Chapter 456: Test of the Emperor's Plane
The Professionals who rushed into Fang Che Plane simply couldn't withstand the skill attacks of countless Souls and were quickly annihilated.
Immediately after, the Souls passed through the spatial passage, entered the enemy's Plane, and began a massacre!
The next second, all the Planes showed signs of closing.
However, under Fang Che's control, the spatial passage remained stable.
A few minutes later, a group of Souls returned to Fang Che Plane, carrying some materials from these Planes.
Fang Che no longer restrained the spatial power, and the spatial passage quickly closed.
Fighting against multiple Planes at once resulted in too great a loss, so Fang Che preferred to be more cautious.
It wouldn't be too late to use the materials brought by the Souls to attack Other Planes after fully destroying one.
Afterward, Fang Che integrated his body into the Plane, continuously adjusting the overall changes of the Plane and condensing array formations.
At the same time, Fang Che also placed the Death Sculpture and Concession Token at different positions within the array formation, integrating them into the Plane.
Compared to the Plane's expansion speed, Fang Che's speed in setting up array formations and embedding Concession Tokens and Death Sculptures was rather slow.
After some time, countless Planes suddenly gathered around Fang Che Plane.
However, upon discovering the size of Fang Che Plane, these Planes chose to flee without hesitation.
Fang Che also noticed these gathered Planes.
Fang Che directly controlled the Plane and crashed into them.
Although Fang Che Plane was still expanding, with the double enhancement of the Concession Token and array formations, Fang Che Plane easily caught up with a cluster of Planes.
"Boom~"
The Planes collided, and Ninth-Order Souls surged into the Plane.
At this moment, on the edge of that Plane, low-level Professionals looked at the Ninth-Order Souls pressing down like dark clouds, all scared pale, momentarily forgetting to act.
The next second, countless skills smashed down on them.
When the skills dissipated, the Professionals disappeared, and the defensive array formations they had set up also vanished, leaving only pulverized earth.
The Souls continued to advance, releasing skills and conducting a carpet bombing.
On the other side, Fang Che Plane continued to advance, making contact with more Planes.
However, as more and more Planes were contacted, the speed of Fang Che Plane was dragged down and gradually slowed.
The remaining Planes quickly fled.
Fang Che did not continue the pursuit, but instead continued to create array formations, integrating Concession Tokens and Death Sculptures.
After a long time, Fang Che's Plane stopped expanding.
At this moment, Fang Che's Plane had expanded tens of thousands of times compared to before.
Even compared to Emperor Plane, Fang Che Plane was equivalent to more than nine thousand times the size of Emperor Plane!
This was all the accumulated wealth of Fang Che's past generations.
After another period of time, all of Fang Che's Concession Tokens and Death Sculptures were exhausted.
At this point, only one-tenth of Fang Che Plane's area had Concession Tokens and Death Sculptures embedded.
Nine-tenths of the area still needed to be addressed.
Therefore, Fang Che immediately sent a message to the Ninth-Order Souls: [Reduce killing, refine Death Sculptures using the lives of Professionals, process materials, the method is...]
The method for refining the Concession Token had not appeared in his memory; this was information Fang Che had learned during his current cultivation process.
Fang Che intended to use the Concession Token and Death Sculpture to elevate the current Plane to its most perfect state.
Upon receiving Fang Che's command, the Souls immediately reduced their offensive skill releases and began capturing Professionals from Other Planes.
Meanwhile, Fang Che controlled a Goat Representative, instructing the Goat Representative to set up a safe teleportation array.
Previously, Li Xing had sent a message saying that Emperor Plane wanted to meet Fang Che.
Fang Che guessed that this was Emperor Plane wanting to cooperate with him to continue attacking Other Planes.
This was a good thing for Fang Che.
In Fang Che's memory, Plane expansion had a limit.
Only by possessing another body and cultivating anew could the Plane continue to expand.
Now that Fang Che Plane had another opportunity to expand, Fang Che needed to communicate with Emperor Plane to continue plundering Other Planes.
Not long after, the Goat Representative activated the teleportation array and entered Emperor Plane.
Through the Goat Representative's vision, Fang Che saw the controlled Emperor and also sensed the aura of soul fragments on the Emperor.
Fang Che remembered that before he advanced to the Ninth-Order, he had seen Emperor Plane using soul fragments to try and gain freedom.
