Chapter 376: Divine Power 'Quicksand'

Meng Chuan landed on the ground. He could sense the transformation of his body after reaching the Blood Droplet realm, and also perceived his fifth divine power, as its mystic patterns had naturally appeared.

"Buzz."

With a thought, silver mystic patterns began to emerge on both sides of Meng Chuan's forehead. Streaks of silver lightning flickered around his head, and his eyes glowed with silver electricity.

Subtle changes occurred in his surroundings.

"This feeling?" Meng Chuan lightly flicked his finger, and a wisp of energy caused a large number of withered yellow leaves in front of him to flutter down.

These falling leaves drifted down very slowly, swaying, swaying, then swaying again at an incredibly leisurely pace.

"So slow."

"No, *I* am faster," Meng Chuan realized. With silver lightning flashing in his eyes, he looked around. The dust in the air, birds high in the sky, soldiers patrolling the distant Jiangzhou City wall—everything seemed to have slowed down tenfold. The soldiers slowly lifted their legs, slowly put them down, then finally took a single step.

"Changing the flow of time?"

"This divine power changes my own flow of time." With a thought, tendrils of silver lightning spread outwards in all directions. Within the expanded range, the flow of time became synchronized with Meng Chuan's. Meanwhile, the world beyond that range remained incredibly slow.

"I can expand this effect to a maximum of ten zhang, and it can also penetrate ten zhang underground. The rules of the earth cannot suppress my influence over time." Meng Chuan understood this. "Within this ten-zhang radius, I can make time move faster. If one breath passes in the outside world, ten breaths will have passed for me."

"Hmm?"

Meng Chuan felt a headache beginning, and his mind-sea also felt vaguely uncomfortable. With a single thought, he quickly retracted the expanded range, pulling it back to himself.

However, the headache slowly intensified.

"Phew." Meng Chuan stopped the divine power. The silver mystic patterns on his forehead disappeared, and his mind-sea felt incredibly light, slowly recovering, while the headache gradually subsided.

"It seems this divine power cannot be used for too long," Meng Chuan mused. "I only used it for about thirty breaths in total, which was only three breaths in the outside world. Expanding the range seems to significantly increase the burden."

"This divine power is related to my physical head and mind-sea."

Upon reaching the Blood Droplet realm, both his dantian space and mind-sea had vastly expanded.

Furthermore, his body, already brimming with the power of lightning, had given rise to a time-based divine power after reaching the Blood Droplet realm.

"The duration for this divine power is too short; not a single moment can be wasted," Meng Chuan thought to himself. "I'll call this divine power 'Quicksand'."

Time, like quicksand, flows grain by grain.

Once it flows out, this divine power must cease.

"The legacy records some common divine powers of the physical body lineage. My time-based divine power, however, is rare and not recorded." Meng Chuan knew that, according to the legacy descriptions, every practitioner is unique, and their individual experiences can lead to special divine powers. However, abilities like 'Immortal Divine Armor' and 'Control of Heaven and Earth' are quite common, with most in the Blood Droplet realm possessing them.

Thunder God's Eye (Magnetic Thunder Field), Heaven's Fury, and Quicksand—these three divine powers are all related to Meng Chuan's initial cultivation of the Thunder Annihilation Demonic Body before switching to the physical body lineage, and none of them are recorded in the legacy.

"I need to carefully consider how to combine all five divine powers to maximize my strength," Meng Chuan pondered.

Combat is also a form of wisdom.

Practitioners at the same realm with the same divine powers can display vastly different combat capabilities.

"My current core strength relies on the Tribulation Realm secret treasure, the 'Blood Blade Disk,' so my five divine powers should also be used to complement it as much as possible," Meng Chuan mused.

The next day, at dawn.

"I'm going to see the Venerables," Meng Chuan told his wife, Liu Qiyue, as he bid her farewell.

"Mm-hmm." Liu Qiyue was also full of excitement. "Ah Chuan, now that you've reached the Blood Droplet realm, your underground detection range has greatly increased. You can now completely resolve the threat of a million demon monarchs. The Venerables will surely be thrilled when they find out."

"I myself have waited a long time for this day," Meng Chuan said with a smile, then turned and transformed into a streak of lightning, vanishing into the horizon.

Liu Qiyue watched him disappear, a sense of pride swelling in her heart.

In these tumultuous times, all Godfiends hoped for the emergence of a powerful expert.

The world of cultivators is one where 'individuals transcend the masses,' and their individual power is incredibly formidable. A single Godfiend is far more terrifying than a million mortals, and an Emperor can easily sweep across the entire human world. A seventh-tribulation physical body Grandmaster like Patriarch Cang Yuan... could even awe multiple worlds and cause an entire world to ascend.

The crisis facing humanity could be resolved quite simply: by the birth of an unrivaled expert.

Although Meng Chuan was currently in the Blood Droplet realm, he could at least resolve the threat of a million demon monarchs.

