Chapter 882: Empress Wa Creations (10/10), Capturing the Evil God
Gazing at the effects of Empress Wa Creations, Zhang Yu couldn’t help but sigh inwardly. “Creating temporary magical artifacts with magic power… what a truly useful ability.”
As Zhang Yu gradually increased his market share in the Former Days Graveyard to 20%, he reaped wave after wave of immense rewards.
These rewards — bonuses, Extraordinary Merit, Evil Gods, Feather Book upgrades — were numerous, but he needed to quickly assimilate them to truly convert them into his own strength and power.
Especially since setting the goal of breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm and participating in the third-generation Law Edict Establishment, Zhang Yu had set aside most of his work to focus wholeheartedly on his personal growth.
The acquisition of the Chain Formation Diagram Empress Wa Creations was one of the fruits of this assimilation.
After spending several million Immortal Coins and tens of thousands of Dao Merit, Zhang Yu had purchased ten cultivation arts related to Empress Wa Creations in one go.
Among them were basic cultivation arts, Expert-Grade Techniques, and even military-grade and True Inheritance-Tier techniques.
All ten of these cultivation arts were artifact refinement techniques.
There was the Stardust Shaping Dao Edge, which condensed starlight to enhance magical artifact quality and material strength.
There was the Myriad Manifestations Divine Forging, which could alter material properties and performance, improving artifact refinement techniques.
And there was the Great Void Divine Weapon Forging, which could directly generate martial dao divine weapons from magic power and Gang Qi.
As Zhang Yu pushed each of these artifact refinement techniques to the Spirit Transformation Realm limit of Level 50, his artifact refinement skills soared to unprecedented heights, rivaling many artifact refinement cultivators who had spent years honing their craft within their sects.
The Chain Formation Diagram Empress Wa Creations, formed from these artifact refinement techniques, did not disappoint Zhang Yu in the slightest.
From the day he unlocked its first tier effect, Zhang Yu had been silently testing it.
At this moment, he spread his five fingers, and a surge of magic power erupted from his palm like a cloud of mist. The mist rapidly transformed, solidifying and assembling itself into a Supreme Yang Radiance God composed entirely of magic power.
Under Zhang Yu’s control, this magic power-forged Supreme Yang Radiance God spewed flames and activated force fields, demonstrating the same abilities as a real Supreme Yang Radiance God.
However, while the abilities were identical, its performance was less than half that of a genuine Supreme Yang Radiance God, and it continuously drained Zhang Yu’s magic power.
“With my current breathing technique efficiency and magic power regeneration rate, I can sustain this Supreme Yang Radiance God indefinitely.”
“If I were to maintain over 20 units, they would last for a few hours at most. With over 40 units… they’d probably last an hour at best. And if I tried to sustain 100 units, my magic power would be depleted in minutes.”
Of course, this was assuming Zhang Yu relied solely on his breathing techniques to recover magic power, without using any external aids.
“During this time, the Supreme Yang Radiance God must stay close to me, or its magic power won’t be replenished, and it will quickly dissipate… But this is only with the first tier effect.”
“If I combine it with the second tier effect, as long as I infuse enough magic power in advance, it can indeed exist for up to six hours.”
Zhang Yu sensed that a Supreme Yang Radiance God, located a full ten kilometers away on the other side of the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, suddenly vanished with a pop. It was one he had created with magic power six hours earlier.
Next, Zhang Yu’s magic power surged again, creating various magical artifacts such as the Great Sun Sacred Law Flying Sword and the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor.
As he created them, he could feel that the performance of these artifacts varied greatly.
“The more profound my mastery of a magical artifact, the higher the performance of the version created by Empress Wa Creations.”
“The Supreme Yang Radiance God was modified and innovated by Teacher Magnetic Pole and me, so naturally, I’m extremely familiar with it. That’s why it can exhibit nearly 50% of its performance.”
“For the other magical artifacts, even though I’ve raised their production skills to level 40, or even level 50, they can only achieve 30% to 40% of their full potential at most.”
“To truly unleash the power of Empress Wa Creations… I need to master the refinement techniques for as many magical artifacts as possible. And… it’s best if they’re artifacts I designed myself.”
Watching Zhang Yu create magical artifacts from magic power, the Auspicious God couldn’t help but exclaim, “Amazing! Truly amazing! Such an exquisite artifact refinement technique! Minister Zhang, you’re a true Artifact Refinement Prodigy!”
