Chapter 150: The Plane Master's Gift
Within the Plane Origin Sea, Lei Chen's gaze seemed to pierce through layers of spatial barriers, locking precisely onto the depths of that dark, abyssal trench shrouded in swirling resentment.
The Demon Empress's vast and tormented consciousness, like a ghostly flame flickering in the darkness, was clearly reflected in his perception. The humiliation of defeat, the agony of her wounds, and a greedy craving for more life energy intertwined into a chaotic and violent vortex, roaring silently within the deathly stillness of the deep sea.
"A fire... needs to be fierce enough, but it must not burn the fuel to ashes directly." Lei Chen silently thought to himself, having already reached a decision.
He ceased his observation. With a slight stir of his will, his form seamlessly merged into the core of the Plane Origin Sea, arriving before the majestic, towering, and constantly refining phantom of the Golden Ancient Tree.
The Golden Ancient Tree's roots were gnarled and intertwined, its branches and leaves swaying, emanating vast life energy and pure world power. That largest dark-red orb represented the majority of the core essence of the Abyss Plane. The refinement process was slow and steady, providing the plane with a continuous source of nutrients for growth.
And on a branch to the side of the ancient tree, hung another dark-red orb, considerably smaller yet still containing astonishing energy—this was a portion of the Abyss energy reserves previously separated out, not yet formally refined.
Lei Chen's gaze fell upon this smaller orb. He slowly raised his right hand, his fingertips wreathed in the seven-colored light of the plane's origin. Gently probing into the orb's interior, it was not a violent seizure but an act of supremely exquisite control. Like a master craftsman cleaving a raw gemstone, he precisely separated from it a condensed, dark-red energy mass roughly the size of a fist.
After separating from the main orb, this energy mass maintained a high degree of activity. Its surface flowed slowly like molten lava, its interior containing the Abyss's unique aura of chaos, devouring, and savagery. It was utterly different from the pure, refined energy of the Douluo Plane processed by the Golden Ancient Tree. This was an untamed, primitive, and dangerous fragment of Abyss origin essence.
"For you, this 'authentic' Abyss energy might be more 'nourishing' than the pure and gentle energy of the plane." Lei Chen looked at the dark-red energy mass in his palm, his eyes devoid of emotion.
For an existence like the Demon Empress, who relied on devouring living beings and walked a path of plunder, her power foundation was already impure and chaotic. Adding the chaotic attributes of the Abyss to it was merely adding more to an already overwhelming debt.
Lei Chen never had any long-term plans to nurture the Demon Empress. She was merely a pawn used to temper the New Sea God and accelerate the gathering of faith. Whether her future potential would be damaged by the impurity of the energy within her was not within the scope of his consideration.
He precisely controlled the size and concentration of this energy mass. The total energy contained within was just enough to support a Soul Beast, whose cultivation was nearing the threshold of 900,000 years, to break through its bottleneck and ascend all the way to the peak level of 990,000 years.
This degree would ensure the Demon Empress's power underwent a qualitative leap, bringing unprecedented pressure upon Chen Yunshen and the Sea Princess, forcing them to unleash greater potential in a desperate situation. Yet, it wouldn't allow her to ascend to the heavens in a single step, directly crossing into the million-year divine realm.
If she truly achieved a million years, that would exceed the limits of what the Sea Princess's side could currently handle, and the play could not proceed as planned.
990,000 years, the peak of the demigod realm, was precisely the right intensity for a "whetstone."
His mind made up, Lei Chen hesitated no longer.
With a slight push from his palm, that fist-sized dark-red energy orb silently merged into the void, like a drop of ink dissolving into the sea. Following the trajectory set by Lei Chen, it traversed endless space and was precisely delivered to a concealed corner near the trench where the Demon Empress had retreated and hidden—a place with relatively chaotic energy, yet one she was highly likely to pass during her recovery.
The entire process was soundless, causing no spatial ripples, as if that energy mass had always existed there, quietly awaiting its destined encounter.
...
Within the Plane Origin Sea, Lei Chen's gaze seemed to pierce through layers of spatial barriers, locking precisely onto the depths of that dark, abyssal trench shrouded in swirling resentment.
The Demon Empress's vast and tormented consciousness, like a ghostly flame flickering in the darkness, was clearly reflected in his perception. The humiliation of defeat, the agony of her wounds, and a greedy craving for more life energy intertwined into a chaotic and violent vortex, roaring silently within the deathly stillness of the deep sea.
"A fire... needs to be fierce enough, but it must not burn the fuel to ashes directly." Lei Chen silently thought to himself, having already reached a decision.
He ceased his observation. With a slight stir of his will, his form seamlessly merged into the core of the Plane Origin Sea, arriving before the majestic, towering, and constantly refining phantom of the Golden Ancient Tree.
The Golden Ancient Tree's roots were gnarled and intertwined, its branches and leaves swaying, emanating vast life energy and pure world power. That largest dark-red orb represented the majority of the core essence of the Abyss Plane. The refinement process was slow and steady, providing the plane with a continuous source of nutrients for growth.
And on a branch to the side of the ancient tree, hung another dark-red orb, considerably smaller yet still containing astonishing energy—this was a portion of the Abyss energy reserves previously separated out, not yet formally refined.
Lei Chen's gaze fell upon this smaller orb. He slowly raised his right hand, his fingertips wreathed in the seven-colored light of the plane's origin. Gently probing into the orb's interior, it was not a violent seizure but an act of supremely exquisite control. Like a master craftsman cleaving a raw gemstone, he precisely separated from it a condensed, dark-red energy mass roughly the size of a fist.
