Translator: CinderTL
Three thousand Great Worlds!
Two or three Great Worlds per region...
Even if only one in ten were chosen, there would still be over a thousand!
A sense of urgency immediately arose in Li Chunjun's heart.
Although his current combat power rivaled that of the Heaven Origin Sword Master, the strongest expert in the Profound Yellow Great World, this level of strength still fell far short of being the foremost figure below the Dao of Separation and Union.
"Spirit-type life forms are far more sensitive to all things than humans," Liu Yu said, gazing at Li Chunjun. "Especially me, having cultivated the great dao of life, I'm even more attuned to the strength of life. On you... I sense a faint danger. Though not overwhelming, based on this, I estimate your ultimate combat power won't be less than 600,000."
"The senses of spirit-type life forms..."
Li Chunjun recalled the starlight in the Star Abyss.
Among all the beings he had encountered, the first to recognize him as an innate divine being was this spirit-type life form left behind by the Blazing Fusion Dao Lord.
With a thought, Li Chunjun slightly activated his still-developing Void Dao Physique, causing his aura and presence to diminish noticeably.
Liu Yu immediately sensed the change, staring at Li Chunjun in astonishment. As she scrutinized him, her expression quickly shifted to one of profound surprise.
"You..."
"How about now?"
"That sense of danger has diminished considerably," Liu Yu replied earnestly, her gaze fixed on Li Chunjun.
After a moment, she seemed to notice something else. "Moreover, if you weren't standing right in front of me, I might instinctively overlook you..."
She studied Li Chunjun more closely. "While this 'negligence' isn't overwhelming, it's still remarkable. After all, spirit-type life forms excel at perception. How do you achieve this? Is it a dao technique? Or some innate talent?"
"Let's just call it an innate talent," Li Chunjun said, offering no further explanation.
"This talent... it's useless in direct combat. Once an opponent has locked onto you and sees you as an enemy, this 'negligence' becomes virtually ineffective. At best, your aura might weaken slightly, causing the enemy to relax their guard."
Liu Yu considered this. "But such relaxation stems from complacency. Even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit. I doubt a true enemy would underestimate you based on a mere shift in your aura, especially those Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivators with Heart's Perfection. They rarely leave such mental vulnerabilities."
Li Chunjun nodded in agreement with Liu Yu's assessment.
Of course, her assessment stemmed from her ignorance of the fact that his innate talent could continue to evolve.
Once his Life Level reached 43, or even 44, triggering the Void Dao Physique's transformation from an Acquired Dao Body to an Innate Dao Body, the energy of "negligence" and "nonexistence" would undoubtedly advance further.
Even without yet attaining Dao enlightenment, deceiving spirit-type life forms like Liu Yu would likely pose little difficulty.
"Your combat power has already reached 600,000. Beyond the Immortal Alliance, across the entire Human Race, you rank among the strongest. Fewer than a few thousand individuals could pose a life-threatening challenge to you."
Liu Yu added cautiously, "This calculation includes those who have achieved dao unification."
"But it's still not enough," Li Chunjun said, his voice heavy with concern. "The troubles weighing on me are far too great."
"To resolve these troubles, the best approach is to become even stronger. Strengthening oneself involves both enhancing personal capabilities and acquiring external resources."
Liu Yu gazed at Li Chunjun. "I can sense the significant progress you've made since the battle in the dark horned prison. The most notable breakthrough is in your Mind Realm. While I can't pinpoint the exact level, my estimation... suggests it's at least the eighth tier?"
"Ninth level," Li Chunjun replied without hesitation.
"Ninth level?" Liu Yu was visibly stunned by his straightforward answer.
She couldn't help but ask again, "Ninth level?"
When she had estimated Li Chunjun's Mind Realm to be at the eighth level, she had based her assessment on the sense of crisis she had felt earlier, erring on the side of caution.
In truth, having studied the Heavenly Heart Eternal Method countless times, she knew that the difficulty of breaking through from the sixth to the seventh level was no less daunting than advancing directly from the seventh level to the eighth or ninth level!
She had even wondered if the Heavenly Heart Eternal Method's inherent stability and resistance to regression might have allowed his Mind Realm to reach a level comparable to the eighth level, while his actual cultivation remained at the seventh.
But now...
Li Chunjun had casually declared that he had reached the ninth level!
"You... you cultivated the Heavenly Heart Eternal Method to the ninth level, which then triggered the breakthrough in your Mind Realm?"
"Yes," Li Chunjun nodded slightly.
For a moment, Liu Yu felt dazed.
She had repeatedly overestimated Li Chunjun's talent and growth rate, even tacitly accepting that he was an innate divine being, born in accordance with the Dao.
Yet at this moment, she still felt as if she were in a dream.
His Mind Realm had already reached the ninth level?
This felt too unreal.
"My Mind Realm has already broken through to the ninth layer," Li Chunjun said. "Next, I'll begin transforming my life form, evolving toward the Supreme Sage realm."
"Once I reach the Supreme Sage realm, the shackles on refining my Qi and Dao cultivation will be shattered," he continued. "Combined with the substantial gains from my journey to the dark horned prison, once I exchange these resources for Void Dao Pills and Destruction Dao Pills, I should be able to cultivate the Great Cycle of Qi relatively quickly with the aid of these pills."
Liu Yu snapped out of her daze.
"The Great Cycle of Qi..."
Hearing him directly target the Great Cycle of Qi—representing the perfection of Qi—she instinctively wanted to warn him that refining Qi to the level of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years was fundamentally different from achieving the perfection of Qi.
