Chapter 1 A Bang!

Passing through the spatial gate created by the Heavenly God Scale, Su Zhou once again experienced the feeling of transforming into a stream of light, traversing the countless ice crystal-like voids of the world.

But before he could carefully savor this wonderful sensation, he returned to his own living room with a whoosh.

Compared to the location where he traveled to the Divine Wood World, the location of his return home was very stable. Su Zhou was able to confirm, with the enhanced memory provided by the Wisdom Fruit, that he had returned to the exact place where he had departed.

"Is the return point fixed? If that's the case, then many clever tricks can't be used."

After confirming this, Su Zhou was a little disappointed. He had originally planned to use the Heavenly God Scale's ability to traverse worlds as a trump card to escape dangerous situations in the future!

Now it seemed that wouldn't work. If he could only return to the original place, nothing could be changed. He would still have to take the attacks he was meant to take, and he wouldn't be able to escape inescapable maze rooms.

However, if he obtained enough power in other worlds to break through dangerous situations—for example, the power to smash a maze to pieces with one punch—then the result would be about the same, so there was no need to be too regretful.

"Let me see what time it is."

After thinking about the questions regarding the Heavenly God Scale, the first thing Su Zhou did was look up at the clock hanging in his living room: "Hmm… 10:17 AM… Hmm? Not even a minute has passed?!"

Shocked, Su Zhou quickly put down his backpack full of various strange spiritual plants, and then strode over to the table in the living room to pick up his phone, which he had placed there on purpose. He smoothly unlocked the phone screen, entered the password, swiped the lock screen, and clicked on a certain sh*t-yellow forum app… No, no!

"Now is not the time to go on the forum!"

Because the operation was too familiar, Su Zhou cursed himself for being too quick, quickly exited, and then looked at the time.

"December 7, 2014, 10:17 AM… Holy crap! Not even a minute has passed?!"

At this moment, Yala's ruby-like body elegantly slid out from Su Zhou's hair, hanging on his ear.

After stretching its body, it deliberately spoke: "Oh dear, lying on someone's head for so many days, it feels so good to stretch now~"

"Yala, is that you?" After living with Yala for so long, how could Su Zhou not understand what the other party meant by suddenly running out at this time?

He narrowed his eyes, then reached out and took Yala from his ear. Su Zhou ignored the other party's complaint, "Ah, let me suck some blood!", and placed it in front of him, seriously asking: "Is that you? Others may forget, but I won't. Your holy name has the title 'Root of Sun and Moon, Lord of Time'... Did you help me?"

Time traps. The speed of time flow may not be the same between different worlds.

Su Zhou still remembered this truth of the worlds that Yala had once said.

However, if he didn't count those extremely rare worlds where the passage of time differed by hundreds of thousands of times, then it would be absolutely impossible for him to adventure in another world for nearly a month, while not even a minute had passed on Earth!

Not even a few seconds had ticked by!

"That's right."

There was nothing to hide. Yala raised its head and bit Su Zhou's specially extended wrist, sucking a mouthful of blood.

After receiving the 'blood offering,' it nodded contentedly, and then slowly said: "After all, you are my covenantor, you should have some privileges—you know, even for someone as active as me, in the long history, in the myriad worlds, there are very few times when I make a covenant. Su Zhou, you have this qualification."

"Is that so…" Su Zhou vaguely sensed that Yala didn't seem to want to talk more about this topic. Yala was always unwilling to mention its past, or rather, it could talk about it, but he shouldn't ask.

So he nodded and sincerely thanked him: "In any case, thank you, thank you very much."

"Su Zhou, has anyone ever told you that when you suddenly get serious, it sometimes makes a snake's scales stand on end?"

Although it was a joke, Yala accepted Su Zhou's thanks without hesitation: "Alright, we are helping each other, a mutually beneficial relationship. Instead of thanking me, you might as well see what has changed about me."

Saying so, Yala curled up into a ball and spun around on the table in a rather smug manner.

It looked like a shiny ruby necklace.

"You… got bigger?"

After carefully examining it, Su Zhou didn't say something like 'You're more beautiful than before' like most straight men, which seemed correct but was actually way off. After observing several times, he stated with certainty: "Yes—I had that feeling just now when you crawled off my ear, you got bigger!"

