Chapter 466 Helping Other Planes Resist the Emperor Plane
After the Goat Representative left the Emperor Plane, Fang Che eliminated him as before, then sent a new representative to set up a purification array and process materials.
After that, Fang Che continued to send Tribal Professionals to infiltrate Other Planes to gather information about them.
Information about one Plane after another was clearly understood by Fang Che.
As soon as Fang Che obtained complete information, he would condense it into an invisible aura, and then, when his soul invaded Other Planes, he would silently throw the information into each Plane.
When these Planes were invaded by the Planes recorded in the information, the corresponding information would automatically display itself, helping the Planes resist the Intruder.
As for the issue of information being discovered in advance, that was impossible.
Fang Che left special activation rules within the information.
As long as the area of these Planes could not exceed the Fang Che Plane, they would not be able to view the information left by Fang Che.
However, the expansion of a Plane has its limits, and it took Fang Che a very long time to expand his Plane to its current extent.
Other Planes would have to wait a very, very long time to reach the state of the Fang Che Plane.
Not only that, expanding a Plane also requires devouring Other Planes.
In the current era, Planes have already been largely divided up; it's impossible to surpass Fang Che by devouring the remaining Planes, unless one devours Fang Che's Plane itself.
Even if a Plane was lucky enough to surpass the Fang Che Plane by other methods, Fang Che's pre-arranged second set of activation rules would take effect.
At that time, all Planes would automatically obtain the location of this powerful Plane and various information about it.
At the same time, information about the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book would also automatically spread.
As long as the various Planes joined forces, there would be no need to fear the powerful Plane.
Fang Che had taken preventive measures to the extreme!
On this day, after Fang Che once again distributed a new piece of Plane information to various Planes, he brought the resources for weakening desire provided by the Emperor Plane to his own Plane and observed them carefully.
More information about weakening desire was clearly understood by Fang Che, and at the same time, much information about the Emperor Plane was also understood by Fang Che.
After Fang Che recorded the information about the Emperor Plane and sent it to Other Planes.
Subsequently, Fang Che set up an array to weaken desire based on the information of various materials.
Once the array was set up, Fang Che set the array's duration and then walked into the array, activating it.
In an instant, Fang Che emptied his mind, no longer thinking about anything, appearing utterly blank and foolish.
After a period of time, the array's duration ended, and it automatically shut down, at which point Fang Che regained his clarity.
Fang Che looked at the array, filled with pleasant surprise.
The array for weakening desire set up last time only allowed Fang Che to let go of some dispensable desires, and the array's effect was very slow.
However, this time the array allowed Fang Che to instantly let go of all desires; the improvement of this array's effect was truly astonishing!
This situation was also normal.
Arrays are inherently a combination of various knowledge.
Different combinations produce different effects.
Many people spend their entire lives searching for the optimal combination.
However, Fang Che, relying on the Plane's special ability, could easily find the most perfect solution, and his speed in researching arrays was definitely faster than others.
Of course, the array has not yet reached its optimal state.
Furthermore, an array that can restrain Fang Che may not be able to restrain the powerful Will that created the dangerous information.
Fang Che needed to collect more resources for weakening desire to set up a more powerful array.
Thus, Fang Che quickly manipulated a yellow dog to act as a representative, carrying information about a Plane and a storage ring, and arrived at the Emperor Plane.
The Plane Will saw the yellow dog representative and, controlling the Emperor, said, "I've collected quite a few resources recently!"
The next second, space cracks opened around them, and countless resources fell out.
Fang Che observed these resources, and after confirming there were no issues, he had the yellow dog collect the resources and take out the information about Other Planes.
Plane energy enveloped the information, and the Emperor Plane Will instantly finished viewing the information, then, controlling the Emperor, said unhappily:
"This Plane's ability greatly restrains the Emperor Plane. Are there any that are restrained by the Emperor Plane?"
Fang Che, controlling the yellow dog representative, replied, "I am normally investigating the situation of Other Planes; you can wait a bit longer."
The Plane Will was silent for a moment, then, controlling the Emperor, said:
"Forget it, if it's restraining, then let it restrain. I don't believe I can't solve this Plane with my current ability!"
Upon hearing this, Fang Che, controlling the yellow dog, took out the storage ring and said, "As I said before, if you provide the Plane for weakening desire, I will give you a Plane. The Planes are all sealed inside here, so take them."
The Emperor Plane Will, controlling the Emperor, took the storage ring and, after inspecting it, was very satisfied.
