Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 1522 - 1110: Great Shang’s Backup Plan_2

Chapter 1522: Chapter 1110: Great Shang’s Backup Plan_2

Innate living beings are divided into four levels, from highest to lowest: Innate Saints, Innate Divine Demons, natural Gods, and Innate living beings, each corresponding to the four realms of Immortal Dao: Primordial Chaos, Daluo, Taiyi, and Celestial Immortal.

This means that Innate living beings possess the potential to become immortals; natural Gods, as long as they do not die, can basically become Taiyi Golden Immortals; Innate Divine Demons are meant to become Great Luo Golden Immortals; Innate Saints are to become Primordial Chaos.

The great achievers of Ancient Martial Arts, at the moment of their fall, have essentially ascended to the level of Innate Taoist Master, corresponding to Innate Divine Demons.

Therefore, when resurrecting them, this world nurtures them to the standards of Innate Divine Demons. Their treasures, which they cultivated along with their lives, are also nurtured as Innate Spiritual Treasures.

To go from death to life is a process against Heaven, so completing this process grants them extraordinary opportunities, allowing them to reverse their Innate nature and become Innate Divine Demons; and their past life’s magic treasures will also become their companion spiritual treasures.

Great achievers are such, and so are the warriors at the level of Dao Monarch. However, their accomplishments are somewhat weaker, their counterparts are natural Gods, and their treasures are not Innate Spiritual Treasures, but the weaker Innate magic treasures.

"Too many strong beings have perished in this realm, they all need to be resurrected, which greatly disperses the world’s power, making it impossible for anyone to be resurrected."

Jiang Chen recognized the problem at a glance; there were too many living beings in this realm waiting to be resurrected, far exceeding its limit, to the point where no movement was possible halfway through the resurrection.

"For the strong ones from Great Shang, there is no solution!"

Jiang Chen understood the predicament of the warriors from Great Shang; they knew that the plan exceeded the bearing limit of the Great Thousand Worlds, but they could not simply give up.

Because, although the Original Source has merged into this world and made resurrection impossible, at least there is a possibility of resurrection. If they perished elsewhere, then there would really be nothing left, no hope of resurrection at all.

Even the faintest hope is still hope, better than no hope at all. Thus, knowing that this world could no longer resurrect the dead, still more and more powerful beings came in succession over the following long years, perishing in this realm.

The strong ones from Great Shang pinned their hopes on the future; they have done their best, could not think of a remedy, and could only hope that the later comers could find a solution to resurrect those who perished within.

"The simplest solution to this problem is to strengthen the Original Source of this realm."

"The inability to resurrect the multitude is due to the inadequacy of the World Origins, so as long as we make the World Origins sufficient, the multitude can be resurrected."

The solution to this issue is simple, and Jiang Chen could guess it without thinking, so naturally, the warriors from Great Shang in those days could also guess it.

However, the method is easy to say, but very difficult to implement.

The later comers indeed tried to resolve the problem, either by setting up top-notch formations to transform the Chaos Qi or by hunting powerful Fierce Beasts and enemies to sacrifice to this realm, enhancing its Original Source.

Throughout the era of Great Shang, there were continual sacrifices, mostly cruel blood sacrifices, which is the reason for this. Blood-sacrificing strong enemies to transform into Original Source, to accelerate the evolution of this realm.

Nevertheless, despite their best efforts, the speed of the World Origins’ enhancement could not keep up with the pace of the warriors’ demise.

After another three hundred thousand years had passed, the situation not only remained unresolved but actually worsened due to the fall of even more strong beings.

"Great Shang has capable people!"

Everything before his eyes was history past; Jiang Chen could only silently watch and was powerless to change anything.

He saw the excitement of Great Shang’s strong ones as they thought of solutions, their frustration when plans failed, and also their despair...

After striving for hundreds of thousands of years and gaining nothing but an increasingly dire situation, anyone would feel desperate, right?

Fortunately, Heaven does not seal off all exits. Just when everyone was in despair, a powerful being discovered fragments of the top-tier Prehistoric Spirit Root, Jian Mu.

Jian Mu, also known as the Heaven-Penetrating Jian Mu, is one of the Ten Great Prehistoric Spirit Roots of the Primordial Era.

In the era of Emperor Zhuan Xu of ancient times, Jian Mu chose to descend into the Demonic Way to transform, resolutely revealing its body that touched the heavens, piercing through the Three Realms of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, in an attempt to disturb the order of Heaven and Earth and incite a towering catastrophe, to cultivate the supreme demonic body with the endless Sha Qi of Heaven and Earth and transform in one fell swoop.

