Chapter 722: Legendary-tier

A black flying boat flew over the surface of the dark blue water.

On the flying boat, You Ming held the broken blade that looked as if it were carved from jasper.

This short blade was emitting the same dark blue light, seemingly resonating with this Tomb of Heavenly Water.

"My lord, how is it?"

Zhu San asked.

You Ming gripped the short blade, closed his eyes to sense, and the blade in his hand suddenly pointed in a certain direction.

Seeing this, Zhu San immediately steered the flying boat to fly in that direction.

Ye Zhao, who was on the side, could not help but ask: "Are we not going to kill Li Fei first?"

Zhu San glanced at him: "No rush. I calculated it when I just entered; there are only four living people in this Tomb of Heavenly Water right now. The rift has already closed, so Li Fei does not yet know that we have entered."

"But what if Li Fei sees that no one else has come in, the rift closes early, and he senses something is amiss, then uses a Domain-Breaking Talisman to leave early?"

Ye Zhao asked.

Of the three people on this boat, he was the one most intent on killing Li Fei.

"Li Fei will not leave early."

Zhu San said with certainty.

"Why?"

"Because he is confident enough, and because he does not know that Lord You Ming has also entered."

"But what if..."

"There are no 'what ifs'. Do you know why Li Fei suddenly came to the Tomb of Heavenly Water this time?"

"Why?"

"Because the Dao foundation he is cultivating is the 【Primordial Heavenly Gold】. There is a superior combination for 【Primordial Heavenly Gold】 that replaces the fifth implant with a Heavenly Water Soul Bone. It is just that because the Heavenly Water Soul Bone is a primordial implant, the difficulty of incorporating it is extremely high, it easily triggers beast-transformation, and the Heavenly Water Soul Bones in this world are almost all in the Tomb of Heavenly Water, making them very hard to obtain. That is why the fifth implant for 【Primordial Heavenly Gold】 was later changed to something else."

"Isn't this 【Primordial Heavenly Gold】 already a top-tier martial Dao foundation?"

Ye Zhao was puzzled.

【Primordial Heavenly Gold】 was not a Dao foundation unique to the Heaven-Stiff Gate; it had been circulating in the martial arts world for hundreds of years and was recognized as one of the top-tier metal-attribute Dao foundations.

Could such a Dao foundation actually be even more powerful?

A sense of jealousy suddenly welled up in Ye Zhao's heart.

Why should all the good things belong to Li Fei?

"If 【Primordial Heavenly Gold】 can use the Heavenly Water Soul Bone as the final fifth implant, the power of the Dao foundation would not be inferior to legendary-tier Dao foundations like the Great Luo Sect's 【Ten Thousand Thunders Governing Fate】, the Universal Salvation Temple's 【Heavenly Buddha Radiant Light】, or the Great Lan Imperial Family's 【True Dragon Descending to the World】."

Zhu San said.

The levels of Dao foundations can be simply divided into four types:

Ordinary, Advanced, Top-tier, and Legendary.

Even the most ordinary Dao foundation has the possibility of being successfully constructed to become a Martial Arts Master, though the probability is lower.

Usually, martial artists who cultivate ordinary Dao foundations can only stop at the Dao Foundation Realm as their highest achievement in this life.

Next are the Advanced Dao foundations; each type of implant has the possibility of triggering core-level extraordinary abilities. Not only is the probability of successful construction higher, but the ceiling is also higher, with the hope of breaking through to the Grandmaster realm.

Then there are the Top-tier Dao foundations; this kind of Dao foundation is the foundation for becoming a peak powerhouse.

In other words, one must at least cultivate a Top-tier Dao foundation to have a chance to reach the pinnacle of martial arts in the future and become a Martial Saint.

As for the final Legendary-tier Dao foundations, their potential and ceiling are the same as Top-tier Dao foundations, only their power is greater, and after being successfully cultivated, one will be significantly stronger than martial artists of the same realm!

The three famous Legendary-tier Dao foundations listed by Zhu San: 【Ten Thousand Thunders Governing Fate】 is known as the number one thunder-attribute Dao foundation, the King of Ten Thousand Thunders!

