Chapter 725: Chapter 19: Ten Years, The Cross-Border War Resurges_2
“I’m going back…”
The initial goal of Huangtian’s subordinates was to achieve such a society, and now that it had been accomplished, his heart was filled with far fewer regrets.
“Still have to practice cultivation, after all!”
If one couldn’t transform quickly, they would be left behind by the times. If one’s cultivation level couldn’t improve rapidly, the same was true.
“Living without adapting is still possible, but if one’s cultivation can’t reach the very top, what’s lost is life… I’ve had enough experience, time to go back and cultivate. Coming out occasionally is still quite nice.”
The Starry Sky Rules demanded world confrontation—a fact that no one could avoid.
So, the only option was to improve one’s cultivation level to become the final winner.
Soon, he returned to Qingshan Holy Land and continued his seclusion.
…
Time flew by rapidly, and Datong continued to advance; ten years passed in a blink of an eye.
It was now the 123rd year of the new calendar in Datong.
In ten years, Datong had seen the emergence of many more new and exciting things.
Thanks to the efforts of Datong Science Academy, many technologies that were originally only for experimental use began to enter the civilian domain.
Travel between planets was no longer an experience only a few could enjoy; planetary travel had become as common as traveling between states, costing only time and not a significant amount of money.
Not only that, but over ten years, Datong had completely depleted twelve planets.
Apart from the Source Star, most other planets or worlds had no unified power.
It took ten years for all eleven worlds to come together under a single heart.
Citizens basically only knew about Datong, with little awareness of the former governments of other worlds.
At the same time, due to the development and application of interstellar technology, numerous resource planets outside of the twelve worlds and planets had been put to use.
Datong now had hundreds of resource planets and was extremely prosperous.
Meanwhile, ten years had passed, and once again, voices advocating further expansion into other worlds were heard.
These voices were primarily found among the upper echelons.
They were well aware that to seize the initiative, they had to conquer more worlds before the inter-world channels truly opened, ensuring their foundation was solid enough to handle any unexpected events.
Some also hoped that conquering more worlds could facilitate further advancement of their own planets.
They wanted to utilize the opportunity of planetary advancement to break through to even higher levels.
After all, having experienced the rapid progression during planet advancement, every cultivator wished for such events to occur more often.
Wang Sheng was also aware of these voices.
Over ten years, his progress had been anything but small.
“Realm—
Refining God and Returning to Void: 96%
Cultivation Technique—
Inner Core Skill (Refining Qi into God): Breakthrough +7 (23%)
Ba Duan Jin: Breakthrough +7 (9%) – Undying Nirvana Body: 62%
Five Elements Fist: Breakthrough +6 (32%) – Divine Guarding Five Qi: 97%
Yijin Scripture: Breakthrough +6 (38%) – Immortal Body (Telepathy): 39%
Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter: Breakthrough +6 (25%) – Virtual World: 48%”
Life—
Planting Skill: Breakthrough +7 (20%) Forge: Breakthrough +2 (38%)
Alchemy: Breakthrough +5 (69%)…
Martial Techniques—
Sword Flight: Breakthrough +4 (26%) Sacrificial Refinement: Breakthrough +6 (26%)
God-slaying Sword: Breakthrough +5 (20%) Sleeve Universe: Breakthrough +6 (42%)…
Knowledge—
Universe: Breakthrough +6 (79%) Years: Breakthrough +3 (31%)…
Divine Skills—
Five Elements Sword Formation: Breakthrough +3 (2%)…”
In ten years, he had spent most of his time cultivating, so his progress was naturally tremendous.
Firstly, his cultivation level.
The progress of his Immortal Embryo had directly reached 86%.
Don’t think that a ten-year increase of only about 10% is small. Without the help of a progress bar, let alone ten years—even a hundred times that time might not have been enough to achieve such an increase.
Inner Core Skill, a path that granted lengthy increases to longevity, but the difficulty of cultivating it was also significant.
Moreover, Wang Sheng had achieved God and Body Integration; his Primordial Spirit and physical Qi-Blood needed to be improved together.
Beyond that, there were various martial techniques.
Ten years of Inner Core Skill meant the time for all related Divine Ability Martial Techniques was also proportionally extended.
“Aside from those who achieved Breakthrough five or six times, essentially all Divine Ability Martial Techniques had one additional Breakthrough attempt, and their power was much stronger than before.”
“Additionally, the Five Elements Sword Formation, Alchemy, and Sleeve Universe all reached a qualitative Breakthrough phase.”
While Divine Ability Martial Techniques improved on their own, Wang Sheng was very familiar with the effects of every Breakthrough.