After separating from the main orb, this energy mass maintained a high degree of activity. Its surface flowed slowly like molten lava, its interior containing the Abyss's unique aura of chaos, devouring, and savagery. It was utterly different from the pure, refined energy of the Douluo Plane processed by the Golden Ancient Tree. This was an untamed, primitive, and dangerous fragment of Abyss origin essence.
"For you, this 'authentic' Abyss energy might be more 'nourishing' than the pure and gentle energy of the plane." Lei Chen looked at the dark-red energy mass in his palm, his eyes devoid of emotion.
For an existence like the Demon Empress, who relied on devouring living beings and walked a path of plunder, her power foundation was already impure and chaotic. Adding the chaotic attributes of the Abyss to it was merely adding more to an already overwhelming debt.
Lei Chen never had any long-term plans to nurture the Demon Empress. She was merely a pawn used to temper the New Sea God and accelerate the gathering of faith. Whether her future potential would be damaged by the impurity of the energy within her was not within the scope of his consideration.
He precisely controlled the size and concentration of this energy mass. The total energy contained within was just enough to support a Soul Beast, whose cultivation was nearing the threshold of 900,000 years, to break through its bottleneck and ascend all the way to the peak level of 990,000 years.
This degree would ensure the Demon Empress's power underwent a qualitative leap, bringing unprecedented pressure upon Chen Yunshen and the Sea Princess, forcing them to unleash greater potential in a desperate situation. Yet, it wouldn't allow her to ascend to the heavens in a single step, directly crossing into the million-year divine realm.
If she truly achieved a million years, that would exceed the limits of what the Sea Princess's side could currently handle, and the play could not proceed as planned.
990,000 years, the peak of the demigod realm, was precisely the right intensity for a "whetstone."
His mind made up, Lei Chen hesitated no longer.
With a slight push from his palm, that fist-sized dark-red energy orb silently merged into the void, like a drop of ink dissolving into the sea. Following the trajectory set by Lei Chen, it traversed endless space and was precisely delivered to a concealed corner near the trench where the Demon Empress had retreated and hidden—a place with relatively chaotic energy, yet one she was highly likely to pass during her recovery.
The entire process was soundless, causing no spatial ripples, as if that energy mass had always existed there, quietly awaiting its destined encounter.
...
The Deep Sea Demon Whale Empress, or rather, the mad existence who styled herself the "Demon Empress," was coiled within the darkest crevice of the trench.
Chen Yunshen's spear strike, imbued with the power of the Sea God, had not only left a wound difficult to heal on her massive body, but a sacred and solemn force, like gangrene clinging to bone, continuously eroded her meridians and soul core, bringing waves of tearing agony.
The Sea Princess's annoying Spiritual purification power was also like maggots burrowing into bone, making her already chaotic mind even more restless and agitated.
"Damn it... damnable human! And that meddlesome mermaid!"
The Demon Empress's single eye flashed with savage crimson light. Her enormous tail fin slapped irritably against the seabed rock, stirring up clouds of turbid mud.
She urgently needed to devour vast amounts of life energy to repair her injuries and suppress the foreign energy within her. However, the previous battle had consumed a great deal. The relatively powerful Sea Soul Beasts in the nearby waters had long since fled upon hearing the news, leaving only scattered, weak creatures that provided energy as meager as a cup of water to quench a cartload of burning wood.
An intense feeling of irritation and savagery accumulated within her. She suddenly opened her massive maw, unleashing a powerful suction force that swallowed all the fish, shrimp, and even some low-level Sea Soul Beasts within hundreds of meters of the crevice who couldn't escape in time.
Yet, this paltry energy was like trying to stop a pot from boiling by skimming off the foam—utterly ineffective for her massive needs. It only further ignited her craving for more, purer energy.
Just as she was filled with malice due to the obstruction of her devouring and prepared to disregard her injuries to venture to more distant waters for hunting, a strange and alluring energy fluctuation, like a lighthouse suddenly lighting up in the darkness, instantly captured her full attention.
It was a type of... energy aura she had never felt before. Chaotic, vast, brimming with the most primitive desire to devour, yet carrying an attraction that made her very soul tremble. It was as if this energy naturally resonated with her essence, seeming even more "high-level" than any life energy she had ever devoured!
The Demon Empress's massive single eye instantly widened, fixedly staring in the direction the energy fluctuation came from—just behind a coral reef not far from her hiding crevice.
Enduring the intense pain from her injuries, her enormous body swam out with an agility belying its size, cautiously approaching.
When her vision pierced through the coral thicket and saw that dark-red energy orb, suspended in the seawater, slowly rotating and emitting an enticing glow, immense elation instantly washed away all caution and reason!
"This is... heaven helping me! Hahaha!" The Demon Empress's Spiritual fluctuations were filled with wild joy and greed.
She had no time to ponder why this obviously non-marine, even non-planar, pure energy had abruptly appeared here. Nor did she pay attention to the faint trace of chaotic aura within it that even gave her a slight palpitation. In her view, this was simply the greatest opportunity bestowed upon her by heaven at a moment of utter desperation!
Without any hesitation, the Demon Empress opened her massive maw. A terrifying suction force, ten times more powerful than when she swallowed the small fish, suddenly erupted, forming a massive vortex that directly sucked that fist-sized dark-red energy orb into her belly.
The moment the orb entered her belly, an indescribably vast energy, far exceeding her imagination, exploded within her like a bursting primordial flood.
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