Divine Ability

Biodata

Power Progression

Classification

The three ranks and their subdivisions are also collectively numbered from first through ninth grade, with first grade the lowest and ninth grade the highest. A seed's grade depends on both the secret technique used to condense it and the grade and quantity of its mediating power. 61

A divine ability’s seed grade determines its potential, while the number of seeds a cultivator can bear depends on the strength of their divine soul. Mortal-rank abilities may be weaker than certain profound spells or wondrous arts. 61

Ancient-race innate divine abilities are exceptionally powerful; the dragon race's command over wind and rain and the phoenix race's nirvana are described as being at least fourth-grade spiritual rank. 61

A lesser or minor divine ability can be strengthened through repeated enhancement, but ninth-grade lesser divine abilities still possess incomplete runes. Nascent Soul Tribulation Golden Light can complete such runes and elevate them into true divine abilities. 128

Cultivation

Divine abilities are created by using divine soul as “brush and ink” to carve an ancient foundational rune into the illusory sea of consciousness. The rune requires a special catalyst, called mediating power, before it can become a viable seed. 61

Known forms of mediating power include:

• Sword intent for sword cultivators. 61
• Blood baleful intent for demonic cultivators. 61
• Karmic Retribution, used by Zhao Hao as material for his Li Fire-based divine ability seed. 50 51 61
• Earth fire, which Zhao Hao uses when condensing a first-grade seed. 61
• Demon-beast bloodlines, which can awaken bloodline divine abilities through Blood Spirit Pills and the Blood Spirit Scripture. 78 95

Once hatched, a seed becomes a complete rune branded upon the divine soul. Unlike ordinary spells, divine abilities can communicate with the power of heaven and earth; their power grows with the wielder’s realm and comprehension, allowing them to accompany a cultivator throughout life. 61

Lesser divine abilities are ordinarily powers that Golden Core cultivators are qualified to cultivate. Exceptionally talented Foundation Establishment cultivators can use ancient secret arts to plant seeds in advance, then borrow the heaven-and-earth favor of their Golden Core breakthrough to hatch them. The Li Fire Secret Technique supplied by Old Ancestor Guo normally supports seeds up to sixth grade. 51 61

Improving a low-grade seed's grade through ordinary means is exceptionally difficult once it has formed. Zhao Hao therefore treats the Foundation Establishment period as his best opportunity to enhance seeds, since strengthening them after they hatch at Golden Core requires vastly greater quantities of materials. 61 76

The Blood Spirit Scripture erases the residual wills within demon-beast bloodlines while preserving their primitive bloodline power. Although the resulting borrowed abilities initially unleash only a fraction of the original demon beast's power, the technique theoretically permits unlimited bloodline fusion so long as the user's Origin Bloodline Power is sufficient. 78

Zhao Hao uses the System to treat low-grade or incomplete divine abilities as enhancement materials. This enables him to surpass the rank ceiling imposed by the incomplete Blood Spirit Scripture and restore bloodline-derived abilities to their full grades. 96

Minor divine abilities can also serve as materials for enhancing true divine abilities, but Zhao Hao finds their enhancement success rates too low to be practical when strengthening Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm. He subsequently refines Azure-Winged White Tiger blood essence to acquire additional divine abilities as materials for his Heavenly Demon abilities. 136 139

At Nascent Soul, Tribulation Golden Light can be directed into ninth-grade lesser divine-ability runes to fill their missing portions. This completes their transformation into true divine abilities and substantially improves the user's control over them. 128

Divine abilities can be reinforced through compatible rule comprehensions. Zhao Hao's Karma, Heart Demon, and Fire Rules can strengthen Red Lotus Karmic Fire and his Heavenly Demon divine abilities, while Wind and Water Rules respectively complement Golden Roc Spreads Wings and Thousand Ghost Servants Scale-Guarding Shield. 151 178

Matching bloodline Dharma Images can also support divine abilities. Zhao Hao combines his Golden Roc Dharma Image with Golden Roc Spreads Wings and Golden Eyes while clearing the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Tower's Nascent Soul combat stages. 157

Divine abilities can also be combined to produce effects beyond their individual uses. Zhao Hao uses Unity of Ten Thousand Paths to harmonize his essence, qi, and spirit during his Body Integration breakthrough, then combines it with Heavenly Hound Devours the Moon to consume tribulation lightning. 281 283

