Witch Wind

Chapter 372 The Divine Calculation Within a Well (Part 1)

The Jackal-Headed Outer God decisively extracted four fist-sized drops of black-gold life essence blood from his own heart.

This essence of lifeblood is fundamental to His existence and the source of His power for an Outer God. If an ordinary being could fuse with a single drop of such essence of lifeblood, its life form would undergo a leap forward.

In terms of this old fellow's specific status... if Xing Tianli were willing to give up everything—his bloodline, his Dao, his laws, his supernatural powers—and inherit His power system in its entirety, a single drop of his heart's essence blood would allow Xing Tianli to directly ascend to the position of a saint.

Such a terrible temptation.

For any living being, the heart and essence of the Jackal-headed Outer God are an irresistible temptation.

It originates from the flesh and the soul, an all-encompassing temptation.

Such vital essence was suspended in front of Xing Tianli... Xing Tianli trembled all over, sweat poured down his forehead, and countless distracting thoughts arose in his mind, almost causing him to go into a state of demonic possession.

lucky.

On the Spirit Platform Purple Mansion, the Natal Heavenly Cauldron trembled violently.

The Heavenly Sword Manual suddenly came to life, each word and sentence radiating an incomparably sharp holy light.

The distracting thoughts in his mind vanished instantly, and an extremely clear sword intent washed over his entire body. Xing Tianli exhaled heavily, feeling as if he had been thoroughly cleansed from his physical body to his immortal soul. His Dao heart suddenly became firm and solid, and external things could no longer shake it.

As for the three women with flowing ribbons, Black Lizard, and Bell Girl, the moment they saw the four drops of heart's essence blood, they instinctively tried to snatch them. But the jackal-headed god only gave a soft hum, and they all fainted, not even having the chance to experience this test of their minds.

‘Click’.

Jackal Head God gritted his teeth and ruthlessly cut off a large, foot-square piece of flesh from his own chest, then presented this still-pulsating mass of flesh to Xing Tianli: "Is that enough? If not, there's more!"

Xing Tianli's teeth ached from looking at it.

You're too honest, old man... This, this, a drop of blood, the size of a soybean or mung bean, is enough; a piece of meat, the size of a fingernail, is enough.

This is really true.

Xing Tianli took a deep breath and, without saying a word, incorporated the four drops of his life essence blood and a large piece of flesh into the Tower of Creation. Wisps of divine light of creation surged and sprinkled onto the essence blood and flesh.

A vast, boundless, and inexhaustible surge of the Great Dao's essence came forth.

Xing Tianli was covered in sweat. He suddenly realized with helplessness that the life essence of the Jackal-Headed Outer God was too vast and profound. Even though he had mastered the 'Manipulation of Creation' divine power, he could not completely analyze his bloodline code in a short enough time!
It's like a little ant that learns to build an excavator, which can easily crush grains of sand.

In theory, he could also use this tiny excavator to pulverize a planet...

Well, theoretically, given enough time, he certainly can do it!

But how many years would that take?
If the planet that this tiny ant is trying to crush is not just a star with a diameter of several thousand miles, but is as large as an entire star cluster, how many years would it take for it to completely crush this enormous star without any interference or obstruction?

Uh……

Xing Tianli is getting a little frantic.

He could do it... but his level of power prevented him from doing it in a short time...

He looked at the jackal-headed god with an expectant expression.

"How shameful! This humble Taoist is..." Xing Tianli's face turned red and blue in waves. Fortunately, the jackal-headed god didn't know what 'shameful' meant and only thought that Xing Tianli's changing expression was an effort to activate his supernatural power.

So He held his breath, carefully held his snake-headed scepter, and squatted down next to Xing Tianli, looking around warily, as if afraid that someone would come and disturb Xing Tianli.

Xing Tianli was in a state of worry.

He couldn't possibly tell the hopeful Jackal-Headed Outer God to wait hundreds of millions of years until he possessed Saint-level strength before deciphering His bloodline code and creating a batch of female offspring who would inherit His bloodline and be able to reproduce with His seventy-two servants, could he?

