Chapter 727: A Snap of the Fingers, Twenty Years; Nine Strands of Golden Nature Complete

Five Emperors magic power!

Beneath the Shan Xuan Teng tree, Li Yuan sat cross-legged, the various scriptures and meanings flowing through his heart.

Top-grade magic power is also one of the conditions for advancing to True Transmission, but very few True Transmission disciples attempt to condense this magic power at the Third Realm — the reason being that condensing top-grade magic power requires an extremely profound comprehension of the great scriptures.

Take the Five Emperors magic power, for instance — it combines the strengths of all five scriptures.

The resilience of the Green Emperor, the ferocity of the Red Emperor, the purity of the White Emperor, the weightiness of the Yellow Emperor, the vastness of the Black Emperor.

Combining the strengths of all five scriptures, a single strand of magic power is equivalent to ten strands of upper-grade magic power; neither its quality nor its quantity can be compared to upper-grade magic power, and when used to drive any spell or divine ability, it can enhance their might.

"Hoo!"

In the bamboo tower, one wisp of spiritual incense after another burned, the fragrance curling like mist.

Li Yuan swallowed a great quantity of spiritual pills, and with the Shadow Demon lodged within his acupoint, after all preparations were complete, he then activated the Suppressing Prison divine ability.

Otherwise, with his current realm and physique, he could not bear the augmentation of the Five Extremes Great Scripture's palm-ruling artifacts.

"Buzz~"

Once the divine ability was activated, Li Yuan decisively activated the Soldier Register.

In an instant, he felt his soul tremble violently; surging, majestic qi flooded his three dantians, making him feel his whole body swelling from the inside out — from his Ru Jin De Jing to his physique, there was an extraordinary sense of fullness.

As if one world-shaking great demon after another wished to break free of the flesh's bonds and descend upon the world!

The five great palm-ruling artifacts, apart from the Shan Xuan Teng She slough, each correspond to the Qi Zhong Jing Fa Jie of the great scriptures — how vast is the information they contain?

"Boom!"

Li Yuan felt as if he were a single stalk of straw, swept along by the waves, plunging into a boundless abyss; the flood of information, vast to the extreme, left him gasping.

In a daze, he felt himself split into five.

At one moment he became a Shan Xuan Teng tree, at another a colossal dragon-snake, at another a wisp of Red Emperor fire-seed, at another a White Emperor sword…

In the end, his mind gathered, and he felt as if he had become a platform of yellow earth, seated upon the land, bearing the principle of all things' transformations.

Earth bears all things; the Yellow Emperor carries the scriptures!

At this moment, Li Yuan awoke from his daze, feeling as if he had cycled through five lives, experienced incomparably long years, and cultivated the Five Extremes Great Scripture for thousands upon thousands of years.

"Crash~"

Strand after strand of Shadow Demon magic power rapidly drained away.

Li Yuan forcefully gathered his spirit within his Ru Jin De Jing; under the resonance of mind and spirit, the Ru Jin De Jing too was rumbling, the Five Extremes ancient temples quaking, the nine true forms roaring in unison.

"Roar~"

The Bai Hu true form raised its head and let out a great roar.

The Bai Hu is the essence of slaughter, the most sensitive — it sensed five terrifying qi descending into the Ru Jin De Jing, converging beneath the Shan Xuan Teng tree.

It looked toward Li Yuan, and faintly felt that behind him there seemed to be not just one Shan Xuan Teng tree, but also one that reached from earth to sky, a pitch-black Shan Xuan Teng tree even larger than the Ru Jin De Jing itself.

A great snake coiled upon it, raging flames like a sun…

"Merge!"

Li Yuan flicked a finger; with five buzzing sounds, the five strands of magic power fell before him, and under the gaze of the nine true forms, slowly merged together.

It seemed like an instant, yet also like several days.

The Ru Jin De Jing trembled violently; amid surging Wang Yang, a strand of magic power, five-colored, pure and resplendent, shot up into the sky, its dazzling radiance illuminating the Ru Jin De Jing.

"Success!"

Li Yuan let out a long breath.

For him, fusing the Five Emperors magic power was harder than Yin giving birth to Yang, but with the aid of the five great palm-ruling artifacts, he was like a Qi Jing cultivator who had cultivated the Five Extremes Great Scripture for thousands of years — not only did he not find it difficult,

he even felt a sense of effortless smoothness.