Unity of Ten Thousand Paths enables genuine fusion rather than merely applying several powers together. Fused Five Elements Laws empower an ordinary Fireball Technique until its destructive power rivals ninth-grade Red Lotus Karmic Fire; applying fused Fire and Causality powers to Red Lotus Karmic Fire itself produces the far stronger Chaos Karmic Fire. Zhao Hao later uses the same principle to merge five great laws into the karmic-fire ability. 278 294

Divine abilities are subject to environmental and realm restrictions rather than functioning universally. During an invasion of another cultivator's sea of consciousness, Zhao Hao cannot activate Red Lotus Karmic Fire or Golden Eyes, although Formless Demon Body and divine sense remain usable. In the Immortal Realm, Zhao Hai's ninth-grade Other-Transformation Calamity Thought begins forming a gateway to the Inner Landscape World, but the Immortal Realm's Heavenly Dao immediately crushes it. 144 340

Types

Acquired Divine Abilities

Acquired divine abilities are cultivated after birth through the carving, catalysis, and hatching of a divine ability seed. Their creation is dangerous enough that ambitious cultivators avoid casually condensing low-grade seeds, since their divine souls have limited capacity. 61

• Li Fire Bright Void Pupil — Old Ancestor Guo’s pupil-based divine ability, capable of seeing through all things. 61
• Crimson Li Karma Fire / Red Lotus Karmic Fire — A karmic-fire ability cultivated by Zhao Hao; it evolves into Red Lotus Karmic Fire after his Golden Core tribulation. It specializes in burning and attacking divine souls, though its fire nature leaves it vulnerable to certain highly sharp metal-attributed attacks. Causality and Space Rules can expand its thirty-six-petaled lotus into a forty-eight-petaled form with twelve silver spatial petals. It later becomes the basis for Chaos Karmic Fire and a five-law fused lotus. 50 51 83 130 231 278 294
• Chaos Karmic Fire — An empowered form of Red Lotus Karmic Fire produced through Unity of Ten Thousand Paths by fusing perfected Fire Law and Causality Rule. Its chaos-colored lotus emits more than ten times the pressure of the preceding form, dissolves space capable of withstanding Body Integration attacks, and annihilates the spatial turbulence that approaches it. 278
• Earth-Li Origin Flame — A minor divine ability cultivated by Zhao Hao after reaching Golden Core. Unlike Red Lotus Karmic Fire, it is a conventional fire-attributed offensive ability effective against targets such as puppets and formations. 86
• Five Finger Mountain — Used by Zhao Hao during his heart-demon trial to trick and capture an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon clone. 82
• Eye of Chaos — A ninth-grade divine ability awakened from Zhao Hao's vertical brow mark after he absorbs the final tribulation lightning and completes his Heavenly Demon transformation. It can redirect hostile attacks and disrupt enemy coordination amid large-scale combat. Xiao Gu later channels five fused laws through it for a powerful strike, at a cost of roughly one-third of his Chaos Dharma Power reserves. 204 269 300
• Fleeting Life, Illusory Dream — A ninth-grade Sky Fox illusion ability whose power increases with the number of fox tails possessed by the user. It can conceal a cave abode and its leaking aura when supported by Heart Demon Rule; combined with Causality and Heart Demon Rules, it also obstructs observation and divine-sense surveillance. 212 219 248
• Nine-Tailed Life Substitute — A ninth-grade karmic ability that transfers the user's injuries to a prepared medium. Hu Qingshan uses it to survive Zhao Hao's ambush at the cost of further fox tails. 212 231
• Spatial Traversal — A ninth-grade divine ability Xiao Gu uses with the Space Rule to open a spatial passage. Hu Yang also uses it to escape a thousand miles away from the Body Integration ancestor Youyue. 213 256
• Unity of Ten Thousand Paths — A ninth-grade fusion ability created by an alternate Zhao Hao from the accumulated insights of perfected cultivation techniques and divine abilities. It combines powers of different attributes into a new, higher-level power; Zhao Hao later uses it to unify his cultivation energies and support his Body Integration breakthrough. It can fuse both rule powers and higher-order laws, including Time, Space, Causality, Heart Demon, and Blood Laws. 277 278 281 292 294
• Heavenly Hound Devours the Moon — A devouring ability used by Xiao Yan to attempt to swallow an entire battlefield while searching for traces. Zhao Hao later combines it with Unity of Ten Thousand Paths to swallow Body Integration tribulation lightning and clouds. In the Immortal Realm, Zhao Hai uses it to tear a vast mountain range from the continent and store it in an immortal-artifact Storage Ring; strengthened with Chaos Law, it can also swallow fleeing True Immortal enemies and their formation flags. 265 283 341 363
• Blood Refining Divine Ability — Sun Hao's ability, used to bind a Golden Roc during the expedition to its island. 91

