Chapter 1 The Beginning

Xi Hai, a secret base under Zhou Buyi's private ownership.

In this hidden stronghold located in the mountainside, standing before a massive pool of molten iron, Su Zhou perused the secret texts originating from the 'Five Weapons Sect,' the supreme mysteries of the 'Five Elements Five Forging Method,' the 'Qi Forging Divine Weapon' technique.

After the battle against the Demon Dynasty, Grand Craftsman Shi Jiling did not rebuild the Five Weapons Sect, but instead opened a professional academy after the war, simplifying and popularizing the Five Elements Five Forging Method.

It wasn't that Shi Jiling was unwilling to spread the sect's mysteries, but the Five Elements Five Forging Method itself demanded extremely high requirements. Even practicing just one of them required a single-attribute spiritual energy talent above the standard. If one wanted to cultivate the final Qi Forging Divine Weapon technique, they needed all five elements—something you might not find even a few out of a hundred million people.

The Grand Craftsman spent his life trying to reform the Five Elements Five Forging Method to make it more universally applicable, but unfortunately, he didn't succeed. Although his successors also didn't succeed, the simplified version of the Five Forging Method became the industrial foundation of the Tianzheng Alliance. Basically, everyone engaged in related industries could skillfully master a part of it, which meant they could all be considered inheritors of the Five Weapons Sect. If that were the case, the Five Weapons Sect would truly be the number one sect in the world today.

As for Su Zhou, not to mention that he inherently had scales transformed from Five Spirit Colored Feathers, he possessed the Five Elements talent even without conversion. Practicing the Five Elements Five Forging Method was a piece of cake for him, and the Qi Forging Divine Weapon technique corresponded to the spiritual energy manipulation methods he already mastered. It wasn't exactly perfect, but he could use it skillfully.

"Using my blood, my true form's scales, the Wisdom Tree's branches and leaves, and Zhou Buyi's 'Earthfire Crystals' mined from deep within the lava zone, and then using the 'Qi Forging Divine Weapon' method to strengthen the Blade of Annihilation, enhancing and sublimating it."

Gazing at the Blade of Annihilation floating above the iron pool, Su Zhou's pupils reflected its golden-red spiritual light: "Added to the solidified power of wishes, this time, the Blade of Annihilation's destructive power, even among the Commander tier, will be extremely powerful."

One could see that the Blade of Annihilation, stripped of its scabbard and hilt, leaving only the blade, its original black body had turned crimson gold as its spiritual energy was stimulated. Now, this golden-red blade was gradually coated with a layer of crystalline, light-gold crystal as the essence of countless natural treasures (mainly Su Zhou's own blood) congealed.

And within this crystalline layer, extremely fine, vein-like, or circuit-like, subtle cyan lightning was flashing, which was the power originating from Su Zhou taking the blood of his own Thunderous Heart.

"So self-production and self-sales are really convenient. No wonder so many immortals, gods, and demon gods use materials from their own bodies to refine weapons."

Regarding Su Zhou's quite enthusiastic remarks, Shao Qiming frowned and recalled the scene when Su Zhou unhesitatingly dug out his heart—he was shocked at the time, thinking that the other party was going to commit suicide, and then Su Zhou ridiculed him for a long time: "Ordinary transcendent-stage cultivators can't die even if they have their hearts dug out with emergency treatment, let alone me! It wouldn't affect me even if my head was blown off!"

At this time, Su Zhou stretched out his hand and directly used spiritual energy to guide the Blade of Annihilation back into his hand—with the blessing of the Qi Forging Divine Weapon technique, the surface temperature of the divine blade, exceeding several thousand degrees, was enough to directly vaporize ordinary flesh, but Su Zhou's hand itself had been strengthened with spiritual energy. After the outer shell was specifically specialized, it could withstand temperatures above two thousand five hundred degrees.

Grasping the blade, Su Zhou didn't care that it didn't have a hilt at all, and just casually waved it towards the testing area behind him—and with just such a casual wave, a strange cyan-red firelight flew out. It rapidly grew in size as it advanced, and then quickly transformed into a giant fire blade with a diameter of over thirty meters, violently impacting the many metal targets in the testing area.

It could be seen that this fire blade seemed to be able to continue to grow, and the metal targets that were hit did not explode, but directly melted into a pool of molten iron in the extremely terrifying high temperature.