Time passed slowly, and Xing Tianli was drenched in sweat.

The Jackal-Headed Outer God waited patiently and quietly—He was in no hurry, not at all. For a being of His level, the concept of time was completely different from that of an 'ant' like Xing Tianli.

Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years are but a blink of an eye for them.
From the octagonal well came the faint sound of dripping water, as if drops of water were falling from above into the well. Faintly, a mocking laugh could be heard – it seemed someone was laughing at Xing Tianli's predicament.

Xing Tianli steeled his heart and was about to tell the truth to the jackal-headed god.

On the nine Heavenly Cauldrons, the Heavenly Sword Canon suddenly trembled, releasing wisps of sword light. Within those sword lights, the Dao of life's evolution slowly emerged—at this moment, the crisscrossing sword light was no longer for 'destruction,' but rather 'destruction' had reached its extreme, and from that final destruction, a wisp of 'creation' sprouted.

It was like an ancient volcano erupting, with a terrifying torrent of lava mercilessly engulfing the small village at the foot of the mountain.

On the ruins of that burned-out village, a very, very long time passed. Soil accumulated, rain and dew nourished, and the sun shone brightly. So, on the once destroyed land, a cluster of tiny wildflowers swayed in the wind.

Xing Tianli's immortal soul raised its head, staring blankly at the supreme swordsmanship performed by this saint.

He suddenly realized the meaning of the sword formation after it ascended to a higher dimension and broke through the previous bottleneck of the Great Dao.
The purpose of a sword formation is destruction.

But why was the sword formation destroyed?

Is the 'person' who controls this terrifying sword formation capable of annihilating all beings a heartless executioner?

截！
Seize a wisp of heavenly secret!
Cut off a sliver of life!
Using swords to pave the way, using sword formations to protect, in desperate situations, in the face of the impossible, I find a way to survive—'I use my sword to pave the way and fight for life for those I value, those I cherish, and those I love!'
Those who disobey will be executed!
Those who obstruct, kill!

Suddenly, he realized that his body was filled with sword intent. At first, it was extremely fierce and cold, and the sword intent was as domineering as a billion-strong army sweeping across the battlefield. Suddenly, it became as gentle as a spring breeze and rain, as fluttering as a new butterfly, or as a frog that had just jumped from the water onto a lotus leaf with a small tail trailing behind it, uttering its first croak in this life.

Xing Tianli's state of mind, his power attributes, and his immortal soul core were all guided by this vibrant and loving sword light onto a path that held infinite possibilities.

"I can't, but there's always a way out." Xing Tianli smiled brightly.

With a flick of his finger, a branch of the World Mother Tree soared into the air and landed beneath a drop of essence blood. Flames erupted from the branch, melting it and extracting powerful life runes from within.

The innate runes, shimmering with emerald light, possessed immense power. One by one, the runes quietly rose, continuously merging into the drop of black-gold essence blood. With the full power of his Creation Manipulation Divine Ability activated, Xing Tian Li drew upon the formidable power from the World Mother Tree, swiftly injecting it into each drop of black-gold essence blood.

Within the essence blood, the endless mysteries of heaven and earth were rapidly dissected, and the incredibly vast bloodline code decomposed on its own, revealing its secrets to Xing Tianli without reservation.

The Tower of Creation emitted a deep rumble, rapidly imprinting the entire essence of this drop of blood essence into its own life-bound core—this was the life-bound blood essence of a 'living' 'Sage of Creation,' born with the world since the beginning of time, who did not pursue 'proofing the Dao through force,' but had peacefully survived since the beginning of time!

The Dao and the profound meaning of life contained in a single drop of his life essence almost burst the life imprint of the Tower of Creation!

Fortunately, the Tower of Creation has already reached the Acquired Spiritual Treasure Realm. It is more of a 'tool' than a 'celestial soul'. The only advantage of a tool is that when its capacity is insufficient, you can frantically add materials to it to continuously increase its size and volume, thereby continuously increasing its effective payload.

