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Chapter 95 Mastering the Path to Growth—The Ancient Yamata no Orochi! [Fourth Update]

[The Inner World Seed, from *The Tomb of the Gods*, involves planting a seed of the Inner World within the soul. The Inner World is a wondrous entity that develops alongside the user's growth, corresponding to the Outer World. Initially, its interior is like chaos, requiring refinement and control with one's own vital energy to gradually evolve into a space. As the Inner World continues to grow, its internal rules are completed, becoming a real and tangible miniature world. Exchange requires one A-rank side quest and 10000 reward points.]

This is an exchange that can grow and advance, and it also includes the Perfect Inner World Seed, an S-level side quest that can grow into a real world.

In Chu Xuan's room, there are still 300 Reincarnation Army soldiers who can be deployed. Each of them has a combat power of the second tier, but there is no space to carry them all. It is such a waste!

Furthermore, compared to a 2A-level demiplane, the inner world, although requiring a large amount of energy and time to open up, is more suitable for Fang Ge.

Fang Ge understands it very well. To some extent, the inner world and its owner are one, sharing both glory and loss.

Expanding one's inner world is a form of spiritual practice.

In this way, the so-called path to the Golden Core can even be abandoned!

Or rather, the inner world is Fang Ge's Golden Core and Nascent Soul...

Using the naming conventions of the Primordial Heavenly Court, we might as well call them [Realm Cultivators].

In theory, the upper limit of an A-grade inner world seed can reach the advanced fourth tier!

The energy problem, which was originally the most difficult to solve, was a trivial matter for the Central Continent Team.

Moreover, Fang Ge is not leaking air, and his inner world can greatly improve his refining speed. As long as he focuses on cultivating his inner world and completes the rules of the world, he will be essentially backed by a small world.

If we advance, we can use the power of the world to fight the enemy; if we retreat, we can all retreat into our inner world and be invincible from the start!
The so-called function of transporting reincarnation troops is merely a side effect.

The only A-level side quest was removed by the main god before it could even get started.

This enhancement was unremarkable; a tiny, pale golden seed, the size of a grain of rice, fell from above Fang Ge's head and eventually merged with his soul.

With a little sensing, Fang Ge was able to detect its presence.

"It seems...nothing happened?"

Zheng Zha thought Fang Ge had been scammed: "Is this right? Shouldn't an A-level enhancement be a grand affair?"

"You'll understand later... When you're all half-dead, I'll just pull you into my inner world! No one can threaten you unless you kill me."

Fang Ge cursed his teammates in annoyance, but what he said was surprisingly reassuring.

He then continued, "Next up is Zhan Lan... I suggest you buy the [Ancient Orochi] directly."

Something I've never heard of before, it sounds like a creature from Japanese mythology... it doesn't seem very powerful.

Zhan Lan's first reaction was surprise.

She originally thought that Fang Ge would upgrade her bloodline to the Star Child, which would greatly enhance her vitality and healing ability. The Heaven-Defying Ten Demon Blades might even become the Heaven-Defying Thirteen Blades!

The item is categorized as a magical legendary item. The last time I made this type of exchange was when I bought a Buddhist wheel.

[The ancient Yamata no Orochi, originating from fantasy, allows the user to summon a spirit serpent at will. Initially a single-headed serpent, each head can unleash elemental attacks. It evolves after devouring humans, reaching a maximum of eight heads. Requires one A-rank side quest and rewards 8000 points.]

The description is unclear, and there is no suitable reference for its strength; all that is known is that it needs to eat people to evolve.

Only Fang Ge knew the origin of this story.

This is the A-level exchange used by Shiva Ganten, the young monk and captain of the Indian team in the original work. It can be described as the ultimate growth trap.

Both captains possess second-tier gene locks, yet Orochi managed to achieve the remarkable feat of being single-handedly defeated by CC-rank Zheng Zha despite being an A-rank exchanger…

This is the most classic example of fighting a person of a higher level in the original work. Zheng Zha hadn't even mastered the Explosion skill at that time, so he could be called a "disgrace to his peers"!
To be honest, snakes aren't exactly popular with some people. Their man-eating nature also contradicts the original intentions of the Main God Space.

