Absolute Earth Heavenly Connection!
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Accompanied by a violent surge of Spiritual Qi, a round, hazy object, resembling a large ball of light yet radiating surging Law Power, leaped out from above Yang Ning's head.
Eighth level of Qi Condensation Stage: Divine Aspect Realm!
This is Yang Ning's Divine Appearance - Nightmare Immortal Dao Master!
It looks a bit like a giant sphere of light from a main god, but it doesn't have the imposing appearance of other gods with human heads and snake bodies, or wearing flat crowns and brocade robes.
But just as seven colors of light blend into white, and seven colors of pigment blend into black.
With boundless Divine Ability powers and limitless Law Power, coupled with the blessing of the Way of the Nightmare Immortal, Yang Ning's divine form ultimately became this large ball of light.
Although it appears simple, it possesses a profound sense of encompassing and embracing everything.
Yang Ning sensed his own divine form, then remained neither sad nor happy.
Unlike the Talisman Realm and Golden Core Realm, which offer a significant boost to combat power, the Divine Aspect Realm also provides an improvement, but not by much.
The Divine Aspect Realm is primarily for increasing cultivation speed.
Because once you reach the Divine Aspect Realm, your divine image can be projected onto a clay statue, allowing it to receive the faith of mortals.
Before Divine Aspect Realm, faith is like poison, eroding the cultivator's soul and spirit.
However, with the Divine Image, the Divine Image can purify the power of faith, transforming it into a pure force that can be absorbed by people.
With the replenishment of faith power, a cultivator's cultivation speed will naturally increase significantly.
However, this thing was of little use to Yang Ning, because he had the White Dragon Swallowing Absorption Technique. As long as there was a sufficient supply of Spiritual Qi, his cultivation speed would not be slower than that of collecting faith.
In addition, there's the power fed back from the Deep Blue Contract.
The hundreds of millions of people in the Spirit Realm, the billions of players, and the tens of millions of cultivators who have practiced the Yang God Method —the power they return is far greater than what a god could achieve by pretending to be a deity.
"Speaking of which, my cultivation speed is really quite fast!" Yang Ning pulled up the cultivation data of other major sects and Aristocratic Clan and compared it.
You don't know until you compare; the difference is astonishing.
Even though they all started practicing at age 12, we'll only consider the first 20% of the data.
It takes one year to go from the first to the Eighth Level of Body Refinement, at age 13. Cultivators from the Aristocratic Clan take three years, at age 16, while ordinary cultivators take six years, at age 18.
Eighth Level of Body Refinement to the Body Refinement Tenth Layer cultivation in one year, at the age of 14. He cultivated for three years in the secular world, reaching the age of 19. He cultivated for ten years in the general world, reaching the age of 28.
Body Refinement Tenth Layer to the Qi Refining First Level in one day at age 14. After five years of worldly cultivation, he was 24 years old. After eight years of ordinary cultivation, he was 36 years old.
It took two years to go from the Qi Refining First Level to the Qi Refining Fourth Level of Qi Refining, at age 16. It took 12 years for the Aristocratic Clan, at age 36, and 30 years for ordinary cultivators, at age 66.
It took one day to go from the Qi Refining Fourth Level to the Qi Refining Fifth Level of Qi Refining, at age 16. After 6 years of worldly cultivation, he was 42 years old. After 10 years of ordinary cultivation, he was 76 years old.
It took three years to go from the Qi Refining Fifth Level to the sixth level of Qi Refining, at age 19. After 60 years of worldly cultivation, he would be 102 years old. After 300 years of ordinary cultivation, he would be 376 years old.
It took three years to go from the sixth to the seventh level of Qi Refining, at the age of 22. After 80 years of worldly cultivation, he would be 182 years old. After 450 years of ordinary cultivation, he would be 826 years old.
It took him three years Qi Refining go from the seventh to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, at the age of 25. His family has been cultivating for 110 years, so he is 292 years old.
There is no data on ordinary cultivators because very few ordinary cultivators have made it this far, resulting in a severe lack of data that is no longer relevant.
