Cultivation: Start From Simplifying Martial Arts Techniques

Chapter 1180: Chapter 1136 Human Race Emperor

After the incident at the Yuan Clan ruins, the Xuan Clan had no plans to wage war against the Wu Meng Clan in the short term.

However, they never ceased their surveillance of the Wu Meng Clan, even though they did not initiate war.

At this moment, the reports from spies in Meng City indicated that the Wu Meng Clan’s movements today were quite abnormal and differed greatly from the past.

The specifics of what occurred were still unknown to the Xuan Clan spies, but the departure of three Open Heaven Realm members of the Wu Meng Clan had been detected by the Xuan Clan, and those three had yet to return.

The Xuan Clan then immediately deployed other spies within the Black Stone Domain and discovered that prior to this, Wu Ze of the Wu Meng Clan and members from the Ice Race and Evil Clans in the Rule Integration Realm had headed towards the human race’s territory.

Initially, the Xuan Clan did not pay much attention to this, as it was just a fight involving members of the Rule Integration Realm from the Black Stone Domain. But now looking back, they wondered if the departure of those three Open Heaven Realm members from the Wu Meng Clan was related to this incident?

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Or was it merely a coincidence?

The Xuan Clan continued to dispatch additional spies, and discovered that the territories of the Ice Race and Evil Clans were currently in complete disarray.

With a little maneuvering, the Xuan Clan obtained intelligence that a large number of the Rule Integration Realm members from the Ice Race and Evil Clans had perished.

Even the ancestor of the Evil Clans, a Fake Open Heaven Realm powerhouse, seemed to have died both in body and path.

This news was still unconfirmed because the Evil Clans were currently suppressing it, but there are no impermeable walls in the world, especially given the current level of chaos among the Evil Clans — this made the truth of the matter highly likely.

With heavy casualties among the Rule Integration Realm members of the Ice Race and Evil Clans who had ventured into human territories, was it possible that Wu Ze, who had gone with them, had also perished?

Because of Wu Ze’s death, could it be that the Wu Meng Clan had dispatched three Open Heaven Realm members to investigate the details?

Based on the information reported by the spies, the sequence of events gradually unfolded before the Open Heaven Realm members of the Xuan Clan.

Who killed Wu Ze and the Rule Integration Realm members of the Ice Race and Evil Clans?

The human race?

The human race’s strength within the Black Stone Domain was considered decent, but only just that. After the incident with the Yuan Clan ruins, the power of the human race had drastically diminished.

Under these circumstances, did the human race have the ability to kill Wu Ze and so many Rule Integration Realm members of the Ice Race and Evil Clans?

Plus, there was also the addition of a Fake Open Heaven Realm member from the Evil Clans.

While this powerhouse was only labeled a Fake Open Heaven Realm in comparison to the true Open Heaven Realm, to the Rule Integration Realm, they were still an insurmountable existence. The human race did not have that strength.

If it wasn’t the human race, then who could it be? Had another Open Heaven Realm powerhouse, motivated by the incident with the Yuan Clan ruins, intentionally come to stir up trouble in the Black Stone Domain?

Of course, given the Wu Meng Clan’s past behavior, today’s events could possibly be a trap specifically designed to capture the Xuan Clan’s attention. If the Xuan Clan dispatched Open Heaven Realm members, they might fall right into it.

The safest course of action was still to send spies from their vassal clans in the Rule Integration Realm to investigate. Even if there were losses, they wouldn’t be mourned.

The Xuan Clan started dispatching additional spies towards the human territories to investigate the situation.

In Han Yun City, Chen Fei had just finished a round of cultivation.

With just three portions of Open Heaven Realm spiritual essence, he had consumed them completely without even taking the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

But it must be said, the epiphany contained within the Open Heaven Realm spiritual essence had a dramatically beneficial effect on Chen Fei’s current cultivation.

The Raging Waves Sky Technique, when it had just been integrated, its skill level had dropped to thirty percent of the entry level.

Now, with three portions of Open Heaven Realm spiritual essence, this seventh-tier elemental power technique had reached ninety percent proficiency at the entry level, just shy of breakthrough to Perfection.

