Chapter 1102: Deity Nurturing Ground

Chen Fan slowly closed his eyes, seemingly deep in thought. When he opened his eyes again, the entire world in front of him seemed completely different.

“Boom!”

At this moment—

The dimensional storms seemed to have disappeared in front of his eyes and everything seemed to have gone further away from him. The first thing he saw was the deity ground that was letting out beams of light; it had many Deity Patterns around it and was suppressing an unimaginable Fiend Zombie.

The deity ground was enveloped in a faint glow.

The powerful Fiend Qi started to appear slowly, turning into all kinds of Nascent Soul Fiend Fetuses, Fiend Children and Fiend Materials, but the deity ground was like a filter in Chen Fan’s eyes right then. It filtered out the most polluting “Fiend Qi of the Fiend Fetus.” The arrays were the second filtering layer, which transformed the Fiend Qi into “Deity Qi.”

And the third layer was the Earth itself!

Chen Fan looked up with golden glitters in his eyes.

“Why did they form the True Martial Sky-severing Array? It seems that they’re only using the power of Dharma Laws of the entire planet and planet region to transform the ‘Fiend Qi’ into ‘Deity Qi.’ So, why did the Spirit Qi on Earth dissipate in the last few thousand years, turning the planet into a dead planet? It seems like the energy of the whole planet was used to dilute that ‘Deity Qi,’” Chen Fan said to himself.

“The ‘Deity Qi’ is too dense. Only Dao Reunion Perfected Immortals and top Sacred Treasures can absorb it. Ordinary people or normal cultivators would explode and die after breathing in just a bit. However, once it’s filtered by the arrays and diluted by the energy of the planets inside the array, people with lower cultivation could still take it in.”

Chen Fan continued his pondering as his eyes brightened, “Venom is certainly deadly, but it would be diluted if a drop of venom is mixed into a river, losing its effects. ‘Deity Qi’ is the same. A plume of Deity Qi can kill thousands of ordinary people, but after diluting it with the energy of the entire planet, its energy level would drop and normal people would then be able to take it as well.

“So, the goal of this plan is to nurture people on Earth!”

Then.

Chen Fan finally understood why there wasn’t much “World Thousand Spirit Water” on planets like Planet Tianhuang, Planet Zheyuan and Heavenly Jupiter.

How powerful was the energy a planet thousands of miles large would form in a few hundred thousand years? It could even make more than one Soul Formation Cultivator!

At the same time—

Chen Fan also realized.

The reason why there were only a few Soul Formation Cultivators in the Abandoned Planet Region after so many years.

That was because the energy and most of the Spirit Qi in all the planets in the past few hundred thousand years had been transferred to Earth by the Deity Arrays.

Chen Fan looked up.

He believed that there had to be a lake full of “World Thousand Spirit Water” deep inside the Earth like on Planet Tianhuang, but that lake would be as vast as an ocean, a hundred times larger than the one on Planet Tianhuang!

“Phew, I wonder how powerful the planets like Planet Tianhuang, Heavenly Jupiter and Earth were a few hundred thousand years ago. I guess they used to be as large as those planets in the Central Galaxy, with a large amount of energy and countless Nascent Soul and Soul Formation Cultivators. There might not be any planet region in the entire Little South Heavenly Realm that could compare with them.”

Chen Fan thought about the past.

He finally understood why the oldest books on Earth told of ancient times when there used to be countless ancient Gods and immortal Deities. That had to be an extremely flourishing planet. However, after the Celestial Sects took the energy of the planet in the past few hundred thousand years, it turned into a small planet less than thirty thousand miles wide in the end.

“But why did the Celestial Sects do this? Even though there are talented cultivators on Earth, including Ye Qincang, Xie Yan and Hua Yunfeng, I think they can only reach the Nascent Soul or Soul Formation level at most. They aren’t worth it!”

Chen Fan touched his chin and felt something was wrong.

Were they planning to develop a cultivation race using the deity ground, the arrays and Earth as layers of filters and the energy of planets from the Abandoned Planet Region for dilution?

That was too much.

Besides, most people on Earth had no cultivation talent, at all. Only some of them, like Ye Qincang, Hua Yunfeng and Xie Yan, did, but they might even be less talented than Qi Xiu’er and Xiao Mang. Those two girls had “Divine Meridians” and were destined to become Soul Formation Cultivators.

“Or… they weren’t planning to develop an elite race, but to nurture just one or a few people?”

Chen Fan’s eyes glittered.

He remembered that some old and powerful races would bury their heirs in a flourishing planet and nourish them with the blood of countless Overlords, Divine Beasts and Saints. After thousands of years, the heirs would finally come out of the planet and become Soul Formation or Void Returning Cultivators!

