Stream after stream of essence power moved – like dragons – to gather within Chen Feng's body. After Chen Feng's body became filled with the essence power, the insight acupoints hidden within his body began spinning into action. Every single one of the insight acupoints was like a small world. Due to that, the power flowing in from the outside became incapable of keeping up with the rate at which Chen Feng's body was devouring power. 

Chen Feng, on the other hand, chose to utilize the Heavengulping Absorption Technique and a vortex appeared upon each of the insight acupoints. Immediately, the devouring rate grew tens of times stronger and the surrounding s.p.a.ce was turned into a stretch of vacuum. Even more essence power was pulled over from the depths of the world.

This clone of Chen Feng did not possess any magic treasures. Thus, he had to rely on himself for everything. Doing so, however, gave Chen Feng a strange feeling. It felt as though this was his true self. In his path of cultivation, he had been relying too much on his magic treasures. Due to that, he was unable to fully develop his potential. And while this body was simply a clone, it was still one created through Chen Feng's essence, energy and soul power. This was a good time to change his cultivation method and force out even more of his potential. 

As the amount of essence power entering this body rose, the strength of this clone gradually increased. In the beginning, he had been only capable of displaying up to 30% of the main body's strength. But now, he could display up to 40% of the main body's strength. More, it was steadily on the rise as well.

Within his grotto-mansion in the Six Daos Sword Faction, Chen Feng's main body smiled. He had completely recovered the essence, energy and soul power that he expended back then. 

Unexpectedly, something like this would happen. I wonder, is the one behind all this someone from the Immortal Plane? If it is, these great worlds will end up facing destruction in advance. Still, my clone managed to gain a lot this time. A pity, given my current level, I am not able to create a second clone at that level anymore. It is the restrictions of the grand dao laws. Looks like I will need to resort to some secret techniques.

In truth, given Chen Feng's ability, it might be possible for him to create up to ten million clones. Only, creating a clone with various abilities was no easy feat. If it weren't for the unique attributes of his const.i.tution, just the act of creating the previous clone would have required a lengthy recuperation time for Chen Feng.

A pity, I am still not strong enough. If I can refine and turn the Gold Immortal stage extrterrestrial creature of chaos into my clone, I will be able to do whatever I want in the Immortal Plane. Still, if I cannot do that, I can take a step back and just refine a drop of its blood essence. The difficulty of doing that should be far lower. Having thought of that, Chen Feng's divine sense entered the Longevity Tower. With Tower's help, he obtained a drop of the extrterrestrial creature's blood essence. After that, he utilized a secret technique and began refining it.

“Sigh! I had originally wanted to turn this extrterrestrial creature of chaos into a formidable clone. But now, we are constantly extracting blood essence out from it. A good deal of this body's strength is being drained away,” Tower mumbled in displeasure.

Chen Feng ignored Tower. Although he had gained some experience following his efforts in creating the previous clone, using the blood essence of a Gold Immortal stage extrterrestrial creature to create a clone was completely different from using his own blood essence to create a clone.

The divine sense Chen Feng sent into the drop of blood essence was unravelled by the formidable power of the extrterrestrial creature of chaos. And although Chen Feng had expected this, it did still leave him feeling frustrated.

Once again, he sent his soul flame into the drop of blood essence. What Chen Feng wanted was to use his soul flame to refine the blood essence before injecting his essence, energy and soul power inside. He would borrow the power of another object while utilizing his own divine sense to control it.

While it sounded easy, Chen Feng knew that refining it was not that simple. There was a high chance of failure.

As expected, one month later, his efforts were met with failure and the drop of Gold Immortal's blood essence went to waste. That caused Chen Feng's heart to ache. However, he decided to extract a second drop. It was then that Chen Feng received a piece of news from Tie Zhen. 

“The other teams contacted you? Do they know that you have located me?” Chen Feng asked, curious.

“We did not leak any information out,” Tie Zhen replied seriously.

“I understand. Get them to come, then.” After giving it just a moment's consideration, Chen Feng made up his mind.

Tie Zhen nodded and left. He personally headed out to make contact with the others. Chen Feng, who was staying inside the Six Daos Sword Faction, was safe.

“Hopefully, those who come are not harbouring ulterior motives,” Chen Feng mumbled to himself before returning his attention to his clone-making efforts. 

As Chen Feng was focused on creating a new clone, Chen Feng's first clone had been spending all this time cultivating within Chaos World. His cultivation process proceeded smoothly and his cultivation base kept climbing. By then, he could already display up to 50% of the main body's power.

He waited until all of his insight acupoints became filled with essence power before ending his cultivation session. After that, he left Chaos World and headed into outer s.p.a.ce.

A pity, my strength is insufficient, else I could link up to the main body and send power over. This was something that Chen Feng felt most regretful about. There were times when he thought of simply having his main body head over to cultivate in Chaos World.

Forget it, I shouldn't have my main body partic.i.p.ate in this. This is a good opportunity for me to develop the hidden potential within my body. Besides, I have this faint hunch. Should my main body partic.i.p.ate, danger will descend.

Still, why does this whole thing feel familiar?

As Chen Feng was feeling puzzled about it, his clone returned to Eternal World.

By then, a cultivator from Eternal World would ascend at least once every few days. This speed of cultivation and frequency of ascension brought the living creatures on Eternal World only delight. They did not think too much about it. 

All of them believed that a great fortune had arrived, not realizing that the world they lived in in was rapidly aging.

When compared to the past, where only one cultivator would ascend in the span of 10,000 years, this frequency of ascension was simply too high.

