Chapter 1431: Chapter 1431 - 1416: Return to the True Profound Continent

Since Ye Zhen had prepared Demon Cores for the Great Saint of Jinghai to rapidly enhance cultivation, naturally, Senior Sister Liao Feibai was not left out.

The ten thousand pieces of High Grade Profound Ice Spirit Stones Ye Zhen requested as ransom from the Blue-scaled Dragon King were specifically prepared for Senior Sister Liao Feibai.

This kind of Attribute Spirit Stone is tremendously useful to martial artists who specialize in a specific type of spiritual power. Much like the Demon Race can directly consume Demon Cores to elevate their cultivation, it can be directly absorbed and converted into cultivation.

The Spirit Void Fruit given to Liao Feibai by Ye Zhen made it extremely simple and quick for her to comprehend the Heavenly Dao and condense Dao Patterns. Combined, these two factors resulted in Liao Feibai’s rapid improvement in cultivation.

Now, cultivating for a single day is equivalent to ten days of cultivation previously. In just a few short days, Liao Feibai has shown significant advancement in her cultivation.

More importantly, as Liao Feibai condenses more Water Element Cold Ice Dao Patterns, she can convert the spiritual power within her into Youluo Cold Evil at a faster pace.

As the Youluo Cold Evil within her increases, Liao Feibai’s speed in refining the High-Grade Psychic Spirit Pill given by Ye Zhen nearly doubles.

Under this enhancement, the Innate Youluo Evil Body that Liao Feibai just started cultivating has seen some progress.

This virtuous cycle of improvements results in only one outcome: Liao Feibai’s combat power is continuously multiplying.

The Youluo Cold Evil, as this Ice Element spiritual power, is extremely formidable. Currently, even Ye Zhen’s Black Dragon Tyrant Body cannot withstand it without using Spiritual Fire to protect the body.

Just a touch of Youluo Cold Evil can slow your movements.

Most critically, this Youluo Cold Evil can even taint the Divine Soul.

In other words, if someone gets struck by Liao Feibai’s Youluo Cold Evil, even their Divine Soul may suffer severe damage if they’re not careful.

Liao Feibai, the Great Saint of Jinghai, and others are all seizing the opportunity to cultivate and enhance their cultivation, and Ye Zhen isn’t idle, devouring Spirit Void Fruits every day, grasping the Heavenly Dao, and condensing Dao Patterns, aiming for a breakthrough to the Divine Communication Realm!

Divine Communication signifies the Divine Sense reaching the heavens. A martial artist must condense Dao Patterns to a certain degree, integrating Dao Patterns, the physical body, Divine Soul, and Heaven and Earth together to communicate with Heaven and Earth with Dao Patterns at any time, marking the entry to Divine Communication.

After attaining Divine Communication, the difficulty of cultivating Divine Skills secret techniques for a martial artist will greatly reduce. Furthermore, better communication with Heaven and Earth is also the foundation for later comprehending the laws of Heaven and Earth and condensing Heaven and Earth laws with Dao Patterns.

Breaking through from the Peak of Ninth-Stageed Dao Entrance to the Divine Communication Realm is generally not too challenging for most martial artists, especially those who cultivate a single Spirit Palace, like Liao Feibai, the Great Saint of Jinghai, the Great Sage of the Overturning Sea, and the Sea-Breaking Great Saint, for whom it comes naturally.

Once the cultivation reaches the right point, the breakthrough comes almost automatically.

However, the more types of Spirit Pillars within the Spirit Palace, the greater the difficulty of the breakthrough.

Ye Zhen’s Five Elements Yin Yang Spirit Mansion is among the most difficult, as it requires integrating seven types of spiritual power Dao Patterns with oneself and with Heaven and Earth, making the difficulty increase geometrically.

The benefits from the Five Elements Yin Yang Spirit Mansion, such as Five Elements complementing each other, coexisting, and countering each other, significantly bolster Ye Zhen’s combat prowess, the power of secret killing skills, and sustained combat capabilities.

Correspondingly, the difficulty of the breakthrough also multiplies, which is why Ye Zhen hasn’t broken through even though his cultivation reached the Peak of Ninth-Stageed Dao Entrance for some time.

