Chapter 218: Fusion of Divine Abilities
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Perhaps one would say that the cultivators of the Upper Realm gave the cultivators of the Lower Realm benefits for free.
Weren’t they worried that they’d get nothing?
The Upper Realm sects were really not worried about that.
There was a good saying that free things were the most expensive.
The Immortal Ascension Assembly seemed to be giving out free benefits, but in reality, it was buying people’s hearts.
Imagine if Lu Yuan didn’t have a system.
Facing a sect with more resources, stronger strength, and even giving him high-grade cultivation techniques for free, would he choose to refuse?
Not to mention that cultivators who could pass the second stage were all top geniuses in the Lower Realm.
Geniuses all had one thing in common, and that was that they all had very high aspirations.
It was fine if one had never seen a wider world.
But after knowing that there was an even more exciting world outside, how many cultivators could resist the temptation of ascending to the Upper Realm?
Not everyone was as rational as Lu Yuan.
However, such a phenomenon brought Lu Yuan a benefit.
That was that the Upper Realm would not expect someone to take the Path for Immortal Ascension test many times in order to obtain cultivation techniques for free and even choose not to ascend to the Upper Realm.
If Lu Yuan’s actions were to spread, it would completely shock the cultivators of the Upper Realm for thousands of years.
Back to the main topic, the process of Lu Yuan choosing a divine ability was very similar to the process of choosing a cultivation technique previously.
They would give him a certain number of divine abilities through the array, and then let him choose.
Lu Yuan’s final choices were: Great Void Sword Control Technique, Eclipse Green Flame, and Glazed Golden Body.
“Divine ability: Great Void Sword Control Technique.”
“Effect: After cultivating the divine ability to great success, it can turn your flying sword from solid to illusory, reducing attack power by 30% and increasing speed by 30%.”
“Divine ability: Eclipse Green Flame.”
“Effect: After cultivating the divine ability to great success, it can cast a special flame, the Eclipse Green Flame, and greatly increase the lifespan of the cultivator.”
“Divine ability: Glazed Golden Body.”
“Effect: After cultivating the divine ability to great success, it can make your body comparable to glaze for a short period of time, increasing your defense by 300% and reducing your movement speed by 50%.”
The three divine abilities were all choices made by Lu Yuan after careful consideration.
Similar to when selecting a cultivation technique, Lu Yuan chose life-saving abilities which could either allow Lu Yuan to run more, increase his lifespan, or improve his defense.
Among them, the Great Void Sword Control Technique could allow Lu Yuan to run faster.
The Eclipse Green Flame could allow him to further increase his lifespan.
Finally, the Glazed Golden Body could make Lu Yuan’s physical body even stronger.
Although Lu Yuan already had the Mountain River Mystical Black Tortoise Diagram cultivation technique that brought him spiritual energy protection which far exceeded ordinary people and improved his physical body to a certain extent, the improvement was not obvious.
Therefore, Lu Yuan felt that he still needed a divine ability that could still save his life after he lost the protection of spiritual energy.
The Glazed Golden Body made up for this.
Moreover, when Lu Yuan chose those three divine abilities, he also considered another aspect.
That was the degree of compatibility between them and his current cultivation techniques.
“Ding! Detected that the compatibility of the divine abilities Great Void Sword Control Technique and One Qi Sword Control Technique exceeds 70%. Do you want to fuse them?”
Fusion!
“Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a new divine ability… Great Void One Qi Sword Technique.”
“Great Void One Qi Sword Technique.”
“Effect: After your divine ability is cultivated to great success, your flying sword will be illusory to a certain extent. The sword body will carry a certain degree of sword intent, reducing attack by 20% and increasing speed by 100%.”
The merged Great Void One Qi Sword Technique not only weakened the side effect of the original Great Void Sword Control Technique, which reduced the attack power by 50%, but it also greatly increased the speed of the sword.
It perfectly met Lu Yuan’s requirements for the Sword Control Technique.
In the world of martial arts, only speed was unbeatable.
As long as Lu Yuan ran fast enough, death wouldn’t be able to catch up to him!
