Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 635 - 477: Divine Skills Greatly Advanced! Realm 1, Step 6!
Divine Skills are important; no amount of caution is too much.
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"Transformation Technique."
"One Origin to the End."
"Ice Soul Divine Needle."
These are the three new Divine Skills that Chen Jichuan has acquired in this life.
Not many have been added.
But the focus of his life in the first three thousand years was on proving the Dao. In the subsequent five thousand years as a True Immortal, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to mastering the Daoist Way and improving his proficiency in Divine Skills.
If not for wanting to avoid seeming too strange, Chen Jichuan wouldn’t even bother learning the "Ice Soul Divine Needle."
But being a newly promoted True Immortal with the ability to study a second Divine Skill and opting not to, would appear too odd.
Therefore, to align with reason, Chen Jichuan reluctantly deliberated among the remaining six Divine Skills of the One Origin Dao Sect, dismissing one after another, until he finally chose the "Ice Soul Divine Needle."
Among the seven Divine Skills of the One Origin Dao Sect, "One Origin to the End" was already in his possession.
Of the other six, he already had similar Divine Skills to "Madness Step," "Xuantian Water Control True Method," "White Bone Life Killing Sword," "Wind Fire Furnace," and "Dark Universe," rendering them unnecessary.
Only one remained, the "Ice Soul Divine Needle."
[Divine Skill: Ice Soul Divine Needle]
[Level: Ordinary]
[Description: Gathers Cold Qi, cultivates Cold Poison, and breeds 129,600 Ice Souls, their breath akin to needles, subtle and hard to detect. During duels, it strikes unnoticed in the darkness of the void, nearly impossible to defend against, resulting in an immediate cold poison affliction. Should even a single needle pierce the body undetected, it spreads with the cycle of mana, attacking the heart with cold poison, freezing blood and marrow, chilling the Divine Soul. Cultivators with shallow Daoist attainment will turn black and faint instantly, inescapably leading to death. The Ice Soul is extremely cold; even the fiercest fire is extinguished upon encountering it, making it difficult to resolve, even Primordial Yang failing to dispel it.]
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Ice Soul Divine Needle!
This is the only Divine Skill in the Dao Sect known for its ’vicious’ and ’sinister’ nature.
It leaves no trace when used, undetectable when one is struck.
By the time it’s realized, the cold poison would have already infiltrated the essence and spirit, even burning with fierce Primordial Yang fire is difficult to dissolve. Even for highly attained True Immortals, suppression is barely possible, but without specific methods to counteract and resolve it, they constantly suffer the torment of cold poison, making further cultivation challenging.
"A vicious Divine Skill."
"Barely acceptable."
Chen Jichuan, after much consideration, finally settled on this "Ice Soul Divine Needle."
Though he doesn’t think much of this skill, having learned it, he didn’t set it aside entirely but took time to understand and practice it.
For Fourth-order Cultivators, learning Divine Skills is exceedingly difficult.
Throughout a lifetime, they might only hover around the Second Realm.
It’s equally challenging for True Immortals.
Yet, initially, it’s acceptable.
A typical True Immortal learning a Divine Skill often reaches the Second Realm in less than ten thousand years. Then, spending an additional one hundred thousand years to reach the Third Realm isn’t difficult.
However, after Chen Jichuan’s promotion to True Immortal, with the help of ’Enlightenment,’ he can master a Divine Skill from scratch to the Third Realm in at most a thousand years. With the support of source jade and the Dao Sect’s Cultivation Quiet Room and Secret Realm, this time can be further reduced.
For instance, Chen Jichuan took only four hundred years to reach the Third Realm in the "Ice Soul Divine Needle."
Not just the "Ice Soul Divine Needle."
During this retreat, over five thousand years, relying on ’Enlightenment’ and his numerous avatars exploring the outside world, every single Divine Skill has been cultivated to the Third Realm.
His personal power has surged immensely.
Other Divine Skills might be hard to demonstrate, but the "Avatar Technique" is most straightforward.
At the Third Realm of "Avatar Technique," one can cultivate up to 729 avatars, and maintain three with perfect combat power.
Namely.
"A typical True Immortal only has their true body and Dharma Domain Avatar, both possessing True Immortal combat power. Yet I, besides these two, can also have three more with the same True Immortal combat power!"
"One equals five!"
The true body.
Dharma Domain Avatar.
Three perfect avatars.
All possessing True Immortal combat power.
This offers a massive advantage in direct combat, and more importantly, the presence of five True Immortal-level combatants allows for greater strategic flexibility in resource allocation, treasure acquisition, and exploration of perilous realms.
Unlike Dharma Domain Avatars.
"Dharma Domain Avatars cannot share Divine Skills, akin to the real world, even if one Divine Skill after another of my true body reaches the Third Realm, due to the limitations of Dharma Domain Avatars, they cannot share the mastery of Divine Skills like avatars cultivated by "Avatar Technique." The realms might resonate, but require various resources to elevate the Divine Skills."
"At the Second Realm, this poses less of an issue."
"But once Divine Skills reach the Third Realm, the resources required become increasingly precious and rare, hard to manage for the true body alone; if Dharma Domain Avatars also need cultivation, the pressure is doubled."
