Section 25: Development
2014-06-18 Author: Gu Zhenren
At the highest point of the Immortal Pouch World, the Blissful Joy Palace and the Rouge Group’s Palace floated quietly, both emitting a nine-colored halo.
The brilliant radiance connected, and a very secret formation space was temporarily opened.
Within this formation, Chu Yun was in the center, with seventy-two Blissful Immortal Consorts and seventy-two Rouge Sweet Consorts arranged in two circles, surrounding Chu Yun.
The formation activated, and first, the Blissful Immortal Consorts swarmed towards Chu Yun.
Chu Yun revealed his Everlasting Dragon King Mace, charging powerfully amidst the jade arms and rounded buttocks, unstoppable.
Amidst the sweet voices, waves of Innate Original Essence were generated, ten times more than when he only had the Blissful Joy Ship. It formed into a tide.
Rippling… As the tide ebbed and flowed, the Blissful Immortal Consorts soon couldn’t bear it, collapsing weakly, one after another, defeated.
Chu Yun’s body was no longer a simple Innate Body, but had been nourished by Star Saint power, elevated to the stronger Innate Dao Body.
Next, it was naturally the turn of the seventy-two Sweet Consorts.
Hua Mei, as the head of the Sweet Consorts and the mistress of the Rouge Group’s Palace, was the first to fly slowly towards Chu Yun.
Her silk Tang suit gradually shed as she flew, revealing her fragrant skin and jade body. Her delicate collarbones, full breasts, and rounded hips formed beautiful curves that could stir the hearts of women.
Chu Yun opened his strong and powerful arms, gently drawing Hua Mei into his embrace.
Their chests pressed together, and Chu Yun could clearly feel the pressure of the jade rabbits in his arms and the astonishing elasticity of her skin.
Years of military life had given Hua Mei’s body a vitality and firmness.
Chu Yun cherished Hua Mei and kissed her gently, slowly thrusting and deepening into the secret peach garden.
Hua Mei slightly furrowed her brow, some unable to withstand the invasion of such a large presence.
But soon, her brow relaxed, and with the rhythm of the great formation, movement and stillness combined. The pleasure grew stronger and stronger.
Her long hair was styled into a noble and elegant bun, adorned with a lustrous emerald jade hairpin. Chu Yun caressed Hua Mei, watching the halo of the hairpin sway as Hua Mei tilted her head.
The strong demeanor of the capable woman had vanished, leaving only charm and tenderness.
Gentle as water.
As if nourished by water, Chu Yun’s movements naturally began to accelerate. Hua Mei felt an ever-increasing boundless pleasure, like waves, surging towards her.
She was quickly submerged and lost consciousness on the spot, falling into a faint.
Chu Yun was not surprised, knowing that Hua Mei had an Acquired Body, which could not withstand the powerful output of an Innate Dao Body.
He then let Hua Mei go, allowing her to fly back slowly. Then he saw Yi Yan, in a green dress, flying towards him.
Yi Yan’s temperament was different from Hua Mei’s.
Her body was slender, like a delicate willow sapling. Her long hair was dark and shiny, like a waterfall.
If Hua Mei was a proud plum blossom in the snow, then Yi Yan was a tender willow on the green banks of Jiangnan in early spring.
“Hiss…” With a gentle thrust of the Everlasting Dragon King Mace, Yi Yan immediately opened her small mouth and gasped.
At this moment, she felt her body filled with a scorching heat and immense presence. She endured it with great difficulty.
To be able to endure it was simply a miracle!
“So tight,” Chu Yun sighed, feeling waves of pleasure coursing through him.
The miracle brought her indescribable joy. Soon, her whole body was drenched, dripping with sweat. Her hair was also damp, and her long, beautiful hair was disheveled.
A moment later, she too fainted, and Fei Yan, in a red dress, replaced her.
Fei Yan was full of passion, with an eager look on her face.
She was like a ball of flame, enveloping Chu Yun.
With Chu Yun’s movements, she felt herself sometimes soaring to the heavens, and sometimes plunging into the abyss. She cried out repeatedly, her red lips glistening.
Her delicate jade fingers scratched Chu Yun’s back, and when she couldn’t bear it, she bit Chu Yun’s shoulder randomly.
Her competitive and lively nature allowed her to last longer than Yi Yan and Hua Mei.
But in the end, her delicate body trembled violently, her beautiful eyes wide open. In that instant, she felt a powerful surge of heat powerfully thrust into her body from Chu Yun’s end.
Within a few breaths, this heat flowed through her entire body, comprehensively enhancing her physical fitness.
This heat was the Innate Original Essence.
The seventy-two Sweet Consorts were different from the Immortal Consorts. They were mortals with Acquired Bodies, so with Chu Yun’s yin and yang intercourse, they would not produce Innate Original Essence, nor would they have children due to the vast difference in their levels.
