Chapter 270: Chapter 269: Formation Dao Breakthrough, Army at the Gates

BZZZT!

Su Ye’s deep, profound eyes shone with a brilliant light!

The surging power of his Divine Sense overflowed with a silver glow, as dazzling and resplendent as a river of stars!

"Ngh..."

Su Ye furrowed his brow slightly, raising his thumb to rub and press at his temples, which were throbbing with a faint pain.

’It’s a bit of a strain to contain Tier Four Divine Sense with a Mid-stage Crystal cultivation...’

After all, upon stepping into Tier Four Divine Sense,

Su Ye’s Divine Sense Perception range had quadrupled!

An area of four hundred and fifty li!

Such a vast area.

As his Divine Sense swept over it, countless images and sounds rushed in like a tidal wave!

A gecko on the palace eaves shifting its position to sunbathe, a peddler in a back alley haggling over the price of his goods, moss sprouting green in a hidden, damp, and dark corner...

"Whew..."

Su Ye lowered his gaze and sat down cross-legged, immersing his consciousness in his sea of knowledge to sort through the power of his Divine Sense.

After a long while,

Su Ye let out a long, clear breath.

He opened his eyes, and the silver light, as brilliant as a river of stars, retracted and converged within.

Only then did he finally, somewhat, adapt to the explosive growth of his Divine Sense!

"Tier Four Divine Sense is truly extraordinary!"

’If a slightly weaker Mid-stage Crystal cultivator were to suddenly gain such Divine Sense, I’m afraid they would never dare to use it recklessly again, would they?’

Su Ye mused jokingly.

After all,

when the Divine Sense surged, a massive amount of audio and visual information would converge.

It was genuinely possible to cause a cultivator’s brain to crash...

Thinking of that scene,

Su Ye’s lips curled up, and he couldn’t help but chuckle.

For him, while Tier Four Divine Sense was powerful, it was still within his limits!

The boon from the Celestial Dao.

And the Six Desires Secret Scripture.

These two fortunate opportunities had greatly enhanced the foundation and control of his Divine Sense!

Compared to cultivators of the same realm, Su Ye’s Divine Sense was more agile and easier to control.

Besides that,

his Tier Three Late Stage Body Refining realm was also a great help!

The soul and the physical body.

The two were intimately related and mutually influential!

’A powerful physical body can bear more Divine Sense...’

Su Ye murmured to himself.

After all, according to cultivation scriptures,

an overly formidable physical body could lead to ’spirit-flesh fusion,’ causing one’s soul to dissolve and merge completely with the body!

Whereas an overly vast Divine Sense could cause ’Body Voidification,’ where the physical body gradually dematerializes, transforming into a pure Soul Body to exist in the world!

Pure Body Refining, pure Refining Spirit.

These two cultivation methods,

in the early days of the immortal path, were quite widespread and had many followers.

And indeed, these two paths had produced many renowned and powerful figures.

However,

the imbalance between spirit and flesh ultimately had more drawbacks than benefits.

Therefore, these two cultivation paths have now faded and declined.

They have been replaced by the path of the Golden Core, which focuses on the unity of the three treasures: essence, qi, and spirit.

It was precisely because he knew this

that Su Ye had never slacked on his Body Refining realm!

...

Another quarter of an hour passed.

Su Ye had completely mastered his Tier Four Divine Sense.

"It’s time to leave."

He stood up, and with a slight stir of his Magical Power, he transformed into a gentle breeze and left the secret vault.

WHOOSH.

In an instant,

Su Ye’s figure appeared on the surface.

The warm sunlight shone down, making him feel quite cheerful.

’What should I do next?’

Su Ye’s eyes shifted as he fell into thought.

’That’s right, my Divine Sense has already reached Tier Four.’

’Both its strength and precision have improved dramatically. I suppose... my skill in arrays should also rise accordingly?’

Su Ye’s eyes lit up.

