Chapter 141: Soul Amplification Secret Art — The Other Race's Scheme

Virtual Universe, Lei Ting Island, inside the study of Lu Qingshan's mansion.

After breaking through to the peak of Marquis and sparring with his soul servant Kelaiste, Lu Qingshan once again connected his consciousness to the Virtual Universe.

"For me right now, the fastest way to raise my strength is undoubtedly to cultivate a soul-type amplification secret art!"

Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "This way, the might of my soul attacks will surely increase considerably, and I might even be able to pose a greater threat to Feng Wang level powerhouses!"

The body has body amplification strength!

The soul has soul amplification strength!

Before Lu Qingshan broke through to become Immortal, his body force and will-power amplification had already reached one hundred, and this was one of the conditions for breaking through to become an Immortal Deity.

Of course, the body force and will-power amplification reaching one hundred here merely refers to being able to perfectly control every ounce of strength within the body, and at the same time this is a limit under normal circumstances!

But the true powerhouses in the universe are often able to erupt with strength two times, three times, or even higher than themselves.

The "Lei Ting Phantom Body" that Lu Qingshan had previously cultivated was a body-type amplification secret art that allowed one to erupt with several times one's own body strength.

And what Lu Qingshan now wanted to cultivate was a soul-type amplification secret art similar to the Demon Sound Divine General inheritance that Luo Feng obtained.

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan quickly opened the internal treasury of the Virtual Universe company.

Amplification secret arts are indeed extremely rare in the universe. Many weak races, and even powerhouses of ordinary races, even if they cultivate to the peak Feng Wang realm, may not possess any amplification secret art at all.

But for powerful races, and even peak races, amplification secret arts are relatively common.

Like the body amplification secret art "Beast God Transformation" recorded in the "Beast God Seven Killings" self-created by Xiluoduo, like the soul amplification secret art "Nine Peaks Lock" and the body amplification secret art "Jin Zhi Beast God" that Luo Feng cultivated in the Beast God Realm of the Starry Sky Beast Alliance in the original work, and so on…

Since Xiluoduo and the powerhouses of the Starry Sky Beast Alliance could create many amplification-type secret arts, the powerhouses of the human race could naturally create them as well!

However, to create an amplification secret art generally requires at least the Venerable Realm!

And most of the amplification secret arts created by these Venerables were for their own use, so naturally it was extremely difficult for others to cultivate them!

If one is at the Venerable Realm, it's a bit better—even if one cannot cultivate these amplification secret arts to their limit, there is still a chance to cultivate them to the Great Accomplishment realm.

But if one is an Immortal Deity, or a Realm Lord, Domain Lord, or even a Universe-level being of an even lower realm, even merely getting started with these amplification secret arts is an extremely difficult matter!

Just like the "Lei Ting Phantom Body" that Lu Qingshan had previously cultivated—although it required no treasures to assist cultivation, nor a long cultivation time, it required extremely high comprehension of the Laws to cultivate successfully!

Even though Lu Qingshan's current comprehension of the Laws was already comparable to the peak of Marquis, he had only cultivated the first two layers of the "Lei Ting Phantom Body"!

As soon as Lu Qingshan began his search, a large number of introductions to soul-type amplification secret arts immediately appeared on the screen…

"Nine Revolutions Soul Refining," priced at 20 billion points; "Imitation Demon Sound Divine General Inheritance," priced at 20 billion points…

"Soul Shock Transformation," priced at 10 billion points; "Immortal Soul," priced at 10 billion points…

"Immortal Soul," priced at 1 billion points…

"Dragon Soul," priced at 100 million points…

Compared to when Lu Qingshan searched for body-type amplification secret arts, there were clearly fewer soul-type amplification secret arts.

But this was still normal. Just as it was harder for Lu Qingshan to create soul attack secret arts than sword techniques, the creation of soul amplification secret arts was naturally harder than body-type amplification secret arts.

Among the human race's Universe Overlords, they must have already cultivated soul amplification and body amplification to the Great Accomplishment realm, but there were not many who could actually self-create amplification secret arts reaching the hundred-fold limit!

Take Xiluoduo, the leader of the Lord Jinjiao race—his self-created "Beast God Transformation" had a limit of only being able to amplify the divine body by 64 times.

As Lu Qingshan browsed through the introductions of these soul-type amplification secret arts, he found that the conditions to cultivate them were even harsher than those for body-type amplification secret arts.

Even though he had already obtained a large amount of wealth through adventuring on the Extraterritorial Battlefield, it would still be very difficult for him to cultivate them to a profound realm!