The reason his cultivation speed was so fast was due to his self-created Breathing Technique, the invention of the Blood Activating Tablet and the Jade Bone Dragon Marrow Pill during the Body Refinement Realm, plus his two enlightenments and the effect of the White Dragon Swallowing Absorption Technique.
Qi Refining Stage, it is the combined effect of the White Dragon Swallowing Absorption Technique and the Deep Blue Contract.
Cultivation is a bit like making money. Ordinary cultivators are like farmers, with only a small plot of land, working hard to absorb Spiritual Qi.
The scions of ordinary Aristocratic Clan were like landlords; they owned more land, had more harvests, and even received rent from farmers.
Wealthy and powerful Aristocratic Clan are like government officials; with power in hand, they can make money much faster.
But regardless of the method, it's all about making money within a feudal system. This kind of money-making speed is limited by productivity; no matter how much you earn, there's always a limit.
But Yang Ning, from the very beginning, followed the path of a modern industrialized nation.
No one can eat Blood-Activating Pills like food; Jade Bone Pill and Dragon Marrow Pill are also extremely precious elixirs.
But after testing the prescription and the medicine, he found the active ingredient and then produced it at a very low cost to drink as a beverage.
Qi Refining Stage, the White Dragon Swallowing Absorption Technique is essentially a money printing machine, continuously producing banknotes.
The Deep Blue Contract is essentially a modern tax agency, where others have to pay 1% tax on their earnings.
His tax-collecting targets are the citizens of a modern nation who provide knowledge resources, build bridges and roads (to research the source of Spiritual Qi), and provide computers, greatly improving productivity.
What would a 1% tax rate in a modern country mean in ancient times?
To put it simply, the annual revenue of the Naruto mobile game is enough to hire all the ninjas in the entire Naruto village to do missions for ten years.
The annual revenue of the game "Three Kingdoms Kill" exceeds the total GDP of the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu over several decades.
The annual revenue of Genshin Impact could buy all seven kingdoms in Genshin Impact.
Moreover, Yang Ning's cultivation level didn't just increase without increasing his strength and influence!
His personal combat capabilities are unknown, but the number of warships, Fighter Jet, and Nuclear Bomb he possesses is quite terrifying.
After all, he was able to produce tens of thousands of Nuclear Bomb in just two months when he was at the Qi Refining First Level.
Now, how many years have passed?
"So, do we still need to be patient? Can we start now?" Yang Ning was getting impatient.
It's not that I lack patience, but rather that the next stage after the Qi Refining Stage is called the Three Tribulations Realm.
These three tribulations are the tribulations of wind, fire, and thunder, which are the tests that the Heavenly Dao of this realm places on cultivators.
The wind is yin wind, the fire is spiritual fire, and the thunder is mental thunder; none of these are natural objects, but rather originate from the cultivator himself.
A chilling wind rose from the cultivator's yin meridians, sweeping across his entire body, flesh, and bones.
The spiritual fire originated from the cultivator's soul, burning away the soul within the divine form and divine sea.
The thunder of the heart arises from the cultivator's mind, blasting away all will, dreams, and divine intent.
The Three Tribulations are a test of a cultivator's mind, skills, and body, and they utilize the cultivator's own power, similar in nature to the punishment incurred when the Deep Blue Contract is breached.
Such calamities are difficult to resist with external objects or technology. Moreover, even powerful cultivators like Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones are still far from the Divine Aspect Realm because they do not have the Deep Blue Contract, let alone the Three Tribulations Realm.
Therefore, Yang Ning had no experience in overcoming tribulations and was not confident that he could survive them.
According to big data, cultivators who can pass the Three Tribulations Realm may not necessarily be strong in terms of physical body, mind, or Divine Ability power, but they are mostly those who are single-minded in their pursuit of the Dao, without any attachments or worries.
Because they are single-mindedly pursuing the Dao, they can devote themselves wholeheartedly to fighting against tribulations, and their chances of surviving the three tribulations are very high.
Conversely, if one has worries on their mind, or has inner demons that have not been eliminated, or has unresolved karmic debts, it is easy to fail.
Yang Ning certainly has unresolved karmic debts.
