Chapter 103 Divine Land <TOC> Chapter 105 Before the Rainy Season
Translator: SumTLMan
Pilate lay unconscious on the ground, his senses stripped away once more.
Tippolava Momo’s contemplative expression grew solemn.
The passage that the Soul Cult intended to open was above the Mohanendi River. Opening a channel large enough for the Divine Land to pass through was no simple task.
On the wasteland, the Divine Land could contain Mount Sumeru in a mustard seed and a mustard seed in Mount Sumeru, but within the Source Ocean, the Divine Land would float in its complete form.
If the Soul Cult wanted to lift the Divine Land out of the Source Ocean, they had to create a channel with an area larger than the Divine Land.
The Soul Cult possessed the Key to the Door – 7, which had a different effect than Key 317. The Key – 7 could open a passage to any place, as long as the owner of the key had been there before.
The greater the distance and the larger the passage, the more psychic energy was required.
To open a passage that would allow the Divine Land to pass through, an immense amount of psychic energy was needed.
The amount of psychic energy required was too much for even a Holy Priest to sustain and would require a ritual to assist.
“The Soul Cult will certainly wait until the Divine Land floats to the shallow layer of the distant ocean before opening the passage with Key – 7, lifting it to the wasteland,” Tippolava Momo said coldly.
“Unfortunately, only that old ghost Holy Priest knows the depth of the Divine Land and the time it takes to open the passage. Even these third-level bishops are unaware.”
He kicked Pilate on the ground, hoisted him onto his shoulder, and carried him.
“It seems we do need to provoke the conflict between the Governor and the Soul Cult. Only the Governor has enough manpower and weaponry to confront the Soul Cult.”
He would first take Pilate back to the city of Avonigarda.
“I hope your plan goes smoothly. If that monster escapes from the Divine Land, all the ascenders who flee will face a catastrophe.”
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Li Mu stood in the Exile Realm. Besides the two black cranes carrying Li Mei and the others, the remaining five black cranes followed him back to the God and Demon’s Nest.
Over time, the Exile Realm had developed into a thriving miniature world.
Above the mountains and forests, plants flourished, and herds of wild goats and deer roamed. One could even see a few teenage swamp rhinoceroses.
The wide Qingluo River separated the mountainous habitat of these large herbivores from the slopes and plains where humans thrived, pouring into the Lake of the Underworld and transforming into surging water, disappearing at the boundary.
Above the river’s surface, small fishing boats navigated back and forth, casting their large nets to catch fish.
The vast water area, coupled with excellent species, made the fish in the Qingluo River astonishingly large. Some of the fish species that Li Mu introduced early on even grew into monstrous creatures spanning over ten meters long.
If not for Li Mu’s prohibition order, commanding them not to attack humans, approaching the water source could have posed a danger.
He stood, watching the farmers laboring in the fields.
“Lia, send me the derived energy method.”
“Received, master!”
Li Mu could feel a wealth of knowledge coming from the other end of the psychic link. When he regained his focus, an energy method more complex than the White Steel Broken Stream and the Hidden Bone Technique appeared in his mind.
“Dragon and Tiger Astral Specter?”
He muttered the name of this energy method.
The energy method used psychic energy that flowed through the bones as the dragon and psychic energy that flowed through the muscles as the tiger. The dragon-shaped astral energy was domineering, light, and invincible, capable of crushing gold, breaking iron, and penetrating rotten wood. The tiger-shaped spectral energy was fierce, heavy, and full of vigorous power, capable of carrying great weight.
When cultivated to a certain level, the two energies could merge. According to Lia’s calculations, under the combined state, psychic energy would become more explosive and destructive, reaching a higher level. It could even launch a remote attack like a third-level awakened person, though the power would be incomparable.
Lia even calculated a set of moves that combined the Dragon and Tiger Astral Specter with various holy relics and minor supernatural powers, totaling seventeen moves.
Li Mu simply sat on the top of the Tower of Spectral Energy, observing his inner self and attempting to practice this complex energy method.
He didn’t know how Lia had calculated it, but the Dragon and Tiger Astral Specter was hundreds of times more complicated than the Hidden Bone Energy method and White Steel Broken Stream Energy method, as the psychic energy needed to flow through many inconspicuous tiny muscles and bone sheaths.
Everything was just derived; the real power of the Dragon and Tiger Astral Specter would only be known after actual application.
Lia, the brain in the vat, observed the changes within Li Mu’s body through the Tower of Spectral Energy, correcting Li Mu’s mistakes and pointing out the correct cultivation methods.
Even so, it took Li Mu two weeks to master this incredibly complex energy method.
Facing a massive boulder, he held the Blade of Annihilation in both hands, with the two psychic energies rapidly coursing through his body.
“First move, the Dragon of the Blazing Sun.”
A psychic energy far more domineering than the Hidden Bone Energy surged into the Blade of Annihilation.
The Blade of Annihilation let out a hearty, resonant cry, and the pitch-black flames of destruction transformed into a blazing dragon-shaped firestream.
The fire stream, combining the devastating power of the dragon-shaped energy and the destructive force of the Annihilation Flames, struck the giant rock with a terrifying momentum.
As the fire stream slowly extinguished, Li Mu stepped forward to observe the damage caused by the attack.
The entire rock had been blasted, leaving a crater over fifty centimeters deep and about a meter in diameter.
Above the crater, molten rock had turned into magma, dripping down bit by bit.
The hardness of this rock was comparable to reinforced concrete. While such destructive power couldn’t be compared to that of Pilate, it was almost unstoppable for a fifth-level awakened being.
Li Mu took a slow breath.
This attack had consumed nearly one-seventh of his psychic energy. The instant depletion of energy left him feeling slightly dizzy.
He took a sip of the Sun Spring to replenish his psychic energy, then pulled out the bones of his kindred to start converting source essence into psychic energy.
Reaching the peak of the fifth energy level was marked by the psychic energy in one’s mind reaching its limit and overflowing.
Li Mu felt that his psychic energy was already on par with many experienced fifth-level awakened beings. Perhaps with a few more training sessions, he would meet the requirements for advancing to the fourth energy level.
The world beyond Avonigarda was slowly revealing its fangs to him.
If his own strength wasn’t strong enough, getting caught in such a vortex would lead to being instantly crushed, with no place to bury his remains.
Li Mu’s desire for power grew even stronger, and he planned to train in the Exiled Realm until his psychic energy overflowed.
Then, he would return to the Wasteland. By taking advantage of the time difference between the Wasteland and the Exile Realm, he would accumulate Soul Spring water.
It would be foolish to advance directly to the fourth energy level while there was still source essence left.
As the souls of fourth-level awakened beings are already filled with psychic energy, the source essence would be squeezed deep into the soul, making it impossible to extract without tearing the soul apart.
By that time, even if one drank the Soul Spring water, the increased source essence would be of no use.
Chapter 103 Divine Land <TOC> Chapter 105 Before the Rainy Season