But Lin Yan was not finished. While maintaining both Immortal Gu, he mobilized the Hate Gu in his mind and began rapidly deducing a new killer move.
Transform Fire Immortal Gu was too limited when used alone. Although it could suppress the tribulation flames, using it directly was far too inefficient. If several suitable mortal Gu worms were added to form an Immortal killer move, its effectiveness could be greatly increased.
Fortunately, Lin Yan already possessed a suitable foundation: the rudimentary defensive killer move, Fire Transformation Robe.
This killer move transformed attacks from other paths into Flame Path flames before absorbing them. Its principle was similar to Flame Sight. Both were applications of Lin Yan's Flame Path grandmaster attainment, using Flame Path to imitate the profundities of other paths.
Lin Yan could use the principles of Fire Transformation Robe in a different way, taking Transform Fire Immortal Gu as the core and temporarily creating a new killer move.
Of course, modifying an Immortal killer move in the middle of battle was extremely difficult. Normally, only a Flame Path Great Grandmaster could accomplish such a feat in such a short time.
Fortunately, Lin Yan did not need to create a complete killer move from scratch. He only needed to add a dozen Gu worms to the existing framework, allowing Transform Fire Immortal Gu to better suppress Blazing Crucible. This greatly reduced the difficulty.
A moment later, Lin Yan completed the new killer move and activated it. Its activation was noticeably slower than using Transform Fire Immortal Gu alone.
Finally, a towering crimson pillar of flame descended from the sky and plunged into the colorful sea of fire. Wherever its flames spread, the blooming flame flowers were rapidly suppressed and transformed into ordinary flames.
The entire sea of fire surged violently before rapidly shrinking and weakening. The effect was immediate.
Lin Yan was pleased. He activated the killer move several more times, weakening the sea of fire further with each use until the Blazing Crucible Earthly Calamity was completely eradicated.
He had successfully passed his first Earthly Calamity. Overall, the tribulation had been dangerous, but it had never truly threatened his life. Yet when Lin Yan swept his consciousness across the scorched and devastated blessed land, the satisfaction of overcoming the calamity quickly faded.
The price had been enormous. Numerous resource points had been destroyed, countless beasts and plants had perished, and years of painstaking development had been wiped out in a single calamity.
And this was despite Lin Yan's exceptional battle strength. He had already done everything possible to protect the blessed land and minimize the damage to its foundation.
For ordinary Rank 6 Gu Immortals, losing years of accumulation to a single Earthly Calamity and being forced to rebuild almost from scratch was nothing unusual.
Lin Yan soon began calculating the damage he had suffered. First, his reserves of green grape immortal essence had fallen sharply. He had possessed more than five hundred beads before the tribulation, but after consuming around two hundred, only slightly more than three hundred remained.
The situation inside the blessed land was even worse. All four regions had suffered varying degrees of damage, with the Li Fire Plains being hit the hardest. After three years of internal conflict followed by the Earth Calamity, several major beast groups had been reduced to around one hundred thousand members each, bringing their populations dangerously close to collapse.
Overall, nearly thirty percent of the beast groups, vegetation, and resource points within the Flame Sovereign Blessed Land had been destroyed.
However, Lin Yan could accept these losses. Thirty percent was neither too much nor too little, and with the foundation of the Flame Sovereign Blessed Land, it would not take long to recover.
More importantly, the gains from the Earth Calamity were enormous.
Under normal circumstances, an Earth Calamity would grant around two hundred and fifty dao marks. Lin Yan's Ten Extreme Physique doubled this amount to five hundred. On top of that, the deep development of the Flame Sovereign Blessed Land had further increased the power of the calamity, allowing him to gain even more.
After passing the Blazing Crucible Earth Calamity, Lin Yan gained six hundred Flame Path dao marks, along with more than one hundred Luck Path dao marks and more than one hundred Food Path dao marks.
Altogether, he had gained around eight hundred dao marks from a single Earth Calamity, exceeding what an ordinary Gu Immortal would gain from a Heavenly Tribulation.
With these dao marks added to his previous accumulation, the total number of dao marks on Lin Yan's body had reached an astonishing five thousand three hundred.
The Earth Calamity had also brought the changes commonly seen after a blessed land underwent a tribulation. The ecosystems formed by dozens of beast groups and plant species became more balanced, while hundreds of new variations emerged among them.
Some Flame Wolves, for example, had survived being parasitized by Scarlet Flame Prosperous Flowers. During the tribulation, they absorbed dao marks from other paths and underwent beneficial mutations, greatly increasing their strength.
Among them, two new exotic beasts had emerged. The first was the Fire-Eating Wolf, which possessed Food Path dao marks and could be used as a rare Food Path Gu material. The second was the Heavenly Fiend Lone Wolf, which possessed characteristics related to Luck Path.
Similar mutations had occurred among the White Yang Elephants, Blazing Lions, Red Horned Antelopes, and many other beast groups.
These exotic beasts were not merely isolated mutations. They had appeared in considerable numbers and were capable of surviving and reproducing on their own. Given enough time, they would gradually form stable populations and become entirely new species.
The vegetation underwent an even greater transformation, having been affected most deeply by the Earth Calamity. Numerous new species emerged, including Frying Oil Mushrooms, Mold Fire Grass, Fire Brocade Flowers, and many others, each with its own unique uses.
More importantly, these newly formed species no longer required Lin Yan's intervention. Producers, consumers, and decomposers gradually formed a complete ecological cycle, allowing the ecosystem to sustain itself without personal interference.
This was completely different from the ecosystems painstakingly constructed by Gu Immortals through repeated adjustments and experimentation. The balance created by the Earth Calamity was not only more stable, but also naturally suited to the unique environment of the Flame Sovereign Blessed Land.
In a sense, Heaven's Will was like a Wisdom Path great expert. Through the Earth Calamity, it had reshaped countless species and adjusted their relationships with one another, deducing the most suitable direction for the future development of the blessed land.