The Emperor Plane Will, controlling the Emperor, said, "Thank you. If you need more resources for weakening desire, I can force Other Planes to create them."
Fang Che, controlling the yellow dog representative, set up a teleportation array and said, "I need resources from different Planes. If they are duplicates, I won't accept them."
The Emperor Plane Will was somewhat disappointed and, controlling the Emperor, said, "I will continue to trade for these materials."
"You've worked hard." Fang Che, controlling the yellow dog representative, finished speaking, then activated the array, sending the yellow dog representative away from the Emperor Plane.
Subsequently, after Fang Che dealt with the yellow dog representative, he set up a purification array again.
Immediately after, Fang Che dispatched Tribal Professionals into the Plane that restrained the Emperor Plane, awaiting the Emperor Plane's invasion.
Subsequently, Fang Che continued to research the problem of the tenth step.
After every period of researching the tenth step, Fang Che would send a representative into the Emperor Plane to collect resources for weakening desire.
The Emperor Plane did not refuse and always provided some resources each time.
And each time Fang Che obtained materials, he would provide some Planes for trade, increasing the Emperor Plane's enthusiasm.
Half a year later, Fang Che, through the vision of the Tribal Professionals, discovered that the Plane that restrained the Emperor Plane was rapidly mobilizing Professionals to construct arrays.
Looking into the distance, one could see the Emperor Plane rapidly approaching.
Upon seeing this, Fang Che activated the information about the Emperor Plane hidden there in advance.
The information belonging to the Emperor Plane was quickly released and detected by the Plane Will.
However, not long after, Plane energy enveloped this information, destroying it.
Fang Che was not surprised by this situation.
No one would casually believe suddenly appearing information about an enemy.
However, as the battle continued, the Plane Will would gradually believe this information and use it in battle.
Afterward, Fang Che, controlling the Tribal Professionals, gazed at the Emperor Plane from afar to understand more information about the Emperor Plane.
Although this Plane restrained the Emperor Plane, their overall strength difference was too great, and in the future, Fang Che would still need to provide information to help.
Fang Che divided his attention to the situation of the Emperor Plane, while continuing to research materials and arrays for weakening desire.
New materials allowed Fang Che to grasp more information, and the array continued to be strengthened.
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Chapter 467 Preparations for the Ten-Layer Ladder
In the following period, Fang Che researched the array to weaken desires while also paying attention to the situation on the Emperor Plane.
The Emperor Plane soon went to war with the Plane that restrained him.
At first, the Emperor Plane progressed smoothly.
However, as the invaded Plane used the information Fang Che left behind to set up defenses, it gradually gained the ability to counterattack.
Later, Fang Che provided some more information, causing the battle between the two sides to fall into a complete stalemate, with neither able to defeat the other.
Meanwhile, the Emperor Plane, in addition to participating in the battle, was actively trading with other Planes and providing Fang Che with more resources to weaken desires.
Fifty years passed in a flash!
On this day, Fang Che observed the battle situation of the two Planes, and after confirming that there were no problems with either side, he began to simulate the information of the ten-step staircase and the array information for weakening desires in his mind.
After more than fifty years of effort, Fang Che could no longer find any new information about the ten-step staircase and could not improve upon existing plans.
Furthermore, although many of the resources for weakening desires currently provided by the Emperor Plane were new to Fang Che, the information contained within these resources was already known to Fang Che from the past.
He didn't know if his Observe and improvement abilities had reached their limit, or if Fang Che had already understood all the information about the stairs and all the arrays.
Therefore, Fang Che prepared to condense both types of information simultaneously and simulate the confrontation between the two.
Not long after, both types of information condensed simultaneously in his Niwan Palace.
As the two types of information came into contact, the information related to will within the ten-step staircase rapidly weakened.
Will was linked to dangerous information, and as the will weakened, the connection between the dangerous information instantly broke.
Not only that, the dangerous information also showed slight weakening.
All of this was as Fang Che had predicted: as long as the will problem was solved, all problems could be solved!
Fang Che excitedly focused on the two types of information, and after a period of time, the array information was completely exhausted, but the dangerous information still existed!
Moreover, this dangerous information could still easily eliminate Fang Che.
However, what excited Fang Che was that all this dangerous information had lost its vitality and could not actively attack!
As long as Fang Che concealed his strength and did not touch the attack baseline of the dangerous information, Fang Che would be safe!
