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Cultivating a Divine Seed into a Martial Saint might not be the weakest path, but becoming a Martial Saint without cultivating a Divine Seed ensures immense strength!
Su Changkong felt that the historically renowned Martial Saints who left behind Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands ensuring the prosperity of their descendants and the emergence of exceptional talents, perhaps, did not rely on Divine Seeds for their breakthroughs.
Since Martial Arts could be cultivated into Pseudo-Divine Skills, it was only natural to cultivate true Divine Skills and to condense one’s own Divine Seed.
Su Changkong believed that if others could achieve it, he could too!
Su Changkong’s ultimate goal was not just to become a Martial Saint but to achieve the even greater feat of immortality; he aimed for perfection to ensure a farther journey in the future.
"Can’t be idle, let’s practice some other Martial Arts."
Even after achieving the realm of Five Qi towards the Yuan, Su Changkong never became complacent; he still needed to progress, to continue cultivating!
After all, whether as a Five-Qi Grandmaster or a Pseudo-Divine Skill Grandmaster, the essence was still within the Innate category, and the only difference was the level of combat power. Therefore, by increasing his combat power and becoming stronger than anyone else, he would naturally reach the realm of Martial Saints.
"Let’s practice the Guiding Technique."
The realms of Martial Arts Su Changkong currently mastered, including the Heaven Silkworm Technique and Guiding Technique, were both at the eighth tier.
The cultivation of the Heaven Silkworm Technique required braving dangers and trials for a qualitative transformation, to break before establishing anew, but given Su Changkong’s current strength, it was indeed difficult to encounter such dangerous situations.
On the other hand, the cultivation of the Guiding Technique was related to Su Changkong’s talent and potential; as long as he spent time practicing, breakthroughs were inevitable.
With a potential value as high as 75 points, advancing the Guiding Technique to the 10th tier would not be difficult for Su Changkong. He also anticipated that this ancient Guiding Technique could bring him some surprises!
In the Heaven Silkworm Cave behind the mountains of the Spirit Taoist Sect, Su Changkong began practicing the Guiding Technique. As he performed the movements of the Guiding Technique, there was a naturally intrinsic beauty to it.
As Su Changkong entered the zone, the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy was naturally drawn in, gathering around him and turning into swirling white mist, making Su Changkong seem like an immortal in a fairyland.
"Ding ding dong dong!"
The reconstruction of the Spirit Taoist Sect was underway, bustling with activity. Disciples of the Spirit Taoist Sect, including some builders with expertise in architecture summoned from outside, were busily shuttling back and forth.
Just like a desolate land being reborn with vitality, in destruction there is birth!
Guiding Technique (9th Tier Unparalleled in the World 11%), Guiding Technique (9th Tier Unparalleled in the World 12%)...
Su Changkong’s Guiding Technique progressed daily, steadily advancing towards a higher realm.
"Strange... why is nature’s spiritual energy more abundant than yesterday, every day?"
In his dedicated retreat for cultivating, Su Changkong couldn’t help feeling bewildered and inexplicable, for he could sense the changes in the spiritual energy between heaven and earth!
Theoretically, the total amount of nature’s spiritual energy is finite, richer in places with Spirit Veins, less elsewhere.
And as Martial Artists pass away, their bodies gradually decay, nourishing the earth and eventually transforming back into nature’s spiritual energy; including trees, animals, and all things in the world, everything is a cycle, and the total amount of spiritual energy isn’t supposed to change much.
Yet in the past few days, Su Changkong distinctly felt that the spiritual energy filling the world was changing, increasing daily!
This change, though subtle, was something that not even an average Innate Martial Artist could detect. 𝓷ℴ𝓋𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝒸𝓸𝓶
The rate at which the spiritual energy increased grew faster with the passage of time!
"Strange... why are these plants growing so fast? It used to be enough to trim them every week or half a month, but now it has to be done every three or five days."
This transformation was subtle yet profound. At the mountain gate of the Spirit Taoist Sect, a group of disciples wielding sickles cleared the overgrown weeds along the mountain path, perplexed in their minds as to why the growth rate of the plants had accelerated so much recently.
Su Changkong wasn’t the only one who felt the change in spiritual energy.
In a solemn grand hall, Duanmu Tao, the Lord of the Demon Suppressing Department in gray robes, held a long iron case and quietly sensed something.
"The tides ebb and flow, formation, dwelling, destruction, and emptiness — the spiritual energy between heaven and earth surges like tides, and the wave is coming..."
Duanmu Tao’s face was filled with solemnity.
According to what Duanmu Tao knew, although the total amount of spiritual energy was constant, it actually fluctuated like ocean tides; there were periods of calm, of low tide, and of tumult, of high tide.
For the past two to three thousand years, this world had been in a period of low tide, but now the tide had started to rise, perhaps heralding a ’great wave’ not seen in ages!
This was a sign of the arrival of a great era, but also a sign of chaos. Ancient sects, forces, and families awaited this period, and they would surely rise in this rare great tide, with not many content to maintain the status quo!
Not to mention some ancient, powerful beings that would definitely not miss this opportunity to attain the so-called ’fruit,’ ready to pay any price.
And an empire, in such great waves, is like a large ship — vast and with deep roots but potentially also at risk of capsizing, leading to dynastic change, becoming the dust of history.
"In a few days, I will apply to enter the Ten Thousand Soul Warrior Tomb again. Perhaps taking advantage of this rising tide, I can break through the bottleneck in my Blade Technique; this way... I can survive in the chaotic world, and perhaps even advance further!"
Duanmu Tao took a deep breath and closed his eyes, aware that with his status and position, if turmoil arose within the Great Flame Empire, he would have to lead the charge. There was a real risk of falling in the fray.
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