A Simple Achievement

Zhang Xuezhou had envisioned a confrontation with Donghua University on several occasions.

If Donghua inherits everything from the Emperor, he will be facing a top-tier cultivator with powerful lightning and destructive abilities. The lightning domain derived from the elements of feng shui possesses extreme striking and destructive power; once trapped within it, one will be utterly destroyed.

If Donghua possessed everything, it would involve various evasion techniques, and a fully developed evasion technique would be incredibly troublesome, even for Zhang Xuezhou.

If Donghua regains his original abilities, it will inevitably involve the realms of speed and slowness. In this realm, Donghua is the king of speed and can easily reap the lives of those who are unable to break free.

No matter the situation, Zhang Xuezhou found it difficult to cope.

He considered adding more shields and using Wei Shao'er and others as support to increase his chances of winning.

Zhang Xuezhou also considered setting up an array, and he immediately prepared to use Maoling to accumulate the array materials he needed.

Regardless of whether it's the former or the latter, it means that Zhang Xuezhou can only passively defend himself in order to deal with the threat posed by Donghua.

For Zhang Xuezhou, Donghua was almost a dead end, just like when he faced the mysterious and unpredictable Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon in his early years.

Even though Zhang Xuezhou defeated Huang Daoxian, whose life form was bizarre, Zhang Xuezhou had no confidence whatsoever.

At this moment, Zhang Xuezhou has seen real hope.

"Control is the ability to control guided by the mind, while domain is a more advanced version. Both are transformed from mental guidance, thus presenting different external manifestations, but regardless of the form, they cannot escape the essence of mental power!"

Zhang Xuezhou touched the furniture that had turned into a pile of wood chips.

Only control can counter control, and only domain can counter domain; this is the ironclad rule recognized by Badun.

Zhang Xuezhou also agrees with this pattern, and even acknowledges the advantages and disadvantages of various fields.

For every powerful domain exists, there is also a domain with a terrible form of expression; otherwise, there would be no need for the True Self Realm cultivators to be divided into different ranks.

Zhang Xuezhou wasn't even confident in reaching the True Self Realm yet, let alone ensuring the strength of his own domain.

However, Zhang Xuezhou discovered the wonder of cultivating with spiritual power: regardless of whether he possessed a domain, as long as his spiritual power was strong enough, he could resist or penetrate a domain, and even destroy the owner who released the domain.

"All domain powers require external contact with people. For example, the Emperor needs to summon lightning to strike, and Donghua needs to use sharp weapons to kill. Even if they launch a sneak attack, they still need to make contact with their opponent. However, a mental attack does not require physical contact, or even a sound. He is destined to continuously suppress and attack me. Does that mean I can't launch a sneak attack on him? As long as I can withstand Donghua's first wave of attacks, this ability seems to have a chance to counter him!"

With the strategically important road leading to the Western Kunlun as a backup, Zhang Xuezhou's sneak attack would not turn into a one-way assassination.

If he has the ability, Zhang Xuezhou wouldn't mind doing some sneaky counterattacks.

He even harbored resentment towards the Nine Treasures Wine he had left behind in Western Kunlun. Not to mention using the Nine Treasures Wine for cultivation, it would be excellent even for tempering one's spiritual power.

"You have nurtured our spiritual connection, and if I am fortunate enough to achieve great things, you will also have a good ending!"

Zhang Xuezhou stared intently at the innate spiritual wood staff.

As a passive weapon, the Innate Spirit Wood Staff is practically Zhang Xuezhou's only effective means of attack, as techniques like the Yellow Sand Entanglement Technique are completely ineffective in combat.

Zhang Xuezhou has extremely high standards for techniques. He doesn't need techniques that involve back-and-forth fighting, but rather techniques that can Heaven and Earth turn the tide of battle. Moreover, the level of cultivators he targets is extremely high, which means that very few techniques can catch his eye, not even top-tier techniques.

Rather than learning a bunch of filler techniques, he preferred not to learn any, lest it disrupt his potential future supernatural Divine Ability.

Under this evaluation standard, his skills during his next training were extremely limited.

