"Mm... The Four Chaos Monkeys corresponded to Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water. Among them, the Six-Eared Macaque corresponded to wind. It would be best to rely on wind-attributed innate spiritual materials," Duobao said as well.
Chen Yang accepted the stubborn stone, then continued asking, "Master... Grandmaster plans to take in thirty-six core disciples. Who exactly will he take in? And secondly, will the twelve personal disciples remain unchanged?"
"You brat... What bad idea are you cooking up now? Or do you have some thoughts?" Duobao asked, looking at Chen Yang.
"Nothing much. I simply feel that there is too little competition within the Jie Sect. Why not give all Jie Sect disciples a promotion system? Jie Sect disciples can challenge one another. If an outer disciple defeats a core disciple, he can become a new core disciple. If a core disciple defeats a personal disciple, he can obtain the status of a personal disciple. If even a lineal disciple is defeated, then his status can be claimed as well. Under such a challenge and promotion system, I believe the Jie Sect disciples will surely grit their teeth and strive upward, cultivating diligently!" Chen Yang said seriously.
Duobao pondered slightly, then looked at Chen Yang and could not help but laugh. "You brat... Your idea is actually quite good. It can also raise the Jie Sect's overall strength. However, the system will need further refinement. Enough, I will remember this matter and suggest it to your Grandmaster when the chance arises."
Seeing Duobao say this, Chen Yang smiled as well. "Then, Master, I'll go cultivate."
"Go. Also, don't run around recklessly during this period," Duobao said with a light laugh.
Chen Yang nodded, turned, and walked toward his cave abode, beginning another round of cultivation.
Before cultivating, however, Chen Yang also considered perfecting the Jie Sect's system.
It could not be helped. One's position determined one's thinking. Since he was a member of the Jie Sect and had experienced the benefits of Fortune, he had to consider matters for the Jie Sect. Otherwise, when the future Investiture of Gods War came and the Jie Sect shattered into pieces, his identity as a third-generation Jie Sect disciple would become worthless.
If Duobao truly told Tongtian about the challenge and promotion systems, and the Jie Sect implemented them, the Jie Sect's overall strength would certainly rise tremendously.
Furthermore, rules and regulations could be used to weed out some of the Jie Sect's dregs. For example, Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal among the personal disciples—the future traitor of the Jie Sect—could be removed ahead of time.
Golden Ao Island, Dabao Peak.
After Chen Yang and Duobao had spoken for a long while, Chen Yang returned and immersed himself in cultivation.
Once he began cultivating, a thousand years passed.
Over those thousand years, apart from tempering his body and stabilizing his cultivation, Chen Yang spent his time wandering through the scripture repository.
He copied the Jie Sect's classics and also organized and translated the Penglai classics he had obtained earlier.
Chen Yang did not understand Penglai Script, but with the Four Treasures of Scholarship, he managed to translate the writing. From the Penglai classics, he found that Penglai's cultivation system and the Immortal Dao System were entirely different concepts.
Moreover, the Penglai classics contained many records, from which Chen Yang gained immensely.
Aside from that, Chen Yang also refined the spiritual treasures he had acquired.
Especially the Six-Eared Macaque's weapon—the As-You-Will Iron Staff!
The As-You-Will Iron Staff was also an Innate Spiritual Treasure. In terms of quality, it had initially been only low-grade. However, Innate Spiritual Treasures could also improve in quality, though it was exceedingly difficult for a spiritual treasure to do so.
For an Innate Spiritual Treasure to improve its quality, it needed to devour Innate Spiritual Treasures of the same type, compatible divine materials, or spiritual roots. Simply put, a staff-type spiritual treasure needed to devour other staff-type spiritual treasures in order to advance.
In addition, devouring certain special divine materials could improve its quality slightly, though the improvement was pitifully weak. It could also devour compatible spiritual roots to raise its quality.
The As-You-Will Iron Staff itself had developed this way. Its quality had initially been merely low-grade. As the Six-Eared Macaque nurtured it, he found many staff-type spiritual treasures, divine materials, and spiritual roots for the As-You-Will Iron Staff to devour. In the end, the quality of this As-You-Will Iron Staff evolved into high-grade.
