Chapter 673

Time slipped by in a flash.

Three months later.

Within Bai Yu Capital.

Jiang Daoxuan sat cross-legged on the ground, his eyes tightly shut.

Every pore on his body opened wide, radiating dazzling divine light, and a layer of golden halo surfaced across his skin.

Spiritual power surged wildly, rampaging through his body, scouring his limbs and bones again and again!

For an ordinary Myriad Manifestations True Monarch, three months of cultivation would not yield any obvious improvement.

Advancing even a single minor realm in such a short span was extremely difficult!

After all, the further one progressed in realm, the more outrageous the resources required became.

Spending years, decades, or even centuries to advance a single minor realm was the norm for a Myriad Manifestations True Monarch!

But in this world, there has always been that small handful of people.

They can break the norm and do what ordinary folk cannot!

Especially in Jiang Daoxuan's case, this timeless truth was embodied to the utmost!

In just three months, he had cultivated to the fourth layer of the Myriad Manifestations realm!

In the Myriad Manifestations True Monarch stage—a profound realm where countless cultivators measure their breakthroughs in years—

there was actually someone who, relying on himself alone, could advance one realm per month!

Such an inconceivable cultivation speed was enough to overturn their cognition and reshape their worldview!

And aside from the changes in his cultivation base.

During these three months, Jiang Daoxuan had once again triggered an investment from Jiang Yi and obtained three rewards.

The first reward was one of the Five Spirit Physiques—the "Earth Spirit Physique."

After obtaining the Earth Spirit Physique—

Realizing that he had spent most of his time in closed-door cultivation, never managing clan affairs, and had dumped all the trivial matters onto the Elder Council—

Facing the Elder Council's toil and great merit—

And his own behavior of always playing the hands-off boss—

Even Jiang Daoxuan couldn't help feeling a little guilty.

For that very reason, he chose to leave Bai Yu Capital the next day and merge the Earth Spirit Physique into the body of the Elder Council's Second Elder—Jiang Yan's grandfather, Jiang Hongwen!

With the augmentation of the Earth Spirit Physique, his aptitude was remolded, greatly increasing his cultivation speed.

This Second Elder's realm and cultivation base, at the current stage, naturally could not fall too far behind; maintaining the second tier within the clan was not all that difficult.

The second reward was something called the Secret Art Golden Leaf.

Once used, it could deduce and optimize any cultivation method, spell, or martial technique below the Heaven grade, forming a powerful secret art of the highest Heaven grade!

Regarding this reward, Jiang Daoxuan did not hesitate long, and immediately applied it to the "Blood Ignition Art"!

This Blood Ignition Art had originally been obtained, together with the Heavenly Demon Token, from an iron box left behind in the ancestral shrine of Wudan City.

However, because it required burning blood and lifespan to assist cultivation, causing cultivation speed to skyrocket and enabling rapid breakthroughs, its side effects were enormous.

Therefore, for the sake of long-term development, and to avoid squeezing out all of his clansmen's potential in a short time—

he had refrained from providing the Blood Ignition Art to his clansmen for cultivation.

But the appearance of the Secret Art Golden Leaf offered him another direction.

It happened that this secret art's grade had reached the highest Earth grade, satisfying the prerequisite for using the Secret Art Golden Leaf.

So after much deliberation, he ultimately chose the Blood Ignition Art.

And after using the Secret Art Golden Leaf, the Blood Ignition Art became an entirely new secret art of the highest Heaven grade!

Named the "Origin Ignition Art"!

As long as a cultivator performed the Origin Ignition Art, they could temporarily boost their combat power by burning a massive amount of origin force!

The stronger one's own foundation, the better the boost.

Even an ordinary person could, with this secret art, raise their strength by at least thirty percent in a short time!

However, in this world, there is ultimately no perfect secret art.

The Origin Ignition Art's sole flaw was that, after being performed, one would fall into an extremely weakened state!

This weakened state likewise varied from person to person.

The stronger one's foundation, the faster the recovery—and vice versa.

After reading the description of the Origin Ignition Art, Jiang Daoxuan quickly realized that this secret art was an out-and-out life-preserving art, one that could become the ultimate trump card for all his clansmen!

Just imagine—when a clansman was out traveling and faced a life-or-death battle—

because they were slightly weaker than their enemy, they remained at a disadvantage; barring any accident, they would likely perish on the spot.

But with the augmentation of the Origin Ignition Art—

they would only need to erupt at the final critical moment, catching the opponent completely off guard, turning the tide, and achieving a counter-kill!