King-level experts who cultivated the Universe Chaos Stele lineage mainly had the advantage of cultivating two paths at once.
Comprehending both the Time Essence and Space Essence, or comprehending two major categories at once, could provide an immensely powerful boost to one's combat strength.
"Thank you, Elder Yan." What Wu Yun wanted most was to possess a Special Lifeform or obtain an Amplitude Secret Technique. He felt certain Blood Luo Continent had them.
Aside from Divine Envoy Inheritances and Divine Envoy Inheritances, there were still some methods of amplification in the universe.
However, Blood Luo Continent's approach to raising its younger generation differed from that of the Human Race. They believed that at the World Lord stage, Wu Yun only needed to improve his realm of comprehension.
As for possessing a Special Lifeform, he could do that any time before becoming an Immortal God.
An Amplitude Secret Technique? Wouldn't it be a waste of time for a World Lord to practice one? Wouldn't it be better to spend that time comprehending the Dao? Besides, Elder Yan didn't think Wu Yun needed to fight anyone.
"Elder Yan, do we have any Special Lifeforms in our race that I could possess?" Wu Yun scratched his head. "I saw in my research that some Special Lifeforms have very high Gene Levels."
At the mention of Special Lifeforms, Elder Yan's expression turned grave. Only after a long while did he sigh. "We used to have some with high Gene Levels, but not anymore. Still, the race can find you a lifeform that can create clones."
The ability to create clones wasn't especially extraordinary in the Primal Universe.
The Golden Horned Beast had it, as did many Special Lifeforms. To maintain balance, Special Lifeforms with high Gene Levels rarely had this talent.
But Special Lifeforms with ordinary Gene Levels often had Clone Talent. Lord Fannuo's Boxue Vine was one example, and even the Chaos City Lord had a clone.
"Sorry for the trouble, Elder Yan. Please let me know if you find a Special Lifeform I could possess." Wu Yun spoke earnestly. "If I have a clone, my strength will be even greater in the future."
Blood Luo Continent itself was in the Primordial Secret Realm. It was a vast continent that had formed very early on, so it wasn't strange for them to have a stock of Special Lifeforms.
Most Special Lifeforms were born in secret realms.
Wu Yun didn't ask about Amplitude Secret Techniques. He wasn't in a hurry. After becoming an Immortal God, he would surely learn the deeper secrets of Blood Luo Continent.
His true body returned to the Giant Axe Secret Realm and settled down. It was an immense, boundless expanse of void, scattered with countless fragments of stars.
Ordinary members of the Giant Axe Secret Realm often visited one another. After all, their strengths were similar, and they were from the same batch. They were bound to cross paths many times in the future.
But Wu Yun had been back for several years, and no one had come to visit him—not in the Virtual Universe, nor in person.
In their eyes, Wu Yun was bound to be eliminated sooner or later. He might even end up in the lowest-ranked secret realm, relegated to the outskirts of the Core Layer.
Who would want to spend time making friends with someone like that?
Whoosh!
After a brief spatial fluctuation, Wu Yun appeared in another corner of his estate. By combining the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth with his study of the Space Law, he was making astonishingly fast progress.
The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth was, in essence, the Great Dao of Space.
"Teleportation requires grasping the fluctuations in space. The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth's ability to travel through the void works on the same principle, but their structures differ."
Wu Yun had already begun studying the major category of Teleportation.
Once someone comprehended Teleportation and was acknowledged by the Space Law, that meant they had the insights of a King-level expert. If they could perfect Teleportation completely, they would generally reach the Peak King level.
A few High King experts had attained the same level of insight.
Wu Yun was patient. The Giant Axe Arena had given him a thousand years to develop before sending him out to gain experience, so he planned to attempt the Heavenly Bridge at the very end.
His two clones made progress together. Fifteen years later, the Blood Luo Clone fully comprehended the Time Essence and began studying the major category of Time Pause.
His true body, meanwhile, was engrossed in the Space Law. He never fought in the Virtual Universe or interacted with outsiders. Many people had already begun to forget him.
Across the endless river of time, there were too many people like Wu Yun. He was like a drop of water falling into the ocean. The ripples it made were insignificant and soon disappeared.
Even if he became an Immortal God in the future, he would probably end up like Ka Wei, serving at a branch and drifting through the ages, perhaps eventually becoming a Marquis-Level expert.
Before long, nearly a thousand years had passed.
The final deadline given by the Three Pure Ones had also arrived in the Desolate Era world. Wu Yun calmly walked out of the courtyard and said with confidence, "Please test my strength, Dao Ancestor."
Many beings cultivated on Three Pure Ones Mountain, but all of them were human.
The weakest were merely at the Primordial Spirit Daoist level, while the most exceptional had even reached the Pure Yang True Immortal level.
Wu Yun's loud voice immediately drew many eyes. Those Pure Yang True Immortals of great renown in the Three Realms knew they might soon have a new junior fellow disciple.
One of the Three Pure Ones' avatars descended. It was none other than Lingbao Heavenly Venerable from the myths.
"After a thousand years of cultivation on Three Pure Ones Mountain, have you comprehended a Great Dao and become a Pure Yang True Immortal, or has your combat strength reached nearly the Pure Yang True Immortal level?" Daoist Three Pure Ones asked.
Becoming a Pure Yang True Immortal didn't cause any obvious signs. If one kept it secret, even the Lord of Heart Demons couldn't detect it. But Pure Yang magic power couldn't be concealed.
Wu Yun hadn't fought anyone in all these years, so even the Three Pure Ones didn't know if he had become a Pure Yang True Immortal or merely reached that level of combat strength.
"Reporting to you, Dao Ancestor, I combined Great Daos and created a move called Light-Dark Samsara, bringing me to the Pure Yang True Immortal level." As he spoke, Wu Yun produced more than a hundred immortal-grade staffs.
