Putting aside the worry of his rapid cultivation advancement, Yang Hong immediately sat down cross-legged. A crystal-clear red flame appeared, enveloping him.
He had no precise concept of how many years he had accelerated the entire plain over these 49 days, whether it was thousands or tens of thousands of years; it was at least a millennium.
Over such a long period, countless lives within this plain, including spiritual plants, ordinary plants, beasts, demonic beasts, insects, and demonic insects, had lived and died.
Now, Yang Hong had accumulated an astronomical amount of karma!
Its magnitude was even greater than the karma he had accumulated when he fused with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
"The law of time is indeed not something to be used casually, especially on a large scale. If I didn't have the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, I might have suffered qi deviation after a single use, or even been burned to death by the karmic fire!"
Looking at the constantly burning black karma, Yang Hong felt immense relief.
At the same time, he thought about telling Zhu Yuyan and Wanwan later not to recklessly use the law of time.
With Yang Hong's active prompting, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire only burned for three days to cleanse all the karma.
"Huh? Burning karma seems to strengthen my refinement of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire?"
"Not only that, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire also experienced a slight improvement. This is an unexpected surprise."
Standing up, Yang Hong carefully inspected his body, magic power, and divine sense. Although all three had slightly weakened, and his overall strength had regressed somewhat, it was not severe.
He had investigated and found that ordinary cultivators who encountered karmic fire burning would inevitably suffer a decline in their physical body, magic power, and divine sense; there were no exceptions.
Many people had died directly due to the regression of their cultivation.
"Perhaps I can occasionally use the law of time combined with the law of creation to speed up the refinement of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire."
Yang Hong conceived a loophole, something he might be able to exploit.
Confirming he was completely safe, he then sank his divine sense into the crystal platform and used it, amplified by the formation, to observe the entire Little Seven-Colored Plain.
This function was something Yang Hong had only discovered during this planting process. It could greatly facilitate his farming and management of such a vast plain.
After all, Yang Hong's divine sense could only extend for ten thousand li, while the entire Little Seven-Colored Plain had a diameter of a million li. Without the assistance of this seven-colored crystal platform, managing such a large plain would have been extremely strenuous for him.
Satisfied, he nodded after confirming that the Hai Ting Feng had completely covered the plain and that the Seven-Colored Spiritual Flowers had reached the upper-grade fifth rank spiritual plant. He then used wood遁 (wood escape) to reach the outside of the plain.
"Husband, are you alright?"
The moment Yang Hong appeared, Zhu Yuyan rushed forward, examining him from head to toe with deep concern in her eyes.
Not far from them, a group of white-haired elderly people were gathered together.
When they learned that these old men had emerged from the Little Seven-Colored Plain, Zhu Yuyan and the other two were about to rush into the plain. If not for the desperate efforts of disciples like Ke Jimei to stop them, the three women would have surely charged in.
"I'm fine. Have you forgotten what laws I master? Besides, you and Wanwan also possess them. You use them regularly, so you should know their immense power. As long as they are used carefully, there's no danger to the caster."
Yang Hong held Zhu Yuyan's hand, gently squeezing it, and explained to her with tenderness.
It felt good to have someone who loved him waiting for him, caring for him.
Wanwan and Song Yuzhi, notified by the disciples, arrived flying on their swords from afar. The moment they landed, they hugged Yang Hong and anxiously checked him, both worried about him being in danger.
He simply opened his arms, allowing them to inspect him thoroughly.
"Do you believe me now? Your husband is truly fine. I am the caster, not the recipient."
"Mhm, mhm ~ Husband is the most amazing."
Seeing that Yang Hong was indeed unharmed, the three finally relaxed completely. Then, pointing at the pile of gaunt, white-haired elderly people, they asked:
"Husband, what's going on with these people? What should we do with them?"
"They were enveloped by the law of time acceleration and, due to their greed, did not escape in time, thus being accelerated by time. As for what to do? It's very simple!"
