Journey to the West: Signing in for 500 Years-Chapter 478 - 472: The Talent that Dominates Past and Present [Seeking Subscription and Monthly Tickets]_1
The immortals nodded in agreement, finding the reasoning sound.
The words of Barefoot Immortal also provided a hint to everyone: it wasn’t necessary to ask a Saint for help. They too had a chance.
They could ask Sub-Sages for assistance. If one wasn’t enough, they could approach several more.
There would always be someone willing to take action.
As long as the benefits offered were enough, the favors big enough, and the prestige high enough, that would suffice.
The only hesitation was whether it was appropriate to use favors and prestige, as well as vast benefits, to request the assistance of a Sub-Sage for dealing with Sha Chen. After all, there was no certainty that even a Sub-Sage’s involvement would ensure success. But whether successful or not, the favor would still be owed, and the benefits would have to be given. To go to such lengths merely to confront Sha Chen seemed perhaps unjustifiably excessive.
Yet, after much hesitation, the Jade Emperor decided to give it a try, as he truly could not let Sha Chen continue to grow unchecked.
The Flowing Sand River was now impregnable, and Sha Chen himself was growing stronger by the day.
If they let him keep strengthening, he would inevitably reach a point where even the Heavenly Court would not dare to confront him.
By then, even if Sha Chen were to leave the Flowing Sand River, they would be powerless against him.
In the end, the Jade Emperor made a decision, agreeing to let the immortals find ways to invite various Sub-Sages to see which one would be willing to take action.
He also secretly planned to personally request the help of Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad, as well as to discuss the matter with the Saints.
He was dispatched by Taoist Ancestor Hongjun to balance the power of the Saints, and the Saints, knowing this, were consequently not on good terms with him. But overtly, Taoist Ancestor Hongjun had instructed the Saints that if the Jade Emperor encountered trouble, they were to aid him. Now that he was in trouble, perhaps it was time to ask the Saints to step in. He also believed that requesting the help of Saints would certainly be more effective than asking Sub-Sages.
「In the Realm of People,」
「Flowing Sand River.」
Sha Chen had been cultivating in seclusion, and ten years had passed since he repelled Tathagata Buddha.
At this moment, his physical body was on the verge of breakthrough, and his Primordial Spirit had already reached the High-rank Quasi-Saint realm not long before.
Of course, the resources within his cave dwelling had been consumed massively.
The resources previously brought back by the Spider Spirit and others were initially enough to last him several decades, but due to his rapid cultivation progress, the heightened pace of his advancements, and the imminent breakthrough, the consumption had increased exponentially.
After ten years, the accumulated resources were largely depleted.
Especially those that could enhance the power of the Primordial Spirit were even rarer. By the time his Primordial Spirit broke through, the corresponding resources were completely consumed.
However, the Primordial Spirit did make the breakthrough. Only the physical body was left, lagging slightly behind. But it too was on the cusp of breakthrough; when the time was right, his physical body would achieve Great Accomplishment of the Primeval Chaos Law Body.
It was only the cultivation of Mana that was still lacking. Although only half a step away, Sha Chen, despite ten years of effort, still could not make the breakthrough.
His talent was too strong, his potential immense, and thus he required more resources and time to break through compared to others.
In these ten years, Sha Chen absorbed and refined countless resources at a very rapid pace. A normal High-Level Quasi-Saint would probably have already advanced to the High-rank Quasi-Saint realm.
After all, he had been at the Intermediate Stage of Semi-saint for several decades, also feverishly absorbing and refining for a long time.
And in these ten years, he desperately absorbed and refined to an extent that the accumulated resources could have nurtured twenty or thirty Daluo Golden Immortals.
These were resources painstakingly amassed by the Spider Spirit, Red Boy, and others through hundreds of years of effort, as well as Sha Chen’s own accumulations.
Such an immense amount of resources would naturally shake the heavens and the earth.
But, due to Sha Chen’s exceptional talent, once he made a breakthrough, his combat power would be the strongest among his peers—often several times stronger than those at the same level—but the resources needed for his advancement were also several times greater.
With every loss came a gain; every mouthful and every peck was preordained by the heavens.
In truth, although Sha Chen found his cultivation speed painfully slow, it was considered incredibly fast by the rest of the world. After all, for others to move from the Intermediate Stage of Semi-saint to the High-rank Quasi-Saint realm might take a lifetime, and not even those well-known High-rank Quasi-Saints are said to have achieved it in just a few decades.
They had all spent at least tens of thousands of years, and even achieving it in tens of thousands of years was considered a mark of great diligence and talent.
However, everyone’s situation is different. Those whose cultivation is slower lack sufficient resources, as well as the Cultivation Techniques and abilities to rapidly assimilate those resources.