And the Emperor was also using soul fragments, attempting to advance to the Tenth-Order.
Regarding this method, the Fang Che in his memory had experimented with it, but unfortunately, it was useless, only leaving behind a group of Ninth-Order Professional Souls.
Fang Che still had to wait until the Plane expanded to its limit before looking for a method to advance to the Tenth-Order.
If he truly couldn't find one, he could only continue to possess another body and cultivate again.
At this moment, the Plane Will controlled the Emperor and spoke, "I just sensed the aura of Plane expansion, but that Plane is too far from me, and I am constrained by Tian Chong Plane, unable to get close;
I hope you can destroy that Plane; at that time, I will give you seventy percent of the Plane, and I will resolve the remaining issues."
Upon hearing this, Fang Che, controlling the Goat Representative, replied, "That Plane is very strong; I advise you not to take the risk."
The Plane Will immediately understood that Fang Che had already found that Plane.
As for the advice not to seek death, it was merely an attempt to monopolize it!
The Plane Will was displeased and controlled the Emperor to say, "We have always cooperated well; why ruin our relationship over a weak Plane?"
Seeing that Emperor Plane did not believe him, Fang Che said, "If you don't believe me, I will send you some resources from an invaded Plane later, and you can experience it yourself."
The Plane Will, controlling the Emperor, asked with some concern, "You wouldn't be intentionally trying to frame me, would you?"
Fang Che said no more and directly had the Goat Representative leave Emperor Plane.
Subsequently, Fang Che controlled a new Turtle Representative and had the Ninth-Order Souls retrieve a portion of resources from an invaded Plane.
Fang Che handed the resources to the Turtle Representative, controlled the Turtle Representative to set up a teleportation array, entered Emperor Plane, and met the Emperor again.
Then, Fang Che controlled the Emperor to throw out the materials.
The Plane Will observed the materials, confirmed there were no issues, and took them away.
Soon, a Criminal, under the control of Emperor Plane Will, set up a teleportation array and entered the Plane that was currently under attack.
The moment he entered the Plane, Emperor Plane Will saw, through the Criminal's eyes, countless Ninth-Order Professionals, so numerous they blotted out the sky.
How could this be?
Emperor Plane Will was somewhat incredulous and directly controlled the Criminal to charge forward, personally experiencing the skill attacks of the Souls.
the Criminal died instantly.
And Emperor Plane Will fell into a long silence.
Through the damage the Criminal had just sustained, Emperor Plane Will confirmed that the attacks were not fake.
Emperor Plane was somewhat unwilling and dispatched more Criminals to disperse and endure the attacks.
After hundreds of Criminals died, the Plane Will confirmed that all those Souls were real!
However, did the Plane that cultivated the Souls not worry about the Souls' will influencing the Plane Will?
If it wasn't afraid of its will being affected, how strong must that Plane Will be?
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Chapter 457: The leader of the Triangle tribe changes his name to Fang Che
The Emperor Plane grew more and more fearful the more it thought about it.
If it were targeted, it definitely wouldn't survive.
It had to expand its Plane as quickly as possible and cultivate more Ninth-Order Professionals.
Thinking of this, the Emperor Plane Will controlled the Emperor to say, "I will give you a batch of materials, and I hope you will destroy these Planes as soon as possible."
"Of course, before destroying the Plane, you still need to inform me. I will give you a Plane that is seventy percent of the size, and some resources."
After saying this, the Emperor Plane Will opened a spatial passage, directly took out a pile of materials, and threw them in front of the Turtle Representative.
Fang Che observed the materials, and after confirming there were no issues, he controlled the Turtle Representative to put away the materials and said, "I will resolve it as soon as possible."
Subsequently, Fang Che controlled the Turtle Representative to set up a teleportation array, leave the Emperor Plane, and enter a Plane that had already perished.
After the Turtle Representative set up a self-destructing array and sacrificed its life, Fang Che sent out a new Representative to set up a purification array and process the materials.
Fang Che did not intend to use these materials for the time being.
Fang Che wanted to first destroy the Planes that had actively come to cause trouble.
After dealing with these Planes, he would then process the materials provided by the Emperor Plane.
At that time, Fang Che would directly send Souls to fight in Other Planes and would not share them with the Emperor Plane.
Because Fang Che's current strength was sufficient, if the Emperor Plane dared to cause trouble, Fang Che wouldn't mind teaching it a lesson.
