Chapter 1120: Underneath the Deity Ground
“Boom!”
Everyone in the deity ground looked over when the ray of light appeared. Jiang Churan who was standing in front of the Origin Divine Palace, Master Ling Yun, the other cultivators all over the deity ground and countless fiends in that world, all of them looked up at the same time and stared at the earth-shattering ray in shock.
“What… What’s that?” Jiang Churan wondered.
Master Ling Yun was astonished at first, then he looked up and saw many golden arrays at a gigantic scale appear ten thousand feet high above; they were connected to the sky, letting out beams of light. The ends of the arrays were thousands of miles away and they covered the entire deity ground, even extending high in the air.
Some powerful energy was surging out of those arrays.
Even if the energy emerged and disappeared quickly, Master Ling Yun and the others still felt terrified in their minds. That burst of energy that leaked out of the arrays seemed to be able to make the sky collapse, shattering with it an area with a ten thousand mile radius. Golden Core and Nascent Soul Cultivators like them were like ants in front of those arrays.
“Is that a Divine Array? No… It’s a Sacred Array, which has a higher level!” Master Ling Yun’s hands were shaking.
What was a Sacred Array?
Apollo Palace was the top sect in the Little South Heavenly Realm and they ruled a few planet regions, but they only had a few Grand Cultivators after all. Their Divine Emperor was also the most powerful cultivator in that region, but he was countless light years away from reaching the Void Returning Level.
Once a cultivator entered that realm, he would become a Saint.
That would be an earth-shattering existence even deep in the Star Ocean. The Purple Heaven Sacred Ground once mentioned by Luo Changshen had managed to stand out among the surrounding planet regions only because they had a Saint. A Saint could shake half of the Little South Heavenly Realm and destroy many planet regions by merely stomping a foot. A fair amount of Nascent Soul Cultivators had never seen a Void Returning Saint, who could become a world dominator in the universe, in their entire lives. And yet, in the meantime, Master Ling Yun had noticed that there was more than one Sacred Array that had never been discovered before.
How could they not be terrified?
“What’s happening inside the Origin Divine Palace? Why is there such a huge change? Why do these arrays exist? Did the ancient deities leave an array here after suppressing the fiend? Did Chen Beixuan open it?” Master Ling Yun said as he shook.
The other Nascent Soul Cultivators also turned pale and were extremely fearful.
Jiang Churan looked into the temple anxiously. She wanted to go inside right away to make sure Chen Fan was safe, but she stayed there in the end to keep an eye on the Nascent Soul Cultivators, standing with the bronze sword in her hand.
Not only in front of Origin Divine Palace—
Cultivators in every corner of the entire deity ground looked over in shock. With such an activity, even those ten thousand miles away would be able to see it.
“What’s happening there?”
“Isn’t that where the Origin Divine Palace is located? Has the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace found the Grand Opportunity?”
Many cultivators who came from Star Ocean said to each other, “We should speed up as well. We can’t fall behind the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace and the Wuji Sect anymore, or we’ll never catch up to them!”
Meanwhile.
The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace next to the well deep inside the Origin Divine Palace widened his eyes and looked at Chen Fan in shock. He watched Chen Fan cast the spells and shoot out Dharma Seals from his hands as he muttered. Countless ancient runes flew into the well and the entire temple was immediately awakened like a sleeping beast, all because of Chen Fan’s Dharma Spells.
“Boom!”
The array rose to the sky.
Some strong energy waves flashed around the light ray and there were even thunderbolts mixed in, letting out a destructive energy. Even the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace a hundred feet away felt the ray’s terrifying power.
The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace said as he shook, “You… How did you activate the array inside the Origin Divine Palace?” The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace widened his eyes and pointed at Chen Fan. “That’s a super array built by Saints and Perfected Immortals from the Central Galaxy to control the entire deity ground! How did you activate it without taking control of the ninety-nine Origin Divine Palaces?” He could not believe it; he looked as if he had gone mad.
What Chen Fan had done was a great blow to him. He used to be confident, thinking that Chen Fan would ask him for help as he faced such a knotty problem. After all, the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace left out his last trump card when he spoke. In fact, Apollo Palace had a grasp of the array’s operating pattern after exploring the Origin Divine Palace for a few hundred thousand years.
Even though it wasn’t enough for them to control the entire array, they could use it to get some benefits from it. Until then, the Grand Cultivators of Apollo Palace were still clueless about the array’s true purpose. The tactic of nurturing the Deity Fetus was too clever and beyond their imagination, but it didn’t stop them from realizing there had to be a Grand Opportunity inside the array.
But the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace had never thought that Chen Fan would be able to control the array without his help.
“That’s impossible. It’s definitely impossible!” The Divine Prince shook his head.