"That's my husband," Liu Qiyue thought. The more outstanding Meng Chuan became, the prouder she felt.

Yuanchu Mountain.

Meng Chuan arrived at the Dongtian Pavilion, where Venerable Li Guan, Qin Wu's illusion, and Luo Tang's illusion appeared. All three looked at Meng Chuan with surprise and delight.

"You've broken through?" Qin Wu's illusion couldn't help but ask.

Meng Chuan didn't even need to report it himself; Venerable Li Guan had sensed it the moment Meng Chuan arrived at Yuanchu Mountain.

That powerful blood energy, surging like a vast ocean, and a physical body more terrifying than a great mountain—though all were fully contained, they couldn't escape Venerable Li Guan's perception.

"I just broke through to the Blood Droplet realm last night," Meng Chuan explained.

"How is your underground detection divine power?" Luo Tang's illusion eagerly inquired.

"Originally it was a three-li radius; now it's ten li," Meng Chuan replied. "I believe the entire world, including all land and ocean underground areas, can be cleared in a year and a half."

"Excellent," Qin Wu exclaimed, thrilled.

"We're finally going to completely resolve the threat of these million demon monarchs," Venerable Li Guan said with a smile. "Without this massive number of demon monarchs, the demon race's threat will be reduced by more than half."

Luo Tang smiled slightly. "It will be much easier. As long as we carefully deal with the threat of Fifth-Heaven demon monarchs, we can at least delay them for several more centuries."

Fifth-Heaven demon monarch threat?

Meng Chuan understood that the demon race actually held the advantage in top-tier power, but they couldn't enter the human world!

If large groups of Fifth-Heaven demon monarchs were to arrive, humanity would struggle to cope.

If large groups of demon sages were to enter? That would be the end of the world.

As for Emperors? Emperors couldn't possibly enter.

"Both the human world and the demon realm are generating world rifts," Li Guan stated. "My only current concern is the increasing number of world entrances. It would be terrible if an entrance capable of accommodating 'Demon Sages' were to appear in the future."

"Perhaps it will never happen," Qin Wu remarked.

"How can the war be ended?" Meng Chuan couldn't help but ask.

Having resolved the threat of a million demon monarchs, Meng Chuan thought of... completely ending the war. If he could achieve that, he would gladly sacrifice his life.

"For example, by giving birth to an Emperor," Li Guan said with a smile. "All Emperors are at the seventh layer of the Primordial Spirit and can split into nine Primordial Spirit avatars. These nine avatars, carrying 'Emperor True Essence,' can unleash a portion of the Emperor's true power. Emperors possess a 'Heaven and Earth Domain' and can instantly teleport a thousand li. Even if separated by ten thousand li, it would only take ten teleportations. If large groups of demon sages were to arrive in the human world, a single Emperor could hunt them down relentlessly until they had nowhere to flee. Through karma, they would have nowhere to hide."

"Another example would be the birth of an eighth-layer Primordial Spirit. An eighth-layer Primordial Spirit has already entered the 'Primordial Spirit Tribulation Realm' and can cover the entire human world with a single thought, easily annihilating all incoming demon sages."

Meng Chuan listened in awe. "Are there other ways?"

"Failing that, one would need to be unrivaled in the Creation Realm," Qin Wu said. "With one's own power, one could defend a world entrance capable of admitting demon sages, sweeping aside entire groups."

"What does 'unrivaled in the Creation Realm' mean?" Meng Chuan asked.

"I am considered a peak Creation Realm expert, and with the aid of a Tribulation Realm secret treasure, I can unleash destructive power comparable to the threshold of an Emperor," Qin Wu explained. "This level of strength is quite formidable within the Creation Realm, but among the many demon sages of the demon race... as far as I know, two have already comprehended the 'Heaven and Earth Realm,' though their Primordial Spirit hasn't broken through, preventing them from becoming Emperors."

Meng Chuan's expression subtly changed.

Given that the demon race could produce three Emperors, it was understandable that two of their many demon sages had reached the Heaven and Earth Realm.

"To defeat so many demon sages," Qin Wu continued, "one would need to reach the level of the Yin-Yang Elder, having created an 'Emperor-level ultimate art' with combat power comparable to a true Emperor. Only then... could one be considered unrivaled in the Creation Realm."

"Those like me, who can unleash power at the Emperor's threshold—Senior Brother Li, and Bai Yaoyue from Black Sand Grotto Heaven—can achieve this with the help of Tribulation Realm weapons," Qin Wu clarified. "It's simply impossible for one person to sweep aside all the demon sages."

"True Martial King, who created the Creation Realm ultimate art 'Seven True Martial Arts,' is considered unrivaled among those of King realm," Luo Tang said. "The Yin-Yang Elder, who created an Emperor-level ultimate art, is considered unrivaled in the Creation Realm."

Meng Chuan nodded.

To completely end the war, it was truly difficult.