Furthermore, the As-You-Will Iron Staff contained only one divine ability.
Wishful Transformation.
This divine ability allowed the As-You-Will Iron Staff to transform as its wielder wished. It could take the shape of all kinds of weapons or spiritual treasures. Yet after transforming into the appearance of such spiritual treasures, it did not possess their power.
However, if it could first obtain the imprint of a certain spiritual treasure, with its formation patterns engraved within, it could unleash that spiritual treasure's power.
Simply put, the As-You-Will Iron Staff was like someone cultivating the Heavenly Stems Transformation. It could transform itself into various spiritual treasures. Moreover, it could absorb the formation patterns, imprints, and origins of different spiritual treasures, unleashing their power and a small portion of their divine abilities.
This unusual divine ability brought enormous progress to Chen Yang's creation of techniques.
At this moment, within a training ground somewhere in the Jie Sect.
Chen Yang cast a secret art, manifesting a formation pattern and imprinting it upon the void.
As the formation pattern unfolded, interwove, and changed, it transformed toward a special divine ability before finally becoming a Green Peace Sword.
"Battle Formation—Green Peace Sword!"
Chen Yang murmured. Relying on the newly created formation pattern, he constructed a special formation, manifested a Green Peace Sword, and sent it flying toward a puppet within the training ground.
In an instant, the puppet was struck by the Green Peace Sword as though it had suffered a grievous blow, exploding at once.
Chen Yang watched the scene with a trace of delight on his face. Then he repeatedly unleashed the Battle Formation, manifesting all sorts of spiritual treasures and sending them forth.
In the blink of an eye, all kinds of spiritual treasures appeared throughout the training ground. Green Peace Sword, the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, Duobao Tower, Pangu Banner, Taiji Diagram...
Good heavens, so many spiritual treasures manifested and displayed their power, creating an extraordinarily impressive sight.
After a long while, Chen Yang smiled. "After a thousand years of deduction and analysis of the As-You-Will Iron Staff's origin, I finally used formations to manifest the traits of that origin and created this Battle Formation.
"Then I fused the formation patterns of various spiritual treasures and ultimately created this divine ability. Based on the principles of the Battle-Saint Art, I fused the methods of the Primordial World to create a new Battle-Saint Art—or rather, a Battle-Saint Art exclusive to the Primordial World. Yet its core was ultimately formations, so I shall call it the Battle Formation."
After creating this formation, Chen Yang also hoped to use formations to create the other eight secret arts, forming the Nine Primordial Formations!
Chen Yang continued to cast the Battle Formation, sensing its power. "It is still lacking a little... I must continue deducing the Heavenly Stems Transformation and strive to integrate the transformations of all kinds of divine beasts into the Battle Formation as well."
Among the Penglai materials Chen Yang had acquired a thousand years ago, he had found a book during the translation process: the Divine Beast Compendium.
This compendium recorded the acupoint diagrams of all major divine beasts. With these acupoint diagrams, so long as one found the corresponding divine beast's essence blood, one could easily cultivate the Heavenly Stems Transformation.
Several years later, Chen Yang returned from the training ground to Dabao Peak.
Duobao was still calmly refining artifacts. When he saw Chen Yang return, he asked, "How did the experiment go?"
Chen Yang did not conceal anything. "Master, the divine ability I created has already been perfected. Yet it still has not reached the perfect state I envisioned."
As he spoke, Chen Yang did not hide anything and taught Duobao the Primordial World version of the Battle-Saint Art he had created.
Duobao sensed the divine ability and manifested a small portion of it, unable to help but praise, "A very good divine ability. The more spiritual treasures one knows, the more one can transform, and the greater the power of this divine ability becomes. I have to say, this Battle Formation is very suitable for an artifact refiner like me."
Chen Yang merely smiled faintly, a trace of confidence in his expression. "Master... The current Battle Formation is not the perfect state I envisioned. In my conception, the Battle Formation can manifest all kinds of spiritual treasures, all kinds of divine beasts, and even unleash the innate divine abilities of all kinds of divine beasts. So..."
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