Chapter 288: Ye Bai Leaves Seclusion, Seventh Grade Peak in Both Martial Dao and Thought Power

Inside the Palace Complex, Ye Bai had entered one of the palaces more than two months ago, and suddenly, an unusual sound rang out!

It was indeed Ye Bai, currently opening the door!

The perspective shifts to Ye Bai inside the palace.

"Has it really been this long? More than two months..."

"That's truly fucked up!"

Ye Bai's face was full of helplessness at this moment.

Fortunately, the moment he left the Different Space, his Mental Power had already spread outward, and he now knew the current situation on the battlefield.

There was still time.

And he did not care about the impending defeat of Zhu Peng and the other prodigies.

He only looked up at his panel before leaving the palace.

And one could see that, compared to three months ago.

The changes that had occurred on his panel could not even be fully described by the words "earth-shattering"!

【Name: Ye Bai】

【Qi and Blood: (Seventh Grade Peak)】

【Mental Power: (Seventh Grade Peak)】

【Perfected Martial Techniques: Explosive Blood Combat Method, Burning Blood Secret Art, Nine Extremes Spear Technique, Seven Star Heavenly Dipper Steps, Blood Sacrifice Art, Moon Breaking Spear Technique, Flowing Cloud Spear Technique, Grasp of Ice Scar, Ice Cloud Meteor Steps, Ice Meteor Art, Reverse Blood Divine Art, Heavenly Demon Great Art, Fighting Spear Technique, Great Evolution Gale Steps, Carefree Spear Technique, Mental Storm, Thought Power Piercing, Roaming Dragon Cloud Step, God-Defying Spear Technique, Dragon-Slaying Spear Technique, Star-Moon Spear Technique, Flying Thunder God Step, Startling Cloud Spear Technique, Water Controlling Spear Technique, Demon Flame Spear Technique】

【Martial Dao Will: Startling Thunder Will (63%)】

【Qi and Blood Domain: Destruction Domain, Extreme Speed Domain, Slaughter Domain, Guardian Domain, Life Domain, Annihilation Domain】

【Mental Power Domain: Storm Domain, Vast Domain】

【Lifespan: 8000 years, 2 months, 3 days, 16 hours】

【Talent: Reset (Second-Star God-Level Talent), Battle Saint Body (One-Star God-Level Talent), Longevity (S-level Talent, 13/30 until fourth trigger), Violent Battle Body (SSS-level Talent)】

As early as three months ago, shortly after activating the Time Altar, Ye Bai had already officially stepped into the Seventh Grade Martial King Realm!

His lifespan surged again, directly increasing to a total lifespan of 7000 years!

The maximum lifespan limit for a Seventh Grade Martial King!

Then, because he wanted to maximize his strength.

For a period of time inside the Time Altar, he kept adding points to his Qi and Blood, raising his Qi and Blood Value all the way to the Seventh Grade Peak!

Then he exchanged for some Martial Arts Proficiency.

After accumulating a total consumption of 20 million years of lifespan since the last shop update, he unlocked another item.

【10, Mental Power Domain (can be exchanged for a cumulative 7 million years of lifespan)】

At that time, Ye Bai knew that entering the Seventh Grade for Mental Power also required comprehending a domain.

It was just a domain unique to Mental Power, and it did not require comprehending a Martial Dao Will in the direction of Mental Power.

He also vaguely guessed that because of this prerequisite, even top-tier prodigies like Zhu Peng and Lie Jie, who had an unlimited supply of Soul Crystals, had not actually stepped into the Seventh Grade in Mental Power.

The subsequent matters were simple; Ye Bai frantically pushed the progress of his Mental Power Domain and mastered the Mental Power domain known as Storm.

Then he raised his Mental Power values.

With both maxed out, he consumed another 20-plus million years of lifespan!

Although it was a pity that it did not trigger another shop update.

But Ye Bai had already speculated during the tenth shop update that the eleventh update would require a cumulative consumption of at least 30 million, or even 40 million years of lifespan.

Moreover, maxing out Qi and Blood and Mental Power in advance would not affect Ye Bai's continued bug-exploiting, and there would be no situation where he had lifespan left but no items to exchange for.

Even though his lifespan was a round number of 7000 years at the time, many items previously required 3600 years of lifespan for a single exchange.

It was not because the martial techniques were not yet maxed out—although Ye Bai still had many martial techniques whose proficiency had not reached the perfect level, how much lifespan value did they need in total?

It was because Ye Bai had discovered as early as after the tenth shop update that the system seemed to have become more user-friendly after so many updates!

In the shop, items other than the most basic Qi and Blood, Mental Power, and Martial Arts Proficiency, including the latest Mental Power Domain, had all been changed so that they could be exchanged for every 100 years of lifespan!