"Buzz~"

Once the Five Emperors magic power was formed, the Ru Jin De Jing quaked violently; from within the Wang Yang, strand after strand of magic power burst forth — there was Kun Peng magic power, Bai Hu magic power, as well as Black Emperor magic power, Green Emperor magic power…

The nine mid-grade magic powers and five upper-grade magic powers he cultivated all trembled together; centered on that first strand of Five Emperors magic power, they circulated and intertwined, beginning to merge.

A Third Realm cultivator's magic power is intimately tied to their true forms.

One true form can contain eight hundred and ten strands of magic power; nine true forms can hold at most only seven thousand two hundred and ninety strands.

Therefore, the grade of magic power is extremely important.

Of course, the benefits of cultivating multiple magic powers are equally great — for instance, the current Five Emperors magic power combines the strengths of five upper-grade and nine mid-grade, fourteen types of magic power.

Within the five elements, there are also the transformations of yin and yang.

In fact, when cultivation encounters a bottleneck, the vast majority of cultivators choose to cultivate other magic powers to augment their cultivation.

"Whirr~"

Li Yuan focused his spirit intensely, yet dispersed the augmentation of the Soldier Register.

Thus, over nearly three days in total, all the various magic powers within his body had been fully converted into Five Emperors magic power; henceforth, when he circulated his art and refined his methods, he would only produce this magic power.

"Fifty-six strands of magic power."

Li Yuan suddenly felt hollow within, yet at the same time experienced an indescribable sense of fullness.

The Five Emperors magic power is, in theory, formed by the convergence of five strands of upper-grade magic power, yet it is equivalent to ten strands of upper-grade magic power; combined with the fusion of nine strands of mid-grade magic power,

he estimated that one strand of his magic power was equivalent to twelve strands of upper-grade magic power.

Therefore, not only did he not feel weak, he instead felt a sense of being reborn.

"Seven strands of Five Emperors magic power can refine back one strand of golden nature!"

Li Yuan counted on his fingers, feeling quite satisfied.

Sensing his newly born Five Emperors magic power, he suddenly thought of the White-Robed Five Dragon Immortal.

"Right, she was originally at the peak of the Fourth Realm, and only suppressed herself to the Third Realm at my request.

So the quality of her magic power is extremely high — one strand is probably equivalent to twenty strands of upper-grade magic power — which is why she gave me a sense of boundless magic power…"

Li Yuan's heart stirred with eagerness, wishing he could fight the Five Dragon Immortal again right away.

But he forcibly suppressed that impulse, intending to wait until his magic power was perfected and all nine strands of golden nature refined back, then face that guiding lantern at his strongest.

"Buzz~"

Li Yuan raised his hand with a beckoning gesture; a wisp of Wu Di Fa magic power landed in his palm, five-colored, condensed to the extreme, at a glance almost seeming solid.

He flicked his finger lightly; the five colors flowed and a burst of radiant light erupted. In the distance, the roc flapped its wings and unleashed thousands of Grand Yin sword-qi, yet all of it vanished into the divine light.

Using Wu Di Fa magic power to drive the Five Elements divine light, its might was a whole tier stronger than scattered Wu Di Fa magic power; he felt this was already enough to wield against the middle-aged Sword Lord in contest.

"Worthy of top-grade magic power — compared to low-grade magic power, how much more than a hundred times stronger?"

Toying with this magic power, Li Yuan deeply felt that the Dao of magic was boundless:

"Senior Brother Yuan Gang cultivates eighty-one kinds of superior magic power simultaneously; a single wisp of his magic power is enough to crush a star, and any spell or Gu Gu Shentong driven by it can double its might."

Senior Brother Yuan Gang was already so overwhelmingly powerful; what manner of vast and mighty magic power must Master, his elder, possess?

The moment this thought arose, Li Yuan had already slashed it down, his heart alert:

"The Patriarch once said, the closer one gets to the Great Dao, the harder the path. My current rapid progress is precisely because I am still far from the Great Dao — I must not give rise to an arrogant heart."

Ascending to the peak of the Sword Realm, becoming renowned across all domains, great heaps of Shan Gong flowing into the account, chatting happily with numerous True Inheritances and sect elders…

All these matters, one after another, gathered together — even though Daoist Li's temperament was steady, he was somewhat restless without realizing it.

