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Chapter 236: Chapter 233 Integration
Gu Jinlai’s current cultivation had three primary focuses.
The Eternal Furnace.
Cheng Ying Mecha.
Qiantian Purple Qi Technique.
Among these directions, the Eternal Furnace had been temporarily set aside due to the need for two to three hundred strands of Qingguang.
The Cheng Ying Mecha was a whole entity.
Among its most essential parts — the Immortal Essence Gold — was still far beyond his reach.
Thus, only the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique remained.
"Because I cultivated the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique through Qingguang, it contains a rich personal essence, making its nature transform from a cultivation method revered like a deity into something even more fundamentally profound,"
Gu Jinlai recalled the mysterious state he had been in.
The Qiantian Purple Qi Technique simply allowed him to borrow the intentions and thoughts of all living beings to condense the power of existence, further mastering the power of the ’Tendency Realm.’ 𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝙤𝒎
However, being a cultivator of the Heavenly Master lineage, he had long been immersed in the concept that "All things have spirits, and all living beings are one."
In this concept, all myriad beings, everything in the world, and the stars in the universe are composed of "spirit."
With this philosophy, he touched upon the whereabouts of the "True Spirit Realm" and glimpsed the origin of the power of "spirit."
And this power...
Was the power of Creation.
The true peak and pinnacle of the Heavenly Master lineage.
"Upon reaching the Heavenly Monarch Realm in the Heavenly Master Path, there are still two steps above, namely True Spirit Crystalization. Such True Spirits become more stable, can handle more injections and bursts of spiritual sense, and the soul secret techniques they release enhance their resistance to soul power attacks significantly. According to ancient records, those large demon spirits emerging from the Demon World Gap couldn’t shake a soul guarded by a crystalized True Spirit, in other words, they are almost immune to attacks from large, medium, and small demon spirits,"
Gu Jinlai pondered and had to admit one thing.
The Heavenly Master Path really had a significant restraint on the demon spirits.
No wonder the demon spirits risk the danger of being controlled by bestial instincts and transform into devils, pursuing the Heavenly Masters to the ends of the earth and oceans.
Keep in mind that although there are many gaps in the Demon World nowadays, the only one that can accommodate catastrophic-level demon spirits is the Imperial Capital.
In other words, with Gu Jinlai’s current level, he could easily suppress all the gaps except for those in the Imperial Capital.
From these gaps, no matter how many demon spirits emerged, because they couldn’t shake his divine sense, exterminating them was just a matter of time.
"Medium demon spirits can grow into Great Demons, and large demon spirits that turn into devils not only can quickly step into the domain of Great Demons but also have the potential to grow into Demon Kings. Like the Crocodile Dragon King entrenched in Tianhe and the Demon King sweeping Mu State, they were all Great Demons transformed from large demon spirits, and it took them only two to three decades,"
Twenty to thirty years to achieve an existence comparable to the Devas.
Just from this, one can see the terrifying effect of letting large demon spirits grow unrestrained in the future.
"Daqian’s chaos has persisted for several decades now, and it is unknown how many large demon spirits have burst out from some of the gaps no longer guarded by a Heavenly Master, nor is it known to what extent these large demon spirits have grown over these years."
Gu Jinlai sighed.
The reason these Demon Kings have not yet been exposed...
Is because they still don’t possess the power to confront all the forces within the Qiantian Realm.
They fear bringing too great a threat to the major powers of Daqian, forcing the humans embroiled in civil strife to unite.
If it weren’t for the fact that they need to devour "spirituality" to sustain their daily consumption and growth, they wouldn’t even stir up trouble in places like Mu State and Tianhe, exposing themselves.
Gather grains widely, ascend to kingship slowly.
Demons have never been ignorant beasts; they possess wisdom, civilization, and their own social systems, not the least inferior to humans.
"South of Tianhe, whether it’s Yellow Sky Sect, Cold Moon Sect, Netherworld Sect, or even the Purgatory Sect, the strongest are just the Primordial Spirit True Monarchs. The greatest threats to the south of Tianhe are, firstly, those demons and Demon Kings expected to march north from Mu State and, secondly, the possible southward movement of the Crocodile Dragon King of Tianhe. Once these two factions of Demon Kings attack from both sides, the entire region south of Tianhe will surely fall."
Gu Jinlai was clear in his heart: "The reason we can enjoy peace now is that the demon forces dare not reveal themselves too much, because once they conquer south of Tianhe, it would surely resonate throughout Qiantian. Therefore... the Demon King who has occupied Mu State for so long has never commanded its army to march northward. However, from the increasingly assertive movements of the demons lately, it’s not hard to see that they have almost gathered enough strength. This hidden danger could erupt at any time."
So...
The next choice was pretty clear.
While other forces pose less of a threat, the danger from the Demon Kings is imminent.
"The third step of Heavenly Monarch, touching the Real Spirit Realm... This layer of realm might seem unchanged, but the help it brings is immeasurable. Through the Real Spirit Realm, any creature or object will have no secrets whatsoever before me. What weaknesses they have, what delays or obstacles exist in their spiritual activities, clear at a glance... It’s like having the entire map in an information-based warfare, the advantage it brings can hardly be encapsulated in a few words."
Gu Jinlai shifted his focus to the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique.
He was already able to touch the True Spirit Realm.
But that was under the state of sudden enlightenment through Qingguang, and now, he wanted to truly step into the domain of the True Spirit Realm.
