Lord Shenxiu
Chapter 199: Becoming a God (Additional Updates for Previous Book)

Chapter 199: Chapter 199: Becoming a God (Additional Updates for Previous Book)

Peril! Peril! Peril!

Zhong Shenxiu sensed a surge of killing intent that had already locked onto his own being. Even the inner strength of a Grandmaster was unable to break through the blockade, rendering his movements incomparably difficult.

Under the assassination attempt of a Great Grandmaster, a Grandmaster was simply akin to an ant, devoid of even the strength to fight back!

"Is the target me? A Great Grandmaster of the Five Poison Sect? Because I’ve killed too many of the Five Poison Sect Disciples?"

"Indeed, one should not stand out too much, for it invites trouble."

Zhong Shenxiu’s thoughts spun like lightning, fortunate that he had considered all sorts of worst-case scenarios before his journey to Miaojiang.

An attack by a Great Grandmaster was within his considerations, and he had already devised a plan.

Now, almost the moment he saw the other party, he boldly stimulated his own spirit with the oppressive force and began to break through the Divinity Passage!

Martial Arts three barriers, each one more difficult than the last.

However, the time to breakthrough was shorter and shorter at each barrier.

Martial Artists require a hundred days for blood exchange, Grandmasters need several days for refining marrow, but the Divinity Passage of a Great Grandmaster happens in a fleeting instant.

An epiphany in a moment, instant enlightenment!

The Stone Buddha Temple once had a Buddha Scripture that read: "A snap of the fingers is sixty instants, and within an instant are nine hundred life and death cycles!"

At this moment, within the cycle of life and death, Zhong Shenxiu’s thoughts and ideas soared infinitely, beginning to assault the bottleneck of the Divinity Passage.

Within his body, the power of the Ten Thousand Gu Hand was stimulated to its limit, and vaguely, it seemed about to circulate along a specific trajectory, constructing a ritual within his body, beginning to pray to some unknown existence.

Zhong Shenxiu automatically sketched out a shadow within his heart...

Although the lines were cold and blurry, they faintly converged towards the image of Niu Shenjun, even making him aware that this was a great being in charge of plagues...

"I can’t go on like this, if I truly summon Niu Shenjun, my spirit will completely belong to that Evil God..."

Even being born as half a Martial Arts Grandmaster, breakthroughs still carried risks.

Zhong Shenxiu gathered all his thoughts, beginning to pray to himself.

"I... pray for... my own gaze!"

In the depths of his True Spirit, within the attribute column, a trace of the aura left by that being from the myriad doors, as though attracted by something, roared and vibrated.

With a thought from Zhong Shenxiu, the Heavenly Show System opened a pathway that let this mysterious and profound aura descend into Xun Liuyi’s sea of consciousness.

With the remnants of the myriad doors, Zhong Shenxiu prayed to himself, responded to his own prayer, and smoothly began a spiritual anomaly!

"Ever since accepting that part of the influence, my True Spirit’s position seemed to have been elevated... Is this... a higher-dimensional me, influencing and corrupting a lower-dimensional me... Have I been corrupted by myself?!"

Zhong Shenxiu couldn’t help but recall the last piece of information captured by the Heavenly Show System:

[His revered name—myriad doors, high-dimensional overseer...]

Simultaneously, a world-shaking change occured in Xun Liuyi’s spiritual world.

A part of his spirit was excised, another part completely altered.

Even, a cold and insane way of thinking continuously spread in the depths of his heart.

"What is a person? What does the concept of a person truly represent?"

"After crossing over, are these beings I face truly the people as I understand them?"

"If they are people, then what am I?"

Such thoughts, like a tide, crashed against the dam known as reason, threatening to unleash a flood of madness.

"Just the corruption brought about by praying to myself, it’s this severe?"

"Those Great Grandmasters, do they still retain humanity? Or have they all gone half mad?"

Idea after idea emerged in Zhong Shenxiu’s mind, but it did not hinder him from integrating his spirit into the void, achieving true fusion with heaven and earth.

The sensation of being sealed off vanished in an instant.

At the same time, the effects of the spiritual transformation continued to persist in his body.

