Chapter 179: The Yao Infant Reveals Its Fortune

Li Shun faintly sensed a premonition in his heart.

As the Fangcun space continued to ascend and undergo transformation in the future, his control and utilization of these puppets would undoubtedly reach an entirely new level.

Until eventually, they would become as natural to him as moving his own arms, responding to his every thought.

'When that day truly comes, I might even be able to... release the puppets within Fangcun back into the mortal world, reverse life and death, and truly resurrect them.'

Thinking of this, Li Shun immediately gathered his thoughts and began attempting to open up the second ring of vacant land on the outskirts.

'The first ring has twelve plots of vacant land. The second ring should have twice as many, meaning twenty-four.'

The Xuanhuang Qi of Heaven and Earth above the dome surged violently.

The next moment, a vague heavenly insight was transmitted to him.

'Not enough Xuanhuang Qi?'

Li Shun could not help but feel astonished.

'Over the course of the past year, I painstakingly accumulated five strands and thirty wisps of Xuanhuang Qi. Fully opening up the first ring consumed less than two strands in total.'

'But if I forcibly open up the second ring, the amount required is actually...'

'Eight hundred strands?!'

Li Shun's brows furrowed slightly.

He understood that this must be because he was attempting to leap across a certain stage and bypass several layers of causality, causing the required expenditure to suddenly increase exponentially.

'It seems opening the second ring is not something I can accomplish at my current level. I am missing some necessary condition.'

Even so, Li Shun decided to make an attempt himself first.

Sure enough, the instant his consciousness burrowed into the white mist barrier at the edge, he felt an excruciating tearing pain, as though ten thousand needles were stabbing into him at once.

Immediately afterward, a terrifying force of rejection surged violently from the depths of the sea of mist, suffocating him beneath its pressure.

The white mist roared and churned furiously. Deep within it, something terrifying and indescribable seemed to be lurking, issuing an unmistakable warning of death.

A tremor of fear and dread uncontrollably surged from the depths of Li Shun's soul. His consciousness instinctively withdrew in an instant.

'It seems my soul is still not strong enough.'

'I'll use the remaining Xuanhuang Qi to steadily improve my cultivation realm for now.'

Li Shun did not extravagantly make a wish to raise himself directly to the upper-tier Spirit Resonance realm.

Instead, he used the Xuanhuang Qi to exchange for the cultivation experience necessary to reach upper-tier Spirit Resonance.

Wisps and strands of Xuanhuang Qi of Heaven and Earth were rapidly consumed.

Countless profound and intricate cultivation insights surged continuously into Li Shun's mind like an initiation from the heavens.

The sensation was almost as though he had instantly subdued an upper-tier Spirit Resonance puppet. All of that puppet's lifetime of cultivation experience had transformed into Li Shun's own firsthand experience.

The cultivation path that had once seemed vague and unknown suddenly became completely clear before his eyes, without the slightest obstacle.

From now on, he only needed to accumulate strength step by step and cultivate patiently.

And accomplishing this had consumed less than three strands of Xuanhuang Qi in total.

'The Xuanhuang Qi I painstakingly accumulated over more than a year has been squandered in the blink of an eye once again.'

'Fortunately, I now have the continuous output from the Martial Dao World as a source of support.'

Li Shun cast aside his distracting thoughts and once again closed his eyes, calming his mind as he resumed cultivation.

His cultivation progress, which had originally been moving at a pace slower than a crawling tortoise, suddenly advanced by leaps and bounds.

At this rate, reaching upper-tier Spirit Resonance before the agreed-upon deadline was already a certainty.

At the same time, in the Martial Dao World...

Through the extraordinary abilities of Fangcun, with Fang Han serving as the link, every Martial Dao Grandmaster in the world who had cultivated the Twelvefold Longevity Methods had already been silently brought under observation.

Such a method was practically like a god looking down upon the mortal world.

Although he still could not directly see through everyone's innermost thoughts, it was more than enough to observe their every movement.

Fang Han evaluated each Grandmaster according to their actions.

"What are you doing?"

Fei poked its head forward, staring at the rows of names slowly appearing before Fang Han.

Its single eye was filled with confusion.

Fang Han smiled faintly.

"I have to give you something to report back, after all."

"There will definitely be around ten Yao beast infants every ten years."

"But on one condition. The ten people serving as cauldrons must come from this list of mine."

Upon hearing this, Fei hesitated slightly.

"But if the Grandmasters in this pasture don't cultivate the Yao Infant Birth Method according to the proper sequence, His Majesty Bai Ze possesses extraordinary divine abilities. He will probably sense that something is wrong."

Fang Han said calmly, "Don't worry. I have already considered this."

"What I need right now is... to personally witness the birth of a descendant of the Yao race."

"Who on this list is closest to having a Yao infant emerge from their body?"

Fang Han asked in a deep voice.

Fei glanced over the list, then pointed without hesitation at the name "Lu Yi."

"Let's go pay him a visit."

Before long, Fang Han rode atop Fei and silently descended over Lu Yi's residence.