What frustrates Ye Zhen is that even though he continuously consumes Spirit Void Fruit, utilizing its strengthening effect on Heavenly Dao comprehension, he still cannot integrate the seven types of Dao Patterns within him.

Ye Zhen can barely integrate one, two, three, or even four types of Dao Patterns, but beyond four, his integration process collapses immediately.

This leaves Ye Zhen quite troubled but powerless.

However, with each failed integration, the next attempt sees slight progress, at least giving Ye Zhen hope for a breakthrough.

But at this pace, Ye Zhen’s breakthrough time will be over ten years.

For ordinary martial artists, this isn’t much, but for Ye Zhen, particularly when urgently needing to elevate his cultivation, it’s somewhat unbearable.

Despite this, Ye Zhen is helpless and can only proceed methodically, daily integrating the seven types of Dao Patterns and silently accumulating.

In his cultivation spare time, Ye Zhen, the Great Saint of Jinghai, the Great Sage of the Overturning Sea, and the Sea-Breaking Great Saint spare three times daily to do menial work.

Yes, it’s menial work.

Ye Zhen has informed the Great Saint of Jinghai about the matter of returning to the True Profound Continent, and they all agreed.

Firstly, out of concern for family, and secondly, everyone in the Water Mansion lacks capable hands.

The Primordial Continent, with exceedingly superior cultivation conditions, offers a hundredfold advantage over True Profound Continent in terms of cultivation and living conditions.

Even without competing for additional cultivation resources, elevating cultivation to the Vein Forging Realm is merely an issue of time given reasonable aptitude.

Under such comfortable conditions, the Primordial Continent emphasizes valor and fierce combat more than ever. Talents adept in strategy and calculation, typical of the True Profound Continent, are extraordinarily rare, especially among the Water Clan.

According to the Great Saint of Jinghai, if Ye Zhen returns, he should bring some useful personnel over and a portion of their descendants.

In the True Profound Continent, they have numerous offspring who, with their cultivation capabilities, can swiftly enhance their strength.

Finally, the idea is to act on this Golden Passage and obtain heavenly gains.

When they first arrived, the location of the Hei Huang Ancient Teleportation Formation in the underground palace was mostly filled in for concealment.

Now, not only do they need to excavate again, but they also have to design complex formations according to the terrain to deal with potential crises.

After much discussion, the Great Saint of Jinghai and his companions felt that using the Treasure Vault as a cover was the best option.

This construction involves a large amount of work, initially intended for the Water Demons whose Divine Souls had been controlled to handle.

However, after considering, Ye Zhen and the others decided to do it themselves. In this world, there’s a method called Soul Search, which can control their life and death by capturing their Divine Souls but cannot make them keep secrets.

According to Ye Zhen’s design, the perimeter of this underground palace will be an extremely concealed and singular passage, at the entrance of which will be a Cultivation Quiet Room.

Once this Cultivation Quiet Room is completed, the three Great Saints of Jinghai will take turns stationed within it for cultivation, ensuring someone is always at the entrance to prevent intrusions.

The first stage of the underground palace is a spacious Treasure Vault arranged with three layers of Defensive Arrays, intended to store various outputs from the waters of the Xiansheng Water Mansion.

The second stage of the underground palace is a smaller Treasure Vault with four layers of Defensive Arrays, mainly storing important resources of the Xiansheng Water Mansion, such as military supplies, Spirit Stones, obtained Demon Beast bones, and Demon Cores.

The third stage of the underground palace, boasting six layers of Defensive Arrays, is a smaller Treasure Vault, approximately a thousand meters in size, that stores very precious Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, top-tier Artifact Refining Materials, and Alchemy Materials obtained from the waters of the Xiansheng Water Mansion.

Beyond the third stage of the underground palace is the passage to the Hei Huang Ancient Teleportation Formation, where the four designed a simple yet effective Eye-blocking Technique.

The passage to the Ancient Teleportation Formation was sealed off with a storage shelf placed above it. Beneath the shelf, they constructed a secret passage and then filled it back in.