Afterward, Fang Che diverted his attention to the Planes that were being attacked, seeing that the Souls were refining Death Sculptures and processing the materials for Concession Tokens.
At the same time, many Souls were also annihilated by enemies.
These Souls had no territory, and after their deaths, they transformed into energy and disappeared.
To have enough Ninth-Order Professionals, Fang Che began distributing various materials to cultivate Tribal Professionals.
After the new Tribal Professionals advanced to the Ninth-Order, half of their Soul fragments were automatically plundered by the power of the rules.
These rule powers were all set up by Fang Che in the Plane in the past.
As the Planes merged, they could already influence these Tribal Professionals.
These Soul fragments would automatically absorb Plane energy and transform into weak Ninth-Order Souls after the Tribal Professionals died.
One after another, Ninth-Order Tribal Professionals were cultivated by Fang Che.
At the same time, the Ninth-Order Souls in battle also sent the Death Sculpture and Concession Token materials to Fang Che.
Fang Che refined the materials into Concession Tokens and immediately buried them in various areas of the Plane, enhancing the overall strength of the Plane.
Half a month passed in a flash.
On this day, all the Planes that had come into contact with the Fang Che Plane were completely destroyed and swallowed by the Fang Che Plane, integrating into different Planes.
The Professionals in these Planes provided Fang Che with many Death Sculptures and Concession Tokens.
Now, two-thirds of the Fang Che Plane's area was buried with Concession Tokens and Death Sculptures.
Subsequently, Fang Che took out a pile of materials and opened a spatial passage.
These materials all came from the Planes that had once invaded the Fang Che Plane.
As soon as Fang Che opened these spatial passages, he immediately sent Souls into them.
Another three days passed in a blink of an eye, and Fang Che suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable.
This discomfort came precisely from his own Plane.
Fang Che quickly observed the Plane and soon found the root of the discomfort.
In the central area of the Plane, Professionals from various tribes gathered together.
The Triangle Human Clan Leader stood on an altar, shouting with a worried expression:
"The Plane's expansion is very strange now; I often feel some dangerous creatures roaming around."
"The Plane Will cannot restrain these dangerous creatures. One day, these dangerous creatures will destroy the Plane."
"For the future of the Plane, I am officially renaming myself Fang Che to assist the Plane Will and maintain the stability of the Plane. Are you all willing?"
Below the altar, everyone shouted in unison, "We are willing!"
As everyone agreed, everyone's will automatically converged towards the altar, and the will of the Triangle Human Clan Leader rapidly expanded, squeezing the will of the Soul fragments to other places!
Seeing this situation, Fang Che's mood was calm.
Everything the Triangle Human Clan Leader was doing now was to suppress the Plane Will.
Taking a name identical to Fang Che's was to reduce the influence of the Plane's rules.
Their current actions were something that was bound to happen when the number of Ninth-Order Professionals in a Plane increased.
Because every Professional had different pursuits, and a powerful Plane Will would affect the Professional's pursuits.
To avoid being influenced by the Plane Will, Professionals would try every means to suppress the Plane Will, and even replace the Plane Will.
However, Professionals in most Planes could not suppress the Plane Will; at most, they could only be evenly matched with the Plane Will.
The Emperor in the Emperor Plane was an existence evenly matched with the Plane Will.
In Fang Che's memory, the Fang Che Plane had also experienced thousands of instances of Professionals suppressing the Plane Will.
However, no one had succeeded.
For them to succeed, the primary condition was that the number of Ninth-Order Professionals exceeded the number of Ninth-Order Souls.
However, cultivating Ninth-Order Professionals required Fang Che to provide materials.
Moreover, after Ninth-Order Professionals died, Fang Che could gain new Souls.
Fang Che didn't even have the interest to stop these people.
Fang Che even released his restraints on them, arbitrarily choosing an area to let them carry the collective will.
Afterward, Fang Che continued to focus on other aspects of the situation.
In the altar, Fang Che of the Triangular Human Race was excited after discovering that the collective will had occupied a large area.
Fang Che of the Triangular Human Race waited until the expansion of the collective will reached its limit, then took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and said,
"We can now help the Plane Will share some responsibilities. When the number of Ninth-Order Professionals increases, we will be able to help the Plane Will do even more!"
The surrounding people understood the meaning behind the words of Fang Che, the Triangle Human Clan Leader, and all cheered excitedly.
