Within the lava, numerous magma monsters were hidden.
All the magma monsters, by gathering their strength in this manner, could unleash the combat power of a Main God.
However, Zheng Dong's expression remained calm, showing no fear.
He wasn't afraid of even a true Main God-level magma monster, let alone magma monsters whose powers merged to unleash Main God-level strength.
Zheng Dong raised the Blade of the Past. His Domain of Destiny, like a halo, rapidly expanded outwards, encompassing everything around him.
Instantly, the churning lava subsided considerably, suppressed by the power of the Domain of Destiny.
Following this, starlight flashed within the domain, and arrows of law, formed from the power of laws, rained down.
Many magma monsters hiding in the lava were pierced through by the sharp arrows of law.
This was not the end. More law power condensed into beasts of law, which also pounced towards the magma monsters within the lava.
At the same time, Zheng Dong raised the Blade of the Past and cleaved towards the magma monster above the lava.
This strongest magma monster, sensing the power of the Blade of the Past, revealed a look of panic.
It hurriedly mobilized the strength of all the magma monsters to resist.
Countless streams of lava surged upwards, forming two enormous lava palms, attempting to catch the descending Blade of the Past.
Unfortunately, the power of the Blade of the Past exceeded the magma monster's imagination.
The two enormous palms formed from condensed lava could not hold on for even three seconds before they collapsed, turning back into lava and scattering onto the ground.
The Blade of the Past did not stop. It was unstoppable, striking the magma monster.
The magma monster was stunned.
It had never expected that even with its full effort, it couldn't block the Blade of the Past.
It hurriedly dodged.
But it was still half a beat too late. A small portion of its shoulder along with its arm was cleaved off.
The intense pain caused the magma monster to roar repeatedly.
But this was not the end.
Zheng Dong wanted to kill it, so he naturally wouldn't let it live.
Next, he used the Blade of the Past again.
This time, it was aimed directly at the magma monster's head.
The magma monster dared not be careless. It quickly melted its body into lava to evade the Blade of the Past.
Unfortunately, the Blade of the Past carried the power of the Law of the Past and possessed immense destructive force. The magma monster, having transformed into lava, could not escape and was injured again.
This truly frightened the magma monster.
It no longer had the courage to face Zheng Dong and only wanted to escape.
To this end, it even abandoned the other magma monsters, transforming itself into lava and attempting to burrow underground to flee.
However, everything around was covered by Zheng Dong's domain. Its small movements did not escape Zheng Dong's notice.
Zheng Dong activated his Domain of Destiny, condensing beasts of law to force out the escaping magma monster.
He then raised the Blade of the Past again and cleaved the magma monster into two halves, severing its divine personality and soul as well.
Thus, this strongest magma monster finally fell.
However, there were still hundreds of thousands of magma monsters around. Clearing them all would not be easy.
Zheng Dong summoned Ling'er and released a large number of elemental sprites.
The number of elemental sprites far exceeded the magma monsters, reaching millions. The strongest light and dark elemental sprites possessed the combat power of mid-tier gods.
Using these elemental sprites to clear magma monsters below the god level was no problem at all.
Many of these elemental sprites were condensed by Ling'er during this period.
After condensing her divine personality, Ling'er's speed in condensing elemental sprites increased significantly. Moreover, the elemental sprites she condensed possessed combat power of Emperor or Overlord level.
Thus, Zheng Dong only needed to deal with the remaining god-level magma monsters.
To temper the Chaos Divine Phoenix, Zheng Dong did not directly deal with these god-level magma monsters.
Instead, he handed them over to the Chaos Divine Phoenix.
He merely held back these magma monsters, allowing the Chaos Divine Phoenix to try and defeat them one by one.
Initially, the Chaos Divine Phoenix could only handle magma monsters that had just condensed their divine personalities and were suppressed by the Domain of Destiny.
As the Chaos Divine Phoenix's growth level increased, it could deal with more powerful magma monsters.
The Chaos Divine Phoenix did not disappoint Zheng Dong. It quickly grew from the Totem level to a Lower God and condensed its divine personality.
However, the Chaos Divine Phoenix's memory had still not recovered.
This was also good. The future self of the Chaos Divine Phoenix had not discovered its revival and crossed through time and space to hunt it down.
After dealing with the magma monsters of the Yellow Stone Totem Kingdom, Zheng Dong continued to lead the Chaos Divine Phoenix to collect resources.
Along the way, he was not only tempering the Chaos Divine Phoenix but also himself.
As the time for the Abyss Dragon God to devour his main body approached, more and more awakened god-level extraordinary beings appeared. Zheng Dong also encountered many Main God and Sovereign-level extraordinary beings.
