Soul Spirit, Two Supreme Cultivation Arts

After everyone dispersed, they stayed in this building, each with their own room. Yun Ze's room was on the fifth floor. Its layout was simple, and the only decorations were perhaps the various books on the shelves. There were truly many books in his room; the two bookcases were packed full, holding probably more than two hundred books in total. They covered Soul Beasts, Martial Souls, Soul Tools, Mechas, Battle Armor, continental history, and many other subjects. Reading was undoubtedly a good way to understand this world. Through reading, he now understood this world even better than its inhabitants. Over the past seven years, since he had been unable to cultivate, he had spent most of his time reading, with the rest spent guiding Soul Beasts. He sat cross-legged on a relatively open patch of floor and took out the purple Soul Spirit Ball. The Phoenix appeared behind him, spreading its wings with a cry as blazing flames burned fiercely, slightly distorting the air. He controlled the temperature of the flames well, confining them within half a meter of his body without allowing them to spread outward. There were quite a few wooden objects in the room. If flames of over a thousand degrees spread out, the entire room would catch fire. He reached his hand into the purple Soul Spirit Ball and felt a warm, smooth touch. The Flame Nine-Headed Bird Soul Spirit felt like warm water. The Flame Nine-Headed Bird was released, flapping its wings as it hovered before Yun Ze. Its nine heads were lowered, and its body trembled. Before the Phoenix, the Flame Nine-Headed Bird lowered its proud heads, without the slightest thought of resisting. "Cry!" The Phoenix called out and inhaled toward the Flame Nine-Headed Bird, which turned into a ball of fire and entered its abdomen. As the energy entered his body, Yun Ze immediately began circulating his Soul Power to refine it. The process was not difficult. Not only did the Flame Nine-Headed Bird not resist, it actively merged with Yun Ze. Its cultivation of over seventeen hundred years caused him no trouble at all. Half an hour later, Yun Ze successfully fused with the Soul Spirit. More than ten seconds later, two purple Soul Rings of the same color rose from the ground in succession. As the Soul Rings appeared, Yun Ze's cultivation also broke through, rising directly from level twenty to level twenty-one. This was one of the drawbacks of breaking through using Soul Spirits. In theory, the energy of two Soul Rings that were each over seventeen hundred years old should have been enough to raise his Soul Power by more than two levels.

Yet the energy the two Soul Rings actually provided Yun Ze was only equivalent to over seventeen hundred years—the Soul Spirit's own energy.

That was understandable. After all, the Soul Spirit only had that much energy. It could not just produce more out of thin air.

With a thought, a sphere of fiery light appeared before him out of nowhere. Its shape shifted, revealing the form of the Blazing Fire Nine-Headed Bird.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp..." The moment it appeared, the miniature Blazing Fire Nine-Headed Bird excitedly chirped at Yun Ze, behaving very affectionately.

However, it did not dare approach Yun Ze casually. The aura around him instinctively terrified it, so it had to keep its distance.

After letting the Blazing Fire Nine-Headed Bird remain outside for a while, Yun Ze recalled it. He did not immediately stand up, instead carefully sensing the changes in himself.

At the same time, he tried circulating the Immortal Phoenix Legacy Art. This had once been his main cultivation art, the Phoenix clan's strongest secret canon.

As he circulated it, the Soul Power of heaven and earth around him rapidly gathered and poured into his body.

This rate of absorbing Soul Power was considerably faster than that of Soul Ancestors, far surpassing the cultivation speed of a level twenty-one Soul Grandmaster.

After cultivating for ten minutes, Yun Ze temporarily stopped and opened his eyes, disappointment appearing on his face.

Too slow. The energy in this world was far too sparse to show the Immortal Phoenix Legacy Art's true effects at all.

It was like placing a water pipe a hundred meters in diameter into a nearly dried-up river. There was only so much water. No matter how powerful the pipe was, it could only draw that much, unable to display the power it should have possessed.

Moreover, his Soul Power was too weak, and the power it provided to the water pipe was limited as well, making the rate at which he absorbed Soul Power unsatisfactory.

Yun Ze's Immortal Phoenix Legacy Art was currently in just such an awkward situation. Not only was it being wasted on a lesser task, but it also had power it could not use.

Yun Ze quickly suppressed his disappointment. Slow was slow. It was already a fact, so he could only accept it.

"Hm?" Just as he was about to continue cultivating and consolidate this improvement, he sensed an abnormal movement from his heart.

"The Ancient Dragon Life Pearl!" After sensing carefully for a moment, Yun Ze identified the source of the disturbance.

Yun Ze could clearly feel a warm current flowing from his heart and gradually moving toward his brain.

He instinctively wanted to stop it, but in the end, he did not act and allowed the energy to flow into his mind.

Once the warm current entered his brain, a vast amount of information surged forth, accompanied by a swelling sensation. Yun Ze felt as though his brain were being expanded to the point of explosion.

He neither cried out in pain nor lost composure because of it. His expression remained unchanged as he forcibly endured the uncomfortable swelling.

Half an hour later, the sensation vanished, and Yun Ze eagerly began comprehending the massive amount of information.

It took him more than an hour to sort through it all. He could not help but rejoice. The Chaos Ancient Dragon Scripture.

The information that had flooded into his mind was a cultivation art called the Chaos Ancient Dragon Scripture, the supreme cultivation method of the Chaos Ancient Dragon clan.

It was of the same rank as his Immortal Phoenix Legacy Art, an unparalleled secret canon of the dragon clan and one of the Immortal Realm's seven Supreme Cultivation Arts.

"I finally have you." Even with Yun Ze's temperament, he was overcome with wild joy at that moment.

When dragon and phoenix sang together, they reigned supreme over the universe. Once he fused the two Supreme Cultivation Arts into one, he would be able to create a peerless cultivation art that surpassed Immortal Emperors.

Then, he could use it to break through to a realm above that of an Immortal Emperor, transcend heaven and earth, and become the sole supreme expert throughout eternity.

That was the realm he had always pursued. He had always been half a step short before, but now he might be able to cross that half-step. How could he not be delighted?

Yun Ze was, after all, Yun Ze. It did not take him long to calm himself and begin comprehending the Chaos Ancient Dragon Scripture.

The Chaos Ancient Dragon Scripture was as difficult to comprehend as the Immortal Phoenix Legacy Art. With his experience comprehending the latter, comprehending the former was much easier.

As a former Immortal Emperor, Yun Ze's comprehension needed no explanation. He quickly understood the cultivation method of its initial section.

To his surprise, he discovered that the initial sections of the two arts had many elements in common. Could these two cultivation arts actually be one whole?

If they truly are one, fusing them will be much easier, Yun Ze thought.

He began cultivating the initial sections of both arts simultaneously. Dividing his attention perfectly, he kept them from conflicting with each other.

The realms of cultivation arts were also affected by their cultivator's strength, and the two progressed in sync.

With Yun Ze cultivating at his current level, the arts' progress was basically zero. At this rate, even if he cultivated for thousands of years, there probably would not be much progress.

Yun Ze was not surprised by this. He had long known that the progress would be so slow as to be negligible, yet he still circulated the cultivation arts.

It was not for the realm of the cultivation arts, but to improve his own comprehension of them and prepare for after he left this world.

It was worth mentioning that circulating both cultivation arts at once increased Yun Ze's rate of absorbing Soul Power, making it comparable to that of a high-level Soul King.

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