Chapter 1081: Chapter 730: Inquiring Dao Cultivation! (Part 2)
In order to contend with the Dao Palace and uncover the truth of everything, he must quickly enhance his strength.
This time, he’s prepared to enter a long retreat!
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A year passed in the blink of an eye!
Xiang Beifei’s cultivation is now solidly at the mid-stage of the Inquiring Dao realm, only a few steps away from the late-stage. For him, once entering a realm, there are generally no barriers from the early to mid to late stages; it’s all done quickly.
His concerns about cultivation mostly arise when breaking into a new realm—like how to break through from the late-stage of Inquiring Dao to the Ascending Dao stage.
This year, he is only twenty-four years old. A twenty-four-year-old at the late-stage of Inquiring Dao would be considered exceedingly rare in the entire Edge Corner Airspace, regarded as a genius one in ten-thousand.
But he felt no joy.
This time when venturing to the Rushou relics, he encountered too many things, especially the affairs of the Daoist Weihuo.
Due to Xiang Tianxing, Daoist Weihuo burned his divine soul to create a chance for him to escape, while Weihuo himself perished and fell to the Dao. This left Xiang Beifei feeling uncomfortable.
Weihuo’s death greatly impacted him; he doesn’t want to live by requiring sacrifice from others in the future.
Most importantly, during that critical moment, Daoist Weihuo didn’t tell Xiang Beifei where the Human Race currently stands, nor how to contact them.
However, Xiang Beifei can at least confirm one thing: the current system interface of the Human Race should be akin to Daoist Weihuo’s—without a system, this stands out in the crowd, and he should be able to find them just by visiting numerous cities.
At the same time, Xiang Beifei needs to consider one thing.
Spirit Gathering Book!
Xiang Beifei gazed at the twenty-eight constellations in the Spirit Gathering Book. Next, he needs to unravel the spiritual power crystals of the Bi and Zui constellations.
The Bi constellation requires unsealing seven mid-stage eternal seals; the Zui constellation requires three late-stage eternal seals.
Starting from the eternal stage, Xiang Beifei finds it challenging to gather the spiritual power crystals of those strengths, as he can’t just kill an unprovoked mid-stage eternal master to refine them into spiritual power crystals.
Of course, he won’t be courteous to those who have grudges with him.
[Bi constellation: Taiyi Bell]
This is an ancient bronze bell, its material very strange. Xiang Beifei couldn’t immediately tell what it was made from, feeling the essence of the five elements—gold, wood, water, earth, and earth—yet also Yin Yang Two Qi, seemingly a blend of various elements.
The appearance shows a dark golden color with various reliefs. Xiang Beifei studied it carefully and quickly recognized these formation patterns; they were similar to the texture of Huo!
Further, there were divine symbols engraved on it!
Although the Spirit Gathering Book didn’t elaborate, with divine symbols, he could comprehend them himself.
He contemplated the texture on the bell for a whole month before barely understanding its most basic capability!
Defense!
The patterns on Taiyi Bell are extremely special; they can direct any external attack waves and weaken them to protect oneself, or enhance attacks for counterattack!
He experimented with Erha and Xiaohei numerous times, finding that Taiyi Bell relied on the user’s realm as a base, capable of blocking or counteracting attacks one realm above oneself!
"Isn’t this strong defense and counterattack Professor Guo’s ability?"
Xiang Beifei pondered in surprise.
He suddenly realized each person’s Dao embryo progresses through Inquiring Dao to Ascending Dao; meaning, Professor Guo’s Dao embryo cultivation’s direction might just be this Taiyi Bell!
"Could it be said that Taiyi Bell is the ancestor of Professor Guo’s Dao embryo type?" Xiang Beifei mused, considering he might be able to help Professor Guo in the future.
Regardless, Taiyi Bell, able to help him counter and fend off attacks one realm above his own, was quite remarkable.
He then looked at the Zui constellation.
[Zui constellation: Divine String]
The Zui constellation wasn’t detailed, just a gentle string, a foot long, curved and floating in mid-air.
