Chapter 963: Breaking Through the Place of Seal, Method of Descent!
Chapter 966: Conceptual Mother and Child
Sparrow God Center Tower.
The rumbling thunder in the dim sky grew louder, and the celestial light that seemed to be breaking through the clouds to reveal the fog dissipated again, with the rain pouring down like a torrent.
However, these pouring rains could not touch the figures in the ruins at all.
In the center of the ruins, Tang Quan, who had black long braids hanging behind him and wore a green brocade robe, stood with his hands behind his back. At this moment, he opened his eyes wide.
His eyes seemed to contain the clear light of swords. He gazed towards the top of the tower.
Immediately after, the others also sensed the abnormality and looked up.
As expected, the next moment, a radiant blue light lit up at the top of the tower, swirling into a portal.
The black-robed, peach-faced man walked out of it serenely and said from above, “Everyone, you’ve waited a long time.”
“Saint, have you finished handling your urgent matters?”
“Naturally,” Xia Feng smiled, looking around at everyone. “I won’t waste time talking to each of you individually. Everyone, let me inform you beforehand that the Heavenly Realm’s Spirit Energy is limited, and its regeneration speed is extremely slow. Therefore, I can only grant each of your factions 10 slots for ‘entering the Heavenly Realm for cultivation’ for a period of one hundred years. With that said, tell me what resources you can offer.”
He didn’t state what he wanted in return, but first asked the factions to state their offers so he could get a clearer picture.
As for the statement about the Heavenly Realm’s limited Spirit Energy, it was true and could not be lied about.
Jin Yangtian and the Black Moon Pope had both entered the Heavenly Realm before and could clearly sense the situation there, knowing how much Spirit Energy the Heavenly Realm had and that it could regenerate.
This information could not be hidden.
However, they did not know the speed of Spirit Energy regeneration.
In Xia Feng’s opinion, the regeneration speed of the Heavenly Realm’s Spirit Energy was actually very fast. It could accommodate 10,000 people absorbing Spirit Energy continuously every day, which was more than enough.
But to accommodate more, such as hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions, he would need to raise his level of conceptual authority in the Sumeru Realm.
And 10,000 people, divided among the major factions, would be roughly 1,000 slots per faction.
However, he wouldn’t be foolish enough to honestly disclose the upper limit of the slots.
After all, scarcity breeds value. By stating that the Spirit Energy regeneration speed was very low and offering very few slots, he would have room to increase prices for trading any surplus slots later.
“10 people…” everyone mused.
Before coming for negotiations, the high-level members of each faction had already discussed and deliberated, believing that the daily capacity for absorbing Spirit Energy in the Heavenly Realm was around 60 people. This figure was derived from the ‘Gu Yi Experimental Manuscripts’ from years ago.
It was no secret that the Heavenly God Gu Yi had been dedicated to Spirit Energy experiments from the founding of the empire until three thousand years ago.
Initially, the major factions did not pay much attention to Gu Yi’s flights of fancy. Even when Gu Yi generously shared his experimental data with the major factions, after giving him face, this experimental data was still thrown into the archives.
After all, even Pillar State Huang Ye had frowned and shaken his head after seeing Gu Yi’s concept, believing the chance of success was extremely low, infinitely close to zero.
It was only after Gu Yi truly created this mysterious gas that could greatly enhance temporary comprehension and successfully merged it with his authority to form the Sumeru Throne that the entire upper echelons of the empire were shaken.
Unfortunately, treasures appearing either brought prosperity or chaos.
After the civil war, the Sumeru Throne disappeared without a trace. However, a large amount of Gu Yi’s experimental data remained intact, becoming treasures for the major factions.
In the three thousand years after the civil war, the empire had conducted experiments related to Spirit Energy, but unfortunately, the formation of the Sumeru Throne was unrepeatable.
Not everyone was the Heavenly God Gu Yi.
The undisputed genius of the Heavenly God Gu Yi was unquestionable, but the formation of the Sumeru Throne and the birth of the Heavenly Realm’s Spirit Energy indeed involved a great deal of luck. Even Huang Ye could hardly replicate it.