The Great Luo Sect has not had anyone successfully cultivate this Dao foundation for nearly a hundred years; the person with the most hope of succeeding currently is the peerless prodigy Ning Chuan.

The Universal Salvation Temple's 【Heavenly Buddha Radiant Light】 also has very harsh cultivation requirements; even the two contemporary Buddha sons, Ming Qi and Ming Cheng, have not cultivated it. Currently, in the entire Universal Salvation Temple, besides the Abbot, only one person has successfully cultivated this Dao foundation.

As for the Imperial Family's 【True Dragon Descending to the World】, the supreme art "Seven Martial Arts of the True Dragon" created by the founding Emperor was tailor-made for this Dao foundation. Currently, in the entire Imperial Family, only 'Prince Li' Qin Mingli, this human Martial Saint, has successfully cultivated this Dao foundation.

"【Primordial Heavenly Gold】 can be that powerful?"

After hearing this, Ye Zhao's state of mind became even more unbalanced.

Zhu San: "The difficulty of cultivating 【Primordial Heavenly Gold】 is even greater than the Legendary-tier Dao foundations I mentioned, and Heavenly Water Beasts have long been extinct. Obtaining a Heavenly Water Soul Bone depends on luck. No one has successfully cultivated a true 【Primordial Heavenly Gold】 for hundreds of years, which is why not many people know about this."

"But Principal Shi Caiming of the Martial Arts University has some connection with a certain senior from the Heaven-Stiff Gate and must know this secret. Li Fei's sudden arrival at the Tomb of Heavenly Water this time must have been under Shi Caiming's guidance."

Ye Zhao suddenly understood why Zhu San was so certain that Li Fei would not leave the Tomb of Heavenly Water early.

With a chance to construct a Legendary-tier Dao foundation, and not knowing beforehand that You Ming had entered the Tomb of Heavenly Water, how could Li Fei leave early?

The other party must be full of confidence.

"It's right here."

You Ming, who had been keeping his eyes closed, suddenly opened them, and the short blade in his hand pointed at the water surface below.

Zhu San immediately stopped the flying boat, formed seals with his hands, and a transparent protective shield covered the boat.

Afterward, he steered the flying boat directly into the water.

The place the three of them were going to this time contained Heavenly Water Soul Bones. Since Shi Caiming let Li Fei enter the Tomb of Heavenly Water to search for them, he likely gave Li Fei a way to find them.

In this way, the two sides might meet directly next!

"Li Fei!"

Ye Zhao gritted his teeth, already starting to look forward to the expression on Li Fei's face when he encountered them.

Li Fei was continuously diving deeper into the water.

For this treasure hunt in the Tomb of Heavenly Water, he had specifically practiced some underwater force-exertion techniques and movement techniques.

After Xiang Dongliang joined him, he also taught him a lot.

With Li Fei's current cultivation base, he could use his internal force to replace oxygen, so sneaking underwater for an hour or two was not a problem.

The biggest difficulty underwater, besides the constantly accumulating chill, was determining one's orientation.

The Dead Domain would interfere with one's perception of space, making it easy for people to get lost underwater, completely losing their sense of direction, appearing to be diving downward but never reaching the bottom.

However, for Li Fei, who possessed the 'Danger Perception' ability, this kind of interference was not hard to break.

Xiang Dongliang had taught him techniques to distinguish directions. Relying on 'Danger Perception', he could successfully break through the 'confusion', though his sneaking speed would be slower than usual, and he would need to spend some time every now and then to reconfirm his orientation.

Suddenly, Li Fei felt something, and a huge shadow appeared below him.

Judging by its shape, this was a strange fish, covered in bone spurs, the size of a small mountain peak, looking very ferocious, and it was opening its huge mouth to bite at Li Fei!

This was a Heavenly Water Beast.

In the water, a sixth-grade lower-tier Heavenly Water Beast was enough to tear a peak Dao Foundation Realm martial artist to shreds!

The chill began to intensify, attacking from all directions like a storm.

Li Fei's expression remained unchanged, his eyes calmly watching the shadow that was getting closer below.

