Inch of Radiance Vol 1 Chapter 17.2

Book 1 Chapter 17.2 – Xiantian

Testing area.

“1550 crystals!” Li Yang looked at the testing results with a slight smile on his face.

Xiang Yu’s voice rang out from within Li Yang’s mind, “Li Yang ah, you’ve just taken your first step into the Xiantian realm and have not yet completely consolidated your strength. That’s why right now, your strength is only the lowest at 1000 crystals. In the future, you need to absorb more of the worldly spiritual essence. With your absorption speed, compared to others who need seven or eight years to break through, you most likely will only need half a year to reach the fourth layer.

When Li Yang heard this, he simply smiled and said, “I understand. My original rate of absorbing worldly spiritual essence is already faster than others by 10 times. With the Overlord’s help, my absorption of the worldly spiritual essence has already reached several dozen times that of others. However according to this idea, wouldn’t it be rather quick for me to obtain the sixth layer as well?”

Xiang Yu immediately sneered. “You really are greedy like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. The sixth layer represents the golden dan forming realm, and it is what truly signifies a true way cultivator! The internal energy will change from Xiantian qi to demonic qi, and the gap between the fifth and sixth layer is an enormous gap. On the other hand, the fourth and fifth layer both uses Xiantian qi, which is the reason why you can breakthrough so fast. As for the sixth layer, without ten years, it is impossible to break through.”

Li Yang stared blankly. “More than ten years?”

Xiang Yu explained, “Whatever, Overlord will still explain it to you in detail. The mortal realm is divided into the Houtian, Xiantian, Golden Dan, Nascent Soul, Tribulation, and Paragon stages! From Xiantian to Golden dan is a threshold, and from Golden Dan to Nascent Soul is another threshold. The hardest would be from Nascent Soul to Tribulation, as half of a cultivator’s life would be spent on this stage. Typically, true cultivators would need three or four hundred years.

The Tribulation stage is the shortest, as the beginning of the Tribulation stage is a preparatory stage lasting around ten years. The middle Tribulation stage is also known as the Heavenly Tribulation, and if you pa.s.s it, you pa.s.s it; if you fail it, then you fail it! After pa.s.sing Tianjie, you will enter the late Tribulation stage, and your internal energy will transform from demonic energy to demonic yuan energy. Once you finish converting your energy to demonic yuan energy, then you will have reached the Paragon stage. At that time, you will simply waiting for your summon into the demonic realm.

After Li Yang heard this, he finally understood things regarding the world of cultivation. In the end, Li Yang was someone who simply took his first step into the world of cultivators. Even if he continuously worked hard, obtaining the Golden dan realm still remained a difficult task.

Suddenly, Li Yang spoke as if he did not mind at all, “Forget it, since I have the help of the Overlord, realized three realms already, and have such a fast worldly spiritual essence absorption rate, I have already surpa.s.sed the people of the past. I believe that it will not be long before I obtain the Golden dan realm, so I can’t be too greedy.”

In reality, Xiang Yu wanted to crush Li Yang’s self-confidence as he didn’t want Li Yang to have too much pride and become too impetuous. With Xiang Yu’s help, obtaining the Golden dan realm within ten years was still possible.

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Li Yang continued to train like before, as that white-bearded elder still haven’t allowed Li Yang to use the B1 gene medicine, and did not come to meet Li Yang.

Li Yang leaned back against the ice cold metal wall and numbed himself with the alcoholic drink. His internal energy was madly circulating…

“Li Yang, recently your Xiantian realm can be considered to have consolidated a bit, and Overlord has two small skills to pa.s.s on to you. Although these skills are not particularly great, they are still quite useful for you to preserve your life.” Xiang Yu’s voice suddenly sounded from within Li Yang’s mind.

Li Yang raised his eyebrows, and immediately asked, “Small skills? What are they? Also, what are those great skills you are talking about?”

Overlord Xiang Yu arrogantly said, “Great skills of course refine the body. My devil cultivation prioritizes the body above all, and that immortal cultivation is the exact opposite, as all of them depend on methods and restrictions. Heng heng, those immortal individuals’ bodies are all so frail. My great Sovereign Chi You’s physical body has reached an immortal state, and even if the immortal realm’s three great Qing Sovereigns took action, they would still not be able to inflict the smallest amount of harm to my Sovereign Chi You.” Xiang Yu did not, however, talk about how although they couldn’t injure him, they could still cooperate to use their restrictions to trap Chi You.