After the transformation of his spirit, the lingering aura of the Ten Thousand Doors blossomed into an incredibly fierce energy, beginning to construct a Martial Arts Divine Power uniquely his own.

"Originally, offering sacrifices to Niu Shenjun with the Ten Thousand Gu Hand results in a toxin on a conceptual level..."

"But at the last moment, I prayed to myself, obtaining a portion of the Ten Thousand Doors’ influence, so the Martial Arts Divine Power that formed might be somewhat different?"

Within his inner visualization, guided by the transformed spirit, Zhong Shenxiu’s bones and flesh began to undergo inexplicable changes.

Identifiable signs of erosion formed, ultimately creating a mysterious Divine Power Talisman.

This gave him the illusion of seeing the kind of talismans one might encounter, yet it was more advanced than the Yin Sha Yang Gang Skill.

"There’s no mistake, this is a Divine Power Talisman, composed of numerous talisman seeds... Although it’s a physical Divine Skill, it’s quite helpful for refining my spell-based Divine Skills..."

A flash of enlightenment dawned upon Zhong Shenxiu.

At this point, a martial artist steps into a new world, refining their Martial Arts Divine Power.

In the Cultivation World, it can just be compared to a Divine Power Realm Cultivator, though it’s unlikely to have their lifespan, yet the power of the Divine Skills is hardly any different.

When the last trace of erosion was complete, Zhong Shenxiu automatically received some information in his mind.

"The Ten Thousand Gu Hand breaks through to Great Grandmaster, with the Fine Gu indeed evolving into a Conceptual Gu, which might also be called a memetic virus? And due to the influence of the Ten Thousand Doors, it also gained a trace of void attribute — perhaps this Divine Skill could be named ’Void Poison’!"

...

Breaking through such barriers seemed very complex.

But in reality, only a single life-death cycle had passed.

In the span of a birth and death, in that instantaneous moment, a Great Grandmaster was born.

Zhong Shenxiu felt that the concept of life and death was an especially fitting description for the breakthrough of the Divinity Passage.

Not only was it exceedingly short, but it also came with the great terror of the illusion of life and death.

Ninety percent of grandmasters would simply "die", either their spirit destroyed or turned into madmen.

Only an extreme few could grasp that slim chance of life and refine their Martial Arts Divine Power!

"Impossible!"

The first to realize that something was amiss was naturally the Undying Evil Emperor, who fell from the sky.

Feeling the opponent’s fusion with the heavens and the earth breaking through his own blockade, he couldn’t help but be filled with a sense of absurdity.

"Perhaps, it was my provocation that enabled this person to break through?"

"Once someone breaks through to become a Great Grandmaster, they’re akin to a caterpillar breaking out into a butterfly, and they become very difficult to suppress..."

Even so, the Undying Evil Emperor had not given up. His movement techniques were ghost-like as he prepared to take advantage of the initial move, aiming to at least majorly injure Xun Liuyi, the court’s Great Grandmaster.

But how could Zhong Shenxiu let him succeed? Seeing the white-robed Asura with the mask approach, he immediately flipped his palm, bringing it down hard upon him.

With this move, he indeed possessed a semblance of the potency of the Sky Covering Hand.

With the heavens and earth in unison, one palm to cover the sky!

At the same time, he also activated the Divine Skill of Void Poison!

The Undying Evil Emperor formed a Dharma Seal with both hands, blocking this Sky Covering Hand strike, but suddenly screamed in pain, as his entire body seemed to start melting.

Although he wasn’t afraid of the fine gu, facing the newly enhanced Void Poison, he was still caught off guard.

At the same time, Zhong Shenxiu also stepped back a few steps, suddenly opening his mouth and spitting out a mist of blood.

After all, the Undying Evil Emperor was the fourth-ranked Great Grandmaster on the Heavenly List and had the advantage, so taking the other’s seal in haste naturally resulted in injury.

"Amidaho Buddha!"

Just then, behind the Undying Evil Emperor, the Saint Monk from Stone Buddha Temple quickly followed, his body emanating the cries of the dragon-elephant, and a seal smashed down.

The Dragon Elephant Seal!

This time, the Undying Evil Emperor did not use his movement technique to retreat but instead actively met it with the crown of his head.

Smack!

The next moment, flesh and blood flew everywhere!