Fang Che's face was full of excitement as he quickly brought all the Plane's resources to him and refined pills to hide his strength.
After taking the first pill, Fang Che's strength quickly weakened to the first stage.
Then, Fang Che observed his body, condensed his body information in his Niwan Palace, and brought it into contact with the dangerous aura.
The dangerous aura instantly erupted, obliterating Fang Che's body information.
This indicated that Fang Che's concealment ability had not met the standard.
Fang Che recalled the situation when the dangerous information and body information came into contact just now, and based on this information, he refined new pills.
This time, the body information was still destroyed by the dangerous information, and this time, the destruction was even more thorough.
Fang Che was not disappointed; instead, he was extremely excited.
When studying information, the most feared thing is a lack of change.
As long as there is change, regardless of whether the change is good or bad, a better change will eventually be found.
So, Fang Che continued to refine pills.
For the next twenty years, Fang Che continuously refined various pills and took time to observe the battle situations of the two Planes.
On this day, after Fang Che took another pill, he simulated body information and brought it into contact with dangerous information.
This time, the dangerous information showed no reaction and completely ignored Fang Che's body.
Fang Che's pills were finally successfully refined!
After decades of research, Fang Che had become numb; for this success, Fang Che's emotions fluctuated slightly but quickly returned to calm.
Subsequently, Fang Che began to refine another type of pill.
The effect of this pill was to control the body and allow it to step onto the stairs.
Fang Che would need to expend many powers, including memory, to condense the tenth level; after expending memory, Fang Che would forget to step onto the ten-step staircase.
In this situation, a pill to control the body was needed to allow Fang Che to take the crucial step.
Immediately after, Fang Che took the pill to control his body, then took the pill to hide his strength, and observed his body's aura.
The two pills worked together, causing a slight change in Fang Che's body information.
Fang Che used his current body information to touch the dangerous information, and the dangerous information erupted again, obliterating the body information.
Just the influence of one pill completely wasted Fang Che's previous efforts!
However, Fang Che was not discouraged and began to research the body-controlling pill.
Since the strength-hiding pill had passed the test of dangerous information, Fang Che only needed to research the body-controlling pill.
Another ten years passed in a flash, and Fang Che finally researched a pill that would not trigger dangerous information!
After solving these problems, Fang Che did not rush to condense the ten-step staircase, but instead manipulated the earth to condense the ten-step staircase and set up the array to weaken desires.
Fang Che walked to the ninth step of the staircase condensed from earth, activated the array to weaken desires, and took the pill to control his body.
Fang Che's expression instantly became blank, and at the same time, Fang Che's foot slowly lifted and stepped onto the ten-step staircase.
A moment later, the array to weaken desires automatically stopped, and Fang Che returned to normal.
Fang Che looked at the ten-step staircase under his feet, then retreated to the ninth step, took out a device for recording images, and placed it nearby.
Then, Fang Che regulated his body, and after his body returned to normal, he took another memory-shielding pill to simulate the situation of memory loss.
When his memory was almost completely shielded, Fang Che took the body-controlling pill and activated the array to weaken desires.
A look of confusion instantly appeared on Fang Che's face, and then, Fang Che lifted his foot and stepped onto the staircase.
After standing on the staircase for a long time, the memory-shielding pill lost its effect, and the array also automatically closed, and Fang Che returned to normal.
Fang Che quickly checked the image recording device to understand everything that had just happened.
After confirming that there were no problems, Fang Che regulated his body again, and after his body returned to normal, he took out new pills and continued to simulate the action of stepping onto the staircase.
Next, Fang Che continuously simulated for a full half a year, and each simulation successfully ascended the staircase.
Only then did Fang Che relax.
Fang Che continued to regulate his body, clearing the effects of the pills.
When his body returned to normal, Fang Che also adjusted his mindset.
When everything reached a normal state, Fang Che walked to the nine-step staircase and set up the array to weaken desires.
After the array was set up, Fang Che pondered the issue of the array's duration.
After advancing, Fang Che needed to stop the array and could not let it continuously affect his body.
However, Fang Che did not know how long it would take him to complete the advancement, and stopping the array too early might put Fang Che in danger.
Furthermore, Fang Che also did not know what kind of strength he would possess after advancing to the tenth stage.
Therefore, Fang Che could not use the increase in strength as a condition for closing the array.
If he were to use memory recovery as the standard, that wouldn't work either.
What if, after memory recovered, his strength did not instantly transform, and he still couldn't solve the unknown risks?
