I Can Fix My Talent in Hundred Lives-Chapter 284 - 228: Double Star Wonders
The void in the western Great Wilderness remains chaotic.
Outside Broken Sword Valley, amidst the space, a faint golden light dissipates, followed by the quiet appearance of a gap less than half a foot wide, trembling slightly as if about to close completely.
In the next moment, a dazzling sword light shoots out from the gap, sharp yet understated, carrying a faint Sword Rhyme. Drawing a graceful arc through the void, it lands steadily on the desert dunes.
As the light fades, Chen Sheng’s figure appears. He remains in that gray-blue Daoist robe, with a faint sword light seemingly circulating at the hems, a natural phenomenon formed after achieving Sword Momentum, blending Sword Intent and self Mana.
Introspecting his Dantian, Chen Sheng can clearly see the transformation of that Sword-carrying Nascent Soul.
The current Nascent Soul has grown to over four inches tall, with the Void Mark on its forehead becoming more refined, holding a cauldron in the left hand and an array banner in the right, much taller than when first forming the Nascent Soul.
Sorrounded by Mana becoming increasingly condensed, faintly revealing the colors of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, the Power of Origin from his Five Elements Celestial Spirit Root.
The long sword behind the Nascent Soul is precisely his Lifebound Flying Sword "Tingyu Sword," its body covered in dense patterns that subtly resonate with the Sword Intent around the Nascent Soul, each move carrying a hint of controlling the world’s might.
Chen Sheng nodded slightly. Since forming the Nascent Soul, it has been over a hundred and eighty years; with the Five Elements Celestial Spirit Root, Tier Five Sword Scripture, and a constant supply of Elixir Pills, his Mana accumulation speed far surpasses ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivators.
"According to the current trend, at most another ten or twenty years, I can cultivate to the peak of Nascent Soul Early-stage."
"With my aptitude, there should be no bottlenecks in the Nascent Soul early to mid-stage, though the late-stage might have obstacles, so it’s better to prepare some Realm-Breaking Elixirs in advance."
Celestial Grade Spiritual Root is not omnipotent. After passing the Nascent Soul stage, bottlenecks gradually emerge, some will even face bottlenecks at the early Nascent Soul stage.
However, these bottlenecks have many ways to overcome, such as Elixir Pills, insight, Secret Techniques, etc... For Nascent Soul Cultivators, it’s not a big problem.
The most troublesome is the understanding of Void Power!
To cultivate the Nascent Soul, one needs to achieve a standard in understanding Void Power, complete the Void Mark, and induce the Nascent Soul’s transformation for breakthrough to Mid-stage Nascent Soul.
"Fifty years of sword enlightenment, yet progress in Void Power is insufficient."
Chen Sheng thought back to Broken Sword Valley, where despite thoroughly comprehending Sword Momentum, he felt lacking a few points of smoothness when using Void Power to travel.
"Comprehending the void..." Chen Sheng gazed into the distance, having made a decision, "This place is just near the ’Double Star Wonders,’ participating may bring gains!"
With the thought established, Chen Sheng no longer hesitated. With a sudden wave of his sleeve, seventy-two array banners flew out, transforming into specks of Spirit Light in the air, quickly weaving into a small void boat about ten feet long.
The entire boat is condensed from Spirit Light, its hull engraved with complex array patterns, emitting faint spatial ripples.
Transforming into sword light, Chen Sheng lightly landed on the boat, which quivered slightly before turning into a stream of light heading towards the Double Star Wonders, leaving behind a faint trail of Spirit Light quickly lost in the wilderness’s wind and sand.
...
Half a year passed swiftly.
As the speed of the small void boat gradually slowed, Chen Sheng’s gaze was suddenly drawn to the scene ahead, a spectacle that would astonish any cultivator.
Above the Great Wilderness, two meteors, each with a diameter of tens of thousands of miles, were entwining and rotating, one completely azure, emanating an icy chill like eternal frozen ice, the other fiery red like flames, its scorching light almost piercing through the sky.
Two contrasting forces collide and merge in the void, forming a pitch-black void black hole.
Around the black hole, the space keeps twisting, trembling... emitting a vast attraction, pulling all nearby rubble and sand into it, creating a massive crater stretching millions of miles on the Great Wilderness surface.
At the crater’s edge, the small void boat slowly stopped, and Chen Sheng’s figure quietly emerged.
He stood on the dune, gazing up at the sky, his eyes slightly squinting, unable to express the shock inside.
The blue and red meteors drew graceful arcs across the sky, the cold and heat intertwining, forming visible energy ripples that spread downward through the void, landing in the crater, stirring waves of sand.
"The power of nature is indeed wondrous beyond measure."
Chen Sheng murmured to himself, the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain of the Three Elements Dao Sect is endlessly shocking, yet pales in comparison to the Double Star Wonders.
The Double Star Wonders demonstrate an ultimate opposition and integration of life and death, cold and heat, attraction and repulsion, each energy ripple containing the mysteries of nature.
Taking a deep breath, Chen Sheng adjusted his state, his figure flickered, heading towards the crater’s center.
The deeper he went into the crater, the heavier the surrounding air grew, the chill of the blue meteor and the heat of the red meteor intertwining, forming a peculiar airflow, affecting even his Daoist robe.