"Its power is slightly stronger than my dragon breath. It seems that I can improve my dragon breath by referring to the structure of the Blade of Annihilation—or, like last time when dealing with the Water God, I can use the Blade of Annihilation itself as the core of an armor-piercing projectile, as an assassin's move for my true form's breath."

Su Zhou's view of weapons has always been different from ordinary people's—must swords be held by hand? How could swords be such inconvenient things! Any method that can kill the enemy is a good method. Not to mention being spat out as a cannonball, he even planned to transform his tail into a large blade, so that when his true form swung its tail, it would be equivalent to a giant blade strike!

The true form is a weapon, originally meant for battle. Why make it so much like a creature? This is the design concept of Su, the third-rate designer, the firepower supremacist Zhou.

A mechanical Tyrannosaurus? There's nothing wrong with it.

"...This guy, one day, will modify all five of his fingers into nuclear bombs, and then shout the slogan 'Finger Missiles!' to launch the nuclear bombs and bombard everything..."

Knowing Su Zhou too well, Shao Qiming stood to the side, squinting at his friend who was enthusiastically wielding his upgraded weapon, and couldn't help but complain and predict in his heart: "Some time ago, I heard the academy leaders say that Su Zhou recently visited the high-energy laser weapon laboratory. I bet he wants to modify his eyes..."

"Speaking of which, what kind of true form technique is he practicing?"

Because he had obtained information about cultivating the Divine Tree True Form from Zhou Buyi's data, Shao Qiming was quite curious about Su Zhou's cultivation method, which allowed him to modify his body parts at will—one had to know that in general true forms, there was an extremely complex interconnected relationship between each part and each spiritual energy organ. Any replacement or loss would cause unpredictable effects.

Taking the bloodline of his friend Li Hanshan from the academy team, for example, their Chongming Bird cultivation lacked the cultivation of the vocal organs of the throat and some of the spiritual energy organs of the lungs. Therefore, not only was it difficult for them to emit the phoenix cry that they should theoretically be able to emit, but even casual speech could lead to spiritual energy reversal and qi deviation.

Of course, recently they had perfected their bloodline through the inheritance of another Chongming Bird demon god in the Kunlun Secret Realm and no longer had this side effect, but this also showed the consequences of arbitrary modification—but Su Zhou's true form was like building blocks. As long as it was a slightly better spiritual energy organ cultivation method, he could take it and use it for himself. After a little adaptation, he could use it perfectly.

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"Even divine trees must communicate with each other, or seize life information, to absorb each other's strengths for their own use..."

Having already made up his mind to follow the path of the Divine Tree, Shao Qiming couldn't help but sigh: "I heard that dragons and snakes can mate with all things and give birth to offspring. This casual style of bloodline might be reflected in Su Zhou as this adaptability."

As for Shao Qiming himself, he was determined to go to Su Zhou's personal space in a while to play with the Wisdom Tree and ask if the little guy knew the powerful power it possessed.

If it did, he would just ask directly.

If it didn't, he would help it develop it.

"Are you leaving? Su Zhou."

At this time, Zhou Buyi's voice came from the secret base. He was far away, using the base's internal loudspeakers to communicate with Su Zhou: "I'm very sorry, I'm busy with things right now and can't see you off."

Finding a way to land on the moon is an extremely complex and huge project. Even as a Commander-tier powerhouse, Zhou Buyi couldn't do it alone. He had to guide the power of the entire civilization for his own use... And at the same time, his power could be used by the civilization.

"Don't be too sentimental. Returning here is like returning home—until next time."

Su Zhou was exceptionally free and easy about parting. After putting the Blade of Annihilation, which had been mostly cooled down by spiritual energy, back into its original hilt and scabbard, he threw it into his personal space. Amidst the Wisdom Tree's cry of 'It's hot!', he closed his personal space again: "I hope that next time I come back, I'll hear the news that you've already gone to space."

"That's not a very nice thing to say—you should use lunar landing."

"But that's a blessing, and besides, you're not a woman."

Saying this, Su Zhou said goodbye to Zhou Buyi with a smile, and then walked with Shao Qiming towards the long underground tunnel leading to the outside, appearing on the outside of an island in the West Sea of the World Island.

