342: Chapter 342 The Core of the Calamity, Southeast Corner of the Fiery Mountain Domain, Fiery Dragon Pool

Not long after, the already scant remaining spirituality was burned away completely.

The main body of the Mountain-Treading Calamity collapsed, its massive size causing large patches of magma beneath its feet to splash everywhere.

Deprived of the main body that provided support, the power of calamity instantly contracted and returned to the calamity core.

At this moment, apart from Wang An, the fluttering hearts of his subordinates finally settled down.

"Let us go and see how the calamity's main body is doing."

As the crowd approached, they saw that cold Qi and magma coexisted, and volcanoes and sand and stones were present together.

The calamity's main body lay at the end of the long magma river channel behind them.

Wang An first observed with his high-dimensional status, and after finding no risks, he then used his Divine Thought to scan.

Soon, he discovered a half-person-high calamity core at the center, which was extremely small for this nearly ten-thousand-meter-long Mountain-Treading Calamity.

"What is condensed is the essence."

The body was split open, and the calamity core flew out.

Everyone present clearly felt that subtle powers of calamity still remained on the surface of the calamity core, while the interior was a mess of Chaos, completely impossible to distinguish in structure.

"It really is chaotic enough, completely lacking any appearance of order and Law."

However, this appearance reminded Wang An of those two evil objects and evil spirits he had seen before.

Those existences were even more chaotic and disorderly, yet they could continue to grow.

This kind of aberrant power of calamity was much inferior.

Similar to naturally-born Spiritual Roots and Innate True Gods, whose births would be disturbed by external tribulations, these calamities were the results of failure.

He froze and preserved the calamity core with the Taiyin Divine Light, storing it into a separate storage equipment.

As for the huge corpse of the Mountain-Treading Calamity, Wang An was somewhat troubled.

"This corpse is composed of a large number of fire and earth elemental crystals. If it could be utilized, its value would be no less than two million Dharma Essence Crystals."

This was the standard price of two Tier-3 warships.

It was just that the elemental crystal structure in this corpse had been distorted by things like calamity, making it extremely violent and difficult to utilize.

With a trace of Dharma power carefully cutting off a small piece, Wang An tried to guide the energy inside the elemental crystals.

As expected.

Under everyone's observation, wisps of earth and fire elemental energy were drawn out.

Afterward, the energy of this crystal was like a hornet's nest, collapsing and gushing outward all at once. Just when everyone thought it was about to explode—

The Taiyin Divine Light shone, and these outward-expanding chaotic energies were frozen by this divine light, scattering into tiny crystals.

Seeing this, Wang An shook his head, then looked at his many subordinates.

"Which of you has a method to deal with this calamity corpse? Leaving such a large piece here is somewhat wasteful."

The Thunder Elemental Spirits and the Fire-Earth Longqiu all shook their heads.

"Great Immortal Master, in the nearby area of the Fire Sea Calamity Domain, all living beings who have seen such calamity corpses will throw them far away."

"Because this corpse has lost its calamity source, the energy inside will gradually collapse and dissipate. But it is also extremely easy to pollute the surrounding environment, leading to a large-scale calamity zone where survival is difficult."

This time, it was the Fire-Earth Longqiu that had just been subdued by him who conveyed this information to him.

This fellow had lived here for a very long time and knew these things extremely well, basically dodging far away whenever it encountered them.

Wang An thought about it and designated an elemental thunderbird to throw this corpse into a corner of the Wanshan Fire Domain.

Since there was temporarily no way to handle it, it shouldn't get in their way.

They saw the thunderbird manifest its massive true form, grab the corpse, and fly far away.

As the Mountain-Treading Calamity's corpse left the ground, a small lake exceeding ten kilometers emerged.

Watching the thunderbird go far away, Wang An then asked:

"How is the situation with your searches during this period of time?"

The Thunder Elemental Spirits successively reported what they saw and heard, and converged together to form a rough map of the southeast corner of the Wanshan Fire Domain.

"Great Immortal Master, in the northeast region, we discovered a giant turtle whose aura is at least at the powerful True God level and carries a volcano on its back."

"Numerous blazing gold veins were discovered in the northwest, while the west is the most barren, with volcanoes being dead and silent without large-scale activities, suspected to be caused by the death of a calamity."

As for the native creatures living and hiding in the endless volcanoes, they were not something their level could easily discover.

With the large-scale topographic map drawn out, Wang An began to ponder where to build the first Qiudi Divine City.

After much deliberation, this area did not have a suitable large basin for construction, so he finally looked due north, towards the end of the great magma river.

"If we build the divine city at the border between the Wanshan Fire Domain and the Thousand Flames Fire River, what do you all think?"

Wang An asked for the opinions of these local creatures, after all, he had never seen how local forces built stable dwellings.

The thunder maiden responded first, buttering him up:

"Great Immortal Master is wise! After this location is built, relying on the great magma river, we can travel to collect and gather resources from the eighth and ninth circles."

"I remember that place. The volcanoes near the Wanshan Fire Domain are extremely tall, hundreds of thousands of meters high. Further north is flat as a mirror, with good development space."

"It's just that there will be quite a few problems."

"Oh? All of you speak up."

"And Longqiu, you have lived underground for years, what is the situation over there? You should know this place best, see if there is anything else we haven't considered."

The thunder maiden expressed her views first.

"What we must first resolve is that that place was very likely where the Mountain-Treading Calamity stayed for a long time, and there should be quite a bit of the power of calamity remaining."

"All existing matter and energy are extremely easily assimilated and eroded; directly moving mountains and filling soil will take a lot of time to clear."

At this time, the Fire-Earth Longqiu swam into the great magma river to soothe the injuries it had suffered rather heavily from Wang An, while projecting its memories of the situation over there.

"Great Immortal Master, I have only gazed at the situation over there from afar."

"The Wanshan Fire Domain looks like the largest outer region of the entire Fire Sea Calamity Domain, but because volcanic eruptions are extremely unstable, there are not many creatures like us naturally born and surviving here."

"Only those like me who survive in the underground magma river can survive relatively safely."

"Many powerful exotic beasts gather in the Thousand Flames Fire River. If you want to build a city there, you must prepare to deal with attacks."

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Afterwards, this Longqiu talked about a bunch of its concerns, in short, extremely rejecting that place.

However, Wang An ignored these; having exotic beasts was even better, as they were all good laborers for moving Materials.

"Alright, these problems are not big; as the divine city develops, they can be easily resolved. Now let us set off."

With the order given, the subordinates dragged the small magma lake blessed land of the volcanic divine tree, heading north along the great magma river.

Advancing all the way, because they were dragging this piece of magma blessed land, the speed was not fast, and the thunderbird quickly caught up.

At the same time, some exotic beasts of not-weak strength tentatively wanted to seize the Spiritual Root, and were either killed to extract Materials, or became their subordinates.

With the [Dongming Lamp Illumination] Divine Ability, illuminated by the Taiyin Bright Lamp [Chong Weixin] [Chao Mingyue] Divine Ability.