Chapter 897: Chapter 620: Dao Advancement and Six Nine Profound Skill
This day.
Outside the Mystic Sky Realm, in the Ruins Sea, a behemoth ten thousand zhang long, shaped like a giant whale, covered in dragon scales and radiating the aura of a peak Seventh Realm expert, churned the waves. On its back, Nami and Bodong, two peak Realm Kings of the Sea Dominating Royal Family, stood with hands behind their backs, gazing down below.
Bodong stroked the giant whale’s forehead.
"This Void Whale Beast truly lives up to its reputation as an ancient variant bearing Void True Dragon blood. Mastering Fifth Rank Void Dao is just so convenient—it can travel the Three Thousand Realms at will."
"This is His Majesty’s favorite pet beast. If it can break through to the Eighth Realm, it’ll become our Sea Dominating Royal Family’s second Sea Guardian Sacred Beast. It just goes to show how seriously Father takes this envoy mission. He was actually willing to lend us the Void Whale Beast. I can’t wait to meet the young leader of Tianxia Civilization."
Nami’s arms were crossed before her towering chest. Her mermaid-like long fish tail twined behind her like a snake, swinging with a seductive allure, charm unmatched.
Bodong, seeing her expression, reminded, "When you meet Lu Chenzhou later, restrain yourself. Don’t act too salacious. We are Divine Race royalty, our bloodline is noble. There’s no ending with a human. Lu Chenzhou is very talented, but unless he can cultivate into a God, attain Divine Rank, and remake his bloodline with Divine Blood, his offspring couldn’t inherit even a tenth of his talent."
Seeing her brother scold her,
Nami quickly waved her hand and said:
"I know, I know. Boring."
The Eight Great Divine Clans strictly forbid intermarriage with outsiders. Spouses of Divine Race royalty can only be of royal blood.
This is the only way to ensure bloodline purity and keep Eighth Realm experts sitting at the helm of the Divine Alliance in every era.
Nami is now 2,900 years old; if she cannot reach the Eighth Realm before 3,000, she will have to pair with Bodong until they produce an offspring with hope of attaining the Eighth Realm.
The giant whale tore through the boundary barrier, entering the Mystic Sky.
...
Aurora Palace.
Lu Chenzhou sat cross-legged in meditation, lost in contemplation. Beside him was a thick pile of powder. With a crack, the last Void Stele shattered.
Lu Chenzhou opened his eyes, complex and mysterious images of the Dao flickering and interweaving in his pupils.
[Power Extreme Dao: Fifth Rank → Sixth Rank]
[Void Dao: Fifth Rank → Sixth Rank]
[Lightning Dao: Fifth Rank → Sixth Rank]
[Causality Dao: Fifth Rank → Sixth Rank]
[Mixed Cave Dao: Fifth Rank → Sixth Rank]
"As expected, having money means I can do whatever I want. With my comprehension, as long as Void Steles are plentiful, a year is enough to push all my Daos from Fifth to Sixth Rank. Unfortunately, though I still have money, I’ve already exchanged all the Void Steles at the Mountain and Sea Tower. The rest I’ll have to comprehend myself."
This past year, Lu Chenzhou traded for thirty Void Steles at the Treasure Pavilion of Mountain and Sea Tower, turning his wealth into strength and advancing his main Daos to Sixth Rank. Now only [Destiny, Blood Moon, Vibration, Penetration, Severe Poison] remain at Fifth Rank. Destiny was only recently comprehended, and the latter four he rarely uses.
This cultivation method is way too extravagant. In just one year he spent over twenty million mid-grade Primordial Stones—an amount most Seventh Realm cultivators couldn’t earn over a lifetime. Even some low-foundation Eighth Realm wouldn’t dare spend this much.
This collective breakthrough of the Daos caused the Martial Arts Tree to grow to forty million zhang. Lu Chenzhou’s spiritual power also surged, reaching seven million Prajna yesterday.
This is the peak standard for the Seventh Realm. He could clearly feel that his soul, like an overfilled balloon, could no longer contain more spiritual power.
Breaking into the Eighth must be put on the agenda.
Compared to mental cultivation, physical cultivation was proceeding normally; his qi-blood had just reached 6.3 million and still needed further accumulation.
