[Purple Flood Dragon Divine Ability]
[Grade: Xiantian (peak)]
[Description: The Purple Flood Dragon Divine Ability fully unleashes the innate potential of the Purple Flood Thunder Dragon, a variant species of the Thunder Flood Dragons, extremely cruel and titanic by nature. It is subdivided into nine martial Skills.]
[Cost: 300 points.]
"The user wishes to create and learn this martial ability?"
"Only 300 points for a peak-Xiantian-level martial skill…" Ao Ziyun pondered. From the description, it was a martial skill divided into nine parts, completely based on his innate capabilities. It made sense for it to cost that amount—insignificant compared to his vast reserve of points.
"Yes!"
Ao Ziyun heard a sound and saw his points decrease.
At the same time, his mind was flooded with countless memories of himself tirelessly practicing the Purple Flood Dragon Divine Ability. He also felt several parts of his body growing stronger, as if he had performed the technique's movements countless times.
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[Martial Arts Panel]
[Purple Flood Dragon Divine Ability (Nine Skills: First Layer)+]
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Ao Ziyun felt more powerful; his true essence was circulating faster than before, and he felt a surprising explosive force within his body.
"Let's test it." Ao Ziyun looked at a large rock near his cave. It would be a good target to test one of the nine martial Skills.
Purple Flood Dragon Divine Ability – Purple Flood Dragon Claw.
Purple lightning surged across his body, and his claws glowed with a radiant purple light. Ao Ziyun struck the large magnetic rock with astonishing ferocity and speed. His body moved like a lightning bolt cutting through the sky, accompanied by a fierce dragon roar. All that could be seen was a zigzag trail of purple light.
In the blink of an eye, he hit the rock, which was instantly vaporized by the impact and the thunder energy. Where the rock had been, there was now a claw-shaped hole.
The Purple Flood Dragon Claw concentrated and compressed his true essence into his claws, combined with the power of his Thunder Soul, and launched a fierce attack to shatter the target.
"Astounding, this is light-years ahead of what I was trying before." Ao Ziyun was extremely pleased.
He turned his gaze to the panel and saw a + sign.
Without hesitation, he tapped it three times in a row.
The panel glowed faintly, and where it once said First Layer, it now read Fourth Layer (Limit).
The Purple Flood Dragon Divine Ability was divided into four layers, each corresponding to the stages of the Xiantian Realm (Early, Middle, Late, Peak). Now, he had pushed it to its maximum limit.
But the + sign did not disappear.
Ao Ziyun tapped it again, and a message appeared before him:
"Do you wish to raise the grade of the Purple Flood Dragon Divine Ability from Xiantian to Early Revolving Core?"
Ao Ziyun confirmed, and the name of the martial ability on the panel shone once more as Fourth Layer updated to Fifth Layer.
He felt a surge of strength slightly greater than before.
The + sign still remained, but he chose not to continue upgrading the martial ability, for now.
"No need to spend so many points right now; the best choice would be to invest in creating a cultivation method powerful enough."
The system was capable of creating both cultivation methods and martial abilities, but it required his general instructions and a clear direction to elaborate the entire process.
The Purple Flood Dragon Divine Ability had been created after he instructed the system to base it on his innate characteristics as a Purple Flood Dragon. It was a generalist martial ability, yet perfectly suited to his body, covering attack, defense, movement, and support techniques within a single grand ability.
It contained no extraordinary power beyond its grade, since the essence of the Purple Flood Dragon belonged solely to a creature of the Xiantian Realm.
For now, he wouldn't need a more powerful martial ability, what he truly needed was a cultivation method.
Several days had already passed since his transmigration, and he could barely recall most cultivation methods, remembering only a few scattered fragments.
Ao Ziyun was a monster, and Monsters relied solely on the strength of their bloodline to cultivate.
The previous body had stalled at the Xiantian level by following this method.
However, Ao Ziyun could not depend on his bloodline: there were only a few means to enhance it, and for now, all of them were unavailable.
His only option was to follow the Essence-Gathering System.
Cultivation in this world was divided into three paths: Essence, Energy, and Soul.
Each race possessed a natural affinity with one of these paths.
Beasts, thanks to their incredibly powerful bloodline, could cultivate both Essence and Energy.
Of course, this applied only to Divine Beasts, who were born with the Heaven laws engraved into every part of their bodies.
An ordinary flood dragon could not even dream of such a privilege.
Even so, Ao Ziyun knew that the strongest among the monster race chose to cultivate through the human Essence-Gathering system.
With humanity dominating the Divine Realm, the advantages were obvious, especially after the stages of Life Destruction.
Those who crossed this Realm underwent an extreme transformation:
human cultivators abandoned their mortal flesh and ascended into a spiritual body, eliminating all the weaknesses of their previous existence.
In the Lower Realms, there were several races that followed entirely different cultivation paths.
The Giant Demons, for example, possessed the Crystal Stages.
Before reaching the Realm of Life Destruction, they held a tremendous advantage over humans, for they cultivated both body and energy simultaneously.
However, once they crossed the threshold of Life Destruction, everything changed.
On the Holy Demon Continent, where the Giant Demons reigned supreme,
a single individual who managed to pass through the Eighth Stage of Life Destruction
was enough to force even the proud Demon Emperors to their knees.
Humanity also possessed a body-refining system, but it had long been in decline within the Divine Realm.
The same was true for Soul Cultivation.
On the Skyspill Continent, the situation was even worse:
body cultivation was scarcely considered after the earliest stages, and soul cultivation existed only in a fragmented state, limited to martial intents, battle spirits, and a few rudimentary techniques.
The only place where it would be possible to obtain superior cultivation methods was the Holy Demon Continent.
At the moment, he had no way to get there, but an opportunity would arise in the near future.
He didn't remember exactly when, but he knew that for this reason he needed the Black Flood Dragon Clan.
A great opportunity was about to appear, and the members of the Black Flood Dragon Clan would be present.
Having obtained more than enough points for now, Ao Ziyun had no reason to remain on Thundercrash Mountain.
It was time to begin his journey.