“Time? To actually use a Dao principle as a title.”
Chen Xu was slightly puzzled but didn't ask directly.
Although Alifa’s attainments in Time were indeed impressive—or rather, he certainly had a few tricks up his sleeve, being a man capable of defeating a Hell Archduke with time magic—it still felt insufficient.
For a Numbered High Priest whose title was based on a Dao principle, Alifa’s comprehension of that specific Dao seemed somewhat lacking.
Take the Priest of Fate, for example. She could sense Chen Xu’s prying eyes through the Dao of Fate, showing truly profound mastery.
If Alifa were to attempt to use the Dao of Time on Chen Xu, he would likely suffer a backlash from the unique-tier Dao rhyme.
Acting across tiers became exponentially more difficult the higher the realm.
Sensing the doubt in Chen Xu’s voice, Alifa carefully took out a page from his secret tome that radiated a heavy aura of time and a faint scent of decay.
“What is this?”
“This is a Mysterious Page bestowed by the Lord of Heaven. Its keywords are 【Time】 and 【Decomposition】. By using this page, even if my mastery of the Dao of Time is not as high as the other High Priests, it will be enough to keep my reputation from being tarnished.”
“A Mysterious Page? One that fell from the legendary Web-Weaving Tome?”
“Indeed. It is from the Web-Weaving Tome held by the Knowledge Dao Lord. The Lord of Heaven made a deal with that venerable one to obtain this Mysterious Page and gave it to me.”
Chen Xu was shocked. That was a world-renowned treasure; he was truly seeing something special today.
The Knowledge Dao Lord was a senior Dao Lord who had attained the Dao long ago. The organization he founded, the Truth Society, spanned across the myriad worlds, dedicated to finding worlds without transcendence and providing them with transcendent enlightenment.
And his unique-tier equipment, the Web-Weaving Tome, was famous throughout the myriad worlds.
The Web-Weaving Tome could automatically absorb Dao rhyme from various Dao principles and write them onto its pages. Once a page was complete, it became a Mysterious Page.
Each Mysterious Page had unique keywords corresponding to the Dao principles used to write it.
The function of a Mysterious Page was to increase a person’s comprehension of the corresponding keywords. It even had a slight effect on unique-tier Dao Lords.
Such a heaven-defying effect made Mysterious Pages highly sought after by all transcendents.
Every Mysterious Page was sold for astronomical prices, and even then, they were often unavailable regardless of the offer.
The Lord of Heaven was certainly willing to spend a fortune to give one to Alifa. It seemed that besides their monopoly on technology, Heaven also made quite a lot of money from war.
It looked like the formation of the necrotic mercenary warband needed to be scheduled soon.
Only after Chen Xu withdrew his gaze did Alifa put away the Mysterious Page.
In the three days following, while waiting for Alifa’s Coronation Ceremony banquet, Chen Xu gained a deep understanding of Heaven’s current state and mastered many insider secrets that the previous Lord of the Undead had not known.
In addition to Heaven, Chen Xu also learned a lot of news about Hell. As the saying goes, the one who knows you best is your enemy.
Heaven’s understanding of Hell could definitely be called the best in the myriad worlds.
Upon learning that a portion of the creatures in the special world of the Sea of Spirit had recently been infected by Hell’s corruption, and that many transcendents who went there for scavenging had also been infected, a sense of urgency rose in Chen Xu’s heart.
Hell’s offensive was growing more intense by the day; the Land of the Undead could no longer remain stagnant.
Once the Coronation Ceremony ended, Chen Xu immediately returned to the Undead Dao Court.
At this moment, the Undead Dao Court was shrouded in darkness. The only glimmer of light came from Sindragosa’s helpless eyes within the Everfrost Divine Kingdom.
“Wuoooh~”
Seeing Chen Xu return, Sindragosa immediately let out a roar filled with resentment.
Its massive head lifted slightly, pointing toward the Inverted Sea in the sky.
Chen Xu looked up and saw a bottomless, giant vortex appearing in the center of the Inverted Sea.
A terrifying devouring force radiated outward, capturing the necrotic aura, light, and all other free-floating matter within the Undead Dao Court.
The source of this vortex was none other than Kunpeng.
With the support of the Exquisite Heart, Kunpeng had completed its advancement without any danger, shedding its divine fetus and stepping into the Eternal-tier.
