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In this way, a year passed in the blink of an eye.
In the depths of the Void, a thousand-foot-tall Dharma Body stood suspended in mid-air, while Ye Chen appeared at the crown of the Dharma Body, sitting cross-legged with a calm expression...
Countless stars shimmered and slowly rotated on Ye Chen's body, and if you looked closely, you could also see a small purple dragon constantly turning and swimming around Ye Chen's body.
Endless spiritual energy flowed from the outside world, was absorbed into Ye Chen's body, and then gathered around him before being devoured by the playful purple dragon...
After these spiritual energies rushed into Ye Chen's body, they continuously cleansed his body, flesh, meridians, and bones... Ye Chen could clearly feel his physical body becoming more and more resilient and powerful.
As for the Supreme Sea within Ye Chen's body, after a year of accumulation, it had long been filled. When he felt a series of stinging pains coming from within the Supreme Sea, his eyes, which had been closed for a year, suddenly opened!
hum!
The moment Ye Chen opened his eyes, a dazzling light seemed to appear out of thin air and fill the world.
Even the Ye family members, who were sowing seeds on the mainland on the other side of the ocean, saw this terrifying golden light that suddenly appeared from the western border.
boom!
At the same time, an extremely powerful surge of spiritual energy, like a storm, suddenly swept out from Ye Chen's body and raged within the Ruins of Return.
Peak of the Ninth Rank Supreme!
At this moment, the spiritual energy fluctuations around Ye Chen had reached the peak of the Ninth Grade Supreme level, but this was not the final result...
A surge of powerful spiritual energy, like a river flowing into the sea, continuously rushed into his meridians, pushing the spiritual energy within him to the peak of the ninth rank. Then, a tentative surge attempted to climb to the perfection of the ninth rank.
However, this breakthrough was not easy, and it even failed repeatedly at the beginning, barely managing to reach the threshold of the ninth rank.
Fortunately, the spiritual energy erupting from Ye Chen's body was extremely resilient. After repeated failures, it finally broke through that last barrier...
The next moment, the previously fluctuating spiritual energy poured out like a floodgate opening, without any hindrance...
Ye Chen naturally entered the realm of the Ninth Grade Supreme Perfection!
"call……"
Letting out a long breath, Ye Chen checked his internal condition and couldn't help but smile.
"Very good. Now, as long as the Emperor-grade embryonic core is fully modified, we can try to break through to the Earthly Sovereign realm!"
However, Ye Chen needed to make some preparations beforehand.
After all, breaking through to the Earthly Sovereign realm requires undergoing the Supreme Spiritual Tribulation...
The Earthly Sovereign is too powerful. Whenever it is born, it will inevitably arouse the jealousy of the heavens, thus bringing down calamities. These calamities are called the Supreme Spiritual Calamity, or simply the Spiritual Calamity.
According to Ye Chen's memories of watching The Great Ruler in his previous life, this so-called spiritual tribulation is a hurdle for everyone who breaks through to the Earthly Sovereign realm, and it is also the most dangerous test.
Countless geniuses who attempted to reach the Earthly Sovereign level have been reduced to ashes under the Spiritual Tribulation, making it the most feared thing for many Sovereigns who are stuck at the Ninth Grade Perfection.
The biggest difference between Earthly Sovereign and Sovereign is the Sovereign Dharma Body... True Earthly Sovereign powerhouses' Sovereign Dharma Body can no longer be called Dharma Body, but has transformed into Sovereign Dharma Appearance!
In this transformation process, the spiritual tribulation is a crucial link.
There are nine tribulations in total, and their power increases progressively. No one can help during the tribulation; one must rely solely on their own strength to withstand them. If one survives, one naturally ascends to heaven; but if one fails and their spiritual body is destroyed by the tribulation, the most likely outcome is that their physical body will also be affected and collapse, truly turning to ashes…
Chapter 552 Quasi-Sacred Relic!
The strength of a spiritual tribulation depends on the power of the supreme dharma body cultivated by the person undergoing the tribulation. Ye Chen's ancient star dharma body is only ranked in the sixties on the list of ninety-nine supreme dharma bodies, which is not considered a powerful dharma body. Therefore, the spiritual tribulation he will face should not be too abnormal in general.
Even so, Ye Chen had to be fully prepared and absolutely could not afford to make a mistake in this regard.
Although Ye Chen's Ancient Star Dharma Body possesses the special and powerful supernatural ability of the Star God Eye, it still puts a great burden on the Dharma Body when it is used. It can't just fire randomly like a laser gun, right?
Therefore, to deal with the nine increasingly powerful tribulation lightning bolts, he must increase his combat methods, or forge a powerful artifact capable of blocking the tribulation lightning...
After careful consideration, Ye Chen decided to focus on both internal and external factors, while simultaneously strengthening his own abilities!
"First, there's this celestial chart..."