Zhou Buyi had made many pessimistic predictions about the direction of the world, including the prediction that he would not be able to control this huge collective and that a world war would break out. With his power alone, it would be difficult to calm the boiling world. So he planned to save the civilization's data in shelters and strongholds located around the world during the outbreak of a world war, and then take them out after the war to rebuild civilization.

Of course, this worst-case prediction did not come true, but those strongholds had already been built.

"It's not bad to relax with a little travel occasionally."

Standing on the upper half of a small mountain in the center of the island, Su Zhou looked around at the sparkling sea view of the Divine Tree World, and then reached into his arms and touched the Celestial God Seal.

And Shao Qiming couldn't help but complain: "Your so-called travel and relaxation is to fight against another Commander-tier Divine Tree cultivator, causing the whole world to shake?"

"Get the spirit!"

Accompanied by the massive spiritual energy being extracted, which was enough to make an ordinary Commander-tier cultivator comatose, a space-time sphere leading to the Earth world appeared in front of Su Zhou and Shao Qiming.

Touching the sphere, a silver light curtain flashed past.

With another flash, they had returned to Earth, to the old Shao family residence in the suburbs of Hongcheng.

"...The harvest from the Divine Tree World is really rich."

The first thing Shao Qiming did after returning to Earth was to pick up his mobile phone, which he had deliberately left on Earth. He turned on the screen, stared at the time on it, and after confirming that time really hadn't passed by even a second, he couldn't help but sigh subconsciously: "And it can interfere with time... This kind of great power..."

Saying this, he subconsciously looked at the top of Su Zhou's head, at the seemingly unremarkable half of a hat.

The Snake Spirit didn't reply.

"Speaking of which, Su Zhou." Turning his head, Shao Qiming looked at the young man who was still stretching. He asked with great interest: "Didn't you also go to another world? What technologies and information are worth collecting in that world? Is it worth us going there..."

"The Reincarnation World? That place is in its infancy, and the new era has only just been born. I don't think there's any point in going."

Twisting his bones, Su Zhou's tone was quite lazy: "And there are derivatives of great existences in that place. Although theoretically, the Silent Lord won't take action, it's best not to go back. It's better not to get involved with him... Whether it's hatred or love, we can't bear their will."

"Is that so..."

Shao Qiming was very smart. He could hear the emotion behind Su Zhou's words, so he didn't say much. He just sat back on the sofa, controlled the drone that had taken a lot of data to fly in front of him, and then took out the storage card: "Then let's not talk about these—Su Zhou, what are you going to do next? Are you going to continue cooperating with the authorities to conduct lunar landing experiments, or..."

Su Zhou thought for a while, and then patted his head: "The authorities said some time ago that they wanted me to do a documentary and program about lunar landing. Wasn't I eating at the time? So I casually agreed..."

"This habit of yours of easily agreeing to things when you're eating is really not good..."

"It's not a bad thing anyway..."

The harvest from the Divine Tree World was not just a simple matter of handing it over. Whether it was the two of them making up the origin of the harvest from the immortal and god relics, or practicing how to rehearse their lines, it would take some time.

Just as Su Zhou and Shao Qiming were resting and fabricating the origin of the information.

The Earth World, the solar system.

On the moon.

On the side of the moon illuminated by the sun, the temperature is as high as nearly two hundred degrees. Although a vacuum cannot conduct heat, strong thermal radiation can still accelerate the movement of molecules.

Without an atmosphere, there is naturally no air pressure, and with extremely high thermal radiation, there is naturally no liquid water... The surface of the moon is a desert where all life can hardly survive.

But now.

A shoe made of chitinous exoskeleton, with heavy force, steps on the gray lunar soil, leaving a deep footprint.

A huge humanoid shadow casts a long shadow under the sunlight.

The sand and dust swept across like being blown by a hurricane under the sweep of powerful spiritual energy. The bright sunlight shone down, and one could see a silver-gray humanoid standing silently on the lunar surface.

This silver-gray humanoid has the features of a Westerner, but he has no hair, only an exoskeleton shell similar in shape to hair.

This exoskeleton is extremely strong, and there are silver spiritual patterns flashing on it, creating layers of invisible shields on its body to absorb radiation and convert it into energy for its own use.

Bathed in golden light, the humanoid raised its head and stared ahead. It gazed at the planet covered in blue and white.

Then, it opened its mouth and silently exhaled a breath.

"Earth..."