"Magic power is the convergence of the three primordial elements, the union of human and heaven. When the heart grows arrogant, the magic too undergoes change. If one does not stay alert, later on it may attract an extremely powerful demon…"

Li Yuan let out a long breath, feeling he ought to settle and temper himself for a while.

……

After his heart grew vigilant, Li Yuan became all the more steady. He declined the invitations to feasts from a host of senior brothers, focusing single-mindedly on bitter cultivation.

Each day he still performed Xing Gong to refine his methods, refined demons and nurtured his sword, visualized true forms, fished and listened to the sounds — but no longer with the previous impatience. Instead, he left some leisure time to tend his divine realm and cave-heaven.

Li Yuan had two lesser cave-heavens; besides the one he lived in, there was the one within Dun Tian Zhou.

The one he lived in he handed over to spiritual puppets like Li Yi; the lesser cave-heaven within Dun Tian Zhou, only a few thousand li across, he tended himself.

He first purchased a large batch of spiritual puppets, then spent over a thousand Xiao Gong to lay down a spirit-gathering array.

Cultivators use divine patterns to transform prohibitions into spirit roots to inhale and exhale the world's spiritual energy; cave-heavens require arrays, but in essence still use divine patterns to transform prohibitions, drawing in the corresponding spiritual energy.

It seemed abstruse, but in truth, once understood, it was not difficult.

Relying on the enhancement of the Five Extremes Great Scripture's mastery over objects, what Li Yuan laid out was the "Five Elements Spirit-Gathering Array," rooted in the cave-heaven of Dun Tian Zhou — in actuality, it still had to be driven by his magic power.

Within the cave-heaven, he opened up spirit fields, planting only spirit rice and spirit herbs of Fa Jie Shi Wu Jing and above, watered with the waters of the Sun-Moon Lei Chi — there was no issue of maladjustment.

A divine realm is not a cave-heaven; before refining a Dharma Realm, arrays cannot be laid out within it, but by relying on magic power to nourish, one can raise Dao Soldiers.

Li Yuan had five kinds of Dao Soldiers.

The most core among them was naturally the White Bone Human Demon Dao Soldier; the Human Demon Mountain had already advanced to a spiritual treasure, and with the nourishment of the demons, was still steadily improving.

Besides these, the Gourd Dao Soldiers were still two, the Law-Suppressing Dao Soldiers had grown to eighty-one — that portion was naturally purchased through the Sword God Collection.

Lastly, there were one hundred and eight each of Yin Dao Soldiers and Yang Dao Soldiers.

These two kinds of Dao Soldiers belonged to the rank of superior Dao Soldiers; if they could be merged into one and refined into "Yin-Yang Dao Soldiers," they could even be considered top-grade Dao Soldiers.

His purchase of these two kinds of Dao Soldiers was naturally because of Ying Mo Shen.

After Yin reaches its extreme and gives birth to Yang, Ying Mo Shen possessed both Yin and Yang transformations; the demon shadows refined by devouring all things likewise had Yin and Yang distinctions, and could be used to refine Yin-Yang Dao Soldiers.

After returning to Huishan, Li Yuan did not let Ying Mo Shen idle either; he reopened Xing Xing Tongyou, not wasting the once-a-year chance to explore the depths.

But clearly, the opportunity within the Blood Phoenix's belly could not be sought at will; this time it was merely an ordinary third-realm strange land, and before half a day had passed, Ying Mo Shen had already devoured it and returned.

"Boom!"

When Ying Mo Shen emerged from Xing Xing Tongyou, he heard a tremendous roar.

Outside Dingxin Dingxin Shitai, darkness churned, as if some primordial giant god were roaring within, shaking the great myriad. The already enormous Dingxin Dingxin Shitai once again doubled in size.

【Eleventh-Tier Soldier Master, Li Yuan】

【Controllable Soldiers: 11】

Within Dingxin Dingxin Shitai, Li Yuan raised his head to look at the Soldier-Roster Register suspended high like a star chart.

The Soldier-Roster Register showed no new changes, but Xing Xing Tongyou had indeed changed.

【Xing Xing Tongyou】

【Walkable Times: 1 (once every half year, cannot be accumulated)】

【Enterable Strange Land Grades: First Heaven, Second Heaven】

"Tsk."

At Li Yuan's thought, Ying Mo Shen had already left this trip's harvest in the divine realm, turned around, and entered Xing Xing Tongyou once more.

"The randomness of Xing Xing Tongyou is also very great…"