"It seems cultivating amplification secret arts is indeed not as simple and quick as receiving a Divine General inheritance!"

After reading the introductions of many soul-type amplification secret arts, Lu Qingshan could not help thinking to himself: "No wonder so many Feng Wang Immortals leave these amplification secret arts uncultivated and fight tooth and nail for the Divine General inheritance slots!"

One must know that when Luo Feng received the Demon Sound Divine General inheritance, he was merely a Universe-level being!

Even though his willpower was strong, comparable to an Immortal Deity, and even though his Lord Jinjiao Giant Beast avatar had already reached Domain Lord Ninth Order, compared with those Feng Wang Immortals who received the Divine General inheritance, he certainly still had a great disadvantage.

But even so, Luo Feng was able to directly raise his soul amplification to as much as 32 times in just a few short years!

Replaced by those Feng Wang Immortals who received the inheritance, the soul amplification they raised would naturally be even greater!

Compared to that, painstakingly cultivating these soul-type amplification secret arts was naturally a matter of extremely low cost-effectiveness!

However, obtaining a Divine General inheritance suitable for oneself was often extremely difficult—not only did it require consuming a large amount of wealth, but one also needed a powerful background!

"With my avatar, I can freely accumulate wealth on the Extraterritorial Battlefield, so I definitely won't lack the wealth to receive an inheritance in the future!"

Lu Qingshan thought to himself: "As for background, I am after all a member of Lord Bingfeng's lineage. Although the connection is a bit distant, it's certainly not bad!"

"Applying for a Divine General inheritance in the future should be relatively easy, so there's no need to choose those soul-type amplification secret arts with extremely difficult cultivation processes right now!"

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan immediately turned his gaze to the "Immortal Lei Soul" among the many soul-type amplification secret arts!

This "Immortal Lei Soul" was quite similar to the body-type amplification secret art "Lei Ting Phantom Body" that Lu Qingshan had previously cultivated—both were created by super powerhouses of the Heavenly Thunder lineage, though it was unknown whether they were the same person!

However, compared to the "Lei Ting Phantom Body," this "Immortal Lei Soul" was clearly more precious.

The "Immortal Lei Soul" was divided into seven layers in total…

First Layer, 2 times amplification, priced at 100,000 points;

Second Layer, 4 times amplification, priced at 1 million points;

Third Layer, 8 times amplification, priced at 10 million points;

Fourth Layer, 16 times amplification, priced at 100 million points;

Fifth Layer, 32 times amplification, priced at 1 billion points;

Sixth Layer, 64 times amplification, priced at 10 billion points;

Seventh Layer, 100 times amplification, priced at 20 billion points.

Such a precious soul-type amplification secret art, even placed among the many precious amplification secret arts of the human race, could be considered the very top tier.

However, the cultivation conditions of the "Immortal Lei Soul" were extremely similar to those of the "Lei Ting Phantom Body"—equally incomparably harsh!

Merely getting started with the First Layer required completely comprehending all the essences of the Origin Law of Time;

As for the Second Layer, one needed to reach the Marquis level of Law comprehension, that is, the level of the Fifteenth Layer of the Tongtian Bridge;

The Third Layer required raising Law comprehension to the Feng Wang level, that is, the level of the Eighteenth Layer of the Tongtian Bridge!

But the greatest advantage of this secret technique is that once your understanding of the laws meets the standard, you can master it with virtually no effort at all!

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan quickly spent ten million points to purchase the first three levels of the "Indestructible Thunder Soul."

As for the later sections, he certainly wouldn't be able to cultivate them in the short term!

After cultivating the "Indestructible Thunder Soul" successfully, Lu Qingshan merely rested for a while, then set off with Kleister toward the Silver Seat Bay within the range of the Outland Tenth Battlefield's Camp 006.

The Silver Seat Bay was less than one light-year wide, yet due to its winding, twisting path, its length stretched over eighty light-years!

This was a naturally formed peculiar region within the Cosmic Secret Realm, originally containing countless precious mineral planets, even many rare F-class metal ores!

But when the Outland Battlefield was opened, the mineral planets within were already looted by the strongest of the Four Peak Tribes, and after eons of battle, nearly all the planets had been shattered, leaving only endless fragments of planetary debris drifting through the Silver Seat Bay.

Of course, even now, powerful beings occasionally discovered precious ores among the drifting planetary fragments of the Silver Seat Bay, making it a gathering place for many powerhouses, its danger level even exceeding that of the Black Wasp Continent where Lu Qingshan had previously been.

Within the Outland Tenth Battlefield, the Silver Seat Bay was already ranked among the top ten most dangerous places.