At this moment, Lu Yi had already used the Twelvefold Longevity Methods to completely return to the peak of his youthful years.

Clearly, he had yet to fully recover from the overwhelming vitality and surging blood energy contained within his rejuvenated body.

He was currently in the martial training ground of his courtyard, enthusiastically displaying his martial techniques with great vigor and imposing presence.

As his fists and feet tore through the air, faint sounds of wind and thunder accompanied their every movement.

Fang Han could even clearly see the phantom of a pitch-black serpent faintly coiling above Lu Yi's head.

The black serpent had already begun to transcend the illusory nature of an ordinary divine ability manifestation.

Its scales were cold and distinct, its form lifelike, as though in the next instant it would tear through the void and leap directly into the mortal world.

"It seems that when Innate Grandmasters use the Twelvefold Longevity Methods to regain their youth, not only does it fail to affect the Yao infants parasitizing their bodies, it instead gives them several times more vitality."

After observing for a while, Fang Han reached this conclusion.

"Indeed. Strange, very strange. Ordinarily, once an infant reached this level of strength, it would have already completely drained the essence, energy, and spirit of the Grandmaster it parasitized. It should be time for it to break out of the body and be born."

"But now..."

Fei stared at Lu Yi below, finding the situation increasingly unbelievable.

"The human and Yao have actually, in some bizarre way, achieved a state of symbiotic balance!"

"Of course, without a doubt, the final outcome of this parasitism will still be the Yao infant successfully breaking free from its cocoon."

"After all, the parasitic contract has already been established. No matter how the human Grandmasters cultivate or how powerful they become, in the end, they are merely fattening themselves up, only to provide nourishment for the Yao fetus within their bodies."

"But if things continue developing like this..."

A look of astonishment flashed through Fei's single eye before transforming into uncontrollable fanaticism.

"The newborn infants nourished by the Twelvefold Longevity Methods will possess foundations that are likely to reach an unprecedented and terrifying level!"

Seeing a trace of confusion flash through Fang Han's eyes, Fei immediately explained.

"Our Yao race has never cultivated Heavenly Dao techniques. We rely entirely on our innate talents and bloodlines. As we age, our strength naturally increases day by day."

"As for how high a Yao beast's potential can ultimately reach... First, it naturally depends on the nobility of its bloodline and foundation. Second, it is closely related to the strength of its foundation at the moment of birth."

"Ordinarily, the offspring of truly extraordinary great Yaos often possess remarkable innate divine abilities from the moment they are born."

"Judging from Lu Yi's current state of qi and blood, the Yao infant inside him can probably remain comfortably dormant and continue gestating for several more decades!"

"With such an accumulation of strength before its emergence, its potential is practically several times greater than under normal circumstances!"

Fang Han shook his head upon hearing this.

"If no infants have been delivered for so many years, the Yao race world will certainly have noticed that something is wrong by now."

"Is there a way to induce the birth?"

Fei suppressed the excitement in its eye.

"It's actually quite simple. We only need to kill the Grandmaster."

"Once the flesh-and-blood womb is completely shattered and collapses, the Yao infant inside will lose its host and naturally be forced to break out."

"However... if we use this method, the newborn Yao infant will most likely inherit some of the host's residual memories from before his death."

"Then just make sure he dies without knowing what happened."

Fang Han did not care in the slightest.

He had already seen exactly what sort of person Lu Yi was through his previous observations.

Lu Yi was vicious and cruel in his actions. Judged by worldly standards, he was an utterly unforgivable criminal, a truly vicious and ruthless man.

Fang Han felt no psychological burden whatsoever about killing him. His heart did not even stir in the slightest.

Under a joint sneak attack by Fang Han and Fei, Lu Yi, who had been displaying his martial prowess in the training ground with great confidence, suddenly froze.

In the blink of an eye, he died on the spot.

He did not even have time to realize that he was under attack before he died in a daze.

Immediately afterward, the flesh and blood of his corpse suddenly began to writhe violently in an exceedingly strange and horrifying manner.

In the blink of an eye, flesh and bones disintegrated and reassembled.

The corpse actually transformed into a tiny black serpent.

The moment the black serpent landed on the ground, it immediately swept its surroundings with an extremely cold and vigilant gaze.

Only after Fei deliberately manifested its true Yao form did the newly born little fiend relax its guard in confusion.

"As the caretaker of the Thirteenth Pasture, the freshly born Yao beast bloodlines that emerge here will naturally feel an innate sense of closeness toward me."

"I have always been responsible for receiving them and guiding them back to the main world."

As Fei spoke, the little black serpent had already climbed up along its fur and coiled itself atop its head, where it soon fell into a deep sleep.

Fei carefully examined it with a secret Yao-race technique, and another trace of astonishment appeared in its single eye.

"Divine... Simply divine."

"Even though this little fellow only parasitized a Grandmaster who had regained his youth for a few short days, its physical constitution and foundation are already considerably stronger than those of the Yao infants nurtured previously."

"What astonishing vitality!"

"Even if we maintain the same number of Yao infants delivered to the Yao race, such a dramatic improvement in quality alone would already be an earth-shaking achievement!"