Darting into a deserted corner, Chen Yao took out a bracelet and placed it in Aman's hand. "This is a communication artifact I refined. You can use it to communicate with me mentally over long distances, so we won't have to keep running around the Void God Realm. I'll find a way to give you its physical counterpart in the real world later. That's all. I'm off."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Chen Yao vanished like a gust of wind, leaving Aman behind, still utterly bewildered by the twists and turns of what had just happened.
"Could he have hired two senior actors to put on a double act in front of me?" Aman rubbed his forehead and decided to stop agonizing over it. He would never get anywhere! He knew too little and could only passively take the blows.
He fiddled with the bracelet in his hand, roughly figured out its functions, and grew even more curious.
"Wu Gensheng? Just where did he come from? And what is reincarnation?"
Time flew by. Six months later, in a secluded courtyard of the Martial King Manor.
Aman gently set down a stone training weight weighing a full hundred and fifty thousand jin and nodded in satisfaction.
He had not merely broken through the extreme realm; he had transcended it by half a step. Before that transcendence, his physical strength had barely reached a little over a hundred and eight thousand jin. With the natural treasures supplied by Chen Yao, he had chosen a path he had conceived long ago but had never managed to follow successfully because he did not understand the secrets of the extreme realm.
He had repeatedly refined his blood, using his blood essence to raise all the blood in his body to the same level, and finally taken that half step. All his blood had transformed, every drop comparable to the blood essence painstakingly condensed by an early-stage Blood Moving Realm cultivator. Now his blood vitality surged, and his strength was immense.
Before breaking through the extreme realm, every attempt had failed instantly. After receiving guidance, he had focused on honing his physical strength. Sure enough, once he broke through the extreme realm, he felt the bottleneck in this undertaking begin to loosen, and it grew easier and easier. With some rare bone texts Chen Yao had taught him as well, his progress became even smoother.
The reason he called it half a step was that his own unique transcendent divine ability had yet to emerge; in other words, his fruit of transcendence had not ripened. But he already had a vague premonition of it and felt that it would take shape soon.
"Wonderful! I never imagined you could get this far, Aman, my boy!"
Beside him, Fourth Grandfather, whose disheveled golden hair resembled a golden lion's mane, burst out laughing. He had watched Aman's entire demonstration and knew he had accomplished this through his body alone, without using bone texts or circulating divine radiance. Even a late-stage Blood Moving Realm cultivator using bone texts could only unleash fifty thousand jin of physical strength! Pure physical strength without bone texts was another matter altogether!
Before this, only Shi Yi in the Martial King Manor had managed the feat, nourished by the Supreme Bone and origin Precious Blood. That had left Fourth Grandfather and the others furious. After all, that Supreme Bone had been dug out of Shi Hao's body, only to become the means of another's success.
"You've already done wonderfully, Aman. They say this means you've broken through the limits of the Blood Moving Realm. Don't delay any longer. Your Fourth Grandfather will keep the matter under control! Go ahead and break through to the Cave Heaven Realm without worry!" Fourth Grandfather said excitedly. "Also, about the clan elders wanting you to take a master-what have you decided? Don't worry. Follow your heart. If you don't want a master, I'll talk to them!"
"Mm... I'd like to settle on my future path first, then choose a suitable master. Thank you for your efforts, Fourth Grandfather." Aman blinked and answered tactfully.
"Mm, that lot are only half-full buckets themselves. Even I don't feel capable of teaching you properly now, let alone them! Don't worry. I'll play the villain in this matter and make them give up the idea!" Fourth Grandfather cheerfully rubbed Aman's head.
"Hehe, thank you, Fourth Grandfather."
[Greatest menace in the Blood Moving Realm, caused 100 savage beasts in succession to suffer cultivation deviation] [Wu Gensheng] [Most inexplicable in the Blood Moving Realm, ■■■■■ recorder's note] [Wu Gensheng]
"Another record broken. Just who is this Wu Gensheng?"
In a corner far from the Record Stele, Chen Yao and two old men were staring blankly at each other.
"Hey, Lord Bird. What happened to waking up like you promised? Are you just toying with me?" Chen Yao raised a finger at the Immortal King before him.
"What waking up? What nonsense have you been spouting all this time? And what the hell is Lord Bird?!" Lord Bird's face darkened. He was utterly baffled.
"Surely it isn't because the records are for too low a cultivation realm? Then it'll be ages before I can accumulate enough changes." Chen Yao talked to himself in front of the two old men, not caring in the least that they could hear him. He only wished they could understand.
