357: Target: The vast world of light traces!

Watching the rapid development of his Fellow Countryman Zhao Zheng, Li Jinian was very gratified, and moved tears flowed from the corners of his mouth.

[top-up points received!]

[top-up points received!]

The snowball had begun to roll; both of them were winning, the only difference being the scale of the victory.

As the System manufacturer himself, it was only right that he took a bit more.

"Seeing how hard you're working, I'll arrange a first-class prize for you!"

"Let's give him a famous official, Feng Chu!"

"Keep up the hard work, I'm off."

Li Jinian didn't forget to instruct his Clone to arrange a wave of benefits for the other party before closing the peeking screen with satisfaction.

However, when he came to his senses, he discovered that several years had passed in the worlds where his other fellow countrymen were located, and each had new developments.

What to do? He couldn't keep up; he simply couldn't keep up with all of them.

Moreover, Li Jinian now had his own Great World and was no longer as leisurely as before; his future energy would have to be focused on the development of his main body.

After all, only by developing himself well could he create well-being for his many fellow countrymen.

Having made up his mind, Li Jinian decided not to pay too much attention to the current situation of his fellow countrymen.

At least, it wouldn't be his main body watching.

Because the fellow countrymen had his Clone—the "System"—which was essentially him.

Unless there were major changes in the future, Li Jinian's main body would not pay too much attention to their situations.

"Now, let me see how my world is developing!"

Activating his Origin, Li Jinian turned his gaze toward the Sword and Blade Plane... The Cultivator civilization was developing, powerful forces were being born one after another, and the appearance of the various racial beings was gradually evolving toward demi-humans.

The boundaries of the Hundred Clans had completely blurred; the current Hundred Clans were no longer called the Hundred Clans, but were called: Shadow Clan beings.

Across the vast Sword and Blade Plane, various powerful and transcendent immortal cultivation forces and long-standing immortal cultivation clans stood tall.

Although they were of different ethnic groups, they collectively honored the Shadow Clan proper as their common lord and remained consistently loyal.

Time flew by, and the world changed.

How prosperous the Sword and Blade Plane had been back then.

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was incredibly dense, and Heaven And Earth Treasures were increasing in massive quantities almost every moment.

It was the most prosperous and peak period for the Shadow Clan beings.

Even if you didn't deliberately Cultivate, the dense Spiritual Qi would automatically surge into your body, continuously raising your cultivation level, making it hard not to Breakthrough.

There were so many Heaven And Earth Treasures that they couldn't be consumed; they could only be piled in warehouses, left to gradually lose their spiritual power.

All sorts of taboo-level Prodigies emerged, creating one legendary story after another.

Here, even a Mortal could counterattack to become a peerless Supreme.

Those with extraordinary talent could rise from the dust and become famous throughout the eight directions.

The Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation Realms were no longer considered rare in this world.

Which family didn't have a Nascent Soul True Lord?

Which family didn't have a Soul Transformation acquaintance?

There were even jokes circulating in the streets like: "Nascent Soul True Lords are as common as dogs, and Deity Transformation Venerables are everywhere."

Regardless, it was an era of extreme brilliance and splendor that people reminisced about.

It had been like this for thousands of years.

However, times changed, and the world was unpredictable.

Just one day several hundred years ago, top Cultivators noticed that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was suddenly depleting rapidly and dropping crazily.

This situation had never occurred before and was very eerie.

In the following centuries, this depletion continued unabated.

Countless top Cultivators knew the matter was serious and, from the beginning, began to rush around looking for remedies, hoping to curb the depletion of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

Unfortunately, all their actions failed, and they could only watch helplessly as the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi grew thin.

In the current Sword and Blade Plane, the Spiritual Qi concentration was already extremely low, far from the level of its peak period.

With the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi being thin, the probability of Heaven And Earth Treasures being born also became minuscule.

The new generation of Cultivators could not understand the brilliance of hundreds of years ago; they could only be shocked by the tales told by the older generation of Cultivators.

