Chapter 316: Chapter 237: Promotion to Fourth Stage
Array Master, Grandmaster Level Skill_2
“If the enemy strikes with all their might, they can still break through the barrier and calmly escape from the formation.”
“However, a fourth-order formation presents a double barrier.”
“Even for a Nascent Soul cultivator, escaping from within this barrier would be incredibly difficult.”
“Particularly when the fourth-order spiritual vein aids it, providing an endless source of energy, the enemy will have absolutely nowhere to run.”
Zhou Sui reflected deeply on this.
It’s no wonder that array masters have such high status in the Cultivation World. A fourth-order array master is almost equivalent to the Nascent Soul
Ancestor.
Simply because once an array master grasmits a fourth-order array, even a Nascent Soul Ancestor wouldn’t dare to challenge him.
If you step into the array, you’ll inevitably be eroded by the fourth-order formation until you are ground to dust.
Of course, array masters also have significant weaknesses.
That is, they can’t leave the array.
If they do leave the array, their threatening power significantly decreases.
Essentially, they are tolerant of only their own nests.
But for Zhou Sui, that doesn’t matter in the least.
After all, he has nothing to do and would never leave his base under ordinary circumstances.
in any case, he has a long lifespan and doesn’t need to compete with other cultivators over resources.
Even if he progresses in a step-by-step manner, he can advance to the Nascent
Soul Realm, or perhaps even the Divinity Transformation Realm.
Thus becoming the absolute pinnacle among mortal cultivators.
“If I want to refine the fourth-order great array, Xuan Yin Heavy Water Array,
it will consume a considerable amount of resources.
“It seems I’ll have to discuss this with my Dao companion.”
“After all, I need the full support of Immortal Mist City to set up this formation
successfully.”
Zhou Sui squinted his eyes.
But he didn’t rush out, instead, he opened his virtual panel to check on his current progress in cultivation.
[Host: Zhou Sui, Cultivation: Early Stage of Golden Core (70% progress), Lifespan: 64 (out of 55°°) Years]
[Aptitude: Fifth-grade Spiritual Root (70% progress)]
[Swordsmanship: Middle-third stage (20% progress)]
[Rune: Lower-third stage (10% progress)]
[Formation Cultivation Level: Lower-fourth stage (50% progress)]
[Pill Master: Middle-third stage (60% progress)]
[Phantasma Transformation skill: Great Achievement (90% progress)]
[Five Elements Alchemy Technique: Grandmaster Level (50% progress)] [Seven Apertures Spirit Secret: Heart-eye Recognition, Insightful Heart Eyes, Heart Eye Linguistics (85% progress)]
[Fireball Technique: Grandmaster, Wind Blade Art: Grandmaster, Golden Light skill: Grandmaster, Ice Frost skill: Grandmaster, Spring Wind Rain skill: Grandmaster, Lightning Summoning skill: Grandmaster…]
[Obsession Gu: Lower-fourth stage, Clone Gu: Lower-third stage, Wine Bug: Lower-third stage, Gold Eating Bug: Lower-third stage, BookWorm: Lower-third stage, Dream Soul Gu: Middle-third stage, Dragon Elephant Gu: Lower-third stage, Golden Light Thousand Poison Gu: Lower-third stage, Teleportation Insect: Lower-third stage, Array Heart Gu: Lower-fourth stage, Object-searching Gu: Lower-third stage.]
Suddenly, an array of impressive data appeared in front of Zhou Sui.
“As expected, after advancing to the Golden Core Realm, my cultivation
progress becomes ever slower.”
Zhou Sui remarked, filled with emotion.
He had been following the path of cultivation for ten full years, only advancing his Golden Core Realm Early Stage process to 70%.
And this was only possible with the assistance of his Dao Companion’s mutual cultivation, and even with the aid of pills.
As you can imagine, how truly difficult it is for Golden Core Masters to cultivate.
Sometimes, the progress of a Golden Core cultivator’s cultivation might not show significant improvement even over several decades or a hundred years.
The situation arises as such.
Aside from the lack of pills, the most important aspect is the issue of spiritual root aptitude.
A fifth-grade spiritual root might be barely sufficient during the foundation establishment realm.
But once it reaches the Golden Core Realm, this level of spiritual root aptitude
can be somewhat of a hindrance.
This tends to result in slow progress in his cultivation.
But this is also an unavoidable circumstance.
The improvement of the spiritual root aptitude is something against the will of heaven.
The fact that he can use the power of the Obsession Gu to help improve his spiritual root aptitude is indeed a defiance of the heavens.
Even if the speed of improvement is slow, it’s improving nonetheless.
Moreover, the Fifth-grade Spiritual Root is currently at 70% progress, which is quite good.
It’s estimated that in some time, there will be a chance to promote the aptitude of the Fourth-grade Spiritual Root.
At that time, his efficiency in cultivation will definitely increase dramatically.
“As I expected, my formation cultivation level is only at the lower-fourth stage.”
“If I want to advance to the upper-fourth realm level, it would take some time.” Zhou Sui rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
Understanding a superior-fourth order formation only meant that he had comprehended the mystery of the fourth-order formation.
It didn’t mean he had really raised his formation cultivation level to the superior-fourth order.
If the formation cultivation level had really been promoted to the superior-fourth order, it would mean that he had fully comprehended each fourth-order formation.
No matter which fourth-order formation it was, he could set it up effortlessly. To be honest, even if he is only a lower-fourth order Array Master, he would be considered a top existence in the Canglan Sea, and he could be called a Grandmaster of formation cultivation.
Those who could match his formation cultivation level must be few and far between.
Because he knew how difficult it was to comprehend the fourth-order formation.
The difference between the third and fourth orders was like the difference between a kindergarten child and a university student.
The difficulty had increased by more than tenfold.
in the Canglan Seas, there are quite a lot of third-order Array Masters, but the fourth-order Array Masters can be counted on one’s fingers.
“It seems Heart Eye Linguistics is also close to being refined.”
“I’ll have to find time to completely refine this Heart Eye.
Zhou Sui was quite satisfied with the progress of his Heart Eye Linguistics.
After all, over these ten years, he had not paid too much attention to refining Heart Eyes.
Because the ability of this heart eye didn’t contribute much to his current advancement in cultivation, and it didn’t increase his combat power significantly.
It was simply incomparable to his formation cultivation level..
