Chapter 916: The Fruits of Bitter Cultivation
These dozens of days of bitter training, relying on the various augmentations of the Nine Disasters of Heaven and Man, the companionship of the Celestial Maiden, and Zhou Bai's repeated enhancement of his aptitudes, his cultivation in Daoist skills and martial arts has truly advanced by leaps and bounds.
Ever since he left Dao School, Zhou Bai has been battling tirelessly against various formidable enemies, hardly having any time to properly engage in bitter training, strengthening his foundation and unleashing the depths of his accumulation.
Finally, this time he was able to engage in closed-door cultivation, properly digesting all his accumulations and once again elevating his hard power.
"The Five Divine Skills are indeed the Divine Skills that have remained unmastered for over a hundred years since the distortion of the Heavenly Dao. The difficulty of cultivating them is truly immense."
"Even with my aptitudes, it took more than a month to cultivate them to an unparalleled level, approaching the Grand Elder's accomplishments in the Five Divine Skills."
"To advance further, I still need to continue enhancing my dao transformation level."
Listening to Zhou Bai's self-praise, the Human Sovereign Sword beside him nodded its blade, unable to help marveling, "Your talent is truly terrifying. In all these years, I've never seen any human possess such a cultivation speed as yours."
Chuzhi sighed in his heart: 'How does this madman cultivate? How could he achieve in just one month what ordinary cultivators take decades of bitter training to attain? If he keeps cultivating like this, in another ten years or so, he might really be able to defeat the Celestial Venerable and Divine Emperor.'
'Damn it, what is the Celestial Court doing? Hurry up and fight him, if this madman really ends up ruling the world…'
Just thinking about her past few months of treatment made the Human Sovereign Sword shiver, especially during these dozens of days she often heard the Celestial Maiden and Zhou Bai discussing the expansion of the original teachings, further making her feel the evil within it, seeing Zhou Bai in front of her as a complete demon.
Meanwhile, violent lightning brewed within the apertures of Zhou Bai's body, with this period of bitter training, his Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder Breath had opened up the 21st aperture, each aperture containing lightning that could be converted into Primordial Spirit power at any time, equivalent to his current power of nine thousand points of Primordial Spirit.
In other words, his reserve of Primordial Spirit power reached as much as 21 times, which only truly exhausts the Primordial Spirit power after 21 uses.
It can also release these 21 stocks of Primordial Spirit power in one breath, equivalent to 21 of him simultaneously acting.
However, this mere stacking of Primordial Spirit power has limited power, far less powerful than top-notch Daoist skills and martial arts. The greater function of the Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder Breath is still to boost the cultivator's energy reserve, allowing him to spend Primordial Spirit power when performing various martial arts and Daoist skills.
Besides Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder Breath, the other Five Divine Skills are also what Zhou Bai has bitterly cultivated, having not been put aside.
His Ice Soul Freeze Light, after daily painstaking cultivation, can already freeze the range within a hundred meters of himself for one second. During this one second, he is almost the ruler of this hundred-meter range, all things and beings seem to be suspended in time for him.
'A second might be too short for others, but for me it's enough. I have hundreds of ways to kill those unable to act within a second.'
And Zhou Bai's Great Black Flame Fire Dragon Formation has been able to refine eighteen Black Yan Dragons, which spew flames that lead all things towards decay and chaos. Even with Zhou Bai's defensive power, if continuously sprayed like this, would gradually begin to age and eventually die of old age.
'Each spray from these eighteen Black Yan Dragons takes a life.'
Thinking of others damaging him, while he damages others fatally, Zhou Bai felt that training in the Great Black Flame Fire Dragon Formation truly was worth it.
Just these eighteen Black Yan Dragons are enough for no knowledgeable immortals or gods to want to withstand.
As a healing sacred technique, Zhou Bai had scarcely delved deeply into the Time Rebirth Technique because he was often lazily healed.
However, this time, in order to balance the Five Divine Skills and prepare for the solo execution of the Mixed Element Star Constellation Calamity, Zhou Bai bitterly cultivated the Time Rebirth Technique.
This healing sacred technique calls upon one's own flesh information from the void, then reorganizes matter with energy, restoring oneself to past peak status, allowing recovery from any heavy injury as long as sufficient energy reserves are present.
And speaking of energy reserves, it's the strength of Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder Breath.
These two Divine Skills complement each other, allowing Zhou Bai to recover immediately even if his body suffers serious injuries, and relying on the vast energy reserve of the Supreme Mysterious Divine Thunder Breath is enough to allow Zhou Bai to recover from near-death to peak state a dozen times.
As for Zhou Bai's most proficient Tianhe Star Explosion Sword, it's growing stronger each day, advancing rapidly.
Under one sword, he can alter gravitational changes within several kilometers, transforming mountains into valleys and turning oceans into plains, possessing true mountain-moving and sea-flipping power.
The ultimate move of the Tianhe Star Explosion Sword, Genesis Star Collapse, has surged greatly in power. If previously Zhou Bai's single strike of Star Collapse equated to the power of a small nuclear warhead, now his strike could cause an explosion equivalent to a thousand-megaton nuclear detonation, capable of reducing a city to ruins with one hit.
If the strike is fully augmented with the Fury Diagram before execution, the power will become even more shocking, although Zhou Bai hasn't thoroughly tested it, as that could likely trigger an above-eight-magnitude earthquake, and possibly cause tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, damaging environments and drawing attention from other factions.
Apart from the Five Divine Skills, other martial arts and Daoist skills such as Invisible Evil, Nine Heavens Demon Clearing Thunder Technique, Purple Qi Sword Light Casting, Heavenly Swordsmanship, etc. in the Qi Sea have all been bitterly trained by Zhou Bai, elevating them to immortal god levels.
At this moment, several black shadows flew into the room, Zhou Bai's face lit up: "Christina, your equipment has arrived."
Christina, who was lying on the Original Dao Collection 07 training, curiously raised her head, seeing several cat-sized steel mecha appearing before them.
These were all the armor-type mechanical familiars Zhou Bai specifically designed for Christina, all being shared with Tang Ruhai's ability, possessing astonishing defensive power.
Kristine saw the armor and immediately jumped up with joy, "For me?"
Zhou Bai nodded, "Yeah, you might have to fight in the future wars with the Celestial Court, so I thought to make you some armor in advance, for unforeseen needs."
Christina donned the armor, only to find the entire cat huddled into a ball, seeming like a sphere, "Isn't this armor's design a bit odd? Why can't I straighten up?"
"It's not odd at all, not at all. This is the most suitable armor shape for combat after my careful calculation."
With a thought from Zhou Bai, the omnipresent gravity lifted the armor to float, watching the metal sphere-shaped armor freely move with his thoughts, Zhou Bai mused: 'Christina is sharing my ability of Tang Ruhai, and with this armor on, her defensive power is similar to mine at the sixth realm.'
'This way, normally it can be used as a floating turret that can launch the Five Divine Skills, and in critical moments can act as a shield to block attacks for me.'