Innate Divine Abilities

Innate divine abilities, also called inborn divine abilities, are abilities possessed at birth by powerful ancient races. 61

• Star Eye Divine Ability — Used by a mid-stage Golden Core Golden Roc; it pierces Wan Renli’s defenses. Its awakening is attributed to the Golden Roc's ancestral bloodline reversion toward the Golden-Winged Great Roc, and it also penetrates Fairy Ruan's concealment formation. 90 91
• Golden Eyes — Awakened by Zhao Hao from Ancestral Golden Roc blood through Blood Spirit Pills; later enhanced to sixth grade. It combines illusion-breaking vision with offensive golden beams. It can pierce Fan Jin’s fifth-grade Mystic Armor Protection, see through Linyuan City’s protection array, and identify the artifact origins of Magical Treasure Spirit Race members. 95 96 98 107 247
• Golden Roc Spreads Wings — Awakened from Golden Roc blood and enhanced to sixth grade; used for escape and flight. It later becomes a ninth-grade true divine ability. 96 102 128
• Mystic Armor Protection — Awakened from a Mystic Turtle Blood Spirit Pill at first grade, then enhanced to sixth grade. 95 96
• Camouflage — Derived from a first-tier Coral Beast bloodline and enhanced to sixth grade for concealment; Zhao Hao uses it with Golden Roc Spreads Wings to evade Elder Wu. It is later completed into a ninth-grade true divine ability. It can alter outward appearance and aura as well as blend the user into the surroundings. Empowered by Unity of Ten Thousand Paths and hundreds of perfected laws, it can make Xiao Gu imperceptible despite his physical presence. 96 102 147 169 287
• Rapid Digestion — Derived from a second-tier Giant-Toothed Demon Shark bloodline and enhanced to sixth grade for its specialized utility, allowing Zhao Hao to rapidly digest spiritual objects and replenish spiritual power and Vitality Energy. 96
• Fire Spirit Affinity — A fire-attributed ability associated with Zhao Hao's Fire Spirit Body. At ninth grade, it can gather and control fire-attributed spiritual qi over an enormous area, forcibly drawing it from the environment within a radius of ten thousand li. 69 124 128
• Metal, Wood, Water, and Earth Spirit Affinity — Four corresponding divine abilities that appear when Zhao Hao restores his missing elemental spiritual roots and develops their spirit physiques. Together with Fire Spirit Affinity, they draw five-element spiritual energy into his body. 292
• Ghost Servant Soul-Devouring Wave — An Azure-Winged White Tiger bloodline ability focused purely on attacking the soul. 113
• Geng-Edge Tide-Shattering Breath — A fierce metal-attributed Azure-Winged White Tiger ability that can form a destructive Geng Metal storm. 113 130
• Thousand Ghost Servants Scale-Guarding Shield — An Azure-Winged White Tiger defensive ability that protects both the physical body and soul. It is later elevated into a ninth-grade true divine ability. 113 128
• Formless Demon Body — A core Heavenly Demon life-preserving ability that turns its user into intangible black smoke, allowing them to ignore most attacks, formations, and restrictions; specialized soul attacks such as Red Lotus Karmic Fire remain a weakness. Zhao Hao raises it to ninth grade and later uses it through Ye Wuchen to enter a fifth-tier defensive formation without triggering it. 132 133 142 169