Yang Hong looked at the more than a hundred people, smiled slightly, then extended his right hand and brought it down with a slap. A massive True Yuan palm print descended.
*Boom*
After a tremor that shook the heavens and earth, only a smear of red remained at that spot.
Yang Hong clenched his hand, scooped up a handful of soil, and covered the red smear beneath the palm print. Then, he patted it gently, and the traces of the elders' existence vanished.
"Husband, you're so~~ decisive."
Zhu Yuyan hadn't expected Yang Hong to act so quickly and so decisively.
"Heh heh~ I gave them a chance. Since they didn't cherish it, there's no need for them to live."
"That's true. I interrogated these people briefly. A few were rogue cultivators, and the others were spies from various major sects and the Alliance of Boundless Buddhist Dharma and the Alliance of Immortals. They all deserved to die."
No one from Qingfeng Villa expressed any objection to Yang Hong's actions.
Although sending spies and informants between factions was a common practice in the cultivation world, and usually, they were merely expelled rather than killed, those who fell into Qingfeng Villa's hands and deserved to die, died.
After handling matters here, Yang Hong directly instructed Ye Yudong, who had been sent to rescue people, to have the rescued mortals enter the Little Seven-Colored Plain to live.
Arranging the lives of mortals was not something for him, the Grand Sect Leader, to worry about.
He only needed to outline the general direction, and his over 20,000 disciples would naturally allocate and arrange everything.
Returning to the Great Seven-Colored Plain, Yang Hong had more important matters to attend to.
Among them, the most urgent was to cultivate the teleportation array.
Qingfeng Villa's managed territory was continuously expanding. If teleportation arrays were not established soon, it would become very troublesome.
Ever since he went to the Yu Rou Plain, Yang Hong had greatly admired the cultivation world of Yu Rou Plain, where teleportation arrays were everywhere, making travel incredibly convenient.
To this end, he had purchased and studied all the methods for setting up teleportation arrays available on the market.
In the Taiyuan Continent, teleportation arrays were also divided by rank.
Teleportation arrays within a thousand li were classified as first-tier. These were generally used within sects, typically able to transport no more than nine people and a weight not exceeding 1800 jin.
Such teleportation arrays could be set up using Qingming Stone.
Second-tier teleportation arrays were for teleportation within ten thousand li and were also generally used within large sects. They required Qingming Stone at least the size of a human head to be set up.
Third-tier teleportation arrays could transport within one hundred thousand li, but few factions were willing to set them up.
This was because if a third-tier teleportation array were to be set up using Qingming Stone, it would require a piece at least the size of a slab, and its usage would be limited. For long-term use, a treasure like [Xuan Kong Crystal] would be needed.
Calculating it, most sects and factions would prefer to set up several second-tier teleportation arrays rather than a third-tier one.
What is generally referred to as a teleportation array in the cultivation world is actually a fourth-tier or higher teleportation array.
Fourth-tier is below a million li, fifth-tier is below ten million li, and so on.
Fourth-tier teleportation arrays must be set up using [Xuan Kong Crystal]. Even the one-zhang-tall piece of Qingming Stone that Yang Hong had acquired at the Chaoyang Auction was difficult to use for setting up teleportation arrays; even if set up, it would easily be damaged.
The higher the tier of the teleportation array, the farther the teleportation distance, but the more and larger the Xuan Kong Crystal required.
[Xuan Kong Crystal] has been verified over ten thousand years of history on the Taiyuan Continent as the only treasure capable of stably setting up teleportation arrays. It ranges from at least eighth-tier to ninth-tier and is generally only produced in areas with active spatial spiritual energy or in spatial rifts, making it extremely scarce.
Yang Hong had cultivated for 280 years on the Taiyuan Continent and had killed tens of thousands of ninth-tier cultivators and hundreds of thousands of others, yet so far, he had only collected 16 pieces of Xuan Kong Crystal.
This illustrates how rare [Xuan Kong Crystal] is.
Therefore, his goal was very clear: to use the Qing Kong Willow Tree to set up teleportation arrays.