Chapter 267: Many Supernatural Powers, Fused into One's Own Body

After returning to Longshan Immortal City.

The battle at the level of Divine Communication affected hundreds of miles; cultivators in Longshan Immortal City had long since sensed it, leaving the city in a state of panic, unaware of what had happened.

Lu Yuan naturally had his Huanglong clone step forward personally to soothe them, claiming that two Divine Communication True Monarchs of the Immortal Alliance were debating and dueling outside the city, and there was no need for concern.

Because the Immortal City Lord had vouched for it, although the cultivators in the city did not understand why the Immortal Alliance's Divine Communication True Monarchs would come to the vicinity of Longshan Immortal City to duel, most chose to believe it.

There were a few extremely daring individuals who even quietly left the city to investigate the direction from which the commotion came, but the result was naturally that they found nothing.

Lu Yuan paid no attention to this, nor did he expose his identity for the time being, heading straight back to Linglong Peak to cultivate in peace.

Not long after, just as he had expected, Zhulong Heavenly Monarch, Lingjian Tianjun, and a Linglong Heavenly Monarch of exquisite beauty arrived together, bringing a great sensation to Longshan Immortal City.

The purpose of their arrival was naturally to announce the Immortal Alliance's decree of conferment to legitimize Lu Yuan, and to present his Identity Jade Token, Heavenly Monarch Dharma Robe, and a Dharma Artifact gifted by Jiudu Daojun at the Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure level.

"This is what Senior Jiudu specifically instructed us to deliver into the hands of Xuanya Heavenly Monarch."

At this moment, Zhulong Heavenly Monarch said with exceptional courtesy and even respect:

"This is the Two Forms Demon-Subduing Sword that Senior Jiudu discovered in the tomb of an ancient Divine Communication True Person; it belongs to the Fifth Tier Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure, is peerlessly sharp, and can sever the void with ease. Knowing that Xuanya Daoist lacked a suitable immortal sword, Jiudu had us bring this sword to gift to you."

This Dharma Artifact was an immortal sword as thin as a cicada's wing, transparent throughout, and possessed peerless sharpness.

If nothing else, a Dharma sword matching the Divine Communication level was exactly what Lu Yuan needed right now; he did not decline and accepted it immediately, expressing his sincere gratitude to Jiudu Daojun:

"Many thanks to Senior Jiudu for gifting this immortal sword; I am truly flattered."

That Linglong Heavenly Monarch smiled softly:

"Just as Senior Jiudu said, Xuanya Heavenly Monarch's demeanor is peerless, and this sword is barely worthy of you. If not for the tight schedule and the inconvenient situation of Phantom Sea Daoist, he even intended to refine a Sixth Rank Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure to gift you."

People help each other to build prestige; Lu Yuan waved his hands repeatedly:

"Senior Jiudu and fellow Daoist flatter me; I am unworthy of such praise."

Just like that, he calmly accepted all the conferments and honors from the Immortal Alliance and hosted a banquet for the three messenger Heavenly Monarchs.

At the same time, he did not deliberately hide the fact that the three Heavenly Monarchs had come together for the conferment, and soon the entire Immortal City knew that Lu Yuan had actually been conferred as the twelfth Xuanya Heavenly Monarch of the Immortal Alliance, triggering an unprecedented storm:

"Wh-what? That Elder Lu Yuan is a Divine Communication cultivator who was playing in the mortal world, and was only recently discovered by accident by the Immortal Alliance, then conferred as the twelfth Heavenly Monarch?"

"How, how could such a thing happen? A Golden Core Real Person transforming into a Divine Communication Heavenly Monarch—could this news be wrong?"

"Indeed, I have seen that Elder Lu more than once; how did he become a Divine Communication Heavenly Monarch?"

"Wrong my foot! This person was merely playing in the mortal world; how could the three Divine Communication 【True Monarchs】 coming together to confer him be fake? It is said that that Return to Void Great Ability of the Immortal Alliance even specially gifted a Fifth Tier Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure to show appreciation."

