by Feng Yise
All the way until this lifetime, Ye Yuan resolved to become a Martial Path powerhouse. The more he placed effort in the Martial Path, the more did he discover that he seemed to have similarly tremendous potential in it.
Azure Dipper Floating Zero Sword, Heart Like Still Water, Concept of Wind, Concept of Fire. These things all required martial artists to spend immense effort to go and comprehend. But he did not seem to have expended much time comprehending them.
Even though quite a few among these were because of coincidences, one had to admit that his talent played a very huge part.
Without talent, even if lucky chances came, one could only enter a treasure mountain and return empty-handed.
"Since you have some comprehensions, then regulate your breathing and digest your gains earlier right here for a bit. At the eighth level, I'll only unleash two palms. You have to try your best!" Finished talking, the black-clothed person vanished.
"Huu . . . Finally going to enter the eighth level huh . . ." Ye Yuan s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath and muttered to himself.
The lowest goal which Ye Yuan set for himself was the seventh level. Except, he did not expect that the gains he had in this Vast Heaven Pagoda far surpassed his own imaginations.
Now, his strength soared rapidly. He totally had the qualifications to challenge the eighth level.
Ye Yuan even somewhat suspected if this was set up by the Vast Heaven Pagoda's owner beforehand, and that he was currently walking step by step until now according to the route planned out by the Vast Heaven Pagoda's owner.
Otherwise, it was simply impossible for an ordinary genius to walk to this step!
Ye Yuan had a feeling that this was a systematic training to nurture geniuses!
Courage and insight, comprehension abilities, and strength. Not one could be missing!
That fellow mentioned by the black-clothed person, Ye Yuan felt that he was very likely to be this Vast Heaven Pagoda's owner.
This person was truly an enigmatic existence!
Ye Yuan felt like this Vast Heaven Pagoda owner might even be much stronger compared to the Ten Great Divine Kings. Could he be a Deity Realm existence?
But right now in this world, how could it possibly give birth to Deity Realm powerhouses?
The Vast Heaven Pagoda was something that only appeared in these ten thousand years. Could it be that within this ten thousand years, there were really Deity Realm powerhouses born?
If the Vast Heaven Pagoda owner was really a Deity Realm powerhouse, where did he go?
Deity Realm powerhouses had long lifespans. Living for ten thousand years was absolutely not an issue.
Ye Yuan felt that the riddles in his heart were getting more and more.
"Huhu, who cares. Want to attain Deity Realm, I first have to kill Ji Canglan!"
Ye Yuan chased this messy stuff out of his mind and started to meditate to recover essence energy.
After half a day, Ye Yuan opened both eyes. His body already recovered to its optimum state.
"Heh heh, if Lu Linfeng that old thing knows that I made it past the seventh level, who knows what expression he would have?" Ye Yuan suddenly remembered Lu Linfeng and could not help finding it funny.
Looks like Lu Linfeng should have comprehended the Formations Path in the Vast Heaven Stele. That was how he had today's accomplishments.
But this old punk's talent was indeed astonishing too. To actually be able to rely on the Formations Path to achieve Ten Great Divine Kings.
However, Ye Yuan knew that this Vast Heaven Mystic Realm only opened up a window for Lu Linfeng. His true rise was still after exiting the Vast Heaven Mystic Realm.
. . . . . .
Snap!
Outside the Vast Heaven Pagoda, Qi Hai's hand trembled, crushing the southern sandalwood cup filled with Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew into pieces.
This action of his startled Qin Yan and the others who were currently in closed-seclusion.
"Old Hai, what's wrong?"
Qi Hai drew a deep breath and said, "You guys see for yourselves!"
The four people were stunned and followed Qi Hai's gaze to look at the light screen. It was only to see that Ye Yuan's name already appeared in the eighth level!
"Hiss . . . " The four people s.u.c.k.e.d in a cold breath.
The eighth level. What kind of concept was this?
Ye Yuan already tied with the number one person in this ten thousand years, Li Fantian!
"Now, do you guys still have any opinions about following him?" Qi Hai asked leisurely.
The four people could not help exchanging glances and shook their heads at the same time.
What damn opinion was there still?!
No matter how talented the four of them were, it was impossible to reach this sort of level too!
Compared to Ye Yuan, they were like fireflies compared to the bright moon; too great a disparity!
"You all cultivate properly. Don't lose even the qualifications to follow him!" Qi Hai said with a long sigh.
. . . . . .
In the eighth level, Ye Yuan and the black-clothed person faced each other from a distance.
"Ready? This time, I'll only unleash two palms, and I will still maintain the same realm as you!" said the black-clothed person.
Ye Yuan said, "Senior, this palm technique of yours seems to be unleashed with true dragon strength too. Although I didn't sense a supreme true intent, the power isn't the slightest bit inferior to supreme true intents. I wonder why?"
The black-clothed person said, "What's strange about that? The strength of true dragons escapes the Five Elements in the first place. What the Four Great Divine Beasts relied on came from their bloodline power. And within their bloodline contains the Great Dao of heaven and earth in itself; this is not what humans can compare to. In terms of power, it's naturally not worse off than supreme true intents. You had refined true dragon's blood now, and the power of a true dragon is contained within your body too. You should be able to experience the might of bloodline power."