At that time, it was precisely during Emperor Zhuan Xu’s reign over the Human Race, when he saw this associate causing chaos, he used his great Divine Ability to slay it, sealing off the passageway between Heaven and Earth along the way, cutting off the channels between Heaven and Earth, and preventing the immortal gods from coming and going.

Whether Jian Mu truly perished is hard to say, but its body that connected the heavens did indeed shatter, scattering across the vast expanse of Heaven and Earth.

There were many fragments of Jian Mu, but ordinary fragments were nothing rare and could not excite the mighty ones of Great Shang. However, this time, the fragment they found was different; its vigor had not dissipated.

That is to say, what they found was a sprout of Jian Mu. This discovery invigorated the previously despondent powerhouses of Great Shang.

They planted this sapling in the treasure vault of Great Shang, sparing no resources to nurture it, hoping to restore it to its peak to sustain the treasure vault of Great Shang, and to further transform from the Great Thousand Worlds into the Vast Universe World.

If the Great Thousand Worlds was not enough, then the more powerful Vast Universe World could certainly nurture those strong ones.

"The Heavenly Reaching Jian Mu, it seems, was a gift from Emperor Zhuan Xu to them. Had it not been for subsequent events, they might have truly succeeded."

Jiang Chen saw through the essence of the matter at a glance; such a treasure as the Heavenly Reaching Jian Mu, how could it be so easily obtained by Great Shang without the guidance of Emperor Zhuan Xu.

Only he, the Human Race monarch who had shattered Jian Mu back then, would have information about Jian Mu.

Soon, another three hundred thousand years passed, and the Heavenly Reaching Jian Mu continued to grow robustly, with the original source of the Great Shang world becoming increasingly profound.

Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction.

Yet, no one expected that it was at this time, the colossal entity that had dominated the earth for nearly a million years—Great Shang—was about to begin its countdown to the end of life.

Great Shang lasted for nine hundred and fifty thousand years, Black Emperor abdicated, and the Mystic Sect Tiandi took the throne, starting to suppress the Human Race. By nine hundred and seventy thousand years of Great Shang, their patience reached its limit, and the Battle Against Heaven erupted.

Under the leadership of Emperor Wu Ding of Shang, one hundred and eight Ancient Martial Arts achievers of Great Shang, along with more than ten thousand Innate Dao Monarchs, carrying the supreme treasure of the Human Race, the Innate Heaven and Earth Banner, with the Heavenly Reaching Jian Mu as their ladder, directly invaded the Heaven Court.

At the same time, the Three Emperors and Five Sovereigns of the Human Race emerged from the Fire Cloud Cave, leading dozens of Quasi-Saints and hundreds of Innate Taoist Masters, standing off against the Dao Monarch-led Mystic Sect powerhouses in the Chaos outside of heaven.

Since the beginning of the Battle Against Heaven, neither side, whether it was Great Shang or Heaven Court, had reinforcements arriving. It was not that they lacked reinforcements, but their reinforcements were tied up in a standoff in the Chaos outside heaven and couldn’t come.

At that time, the side undoubtedly holding the advantage was Heaven Court. After all, the Tiandi of Mystic Sect was a Great Divine Transcendent, whose strength was far greater than that of Great Shang, which only had the power of a Quasi-Saint.

Therefore, in the absence of reinforcements, the forces at the time basically believed that Great Shang’s declaration of war against Heaven Court was unquestionably like a moth to a flame, doomed to shatter to pieces.

Yes, a Great Divine Transcendent possesses the power to destroy heaven and earth, even if Great Shang had one hundred and eight Taoist Master-level fighters, and an Emperor who could exert early Quasi-Saint level power under the blessing of the nation’s fortune, they were still no match for the Mystic Sect Tiandi.

He alone was enough to annihilate Great Shang.

At that time, the Mystic Sect Tiandi thought so, regarding the Great Shang powerhouses as ants, completely disregarding them.

A group of ants, still delusional about overturning heaven?

And then, Tiandi of Mystic Sect was defeated.

Since the founding of Great Shang, there have been no fewer than a thousand achievers of Ancient Martial Arts born. Innate Dao Monarchs, there were more than a hundred thousand.

Although they had all fallen, their Martial Dao wills remained, which could briefly exert peak power when fully revived.

And to win the Battle Against Heaven, all of these Martial Dao wills were revived.