406: Planning for the future

At this moment, the Great Thousand Origin light sphere, which had been suspended in mid-air, had shrunk by one-tenth of its original volume.

Don't underestimate that one-tenth.

The terrifying energy contained within it was comparable to the might of the Blood Demon Realm when it merged with six Middle Thousand Origins!

The Zizai World, by virtue of this, advanced to the Middle Thousand Worlds, its Origin becoming incomparably vast and stable, already ranking among the top Middle Thousand Worlds.

Immortal Veins even emerged along with it.

A world of this caliber already possessed the initial qualifications to advance to the Great Thousand World!

However, the Zizai Origin's speed in capturing Great Thousand light threads clearly slowed, and the destiny golden dragon also became much more transparent.

“It seems that the existing Luck can only sustain it this far!” Xiao Zhuo's mind stirred, and he naturally sensed the abnormality of the Origin.

The Great Thousand Origin he obtained was of an extremely high rank, far exceeding the absorption limit of the Zizai Origin at the Minor Thousand World level.

If not for the power of the destiny golden dragon, the Zizai Origin, at its previous Minor Thousand World level, would have been completely incapable of refining it.

Even though the world had now advanced to the Middle Thousand Worlds, as the destiny golden dragon was heavily consumed, the speed at which the Origin refined the Great Thousand light threads also sharply declined.

To prevent the hard-won destiny golden dragon from collapsing, Xiao Zhuo waved his hand, sealing the remaining Great Thousand Origin and stopping the Zizai Origin's absorption.

His gaze swept over his three Disciples, who were sitting cross-legged with their eyes closed, still immersed in their Epiphany, and a smile touched his lips.

All three had superior Comprehension Ability, and the Epiphany brought about by this world's advancement, even if it didn't help them Break through to Golden Immortal, was enough to save them a great deal of arduous Cultivation in the Profound Immortal realm.

It must be admitted that after experiencing two world advancement baptisms, whether it was the three Personal Disciples or all the living beings within the current Zizai World, their Aptitude had undergone a leap-like improvement.

Even some of the most ordinary members of the Cao family now possessed at least Body Integration Aptitude.

Given time, they would undoubtedly become Xiao Zhuo's core team for maintaining the world's operation and promoting its expansion.

Next, as soon as the Great Dao of Time and Space was fully integrated, Xiao Zhuo would forcefully attempt to Break through to the Quasi-Saint realm!

There are three paths to achieving a saint position:

Firstly, to prove the Dao through strength in a world with profound foundations or even within the Realm Sea;

Secondly, to seize the inherent saint position of a Major Thousand Worlds;

Thirdly, like Xue Tian, to painstakingly scheme for a Middle Thousand Worlds to advance to a Major Thousand Worlds—the difficulty of which is no less than seizing a saint position in the Immortal-Demon Realm.

The path Xiao Zhuo chose was the first one.

To continue advancing the Zizai World, and with the immense World Power as his aid, prove the Dao through strength, and win an "Great saint position" in the Realm Sea that is unrestricted by any world and allows unimpeded passage!

And to make the Zizai World advance to a Major Thousand Worlds, he urgently needed to accelerate its development.

The more living beings there were in the world, and the stronger they were, the more abundant the World Power would be, and the more prosperous the Luck would become.

After all, opportunities like the advancement of a Major Thousand Worlds to receive blessings from the Realm Sea were rare; the Blood Demon Realm had spent a full hundred thousand years accumulating the Luck to advance to a Major Thousand Worlds, and he didn't have that much time.

Xiao Zhuo had already decided on a strategy: send the Cao family members to the Myriad Worlds to purchase slaves to augment the world's population.

Then, use the rich Immortal Qi of the Zizai World to accelerate the Cultivation of the living beings within the realm, thereby fostering its development.

Although he possessed a panel, the comprehension and deduction of the Dao were as easy as turning his hand for him, far surpassing others, but what he sought was the Great saint position of proving the Dao through strength, which required sufficient World Power to support it.

For this, he had to try every possible means to improve the Zizai World.

With a slight thought, two streams of light, one black and one white, flashed beside him—they were the jade blood saber and the sky-chill sword.

Xiao Zhuo casually waved his hand, and the three Heaven and Earth spiritual treasures obtained from Xue Tian—Blood Soul Profound Crystal, Ten-Thousand Year Azure Wood Heart, and Nine Nether Cold Marrow—appeared simultaneously.

As soon as the spiritual treasures appeared, bixue and tian han immediately emitted excited hums and tremors.

“Master! Is this for us?” Little Wood's voice was uncontrollably excited.

Xue Kuang's (blood frenzy) annoying voice immediately followed: “My strongest Master in all the Heavens! Quickly give me that drop of blood crystal! With it, we will surely transform into true divine weapons!”

