Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 645 - 482: The Greatest Treasure in the Ancient Immortal Battlefield!
For a True Immortal, source jade is indispensable; none would find it excessive.
"Elevating Daoist cultivation requires source jade."
"Practicing any Divine Skill requires various treasures and rare materials, which are hard to come by and often require a large amount of source jade to exchange with other True Immortals; using source jade allows quick collection."
Both improving cultivation and practicing Divine Skills cannot do without source jade.
As a Daoist True Immortal with multiple avatars, even Chen Jichuan finds himself financially constrained.
Relying solely on the fixed output from the ’Ten Realms of Withered Cliff’ and the ’Earth Core Cliff’ is merely a drop in the ocean, hardly of any use.
On the contrary, this ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ holds great potential.
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"I have the ’Avatar Technique’."
"Exploring the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ and mining source jade gives me an advantage over other True Immortals."
Upon hearing Luo Shan Palace Master mention the matter, Chen Jichuan had already had thoughts about it.
The avatars crafted through his ’Avatar Technique’ are not comparable to a True Immortal’s ’Magic Power Avatar.’
That ’Magic Power Avatar’ has limited combat power; even if one pours all efforts into refining it, at best it can barely reach the True Immortal threshold. In reality, it’s no match for a True Immortal, at most bullying Fourth-order Cultivators.
But the avatars Chen Jichuan crafts with the ’Avatar Technique’ can possess the same cultivation, Divine Skills, and perfect combat power as himself.
Moreover, they are unafraid of damage in battle.
Even if an avatar is lost, it can be retrained within a few months, consuming only some mana at most.
Stronger than the ’Dharma Domain Avatar.’
Cheaper than the ’Magic Power Avatar.’
The advantages of the ’Avatar Technique’ are extremely evident.
"Now my ’Avatar Technique’ has reached the third realm, allowing me to have three perfect avatars simultaneously."
"The ’Xuanyang Two Immortals,’ ’Seven-star Sword Master,’ ’Four Extremes Wanderer,’ and the like—all four True Immortal identities—as they are mostly idle. In their spare time, lesser avatars can fully replace them to oversee Shenzhou, leaving a perfect avatar for long-term mining in the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ without any issue."
Three perfect avatars.
Four True Immortal identities.
As long as these four True Immortal identities don’t simultaneously encounter formidable enemies, three perfect avatars can handle it, two can suffice, even one perfect avatar is feasible.
Moreover, mining in the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ can be paused at any time. If emergencies arise in Shenzhou, the perfect avatars can always be redeployed.
"Sending a perfect avatar into the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ to mine source jade is equivalent to my true self entering; it surpasses even my own Dharma Domain Avatar, far exceeding Luo Shan Palace Master’s Magic Power Avatar."
Luo Shan Palace Master has mined 3,400 catties of source jade over 140,000 years using Magic Power Avatars. With perfect avatars, stronger and with shorter recovery cycles, this amount might be multiplied tenfold, a hundredfold.
Chen Jichuan holds high expectations in his heart.
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He acts as soon as he thinks.
After Luo Shan Palace Master leaves, Chen Jichuan immediately releases an avatar to enter the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield.’
Rip!
Ripping through the starry sky, entering the world.
Primitive wildness.
Desolation.
The ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ gives a different sensation from ordinary worlds, lush and verdant, yet desolate and bleak, carrying an aura of solemnity. Vaguely, one might hear the ancient shouts and roars of battle carried by the wind and flowing water.
The air is thick with a murderous aura.
Chen Jichuan’s perfect avatar traverses amidst it.
Seeing footprints spanning a thousand miles morph into enormous basins;
Seeing a palm toppling in the sea forming five-fingered islands;
Seeing Sword Qi piercing heavens and earth forming abysses and chasms;
Seeing....
A myriad of wondrous sights, fully displaying the Divine Skills of Ancient Immortals.
These Ancient Immortals shattered the earth and sky during the Ancient Era, leaving traces of combat that have endured through cosmic evolutions for billions of years, never fading, eternally unchanged.
"Indeed a rare place for cultivation."
As Chen Jichuan walks through, a slight sense of the overflowing myriad spiritual thoughts can be felt. Among various traces, a careful comprehension enables insights from the Ancient Immortals’ techniques, providing much learning for a True Immortal like Chen Jichuan. Even if these are only the accidental remnants left by Ancient Immortals, through these minor aspects, an ordinary True Immortal can gain considerable benefit. Long-term contemplation is bound to yield significant progress.