Fang Che, the Triangle Human Clan Leader, waited until the cheers of the crowd subsided a bit, then said,
"Next, everyone, expand your territories, excavate underground resources, and cultivate Ninth-Order Professionals as quickly as possible!"
Everyone responded in unison, "Understood!"
Subsequently, everyone dispersed and returned to their own territories to begin excavating resources.
And Fang Che did not stop them, but merely buried the resources plundered by the Souls around these people.
With the assistance of resources, coupled with the Tribal Professionals' urgent desire to suppress the Plane Will.
Therefore, the cultivation speed of Ninth-Order Professionals was faster than before.
Two months passed in a flash, and the Ninth-Order Professionals in the tribe had doubled.
Meanwhile, Fang Che had already eliminated and annexed all the Planes that had invaded the Fang Che Plane.
Death Sculptures and Concession Tokens had been buried in all areas of the Plane.
The Plane's hidden energy and movement speed had all reached their peak state!
However, the Plane's expansion state had not yet reached its limit.
So, Fang Che took out the materials provided by the Emperor Plane, opened a spatial passage, and dispatched Ninth-Order Souls to begin a new round of invasion.
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Chapter 458: Plane Continues to Expand
As the Ninth-Order Soul invaded, the Emperor Plane immediately detected the Plane's changes through a special communication token.
The Plane Will instantly thought of Fang Che, believing he had secretly plundered the Plane without informing it.
The Plane Will was extremely displeased and quickly used materials to open a spatial channel.
The moment the spatial channel opened, the Plane Will sensed the aura belonging to the Ninth-Order Soul.
Therefore, the Plane Will hastily closed the spatial channel, fearing the Ninth-Order Soul would find it.
Subsequently, the Plane Will fell into confusion.
How had it never heard of such a powerful Plane before?
At this moment, within the invaded Plane, the Plane Will instantly despaired upon sensing the sky-obscuring Ninth-Order Soul.
However, the Plane Will quickly adjusted its state, took out a pile of materials, and directly opened a spatial channel, connecting to Other Planes.
However, these spatial channels closed from the other side shortly after they were opened.
Some Professionals emerged from some of the spatial channels.
However, upon sensing the Soul, these Professionals chose to flee without hesitation and closed the spatial channels.
The invaded Plane Will became even more desperate; after despair came madness.
This Plane Will directly gathered the materials from Other Planes and threw them towards the area where the Soul was located.
Upon receiving these materials, the Soul skillfully handed them over to the Soul skilled in fleeing, who then handed them to Fang Che.
Within the Fang Che Plane, the Ninth-Order Souls handed over various resources to Fang Che.
After counting the resources, Fang Che threw most of them into the area where the Tribal Professionals resided, helping them quickly improve their strength.
The materials that could connect to Other Planes were stored separately by Fang Che.
As for the materials for strengthening the Curse Tool, Fang Che did not keep a single one.
The most important function of these Curse Tools was to assist in refining eye tools when the Plane expanded to its limit in the future.
The current strength of the Curse Tool was already sufficient; further strengthening it would only waste resources, and it would be better to cultivate more Ninth-Order Professionals.
At this moment, the communication token emitted heat, and Li Xing's voice came through:
"Fang Che, the Plane Will wants me to tell you that a Plane has been attacked and for you to act quickly."
Fang Che understood that the Emperor Plane had discovered the invasion of the Plane.
However, the Emperor Plane did not know the relationship between the Soul and Fang Che, which was why it urged Fang Che to act quickly.
Fang Che replied, "Brother Li, please inform the Plane Will that action takes time, and I will do my best."
After transmitting the message, Fang Che took out another set of materials provided by the Emperor Plane, opened a spatial channel, and dispatched the Soul to enter again.
As for the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book, Fang Che temporarily did not plan to use it.
If the Plane was destroyed too quickly, it would be easy for the Emperor Plane to discover the problem, and Fang Che still hoped the Emperor Plane would continue to provide materials from Other Planes.
Additionally, destroying the Plane too quickly would prevent the refinement of the Death Sculpture and Concession Token, which would be detrimental to the Plane's development.
Fang Che did not need to rush now; taking it slowly was fine.
Next, Fang Che successively opened seven spatial channels, connecting to seven Planes.
At this moment, Li Xing sent another message to Fang Che: "Fang Che, the Plane Will wants to meet you."