Lu Chenzhou stood up and casually performed some Divine Power Martial Arts. Compared to when he slew Lei Wanliu, there was marked improvement. In fact, even without using [Devouring Heaven and Earth], in his regular state he was confident he could contend with, even defeat, a First Step Eighth Realm expert.
"Once I break into the Eighth, I’ll be able to stably contend with the Second Step, and might even exchange blows with the Third Step, formally entering the ranks of top experts in the Three Thousand Realms. Still, compared to Kunxu Ancestor, I’m not quite there yet. That’s because those who set foot on the Third Step are all at the Eternal Immortal level—geniuses that are once in ten thousand years in their realm. None are mediocrities."
Since being set up by the Heavenly Gu Daoist, Lu Chenzhou had become more modest and cautious. Any arrogance gained from his rapid rise was thoroughly knocked away.
The world is vast, crouching tigers and hidden dragons.
Even the Third Step must fear certain undying old monsters. Great Powers also dread the Forbidden Zone.
There’s always a higher mountain.
...
One month later.
In the Aurora Cave Heaven, astonishing phenomena arose. High above, ancient True Spirit phantoms took turns appearing, creating a splendid mythic tableau. Prince Northern Guardian and others flew out of their respective closed-door cultivation places.
"So many True Spirit visions..."
"This is the Transformation Divine Ability ’Four-nine Mystic Skill’ created by the Military Leader, lauded as the foremost Supreme Divine Skill of the Elephant Form Dao. It’s truly awe-inspiring."
"So many are Heavenly Phoenixes."
Prince Northern Guardian laughed: "Recently, the Spirit Phoenix Dominator sent us a batch of Heavenly Phoenix bloodline. Military Leader, receiving such a treasure, completed this Divine Skill with help from our Phoenix Clan allies."
"The Sky Ice Phoenix, master of the world’s coldest power; Profound Celestial White Phoenix, master of strange mystic white flames; Cangwu Cyan Phoenix, famed for its undying and supreme constitution, brimming with boundless vitality... The Military Leader’s new Divine Skill practically encompassed all of Phoenix Clan."
Yaochi Immortal was also deeply shocked.
She was well-acquainted with the Phoenix Clan, and as close as sisters to Feng-jie. She knew: if one could acquire the Divine Powers of all Phoenix Clan heroes, then one would almost have no weakness and be strong on every front.
The vision lasted three days and three nights.
Until the technique was accomplished.
Rumble! Cascading radiance fell from the heavens, clothing that white-robed figure in a feathered mantle like a phoenix’s.
The feathered robe manifested in twelve colors, each representing a kind of Phoenix Power: twelve kinds, denoting the twelve great Phoenix Clan bloodline inheritances of the Spirit Phoenix Clan.
"Other than the already extinct two phoenixes, I’ve mastered every phoenix transformation, and with their essence blood, I can use True Spirit Transformation—equal to gaining, for free, twelve future-level Divine Abilities up to Great Divine Power. Feng-jie really treats me well. I must thank her properly in the future."
Lu Chenzhou was in excellent spirits.
[Please name your new Martial Arts?]
"Now this Profound Skill can manifest fifty-four transformations—let’s call it ’Six Nine Profound Skill’."
’Six Nine Profound Skill’ is Lu Chenzhou’s second self-created Eighth Rank Cultivation Technique, the other being ’Lantuo Heart Sutra.’ He put them up for sale in the Candle Dragon Store. In a blink, notifications arrived in succession.
[Yaochi Immortal purchased ’Six Nine Profound Skill’, paid 500,000 mid-grade Primordial Stones.]
[Four Symbols Personnel purchased...]
[Wang Changming purchased...]
Soon four million hit his account.
"Excellent, our Tianxia Civilization now has its sixth Eighth Rank Technique. Truly worthy of being Land Army Master."
Alcohol King looked over the Profound Skill’s content.
It felt all incomprehensible and hard to grasp.
He couldn’t even learn the ready-made version.
As for inventing one himself, he’d rather someone kill him.
"Six Eighth Ranks, and the Military Leader created two—amazing. In a while, he’ll have half the country’s share."
