Chapter 1088: Destiny's Guidance, Divergent Origins
No matter if it was Qin Feng or Gui Ling Ancestor, both were individuals with transparent thoughts!
Actually, it's not just them; any cultivator who practices the Heavenly Mechanism and Destiny and is skilled in divination of destiny and the future, knows how to grasp peculiarities from various details!
Especially considering that in just the short hour they wandered tens of thousands of miles nearby, they've encountered multiple ambushes, which is far too abnormal!
When something abnormal happens, there must be a reason; the sudden appearance of so many Demon Gods daring to ambush and attack them is very unusual. Moreover, among these Demon Gods, besides a few Upper Demon Gods, the others are mostly Middle and Lower Rank Demon Gods, and each Demon God has eyes revealing a resolute aura, as if they were heroic figures daring to fight to the death to protect their homes.
That's surprising. When did the Demon Clan have so many heroes willing to die?
"It seems the World Will deeply influences them!"
Gui Ling Ancestor smiled faintly, gently stroking his beard, and gazed into the distance: "However, the World Will ultimately does not have complete spiritual intelligence, and it's being constrained by Grandmaster Ancestor Taixuan and others too much, so some reactions are lacking, causing a bit of a panic. Regardless of the strength of these Demon Gods, they are all trying their utmost to entice, without even checking if they can make a difference!
This point is far from my Biluo. Since Spring and Autumn Ancestor and Heavenly Union, who serves to guard Biluo, can take care of everything seamlessly!"
Up ahead is a stretch of volcanos spanning a million miles; as Grandmaster Ancestor Taixuan and other Great Powers surrounded and attacked Demon King Satan, causing the sky and earth to shake, the world to tremble, this region of volcanoes became particularly turbulent—each crater spewing hot magma, turning the earth into a red expanse like the coming of an apocalypse.
"Let's go, let's try turning back!"
Gui Ling Ancestor led them to turn around and head back.
Indeed, as they left, they encountered no more ambushes.
But when they had walked tens of thousands of miles and turned back in this direction, various attacks resumed!
"Hehe, it seems this place is indeed peculiar, and perhaps the opportunity lies here. Even if this is not the place of the Demon Realm's origin, it surely holds significant secrets!"
As a top-notch Heavenly Mechanism Mage, Gui Ling Ancestor's thoughts were exceptionally clear, hinting at vague insights.
However, even as they traversed the volcanos up front, they failed to find anything unusual, apart from sporadic suicidally attacking Demon Gods or hidden monsters within the volcanic magma. There was nothing unique to be found.
It felt as if this place was merely the lair of some Demon Realm race, unwilling to see powerful human beings enter, thus launching attacks.
After going around a few times, Gui Ling Ancestor found himself at a loss.
The compass needle in his hand spun wildly, constantly calculating with his fingers, eyes venturing the present into the future, yet finding the future scenery full of chaotic darkness, unable to discern any signs.
Beside him, the Eight Trigrams Spiritual Light on Old Turtle's back constantly flickered. Even though Old Turtle used all the innate qi it had acquired on its turtle shell, elevating its lifebound divine ability, the Eight Trigrams Divine Pattern, to the level of Innate Eight Diagrams, even at the cost of propelling the innate Eight Diagrams, the Spirit Light would flicker continuously, yet it failed to deduce anything specific.
That's normal; after all, the Demon Realm is one of the three thousand Great Worlds. How could two Golden Immortal Realm Immortal Great Powers casually deduce the origin's location!
If that were the case, the Demon Realm would have been destroyed countless times.
Qin Feng's brows knitted tightly, suddenly reaching out to summon, instantly bringing forth a little girl dressed in a green gown!
This was the artifact spirit of the Demon Refining Pot, naturally, a clone, not the true form!
As the Seven-Colored Flower holding all the powers of the Demon Refining Pot, she could also manifest using the method of cloning.
"Master!"
Since being transformed into the artifact spirit of the Demon Refining Pot by Ghost Ancestor, although Seven-Colored Flower's powers had skyrocketed, and she herself greatly enjoyed residing within the Demon Refining Pot, she was still very pleased to occasionally come out to see the outside world.
The little girl cheerfully tugged Qin Feng's sleeve, glancing around.
But upon seeing the overflowing volcanic magma, and the thick demonic qi, she scrunched her petite nose and pouted her pinkish lips, clearly showing some dislike for this place.
Qin Feng reached out and patted the little girl, Seven-Colored Flower's head: "Utilize the Power of Destiny, see if you can follow destiny's guidance to find any anomalies here!"
"Yes, Master!"
Although the little girl, Seven-Colored Flower wasn't fond of the Demon Realm environment, she obediently nodded, reaching out a hand to immediately manifest Seven-Colored Flower!
Although her true form had already integrated with the Demon Refining Pot, becoming its artifact spirit, Ghost Ancestor had bestowed her with a strand of Creation Energy when aiding Qin Feng in refining it.
Thus, Seven-Colored Flower's state was quite peculiar at this moment, able to control all prohibitions within the Demon Refining Pot and the law of billions of spiritual beasts, while still having her flower body benefiting from the Creation Power imparted by Ghost Ancestor, maintaining the ability to grow.
Thus, her current state is like a flower planted on containers such as pots and copper pots, having integrated into the Demon Refining Pot without losing the ability to continue growing, able to sprout branches, leaves, and blossoms even with the pot as her main body.