The next second, a 【Blood Might God】 strike that consumed 20 Blood Souls slammed into this shadow.

The shadow immediately became distorted, and a sharp, roaring sound echoed in Li Fei's ears.

Li Fei, clad in the Primordial Star Armor, crashed directly into the shadow, and the golden light tore the huge shadow apart!

This was not a real Heavenly Water Beast.

If there were still living Heavenly Water Beasts in the Tomb of Heavenly Water, then Wen Ke would not have said that he had an eighty percent survival rate when entering this place.

This shadow just now was called a 'Soul Shadow', a unique existence in the Tomb of Heavenly Water.

Due to the special nature of the Dead Domain, the projections of those Heavenly Water Beasts buried in the Tomb of Heavenly Water would appear in the water.

These projections could mobilize a portion of the Dead Domain's power, but they were far from comparable to real Heavenly Water Beasts. Using internal force, mental power, or techniques could disperse them.

These Soul Shadows were also one of the dangers of the Tomb of Heavenly Water.

Li Fei shattered seven or eight Soul Shadows along the way and finally reached the bottom of this Dead Domain.

The bottom was a patch of black silt, like an abyss that devoured people.

Li Fei took out a very small fragment; the fragment was only the size of a thumb and was made entirely of jasper.

This was what Shi Caiming had asked Xiang Dongliang to give to Li Fei.

This fragment was a part of a Heavenly Water Soul Bone. After entering the Tomb of Heavenly Water, using internal force to stimulate the fragment would cause it to resonate with nearby Heavenly Water Soul Bones, thereby allowing one to find a complete Heavenly Water Soul Bone through this fragment.

But this also required luck; the fragment and the Heavenly Water Soul Bone could not be too far apart.

Although this water area of the Tomb of Heavenly Water was not large, because of the spatial confusion, the exploration speed could not be very fast, and the Domain-Breaking Talisman could only last for one hour at most.

So, wanting to find a complete Heavenly Water Soul Bone through the fragment within one hour really depended on luck.

Li Fei held the fragment, continuously injecting internal force, and then moved along the bottom of the water as fast as he could.

If he could not find the Heavenly Water Soul Bone this time, the next time the Tomb of Heavenly Water opened would be several years later.

It was unlikely he would deliberately delay for several years without incorporating the fifth implant just to obtain the Heavenly Water Soul Bone.

Therefore, if he could not find the Heavenly Water Soul Bone this time, he might miss the opportunity to achieve a Legendary-tier Dao foundation forever.

More than thirty minutes passed.

During this time, Li Fei destroyed more than a dozen more Soul Shadows and found several treasures unique to the Tomb of Heavenly Water at the bottom, but these treasures were not what he wanted.

The fragment in his hand had remained motionless.

Seeing that half the time had passed, Li Fei began to feel a bit anxious.

"Give me some reaction, give me some reaction."

Li Fei prayed continuously in his heart.

Hum—

The silt at the bottom of the water suddenly vibrated violently, and dark currents surged from afar.

"Hm?"

Li Fei's eyes lit up, and he immediately rushed toward the direction from which the dark currents were surging.

These undercurrents were affected by the spatial barrier, their directions constantly shifting.

Combining his "Danger Perception" with the techniques Xiang Dongliang had taught him, Li Fei carefully distinguished the path and, after a few minutes, successfully arrived at the source of the undercurrents:

It was a glowing cave, and inside the cave, it seemed as if magma was surging, causing the chill in the surrounding waters to diminish significantly.

Above the cave was a black skiff, and three people stood upon it.

Li Fei saw You Ming injecting force into the glowing cave below; the massive disturbance from earlier must have been caused by You Ming.

When Li Fei saw these three, they simultaneously discovered him as well.

Both sides stared at each other.

Ye Zhao wore a look of pleasant surprise; he very much wanted to see Li Fei's expression through the outer layer of force.

Upon seeing You Ming, Li Fei was startled, but his shock was quickly replaced by joy.

He looked down at the fragment in his hand; the fragment was resonating!

Looking back up at the three people on the black skiff, Li Fei felt like applauding them:

"There are still many good people in this world."

(End of chapter)