Chapter 438: The Transformation of Strength

The True God Jiang Yuan himself was an eight-star-pulse, so he knew the characteristics of breaking through after eight-star-pulse.

Normally speaking, whether it was breaking through from Flying Heaven to Semi-god, or from Semi-god to Void God realm... the life layer would improve by 4 to 5 levels.

In Jiang Yuan's estimation, Li Yuan should have been level 43 to 44 after completing the breakthrough.

How could he reach level 46 so quickly?

Even if using Divine Crystals to cultivate, or even some rare treasures, the life layer should not evolve this quickly.

"Senior brother." Li Yuan had long since thought of a statement. He was not surprised at all that the True God Jiang Yuan could see through the reality of his life layer at a glance.

The more powerful one is, the stronger one's perception ability is.

Li Yuan's aura restraint means were more brilliant than in the past. Void Gods could likely only sense that he was a Semi-god... Most True Gods, he estimated, could only judge that he was roughly at the peak Semi-god level, and it was very difficult to be more accurate.

But this absolutely did not include the True God Jiang Yuan, whose strength was comparable to a Celestial God?

Therefore, from beginning to end, Li Yuan did not intend to hide it from the other party: "Senior brother, more than a month ago, my life star awakening basically reached the limit, so I chose to break through to Semi-god."

"In more than half a month, my life layer transformed to level 45 in one breath, and my soul will also began to transform... especially my soul, which transformed rapidly."

"Therefore, after my breakthrough ended, I used Divine Crystals to cultivate source power on one hand, and began to use Juexing Divine Pills on the other, in order to awaken more life stars..." Li Yuan said respectfully: "In the end, I actually awakened the ninth star-pulse unknowingly."

This was the statement Li Yuan had thought of.

It was very difficult to hide the nine-star-pulse.

Whether it was the sensing means of the True God Jiang Yuan or the Celestial God Tai You, or the fact that he would eventually cultivate to level 49.9... all made it impossible to thoroughly hide it.

It was just that Li Yuan had swapped the chronological order of awakening the nine-star-pulse and breaking through to Semi-god.

Flying Heaven nine-star-pulse and Semi-god nine-star-pulse were completely two different concepts.

The former was a legend in the vast Divine Realm.

And the latter had appeared on the Continent of Juexing. Although it was extremely rare, it was not too outrageous.

"What? Nine-star-pulse?" The True God Jiang Yuan was shocked, and his face changed slightly.

Whoosh!

The True God Jiang Yuan's eyes faintly emitted divine light, carefully observing Li Yuan... When Li Yuan was at the Flying Heaven level, he had observed for a good while before confirming that Li Yuan was an eight-star-pulse.

Now that Li Yuan was a Semi-god, it was even harder to observe, and it would take more time.

"Hum~" Li Yuan's heart moved, and he directly activated the nine-star-pulse in his body. The surface of his body instantly bloomed with layers of brilliant light.

Nine star-pulses intertwined like light rays, burning brilliantly.

Seeing this scene, plus his own observation, the True God Jiang Yuan had no more doubts in his heart.

"Nine-star-pulse!"

"Actually able to awaken the nine-star-pulse." The True God Jiang Yuan sighed in amazement, feeling quite joyful in his heart. He had spent quite a bit of effort and heart on Li Yuan, and his goal was to help Li Yuan become a Celestial God as much as possible.

Nine-star-pulse!!

At least in the history of the Continent of Juexing known to the True God Jiang Yuan, all those who awakened the nine-star-pulse eventually became Celestial Gods.

Being able to awaken the nine-star-pulse represented having astonishing talent in law comprehension, soul will, etc., combined with a powerful foundation... it would be difficult not to become a Celestial God.

Suddenly.

"Pity." The True God Jiang Yuan suddenly sighed: "You awakened the nine-star-pulse just after becoming a Semi-god... which shows that you were very close to awakening the nine-star-pulse when you were at the Flying Heaven level. If you were originally a second-tier eight-star-pulse, you might have had hope of reaching the ten-star-pulse as a Semi-god."

Up to now, the True God Jiang Yuan still thought Li Yuan was a second-tier seven-star-pulse, and that he had awakened the eight-star-pulse at the Flying Heaven stage.

"Senior brother praises me too much." Li Yuan shook his head: "The difficulty of second-tier eight-star-pulse... I believe senior brother knows better than I do."

