Let them offer their loyalty!

However, unlike the ordinary desert of the "Eastern City District", every grain of sand in this desert seemed embedded with fantastical colors. Dunes undulated and occasionally flickered with strange glimmers.

A gust of wind blew past, and the sand grains seemed to leap and dance with life, forming various marvelous shapes, sometimes a soaring phoenix, sometimes a clawing giant dragon, but vanishing instantly without a trace.

And farther in the distance, surrounding the desert and the wilderness, is an unending expanse of primitive forest.

The trees in the primitive forest are tall and twisted, with trunks covered in eye-shaped patterns, as if these trees are watching the intruders quietly.

Between the trees, a thick mist enveloped, and through the fog, ghostly lights flickered, with strange sounds occasionally coming through, resembling whispers, bird calls, or the chant of some mysterious creature.

This is the "Second Rank Region" that has "evolved" over the past few months.

During these months, Qiu Tu almost daily checked the evolution of the "Eastern City District".

As a result, he was surprised to find that since devouring the "Earth Vein Flower", the "Eastern City District" had become different from other regions.

Other regions were like "standard" regions, very ordinary, changing entirely according to the will of the Domain Master.

Even if simulated with rivers and forests in the spirit world, they had a dull and lifeless feeling.

But the Second Rank Region is different. Everything in the Second Rank Region is real. Although it was also nurtured by the spirit world, it is living life, not dead objects.

Due to this transformation, under Qiu Tu's deliberate indulgence, the entire "Eastern City District" has turned into a peculiar appearance of central wilderness, desert, and peripheral primitive forest by itself.

After appreciating the beautiful scenery of the "Eastern City District", Qiu Tu withdrew his gaze.

Although the "Second Rank Region" is strong enough by itself to advance to the Sixth Tier, Qiu Tu now wants to perfect everything as much as possible since he has the time and space.

Although it's unclear what exactly exists in the "Boundless Heart Sea - Core Region" or how dangerous it may be, accumulating more strength while weak is never wrong.

Moreover, since the situation of the Sixth Sanctuary is not yet clear, he still has time, so he plans to refine the remaining five regions to gather the Nine Stars in a row!

By then, advancing with the Second Rank Region and Nine Stars in a row!

Qiu Tu is very curious to know what kind of marvelous effect this combination would have.

Just like that, soon, half a day passed.

While Qiu Tu was silently refining the region, a prompt suddenly popped up in front of him.

"Effortless Gain has been completed. Please assign a new mission."

With this prompt, some experiences and details about how to depict the "Catastrophe Ability Equation" slowly appeared in Qiu Tu's mind.

Qiu Tu slowly ceased his action of refining the "Leyline Nodes" and then closed his eyes to quietly absorb those experiences and details.

Interestingly, that feeling was like Qiu Tu himself had fully depicted a "Catastrophe Ability Equation".

Both the experience and the details were incredibly clear.

Qiu Tu felt that next time when he depicted the Power of Change, it would definitely be much better than before.

'This is the power of "Effortless Gain".'

Sighing in his heart, Qiu Tu took stock of his efforts and gains over the past two days.

In these two days, Qiu Tu obtained a "Sealing Jade", a universal Cataclysmic ability, and eight jade tokens engraved with "Hundred Changes Invisibility".

The total consumption was the "Boundless Divine Crystals" formed from three Fourth-Order Evil Gods.

The cost and the gains were both enormous.

Not to mention the powerful Cataclysmic ability "Sealing Jade", just those eight jade tokens with "Hundred Changes Invisibility".

Those eight jade tokens are enough for Qiu Tu to form a stealthy elite team.

Eight masters at the Fourth or Fifth Order, placed on the battlefield as a spearhead, or used for assassination tasks, would be enough to stir up a storm of blood.

So, Qiu Tu considers this trade to be worthwhile.

Setting the "Effortless Gain" "Position 1" to "Refining Earth Vein Nodes", and the "Position 2" to cultivating the "Martial Arts - Intermediate Sword Skill".

Qiu Tu carefully studied this Golden Finger called "Effortless Gain".

"Refining Earth Vein Nodes" is a mission with an "endpoint", so the progress for "Effortless Gain Position 1" shows from 0.01% to 100%, very clearly.

However, cultivating the "Martial Arts - Intermediate Sword Skill" is a bit special. Its progress bar has no "endpoint", only counting.

For instance, 100, 200, 500, etc....

And at the nodes like 500, 2000, 6000, etc., there are labels for "Beginner", "Mastery", "Expert", and "Master" levels.

Qiu Tu speculated that it's because...the proficiency in a skill (martial technique) theoretically has no ceiling.

And if someone with enough talent dedicates their life to studying a single technique, theoretically their proficiency can indeed infinitely accrue.

This, conversely, proves the power of the Golden Finger "Effortless Gain".

So, after checking on the situation of his Golden Finger, Qiu Tu continued to maintain "Refining Earth Vein Nodes" and "cultivating Intermediate Sword Skill", while also inspecting the new universal Cataclysmic ability "Sealing Jade" he acquired after two days.

The universal Cataclysmic ability is essentially "theft" of the abilities granted by the world origin to the catastrophe beings.

So, even though the "provenance is questionable", because it's "genuine", the effects are almost identical.