Prince Northern Guardian guffawed.
Apart from Lu Chenzhou, in the short term, the other Tianxia experts most likely to self-create Eighth Rank techniques are Yaochi Immortal, Hui Kong, and Xuanwu.
The others are still far behind.
"’Six Nine Profound Skill’ is truly mysterious, encompassing most of the ancient and modern True Spirits. Unfortunately, I don’t understand Elephant Form and can’t learn it."
Heart Dream Emperor was envious.
As Lu Chenzhou’s follower, whenever he creates a new technique, she’s always the first to study it.
Her main cultivation now is Heart Cultivation Technique, which is Lu Chenzhou’s self-made ’Lantuo Heart Sutra.’ Paired with her Fifth Rank Great Dream Dao, she recently defeated a mid-stage Realm King in the Mystic Sky Realm, gaining some small renown.
Emperor Shitian said with a smile:
"To create two First Step Eighth Rank techniques before even entering the Eighth Realm—in all history, only the Four Emperors accomplished this. The Eighth Rank version of ’Great Dream Heart Sutra’ was created by Heart Emperor at the peak of Seventh Realm."
No one was trying to flatter.
They truly admired the Military Leader for having the patience to research original cultivation methods—something most could not do.
Lu Chenzhou said, "Yaochi Immortal, would you please send a copy of ’Six Nine Profound Skill’ to Feng-jie."
"Alright, Feng-jie will be over the moon."
Yaochi Immortal entered the Mountain and Sea Tower. Receiving ’Six Nine Profound Skill,’ Feng-jie’s beautiful eyes widened:
"Though I can’t understand it, many of its principles seem to point straight to the essence of the Bloodline Dao."
"Isn’t our Military Leader amazing?"
Yaochi Immortal giggled.
"Amazing! So fast—seems soon Military Leader will be able to develop a true Supreme Method for transforming into a True Spirit!" Feng-jie’s chest heaved.
She was truly excited.
"Under a hundred years, and soon to break into the Eighth? How could Military Leader not be fast?" Yaochi Immortal said with pride.
"I need to find people to study this. Little sister, when you have time invite the Military Leader over more often and let him explain some of these mysteries. We really can’t make sense of it."
Feng-jie excitedly left.
...
[Six Nine Profound Skill: Perfection]
[Divine Skill: Six Nine Transformations]
[Quality: Middle Grade (thirty-six patterns)]
[Level: Top Level (Seventh Realm)]
[Introduction...]
"Compared to Low Grade Divine Skills, Middle Grade Divine Skills’ transformed True Spirits are even more realistic, able to unleash greater power. If manifesting the Innate Divine Ability, its effect is about sixty percent that of a real True Spirit at the same Realm."
Transformation Divine Abilities, of course, can’t compare to the original. But as quality improves, they get ever closer.
Theoretically, if the Profound Skill reaches Ninth Realm, its Transformation Divine Ability would be nearly indistinguishable from the original.
"What sort of beings are True Spirits? To wield sixty percent of their power is enough to dominate at the same Realm!"
...
A few days later.
Lu Chenzhou was cultivating.
"Military Leader, an envoy has arrived."
Heart Dream Emperor’s figure appeared.
"From which faction?"
"Sea Dominating Royal Family."
"Oh? So it’s the Divine Race."
"I wonder what they want. Meet them?"
"Let’s meet."
...
Nami and Bodong gazed upon the towering Aurora Palace, envy flashing in their eyes.
Ranked 42 on the Spiritual Weapon List, a palace-type treasure—it combines offense and defense, traverses the Ruins Sea at will, and is the dream of countless Eighth Realm experts... By comparison, even the Void Whale Beast underfoot feels lacking.
The palace gates stood wide open.
Lu Chenzhou, clad in white, smiled slightly. "To have friends come from afar, is this not a joy?"
"Greetings, Land Army Master!"
Nami and Bodong quickly bowed in salute. Though their cultivation was similar, Lu Chenzhou was after all a leader of an Eighth Rank civilization, so proper respect was essential.
This was a special instruction from His Majesty. The Divine Race is generally arrogant, loath to salute others—especially the lowly Human Clan whom they always despised.
"Please, both of you, come with me."