Stellar Transformation-Chapter 498: Episode 15 - 7 Three Golden Scrolls

A man holding a spear battling an Underground Blood Dragon?

Qin Yu felt a surge of anger and wanted to curse those who had been saved by the three brothers and had managed to escape. Just as the three brothers exchanged glances, a rumbling sound erupted.

It was the sound of a large troop rushing forward.

Qin Yu and the other two looked down the tunnel, only to see an army of Divine World warriors rushing towards them en masse, an overwhelming force.

"Master, the third squad of a thousand men has completely assembled," a tall and robust man respectfully reported.

Wei Chi Yang nodded indifferently, his gaze still fixed on the three brothers, "Tell me, where is the man who fought the Underground Cave Dragon with a spear?"

"Sir, we didn’t see," Qin Yu respectfully leaned forward slightly as he spoke, while Hou Fei and Hei Yu stood silently behind him.

Wei Chi Yang scrutinized the trio, then turned to look at the battlefield still strewn with splinters of bone and flesh, then at the tunnel walls ripped apart by the Underground Cave Dragon.

"Where were you just now, how did you not see?" Wei Chi Yang frowned.

Qin Yu pointed with one hand to a collapsed section of the underground tunnel, "Sir, when the Underground Cave Dragon attacked, I knew that it was just a demon beast. Even though it possessed strong attack power, its Soul Realm was no match for a Divine Being. Therefore, we hid in the rubble until the Underground Cave Dragon left, and then we emerged."

"Hmm, quite smart," Wei Chi Yang nodded slightly.

What Qin Yu said made it easy to explain why they hadn’t seen anyone fighting the Underground Cave Dragon; how could one witness a battle while hiding in a pile of rubble?

Using Divine Sense to watch?

The rubble was hundreds of meters away from the battlefield, and to penetrate Divine Sense over such a distance, only a Lower Heavenly God could achieve it.

"Has the Underground Cave Dragon gone back into hiding?"

As Wei Chi Yang scrutinized the shattered passages, his brow deeply furrowed. Even if the Underground Cave Dragon had been killed, there should at least be a corpse. Even a Heavenly God Level master would not find it easy to kill an Underground Cave Dragon.

As for the three brothers, in Wei Chi Yang’s eyes, only Qin Yu, the leader, had a Soul Realm at the level of an Upper Level Divine Being, while the other two were merely Lower Level Divine Beings. They couldn’t possibly be the ones who dealt with the Underground Cave Dragon.

"You may leave."

Wei Chi Yang said coldly.

"Yes, sir." Qin Yu replied humbly, and then the three brothers quickly left the mine via a stable tunnel that had not collapsed.

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After paying 3600 blocks of Low Grade Divine Spiritual Stones, Qin Yu and his brothers entered another area of the Divine Spirit Stone Mine and walked deep into a deserted underground tunnel, where they once again entered the Jiang Lan Realm.

Inside the second layer of space in the Jiang Lan Realm.

"Big Brother, when that Heavenly God was interrogating us about witnessing someone fighting the Underground Cave Dragon, I was really panicked. I didn’t expect you to come up with an answer so quickly," Hou Fei cackled with laughter.

Hei Yu also nodded solemnly, "That Wei Chi Yang is indeed very strong."

"He is a Heavenly God after all." Qin Yu knew in his heart that though he could fly, it was only by relying on the ’Meteor Tear’. Moreover, the energy in his body was—Divine Power, not the Power of Heavenly Gods.

"A Heavenly God possessing Heavenly God Power is much stronger than me unless I use the Residual Snow Divine Spear," Qin Yu said with a light smile.

Once he used the Residual Snow Divine Spear, killing a Lower Heavenly God wasn’t too difficult.

"Alright, let’s not waste time and continue with cultivation. Uncle Fu once gave you the Body Refining Techniques from the Divine World, how is your cultivation progressing?" Qin Yu asked with a smile.

The Body Refining Techniques from the Divine World were quite rare, but in the Mishen Palace, there were many of these techniques.

Qin Yu himself was worried about the lack of time. He had spent almost all his time studying the ’Array Dao’, so he hadn’t yet cultivated the Body Refining Techniques. He could only let his body naturally absorb Divine Power to improve, but this primitive method was too slow.

Hou Fei shook his head, "I haven’t started cultivating it yet."

"Neither have I," said Hei Yu, shaking his head too.

"What’s going on? I entrusted Uncle Fu to give you those Divine World Body Refining Techniques, why haven’t you cultivated them? In the Divine World, especially at the Divine Being stage, body refining is very important," Qin Yu said, puzzled.

In the Divine World, energy is mainly divided into: Divine Power and the Power of Heavenly Gods.

The Divine Power is a rather violent and brute force energy, and during the cultivation process would impose a great strain on the body. Only stronger bodies could harness higher levels of Divine Power.

On the other hand, the Power of Heavenly Gods is pure and gentle.’

Therefore, refining the body only needed to be cultivated enough to withstand the ’Divine Power’ of an Upper Level Divine Being, which was sufficient. Of course, some Heavenly Gods pursue a stronger physique, but they are the minority.’

For Heavenly Gods, more comprehension of space is the best way to improve.

"Big Brother," Hei Yu had a hint of a smile on his face, "In the past nearly 60,000 years, although Hou Fei and I have not cultivated the Divine World’s Body Refining Techniques, we have been in quiet cultivation, trying to improve our Soul Realm more quickly."