"I'll be right there." After replying, Fang Che immediately controlled a tiger representative to enter the Emperor Plane and meet the Emperor.
The Plane Will, controlling the Emperor, spoke with some annoyance, "Have you studied the materials I gave you?"
Upon hearing this, Fang Che, controlling the tiger representative, spoke in an annoyed tone:
"The four Planes I observed were either being attacked by those Souls, or they were attacked by Souls after I understood some information about them, so I could only choose to give up."
Four?
The Plane Will remembered that nine of the Planes it had provided were under attack.
It seemed Fang Che had not sold the Plane coordinates to anyone else.
However, why were only the Planes provided to Fang Che under attack, while the Planes not provided to Fang Che were not attacked?
Was it just a coincidence?
Fang Che, controlling the tiger representative, retorted, "Were you locked on when you observed and contacted those Planes?"
The Emperor Plane Will's attention was instantly diverted by these words, and it quickly inspected every inch of the Plane, searching for suspicious areas.
A moment later, the Plane Will, controlling the Emperor, spoke, "Don't worry, I haven't been locked on here; it should be that after the Plane Will destroyed the Planes, it obtained materials from Other Planes from them, thereby entering more Planes."
Seeing the Emperor Plane Will proactively find an excuse, Fang Che, controlling the tiger representative, said:
"Then I'm relieved. I will continue to search for information on Other Planes. If you have materials from some Planes that don't communicate with the outside world, you can also give them to me. These Planes should not be found by those Souls."
When the Souls destroyed those Planes, they indeed obtained many materials from Other Planes.
These simple materials did not require the Emperor Plane to provide them.
Fang Che needed those harder-to-find Plane materials.
Only by obtaining these materials could Fang Che allow the Plane to continue expanding.
The Emperor Plane Will heard Fang Che's request, hesitated for a moment, then opened a spatial channel and took out a set of materials.
Subsequently, the Plane Will, controlling the Emperor, said, "You can investigate the situation of this Plane first."
Fang Che inspected the materials, confirmed they were fine, and had the tiger put them away.
Then, while setting up a teleportation array, the tiger said, "I also need some materials for advancement; please prepare some for me."
Upon hearing this, the Emperor Plane Will's wariness towards Fang Che decreased further.
Since Fang Che needed resources, it meant that Fang Che had little connection with those Souls.
Moreover, since Fang Che needed materials, he would be more dependent on it.
The Emperor Plane Will immediately opened a spatial rift, took out a pile of materials, and, controlling the Emperor, generously said, "Ask me if it's not enough."
"Then give me some Ninth-Order materials!"
"That, we'll talk about later."
"Alright." Fang Che shook his head in disappointment, controlled the tiger representative to activate the teleportation array, and left the Emperor Plane.
Fang Che dealt with the tiger representative as before, set up a purification array, and purified the materials.
Afterward, Fang Che continued to distribute the resources plundered by the Soul.
A month later, Fang Che had destroyed most of the Planes provided by the Emperor Plane.
After devouring these Planes, Fang Che suddenly discovered that the Plane's rules had undergone some strange changes.
This change had never happened before.
Fang Che was very curious and directly used his Observe ability to observe the changes in the Plane.
The constantly changing rules provided Fang Che with more information.
After summarizing all the information, Fang Che instantly sensed a powerful force condensing within the rules.
After carefully observing for a moment, Fang Che found a way to advance to the Tenth-Order!
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Chapter 459: Nine-story Ladder to Heaven
The method to advance to the tenth rank is to condense ten layers of the Heaven-Ascending Staircase using the power one has mastered.
Stepping onto the staircase will complete one's transformation and elevate them to the tenth rank!
Upon seeing this information, Fang Che was ecstatic.
After three thousand times of seizing bodies and cultivating anew, he had finally completed his transformation and found a way to advance to the tenth rank!
Fang Che took a deep breath, and after calming his emotions, he carefully observed the advancement method.
To build the Heaven-Ascending Staircase, a solid foundation must be laid, otherwise, the Heaven-Ascending Staircase will collapse later.
And the foundation of the Heaven-Ascending Staircase is Fang Che's Plane!
At this moment, Fang Che's Plane had already met the standard for condensing the first layer of the Heaven-Ascending Staircase.
It was precisely because his Plane met the standard that Fang Che could see the advancement method.