Taiheng remained prosperous, the powerful Aristocratic Clan held high positions, the Ming Dynasty was still engulfed in war, and he himself remained hidden in the shadows, not daring to utter a single name.
To face the three tribulations in this state is tantamount to courting death, isn't it?
"Phew!" Feeling the Black Emperor's Eye, which had filled Taiheng and even the entire Tai Heng Star field with a very high density, Yang Ning let out a long sigh of relief.
They've endured and plotted for so long.
"Whether we succeed or fail, we'll see today!"
"Sever! Earth! Heaven! Connection!"
In an instant, the endless Black Emperor's Eye were activated, and the Tai Heng Star Domain seemed to be hit by a torrential rain. Endless ripples surged from all directions, directly turning the calm space into a pot of boiling soy milk!
"Cough!" A powerful Spiritual Law Realm coughed up blood and fell out of the void. "What happened?"
"Boom!" All 110,000 Teleportation Formation around the world that were still in operation shut down one by one, as if they had collided with Jupiter's planetary engines.
The Spiritual Law Realm cultivator, who had just finished his seclusion and was about to emerge from his inner realm to open his spatial dimension, suddenly sensed something was wrong.
The space seemed to be violently surging like waves, and his interior was like a submarine that had sunk to the bottom of the sea, drifting with the current.
It's definitely safe, but if someone dares to open the hatch at this time...
With the spatial fluctuations, no one knows what might happen!
Spiritual Law Realm cultivators are even less likely to have the scientific spirit to try it. After all, they have worked hard to cultivate to the Spiritual Law Realm and have a lifespan of tens of thousands of years. How could they possibly joke about their own lives?
"Is it a celestial phenomenon? Or an unusual occurrence?" The Spiritual Law Realm cultivator tried to calculate with his fingers, but he couldn't predict anything.
He shook his head, concluding that it was an unusual celestial phenomenon, and then went back into seclusion.
It should be over soon!
Even the second-level Spiritual Law Realm cultivators in Taiheng, still within the "Taiheng Space," sensed the changes in the space and frowned in unison.
Space is by no means a harmless form of energy; on the contrary, it is extremely dangerous.
This is why cultivators can only attempt to absorb elements after reaching the Spiritual Law Realm and cultivating Indestructible Golden Body, and even then, they must absorb calm Space Element.
With the space fluctuating like this, how can we absorb anything? Who would dare to absorb anything?
Those at the second level of the Spiritual Law Realm merely frowned, while cultivators at the third Spiritual Law Realm and above were already trembling with fear!
Because cultivators inside the inner realm cannot leave, and cultivators outside cannot enter the inner realm, and cannot use Space Divine Abilities or teleportation.
It should be understood that for a cultivator at the third level of the Spiritual Law Realm difference between their Inner Scenery Realm Divine Human Realm and the eighth level of the Spirit Law Realm, the difference between their Divine Ability abilities and their inner realm, is almost entirely dependent on their inner realm. Now that they cannot open their inner realm, it is equivalent to their cultivation level dropping directly to the second level of the Spiritual Law Realm!
This is outrageous!
Even though they have more Law Power and stronger physical bodies, compared to their previous overwhelming attacks on lower-level cultivators, they are now back on the arena with cultivators at the second level of the Spiritual Law Realm.
They are now at risk of being killed by cultivators at the second or even first level of the Spiritual Law Realm!
The ninth level of the Spiritual Law Realm, the Void Immortal Realm, and the tenth level, the True Immortal Realm, are not a problem for them. They can absorb Immortal Qi, Immortal Qi is a dimensional reduction attack on Spiritual Qi!
But these days, where would you find cultivators at the Void Immortal or True Immortal Realm in Tai Heng Star?
Absolute Earth Heavenly Connection!
Forbidden spatial Technique Method, bringing even the most powerful Spiritual Law Realm down to earth – this is Yang Ning's version of the "Absolute Earth Heavenly Connection"!
As for what the use of this is?
Yang Ning had already experimented with this at Southern Forest.
Even Spiritual Law Realm cultivator without spatial abilities would die under the 500 million°C temperature of a hydrogen bomb!
That was the most primitive version of the hydrogen bomb!