Jiang Ziliu immersed himself in the library every day. After reading some secret knowledge about Demigod and God, he temporarily halted his steps toward immediately advancing to God.
As times progress, different eras and different environments each have their own unique advantages.
The Ancient Tree of Wisdom, Forging Throne, has been silent for too long and knows little about the outside world.
The Ancient Tortoise of Time also showed little interest in knowledge involving Demigod Planetary-Rank God.
Their level is so high that they basically don't pay attention to the subtle changes at the bottom.
Wisdom beings throughout the universe have been studying the advancements to Demigod and God levels, as well as the related esoteric methods.
In particular, some secret techniques related to rules, also known as Divine Art, are upgraded versions of the skills of powerful individuals below the level of Demigod, and are rules-based skills.
Jiang Ziliu was alone before and didn't know much about it. He mainly relied on the application of the rules and didn't know much about Divine Art.
But now, he has learned about Divine Art arts at the Milky Way Beast Taming Academy.
The knowledge of Divine Art is a skill upgrade power that is only controlled by major forces, and it greatly enhances combat power.
Under normal rules, a combat power of 10 is used. However, by using different levels of Divine Art, the combat power level will become 20, 30, or even 50 or 60. Some of the most powerful Divine Art can even raise the combat power to 100, resulting in a tenfold increase in combat power!
The more Divine Art Demigod Rank masters that align with the rules they control, the more their Divine Art will transform when they advance to a higher level of God, thus reaching the Divine Domain.
Divine Art themselves are a combination of rules and rune techniques, inscribed in the Divine Kingdom using secret methods of weapon crafting.
The more Divine Art are inscribed, the greater the increase in combat power, and the Divine Kingdom will also be strengthened because of the Divine Art.
When Demigod ignites the Divine Fire, the presence of Divine Art enhances the Demigod's soul stability and resistance to the pain of the Divine Fire.
Therefore, Divine Art can, to some extent, increase the probability of Demigod advancing to God.
The higher the level of the Divine Art, and the more it aligns with one's understanding of the Divine Art, the greater the probability of advancing to Demigod status.
When Demigod advances to become God, their Divine Art will also be elevated.
At that time, Divine Art would evolve into a power with a wide range, realizing the domain-based application of Divine Art power.
Within the domain, the power of the Divine Art was not weakened; in fact, its range was enhanced.
If one's understanding of the rules reaches a certain level, and one can elevate the Divine Art itself using the rules, one can even obtain a higher level of power.
Divine Ability!
Therefore, the Starry Sky forces do not conceal the secrets about the Hidden Soul Star; it is normal knowledge within the Starry Sky.
However, the forces of the cosmos have blocked knowledge about Divine Art.
Divine Art, on the other hand, were new powers that the God later developed and improved upon based on the power of Demigod and God.
Regarding Divine Art, the three King of Origin — the Forging Throne, the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, Ancient Tortoise of Time— know very little for various reasons.
But after discovering the power of Divine Art, they all became very interested in it.
In particular, he asked Jiang Ziliu to exchange some Divine Art for the Ancient Tree of Wisdom so that he could study them.
With the power of the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, it is absolutely capable of innovating and creating more and better Divine Art.
Because he is Ancient Tree of Wisdom, representing the Wisdom Law of the universe.
At the Milky Way Beast Taming Academy, Jiang Ziliu can obtain public and private knowledge about Demigod for free, browse interstellar public knowledge, and know everything about those below the level of Demigod.
However, he needed to exchange academy points for knowledge about Divine Art.
Moreover, when exchanging for academy points, he must swear a special oath restricting him from revealing information about Divine Art to any person or force.
Jiang Ziliu originally planned to immediately advance to the Planetary-Rank God, but now he has decided to postpone it.
He needs to exchange for Divine Art, study and research them, upgrade the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, and thus use these Divine Art to further enhance his Divine Kingdom and lay a better foundation for himself.