No matter how you look at it, it's a bottomless pit!
Therefore, Yamata no Orochi was categorized as belonging to the "Nine Gates of Prison" type. However, research by experts on Tieba (a Chinese online forum) shows that Yamata no Orochi is not weak at all; the problem lies entirely with the way the little monk raised him!
Yamata no Orochi is a spirit serpent, a pure energy being, similar to the tailed beasts in Naruto.

Therefore, the same approach used on tailed beast jinchūriki works on it too!
By mastering a sealing technique, one can reclaim the power of the Yamata no Orochi and avoid the weakness of its original form!

Meanwhile, in the original work, it only needed to eat a few ordinary reincarnators to complete the evolution of increasing its snake head and strength, which at first glance seems to completely violate the law of conservation of energy.

So some people started to study the energy conversion rate of this organism.

More and more unique features were discovered one by one.

First, the upper limit of an A-rank cultivation technique is usually the intermediate level of the fourth tier. The Orochi, as an A-rank summoned beast, also has an upper limit of the intermediate level of the fourth tier.

Secondly, for Orochi, reincarnators are a great source of nourishment; one B-level enhanced reincarnator is equivalent to ten story characters of the same level.

As is well known, the infinitely diverse human race has an extremely low energy utilization rate, to an appalling degree, and is jokingly referred to as the "air-leaking people".

Is the giant snake a person?
No.

So, as a pure energy life form, does the Great Serpent leak air?
The answer is... almost no leakage. The cost is that the giant snake consumes a lot of energy when it moves, and it must rest when its energy is depleted.

To be honest, proving whether the giant snake is leaking air is truly a genius feat. After all, if the giant snake, as a pure energy entity, were to leak air rapidly, wouldn't its physical form disintegrate?
This only shows that the experts on Tieba are very meticulous.

And as long as there are enough offerings, the serpent's evolution speed is extremely fast! It's far superior to internal energy, which requires a lot of time and effort to cultivate!
A single head is C-grade, a two-headed head is CC-grade, a three-headed head is B-grade, and so on. A five-headed serpent reaches the level of a normal A-grade enhanced serpent, while a six-headed serpent is comparable to the peak combat power of a third-tier serpent!

According to Fang Ge's plan, using the cloned Reincarnation Army with B-level Sunflower Internal Force to raise the giant snake, there will be no bottlenecks until at least six heads.

Only those seven-headed and eight-headed beings corresponding to the fourth-tier beginner and fourth-tier intermediate levels need to be absorbed by third-tier and fourth-tier beginner reincarnators, or ten times the number of plot characters!

Is this growth curve weak?
Not weak.

Furthermore, up to this point, Orochi's true strength has still not been revealed!

The Yamata no Orochi has eight heads, each capable of unleashing different elemental attacks.

It follows the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, which are mud, rock, water, poison, fire, thunder, wind, and ether...

Looking at it this way directly might not be very obvious.

What if it were written as Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Wind, Water, Fire, Mountain, Marsh, or... Qian, Kun, Li, Kan, Zhen, Xun, Gen, Dui?
It's really hard not to think about it this way.

However, the Yamata no Orochi does not possess the characteristics of Bagua symbols, which may just be a coincidence or some kind of perverse sense of humor.

In short, it is really hard to understand why such a "feature" would be found on a snake.

But after all, it's a mythical exchange system, so it's quite normal for it to copy some of the traditional culture of Central Continent.

Now, Yamata no Orochi possesses several key elements.

A pure energy body will not leak air.

It can achieve element differentiation.

It is very easy to achieve Grade A quality.

In addition, the Zhongzhou team possesses the energy crystallization technology.

"Although it looks ordinary, I would call the Yamata no Orochi... an energy purification and conversion machine," Fang Ge said.

(End of this chapter)