A Thousand Years of Insight, Fifth-Layer Soul Devouring Law
Seeing that the time was right, Chen Du returned to the stone house and drew out all the Black Qi from the past two thousand years, sending it into [Heaven's Way's Gift].
The Black Qi, like an abyss, surged into the talent.
A moment later, two things appeared in front of him.
A dark light hovered above the palm of his hand; it was someone else's condensed understanding of the "Nether Breath Soul-Devouring Record" after a thousand years.
He had previously reached the first level of the Soul Devouring Law.
However, even so, it was only scratching the surface. What this insight contained was the result of an unknown predecessor's thousand-year journey in the Soul Devouring Law.
The other white jade bottle contains a Ninth Tier elixir that can increase one's cultivation by two hundred years.
For the next month, Chen Du diligently practiced his skills.
The insights gained over a thousand years cannot be digested in a short time.
At this time, [Divine Revelation Reading] also began to exert its strength!
[You begin to absorb the condensed insights of others regarding the "Nether Breath Soul-Devouring Record" accumulated over a thousand years. That dark light dissipates in your sea of consciousness, flowing into your understanding like an underground river.]
[A thousand years! An unknown predecessor walked the Soul Devouring Law for a full thousand years. Every step of his understanding, every breakthrough, every bottleneck that was blocked and then reopened, is all contained in this comprehension.]
[You use Divine Revelation Reading to dissect its structure, unfolding the thousand-year path piece by piece, comparing, verifying, and integrating it with your own Soul Devouring Laws.]
[In the first ten days, you easily absorbed the first three hundred years of your millennium of enlightenment. Those paths similar to yours, you traversed even faster. Those forks in the road you had never explored, you skipped directly with your extraordinary comprehension. The realm of the Soul Devouring Law rapidly ascended from level one to level two.]
[On the second ten days, the middle section of the millennium of enlightenment began to become difficult. The predecessor encountered a bottleneck here, and only barely broke through after hundreds of years of repeated deductions. You forcefully broke through that bottleneck, and the Soul Devouring Domain was once again refined, reaching its third level.]
[On the third ten days, you consumed the Ninth Tier elixir that increased your cultivation by two hundred years. The medicinal power surged like a celestial river flowing backward, cleansing your meridians, bones, and flesh. You aided in the refining process with the aid of the Become a Saint on the Spot technique, and used the World as a Book to deduce the direction of the medicinal power. You integrated all two hundred years of cultivation into your dantian and divine soul, Soul Devouring Law rose with the momentum, reaching the fourth level.]
[In the final ten days, you will completely merge the last part of your millennium-long enlightenment with your own understanding. The true essence of Soul Devouring, which that predecessor comprehended in the last hundred years, uses Netherworld energy as a guide and souls as nourishment. The stronger the enemy, the more nourishing it becomes. You will thoroughly absorb every word of it. The Soul Devouring Domain expands dramatically to the fifth level.]
[You open your eyes, exhale a breath of stale air, the Soul Devouring Law, the Fifth Realm, and at the same time, another law deep within your sea of consciousness suddenly trembles slightly— the Law of Anger.]
[Your anger has long been ingrained in your bones; the ruthlessness and decisiveness of the Soul Devouring Law, which devours everything, resonates strangely with the Law of Anger.]
[Following this resonance, you extrapolate further, and the realm of the Law of Anger also ascends—to the third, then the fourth! The Law of Anger reaches the fourth realm.]
[You slowly stood up and stretched your shoulders and neck. In one month, you had reached the fifth level of Soul Devouring and the fourth level of Wrath. Adding to this your previous second level of Tianshi Law, ninth level of Lingwu Law, first level of Law of Sorrow, and the foundation of several other laws, your law system was expanding at a terrifying rate.]
Now, Chen Du closes his eyes and looks inward.
Within the sea of consciousness, the patterns of laws are as numerous and dense as the stars in the sky.
He quickly reviewed it and nodded to himself.
The Divine Prison was indeed his blessed place.
[Become a Saint on the Spot] allows him to draw upon the Dao Resonance from every inch of the stone wall and every array pattern, transforming the millennia of accumulation by others into his own.
