Chapter 444: Chapter 156: Breaking Through to Fifth Grade, Unprecedented and Unparalleled

But when it came to Li Yuan, the Ancestral Talisman didn’t embed itself into his heart; instead, it settled quietly in the blood sand beside him, flowing silently with it.

Clap...

Zhao Chunxin’s legs went weak, and she knelt before Li Yuan like a tamed beast, gasping for breath.

Li Yuan glanced at the information beside her and discovered that her data cap had vanished, morphing into both an upper and lower limit hovering around "400."

This data remained stable, showing no signs of decrease, indicating Zhao Chunxin wouldn’t die.

Li Yuan retreated silently, then moved on to Xu Sheng and Yang Teng, gaining two more Ancestral Talismans.

After finishing these tasks, he retreated skillfully once more, handed the vehicle over to Er Bao, and asked, "Do you have any secret poisons from the Lotus Sect?"

"Yes... yes... I acquired them secretly, they’re from Sect Leader Guang’s faction."

"Sect Leader Guang?"

"Yes, Vice Sect Leader Peng Guang and Vice Sect Leader Peng Mi have always been at odds, but now Vice Sect Leader Peng Mi is dead..."

"Do you have any family members left?"

"None."

"Not even a maid?"

"If you want to play with women, any woman in the county can be played with, hehe..."

"Do you have a secret chamber at home?"

"I have one..."

"Alright, here’s what you do. Go home, crawl into the secret chamber, use your finger to write the blood word—’Guang’—on the floor, then cover it with your hand, and swallow that secret poison. Understand?"

"Yes, Master... I understand!"

"Goodbye, Er Bao."

"Goodbye, Master."

After making the final arrangements, Li Yuan went to a desolate place, motioned with his finger and returned to the Cloud Mountain Path.

By now, he could feel the three Ancestral Talismans near his heart beginning to merge.

The Giant Blade, Curved Blade, Fine Blade, these three blade-shaped Ancestral Talismans were forming a whole, a complete Ancestral Talisman.

Li Yuan could sense an unfamiliar, chaotic, and powerful thought gestating within that Ancestral Talisman.

It was like a brand new soul, a new personality.

Yet, he remained himself.

He seemed like an observer, watching the formation of this personality.

This was not a personality of a "person," but one utterly chaotic, insane, radical, not to be considered human, nor anything else.

But Li Yuan remained extremely calm, rational, and cautious.

This intrigued him greatly; he had encountered many Fifth Grades in the Divine Wood Hall, even perused their writings, and even his own wife was a Fifth Grade, yet none had ever mentioned "two personalities."

All that was mentioned was "feeling perfected."

Only upon reaching Fourth Grade did the dual personality situation appear, just like with Gu Xuejian.

But it was completely different from his situation with Gu Xuejian.

’Perhaps because I created my own cultivation skill, and although the creation was my own, I used the power from before I crossed over as well?’

He could only surmise this and continued to observe the personality.

But that personality was only a chaotic mass of dissonant noises.

He glanced at his own information and saw a simple change:

[Name: Li Yuan]

[Realm: Fifth Grade (Origin Realm)]

[Cultivation Skill: ??? (Fifth Grade) (1/2000)]

Li Yuan casually invested "1999" points.

Instantly, his self-created cultivation skill reached perfection.

Simultaneously, Li Yuan felt the Ancestral Talisman near his heart begin to spin quickly, this spinning giving him a feeling of his heart growing increasingly stronger,

the strengthened heart feeding back streams of Extreme Yang Blood Flow,

these blood flows appeared clumsy as they flowed out, yet they quickly became nimble, complex, and moved according to some kind of pattern once attached to the Ancestral Talisman, like Five Dragons Entwined Pearl.

This was the Five Dao Origin Blood.

This kind of spinning gave Li Yuan control over an "inner power," akin to "self-acting regional power," which allowed him to break free from the restraints of the ground and freely soar through the sky.

Yet, this form of spinning should have occurred around the heart, but it was outside the heart, truly strange and unusual.

The numbers naturally changed as well, significant yet peculiar, shifting from the original "2600~3350" to "2600~6138."

The strange part was that his upper limit underwent a massive change—not overly dramatic because he hadn’t yet acquired his own Spiritual Artifact, but his combat power lower limit hadn’t changed...

In other words, his lower combat power limit remained at Sixth Grade.

’What’s going on?’

He silently felt the changes at his heart.

The Five Dao Origin Blood entwined around the Ancestral Talisman beside his heart, rather than rotating his heart.

His heart was still wrapped with a single clumsy stream of Extreme Yang.

He observed carefully, noticing that the Ancestral Talisman seemed still quite empty, empty enough to absorb more Ancestral Register Fragments.

Additionally, he could press this Ancestral Talisman towards his heart.

’If it were a normal Fifth Grade, the Five Dao Origin Blood should entwine around the heart, while the Ancestral Talisman would be embedded inside the heart, enabling every drop of blood to carry the Talisman’s effect. At the same time, the personality seems to be influenced in some manner.’

’And now, I seem to be able to try fitting this Ancestral Talisman around my heart’s periphery...’

Think and act.

Li Yuan mentally moved.

The chaotic Ancestral Talisman immediately entered his heart.

Instantly, chaotic, unnameable, seemingly otherworldly cacophony filled Li Yuan’s mind, yet he felt incomparably powerful.

Clearly, he had now reached the region of his combat power upper limit, and the only reason he fell short was because he hadn’t triggered the Shadow Blood bubble within.

He mentally moved and shifted the Ancestral Talisman aside, the noise vanished entirely, and his heart returned to calmness.

Cloud Mountain Path, snow flying everywhere.

Li Yuan closed his eyes, perceiving the anomaly inside him, an anomaly possibly unprecedented, falling into silence.

His Ancestral Talisman resembled a wild beast, while he was the master holding its leash.

He will forever be himself, unchanging.

But if the beast within his heart is unleashed, he would no longer be himself, but this terrifying beast with seemingly limitless growth potential.