Chapter 441: Chapter 342: Methods Spanning Trillions of Years_1

The middle-aged man furrowed his brows as he stared at the ground, pondering for a few seconds before slowly relaxing and shaking his head with a smile, “Ah, the will of Heaven!”

Li Cheng didn’t understand, the will of Heaven?

The middle-aged man pointed to the ground and continued, “Do you know about the Spirit of the World?”

Li Cheng said, “The Spirit of the World is fundamental to whether a world can grow. It contains the primordial force of a world. A world that has given birth to the Spirit of the World will have boundless possibilities.”

Back in the Three-way Abyss, Li Cheng had witnessed the Spirit of the Three-way Abyss, but that Spirit of the World had no consciousness, only instinct.

Take, for example, those worlds that were supported by the World Divine Tree billions of years ago; the World Divine Tree was their Spirit of the World, and the top worlds were close to standing shoulder to shoulder with the Divine Realm.

The middle-aged man nodded, “But there is no Spirit of the World in the Divine Realm. Do you know why?”

Li Cheng was stunned—such a powerful order in the Divine Realm, yet without a Spirit of the World?

The middle-aged man didn’t keep him guessing and added, “This has to start with the God Race, the first beings born in the Divine Realm. They were born with the ability to control the Laws of Heaven and Earth, the darlings of this cosmos. If a Spirit of the World were born, they would know immediately.”

“If a Spirit of the World were born, the Divine Realm could likely advance further, and as a result, the Laws of Heaven and Earth would also advance. The God Race could very well lose their advantage.”

“Therefore, whenever a Spirit of the World is about to be born, it is erased by the God Race.”

Li Cheng frowned. If the Divine Realm were to advance, the various Laws could potentially break through the number of 1,369,968,000, and cultivators would also be able to comprehend more Laws and become stronger.

The God Race should also become stronger, but they might lose their innate advantage as a result.

To protect an unknown outcome, the God Race would actually eradicate the Spirit of the World? To ensure their own ruling position?

It sounded like a policy of splendid isolation!

“Back then, when the Spirit of the World was born again, the Human Tribe used all its power to transfer it beneath the protection of the Chaotic Yuan Gate, but would the God Race simply let it be? War broke out as a result.”

“The God Race was powerful, and we stood no chance, so out of desperation, I had to refine the Spirit of the World and use it to bring my cultivation of the Chaos Yuan Heavenly Scripture to completion.”

Li Cheng now understood. So that was it. No wonder they had managed to drive the God Race out of the Divine Realm!

But the God Race had been gone from the Divine Realm for eons; had a new Spirit of the World not been born in the meantime?

The middle-aged man looked at the ground again, smiling and saying, “When I refined the Spirit of the World, I did not completely refine it. After driving away the God Race, I took a part of the Divine Realm and hid it here, spent all of my energy nurturing the Spirit of the World, hoping it might recover one day.”

“And now… perhaps because it has absorbed my power, this Spirit of the World has developed a strong affinity for the Chaos Yuan Heavenly Scripture. Have you felt it?”

Li Cheng was surprised—this calling, from the Spirit of the World?

Moved by the thought, Li Cheng said, “Does the senior mean that the Spirit of the World has already begun to grow here? If that’s the case, if I take the Spirit of the World out with me, wouldn’t it be long before the Divine Realm advances further?”

The middle-aged man nodded with a smile, “Back then, I had no choice but to refine the Spirit of the World. After succeeding, I did everything I could to nurture it again. But before I died, I couldn’t see it revive. I thought maybe we could only hope for the birth of a new Spirit of the World. I never expected it to have survived.”

“With its current state, within a year, the Divine Realm will see significant changes, but that assumes you can take it out.”

The middle-aged man pointed upwards, where five or six thousand God Race Divine Venerables were doing their utmost to break the formation.

They surely knew the Spirit of the World of the Divine Realm was hidden in this Secret Land, so they were willing to forfeit a millennium-long peace agreement just to explore the Secret Land first.

Once the Spirit of the World falls into their hands, whether destructed or refined, it would be the beginning of a disaster for the Wan Race of the Divine Realm.

Li Cheng looked outside the formation, “Relatively speaking, I think the bigger challenge is convincing the Spirit of the World to come with me.”

A flash of surprise crossed the middle-aged man’s eyes—did Li Cheng mean to say that these five or six thousand God Race Divine Venerables posed no threat to him?

Though the Spirit of the World is called a spirit, it actually possesses no Spiritual Wisdom, only acting on instinct. Therefore, taking it away will be very difficult.

It would probably flee to some other place before he could even get close.

“There are two methods. One is to take this cosmos away; the Spirit of the World will naturally be taken along. The other is to find a way to make it recognize you and be willing to temporarily enter your Divine World,” said the middle-aged man.

“How large is this cosmos?” Li Cheng asked.

“A hundred billion miles.”

The response from the middle-aged man left Li Cheng somewhat at a loss; he didn’t have the power yet to take over such an immense cosmos.

His father, the Chaos Yuan Great Venerable, certainly could, but they couldn’t enter here.

So he would have to use the second method, finding a way to gain recognition from the Spirit of the World.

As he pondered, Li Cheng suddenly looked at the middle-aged man, “Since the senior can converse with me across Space-Time, could you possibly place this cosmos within a space bubble? In that case, I would only need to take the space bubble.”

The middle-aged man let out a wry laugh, “Haven’t I already done so?”

Li Cheng was briefly taken aback, then realized, yes, this senior had already placed a part of the Divine Realm inside a space bubble, turning it into a Secret Land and blocking beings with Divine Emperor cultivations.

That meant all he had to do was find the core of this Secret Land, take control of it, and bring it back to the Divine Realm.