Fei Yan moaned with satisfaction, feeling warm all over. The warmth of the Innate Original Essence melted her consciousness, and finally, Fei Yan also fainted.
A day and a night passed, and the seventy-two Sweet Consorts had all completed one round and fallen into a deep sleep.
During their sleep, the Innate Original Essence continuously transformed their bodies, improving their aptitudes.
In terms of talent, the Sweet Consorts were still inferior to the Immortal Consorts.
But it didn’t matter.
As long as they went through ten more rounds, they would all be completely transformed and possess Innate Bodies, their aptitudes then leveling with the Immortal Consorts.
Excluding Saints, in the entire Nine Provinces, only Chu Yun possessed such a heaven-defying method.
Since the establishment of the Rouge Group’s Palace and the return of the Sweet Consorts, this was the twenty-third time the Yin-Yang Rotation Great Formation had been activated.
Each time, the seventy-two Sweet Consorts would fall into a coma, but the duration of their comas was getting shorter and shorter, from the initial seven days and seven nights to the current three days and three nights.
This also indicated that their bodies were gradually transforming into Innate Bodies.
“It looks like they will wake up in two days and two nights. Then notify me, and I’ll preside over the formation again,” Chu Yun stood up as if nothing had happened and put on his clothes.
He was an Innate Dao Body, with boundless energy. One hundred and forty-four people were nothing to him. Even if the number doubled, no, even tenfold, it would still be a piece of cake for him.
Stepping out of the formation, Chu Yun hovered in the sky, first inspecting the entire Immortal Pouch World.
The war was still ongoing. The Archipel, led by Jin Bihan, had already expanded its territory to over five hundred cities, becoming quite substantial.
Shu Tianhao had long since retired and was now wandering the world, focusing solely on improving his cultivation.
Jin Bihan, with her King level strength, suppressed the capital of Dunhuang.
Bai Mian, Wu Datou, Wang Zelong, and Yan Jisi were known as the Four Heavenly Kings of Archipel, world-renowned fierce generals.
Huang Xiao, Ning Yiyi, Yan Que, and Hua Ying were the heads of the Ministry of War, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Revenue, and Ministry of Personnel respectively, collectively known as the Four Prime Ministers of Archipel.
Chu Yun secretly looked after them, and coupled with their outstanding talents, their cultivation was at least at Jun level. Huang Xiao and Bai Mian, at the forefront of civil and military officials, were even at the peak of Marquis level.
With such formidable upper-tier power, Jin Bihan’s side dominated the Immortal Pouch World.
Therefore, even losing the main force of the seventy-two Rouge Imperial Guards did not matter.
In fact, due to the divine miracles displayed by Chu Yun, their momentum had greatly increased during this period, and their expansion speed was two to three times faster than before.
This was still considering Jin Bihan’s strict restraint on the expansion speed.
As for faith, it had also surged significantly. Such divine miracles and unimaginably great power naturally gave rise to emotions of worship, fear, and fanaticism. And these emotions were often the origin of faith.
Of course, such divine miracles could not be performed too often. The more they were performed, the less effective they became.
Maintaining mystery could further solidify people’s faith.
Of course, besides the gains, there were also losses.
As the flames of war continued to burn, a large number of Beast Tamers died, and even more Demonic Creatures perished. Many prosperous cities became desolate ruins.
Taking Chu Yun’s devout believers as an example, he had initially gathered over 300,000 in Muma City. Now, after the baptism of war and the sifting of the masses, only 250,000 remained.
However, Chu Yun felt no heartache or regret.
The sifting of the masses, discarding the impure and retaining the pure, meant that the remaining 250,000 had higher average cultivation and stronger spirit, significantly reducing the burden on Chu Yun’s spirit.
Moreover, Chu Yun had now experimented and found that developing Phenomenon level Beast Tamers into devout believers was the best choice.
Higher than that, Hegemons, could only be developed into devout believers through Immeasurable Dao. The difference in faith was a qualitative difference, so it was not chosen.
Lower than that were Adept level. Although they were devout believers, their spirit was too weak, placing too much burden on Chu Yun’s main body, making it not worth the trade-off.
Therefore, Phenomenon level Beast Tamers were the best choice.
Chu Yun estimated that if there were five thousand Phenomenon level devout believers, their faith would be equivalent to the faith of the original 300,000 devout believers.
But now, counting all the Phenomenon level Beast Tamers in the entire Immortal Pouch World, there were less than 20,000.
Do not think that Phenomenon level Beast Tamers are numerous. In fact, most Beast Tamers are mediocre, and many can only be considered life professions, unable to fight with demonic creatures. They can only be farmers, craftsmen, and merchants to make a living.