Longshan Immortal City suddenly boiled over like a pot of porridge; in the end, the Huanglong clone had to step forward once again to barely calm the situation.

After sending off the three Immortal Alliance Heavenly Monarchs, Lu Yuan finally no longer needed to hide and openly took residence on Linglong Peak, cultivating day and night to consolidate his cultivation.

Although three Heavenly Monarchs had come to confer him, there was still a real conferment ceremony being prepared at the Immortal Alliance's Holy Domain; that was the main event.

Although Lu Yuan could not refuse in terms of reason or emotion, he could delay it for a period of time; there was no need to rush.

Before that, it was more important to further consolidate his cultivation and find a way to harvest more Merit Power on this frontline position.

【Supernatural Power Master】: Lu Yuan

【Mastered Arts】:

【Earthly Fiend Arts】: -

Ingestion (Heaven: 31%); - Guidance (Divine Communication: 18%); - Invisibility (Heaven: 7%); -

Staff Sending (Divine Communication: 8%); - Medicine (Heaven: 23%); - Earth Travel (Heaven: 10%); -

Generating Light (Divine Communication: 11%); - Sword Technique (Divine Communication: 3%); - Boiling Stone (Heaven: 17%); -

Pot Heaven (Divine Communication: 3%); - Great Strength (Heaven: 2%); - Sprouting Head (Divine Communication: 6%); -

Wind Control (Divine Communication: 7%); - Obstacle Clothing (Divine Communication: 3%); - Dream Grafting (Earth: 1%); -

Body Immobilization (Divine Communication: 3%); - Nightmare Prayer (Divine Communication: 3%); - False Form (Divine Communication: 1%): -

Cloning (Divine Communication: 1%); - Soul Absorption (Divine Communication: 1%); - Disaster Ward (Earth: 1%); -

Rain Prayer (Heaven: 1%); - Stone Penetration (Heaven: 1%); - Array Formation (Divine Communication: 1%); -

Violent Sun (Heaven: 1%); - Slaying Demons (Divine Communication: 1%)

【Heavenly Gang Arts】: Nine Breaths Serving Qi (Divine Seed: 8%); Embryonic Transformation (Divine Seed: 4%); Flying Body Hiding Traces (Divine Seed: 5%); Mastering Five Thunders (Divine Seed: 3%); Returning Wind and Reversing Fire (Divine Seed: 1%)

【Luck Power】: 15360 units

【Heavenly Dao Merit】: 337 strands

Of the 【Nail-Head Seven Arrows】, 【Returning Wind and Reversing Fire】, 【Roaming Spirit Controlling Qi】, 【Standing Without Shadow】, and 【Reverse Knowing Future】 that Lu Yuan had targeted, two had already been lit up; his next target was 【Reverse Knowing Future】.

However, this Supernatural Power required a full 200,000 units of Luck, which converted to 2,000 strands of Luck.

Although the quantity was not small, Lu Yuan's cultivation had greatly advanced and he no longer needed to hide, so after spending several months refining the Two Forms Demon-Subduing Sword gifted by Jiudu Daojun, he soon went to the frontline Yin Corpse Mountain Range to start a massacre and harvest Luck.

Although he had only initially refined the Two Forms Demon-Subduing Sword, with his current cultivation, he immediately unleashed earth-shattering power; in just a few days, he had wiped out seven or eight out of ten of the wandering Corpse Demons in the Yin Corpse Mountain Range.

With this, he also gained hundreds of strands of Heavenly Dao Merit.

Lu Yuan was naturally not satisfied with this and immediately headed to other frontline positions defended by other Immortal Cities, then sought out places where Corpse Demons gathered to harvest them.

This move of his naturally alarmed the cultivators stationed in other Immortal Cities; fortunately, they had also received news from the Immortal Alliance, knowing that a Heavenly Monarch of mysterious origin had been newly conferred, so they let him be and did not come forward to disturb him.