According to the human faction's public records, over fifty thousand King-Seal Immortals were active within the Silver Seat Bay region, not to mention the countless Marquis-Seal Immortals and ordinary Immortals.

To venture into the Silver Seat Bay, a team must be led by at least a Marquis-Seal High-level or even Marquis-Seal Peak cultivator, otherwise they would become prey for other powerhouses in an extremely short time!

Of course, for Lu Qingshan, the dangers of the Silver Seat Bay were not so great.

After all, even without counting Kleister's strength, which rivaled King-Seal High-level, Lu Qingshan's own power could match King-Seal Initial-level; without burning divine power, even King-Seal Peak cultivators would find it extremely difficult to defeat him!

And the reason Lu Qingshan had come to this perilous battlefield region was to see if he could kill a King-Seal Immortal and thereby gain eligibility to join the Hong Alliance!

Previously, during casual chats with his teacher Lei Huanwang and his senior brother Ji Dianwang, Lu Qingshan had learned several ways to join the Hong Alliance.

Under normal circumstances, the simplest way for a human cultivator to join the Hong Alliance was to directly pass the Eighteenth Level of the Tongtian Bridge—naturally earning an invitation, and this was also one of the privileges granted to humans as the dominant force within the Hong Alliance;

Aside from that, one needed to kill a true King-Seal Immortal and provide corresponding proof—this usually occurred on the Outland Battlefield, where the military system, through the Virtual Universe's surveillance, naturally required no additional proof!

However, this second method required review, since on the Outland Battlefield, one could hire powerhouses to assist; to prevent fraud, the Hong Alliance naturally assigned powerful beings to review such cases—and this was also how many alien powerhouses joined the Hong Alliance!

Lu Qingshan had originally thought that after killing numerous Marquis-Seal Peak alien cultivators and even enslaving the Meng Yao Zu genius Kleister, he would attract the attention of the human faction's high command on the Outland Battlefield and gain eligibility to join the Hong Alliance.

But after decades passed, he realized he had vastly overestimated himself!

Then again, it made sense.

Geniuses like Kleister were not numerous among the Meng Yao Zu, but each era still produced dozens of them; killing or enslaving such a one was not considered a major achievement by the human race, let alone Lu Qingshan's earlier killings of Marquis-Seal Peak aliens!

So according to Lu Qingshan's deduction, on the Outland Battlefield, only after killing a King-Seal Immortal would the military system's rules trigger, transmitting the news to the Hong Alliance's high command, who would then judge whether he qualified to join the Hong Alliance!

Precisely because of this, Lu Qingshan had chosen the dangerous Silver Seat Bay this time—to increase his chances of killing a King-Seal Immortal and gaining eligibility to join the Hong Alliance!

…

Meanwhile, as Lu Qingshan entered the Silver Seat Bay to venture within…

In the Meng Yao Zu territory, within a Cosmic Secret Realm.

In the silent void, swirling green whirlwinds howled, and the Night Lord's temple stood at the core of the endless vortex.

At this moment, Zi Hu Zunzhe—who had once invited the Night Lord to venture into the Primordial Star decades ago—returned here again.

After following the Night Lord into the grand hall, Zi Hu Zunzhe invited once more: "Night Lord, have you made your decision?"

"Oh?"

Sensing the powerful aura emanating from Zi Hu Zunzhe, the Night Lord asked in surprise: "Zi Hu, last time I saw you, your divine body had suffered heavy damage—yet you've fully recovered so quickly!"

"I was just lucky."

Zi Hu Zunzhe smiled and said: "My teacher has been in deep seclusion, so his primordial artifact has been idle—I used some resources to borrow it from him, then spent a bit more, and within a short time fully restored my divine body!"

Know that during a cosmic cultivator's cultivation, the only chance to transform one's body completely into a divine body is when advancing from a World Lord to an Immortal, by resonating with the Law Ocean of the Cosmic Origin.

This opportunity occurs only once—whether a divine body less than one meter tall or Luo Feng's terrifying Deep Sea Avatar, both can absorb boundless energy to fully reshape the divine body!

After that, whether strengthening through cultivation or recovering from divine body damage, restoration requires slowly absorbing energy over long periods.

Just as Lu Qingshan previously was—if he hadn't possessed the Infinite Sea Avatar, each time he broke through a law and restructured his divine power, restoring his divine body would have taken a very long time!

If more than fifty percent of divine power is lost at once, returning to peak condition might require billions of years to commune with the Origin and absorb energy.

For Immortals, even Cosmic Zunzhe, lost divine power can be rapidly restored using precious artifacts.