"You got fat!" The ultimate straight man confirmed.

If Yala was previously thinner than a normal girl's little finger, about five millimeters in diameter and four centimeters long, then now it was about eight millimeters thick and seven centimeters long! Doubled!

"What do you mean fat—it's called growth! But in general, you're not wrong." Yala shook its tail and head, seemingly extremely disappointed with Su Zhou's clumsy descriptive skills: "In short, this trip to the Divine Wood World, you undoubtedly got full marks, not only obtaining a large number of resources and cultivation methods from the locals, but also growing a lot in power."

"And I have also benefited from this and restored some of my power."

"So, what are the benefits?" Encouraged by Yala's confident tone, Su Zhou couldn't help but perk up. He lowered his head, lay on the table, and looked at the triumphant snake spirit, asking with great anticipation: "How much power have you recovered, and what has changed compared to before?"

And Yala answered without hesitation: "The blood offering required is more!"

Su Zhou: "…?"

"What are you thinking, Su Zhou? In the final analysis, I am now just a snake that is not even as thick as a little finger, what do you expect me to do?"

Seeing Su Zhou turn his head with an expression of 'a big question mark slowly appearing above my head,' Yala couldn't help but shake its head and say: "For a long time, except for explaining and occasionally helping you with some necessary hints, I have no other power—if it is a trial that I think you need to accept, I won't even give you a hint, and all of this is for your growth."

"That's right, thinking about it carefully, I don't like it when someone is nagging behind me when I'm playing a game."

Regarding Yala's statement, Su Zhou thought about it and had to admit that he was thinking too much just now. How long has Yala been out of the seal, how could it have the power to help him… going to other worlds might be thanks to the remaining power of Yala's main body, but the current snake spirit is really just a small snake.

Letting out a breath, Su Zhou said with great enthusiasm: "My gains are already enough, there is no need to think about other things—Yala's help allowed me to clear the Divine Wood World in an instant in the Earth world, which undoubtedly saved me a lot of cultivation time, and I have more time to implement the plan to take revenge on that 'Ghost Witch Family.'"

"However, before that, I need to summarize my gains in the Divine Wood World, only in this way can I continue to arrange the next steps of the plan."

Saying so, Su Zhou began to sort out his gains.

"First of all, the Heavenly God Imprint."

Su Zhou took out the Heavenly God Imprint. This unknown creation, which originally had no pointers or scales and looked like a broken silver pocket watch, possessed the great power to travel through worlds.

Originally, there was nothing in its empty dial, but now, at the zero o'clock position, a faint cyan-green scale phantom faintly appeared!

"Oh." Even Yala was surprised by this. It climbed up its arm onto its head, and then hung on Su Zhou's ear as before, observing the Heavenly God Scale with him: "It… actually completely recorded the coordinates of the Divine Wood World!"

Yala's tone was quite surprised: "This means that in the future, as long as you input enough spiritual power, you can go to the Divine Wood World again… a known, safe world with predictable and stable benefits."

"In addition, the impact of the Divine Wood World on the 'Great Seal' has almost completely disappeared, and the countdown to the destruction of the world chain has been postponed by about three years… In other words, you now have eighteen years left to save the world."

"That's so good?!" Su Zhou opened his mouth wide. He never expected that the Heavenly God Imprint, which he had placed no hope on, would have such a reward—although Yala said that the amount of spiritual energy required to travel through the world would be difficult for him to supply even if he advanced to Transcendence, it didn't affect his happiness.

Next, there were the spiritual plants and the changes in the spirit of the Wisdom Tree.

There were more spiritual plants in the Divine Wood World than Su Zhou imagined. Because the world had the remnants of the will of the Great Dao Tree, coupled with the influence of the Banyan Undying Tree, the wood energy was extremely rich, and the number of spiritual plants was many times greater than that of the current Earth world where spiritual energy had been revived. In addition, the martial artists of that world were not very brave enough to eat these spiritual materials containing strong wood energy, which would cause erosion disease, so there were many left.

This was the benefit of cross-world trade. Some things that are precious in one world are dangerous items that no one wants in another world.

The Hundred Families Righteous Army carefully selected a batch of spiritual plants with good taste and effects for Su Zhou, a total of twenty-two, each of which could be taken by ordinary people to enhance their physique. Of course, the most important thing was that they were delicious, and most of them were fruit-shaped.