Many top races in the universe had used this kind of way to nurture “Divine Fetuses,” “Sacred Fetuses” and “Fiend Fetuses.”

The Light Race that ranked thirty-ninth among the races in the universe had once put a descendant of the Ancestral God in the core “secret land” of their race. They fed him with the blood of Grand Cultivators and Saints every day and gave him the juice of countless Divine Medicines to drink. They even drew the energy of dozens of other planets for him.

After three hundred thousand years—

That “descendant” finally came out and became a Soul Formation Cultivator. Three centuries later, he even reached the Void Returning Level and was known as one of the most powerful Saints, following the Dao Reunion Perfected Immortals. He conquered the universe and killed countless Soul Formation and Void Returning Overlords. People called him the “Sacred Prince of the Light Race!” He was the backbone of the entire race. Chen Fan even fought with that Sacred Prince in his previous life and killed him on the Light Race’s home planet.

“Don’t these three array layers look like a nurturing ground for a Divine Fetus?” Chen Fan thought, “No, the Celestial Sects wouldn’t do this for a ‘Sacred Fetus.’ It’s a ‘Deity Fetus’ they’ve been nurturing with Deity Qi for a few hundred thousand years!

“This is a ‘Deity Nurturing Ground!’”

Even Chen Fan was stunned.

A Deity Nurturing Ground!

What was a Deity? It was a being that stood on top of the world. Dao Reunion Perfected Immortals of humankind or Tribulation Deities were all superior. There might not even be a couple Dao Reunion Perfected Immortals in a Celestial Sect. One of them was already strong enough to suppress a top race or a Celestial Sect.

However, the Celestial Sects wanted to nurture a “Deity Fetus” there.

Once the “Deity Fetus” grew, it could be a thousand times more powerful than a Sacred Prince or the Son of the Azure Thearch. It would be able to become a Dao Reunion Perfected Immortal easily and might even have the chance of reaching the Tribulation State.

A “Deity Prince” that could probably go through the Tribulation in the future!

That was the plan of the Celestial Sects. Only such a creature was worth the True Martial Celestial Sect forming the “True Martial Sky-severing Array” and the Celestial Sects spending so much time on it!

Chen Fan lowered his head and looked at the deity ground. “The Spirit Qi on Earth has been restored, meaning that the ‘Deity Fetus’ has been born, as the planet doesn’t have to give it nutrients anymore.

“This is the biggest opportunity on Planet East.

“A ‘Deity Fetus’ can make the most powerful races and the top Celestial Sects crazy. The sacred grounds, Grand Cultivators and Saints would fight over it. After all, if they can get the fetus, there would certainly be a Dao Reunion Perfected Immortal, who may even reach the Tribulation State, in their sect.

“Then, that sect will be able to rise and become the most powerful of all, which may even be able to stand on an equal footing with the nine Celestial Sects!”

After thinking this.

Even Chen Fan heaved a sigh. “This opportunity is indeed a great one.”

And yet, how would people not know about a “Deity Fetus” like this? When the Sacred Prince of the Light Race appeared, he immediately became a Grand Cultivator and entered the Void Returning Level after three centuries. In just three thousand years, he had been regarded as the tenth Saint below the Dao Reunion Cultivators. Being ranked the tenth among all the Saints across the universe! This was their most glorious title.

Thinking of how many sacred grounds and Saints were in the Central Galaxy, everyone could imagine how terrifying that title was! The Light Race immediately rose from the fiftieth to the thirty-ninth because of it. Before that, they had been stuck in the fiftieth place for seven hundred thousand years!

Of course, that didn’t include the old cultivators in the nine Celestial Sects and the Saints who had lived countless years. Only the younger generations were ranked. But still, it was terrifying!

“In my previous life, the entire universe would have been astonished if a ‘Deity Fetus’ was born. It could have become a Void Returning or Dao Reunion Cultivator in a few centuries.

“However, I killed many elites of different races in the five centuries of my past life, including the Sacred Prince of the Light Race, the Son of the Azure Thearch, the Heavenly Monsters and even the legendary heir of the Deities, but I never came across any ‘Deity Fetus’ or ‘Deity Prince!’”

Chen Fan caressed his head and couldn’t think of a similar occurrence.

The Sacred Prince of the Light Race was already the most powerful young cultivator he had encountered in his previous life. Stronger Dao Reunion Perfected Immortals were rarely seen across the universe. There might not have even been one in ten thousand years. Which Dao Reunion Perfected Immortal didn’t live more than a million years? Technically speaking, he would have known if there had really been a “Deity Fetus.”

“Let me think. How many cultivators became Dao Reunion Perfected Immortals in my previous life?” Chen Fan pondered for a while and froze.

In his previous life.

In five centuries.

The only one who had become a Dao Reunion Perfected Immortal.

Chen Beixuan!