The tianhan sword spirit (cold sword spirit) was much calmer; the sword body's trembling amplitude was no less than bixue's, yet it remained silent.

It was a later-formed weapon, and its closeness to Xiao Zhuo was far less than that of the two bixue spirits.

But it knew that no one else here could refine the Heaven and Earth Cold Marrow except it, so these three spiritual treasures were clearly tailor-made for them.

Therefore, though it was extremely excited, it could still restrain itself.

Xiao Zhuo's lips curved slightly, and he said no more.

He simultaneously activated the three Dao Principles of blood, wood, and ice.

Three vast Dao powers enveloped and refined the spiritual treasures, instantly decomposing them into countless Innate runes, which, carrying immense energy, were separately infused into the two origin divine weapons!

In an instant, the jade blood saber's body surged with green and red flames, while the sky-chill sword radiated a bone-chilling ice-blue light.

The two divine weapons began to refine the spiritual treasures with all their might.

Xiao Zhuo merely continuously infused them with Dao power, assisting the divine weapons in their refinement, while he himself sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, quietly awaiting the divine weapons' advancement.

Seven days later, the three little ones successively awoke from their deep Epiphany.

Cao Xiaochuan Broke through to the Middle Stage of Profound Immortal, entering the Late Stage!

Wang Xianzhi and Wang Xianyu both Broke through to the Middle Stage of Profound Immortal!

Even more gratifying was that all three had initially touched upon the profound mysteries of the Dao Principle.

Their path before Golden Immortal was smooth, requiring only systematic accumulation of Cultivation, and Bottlenecks could be easily Broke through.

Upon Xiao Zhuo's command, the three immediately set off to the outside world to convey orders.

Establish new cities, reclaim spiritual fields, and dispatch personnel to the surrounding boundary realms to massively purchase slaves and various exotic beasts—whether mortal beings or Cultivators and Yao Beasts with Cultivation, buy them all!

For this, Xiao Zhuo even took out his dark gold tower ship for the Cao family members to use for transportation.

Xiao Zhuo himself remained in the core palace, named “Zizai Hall,” staying behind closed doors.

He was assisting the divine weapons in their refinement and advancement, while also quietly awaiting the completion of the Great Dao of Time and Space's Fusion.

He summoned his panel and glanced at the deduction progress:

“Remaining time: 14 days, 13 hours, 23 minutes, 13 seconds.”

Closing his eyes again, while waiting, his Divine Sense merged into the Zizai Origin, leisurely patrolling throughout the entire Zizai World.

There was no Heavenly Dao in this realm; his will was equivalent to the Heavenly Dao!

All rules were under his control.

If he wished, he could even converge all Dao, suppress Spiritual Qi and Immortal Qi, plunge the world into an age of declining magic, and gather all great power to himself.

But this would be akin to killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. If no other strong individuals were born, the world would be unable to spontaneously condense Luck, which would be of no benefit to him.

Only by allowing the living beings within the realm to continuously grow stronger could the Zizai World become more prosperous.

Strong individuals who ventured out and seized Opportunity in the outside world could also feed back into their mother realm.

Regardless of whether they returned or not, as long as they existed in the world, a portion of the Luck they carried belonged to the Zizai World!

Time passed quietly, and Xiao Zhuo also gained a thorough understanding of the Zizai World's structure.

He cataloged all the mineral deposits and treasures, handed the record to Cao Xiaochuan, and ordered him to build a city at the core node of each of the nine designated continents (i.e., eight more cities in addition to the Zizai City currently under construction).

And to reclaim spiritual fields near the cities to plant spiritual flora.

However, at present, the Zizai World was in ruins awaiting reconstruction, and personnel were extremely scarce, so Xiao Zhuo was not in a hurry to urge them.

He simply handed Cao Xiaochuan a massive amount of resources for him to distribute among the Cao family members for external procurement.

Yuan Tian, White Phoenix, Dark Thirteen, and even Dilamon were dispatched to escort the merchant caravans.

The strongest in the surrounding boundary realms were only at the Middle Thousand Worlds level; not to mention Dilamon, even existences like Yuan Tian, who possessed True Immortal-level combat power after passing the Blood Demon Tribulation, were sufficient to ensure the safety of the merchant caravans.

Moreover, the Cao family now also had nineteen Quasi-Immortal strong individuals, which in an ordinary Middle Thousand Realm Domain, was already enough to establish a sect and be revered as Dao Ancestors.

With them in charge of purchasing population, Xiao Zhuo was quite at ease.

With everything arranged, time flew by.

Finally, the countdown on the panel reached its end.

“This deduction has ended, the Great Dao of Time and Space has been fully integrated, and the host can extract memories.”