"This deal isn't bad. I can accept it."
Hearing the conditions Xu Tianchen laid out, Ye Yu nodded lightly in agreement.
In the past, if one wished to aid the Sun-Moon Empire in unifying the vast continent, Ye Yu himself would have needed to act personally.
But now, things were different.
Because he had obtained the External Spirit Bone – Mirror Heart Guard.
Among its Spirit Bone abilities, there was one called Mirror Clone.
It allowed him to split off a clone.
This mirror clone possessed the exact same Martial Soul and Spirit Rings as Ye Yu himself.
Its strength, however, depended on how much Spirit Power Ye Yu invested into it.
Normally, once the Spirit Power was exhausted, the clone would disperse on its own.
But Ye Yu could implant the External Spirit Bone – Demon Willow Fluff into the mirror clone's body.
In the past, the Demon Willow Fluff only had two abilities: Parasitic Devour and Devouring Parasitism.
Now, after breaking through the million-year level, it had gained three new Spirit Bone abilities.
One of them, Ye Yu named Sharing.
Its effect was simple: within a certain range, he could transfer Spirit Power stored in one Demon Willow Fluff into another.
Thus, Ye Yu could channel the Spirit Power returned from countless Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree offshoots into the Demon Willow Fluff within his body, then, through the Blue Silver Domain, share that energy with the Demon Willow Fluff implanted in his mirror clone.
From there, the Demon Willow Fluff in the clone could return Spirit Power directly to the clone's body—ensuring its energy would never run dry.
This way, the mirror clone could exist indefinitely.
Which meant Ye Yu could let the mirror clone stand in for him on the Vast Continent, aiding the Sun Moon Kingdom in unifying the land.
And at the same time, spreading faith.
Perfect.
After sealing the deal with Xu Tianchen, Ye Yu set off with him for the Sun Moon Kingdom.
On the way, he considered carefully what kind of faith he would spread.
For a god, the faith one propagated determined the divinity one could ultimately condense.
And Ye Yu's ambition was vast.
He wanted to condense a god position akin to that of the Almighty Himself.
Of course, as a son of Huaxia, he would not call it "God."
He gave it a name of his own: Lord of Creation.
As the Lord of Creation, what divine powers must he embody in his faith?
First and foremost—the power to bring forth all things.
Back in the Evildemon Forest, when he had used the two eighth Spirit Abilities of the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree Martial Soul—Advent of a World of Flowering Trees and True Thousand Hands—he had summoned the immense Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree forest and the Blue Silver Thousand-Armed Buddha.
He had never dismissed those summons.
Instead, he allowed the towering forest of Blue Silver Spirit Jade Trees to take root in the Evildemon Forest, continuing to grow.
As for the Blue Silver Thousand-Armed Buddha, vast roots extended from its base deep into the earth, drawing upon the power of the land itself.
It also absorbed the light of sun, moon, and stars, sustaining its existence.
These were the Lord of Creation's miracles.
But that was only the beginning.
In the faith Ye Yu intended to spread, the Lord of Creation also possessed dominion over world-creation, the elements, the stars, and even the cycle of reincarnation.
Any one of these powers was enough to forge a God King.
Ye Yu intended to unite them all.
The resulting divine seat of the Lord of Creation would be unimaginably powerful—yet equally difficult to condense.
Dozens of times more arduous than the path once taken by Sea God Poseidon.
Ye Yu, however, was unshaken.
Though ordinary Limit Douluo lived no more than a thousand years, Ye Yu had pursued the path of the Ultimate Life Attribute.
His physical body and vitality were vastly stronger than any other Limit Douluo. His lifespan was many times longer.
And more importantly, he had also cultivated Inner Core Method.
Inner Core Method trained the three elements of essence, energy, and spirit together.
When cultivated to a certain height, the three elements could fuse into one, forming a single Golden Core.
As the old saying went:
"A golden core swallowed into the belly—
From this moment, my fate is mine, not Heaven's."
Unlike the "Golden Core Realm" of online cultivation novels, in Daoist mythology, once a true golden core was formed, one had already attained the Dao—achieving longevity, even immortality.
And now, Ye Yu had already cultivated the blood essence to the point of forming a Golden Core.
As for Spirit, through Inner Core Method, the immortal herb Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, the Purple Demon Eye, and now the second Martial Soul, Spirit Eyes, he had gone even further.
He had accepted the sacrifice of the million-year spirit beast Skydream Iceworm.
He had slain spiritual-type spirit beasts exceeding one hundred thousand years in cultivation, including the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Emperor.
His spiritual power, within his Niwan Palace, had already liquefied—becoming a boundless ocean.
He now possessed the foundation to form a Spiritual Core.
As for Essence—the body itself—Ye Yu had long pursued body refinement without pause, cultivating bloodline essence to extraordinary strength.
He had even created a self-developed Spirit Ability, Dominating Heaven, fusing blood essence and Spirit Power.
Later, through deduction, he had developed the Mysterious Jade Body, and from it a blood essence refinement method that strengthened his body by burning his life force.
By now, his blood essence had also reached the threshold for condensing a Blood Core.
Yet in Inner Core Method, forming a Golden Core was not simply fusing a Spirit Core, Spiritual Core, and Blood Core together.
All three elements had to reach a certain realm.
Then, during cultivation, he had to unite them within the Middle Dantian—the Purple Mansion—allowing them to circulate endlessly, merging into one undying Golden Core.
Ye Yu had long since researched the secret of fusing the three elements, while striving to grant his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree Martial Soul true intelligence and substance.
Thus, he already understood how to achieve the endless circulation and unity of the three.
Only one obstacle remained: his spiritual power had not yet reached the same standard as his blood and Spirit Power.
He could not yet form the most perfect Golden Core.
So he had only pondered quietly, biding his time until he could attempt the supreme step of Inner Core Method—condensing the Golden Core.
But now, after fusing his second Martial Soul, Spirit Eyes, with the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Emperor's Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone, his spiritual power within the Niwan Palace had expanded into a limitless ocean.
The time was almost right.
Once he finished matters in the Sun Moon Kingdom, leaving the mirror clone behind, he would travel again into the Endless Sea.
There, he would raise both the Spirit Eyes and his third Martial Soul, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, to the ninth ring.
Then, in the most perfect state, he would unite the three elements—Essence, Energy, and Spirit.
And at last, break through the ultimate realm of Inner Core Method—Golden Core.