I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 968 Omniscient and Omnipotent
The Tongtian Jianmu tree, accelerated by Zhang Chen's time manipulation, has grown for hundreds of thousands of years, enough to cover the entire small world created by Zhang Chen.

The Tongtian Jianmu, also known as the World Tree, can grow alongside the world. Even a small dimension can be forcibly evolved into a larger world once the World Tree is planted there.

As Zhang Chen planted the World Tree, the World Tree began to absorb and release energy from the chaos. At this time, the small world ushered in a period of vigorous life, and innate energy began to condense on the earth, transforming into various innate creations, spiritual herbs and immortal plants.

But that wasn't enough. Zhang Chen took out the Breath Soil from his hand and casually tossed it into the small world. The small world trembled violently, cracked open, and swallowed the Breath Soil whole.

The soil takes root and grows larger when it touches water, constantly absorbing and expanding the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, changing the soil of the underground world and causing it to transform into its innate form.

The Breath Soil was a highly nourishing nutrient for the Tongtian Jianmu and the Longevity Tree. The Longevity Tree was radiant with divine light, and after being nourished by the Breath Soil, it began to take root, sprout, and expand rapidly. The Tongtian Jianmu, having received this blessing, also began to grow at an accelerated pace, its branches extending along the World Barrier and spreading in all directions, reaching into the World Barrier.

"I wonder if my time acceleration can be applied to the small world." Zhang Chen looked at the chaos in front of him, pondered for a moment, and then gently tapped the chaos in his hand. The next moment, the chaos in his hand did not change, but the small world in the chaos roared and expanded to five hundred miles.

"It's working!" Zhang Chen's eyes lit up as he looked at the expanding miniature world.

As the small world expanded, its world power fed back to the Tongtian Jianmu tree, causing the tree to grow as well. After receiving nourishment from the world power, it transformed into a hundred-mile-long Jianmu tree. At this time, the innate energy it exhaled was more than ten times more concentrated. The primordial energy of the entire small world was so dense that it turned into mist, as if it had entered the legendary immortal realm. Various spiritual herbs and immortal plants grew on the ground. Except for the lack of life, it could already be called a perfect small world for cultivation.

Zhang Chen looked at the small world that had evolved over a hundred years after the time acceleration. The soil on the ground had all turned into innate soil, and the spirit mushrooms and immortal herbs were all made of innate materials. The entire world had also been completely transformed into an innate world.

Seeing this, Zhang Chen smiled with satisfaction. He then took out the peach tree, scanned the world before him, and casually tossed it into the small world to plant. The abundant spiritual energy within the small world now satisfied the peach tree's need to take root and sprout.

Then Zhang Chen went into seclusion, spending his days accelerating time in the small world to speed up its expansion.

Time flew by, and a month passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, as Zhang Chen accelerated the passage of time, a rumbling sound was heard from the small world. The last piece of chaos within the small world exploded, turning into innate primordial energy that was absorbed by the small world. At this moment, the small world was completely opened up, transforming into a small world that was exactly the same size as the Eighteenth Heaven.

In the center of the small world, a gigantic tree, thousands of miles tall, stood like a pillar reaching to the heavens. The overwhelming primordial energy cascaded down its canopy like a waterfall, irrigating the entire world.

Centered on the Jianmu tree, the surrounding area for thousands of miles is filled with innate materials such as Lingzhi and immortal herbs, and even has innate energy condensing, wanting to transform into innate beings.

In that world, there is a great river composed of primordial divine water flowing through it. The Water Spirit Pearl has transformed into a primordial deity who controls the power of water and is evolving and being nurtured. The great river runs across the world, and its tributaries become veins that extend throughout the entire underground river network.

In the void, a great sun condensed, illuminating the entire starry sky. The primordial fire spirit evolved into the great sun, transforming into the Great Sun God, which was conceived within the sun.

The Five Banners also evolved into five innate deities, which were conceived in this world and governed the five elements of heaven and earth in this world.

The Tree of Immortality aspires to evolve into a plant deity who governs the life force of plants, representing the Creation Spirit of Heaven and Earth, one of the Four Spirits of Creation, and to evolve into a primordial deity who governs the Way of Earth.

Only the Tongtian Jianmu tree is the embodiment of Zhang Chen. It encompasses the entire world, represents Zhang Chen's will, and merges with the Heavenly Dao, transforming into a supreme deity who governs the operation of the laws of heaven and earth.

This world was created by Zhang Chen, who had long since mastered the Five Elements authority, making him the undisputed supreme ruler.

Its primordial spirit controls the operation of the Heavenly Dao of the entire world, and grasps the general trend and principles of the entire universe. It is the rule setter and executor.

"It's done!" Zhang Chen looked at the world he had created in his hands, his eyes filled with joy.

"The entire world is tens of millions of miles long, which can be called a small world." Zhang Chen stroked the world's primordial embryo, but he quickly realized something was wrong. He noticed that his own world was actually leaking out along the world's membrane and being absorbed by the larger world. Startled, Zhang Chen casually patted it and put it into his third eye between his eyebrows, sealing it away with his third eye.

Only when the Lesser Thousand Worlds entered the Heavenly Eye was the Greater Thousand Worlds' devouring completely sealed off.

