"No way, Brother System, is breaking the plane limit this easy?"

"Just sitting at home and clicking skills to break through?"

"I actually want to work hard on my cultivation, are you looking down on me?"

Currently, Sect Leader Jiang has some abilities that have already surpassed the plane limits.

For instance, his Eighth-Layered Profound Pattern, which hasn't appeared even in the Immortal Realm or the Profound Realm.

Getting these things still involved some effort.

If one day he could break through just by clicking a button, that would indeed be too powerful.

Even though he complained verbally about the 'system looking down on him', his hand was quite honest.

This brother went ahead and clicked the system upgrade button again.

He spent ten trillion merit points and upgraded the system once more.

Then the system panel changed again!

Level: 16

Merit: 0/100000000000000

Available Merit: 563,134,267,984

Current Skills: The host can forcibly upgrade any mastered skill by consuming merit with no cooldown.

Note: The higher the value of the skill, the more merit needed.

Subordinate Skills: The host can forcibly enhance their bloodline and root bone tier by consuming merit with no cooldown.

Does this mean the Nine Patterns Cyan Dragon Bloodline and Primordial Dragon Bone can still be enhanced?

Such distant matters, Brother Cheng was too lazy to ponder more.

At this moment, he was fully concentrated on studying the recently acquired skill.

When he opened the upgrade panel, a bunch of skills appeared below.

All of these skills were those he already owned.

As he expected, skills like Alchemy, Artifact Refining, and Array Refining were all listed.

The Transmission Invisibility skill he got from the system was no exception.

Likewise, all the cultivation techniques, swordsmanship, immortal techniques, and soul techniques he mastered were all within the upgradeable range.

Moreover, the Immortal Soul tier, bloodline power, and Bragging Realm were all considered his mastered skills.

This means that all these can be forcefully enhanced through the system.

The Profound Patterns he supposed could be enhanced were no exception either; all 1000 Profound Patterns could be enhanced.

"Holy crap! Holy crap!"

"I've struck it rich, I'm really rich this time!"

"This is freaking overwhelming, isn't it?"

"Directly breaking through plane limits..."

Even someone as 'well-informed' as Brother Cheng was deeply shocked by this skill.

With an excited heart, he opened the Immortal Soul tier.

Last time at the Holy Hall, how strong the Jade Soul was is still fresh in his memory, and he wished he could immediately get a permanent version for himself.

However, when he opened it, he was instantly dumbfounded.

What appeared before him was a progress bar.

Currently, his Divine Soul tier is the Immortal Soul, and the end of the progress bar is the Jade Soul.

And the value on the progress bar was 7%.

This 7% should refer to those two mutated hands, where those two parts are already in the Jade Soul state.

But the other parts are not.

To become the complete version of Jade Soul as last time when cheating at the Holy Hall, he must fill the progress bar to 100%.

Then he looked at the merit required for enhancing the progress.

Increasing by 1% requires 50 billion merit.

Brother Cheng only had over 500 billion merit left at the moment, though he still had a lot of resources and materials that he hadn't exchanged, but those had other uses.

"Sorry to bother you."

He could only close the Immortal Soul panel.

Thinking carefully, relying on the Daoist Immortal Sound to enhance it is still pretty good!

He then opened the Profound Pattern enhancement panel.

Upon opening it, goodness, a full 1000 progress bars appeared before him.

The top two were the speed and water element Profound Patterns, showing the Eighth Layer because they had Cang Ling and Xuanming, these two ancient creatures, as their binders.

Sure enough, the next level was the Ninth Layer.

Current progress was 25% for speed and 17% for water element, both slightly past the Eighth Layer.

Judging from this progress comparison, the enhancement brought by the Azure Dragon Empress was actually slightly more than that by the Cyan Dragon Emperor.

But according to Brother Cheng's understanding, Cang Ling's power is actually a bit weaker than Xuanming's.

After all, she had wasted several tens of billions of years.

"Could it be the enhancement effect is related to the level of closeness?"

Back when Cang Ling was binding the speed Profound Pattern, it was her thought attached to him.

After thinking for a while, Brother Cheng couldn't figure it out, so he looked at the merit required for upgrading this Profound Pattern.

Each 1% required 10 billion merit.

And those Seventh Layer Profound Patterns cost only 1 billion merit each time for upgrading to the Eighth Layer.

Brother Cheng thought, he might as well keep the Seventh Layer ones for the future and let people close to him bind them.

This way, it can also improve the power of people around him.

As for those already reaching the Eighth Layer speed and water element Profound Patterns, he currently had no other enhancement methods, next up was mainly to elevate them to the Ninth Layer.

The speed Profound Pattern needed 750 billion, which was still not enough for now.

"Looks like I need a lot more merit!"

Closing the Profound Pattern panel, he checked other things.

To upgrade the Tier Nine Artifact Refining Technique to Tier Ten required tens of trillions of merit.

But then again, it's reasonable.

The artifacts refined at that level would surpass Tier Nine Immortal Artifacts' supreme treasures.

Any of those supreme treasures could easily alter the structure of the Immortal Realm.

Ultimately, he found that martial techniques were the cheapest.

A swordsmanship at the pinnacle level of the Profound Realm or the Immortal Realm required only 75 billion merit to pull the progress bar to the next tier.

So, this brother upgraded his "Immortal Thousand Splendor Sword Scripture" learned in the Profound Realm.

Then also upgraded the "Brahma Heaven Qianli Sword Technique" from the Immortal Realm side to Tier Ten.

After finishing, he checked the next thing to upgrade which was his Bragging Realm.

Spending 500 million merits to elevate it to the Budding realm, then an additional 8 billion to upgrade it to the Scattered Leaves realm.

Finally, he used 86 billion to elevate it straight to the Blooming realm.

"With another 900 billion merit, this realm can bear fruit and successfully transform into a real law!"

Brother Cheng wiped his forehead, feeling as if he were a hard-working gardener sweating his efforts.

He was quite looking forward to seeing what effects this Bragging Law would have when the time comes.

And while Brother Cheng was busy upgrading himself, the remnants of the Immortal Alliance and Holy Hall's high-level Demon Emperors gathered again.

"Everyone, the moment of life and death is upon us!"

"The Heavenly Dao actually can't block that demon's Divine Soul invasion, this is unbelievable!"

"Damn it, the Heavenly Dao actually left him a loophole, what does this mean?"

"Could it be that even the Heavenly Dao doesn't want to wipe him out?"

After complaining about the Heavenly Dao for a while, they had to face the imminent challenge.

"We can't count on the Heavenly Dao!"

The Dark Phecda Demon Emperor declared fiercely, "Since the power of the Immortal Realm can't eliminate him, we must rely on external forces!"

The face of Jiu Jue Immortal Emperor changed: "You're talking about... the Shadow Race?"

Back then, when the Shadow Race invaded, it was finally defeated gradually by the allied forces of the top experts from various races, the Xuan Race, and the Returning Immortal.

They retreated all the way to the edge of the Barbaric Realm's deep end.

There, the Shadow Race escaped into an absolute place resembling the Chaos Rift of yesteryear.

Experts from various races couldn't pursue further, ultimately sealing that rift.

Hence, the calamity of the Shadow Race was finally over.

And now, what the Dark Phecda Demon Emperor meant was simple.

Destroy the seal, release that group of the Shadow Race, and let them deal with Jiang Cheng.