Fu Ji snorted coldly, thinking to herself, I haven’t even started praising him yet, and you’re already sucking up?
Fu Ji asked coldly, “Oh? And where exactly is the exquisite part?”
The Auspicious God replied, “I don’t know. I can’t understand any of it.”
Fu Ji snapped, “If you can’t understand it, then shut the hell up.”
The Auspicious God said, “Boss Fu Ji, it’s precisely because it’s so exquisite that I can’t understand it that it’s all the more awe-inspiring.”
Fu Ji said, “Hmph, what’s so hard to understand? After cultivating those artifact refinement techniques, Zhang Yu mastered and integrated them, grasping the mysteries and principles of the magical artifacts he previously refined. This allowed him to directly simulate them using his Immortal Dao Technology, resulting in the phenomenon of creating magical artifacts from magic power.”
“Truly amazing!” the Auspicious God exclaimed. “Minister Zhang is an Artifact Refinement Prodigy, but Boss Fu Ji, your ability to see through the mystery is just as impressive.”
Via private chat, the Auspicious God secretly added, “Although Zhang Yu is incredible, how could he have achieved this without you, Boss Fu Ji, stimulating his potential? When you think about it, you’re the most amazing one of all, Boss Fu Ji.”
Listening to Fu Ji and the Auspicious God’s analysis, Zhang Yu thought to himself, While Empress Wa Creations is powerful, it’s not entirely inexplicable. With the cover of the Immortal’s legacy, I can use it openly without any issues.
For the next two days, Zhang Yu continued to cultivate the relevant cultivation arts. As all ten artifact refinement techniques reached Level 50, he unlocked the third tier effect of Empress Wa Creations.
Ultimate - Empress Wa Creations (10/10): By outputting magic power, create an intelligent entity within a magic power artifact, enabling the artifact to operate automatically.
Seeing this effect, Zhang Yu’s eyes lit up. He immediately tried it out and instantly felt the magic power consumption for infusing the Supreme Yang Radiance God double.
At the same time, Zhang Yu no longer needed to meticulously control the flow of magic power within the Supreme Yang Radiance God to activate its various functions. A single command was now enough to make it unleash its abilities.
After further testing, Zhang Yu thought to himself, This so-called ‘intelligent entity’ isn’t true spiritual intelligence, nor is it a High-Intelligence Artifact Spirit. It merely acts as my proxy… directly activating the magical artifact’s functions and lowering the operational threshold.
It’s like the smart appliances from my past life on Earth. The user doesn’t need to exert effort to operate and maintain its functions; they just need to issue simple commands.
Having tested this far, Zhang Yu inwardly praised the ability.
Controlling three, five, or even a dozen more Supreme Yang Radiance Gods wouldn’t pose any operational difficulty for me now.
But if I tried to control 100 Supreme Yang Radiance Gods at once, my operational efficiency would start to decline.
After all, the more magical artifacts you have, the more mental energy you need to divide among them. If they can operate automatically, the operational difficulty will plummet, and the number of magical artifacts I can command will soar.
Zhang Yu estimated in his mind that with the help of this intelligent entity, controlling several thousand or even tens of thousands of Supreme Yang Radiance Gods at once would be no problem.
Of course, the prerequisite was that he had enough magic power to create that many in the first place.
With my own magic power recovery methods, plus other aids like medicinal pills and magical artifacts… creating a few hundred Supreme Yang Radiance Gods at once is definitely not an issue.
Any more than that, and I’ll need to test it further.
The thought invigorated Zhang Yu. This Empress Wa Creations ability has massively boosted my productivity!
It wasn’t just about the Supreme Yang Radiance Gods; Zhang Yu also considered the potential of mass-producing various other magical artifacts by the hundreds or thousands.
If I arm my 36 clones, how much work could they accomplish?
And even if I don’t use this productivity for work, I could just generate magical artifacts and rent them out… there’s profit to be made there too.
Zhang Yu calculated in his mind. The second tier effect of Empress Wa Creations, combined with the third tier effect — which allowed the generated magical artifacts to exist independently and activate their functions without his direct control — already met the conditions for renting them out.
The more Zhang Yu pondered, the more he realized the limitless potential of Empress Wa Creations. Its effectiveness depended entirely on his creativity and the number of Artifact Refinement Diagrams and copyrights he possessed.