Ye Chen lowered his head and looked at the galaxy that was constantly flashing around his Supreme Dharma Body.
The Zhou Tian Star Chart is a very powerful divine technique. Even in the vast world, it is something that many low-level supreme experts would covet.
However, it is still unable to reach the level of supernatural powers, which means that it will become extremely vulnerable when facing devastating tribulation lightning.
If it were someone else who had cultivated this Ancient Star Body, they would naturally have no way to deal with it either. After all, modifying a divine technique to advance to the level of a divine power is no less difficult than creating a new great divine power...
But Ye Chen is different, because he has a Star Chart and even a complete star domain universe!
With a thought, a huge phantom of a star gate appeared in front of Ye Chen. He then stepped into the star gate and left the Myriad Fire Continent, arriving in the Star Domain Universe.
"Arranged according to the 108 constellations of the Star Chart, a new Small Heavenly Cycle Star Chart should be forged, which should create a powerful divine artifact..."
This was Ye Chen's idea: to use supernatural powers as a foundation to forge his first defensive artifact.
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In the pitch-black cosmic sky, a thousand-foot-tall Dharma body instantly stood out, yet it appeared so tiny in this vast and boundless void.
Under Ye Chen's control, the bright stars that originally represented the 108 constellations in the sky suddenly began to flash rapidly. Then, the entire galaxy began to rotate. A huge purple-black star dragon that stretched across the infinite universe let out a soul-shaking roar. Then, it slowly turned its head, and two huge beams of starlight shot out directly from its dragon eyes, enveloping Ye Chen's Dharma body.
Rumble!
The star map that was originally moving around the Dharma body slowly unfolded, like a scroll hanging in the starry sky. The 108 main stars on it echoed the large stars in the sky. Countless terrifying star powers quickly gathered on the picture, gradually making this originally illusory small heaven star map become real.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed.
On this day, Ye Chen sat cross-legged in the void, silently watching the scene above him that had lasted for more than ten days...
hum!
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The next moment, the Small Heavenly Cycle Star Chart, which had already become fully materialized, suddenly rippled, and a special fluctuation instantly spread out from it, directly sweeping over Ye Chen's body.
"It's done!"
Upon seeing this, Ye Chen was overjoyed and immediately stood up. With a wave of his hand, the enormous pillar of starlight that had descended from the sky vanished instantly, and an ancient scroll, over ten feet long and three feet wide, appeared before Ye Chen.
Looking into the scroll, one sees a deep purple scroll that resembles an infinitely miniature starry sky, with 108 twinkling stars constantly blinking, giving the scroll an ancient and mysterious feel.
"I wonder what level my Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Chart can reach..."
As he opened his palm, the scroll in the sky automatically closed, then transformed into a scroll only one foot long, which fell into Ye Chen's palm.
"It's only at the quasi-sacred artifact level..."
Quasi-sacred artifacts, in the final analysis, still belong to the category of divine artifacts. However, their power has surpassed that of top-grade divine artifacts, hence the name "quasi-sacred artifacts."
To be honest, with Ye Chen's current strength, even a quasi-sacred artifact wouldn't be worthy of him. Keep in mind that guy Mu Chen already had a ton of divine artifacts and sacred artifacts when he reached the Great Perfection of the Ninth Rank.
Moreover, his friends and enemies of equal rank possessed treasures that were certainly no weaker than Mu Chen's, which is why Ye Chen lamented his own poverty...
But there was nothing he could do. This wasn't the Great Thousand World, so even if he wanted to collect divine artifacts, it was impossible. He had to rely on himself to forge everything.
But he doesn't know anything about weapon crafting at all...
Well, complaining won't help now. If you don't understand weapon crafting, you can only resort to special techniques to take shortcuts, like you're doing now.
"A quasi-sacred artifact is actually quite good. With the Small Heavenly Cycle Star Array that comes with the scroll, its defensive power is definitely comparable to a supreme divine power!"
This gives me another option!
Besides supreme divine powers and artifacts, Ye Chen's Star Orbit Technique and Star Domain Technique are also among his methods.
Because these abilities are bestowed by the Star Chart and not cultivated through battle qi, even though Ye Chen has now switched to cultivating the spiritual power system, it has no impact on these skills. However, the descriptions of these skills in his Star Chart attributes have changed slightly.
Name: Ye Chen
Realm: Ninth Grade Supreme Perfection
Star Essence: ? ? ?
Star Soul: 108 points (Note: Special hidden Star Soul, primary Fire, secondary Wood.)
Flame: Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame (formed by the fusion of three thousand blazing flames and starlight)
Star Spirit Turing: Starry Sky Dragon (Three Thousand Blazing Fire Spirits)
Starfield Space: Myriad Fire Continent (Growth Stage Material Plane); Second Space (Growth Stage)... 108th Space (Incubation Stage)
Star Domain Skill: Dragon Head - Heavenly Dragon's Wrath, a perfected divine technique (cannot be upgraded). It summons the true form of the Heavenly Dragon and attacks all targets with a terrifying dragon's rage. All people and objects affected by the sound waves will be reduced to dust, including their souls and energy.