He had bought those staffs in Great Xia. They could form a staff formation with astonishing power.
Most attacks in the Qi Refining Path were carried out through formations. Examples included Heavenly Immortal Tonghe's Absolute Immortal Sword Realm, Ji Ning's Great Thousand Sword Formation, Three Absolutes Sword Ancestor's Three Absolutes Sword Formation, and Fuxi's staff formation.
There were 108 staffs in all, 54 to the north and 54 to the south. The northern staffs emanated endless darkness, while the southern ones radiated countless streams of light. Light and darkness enveloped an area three hundred miles wide.
"Give me everything you've got." Daoist Three Pure Ones blinked. He thought Wu Yun's design was ingenious, and its power might exceed his expectations.
"Yes." Wu Yun circulated the magic power within his body. The Light-Dark Samsara formation began to shrink, and as it did, light and darkness merged.
He had conceived of this move after seeing Ji Ning's Samsara Sword Dao during his time as an Ultimate Emperor.
The fusion of light and darkness was the Samsara Sword Dao.
Wu Yun's move was nowhere near as powerful as the Samsara Sword Dao, but the essence of the Great Dao was the same. The difference lay only in their levels, much like the Blood Drop Style: its power varied greatly between a Fourth Step Dao Lord and a First Step Dao Lord,
No matter how great the difference, the core of the move remained unchanged. What improved was its power and profundity.
The Streamer Great Dao was actually the Light Great Dao, though the Three Realms called it something different. In some Chaos Worlds, light could even serve as the Heavenly Dao.
For the first several hundred years, Wu Yun had focused on comprehending the Darkness Great Dao. He had then spent more than two hundred years creating this technique.
Darkness drew its power from corrosion, while light drew its power from heat. Combined, they could continue endlessly, cutting through everything and destroying anything that stood in their way.
The blade sliced through the void and touched Daoist Three Pure Ones' fingertip, then vanished without a trace.
"Not bad. This move has already reached the threshold of Pure Yang True Immortal combat strength." Daoist Three Pure Ones nodded with satisfaction. "Among the Celestial Gods of the Three Realms, your comprehension is quite high. I'll accept you as my direct disciple."
Nearly reaching the Pure Yang True Immortal level still left some distance to the threshold, which was why Daoist Three Pure Ones was so pleasantly surprised and wanted to take Wu Yun as his direct disciple.
For a Celestial God to reach this level was practically the limit. Only if Wu Yun happened to comprehend a third-level power could he truly match a Pure Yang True Immortal.
For example, third-level Light Power combined with third-level Darkness Power.
Normally, one first mastered a Great Dao and then comprehended a power such as Sword Power or Time Power. Ji Ning had done otherwise because of his experience in the Domain of Nirvana.
Wu Yun didn't expect to comprehend such a power while still a Celestial Immortal. Heart Power, however, seemed possible.
"Master, please accept this disciple's bow!" Wu Yun immediately performed the formal bow of a disciple. He had never expected to be accepted as a direct disciple by Daoist Three Pure Ones.
Daoist Three Pure Ones was very selective. Wu Yun's talent was barely enough to catch his eye.
To be even more extraordinary, one had to be on Ji Ning's level: reaching the threshold of a Celestial God True Immortal while still a Void-level cultivator. Only then would a top Dao Ancestor take the initiative to accept someone as a disciple.
"Come with me." Daoist Three Pure Ones finished speaking, and Wu Yun felt space shift around him. In an instant, they had arrived inside a magnificent hall. The moment he entered, he caught the scent of medicinal pills.
Looking closely, he saw several young Daoist attendants refining pills below the main hall. The pill furnace stood a hundred zhang tall, giving off wisps of fragrant smoke.
Those Daoist attendants refining pills were all Celestial Immortals.
"The secret manuals and techniques I left behind were all created by cultivators of my Daoist Sect." Daoist Three Pure Ones sat in the main seat and spoke slowly. "You were able to cultivate by studying those manuals, which proves that you are fated to join my Daoist Sect."
The cultivation methods of the Daoist Sect and Buddhist Sect were entirely different.
In essence, the difference lay in how they interpreted the Dao.
Wu Yun had learned the Daoist Sect's secret manuals quickly. If he had studied the secret manuals and techniques created by the Bodhisattvas and Buddha of the Buddhist Sect, he probably wouldn't have understood them at all.
Some Buddhist Sect manuals placed great emphasis on compassion.
"If Master hadn't left me those Daoist Sect manuals, I wouldn't have been able to create Light-Dark Samsara." Wu Yun replied modestly.
"There have been at least a million Celestial Immortals who cultivated on Three Pure Ones Mountain."
Daoist Three Pure Ones spoke softly. "Talent is talent; there's no need to be modest. You are my seventy-second direct disciple and currently my only Celestial Immortal disciple."
Wu Yun listened obediently without interrupting.
"Not many of my disciples are still alive. You have fifty-three senior fellow disciples." Daoist Three Pure Ones sounded a little wistful as he continued. "Countless Celestial Gods and True Immortals died in that great calamity of antiquity. Though there is peace now, a crisis may still come in the future."
Daoist Three Pure Ones had been born a Chaos True God. Before the Wujian Chaos World arrived, he had once killed himself and reincarnated. By comprehending the opposite Heavenly Dao, his strength had surged to the level of a leader.
Daoist Three Pure Ones had taken some disciples in antiquity, but unfortunately, many had died in that great calamity.
"There'll be another crisis in the future?" Wu Yun pretended to be confused. "Could it come from Chaos?"
"You'll understand once you've cultivated to the True God Dao Ancestor level." Daoist Three Pure Ones smiled and changed the subject. "After joining my sect, I hope your strength will continue to grow."
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