Main God-level extraordinary beings no longer posed a threat to him.
However, dealing with Sovereign-level beings still proved very difficult for him.
He needed the power of the Star God Realm to have a chance to kill them.
And even then, it was only for weakened Sovereign-level extraordinary beings.
Unless Zheng Dong upgraded his domain, created his own divine kingdom, and his growth level reached the Main God level, he would not be able to cope with Sovereign-level extraordinary beings.
But creating his own divine kingdom was far more difficult than Zheng Dong had anticipated.
Zheng Dong could only take it one step at a time.
After all, improving one's strength was not something that could be achieved by simply cultivating in seclusion.
Therefore, after collecting a large amount of fire-element resources, Zheng Dong prepared to return to Yanhuang with the Chaos Divine Phoenix.
Of course, not Yanhuang of this timeline, but Yanhuang from several years ago.
Zheng Dong took out the Corridor of Time and Space and attempted to return to a more distant past.
However, after trying multiple times, all attempts ended in failure.
Could it be that he needed to return to the present timeline first?
Zheng Dong tried a few more times, and after failing, he prepared to return to the present timeline.
He adjusted his state, ensuring he maintained his optimal condition, and used the Corridor of Time and Space again.
This time, it was smooth, and he returned to the present timeline.
He saw that countless abyss monsters had occupied the entire world. Almost all extraordinary beings were living a difficult life under the rule of the Abyss Dragon God.
They were required to build numerous temples to provide faith power to the Abyss Dragon God.
They also had to continuously collect resources and submit them to the Abyss Dragon God.
Of course, there were also many extraordinary beings who were unwilling to submit.
Some of these extraordinary beings chose to resist and were completely annihilated. Others chose to endure, hide their strength, disguise themselves as ordinary extraordinary beings, and pretend to accept the rule of the Abyss Dragon God.
For example, the new World Tree that was born after the World Tree seed took root and sprouted.
It was currently disguised as a Totem-level Ice Snow Tree Monster, building temples for the Abyss Dragon God along with other extraordinary beings.
The Abyss Dragon God intended to build three thousand giant temples across the world to house its statues and collect faith power.
Many extraordinary beings participated in this, and thus were not attacked by the abyss monsters.
Upon returning to the present timeline, Zheng Dong used mimicry and disguise to change his appearance, posing as a Totem-level Earth Burst Bear.
He also quickly understood the current situation of the world.
The Abyss Dragon God had not appeared for a long time, seemingly in secluded cultivation.
Those who appeared were the several Sovereign-level abyss dragons under the Abyss Dragon God.
However, Zheng Dong did not let down his guard.
If the Abyss Dragon God discovered him and suddenly attacked, he would have to leave immediately and return to the past timeline.
He did not leave in a hurry, wanting to know news about his future self, the black-robed man.
He hoped that the black-robed man had been dealt with by the Abyss Dragon God.
This way, he would have one less problem.
However, he did not obtain any information about the black-robed man.
Instead, he noticed that the number of curse spirits was increasing.
The world began to decay and perish, constantly shrinking.
The abyss monsters wanted to stop the curse spirits, but it was useless.
Even the abyss monsters themselves, upon contact with the curse spirits, rapidly aged, gradually perished, and annihilated.
The several Sovereign-level abyss dragons watched everything unfold but could do nothing to stop it.
The Abyss Dragon God's secluded cultivation was precisely to find a way to resolve the curse spirits.
As the great tribulation descended, the curse spirits that appeared also became stronger.
Many mutated curse spirits could even deal with Sovereign-level extraordinary beings.
It feared that one day, a curse spirit would appear that even it could not handle.
If it could not find a complete solution to the curse spirits, it hoped to increase its strength as quickly as possible to transcend this world.
Therefore, matters like finding the black-robed man or the World Tree seed were no longer that important to it.
As long as they did not obstruct its acquisition of faith power, it could temporarily ignore them.
Zheng Dong also arrived at a place where curse spirits appeared in large numbers: the Far West.
This place was very far from Yanhuang. Even a starship would take three to four months to fly there.
Zheng Dong used the power of the Star God Realm to open a star gate, allowing him to reach here quickly.
He saw that this place seemed to be the boundary of the world.
Ahead was pitch black, and countless curse spirits were surging forward.
The earth and sky began to melt away, like ice cream melting in the summer.
Zheng Dong even felt that the power of laws here had become very chaotic. Under the influence of the curse spirits, the power of laws was also gradually disappearing.
Zheng Dong dared not linger for too long.
The clothes on his body had already been affected. With a light touch, they turned to powder and annihilated.
If he stayed here for a long time, he would likely disappear along with the earth and sky.
