bookandnovel Chapter 142 The Strange Change at Purple Peak
Chapter 142 The Strange Change at Purple Peak
Chapter 142 The Strange Change at Purple Peak
Name: Chen Yuan Age: 24 Realm: Ninth Rank of the Eternal Star (100%)
Life gene level: 5
Brain width: 72
Consciousness Strength: Ninth-tier Domain Lord. Mastered Secret Techniques: Meditation Technique - Origin Star Meditation (Perfected), Thousand Winds Secret Manual (Perfected), Nine Luminaries Body (Seventh Layer 33%), Raging Storm (Perfected), Soul-Shaking Cauldron (Third Layer 42%).
Power Level: 60
Law amplitude: 28
Body amplitude: 7.3
Domain: Ninth Fundamental Law: Wind (38.4%), Time (6.83%)
The above is Chen Yuan's current situation.
After two and a half years of secluded cultivation, he had mastered all the secret techniques he possessed to the point of perfection.
As for the study of the Mad Storm Secret Manual, thanks to the guidance of Zi Yaotu and Teacher Shi Lan, it was completed eight months ago, and the essence of all seventy-two laws was fully comprehended!
Of course, merely understanding the essence of a law does not mean that he has mastered the Law of Wind. At most, he has only learned the basics. Just like the example mentioned in the original work, learning the essence of a law is like learning the 26 letters of the alphabet when learning English, which is only the most basic of the basics.
Once you've learned the 26 letters, the real in-depth learning begins with word formation, sentence construction, and various grammar rules.
Therefore, even after completing the Mad Storm Manual, Chen Yuan's Wind Law only reached 30% of its potential.
As for subsequent insights, since the Black Dragon Mountain branch's secret techniques were rather rudimentary, and with the guidance of the Purple Radiance Diagram,
Therefore, Chen Yuan did not purchase any new secret techniques—instead of spending that time, he would rather let him study the Purple Radiance Diagram a few more times.
Eight months of comprehension had only increased Chen Yuan's Wind Law by 8 percentage points, averaging one point per month.
In fact, this is already an extremely astonishing efficiency in comprehending the laws. After all, 100% comprehension of the laws is perfection, and Chen Yuan has already covered a small part of the distance.
It can be said that his understanding of the laws is inferior to that of many realm lords.
Of course, his current astonishing efficiency owes much to the Mad Storm Secret Manual. Without the research into the essence of those 72 laws, he wouldn't have made such rapid progress.
However, Chen Yuan recently discovered that his research on the laws has gradually slowed down. After reaching the peak of the Mad Storm, he could initially improve his progress by nearly 2% per month, but now it takes him two months to improve by 1%.
This is actually quite normal. It's like leveling up in a game. The higher the level, the longer the experience bar is needed to level up, so it will naturally become slower and slower.
Chen Yuan wasn't in a hurry; he would just cultivate step by step.
As for the other secret techniques, the Thousand Winds Secret Manual was perfected half a year ago, and its cosmic-level content has also been optimized.
In fact, Chen Yuan could break through to the cosmic level at any time if he wanted to, but he has held back from doing so for the core level assessment.
The Nine Luminaries Body Technique, however, is limited by resources and can only be cultivated up to the seventh level.
The gray crystal allowed him to cultivate the secret technique to 21%, and then Chen Yuan spent more than 100 Hunyuan units to acquire another treasure, "Akasha's Feather," which increased the progress by another 12%, allowing him to cultivate the Nine Luminaries Body to 7.3 times the amplitude.
Finally, there is the soul defense secret technique obtained from Xia—the "Soul-Shocking Cauldron," which can also be called by its original name, the "Soul-Suppressing Cauldron."
[Soul-Shaking Cauldron: Rated as a permanent star-level ultimate secret technique, a soul-type defensive secret technique. After optimization, it gained the ability of "counter-shock," becoming a combination of offense and defense.]
This secret technique is frighteningly high in level. In essence, it should be considered a top-tier immortal secret technique, and it can even be used all the way up to the King level.
With the current optimization system, it can only optimize the first five layers of content, and it is powerless to optimize the content beyond the sixth layer.
After Chen Yuan got his hands on it, he felt that the grade of this secret technique should be no less than that of the "Tower of Void" that Luo Feng cultivated.
It's important to know that the Void Tower wasn't a secret technique created by Huyan Bo, but rather obtained through a fortuitous encounter, and it's of extremely high quality.
According to the original text, if Hu Yanbo had been able to cultivate the Void Tower to the "Seventh Layer Pagoda Realm" back then, he wouldn't have died in the battle against the Demon Hand King!
The Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, which is comparable to it, is described as having a total of nine layers, each of which can condense into a Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, making it extremely defensive.
Moreover, in addition to normal cultivation which can improve the defense of the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, the defensive power of all Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons will double for each additional Soul-Suppressing Cauldron condensed.
