Along with the broken saber, Li Fuchen12Li FuchenMain Protagonist now had two half-god equipment shards.
The other half-god equipment shard was a fire dao half-god equipment shard from the Fire Virtue God Lord.
However, the fire dao half-god equipment shard was only the size of a cup opening, it was far inferior to the broken saber.
Of course, be it the fire dao half-god equipment shard or the broken saber, they were both beyond regular mid-grade universe treasures. Back at the Land of Inception, the Fire Virtue God Lord used the fire dao half-god equipment shard to pierce through the Primal Fire Lotus’ defense and injured Li Fuchen.
But it was due to the fact that Li Fuchen had absorbed all the calamity power within the Primal Fire Lotus and it was now incomplete.
When returning from the Land of Inception, Li Fuchen had obtained close to 20 low-grade universe treasures and one of them was a saber dao universe treasure. It was called the Heaven Fiend Saber Core.
The Heaven Fiend Saber Core was formed with the fiendish qi of the universe’s saber dao source. It naturally contained the reasonings of saber dao. For a saber wielder, it was a cultivation treasure that was hard to come by.
Apart from that, Li Fuchen had obtained a stalk of Realization Flower from the Land of Inception.
The Realization Flower might only be a peak-grade treasure, but its rarity was comparable to regular low-grade universe treasures. It could allow cultivators to increase their perception by 100 times during the medicinal effect.
With a 100 times increase in perception wasn’t just simply increasing efficiency by 100 times. There were times when a person would be stuck at a bottleneck, those with great perception might be able to break through after a short period of time, but those with average perception might need 1000, 10,000, or even 100,000 times more time to break through.
For perception to increase by 100 times, it was definitely effective for a pinnacle unparalleled lord. It was only ineffective for people like Li Fuchen who already had heaven-defying perception.
Li Fuchen had tried it a little and realized it only slightly increased his speed of thoughts and was negligible.
There were other saber dao peak-grade treasures apart from the Heaven Fiend Saber Core and the Realization Flower. Li Fuchen had obtained treasures like the saber bone fossil, Thousand Calamity Saber Sand, and others.
With the assistance of so many saber dao treasures, Yan Qingwu’s cultivation speed was the same as to soar through the clouds. In less than 50 years, she progressed from grade 4 heaven lordess all the way into a city lord-level heaven lordess.
To add on, Yan Qingwu had changed her cultivation location from the World Fruit to the World Core. Furthermore, the time acceleration had increased from 3000 times to 10,000 times.
As such, in less than 50 years, Yan Qingwu’s age had actually increased by 500,000 years.
Her actual age was already far beyond Li Fuchen.
However, at the level of a heaven lord, one’s lifespan would be nearly infinite and age no longer had any significance. Once a person becomes a lord, their lifespan would be truly eternal, and it would be a joke to talk about age.
Yan Qingwu was progressing fast, but the werewolf incarnation’s progress was fast too. This was because the werewolf incarnation’s original cultivation realm was already high, as he was already an elite lord.
With the low-grade universe treasure, Darkness Spirit Pearl, given by Li Fuchen, in less than 50 years, the werewolf incarnation progressed by two levels and became an unparalleled lord.
Seeing that the werewolf incarnation was strong enough, Li Fuchen simply gave the mid-grade universe treasures, Primal Fire Lotus and Primal Stone Essence to the werewolf incarnation.
With these two mid-grade universe treasures, there were only a few individuals below the half-gods that could deal with the werewolf incarnation.
However, now that the werewolf incarnation was an unparalleled lord, he could only have 1000 times time-acceleration inside the World Core, which was much lesser than the 10,000 times time-acceleration previously.
It was truly a pity.
Another 50 years passed by and it had been 100 years since Li Fuchen returned from the Land of Inception. Yan Qingwu worked diligently and finally reached the limit of city lord-level heaven lordess.
“I only have one last portion of the Realization Flower.” Yan Qingwu opened her eyes and looked at the remaining Realization Flower with reluctance.
Realization Flowers were simply too rare, therefore Yan Qingwu had split it into 100 portions. Each time she hit a bottleneck, she would consume a portion. The Realization Flower was definitely the main reason why she could progress so quickly.
“This broken saber is for you. It might be able to give you inspiration.”
Not far away, Li Fuchen had also opened his eyes and handed the broken saber to Yan Qingwu.
“This is?”
Yan Qingwu could feel the terrifying saber qi from the broken saber. The saber qi might be very reserved and was slightly exposed from the broken area, but it was far superior to the feeling from the Heaven Fiend Saber Core.