Even his golden Divine Soul vibrated violently, as if due to suffering a huge blow. The foundation of his Divine Soul and Nascent Soul also seemed to be shaken.
“Why not? Have you forgotten what you said? There’s another way, apart from controlling the ninety-nine Origin Divine Palaces,” Chen Fan said as he controlled the array and spinned the light ray in the well.
“Another way?” said the Divine Prince. His eyes almost popped out and he looked at Chen Fan as if he were a ghost. “You… You’re someone from those super sects that built the array? From the ancient sacred grounds in the Central Galaxy, or one of the nine Celestial Sects? You’re a descendant of a Celestial Sect?”
At this moment…
The Divine Prince of Apollo Palace was truly frightened.
The nine Celestial Sects! Those were sects that were truly superior, the dominators of the universe. Apollo Palace might be the top sect in the Little South Heavenly Realm, yet it was nothing in front of the nine Celestial Sects. Those mighty sects could destroy Apollo Palace with just a finger. Even though the Divine Prince of Apollo Palace had respect and high status, he was clearly aware that his power wasn’t even worth-mentioning for the nine Celestial Sects. He might even be weaker than a baseline disciple of those Celestial Sects.
“Are you really from one of the nine Celestial Sects? Is it the Five Elements Immortal Sect or the Ascension Celestial Sect?” the Divine Prince asked.
Chen Fan didn’t reply.
He was putting all his energy and attention on the well right then.
“Crack, crack!”
As Chen Fan opened the array in the Origin Divine Palace, connecting it to the other Sacred Arrays in the sky, his mind also traveled to the vast, boundless sky in a flash. He only felt as if he were just a mayfly in front of a towering tree, using his small amount of energy to move a Divine Tree.
“Bang! Bang!”
Some blue thunderbolts flashed on the light ray of the Origin Divine Palace.
Every thunderbolt carried an energy that could easily crush a peak-stage Nascent Soul Cultivator. Even Chen Fan had to be careful at that moment. If he accidentally led the array away, half of the deity ground and Earth would be blown up. Earth had the protection of too many arrays, so the planet itself would make it through, but Chen Fan, Jiang Churan and the others would probably disappear from the world.
“This Origin Divine Palace is just one of the ninety-nine anchors Master left in the deity ground to attract the Fiend Qi of the Fiend Zombie and to purify to create Deity Qi. After that, the Deity Qi is sent to Heaven.
“So, this well is the most crucial part of the temple.”
Chen Fan lowered his head and looked carefully at the well. After a while, he hit his head. “Isn’t this the ‘Origin Well?’ Why didn’t I realize this? I got blinded by something else. Other than the ‘Origin Well,’ no other arrays can turn the Fiend Qi of a taboo existence like the Fiend Zombie into Deity Qi.”
The Origin Well.
Rather than a Dharma Artifact, it was more like an array like the Spirit Gathering Array. It had just one use, which was turning all kinds of special energies into Spirit Qi that cultivators could take in.
In fact, every sect had an Origin Well. Chen Fan also wanted to build one when he established the North Qiong Sect; he did ask his subordinates to do so before he left Planet Tianhuang.
Chen Fan didn’t recognize it before because the Origin Well in the temple was too weird. Not only did it produce Spirit Qi, but also Deity Qi.
“Being able to refine an Origin Well to this level which can turn Fiend Qi of a Fiend God to Deity Qi, the materials used to make it must be beyond my expectations. I’m afraid that not even ordinary sacred grounds would have those materials. Only the oldest, most powerful Celestial Sects and races do, and they must also have the help from an Array Master,” Chen Fan pondered.
The price of an Origin Well had to be as high as a Sacred Treasure. There were a total of ninety-nine temples in the deity ground, meaning that there were ninety-nine Origin Wells. Such an expensive price was completely out of Chen Fan’s wildest imagination.
“The Masters built ninety-nine Origin Wells and so many arrays outside of Earth just for a ‘Deity Fetus?'” Even Chen Fan doubted this.
A single Celestial Sect would have never completed such a large amount of work alone.
There had to be a few Celestial Sects working together, giving out all they had and going through thousands of years of planning to create all those things.
That was something a Deity Fetus couldn’t justify.
At least for Chen Fan, it wasn’t worth it.
“Fine, just forget about it. Let’s see if this Origin Well can produce ‘Deity Qi,'” Chen Fan thought.
He slowly activated the light ray with his Immortal Will, in an attempt to turn a bit of Fiend Qi into Deity Qi. Still, when he initiated the array—
“Boom!”
The entire Origin Well shone and the light enveloped the entire temple. Immediately after, a suction force from the well sucked Chen Fan’s Divine Soul in.
“This is?”
Chen Fan’s eyes popped out. An unbelievable sight appeared in front of him.