Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme - Chapter 115:
Chapter 115: Chapter 81: Harvest (Summary)_l
Translator: 549690339
Although Zhuangzhou Mengdie allows for the interchange of existence and non-existence and the transmission of various items, it is not a matter of sending whatever one wishes.
One must act according to their capabilities!
Take the Blackwater Divine Seal, for instance, Xu Yang once entertained the thought.
However, he discovered that the divine soul power required to transmit the Blackwater Divine Seal was terrifyingly vast; even Jiao Dragons at the Golden Core Transformation tier could not satisfy even one ten-thousandth of it.
Indeed, one ten-thousandth!
Is the Blackwater Divine Seal truly so precious that the soul of a Jiao Dragon at the Golden Core Transformation tier cannot transmit even one ten-thousandth of it?
Xu Yang did not understand at first either, but later he gradually realized it was not the Blackwater Divine Seal that was valuable, but the “Black Water River!”
The divine seal is the tangible right of the heavens and the earth; to transmit the divine seal is to transmit the heavens and the earth, to transmit a world!
Just imagine, tearing the entire Black Water River from the Black Water World and moving it through transmission to the real world. How much energy would it consume to go back and forth, in and out?
For a mere Jiao Dragon at the Golden Core tier, being insufficient to even one ten-thousandth of it is completely reasonable.
So what about this bit of crystal…
Is it one ten-millionth or one hundred-millionth?
Neither.
Through research, Xu Yang found that to transmit the entire divine seal, which would mean transmitting the entire Black Water River, was completely unrealistic.
But by this, he also proposed a bold conjecture.
If not the entire Black Water River, just a bit of Black Water, or even without the Black Water, just an empty divine seal?
Would the cost be much lower then?
Xu Yang had not tried, but he thought it was feasible, so in the final moments of his self-destruction, he attempted it, breaking down the divine seal, severing the right, and creating an “empty” divine seal.
Then, he succeeded, though not completely.
The right and the divine seal were one and the same; there was no such thing as “empty.” So after severing the right, Xu Yang did not get a complete empty divine seal but only a piece of an incomplete divine seal shard.
The function of this shard is…
Xu Yang rose, left the little cabin, and entered the medicinal field.
Looking at the small island where he had been living for nearly twenty years, he hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he chose to embed the divine seal shard into the ground.
As the shard entered the earth, there was no sound, and everything seemed normal, yet something was changing imperceptibly in the darkness.
Xu Yang had no words, only activated Divine Intent and entered the Unity of Heaven and Man state.
Soon after, he brought his hands together in a seal, and in an instant, the Earth Aura gathered like dragons, forming a point of Spirit Light that fell into the center of his brows.
This is—Condensing Spirit, the method of solidifying a divine seal!
As mentioned earlier, divine seals came from two sources: one was the condensation of heaven and earth, and the other was the division by godhood.
Condensation of heaven and earth is divided into natural condensation and artificial condensation. The former needs no explanation, but the latter requires finding an ownerless land not yet solidified into a divine seal. Using the “sealing” method to gather Earth Aura, it would take years, perhaps even centuries of continuous effort, to successfully form a divine seal.
This method is extremely time-consuming, taking at least a hundred years of nonstop gathering of Earth Aura to succeed.
But now…
Within Xu Yang’s sea of consciousness, a seal floated.
He had succeeded!
This was the function of that bit of a divine seal shard, allowing Xu Yang to rapidly solidify a divine seal.
It’s just… a little small!
The Spiritual Land range of this divine seal authority was just like its predecessor, only a tiny bit.
How tiny is it?
Just this medicinal field, this less than fifty square meters medicinal field!
Heavens be merciful, even for the lowest tier Earth Deities holding the Earth God position, the divine seal authority’s Spiritual Land spans over ten miles, encompassing one or more villages.
For slightly higher-tier Earth Deities, like his position as Black Water Dragon Monarch, the divine seal authority’s Spiritual Land is the entire Black Water River, stretching over eight hundred miles just like Dongting Lake.
What does this less than fifty square meters medicinal field amount to?
Even a well-residing Dragon King has tens to hundreds of miles of underwater area beneath the well!