[The World as a Book] condenses those Dao Resonance powers into a series of Ninth Tier cultivation techniques containing laws.
[Divine Revelation Reading] allowed him to use his extraordinary comprehension to disassemble, reassemble, and deduce, unlocking the key points of each law one by one.
With the continuous supply of elixirs and insights from the [Heaven's Way's Gift], his progress in the laws can be described as rapid as a thousand miles a day.
Tianshi Laws, Dual Realms.
Lingwu Laws, Ninth-Level Domain.
The Law of Anger, Four Realms.
The Law of Sorrow, a First Realm.
The Soul Devouring Law, Five Realms.
The foundations of the other laws are also becoming increasingly solid, and the seven emotional laws resonate with each other, showing a subtle trend of further integration.
In less than ten years, he went from a beginner at the Ninth Tier to a monster whose understanding of the laws was so profound that even he himself was surprised.
But he also knew that he was still in the Ninth Realm.
The Ninth Realm, Martial Law Domain Realm, simply put, is the ninth level of a lower-tier, second-class law domain.
He currently holds several laws in his hands, each at the fourth or fifth level or above, but none of them have truly reached the ninth level.
The Tenth Realm Martial Law First Stage requires comprehending Lower First-Level Law and crossing the threshold of a mid-level core law.
There is an insurmountable chasm between the Ninth Realm and Tenth Realms. It is not just a difference in the level of laws, but a leap in the entire level of power.
A person who has just entered the Tenth Realm can easily crush a Peak Stage Ninth Realm cultivator.
However, even a Peak Stage Tenth Realm cultivator is powerless against someone who has just entered the Eleventh Realm.
He stood up, and in less than ten years, his understanding of the laws had advanced by leaps and bounds.
But the road ahead is still long.
The second, third, and fourth levels of the Divine Prison, and even deeper still, each of the powerful figures imprisoned in those dark and sunless cells served as a stepping stone for him to ascend.
He walked towards the stone house with steady steps.
The night wind blew in from the depths of the corridor, carrying the scent of rust and decay.
Chen Du narrowed his eyes slightly and quickened his pace.
A month later, Chen Du stood up from beside the dry well and put the two newly completed Martial Canon into his mind.
"Martial Canon: Eighth Stage Rank" and "Martial Canon: Ninth Tier".
He fused all the laws and insights he had gained over the years—seven Ninth Tier cultivation techniques, seven emotional laws, the Tianshi Law, and the Lingwu Law —into one, rearranged them, and connected them with his previous Martial Canon, transforming them into two complete cultivation paths that could directly lead to the Eighth Stage and Ninth Tier.
During the compilation process, he inadvertently touched upon something deeper.
The fivefold understanding of the Soul Devouring Law and the fourfold understanding of the Law of Anger collided suddenly deep within his sea of consciousness. At the moment of the collision, a move condensed from his fingertips.
Fury is the catalyst, and the Soul Devouring Devourer is the blade. Fury burns the soul, and the Soul Devouring consumes the remnants of the spirit. In a fit of rage, both soul and spirit are destroyed.
He named it "Soul Devouring's Wrath," but didn't rush to test its power.
Just by deduce it in his mind, he could already feel that the killing power of this move far exceeded any of the techniques he had learned before.
Just as he was preparing to dig deeper, Old Zhou approached him.
"Qin Dong, come with me. A new one has arrived and he needs your service." Old Zhou's expression was somewhat strange, as if he were both disgusted and helpless.
Chen Du followed him through the corridor on the first floor and all the way to the deepest part.
The cell was located in a similarly remote area to Gu Changqing's, but the furnishings inside were completely different.
The stone bed was covered with brocade bedding, and in the corner stood a small sandalwood table with several dishes of exquisite food and a pot of wine.
The iron bars of the cell were cleaner than elsewhere, and the talisman chains hung loosely, more like decorations.
Inside the cell, a slightly overweight middle-aged man sat on the edge of a stone bed, holding a wine cup in his hand, his face full of anger.