Boss, I'm willing! Please, boss, don't kill me!"

As it spoke, the faint consciousness trembled incessantly, huddled in the corner of the crystal core, its posture extremely humble.

Zhou Ming was too lazy to say any more nonsense. With a thought, several layers of restrictions condensed and were precisely inserted into the depths of the crystal core, completely imprinted into the origin of the consciousness.

Having done all this, he had completely and utterly controlled the life, death, abilities, and every move of this consciousness, leaving no possibility of backlash or rebellion.

After eliminating this hidden danger, Zhou Ming instructed the consciousness to feed the energy within the crystal core to the central hub of the Qiankun World.

They stopped paying attention to the trembling consciousness inside the crystal core and focused their attention on the malfunctioning cheat.