Just like that, in only two or three months, Lu Yuan relied on his late-stage Refining Qi into Spirit cultivation to roam freely through various places where Corpse Demons gathered. Because of the 【Roaming Spirit Controlling Qi】 Supernatural Power, his Primordial Spirit and Divine Sense were far superior to ordinary Divine Communication cultivators; with a movement of his Divine Sense, he could instantly scan nearly ten thousand miles in radius. The soaring corpse Qi of large groups of demons gathered together looked as conspicuous as a candle in the dark night in his eyes, especially those Corpse Kings and even Heavenly Corpses with soaring corpse Qi, which had nowhere to hide under his Divine Sense scan.

Therefore, his harvesting was extremely swift and precise; every day, thousands of Corpse Demons turned into fly ash in his hands, especially Corpse Demons at the level of Corpse King and above, which were his key targets. Once discovered, he would directly use Flying Body Hiding Traces to jump through the void and then slay them with one sword strike.

Just like that, in only a few months, the number of Corpse Demons he had slain reached over a million, among which there were hundreds of Corpse Kings and Heavenly Corpses combined.

And with such large-scale, extremely precise harvesting, his gains were also immensely huge, as he had acquired a full ten thousand strands of Heavenly Dao Merit; if converted, that would be over a million units of Luck!

Such massive Luck was enough to light up many Heavenly Gang Supernatural Powers, especially since it was now extremely simple for him to harvest Luck and Merit with his current cultivation. Lu Yuan stopped while he was ahead and immediately returned to Longshan Immortal City to light up his Supernatural Powers.

Without a doubt, the first one he lit up was 【Reverse Knowing Future】, which required 2,000 strands of Merit, or 200,000 units of Luck.

The moment this Supernatural Power was lit up, the sound of a great bell rang through his mind.

Lu Yuan's eyes were as deep as the starry universe, and his entire temperament suddenly became as cold and ruthless as the operation of the Heavenly Dao. Dense, countless spiritual lights rotated and arranged themselves in his eyes, and these static or moving divine lights were constantly undergoing various combinations and interactions with each other—some Three Talents, some Four Symbols, some Five Elements, some Eight Trigrams, some Heavenly Stems, some Earthly Branches—as if all the changes and possibilities in the world were flashing before his eyes in turn.

I do not know how much time passed, but a Divine Seed representing the origin of the Supernatural Power was condensed. Lu Yuan slowly opened his eyes, his gaze incomparably distant, as if he had seen the flow of time and fate:

"One month later, Chen Zhantang will have a premonition and break through to the Golden Core realm? Not bad, not bad."

"Half a year later, the Immortal Alliance will send people again to ask me about the canonization ceremony, hoping I set a general timeframe?"

"And in three years, I will head to the Immortal Alliance Holy Land in the Central Region to become the protagonist of the grand ceremony, receiving the congratulations and reverence of thousands of cultivators; even another Phantom Sea Daoist will appear."

"Interesting, interesting."

Under the Supernatural Power of 【Reverse Knowing Future】, blurry and incoherent scenes flashed rapidly through his mind, appearing to be the future he was about to experience; furthermore, the closer the future, the clearer and more real it was, while the more distant the future, the blurrier and more void it became.

And this time limit was approximately three years; beyond three years, he could not perceive anything at all.

This was clearly caused by his insufficient cultivation.

Moreover, Lu Yuan, who had already mastered this Supernatural Power, knew that these future fragments were only the most likely to occur and did not mean they were inevitable; for example, in the Supernatural Power's perception, he would head to the Immortal Alliance in three years, but now that he knew the future, he could completely move this time forward, and in this way, the previously perceived future would clearly no longer hold true.

This was enough to show that the 【Reverse Knowing Future】 Supernatural Power could only see the most likely events to occur in the future, rather than unchangeable fate.

Lu Yuan's eyes shone brilliantly:

"This is even better; in this way, I am equivalent to knowing the future in advance, and any ambush or danger can be perceived and avoided beforehand! No divination or calculation Supernatural Power in the cultivation world can compare to it!"

The vast Yuanling Heaven naturally did not lack means to deduce heavenly secrets.

