Free Web NovelChapter 1670: Chapter 1287: Domineering Color All Over! (Bonus for Monthly Ticket)
Half a month has passed since the last breakthrough at Leshan.
During this half month, the tens of thousands of players at Black Wind Village and many Eight Desolate disciples have been harvested like leeks during the "Returning Player Benefits Event," unable to squeeze out a drop of leek juice.
Yet, scattered daily, a few people still come to various mountain village sub branches to learn and improve their martial arts.
Therefore, even after consuming one million cultivation points and potential points to learn the "Rejuvenation Ice Technique," Jiang Dali has reaccumulated over six million cultivation points, and the potential points have accumulated to over twelve million due to previous low usage.
Such cultivation points are certainly not enough to boost his strength in one go to the level of Returning to Truth level 9.
However, it is sufficient to raise the Divine Demon Golden Body, his main Returning to Truth realm cross-training skill, to level 4.
The focus of using cultivation points and potential points to improve martial arts is that in Human Rank martial arts, breaking through from level 4 to level 5 requires consuming cultivation points.
In Earth Rank martial arts, moving from level 2 to level 3 requires consuming cultivation points, and when it comes to Heavenly Rank Absolute Skill, cultivation points are consumed when breaking through from level 1 to level 2 (see Chapter 74).
And in Heavenly Person’s Ultimate Skill and Returning to Truth Ultimate Skills, cultivation points are consumed right from level 1 entry.
No matter the martial arts level, once reaching level 7 and upgrading one level, the cultivation points and potential points required increase exponentially.
Previously, to upgrade Heavenly Person’s Ultimate Skills and Returning to Truth Ultimate Skills from level 3 to level 4, the cultivation points and potential points needed to be doubled the previous base, and subsequently, each small level upgrade would exponentially double.
Therefore, many players in the previous life were stuck at the Gang Qi realm or some breaking into the Heavenly Human realm, primarily investing obtained cultivation points and potential points into improving martial arts.
This is mainly because players’ realm breakthroughs require learning enough corresponding martial arts, and after martial arts improvement, the combat strength enhancement is extremely noticeable.
Jiang Dali now needs to consume two million cultivation points and potential points to upgrade the Divine Demon Golden Body to level 3, and four million cultivation points and potential points to upgrade from level 3 to level 4.
Such massive consumption, even someone adept at harvesting leeks like him feels extremely exhausted, beginning to increasingly reminisce the happiness of rapidly improving "War God Chronicles" through the Eagle Saber and War God Temple-related tasks.
If not for those series of encounters, he certainly would find it difficult to so quickly break through to the Returning to Truth level 8.
Even if he breaks through to Returning to Truth level 8 in a rush, the "War God Chronicles," this kind of Returning to Truth Ultimate Skill, would still remain at a very low realm like the "Divine Demon Golden Body," unable to activate any Divine Tail Power, let alone learning all 49 chronicles, facing Shakyamuni who mastered multiple Returning to Truth Ultimate Skills, further getting beaten into rice cakes round or flat.
"My best ideal plan is to take a tour around the Holy Tombs of Ying Country, dig up the graves of these descendants of Shakyamuni, rapidly practice various martial arts realms, thus not having to consume too much cultivation points and potential points, then settle accounts with Shakyamuni..."
On the way from the Sword Sect, Jiang Dali, sitting on the Demon Dragon, supported his resolute chin with both hands, watching the changing clouds passing by, and thought, "Unfortunately...a plan is a plan, reality is reality...
The reality is that whether it’s Senior Wu Ming’s Blood God Pill spreading speed within his body or the current development speed of the Heavenly Gate, I can’t afford to slowly improve anymore."
Just an hour before leaving the Sword Sect, he learned about Heavenly Gate’s new expansion plan through the Jianghu Forum, sensing the immense ambition hidden behind Shakyamuni’s effort to promote player advancement to the Heavenly Human realm.
After coming to light after hiding, Heavenly Gate first started recruiting a large number of players.
Shakyamuni’s move didn’t surprise him.
What surprised him was how grand and determined the gesture was, planning to cultivate a group of Heavenly Human realm players directly.
Even now with strength and resources at his level, cultivating a Heavenly Human realm player solo is not easy.
At least a treasure like a Blood Bodhi is needed to lay the foundation for players, then personally using enlightenment to transmit power, improving players’ martial arts realm, and this transmission will vary based on players’ comprehension.
If it’s a player with poor comprehension, transmitting power dozens or hundreds of times to elevate their martial arts realm to a level of Shocking the Ancient and Modern is normal, typically a labor-intensive endeavor not benefiting, not even one’s own child treated like this.
Even if Shakyamuni has some way to easily elevate players to the Heavenly Human realm, the resources and efforts consumed are certainly substantial.