Li Fuchen replied, “This is a broken half-god equipment. The saber dao contained within is beyond this universe’s saber dao. But precisely because it is too profound, it isn’t that easy to comprehend.”
If Li Fuchen was a saber wielder, he wouldn’t mind comprehending the saber dao on it.
“Half-god equipment…” Yan Qingwu couldn’t help opening her mouth.
In the past, she had this uncomfortable feeling when she was totally relying on Li Fuchen and it felt that she was lacking some joy in life. But as time elapsed, she gradually understood that if she didn’t rely on Li Fuchen, she wouldn’t even be able to glimpse Li Fuchen’s shadow.
Li Fuchen was progressing too quickly and in order to keep up, it wasn’t possible without help.
Yan Qingwu was shocked that Li Fuchen was even able to obtain a half-god equipment, even though it was incomplete.
“Perhaps, it isn’t a bad thing to rely on Li Fuchen. The outside world might be exciting, but with eternal life, I can slowly experience them in the future. Most importantly, by following Li Fuchen, I can achieve extreme progression and it is actually very exhilarating and fresh.” Yan Qingwu thought to herself.
“I wouldn’t feel strange if you were to become a god one day.” Yan Qingwu chuckled.
Li Fuchen said, “Don’t worry. If I become god, I will definitely make all of you gods too.”
“I shall wait for that day.”
Yan Qingwu took a deep breath and engrossed herself in the study of the broken saber.
This broken saber was called Red Prestige Saber. It had a long and narrow body, and also a reserved saber light. Only after energy was supplied, it would then burst out with terrifying saber radiance.
“Such a terrifying saber.”
Yan Qingwu was having a chill in her bones as she felt as though there was a pair of eyes looking at her from the saber.
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120 years…
“My sword art is finally at perfection.”
On this day, Li Fuchen’s qi presence suddenly turned normal. From a generational swordsman into an ordinary swordsman.
Every single move felt like it was part of nature. It was obvious he had reached the stage where sword dao was a part of him.
“Be it the heaven stab sword dao, taichi sword dao, or the primary extreme sword dao, they were just names. The truly important matter was who gave that name.”
Feeling the endless sword dao source essence pouring into his body, Li Fuchen’s qi presence was getting more normal and dull. When walking on the road, others would only know he was a swordsman, but not how powerful he was.
“This investment is a guaranteed success.”
In one of the Crosswise River Star Domain’s hazard lands, the Heaven Stab Sword God and the Storm Rain Saber God were drinking wine at a waterfall. The waterfall was tremendously powerful as the splashes of the water was enough to seriously injure a regular city lord-level heaven lord. However, when splashing on them, it was only ordinary splashes.
Lifting a wine cup to drink, the Heaven Stab Sword God’s eyes were filled with surprise and shock, but there was more rejoice.
“This child is indeed different.” The Storm Rain Saber God nodded. When he spared Li Fuchen, he did have the intention to make friends.
The moment Li Fuchen’s sword art broke through, the Lord Rankings appeared. Li Fuchen rose from 2nd rank to 1st rank, replacing the Bright God Lord.
There was a huge commotion everywhere in the universe.
“1st rank. The Primary Extreme Lord ultimately surpassed the Bright God Lord to become the no.1 lord.”
“Isn’t this expected? Back at the Land of Inception, so many pinnacle unparalleled lords worked together and still weren’t a match for the Primary Extreme Lord.”
“This is different. At the Land of Inception, the Primary Extreme Lord relied on universe treasures to defeat everyone. In terms of his own strength, he was only 2nd rank on the Lord Rankings. But now, he is a genuine 1st ranker. Even without universe treasures, there are probably no lords that can defeat him.”
Everyone was in discussion. They knew that the Lord Rankings didn’t prove anything, as there were people with strong qi presence, but might not have matching strength. There were some with weak qi presence, but ridiculous strength.
But in normal situations, the higher the ranking, the stronger the qi presence and strength. Furthermore, by looking at the Primary Extreme Lord’s battle results, it wasn’t hard to see that Li Fuchen was the kind who had more strength than qi presence. When he was 2nd rank, his strength might not be weaker than the Bright God Lord.
“That is true, the Primary Extreme Lord is indeed incredible. For countless years, the 1st ranker of the Lord Rankings had already been the god race. Finally another race took over.”
“That’s right, the god race is too powerful. Among the top 10 rankers of the Lord Rankings, three of them are inside.”
“The god race has plenty of half-gods too. The universe no.1 half-god has always been a god race’s half-god.