Dragon Soul True Form, Complete Version (Initial Transformation in Progress): Summons a Heavenly Dragon whose strength has reached the Great Perfection of the Ninth Grade Supreme Realm, lasting for five minutes!
Note: Using Star Domain Skills will directly consume all Star Power in the Star Domain. All skills will be on cooldown until the Star Power is replenished.
The Heavenly Dragon Seal consists of seven seals, each corresponding to one of the seven stars of the Big Dipper: Tian Shu, Tian Xuan, Tian Ji, Tian Quan, Yu Heng, Kai Yang, and Yao Guang. Each seal possesses power exceeding that of a great divine technique. When the seven seals are stacked together, their power can reach the level of a minor divine power!
Star Orbit Skill: Dragon Devour, a divine technique (cannot be upgraded). After casting, it summons an enraged dragon head that will devour everything it touches.
Heavenly Dragon Armor, complete version, summons Heavenly Dragon scales to defend oneself, a perfect divine technique.
True Dragon Covering the Sky Hand, with supreme power
Power, condensed into the True Dragon Handprint attack, a perfect divine technique.
When star fields and star tracks are connected, star track skills can be generated; when the same star field is fully upgraded, star field skills can be obtained.
According to the attributes shown in the Star Chart, the Heavenly Rank Dou Techniques in the Dou Qi Continent are equivalent to the Divine Arts level, and the advanced Heavenly Rank is equivalent to the Great Perfection Divine Arts. In this case, with the ability to infinitely cast these Divine Arts, it should not be a problem to withstand the tribulation lightning in the early stages.
Moreover, his Star Essence Points were displayed as question marks. Does that mean that the Star Essence value will no longer be a limitation for him, and he will be able to use these divine arts indefinitely?
Although Ye Chen has reached his current level, the power of divine arts is negligible in battles against opponents of the same level, but it is still quite good for crushing weaker opponents and clearing out smaller groups.
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The Continent of Myriad Fires, now in ruins.
On the sea, the waves rolled and roared, echoing endlessly between heaven and earth, while also stirring up thick spiritual mist that obscured the sun.
In the misty world, an enormous pillar of light descended, within which boundless star power and spiritual energy intertwined. Beneath the pillar, a figure sat quietly in meditation.
The figure was naturally Ye Chen.
Two years after he refined the Small Heavenly Cycle Star Chart, the Emperor-grade embryonic pill, nurtured by the primordial fire spiritual energy of the Myriad Fire Continent, had successfully transformed into a Saint-grade spiritual pill.
Ye Chen is currently preparing to use this sacred-grade elixir to help him break through the barrier of the Earthly Sovereign!
He had been sitting here for a month, during which he was constantly being washed and baptized by the immense fusion energy.
Under that kind of erosion, almost every piece of his flesh and bone was cut and destroyed thousands of times. However, after being destroyed, he relied on his own powerful regenerative ability to recover and then repeat the cycle again.
Ye Chen wasn't a masochist, and he certainly wasn't doing this to torture himself...
Everything was merely preparation for the immense energy impact he might face, and he also needed powerful regenerative abilities to repair his body...
To break through to the Earthly Supreme level, one generally needs to go through two stages.
These two stages correspond to the physical body and the Dharma body, respectively...
First and foremost, Ye Chen needs to shatter his own Supreme Sea and then use spiritual power to reshape his physical body. This is crucial because if he wants to achieve resonance between the spiritual power within his body and the spiritual power of the world in the future, he must first completely liberate the communication bridge between his internal and external spiritual power.
As for the Dharmakaya, there's no need to elaborate; it's simply the spiritual tribulation!
Now Ye Chen is tempering his physical body and filling his Supreme Sea. The next step is to spontaneously burst this Supreme Sea...
This step is extremely painful and dangerous for cultivators; the slightest mistake could cost them their lives.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Chen flipped his hand and took out the elixir. After hesitating for a moment, he swallowed it in one gulp.
Rumble!
Ye Chen felt as if the world had turned upside down within him. Terrifying energy instantly filled every corner of his body, and from the outside, Ye Chen's body even looked like an inflated balloon, expanding...
creak
Ye Chen felt that every cell in his body was emitting a squeaking sound because it was filled with energy, as if it would explode at any moment.
Ye Chen dared not be negligent and immediately began to mobilize the Supreme Sea to manifest, frantically devouring the spiritual energy.
When the last bit of space within the Supreme Sea was occupied, Ye Chen felt as if the world had fallen silent.
Kacha.
At this moment, cracks began to appear in the space of the Supreme Sea, and they spread rapidly. As Ye Chen had expected, the Supreme Sea, having reached its limit, began to shatter!