And it displayed the total amount of lifespan required for a complete exchange!

This was also the reason why Ye Bai dared to add everything to his Mental Power in one go!

After reaching the Seventh Grade Peak in both, Ye Bai also invested his remaining lifespan into exchanging for new domains!

And as he expected, when the cumulative consumption reached 30 million years since the tenth update, the shop updated...

【11, Yellow Grade Defense Battle Soldier (can be exchanged for 7000 years of lifespan)】

However, the item that appeared in this update was still not the progress for forging the Immortal Golden Body.

But just looking at the God-Slaying Spear, one could see how extraordinary the Yellow Grade Battle Weapons provided in the shop were!

One must know that without the existence of the God-Slaying Spear, Ye Bai's combat power would have been reduced by at least 30%!

And at the time, Ye Bai also felt that not only was the opportunity guarded by the Transparent Armored Man actually ten times the time flow, but the Gold-Armored Man and even the Silver-Armored Man were as well.

Therefore, he did not take to heart the fact that the item for forging the Immortal Golden Body had not yet appeared.

After exchanging for the battle weapon, he continued to exchange for domains.

And because one month had passed since the awakening of the Longevity talent.

His lifespan increased by another 1000 years, reaching a total lifespan of 8000 years!

When the twenty days of ten-times time flow completely ended, Ye Bai had mastered several more domains than a normal Seventh Grade Martial King!

Cumulative consumption exceeded 60 million years of lifespan!

But to be honest, the gains at that time, even adding the improvements on his panel over the past two months.

Were not the real reason why Ye Bai didn't care at all that Zhu Peng and the others were about to be defeated.

Ye Bai had once experienced the formidable power of the six Alien Race members!

Not to mention that now they have even used their true trump cards, all of them activating their full bloodline power.

Yet Ye Bai, even possessing six Domains and having redeemed a fifth Martial Arts Talent—the SSS-level 【Berserk】 War Body, which can be actively activated to enter a berserk state at the cost of falling into a short period of weakness after it ends—

is confident that killing any Seventh Grade Peak who has not touched the threshold of the Eighth Grade is as easy as eating or drinking.

It is also very difficult to kill three of the Six Alien Races in their bloodline-empowered state, not to mention having to ensure the other prodigies do not die.

What truly makes his expression calm is something other than the strength gained from exploiting bugs.

It is his harvest from the Different Space within the Palace guarded by the Gold-Armored Man over the past two months!

"Hm? Not only is the opportunity guarded by the Silver-Armored Man not the ten-fold time dilation I imagined, but even the Altar guarded by the Gold-Armored Man is still just an opportunity to forge an Immortal Golden Body?"

"How could this be..."

This is what Ye Bai said when he had just cleared the Gold-Armored Man's trial.

He was very astonished, and his mood was a bit unpleasant.

His time to clear the level was also not the month or more that Zhu Peng had assumed.

It was less than ten minutes!

"It seems I guessed wrong.

Oh well, there is still plenty of time left; let me first try forging my Immortal Golden Body..."

Following this, because Ye Bai had no interest in going to other Palaces to obtain opportunities, he could not be bothered to go out again.

He simply decided to exploit bugs while forging his own Immortal Golden Body within the Different Space.

And it was at that moment that Ye Bai discovered things were not quite as he had thought...

As mentioned before, the Immortal Golden Body is an aggregate of everything a Martial Artist possesses, including Martial Dao Will, Domains, Martial Techniques, and even Mental Power.

Everyone's Immortal Golden Body is different, and the Immortal Qi produced is also different.

Therefore, the so-called opportunity to forge an Immortal Golden Body within the Altar is more like an auxiliary item to improve a Martial Artist's comprehension.

This is the reason why the time it takes for each person to forge an Immortal Golden Body varies.

Part of the reason Ye Bai was initially uninterested in this opportunity was that he was unsure of his talent for forging a Golden Body.

Facts, however, told him that his talent was very good! Very good indeed! Not a bit inferior to his talent for Martial Techniques!

After being enveloped by the thick golden gas from the golden corpse,

he instantly understood how his Immortal Golden Body should be forged!

If it were a normal forging of a Golden Body,

his intuition even told him that as long as the opportunity provided enough, in two months' time, his Immortal Golden Body forging progress could at least exceed 40%!

But it was also said that this is the prerequisite for normally forging an Immortal Golden Body...

"The forging of an Immortal Golden Body requires the fusion of Martial Dao Will and Domains.

And I, can I fuse all my Martial Dao Wills and Domains into my own Immortal Golden Body?!

Even including my Mental Power Domain?!"

"After the forging is successful, even if the progress is only 0.01%, can I release all Martial Dao Wills and Domains at the same time, instead of having to finish using one and then switch to the next like before?!"