"Moreover, reaching ten-star-pulse from nine-star-pulse is like ascending to heaven. Even in our Divine Realm, the ten-star-pulse is a legend; I have never heard of anyone who has reached it." Li Yuan sighed, opening his mouth to say 'our Divine Realm'.

Regarding this point.

Li Yuan had once asked Liu Bing and Gu You separately 'whether the Divine Realm had ever given birth to a ten-star-pulse powerhouse', and they both gave a definite answer: 'Yes, it has.'

There had been!

But specifically which one? Whether it was Liu Bing or Gu You, they could not answer, as there seemed to be no clear record.

Li Yuan could only attribute it to the fact that the ages since the last ten-star-pulse was born were too long, and specific names could not be left behind in various classics and legends.

There was also another possibility: the ten-star-pulse Semi-god was too monstrous...

No major force was willing to expose it, so no accurate news was leaked.

Some 'nine-star-pulse Celestial Gods' known to everyone in the Divine Realm might have been ten-star-pulses, just not known to people.

"Ten-star-pulse, it is indeed nearly impossible to reach." The True God Jiang Yuan could not help but nod, and revealed a smile again: "Being able to become a nine-star-pulse is already extremely good! Extremely good!"

Li Yuan becoming a nine-star-pulse had already exceeded his expectations, so he did not think deeply about anything else.

"By the way."

"Since you have already broken through to become a Semi-god, then in the ranking battle more than a month later, you will have to participate in the Semi-god ranking battle." The True God Jiang Yuan said: "This is your first time participating after becoming a Semi-god... According to the rules of the Ancient City of Juexing, it is the same as when you first participated in the Flying Heaven trial battle; the reward is ten times that of subsequent ranking battles."

"The higher the ranking, the better the reward will be."

"Theoretically, there is hope of obtaining True Divine Artifacts, or even treasure rewards like the Mirror of Laws." The True God Jiang Yuan said.

"First ranking battle, reward increased ten times?" Li Yuan was secretly shocked.

One must know that when he became the first Flying Heaven Holy Son, because of the ten-fold reward, he received a reward of one hundred thousand Divine Crystals, which was already equivalent to the entire wealth and treasures of many Void God mid-tier powerhouses.

The Semi-god ranking battle, the reward was likely even higher.

"It is a bit of a pity."

The True God Jiang Yuan laughed: "If you had broken through after this ranking battle, and then cultivated in seclusion for five years... I fear your ranking on the Semi-god list would be even higher."

"Being able to break through earlier, soul breakthrough, comprehending law mysteries will be faster." Li Yuan said: "The gain or loss of one ranking battle is secondary."

"Haha, you are quite open-minded." The True God Jiang Yuan revealed a smile: "Fine, as long as you have thought it through yourself. If you have anything, come find me again."

"I will leave first."

"If you need the True God Piao Xia and the others to come and guide your cultivation, send me a message again." The True God Jiang Yuan said.

Li Yuan stepping into Semi-god and awakening the nine-star-pulse in one go, in the True God Jiang Yuan's view, had already cast the best foundation, and his future would definitely be smooth sailing, at most suffering some setbacks.

Therefore, he would not interfere too much in Li Yuan's cultivation path.

The strong must decide their own path.

"Yes." Li Yuan nodded.

Immediately, the True God Jiang Yuan left, leaving Li Yuan in the void of the trial space.

After pondering for a moment.

"There is only more than a month left before the ranking battle. Whether it is improving source power cultivation or spear technique realm, it is not very realistic." Li Yuan thought to himself, both of which required time to polish slowly.

Right now, wanting to improve strength quickly.

"First is star techniques! Must cultivate 'Divine Body of All Things' to the fourth-tier limit as soon as possible, followed by 'Heaven and Earth River'." Li Yuan thought to himself: "Second, is soul attack secret techniques."

Compared to other Semi-gods, Li Yuan's soul will was very terrifying, and the power of the soul attacks he executed was far beyond other Semi-gods... such a big killer move naturally had to be utilized.

More than a year ago, Li Yuan's soul had just stepped into the Void God level. He had been busy pondering law comprehension and awakening life stars... and had not had time to cultivate soul secret techniques.

"Once star techniques and soul secret techniques have some success."

"I should be able to give that group of Semi-god reserve members a surprise in the ranking battle." Li Yuan revealed a smile.

The ranking battle was also a tempering.

