Chapter 454

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Protagonist:

Yu Zhangsheng

In the Wu Dao Jie, Dao rhymes are everywhere; they are an important foundational component of this world.

And at this moment, when the Dao rhymes within Yu Zhangsheng's body reached a saturation point, the feeling they gave was one of becoming harmonious; this is a very mysterious and subtle change — he simply stands there, not abrupt, very natural.

Naturally fused together with the surrounding environment, every gesture and movement is filled with traces of the Dao following nature — this is the unity of heaven and man.

And this also means that Yu Zhangsheng's current stage is more or less at an end; the next step is to begin attempting to condense Dao patterns.

Regarding this, Meng Wu'an and Li Minghan both cast envious gazes; Yu Zhangsheng merely smiled faintly, meeting City Lord Han's eyes, and said with a smile: "Thank you for the trouble, City Lord Han; these past days, I have finally completed the Dao rhyme entering the body."

Dao rhyme entering the body is only the first stage; this stage is akin to laying the foundation before building a house — how large and solid the foundation is determines whether the superstructure above will be glorious or not; it is extremely important.

And City Lord Han, searching her heart, found that Yu Zhangsheng's foundation was the most massive she had ever known; therefore, facing Yu Zhangsheng's flattery, City Lord Han likewise smiled radiantly, nodded, and said: "It is merely the first step; the remaining condensation of Dao patterns is the top priority; think carefully about your direction; as I said, Dao patterns have attribute differences; what kind of Dao pattern suits you, you should have a number in your heart."

City Lord Han finished speaking, then turned her head to look at Meng Wu'an and Li Minghan, who were staring with bated breath, and said with a smile:

"Then now it is your turn; you are different from Yu Zhangsheng; your Dao rhyme body saturation should not require such a large quantity of Dao rhyme; the speed will be much faster; therefore, do not be anxious."

"Good." Meng Wu'an and Li Minghan nodded, suppressing the excitement in their hearts, and deeply exhaled a breath of turbid Qi.

Taking advantage of this, the next two days were spent with City Lord Han busy helping Meng Wu'an and Li Minghan with their Dao rhyme entering the body, while Yu Zhangsheng took the opportunity to exchange much with City Lord Han, gaining a general idea regarding the subsequent condensation of Dao patterns.

"Dao rhyme is merely the foundation; only by further condensing Dao patterns and inscribing them on the Golden Core can one truly bestow enhancements upon oneself; some exquisite benefits can greatly shorten the time when one advances to the Purple Mansion realm and increase the success rate."

"And Dao rhyme body saturation merely provides a condition for Dao patterns to be stored within the body; this stage you have already prepared for completion; then the next step, in the true sense, depends on your own comprehension."

City Lord Han looked deeply at Yu Zhangsheng and began to explain.

"Now, the first stage for the three of you is also roughly about the same; regarding the subsequent condensation of Dao patterns, do you have a path in mind? What kind of Dao pattern do you want to condense?" City Lord Han asked.

"Hmm..." Meng Wu'an pondered, glanced at Yu Zhangsheng and Li Minghan, cupped his fists toward City Lord Han, and said: "This junior has an idea; my path has always been the Sword Path, and the Sword Path is inherently fierce and peerless, focusing on slaughter; so the Dao patterns this junior wants are all biased toward attack and slaughter — the Breaking Dao Pattern, the Force Dao Pattern; I feel both are quite suitable."

Meng Wu'an was originally a Sword Cultivator; having such an idea is naturally not strange; he mainly cultivates slaughter, focusing on one sword breaking ten thousand laws.

City Lord Han raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, fell into deep thought, and after a long while said: "The sword takes an unorthodox approach; one sword breaking ten thousand laws is not impossible; it does suit you; however, the Sword Path is fierce, the slaughter aura too heavy; such Dao patterns are not easy to condense; it all depends on your comprehension."

Meng Wu'an's expression did not change; he merely nodded lightly: "Success or failure, right or wrong, all depend on human effort."

City Lord Han was surprised, laughed lightly: "Very well,"

Her tone paused; she thought for a moment, then continued: "If there is an opportunity, I can indeed give you a pointer or two; although my memories of the Heavenly Sword Pavilion are largely missing, I still remember some; perhaps they can be of some help to you."

"Then many thanks to City Lord Han."

Meng Wu'an was overjoyed; the Heavenly Sword Pavilion's power was far stronger than his Violet Rainbow Gate; the two were not on the same level; who didn't know that City Lord Han's specific status in the Heavenly Sword Pavilion was certainly not low? If he could receive a pointer or two from her, it would also be a huge harvest for Meng Wu'an.

"Mm." City Lord Han nodded lightly; a trace of contemplation flashed across her peerless beauty; a moment later she turned her head to look at Li Minghan and asked: "What about you? Do you have any ideas?"

Li Minghan nodded, laughed "hehe," and said: "Anything works for me; roughly just balanced; I feel whatever kind of Dao pattern is quite compatible with me."

City Lord Han was surprised, thought for a moment, then nodded approvingly: "That is also correct; your aura is mottled, not specialized in any single path; cultivating all methods together has never not been your road."