The power unleashed by the Innate Spirit Wood Staff after it was nurtured truly astonished Zhang Xuezhou. Even without resorting to a sneak attack, he saw the potential to contend with the domain.

This doesn't require him to enter the True Self Realm, nor does it require him to condense great Divine Ability, nor does it require him to master the Heart Sutra. He only needs to nurture this staff well, and he will have the ability to not be at a disadvantage in a head-on confrontation.

As long as he isn't killed by Donghua's attack, he will definitely be able to counterattack once he recovers, and the counterattack will be fierce.

"If you sincerely lend me a hand, I will be able to find you a good place in the future, so you can grow freely!"

The green light emanating from the innate spirit wood staff sensed the threat of death and thus submitted to Zhang Xuezhou, even demonstrating the exceptional destructive power brought about by coordinated combat.

This destructive power is a demonstration of value, and it cannot be easily unleashed by Zhang Xuezhou simply by using his staff.

If Zhang Xuezhou were to extinguish the green light, the power he would unleash through his staff would indeed be less than it is now. In the realm of top-tier competition, even a slight difference means the staff would be rendered ineffective.

This innate spirit wood staff is indeed better in its original state than when it was replaced.

The original form possesses the greatest power, while Zhang Xuezhou, through self-cultivation, can control it as easily as an extension of his own limb.

Trying to be perfect in every aspect is very difficult; it requires an extremely high degree of cooperation.

As long as Green Mango doesn't malfunction and cooperates as much as possible, Zhang Xuezhou felt he could tolerate some minor drawbacks.

He gently stroked the innate spirit wood staff to communicate, employing both the intimidating power of obliteration and verbal promises, a combination of carrot and stick tactics.

Although Zhang Xuezhou was just making empty promises, the intelligence of the Innate Spirit Wood Staff was clearly not that high. Zhang Xuezhou could sense that the green light was somewhat joyful and jubilant, no longer treating him as a mortal enemy as before, and no longer feeling the helplessness of fearing death.

I hope we get along well!

Zhang Xuezhou nodded, indicating that he had already sensed it.

"The Cultivation Technique, like the Realm Technique, has nine levels. Let's stack it to the highest level possible. You'll also experience the various wonders that cultivation brings. Once you're powerful, you can easily unleash your current power. As long as your opponent's body isn't made of iron, we're bound to win!"

Zhang Xuezhou pondered various ways to evade the attacks, and also considered the many techniques he had heard of, but found that none of them were specifically designed to resist mental attacks.

This made him extremely optimistic about the future of the cultivation method.

As he chanted the mantra again, using his spiritual power to nourish the innate spiritual wood staff, Zhang Xuezhou felt that this time the flow was almost completely unobstructed.

If the Innate Spirit Wood Staff can withstand continuous nurturing, he will inevitably have to push the nurturing technique to its limit in one go.

"Dongda, you've been locked in your room for so long, don't you need to eat or pee?"

Only when the soft voices of children came from outside the side hall did Zhang Xuezhou awaken from the cultivation method of nurturing the innate spiritual wood staff.

He felt a growing weariness in his mind.

For the first time, he, who was always full of energy, felt his mental strength depleted to the point of exhaustion.

"This staff has been nurtured to the seventh level!"

Having reached the seventh level in one cultivation session, Zhang Xuezhou was completely satisfied.

If the nurturing process is broken down and everything goes smoothly, he might reach the eighth level after a few more nurturing sessions. If he nurtures himself dozens to hundreds of times, the nurturing method will reach the limit of the ninth level, thus reaching the level of spiritual inheritance mentioned by Badun.

Compared to reaching True Self through the Realm Technique and seeking the realm of great Divine Ability powers, or slowly and painstakingly cultivating the Heart Sutra without the Nine Treasures Wine and having to overcome the Western Sect's scrutiny, Zhang Xuezhou felt that nurturing a divine weapon was much simpler.

After searching high and low, Zhang Xuezhou finally realized that he had found the ultimate method for pursuing perfection in the Sole Self Realm.