343: Chapter 343 [Heavenly Fire] Subduing the Volcanic Alligator Turtle, [Fire Void Jujube Tree] Spiritual Root, Resolving the Calamity

This caused the longer these elemental spirits and local exotic beasts stayed around Wang An, the more submissive and loyal they became.

Half a month later, after searching for Spiritual Roots and precious materials and subduing exotic beasts along the way, their group slowly arrived at the rendezvous point.

By this time, the scale of their group had already reached over twenty beings; apart from the original eight Thunder Elemental Spirits, most of the others were local exotic beasts.

Thanks to the Fire-Earth Longqiu leading the way and wiping out their lairs in one go, he no longer lacked subordinates.

Restricted by the [Heavenly Fire] Divine Ability, the strength of those subdued could only be limited to below intermediate tier 2.

For others above intermediate tier 3 who possessed weak Laws or Profound Truths, it was very difficult to subdue them using such a simple method.

However, if this path did not work, naturally there were other ways.

Beat them until they submitted.

They saw the line of subordinates: five Fire-Earth Longqius dragging floating magma lakes, while a host of Thunder Elemental Spirits floated in the air, pulling a floating island.

The other exotic beasts cleared river channels, piled up rocks, and flattened the riverbanks ahead of them.

Behind the group, a giant turtle carrying a ten-thousand-meter-high volcano on its back slowly advanced through the large river along the bank.

However, looking at this volcanic alligator turtle, its body, turtle shell, head, and even the volcano on its back all bore traces of being illuminated and lunarized by the white Taiyin Divine Light.

It was evident that after receiving a thorough beating from Wang An, it obediently followed them over.

This volcanic alligator turtle gazed at the gradually widening magma river ahead, where the most prominent features on both banks were volcanoes exceeding one hundred kilometers in height.

Most crucially, at the foot of the volcanoes and on both banks of the magma were vast expanses of fiery-earth crystal deserts, along with the omnipresent power of calamities contained within these crystals.

It was then seen transmitting a mental message in a muffled voice.

"Great Immortal Master, this little turtle cannot go any further."

"This land of calamities can assimilate the volcano I carry on my back."

"If contaminated by the calamities, this little turtle's entire cultivation of Dao will completely dissipate."

Hearing this, Wang An glanced at it and did not force it, immediately giving the order, "Let's stop here for now."

With the order given, the two small blessed lands dragged by the Longqius and Thunder Elemental Spirits also came to a halt.

The floating island dragged by the Thunder Elemental Spirits was another small blessed land they had discovered in a low volcanic cluster during this period.

Inside was a [Fire-Space Jujube Tree] Spiritual Root whose aura had reached tier 2 level 3, yet it had not given birth to a spiritual body manifesting Spiritual Root sentience.

However, this was not the most important part; the key was that this [Fire-Space Jujube Tree] contained faint Spatial and Fire Element Laws within its body.

The [Fire-Space Spirit Jujube] it bore contained a trace of weak Fire and Space Law powers, which was of no small help to his further comprehension of Spatial Laws.

After so many years, aside from comprehending Elementary spatial techniques in the grotto-heaven world of the Bronze Human Race and breaking through to form the embryonic form of Spatial Laws, Wang An's progress speed in Spatial Laws had become extremely slow thereafter, and his true body no longer entered the blessed land spaces.

Because he discovered that even though he had already comprehended so many Laws, he still could not control all the Laws of this blessed land space.

He could only issue commands to it similar to operating a machine; what could and could not be done had already been set and restricted.

This undoubtedly made him understand even more that this blessed land space was definitely not born naturally, but set by human design.

Moreover, he could not find the Origin of this blessed land space and could not refine and control it as he pleased.

This was why he risked offending the lords of the Thunder Mansion in the Ancient Immortal Heavenly Realm to bring out the [tianxuo artifact] Divine Artifact.

Regardless of any motives, with this thing here—unless the opponent was a complete and powerful high-tier being—he could calmly handle it with this Divine Artifact in his possession.

Now, the appearance of the Fire-Space Spirit Jujube was undoubtedly the key to the further growth of his Spatial Laws.

Such Spiritual Roots involving Spatial Laws were extremely precious in any world.

Therefore, after finding it, Wang An demanded that all his subordinates sever their memories regarding obtaining the Fire-Space Jujube Tree.

At the same time, they fabricated a false memory to fill the gap, and finally signed a sword formation Restriction contract stamped by the Lord of the Netherworld, Emperor Fengdu.

As long as there was active or passive leakage, their Soul would be immediately pulled by the realm into the Netherworld Realm.

Of course, across such a distant distance, wanting to arrive would also take quite a while.

However, Wang An was merely utilizing the near-high-tier volume of the Netherworld Realm to prevent any possible Soul-searching or mind-reading.

Afterwards, it would just require the Restriction to erupt, destroy the Soul information, and retrieve the true spirit.

This was also the reason why the many subordinates did not put up much resistance; influenced by factors such as powerful strength, Divine Ability influence, status constraints, and Reincarnation Rebirth, Wang An's information concealment regarding this spatial Spiritual Root had reached its peak.

Such rare treasures that aided in the comprehension of Spatial Laws were never considered too many, even by high-tier factions.

Once leaked, it would mean endless trouble.

Therefore, while traveling with his subordinates, Wang An used the firmament to conceal and the sky to disturb Qi and fortune information, forging the information of an ordinary fire-attribute Spiritual Root, and thus proceeded until now.

After the numerous subordinates stopped, this time it was his turn to showcase his might.

Having constantly held this calamity crystal these past few days, naturally he had not been idle and had already comprehended a method to utilize it.

Looking at the vast patches of black-red energetic calamity deserts outside the two one-hundred-kilometer-high volcanoes,

the Mountain-Treading Calamity core flew out from the spatial equipment, resembling a small black-and-red sun, illuminating this entire volcanic horn basin.

His magic power manipulated wisps of the mountain-treading-turning-sand calamity rules, continuously rotating within the core, and the Chaos calamity power gradually gained a trace of order amidst the rotation.

The Law principle of like-attracts-like was vividly displayed at this moment.

As the vortex of calamity power grew larger and more regular, a powerful attractive force was released from the core.

That was the innate nature of yearning to assimilate and devour equivalent calamity power.

Just like that, amidst the dumbfounded gazes of the local beings, those energetic calamity deserts transformed by the mountain-treading calamity were turning into finer dust bit by bit.

The leader of the Fire-Earth Longqius—namely that intermediate tier 2 level Longqiu encountered first—sent out an incredulous voice within its mental consciousness.

"This is impossible! Once touched, the calamity power will be assimilated, let alone manipulating the calamity power within the core without triggering a larger Chaos explosion."

The cultivation of the intermediate tier 3 volcanic alligator turtle was the highest among Wang An's numerous subordinates, and it was already condensing the volcanic Law Profound Truths, making it even more sensitive to Laws.

It secretly thought to itself, "So that's how it is. How could this be? How was this done?"

Within its Divine Thought perception, the purple-gold magic power inside the calamity core was wrapped by a trace of imperceptible immortal golden light.

Enwrapped within these golden lights were dozens of Laws of varying sizes, allowing even the endlessly proliferating and parasitic calamity Laws to be disintegrated by the immortal golden light upon mere contact, forever unable to exercise the distortion of its calamity Law.