Finished speaking, she cast her gaze toward Yu Zhangsheng, carrying a trace of curiosity, and asked: "Do you have any ideas?"

Yu Zhangsheng pondered, nodded, cupped his fists, and said: "My idea is similar to Li Minghan's; I am a Beast Tamer; roughly it is just to condense and inscribe as many Dao patterns as possible that match my beast-taming attributes; enhance the spirit beasts, thereby transforming them into my own foundation."

City Lord Han slightly frowned, lowered her brows and fell into deep thought; after a long while she raised her head and said: "That is also correct; for you, only this is suitable? However, I see you have quite a few spirit beasts; if so, the quantity of Dao patterns you need to condense is not simple..."

"Right now, do you have any thoughts on which Dao pattern to condense first that would be suitable?"

"Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth — the Five Elements Dao Patterns." Yu Zhangsheng replied without hesitation; these were all things he had considered beforehand.

My current spirit beasts, whether looking at the future or at present, certainly cannot escape the Five Elements' familiarity; Chi Lian the Purgatory Dragon is inherently suited to Fire Attribute Dao Patterns, while the Xuan Turtle leans Water, Cai Xing the Deer and the Zi Ling Huang both lean Wood, the Zi Ling Huang and my natal Magic Treasure the Zi Ling Huang Sword are unified as one, and Metal Dao Patterns can also effectively enhance them.

And although Earth Dao Patterns have no spirit beast of mine that matches, they inherently resonate with some of my cultivation methods — the Thousand Mountains Decree is one of them — and can also greatly enhance my physical body strength.

Looking at it this way, the Five Elements Dao Patterns are naturally very suitable for me.

And these Five Elements Dao Patterns are relatively common; the inscribing difficulty should not be too great. After consideration, Yu Zhangsheng naturally had his choice.

Regarding this, City Lord Han thought for a moment and expressed understanding, pondering: "Alright; then next I will focus on finding some Five Elements spirit beast Dao patterns for you to comprehend; how much you can comprehend depends on yourself."

"However..." City Lord Han's expression flashed a trace of hesitation; after a long while she shook her head and sighed lightly, opening her mouth with some worry: "However, judging from your current situation, I fear that even if you comprehend the Dao patterns, the Dao rhyme required to condense them will likely be an astronomical figure."

The amount of Dao rhyme needed to condense Dao patterns is related to each person's comprehension level and constitution; the two are like the same kind of Dao pattern — in plants and in animals they are completely different; the quantities of Dao rhyme decomposed from them are also worlds apart.

And Yu Zhangsheng's foundation from just the Dao rhyme entering the body stage is already deep enough; the Dao rhyme needed to fully condense Dao patterns — City Lord Han just thinking about it felt a bit of a headache.

"Never mind; take it one step at a time."

City Lord Han shook her head, temporarily discarding these thoughts, lightly sighed a breath, glanced at Yu Zhangsheng, and led the three of them to continue searching for and hunting spirit beasts in this Zhen Yuan Mi Lin.

During this one week, led by City Lord Han, the few of them had hunted over a hundred spirit beasts, the vast majority of which were fed to Yu Zhangsheng; now this small zone is terrifyingly quiet, almost impossible to find traces of spirit beasts; most have long since fled in fright.

This undoubtedly increased City Lord Han's burden; fortunately, the Zhen Yuan Mi Lin is large enough; changing positions can still find quite a few spirit beasts; but going on like this, the later it gets, the slower the efficiency will certainly become; this is the point that gives City Lord Han a headache. And Yu Zhangsheng fell into contemplation, pondering his cultivation journey thus far, slightly headache.

"Comprehending Dao patterns... truly not easy."

Yu Zhangsheng sighed inwardly; Dao rhyme entering the body had no technical content; he occupied the advantage of cultivation method and constitution, like a black hole swallowing and swallowing until done; as for the rest, there didn't seem to be much difficulty; so it was still fairly smooth.

But this next step, comprehending Dao patterns, re-condensing Dao rhyme into Dao patterns and inscribing them on the Golden Core — Yu Zhangsheng truly had no confidence; what this stresses is truly comprehension and affinity with the Great Dao.

The latter Yu Zhangsheng could still speak for; his constitution naturally occupies an advantage; but the former, Yu Zhangsheng truly had no bottom in his heart.

"All the divine abilities I've grasped along this path have basically relied on adding points; where was there any self-comprehension?"

Yu Zhangsheng muttered to himself. Regarding this, he felt somewhat helpless; however, being able to cheat, he naturally wouldn't turn toward self-comprehension.

But he also wasn't too worried; these days, constantly absorbing Dao rhyme, his soul had obtained an unimaginable enhancement; in terms of comprehension, it seemed to have also improved considerably.

"Never mind; we'll see when the time comes; who knows, perhaps then the system's Essence Points can help me comprehend a bit..."

Yu Zhangsheng shook his head; pondering in his heart, he flipped through the System Panel he hadn't paid attention to for a long time; these days, his Essence Points had grown quite a bit again.