Of course, she could recall the grown branches, leaves, and blossoms into the Demon Refining Pot, concealing them within its body at any time.
But now Qin Feng needed the Power of Destiny's favor, so Seven-Colored Flower Elf extended its blossom outward—at this moment, as the little girl willed it, a purple petal from the Seven-Colored Flower gently fell!
The moment the petal descended, Qin Feng felt the Power of Destiny on his body grow significantly more potent.
Not just him, the Gui Ling Ancestor, Li Miaozhen, and Old Turtle beside him also received the blessing of fate, giving them different sensations.
Especially the Gui Ling Ancestor and Old Turtle who were currently deducing, once this power of destiny blessed them, they instantly felt a flash before their eyes, amidst that gloomy and violent darkness, it seemed as if a spirit light fleetingly passed by!
Although they couldn't exactly grasp that spirit light, they did have some kind of perception!
But that's not much, because the power of destiny on them was merely a fleeting blessing from the little girl when the petals fell; the vast majority of destiny power was still on the petals.
The seven-colored petals did not fall to the ground under her manipulation but fluttered like butterflies, flying ahead.
Although the speed wasn't fast, and occasionally the direction would shift, they kept steadily moving forward.
The only issue was that the destiny power on the petals was burning a bit too quickly; before they had traveled a few thousand miles, the destiny power on the petals was already exhausted!
This made Qin Feng a bit shocked!
Bear in mind that the Seven-Colored Flower almost drained Destiny Goddess, after being nurtured by the Creation Power of Ghost Ancestor, not only did it possess a Dao Cultivation Realm of the Eternal Realm but could also mobilize the entire power of the Demon Refining Pot to nourish itself.
Especially after the Demon Refining Pot was refined by Qin Feng into an Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Seven-Colored Flower rose in status, possessing an Innate Attribute, at this moment it could definitely be considered an Innate Spirit Root if presented individually!
And it is an Innate Spirit Root that governs the Destiny Principle!
Most importantly, more than half of her destiny power is used to nourish her flower.
This is different from the Destiny Goddess, who is proficient in multiple spells, whereas the Seven-Colored Flower is exceptionally specialized, focusing most of its energy on the seven petals.
Thus each of her seven petals possesses overwhelmingly powerful and pure destiny power.
Yet these mighty petals still couldn't sustain for a moment before their destiny power was completely depleted!
But at this moment, neither Qin Feng nor Gui Ling Ancestor appeared shocked by the swift consumption, instead, they looked delighted.
"Again!"
Qin Feng instructed the little girl to continue without hesitation.
As she urged the seven-colored flower in her hands, a red petal immediately fell, guiding them to proceed.
This was no time to lament the consumption of destiny power; moreover, the destiny power of the Seven-Colored Flower was accumulated precisely for crucial moments, and Qin Feng believed there was nothing more important than finding the origin of the Demon Realm now, so he continuously urged the Seven-Colored Flower to exhaust its destiny power.
After consuming five petals, Qin Feng finally furrowed his brows and instructed the little girl to put away the Seven-Colored Flower, no longer wasting further.
Because during the fourth petal, they had circled around a nearby volcano.
At that time, he thought the petal's destiny power was exhausted and couldn't continue guiding them forward, but when the fifth petal fell and led them around the surrounding area, he realized they must have reached the general vicinity.
It's just that the destiny power of the Seven-Colored Flower wasn't sufficient to precisely locate the source of the Demon Realm, even if they drained all the destiny power it couldn't continue to direct them, hence they could only follow their perception and circle around the vicinity.
"It should be nearby!"
Gui Ling Ancestor glanced at the erratically spinning compass in his hand, then put it away with a flip of his palm: "But the exact location is yet unknown!"
"Why fret about so much, let's dive into the volcanic magma and search deep underground!"
Li Miaozhen arched her long eyebrows: "Since we've determined it's nearby, we might as well upend this place, wouldn't we still find it?"
"Haha..."
Gui Ling Ancestor was amused by her words: "The World Origin isn't found this way, and not all World Origins appear as the Heart of the World, nor are all origins deeply concealed underground!"
"Hmm? Are World Origins different?"
Li Miaozhen was taken aback: "Last time in the Wizard World, we saw that the Heart of the World was indeed buried underground!"
"Of course they differ!"
Gui Ling Ancestor laughed: "You're keen on fighting, it's understandable you aren't well-versed in these things. Besides you, over ninety percent of cultivators in the Cultivation World have merely heard of the World Origin but are completely unaware of its form and hiding places!
There are World Origin Powers scattered throughout the Cloud Mist World, elusive and without a trace, Water Element World Origins hidden in the vast ocean, unseen and shapeless, Fire Element World Origins concealed in the fire sea, Wood Element World Origins transforming into Divine Wood, towering above the firmament, myriad forms, each unique.
However, regardless of the form of World Origins, the majority are hidden within independent spaces, under the cover of World Will and Heavenly Dao Laws, essentially unsought.
Unless the world experiences unrest, there's a chance that the powers within cause fluctuations, leading those spaces to change, allowing mighty powers and Great Powers to find them!
Previously in the Light God Realm it was like this, and now Grandmaster Ancestor Taixuan and Satan Demon King are fighting to force the Demon Realm's origin to rise in turbulence, helping us locate the origin's dwelling place!