If he couldn't even win against these Semi-gods of the Ancient City of Juexing, how could he win in the Battle of the Ancestral Realm?

Whoosh!

Li Yuan's heart moved and he had already returned to the main hall of the Ancient Divine Palace. Flipping his palm, the hall was filled with dense and numerous rare treasures.

These were exactly what Li Yuan had asked the Nine Sounds Tower to help purchase when he was in the Royal Capital of the Yuan Kingdom, used to cultivate nine-fold star techniques.

At that time, the treasures required to cultivate the five nine-fold star techniques to the fourth tier were only collected for 'Divine Body of All Things' and 'Earth Star-Pulse True Explanation'.

And in the five years since coming to the Ancient City of Juexing, Li Yuan had used the channels of the 'Hall of Divine Fire' and spent more than one thousand units of Divine Crystals to successively purchase the remaining treasures required for 'Heaven and Earth River', 'Heavenly Wind Star-Pulse True Explanation', and 'Ten Thousand Shadows Void'.

The Hall of Divine Fire was, after all, the genius cultivation place of the number one major force in this world, and its channels for purchasing treasures were far beyond the Nine Sounds Tower.

And Li Yuan had now reached level 46.8, and his body's carrying capacity was strong enough.

Therefore, for Li Yuan.

As long as there was enough time, he could successively cultivate the five nine-fold star techniques to the fourth-tier extreme.

"'Divine Body of All Things' and 'Heaven and Earth River' increase my strength the most." Li Yuan's heart moved, and he had already operated the many mysteries of 'Divine Body of All Things'.

Rumble!

Li Yuan's body instantly bloomed with light, a star-pulse revealed monstrous sharpness, power was infinite, and he began to crazily swallow and absorb the essence contained in each of those rare treasures.

"Whoosh!"

Li Yuan calmed his heart, his powerful soul consciousness hooking into the fluctuations of the Law of Earth and spatial mysteries in the dark, gradually condensing the 'fourth-tier Myriad Things Star Mark' on the life star of that perfect star-pulse.

"If an ordinary Semi-god came to cultivate 'Divine Body of All Things', even with enough treasures, I fear it would take several years." Li Yuan's thought flashed: "But my soul and law comprehension are both extremely high, which can save a great deal of time."

Cultivating nine-fold star techniques is like building a house.

While the materials are sufficient, the technique must also be good enough to build the house both fast and well.

Time passed.

The essence of rare treasures worth nearly two thousand units of Divine Crystals continuously integrated into Li Yuan's body, causing his body to bloom with brilliant light, and his aura became increasingly vigorous.

Gu You, on the side, watched this scene quietly.

"Father."

"Fourth-tier Divine Body of All Things, Li Yuan is becoming more and more like you." Gu You looked at Li Yuan cultivating this star technique, a complex look flashing in her eyes.

Back then, the God of Deity Deity Deity Gu Ju traversed one side, and his main combat star technique was 'Divine Body of All Things', his body like a True Divine Artifact, fierce to the extreme.

"Father! Soon."

"With Li Yuan's strength progress speed, I fear he will be able to pass your fifth test at the Semi-god stage." Gu You thought secretly.

The God of Deity Deity Deity Gu Ju left behind five tests, and only by passing all of them as a personal disciple could one obtain the final treasure left behind.

But in reality, if a personal disciple's strength was strong enough, they could completely pass the test in advance.

It was just that back then, the God of Deity Deity Deity Gu Ju did not hope that there would be such a peerless genius entering the Ancient Divine Palace.

"'Mind Soul' Void God level secret technique." Li Yuan was cultivating nine-fold star techniques while also dividing a large amount of mental effort to cultivate soul secret techniques in his heart world.

'Burning Heart Blade' and 'Mind Soul' were the two major soul secret techniques Li Yuan mainly cultivated.

Both were quite profound, leading directly to the peak True God level.

Even if Li Yuan had stronger soul secret techniques now, starting from scratch to cultivate them naturally would not be as fast as these two soul secret techniques.

"'Burning Heart Blade' leans toward soul annihilation, too domineering, and the ranking battle is just a sparring trial, so it is not very convenient to use." Li Yuan pondered: "Moreover, the method I cultivate, 'Six Realms of Heart Illusion', is to temper the seven emotions and six desires, which is best for constructing illusions."

"It is better to use 'Six Realms of Heart Illusion' as the cornerstone to cultivate the Void God level moves of 'Mind Soul', which will be easier." Li Yuan studied it deeply.

