Divine Ability

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Power Progression

The following records Dongfang Yueming’s documented breakthroughs in awakening, mastering, and upgrading Divine Abilities.

Nature and Awakening

Divine Abilities differ from spirit arts in their source. Qin Rushuang explains that spirit arts are limited by cultivation methods and the laws of heaven and earth, whereas Divine Abilities extend from a cultivator’s own Great Dao. Their strength increases with the wielder, and their grade can gradually rise 269.

Awakening Requirements

• Ordinary threshold: Su Wurao identifies Golden Core formation and deep resonance with natural laws as the usual conditions for manifestation. Dongfang Yueming’s use of one at the Innate realm is therefore exceptional 225.
• Golden Core quality: Seven- and eight-transformation Golden Cores make awakening an ability almost certain, with a chance of obtaining Black Grade. A Nine-Transformation Golden Core offers a small chance of nurturing an innate Earth-Grade ability while still at Golden Core 269.
• Spell-based condensation: Later cultivation also includes assembling spell runes into a Divine Ability seed. Fifteen lightning spell runes produce Zixiao World-Destroying Thunder Pool 793.
• Incomplete foundations: A Divine Ability framework may lack a required component. Ji Meiniang’s fire framework contains fourteen available spells but is missing a crucial high-grade spell 784.
• Rarity: Ji Meiniang states that even Soul Formation cultivators in her world may spend their lives without comprehending a single Divine Ability 783.

Grades and Mastery

Four-Grade Classification

Qin Rushuang presents the hierarchy as Yellow → Black → Earth → Heaven, from weakest to strongest 269.

• Terminology varies: Black Grade also appears as Mystic Grade or Profound Grade in the supplied passages 282 341 407.
• Grade does not make abilities identical: Dongfang Yueming judges Spear of Wind and Shadow slightly weaker than Two Aspects Annihilation despite both being Earth Grade 286.
• Later classification: Subsequent chapters use low, mid, high, and supreme grades. Two low-grade fire abilities produce a mid-grade ability, while four high-grade abilities produce two supreme-grade abilities; no equivalence with the four-grade classification is stated 798 799.

Mastery Stages

Point Allocation

• Direct advancement: Dongfang Yueming’s system converts points into mastery and accompanying Dao insights 257 286.
• Example cost: Two Aspects Annihilation requires 860,000 points to advance from entry through minor mastery, major mastery, and perfection 257.
• Heaven-Grade example: The advancement sequence shown for Qiuniu’s Kindred Spirit costs 1,760,000 points from initiation through perfection 389.
• Automatic advancement: Dragon-Elephant Suppresses Hell improves without a direct ability-point purchase when his cultivation and associated art advance 245.
• Source Points: Later chapters use Source Points to perfect Divine Abilities, including the spell-condensed Zixiao World-Destroying Thunder Pool 783 793.

Acquisition

Law Fragments

• Dongfang Yueming can absorb fragments stripped from defeated cultivators to learn their abilities and acquire their law insights 282 283.
• Duplicate fragments increase mastery while an ability remains incomplete. Wind Control Shield rises from 5,000 to 10,000 progress after one such absorption 307.
• Duplicates provide no further improvement once that ability has reached perfection 283.
• Wind Spirit Beasts in the Wind Eye are identified as potential sources of high-grade fragments 313.

Bonded Weapons

• Some sword cultivators place their Divine Abilities and law comprehension into flying swords bound to their lives 321.
• Absorbing five such swords gives Dongfang Yueming both Divine Abilities and points from the fourth-tier treasures themselves 321.

Divine Ability Source Stones

• Source Stones assist in comprehending Divine Abilities. Dongfang Yueming extracts Earth-Grade Blood God Transformation from one and receives an additional 100,000 points 330.
• Results depend on the user: the previous holder of that stone had comprehended only a Black-Grade ability from it 330.
• Large collections enable development across multiple attributes; several thousand stones underpin his acquisition of over 100 perfected Heaven-Grade abilities 407.

