Chapter 343: Classification of Dharma Symbols

Yao Shou Shijie.

"Mm."

In a huge cavern deep beneath Huanhu Dao, a muffled sound echoed faintly.

After the eyelids of a huge turtle twitched slightly, it slowly opened its eyes.

And in his eyes, in an instant, the phantoms of three spirit turtles flashed, accompanied by a profound mysterious light, then vanished.

"Finally awake?"

Yunhe slowly exhaled a breath of foul air; this was the first time he had slept so long.

"Fifteen years?"

After a quick finger count, Yunhe reached a conclusion.

Of course, for a demon beast, especially one like him who had already reached the Fourth Level, it was merely a fleeting moment.

Moreover, he is the demon beast turtle with the longest lifespan among demon beasts.

Perhaps for him in the future, fifteen years of sleep is just a nap.

"And my current lifespan." Yunhe sank his heart, using Demon Sense to feel a vague spiritual awareness: "It has already exceeded ten thousand years, approaching twenty thousand years; although still a bit short, the difference is not much."

Twenty thousand years of lifespan!

With such a vast lifespan, merely consuming it would be enough to exhaust twenty lifetimes of an ordinary Yuan Ying Cultivator!

And even more!

Even a Spirit Transformation Cultivator above Yuan Ying, he could exhaust ten lifetimes.

Given such a massive size, fifteen years really isn't much.

"But following this calculation, I'm probably still just an egg."

Yunhe let out a self-mocking laugh.

He rose slowly, and a breeze that seemed to come from nowhere swept away the dust on his body.

However, he did not immediately leave the cavern.

Because he still had many doubts unanswered.

When he had just broken through to the Fourth Level, his changes were too great; merely because of the sudden attack of the Lu Shan Turtle, he didn't have time to carefully sense his own changes, and had to first deal with the Lu Shan Turtle.

But now, he has plenty of time.

Yunhe spaced out a bit, then closed his eyes again, using Demon Sense to look inward.

First, what he valued most without doubt were the three demon cores inside his body.

More precisely, they were three demon cores that had taken form.

In his qi sea dantian, a dragon turtle, a black tortoise, and a great ao appeared as three different-looking demon beast inner cores, lying quietly in his qi sea dantian, raising their heads, silently inhaling and exhaling spiritual and demonic qi.

It seems there is no connection between them, nor do they interfere with each other, yet their simultaneous coexistence in Yunhe's qi sea dantian is itself a kind of connection.

"Demon Core Manifestation!"

This is both a manifestation of cultivation base and of bloodline purity, indicating that the concentration of the three true spirit bloodlines within Yunhe's body has risen to a notable level.

True Spirit, is the goal and direction for all demon beasts' advancement.

Of course, what the Demon Core Manifestation brings is not merely this symbolic meaning; some specific changes may need to be explored step by step in daily life.

The only thing that can be certain now is that Demon Core Manifestation granted Yunhe a vastly greater demonic power.

Originally, possessing three demon cores already caused his demonic power to far surpass that of same-level demon beasts, at the very least threefold.

But now, after breaking through to the Fourth Level and undergoing Demon Core Manifestation, his demonic power is likely six times that of an ordinary early Fourth Level demon beast.

And even more!

Because as Yunhe's cultivation base increases, even without reaching mid Fourth Level, his demonic power is slowly growing.

"If we talk about demonic power comparison consumption, I could probably exhaust several early Fourth Level demon beasts."

Of course, no matter how much quantity, the determinant of strength is always quality.

However, when quality is the same, the advantage of quantity is still great.

"Thus, the difficulty of accumulating demonic power to raise my cultivation base has become greater."

Yunhe couldn't help but reveal a helpless smile.

But he was not discouraged.

If another demon beast had these three demon cores, even three that had taken form, no matter how long its lifespan, it could not fill its accumulation.

But he has the aid of a Cultivator Body, so this predicament is considered solved optimally.

Thus, it seems the demon beast body has completely lost the possibility of quickly raising cultivation base to in turn drive the Cultivator Body; only the Cultivator Body pulling the demon beast body remains.

But Yunhe also firmly believed.

Such an amount will definitely not remain merely quantity forever.

When it truly undergoes a qualitative change, such an amount also bestows upon him benefits beyond imagination.

"If even my current essence blood cannot let the Cultivator Body condense a spirit body phantom, then likely no Fourth Level demon beast's essence blood can meet the requirement, which only indicates that condensing the 'Five Elements Spirit Body' at least requires Fifth Level demon beast essence blood, but that is nearly impossible."

Fifth Level demon beast!

That is an existence capable of rivaling a Spirit Transformation Cultivator!

If Fifth Level demon beast essence blood is needed to condense the Five Elements Spirit Body, then this cultivation method would have no need to append the method for condensing the Five Elements Spirit Body, because it is simply impossible in the world of cultivation.

At least, in the lower realm, Spirit Transformation is the pinnacle that the cultivation world cannot achieve.

After sensing the changes in the demon cores and essence blood, Yunhe also sensed the changes in his demon body.

"Speaking solely of demon body strength, it is at least ten times stronger than the late Third Level!"

"Even though I have only just broken through to early Fourth Level, if we take the Lu Shan Turtle's demon body strength as reference, my demon body strength might be stronger than ordinary mid Fourth Level demon beasts, and could even rival late Fourth Level demon beasts."

"This is the reason demon beasts recognize bloodline, even surpassing cultivation recognition; bloodline represents talent and also represents the lower limit."

He had just broken through to the early Fourth Level; this was still merely his lower limit, yet it could be the upper limit that some demon beasts with insufficient bloodline purity could only hope for but never reach.