Ye Yuan nodded his head and understood very quickly.
Divine beasts were all the favored children of heaven. They were born with their might, especially the Four Great Divine Beasts. Their strength was even much stronger compared to many human Deity Realm powerhouses.
Furthermore, Ye Yuan knew that the Four Great Divine Beasts' level of divine beasts virtually did not need to cultivate. As long as they m.a.t.u.r.ed to become a.d.u.l.t divine beasts, they could achieve the divine path. The whole process from beginning to end was unbelievably heaven-defying.
Hence, divine beasts were all extremely proud races. Even a drop of blood essence contained an exceptionally tyrannical will inside.
"I got it. Senior, make your move!" Ye Yuan said coolly.
The black-clothed person was not long-winded either. This time, he placed both hands together. Immediately, a violent wind howled along with a series of dragon roars emitting!
"This set of palm technique is named Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm. Training to an advanced level can shatter the firmament with force! You have to receive it well!"
Chapter 582 - Ten Day's Time
Two azure dragons!
Except that this time, the two azure dragons appeared much more robust compared to the three previously.
Very clearly, the true dragon strength contained inside was way stronger than before!
Facing these two azure dragons, Ye Yuan actually had a feeling of his scalp tingling.
"Flame Movement True Dragon Carnage!"
Ye Yuan's dual fists were like flood dragons heading out to the seas. Two red dragons came out with a roar too!
This Flame Movement True Dragon Carnage was precisely the final attack that Ye Yuan comprehended in the seventh level!
This attack fused the true dragon strength in Ye Yuan's body, augmenting the power of Ye Yuan's Flame Movement Carnage multiple times. It already reached the level of condensed form of gathered essence!
> Virtually instantly, two azure dragons and two red dragons collided together just like this!
Rumble!
The collision aftershocks seemingly made the entire space shudder.
Under this shock wave, the black-clothed person was as firm as a mountain. But Ye Yuan was pushed out far away before he barely managed to stabilize himself.
Seizing this opportunity, Ye Yuan revolved the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art with all his might to recover essence energy.
He knew that his Flame Movement True Dragon Carnage was not the black-clothed person's match at all. He had to seize all the opportunity he could to restore his strength so as to respond to the follow-up clash!
With Ye Yuan's current essence energy magnitude coupled with this move, Flame Movement True Dragon Carnage, instant-killing Late-stage Soul Sea experts were nothing difficult.
But in front of the black-clothed person, it appeared too weak to stand up to a single blow!
The two red dragons only blocked for several breaths of time and were smashed into smithereens by those two azure dragons.
Those two azure dragons' remaining momentum was not diminished, hurtling towards Ye Yuan!
"Thousand Flowing Petals! Explode!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Yuan already finished preparing the second wave of attacks!
From the beginning, Ye Yuan had never planned on being able to surpass the black-clothed person's two palms.
In the seventh level, he already experienced the might of this Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm. And this eighth level, he would only unleash two palms. The difficulty would surely surge!
Otherwise, how could that Li Fantian with such talent possibly lose in this eighth level?
This Flame Movement True Dragon Carnage was already one of his strongest trump cards right now. But it still could not resist the two azure dragons for a short while.
Since facing attack with attack could not do anything to these two azure dragons, then he could only defend.
The Thousand Flowing Petals' offensive power was not strong. But using to defend was an excellent move.
After Ye Yuan broke through to the Eighth Level Sea Transformation, his essence energy sea already reached a very exaggerated 400 feet. While the average Eighth Level Sea Transformation was also just around 150 feet essence energy sea at the very most.
His current essence energy thickness was already nearly three times of ordinary martial artists!
While for most ordinary Soul Sea experts, their essence energy seas were 1000 feet in circ.u.mference; merely over twice of Ye Yuan's.
One had to know that when Sea Transformation Realm martial artists broke through to Soul Sea, their essence energy sea would snowball up to ten times!
Wait until Ye Yuan broke through to Soul Sea. How horrifying an extent would the area of his essence energy sea expand to?
Executing Thousand Flowing Petals with Ye Yuan's current strength, the power and area of attack were all not what it could be compared to previously.
Flying petals in the count of hundreds of millions rushed towards the two azure dragons. They attached onto the azure dragons' bodies and carried out mild explosions unceasingly!
If it were an ordinary attack, it would have long been totally worn away by this move of Ye Yuan's and could not arrive in front of him at all.
But these two azure dragons were too strong!
They easily defeated Ye Yuan's two red dragons. How could these petals stop them?
However, Thousand Flowing Petals was the martial technique which Ye Yuan was most skilled in after all. Its powerful attrition abilities still played a huge part!
Puff, puff, puff!
The sounds of petals exploding non-stop transmitted from the air. The two azure dragons' speed fell abruptly, becoming sluggish.
Those countless flying petals were like a marsh, making the two azure dragons sank deeper and deeper.
