After issuing the task, Gu Qingyang was familiarizing himself with the power of his fifth-level inferior.
Unlike the completion of the fourth level, after stepping into the fifth level inferior, Gu Qingyang felt that his strength had unexpectedly doubled compared to before.
If the current self were to face the previous self, Gu Qingyang was confident that he wouldn’t need to waste much power to slay his fourth-level complete self.
"It seems that as the levels progress, the gap between each realm becomes larger. I initially thought that the innate abilities of the Divine Tree Spirit Root would allow me to directly leap across a major level to fight.
But thinking about it now, the Divine Tree Spirit Root, while giving me considerable advantages, makes it almost impossible to consistently leap a major realm in the future!"
Gu Qingyang thought to himself.
If considering the fifth-level inferior to be twice as powerful as the fourth-level complete, even with the innate divine techniques of the Divine Tree Spirit Root, Gu Qingyang felt that his fourth-level complete self could at best handle the fifth-level middle and upper.
Now having stepped into the fifth-level inferior, his strength transformed once again, reaching about the level of the fifth-level complete.
To deal with the sixth level.
It’s estimated that a breakthrough to the fifth-level middle is necessary.
And.
This is merely an ordinary sixth level.
If it’s a sixth level with equally strong foundations, Gu Qingyang isn’t confident he could fight across realms.
"As my strength grows, the contribution of the Spirit Root of the Divine Tree is bound to decrease. Although this innate root keeps advancing, the growth in foundations is minimal.
The true transformation with each advancement lies in the evolution value given daily!"
This breakthrough undoubtedly exposed a slight shortcoming in the innate divine techniques of the Spirit Root of the Divine Tree.
However.
The so-called shortcoming is only relative.
The ability to provide a fixed fifty evolution points daily and enable oneself to reach the level of the fifth-level complete while being a fifth-level inferior already speaks volumes of the Spirit Root of the Divine Tree’s power.
A moment later.
Gu Qingyang focused his attention elsewhere.
"I initially intended to hold back from breaking through, to accumulate evolution value, but now that I’ve failed to do so, I’ve entered a stage of passive breakthrough.
This means I can only accumulate half the overflow evolution value of the current realm, and exceeding this number will trigger a passive breakthrough.
Such an approach crushes any idea of exploiting loopholes!"
Looking at the two million evolution points required for the next breakthrough, Gu Qingyang couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
This time, he deliberately accumulated evolution points without breaking through just to see if there was indeed a loophole to exploit.
If it was really possible, Gu Qingyang had ways to gather enough evolution points at the fourth level and then make a breakthrough to the sixth or even step into the seventh level all at once.
Unfortunately.
Reality gave him a sobering blow.
The so-called loophole simply does not exist, and finding a vulnerability in the realm is impossible.
When he saw someone offering a sacrificed fourth-level inferior fierce beast, yet he only received twenty-five thousand evolution points, Gu Qingyang couldn’t help but sigh inwardly once more.
...
Three days later.
Gu Fang arrived again.
But unlike before, this time Gu Fang was not alone; he was accompanied by some masters from the Federation and eight helicopters.
Five helicopters, each pulling a thick rope, formed a large net below, tightly trapping a fierce beast that was severely injured and almost unable to move inside.
The other three helicopters followed the same method, but what they carried were not living fierce beasts but the corpse of a fierce beast.
This was the living fourth-level fierce beast and the dead fourth-level fierce beast corpse required by the task Gu Qingyang issued.
Within just three days, the Federation completed the task and brought the required items.
The helicopters first hovered outside the Kunlun Mountain Range. Gu Fang entered alone to report the situation, and only after receiving Gu Qingyang’s permission were the helicopters allowed to enter the Kunlun Mountain Range.
When the others followed him inside, they discovered that the Cyan Yang Divine Tree, which they had not seen in many years, had grown to a terrifying extent.
Some high-ranking Federation members, also at the fourth level, felt a presence like heavenly might descending when they saw the essence of the Azure Celestial Divine Tree, making their blood and qi freeze and their breathing become difficult.
The strength of the Cyan Yang Divine Tree filled them with awe.
Almost simultaneously, everyone bowed respectfully to the divine tree before them.
"Hail Cyan Yang Divine Tree!"
"You did well in this task. Here is a contribution order of two hundred thousand; take it."
Gu Qingyang’s ethereal voice came, and then a cyan token materialized out of thin air, with the image of a divine tree on the back and the words two hundred thousand on the front.
The contribution order is nothing else but something Gu Qingyang developed years ago, used as currency in a Divine Kingdom chat group.
The lowest contribution order is one hundred, with no upper limit. To exchange for a certain level of contribution order, one only needs to spend an equivalent contribution.
Then the contribution order can be traded with others; anyone who obtains a contribution order can convert it into corresponding contribution points.
After giving out the task rewards, Gu Qingyang directly drove away all the high-ranking Federation members; next, he wanted to study the function of memory reading.
As for this.
Gu Fang and others naturally dared not say much. After receiving the order, they respectfully retreated.
...
Outside the Kunlun Mountain Range, a fourth-level cultivator said in amazement, "What kind of existence is the Cyan Yang Divine Tree? I feel like an ant in its presence!"
"Such an existence is beyond our comprehension. The mere existence of the Divine Kingdom chat group speaks to this entity’s terrifying power!"
Someone shook their head, their face also showing great reverence.
At the mention of the Divine Kingdom chat group, many people’s expressions became solemn.
They deeply understand the power of the Divine Kingdom chat group.
Gu Fang said in a serious tone, "Regardless, the Cyan Yang Divine Tree remains the Federation’s strongest backing. Why bother overthinking it."
"Marshal Gu Fang’s words are very true."
Hearing this, the others nodded in agreement.
...
Inside the Kunlun Mountain Range, Gu Qingyang naturally heard all this conversation. Others thought leaving the Kunlun Mountain Range meant leaving his domain.
In fact.
The five-thousand-kilometer range of the Divine Kingdom territory is not something one can just walk out of.
Then.
Gu Qingyang focused on the two fierce beasts, first using his Divine Soul Power on the dead fourth-level inferior fierce beast to seek its memories.
Unfortunately, the dead beast’s consciousness had already perished, making it impossible to read its memories.
Gu Qingyang didn’t feel disappointed about this since he had anticipated such a situation.
Then.
Gu Qingyang used his Divine Soul Power to directly enter the sea of consciousness of the other fierce beast.