Chapter 370: The Fourth Realm!

Several years later.

Ye Tian finally accumulated enough great merit to exchange for another Great Dao Enlightenment Fruit.

He immediately returned to Tianjie Mountain; fortunately, Great Dao Enlightenment Fruits were still available.

This kind of treasure is highly valuable, but it requires too much great merit, and other Immortal True Gods cannot truly bring out the value of a Great Dao Enlightenment Fruit, so naturally, few Immortal True Gods would go to exchange for it.

"Exchange!"

Another Great Dao Enlightenment Fruit was in his hands.

Soon, Tianjie Mountain gave him this Great Dao Enlightenment Fruit, and then he discovered that the Great Dao Enlightenment Fruit was gone from the Tianjie Mountain exchange list.

Clearly, Tianjie Mountain would no longer allow Immortal True Gods to exchange for Great Dao Enlightenment Fruits.

Perhaps this was the last Great Dao Enlightenment Fruit of Tianjie Mountain.

With the Great Dao Enlightenment Fruit in hand, Ye Tian immediately headed to the Heavenly Court to go into seclusion and use it.

He swallowed the Great Dao Enlightenment Fruit in one gulp, activated his Supreme Enlightenment Technique, and contemplated the Great Dao traces appearing before him.

Time passed bit by bit.

The twenty-fourth chapter of the Taixuan Chaos Chapter was comprehended!

The twenty-fifth chapter of the Taixuan Chaos Chapter was comprehended!

The twenty-sixth chapter of the Taixuan Chaos Chapter was comprehended!

Finally, just as he was about to exhaust this Great Dao Enlightenment Fruit, he successfully comprehended the twenty-seventh chapter of the Taixuan Chaos Chapter.

With the comprehension of the twenty-seventh chapter of the Taixuan Chaos Chapter, his Chaos Great Thousand Dao realm naturally surged by a significant margin.

What made Ye Tian even more excited was that having comprehended the twenty-seventh chapter of the Taixuan Chaos Chapter, he was qualified to cultivate a Great Thousand Dao Technique to the fourth realm.

According to the introduction of the Taixuan Chapter, the twenty-fifth chapter of the Taixuan Chapter allows one to cultivate a Great Thousand Dao Technique to the fourth realm; the thirty-sixth chapter allows one to cultivate it to the fifth realm; the fifty-fourth chapter allows one to cultivate it to the sixth realm.

The seventy-second chapter corresponds to the seventh realm.

The ninetieth chapter corresponds to the eighth realm.

And only by cultivating to the one hundred and eighth chapter can one master the ninth realm.

It can be said that after a Great Thousand Dao Technique reaches the fourth realm, it becomes increasingly difficult to advance.

Ye Tian was now qualified to cultivate a Great Thousand Dao Technique to the fourth realm; this was his limit. Logically, it is very difficult to achieve such a limit-breaking improvement, but he possessed the Supreme Enlightenment Technique, and with his terrifying comprehension, he could naturally elevate his Great Thousand Dao Technique to his current limit—the fourth realm.

"A Great Thousand Dao Technique at the fourth realm is something even some monstrous Heavenly Prides who have broken through to True Ancestor find difficult to reach. By then, my true strength will be enough to rival a True Ancestor, and not just a weak True Ancestor, but one with the strength to kill a weak True Ancestor!"

To be at the Mid True God cultivation level and be able to easily kill a weak True Ancestor—what a terrifying combat power this is.

"I won't go to the battlefield for now; next, I will strive to elevate the three Great Thousand Dao Techniques—Nine-Layer Glazed Golden Body, God-Demon Spear, and Taishi Golden Light—to the fourth realm."

With his comprehension, keeping the Supreme Enlightenment Technique activated, it would take at least ten years to elevate all three of these Great Thousand Dao Techniques to the fourth realm.

"The war won't end that quickly. Ten years is not a short time, and the Heavenly Court is not very safe; I will leave a God Spirit avatar to understand the situation, and my true body will return to Taixuan Sacred Mountain for seclusion!"

Immediately, his true body returned to Taixuan Sacred Mountain for bitter cultivation in seclusion.

In the following ten years, the war between the Demon Race and the various Great Thousand Realms continued to escalate. More and more True Ancestors and Immortal True Gods were killed or injured, and some Great Thousand Realms were even breached by the Demon Race, with countless living beings perishing and turning into nourishment for the Thirty-Three Heavens Slaughter Treasure Lotus.