Su Zhou's own physique had actually reached a critical point, and ordinary spiritual plants had no effect on him, so he wanted these spiritual plants mainly so that he could process them and make them into food for his close relatives, to improve the physique of his parents and Shao Qiming's family.

As for the Wisdom Tree Spirit, after Yala had a mysterious conversation with the Great Dao Tree, it obtained a mouthful of aura estimated to be from the Great Dao Tree and quickly broke through a major stage.

At this time, it was not like before, always shouting 'I'm hungry, hungry, hungry' in the soul space, but fell into a deep sleep, still digesting this benefit—after it finished digesting, and then cultivated with spiritual blood, it would definitely be able to harvest better Wisdom Fruits.

"The remaining twelve wood beads of the Demon Emperor, in addition to being used as poison, can also be used as fertilizer for the Wisdom Tree by mixing some spiritual materials." Yala reminded him, and Su Zhou wrote it down, preparing to do it later.

Then, there were the evil souls.

Su Zhou killed a large number of villains in the Divine Wood World and obtained their evil souls.

Except for the demon souls of the National Teacher and the Crimson Earth Demon General, which were respectively transformed into the inheritance of the 'True Method of Controlling the Five Extremes Divine Lightning' and the spirit attachment of the 'Crimson Earth Demon Poison,' the other evil souls were used by Su Zhou to increase his physical fitness.

Now, Su Zhou didn't know what his power limit was. Anyway, he didn't feel strenuous when he fought head-on with the Dragon Body Demon Emperor who had just entered the Xiantian realm—provided that the other party didn't use the Panlong True Body—that was like a great demon prototype, a Kamen Rider and Ultraman transformation, the improvement was too great, and Su Zhou couldn't withstand it.

"Speaking of the Crimson Earth Demon Poison, my previous spear was completely broken when I killed the Demon Emperor."

Summarizing to this point, Su Zhou couldn't help but look at the Nirvanic Blade placed aside, as well as a brand-new spirit iron spear. He nodded with satisfaction: "Although the great artisan I am familiar with is bedridden, the other two great artisans in the Hundred Families Righteous Army used the Demon Emperor's dragon horns and remains to forge a brand-new dragon horn cross spear for me!"

The spirit spear made from the remnants of the Panlong, or rather, the Heavenly Calamity Wood Dragon, although it lost the previous Yin Twilight Spirit Core enchantment and the Crimson Earth Demon Poison enchantment, was far superior to the previous one in terms of texture and hardness.

Moreover, the template for spirit attachment was much better than the previous Wood Centipede Spear, and there was more room for future improvement—the gains outweighed the losses.

"Most importantly, I already have the Nirvanic Blade."

Su Zhou looked at the divine weapon in the thunderstruck wood scabbard beside him, his heart burning: "With this blade, I'm not afraid even if those Ghost Witch Families bring out fully armored robots—you have technology, I have divine weapons, let's see who is stronger!"

"What's more, I have already mastered lightning magic. As long as it's not a metal storm sweeping, any bullets and arrows are meaningless to me!"

Su Zhou used his own blood to seal part of the spiritual light of the Nirvanic Blade with a sealing ritual. As long as it was not unsheathed, the spiritual power fluctuation would not be greater than that of the Chen family's Flower Fairy in the neighborhood fruit and vegetable store—speaking of which, that guy seemed to have gone to work in the official department and became a professional breeder of some 'Spiritual Plant Garden,' which made his parents feel relieved for a long time.

"Very good, the gains are roughly like this, there is no need to summarize the inheritance of skills such as lightness skills, Qi Condensation and Object Manipulation, and Rigid Shooting Method."

After summarizing, Su Zhou stood up, he looked at the biting wind and snow outside the window like in the Taibai Mountains, and couldn't help but laugh: "And my strength has already reached the peak of Awakening, and I only need a ritual to advance to Transcendence!"

"On Earth, except for those like the Sages of Zheng, who probably already had the peak of Awakening strength before the revival of spiritual energy, and may have already advanced to the Transcendence realm, it is impossible for anyone to be stronger than me."

However, before advancing, Su Zhou still had some things to do.

"It's also time to use my already invincible martial power to take care of those **** organizations that only curse women and children!"