Chaos Green Lotus Dao Foundation, First Divine Ability, Sword Slash Azure Sky

Time passed slowly. Then, at a certain moment, Jun Wangyou suddenly heard a profound, mysterious voice in his mind.

"Dao... achieved."

Jun Wangyou opened his eyes, slightly startled. "What was that?"

No one answered him.

Jun Wangyou was quite carefree. When he could not find the source of the voice, he assumed he had imagined it and stopped worrying about it, lowering his head to look at his dantian instead.

The vortex before Jun Wangyou's abdomen had finally vanished, and at the same time, he felt a strange sense of fullness.

Seeing this, Jun Wangyou finally let out a huge sigh of relief.

"I'm finally about to break through! If I didn't, this young master would have to live on air!"

Jun Wangyou cursed under his breath. It was not as if he could be blamed.

Since beginning his breakthrough until now, that vortex had absorbed more than fifty thousand spirit stones!

More than fifty thousand!

Jun Wangyou's heart ached so badly he could barely breathe!

At the same time, outside, a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared above the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land.

A Chaos Green Lotus that pierced the heavens and earth suddenly manifested, instantly alarming every expert in the sacred land.

True Man Qingwei appeared at once and used his methods to conceal the phenomenon.

As a result, it did not cause too much of a commotion.

Looking toward Lingtian Peak in the distance, True Man Qingwei's face was filled with gravity as he muttered:

"My dear disciple, just where did you come from? If this keeps up, even your master won't be able to protect you anymore."

True Man Qingwei's eyes were filled with concern, his heart bitter.

He would like a genius disciple, and an unparalleled prodigy would excite him.

But a disciple even more monstrous than a prodigy, one who did not seem human at all... that made him a little afraid.

At this moment, many elders emerged from the great hall at the same time.

"Sect Master, what was that just now?"

One elder spoke up, while the others all looked equally confused.

True Man Qingwei had acted too quickly, so they had not seen what had actually happened.

True Man Qingwei glanced at them, slowly shook his head, and sighed. "You... would be better off not knowing."

"Uh..."

The elders looked at one another, utterly bewildered.

A quarter of an hour later.

Jun Wangyou felt an incomparably powerful force within his dantian seem to break through some kind of restraint before instantly erupting and filling every part of his body.

It was as if his blood vessels had originally been dry, only to be flooded with endless blood at that instant.

Jun Wangyou could feel that his body seemed to contain inexhaustible Spiritual Power.

At the same time, he possessed strength more than a hundred times greater than what he had had in the Qi Refining Realm.

"So this is spiritual energy. It really is powerful. Brute force cannot compare at all."

Jun Wangyou looked at his fist, repeatedly clenching and unclenching it.

A brilliant smile spread across his face.

He felt that he could blow apart a small mountain with a single punch now.

[You have broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm and formed a perfect Dao Foundation, finally becoming a qualified experience pack. You have the following choices.]

[Choice 1: Release all your power and let heaven and earth sense you. Continue breaking the Eternal Extreme Realm, and you will become famous throughout the world, revered by all as the greatest prodigy in existence. You will gain the Changsun Clan's hatred—choice reward: one divine ability.]

[Choice 2: Conceal your strength. Fame and fortune are but floating clouds to me. Continue adhering to the great Dao of lying low. Your prestige in the Qi Refining Realm will decrease—choice reward: one divine ability.]

Jun Wangyou did not hesitate much before directly choosing 2.

Back in the Qi Refining Realm, he had chosen 1.

The result had been the attention of the world, the Yin Yang Sacred Land's challenge, and endless trouble.

As the saying went, the famous attracted trouble, and the fattest pig was the first to be slaughtered.

Jun Wangyou only wanted to cultivate honestly while keeping a low profile, becoming an old hand who hid his strength.

Ideally, no one would even know he existed.

Only by hiding in the shadows could he seize the initiative.

[You have obtained the low-grade divine ability, 'Sword Slash Azure Sky.' Do you wish to comprehend it?]

"Sword Slash Azure Sky..."

Jun Wangyou's eyes lit up. The name alone sounded incredibly impressive.

He could not wait to try it out.

He took out the Nine Heavens Scarlet Fire Sword and set it beside him before selecting comprehension.

In an instant, a vast amount of information surged into Jun Wangyou's mind.

His consciousness crossed time and space, arriving at the edge of a cliff.

At the cliff's edge, he raised his longsword and closed his eyes in contemplation. At the same time, the spiritual energy within him gathered wildly toward the sword in his hand like a breached flood.

Gradually, a sword aura that pierced the heavens condensed upon the longsword.

Carrying an unstoppable, terrifying will to cleave open the firmament, he swung his sword.

Clang!

With a single sword strike, heaven and earth changed color!

The boundless sky before Jun Wangyou was cut open, leaving behind a spatial rift through which he could see the sea of stars.

Then Jun Wangyou's consciousness returned to his body.

When he opened his eyes, Jun Wangyou's gaze was full of shock as he exclaimed:

"So strong! Is this a divine ability?"

Divine abilities were far stronger than Dao techniques.

There was a saying: divine abilities were vast, while spells were powerful.