It's like this: if a single sheet of blank paper can't hold a hundred million words, then increasing the number of sheets of blank paper to a hundred million is enough. Even with trillions or hundreds of trillions of words of information, theoretically, as long as there are enough sheets of blank paper, countless words of information can be recorded word by word—it just takes a little time to search.

As for the immortal soul's memory data... cough, if you force an excessively large amount of data onto an immortal soul that isn't strong enough, it's very likely to burst!

The Tower of Creation was trembling slightly, with wisps of light flowing around it.

Xing Tianli's face turned bright red. He took a deep breath and kept taking out various spiritual materials, stuffing them into the Tower of Creation to rapidly increase its size.

Jackal-headed Outer God's eyes widened. He roughly understood what Xing Tianli was doing. He blinked, took out a crystal obelisk that was as thick as an arm and as long as a sheet, black and gold in color, and covered with countless starlight flashes. He slapped it into the Tower of Creation.

He muttered in a low voice, "Is it because your treasure's rank is too low to create my bloodline descendants? Hmm, the rank is indeed too low... This is one of the seventy-two fundamental life pillars left behind when my world was destroyed... It is a top-grade innate spiritual treasure... But, it has no value to me or my servants."

A fundamental divine pillar merged into the Tower of Creation, and the palm-sized Tower of Creation immediately emitted a piercing divine light. An incredible and powerful aura burst forth from the Tower of Creation, and the essence, origin, strength, and power contained within the tower all soared upwards in every aspect.

The Jackal-Headed Outer God truly didn't take these primordial divine pillars seriously. He took out another one and stuffed it into the Tower of Creation, then another, and yet another...

In just a quarter of an hour, all seventy-two fundamental divine pillars were integrated into the Tower of Creation.

After a while, Tongtian Zaohua was completely overwhelmed with the energy. With his current power, even a fundamental divine pillar would require hundreds of millions of years of painstaking effort for him to fully integrate it on his own.

These seventy-two fundamental pillars of the God of Origin are the last remnants of the original world after the mother world of the Jackal-Headed Outer God, a world that was once so vast and glorious, was maliciously harvested, slaughtered, and annihilated.

Such a treasure... even a sage would fight for it.

The jackal-headed god was given to Xing Tianli just like that.

Without the slightest hesitation or heartache, He once again took out His own heart, and with a 'whoosh,' extracted a drop of His life essence and dripped it onto the Tower of Creation.

With a whooshing sound of water, fire, and wind, a fundamental divine pillar inside the Tower of Creation melted away, transforming into countless starlight enveloped in boundless black-gold divine wind, perfectly merging with the Tower of Creation.

The Tower of Creation suddenly trembled, turning entirely black and gold, faintly revealing a magnificent light like that of a glass relic.

The aura of a top-grade innate spiritual treasure faintly emanated from the little donkey, which jumped down from the top of the tower with great vitality, circled around Xing Tianli several times, sniffed the aura on Xing Tianli's body, rolled its eyes in a very human-like manner, and looked down on Xing Tianli.

Innate spiritual treasures, especially high-grade ones, are treasures that only quasi-saints and half-saints can control freely.

Even though the Tower of Creation was entirely a treasure created by Xing Tianli, and even though this little donkey spirit was nurtured little by little by Xing Tianli with his own blood essence—when the difference in strength between him and Xing Tianli became too great, this guy also showed a bit of a donkey's temper!

With a loud 'bang,' the jackal-headed god slapped the little donkey to the ground.

A solid, incredibly heavy slap.

The little donkey was beaten senseless, its spirit almost shattered. The jackal-headed god slowly released his grip, pointing at the little donkey lying on the ground, almost flattened like a sheet of paper, and said slowly, "Be obedient, or you'll be reduced to ashes. No matter where you are, no matter how strong you are, be obedient, be good... otherwise, it's easier for me to make you or destroy you."

The jackal-headed deity grinned, his smile utterly cruel: "I almost forgot that over the tens of thousands of years of my children's development, due to their unrestrained interpretations, I seem to have acquired divine authority over torture, killing, torment, and cruelty... Would you like to try out what kind of torture I possess?"

