Chapter 963: Contemplating the Battle God Scroll, the Battle Saint Art, and the Possibility of Unveiling the Third Form of Genesis

With the system’s prompt fading away.

In Jun Xiaoyao’s mind, forty-nine images of the Battle God Scroll immediately appeared.

Each of these forty-nine images bore the silhouette of an ultimate warrior, supreme in might and mastery.

Some held battle spears thrusting toward the heavens, others wielded colossal axes splitting the earth.

Some battled heaven and earth, others crushed the primordial wastes.

Each one was a peerless Battle God, unmatched in aura.

Within them were condensed the very essence of combat, containing the ultimate truths of divine arts.

“This is the Battle God Scroll?”

Jun Xiaoyao was startled.

He had assumed the Battle God Scroll would be some kind of cultivation technique or divine art.

Now he saw it was neither technique nor divine art.

Strictly speaking, it was the supreme method elucidating the subtleties of martial arts and the mysteries of divine powers.

Each of the forty-nine Battle God images contained profound, mysterious combat essences and secrets.

As the saying goes: the Great Expansion number is forty-nine.

These forty-nine Battle God images had already pushed the essence of divine combat to its utmost limit.

“This is exactly what I need.”

Jun Xiaoyao’s eyes gleamed brightly.

He did not lack cultivation techniques, nor did he lack divine arts.

What he lacked was insight.

This was why his self-created primordial Dao divine art, Genesis, had yet to unlock its third form.

It was not because Jun Xiaoyao lacked insight.

But because his foundation was too thin, lacking accumulation.

Those who create divine arts are typically experts who have lived over ten thousand years.

Their experiences and horizons are immensely rich, like treasuries.

And Jun Xiaoyao?

He was still too young.

At twenty or thirty years old, among cultivators, he was no infant, but at best a novice youth.

Jun Xiaoyao reaching this realm at such an age was already an absolute prodigy.

His life experiences could not possibly compare to those of ancient monsters who had lived for tens of thousands of years.

The Battle God Scroll, however, perfectly compensated for Jun Xiaoyao’s lack of accumulation.

“Even one of these forty-nine Battle God images, if given to a prodigy to contemplate, could forge a Battle God.”

“Not to mention all forty-nine—if fully comprehended, he might rival even the peak-era Luangu Emperor.” Jun Xiaoyao thought.

The Luangu Emperor’s entire life was spent in battle.

His combat experience and accumulation were extraordinarily rich.

That was why he could create the Luotian Secret Art, a top-tier forbidden technique.

The Battle God Scroll, in a sense, saved Jun Xiaoyao the time of accumulation.

If he fully comprehended these forty-nine Battle God images, his understanding of divine combat would not be weaker than the Luangu Emperor’s.

He might even elevate it to a new realm.

“I have a feeling: if I comprehend the Battle God Scroll and gain even a spark of inspiration, my primordial Dao divine art, Genesis, will evolve into its third form.”

Jun Xiaoyao’s self-created divine art, Genesis, currently had only two forms.

Divine Light, Divine Punishment.

And a fused attack combining both.

But that fused attack could not be counted as the third form.

Jun Xiaoyao was confident.

If his Genesis could evolve a third form,

It would be far stronger than the combined power of the first two!

After obtaining the Battle God Scroll, Jun Xiaoyao immediately sat cross-legged beside the Divine Weeping Battle Spear and began contemplation.

Since Mojie Imperial Prince had not yet arrived, he might as well use this window to preliminarily grasp the essence of the Battle God Scroll.

“Huh? Why did the Chaos Body sit down immediately?”

Many were puzzled.

“With a major enemy approaching, he’s calming his mind.”

Many assumed Jun Xiaoyao was steadying his composure.

After all, his opponent was no mere Top Ten Heavenly Kings-level prodigy.

He was a true Supreme Prodigy, one of the Seven Imperial Princes.

No young genius from the foreign lands could remain unmoved facing one of the Seven Imperial Princes.

They naturally did not know Jun Xiaoyao was contemplating the Battle God Scroll.

Time slipped away, second by second.

What puzzled everyone was that Mojie Imperial Prince did not arrive quickly.

It was as if he deliberately delayed, forcing Jun Xiaoyao to wait.

“I get it—psychological warfare. Mojie Imperial Prince wants the Chaos Body to feel pressure.”

“Exactly. The longer he waits, the more his mindset wavers. Mojie Imperial Prince’s psychological tactic is brilliant.”

Not only the academy disciples, but even the Elders sighed in admiration.

As one of the Seven Imperial Princes, Mojie Imperial Prince was truly extraordinary.

True mastery shows in the details.

Just this single tactic of delay revealed Mojie Imperial Prince’s meticulous mind.

“I wonder if the young man can withstand such pressure.”

Mu Lao gazed at Jun Xiaoyao.

Jun Xiaoyao remained seated, eyes closed.

In this short time, Jun Xiaoyao had preliminarily grasped the subtleties of several Battle God images.

“So this is it—the Battle God Scroll hides such a profound method, requiring extraction.”

Jun Xiaoyao suddenly understood.

In this brief span, he had extracted an essence from the Battle God Scroll.

The Battle Saint Art!

One method understood, all methods understood!

This method could deduce all divine arts, simulate all combat techniques!

This was the very core of the Battle God Scroll.

Jun Xiaoyao had grasped this essence merely upon initial contact.

Undeniably, his talent was monstrous beyond measure.

Outsiders naturally knew nothing of Jun Xiaoyao’s gains.

If Mojie Imperial Prince learned that his deliberate delay had merely helped Jun Xiaoyao unlock a new art,

He’d probably spit blood.

In the following time, Jun Xiaoyao further extracted scattered divine arts from the Battle God Scroll.

Such as Battle Stele Hand, Mountain-Lifting Seal, Open-Heaven Fist, and others.

Though not earth-shattering great arts, they enriched Jun Xiaoyao’s combat repertoire.

After all, as the Chaos Body, he could not use many of his old techniques, or his identity would be exposed.

Finally.

Ten days later.

Above the Battle God Academy’s sky,

A golden path woven with cosmic laws stretched from afar.

Upon this golden path, a transcendent figure strolled leisurely forward.

He was an exquisitely beautiful man, waist-length hair fluttering gently in the wind.

His skin was like lamb-fat jade, finer than many women’s.

Around him hovered ten divine rings, enveloping his form.

He seemed like a beautiful deity stepped from myth, wreathed in the aura of cosmic law.

Mojie Imperial Prince had arrived!

“It’s Mojie Imperial Prince!”

The entire Battle God Mountain erupted; all prodigies turned their gazes toward him.

Many had never seen a Seventh Imperial Prince-level prodigy before.

Merely one glance sent shivers through the heart.

He was truly a divine son descended from heaven.

The Mo Jie Imperial Son’s aura was utterly transcendent, surging with supreme authority.

That tenfold magic power immune divine ring further rendered him as if a child of the gods.

The overwhelming pressure and presence rushing toward them inspired awe and reverence.

At the same moment, Jun Xiaoyao, seated cross-legged beside the Divine Weeping War Spear, slowly opened his eyes.

Their gazes met in the void.

Heaven and earth fell silent; ten thousand souls held their breath.

A world-shaking battle was about to unfold!