The Raging Waves Sky Technique was not as powerful as the Nine Heavens Star Kill, but it was still barely considered a mid-grade technique of the seventh tier.

With this technique’s proficiency level, in terms of manipulating essence force and rules, Chen Fei was barely reaching an average level among the many Open Heaven Realm Early Stage members.

Using a somewhat inappropriate analogy for martial arts cultivation, essence, energy, spirit, and soul are akin to a person’s basic power and combat skills, while the rules comprehended are like forged weapons in hand.

The more rules one comprehends, the sharper the weapons in their hands naturally become.

If the weapons in the hands of two individuals are equal, then how their battle strength plays out depends on the individual wielding the weapon, their basic qualities and the skills they have mastered.

How to improve basic qualities and combat skills is determined by the profoundness of the martial arts techniques one has comprehended.

Chen Fei currently has rules within his soul that far surpass those of ordinary Open Heaven Realm Early Stage, and with the rule of strength granted by Celestial Suppression, his basic qualities utterly surpass those of ordinary Open Heaven Realm Early Stage cultivators.

He is even much stronger than the typical Open Heaven Realm Mid-Stage, after all, he possesses the Space Main Rule, and his physique is reinforced by both the rule of strength and Space Rules.

Chen Fei’s only shortcoming was in the skill of controlling these rules, that is, his proficiency in comprehension of martial arts techniques, which was far below those in the Open Heaven Realm Mid-Stage.

The recent round of cultivation was a minor compensation for this weakness.

Chen Fei had previously considered whether to directly break into Meng City but hesitated for a moment and then abandoned the idea.

Currently, in Meng City, there were two Open Heaven Realm Mid-Stage and five Open Heaven Realm Early Stage members.

Those five Open Heaven Realm Early Stage members were not really a concern for Chen Fei, but the two Mid-Stage members posed a more significant problem.

Furthermore, inside the den of the Wu Meng Clan, seventh-tier formations are definitely indispensable. If Chen Fei were to forcefully barge in, he would easily get trapped within them.

The Space Rules could allow Chen Fei to fear no encirclement and assassination, but if he were in a formation carefully prepared by other Open Heaven Realm cultivators, the function of the Space Rules would be severely diminished.

If it came to that, death might not be the outcome, but after an embarrassing fight, the only result would be to flee, which would seem rather unwise.

So in the end, Chen Fei first returned to Han Yun City, fused his martial arts, and practiced with the spiritual essence of the Open Heaven Realm to slightly make up for his shortcomings.

This round of cultivation brought the Raging Waves Sky Technique to the brink of Great Perfection. Additionally, the number of fragments for the two secondary Earth Rules that he was cultivating reached thirty each.

A single Open Heaven Realm Early Stage spiritual essence only added ten fragments to each of the secondary Earth Rules; compared to his cultivation during the Rule Integration Realm, the efficiency had considerably decreased.

The reason for this decrease in efficiency wasn’t that the epiphanies within the Open Heaven Realm spiritual essence weren’t sufficient, which would slow down Chen Fei’s enlightenment, but rather that Chen Fei’s soul couldn’t withstand the speed at which the rule fragments were increasing.

When Chen Fei had broken through to the Open Heaven Realm, his soul had already transformed through the primordial power contained within the Space Main Rule as well as the four secondary Rules: Earth, Water, Fire, Wind.

Had this not been the case, the cultivation efficiency would have been further reduced.

Initially, during the Rule Integration Realm, Chen Fei also faced this kind of limitation. He was able to lift it later because he achieved a minor Open Heaven Realm state.

With a higher-dimensional realm, he could wield a lower realm, and the limitations on his soul’s capacity were unlocked.

Chen Fei currently does not possess the Eighth Stage Creation Realm, so naturally he cannot replicate the cultivation efficiency from his Rule Integration Realm days.

If he were to improve the proficiency of the Raging Waves Sky Technique, he could also slightly unlock the limitations of his soul, because the profound mysteries within the martial art could optimize the operation of the soul.

In principle, it’s the same as using a higher realm to wield a lower tier of cultivation.