After breaking through three times, the Five Elements Sword Formation gained new effects, allowing the Five Elements Power to fuse, resulting in much stronger might. As a combat martial technique, though it didn’t have any particular specialty, it was highly adaptable.
Then there were Alchemy and Sleeve Universe, both of which had advanced along with the Inner Core Skill, and were also constantly in operation.
Thus, only these two successfully went from a five-time Breakthrough to a six-time Breakthrough.
Sleeve Universe, after a six-time Breakthrough, the space became larger, almost reaching the size of a small world, and the effect was an extremely terrifying Confinement ability.
It truly revealed the horrifying aspect of Sleeve Universe.
“No item it cannot take, no item it cannot confine.”
Sleeve Universe, originally just a space for storing things, transformed into a terrifying combat Divine Skill.
It had significant effects even against enemies of the same cultivation realm.
A six-time Breakthrough in Divine Skills, though it wasn’t as impressive as gaining traits from Cultivation Techniques, was still marvelous.
As for Alchemy, this Divine Skill was something he discovered himself, meant for refining weapons.
One Breakthrough allowed for a closer connection between the weapon and its wielder, and three allowed the weapon to be stored within the body.
After a six-time Breakthrough, on top of enhancing previous effects, it could also embed part of the wielder’s Divine Skills into the weapon, giving it a chance to develop its own Divine Skills.
Using the weapon one could directly utilize these Divine Skills.
Seemingly simple, yet it could provide quite an advantage in combat.
And unlike making amulets, when a weapon uses Divine Skills, it could exert a hundred percent of its effectiveness.
When a certain number of Divine Skills are refined into the weapon, it will birth its unique Divine Skills, which grow along with the weapon.
“Given the current strength of my weapon, if I used Divine Skills, it’s estimated l could reach the power of the Ninth Realm, and if they’re unique Divine Skills, they would be even stronger, without even considering my own control over them.”
Alchemy, visible to the naked eye, was powerful.
Besides Divine Ability Martial Techniques, next were skills and knowledge that couldn’t progress with Inner Core Skill.
Planting Skill, with seven Breakthroughs, Wang Sheng could grow medicinal ingredients that rivaled the top Spiritual Medicine currently born on Source Star on his own.
“Three-Turn Golden Pill” could be replaced with his own cultivated materials, in addition to a variety of elixirs that could enhance cultivation.
These were elixirs he concocted in his spare time.
Like many of the powerful individuals from Datong, he believed inter-world warfare could begin again.
These items could become war trophies to be traded for military achievements when the time comes.
“Alchemy has become a sort of hobby for me, an unconventional way to explore the Dao… But it’s also not bad, right!”
Refining medicine, once having supported him through Qi Refining God, gradually receded with the appearance of the harvesting law, still having an effect now was not bad at all.
Beyond these was what Wang Sheng valued most—controller of Sleeve Universe and keeper of time.
Progress of the Sleeve Universe increased while Time, after a three-time Breakthrough, gained a new effect—Time Stop!
Or rather, because of the three-time Breakthrough, his understanding of time deepened considerably, so on top of strengthening Time Acceleration and Time Retrospection, he further researched Time Stop.
It could pause time in a certain area, and if used together with Space Confinement, could produce terrifying effects, even confining those in the Ninth Realm.
“With the improvement in Cultivation, a significant enhancement of Divine Skills, plus Sleeve Universe and Time, although I’m still in the Ninth Realm, my combat strength has increased by at least thirty percent on the original basis… Now, if I transformed into a Dao Sovereign avatar, I could achieve victory even more effortlessly…”
Thirty percent in the Ninth Realm is not comparable to thirty percent in the lower realms.
After sensing his own strength, Wang Sheng thought about the voices from Datong’s upper echelons and felt it was time!
“In a few years’ time, the Secret Realm spoken of by the Cultivator World will open, and taking advantage of this opportunity, I can conquer several more worlds. If Source Star evolves again, perhaps I can break through the second stage of Refining God and Returning to Void, which would be even safer before the Secret Realm opens…”
“Since that’s the case, it’s time to satisfy the wishes of the masses!”
In the new calendar year 123, May, news circulated from Datong that the inter-world war would be initiated once again.
In an instant, countless powerful individuals began preparations.
Wanting to gain benefits from the inter-world warfare.
Meanwhile, at Qingshan Holy Land, in Zhu Xiao’s residence, a powerful fluctuation arose.
Having already reached the pinnacle of the Seventh Realm, she seemed poised for another Breakthrough.
As the controller of Qingshan Holy Land, Wang Sheng naturally felt the ripple of energy:
“It looks like this inter-world war will involve strong individuals from the Eighth Realm…”
(Everything is pretty much settled, will return to millions of words tomorrow!)