But as the thought arose, she forcibly suppressed it.
Others...
Naturally, they couldn't do it.
Refining Qi to the level of a hundred thousand years would likely take them tens of thousands of years!
Without relying on pills or Heavenly Treasures, relying solely on diligent cultivation, it wouldn't be surprising if they spent a hundred thousand years just to reach that stage.
But Li Chunjun...
Could he be judged by the same standards as others?
Considering his claim of having acquired trillions of Spirit Crystals from the dark horned prison, it wasn't impossible for him to refine a Great Cycle of Qi and Dao cultivation within a few centuries.
At this thought, Liu Yu took a deep breath. "If you truly refine a Great Cycle of Qi, with the solid foundation laid by your Sovereign Dharma Manifestation, your combat power could reach 650,000! And with... with your unique abilities, breaking 1 million would be far from a pipe dream!"
The moment these words left her lips, she startled herself.
A million combat power!
What did that even mean?!
While many Supreme Sages struggled to reach even 100,000 or 200,000 combat power, Li Chunjun could potentially surpass a million...
With such power, he could single-handedly crush a Battle Formation formed by hundreds of Supreme Sages!
If he employed tactics to break their formation, fighting and retreating strategically, he could systematically slaughter hundreds of Supreme Sages working together. It would merely be a matter of time.
And on average, each Great World contained only a few hundred Supreme Sages!
In other words...
By then, Li Chunjun would possess the power to suppress an entire Great World single-handedly?!
"One million... it must be more than that," Li Chunjun said modestly.
"That's right, there's also the Quasi-Immortal Artifact!" Liu Yu immediately realized. "Even with your Qi, Dao, and Mind Realm all at perfection, the Quasi-Immortal Artifact can still amplify your combat power by over ten percent. That's another hundred thousand units of combat power... Your final strength..."
The strongest below dao unification?!
The thought flashed through her mind, and the spiritual fluctuations of this spirit-type life seemed to freeze.
I, Liu Yu, have actually nurtured the strongest below dao unification?!
But considering Li Chunjun's achievements...
Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Cosmic Light—a Triple First-Rank Achievement on the Profound Yellow List.
In the Star Abyss, he crushed hundreds of Void Refining cultivators, dominating the Void Refining realm.
In the dark horned prison, he faced two hundred opponents alone, forging the invincible reputation of his Sovereign Dharma Manifestation.
To further become the Supreme Sage, including the strongest below dao unification, what was impossible about that?!
For a moment, even she, who rarely experienced emotional fluctuations, felt a sensation akin to "heat."
"Quasi-Immortal Artifact..."
Hearing Liu Yu's speculation, Li Chunjun offered no further explanation.
Let's just say it's a Quasi-Immortal Artifact.
Reserving a little extra as a trump card was never a bad idea.
"Speaking of Quasi-Immortal Artifacts... the Profound Yellow Supreme, as a Supreme Sovereign, surely left behind at least one void- or destruction-type Quasi-Immortal Artifact, right?" Li Chunjun asked.
"Given the Supreme Sovereign's wealth and status, it would be perfectly normal for him to have collected eight or ten Quasi-Immortal Artifacts," Li Chunjun continued. "And void and destruction are among the most popular categories within the forty-nine great daos. How could he not have even a single one?"
"The Supreme Sovereign wasn't alone. Over countless eons, he took in dozens, even hundreds, of personal disciples, not to mention his official disciples. Those Quasi-Immortal Artifacts would naturally have been bestowed upon these disciples for self-defense, making it difficult for them to survive intact."
Liu Yu paused, then shifted the topic. "However, I do know that Dao Lord Di Jiang definitely possesses a void-type Quasi-Immortal Artifact. Moreover, the Dao Lord is a close friend of our Master. If you were to request it, he might..."
"Bestow it generously?" Li Chunjun's eyes lit up.
"Unlikely. More likely, he'd require an exchange," Liu Yu replied. "Quasi-Immortal Artifacts are highly valuable even to Dao Venerables. After all, most Dao Venerables don't possess true great dao immortal artifacts. The ones they occasionally use are merely meticulously refined Quasi-Immortal Artifacts."
"An exchange, then..."
Li Chunjun wasn't particularly disappointed by this news.
Exchanging a chaos-grade quasi-immortal artifact like the Yin-Yang taiji diagram for a void-grade quasi-immortal artifact was still a good deal.
Originally, he had been prepared to pay an additional one or two trillion Spirit Crystals to cover the price difference.
"So, I should go meet Dao Lord Di Jiang?" Li Chunjun frowned slightly.
Facing a Dao Venerable directly to exchange a Quasi-Immortal Artifact...
This posed a significant risk for him.
"You can trust Dao Lord Di Jiang," Liu Yu said, as if sensing Li Chunjun's hesitation. "On one hand, he's a close friend of the Supreme Sovereign. On the other hand..."
She paused. "He's practically half your Master."
"Half my Master?" Li Chunjun was taken aback, then seemed to realize something. "The Sovereign Dao Canon?"
"Exactly." Liu Yu nodded slightly. "As I mentioned before, the Sovereign Dao Canon is a cultivation technique jointly created by the Supreme Sovereign and several like-minded individuals. Dao Lord Di Jiang was among those collaborators. Therefore, if you visit him and demonstrate your Sovereign Dharma Manifestation, perhaps..."
Her attitude toward Li Chunjun had clearly changed. "Perhaps you could even directly receive a void-grade Quasi-Immortal Artifact as a gift from Dao Lord Di Jiang."
(End of the Chapter)
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