"My and Mixed Feathered Bird’s physical conditions are not bad, at least not to the point where we cannot bear the Divine Power, so we wanted to raise our Soul Realm before cultivating our bodies," Hou Fei added.

"Raising the Soul Realm, that works too," Qin Yu pondered for a moment and then nodded.

In Qin Yu’s view, body refining was much easier than enhancing the soul realm. For body refining, one only needed a sufficient supply of divine power and some time. However, elevating the soul realm was extremely difficult.

Generally, for a divine being to reach the level of an intermediate divine being, it would take tens of millions of years. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Hou Fei and Hei Yu, relying on the Cloud Piercing Spear and Black Stick, could perhaps be faster. But it was estimated that it would still take them hundreds of thousands of years.

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Since his brothers wished to focus solely on elevating their soul realms, Qin Yu didn’t force them and returned to his own room to continue studying the 900 volumes of Array Dao. Hou Fei and Hei Yu also continued their cultivation.

The 900 volumes of Array Dao comprised three major categories: Killing Arrays, Trap Arrays, and Defensive Arrays.

Qin Yu spent nearly 60,000 years to carefully understand it once. And now, he wasn’t in a rush to deduce some higher, more complex arrays. Instead, he revisited the array examples in the 900 volumes of Array Dao.

In the first 60,000 years, Qin Yu had only completely grasped and understood them.

But now, through the examples in the 900 volumes of Array Dao, Qin Yu wanted to thoroughly master, cross-reference, and fundamentally understand these arrays.

...

As time passed, Qin Yu continuously studied those most basic and fundamental arrays, and some slightly more difficult ones, found at the very bottom of the array pyramid, over and over.

About 30,000 years had passed.

Qin Yu put away the 900 volumes of Array Dao, and his closed eyes also opened, a hint of excitement in them.

"Uncle Fu," Qin Yu called out.

Upon hearing Qin Yu’s voice, Uncle Fu immediately entered Qin Yu’s room and respectfully said, "Master, what are your instructions?"

"Uncle Fu, let me ask you, is the first realm of Array Dao about grasping the essence of arrays, from simple to complex, being able to instantly come up with any array?"

A slight excitement was evident on Qin Yu’s face.

Because Qin Yu felt that he seemed to have reached the first realm of understanding Array Dao. At that moment, Qin Yu felt that the arrangement of various arrays was all within his grasp; closing his eyes, his mind could conjure up thousands upon thousands of different arrays. At the same time, he could instantly think of every array’s key points, weaknesses, and methods to break the array.

This feeling of everything being under control was immensely thrilling to Qin Yu.

Uncle Fu smiled as he looked at Qin Yu, "Master, to my knowledge, even the quickest among the masters who understood the first realm of Array Dao took a hundred thousand years. The old master took a million years to initially grasp the first realm of Array Dao. Master, you’ve only spent nearly ninety thousand years; it appears your talent in Array Dao is indeed exceptional."

Qin Yu couldn’t help but smile slightly.

"The old master once said that the state of grasping the first realm of Array Dao is this— that, in the moment when you close your eyes, your mind can conjure up a billion arrays, all of which are the ones completely studied before. And there’s also a feeling of being able to easily deduce countless more complex arrays, Master, is it so?"

"Yes, exactly like that. I even feel that, given time, I could deduce arrays a million times more complex," Qin Yu said in succession.

That was the feeling he had.

"The first realm of Array Dao, that is the essence of Array Dao. But everyone’s essence of Array Dao they grasp is different. Master, do you think you could easily decrypt any array?" Uncle Fu asked with a smile.

Qin Yu was startled.

Qin Yu wanted to nod, because at the moment, he really had that feeling; having mastered the foundations of arrays, in Qin Yu’s view, he could use those foundations to decrypt any array. After all, any complex array was derived from these foundational arrays.

But reason told Qin Yu that in just ninety thousand years, it simply wasn’t possible to reach the stage of decrypting any array.

"Master, I lack a soul and cannot grasp the first realm of Array Dao. I can only keep deducing various arrays, pushing them toward increasingly complex arrays," Uncle Fu said with a smile.

Qin Yu looked at Uncle Fu, puzzled by what he meant.

Uncle Fu continued, "Master, I have followed the old master for a very long time, and engrossed in deducing arrays for countless years. At first, when deducing arrays, I could perform the deductions in my mind. But as the arrays became more complex, I had to rely on the ’Golden Scroll’ to deduce an array."

Qin Yu nodded.

That was easy to explain.

Just like when a mortal does math, simple problems can be solved mentally, but with complex ones, one needs paper to work them out.

"After studying for so many years, I have also recorded some relatively complex arrays and spent some golden scrolls. Master... in the time of the Immortal, Demon, and Demon realm, plus these ninety thousand years, I have just deduced a Killing Array set. Please try to break it," Uncle Fu said.

Uncle Fu flipped his hand and took out three golden scrolls before handing them to Qin Yu.

"Uncle Fu, don’t tell me one array requires three golden scrolls to record?" Qin Yu’s face was filled with astonishment.

The arrays in the 900 volumes of Array Dao, even the most complex ones, would probably only occupy one ten-thousandth of a golden scroll’s capacity.

Uncle Fu respectfully nodded, "Master, this is one of the most formidable arrays I have deduced in the Killing Array sector, covering three entire golden scrolls. Please evaluate it, Master."

(End of Chapter One!)

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