In Chu Yun’s Immortal Pouch World, among five hundred Beast Tamers, having one Elite level was already quite good.
In a city with a population of over ten thousand, having an Adept level Beast Tamer was enough to praise the place as having “outstanding people and a blessed land.”
Phenomenon level was even rarer. Among ten Adept levels, one might not be able to advance to a Phenomenon level. Only a large city with hundreds of thousands of people would have one or two Phenomenon level experts.
Of course, this was also because Chu Yun’s Immortal Pouch had developed for too short a time. Even with the addition of other Immortal Pouches, they were all from Great Emperors. In terms of the cultivation of the general population, they could not match the Immortal Pouch Worlds of Emperors, let alone compare with the Nine Provinces.
However, with the progression of the war, people’s potential was being pushed to the extreme, and the general cultivation level was improving with each passing day.
This was also another reason why Chu Yun insisted on continuous warfare.
War could greatly increase the cultivation of the populace. Of course, war also led to a sharp decline in population.
In fact, not only humans, but also the numbers of other migrating Demonic Beasts and Demonic Plants were greatly reduced. Many Demon Soldiers were refined, and then more Demon Soldiers were lost on the battlefield.
Originally, Chu Yun’s Immortal Pouch World was a scene of extreme prosperity. Both the population and the number of demonic creatures had reached the limit that the Immortal Pouch could bear. The vitality was strong, and it was in its prime.
But now, as the war progressed, with massive deaths and bloodshed, four out of ten people died, and the casualty rate of demonic creatures was even more severe.
The once dense jungle areas, where the calls of various demonic creatures echoed, were now empty. Late at night, only the night wind howled through the forest.
Some Immortal Consorts could not bear to see this and advised Chu Yun to stop the war.
But Chu Yun was unmoved.
How could one achieve great things without a heart of steel? The cause of unified faith was an eternal undertaking. A solid foundation of faith had to be built with great effort and cost.
As long as the foundation was firm, when new people migrated in the future, the assimilation and spread of faith would be twice as effective with half the effort.
“Heaven and Earth are not benevolent and treat all things as straw dogs.” Regarding this saying, I have been feeling it more and more deeply recently. At this moment, Chu Yun’s gaze pierced through endless space, his heart already overlooking the entire land.
“Heaven and Earth are not governed by man, but by law, hence the Net of Law covering the universe. All spirits flourish and multiply, all must follow the rules of the Net of Law. As long as there is the Net of Law, the tone of the world is fairness and balance. Heaven and Earth do not favor any species; all things are mutually destructive and complementary, and there will always be a relationship of restraint and being restrained.”
“Therefore, under the Net of Law, all beings are equal, and no one has special privileges. Thus, ‘treating all things as straw dogs’ means treating all things equally. It doesn’t speak of human feelings, hence ‘not benevolent’.”
“Heaven and Earth are not benevolent and treat all things as straw dogs. The heavens are not merciful at all, treating all things as humble straw dogs. It is truly cold and heartless. However, only those who truly understand can comprehend the meaning of this sentence. This precisely illustrates that there is a great benevolence between Heaven and Earth, a benevolence that is absolutely fair and just, treating all spirits equally.”
Treating all equally is the greatest benevolence!
By sifting the masses like this, only the elite remain, and the harvest of faith has increased rather than decreased.
Although demonic creatures suffered heavy losses, a portion of their demonic crystals were utilized by humans, while most were decomposed by Heaven and Earth.
Part of this cultivation was absorbed by the formation eye’s demonic creatures, thus further stabilizing the entire Immortal Pouch World. Another part formed various resources, distributed throughout Heaven and Earth.
When they migrated previously, various groups were in close contact, with no space for individual development. It was like ten people squeezed into a small room for four.
Even with the meticulous planning of the Blissful Immortal Consorts, human wisdom was limited, and there were still many unreasonable aspects.
But through wars between humans and competition among wild demonic creatures, the entire world spontaneouslyAdjusted itself. Unreasonable aspects became fewer and fewer, natural circulation became smoother, and the establishment of the food chain became more stable.
Although the original Immortal Pouch World was extremely prosperous, it was, after all, suddenly pieced together, with many hidden dangers, instability, and little room for development.
It was like a thin person carrying a large pile of things, bent over and walking forward. How far could he go?
The future was worrying.
Now, after the baptism of war, the burden has lightened, and everything left is carefully selected. What was discarded was fed into people’s stomachs. The originally thin person has become a strong man.
Therefore, the situation will be that a strong man travels light and strides towards a bright future.
The contrast between before and after is clear. When the war ends, Chu Yun will not only possess a solid foundation of faith but also a more stable Immortal Pouch World with greater potential for development!
(To be continued)