Since the foundation had met the standard, the first layer of the Heaven-Ascending Staircase could be built.
For the material of this first layer of the Heaven-Ascending Staircase, Fang Che chose his own body.
Fang Che's body was capable of bearing all the power accumulated in the past, and it was already powerful enough.
There was probably no body stronger than Fang Che's in the world.
Thus, Fang Che found a flat area and, following the method for building the Heaven-Ascending Staircase, released his body's power.
As soon as the power was released, space was instantly torn apart, and all energy was disrupted.
As the body's power landed, it automatically condensed into a layer of red staircase.
Before long, the staircase took shape, and the power in Fang Che's body continued to be released, condensing into the second layer of the staircase!
Fang Che's body, after countless years of cultivation, was simply too powerful.
After completely condensing two layers of the staircase, Fang Che's body was weakened to the extreme, like an old man plagued by a serious illness.
Fang Che moved his steps with some difficulty and stepped onto the first layer of the staircase.
In an instant, the staircase released gentle energy, surging into Fang Che's body, rapidly strengthening him.
With renewed strength, Fang Che stepped onto the second layer of the staircase.
Standing on the second layer of the staircase, Fang Che's body power had completely recovered.
Of course, this recovered power could not create new staircases.
To create more staircases, Fang Che had to bring forth other powers.
Thus, Fang Che released his skills, landing them on the second layer of the staircase.
The next second, Fang Che's skills disappeared, and a portion of the third layer of the staircase also condensed.
Fang Che continued to release skills; each time a skill was released, a portion of it would disappear.
After all skills disappeared, the third layer of the staircase was fully condensed.
At this point, Fang Che was a Professional who possessed ninth-rank power but had no skills whatsoever.
However, as Fang Che stepped onto the third layer of the staircase, all his skills fully recovered.
Immediately after, Fang Che released the power stored in the curse master gem.
In an instant, Fang Che's realm rapidly plummeted, and the fourth layer of the staircase slowly condensed into form.
When the fourth layer of the staircase was fully formed, Fang Che became a Professional who possessed skills but no realm, and the curse master gem instantly shattered.
However, once Fang Che stepped onto the fourth layer of the staircase, Fang Che regained his ninth-rank strength, and the curse master gem also condensed into form.
Next, Fang Che took out all his Curse Tools and placed them on the staircase.
All the Curse Tools melted, transforming into the fifth layer of the staircase.
As Fang Che stepped onto the fifth layer of the staircase, all the Curse Tools re-condensed in Fang Che's Niwan Palace.
At this moment, the Heaven-Ascending Staircase was halfway complete, with only the last five layers remaining.
Thus, Fang Che released the Plane's special ability: Observe.
The Observe ability is a special ability condensed after the Plane absorbs spatial energy.
And since Fang Che's will replaced the Plane Will, the special ability condensed from spatial energy also belonged to Fang Che's power.
Fang Che used the Observe ability to carefully observe the existing five layers of the staircase, seeing much information about them.
However, Fang Che's Observe ability was continuously weakening, and the information he saw became less and less.
As the Observe ability weakened, the sixth layer of the staircase was slowly condensed.
Before long, the six layers of the staircase were fully formed, and Fang Che's Observe ability was halved.
The Observe ability continued to weaken, and the seventh layer of the staircase slowly condensed.
After the Observe ability completely disappeared, the seventh layer of the staircase took shape!
Fang Che stepped onto the staircase, regaining control of his Observe ability.
Immediately after, Fang Che used his Modification ability, focusing on the seven layers of the staircase.
Fang Che did not see any modification information; instead, the eighth layer of the staircase condensed into form.
Before long, the ninth layer of the staircase also condensed.
After the ninth layer of the staircase was fully formed, the tenth layer did not condense, which meant that the Modification ability had been exhausted.
However, from the moment he started consuming the Modification ability to condense the staircase, Fang Che had not seen any modification information about the staircase.
Fang Che could not determine the specific situation of the Modification ability.
So, Fang Che turned his head to look elsewhere.
No modification information appeared elsewhere either, which meant that the Modification ability had indeed been exhausted.
Thus, Fang Che stepped onto the ninth layer of the staircase, and the Modification ability instantly recovered, allowing Fang Che to see modification methods for other places again.
However, when his gaze fell upon the staircase, he still couldn't see anything.
Nevertheless, a smile appeared on Fang Che's face.
