Lord Shenxiu
Chapter 233: Serendipity (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 233: Chapter 233: Serendipity (Please Subscribe)

The Yan Han Cultivation System, from low to high, could be divided into eight major realms: Acquired, Innate, Gang Sha, Divine Power, Primordial Pill, Primordial Spirit, Dharma Body, and Transcending the Corporeal to Become an Immortal.

Divine Power Realm!

For a cultivator, this was considered truly entering the gates of cultivation. Their lifespan could reach two to three hundred years, their divine powers vast and mighty, incomparable to ordinary people!

Even for some ancient Sword Cultivation Sects, only by breaking through to the Divine Power Realm and mastering Divine Power Sword Control could one be considered a true Sword Immortal!

The art of Sword Control during the Gang Sha period was simply a joke!

In the court Daoist official system, Superpower Experts willing to enter officialdom could immediately be conferred the title of Secondary Sixth-Rank Examination Deputy Envoy, and at the highest, they could become a Golden Que Doctor of the positive Fifth Rank!

A positive Fifth Rank official, what did that mean?

Within a province, the highest official, the prefect, was only of this rank, and even the prestigious Su Family of yore had to treat them with respect upon meeting.

Because within the entire Su Family, there were, in fact, very few Divine Power Practitioners...

And at this moment, Zhong Shenxiu was ready to break through to the Divine Power Realm.

Although... he had just refined a single Yang Gang Skill.

’My accumulation is already sufficient. Whether as the Pastor, controlling the Headless Earl, or as a Martial Arts Grandmaster, I am truly at the level of a Divine Power Practitioner... even if I forcefully enhance my mana, I won’t encounter any uncontrollable situations... I am already very familiar with using divine powers.’

Zhong Shenxiu sat cross-legged and silently recalled the content from the "Dragon Tiger Pill Book."

Above the "Dragon Tiger Pill Book" were recorded five lineages of Divine Power, which if all were mastered, one would become a True Inheritor.

Most of his foundational Daoist Skill came from the Supreme Dragon and Tiger Sect lineage, except that he used the Thousand Changes and Ten Thousand Transformations to replace the Resurrection of the Dried Wood Divine Power, the rest were legitimate inheritances from the "Dragon Tiger Pill Book."

’I have already mastered the Thirty-Six Transformations of Yang Gang. Next will be the Nine Dragons Soaring Cloud Map, Taiyi Demon Suppressing Divine Light, Grand Void Protection Mystical Light, Nine-Headed Flame Dragon Technique, and the seven Yang Gang Skills of Gold Escape, Wood Escape, and Water Escape.’

At this thought, Zhong Shenxiu slapped the Fangcun-sized pouch on his waist that he got from Wang Qiao Ren, and took out three little jade bottles.

Inside these bottles were one strand of Mysterious Sky Gold Gang, one strand of Green Wood Divine Gang, and one strand of Black Water True Gang!

Disciples of the Supreme Dragon and Tiger Sect, abandoning the Nine Pure Immortal Light Protection Divine Power and preferring the Five Elements Heavenly Escape which occupied many Dharma technique slots, did so because the six Gang Sha Qis required for this divine power were relatively easier to collect.

For this reason, even if it took up six Lifebound Dao Skill slots, it was still very much worth it.

Otherwise, if one couldn’t find Gang Sha Qi, would they have to sit in bitter meditation for decades just to condense a single Dharma technique?

Zhong Shenxiu casually inhaled, and the Mysterious Sky Gold Gang entered his lungs, beginning the ritual refining of the Gold Escape talisman seed.

He spent several days, mastering these three Yang Gang Skills one by one, then immediately used the Heavenly Show Points to replace the extremely difficult to find Gang Qi, starting the practice of Nine Dragons Soaring Cloud Map, Taiyi Demon Suppressing Divine Light, Grand Void Protection Mystical Light, Nine-Headed Flame Dragon Technique!

If we were to talk about the rarity of Gang Qi, the Thirty-Six Transformations of Yang Gang required the most precious.

It’s possible that such Gang Qi had not yet been condensed in this part of the world.

As for the Taiyi Demon Suppressing Gang Qi required by the Taiyi Demon Suppressing Divine Light, at least the Supreme Dragon and Tiger Sect had once found it.

Heavenly Show Points could even forcefully refine the Thirty-Six Transformations of Yang Gang, so these few Yang Gang Skills were naturally even less of a concern.