After a practitioner steps into the Void God level, the soul becomes increasingly powerful, making the study of the soul path even easier, and also making the many soul secret techniques created by gods increasingly mysterious and unpredictable.

"The soul, entrusted to the void! So-called soul secret techniques cannot escape the scope of law mysteries, especially the Law of Space."

"The two major directions of my spatial mystery comprehension already include the 'world direction', which is good at constructing domain worlds."

"Illusion, hooking into people's inner desires." Li Yuan only felt that cultivating the 'Mind Soul' secret technique was incomparably easy, quickly solving one problem and confusion after another.

Difficult points that many Void Gods found hard to see through for months or even years, Li Yuan could thoroughly understand in just a few days.

This is the benefit of a strong foundation.

In terms of soul will, in terms of comprehension of the Law of Space, Li Yuan was already top-tier among Void Gods... plus the tempering of his heart will by 'Six Realms of Heart Illusion', his speed of cultivating soul secret techniques was destined to be very terrifying.

In a certain sense.

Li Yuan had already become a peerless genius in cultivating the soul path.

Ancient City of Juexing, Inner City, residence of Celestial God Tai You.

"City Lord."

"Xu Yuan has already awakened the nine-star-pulse." The True God Jiang Yuan said directly.

He knew that this matter would sooner or later be detected by Celestial God Tai You; the other party wielded a legacy divine artifact, and his perception ability was too terrifying.

Therefore, the True God Jiang Yuan simply told the other party directly.

"Nine-star-pulse?" Even Celestial God Tai You, who could be called the strongest in this world, was somewhat shocked to hear this news suddenly, saying in a low voice: "What is going on?"

The True God Jiang Yuan quickly described what he knew.

"Awakened the nine-star-pulse after breaking through to Semi-god?" Celestial God Tai You's eyes flashed with a trace of surprise.

Is it such a coincidence?

Pondered for a while.

"Jiang Yuan, tell me your thoughts." Celestial God Tai You said slowly: "I think you should know Xu Yuan's background... He is not a life from this world of ours, so I will not bestow upon him some of the deepest foundations of the Ancient City of Juexing."

"This is my duty as City Lord."

"I understand." The True God Jiang Yuan was not surprised that Celestial God Tai You already knew about this.

Back then, when he reported the news of Li Yuan, he had already hinted at it, and did not intend to hide it forever.

"Xu Yuan comes from the Chaos Divine Court of the Divine Realm." The True God Jiang Yuan said: "He has no harm to my Ancient City of Juexing, and I only hope that in the coming years, the City Lord will protect him a little."

The True God Jiang Yuan knew very well that once Xu Yuan's 'nine-star-pulse' identity was exposed, he would immediately become a thorn in the side of all major forces in this world.

They would absolutely not allow Xu Yuan to grow up easily.

They would not believe the words 'Xu Yuan is not the core of the Ancient City of Juexing'.

Once such a situation appeared, the True God Jiang Yuan did not have absolute certainty to protect Xu Yuan.

Therefore, he came to seek an audience with Celestial God Tai You.

"Chaos Divine Court?" Celestial God Tai You was stunned for a moment, seemingly recalling many things: "Are you sure? Similar to those few before?"

Apparently, there was more than one powerhouse from the Chaos Divine Court who had appeared in this world.

"Sure." The True God Jiang Yuan nodded: "He has already made a law oath."

"City Lord."

"For millions of years, that passage in the Ancestral Realm could not be closed, and Divine Realm powerhouses have descended one after another... All signs are indicating that I fear it is not far from our world returning to the Divine Realm." The True God Jiang Yuan said solemnly: "Even if it is not in our generation, we must consider the future."

"If we can forge a deep friendship with Xu Yuan."

"With Xu Yuan's talent, returning to the Divine Realm in the future, becoming a Celestial God is almost a certainty... or even having a small hope of achieving a legend."

"Once he reaches that step, it will be the blessing of my Ancient City of Juexing, which can leave a legacy for future generations for ten million years." The True God Jiang Yuan said solemnly.

Celestial God Tai You fell into deep thought.

How could he not know Xu Yuan's talent? Just the 'thirty-five-year-old nine-star-pulse' was enough to shake the contemporary era.

"Good."