Fang Che pondered for a moment, preparing to adopt a clumsy method.
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Chapter 468 Perfection and the Underworld
Fang Che's clumsy method was to maintain the array for a hundred years, using a long period of time to resolve all possible problems!
After setting the maintenance time, in order to prevent not completing the promotion after a hundred years, Fang Che added a 'prevent array shutdown' method to the array.
If after a hundred years, Fang Che's strength was still increasing, the array would continue to remain active, lasting another hundred years.
After two hundred years, if the increase in strength had not yet ended, then it would continue to maintain for another hundred years, and so on, continuously!
After arranging various methods, Fang Che stopped all Intruder actions, relocated the nearby Tribal Professionals, gathered the Ninth-Order Souls around him, and issued them a guard order:
["Kill all Intruders, kill any life attempting to attack Fang Che, kill all life approaching within ten thousand kilometers of Fang Che, including life from various tribes!"]
As the order was given, the Ninth-Order Souls quickly guarded Fang Che, destroying all surrounding flowers, plants, trees, snakes, insects, rodents, birds, and beasts!
Within a kilometer radius, it quickly became desolate, devoid of any life.
Seeing this, Fang Che nodded in satisfaction.
Then, Fang Che took out a pill that concealed his strength and consumed it, his strength rapidly decreasing to the first order.
Immediately after, Fang Che put a pill in his mouth that controlled his body to step onto the stairs, then stepped onto the stairs and arrived at the ninth level of the stairs.
The next second, Fang Che released all the power contained in his memory, quickly condensing the tenth level of stairs.
The stairs slowly took shape, emitting a dangerous aura.
When the stairs were about to fully form, Fang Che immediately swallowed the pill, activating the array that weakened desires.
Upon completing this arrangement, the force of inertia released the last trace of power from Fang Che's body, and the stairs instantly took shape.
At the same time, Fang Che also raised his foot with a confused expression and stepped onto the tenth level of the Heaven-Ascending Stairway!
However, after Fang Che stepped onto the tenth level of stairs, all the power contained in his memory did not return to Fang Che's body as before.
Instead, a spatial rift quietly opened above Fang Che's head, and a turbid mist poured into Fang Che Plane.
This power contained all the dangerous information Fang Che had seen before, as well as an unknown will connecting the dangerous information.
And those Ninth-Order Souls seemed to not notice this thing at all, completely ignoring it.
The next second, the turbid mist enveloped Fang Che's body.
Then the turbid mist became quiet, with no change whatsoever.
However, the array that Fang Che had set up to weaken desires was rapidly absorbing the surrounding power, operating the array to its extreme!
As the array for weakening desires operated rapidly, Fang Che and the turbid mist continued to stare blankly.
Not long after, a faint wisp of power drifted out of the turbid mist and merged into Fang Che's body.
As Fang Che absorbed this power, his body rapidly strengthened, and the aura he emitted grew increasingly powerful.
When the aura reached its limit, all the powers previously integrated into the tenth level of stairs merged into Fang Che's body.
Fang Che's memories gradually recovered.
Once his memories were fully restored, Fang Che completely reined in his aura, and his entire being reached the perfect and flawless tenth realm.
The power of the array that weakened desires enveloped Fang Che, but it was completely isolated, unable to affect Fang Che in the slightest!
Fang Che glanced at the turbid mist enveloping his body, instantly understanding what it was and what this will had done.
This thing was indeed a composite of life will and Plane Will, holding the power of life and death over all living beings!
However, this powerful will was also influenced by the will of all sentient beings, growing increasingly envious of the lives of Professionals.
Thus, this powerful will, when any life form developed a will, stole a trace of the original essence of all life.
The loss of this essence caused the level of all life to be permanently fixed at the Ninth-Order, making it difficult to advance.
The process of condensing the Heaven-Ascending Stairway was the process of recovering this original essence.
However, this powerful will yearned for the life of a Professional!
Therefore, the powerful will would seize the body of a Professional when he stepped onto the tenth level of stairs!
As long as the Professional left when the power was returned on the tenth level of stairs, he would completely die.
And once the powerful will occupied the Professional's body, it could use the original essence to easily cultivate the body to the tenth order!
Next, the powerful will could use the Professional's body to experience the life of a Professional.
However, the Professional's body and the powerful will's memories were, after all, different, and the two would constantly repel each other.
When the repulsive force reached its limit, the Professional's body would collapse.
The collapsing power would also weaken the powerful will.