"That's right. The Lesser Thousand World is within the Greater Thousand World. Since it is filled with innate energy, it naturally also loses its primordial essence to the Greater Thousand World." Zhang Chen was secretly shocked. He hadn't expected that the Lesser Thousand World could not escape the same fate.

"If a minor world can escape calamity, then why should we be so anxious and hiding? We could just create a minor world and hide inside," the Queen Mother of the West said to Zhang Chen. "However, for you, planting a peach tree and using a feng shui formation to suppress it should prevent the loss of vital energy. Planting a peach tree should be enough for you." This made sense; a minor world is indeed not immune to the calamities of a major world.

"Your minor world's evolution has stalled. If you wish to continue evolving, you might as well find some innate spiritual treasures and innate spiritual roots and throw them into it. This can strengthen the foundation of your world and teach your minor world to continue evolving," the Queen Mother of the West instructed Zhang Chen.

"If I were to put the Six Paths of Reincarnation into it, I wonder if it would be possible to evolve the Lesser Thousand Worlds?" Zhang Chen asked.

"With the Six Paths of Reincarnation, it is enough to evolve into a middle-thousand world, and a top-tier middle-thousand world at that," said the Queen Mother of the West.

Of course, what surprised the Queen Mother of the West the most was that Zhang Chen actually had the means to seal the Lesser Thousand Worlds, preventing the essence within them from dissipating. This was what shocked her the most.

It's as awe-inspiring as if she could preserve her spirit and vitality even while hiding in an icy hell.

Her guidance to Zhang Chen was not without ulterior motives. If Zhang Chen could evolve the Lesser Thousand World into the Middle Thousand World, she could then leave the Frozen Hell and enter the Middle Thousand World to escape her calamity.

The desolate and barren Frozen Hell is nowhere to be compared to the Middle Thousand Worlds.

It's just that the Lesser Thousand Worlds couldn't accommodate someone like her; otherwise, she would have already slipped in and absorbed the innate energy to make up for her own deficit.

Zhang Chen, unaware of Xi Wangmu's thoughts, instead set his sights on the Underworld: "If I were to move the Underworld here and refine it into my Lesser Thousand Worlds, wouldn't my Lesser Thousand Worlds become even larger?"

"I advise you not to have such thoughts. Although this may make your world larger, a larger world does not necessarily mean higher quality or stronger quality. There are old guys in the underworld who have set up hidden forces. If you accidentally do something foolish and let them take control of your world, you'll have nowhere to cry. The only valuable thing in the underworld is probably the Yellow Springs River. If it can be brought into your small world, it can help your small world evolve. I can help you move the Yellow Springs River into it," said the Queen Mother of the West.

Zhang Chen smiled upon hearing this: "That's excellent!"

He felt that he could not only bring the Yellow Springs here, but also integrate the Blood Sea Avenue into his own small world.

Zhang Chen used his supernatural powers to dive underground. He saw the void before him change, and the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation was already set up in the underground world. Then, Zhang Chen looked at the Yellow Springs spring that was flowing out, stepped into the Yellow Springs spring, and when he reappeared, he was on the endless, surging river.

Zhang Chen took out the World Primordial Embryo. As soon as the World Primordial Embryo appeared, its innate energy began to dissipate. Zhang Chen was terrified and hurriedly said to the Queen Mother of the West, "Please, Your Majesty, help me!"

The innate essence was dissipating too quickly. The innate energy absorbed by the Tongtian Jianmu was insufficient to keep up with the rate at which the small world was losing energy.

Zhang Chen stroked the small world with both hands, a hint of anxiety in his eyes. Then, the icy hell within it broke open, and a fair and slender hand emerged from it. As soon as the hand appeared, an overwhelming amount of vital energy began to pour out, its rate of outflow being hundreds or thousands of times that of the small world.

With a swift grab from afar, the mighty, seemingly endless Yellow Springs River was lifted up like a pendant, its waters casually slicing open the barrier of the Lesser Thousand Worlds and being stuffed into Zhang Chen's Lesser Thousand Worlds.

"Boy, I, your ancestor, have sacrificed a tremendous amount of my primordial energy for you. I've suffered a huge loss!" The somewhat weary voice of the Queen Mother of the West reached Zhang Chen's ears.

Zhang Chen stood still, holding the World Primordial Embryo in his hands, feeling the concentration of the essence between heaven and earth. The concentration of the essence that the Queen Mother of the West had just released had already changed the world, making the concentration of the essence of heaven and earth here no less than that in Zhang Chen's small world.

From this, one can imagine how difficult the situation must have been for powerful beings like the Queen Mother of the West. Their inner essence was like oxygen without a container, which would diffuse and dissipate without limit as soon as it appeared in the air.

“Of course I know Your Majesty’s difficulties, and I should make it up to you. How about this, I allow Your Majesty to draw upon the innate energy that has been generated over a thousand years in my small world?” Zhang Chen asked.

He can accelerate time by 180 years at a time, and a thousand years can be made up in just five or six days, so he is not afraid of being absorbed by the Queen Mother of the West.

The Queen Mother of the West was overjoyed upon hearing this; her efforts had finally paid off.

(End of this chapter)