Ye Bai discovered that the Golden Body forging method he comprehended was different from everyone else's!

Wu Zhangsheng had told him the normal way to forge an Immortal Golden Body!

Not only did prodigies like Zhu Peng only fuse one Martial Dao Will and one Qi and Blood Domain into their Golden Body because their Mental Power had not entered the Seventh Grade,

but the existing Martial Saints of Great Xia and even the Human Race were all the same! Even though many of them had Mental Power that had entered the Seventh Grade, or even the Eighth Grade!

Ye Bai could, of course, choose to forge only the most ordinary Golden Body.

But just for the fact that he could mobilize all Martial Dao Wills and Domains simultaneously after his Immortal Golden Body was successfully forged,

he could not possibly forge the most ordinary Golden Body anymore!

At the time, he even had a vague intuition that the eleventh update of the store was actually supposed to be Immortal Golden Body forging progress, after all, he had a cumulative consumption of a full thirty million years of lifespan.

The next time it updated, it might be after a cumulative consumption of forty million, or even fifty million, or sixty million years.

The reason it was not was because the system had become more humanized and replaced his items.

Because the Immortal Golden Body he comprehended himself was simply too unique!

Before he had any comprehension, the system might only have been able to provide the forging of the simplest Immortal Golden Body!

Forging an Immortal Golden Body that had never appeared in history books is the real reason why Ye Bai, despite defeating the Gold-Armored Man and harvesting the opportunity in the Palace in less than ten minutes,

only ended his closed-door cultivation after more than two months!

It was hard, too hard!

Ye Bai took less than ten minutes to digest all the golden gas, with a pile of insights in his mind.

In the two-plus months that followed, he was completely immersed in constructing his own Immortal Golden Body!

Because for every additional Martial Dao Will he added, the difficulty would skyrocket!

Adding one more Domain was ten times the difficulty!

And his current Immortal Golden Body forging progress is about 1%.

It had originally reached 1.5%.

However, during the two-plus months of closed-door cultivation, because of the characteristics of his Immortal Golden Body, Ye Bai redeemed yet another new Qi and Blood Domain and a Mental Power Domain.

Both Domains continued to be added into the Immortal Golden Body!

【1. Qi and Blood Value】

【5. Bone Tempering Progress】

【6. Martial Dao Will (Awakened Seventh Martial Dao Will, total required lifespan)】

【7. Mind Power Refining】

【8. Martial Arts Talent (Awakened fifth talent, total lifespan required)】

【9. Domain Progress (Seventh Domain, total lifespan required: 20 million years)】

【10. Mental Power Domain (Third Domain, total lifespan required: 20 million years)】

This is the current detail of his System Store.

If not for the Domain exchange item, after redeeming the first five, the price of the sixth suddenly skyrocketed to ten million.

For the Mental Power Domain, the price of the first two remained unchanged; one could be redeemed for a total lifespan of seven million years.

However, the price of the third also skyrocketed to a total lifespan of twenty million years.

Furthermore, the seventh Martial Dao Will is not only expensive, but after being redeemed, it does not provide much of an increase to combat power unless upgraded into a Domain.

Ye Bai will not even redeem a fourth Martial Arts Talent!

Nor will he max out the Martial Arts Proficiency of all the Martial Techniques he has mastered to strive for maximum combat power!

However, even though Ye Bai's Immortal Golden Body only has a total progress of 1% due to the fusion of six Martial Dao Wills and eight Domains.

It is far inferior to Zhu Peng, Lie Jie, and the others.

It has not even reached the standard of 4% or even 5% Golden Body forging progress that other heaven-gifted geniuses can achieve after digesting the opportunities guarded by the Gold-Armored Man.

"However, I, with only 1% Immortal Golden Body forging progress, not only produce Immortal Qi within my body, but the quantity has also reached eight wisps..."

Ye Bai's Immortal Golden Body not only produces Immortal Qi, but it does not even follow the standard of having the first wisp only at 5% progress.

Instead, at a mere 1% progress, there are eight terrifying wisps of Immortal Qi!

If one could see Ye Bai at this moment, inside the part of his palm that has turned golden, one could see eight exceptionally thick wisps of Immortal Qi!

And they are Immortal Qi with even longer endurance!

The massively updated panel, plus the successful forging of the Immortal Golden Body—and a highly unique one at that, which produces eight wisps of Immortal Qi at just 1% progress—is the reason why Ye Bai is not the least bit panicked after coming out of seclusion and seeing the current state of the battlefield clearly!

Intuition tells him that, as he is now, let alone three of the Alien Race.

Even if six of the Alien Race came at him together, he would have the confidence to handle them...

He stepped out of the Palace in one stride!