However, considering the giant impact brought to the Heavenly Gate and subsequent benefits after this measure’s publicity, Jiang Dali cannot but praise Shakyamuni, this old fox, for taking this step correctly and stepping ahead of him.
He once thought of taking this step.
But at that time, Black Wind Village was unrivaled, with no crisis, players joined it with pride, at worst being Eight Desolate disciples was a matter of pride.
To maintain a stable development pace under controllable speed for players, Jiang Dali didn’t choose, and didn’t need to choose, to take this costly and time-consuming step.
Now this move has become Shakyamuni’s trump card to break the dominance of the Black Wind Village.
"Shakyamuni, this thousand-year-old monster, truly has extraordinary intelligence. As soon as Heavenly Gate announced its official emergence, he immediately seized the lifeblood of this era’s development—Abnormal People! Success is not by chance..."
Jiang Dali marveled inwardly.
Considering that long before the exposure of Heavenly Gate, Shakyamuni had already secretly absorbed many players into Heavenly Gate and nurtured them.
With his personality and his understanding of Abnormal People now, he must be very detailed.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so high-profile in recruiting Abnormal People and even poach people directly from other sects.
Perhaps the reason Shakyamuni didn’t, like himself, rush to recruit a large number of Abnormal People when many players first entered was not only because he liked to operate from behind the scenes, but also because he was already planning the "cut and rob" strategy while studying Abnormal People in secret.
Just waiting for the right moment, like now, to directly offer generous conditions to attract the talents painstakingly cultivated by other sects.
But he couldn’t just sit back and let this happen; he had to counter it.
"The best countermeasure is to defeat Shakyamuni now and dismantle the Heavenly Gate.
At the same time, let players like Ping Shengaoqi in the village act together, defeat those newly promoted Heavenly People from Heavenly Gate, and thus prove a message to all observing players—that Heavenly Human Realm forcefully elevated with external power can’t match the combat power of those who breakthrough by themselves. Break Shakyamuni’s checkmate move!
As for Ning Su and others proposing the World’s No.1 Martial Arts Tournament plan in the forum’s upper echelons, though it’s a good idea... the timing is not right yet.
Firstly, as long as the Heavenly Gate isn’t eradicated, Martial World people are observant, and the Black Wind Village doesn’t have the capital to fully command the world. If those Heavenly People players from Heavenly Gate declare they won’t participate, the rankings determined by the tournament won’t be legitimate.
Secondly, there isn’t enough time now to continue delaying the tournament’s preparation..."
While pondering, Jiang Dali temporarily noted this matter, planning to discuss it with the senior players later, ensuring they felt a sense of NPC interaction and faction contribution, further strengthening cohesion.
Afterward, without delay, he first changed out of the clothes personally sewn by Dongfang, then told Wu Ming, who was contemplating the "Rejuvenation Ice Technique," to "prepare for a Martial Arts Realm breakthrough," and under the astonished gazes of Wu Ming and Lian Chengbi, began consuming a large amount of Cultivation Points and Potential Points to enhance the Divine Demon Golden Body.
As the powerful energy and peculiar forces turned into a stream of heat coursing through his body, the surrounding air instantly became agitated and oppressive.
Jiang Dali let out a low shout, his hair stood up strand by strand in gold, making crackling sounds as his whole body’s bones became thick and mighty, bulging muscles started flexing.
The bronze rough skin gradually covered with a domineering color, manifesting a domineering and oppressive black-gold pattern.
Strong waves of energy surged and spread from his body, creating ripples in the air, the golden hair swaying.
The high-altitude wind blew, yet even before reaching his God Demon-like domineering body, it was dispersed by the Qi Wall outside his body.
"Roar!"
The Demon Dragon beneath let out a restless and uneasy roar, feeling as though the rider on its back wasn’t a person but a fierce beast that could devour it in one bite.
Lian Chengbi felt as if his blood were congealing under the immense pressure, eyelids twitching wildly, the powerful Qi-Blood and intense masculine aura from the opposite made his breath choked.
Wu Ming also found his breath momentarily halted by the overwhelming Qi-Blood pressure emanating from Jiang Dali, sensing Jiang Dali’s body, comparable to a Divine Weapon, like a Chaotic Hole plundering the Heaven and Earth’s Power around, continuously strengthening his sturdy physique, until a certain moment when it completes a metamorphosis...
"Breaking through upon deciding... or, an accumulation over time... or maybe, my prior guidance had an effect?"
Wu Ming’s gaze was filled with suspicion and curiosity, slightly frowning as he sized up Jiang Dali’s robust figure, starting to believe the rumors of his extraordinary strength, leading to a bit of self-doubt...
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(I said yesterday I’d post an update at midnight, but it didn’t get published. I thought I had posted it, but the signal is poor at the wife’s rural home. The next update will be at 6 p.m. today.)