Only the last layer of the Heaven-Ascending Staircase remained.
And Fang Che still possessed many powers.
The simplest power was the memories accumulated for a long time.
Apart from Fang Che, no one could withstand so many memories.
If Fang Che used these memories to attack others, they would become fools under the impact of the memories.
Besides memories, Fang Che also had will, desires, and emotions; although these were formless, they could influence human behavior, which was also a powerful force.
Fang Che pondered for a moment and decided to use memories to condense new power.
To avoid being unable to ascend to the tenth layer of the staircase after the memory ritual, Fang Che began to change the surrounding environment.
A moment later, the soil on both sides of the staircase and behind Fang Che collapsed, forming bottomless fissures that inspired fear with just a glance.
The soil in front of the staircase rapidly rose, forming a safe passage.
At the same time, Fang Che changed the surrounding rules, prohibiting various abilities such as flight and burrowing.
All the restrictions were forcing Fang Che to walk up the staircase, approaching that safe passage.
In the event of complete memory loss, Fang Che's instincts would urge him towards the safest passage.
Having made all preparations, Fang Che released his memories, letting them fall onto the ninth layer of the staircase.
However, the staircase did not absorb Fang Che's memories; instead, it directly repelled them!
Fang Che was slightly stunned.
Are memories not considered a form of power?
Or are memories too weak to condense a layer of the staircase?
Fang Che thought for a moment and released all the power in his body that had not yet condensed into a staircase.
These powers merged into the staircase, and the tenth layer of the staircase slowly appeared.
Before Fang Che could rejoice, he found that his Observe ability suddenly took effect.
A blood-red character for 'Death' condensed above the staircase.
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Chapter 460 Disadvantages of Finding Death Information
Upon seeing the character for 'death', Fang Che immediately withdrew the power he had released.
The tenth step, which had just partially condensed, vanished instantly.
At the same time, the 'death' character that Fang Che had seen using his Observe ability also disappeared.
Fang Che frowned and used his Observe ability to carefully examine the steps.
One day, two days...
After a full month, the 'death' character never reappeared.
His Observe ability could not detect any trace of the 'death' character's existence.
Even though Fang Che's Observe ability had been enhanced thousands of times, he still couldn't see the 'death' character.
It was as if the 'death' character was just an illusion.
Fang Che remained silent for a moment, then once again released his full power, making contact with the steps.
The tenth step condensed again, and the blood-red 'death' character reappeared.
None of this was an illusion!
Fang Che quickly withdrew his power, feeling somewhat lost.
Why couldn't he see the 'death' character during normal Observe, but only when the steps were condensing?
Was there a problem with the breakthrough method?
After a moment of contemplation, Fang Che once again released his power to condense the steps.
The 'death' character reappeared.
This time, Fang Che did not withdraw his power, allowing the steps to continue condensing.
At the same time, Fang Che used his Observe ability, staring intently at the 'death' character.
As he delved deeper into his Observe, Fang Che discovered countless dangerous pieces of information, each containing enough power to kill Fang Che.
After observing quietly for a while, seeing that the tenth step was about to take shape, Fang Che quickly withdrew his energy.
The tenth step slowly collapsed and disintegrated.
Fang Che, on the other hand, was recording all the information he had seen through Observe, using his Improvement ability to examine this information.
However, Fang Che was simply incapable of improving this information; it had already reached a perfect state.
Since it couldn't be improved, it meant there were no flaws, and his idea of finding flaws through Improvement immediately fell through.
However, Fang Che did not get discouraged; instead, after the tenth step completely disappeared, he condensed the steps again and continued to use his Observe ability to understand more information.
The information he had seen before was automatically ignored by Fang Che, as he focused on recording messages he hadn't remembered last time, or information that hadn't appeared before.
When the tenth step was about to condense, Fang Che once again withdrew his power, recording the information he had just learned.
The information learned this time was much less than the previous time.
Moreover, after summarizing all the information, Fang Che still hadn't found a way to improve it, nor could he find any flaws.
Fang Che could only condense the tenth step this time and continue to observe.
In the time that followed, Fang Che continuously condensed the tenth step and continuously observed.
Through repeated Observes, the information Fang Che obtained was sometimes abundant, sometimes scarce.
However, regardless of the amount of information, Fang Che simply couldn't find any flaws in it; this information was perfectly complete.