Of course, after Chen Yuan's optimization, the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron also gained a counter-shock effect, making it both offensive and defensive, and its name naturally changed from Soul-Suppressing to Soul-Shocking.
Such a powerful secret technique is also ridiculously difficult to cultivate.
Generally speaking, if a Hengxing-level cultivator can cultivate two Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons, also known as the "Two Cauldrons Realm," they are already considered a peer of the same level, and their soul defense can be described as invincible.
Similarly, a cosmic-level cultivator can cultivate to the third cauldron realm, a domain lord-level cultivator to the fourth cauldron realm, and a world lord-level cultivator to the fifth cauldron realm.
A military lord at the immortal level can cultivate to the seventh cauldron realm, be enfeoffed as a marquis at the eighth cauldron realm, and be enfeoffed as a king at the ninth cauldron realm!
Of course, this is just the normal situation. In reality, as long as one's comprehension is high enough, it is possible to surpass the current level.
Moreover, the cultivation of this secret technique depends on the strength of the soul, not the level of the primal force.
For example, Chen Yuan's soul strength has reached the peak of the Domain Lord level, and theoretically he can cultivate to the Four Cauldrons Realm.
Moreover, the optimized Soul-Shocking Cauldron was still 100% compatible with Chen Yuan, which made his cultivation speed unstoppable. He reached the Second Cauldron Realm in just two years, and the third Soul-Shocking Cauldron was also cultivated to 42%.
At this rate, Chen Yuan was even confident that he could cultivate to the "Four Cauldrons Realm" before the core level assessment!
With Chen Yuan's current strength, he would be a shoo-in for first place even in previous genius tournaments.
Even when facing Bolan, Chen Yuan felt he had a chance of defeating him.
Naturally, he no longer cared about the upcoming assessment of the Qianwu branch, or even the core assessment two and a half years later.
After all, the so-called core layer is just a post-apocalyptic secret realm, and the level of the opponents is unimaginable.
Therefore, after completing the registration procedures, Chen Yuan stopped paying attention to the assessment and went straight to Ziyao Peak to study the Ziyao Diagram.
Now his cultivation focus is entirely on comprehending the laws, since apart from the soul secret technique, his other secret techniques are either already perfected or lack subsequent cultivation resources.
Therefore, Chen Yuan significantly increased the frequency of his study of the Purple Radiance Diagram, studying it almost every ten days.
After all, under Irene's possession technique, Chen Yuan could reach a thinking speed of 2000 times, with extremely high comprehension efficiency, and he would gain new insights almost every minute and every second.
This high-intensity comprehension mode caused Chen Yuan's points to be consumed at an alarming rate. In order to maintain his cultivation, he would occasionally leave Ziyao Star to do missions.
Moreover, he specifically targets large space pirate groups. These missions not only offer generous points and substantial kill rewards, but more importantly, the targets are easy to lock onto, making them extremely cost-effective.
As of now, Chen Yuan's kill points have exceeded 10 billion, his score has exceeded one million, and he even has more than ten chances left to comprehend the Purple Radiance Diagram.
Upon arriving at the summit of Ziyao Peak, the familiar guardian Bailijia stood before the gate. Before Chen Yuan could speak, she said helplessly, "Here to study the Ziyao Diagram again? Come in."
Chen Yuan smiled. This conversation happens almost every ten days or so, and this immortal has almost developed a natural reaction to it.
After bowing respectfully to the purple-skinned old man, Chen Yuan entered the magnificent stone hall and soon arrived at the secret chamber where the stone carvings were stored.
He skillfully swallowed a vial of recovery potion, activated Irelia's possession overclocking state, and began to concentrate intently on comprehending the secrets.
However, Chen Yuan did not notice that a glint of light suddenly flashed in the eyes of the strange beast depicted on the stone carving, and an invisible wave silently invaded his body.
In the vast, dark space, three towering cauldrons stood.
These giant tripods are all the same style, with three legs and two handles, and a light blue luster.
Two of the giant cauldrons looked incredibly solid, radiating extraordinary charm, while the third giant cauldron looked somewhat illusory.
This is Chen Yuan's sea of consciousness, and those three giant cauldrons were formed by the secret technique "Soul-Shaking Cauldron".
Suddenly, a wisp of seven-colored mist appeared, its target clear—the pale blue soul core protected in the middle by the three giant cauldrons!
The seven-colored mist was quite clever; it cunningly bypassed the two solidified giant cauldrons and specifically broke through the third giant cauldron, which was not yet fully formed.
However, to its dismay, this seemingly illusory giant cauldron was actually one with the other two giant cauldrons.
So when the seven-colored mist collided with the illusory giant cauldron, it was met with the combined defense of three giant cauldrons!
"Clang!"
A resounding boom echoed in Chen Yuan's mind, instantly jolting him out of his meditative state.
"Who is it!"
Within his sea of consciousness, Chen Yuan's soul core immediately condensed into a human form, warily staring at the wisp of seven-colored mist, his expression extremely solemn.