"What’s this for? A weapon to kill?" Xiaohei asked in surprise.
This thought first emerged in his mind, assuming since it’s called Divine String, it’s a very solid divine object. Perhaps cutting everything in the world with this string is possible!
"Let me try, let me try!"
Erha eagerly grabbed the Divine String, swung it at the stone ground, wanting to test its sharpness—
Bam!
The Divine String snapped!
The string broke!
It broke!
Erha: "..."
Xiaohei: "..."
Xiang Beifei: "..."
The three of them stared blankly at the "Divine String" they casually snapped, completely bewildered.
"Isn’t it supposed to be a Divine String? This is a counterfeit!" Erha couldn’t help but complain.
"It’s your fault for being reckless; let me try." Xiaohei seriously took the half-broken string and swung it again!
Bam!
It snapped again!
Now Xiaohei was dumbfounded!
Erha quickly returned the "Divine String" to Xiang Beifei, saying, "Perhaps it’s been idle too long, its divine power dissipated, became useless; can’t blame me."
"You stayed too long in the Spirit Gathering Book; why didn’t you become Erha?"
Xiang Beifei took the Divine String, gently tugging it, and the string snapped again.
He tried for a long time from various angles: the Divine String seemed fragile, not durable, a string this weak hadn’t been seen before!
At this point, "Divine String" had been pulled into four pieces. Xiang Beifei was at a loss, unable to explore its ability, yet broke this so easily; truly rare.
Strangely, the "Divine String" automatically floated back together, restored to its original state.
"No idea what it’s for, forget it, just store it away."
Xiang Beifei researched for a long time without results, ultimately leaving it alone.
Currently, his cultivation has reached the mid-stage of Inquiring Dao. He could unlock the seals of Shen and Well constellations. The problem is Shen requires breaking ten early-stage Inquiring Dao seals, Well requires eight mid-stage Inquiring Dao seals!
His spiritual power crystals were insufficient, unable to open them, so he let it rest.
"Right, we’ve cultivated for so long; if we don’t exit, Edge Corner Airspace might forget us, the Broken Dao Race. When are we going to dominate the rankings? I plan to sweep the Heaven and Earth Ranking!"
Xiaohei rubbed his hands eagerly, tired of waiting.
Last time the 600 million sacrificial souls of Dayan Jinshou made them understand the essence of the Dao Palace.
This is merely a ruler using any means necessary for its own goals, ruthlessly exterminating the Human Race and treating other races’ lives like grass.
Currently unable to confront such a colossal entity, but at least he can cause some trouble for them.
Perhaps first claim all the Earth Ranking slots of the Dao Palace Heaven and Earth Ranking!
"Let’s go! Cause some trouble! And meanwhile, look for the Human Race!" Xiang Beifei said.
"Alright! I’ve already thought of a hundred names starting with ’Broken’!"
Xiaohei replied joyfully.
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In the vast void, boundless, ordinary cultivators might spend their entire lives without fully traversing Edge Corner Airspace.
Yet Edge Corner Airspace never lacks news; Dao wielders with celestial means have various ways to exchange information.
Earth Ranking eighty-seventh, Tetanus!
This rank originally belonged to Sha Qianluo of the Collapsing Dao Race, but reportedly Sha Qianluo had his ranking snatched while rushing to the Rushou relics at the Heavenly Segment Gate.
But this is already a year-old news.
Afterwards, the Broken Dao Race remained silent in Edge Corner Airspace for a year!
But one year later, the Broken Dao Race emerged with new talents and claimed the Earth Ranking!
Earth Ranking seventy-ninth, Bankruptcy!
Earth Ranking thirty-sixth, Unprecedented!
Earth Ranking eighth, Case Breaker!
Earth Ranking sixth, Formation Breaker!
Earth Ranking third, Water Festival Breaker!
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In just five months, the rankings changed hands consecutively!
Astonishing everyone, now within the Earth Ranking’s top ten, nine spots have been claimed by the Broken Dao Race, only leaving the first place!
Counting carefully, Broken Dao Race already has fifty-one talents on the list!
This alarming figure has shocked all races!