"Hmph! Wu Gensheng! Don't think you can unsettle my Dao heart. I get it now. You want to make me suffer cultivation deviation like those savage beasts, then rob me of everything I have, don't you? I knew you were a bad seed all along! Believe me, I'll shout that you're Wu Gensheng right now!" Lord Jade Coin was even more of a handful.
Chen Yao stared speechlessly at the sky. "Damn it. You were talking about reincarnation and the origin of creation before, and I was waiting for the rest. Now you're screwing me over like this?"
"Hm?" Suddenly, something stirred within him, and he looked into the distance. A figure was rapidly approaching, divine radiance surging around him. Divine light flowed through his deep eyes, which actually held double pupils.
Shi Yi?! Why is he here? What the hell? Chen Yao immediately rose, but a beam of divine light had already shot from Shi Yi's double pupils, piercing the formation that concealed their conversation and heading straight for Chen Yao himself.
He casually swatted out a hand and unleashed Qi-State Origin-Flow. The beam of divine light instantly reverted to pure energy, losing its killing intent, its order, and its form. It became worldly primal energy and spiritual energy, dispersing into the surroundings like a passing breeze, leaving not a trace.
At the end of all arts lay Qi-State Origin-Flow. One qi transformed into myriad arts, and myriad arts transformed into one qi. It could survey all mysteries, evolve myriad arts, and turn decay into wonder; it could also disperse every subtlety, return Dao arts to the mundane, and restore divine power to its essence.
If he had to describe it, it was a budget version of the Myriad Transformations Sacred Art and a castrated version of the Fighting Character Secret.
If he logged out here, he would reappear here next time, and Shi Yi could lie in wait for him. He had to relocate first. Chen Yao frowned, stepped backward into a gap in the void, and prepared to stroll through the void with Grand Luo Insight to leave.
"As expected, they only appear beside prodigies. By checking on them regularly, I could naturally find you. It was only a passing thought, and I held no hope for it. I never imagined waiting by the stump would actually catch the rabbit. Wu Gensheng!" Shi Yi spoke coldly, but kept his voice from carrying so that only the four people here could hear him. He glanced at Lord Bird and Lord Jade Coin, then fixed his gaze on Chen Yao.
"You must be here for the opportunity too. You've also discovered where it lies. This matter cannot reach a third pair of ears. I cannot let you live!" Grand Luo Insight had not affected Shi Yi at all. His double pupils locked directly onto Chen Yao as he moved through the void. His right eye turned pitch-black, and a dark beam of annihilation and death shot out, piercing the void.
He would not allow this unknown secret of the Void God Realm to spread. Those two beings presumably would not care about a prodigy's death. Perhaps they were observing, looking for the most suitable person. That gave him all the more reason not to spare Wu Gensheng!
"Fuck! What is he babbling about? What opportunity? I hate you self-absorbed bastards who make everything up in your own heads!" Chen Yao emerged from the void, circulating Qi-State Origin-Flow to dissolve the attack. At the same time, two Divine Movement Talismanic Registers sprang out and attached themselves to his feet, sending his escape speed soaring as he rushed into the distance.
"Wu Gensheng! Where do you think you're going? Fight me!" Shi Yi let out a long cry, abandoning his discreet voice transmission. Under Lord Bird's and Lord Jade Coin's bewildered gazes, he gave chase. A pair of great roc wings spread from his back, granting him speed every bit equal to Chen Yao's. Meanwhile, white light flowed through his left eye, forming the Creation Divine Armor.
"Wu Gensheng! Wu Gensheng has appeared! The double-pupiled one has exposed his true identity!" "A duel between prodigies! They're fighting for the top spot in the Blood Moving Realm!" The commotion also alerted the other cultivators.
Motherfuckers! Why?! Stop spouting nonsense! Chen Yao glared at the onlookers, who were only too happy to fan the flames. Realizing he could not shake Shi Yi off, he turned and planted his feet, then stamped down, unfolding Feng Hou's Mystic Gate.
Shi Yi sensed something amiss and immediately pulled back, but the void trembled, and he actually moved a considerable distance forward! A moment later, a surging blast of fierce wind struck him head-on. Chen Yao's fist had arrived through Eight Gates Transport!
Time-Stopping Golden Shutter! Twice in succession! Chen Yao directly triggered two temporal dislocations.
Boom! To Shi Yi, the punch was so fast that time seemed to have frozen. It was also as though he had briefly fallen into a daze and slipped out of step with the world. Caught completely off guard, he took the punch to the head. Cracks spread across his divine armor's helmet, leaving it on the verge of shattering!
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