Isn’t his miniature version a bit too extreme?
Xu Yang was somewhat helpless.
But soon he accepted reality and consoled himself, “It may be small, but it’s better than nothing. Not to mention that it can grow in the future. In this world, there should be no one else cultivating the Earth Deity Law. With only me, it will surely develop rapidly.”
Although this was self-consolation, it was not unreasonable.
The cultivation of Earth Deities relies upon the Spiritual Land. With proper management, the Spiritual Land can indeed grow.
Especially in this world, without the restraint of the Heavenly Court or competition from godhood, as long as he could handle those Cultivators and invest vast resources, the Spiritual Land would rapidly develop. A low starting point hardly mattered.
Not to mention, he still had an “external bonus!”
Xu Yang
Lifespan: 70/350
Cultivation: Condensing Spirit and Rebirth (internal and external training, four-tiered realm)
Pre-existing skills: Eating, Sleeping, Breathing, Cooking, Fishing, Boating,
Disguising, Knife Sharpening, Throwing Weapons, Swimming, Butchering, Walking, Archery, Reading, Training in Martial Arts, Taoist Skills, Medical Arts…
New traits:
Dreaming (Zhuangzhou Mengdie, Cycle of Rebirth, Divine Travel Through Worlds)
Beast Taming (Enlightening Transmutation, Thriving Growth, Dragon King’s
Command, Dragon Monarch’s Grace, Fish Leaping Over Dragon Gate)
Formation (Stone Formations, Mirroring Moon in the Water, Strategy and
Battle Formations, Assisting with Mystic Water)
Spirit Plant (Exotic Flowers and Rare Herbs, Cultivation of Fine Species, Minor
Cloud Rain Skill, Thriving Growth, Pest-Free and Fewer Diseases, Bountiful Harvest of Grains)
Artifact Refining (Skilled Craftsmanship, Divine Weapons and Equipment, Aquatic Clan Soldier’s Armor)
New Skills:
Alchemy (Practice Makes Perfect, Grass and Wood Spirit Pills)
Painting Talisman (Inspired Brushwork, Thunder Talisman Lightning Spell)
Earth Deities (Tending to Earth Veins, Earth Deity Transformation, If There Be Dragons, The Land Thrives, Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, Clam Ladies and Turtle Ministers, Dragon Department’s Personal Army)
Martial Arts: Martial Arts Scripture.
Innate Ability: Thunder Commanding Power.
Xu Yang dreamed he was a fish for just over a hundred years, after which he perished in the Blood Moon Calamity brought about by the descent of Mara.
In just over a hundred years, he didn’t master many skills, and even fewer were transmitted back.
They can be explained one by one, in appropriate detail.
First and foremost are the dreaming skills. In addition to the existing
Zhuanzhou Mengdie and Cycle of Rebirth, a new trait was added—”Divine
Travel Through Worlds.”
The effect of this trait is simple, it consumes the power of the Divine Soul to target a world for direct divine travel, eliminating the need to enter someone else’s dreams and instead directly creating a body, akin to sending in an avatar.
The benefit is quite clear, in the world of dreams Xu Yang is even less fearful of death, as even if he’s killed, he can re-enter through divine travel and start anew.
The downside is the huge cost, as it requires the consumption of a large amount of Divine Soul power, and the damage is even more serious if death occurs during divine travel.
Besides, one cannot directly choose a world—it is only possible to target worlds that have been previously visited.
Because this trait emerged in the “Black Water World,” previous worlds like Great Zhou and Great Tang are not included in the travel history, so for now it is only possible to designate the Black Water World for divine travel.
This means that Xu Yang could indeed start dreaming again and return to the Black Water World to check on things.
But clearly, he won’t do that.
Are you kidding? To go back at a time like this and be killed by those Asuras again?
The Black Water World is beyond saving. The ‘Qiong Gao” Heavenly Emperor has vanished without a trace, and the remaining Emperor-level deities have also fled; the divine realms and Cave Heaven Blessed Lands have separated from the Three Realms, all to evade the might of “Mara.”
Unless the Heavenly Emperor can return, leading the gods to fight against Mara and the Demon Realm’s army, there is no hope for the Black Water World.