His mastery of arrays had been stuck at the quasi-Tier Three level for a long time.

This had also been a source of some frustration for him.

After all, his Divine Sense level was equivalent to Crystal Perfection, yet he couldn’t become a Tier Three Array Master...

This proved that Su Ye’s talent for arrays was truly quite average!

’No problem!’

’I’ll just brute force it!’

With the aid of Tier Four Divine Sense, breaking through to Tier Three in array mastery would be completely unobstructed!

With this in mind, Su Ye headed for his palace.

A jade slip appeared in his hand.

Within it was every array inheritance Su Ye had managed to collect!

This included seven Tier Three inheritances, two quasi-Tier Four inheritances, and one fragmented Tier Four inheritance that he had found in the secret vault of Weiyuan Immortal City.

Su Ye gripped the jade slip and began his secluded cultivation!

His Divine Sense sank into the jade slip.

A vast amount of information emerged.

"Oh..."

"So that’s how it is..."

"I understand!"

Though his eyes were tightly shut, a smile formed on Su Ye’s lips.

After stepping into Tier Four, the explosive growth of his Divine Sense had drastically improved Su Ye’s cognitive, perceptive, and constructive abilities!

In such a state, improving his cultivation arts was also much simpler!

The problems Su Ye had previously faced with his array techniques... were solved with ease under the powerful computational deductions of his Divine Sense!

BZZZT!

Time passed!

In just six short hours, through his dedicated study, forgetting to eat or sleep, his level of array mastery took another great leap forward!

"Tier Three Array Master!"

"I did it!"

Opening his eyes, Su Ye looked somewhat exhausted, but he couldn’t hide his joy!

Brute force wins the day!

This is what it means to win with brute force!

As long as your Divine Sense is strong enough, even with poor talent in arrays, you can force your way through and push the cultivation art to a higher level!

’Besides... a Tier Three Array Master?’

’There aren’t many of those in the entire Cyan Profound Sect’s sea region, are there?’

’Heh... My talent for arrays surpasses that of ninety-nine percent of the cultivators in the entire Cyan Profound Sea Region!’

Su Ye let out a satisfied laugh, his mood joyous.

Then, his expression shifted, and he took out another jade slip.

This jade slip was from twenty years ago!

That’s right.

It was the profound truths of arrays that Su Ye had recorded during the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s two advancements!

"Now, I should be able to understand a bit of it, right?"

Su Ye muttered.

He immersed his Divine Sense into the jade slip, and then... his eyes gradually lit up.

"It can be done like this?!"

...

「The next day.」

Aboard the Ghostly Flood Dragon.

This majestic spirit ship floated in the sky, using the power of Magnetic Reversal.

White, flowing clouds drifted around it, creating a mysterious, half-hidden effect, like a divine dragon showing its tail but not its head.

Su Ye stood on the deck, looking at Jiaojiao, and asked with concern,

"Jiaojiao, how do you feel?"

"Amazing!"

Jiaojiao was incredibly excited.

Her Ruby-like eyes shone brightly.

From her small, slender body, a deep and terrifying aura emerged.

Compared to before, Jiaojiao... or rather, the Ghostly Flood Dragon, had been strengthened!

Su Ye had used his own mastery of arrays, combined with the profound truths of advancement, to optimize the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s Arrays and had even inlaid three supreme-grade Spirit Stones into it!

"The output of the ship’s onboard Arrays has increased by 45%!"

"Jiaojiao has gotten stronger!"

"Master is the best!"

Jiaojiao’s eyes sparkled.

Su Ye clapped his hands and laughed.

But suddenly, a look of surprise appeared in his eyes as he gazed outside Aino City.

Immediately after, Su Ye let out a soft chuckle.

"Jiaojiao, some kind-hearted people have come knocking."

"They’re here to help you test the power of your Arrays, and they’re bringing free snacks."

"Eh?"

"Where are they?!"

A light shone in Jiaojiao’s eyes!