• Heavenly Demon Contract — A witnessing-type Heavenly Demon ability that permits a Heavenly Demon to sense breaches of a contract and potentially invade the violator's sea of consciousness when their soul is weakened. Zhao Hao raises it to ninth grade. 132 133 142
• Other-Transformation Calamity Thought — A Heavenly Demon ability that records a spatial coordinate and opens a gateway for entering and leaving inner landscape worlds, at the cost of continuously consuming soul power. At ninth grade, Zhao Hao can use it to open a vortex gate connecting to an avatar. Its gateway can be suppressed by the Immortal Realm's Heavenly Dao, preventing Zhao Hai's attempted connection to the Inner Landscape World. 132 134 231 340
• Plant Demon in the Dao Heart — A Heavenly Demon ability used to implant a demon seed in a target's Dao heart and soul, allowing Zhao Hao to create and control avatars across multiple worlds. It can also erase a target's consciousness and remake them as an avatar, as demonstrated on Ya Jiu during his Heart Demon tribulation. 132 145 194 242 296
• Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm — A Heavenly Demon ability that creates and controls a heart-demon illusion realm; Zhao Hao strengthens it to ninth grade after its first-rank form proves insufficiently controllable. With perfected Heart Demon Rule support, it can render beings below Void Refinement unable to perceive Hu Yang. Zhao Hao later uses it to overcome Ya Jiu's Soul-Calming Bell during a Heart Demon tribulation invasion. 132 136 142 143 210 296
• Water Manipulation / Water Control — A ninth-grade True Dragon ability that gathers and controls water-attributed spiritual qi. 194 195
• Thunder Manipulation / Thunder Control — A ninth-grade True Dragon ability that controls lightning, allowing Zhao Hao to condense and direct destructive thunder attacks. 194 195
• Wind Manipulation / Wind Control — A ninth-grade True Dragon ability that commands wind for high-speed movement and flight. 194 195
• Dragon Might — A ninth-grade True Dragon ability whose bloodline pressure can annihilate weaker birds and beasts. 194 195
• Dragon Breath — A ninth-grade True Dragon ability that releases corrosive breath capable of destroying magical-treasure defenses. 194 195
• True Dragon Body — A ninth-grade ability allowing Zhao Hao to transform into a thirty-zhang five-clawed black dragon, though it consumes spiritual power at an extreme rate. 194 195
• Heavenly Demon Transformation — A ninth-grade ability born from the Heavenly Demon Body that permits transformations into various demon beasts through bloodline power rather than spiritual-power expenditure. It significantly amplifies divine abilities sharing the transformed race's origin, with Heavenly Demon True Form providing still greater amplification. Zhao Hao later uses its Heavenly Demon form to withstand the fusion of his essence, qi, and spirit during his Body Integration breakthrough. 199 281
• Bloodline Reversion — A ninth-grade ability that purifies and evolves true-spirit bloodlines, though its use consumes enormous quantities of life-source energy. 199
• Hundred Convergences Crystal Condensation Art — An innate Crystal Race divine ability mastered by Xiao Gu. It condenses mana into Spirit Crystals and brands the user's law comprehensions into them for later absorption and study. 250