As for that so-called oath, although it involves extraordinary Oath Rule, the Ancient Tree of Wisdom can directly break it.
The oath that Divine Art could not be passed on to outsiders could not bind Jiang Ziliu.
However, as a teacher at the academy, Jiang Ziliu could only exchange a single, lowest-level Divine Art for completing a year's worth of teaching.
Jiang Ziliu had no choice but to accept some forging tasks from the academy, forge some Demigod Artifact and hand them in, in order to collect enough points for the lowest level of Divine Art.
The first Divine Art he redeemed was a low-level Divine Art called Realm Concealment.
These various Divine Art allow one to conceal a portion of their strength from opponents of the same level who are no more than one's own major realm higher.
However, before this, Jiang Ziliu's concealment of his strength was achieved to some extent by borrowing a trace of the power of Forging Throne.
Otherwise, his true level would have been exposed to the powerful figures of the Milky Way Beast Taming Academy long ago, as well as to the powerful God patrolling the Galactic Core Continent.
Realm Concealment Divine Art are of a very low level; their main purpose is to allow Demigod to hide their realm, strength, and even aura from the Evil God.
It primarily enhances the survival and escape abilities of Demigod in their battles against Evil God.
Otherwise, given the extraordinary power of this Divine Art, it would never have been made available for exchange as a low-level Divine Art.
For the academy, the Half Divine Power is far more important than those points.
The academy offers relatively few points for all life-saving Divine Art.
After exchanging for this Realm Concealment Divine Art, Jiang Ziliu immediately handed it over to the Ancient Tree of Wisdom for research.
But within Jiang Ziliu's Divine Kingdom, the Ancient Tree of Wisdom saw through its profound mystery at a glance.
"Although it's rudimentary, it's truly profound. The rules it involves aren't advanced, but the idea of combining it with weapon crafting and runes is simply brilliant. Indeed, the level of Wisdom isn't determined by quantity or strength, but by its application. This advancement in the application of Wisdom is truly ingenious..."
The Ancient Tree of Wisdom praised the essence of Divine Art endlessly and greatly admired it.
Any progress in Wisdom or brilliant ideas can pique his interest.
Although this thing was extremely simple in his eyes, the spark of thought it evoked was something he hadn't expected.
Wisdom is something that every living being possesses, and every living being has its own shining aspect.
After carefully studying this Divine Art, the Ancient Tree of Wisdom modified and upgraded it, bringing it to the level of a top-tier Divine Art for concealing one's aura.
Jiang Ziliu named it the Mirror of Concealment.
This top-tier Divine Art involves multiple rules, including the Soul Rule, the Space Rule, the Rule of Life, the Will Rule, and the Earth Rule.
Its composition of multiple rules, along with more complex runes and the application of weapon crafting and inscription techniques, has brought it to the level of a top-tier Divine Art. However, its difficulty in learning it has also reached the highest level among all Divine Art.
It took Jiang Ziliu a full six months to fully master the advanced Divine Art of Realm of Concealment, successfully inscribing it into his Divine Kingdom, making the aura of his Divine Kingdom even more ethereal and difficult to discern.
His own cultivation level was also firmly hidden at the Demigod Second Stage.
From then on, Jiang Ziliu no longer needed to use the power of Forging Throne to help him conceal his strength.
This advanced Divine Art allows one to conceal their strength across five major realms.
Even if the dean of the Milky Way Beast Taming Academy came, he wouldn't be able to see through his true realm; he would only think that he was a Demigod at the Demigod Second Stage!
With this Divine Art, Jiang Ziliu decided to exchange it for more Divine Art from the academy.
The Ancient Tree of Wisdom was willing to modify and upgrade existing Divine Art, but unwilling to create Divine Art for him.
Because if everything is given to Jiang Ziliu without a process of striving, it will be detrimental to Jiang Ziliu's long-term growth.
A process of struggle is a necessary factor for the growth of a powerful God, and an important part of the improvement of one's character and will.