Chapter 422

"Looks like I got it wrong.... but not really wrong." Yan Buji said helplessly.

Although I knew the primordial daytime qi was quite rare, I still thought I had finally gotten better once.

After a long time, Yan Buji couldn't find any trace of the primordial daytime qi in the nearby secret realms, so he could only head deeper into the sea.

He had also thought of going to the secret realm of the Dragon's Abyss Society to check it out, but seeing that there seemed to be fighting there, he still decided to change direction.

Just like that, day after day.

Yan Buji encountered many risks in the depths of the Boundless Sea, and also found many precious spiritual materials.

While replenishing his consumption and searching, another twenty years passed.

"This is truly impossible to find...."

Yan Buji's expression was strange; the Boundless Sea is vast, and even several decades might not be enough to fly out of it.

Although these twenty years weren't completely fruitless, the key thing remained unfound, which still made Yan Buji feel somewhat uneasy.

Thinking this, Yan Buji planned to pause for a while; since he couldn't find the primordial daytime qi, there was no need to return to the Dragon People.

That Ground Origin Grand Pill would take at least a hundred years to fully condense, so going back now would accomplish nothing.

Roar!!!

Bold!

Seeing a demon king surge out from beneath the sea surface, resembling a white shark, its body pitch-black with compound eyes, a strange demon beast known as the Giant Wave Shark in the Boundless Sea!

The Giant Wave Shark, innately able to control water, used the endless water flow in the sea to turn the four directions into a water prison, preventing Yan Buji from escaping, but seeing this he did not think of fleeing.

Watching the Giant Wave Shark summon a tsunami, as the wave surged forward, Yan Buji circulated his True Essence and clenched his fists.

In an instant, like a tiger leaping from the forest, like a hidden dragon soaring to the heavens. The great sun blazed, mountains and rivers trembled. Only when the two sides met did an unimaginable torrent of True Essence instantly annihilate everything before them!

When the wind and waves calmed, Yan Buji stood in midair, fists clenched: 'Not bad.'

After all, Yan Buji's strongest killing move remains a martial arts killing technique. However, if he could break through in magical power, the killing power from the Cleft Scepter would also be terrifying.

Of course, against opponents of the same level, Yan Buji's Cleft Scepter is not invincible; for example, earlier in the sea region he also encountered a troublesome demon entity.

That demon entity seemed to be a certain object turned into form, innately possessing the ability to resist spatial power, causing Yan Buji's Cleft Scepter not to exhibit the desired effect.

But in comparison, the annihilation caused by pure True Essence bursting forth in an instant is sufficiently direct.

Of course, he has also encountered huge, incredibly tough demon beasts before; at those times he still needed both True Essence and magical power to act together. In any case, the combat experience Yan Buji has accumulated over these many years is already quite rich.

"However, these demon crystals are still easy to shatter, and the amount collected so far is not enough." Yan Buji thought.

After being refined and purified, these demon crystals can also be used as spiritual materials.

The stronger the demon beast, the more precious the demon crystal it produces, just like a cultivator's Golden Core.

Moreover, the demon crystals contain demon souls and can also be used to strengthen the Cleft Scepter.

After flying for a long time, Yan Buji arrived at an uninhabited deserted island.

After checking around and finding no one, Yan Buji began to enter closed-door meditation on the spot to recover his energy.

This process wasn't lengthy; a few months' effort was about enough.

The troublesome point is that the situation in the Boundless Sea is even more complex than that of the Frozen Winter Ocean; here there are not only demon beasts but also demon entities.

Those demon beasts are still manageable; if their brute strength can't match Yan Buji, they can still flee. But demon entities innately possess some strange abilities, which are quite troublesome.

So Yan Buji plans to enter closed-door meditation for a period, taking advantage of the combat experience he has accumulated to study and integrate his Martial Avatar Profound Technique.

Winter passed and spring came; another three years flashed by.

"A bit troublesome; this Martial Avatar is not as simple as I thought. Just grasping the New Star Smelting Furnace Technique takes some effort; it seems my martial talent has been exhausted here?"

Yan Buji thought, but perhaps because his appetite was too great, wanting to produce a Martial Avatar Profound Technique by combining the New Star Smelting Furnace Technique, the Heavenly Cloud Secret, and the Soul-Seizing Smelting Refinement, this led to his understanding of martial arts being insufficient to support his idea.

However, this did not make Yan Buji retreat; since he had an idea in mind, he would surely find a way to realize it.

Of course, increasing strength is not solely through cultivation; relying on external forces is also normal, right?

Like the Dao martial techniques Yan Buji recently gathered from some secret realms, there are also very powerful ones, but overall few suit him.

One volume of the Endless Sword, one volume of the Shattering Star Palm are Dao martial techniques that happen to match Yan Buji's martial arts numbers.

The Endless Sword is a sword method of the martial path, but it is not a pure sword technique requiring the cultivator's deep insight into the sword way. This Dao martial technique requires condensing a sword pellet inside the body, then through daily pounding polishing the sword qi within the pellet to be sharper; it can also be done by staining with blood and killing qi from slaughter, as long as it does not exceed the limit the flesh can bear.

This is somewhat similar to the Magic Power Golden Wheel technique Yan Buji uses; both are techniques that grow through temporal hammering. However, the essence of the Magic Power Golden Wheel remains a high-concentration condensation of metallic magical power seeking sharpness; its effect in killing is not obvious, because the technique itself is still low-ranked, and to become stronger one can only alter the nature of the magical power or change the cultivation method of the Magic Power Golden Wheel.

However, the Endless Sword can grow without limit; this growth is not merely polishing sword qi, but letting sword qi give birth to sword intent through hammering, a method in the martial path whereby one can comprehend the sword way through temporal tempering, naturally also granting some divine abilities of sword cultivators.

However, it's unknown what effect activating True Essence would produce.

Meanwhile, the other volume, the Shattering Star Palm, happens to match the Instant Shadow Step; it can unleash over a thousand strikes in a short time. Yan Buji tested that, ignoring magical power consumption, the Shattering Star Palm's instantaneous burst cannot surpass the True Flow Fist; but with sustained output, it can completely exceed the True Flow Fist's killing power.

Furthermore, with the Instant Shadow Step's instant thousand strikes, the speed of casting the Shattering Star Palm can be increased, meaning he can unleash all of the Shattering Star Palm's power in a single instant.

Of course, this consumption is far greater than that of the True Flow Fist.

Thus Yan Buji currently lacks no killing methods; this period of closed-door meditation, after failing to grasp the Martial Avatar Profound Technique, he began refining pills to compensate for his consumption.

Cultivation knows no years; Yan Buji relied on his martial talent to reach the Golden Core Stage, and reaching this point at the age of one hundred fifty already surpasses most ordinary cultivators.

This cannot be said to be how Yan Buji's background is; the hardships he has endured along the way are not something to be told to outsiders.

But precisely because of this, the more breakthroughs he makes in martial arts, the more Yan Buji feels his lifespan is insufficient.

"It's also strange; martial breakthroughs don't add lifespan, relying only on the three to four hundred years of lifespan from the Foundation Establishment Stage probably isn't enough for me." Yan Buji sighed.