"I will give him a promise; I will try my best to protect him." Celestial God Tai You said softly: "As long as he does not harm my Ancient City of Juexing, he will always be a member of my Ancient City of Juexing."

"Thank you, City Lord." The True God Jiang Yuan revealed a smile.

Always being a member of the Ancient City of Juexing, this was already the highest promise of Celestial God Tai You.

Li Yuan naturally would not know about the conversation between the True God Jiang Yuan and Celestial God Tai You.

In the blink of an eye, it was more than half a month later.

Inside the Ancient Divine Palace.

"Rumble~" Li Yuan's body suddenly bloomed with brilliant light, and his body rapidly expanded to a hundred meters tall, and his life aura instantly soared to a terrifying level.

"Fourth-tier 'Divine Body of All Things' is thoroughly complete." Li Yuan revealed a look of joy.

Boom! Boom!

Li Yuan waved his palms at will, and terrifying power erupted, causing the air to be rapidly compressed, instantly causing the void of the entire hall to roar and explode.

"The strength is already close to many level 50 Void Gods executing seven-fold body-refining star techniques." Li Yuan revealed a smile: "Haha, good! Good! Good!"

Void God powerhouses, the vast majority awaken six-star-pulses, and cultivating seven-fold body-refining star techniques is standard.

Therefore, if a level 47 Semi-god executes a nine-fold body-refining star technique, they can usually compare to a normal level 50 Void God in terms of power foundation after erupting with all their might.

This was also the reason why Jiang Shan and the others possessed Void God initial-tier strength.

Nothing else, the foundation was strong enough.

"Continue."

"Cultivate 'Heaven and Earth River'." Li Yuan calmed his heart and continued to cultivate the second nine-fold star technique.

Cultivating 'Heaven and Earth River' to the fourth-tier extreme had quite high requirements for the Law of Earth, usually requiring reaching the seventh-stage high-tier to succeed. Many Semi-gods had to reach the requirements many years after stepping into Semi-god.

But for Li Yuan, there was no threshold; as long as there were enough rare treasures and time, it could be done.

Time passed day by day.

While Li Yuan was preparing for his first Semi-god ranking battle, the nearly ten thousand Semi-gods of the Hall of Divine Fire were also cultivating hard.

Like Jiang Shan, Baili Teng, and others, cultivating in the Hall of Divine Fire for five years, everyone felt that their strength had greatly improved, longing to become famous in one fell swoop, so that they could truly be apprenticed to a True God.

And like Yueshan, Yang Di, and other senior members, they had already experienced many ranking battles, mostly seeking to maintain their current ranking.

In the blink of an eye, the day of the five-year 'Reserve Member Ranking Battle' of the Hall of Divine Fire arrived.

Inside Li Yuan's residence trial space.

Whoosh!

Li Yuan walked out of the Ancient Divine Palace in a flash. He had received a message from a Vice Hall Master: "Holy Son Xu Yuan, the ranking battle is about to begin, please hurry to the Hall of Divine Fire."

"It's starting?" Li Yuan thought to himself: "It's a pity that 'Heaven and Earth River' is still a little short of being cultivated to the fourth-tier limit, but it is enough."

"At least, I have already cultivated the Void God chapter of 'Mind Soul' to great success."

Whoosh!

Li Yuan flew out of the palace and quickly rushed to the Hall of Divine Fire.

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Like Jiang Shan, Baili Teng, and others, having cultivated in the Hall of Divine Fire for five years, each felt their strength had greatly advanced and longed to make a name for themselves so they could truly be accepted as disciples under a True God.

And like veteran members such as Yueshan and Yang Di, they had already experienced many ranking battles, and most were seeking to maintain their current rankings.

In the blink of an eye, the day of the Hall of Divine Fire's five-yearly 'Reserve Member Ranking Battle' had arrived.

Inside Li Yuan's mansion's trial space.

Whoosh!

Li Yuan flashed out from the Ancient God Palace; he had already received a message from a Vice Hall Master: "Saint Son Xu Yuan, the ranking battle is about to begin, please come to the Hall of Divine Fire quickly."

"It's starting?" Li Yuan thought to himself: "It's just a pity that *River of Heaven and Earth* is still a little short of being cultivated to the Fourth-Stage limit, but it is enough."

"At least, I have already cultivated the Void God chapter of *Soul Thoughts* to great success."

Whoosh!

Li Yuan flew out of the palace and quickly rushed toward the Hall of Divine Fire.

(End of chapter)