Sha Chen was different; he had ample resources to support his unrestrained devouring and refining, and his absorption speed was dozens of times faster than that of others at his level.
Under the influence of those critical factors, Sha Chen’s cultivation speed also surpassed others.
After all, the speed of cultivation is not solely determined by talent and potential but also by the rate of absorption, the quantity of resources, and, of course, the speed at which one consumes those resources.
If one devours so many resources but cannot quickly consume, absorb, and refine them for their own use, it is futile.
Sha Chen could do this, and do it better than others, naturally breaking through faster than them.
And his potential was such that he had the capability to become a High-Level Quasi-Saint.
Even so, after cultivating for so long, Sha Chen’s cultivation level still couldn’t break through, which showed just how difficult it was to advance in the Quasi-Saint Realm, where each advancement was like ascending to a new heaven.
It was truly challenging.
「Meanwhile.」
Red Boy had already stepped into the Pinnacle Daluo Realm. He had just made a breakthrough not long ago, and seeing Sha Chen cultivating, he dared not disturb him, so he simply observed Sha Chen’s practice.
The others were much the same, awakening one after another. Though they had not reached Pinnacle Daluo, they had all attained the High-order Da Luo Realm.
Their strength could be described as sky-reaching and earth-penetrating, something they could never have imagined before.
The Spider Spirit, Lady Di Yong, and the Black Bear Spirit could never have imagined they might one day become Daluo Golden Immortals, let alone reach the High-order Da Luo realm. Given their backgrounds—once considered unrefined—and their mediocre strength, such a future was unthinkable. Though they possessed some talent, they lacked the innate potential to become Daluo.
All of that had changed because they followed Sha Chen, who provided them with an abundance of resources, especially things like ginseng fruit, flat peaches, and osmanthus wine.
These altered their potential, infinitely raising their cultivation ceiling and ensuring they were no longer destined to only become Too One Sanxian.
Daluo Golden Immortal, or even beyond, was no longer the limit of their futures; they even stood a chance to reach the extremely rare Quasi-Saint Realm.
Although it was still a distant prospect, with Sha Chen, anything was possible.
At the very least, they had now achieved what they had previously thought unimaginable and reached realms they could previously only look up to.
Even Red Boy, with his exceptionally strong family background, had broken through his innate limitations to advance to his current status in the Pinnacle Daluo Realm.
Today, while not claiming his talent surpassed his father, the Bull Demon King, it was certain that a Bull Demon King of the same age would be no match for Red Boy.
Even now, if the Bull Demon King hadn’t ascended to the Quasi-Saint level, he would be no opponent for Red Boy in a solo battle.
Having made their own breakthroughs, and seeing Sha Chen in the midst of cultivation, everyone observed, keen to see when Sha Chen would break through.
Red Boy said, "Uncle’s talent is extraordinary; it seems he is on the verge of a breakthrough in his bodily cultivation. How long do you all think it will take?"
Lady Di Yong replied, "Master’s talent defies the heavens. It has been decades since his body reached its current realm. Perhaps in another hundred years, he will be able to break through."
The Spider Spirit Seventh Mother said, "A hundred years? I believe it will only take eighty years, given that Big Brother’s talent is truly incomparable to ordinary people."
The Black Bear Spirit, with his resonant voice, said, "Actually, taking about a hundred years to progress from Minor Accomplishment to Great Accomplishment in the Primeval Chaos Law Body already sets one apart from ordinary folks, overshadowing the ancient and modern."
He continued, "However, I am very optimistic about Master. Maybe it will only take him another fifty years to break through."
Everyone thought about it carefully and felt that it made sense.
Then, just at that moment, the aura emanating from Sha Chen completely changed, a domineering presence that seemed to defy heaven and earth spreading out.
His bearing, as if he had become a different person, jumped an entire level in an instant. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
He had broken through.
Sha Chen’s body had finally made the breakthrough, thoroughly stepping into the Great Achievement Realm of the Primeval Chaos Law Body.
With his bodily strength alone, he could contend with High-Level Quasi-Saints.
And Quasi-Saint experts of the same realm generally relied on their physical bodies as their primary source of power.
Looking back at the Primordial Era, people of the same realm as the Ancestral Witches would normally take a detour upon encountering them.
Sha Chen, with his Primeval Chaos Law Body at the Great Achievement Realm, was practically capable of dominating among those in the High-Level Quasi-Saint Realm!
HISS.
Red Boy and the others gasped, a mixture of shock and delight on their faces.
They had still underestimated Sha Chen.
Sha Chen slowly opened his eyes, murmuring, "Who would have thought it would take decades to reach today’s realm? I am still a tad slow; my talent is still lacking."
Red Boy and the others were immediately at a loss for words.