The little donkey was obedient and compliant. It smiled in an extremely human-like manner, like a well-behaved lapdog, vigorously rubbing its head against Xing Tianli's calf, looking like a loyal lackey who would follow him to the death and never abandon him.

The analytical and memory abilities of the Tower of Creation have increased ten thousandfold.

The entire essence of a drop of lifeblood was gradually imprinted and engraved by Him... The vast life force of the World Mother Tree surged, and an entire branch that was a million miles long instantly transformed into a massive mass of life essence. Strands of black-gold bloodline codes surged out and gradually merged into this massive mass of sap.

The World Mother Tree is several ranks higher than this jackal-headed outer god.

Xing Tianli suddenly realized how terrifying the World Mother Tree was—whether in terms of size, power, or any other aspect, the World Mother Tree was greater and more incredible than the Jackal-Headed Outer God.

Thus, under the guidance of the Sage of Heaven, and with the power of the World Mother Tree, perfect jackal-headed bodies quietly took shape. Males were needed, but females were also required; to more quickly achieve the propagation of the species, Xing Tian Li increased the male-to-female ratio to a terrifying one to one hundred.

That's inhumane.

That's a bit unethical.

However, when a group is on the verge of extinction... all ethics and morality are bullshit!
A single drop of his vital essence was exhausted.

Ten thousand male jackal heads and one million female jackal heads were fully formed within the Tower of Creation. They were brimming with vitality, their bodies youthful and strong, their auras powerful, all reaching the level of the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal. This was the most incredible batch of creations ever completed by Xing Tian Li!
Xing Tianli's understanding of the 'Manipulating Creation' supernatural power underwent another earth-shattering evolution and advancement under the joint efforts of the three great beings: the Sage of Heaven, the Jackal-Headed Outer God, and the World Mother Tree. Behind Xing Tianli's immortal soul, a lush green lotus flower slowly bloomed, with nine layers, each layer containing one hundred and eight lotus petals.

The petals are light and airy, brimming with vitality. Threads of the Daoist essence of creation surge on the lotus. Every moment, endless Daoist essence slowly drifts down from the lotus, gradually merging into Xing Tianli's body and his immortal soul.

This is a strange existence that is on a higher level than 'Dao Fruit'.

What exactly is it?

Xing Tianli, a being in the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm, had absolutely no concept of this.

All he knew was that when the lotus flower, containing infinite mysteries of creation, slowly bloomed on the Dao Fruit of Creation behind his immortal soul, and when the wisps of Dao of Creation merged with his physical body, his pure, static physical power increased tenfold.

The pure physical power of three thousand six hundred stars.

The purity of a Grand Luo Golden Immortal's immortal soul increased tenfold, and its total quantity expanded a hundredfold...

The instantaneous boost to his immortal soul nearly drained Xing Tianli's life essence, and it still couldn't support his immortal soul's advancement—luckily, a small branch of the World Mother Tree burst open within his body, and the boundless vitality easily supported him, allowing him to complete this incredible great fortune.

Xing Tianli exhaled, and with a wave of his sleeve, one after another, vivid flesh bodies flew out of the Tower of Creation and headed straight for the Jackal Head Outer God.

Because of the immense power of the World Mother Tree, a trace of innate soul energy has already begun to grow within these physical bodies, gradually becoming stronger at an extremely rapid pace.

The strength of these souls is already comparable to that of a three-month-old fetus.

In about half a month, nourished by the residual World Mother Tree energy within their bodies, their souls will become comparable in strength to the souls of normal cultivators who have completed the Refinement of Spirit and Return to Emptiness stages.

Of course, a newborn soul is completely blank.

They have so much to learn, but it seems that the Jackal-headed Outer God and His seventy-two servants can teach them very well.

The jackal-headed god trembled all over as he carefully examined each of the newborn creatures, chanting incantations and bestowing blessings upon each one.

'Thump, thump,' He suddenly burst into tears, crying silently.

Xing Tianli was astonished—to reach such a high level, to be such a powerful and unbelievable being… to actually be moved, to actually shed tears? Truly, unbelievable!

(End of this chapter)