At this time, Zhong Shenxiu’s attribute bar strikingly became:

[Title: Pastor]

[Dragon Tiger Mana: Yang Gang Eighth Layer]

[Yin Sha Lifebound Dao Skills: Carefree Wind Escape (Level Six), Ten Thousand Beasts True Body Technique (Level Six), Earthly Fiendish 72 Transformations (Level Six), White Tiger Descending Mountain Seal (Level Six), Three Suns True Fire (Level Six), Six Void Yin Fire (Level Six), Earth Escape Skill (Level Six), Fire Escape Technique (Level Six), Taiching Demon Refining Immortal Light (Level Six)]

[Yang Gang Lifebound Dao Skills: Thirty-Six Transformations of Yang Gang (Level Six), Nine Dragons Soaring Cloud Map (Level Six), Taiyi Demon Suppressing Divine Light (Level Six), Grand Void Protection Mystical Light (Level Six), Nine-Headed Flame Dragon Technique (Level Six), Gold Escape Technique (Level Six), Wood Escape Technique (Level Six), Water Escape Technique (Level Six)]

[Divine Power of the Flesh: Void Poison, Nine Deaths Resurrection (9), Stone Buddha Indestructibility]

[Heavenly Show Points: 300 (0%)]

[Gate of Ten Thousand: Opening (1%)]

...

"The cultivation in the Gang Sha Realm can be summarized as consuming nine Yin and swallowing eight Yang, or you could say consuming nine Sha and swallowing eight Gang as well..."

"Without Gang Sha Qi, how much effort and painstaking hard work would a Gang Sha Cultivator need to practice these seventeen inherent techniques to perfection, and reach the sixth layer?"

"A lifetime flashes by in a mere hundred years; is that really enough?"

Zhong Shenxiu looked at his astonishing array of luxurious spells, which would cause Sima Shu and others to drop their eyeballs in shock, did not attempt a breakthrough, but instead began to sit cross-legged to meditate, adapting to the surge of Dragon Tiger Magic Power within his body.

The breakthrough to the Divine Power Realm has a core, which is the ’Seven-locking Technique’!

This means that there are seven levels of divine power, and also that a cultivator can only condense up to seven divine skills.

Any more...and the sea of consciousness would collapse into self-destruction.

Hence, since ancient times, no one has been able to break through this shackle.

But Zhong Shenxiu still had three divine powers of the flesh!

Once he broke through to the Divine Power Realm and mastered five spell divine powers, that would make a total of eight, shattering the limitation of the Seven-locking Technique at once.

’At that time, perhaps my divine power will increase several fold? Or perhaps...could help me produce the highest quality Primordial Pill?’

’It’s also possible...to attract a Heavenly Tribulation that aims to extinguish this anomaly of mine?’

Zhong Shenxiu pondered myriad thoughts, but he was never one to be content with being inferior to others. Having discovered this opportunity, he couldn’t help but want to give it a try.

After settling his mind and sitting in meditation for a day, he finally mastered the surge in mana inside him and began his breakthrough to Divine Power!

The records in the Dragon Tiger Pill Book flowed like a stream of clear spring water in his heart.

’To break through the Divine Power, first, the seventeen inherent techniques need to be perfected, and then at least one divine power requires a combination of Yin and Yang spells... Many Loose Cultivators get trapped by this...’

’After meeting these requirements, one still needs to wait for an opportunity to break through the Divine Power Realm in one fell swoop and use the affinity of heaven and earth at the time of breakthrough to refine the divine power...’

’Opportunity? Haha...’

Zhong Shenxiu activated the Heavenly Show System:

[Do you wish to spend 100 Heavenly Show Points to break through to the Divine Power Realm in conjunction with the Dragon Tiger Pill Book?]

A prompt appeared.

"100 points? When I broke through the Gang Sha, it only cost me a paltry 3 points... Is there such a huge gap between every major realm of cultivation? Or... is it because the barrier of my Divine Power Realm is unique, having broken the limitation of the Seven-locking Technique?"

"Thinking about it, if I didn’t have the breakthrough method from the Dragon Tiger Pill Book, would forcefully deducing a breakthrough require 1000 Heavenly Show Points?"

Zhong Shenxiu rolled his eyes but, having no choice, resolutely confirmed with a thought.

Boom!

The next moment, accompanied by the rapid decrease of 100 Heavenly Show Points.

An indescribable feeling emerged in Zhong Shenxiu’s mind, letting him know that his ’opportunity’ for a breakthrough had arrived.