This terrifying power, he felt, was something even the Abyss Dragon God could not stop.
Based on the time it took for the earth and sky to gradually disappear, this world would be completely dissolved and destroyed in at most three more years.
Time was pressing. He had to become a Supreme as soon as possible and gain more power.
Therefore, he took out the Corridor of Time and Space and returned to the past timeline once more.
This time, it was smooth.
He actually arrived decades ago, before he had awakened his beast-taming talent.
Instantly, he felt a tremendous spatial repulsion force, and his own power was strongly suppressed by this timeline.
The power he could exert now was equivalent to that of a Totem-level extraordinary being.
However, he did not intend to return.
He wanted to go back to Yanhuang to see if his parents were still alive.
He looked around and found himself in a relic space.
It was not in Yanhuang.
This was because he had returned to the past timeline at the Far West, which decades ago had not yet merged into Blue Star.
Instead, it belonged to a relic space within a certain alternate world.
Zheng Dong frowned.
If he had known this, he should have used the Corridor of Time and Space after returning to Yanhuang.
He surveyed this relic space.
There was no sun here. A moon always hung in the sky.
Everything looked gloomy.
He swung his fist, trying to see if he could directly break through the relic space and leave.
Unfortunately, the suppression he experienced was very strong, and his power was limited. He could not forcibly break through the boundary of the relic space at all.
There was no other way but to find a method to leave the relic space.
He walked forward for a while and found several undead.
These undead were wearing uniform armor. They must have belonged to some totem kingdom in their past lives. It was unknown how many years after their death they had transformed into undead.
They also discovered Zheng Dong and surrounded him with weapons in hand.
Fortunately, their strength was not very strong. They were only Warrior-level undead.
Even with Zheng Dong's current strength, suppressed as it was, he could easily deal with them.
Zheng Dong used his deterrence skill. A terrifying aura surged from Zheng Dong, like a stormy wave, quickly engulfing these undead.
Sensing Zheng Dong's powerful aura, these undead were terrified and knelt on the ground, trembling.
Under Zheng Dong's interrogation, they quickly revealed everything they knew.
They came from the nearby Nether Phoenix Totem Kingdom and were responsible for patrolling to prevent their territory from being encroached upon by other totem kingdoms.
Zheng Dong then headed towards the Nether Phoenix Totem Kingdom. Only by obtaining sufficient information and understanding this relic space well could he find a way to leave.
The so-called Nether Phoenix Totem Kingdom did not have a Nether Phoenix. Instead, it was the Nether Ghost Butterfly, which had been impersonating the Nether Phoenix.
This Nether Ghost Butterfly was powerful, possessing the combat strength of a top-tier totem. It had occupied the corpse of a Nine Nether Phoenix and was not afraid even when facing multiple Totem-level extraordinary beings.
Zheng Dong arrived at the core area of the Nether Phoenix Totem Kingdom, Ghost Phoenix City.
A large number of undead lived here, and their strength was not weak.
However, Zheng Dong was not afraid. He used spatial teleportation and appeared before the Nether Ghost Butterfly.
This Nether Ghost Butterfly, on its own territory, did not hide its aura, so Zheng Dong easily found it.
This also startled the Nether Ghost Butterfly.
"Who are you?" the Nether Ghost Butterfly asked, frowning.
It felt that Zheng Dong was very strong but did not know what level he had reached.
Zheng Dong did not explain. He directly summoned Youyou.
Youyou had also condensed its divine personality and possessed the strength of a Lower God, but it would also be suppressed by this timeline.
However, Youyou had a great advantage when facing undead.
Using its divine skill, Undead Sovereign, it could command undead of the same level.
In other words, it could directly command the Nether Ghost Butterfly.
The Nether Ghost Butterfly immediately felt a mysterious power emanating from Youyou, like a bloodline suppression, making it unable to resist submitting.
Afterward, it told Zheng Dong everything it knew.
The Nether Ghost Butterfly did not know much about this relic space. It only knew that this relic space was related to the Boundless Yama King.
It was said to be an early place where the Boundless Yama King imprisoned undead, and it was later abandoned.
This meant that this relic space had existed for many years.
Much of the information about this relic space had been lost.
It was just unknown whether this relic space had a Spirit of Relics.
If the Spirit of Relics could be found, there would be a way to leave.
"You say this place is related to the Boundless Yama King. Is there any evidence?"
"The Temple of Boundless! There is also a statue of the Boundless Yama King in the temple," the Nether Ghost Butterfly quickly replied.
This surprised Zheng Dong somewhat.
"Take me to see it."
Afterward, he rushed to the temple the Nether Ghost Butterfly mentioned.