Whether the Heavenly Emperor can return, Xu Yang does not know, but he has no intention of re-entering the Black Water World, at least not now.
Returning to the main topic, after dreaming, there’s the new skill that replaced “Breeding”—Beast Taming!
Enlightening Transmutation, Thriving Growth, and the Dragon King’s Command need no further explanation, as they’re all existing traits.
The focus is on the newly added Dragon Monarch’s Grace and Fish Leaping
Over Dragon Gate.
Dragon Monarch’s Grace enhances the transformation effect on the aquatic species.
Fish Leaping Over Dragon Gate increases the growth and evolution efficiency of “Dragon Species” among the aquatic population, and there’s even a chance for them to transcend and transform completely.
This becomes a powerful tool for cultivating a Water Army. Xu Yang was able to nurture four generals with Golden Core Transformation Cultivation and many junior officers with Foundation Establishment in just over a hundred years, thanks to these two skill traits.
It’s known that Demon Race lifespans are generally long and their cultivation progresses slowly; reaching Golden Core Transformation at a little over a hundred years old is already peerless talent amongst common demon beings.
This is the effect of “Beast Taming.”
Next is Formation.
Mirror Flower Water Moon, replacing Blend False with True, enhances the effect of the “Illusion Array”.
Military Strategy Formation enables the use of soldiers as flags to enhance the “Combat Array” effect.
Mysterious Water Assistance yields aid from “Mysterious Water” when laying out formations in water domains.
It’s not very strong, but it’s passable, barely satisfactory.
Following Formation is the new skill that replaced “Planting”—Spirit Plant growth.
Added traits include Selective Breeding, Minor Cloud Rain Skill, and Bumper Crop.
Selective Breeding and Bumper Crop are self-explanatory and need no elaboration.
Minor Cloud Rain Skill, on the other hand, enhances the effect of the “Minor Cloud Rain Skills,” strengthening the power of the spiritual rain.
Each has its use and is rather good.
After Plant Growth comes the new skill that replaced “Craftsman”—Artifact Refining.
Among them, Divine Weapons and Equipment and Skilled Craftsmanship are existing traits, with only the addition of Aquatic Clan Soldier’s Armor being new.
Its function is as follows: when using aquatic materials such as turtle shells, clam shells, crab carapaces, shrimp carapaces, snake skins, fish bones, etc., to refine armor-type magic artifacts, the overall effect is greatly enhanced.
These are all the added traits to old skills.
Now for the new skills.
There are not many new skills, only three.
Alchemy, Painting Talisman, Earth Deities.
With Alchemy’s Practice Makes Perfect, as long as one practices enough times, the success rate of alchemy will inevitably improve.
Grass and Wood Spirit Pills enhance the alchemy effects of “grass and wood” type spirit pills, including the success rate, pill yield, and quality of the pills, etc., very versatile.
Painting Talisman’s Inspired Brushwork is similar, effectively increasing the success rate of drawing talisman inscriptions.
However, Thunder Talisman Lightning Spell is worth mentioning, as it comprehensively enhances the effect of “thunder and lightning talismans,” and combined with the innate ability Thunder Commanding Power that was transferred over, Xu Yang would be extremely popular if he were to make and sell thunder and lightning talismans, potentially becoming a market highlight and earning a fortune without difficulty.
The last Earth Deities skill is a culmination of a hundred years as a “Black Water Dragon Monarch”.
Tending to Earth Veins needs no explanation, simply enhancing the effect of tending to them.
Earth Deity Transformation improves the transformation effect.
If There Be Dragons, The Land Thrives indicates that all “dragon-related” creatures within the Spirit Land can benefit the land, even improving the tier of the Spirit Land and godhood.
Finally, Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, Clam Ladies and Turtle Ministers, and Dragon Department’s Personal Army further enhance the transformation effect on shrimp, crabs, turtles, clams, and all dragon-type fish species, in combination with the “Beast Taming” skill, allowing him to establish a formidable Water Army at Dongting Lake.
This is what has been accumulated and gained from a hundred years of divinity in the Blackwater River..