When Li Yang heard this, he couldn’t help but laugh while saying, “Hoh, according to your words, wouldn’t the devil realm easily exterminate the immortal realm?”

Xiang Yu replied in shock, “This… haha, it still cannot be said in this way. Sovereign level experts are all inrivaled. The immortal realm has the three Qing sovereigns, and they have no way of dealing with great Sovereign Chi You, while Sovereign Chi You also has no way of dealing with them since their level of restriction methods have already reached a frightening realm.”

Li Yang suddenly replied in confusion, “Oh, this devil realm sovereign is only one person, so how can there be three in the immortal realm?”

Xiang Yu replied unyieldingly, “My devil realm of course also has three great Sovereigns, however, my devil realm is quite different from that immortal realm. In my devil realm, it is simply the survival of the fittest, and the three great Sovereigns represent three great powers. Li Yang, in the future, you will still be a subordinate of my great Sovereign Chi You. Moreover, although the amount of time my great Sovereign Chi You spent cultivation falls short of the other two, in terms of strength, he is definitely not inferior to the others!”

“Then what are the other two great Sovereigns?” Li Yang was rather curious.

Xiang Yu impatiently said, “Don’t ask anymore about the other two, as in the future, we will be enemies with them.”

Li Yang suddenly thought of a question. “Overlord, between the devil realm and the immortal realm, which of the two is more powerful?”

When Xiang Yu heard this, he had to think for quite a while before replying, “If it was one-on-one long distance combat, with the immortal pract.i.tioners’ methods, of course immortal pract.i.tioners would have the advantage. However, if it was close combat, with our devil realm experts’ powerful bodies, of course our devil realm would be stronger. If it was truly a large scale war, then our devil realm would definitely be more powerful. Our devil realm experts have all been brought up through battles, and although we aren’t proficient in restrictions, we still know a bit about them. Pity, however, that our devil realm is struggling with internal strife, and so we have always been at an equilibrium with the immortal realm. Otherwise, heng heng, I won’t say anymore. Right now, Overlord will pa.s.s on two small techniques to you. When the time comes, learn them.”

“Learn, of course I will learn!” Li Yang immediately replied. How could overlord Xiang Yu’s small techniques be considered normal skills?

Xiang Yu appeared quite pleased. “En, since it’s like this, Overlord will pa.s.s them on to your mind. You should just go and slowly comprehend it. Although these are small techniques, you still need to cultivate them for a long time.”

Immediately, Li Yang’s mind suddenly rippled, and a large volume of chants appeared within his mind.

After a period of time, Li Yang felt that his mind had cleared by quite a bit. He immediately began to organize the two small skills bestowed upon him by Xiang Yu!

“Breath Restraint Technique, Escape Technique!” A smiling expression suddenly appeared on Li Yang’s face. This ‘Breath Restraint Technique’ allowed one’s traces to vanish, and prevent others from seeing them. This was definitely a precious treasure for a.s.sa.s.sins. This ‘Breath Restraint Technique’ at a shallow level could allow one to mask one’s power, and once a deeper level was reached, one could completely conceal their existence.

However, the most shallow level of concealing one’s strength could already be cultivated at the Xiantian level.

As for the Escape Technique, there was no need to say anything. Upon seeing the Escape Technique, Li Yang felt his heart move and asked Xiang Yu, “Right, that j.a.panese ninja seemed to also know a Escape Technique. Is this Escape Technique the same as the Escape Technique used by that ninja?”

Xiang Yu said in disdain, “Brat, that day when you defeated that golden-floral ranked ninja, Overlord saw everything clearly. That Escape Technique used by that ninja was the most basic and simple type. According to the Overlord’s estimation, that ninja’s Escape technique should be that Kunlun Paradise five elements’ most basic technique. Overlord’s Escape Technique was seized from the Immortal Realm, and will naturally be stronger than that of the five elemental cultivator sect’s canonical text. You actually compared that little ninja’s Escape Technique to the one given to you by Overlord, heng, to not even think about Overlord’s ident.i.ty and status!” Xiang Yu was naturally annoyed. What kind of ident.i.ty and status did he hold? How could the stuff he brought out be inferior?

Li Yang immediately laughed. “Overlord, don’t be upset, I was simply asking.” After speaking, Li Yang did not bother Xiang Yu again, and began to cultivate the two techniques that were superior to the Kunlun Paradise five elemental’s senior canonical text alone!