Chapter 965 - 481
Chapter 965: Chapter 481
Arriving at a remote location and finding that no one had caught up with him, Lu Yun could no longer suppress the backlash, and a mouthful of blood sprayed from his throat.
Pushing back Lei Zhenzi and powerfully slaying the Divine Fire Ancestor, Lu Yun appeared domineering and powerful to outsiders, but that was not the case.
The Thunder Divine Power formed by the fusion of three forces was formidable, but for the current Lu Yun, the backlash was equally severe, only he had been forcibly suppressing it with his powerful physical body and will, preventing anyone from detecting it.
Of course, the most severe backlash came from the Primordial Chaos Dao Map, which he had only just begun to understand and had used against a powerful enemy like the Divine Fire Ancestor, which was quite forced.
In that situation, however, he could not afford to show any weakness, as that would undoubtedly lead to relentless pursuit by a pack of wolves.
Therefore, he had no choice but to maintain his injuries and forcefully use the Primordial Chaos Dao Map, which he had just begun to understand, and then strike down the Divine Fire Ancestor with the force of thunder, deterring the multitude of powerful beings.
The effect was good; those powerful beings who had been eyeing him were deterred and did not pursue any further.
Without another word, Lu Yun summoned the Karma Spirit Body and the Blood Slaughter Thunder Blade to protect his cultivation.
The Karma Spirit Body sat cross-legged in the void, absorbing the wisps and strands of karmic essence. These battles had generated a lot of karma with Lu Yun, enough for him to cultivate for a while.
The Blood Slaughter Thunder Blade spirit in the form of a young child appeared somewhat bored, as it couldn’t cultivate and could only strengthen itself through the enhancement of its True Body and then through Lu Yun’s nourishing care.
The Great Sun Undying Golden Body Manual was activated, and in an instant, Lu Yun’s body emitted golden divine light. The Imperishable Golden Bones and Undying Golden Pits within his body released a powerful vitality that circulated inside, healing his injuries.
Having suffered serious injuries last time that even the holy body collapsed, it took merely a few months to recover.
This time, the injuries were lighter, and in just a few days, Lu Yun had returned to peak state, and his strength had further improved.
Most notably, his control over the Thunder Divine Power and the Primordial Chaos Dao Map had become even more effortless.
“The foundation of the True Spirit Realm First Layer was already solid. Now it is time for an elevation,” Lu Yun said to himself.
He first took out seven grasses as thick as wrists, sculpted like agate, completely translucent, and scaling plates flashing with crystalline light, emitting a faint draconic aura.
These were the Green Dragon Grass, Emperor-grade spiritual medicine. There were seven stalks in total, which at the moment of appearing, transformed into flood dragons, attempting to escape.
Lu Yun’s mind stirred, and the Primordial Chaos Dao Map emerged from behind him, restraining the Green Dragon Grass in succession.
Next, the Divine Power circulated, starting the Refinement process.
Each stalk of Green Dragon Grass was Emperor-grade, and Lu Yun found them quite difficult to refine, taking almost half an hour to process each one.
“Haha, truly worthy of being Emperor-grade spiritual medicine…” After refining all the Green Dragon Grass, the smile in Lu Yun’s eyes was rich.
Seven stalks of Green Dragon Grass provided him with six hundred and eighty thousand Divine Power Value, almost ninety-five thousand from each stalk.
After a brief rest, Lu Yun took out a lotus the size of a bowl, its body white as jade but shimmering with five different colors and exuding a rich fragrance that assailed the senses and penetrated the heart and spleen.
Without a doubt, this was the Five-colored Cloud Lotus, seized from Han Zhong, ultimately leading to a great battle between the two.
The outcome was Han Zhong’s death and Lu Yun’s severe injuries.
“The Five-colored Cloud Lotus is a top-tier Emperor-grade; its effects should be far greater than those of the Green Dragon Grass,” Lu Yun mused with a deep look in his eyes and a flicker of divine light.
This was the first time he was refining spiritual medicine of such caliber, and he couldn’t help but feel excited.
As the Divine Power churned, enveloping the Five-colored Cloud Lotus, the dense medicinal strength and energy were continuously refined, transforming into a stream of Divine Power Value.
A thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand…
When the Five-colored Cloud Lotus had been fully refined, the Divine Power Value surged by two million three hundred fifty thousand, reaching a total of three million two hundred fifty thousand.
And it was not over yet. Lu Yun took out two Silver Dragon Grass stalks from the Cave Heavens, and immediately two silver flood dragons spiraled upward, rushing towards the sky.
“Hmmph, where do you think you’re going?!” Lu Yun snorted coldly, and as various mysteries of the Primordial Chaos Dao Map evolved, the Talisman Restraints circulated, releasing a mysterious light, restraining the silver flood dragons and causing them to revert to their Silver Dragon Grass true forms.
There was no doubt, refining both Silver Dragon Grass stalks would be somewhat difficult for Lu Yun.
But with the Primordial Chaos Dao Map, this became simple.
Undoubtedly a higher echelon Silver Dragon Grass contained energy and medicinal strength that the Green Dragon Grass couldn’t compare to.
After refining the two Silver Dragon Grass stalks, the Divine Power Value increased by another four million two hundred fifty thousand.
Adding to the previous three million two hundred fifty thousand, the panel now displayed a total of seven million five hundred thousand Divine Power Value.
Lu Yun was shocked by this number, thinking to himself, “With so many Divine Power Values, perhaps I can raise my realm to the True Spirit Realm peak.”
As time passed, a light sphere appeared here, blurring everything inside. Surrounded by Divine Power, the emanating aura was also incredibly astonishing.
At the Karma Spirit Body’s location, the invisible threads of karma within Heaven and Earth intertwined, becoming increasingly profound and mysterious.
