Cultivation System: Stronger with Age-Chapter 728 - 306: Sudden Surge in Strength, Immortal Demon War Brews_3
Moreover, this damage, when combined with Lin Xuankong’s Great Enhancement Technique that provided a forty-eightfold boost and remained effective even in the Earth Immortal Realm, could achieve an astonishing 288-fold damage output. Under such terrifying damage amplification, even Initial Tier Earth Immortals who hid their Divine Souls within their Earth Immortal Golden Cores could not withstand Lin Xuankong’s fatal strike!
Of course, the strongest aspect of the "Bullying the Old and Weak" Talent lay in its second effect: it also increased damage against opponents older than Lin Xuankong. It was crucial to understand that in the Immortal Realm, some High-Grade Earth Immortals were often tens of thousands of years old; even Eighth and Ninth-Grade Earth Immortals could be a hundred thousand years old or more. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
Normally, even if Lin Xuankong possessed a Seventh-Grade Immortal Artifact, he would not be able to breach the defenses of such High-Grade Earth Immortals. After all, even if he advanced to the Third-Grade Earth Immortal Realm, his strength would still lag far behind theirs. The robust Immortal Bodies of these High-Grade Earth Immortals were nearly indestructible, to say nothing of the resilience of their Earth Immortal Golden Cores. In the numerous texts of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect that Lin Xuankong had perused, it was recorded that since the Near Ancient Era, following the disappearance of High-Grade Immortal Artifacts, High-Grade Earth Immortals had rarely fallen in battle. The Great Success Yu Zhen Bodhisattva of the Spirit Platform Buddhism was renowned throughout the Immortal Realm, Demon Realm, and Monster Realm. This was because this revered Bodhisattva had once led many other Bodhisattvas from the Spirit Platform Buddhism to slay the Demon Lord of the Profound Yin Demon Sect.
With Lin Xuankong’s current realm and strength, it could be said that if a High-Grade Earth Immortal—an Eighth or Ninth-Grade one, for instance—stood undefended before him and allowed him to attack with full force, he still might not be able to completely damage their Immortal Body.
However, with the "Bullying the Old and Weak" Talent, it was a different story! For every thousand years of an opponent’s age exceeding his, the damage would increase twofold. If Lin Xuankong faced an opponent like Immortal Lord Luoshui Yaan Mingyu, a Ninth-Grade Earth Immortal, it would be manageable. After all, Immortal Lord Luoshui Yaan Mingyu’s talent was exceptionally rare; she had reached the Ninth-Grade Earth Immortal Realm over a thousand years prior, making her current age only about eight thousand years. Lin Xuankong’s "Bullying the Old and Weak" Talent would only increase damage against her by about sixteen times. However, other Eighth and Ninth-Grade High-Grade Earth Immortals often had ages spanning fifty to sixty thousand years. TSK! TSK!
Disregarding exceptionally ancient individuals, just a fifty-thousand-year-old Earth Immortal, if encountered by Lin Xuankong, would face a fiftyfold damage increase from this Talent alone. When combined with the forty-eightfold boost from his still-effective Great Enhancement Technique, the total amplification was staggering. TSK! TSK! If he encountered a hundred-thousand-year-old opponent? TSK! TSK! And if he faced an ancient monster one hundred and fifty thousand years old...
Lin Xuankong’s third Talent, in an Immortal Realm teeming with ancient beings, was simply incredible!
Of course, Lin Xuankong’s fourth Talent was equally terrifying. "Piercing the Mountain and Hitting the Ox"—it completely ignored all defenses, with the attack directly affecting the opponent’s body! This meant that regardless of how formidable an opponent’s Battle Armor, how wondrous their Defensive Immortal Techniques, or how powerful their Arrays were, none would be effective against Lin Xuankong’s attacks. This was especially significant because Lin Xuankong had been studying Arrays for over a decade and was well aware of their strength. For example, even if he activated his Seventh-Grade Immortal Sword and the Buddha-Calling Jade Talisman against the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect’s Sixth-Grade Sect Protection Array, he likely couldn’t breach it in a single strike. Furthermore, in the Central Divine Dynasty’s Central Earth region, many large Immortal Sects possessed Sect Protection Arrays far stronger than the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect’s Sixth-Grade Thousand Cranes Array; these were often Eighth or Ninth-Grade Arrays. Even Eighth and Ninth-Grade Earth Immortals could not easily penetrate them, let alone attack the cultivators sheltered within. But with his fourth Talent, "Piercing the Mountain and Hitting the Ox," no matter how potent a Grand Array was, it became virtually useless before Lin Xuankong; his attacks would always find their mark.
Apart from these two newly awakened Talents, Lin Xuankong’s strength had grown comprehensively over those twelve years. His Cultivation Realm, Nine Gates Celestial Eye, Alchemy Technique, and Artifact Refining Technique had all been steadily and rapidly advancing. Among these, the most outstanding improvement was the Nurturing Level of his Tier Nine Celestial Demon Bone. Since entering the Earth Immortal Realm, Lin Xuankong’s speed in nurturing the Celestial Demon Bone had increased manyfold. Now, the Nurturing Level of his Tier Nine Celestial Demon Bone had reached an extremely high degree: [Tier Nine True Spirit Bone: Mastery Level: 96,988,367/10,000,000,000].
The 96,988,367 points signified that the diameter of Lin Xuankong’s Celestial Demon Bone Secret Realm had reached 96,991,367 li. With such an enormous diameter, the area of the Celestial Demon Bone Secret Realm had grown to an unimaginable extent. To put it in perspective, Earth in Lin Xuankong’s previous life had a diameter of just over 25,000 li; this meant the diameter of his Celestial Demon Bone Secret Realm was nearly four thousand times greater than Earth’s. Even at Lin Xuankong’s current realm, flying at full speed without an Immortal Artifact, it would take him several hundred days to traverse the Secret Realm from one end to the other. Such vastness was almost on par with the entire Central Divine Dynasty Western Region! However, the Central Divine Dynasty Western Region was overseen by 126 Immortal Sects of the Central Divine Dynasty and managed by the countless dynasties under their jurisdiction. This Tier Nine Celestial Demon Bone Secret Realm, in contrast, belonged solely to Lin Xuankong!