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【Name: Yu Zhangsheng】

【Realm: Heavenly Dao Golden Core (within Seal Suppression)】

【Constitution: Spirit-Communicating Dao Body, Heavenly Dao Favor, Spirit Beast Affinity】

【Cultivation Methods: Wan Ling Jue: Small Success (300000/500000), Lian Shen Gong Small Completion (300000/5000000), Beast Control Art: Perfected to Transformation Realm (Method Limit, Cannot Continue Improving), Three-Fire Refinement Alchemy: Great Success (300000/500000), Thousand Mountains Art Great Success (300000/500000)】

【Spells: Fireball Technique: Great Success (180000/200000), Shadow Flash: Great Success (200000/300000), Wind Travel Technique: Great Success (100000/200000), Wood Shield Technique: Great Success (50000/100000), Rainmaking Technique: Great Success (50000/100000), Thousand Thoughts Slash: Perfected to Transformation Realm (Method Limit, Cannot Continue Improving), Beast Shadow: Great Success (200000/500000), Five Elements Beast Law: Great Success (100000/200000), Morning Sun Breaking Dawn Fist: Perfected to Transformation Realm, Divine Light Shatter Body Pierce Heaven Art: Perfected to Transformation Realm】

【Sword Arts: Startled Swan Falling Wild Goose Sword: Great Success (1000/200000), Dark Extinction Killing Sha Sword: Great Success (2000/200000), Primordial Opening Heaven Sword: Small Success (100000/1000000)】

【Skills: Fourth Rank Spiritual Herb (50000/500000), Third Rank Alchemy Path (150000/500000)】

【Spirit Pets: Chi Lian Purgatory Dragon, Golden-Winged Great Peng, Cai Xing Deer, Xuan Yin Phantom Turtle, Purple Spirit Emperor】

【Remaining Essence: 800000】

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"Essence Points 800000... not bad."

Yu Zhangsheng nodded slightly in his heart, looking at the 800000 Essence Points, he didn't have too much feeling; 800000 Essence Points, for the current him, although not to the point of looking down on them, also wouldn't cause too much of a stir.

800000 Essence Points look like a lot, but Yu Zhangsheng was clear, this would only just fill up a fairly decent method, for his own needs, it truly wasn't enough to look at.

On the other hand, a single worst Third Rank Pill, fed to a Spirit Beast, could also gain 10000 Essence Points at minimum, and Yu Zhangsheng now fed Spirit Beasts, all using Third Rank Pills as a baseline, and still among them of decent quality, therefore several hundred thousand Essence Points, for Yu Zhangsheng, wasn't considered difficult, merely rather costly.

"Fortunately in this Wu Dao Jie, feeding Dao Rhyme can also harvest Essence Points, and gain quite a lot, saving me a large sum of expenses..."

"On the other hand, after going back out, Alchemy should also continue to be raised a bit, promote to Fourth Rank Alchemist early, that has great use for me too... otherwise merely nurturing Spirit Beasts, I can barely sustain it."

Yu Zhangsheng thought secretly in his heart, he currently had enough resources on him, this was because he killed people and seized treasures along the way, and the Sect was also generous towards him, but once following his promotion from Golden Core to Purple Mansion, Spirit Beasts also promote to Fourth Rank...

At that time, it will be a total of five Fourth Rank Spirit Beasts, five mouths, the resources needed to nurture them will be a terrifying figure, afraid even the entire Wanxiang Sect might not be able to support it, then he could only think of his own ways.

Alchemy, doubtless is one of the ways, after all Alchemists, truly earn money.

After temporarily suppressing these messy thoughts in his mind, Yu Zhangsheng lightly exhaled a breath, then thought: "Forget it, don't think too much about these, just don't know if Essence Points can help me comprehend Dao Patterns when the time comes, if they can then it's much simpler, if not it doesn't matter, nothing more than a few more twists and turns, however, storing Essence Points first for unforeseen needs is always good..."

Time passed, the group of four walked and stopped, after leaving this Zone and continuing deeper, they finally encountered quite a few Spirit Beasts...

Time passed, three days later, Zhen Yuan Mi Lin Inner Circle a certain place.

"Whoosh!!"

Dense firelight swayed in bursts, violent heat waves snapped all surrounding trees, turning them to flying ash, the earth scorched, vegetation in all directions utterly gone, smoke rising everywhere.

Wind forest tiger roar, Dragon Chant Sound resounded and rippled, along with the scattering of flames, the dissipation of residual waves, revealing a large expanse of emptiness, slanting sky light shone in, a Spirit Beast's miserable howl came to an abrupt halt, revealing within the mangled flesh and blood, the thoroughly lifeless Flame Lion corpse.

"Huu..."

Standing to the side, Lord Han Cheng let out a long breath, withdrew the Beast Skin Great Bow in his hand, casually wiped the sweat from his forehead, brushed aside the green strands scattered on his shoulder, on his peerlessly beautiful face, revealed a fleeting trace of fatigue: "A Three-Pattern Strength Flame Lion, truly rare, took quite some effort, but fortunately it's dealt with."

Lord Han Cheng murmured softly. (Chapter End)