TL: Etude
Ye Tian knew that he couldn't obtain any more treasures, so he stopped searching for them. After all, one could only acquire a single treasure from a building, and there wasn't much time left to obtain more. He didn't lack those few treasures anyway. Thus, Ye Tian began his cultivation. He practiced the gold-level sword technique — Desolate Sword Domain. With his 80% sword intent, he was capable of cultivating this technique to a minor completion level.
Besides cultivating the gold-level sword technique, Ye Tian also started practicing at the Saint-level. The cultivation at the Saint-level was different from the King-level.
Cultivation at the King-level mainly focused on opening the acupoints, while Saint-level cultivation involved opening the brain domain. Consciousness was a fundamental aspect of opening the brain domain; without it, rashly attempting to do so could result in death or severe disability.
In the 21st century, many experts believed that a normal person's brain domain development was only between five to ten percent. However, in reality, humans had developed less than one percent of their brain domain. Earlier, humans naively thought they had developed ten percent, but that was only the superficial part of the brain domain. The deeper consciousness space of the brain domain had not been touched at all.
Through cultivation, humans had opened the superficial part of their brain domain, significantly improving memory, but that was just the development of the shallow brain domain.
Saint-level cultivation aimed at developing the deeper brain domain! Starting from one percent of the deep brain domain, every one percent opened significantly enhanced the human body's strength, speed, and defense. Once one hundred percent of the brain domain was opened, a Saint-level individual's physical strength could reach ten dragon units!
However, a Saint-level supreme expert, without special talents, could only reach a maximum attack strength of twenty dragons, far less than Ye Tian currently.
If a martial artist did not enhance their talent at the King-level, it would be very difficult to increase their talent at the Saint-level, and even a Talent Pill would not work for Saints. A Saint without special talents was considered much less significant than a King-level genius.
Of course, Saints without special talents were scarce, as those who could cultivate to the Saint-level generally had at least Morning Star-level cultivation talents.
A genius with Morning Star-level cultivation talent who failed to obtain talent-enhancing treasures was considered a failure.
Three days later, Ye Tian cultivated the gold-level Desolate Sword Domain technique to the entry level, and ten days later, he achieved the minor completion stage. At this point, Ye Tian's cultivation of the Desolate Sword Domain hit a bottleneck and it was difficult to make further breakthroughs.
Nevertheless, Ye Tian was quite satisfied because the Desolate Sword Domain could amplify his attack power by fifteen times. Although the increase was not substantial, it was an AOE attack technique, incredibly powerful in group battles.
With the fifteen-fold attack power of the Desolate Sword Domain, Ye Tian's combat strength surged. He calculated that his current physical strength was 100,000 elephants, and after yuan force power amplification, it was 200,000 elephants, equivalent to 0.2 dragons. Upon advancing to the Saint-level, he had enhanced his strength talent to the ninth-grade Pseudo-Mystic level, which could amplify the attack by eighty times. With the Desolate Sword Domain providing a fifteen-fold attack, his strongest attack could reach 240 Dragon Power, enough to instantly kill a group of peak-level Saints without special talents.
"I am really powerful!" Ye Tian took a deep breath and said.
But he knew that the Saint-level was just the beginning. He had only opened 1% of his deep brain domain. As he continued to open it, his power would become even more terrifying. Saints, Emperors, would one day be like ants in his eyes.
Time passed, and a month was about to end. On this day, a repelling force appeared, and Ye Tian was teleported out of the temple space, appearing in the grand hall of the temple. However, he had already removed his disguised talent and reverted to his original appearance. Other King-level cultivators were also teleported out.
However, as soon as they arrived, an intense killing intent pervaded the air.
"Sun Qinghe, what do you mean by hunting our Zhonghai Super Base's King-level cultivators?" Feng Luxue steadily approached Sun Qinghe, his aura pressing down on Sun Qinghe, causing his complexion to change. This was because Feng Luxue had already reached the Saint-level!
Unlike Sun Qinghe, Feng Luxue had obtained a treasure in the temple space, which allowed him to raise his strength talent to 70% Pseudo-Mystic level. Thus, he immediately broke through to the Saint-level, raising 70% Pseudo-Mystic level strength talent to Mystery level strength talent.
As a result, Feng Luxue's combat power skyrocketed many times over, far surpassing Sun Qinghe.
"Hmph, it's the law of the jungle. What does it matter if I killed them? Your Zhonghai Super Base also killed our Long River Super Base's King-level cultivators and even stole a palace's treasure!" Sun Qinghe said angrily.
At this moment, his eyes swept across the entire hall, but he couldn't find that particular young cultivator. They were all teleported out together; surely that person couldn't have escaped in time?
Before Sun Qinghe could ponder further, Feng Luxue's murderous intent descended: "Are you suggesting that if I kill you, it would be justified?"
Feeling Feng Luxue's killing intent, Sun Qinghe was terrified and quickly said, "Feng Luxue, have you gone mad? If you dare to kill me here, the Emperor backing me will not let you off."
"Do you think I don't have an Emperor backing me?" Feng Luxue replied coldly.
At this moment, other geniuses began to intervene. Ye Tian, standing aside, understood the situation. For the sake of advancing to the Saint-level, Sun Qinghe, unable to obtain more treasures, had hunted and killed several geniuses from Zhonghai Super Base and stolen their treasures. This act was now exposed.
Thus, Feng Luxue began pursuing Sun Qinghe, who would likely have been dead if he hadn't been timely teleported away. Just then, the temple began to shake.
"The temple is disappearing, everyone quickly leave!" One by one, the King-level cultivators rushed out of the temple, leaving the riverbed and emerging above the river's surface.
Many King-level cultivators departed, but Feng Luxue didn't let Sun Qinghe leave because one of the deceased was from the Battle Axe Mercenary Hall. Just when Ye Tian thought Feng Luxue and Sun Qinghe were about to fight, a figure appeared. It was an Emperor!
"Grandfather!" Sun Qinghe exclaimed excitedly upon seeing this Emperor.
"Emperor Qingyun!" Feng Luxue's expression changed upon seeing him.
Soon, an Emperor from the Battle Axe Mercenary Hall appeared.
This Emperor said directly, "Emperor Qingyun, give us ten thousand Qi stones and ten low-grade treasures that increase King-level special talents, and we can let this matter pass. Or, we let Feng Luxue and Sun Qinghe fight to the death. Which do you choose?"
"I am willing to give ten thousand Qi stones and ten treasures that increase King-level special talents!" Emperor Qingyun conceded.
"Emperor Battle Blood!" Ye Tian's expression changed, recognizing the Emperor's identity. He was one of the top thirty Emperors on the Emperor's List, ranked seventeenth, an incredibly terrifying existence.
Emperor Qingyun, undoubtedly far inferior to Emperor Battle Blood, had no choice but to concede. Observing the talents of Emperor Battle Blood and Feng Luxue, Ye Tian was very eager to copy them. Unfortunately, his copying ability was on cooldown. Otherwise, he would surely copy their Mystery-level talents. Feng Luxue had a Mystery-level strength talent, and Emperor Battle Blood had a Mystery-level boiling blood talent.
"Well, I'll copy them later," Ye Tian said helplessly.