The Ze Cauldron's radiance faded from the Sea of Consciousness.
"I wonder, since the Master and King of Yue advanced, how many Divine Powers have the two of you cultivated?"
Liang Qu was exhilarated.
He did not know many Young Dragons. Naturally, the closest to him were the Old Monk and King of Yue.
The White Ape's Divine Powers had soared to five. Together with the three Liang Qu himself possessed, the total had reached an unprecedented eight.
Even for a Young Dragon Martial Saint, branching off from the Art of Creation to cultivate them would take many years based on sheer quantity alone!
The Old Monk and King of Yue were both newly advanced Martial Saints. In terms of number alone, they might not necessarily have more than him.
Besides.
The essence of the Art of Creation lay in the Divine Powers gained at the True Image stage, the Divine Power seeds gained at the Hunting Tiger stage. They already had a foundation. Ultimately, any Divine Powers cultivated from that basis bore traces of oneself and carried the same underlying hue. It was impossible to cultivate utterly unrelated Divine Powers—or rather, extraordinarily difficult.
A watermelon vine could only bear watermelons.
Take [Dragon Tiger Golden Body], for instance. If one advanced to Young Dragon and transformed a True Image Divine Power into an Art of Creation, one could easily derive the Divine Power [Turning Ground into Steel]. One was internal, the other external; developing further, it could become [Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking]. At that point, the Old Monk could seal off space, restricting Liang Qu's use of [Water Travel Thousand Miles] and similar spatial traversal techniques.
Beyond cultivating a single Divine Power, Arts of Creation could be cultivated in combination. For example, [Dragon Tiger Golden Body] and [Slaying the Flood Dragon]. Slaying