When the powerful will was weakened, Planes and life would die on a large scale.
The resentment from the large-scale death of life would accumulate within the powerful will, and it would grow stronger as more tenth-order Professional bodies collapsed!
Now, there was no resentment left within the powerful will.
Because this resentment had materialized into a person! It had become Fang Che!
Fang Che's memory of transmigration was due to his Plane being invaded and destroyed during his first materialization process.
The second materialization was successful, and Fang Che retained the memories of his first materialization, descending upon a weak Plane.
When that weak Plane was collapsing, it sensed Fang Che's uniqueness, which led to the Creation Coffin being created to help Fang Che evade numerous calamities and develop to his current state.
The reason Fang Che developed so slowly was that the powerful will had not yet recovered after being weakened by the collapsing power of a tenth-order expert in the previous instance.
Before the powerful will recovered, it would prevent Professionals from advancing to the tenth order.
However, Fang Che had accumulated too much knowledge during his past cultivation.
The infinite knowledge converged, breaking the powerful will's restrictions and finding a method for promotion from the long river of history.
Fang Che's current survival was also thanks to the infinite knowledge breaking the restrictions.
If the restrictions had not been broken, when facing a powerful will in its full state, the array that weakened desires would have been completely useless.
Fang Che would have been easily possessed by the powerful will, just like those tenth-order Professionals in the past.
After all, if the array that weakened desires couldn't even affect the tenth-order Fang Che, how could it deal with a powerful will capable of mass-producing tenth-order Professionals?
Fang Che's survival to this point was entirely due to luck.
Fang Che was merely born in response to the times, possessing no exceptional talents.
Fang Che didn't care about relying on luck, as long as he could win.
Fang Che glanced at the powerful will in its weakened state and gently pointed a finger.
Time Reversal occurred, and the powerful will became dispersed, with the dispersed power condensing into countless illusory Planes.
These illusory Planes were all the Planes that had been destroyed since the birth of the first will, and Fang Che had also recovered the memories of these Planes from the river of time.
Within each illusory Plane, illusory beings condensed.
These were the lives that had died within the Planes, and their memories were also recovered.
After the illusory bodies of every Plane and every life form condensed, they were briefly confused before cheering joyfully.
The cheers of countless beings converged into a newborn symphony, exquisitely beautiful.
Next, the currently living Planes also condensed into hollow, illusory Planes, and all the Professionals who had died in these Planes materialized completely, cheering joyfully.
Once all the deceased had materialized, Fang Che spoke: "It shall be named the Underworld. The will of the dead may enter the Underworld; the living cannot see it, cannot touch it, and cannot harm it."
As his words fell, all the illusory Planes and lives vanished.
Their disappearance was not destruction; it was merely Fang Che's words becoming reality, causing the Underworld to enter a state invisible to the living.
Then, Fang Che focused his attention on the powerful will, which had been weakened to its extreme, and continued to explain:
"You cannot destroy the Underworld. As long as the Underworld exists, you will never recover to your peak state, and you will never be able to possess a tenth-order Professional."
His words became reality, and the powerful will was instantly restrained.
Next, Fang Che waved his hand, condensing the powerful will into a sphere that he carried with him.
Fang Che continued to state: "The original essence has been restored; no further plunder of the original essence is permitted."
The sphere condensed from the powerful will emitted light, releasing all the original essence.
From then on, all living beings and Planes would have the opportunity to advance to the tenth order.
To prevent new tenth-order beings from harming Fang Che, Fang Che continued to state: "I am invincible."
The power of his words becoming reality took effect again.
Fang Che, as the first free tenth-order Professional, declared the rules. Subsequent tenth-order Professionals, unless they returned to a time before Fang Che's promotion to the tenth order, could not alter the rules Fang Che had established.
As for other tenth-order Professionals returning to the past, Fang Che was not worried.
Because Fang Che was invincible and could stop them.
Having resolved these issues, Fang Che put away the sphere condensed from the powerful will and observed himself.
No matter how he observed, Fang Che had already reached his limit and could not advance further.
Fang Che looked up at the sky, his body leaving the Plane's protection, and terrifying spatial energy enveloped his body.
This energy was capable of destroying everything, but in front of Fang Che, it was extremely docile and could not harm Fang Che in the slightest.
Fang Che looked around, his face full of curiosity.
This place was somewhere Fang Che had never been before, and he had long wanted to understand it.
So, with a hint of curiosity, Fang Che flew towards the distance…
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(The End)