"Moreover, Dharma Domain Avatars often traverse exteriors, venturing into all kinds of perilous realms, making them susceptible to perishing."
"Should a Dharma Domain Avatar perish, recreating it will once again require extensive time and resources to re-cultivate its Divine Skills."
Divine Power Avatars!
Dharma Domain Avatars!
While these two are both avatars, they differ fundamentally.
The avatars cultivated through "Avatar Technique" are akin to ’copies,’ wherein perfect avatars can flawlessly replicate the original, including cultivation and Divine Skills.
However, ’Dharma Domain Avatars’ are more like separate limbs.
The true body as the left arm, the Dharma Domain Avatar as the right arm.
Divine Skills are like ’tattoos.’
If it’s a ’copy,’ the ’tattoos’ can be duplicated as well.
Yet, if it’s a matter of limbs, what’s tattooed on the left arm is exclusive to it; the right arm, if desired, must be re-tattooed.
The Dharma Domain Avatar, when first formed, is just a blank slate.
"Resources for the Second Level of Divine Power are not difficult for me to obtain. Having one more Dharma Domain Avatar doubles the resources, which is no big deal."
"But when it comes to the Third and Fourth Levels of Divine Power, all kinds of resources become more precious and are hard to come by, even for a True Immortal."
The cultivation of Divine Skills is challenging.
First, it is difficult in terms of understanding.
Second, it is difficult in terms of resources.
Chen Jichuan has ’Enlightenment,’ which helps in comprehension. However, the enormous resources required for cultivating over twenty Divine Skills are enough to make anyone shiver.
He can rapidly elevate each Divine Skill to the Third Realm.
But from then on, any further progress becomes exponentially harder.
It is because divine skills are difficult to cultivate and require precious and large amounts of resources that even a normal True Immortal, if they have a Dharma Domain Avatar, would not dare to lose it easily. Once killed in battle outside, the resources used in cultivating divine skills would be wasted, causing even a True Immortal pain and heartbreak.
Chen Jichuan is the same.
"The Dharma Domain Avatar doesn’t need too many divine skills. One ’One Origin to the End,’ one ’Five Elements Escape Technique,’ and one ’Ice Soul Divine Needle,’ along with several lesser small divine powers and absolute skills, are enough to roam freely."
More importantly, this way, Chen Jichuan can be much more at ease, focusing his primary energy on enhancing his body’s divine skills.
With the ’Avatar Technique,’ cultivating his main body is equivalent to simultaneously enhancing the combat power of four True Immortals.
This calculation is certainly straightforward.
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"Come out!"
Chen Jichuan moved his body, the Dharma Domain unfolded, and an avatar stepped out from it.
Name: Chen Jichuan[His Ninth][Dharma Domain Avatar]
Age: 8320
Cultivation: Mahayana Sensing Realm
Cultivation Technique: "Five Directions, Five Emperors, Five Spirits, Five Elements, Five Phases, Great Yan True Scripture" (True Sect Level)
Divine Skills: Five Elements Escape Technique (Third Realm), One Origin to the End (Third Realm), Ice Soul Divine Needle (Third Realm)
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"Three Divine Skills at the Third Realm."
"And dozens more super-level techniques that could be called ’small divine powers.’
"The strength of this Dharma Domain Avatar is indeed not weak."
Chen Jichuan was satisfied in his heart.
After proving the Dao as a True Immortal, another five thousand years of arduous cultivation followed.
The Daoist path stabilized.
The divine skills perfected.
The avatar had taken form.
It could be considered to have reached the extreme.
Acquired outside, one thousand and seventy jin of source jade.
The Daoist sect granted five hundred jin of source jade.
A total of more than one thousand five hundred jin of source jade was also exhausted by Chen Jichuan over these five thousand years.
"True Immortality is hard to prove."
"Equally hard to cultivate."
"After five thousand years of painstaking cultivation, I have made significant progress in divine skills. But my Daoist path has not improved much, and now I can barely sense the river of time. To take another step forward, and to harness the power of the river of time to reach the level of Kuya Demon Lord, cannot be accomplished in a short time."
Each step up for a Great Mahayana True Immortal is extremely arduous.
Comprehension.
Resources.
State of mind.
Destiny.
None can be lacking. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
This First Realm of True Immortality also has one threshold after another.
Initially mastering True Intent.
Sensing the river of time.
Harnessing the river of time.
Forging an Immortal Body.
The Dharma Domain radiates Immortal Light.
Nine Layers of Immortal Light attuned.
Only by taking these steps can one call the realm complete.
Like the Black Vulture Emperor.
Although he has proven the Dao for hundreds of thousands of years, his Daoist path has only reached the second step at most, or even still remains at the first step, unable to leverage the mighty power of the river of time.
Currently, Chen Jichuan can be considered to have taken the second step.
Starting from an initial rapid advancement, then bolstered by the source jade, and now with the depletion of source jade and foundation, his Daoist path gradually stagnated, and his cultivation was again challenging to improve.
In the short term, there is no room for further improvement in Daoist path and cultivation.
"It’s time."
Chen Jichuan moved and left Dongqi Palace.
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