The overall strength of the Immortal-Demon Realm Sea continued to steadily improve in an orderly manner.

For the major peak-level forces, resources for Golden Immortals and below were quite abundant.

However, their previous focus had been on cultivating and extracting higher-level resources above the Great Luo Realm, with little emphasis on resources below the Golden Immortal level.

Now that Su Yuan had opened a cultivation secret realm, for other forces, cultivating cultivators in the Longevity Five Realms suddenly became much more cost-effective.

As long as they could nurture truly promising prodigies, they could now throw them into the cultivation secret realm to quickly realize their potential, unlike before when they needed to wait indefinitely.

Additionally, the shortage of high-level resources was another factor, but now the resources in the cultivation secret realm made up for this issue, further boosting enthusiasm for cultivating cultivators.

This change filtered down layer by layer, resulting in deities descending to all realms to focus on cultivating promising mortal cultivators.

The emphasis on geniuses gave many overlooked talents in the mortal world the opportunity to shine.

Various cultivation competitions began to flourish, with tiered competition systems gradually forming from mortal cultivators to immortals and then to Golden Immortals.

Some super forces took the lead, jointly creating a dream universe where promising disciples could enter and compete, thereby selecting the strongest prodigies.

The Universe's Strongest Genius Competition was in full swing.

Some forces created multiple worlds, drawing in large numbers of mortals to fight and survive within them, all to cultivate the strongest prodigies.

Su Yuan silently observed the changes in the Immortal-Demon Realm Sea, as the entire realm sea gradually shifted its style toward nurturing geniuses.

And Su Yuan, the mastermind behind all this, also sensed the rhythm of fate rules within it.

His fate rule had already achieved the Hunyuan realm and rapidly advanced to the mid-Hunyuan stage, continuing to progress toward the late-Hunyuan stage.

If a cultivator's original fate was only to break through to Earth Immortal, but under his influence broke through to Heavenly Immortal, it would give Su Yuan some feedback, thereby advancing his fate rule.

Of course, for the fate rule at the Hunyuan Great Luo realm, influencing the birth or destruction of more Hunyuan-level power was needed to quickly advance the fate rule's level.

And this was exactly what he was doing!

Su Yuan withdrew his gaze.

His consciousness entered the God Realm Sea.

A hundred years had now passed, reaching the time agreed upon with the Creator God Yaxia.

Su Yuan casually returned the portion of resources belonging to the Demon Lord to him.

Then he searched for traces of Creator God Yaxia.

The other party hadn't come to the Void Islands to reclaim his lost treasures.

Clearly, due to the previous fight, Creator God Yaxia had already given up ownership of those treasures.

Su Yuan activated [Mental Echo] and looked toward Yaxia.

In a palace.

Four beings of the same realm were meeting.

Among them was Creator God Yaxia, while the other three beings were also at the Creator God realm.

"That calamity within the Nameless Mist has grown to the peak Rule Ancient God realm, and will soon break through to the Creator God realm. We should seek an escape route!" one Creator God said gravely.

"Escape route? Do you want to go to the chaos? Before, there were Creator Gods who ventured into the chaos, only to get lost and even perish completely. Entering the chaos is too risky—better to fight the calamity to the death! Force our way through Ragnarök!"

"Can't we contain it? Lure it out from the Nameless Mist?"

"Impossible. It actually retains its intelligence, which is why I gathered everyone here to discuss this today!" Creator God Yaxia said solemnly.

"Damn it!"

The four Creator Gods were deeply worried. For beings at their level, dying was already difficult, but there just happened to exist something like Ragnarök, giving them a real possibility of perishing, and not a small one at that!

Yaxia frowned in thought, then suddenly said: "By the way, a hundred years ago, I encountered a Creator God force with two Creator Gods! One of them possessed time and space rules, while the other actually had a complete Fate Compass! We could seek him out to discuss this matter together."

"Do you mean that group of unfamiliar Rule Ancient Gods that recently appeared?"

"Yes, Creator God Zhouming. Behind that group of Rule Ancient Gods are two Creator Gods!" Yaxia nodded.

"They actually have two hidden Creator Gods? That's a bit unbelievable, isn't it?" Creator God Siyuan asked.

"They are not Creator Gods!"

Suddenly, a voice spoke up.

Yaxia and the other two gods looked toward Nos in the corner.

"They should have come from the chaos! Powerful beings from another realm sea!" Nos said calmly.

Hearing this, Yaxia suddenly understood.

However, he didn't feel particularly disturbed by this. The biggest problem now was Ragnarök—the matter of visitors from the chaos would have to wait.

The four were still contemplating their path forward.

Meanwhile, Su Yuan had already arrived at the secret realm world where Yaxia had previously been in seclusion.

Su Yuan transmitted his voice inward: "Seven Stars requests an audience with Creator God Yaxia! May Creator God Yaxia grant me an audience!"

His words reverberated throughout the secret realm.

The measures Yaxia had left in the secret realm immediately heard them.

In the palace, Yaxia, who was in discussion, frowned and said, "He's come looking for me!"

The other three Creator Gods were somewhat surprised.

"You still have contact with them?"

"We had a minor conflict!" Yaxia pondered briefly. "I'll go see what he actually wants!"

Yaxia returned to the secret realm.

The other three Creator Gods also followed discreetly.

At the secret realm entrance.

Su Yuan saw Yaxia, who appeared calm.

"Divine friend, what important matter brings you here?" Yaxia asked.

Su Yuan said cheerfully, "A hundred years ago, I said I couldn't retrieve the treasures you lost at that time. Now I've retrieved them, so I've specially come to return them!"

Su Yuan waved his hand.

A total of 98 items flew toward Yaxia.

Each item was precious material, with half reaching the heavenly dao level, extremely rare.

Yaxia was stunned. He hadn't expected Su Yuan to actually keep his promise and return the treasures to him!

He accepted the treasures, carefully inspected them, confirmed their authenticity, and suddenly felt somewhat embarrassed. He had initially thought that was just an excuse from the other party, that they had no intention of returning them—he never expected it to be true.

Having recovered his lost treasures, Yaxia's mood improved considerably, and his attitude toward Su Yuan became much more amiable.

Then Su Yuan said, "If there's nothing else, I'll return to continue treasure refinement! Farewell!"

"Wait!" Yaxia said in surprise. "You're a treasure refinement master?"

The four Creator Gods were deeply worried. For beings at their level, dying was already difficult, but unfortunately there existed something like Ragnarök, giving them a real possibility of perishing, and not a small one at that!

Yaxia suddenly realized that what the other said made perfect sense.