“With more Artifact Refinement Diagrams, Empress Wa Creations can generate a wider variety of magical artifacts. Whether for work or rental, I can earn more money. And with more money, I can buy even more diagrams.”
Beyond that, he also thought of the Encyclopedia of Celestial Technology…
“More diagrams won’t just enhance the effectiveness of Empress Wa Creations; they’ll also expand my and Magnetic Pole’s knowledge base. Through the Encyclopedia of Celestial Technology, I can design more proprietary magical artifacts, secure more copyrights, and establish more production lines for my own designs.”
A flash of understanding crossed Zhang Yu’s mind. The magic power production lines from Empress Wa Creations could serve as his initial cash cow, continuously earning him Immortal Coins.
As his copyrights, technology, and capital accumulated, he couldn’t abandon the production lines for physical magical artifacts either.
After all, the growth and recovery of magic power ultimately had bottlenecks, whereas physical artifact production lines could be expanded indefinitely as long as he invested enough money.
“In the early stages, I’ll use Empress Wa Creations to accumulate funds and technology, focusing primarily on magic power-based artifacts.”
“As I get richer, I’ll keep expanding the assembly lines—one becomes two, two become four. Eventually, the productivity of physical magical artifacts will surpass Empress Wa Creations. Then, physical artifacts will be the primary focus, with magic power artifacts as support…”
The more Zhang Yu thought, the more he felt that combining Empress Wa Creations with his existing abilities and resources created a synergy far greater than the sum of its parts — a 1+1 that was much greater than 2. He could almost see an Artifact Refinement Empire rising like a morning sun over Kunxu.
“This isn’t just about long-term development. Considering I need to participate in the third-generation Law Edict Establishment next year, I’ll need a wide range of abilities. By studying more diagrams and using Empress Wa Creations to generate various magical artifacts, I can enhance my capabilities across the board and handle any situation.”
After testing the three layers of Empress Wa Creations, Zhang Yu changed his original plan.
While the ‘Sovereign of Celestial Desires’ Chain Formation Diagram is tempting — I have a visceral attraction to it — my preference for Empress Wa Creations is purely strategic.
In Kunxu, Zhang Yu understood that strategic preference was true love, the correct choice.
At that moment, Zhang Yu decided to temporarily halt the development of the ‘Sovereign of Celestial Desires’ Chain Formation Diagram. Instead, he would use his remaining funds to purchase more Artifact Refinement Diagrams, maximizing the effectiveness of Empress Wa Creations.
Over the next few days, Zhang Yu directly manufactured a large batch of level 10 to level 20 Supreme Yang Radiance Gods - Magic Power Edition and released them into the Magical Artifact Rental Market.
Due to their low production cost and limited duration, Zhang Yu set the rental prices relatively low, which made them popular among Soul Cultivators.
By renting the Supreme Yang Radiance Gods, Soul Cultivators could use these puppets to interact with the material world and unleash various abilities, allowing them to take on more jobs.
Realizing this, Zhang Yu immediately ordered his Soul Cultivator Companies to introduce more job types to the Soul Cultivators renting the Supreme Yang Radiance Gods. This expanded the market and drove up rental sales for the puppets, creating a complementary service.
Leveraging his Soul Cultivator Companies’ 20% market share, Zhang Yu quickly rented out every Supreme Yang Radiance God he had created with his magic power.
As the Supreme Yang Radiance Gods’ fame grew, sales of the physically produced versions on the assembly lines also increased.
Zhang Yu calculated that this new venture had boosted his monthly income by nearly 120,000 Immortal Coins.
In the following days, Zhang Yu continued to purchase more Artifact Refinement Diagrams, further expanding the variety of magical artifacts Empress Wa Creations could produce.
During Zhang Yu’s days of diligent study, Kuang Tianqing once again arrived at the Immortal Grotto-Heaven as promised.
With a flick of his finger, he sent a doll-like Evil God flying into Zhang Yu’s hand.
Seeing the doll in Zhang Yu’s grasp, Auspicious God was the first to get excited. “Hahahaha, Herald God! Look at you now!”
Herald God weakly replied, “Auspicious God, you’re still alive?”
Fu Ji snorted coldly. “Who gave you permission to reminisce?”
She transformed into a ragged doll and leaped out from Zhang Yu’s shadow, rushing toward Herald God. “Auspicious Guy, help me take him down!”
Herald God was pinned to the ground by Fu Ji and Auspicious God. Fu Ji stomped on his head while Auspicious God repeatedly slapped his backside.
