Chapter 565

Youming Jie seeks to become one; first is the change of environment, second is the conflict among the various races living in Youming Jie.

All this, although Yan Buji had anticipated it long ago, he never expected that after several hundred years the fighting would have become quite intense.

One hundred and three years passed.

At the time Yan Buji was 513 years old, he finally broke through to late Golden Core, and the spiritual stones on his body were consumed, more than half, leaving less than 200,000 medium-grade spiritual stones.

As the magical power divine light shot up into the sky, Yan Buji's surroundings were enveloped in surging magical power like a tide; the golden core of magical power within his body, after years of refinement, also became more round and perfect.

"Finally I have cultivated it." Yan Buji sighed.

Actually, Yan Buji spent fifty years to cultivate the Evolution Heaven Technique; the remaining time was used to strengthen his magical power with the Nine Revolutions Technique, showing that although his vision improved, his aptitude remains terribly poor.

Normally, the higher the grade of a cultivation technique, the higher the demands on a cultivator's aptitude, strength, and vision. An ordinary Golden Core cultivator, with resources supporting him, can at most break through to late Golden Core in two or three hundred years. Of course, resources cannot be obtained quickly unless one, like Yan Buji, goes to seize and steal them.

Thus, in reality, Yan Buji's speed from early to late Golden Core is not much different from that of an ordinary cultivator; it's not particularly slow, only the consumption of resources is truly shocking.

Next, he needs to gather the spiritual materials required to forge the Yama Armor and the Abni Sword; ideally he would also find the spiritual materials for the Ascending Rift Scepter and the Asura Accumulation Armor.

"I don't even know what the current situation in Youming Jie is; back when I was forced to leave this place, the high priest of the Asura tribe also didn't know what schemes he was hatching...."

Yan Buji thought it over, but still decided to go around these people, so as not to encounter any danger.

Upon careful thought, including the sage disciple Lin Tianlin he had met, and later drifting to the Dragon People in the Dongxing Sea Region, he felt that the developments had surpassed his expectations.

It could be that someone is doing this intentionally, but Yan Buji still doesn't understand why they are fixated on him.

"It couldn't be just because I met a beggar called Huan Zhen in the Nan Ting Mountain Region, could it?" Yan Buji frowned, recalling the bits and pieces from back then.

If you put it that way, it makes it seem as if I were chosen by someone, bearing some kind of mission, which makes Yan Buji very unhappy.

I cultivate for cultivation's sake; I'm not cultivating to be a roadblock or stumbling block for others—that's for myself.

Each of them, because of this fixation on me, clearly also doesn't want me to fare well.

If that's the case, then they are all enemies, and there's nothing more to say.

Once I have the strength, I'll just take them out directly!

Thinking of this, Yan Buji checked his own condition.

First, after breaking through to late Golden Core, his magical power strength surged severalfold, enough to support him using the Instant Movement Technique at least five times without exhausting his magical power.

Then, the operation of the Heaven Gate Five Elements Law became ever more profound in its application to the Universe Path and the Five Elements Path; moreover, after cultivating the Evolution Heaven Technique, Yan Buji developed the Invisible Controlling Silk, which greatly enhanced his control over the Accumulation Device, laying a foundation for better control of his armaments in the future.

This Invisible Controlling Silk is rather special; not only can it control the Accumulation Device, it can also control other things.

Since the Invisible Controlling Silk is derived from his magical power, logically it should be able to transmit magical power while also transmitting divine consciousness through the silk; in that case, as long as his foundation is solid enough, there should be no upper limit to the objects he can control.

Even if the actual situation is not so, at least if it allows Yan Buji to perfectly control his armaments, then cultivating the Evolution Heaven Technique was not in vain.

Then there is the Magic Power Golden Wheel; this Magic Power Golden Wheel derived from the basic Golden Wheel Technique, after Yan Buji's long years of refinement and after breaking through his cultivation realm with the Three Celestials Pill, has caused the Heaven Gate Five Elements Law to encompass the characteristics of the Magic Power Golden Wheel; by refining it one can autonomously enhance this Magic Power Golden Wheel, and with the added support of Geng-metal qi, through Yan Buji's relentless refinement it has already become a top-tier killing force not inferior to the sting of the Rift Scepter!

Moreover, it is inherent to the technique itself; although it cannot advance as quickly as the Accumulation Device, the good thing is that it can be continually refined.

Next, the Seven-leaf Ghost Orchid that Yan Buji cultivated symbiotically with the Tree-Person Technique has grown to the stage of the Nine-leaf Ghost Orchid, only one step away from blooming into celestial material; although the Nine-leaf Ghost Orchid has no particularly great use, it is beneficial in that it can accumulate spiritual energy in Youming Jie, which also lets Yan Buji avoid wasting too many spiritual stones to replenish his magical power.

However, even after cultivating to this point, Yan Buji still feels that there are some problems.

"My cultivation methods are somewhat too biased; the Heaven Gate Law is inherently a top-tier Universe Path technique, while my Five Elements Technique simply cannot match it—only the Golden Wheel Technique and the Tree-Person Technique, relying on their special traits, can display power; many of the techniques I previously cultivated lie hidden beneath the Heaven Gate Law, making it difficult to exert their true strength."

The Universe Path is too high-level; the basic Five Elements Technique is fundamentally insufficient to match it, and even though Yan Buji possesses several Five Elements Techniques of relatively high grade, they actually do not suit his current situation at all.

Yan Buji keeps thinking that without the Three Celestials Pill, he probably would not have been able to break through the Golden Core stage at all.

Having cultivated to this extent, even if his aptitude is poor, Yan Buji can clearly sense that his Heaven Gate Five Elements Law harbors a very great hidden danger.

That is, after the basic Five Elements Technique was incorporated into the Heaven Gate Law, there is fundamentally no possibility of breakthrough; it is only because Yan Buji, fortunate enough to obtain the Three Celestials Pill, forcibly broke through, merging the Heaven Gate Law and the Five Elements Law, that everything that followed came to be.

What if there were no Three Celestials Pill?

Yan Buji dare not think about it, but he also knows from past experience that without breaking through there is only a dead end, and back then, lacking sufficient vision, choosing other techniques to enhance spell power was also a helpless move.

But now that Yan Buji has the power to protect himself, he naturally needs to consider how his future path should go.

As for the Universe Path, he can already be considered to have entered its door; with the Heaven Gate Shuttle and the Instant Movement Technique as prerequisites, his understanding of the Universe Path is also becoming ever deeper.

But the Five Elements Law is clearly still insufficient.

"Even if I were to study the Five Elements Path ever more profoundly, unless I touch upon the fundamental Yin-Yang Grand Path, how could it possibly match the Universe Path?"

Yan Buji pondered, although the myriad paths of the world's three thousand Daos have no hierarchy, cultivators do have distinctions of high and low.

Likewise, Yan Buji cannot study the Five Elements Path to the level where he could enter the Yin-Yang Grand Path; moreover, this premise requires that Yan Buji be able to thoroughly study the Five Elements Path, at least reaching the Great Accomplishment stage before it becomes possible.

To reach that level in the study of the Five Principles, with Yan Buji's current half-baked ability, it is impossible.

"To be honest, unless I can cultivate the basic Five Elements Technique to a higher and deeper level, I don't even know how many years of contemplation it would take."

Yan Buji sighed, rose, and left his cave dwelling.