According to the data left by Gu Yi, it was deduced that the daily capacity for Spirit Energy in the Heavenly Realm was around 60 people, with the possibility of increasing as the owner’s conceptual level rose.
With a total limit of 60 people, if divided equally among the major factions, not many would receive.
But… the allocation offered by the Abyssal Saint was significantly higher than the psychological expectations of the major factions.
“You’ve offered too much,” Huang Zhaoyue’s thoughts suddenly echoed in Xia Feng’s mind. “You should have asked me first. I don’t know about the other factions, but when I was talking to Yin Mian just now, I learned that the Great Sin faction’s psychological expectation was 6 people.”
“…” Xia Feng felt he had already been quite stingy, offering 10 slots as if bestowing charity upon those factions, considering it insignificant. Yet, he never expected that the psychological expectations of the major factions could be even lower.
However, it wasn’t a big deal. Compared to the total limit of 10,000 people, and the possibility of advancing to hundreds of thousands or millions in the future, this number was insignificant.
Xia Feng stood with his hands behind his back at the top of the tower, looking down at everyone, and said softly, “As you can all see, this Saint has shown full sincerity. Offering a large number of 10 slots to each faction completely caps the limit, with no hidden reservations.”
“Therefore, I hope you will also be forthright and offer resources that satisfy this Saint, so that this transaction can be quickly concluded.”
“Since that’s the case, Burning Heaven will go first.”
From a great distance, Nian Gengcheng, standing alone on the roof, offered a gentleman’s bow to Xia Feng and said with a smile, “Saint, Burning Heaven is willing to offer two Epic legacy belongings and one Level 7 Spirit Material that aids in achieving sainthood, as well as twenty Level 6 Spirit Materials.”
After the young man in the suit finished speaking, the atmosphere fell into dead silence for a moment.
Xia Feng glanced at Nian Gengcheng and said softly, “Is that all?”
“That’s all,” Nian Gengcheng replied with a smile.
Xia Feng chuckled lightly and looked at everyone. “Everyone, if you are as foolish and insincere as Burning Heaven, then there’s no need to talk further.”
“…”
“Saint, are you perhaps interested in the S-grade Spirit Paper of our Golden Sparrow Flower’s legacy?” Ke Yanqing asked, lowering her classical oil-paper umbrella.
Xia Feng raised an eyebrow. This did surprise him; the Golden Sparrow Flower was actually offering an S-grade Spirit Paper proactively.
However, upon thinking of the effect of the Golden Sparrow Flower’s legacy Spirit Paper, Xia Feng frowned.
According to the Empress’s introduction earlier, the Golden Sparrow Flower’s legacy Spirit Paper was ‘S-grade · Golden Sparrow Flower Domain.’
This was also a rare and peculiar Concept Skill.
It could conceptually establish a [Mother-Child Relationship].
Just like the masked woman who used the A-class Spirit Artifact · Bloodline Inheritance on Xia Feng before, who conceptually established a father-daughter relationship.
Although there was no blood relation whatsoever, in the conceptual realm, they became father-daughter, mother-son, mother-daughter, and so on. The price for this was, naturally, the potential to be implicated when facing certain karma-related or curse-related abilities.
The reason why the Golden Sparrow Flower could unite various factions of different sizes without internal strife to form such a super-faction comparable to a Legion was because of this legacy Spirit Paper.
Within the ‘Conceptual Domain’ formed by the Golden Sparrow Flower Domain, [children] could obtain the blessings of authority from the [Mother] without any complicated rituals.
Except for Saints/Earthly Agents, ordinary believers would need corresponding Rare Spirit Materials, corresponding complicated rituals, and to learn corresponding Divine Grace Spirit Robes before they could obtain the blessings of authority of the Divine Master they believed in and use them.
But by entering the Golden Sparrow’s ‘Conceptual Domain,’ as children of Hua Shen, the Mother, everyone was a Saint of the Mother.