And just in the eighth year, the first branch lotus of the Thirty-Three Heavens Slaughter Treasure Lotus bloomed.

A group of top True Ancestors participated in the scramble, and even the True Disciples of Taixuan Sacred Mountain went to snatch it.

This battle was fought very miserably; even Senior Brother Jian Xing returned heavily injured, but in the end, the Demon Race was well-prepared, and this first branch lotus was still snatched away by them.

Of course, the Demon Race also used up quite a few trump cards for this.

Next time, they might not necessarily be able to hold onto it.

In a flash, ten years had passed.

"Ten years have passed; I have finally cultivated the three Great Thousand Dao Techniques—Nine-Layer Glazed Golden Body, God-Demon Spear, and Taishi Golden Light—to the fourth realm. My strength is far stronger than before!"

Ye Tian stretched his body, feeling the power far exceeding the past, and revealed a smile.

Immediately, he came out of seclusion.

Having reached this realm, he was already at his limit; continuing to stay in seclusion would not be able to improve his strength much.

After coming out of seclusion, he went to visit Jian Xing.

"Senior Brother Jian Xing!"

Ye Tian entered Senior Brother Jian Xing's residence and saw Jian Xing, whom he hadn't seen for ten years, but he found that Senior Brother Jian Xing's complexion was quite good.

"Senior Brother Jian Xing, two years have passed, has your injury not healed yet?"

Ye Tian was surprised.

Two years ago, his attendant informed him that Senior Brother Jian Xing and a group of other True Disciples had returned heavily injured. Although not a single True Disciple had perished, several were on the verge of death; if it weren't for the trump cards given by their Master, they truly wouldn't have been able to return.

But Senior Brother Jian Xing's injuries were not that severe; he didn't expect that after two years, he still hadn't recovered.

Jian Xing smiled bitterly: "I went with other fellow disciples to snatch the branch lotus of the Thirty-Three Heavens Slaughter Treasure Lotus, along with some True Ancestors from other factions and some ancient True Ancestors. The fighting was extremely chaotic, and it turned out that the Demon Race side surprisingly dispatched three Half-Step Dao Ancestors."

"Half-Step Dao Ancestor, what kind of realm is that?"

Ye Tian was curious.

Jian Xing said: "A Half-Step Dao Ancestor is actually a realm created by some old fellows who have lived for infinite years at the True Ancestor realm and cannot break through. Those old fellows have cultivation reaching the peak of the True Ancestor realm and a very high Great Dao realm, but they just cannot merge with the Dao to achieve the position of Dao Ancestor. Thus, they use special secret techniques to fuse with some Great Dao Treasures, fusing their bodies with the Great Dao Treasures to temper their physical bodies until they are as tough as the Great Dao Treasures themselves, and they can also perfectly mobilize the power of the Great Dao Treasures. Although the combat power of such True Ancestors is far inferior to a Dao Ancestor, their strength far exceeds that of a True Ancestor. Therefore, they are called Half-Step Dao Ancestors."

"Half-Step Dao Ancestors are very powerful, but once they do this, they have no hope of breaking through to the Dao Ancestor realm, because their own Dao, as well as their physical body, Divine Soul, and cultivation, will all be influenced by the fused Great Dao Treasure and cannot transcend. Therefore, True Ancestors who truly yearn to break through to become a Dao Ancestor do not want to take this step."

"Of course, Great Dao Treasures are extremely rare, and it's not like one can become a Half-Step Dao Ancestor just because one wants to. As far as I know, the Demon Race only has about ten Half-Step Dao Ancestors, but this time, for the sake of the Blood Slaughter True Ancestor, they dispatched three Half-Step Dao Ancestors. I was heavily injured by a casual strike from one of the Half-Step Dao Ancestors, and the traces of the Great Dao Treasure remained on me, making it difficult to erase!"

As he spoke, Jian Xing revealed a spear mark; this mark was constantly corroding his physical body, but he was, after all, at the peak True Ancestor cultivation level, and his Great Thousand Dao realm was high, so he was constantly resisting it, which was why the injury hadn't worsened.

But in the short term, Jian Xing could not erase this mark either.

"Senior Brother Jian Xing, why not ask Master to take action?"

Ye Tian asked.

"No, Master will not bother with such small matters. Unless it involves major events where we perish, Master will not appear. If I were to disturb Master with such a small matter, I fear I would be severely punished!" Jian Xing said with a smile.