Inside his Purple Mansion dantian, the black bead was perfectly round.
It was about the size of a baby's fist, and faint specks of starlight seemed to shimmer within.
As its radiance continued to bloom, a strangely cool aura washed over him, settling upon his soul and true spirit.
That sensation, much like sudden enlightenment, made cultivating the divine ability Three Heads and Six Arms as easy as eating or drinking for Lei Zhan.
"Three Heads and Six Arms!"
"Manifest!"
Lei Zhan rose to his feet in the quiet room and focused his thoughts.
Rumble!
His body shuddered, and four additional arms sprouted from him. Two more heads emerged from his shoulders.
The four new arms were just like his real ones. Two of them gripped a spear as thick as a child's arm.
"I've mastered the divine ability Three Heads and Six Arms!"
Lei Zhan's voice echoed through the quiet room. A smile played across all three of his identical, handsome faces.
"With that bead's help, cultivating this kind of divine ability is actually this easy!"
Lei Zhan's thoughts stirred, and he looked toward the black bead in his Purple Mansion dantian.
The bead was smooth and lustrous, still glowing black, but the specks of starlight within had dimmed.
"Hm? The starlight's gone?" Lei Zhan immediately examined it.
"Looks like the reason this treasure can glow and put me in a state so close to sudden enlightenment is the starlight inside it."
"One moment of sudden enlightenment while comprehending Three Heads and Six Arms was enough to dim the bead. There must be all sorts of restrictions on using this treasure."
Lei Zhan pondered.
"But this is already more than enough. Before, I knew nothing at all about the divine ability Three Heads and Six Arms. Now, I've mastered it in just an hour. A treasure like this—even if I only use it at a crucial moment—has already granted me an enormous stroke of fortune."
Lei Zhan shook his head. Then, with a thought, the black bead appeared in the palm of one of his arms.
Whoosh~~~
Countless streams of incredibly pure Xiantian essence enveloped the black bead.
"This... just as I thought! I can store it in my Purple Mansion dantian, but I can't refine it with essence?"
Lei Zhan fixed his gaze on the black bead. Though he was only at the Xiantian stage in qi cultivation, his incredibly pure essence still couldn't penetrate it in the slightest.
Even with a more powerful treasure, like the Human-Grade Magic Treasure in his hand, the feeling was entirely different. His Xiantian cultivation was likewise insufficient to refine it, but that was simply because his essence wasn't strong enough.
The black bead was different. His essence couldn't touch it at all.
"Mm. What a pity. Only after reaching the Celestial God level can divine power refine magic treasures as freely as magical power. As for Divine Sense, or even more mysterious Heart Power, I can't touch those at my current level." Lei Zhan sighed inwardly.
"At least I can store it in my Purple Mansion dantian. That'll save me a lot of trouble."
After a brief attempt, Lei Zhan gave up.
Taking the bead out of his Purple Mansion dantian just now had already been an extremely risky move.
As for further experiments, this treasure was far too precious. It might even be connected to the mystery of how he had come to this world. Now was clearly not the time to investigate it more deeply.
"That little fellow Lei Zhan has talent beyond anything Juhua could ever hope for." In the void of the Water Mansion, the phantom of a yellow-haired great bear watched in silence.
He was the Magic Treasure Spirit of the entire Water Mansion, and the mansion itself was practically his body. Naturally, he knew everything that happened within it like the back of his hand.
"Juhua really did luck into a fine disciple! Lei Zhan entered the Dao at four and even comprehended a Domain Realm of the Dao. That's exceedingly rare among gods and demons."
"Now he's just as gifted at learning divine abilities. Three Heads and Six Arms is a complicated divine ability for a Purple Mansion cultivator, yet he mastered it in a mere hour."
"He should be the most talented successor the master has had since he created the Water Mansion." The yellow-haired great bear fell into reminiscence. "Little fellow, you may well become your master's successor."
"I hope... you can help me find him in the end!"
Ever since the Xiantian Spirit Treasure known as Star-Plucking Mansion had come into being in ancient times, it had had only one master.
That was the battle-hardened Daoist Sanshou, whose fame had spread throughout the Three Realms—the Master of Star-Plucking Mansion.
Even after endless years had passed, the Magic Treasure Spirit still thought of his master, whose fate remained unknown.
"Hmm? What's that little fellow doing?"
Suddenly, the yellow-haired great bear's gaze sharpened.
In the quiet room, he sensed a weak stream of essence continuously flowing from Lei Zhan's palm.
The essence spread out, seemingly enclosing something, and rapidly formed a hollow sphere about the size of a fist.
The yellow-haired great bear wondered, "Lei Zhan is a little strange. It looks as if he's holding a bead in his hand."
"But the qi cultivation method Juhua gave him may only be an incomplete fragment, yet the essence it produces far surpasses that of other methods at the same level!"
"I wonder where he got such a mysterious method." The yellow-haired great bear shook his head and stopped paying attention to Lei Zhan.
Unless necessary, he had no habit of prying into a little fellow's privacy.
The quiet room was vast and spacious, with a simple, ancient feel.
At its center stood tier upon tier of steps. At the top rested a simple bed of dark jade, radiating a frigid chill.
An elderly, lean Daoist in a robe sat cross-legged upon the bed, eyes closed. This was none other than Immortal Juhua.
Suddenly—
"Hm? This fluctuation in vital energy..." Immortal Juhua's eyes snapped open, a flicker of surprise in them.
"This fluctuation is coming from the quiet room where my disciple is!"
Immortal Juhua focused his thoughts and released his Divine Sense. In an instant, it shrouded most of the Water Mansion.
"This is... Three Heads and Six Arms!" Immortal Juhua blurted out, a trace of shock barely concealed in his voice.
Under the scrutiny of his Divine Sense, every detail was clear.
In Lei Zhan's quiet room stood a young man using Three Heads and Six Arms, a smile on all three of his identical faces.
"My disciple actually mastered Three Heads and Six Arms in less than a day?"
Immortal Juhua was certain this was the first time his disciple had cultivated the divine ability Three Heads and Six Arms.
After all, how could a mere Purple Mansion cultivator of the God and Devil Body Refining Path so easily deceive a Loose Immortal who had lived for millions of years?
"This talent..." Immortal Juhua was at a loss for words. "But now that my disciple has learned Three Heads and Six Arms, he's still missing two suitable Divine Demon Blood-Refined Divine Weapons."
Immortal Juhua murmured softly, the corners of his mouth lifting.
"As his master, I can't be too stingy. I don't want that yellow-haired great bear laughing at me later..."
In the ancient, tranquil room, his voice grew quieter and soon faded into silence.
As for the young man using Three Heads and Six Arms, beneath the Divine Sense of a Loose Immortal of a million years, there was nothing out of the ordinary from beginning to end—aside from the strange sphere of essence.
I changed the title of the previous chapter. This chapter keeps the original title. It roughly explains the cheat's wondrous effects: it needs some kind of substance to replenish it, and once charged, it can be released all at once to grant a moment of sudden enlightenment. Wearing it normally can increase comprehension.
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