Known Users

• Zhao Hao — Cultivates and enhances numerous acquired and bloodline-derived divine abilities, including Red Lotus Karmic Fire, Earth-Li Origin Flame, Fire Spirit Affinity, Golden Eyes, Golden Roc Spreads Wings, Mystic Armor Protection, Camouflage, Rapid Digestion, Thousand Ghost Servants Scale-Guarding Shield, and several Heavenly Demon, True Dragon, and Sky Fox divine abilities. He later gains Unity of Ten Thousand Paths and Metal, Wood, Water, and Earth Spirit Affinity, and develops increasingly powerful law-fused applications of Red Lotus Karmic Fire. 83 86 96 128 195 199 204 212 277 278 292 294
• Xiao Gu — Zhao Hao's Heavenly Wolf avatar, who masters the Hundred Convergences Crystal Condensation Art and uses it with Zhao Hao's avatar network to produce Spirit Crystals. He also uses Spatial Traversal, Golden Eyes, Heavenly Demon Transformation, Eye of Chaos, and Other-Transformation Calamity Thought. 250 256 287 288 298 300
• Old Ancestor Guo — Possesses Li Fire Bright Void Pupils and teaches Zhao Hao the principles of divine ability condensation through a jade slip. 50 61
• Golden Roc — Possesses the innate Star Eye Divine Ability. 90
• Fan Jin — Possesses a fifth-grade Mystic Armor Protection divine ability through the complete Blood Spirit Scripture. 98
• Azure-Winged White Tigers — Possess Ghost Servant Soul-Devouring Wave, Geng-Edge Tide-Shattering Breath, and Thousand Ghost Servants Scale-Guarding Shield. 111 113
• Fairy Bingyue — Possesses an Ice Flame minor divine ability. 106
• Moro and the Heavenly Demon race — Possess Heavenly Demon racial divine abilities such as Formless Demon Body, Heavenly Demon Contract, Plant Demon in the Dao Heart, Other-Transformation Calamity Thought, and Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm. 132 133
• Hu Qingshan — The Green Hill Fox Clan patriarch possesses Nine-Tailed Life Substitute, which he uses to escape Zhao Hao after sustaining catastrophic injuries. 231
• Blood Spirit Ancestor — Uses Eye of Chaos while fighting the Spirit World's Mahayana coalition, disrupting and redirecting its combined attacks. 269
• Crystal Race — Possesses the innate Hundred Convergences Crystal Condensation Art. 250
• Xiao Yan — A Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf Mahayana avatar who uses Heavenly Hound Devours the Moon to investigate the site of Zhao Hao's thunder attack. 265
• Stitched monster of Blood Spirit Hall — Possesses a spatial divine ability used to detect and attack intruders. 118
• Sun Hao — Uses a Blood Refining Divine Ability to bind a Golden Roc during the island expedition. 91
• Ye Wuchen — Zhao Hao's avatar uses Golden Roc Dharma Image alongside corresponding divine abilities, Golden Eyes to investigate concealed treasures, and Formless Demon Body to infiltrate a fifth-tier formation. 157 169 170
• Hu Yang — Zhao Hao's fox avatar uses Fleeting Life, Illusory Dream, Golden Roc Spreads Wings, and Spatial Traversal, including an escape from the Body Integration ancestor Youyue. 210 213 219
• Ya Jiu — Zhao Hao's Nether Crow avatar uses Other-Transformation Calamity Thought to provide Xiao Gu passage to the Demon Realm. 296
• Zhao Hai — Uses Heavenly Hound Devours the Moon in the Immortal Realm to collect a mountain range and, with Chaos Law reinforcement, swallow enemy True Immortals. His attempt to use Other-Transformation Calamity Thought to contact the Inner Landscape World is blocked by the Immortal Realm's Heavenly Dao. 340 341 363
• Alternate Zhao Hao with the Proficiency Panel — Creates Unity of Ten Thousand Paths after perfecting thousands of techniques and divine abilities. He uses its fused powers to resist the pursuing Zhao Hao for an entire day and night despite possessing only late Nascent Soul cultivation against perfected Spirit Transformation power. 278

Trivia

• Zhao Hao regards low-grade divine ability seeds, which other cultivators hesitate to condense, as valuable strengthening materials for his System. 61
• The Blood Spirit Scripture can erase demonic-beast wills while retaining their bloodline power, enabling repeated bloodline fusion and the acquisition of additional divine abilities. 78
• Zhao Hao’s System enhancement of a sixth-grade Lesser Divine Ability consumes two fourth-rank, five third-rank, twenty-five second-rank, and 125 first-rank minor divine abilities. 96
• Zhao Hao later sacrifices hundreds of bloodline-derived divine abilities, most at fifth grade or higher, to raise Red Lotus Karmic Fire, Golden Roc Spreads Wings, and Thousand Ghost Servants Scale-Guarding Shield to ninth grade. 128
• Heavenly Demon Transformation is much less spiritually taxing than True Dragon Body because it performs a genuine bloodline-origin transformation, whereas True Dragon Body forcefully simulates the form through spiritual power. 199
• Xiao Gu combines Hundred Convergences Crystal Condensation Art with Zhao Hao's System and more than a thousand Nascent Soul avatars, establishing a mass-production method for upgraded Spirit Crystals. 250
• Unity of Ten Thousand Paths originated with an alternate Zhao Hao, who used a Proficiency Panel to perfect thousands of techniques and divine abilities before synthesizing their insights. 278
• Xiao Gu's five-law Eye of Chaos strike consumes roughly one-third of his Chaos Dharma Power, making repeated use dangerous when he cannot quickly replenish his reserves. 300
• Fire Spirit Affinity is Zhao Hao's first divine ability to reach ninth grade; its advancement follows that of his Fire Spirit Body rather than a direct System enhancement of the ability itself. 124
• Earth-Li Origin Flame also has mundane utility: Zhao Hao uses it to power a grill while his Azure-Winged White Tiger avatar cooks an Infant Carp Beast. 139
• Xiao Gu avoids mass-producing Spirit Crystals containing rare perfected laws because their unusual contents could expose his identity. 250

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