Every time it’s used, they will re-dig and then refill it. Such inconvenience is insignificant for the sake of safety.

In essence, if someone does manage to penetrate the third stage of the underground palace, they would leave empty-handed after seeing the wall post-taking the treasures.

Ye Zhen, known for his legendary heist of robbing thirty-one households in a single night, is nothing short of an expert in such matters.

To ward off Divine Sense probing, Ye Zhen ground the precious Seven Absolute Soul-breaking Wood into powder and cast it into the walls of the third stage of the underground palace.

In addition, by the suggestion of the Four-legged Snake Achou, they arranged some defenses against the Five Elements Escape Technique.

However, these arrangements can only defend against ordinary Five Elements Escape Techniques and cannot defend against Ye Zhen’s Innate Five Elements Divine Escape.

While Achou, the Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit, had the method, Ye Zhen and others didn’t have the ability to obtain the materials and refine the Array Plate.

The project was colossal, and despite the extraordinary power and efficiency of Ye Zhen, Great Saint Jinghai, and the other two, it took them three and a half months to complete the construction of this underground palace through their own efforts.

Numerous good news arrived during these three and a half months.

Firstly, pushed by the rumors spread by the Great Saint Jinghai and others, at least three Grand Demons joined the war to seize control of the Huaifeng Water Palace.

Even nearby Water Mansions got involved in the conflict.

The battlefield quickly turned into a bloodbath with piles of corpses reaching hills.

The Great Saint Jinghai and others estimated that this battle would not resolve in one or two years, allowing them to focus on their cultivation.

Moreover, during these three and a half months, the cultivation of Great Saint Jinghai and others saw significant improvement.

The Great Saint of Jinghai advanced his cultivation from the Sixth Stage of Dao Entrance Realm to the Eighth Stage within three and a half months—an incredibly fast progression. The Sea-Breaking Great Saint also progressed from the Fifth Stage of Dao Entrance Realm to the Seventh Stage.

Due to the limited Dragon Pills, Second Brother, the Great Sage of the Overturning Sea, could only advance from the Fifth Stage of Dao Entrance Realm to the Mid-stage Sixth Stage, falling slightly behind the Great Saint Jinghai and Sea-Breaking Great Saint.

However, within three months, after consuming a hundred Spirit Void Fruits, two three-inch-long Dragon Horns appeared on his forehead, evolving his Bloodline from a Flood Dragon of the Dragon Clan to a more powerful Horned Dragon, directly acquiring several unique Inherited Secret Arts of the Dragon Clan, greatly enhancing his combat power!

Prior to this, the combat power among Jinghai, Fug Hai, and Sea-Breaking was about equal, but now, the Great Sage of the Overturning Sea could leave the Great Saint of Jinghai gasping for air.

It’s worth noting that during these three months, both Great Saint Jinghai and the Sea-Breaking Great Saint weren’t idle either, achieving breakthroughs in their cultivation and bloodlines and seeing exponential increases in their combat power, showcasing the formidable power boost of the Great Sage of the Overturning Sea was.

Sister Liao Feibai’s cultivation also surged upwards. Although progressing from the Second Stage of Dao Entrance Realm to the late Third Stage—an increase of one and a half stages—the might of the Youluo Cold Evil even made the Great Sage of the Overturning Sea reluctant to face it!

Their skyrocketing cultivation and combat power made Ye Zhen decide to return to the True Profound Continent upon the completion of the underground palace.

Such matters should proceed without delay!

"Big Brother, on this trip, I’ll return as soon as half a year or as long as a year and a half. During my absence, it’s best if you focus on enhancing your cultivation and battle strength.

Once I return and craft a set of Suppressing Devices for you, you will surely dominate the battlefield!" After embedding enough Spirit Stones, Ye Zhen reiterated before preparing to leave.

"Do you really need to remind us about priorities, youngster?" The Great Saint of Jinghai chuckled and scolded, "Quick, activate the formation!"

A few breaths later, an immense fluctuation of Spiritual Power surged, and a few breaths after that, Ye Zhen’s figure vanished within the Ancient Teleportation Formation.