Chapter 269: Chaos About to Erupt
"If one were to consume this, even a dying person could extend their life by at least fifty years." Bai Mo mused, supporting the section of tree heart with his telekinesis, sensing the surging, pure life force emanating from it.
Of course, he wouldn't waste it like that. To cultivate this plant, the resources poured into it, from start to finish, had already approached a value of ten billion. If true longevity was the goal, purchasing the corresponding spirit materials from the system with that money would be far more cost-effective.
Even accounting for resistance buildup, where the resources needed for each additional year would increase geometrically, ten billion could still extend one's life by nearly a century.
Furthermore, he still possessed several centuries of lifespan. Consuming this semi-finished product now would be an utter waste.
Bai Mo retrieved two liquid nitrogen cryogenic preservation boxes, one large and one small. He then delicately sliced an extremely thin piece from the tree heart, placing it into the smaller box. The vast majority of the remaining tree heart was stored in the large ultra-low temperature preservation box.
This thousand-hectare apple orchard had yielded twenty-five thousand tons of apples over half a year ago. Not a single one was sold under Bai Mo's command; all were cryogenically stored in specialized warehouses, awaiting his activation order.
Disregarding the mess left behind, he departed the original apple orchard with the tree heart, leaving all subsequent matters for Chen Xi to handle.
The tree heart would require extensive processing later to meet Bai Mo's needs for his plan. As for the sliced-off thin piece, he had an avatar deliver it to Ning Yan Huo.
"How much longer do I have to wait?" Ning Yan Huo asked with unusual calm upon seeing the "Devil" reappear.
Without these resources, perhaps reaching the Life Field Stage would have been quite an achievement. Things like radiation and Spirit Stones, which were initially exploitable loopholes, now all demanded payment.
Given that the cultivation was tailored to serve a specific purpose, Ning Yan Huo's curse ability was naturally the utmost priority. Constantly and specifically enhanced, his curse ability now posed a deadly threat even to powerhouses of the same cultivation stage.
Whether in direct combat or through assassination from the shadows, it was enough to make anyone tremble. In a head-on confrontation, being cursed could potentially lead to a low-probability Spirit Art backlash; and if cursed from behind, the ways to die were far more numerous.
"The plan commences within two months. What's wrong? Three years have passed, and now you can't even wait two more months?" the black-robed figure said.
"No, I just don't understand. Even if I were to trigger a Daoization tribulation, I couldn't possibly wipe out all the members of the One-Wheel Cult. What makes you so confident that you can uproot them completely?"
Over these past few years, Ning Yan Huo had secretly and openly investigated the identity of the black-robed figure who called himself "Devil," and had roughly identified a few suspects.
This was actually quite easy to investigate. Anyone whose depths he, a practitioner of the Unmelting Realm, couldn't fully fathom, must inherently be at the Fifth Tier. And those who could reach that tier were, without exception, well-known figures with established names.
Within the entire Huaxia Federation, there were realistically only twenty or thirty people worth investigating.
Advancing in the Martial Path grew progressively harder with each acupoint opened, every single one a critical barrier. Coupled with the immense consumption of medicinal materials, while many possessed cultivation talent, only one in ten thousand could truly pierce the Nine-Orifice Body and achieve the Dharma Body.
In the Spirit Hub System, there were nearly a hundred individuals who had reached the peak of the Unmelting Realm. However, few dared to abandon their current wealth and glory for a life-or-death gamble, to take that step into the Xuanhua Stage.
Almost all those at the peak of the Unmelting Realm were formidable figures, many of them young people who had fought their way up from the bottom in this new era. Their current strength could guarantee them decades of wealth and honor, and still not having fully savored it, they were unwilling to abandon their present lives and gamble with their own existence.
Perhaps in another ten or twenty years, once they grew numb to all this, they might reconsider.
After all, this was no chaotic age, no apocalypse. The Sea Race was confined to the oceans, and the land remained a golden age for humanity; there were few external threats forcing everyone to continuously grow stronger.
Individuals like Ning Yan Huo, who lived solely for their vengeance, were truly rare. The vast majority of people were still bustling about, ordinary folks hoping that one day they could become a cut above the rest.
"Faith is a poison wrapped in honey." Bai Mo did not answer directly.
"Your grudge with the One-Wheel Cult began with apples, so let it end with apples too." He handed the sliced tree heart from the small refrigerator to Ning Yan Huo.
"What is this?" Simply holding the slice in his hand, he could feel the immense life force it contained.
"Eat it on the day the plan begins."
"Understood."
Since the other party offered no explanation, Ning Yan Huo didn't press further. He was already disregarding his own life; he cared not what the other party sought from him.
Within a single religious sect, the tolerance for heretics was clearly lower than for adherents of other religions.
As early as when the One-Wheel Cult fractured into the Original Faction and the Initial Faction due to the descent of the Radiant Being, the conflict between the two factions began.
After six years of internal strife, the Initial Faction, led by Ramdo, achieved successive victories, shattering the Original Faction, which lacked a strong leader, and established the Initial Faction's dominant rule in Maysuo.
Although he failed in the surprise attack to seize the Soul Crystal, Ramdo, exceptionally talented in Divine Path cultivation, still managed to achieve godhood through other means and began to sustain his Divine Kingdom with the faith of the entire Maysuo.
Concurrently, he promoted his subordinates to be subservient gods and angels, compelling them to merge their Divine Kingdoms into his own dominion.
The sincere faith of hundreds of millions of people over many years was on a completely different level from the pseudo-faith Huaxia had used to achieve godhood before. If not for Ramdo's fear of absorbing too quickly and becoming a slave to faith, losing himself, his power would have long since swelled to an even more terrifying degree.
Cultivation on the Divine Path rarely encountered bottlenecks; advancements were achieved through long periods of accumulation, focusing more on the study of control and balance.
If power expanded too rapidly, and control couldn't keep up, one would be directly hijacked by faith, becoming an agent of the believers' will. If power increased too slowly, well, that went without saying...
"Why do I feel something isn't right..." Ramdo, who was managing earthly affairs from his Divine Court within his Divine Kingdom, suddenly felt a flicker of unease just as Bai Mo handed the tree heart slice to Ning Yan Huo.
"Go, investigate those remnants of the Original Faction! See if they're still hiding any secrets!" He didn't suspect other external enemies were at play. The Original Faction remnants, composed of former high-ranking members who possessed numerous confidential secrets, were the group that worried him the most.
The European Union, or the Luminous Holy Church—in Ramdo's eyes, neither was worth too much concern. With his current power, if he were to attack regardless of the cost, he estimated it wouldn't take him even a year to flatten those two "stones."
As for Huaxia, to his east, with whom he was at odds, it was merely a vast and bloated nation. Its internal conflicts and extensive coastline already consumed the vast majority of its energy, absolutely preventing it from mustering enough strength to invade Maysuo..
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