This was an astonishing transformation.
Meanwhile, for Lu Yun, the elevation was clearer, with the Divine Power Value’s infusion, the True Spirit chapter of the Pure Yang Martial Arts Canon rapidly advanced.
[Spend 100,000 Divine Power Value to advance the True Spirit chapter to the Second Layer]
[Spend 400,000 Divine Power Value to advance the True Spirit chapter to the Third Layer]
…
[Spend 1.5 million Divine Power Value to advance the True Spirit chapter to the Seventh Layer]
[Spend 3 million Divine Power Value to advance the True Spirit chapter to the Eighth Layer]
Boom!
Like a mysterious and unfathomable black hole, the Cave Heavens slightly quivered as they opened under the onslaught of this surging power of Heaven and Earth.
After a long time—
The power of Heaven and Earth gradually receded.
Watching the Cave Heaven continuously perfected and its rules increasingly made whole, Lu Yun’s face showed neither sadness nor joy.
“True Spirit Realm experts control rules by borrowing the momentum of Heaven and Earth. Although I am now in the eighth layer of the True Spirit Realm and have enhanced my ability to control rules through the increase in my Divine Power Value, my application is still rough; I need some time to settle in.”
He thought it was only natural that his foundation wasn’t as solid since, for others, cultivation was a step by step process, whereas he had almost ascended to heaven in one step.
But he had plenty of time to solidify his foundation.
In the Martial Arts Realm, he had gone straight from the perfection of the First Layer right into the peak of the Eighth Layer.
Changes were also occurring in his Nascent Soul, its aura becoming even more elusive.
At the same time, his Sea of Consciousness was undergoing a transformation, as if his whole being had sublimated in an instant.
At this moment, his perception was clearer than it had ever been.
Even the causal lines of the Karma Spirit Body could not block the extension of his perception.
Quickly.
His consciousness spread out, and Lu Yun ‘saw’ cultivators battling in a valley, ‘saw’ a large fierce beast reveling in a distant river, ‘saw’ the shape of green grass caressed by a breeze tens of thousands of miles away, and even heard various subtle sounds.
In less than a moment, the region within tens of thousands of miles fell entirely within his perception.
Not only that.
His perception continued to extend outward.
Huo Wuzhe, who was sitting cross-legged at the bottom of a volcano, suddenly opened his eyes with an icy aura spreading out.
“Who!”
As he spoke, his consciousness also spread out in an attempt to capture the perceiving power that was spying on him.
However.
Lu Yun’s consciousness receded like a tide and then returned to himself.
In an instant, all the ‘scenes’ he had ‘seen’ disappeared.
Opening his eyes.
A look of surprise and doubt shimmered in his eyes.
“My consciousness perception has grown stronger!”
“If my previous consciousness perception was a one, it’s now a three. This increase, it’s not something that can simply be explained by a breakthrough!”
A threefold increase!
It was not something one could have just by breaking through a single realm.
Especially since this was merely advancing from the Perfect First Layer to the Eighth Layer of the True Spirit Realm, not a breakthrough of a major realm.
Quickly.
Lu Yun found the crux of the issue.
“The micro-particles in my physical body are nearly developed to a count of one hundred million. Previously, the expansion of my Nascent Soul and consequently my consciousness were constrained by my realm and confined within certain limits.
Now that I have made a breakthrough in my realm, the explosive growth of my consciousness can no longer be suppressed, and its growth potential has been fully released.
Likewise, with the full release and growth of my consciousness potential, the micro-particles of my physical body will no longer be limited to the one hundred million limit.”
Lu Yun mused internally.
“Should I continue smelting the Divine Bone Fragments?”
After some thought, he temporarily put aside this idea and opened his panel.
[Name]: Lu Yun
[Affiliation]: Green Flame Palace, Supreme Dojo
[Cultivation Technique]: Pure Yang Martial Arts Canon (True Spirit Chapter, Eighth Layer)
[Divine Ability]: Nine Tribulations Secret (Perfection, Fifth Grade Divine Ability), Demon Slaying God-Killing Saber (Perfection, Sixth Grade Divine Ability)…
[Innate Talent]: King-level Supreme
[Realm]: True Spirit Realm, Eighth Layer
[Divine Power Value]: 700,000 (Increases automatically by 100 per day)
[Luck Value]: 2,090,000 (Increases automatically by 100 per day, can be used to enhance weapon grade.)
Sixth Grade Divine Abilities are sufficient against foes in the Unity Realm, but they are too strained within the True Spirit Realm.
Most powerful beings in the True Spirit Realm possess one or two Fifth Grade Divine Abilities.
And as for those top Heavenly Prides, some even cultivate Fourth Grade Divine Abilities, like Lei Zhenzi and Lin Qingpei, who can casually use Divine Abilities of the Fifth Grade level.
In battle against them, Lu Yun’s approaches were somewhat limited; especially when facing Lei Zhenzi, the confrontation was entirely a clash between physical bodies and the Dao of Thunder.
When dealing with the Divine Fire Ancestor, if it weren’t for a breakthrough in the Primordial Dao and the comprehension of the Primordial Chaos Dao Map, it wouldn’t have been so simple for him to retreat in one piece.
Thus, it was time to enhance his Divine Abilities.
Time was endless, and in a blink of an eye, more than ten days passed.
He had raised his Demon Slaying God-Killing Saber to Perfect Fourth Grade Divine Ability, and his other Divine Abilities to Perfect Fifth Grade. The Divine Power Value on his panel was nearly exhausted.
“The foundation is almost entirely consumed. It’s time to make a move again.” Feeling the comprehensive strength within himself, Lu Yun’s eyes shone with Divine Light.