A change had also come over the 13 motes of light on Eternal World. A total of 13 Spirit Gathering Arrays kept extracting Eternal World's energy. Finally, it reached a certain threshold. Or perhaps, it was because the other party had decided to take action.

Thirteen motes of light fired out a formidable pillar of light each and Chen Feng, who was far away, could see various mysterious patterns changing non-stop there.

So, it's this! A lightbulb lit up within Chen Feng's mind as he finally understood what the other party was attempting to accomplish. 

In truth, it was very simple. 

They wanted to borrow a great world's power to open up a mysterious pa.s.sageway.

Only, it was a very complicated feat. A real expert would be able to move worlds and planets while lesser experts could only tamper with some great worlds. This was also why the Heavenly Firmaments Palace had always wanted to conquer Eternal World.

Chen Feng found himself understanding everything.

As for where the pa.s.sageway would take them, it was something that could only be discovered through exploration. Perhaps, it would lead them to another immortal region. Or perhaps, it would bring them to a more mysterious place within the universe.

One thing was certain, opening up a pa.s.sageway into the unknown would allow them to obtain a great harvest.

Would Heavenly Firmaments Palace possess such courage? Chen Feng was somewhat surprised. By doing something like this, were they not fearful of triggering an action from the mastermind? Their actions were simply suicide.

As Chen Feng was pondering the issue, the 13 pillars of light kept transforming and wave after wave of quaking power came from the depths of the universe. s.p.a.ce-time began falling into a state of chaos and Chen Feng could clearly sense that the rate at which Eternal World was emitting essence power had increased tenfold.

Boom!

With a booming sound, a pitch-black pa.s.sageway was opened. Long and deep, it emanated a power that could devour all. Who knows where the pa.s.sageway would lead to?

The power of the pa.s.sageway was very chaotic and several nearby stars were sucked into it, shredded into bits. It was practically no different from a black hole. 

The spatial pa.s.sageway is unstable. True Immortals will likely be incapable of enduring for even one breath's worth of time. Even Heavenly Immortals would die inside. I wonder, what will the other party do now? Will they strengthen the pa.s.sageway or enter and explore? Chen Feng's figure drifted in outer s.p.a.ce, perfectly hidden from sight. He wanted to see what would happen next. 

Finally, some cultivators – filled with an adventurous spirit – charged into the yet-to-stabilize pa.s.sageway. Several of them entered the pa.s.sageway only to be ripped apart by the tempestuous power there. Some disappeared deep inside the pa.s.sageway, their fates unknown. 

Chen Feng, however, was an exception. With the Divine Eyes of Heavenly Insight, he was able to clearly see what happened to them. Two mid-level Heavenly Immortals managed to enter deep into the pa.s.sageway, but they failed to make it far before they too, were ripped apart. 

Even Heavenly laws are incapable of stopping the chaotic power of s.p.a.ce there. Looks like the other end of this pa.s.sageway is not an ordinary place. Chen Feng had no intentions of heading in. Not even his main body would be able to charge through the pa.s.sageway. If he wanted to enter, he would have to wait until the pa.s.sageway had stabilized. However, without the Ageless laws of Gold Immortals and an extremely formidable power, that would not be possible.

After over 100 cultivators had died, the others began faltering. While exploring an unknown world was a very tempting matter, committing suicide was something else entirely.

As expected, Heavenly Firmaments Palace is the one behind this. By then, Chen Feng could already see some formidable cultivators emerging from Eternal World. Judging from their auras, Chen Feng was certain that they were from the Immortal Plane's Heavenly Firmaments Palace.

Opening the pa.s.sageway had not been easy. I believe that Heavenly Firmaments Palace would surely be unwilling to wait.

Chen Feng's speculation was correct. Heavenly Firmaments Palace set forth and a ma.s.sive, black-coloured wars.h.i.+p flew over. Surprisingly, it was a low-grade Divine artifact. There were 100 cultivators empowering it, most of them Heavenly Immortals. Only a small number of them were True Immortals.  

Amidst a booming sound, the black wars.h.i.+p charged into the pa.s.sageway, unleas.h.i.+ng great power as it was made its way through the chaotic powers there. It was as though it was a sun that had been compressed into an oval shape.

Chen Feng's gaze was constantly trained on them. His Divine Eyes of Heavenly Insight was able to see through the Divine-tier wars.h.i.+p, allowing him to clearly see what was happening inside. 

The 100 cultivators inside it were unleas.h.i.+ng highly formidable streams of power to mobilize the wars.h.i.+p so as to resist the attacks from the chaotic powers around them.

Only, it did not take long before all the True Immortals inside the wars.h.i.+p were killed. Despite having the protection of a low-grade Divine artifact, they ended up being hit in the end. The True Immortals there merely managed to make it farther compared to others. 

Next, the black wars.h.i.+p swiftly charged into the depths of the pa.s.sageway. In the end, Chen Feng found that he could no longer see them.

They had 100 cultivators. Going in, they lost more than half. Still, the integrity of the wars.h.i.+p remains firm. I wonder, will they be able to make it to the other side? Chen Feng himself was incapable of guessing what their end would be.

However, a low-grade Divine artifact can resist the chaotic powers inside. If so, the number of cultivators who will take this risk will rise, Chen Feng thought.

As expected, after the black wars.h.i.+p belonging to the Heavenly Firmaments Palace disappeared, even more wars.h.i.+ps appeared. It would appear that they had finally figured it out. If their fleshly body was insufficient to make it through, they can simply rely on their tools.