At that thought, strands of Qingguang swiftly invested themselves around the ’Qiantian Purple Qi Technique’ orb by his consciousness manifestation.
Instantly, various insights surged to his mind.
The Qiantian Purple Qi Technique cultivated to its extremity could not only harness the intentions of all beings for one’s use but also stir Qi to cultivate through these intentions, and even adjust earth veins and rebuild mountains and rivers.
In the past, Gu Jinlai had already been able to observe the movements of Qi and earth veins through this method.
Now, as a massive amount of Qingguang was consumed, countless techniques for refining Qi and adjusting earth veins emerged in his mind.
When half of the Qingguang was consumed, the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique was finally perfected in cultivation.
But, this was still not the limit.
Gu Jinlai closed his eyes.
A massive amount of Qingguang was once again injected into the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique, the originally solely purple technique started to transform, showing signs of metamorphosing into a golden technique.
And his understanding of this Cultivation Technique had deepened once again.
In his mind, one Array Formation after another emerged.
First was the Earth Vein Traction Technique that maintained the operation of the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Map Submap within the Dao Artifact.
Then, it was the Belief Resonance Technique of the Dragon Sparrow Manor’s Dragon Mysterious Array.
In the later stages, the transformations made by the Artifact Spirit Purple Sun of the Aries Star Palace while using the energy of the Nuclear Power Engine to forge also surfaced in his mind.
"So... that Array Plate and Array Formation Technique were actually crafted in this manner."
Gu Jinlai wore a faint smile on the corner of his lips.
At this moment, he was confident in his ability to arrange similar Array Formations on his own.
The results might be slightly inferior, but with the widespread use of these Array Formations, the production efficiency of spiritual artifacts in Lingxiao City would exponentially increase.
Take the simplest artillery, for example, previously, the production of one required dozens of apprentices and ten Heavenly Masters to spend nearly half a month.
Hence, even with Lingxiao City’s capacity, the monthly output of artillery was only about five or six.
This was still because the artisans had prepared the molds in advance, and great Heavenly Masters like Zhang Lihuo had also joined the refining process.
But now...
In a month, not to mention fifty or sixty, producing thirty or forty was absolutely feasible.
No, that’s not right!
On his recent trip to Aries Star Palace, he had recruited a group of Heavenly Masters, and there were continuously Heavenly Masters from different places of Qiantian pledging allegiance to Lingxiao City.
Producing fifty artillery pieces in a month was certainly not a difficult task.
"The deeper one understands the Heavenly Master Path, the more it invokes awe," Gu Jinlai remarked as he opened his eyes.
With a significant amount of Qingguang infused, the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique, which was at the Perfect Level, had now completely transformed from purple to golden.
Despite the golden light being dim and incomparable to the Eternal Furnace, Gu Jinlai, after a moment of careful perception, realized...
By continuing to cultivate this Cultivation Technique, he would be able to truly step into the domain of the Creator.
That is, to come in contact with the True Spirit Realm, until he could mobilize it.
"So... I already have a direct path to the Creator, and the inheritance of the Aries Star Lord is of not much significance to me now?" Gu Jinlai pondered inwardly.
He quickly dismissed this thought.
Although he had merged into a Cultivation Technique that points directly to the realm of the Creator, it was evidently an inferior product within the same level of techniques.
Although it was mainly golden light, the golden light was not only dim but also carried a hint of purple aura.
He estimated that even if he perfected this Cultivation Technique in the future and tried to break through to the realm of the Creator when he had accumulated enough, there was a significant probability of failure.
And what would happen after a failure...
He did not know.
He had no similar experience.
Perhaps, it was just a severe injury to the True Spirit.
Or perhaps...
At the moment when he wanted to mobilize the True Spirit Realm, he might be directly devoured by the power of the True Spirit Realm, completely spiritualized, become a part of the True Spirit Realm, and lost within.
"Sigh!"
Gu Jinlai exhaled, "Although my spiritual sense has reached the level of Heavenly Monarch, it hasn’t reached the Heavenly Monarch Peak yet, which means this Cultivation Technique... should be set aside for now."
He glanced at the remaining forty-six Qingguang.
Six of them had been invested in the Cheng Ying Mecha, completely perfecting the manufacturing technique of the nuclear fusion engine.
Using another Qingguang, he recalled the related processes of artillery, bullet machine tools, and production lines.
As for the rest...
Aside from keeping two for emergencies, he poured all at once into the Eternal Furnace.
An investment of thirty-some Qingguang was naturally still far from perfecting the Eternal Furnace.
However, it allowed Gu Jinlai to gain new insights into the Eternal Furnace.
The originally unstable Eternal Furnace due to the Super Boost State also started to calm down.
He quickly calculated for a moment and soon came up with a figure.
"Originally, deploying a Super Boost State for remanufacturing required three months for the Eternal Furnace to stabilize again, but now... it probably only needs two and a half months... Additionally, the power output has also increased slightly... but this doesn’t have much significance since the power output of the Eternal Furnace is already overflowing," Gu Jinlai said.
After slightly organizing his own Cultivation System, filling the gaps of Cheng Ying Mecha and Qiantian Purple Qi Technique, Gu Jinlai ended his cultivation session.
At this time, Gu Chifeng also brought news.
The powers of Lizhou State and the Overseas Twelve Islands had retreated overnight.
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(This Chapter actually has sensitive words?)