When the black-clothed person saw this scene, he could not help saying with a smile, "This boy, his means are indeed inexhaustible. So young and he actually comprehended a supreme true intent to this extent. Truly remarkable! If it were a complete supreme true intent, just relying on these two palms really would not be able to do anything against him. But if it's just this level, it's still inadequate!"
Indeed, those two azure dragons were not exploded to death by the Thousand Flowing Petals. Soon they broke out of the layer upon layer of obstacles, charging at Ye Yuan!
Ye Yuan's expression became intent, and he took out the Xuanying Sword. The starting stance of Myriad Rain Sword Blades was displayed.
"Myriad Rain Sword Blades!"
Thousand Flowing Petals strove for time for Myriad Rain Sword Blades' casting. This was also Ye Yuan's final trump card measure!
This time, Ye Yuan did not hold back, but maneuvered all the remaining essence energy in his body, pouring it into the Myriad Rain Sword Blades in one go!
The two azure dragons were wrapped in large quantities of petals and rushed for Ye Yuan.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"Puhwark!"
Ye Yuan's body was akin to a kite with a broken string, flying out.
And those two azure dragons finally dissipated into thin air too!
Under this blow, Ye Yuan was finally injured.
But under his struggling, he finally still stood up.
Ye Yuan's innards received tremendous impact. Presently, the wounds sustained were not light.
The black-clothed person said coolly, "You indeed didn't let me down! I think you should have guessed it. This ninth level, I'll only unleash one palm, which is also the Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm's ultimate palm! The Vast Heaven Pagoda will treat your wounds. You have ten day's time to be in closed-seclusion here. Perhaps you will have some gains. After ten days, whether or not you can become the first genius to clear the ninth level in this ten thousand years will be up to you!"
Leaving behind this sentence, the black-clothed person left without even turning his head back.
Right at this time, a beam of light shot down from the air, enveloping Ye Yuan inside.
This light beam actually had the effects of healing injuries. Ye Yuan's shrugged off the disorderly emotions and meditated with his legs crossed, recovering injuries with all his strength.
Less than an hour, Ye Yuan's injuries were healed.
"The black-clothed person said that what I'm given is ten day's time. But this treatment only used an hour's time? He made me enter seclusion in these ten days. What kind of gains can there be in ten day's time? But since he said it, it shouldn't be talking nonsense, right? This eighth level, I've virtually already used all of my strength. With my current strength, even if I employ the nameless energy, it's impossible to pass through the ninth level too!"
Once his injuries healed, Ye Yuan started to deliberate.
The words that the black-clothed person said seemed to have profound meaning. Ten day's time was too short. To say that one's strength could make staggering progress, that simply could not be accomplished.
But with Ye Yuan's present strength, he was likely unable to clear the ninth level at all.
Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm's ultimate palm. Ye Yuan felt fearful just thinking about it.
Unless his current strength broke through to Soul Sea, or else, there was simply no way to contend with this so-called ultimate palm.
But even if Ye Yuan broke through to Soul Sea Realm, this black-clothed person would definitely execute this move with Soul Sea Realm. The outcome was still the same.
Putting it bluntly, this Vast Heaven Pagoda's guardian suppressing his boundary to around the same as the challengers all along was for the sake of testing the challengers' talent and strength.
Cultivation this thing was too easy for geniuses. There was simply no challenge.
But concepts comprehension was different. There was simply no way to achieve it in one step.
"Ten days' time . . . Just what i
s it enough to use for?" Ye Yuan unwittingly began to ruminate.
Chapter 583 - Mobilizing Strength of a True Dragon
The eighth level's difficulty could be said to have already reached Ye Yuan's limits.
A fraction stronger and Ye Yuan would likely be unable to bear it.
But the difficulty of this ninth level was most likely not just a tiny bit harder than the eighth level's.
With Ye Yuan's attainments in concepts, even he was unable to pass it. Could it be that there were still people able to pass it?
Most likely, only unless it was those Divine King powerhouses suppressing their cultivation to enter the Vast Heaven Pagoda could there be a possibility of clearing it, right?
Designing such a level that was impossible to clear, what on earth was the Vast Heaven Pagoda owner thinking?
Although it was to test talent and strength, surpassing the limits of geniuses would have no meaning at all, right?
Ye Yuan could not help being at a loss. He ran over all of his trump cards and discovered that he completely could not see the hope of passing through!
"Just what does this black-clothed person want me to comprehend in seclusion here? Could it be . . ." Ye Yuan suddenly had an inspiration and seemed to have thought of something.
The black-clothed person said that what the Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm used was the strength of a true dragon. And the power of a true dragon's strength was an existence on the same level as a supreme true intent!
Supreme true intents required martial artists to go and comprehend, while true dragon's strength only needed powerful bloodline power!
Ye Yuan refined the blood of a true dragon that was already about to evolve to divine beast level. The bloodline power was already very strong.
If he used the strength of a true dragon to deal with the Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm . . .
The black-clothed person even said that when the Coiling Dragon Heaven Devastating Palm was trained to an extremely high level, it could practically shatter the firmament with force. The might of the power could be seen.
If he successfully cultivated this martial technique . . .