Upon reaching the Eternal-tier, Kunpeng continued to develop and refine its Dao of Devouring, planning to fuse it with the Sea God’s power to help the Sea God also reach the Eternal-tier.
This terrifying vortex was just a small experiment by Kunpeng.
Kunpeng swam back and forth continuously under the sea. The power contained in its massive body easily moved a vast amount of seawater, forming the vortex.
The power of the Sea God was mixed with the devouring force. A faint light of intelligence shone in Kunpeng’s eyes as it constantly perfected this fusion technique.
However, Chen Xu didn't have the time to wait for Kunpeng to continue. With a thought, he activated the Off-Duty talent, directly transferring the Exquisite Heart from Kunpeng to Sindragosa.
Between the quantity and quality of Eternal-tier beings, Chen Xu chose quantity without hesitation.
Instantly, the light of intelligence in Kunpeng’s eyes vanished. The massive vortex collapsed with a boom, and a large amount of necrotic aura escaped from it, returning to the air.
Kunpeng returned to its previous confused and honest appearance. Seemingly sensing the aura of a treasure box in the Secret Treasure Palace, it flicked its tail and rushed over.
On Sindragosa’s side, its originally prone body rose from the ground, its dragon eyes flashing with the light of wisdom.
The cold power of the entire Everfrost Divine Kingdom was mobilized by Sindragosa, forming exquisite ice crystal dragon scales around its massive dragon body.
Then, Sindragosa tilted its head back and let out a majestic dragon roar.
One by one, the bone dragons ended their hibernation, crawling out from the snow and shaking off the frost. They flew into the sky and began to circle around Sindragosa, just as they had when it first ascended to the mythic-tier.
“A dual ascension?”
Sensing the two rising auras on Sindragosa, Chen Xu was a bit uncertain.
Generally speaking, to be safe when advancing from the mythic-tier to the Eternal-tier, one would only advance one Dao principle at a time.
But Sindragosa was actually attempting to advance both the Dao of Extreme Cold and the Dao of the Dragon God simultaneously. It seemed the pressure from Kunpeng’s advancement was quite significant, leading Sindragosa to take the gamble.
Chen Xu was more than happy to see such a scene. As the big boss behind the skeleton company, seeing his employees competing with each other was the best thing possible.
Within the Undead Dao Court, there was another person—no, rather, an abomination that surprised Chen Xu quite a bit.
Patchwerk, the abomination enhanced by his talent, had actually broken through to the mythic-tier on his own.
His body, already swollen from stitching together numerous limbs, had grown even larger now. Every move he made caused the ground to tremble.
An employee who worked hard in secret to surprise the boss deserved a reward.
Chen Xu immediately created a summoning formula for Patchwerk, similar to the skeleton hero summoning formula he had created before. Patchwerk could now be summoned for battle through this formula.
However, he added a rule to the formula: all corpses of enemies killed in battle had to be handed over to Patchwerk for processing as the price for the summoning.
After finishing the creation, Chen Xu transmitted this formula to Yan Ruyu and Huangjinwu, telling them to place it in the Mage Tower for dissemination.
In time, Chen Xu’s original techniques would spread throughout the myriad worlds as the Mage Towers flourished everywhere.
Right, he almost forgot about the On Duty talent. Chen Xu first used Off-Duty to borrow Kunpeng’s Dao of Devouring.
Then he used On Duty to bind it, and found that it actually worked.
The Dao principle automatically improved every second, and insights related to the Dao of Devouring constantly exploded within his soul.
Chen Xu had previously thought he needed to use Off-Duty to comprehend the Dao principle himself before he could use On Duty. He hadn't expected that they were actually a pair of complementary talents.
This unexpected surprise made Chen Xu’s mood even better.
The feeling of improving every single moment was truly wonderful. The reason games were so addictive was precisely because of this kind of immediate positive feedback.
In the next moment, Chen Xu arrived directly at the Land of the Undead. While attending the ceremony in the Xufa World, he had received news from Guixu saying that the magic technology construction on Guixu was complete and waiting for his inspection.
Perfect. He could see what his precious floating city had been transformed into.
Sensing Chen Xu’s arrival through their soul connection, Guixu directly activated the space module beneath the city, appearing behind Chen Xu in an instant.
“Hahaha! Great Venerable Chen Xu, the Phase 2 construction of your floating city is complete. Welcome to the inspection.”
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