[Ding!] [Main quest complete: The Holy Maiden Ren Yingying was about to become a couple with Linghu Chong. To keep martial arts from declining, break them apart.] [Quest reward received: Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Transformations (complete edition)]
The Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Transformations.
They were not merely a way to take on someone else's appearance.
Their methods were wide-ranging, encompassing astronomy and geography, summoning wind and rain, martial training, and healing.
They were both a cultivation art and a supreme technique.
Ye Zhuo received them without a ripple in his heart.
He sat down quietly, committed them to memory, and began to practice.
Penglai, East Blue.
The Great Sun Palace.
Ye Zhuo cultivated day and night without rest.
After seven days and nights of tempering, Ren Yingying had advanced her cultivation but exhausted all her strength.
[Main quest unlocked: Await the arrival of the Dharma-Ending Era and usher in the revival of spiritual energy.] [Quest reward: Eight-Part Heavenly Scripture (complete edition)]
Huh?
Ye Zhuo froze.
What was going on? Why could he obtain the Eight-Part Heavenly Scripture outright?
Shouldn't it have fragments, like the Book of Ages?
At the very least, shouldn't he receive it one part at a time?
[Eight-Part Heavenly Scripture, complete edition: Though called "eight-part," it is in fact a single wordless Heavenly Scripture. When the Creator God Fuxi created the Ancient Martial World, he left behind the Innate Eight Trigrams and this wordless Heavenly Scripture. Anything written in it using Cangjie Script can become reality.]
So it was not a cultivation art, but a wordless Heavenly Scripture comparable to an artifact of creation.
Ye Zhuo was pleased with the reward.
More surprising still, the Ancient Martial World had been created by the god Fuxi.
Going by past experience,
obtaining an artifact