Jade Slips and Trade

• Divine Abilities can be recorded in jade slips, purchased through auction houses, or obtained from sect collections 374 375 710.
• Taiyi Auction House quotes the following prices, with Earth-Grade availability still dependent on luck 374:

Fusion

Compatibility

• Shared origin and function: The system recognizes compatible attributes such as “wind and offense,” “wind and movement,” or “blood and offense” 313 336.
• Purity: Combining multiple abilities of one attribute can concentrate them into a stronger expression of that attribute 286.
• Mutual generation: Different attributes may reinforce one another. Dongfang Yueming cites wood feeding fire, wind fanning fire, and lightning transforming into fire 286.
• Preparation: He repeatedly perfects component abilities before fusing them 273 313 728.
• Available components matter: After creating Wind God Protection, he leaves Yellow-Grade Wind Control Shield unused because he still needs more suitable abilities to incorporate it 318.

Results and Risks

• Higher grades: Repeated fusion can elevate Yellow-Grade components through Black and Earth Grade to Heaven Grade 375 376 728.
• Different specializations: Two Aspects Annihilation emphasizes rule-based erasure, while Ice and Fire Purgatory emphasizes explosive destruction despite both possessing water-and-fire attributes 346.
• Heavenly tribulation: The creation of My Dao Is the Only One, Wind God Judgment, Yellow Springs and Blue Heavens, and Birth and Destruction of All Things brings heavenly punishment or lightning tribulation 274 313 318 342.
• Location concerns: Remembering the punishment caused by his first Heaven-Grade fusion, Dongfang Yueming hesitates to attempt another on the Astral Battlefield 313.

Applications

Combat and Protection

• Realm-crossing offense: Martial Dao enables Innate-realm Dongfang Yueming to destroy Foundation Establishment expert Su Mohan 224 225.
• Soul defense: My Dao Is the Only One erupts from his sea of consciousness against an attempt to seize his soul 326.
• Damage reflection: Yazi’s Retribution reflects received damage at twice its force and locks combat onto a designated enemy until one side dies 389.
• Absolute barrier: Great Wilderness Chaos Indestructible Divine Bell grants immunity to attacks below Saint King Realm; active use absorbs and converts attack energy to replenish the wielder 728.
• Body-and-soul erasure: Taixu Nirvana Chaos Sword Formation’s ultimate technique bypasses spatial, temporal, and causal blockades to erase bodies and soul imprints below Emperor Realm 710.

Movement, Perception, and Support

• Long-distance travel: Wind God Step covers 100,000 li in a demonstrated single step 313.
• Barrier-crossing teleportation: Taiyi Wandering Dragon Void-Escape Technique’s Great Void Shift ignores spatial turbulence and barrier blockades 728.
• Detection: Chaofeng Gazes at the Moon sees through illusions, senses danger, and anticipates the next instant’s fortune or misfortune 389.
• Comprehension: Fuxi’s Refinement enhances comprehension and deduction 389.
• Healing: Wind Spirit Blessing and Ode to Life develop through successive fusions of healing abilities 318 376.

Dual Cultivation

• Foundation improvement: Yin-Yang Limitless Great Fortune Art links partners’ souls and bodies, shares law comprehension, and bypasses cultivation-method backlash and bottlenecks 710.
• Law sharing: Taixu Yin-Yang Limitless Creation Immortal Canon allows lossless transfer of magic power and sharing of the wielder’s extreme-realm law comprehension 728.
• Partner advancement: Yin-Yang Great Heaven-Fusing Dual Cultivation Divine Ability raises both Ziyuan and Hong Yao to Foundation Establishment Third Level, and Ji Meiniang to Golden Core Eighth Layer 784.

Role in Cultivation

• Attribute-path foundations: Dongfang Yueming treats powerful Divine Abilities as foundations for additional Nascent Souls, including wind, sword, dragon, and water-fire paths 313 321 342 346.
• Domain association: His panel links My Dao Is the Only One to the Martial Extreme Domain, Wind God Judgment to the Wind God Domain, and Open Heaven with One Sword to the Sword God Domain 336.
• Internal suppression: My Dao Is the Only One subdues his newly formed dragon infant when its influence threatens to take control 342.
• Immortal-bone quality: The number of perfected Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities determines the grade of an immortal bone 407.