Yet, comprehension is not something to be rushed.
"First, mine the source jade."
Sharpening does not delay the cutting of firewood.
With ample source jade, understanding the myriad traces and ancient relics in the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield’ becomes much more effective.
"Heaven and Earth Origin."
As Chen Jichuan traverses a deep abyss, observing his surroundings and seeing no one, he delves downwards, heading into the depths of the earth in search of the origin.
Origin is the foundation of heaven and earth.
Neither in the heavens nor the earth, elusive and hard to find. Even for a True Immortal, it’s challenging to locate the origin of a piece of heaven and earth. They can only draw closer and closer based on a mystical perception. Like the Dao, it can be sensed and observed yet hard to see in true form.
Chen Jichuan enters deeper into the earth, walking in the deeper layers of the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield,’ where the battles of Ancient Immortals have resulted in a mingling of various auras and entangled principles, creating a chaotic atmosphere, the most dangerous place in heaven and earth.
Thunder.
Flames.
Gang winds.
Various dangers arise endlessly.
Stepping on the ’Wind Thunder Walking,’ Chen Jichuan roams freely. Crushing numerous thunders, leaving behind many gang winds. But after over ten days, he still finds nothing.
After half a month has passed.
This day.
Clang!
Clang clang clang!
Billions of Sword Qi suddenly erupt.
"Not good!"
Chen Jichuan’s heart cries out in alarm, but before he can react, he is engulfed by the overwhelming Sword Qi.
Perished, turning into smoke!
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Ancient View Hall.
"Phew!"
In Chen Jichuan’s eyes, the starry sky flickers, Sword Qi like a river—
Clang!
Sword Qi runs riot.
An avatar disintegrates.
"Such mighty Sword Qi."
Chen Jichuan’s gaze flickers with astonishment, Sword Qi still lingering.
Earlier, in the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield,’ the billion Sword Qi had slain his perfect avatar in an instant.
It’s worth knowing that his avatar possessed cultivation and Divine Skills no less than his own true body, a true Great Mahayana True Immortal capable of overcoming the third realm of the ’Sky-reaching Mountain’ with ease.
In Shenzhou, it could fully compare to veteran True Immortals like Kuya Demon Lord. Zheyou Immortal, Mountain Climber, would be a notch weaker, let alone lesser True Immortals like Black Vulture Emperor.
"Not even capable of surviving a moment, even if Kuya Demon Lord entered, he too would not escape death."
"No wonder!"
Chen Jichuan feels shocked yet enlightened.
In the depths of the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield,’ this danger is so great that it’s no wonder even the One Origin Dao Sect finds it hard to develop the source jade there. Luo Shan Palace Master is a Daoist True Immortal, a paragon among mortals, yet in the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield,’ he has to resort to the cumbersome method of using ’Magic Power Avatar’ for mining.
It’s not a lack of willingness, it’s simply too dangerous.
Entering with the true body means ruin from a slightest neglect.
For most, entering with a Dharma Domain Avatar is a death sentence, a total loss.
Only the cumbersome method of the ’Magic Power Avatar’ is the most suitable and practicable.
"Fortunately, I have the ’Avatar Technique.’"
With such thoughts, Chen Jichuan acts swiftly.
With a mere mental command, another avatar enters the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield.’
This time, Chen Jichuan is even more cautious, reinforcing his defenses. Enacting the ’Wind Thunder Walking’ while performing the ’Dayan Divination Method’ with his hands.
Two years later.
A gust of wind blows by, and once again the avatar perishes.
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"No need to rush."
"Luo Shan Palace Master took 140,000 years to mine 3,400 catties of source jade, I’ve only just arrived, there’s no rush."
Chen Jichuan holds a strong mentality.
In the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield,’ losing an avatar results in summoning another.
When fortune favors him, the loss of avatars cannot keep pace with his replenishment. Even in times of ill luck, losing seven or eight avatars in mere months, he has over seven hundred avatars to continue the relay.
With avatars forging ahead in an endless stream and combat power equaling Chen Jichuan’s, the exploration’s efficiency naturally surpasses Luo Shan Palace Master’s by hundreds, thousands of times.
After sixty years stationed in the ’Ancient Immortal Battlefield,’ following fifty-four fallen avatars, Chen Jichuan finally discovers the first source jade vein.
During the mining process, two more avatars ’perished,’ and the first batch of source jade is successfully obtained.
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