The reason this happened was, of course, because Li Jinian had completely absorbed everything left behind by Between the Flowers.

The current Spiritual Qi concentration was the true level of the Sword and Blade Plane.

Li Jinian's main body's bronze eye appeared, and after a dozen breaths of shifting and moving, he had already toured the entire Sword and Blade Plane and finished counting all the top Cultivators.

Currently on the Sword and Blade Plane, there was one Half-step Saint Realm, three Heavenly Human Realms, and thirty-five Void Returning Dao Monarchs existing together!

The number of these top Cultivators was nearly three times that of the Light Mark Great World.

As for the number of other middle and lower-level Cultivators, Li Jinian roughly sensed them.

They were also far more numerous than in the Light Mark Great World, being seven times and thirteen times more, respectively.

Among them, the Rat People alone contributed a full thirty percent; in other words, for every ten Shadow Clan beings, three were Rat People.

From these statistics, one could see the results of Ying Lanchanyi's management over all these years.

Under her vigorous development, the strength of the Sword and Blade Plane was considerable!

With the combat power comparison finished, a sharp light flickered in Li Jinian's eyes. "The time has come; I'm going to begin."

"Target, Light Mark Great World!"

Li Jinian activated his Origin, releasing two strands of Heaven and Earth Will.

As soon as these two wills appeared, they were instantly transmitted into the consciousness of two beings.

Inside the Shadow Film and Television City, the common lord of the Sword and Blade Hundred Clans.

Ying Lanchanyi's consciousness flickered.

In the next moment, she was pulled into a Small World.

With a soft sound, besides Ying Lanchanyi, another person was also pulled into this place.

The former was fine, as she had been here before.

However, Zhang Jincao had no idea what was going on and kept sizing up his surroundings.

What is this place? Why would my true self be here?

Zhang Jincao was somewhat surprised to find that this was a closed Small World of its own.

"Little Chanyi? What is the meaning of this?"

As time flowed, although Zhang Jincao was still a high-spirited youth dressed in a purple-gold Daoist robe.

But looking closely, his figure was gradually changing, his face had aged slightly, and he had some characteristics of a Middle-aged Man.

This was due to the rules; he had lived for a long time, and no matter how high his cultivation, aging was unavoidable.

"Reporting to the Yuanchu Half-Saint, it's not that this Junior was looking for you, but..."

"It is I!"

With a whoosh, Li Jinian's figure condensed within the Small World.

Of course, he was currently using Qin Dong's appearance.

It was just a skin; once copied and pasted, it was Li Jinian's own.

"The being Ying Lanchanyi bows to the Heavenly Dao!"

"Father!"

The two of them had different ways of addressing him, but it didn't matter.

Li Jinian had summoned them both this time because he had important matters to entrust to them.

First, he told Zhang Jincao the news that the Po Zhe Great World had locked onto this world, and then he ordered war preparations.

Of the two of them, one was the only Half-Saint expert of the Sword and Blade Plane, while the other was the contemporary common lord of the Shadow Clan, whose own cultivation was at the Late Stage of the Void Returning Realm; both were peak beings of the Sword and Blade Plane.

"You two, come closer and listen to the details."

"I have decided to invade another Heavenly Dao Great World!!!"

"This is the information on that Heavenly Dao Great World. I give you ten years to issue a proclamation to the entire plane and make preparations for the attack."

"When the time is up, I will open a cross-Realm passage and deploy the beings of the Sword and Blade Plane!"

After Li Jinian finished speaking, without waiting for the two opposite him to react, he transmitted all the intelligence on the Light Mark Great World, collected by the artificial Fellow Countryman, to them.

"This concerns the survival of our world; I hope you can work together with one heart and mind."

Having finished his instructions, Li Jinian's figure gradually dissipated on the spot.

Only his lingering voice echoed in the Small World: "In ten years, we shall meet!"

In the blink of an eye, ten years arrived...