Chapter 1697: Chapter 6: The Four Great Stages of the World, A Century of Intensive Training!

Under the silver tree, Zhao Xing sat cross-legged, watching the destruction of Man Ya Small World No. 2436.

The collapse began with the earth veins, which is why Siren’s life array vanished in an instant.

Zhao Xing and Siren were originally separated by thousands of miles, but after the first day, the land between them disappeared significantly.

Soon, only the territory protected by special plants remained, and after two days, the land between them connected, almost as if they were side by side.

"Mushroom King!" Siren still glared angrily at Zhao Xing; she hadn’t yet recovered and looked like a pig-head.

"What’s up?" Zhao Xing looked at Siren in surprise.

Siren became even angrier because the other party seemed to think she shouldn’t be upset!

Zhao Xing indeed thought so; Siren had cultivated Spiritual Great Divine Power, yet was angry over her appearance, which was really quite odd.

"You hit me, and yet ask me what’s up?" Siren gritted her teeth.

"How did you cultivate your Spiritual Great Divine Power?" Zhao Xing asked curiously.

So easily agitated yet capable of cultivating Spiritual Great Divine Power? 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"You jerk!" Siren growled, "What do you know about spiritual cultivation? I follow the emotional school!"

"Oh! I see!" Zhao Xing nodded in realization.

The spiritual path has many schools; some cultivate a heart of iron, unaffected by anything, some embrace everything, always smiling, while others are like an iceberg, indifferent to all.

Then there’s the emotional school like Siren’s, where practitioners are emotionally rich and actively experience the impact of every emotion on the soul.

During different cultivation phases, one often anchors to something meaningful to stimulate psychic vitality.

What Siren cares about is likely her ’beauty’.

Of course, the stages may vary; perhaps in the next stage, Siren will become gentle and cute because the anchors and needs change.

Having anger, it naturally must be expressed.

Thus, Siren spewed a torrent of words at Zhao Xing for a full one and a half months before stopping.

The extreme verbal abuse even taught Zhao Xing quite a few swear words.

"About time?" Zhao Xing had been observing the earth and sky; Siren suddenly stopped, catching him a bit off guard.

"Really, I’m sorry, Fellow Daoist Mushroom, for cursing you for so long." Siren had regained her beauty as if releasing her anger changed her aura again.

"How refreshing." Zhao Xing chuckled, Siren must have entered the next stage of cultivation. "No worries, carry on with your cultivation."

Siren: "(๑‾ꇴ‾๑) Yes!"

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Boom~~~

After the earth veins collapsed, the earth’s energy rose skyward like lines, resembling magnetic fields, laid bare before a thousand cultivators, while all things began to swiftly wither.

"In the Self Sect’s theory, whether it’s the Minister of Agriculture’s inner world or the cosmos’ small world, large world, or even the universe itself, there are four stages."

"Primordial, Origin, Myriad Phenomena, Silent Extinction."

"Among them, the Primordial and Silent Extinction stages are rarely seen." Zhao Xing scanned greedily every inch of his surroundings, wishing he could imprint them clearly in his mind.

"Primordial is the birth stage of the world, and it’s the most mysterious."

At this moment, Siren’s voice suddenly came again, softly: "Fellow Daoist Mushroom..."

"What’s the matter?" Zhao Xing turned his head.

"May I know your name?"

"Zhao Xing."

"Well..."

"Anything else?"

Siren asked a bit shyly: "Right now, I seem to have forgotten some things, and I’d like to ask you, Daoist, if you could... if not willing, that’s okay."

"Ask away." The collapse had just started, no need to be fully focused yet.

Having Zhao Xing’s consent, Siren visibly brightened: "I heard once, during the world’s four major stages, the Primordial stage contains infinite possibilities, all life without growth constraints, Legendary and Divine-level plants everywhere, powerful bloodline creatures, and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures abound."

"But it appears for extremely brief periods, how brief was it?"

Zhao Xing replied without hesitation: "In the Self Sect’s theory, one sixty-eight wuliangth of a second, the world was born."

"Oh! That must be it." Siren nodded in realization; she finally remembered!

Sixty-eight wuliang, which is ten to the sixty-eighth power.

"One sixty-eight wuliangth of a second, such a tiny fraction, even the Dayan Divine Weapon can’t capture such minute temporal changes."

"Hence, the theoretical phenomenon in the Primordial stage is also called ’Instant Primordial’."

"Red Star Empire’s Primordial Realm isn’t truly a Primordial Realm. The name derives from Self Sect pursuing the infinitely beautiful world stage described in theory."

"Theory guides the path of cultivation. When our Self Sect’s Minister of Agriculture reaches the Reincarnation Realm and establishes the inner world, it’s theoretically possible to capture ’Instant Primordial’, thereby spawning ’Native Species’."

"The higher the quality of the World Stone used to create the inner world, the stronger the Native Species spawned."

What Zhao Xing cultivated now is called ’Origin Space’, not an inner world.

Since the Dao is still incomplete, it can’t be considered a world, merely the foundational stage of world nurturing.

Our Self Sect’s Minister of Agriculture, below the Reincarnation Realm, moved plant life and materials into the inner world from the outside.

Only by creating a world can ’Native Species’ spawn.

"Wonder if Old Qing consumed divine power yet, he still needs to find me a Boundary-breaking Divine Stone."

In Zhao Xing’s understanding, the Boundary-breaking Divine Stone is second only to the ’Primordial God Stone’; he never used one in his past life, only mediocre quality ones.

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