“Ding! The divine abilities Eclipse Green Flame and Bi Fang Green Flame have compatibility above 70%. Do you want to fuse them?”
Fusion!
“Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the new divine ability… Bi Fang Fire Controlling Technique.”
“Bi Fang Fire Controlling Technique.”
“Effect: After cultivating the divine ability to great success, it can melt a thousand miles of land, making you akin to a walking natural disaster.”
After fusing with the Eclipse Green Flame, the changes in the Bi Fang Green Flame were not particularly obvious.
However, although the description of the new divine ability was not much, Lu Yuan could feel its power.
The Beast of Antiquity, Bi Fang, was synonymous with drought.
In a sense, the fusion skill this time had increased the compatibility between Lu Yuan and Bi Fang’s soul.
It allowed him to borrow more of Bi Fang’s power.
As for the exact effect, Lu Yuan would only know after he had actually used it.
“Ding! Detected that the compatibility of divine abilities, Glazed Golden Body and Gilded Sand, exceeds 70%. Do you want to fuse them?”
“Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the new skill… Glazed Indestructible Golden Body.”
“Divine ability: Glazed Indestructible Golden Body.”
“Effect: After your divine ability is cultivated to great success, your body will become the hardest magic item. It can increase your strength by 100% and defense by 300%.”
“Name: Lu Yuan.”
“Cultivation: Core Formation Stage Second Level (nine-patterned way of the heavens golden core.”
“Physique: True Martial First Level.”
“Dvine soul: Peak of the Emptiness Realm.”
“Cultivation technique: Mountain River Mystical Black Tortoise Diagram.”
“Skills: Divine Soul Pill Refinement Technique, Great Void One Qi Sword Technique, Bi Fang Fire Wielding Technique, and Glazed Indestructible Golden Body.”
Looking at his current interface, Lu Yuan felt that his cultivation had not increased, but his strength had increased by at least 20%.
Lu Yuan was temporarily unable to maximize the effects of the three new divine abilities because he had just obtained them. He was still unable to use them to their fullest potential.
However, relying on the existence of the system, Lu Yuan felt that he would be able to cultivate the divine abilities to great success in ten years at most.
At that time, Lu Yuan would even feel confident in fighting a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator.
A Core Formation Stage cultivator defeating an Nascent Soul Stage cultivator was something that many people did not even dare to imagine.
Only the direct disciples of the Upper World sects could do it.
That wasn’t strange since they were peerless geniuses selected from hundreds of millions of people in many worlds in the Upper Realm.
Actually, if Lu Yuan completely exposed his talent at this time, there was at least a 70% chance that he would be nurtured by the Upper Realm’s sects as the future sect master.
The chances would increase to 100% if Lu Yuan was found out not to be based in the Upper Realm yet. After all, given Lu Yuan’s monstrous talent, Evildoer enemy sects might feel threatened and be out to get him. Thus, the Upper Realm would be inclined to protect Lu Yuan early on.
A nine-patterned way of the heavens golden core was just that terrifying.
However, Lu Yuan would definitely not expose himself.
Compared to standing in the spotlight and being schemed against by countless people, Lu Yuan preferred the current life rhythm of being invisible.
Why must cultivators fight and kill?
Lu Yuan could become stronger as long as he cultivated steadily. There was no need for him to fight to the death with others.
After all, along with fights came danger. No matter how high a person’s talent was, they might die.
Then, what was the point of their talent? Only the living could continue cultivating.
After considering his future direction of development, Lu Yuan left the nine-story pagoda in the second stage and walked toward the third stage.
Lu Yuan did not have the intention of passing the third stage and entering the Upper Realm.
However, the third stage, which involved one’s mirror image as one’s opponent, gave Lu Yuan a very good idea.
That was, could he use the mirror image to see if he had any weaknesses at his current stage?
After all, the mirror image could replicate his current ability.
After passing the first two stages, Lu Yuan had already confirmed that the ability and cultivation replicated by the mirror image in the third stage could be manipulated by him.
Nevertheless, it was still a good chance for him to check his weaknesses and fill in the gaps!