572: Unknown

Yang Dian didn't understand Ye Sansheng's thoughts, nor did he bother to guess.

Anyway, his ultimate goal for Chongming Star had always been just one.

That was to find the Chongming Star's core and seize the Origin within it.

Of course, before achieving his ultimate goal, completing other minor tasks was also convenient.

For example, going to Fulu Temple to investigate matters concerning the ancient Qi.

He continued on his journey.

After a short while, the lush greenery gradually disappeared, and a stretch of dim yellow on the horizon entered Yang Dian's eyes.

"After Qingmuyuan, we'll reach the Hanmo territory, which is the Destroy God Sect's domain."

The Destroy God Sect was also called the Destroy God Temple.

Yang Dian didn't know if it was because the character 'God' was common, and Monk Miesheng was so eager to kill Taoist Sansheng, that he named his Sect this.

He only knew that the monks in Hanmo truly couldn't be considered human.

Why?

Because of the information Zero reported:

"The Destroy God Sect went to great lengths to collect pure faith from believers, committing all sorts of evil."

"According to known information, the main reason for the desertification of Hanmo is the Destroy God Sect and other temples under its command."

"Through quantum satellite scans, I confirmed that there are a total of 259,200 temples on Hanmo, all built on underground water vein nodes, which are key to preventing the water flow in the veins from emerging to the surface."

"In addition, the monks in the temples, on rainy days, would perform rituals to dispel rain clouds, ensuring that Hanmo remained in a state of prolonged drought, with only some special plants able to grow on Hanmo."

"And this portion of food can only keep the people of Hanmo in a basic state of life."

"They don't eat their fill, but they don't starve to death either."

"To obtain more food, one needs to enter the temple and pray devoutly."

"Only by condensing sufficiently pure faith crystals can one obtain extra food..."

He traversed the vast Gobi Desert while Zero explained.

Looking at the emaciated ordinary people of Chongming Star under the rule of the temples, Yang Dian, upon arriving above Fulu Temple, couldn't help but fall silent.

"No matter which world it is, the people at the bottom are like parts of a civilization."

"As long as the people at the top wish, they can take whatever they want from these parts~"

With a sigh, Yang Dian's gaze fell.

The ordinary people living under the management of other temples were still somewhat fortunate.

Although they didn't eat their fill, at least they didn't starve to death.

They could live as long as they offered their faith.

But the ordinary people in the territory managed by Fulu Temple, especially newborns, were truly 'blessed'.

The Fulu Temple's territory was exceptionally desolate.

The dry sand couldn't grow any food at all.

Want food?

Sell your children.

Selling a child to Fulu Temple would earn enough abundant food from Fulu Temple to feed a family of four for a year.

What to do when the food runs out?

No worries.

Have another child and sell them again.

They say that children born in vocational school dormitories have a Hell-like start.

Fulu Temple was no less so.

If there was a Hell in the world.

This place was Hell.

"Unfortunately, I can't defeat Ye Sansheng and Monk Miesheng right now, so I'm powerless."

Lowering his head to glance at the zombie-like figures around the temple, Yang Dian then shifted his gaze to the plaza in the temple's backyard.

There, a figure resembling a human child, but entirely semi-transparent and seven-colored, with internal organs clearly visible through its body, over five meters tall, and extremely corpulent, lay sprawled on the plaza.

"Is this the person affected by the ancient Qi?"

Concealing his form, he descended.

As soon as he approached the figure, Yang Dian felt a unique Qi spreading around it.

It was hard to describe what kind of Qi it was.

Just perceiving this Qi for a moment, Yang Dian's stomach was filled with both hunger and nausea.

He wanted to eat something, yet also wanted to vomit everything he had eaten yesterday.

"What a strange feeling?"

No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than Yang Dian saw the giant figure on the plaza shatter into countless pieces with a "bang~" sound.

The seven-colored bones and blood, having just transformed into a bursting mist, abruptly coalesced again, forming a seven-colored firefly.

The moment he saw the seven-colored firefly, a piece of information naturally appeared in Yang Dian's mind.

"Ancient Qi, Reversal?"

As the thought arose, Yang Dian noticed that the seven-colored firefly seemed to have discovered something, and with a seemingly slow but actually fast movement, it came to his location and began to rotate around him, alternating between fast and slow.

How fast and slow?

One circle to the left was so fast it blurred into an afterimage, while one circle to the right was like a snail crawling slowly.

It simply embodied stark opposites.

Just as Yang Dian was pondering the function of this ancient Qi, the monk who had been guarding the giant child, or rather, guarding the ancient Qi—Reversal—at the edge of the plaza, first changed his expression, then revealed a joyful look:

"Three years! It's been three whole years!"

"This monk has finally made it!"

"This mysterious ancient Qi finally has some activity!"

The monk first went into a frenzy, then cautiously walked up to Reversal and reached out to touch it.

But his hand had only extended halfway when Yang Dian saw it inexplicably twist.

With a soft 'crack', the monk's hand, reaching towards the seven-colored firefly, directly bent back towards himself, revealing white bone fragments.

"Why is it still not working?"

"Hasn't this thing already changed?"

"Damn thing, what do you want me to do to merge with me?"

As he spoke, the monk's tone gradually became agitated, the golden Buddha light on his body faintly emitted black smoke, and his large red cassock began to turn pure white.

"Is this becoming a demon?"

"Or is it due to the ancient Qi, Reversal?"

In his thoughts, Yang Dian tried to reach out to the seven-colored firefly, which was constantly circling in real space, as if trying to attract him.

Then he felt a great fear suddenly descend upon him.

Without cause, a series of images suddenly flashed through his mind.

He reached out to touch the seven-colored, firefly-like ancient Qi—Reversal.

Reversal directly merged into his Martial Dao True Body, and then the Martial Dao True Body, formed by Qi and blood, under the contamination of Reversal, directly transformed into a chimera with a bull's head, a horse's body, a pair of wings on its back, two horns on its head, and covered in red fur.

Then, an ethereal ripple, following the connection between him and his Martial Dao True Body, directly spread to him.

Finally.

Red hair began to grow on his body.

"Holy crap!"

Yang Dian, whose true body was far away in the Chongming Star's outer space, shivered and unhesitatingly dispersed his Martial Dao True Body.

"What the Hell is this ancient Qi?"

No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than he saw a seven-colored stream of light, like a bolt of silk, rise from the Chongming Star's surface and shoot directly towards his location.

"Damn it, I'm hiding this far and it can still find me?"

As the hairs on his body stood on end, Yang Dian instinctively thought of something and immediately entered the Unity of Man and Nature state, where there was no thought, no self, and nothing was born.

The seven-colored firefly, which had transformed into a streak of light and flown to Yang Dian's front, instantly stopped, remaining in place as if it had lost its target...