With that one phrase, the difference between the two was obvious.

At the same time, divine abilities were hundreds or thousands of times harder to obtain and comprehend than Dao techniques.

If a low-grade divine ability already possessed such might, Jun Wangyou found it hard to imagine what kind of spectacle a high-grade divine ability would produce!

What about even higher ones?

And what rank of divine abilities were his innate divine abilities, Time Stop and Chaos Power?

After three months of exploration.

Jun Wangyou had figured out a few things.

First, Time Stop was a skill that could be activated either actively or passively.

Whenever Jun Wangyou faced mortal danger, Time Stop would trigger passively.

Under ordinary circumstances, however, he had to activate it himself if he wanted to use it.

Active activation came at a certain cost: it required a massive amount of mental energy.

Jun Wangyou's first two activations had both been passive, so he had not felt any discomfort.

It was only when he later researched it that he discovered this.

Second, when using Time Stop, the stronger the enemy, the weaker the restriction they suffered. Xiong Lie was an example.

Against enemies whose cultivation realms vastly surpassed his own, Time Prohibition was almost useless.

Moreover, the stronger the enemy, the more mental energy Jun Wangyou consumed.

Once his mental energy was exhausted, Jun Wangyou would fall into a deep sleep.

As for Chaos Power, Jun Wangyou had no clue at all.

Shaking his head, Jun Wangyou picked up the Nine Heavens Scarlet Fire Sword, rose to his feet, and walked outside.

Reaching the edge of Lingtian Peak, Jun Wangyou calmed his breathing and stood still.

Gripping the Nine Heavens Scarlet Fire Sword tightly in his right hand, Jun Wangyou took a deep breath and began mobilizing the Spiritual Power within him.

A steady stream of pure Spiritual Power poured into the Nine Heavens Scarlet Fire Sword, making Little Fire, the artifact spirit, cry out in comfort.

"Ahh~ Oh, oh, so good~ So comfortable~"

Inside the Nine Heavens Scarlet Fire Sword, Little Fire narrowed his eyes in bliss while inwardly sighing:

"As expected of the master Master Pagoda has been waiting for. This Spiritual Power is far too pure!"

"It's even better than all my previous masters combined."

Naturally, Jun Wangyou had no idea what Little Fire was thinking.

Right now, he only wanted to test the power of Sword Slash Nine Heavens.

The power of Sword Slash Nine Heavens differed depending on the user's cultivation realm.

To achieve the power he had displayed in the comprehension illusion, he would need to cultivate to at least the Spirit Severing Realm.

After a moment, the will to cleave apart the heavens began to spread across Lingtian Peak.

Jun Wangyou steadied his heart and muttered, "This should be enough."

He pointed his sword at the sky.

"Slash!"

Jun Wangyou swung his sword toward a mountain peak ahead of him.

Sword aura erupted in an instant, and an incomparably dazzling flash of white light swept past Jun Wangyou's eyes.

The next moment, he heard a series of booming explosions.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Jun Wangyou focused his eyes, and his entire body froze.

That was because five whole mountain peaks had vanished before his eyes.

Where had they gone?

Did that even need asking?

Jun Wangyou blinked. "Holy shit, they're not going to make me pay for that, are they?"

As soon as he said that, Jun Wangyou hurriedly packed up his things and fled at full speed.

I didn't do this.

I don't know anything.

Jun Wangyou ran away, but he did not know something.

Because of the disturbance from his breakthrough earlier, countless disciples had already gathered around Lingtian Peak.

Everything he had just done had also fallen fully into their eyes.

At this moment, countless disciples rubbed their eyes, all plunging into extreme self-doubt.

"Is this really the Foundation Establishment Realm? Who the hell are you trying to fool?"

"With that power, even a Core Formation Realm senior brother wouldn't be able to withstand it, right?"

"Senior Brother Jun truly deserves to be an unmatched genius who broke the Eternal Extreme Realm. He already has such power in the Foundation Establishment Realm. His future is limitless."

"Bullshit! I refuse to believe that's the Foundation Establishment Realm. If it really is, I'll eat the shit my Big Yellow took last night!"

"But then again, even someone as strong as Senior Brother Jun failed to break the Eternal Extreme Realm of the Foundation Establishment Realm?"

Below Lingtian Peak, countless disciples discussed the matter heatedly.

Meanwhile, in a certain corner, Jun Wangyou stared worriedly at the sky.

In his excitement just now, he had forgotten that releasing his strength would allow heaven and earth to sense him.

If he ended up breaking the Eternal Extreme Realm, he would really be screwed.

He watched for a while.

When he saw that the sky remained calm and sunny, Jun Wangyou finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Phew~ Good, good. I didn't break it. I knew it. How could the mighty Eternal Extreme Realm possibly be this weak?"

At the highest point of the Mystic Realm, within some unknowable, unnamable space.

The Extreme Dao Heavenly Stele was trembling violently.

Yet no matter how it stirred restlessly, it was as if an invisible hand forcibly held it down, preventing it from descending into the world.

Faintly, a cold snort seemed to echo out.

Within the Sea of Artifact Spirits, countless artifact spirits trembled all over, filled with terror.