In short.

The Demon Beast Body is undoubtedly a 'genius' in the Yao Shou Shijie!

"Not to mention Demon Sense. With my current Demon Sense, a demon beast of mid Fourth Level would have to pause even after taking a single hit from 'Seeking Immortal, Falling Divine Grant'."

Strong, very strong!

This is Yunhe's definition of himself.

"Right, there's also divine ability!"

He calmed his mind again.

Because of the "Turning Divine Thunder's" creation, the two innate divine abilities he possessed underwent considerable change.

"Heaven-Earth Phenomenon."

This is the original innate divine ability "As One Wishes".

"No, even a pure 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon' cannot fully represent 'As One Wishes'."

Yunhe himself was somewhat taken aback.

"I can only say that 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon' is the 'great' aspect of the 'great-small As One Wishes' within 'As One Wishes', the upper limit of the 'great', or rather the current upper limit is 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon', but the 'small' has not changed."

"What is the limit of the 'small'?"

"A mote? A mustard seed Sumeru?"

He thought he had already re-examined this innate divine ability of his, but now it seems this might not even be the ultimate limit of this innate divine ability.

However, even just the pure "Heaven-Earth Phenomenon" represents a tremendous increase in his strength.

But what is consumed when using "Heaven-Earth Phenomenon" is not mana, but essence blood!

The longer it is used, the greater the consumption of essence blood; if overused, causing excessive essence blood loss, it could even affect his origin.

The reason he slept for so long this time is because he used the "Heaven-Earth Phenomenon" divine ability during his battle with the Land Mountain Turtle, consuming his own essence blood.

Of course, as long as it's not overused, essence blood can also recover, only the duration differs.

But every drop of essence blood is extremely important to the demon beast itself; it requires expenditure of mana and energy, and even with the demon beast's long lifespan, they are unwilling to casually consume their own essence blood.

Suddenly.

As Yunhe was sensing the change in his divine ability, a fragment of unfamiliar yet familiar information flashed through his mind.

It was the inherited memory he had obtained!

When he broke through to the Fourth Level, he had obtained too much inherited memory, which was also overly redundant; just after waking, he hadn't yet had time to organize and prune it, but he never expected that a portion of that inherited memory would surface on its own.

After Yunhe simply "browsed" through it, he discovered that it was actually the inheritance concerning the "Heaven-Earth Phenomenon" divine ability.

"To be frank, the 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon' divine ability is not particularly rare in the long history of the Demon Clan; there will always appear some geniuses capable of awakening such an innate divine ability."

"Even some powerful Demon Clan experts have based on this created a similar divine ability secret technique."

"However, its power and its self-consumption both differ somewhat from the innate divine ability 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon', and are greater, yet it remains undeniable that this is a remarkable divine ability secret technique."

"And in the demon beasts' long history, the Demon Clan experts have divided 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon' into five levels!"

"They are: Law Phenomenon, Law Earth, Law Heaven, Law Dao, Law Myriad Laws."

"If a demon beast awakens the innate divine ability 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon', it initially starts at the second level, 'Law Earth'."

"Because the first level, 'Law Phenomenon', belongs exclusively to the 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon' level obtained through postnatal study of divine ability secret techniques."

"In other words, the 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon' divine ability obtained through awakening innate divine ability is superior to that obtained through postnatal cultivation."

"This can roughly be considered a difference between innate and postnatal."

"And the final level, the fifth level 'Law Myriad Laws' of 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon', can only be reached by the innate 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon'; the limit of postnatal 'Heaven-Earth Phenomenon' cultivation is the fourth level, 'Law Dao'."

"Yet even so, this divine ability is one that countless demon beasts flock to and vie for."

"Not to mention cultivating to the fifth or even fourth level; even just the second level possesses tremendous power, which Yunhe has experienced."

""Demon beasts do have inheritances of techniques, divine abilities, and secret arts; it's just that compared to human cultivators, these inheritances are much harder to obtain.""

""The second level?""

""Just the second level makes Yunhe feel its power is enormous, enough to be one of his trump cards.""

He quickly had another thought.

""Since this divine ability can be learned postnatally, do I also have a chance to let my Cultivator Body dip into it?""

"But this is destined not to be an easy matter; Yunhe temporarily suppressed this thought."

"Besides the innate divine ability 'As One Wishes', he also has another innate divine ability—Thunder Storage."

"The formation of the 'Thunder Pearl' can be considered an advancement of 'Thunder Storage', but if it's merely this"

""Wouldn't that be somewhat letting down the 'Turning Divine Thunder'?""

Yunhe's claw lightly flicked, and that golden 'Thunder Pearl' slowly drifted out from within his body.

"Within the deepest part of the 'Thunder Pearl', a strand of white lightning flickered in and out."

"But to say what use this hard‑caught strand of 'Turning Divine Thunder' actually has, he couldn't immediately explain."

"It can be said that this is likely the thing he has been most curious about and most interested in since breaking through to the Fourth Level."

"And upon seeing this strand of divine thunder, Yunhe's heart suddenly throbbed."

He turned his head toward a direction.

His gaze seemed able to penetrate the soil layers, pass through mountains and rivers, and see a bottomless chasm.

He withdrew his gaze.

He curled his lips and muttered:

""No need to remind me; I will go sooner or later.""

Saying that, he looked again at the 'Thunder Pearl', opened his mouth and sucked it in, swallowing it into his belly.

No matter what, it's at least divine thunder; let's just treat it as an 'auspicious omen'—it can bring good luck.

He still has the most important thing to do.

Transformation!

As for this matter, he has been eagerly awaiting it for a long time.

(End of chapter)