510: Empty domain

Soon, all the black liquid had completely merged into Chang Qi's body.

As the saying goes, Chen De would never fight a battle he wasn't sure of winning.

Whoever he fought, he always made sure he could win before making a move.

After refining Chang Qi, the Attribute Points he obtained were unexpectedly high.

It was much higher than those of Han Yan or Yuan Zhi.

Sixty-eight Attribute Points!

This was the harvest Chen De gained from Chang Qi alone.

Thinking back to those two guys, Chen De truly couldn't understand where two people with stats starting with four got the confidence to challenge someone with stats starting with six.

Not to mention, Chang Qi also had that incredibly powerful attack.

Same old routine: add all the Attribute Points to Speed, 68 points in total.

He could increase his Speed from 13.53 to 19.99, with 3.4 points remaining.

Adding those to Attack, it went from 10.00 to 10.34.

This young man Chang Qi was quite valuable; a single battle maxed out Chen De's Speed.

This made Chen De very happy and very satisfied.

If three more like Chang Qi came along, he would soon reach the peak of the Demon Venerable Realm Second Transformation and prepare for the Demon Venerable Realm Third Transformation.

Next was to search Chang Qi's memories to see if there was anything valuable inside.

Upon searching, Chen De actually found quite a bit.

Arithmetic!

He had heard a little about this school of thought, or rather, at the level of Immortality, there was no one who hadn't heard of it.

The most representative figure among them was the Grand Emperor, one of the Three Sovereigns of the human race.

The Legend of the Three Sovereigns was widely circulated in the universe; even many beings in the Mortal Realm knew of it.

For example, very early on, he had calculated the birth of the other two Sovereigns of the human race and also calculated that the great war they led would end in failure.

But regarding this point, there wasn't much solid proof.

After all, if he knew it would fail, why not make changes instead of just watching it fail?

Of course, events from the era of the Three Sovereigns were long lost to later generations.

All that remained were perhaps some fragmented Legends and myths.

Too much time had passed since then.

Even the Legends and myths had likely undergone countless distortions and alterations.

But it was undeniable that the school of Arithmetic was very powerful and practical.

Even today, countless eras later, it still played an unquestionable role.

And because of the development of the eras, it had long since become increasingly precise and complex.

From Chang Qi's memories, Chen De also learned something.

Why Chang Qi had suddenly chosen to move and kept everything so tightly under wraps.

There was a very, very high possibility that the reason was him.

It was just that because there were too many factors involved and his own level wasn't high enough, he hadn't been able to calculate any clear content.

It was so vague that even Chen De, the executor, wasn't entirely sure if it was him.

Including Chang Qi's later choice to self-destruct his Small World, it wasn't because he had discovered Chen De hiding inside.

It was because he felt something was wrong, combined with his extremely cautious personality and powerful Arithmetic abilities.

He had decisively left the Small World on the spot and detonated it.

So, regarding this Arithmetic, Chen De admitted he was indeed very interested.

Fortunately, Chang Qi's memories contained some fragmented, incomplete cultivation methods.

Yes, Chang Qi himself didn't have a complete, systematic cultivation method.

After all, this path was profound, but the difficulty of cultivation was extremely high and it tested one's talent greatly.

It wasn't like normal cultivation systems that anyone could take up; it depended on the person.

And since it didn't have very strong combat power on its own, most people cultivated it as a secondary skill.

This resulted in very few practitioners of the Arithmetic school, and even fewer related legacies.

That Chang Qi was able to obtain these few fragments could already be considered good luck.

For now, Chen De could only make do with cultivating it like this and gradually improve it later.

Fortunately, with Chang Qi's complete memories acting as an aid, he should be able to cultivate to his level very quickly.

Of course, this also required Chen De himself to be sharp-witted; otherwise, no talent meant no talent.

With the matter concerning Chang Qi resolved, he began to ponder his next plan.

The matter of having a mysterious powerful enemy before was just Chen De overthinking it; he had intended to do one job and run.

But now, like this...

That Chen De was going to the Kongming Domain next was unquestionable; he had decided on it long ago.

The key was how to deal with the remaining mess in the Xichen Domain.

After thinking carefully for a moment, Chen De had already made a decision.

That was to have them donate one more time; he wouldn't bother with the subsequent slow ones.

With the time he would spend waiting, Chen De could have gone to other domains and gained more.

Then, Influence everything that needed to be influenced, and leave absolutely nothing that had been tainted by the black liquid.

This series of plans was simply perfect for Chen De's clever little head.

And so, he went ahead and did exactly that.

...

The Xichen Domain began another wave of donations, from Cultivators down to mortals, everyone participated enthusiastically.

For a time, the entire domain appeared exceptionally lively.

Those star systems and stars, just like bubbles, extinguished in large swathes.

It was as if they knew Chen De was about to leave and were using this to express their sadness and reluctance.

Chen De was also sad and reluctant, but he still had to leave.

All because the Xichen Domain had been liberated and Influenced, and the living beings living here were happy and joyful.

But what about other domains?

Not to mention anything else, just take the Kongming Domain closest to here.

Just from what Chen De knew, the living beings there were still in deep misery.

At this moment, his heart felt like it was being twisted by a knife.

So, "I leave gently, just as I came gently; I wave my hand gently..."

Half a year later, a huge holy virtue pill was placed before Chen De.

Just looking at its size, one could tell how great the merit Chen De had accumulated over these six months was.

Look at that black smoke; the purple aura was so thick it had turned black—truly incredible.

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen De opened his mouth wide and swallowed the entire holy virtue pill in one gulp.

It had to be said, the taste of doing good deeds was really quite nice.

After taking the righteous reward of eleven Attribute Points, Chen De officially set sail on his journey.

Before leaving, Chen De waved his hand, and all the black liquid was immediately retracted.

As for those further away, they were also retracted piece by piece along the way.

Just like this, the black liquid in front scouted the path for Chen De while being retracted.

During the journey, he conveniently added to his Attack, bringing it to 11.44.

He couldn't help but sigh that merit was something that came slowly but was spent quickly, just like money.

Here, money was resources, and resources were money.

Chen De didn't want resources, nor did he want money; he only wanted merit.

When would he ever have an endless supply of merit!

Keep working hard, he still had to work hard!