He could distinctly feel the stars’ emitted power continually affecting the surrounding void, sometimes stretching it, sometimes compressing it, each change seeming to subtly interpret the mysteries of void rules. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
But danger accompanies it!
The closer he got to the center of the meteor crater, the stronger the pull generated by the Double Star became, constantly tugging at his body, trying to drag him into the black hole.
Meanwhile, the annihilation force produced by the collision of two extreme forces was like an invisible blade, weaving through the void, and if he wasn’t careful, he would suffer injuries.
Chen Sheng advanced while sorting through the Daoist Sect’s records on the Double Star Wonders:
"Ordinary Nascent Soul Early-stage cultivators can only reach the outskirts of seventy to eighty thousand miles, which is already their limit. Mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators mostly reach fifty to sixty thousand miles; late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators might get to thirty or forty thousand miles."
"As for the very center of the crater, where the Double Star is less than ten thousand miles away, such terrifying power probably can only be barely withstood by a Celestial Venerable of Divinity Transformation."
When he walked just over eighty thousand miles, his body suddenly felt a severe soreness, as if his bones were groaning under the strain—this was the limit of his physique.
The pull of the Double Star was like an invisible giant hand, gripping his body tightly, and the annihilation force kept hitting his Protective Spiritual Light, making his breathing somewhat hurried.
"Hmm?"
Chen Sheng’s mind stirred, the Sword-carrying Nascent Soul within his dantian suddenly opened its eyes, and the Five-Colored Small Cauldron in his left hand slightly vibrated, emitting a faint Five-Colored Spiritual Light.
He opened his mouth and spat out, the Five-Colored Spiritual Light transformed into a thin robe as light as silk, enveloping his whole body.
In an instant, a gentle power emanated from the robe, not only resisting most of the pull and annihilation force but also forming a buffer barrier around him, making him feel much lighter.
"With the protection of the Five-Colored Dust Transformation Cauldron, I can indeed go further."
Chen Sheng nodded lightly and continued to approach the inner layers of the crater, gradually employing more means as he progressed...
Seventy-two array banners circled around him, forming defense arrays that resisted the steadily increasing energy blasts.
The Tingyu Flying Sword gently waved, unleashing Sword Momentum, slicing through the surrounding annihilation force, carving out a safe path for him.
Although he had not been a Nascent Soul cultivator for long, his wealth of techniques was definitely top-notch among Nascent Soul Early-stage cultivators.
With the Lifebound Tingyu Flying Sword, Five-Colored Dust Transformation Cauldron, and the set of seventy-two array banners in his dantian, three Tier Four Spiritual Treasures that are versatile in attack and defense, they far surpassed most Nascent Soul cultivators!
It’s worth noting that many Nascent Soul cultivators spend their entire lives with only one Lifebound Spiritual Treasure.
The Nascent Soul cultivators of Yue Country’s Six Great Sects appear quite prosperous compared to most Nascent Soul cultivators, as after all there are only four Ancient Grotto Heavens in the entire Eastern Domain, Ancient Yue Grotto Heaven being one of them.
During his journey forward, Chen Sheng also saw numerous marks left by other cultivators, some inscribed on rocks, others imprinted in the void, mostly recording the distances they reached:
"Heaven-Burning Sect of the Western Domain, True Monarch Lieyang, Nascent Soul Early-stage, reached seventy thousand miles."
"Ice Soul Sect of the Northern Domain, Cold Moon True Monarch, Nascent Soul Early-stage, reached seventy-two thousand miles."
The deeper he ventured, the fewer marks there were, and those left were mostly by Body Cultivators or cultivators practicing the Path of Yin Yang.
Body Cultivators had strong physiques to endure the pull of the Double Star, while Yin Yang cultivators could leverage the power of the Double Star to neutralize some dangers, naturally having more advantage in such environments.
Eventually, when Chen Sheng reached sixty-eight thousand miles, even with all his techniques, his body began showing signs of strain.
The Protective Five-Colored Silk Robe flickered faintly, the Defense Array formed by the array banners showed minor cracks, and the Sword Momentum around him began to feel somewhat sluggish.
"Sixty-eight thousand miles... among Nascent Soul Early-stage cultivators, it can be considered top-tier."
Chen Sheng stopped, took a gentle breath, and contemplated inwardly:
"Truly, this place is not favorable for Sword Cultivators. Since Sword Cultivators usually substitute offense for defense, and their physiques are inherently weak, reaching this point is already an achievement."
He shook his head. Fortunately, he wasn’t a pure Sword Cultivator but also practiced the Array Dao, and had the protection of the Five-Colored Dust Transformation Cauldron. Otherwise, forget about sixty-eight thousand miles; even seventy thousand miles would be hard to reach.
Knowing his limit, Chen Sheng did not push further. He began to slowly retreat, since sixty-eight thousand miles was the limit he could endure, not an ideal state for cultivation.
As he retreated to seventy-two thousand miles, he halted—here, the pull and annihilation force, while still threatening, were within his control range, and he could clearly sense the effect of the Double Star on the void, an ideal location for understanding the Void Power.
"This place is just right!"
Chen Sheng nodded in satisfaction, sat cross-legged, and slowly closed his eyes.
He spread out his Divine Sense, allowing the power of the Double Star to wash over his perception, meticulously capturing every fluctuation, every subtle change in the void, and began to delve into the mysteries of the void’s transformations.