But for a King-Seal Peak cultivator alone, restoring lost divine power requires tens of billions, even hundreds of billions of Hunyuan units' worth of artifacts—let alone Cosmic Venerables; if they lose thirty or fifty percent of their divine power, attempting rapid restoration might bankrupt them!

This is only for Cosmic Zunzhe!

If a pillar of a tribe—a Cosmic Master—loses a large portion of their divine body, the resources needed for rapid restoration would be a massive loss even for powerful or peak tribes!

And this is precisely where the importance of primordial artifacts becomes evident!

Once a primordial artifact is used, the speed of absorbing energy from the Cosmic Origin's Law Ocean becomes a thousand, ten thousand, even a million times faster!

The exact absorption efficiency depends primarily on the quality of the primordial artifact.

Under such conditions, a divine body that would normally take billions of years to restore might be fully healed in merely a million or even a hundred thousand years!

Luo Feng, possessing the Infinite Deep Sea Avatar, naturally had no need for primordial artifacts—but aside from Luo Feng, even the Chaos City Master and other such powerhouses desperately needed primordial artifacts!

Primordial artifacts in the cosmos are even rarer than soul artifacts, palace artifacts, and others, and more valuable; thus, powerhouses usually borrow them temporarily only after losing divine power, to restore their divine bodies.

"Primordial artifacts are truly powerful!"

After hearing Zi Hu Venerable's words, the Night Lord could not help but say: "Though they provide no direct boost to power, their value to powerhouses is no less than that of domain, soul, or palace artifacts—in fact, in some ways, even greater!"

"Indeed!"

Zi Hu Zunzhe could not help but sigh: "I remember when the Primordial Star last opened, a top-tier primordial artifact emerged—but it was snatched by those damned insect races!"

"There's nothing to be done."

The Night Lord said: "Compared to our Meng Yao Zu and the human race, the insect and mechanical races crave primordial artifacts far more—they can consume divine power to breed warrior insects, and the mechanical race can consume divine power to forge powerful mechanical weapons!"

"So when encountering precious primordial artifacts, insect and mechanical powerhouses will fight even harder, willing to sacrifice other gains—or even pay greater costs!"

"Enough about that!"

Zi Hu Zunzhe invited again: "Night Lord, my divine body is now fully restored—have you decided yet?"

"Zi Hu, I am willing to go with you."

The Night Lord smiled bitterly: "But as you saw last time you came—my disciple Kleister has been enslaved by a human powerhouse! If he were killed, he could be resurrected—but enslavement is irreversible!"

"Our Samsara Cong-Eyed Serpent lineage absolutely cannot allow this matter to happen. Even the Lord of Blood Chan has already inquired about it, so before I head to the Primordial Star, I must resolve this matter!"

"It's been so long already, and you still haven't resolved it?"

Zifeng Zunzhe asked in confusion, "Could it be that the one who enslaved that Kleist be an invincible Fengwang?"

"That's not the case!"

Hei Fengwang shook his head and said, "According to news from the extraterritorial battlefield, the one who enslaved Kleist is at most an illusionist at the elementary Fengwang level, possibly even weaker. It's just that this person is extremely cunning — after enslaving Kleist, he vanished without a trace. I searched for his tracks across eleven extraterritorial battlefields and found nothing!"

"Then you could track down Kleist's whereabouts!" Zifeng Zunzhe said again.

"I checked that too!"

Hei Fengwang said helplessly, "Over these years I've gathered a total of five leads, and I've sent strong warriors to every one of them. Although I did slay three foreign-race beings who had enslaved strong warriors of our Samsara Cong-Eyed Serpent lineage, none of them turned out to be Kleist!"

"Perhaps that human has already helped Kleist break through!"

Zifeng Zunzhe thought for a moment and said, "If that's the case, then when you were gathering information before, you must have missed some of it!"

"That shouldn't be the case!"

Hei Fengwang couldn't help saying, "Kleist has only been cultivating for just over three million years — compared to our Samsara Cong-Eyed Serpent lineage, that's—"

"Who knows!"

Zifeng Zunzhe said casually, "Anyway, you haven't found your target yet, so why not widen the conditions a little? You might just find them that way!"

"Makes sense!"

Hei Fengwang nodded slightly, then continued, "If Kleist really has broken through, he should now be comparable to an ordinary high-tier Fengwang. I'll give the order right now to gather relevant information on the extraterritorial battlefields!"

"That's the way!"

Zifeng Zunzhe nodded and said, "The sooner you get this matter handled on your end, the sooner we can head to the Primordial Star!"

"Don't worry!" Hei Fengwang nodded and said.

(End of this chapter)