However, such means were often only mastered by Great Ability cultivators, and generally speaking, it was easy to calculate the past but difficult to calculate the future; easy to calculate small matters but difficult to calculate major events; easy to calculate others but difficult to calculate oneself; and the more distant the time, the more mental effort and time the Heavenly Derivation calculation would consume.

Compared to 【Reverse Knowing Future】, such means were simply the difference between a firefly and the bright moon, and they could not compare at all.

In fact, before and after meeting the Jiudu Daojun previously, Lu Yuan had felt as if some power in the dark was spying on and chasing him, but the Heavenly Book in his mind seemed to have helped him completely isolate this power; thinking about it now, it was likely the Heavenly Secret calculation of a Return to Void Great Ability.

Now that Reverse Knowing Future was lit up, Lu Yuan stood in an invincible position regardless of what kind of existence he faced in the Yuanling Heaven cultivation world.

However, after lighting up this Supernatural Power, there were still hundreds of thousands of Qi Luck left in the Heavenly Book, and Lu Yuan continued to light up Supernatural Powers without hesitation, which were:

【Bean Spreading to Soldiers】: Using Dharma Power to condense beans into Yellow Turban Warriors and Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to assist in battle.

【Submerged Abyss Earth Shrinking】: Able to move freely in deep water without obstruction. Able to shrink earth veins; a thousand miles away exists, currently as if right before one's eyes.

【Nail-Head Seven Arrows】: A curse technique, shaped like a bow and arrow, stuck on a straw effigy, used in conjunction with the Seven Arrows Book; it can take a person's life from a different location, the victim has no ability to resist, and even a Great Luo Immortal can hardly escape this calamity.

【Partition Wall Insight】: Able to see through and reach everywhere, sitting and seeing the ten directions, above heaven and below earth, without any obstruction; within the six directions, ghosts, gods, people, and objects, whether hidden or manifest, large or small, are all clearly understood.

【Upright Without Shadow】: Entering a void state, thus without shadow or form, capable of making all attacks ineffective.

【Death to Life】: Raising the dead and putting flesh on bones, allowing the deceased's soul to return to the corpse, nirvana rebirth, fully manifesting the mysteries of life and death.

【Six Jia Strange Gates】: The Six Jia are the arts of Hidden Stems, capable of commanding ghosts and gods, praying to dispel ghosts. The Strange Gates are divided into mathematical Strange Gates and Dharma technique Strange Gates. Note: "Includes medicine, divination, astrology, and various Dharma techniques."

【Huitian Fandi】: Can observe the heavens, illuminate the Jambudvipa world and billions of Ganges-sand worlds, and can manifest scenes that occurred in the past without obstruction.

These eight Supernatural Powers consumed a total of over 700,000 units of Qi Luck, causing Lu Yuan's accumulation to hit rock bottom, especially the three Supernatural Powers of Death to Life, Six Jia Strange Gates, and Huitian Fandi, which consumed 500,000.

However, in terms of utility, these three Supernatural Powers—【Huitian Fandi】 can observe the heavens and see the past; 【Death to Life】 can save those who are dying or have just died and still possess their souls; and 【Six Jia Strange Gates】 contains thousands of techniques with infinite wonderful uses; all in all, they can all be put to great use.

As for the other Supernatural Powers, to be honest, they were not of much use to Lu Yuan at the moment.

And the main reason for lighting up so many at once, including some that were not very significant to Lu Yuan now, was:

The only supreme Supernatural Power among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Great Divine Abilities, 【Mediation of Creation】, has prerequisites for being lit up: one must have eighteen Supernatural Powers in total, including Reversing Yin and Yang, Moving Stars and Changing Dippers, and Huitian Fandi, to be qualified to light up this supreme Supernatural Power!

And now the total number of Supernatural Powers Lu Yuan had mastered had reached fourteen; after lighting up four more, including Reversing Yin and Yang, Moving Stars and Changing Dippers, and Five Elements Great Escape, he would be qualified to light up the final supreme Supernatural Power!

"Mediation of Creation."

At this thought, Lu Yuan could not help but feel fascinated:

"The Supernatural Power of Nüwa creating the world, it is truly something to look forward to."