Originally, Chen Fei obtained the minor Open Heaven Realm state by acquiring the Nine Heavens Star Kill from the Wu Meng Clan, which is a top-tier sixth-tier martial art.

Unfortunately, the Raging Wave Sky Kill from the Wu Meng Clan isn’t of a very high level, and the Raging Waves Sky Technique that Chen Fei fused on his own is even lower in grade; naturally, there’s no way to learn how to achieve the Eighth Tier Creation Realm state.

He needs stronger martial arts to unlock his cultivation limitations.

Of course, his current pace of cultivation is actually not slow—in fact, it could be said to be very fast.

Other Open Heaven Realm cultivators would take at least thousands of years to make progress in their cultivation, while Chen Fei has just broken through to the Open Heaven Realm today, and his cultivation has already seen significant improvement.

Chen Fei looked up at the Qianyuan Sword and the Concealment Bell. In just the short time before, the Qianyuan Sword and the Concealment Bell had already broken through to the position of top-grade mystical treasures.

Compared to Chen Fei’s initial breakthrough period, the Qianyuan Sword and Concealment Bell were truly advancing by leaps and bounds.

From this, it can also be seen that with sufficient resources and a high enough realm, it is indeed possible for weapons and even cultivators of lower realms to rise quickly.

Of course, few cultivators would resort to sacrificing hundreds of mystical treasures to support two treasures; the consumption is simply too great.

It’s only that Chen Fei feels these mystical treasures have nowhere else to be used, and using them to elevate the Qianyuan Sword and the Concealment Bell is even more cost-effective.

Chen Fei lightly tapped his right hand, and several teleportation runes appeared out of thin air, transforming into formations to protect the Qianyuan Sword and the Concealment Bell. Following that, Chen Fei’s figure disappeared from the cultivation room.

When he reappeared, Chen Fei was already inside the city lord’s mansion.

As soon as Chen Fei appeared, Qiu Gongzhi and the other two became aware of him. It wasn’t that their senses were extremely sharp, but that Chen Fei did not deliberately conceal the spatial fluctuations.

“Emperor!” Qiu Gongzhi and the other two approached Chen Fei and saluted with their hands.

Hearing their address, Chen Fei was slightly taken aback. He looked into the eyes of the three, and then he understood their intentions—they were treating Chen Fei as the supreme leader of the human race.

From now on, the entire human race would have only one Emperor, and that would be Chen Fei.

At the peak of the Sixth Stage Rule Integration Realm, the human race would no longer have the honorary title of Emperor.@@novelbin@@

Indeed, as Chen Fei thought, after returning to Han Yun City, Qiu Gongzhi and the others had many realizations, including how they treated Chen Fei.

Chen Fei was of the Open Heaven Realm. Even if he himself didn’t mind, they had to show the due respect for a powerful being.

“Show me the Qiankun Cauldron; let me try if I can repair it,” Chen Fei said without dwelling on the address from Qiu Gongzhi and the others, smiling as he spoke.

“Alright!”

Hearing Chen Fei’s words, the eyes of Qiu Gongzhi and the others couldn’t help but brighten. The Qiankun Cauldron was an artifact that suppressed the fortune of the human race and was extremely effective in aiding the practice of human cultivators below the Rule Integration Realm.

A ray of light flew out from Qiu Gongzhi’s sleeve, revealing the cauldron body of the Qiankun Cauldron, full of cracks.

Chen Fei’s right hand flipped, and the Qiankun Cauldron slowly settled into the palm of his hand.

Seeing that the Qiankun Cauldron showed no struggle or resistance, a breath of relief involuntarily escaped the hearts of Qiu Gongzhi and the others.

Chen Fei was indeed still part of the human race; otherwise, the Qiankun Cauldron would have begun to tremble by now.

Bending over to look at the Qiankun Cauldron, this was the first time Chen Fei had the chance to observe this holy artifact of the human race up close. The craftsmanship couldn’t claim to steal heaven’s craftiness.

However, after so many years of human race belief entwined, the Qiankun Cauldron had become usable only by the human race.