People who knew about the god race’s foundation were shivering in their hearts.
For countless years, the god race had been the core of the universe. They dictated the direction of the universe’s history. Most of the major events had shadows of the god race inside. Like the War of the World Tree, Perennial War… It was said that the god race was the one who started it.
There were legends saying that the god race’s ancestor was a true god. Only a true god could produce such a terrifying race.
Li Fuchen couldn’t hear the discussions happening all over the universe. Right now, he had already fused into the sword dao source.
With Primary Extreme Sword Art at the perfection-state of star domain-level, it meant that Li Fuchen’s primary extreme sword dao was also at perfection-state.
As for the Primary Extreme Sword Technique, strictly speaking, it wasn’t a pure sword dao.
The explanation had to start from the source of the cultivation technique.
Cultivation techniques originated from the human race, and there was no doubt about it.
The human ancestors observed the sun, moon, and stars. They observed the circulation of the universe. They felt the limitless and unending energy of the universe. They knew that the human race was indistinct, like a speck of dust in the universe that could be vanquished anytime.
There was a wiseman among the humans that started to simulate the universe, creating energy circulation techniques suitable for the human race. This energy circulation technique became the earliest known cultivation technique.
This universe had countless galaxies, and they were just like the meridians and acupoints. They seemed unrelated, but actually had a deep level of connection. Inside the galaxies, there were massive numbers of star domains. Each star domain had countless stars. Each system enclosed another system and every system was joint together like gears. There were no flaws and it was similar to cultivation techniques.
Sword dao cultivation technique and cultivation technique didn’t have much difference. The only difference was the cultivator’s comprehension towards sword dao.
Li Fuchen’s primary extreme sword dao was already at perfection-state. As long as he could have a complete understanding of his own body composition and the universe’s composition, he would achieve a clear comprehension. He would then be able to push the Primary Extreme Sword Technique to perfection-state too.
By then, he would be an absolute lord, reaching the limit of the universe.
Any further would be the realm of the gods.
130th year…
Boom!
A saber qi that contained eternal qi presence burst through the sky.
Yan Qingwu broke through.
She might have just broken through and was still an ordinary lordess, but her lifespan was now eternal. She no longer had to worry about aging to death.
“I finally broke through.” Yan Qingwu let out a breath and was filled with joy.
She knew clearly that her strength wasn’t worth mentioning when compared with Li Fuchen. But now, at least their lifespan was the same.
In these 130 years, no one knew how much pressure Yan Qingwu was under.
100 million years of lifespan might seem a lot, but with 10,000 times the time-acceleration, it was only over 10,000 years.
Right now, she no longer had to worry. Let alone 10,000 times the time-acceleration, even 100,000 times or 1 million times the time acceleration was nothing.
After taking a glance at Li Fuchen, Yan Qingwu continued to comprehend the saber dao.
In the 180th year, the werewolf incarnation broke through into a powerful unparalleled lord.
One could notice that the werewolf incarnation’s breakthrough speed was getting slower as he progressed.
There wasn’t a choice as the werewolf incarnation only had a small portion of Li Fuchen’s spirit soul quality. Even with that, such cultivation speed was already beyond most half-gods.
In the 200th year, Li Fuchen stood up.
“If I rely on myself to comprehend, it is impossible to push the Primary Extreme Sword Technique to the perfection-state. Since the human ancestors observed the sun, moon, stars, and universe cultivation to create cultivation techniques, then I should also observe the sun, moon, stars, and universe circulation.”
In a flash, Li Fuchen exited the Deep Blue Plane.
There was definitely a certain level of danger, as he might be discovered by some half-god.
It was fortunate that he had a perfection sword art and also the Primary Inception Bracelet. He might have the strength to contest with a half-god.
Most importantly, if he stayed in the Deep Blue Plane, anyone could find him. But it was different if he explored the universe. His whereabouts wouldn’t be fixed and as long as he was careful, it was hard for him to be discovered.
…
Time passed by quickly as Li Fuchen left his footprints all over the universe.
With his current speed, traveling from one star domain to another would only take a moment. It allowed him to explore with extreme speed.
Hazard lands, ruins, peculiar stars, mystical universe scenery, countless civilizations.
As Li Fuchen explored, he nearly forgot about the fact that he was trying to upgrade the Primary Extreme Sword Technique.
He had never noticed how beautiful the universe was.
“Sometimes, I should just stop to see the scenery and experience the meaning of life. I shouldn’t be progressing so quickly and neglecting everything.”