Herald God roared, “I am a dignified rank 4 Evil God! How dare you humiliate me like this!”
Auspicious God sneered, plopped down on Herald God’s waist, and raged, “You useless fool! If you hadn’t all ignored my warnings back then, would you have ended up like this?!”
Fu Ji ground her foot into Herald God’s face and warned, “Herald Guy, don’t say I didn’t make it clear. Now that you’re here, everything starts over. Don’t bring your stinking habits from the outside with you.”
Beside them, Auspicious God’s body flickered with a seven-colored radiance as he shouted sternly, “Boss Fu Ji is a 1000-wages Ancestor under Minister Zhang.”
“I’m a 100-wages Great Power.”
He then pointed to the Evil God who had arrived recently and said to Herald God, “You’ve just arrived, so you’re even lower than this guy. At best, you’ll be a 1-wage minor cultivator — the most useless one here. Got it?”
Although the monthly salary Zhang Yu provided the Evil Gods was low and only came in the form of credit for purchasing antiques, it was enough for them to automatically establish a hierarchy.
Herald God nodded repeatedly. “I get it! Stop hitting me! Please, stop! I’ll bark like a dog for you, okay?”
Auspicious God smiled faintly. “Let’s hear it.”
Herald God said, “I’m a 100-wages Great Power.”
“You little…” Auspicious God snorted, his slime-like, seven-colored body slapping Herald God’s face several times. “Herald Guy! How does it feel to be bitten by a dog?”
While Fu Ji and Auspicious God were subduing Herald God, Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing began discussing matters of law establishment.
Kuang Tianqing said, “Minister Zhang, I heard you’ll be participating in the establishment of the third-generation Law Edicts next year?”
Zhang Yu’s gaze shifted. “Your intelligence network is quite impressive.”
Kuang Tianqing dismissed the comment. “The higher-ups told me to inform you that if you successfully break through to the Void Refinement Realm and truly participate in establishing the third-generation Law Edicts next year, we will fully support you.”
“If, at that time… when you are establishing the Law Edict, you can consult with us to create a mutually satisfactory edict… we can provide you with even more Evil Gods.”
Zhang Yu’s heart stirred. He knew the Heavenly Demon Sect was dangling bait for him again.
Without responding directly, Zhang Yu said coolly, “Does your Heavenly Demon Sect also concern itself with the Law Edicts of the Myriad Laws Sect?”
Kuang Tianqing smiled. “The first batch of third-generation Law Edicts will affect the Dao Lineage Struggles of every sect. Naturally, we’re paying close attention. Rest assured, we won’t ask you to establish any edicts detrimental to the Myriad Laws Sect. We simply hope to maintain the peaceful relationship between our two sects.”
Watching Kuang Tianqing’s retreating figure, Zhang Yu thought to himself, “So many people are watching next year’s law establishment.”
“The Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor, the Reformist Faction, the Immortal Clans… and the Reincarnation Immortal Emperor.”
Zhang Yu could already envision the fierce conflicts over law establishment that would soon unfold.
He glanced at Fu Ji, who had just finished devouring Herald God’s power and divine authority. “How is it?” he asked.
Fu Ji let out a satisfied burp. “Just two more like that Herald Guy, and I should be able to level up.”
Several days later, Zhang Yu, who had been diligently studying various magical artifact blueprints in his Immortal Grotto-Heaven, suddenly left the Former Days Graveyard.
His purpose was to travel to another minor realm to collect Grotto-Heaven force.
This was a reward from the Immortal Emperor, allowing him to absorb the residual Grotto-Heaven force left in various minor realms after the battle against Ying Xintian, thereby strengthening his own Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
The first minor realm he arrived at was called the Commoner District, a production base for Material Humans.
As soon as he stepped into this minor realm, Zhang Yu saw ten massive black voids hanging in the sky, like ten black holes, frantically devouring everything around them.
While Zhang Yu was still reeling in surprise, Dugu Ming’s projection appeared and explained, “These are the scars left behind from the fierce battle between an Immortal Venerable from the Joyful Union Sect and Traitor Ying in the Commoner District.”
“Back then, that Immortal Venerable from the Joyful Union Sect unleashed a heaven-opening-tier dual cultivation divine art called “Ten Suns’ Demise”. It’s said that he severely wounded Traitor Ying and left these ten massive holes that have yet to be repaired.”