This information could perfectly take Fang Che's life, and Fang Che had no ability to fight back whatsoever.
As long as Fang Che condensed the tenth step, Fang Che was doomed to die.
After a long period without good news, Fang Che's mood grew increasingly irritable.
"Bang bang bang..."
Once again, his search for an Improvement method yielded no results, and Fang Che furiously clenched his fists, pounding hard on the nine steps.
After pounding for a long time, Fang Che collapsed onto the steps, staring blankly at the sky.
At this moment, the communication token emitted heat, and Fang Che instinctively injected energy into it, whereupon Li Xing's voice immediately came from inside the communication token: "Fang Che, the Emperor Plane wishes to see you."
Fang Che gradually came to his senses, turned his head to glance at the nine steps, a hint of annoyance flashing in his eyes.
Subsequently, Fang Che stopped observing the steps, traveled to Other Planes, controlled a sixth-tier Goat Representative, had the Goat Representative set up a secure teleportation array, entered the Emperor Plane, and met the Emperor, who was being controlled by the Plane Will.
The controlled Emperor spoke: "Recently, those souls have stopped attacking, and the Planes I know of have not been attacked again. How much have you learned about the various Planes?"
Fang Che was in low spirits, controlling the Goat Representative to reply: "Not much."
The Plane Will, controlling the Emperor, inquired: "How long will it take to reach the standard for destroying a Plane?"
Fang Che, controlling the Goat Representative, replied: "I don't know."
The Plane Will was somewhat impatient, controlling the Emperor to speak: "We must take advantage of the interval when those souls have stopped fighting to quickly destroy Planes and strengthen ourselves;
You must quickly speed up your investigation. If you really can't investigate clearly, then act quickly. Some things don't need to be investigated too thoroughly; Other Planes aren't that powerful."
Hearing the Emperor Plane's words, Fang Che thought of the Stairway to Heaven.
Perhaps that death information wasn't so frightening; perhaps after condensing the tenth step, Fang Che wouldn't die, but would successfully advance to the tenth tier.
Moreover, Fang Che possessed the Creation Coffin, so even if he died, he should be able to revive.
At this moment, Fang Che's Luck mentality (luck/optimism bias) was continuously growing.
The Emperor Plane Will, seeing that the Goat Representative had not spoken for a long time, controlled the Emperor to speak:
"I have prepared another batch of resources for you here. I hope you can destroy the Planes as soon as possible, and don't wait to regret it when you are attacked by the souls."
After saying this, spatial crack (rifts) opened around them, and many materials fell beside the Goat Representative.
Fang Che did not examine these materials closely this time; after having the Goat Representative put them away, he immediately set up a teleportation array and left.
Fang Che, meanwhile, once again ascended the Stairway to Heaven, released energy, and observed carefully.
However, while observing, Fang Che's Luck mentality (luck/optimism bias) always made him think of the scene of successfully advancing to the tenth tier, making it difficult to concentrate.
When the tenth step was about to condense successfully, Fang Che's emotions changed drastically.
At times he fantasized about successfully advancing to the tenth tier, and at other times he thought of death.
Seeing that the tenth step was about to condense, Fang Che still chose to withdraw his power, and the tenth step collapsed again.
Fang Che sighed softly.
Fang Che still couldn't forget the dangerous information about death and didn't dare to risk his life.
Although he had the Creation Coffin, Fang Che's memory had already disappeared after he condensed the tenth step.
What if Fang Che encountered danger before stepping onto the steps? Then, even if Fang Che revived, he would lose his past memories.
Would that Fang Che still be Fang Che?
Fang Che still decided to continue observing the steps and learn more information.
So, Fang Che readjusted his emotions, continued to condense the tenth step, and continued to observe.
Subsequently, the information Fang Che saw was still largely repetitive, with only a small portion being information he hadn't noticed before.
After observing for a long time, Fang Che gradually became numb, continuously repeating the steps of 'Create steps, observe information, destroy steps, record information, improve information, and then create steps again.'
Through continuous repetition, Fang Che gradually forgot all emotions and ignored all changes in the outside world.
After an unknown period, when Fang Che once again improved information, he found that this information suddenly linked together.
This was a situation Fang Che had never noticed before.
Previously, the information had been very scattered.
Fang Che observed the information with some anticipation, discovering that the linked information possessed a more dangerous aura and could eliminate Fang Che more easily.