novelraw Chapter 275 - 245: The Terrifying Boost of High-grade and Top-grade Law Stones
Chapter 275 - 245: The Terrifying Boost of High-grade and Top-grade Law Stones
"Divine Power: Devouring Heaven and Earth!"
HUMMM!
With a mere thought from Xu Qing.
Immediately, he activated the incomplete ’Divine Power: Devouring Heaven and Earth’. A vortex, like a black hole, condensed in the palm of his hand.
An incredibly terrifying Devouring Power spread out, swallowing and absorbing the corpses of the Blood Skull Demon and his companions. It refined their Origin, gradually taking it in.
"Hmm?"
However, Xu Qing discovered that while the incomplete ’Divine Power: Devouring Heaven and Earth’ could devour the Origin of the Blood Skull Demon and his men, it could not devour and refine the ’Law’ they had mastered.
There were two reasons for this.
First, the ’Divine Power: Devouring Heaven and Earth’ that Xu Qing had mastered was an incomplete divine power. Even though he had cultivated it to the ’Perfection’ Level, it was incapable of devouring and refining a ’Law’.
Second, because Xu Qing had not mastered the ’Devouring Law’ and was instead using the Power of Law from the ’Reincarnation Law’, the ’Divine Power: Devouring Heaven and Earth’ he unleashed was not perfect.
These two reasons combined...
...resulted in his Divine Power, ’Devouring Heaven and Earth’, being unable to devour and refine an enemy’s Law.
"Hmm?"
But after unleashing the Perfection Level ’Divine Power: Annihilation’ and the Perfection Level, incomplete ’Divine Power: Devouring Heaven and Earth’, he could vaguely sense the true essence of ’Divine Techniques’.
In other words,
as long as Xu Qing could sense the ’Divine Technique’ itself, he could record it with the ’Encyclopedia of All Things’ and then use the ’Encyclopedia of All Things’ to upgrade it.
’Since the incomplete "Divine Power: Devouring Heaven and Earth" can’t devour and refine a "Law," if I manage to record it and upgrade it, it should naturally gain that ability.’
Xu Qing mused.
HUM! HUM!
After Xu Qing devoured and refined the Origin of the Blood Skull Demon and his men, even though he hadn’t absorbed their Laws, his own Power had increased.
Unfortunately, it didn’t improve Xu Qing’s comprehension or mastery of the ’Reincarnation Law’.
It was still only at fifteen percent.
WHOOSH!
Xu Qing’s figure shot through the air. He glanced at Yanyun Zhenren and the others but didn’t make another move. He was preparing to leave.
Besides, Xu Qing had already accomplished all his goals for this trip to the East Cang Mountain Range.
For now, Xu Qing had a much clearer understanding of his own strength.
"Benefactor."
WHOOSH!
Just as Xu Qing was about to leave, a streak of Buddha’s Light tore through the air. It was the Abbot of Little Leiyin Temple, who moved quickly to block Xu Qing’s path.
"Is there something you need?"
Xu Qing stopped. He sized up the other party and immediately recognized him as the Abbot of Little Leiyin Temple, but he maintained a placid expression.
"Amitabha Buddha."
The Abbot of Little Leiyin Temple put his palms together, chanted the Buddha’s name, and bowed to Xu Qing. "Benefactor, this humble monk is Shi Kong, the Abbot of Little Leiyin Temple. By order of the Cangzhou Buddhist Sect, I have been waiting here for you to appear."
"In the name of the Cangzhou Buddhist Sect, I sincerely invite you, Benefactor, to visit us for a discussion."
"The Cangzhou Buddhist Sect."
Xu Qing pondered for a moment.
"Yes."
Shi Kong nodded.
"Infinite Celestial Venerable."
WHOOSH!
The next moment, another figure streaked through the air. It was the Observatory Master of Ziyang Temple. He also arrived before Xu Qing and gave a slight bow.
"Benefactor."
The Ziyang Temple’s Observatory Master also spoke: "This humble Taoist is Ziyang, the Observatory Master of Ziyang Temple. By order of the Cangzhou Daoist Sect, I have been waiting here for you to appear."
"Likewise,"
"I also sincerely invite you, Benefactor, to visit the Cangzhou Daoist Sect for a discussion."
"I am not interested in either."
Xu Qing glanced at Ziyang and Shi Kong, his expression calm as he flatly refused. Of course he wasn’t going to follow these two to the Cangzhou Daoist Sect and the Cangzhou Buddhist Sect.
Besides, Xu Qing truly had no interest.
"Farewell."
WHOOSH!
The moment the words left his mouth, Xu Qing shot through the air. Leading his seventeen servants, he vanished from sight in the blink of an eye.
"What? You’re not going after him?"
At that moment, Ziyang looked at Shi Kong and asked calmly.
"Amitabha Buddha."
Shi Kong shook his head, his gaze profound. "The Cangzhou Buddhist Sect’s orders were only for this humble monk to sincerely invite ’Yama’, the Benefactor, to the Cangzhou Buddhist Sect," he said calmly.
"Furthermore, the Cangzhou Buddhist Sect’s instructions strictly warned this humble monk not to use forceful methods. I was to extend the invitation to this Benefactor, ’Yama’, with a gentle approach."
"And if this Benefactor, ’Yama’, refused, I was warned not to obstruct him in any way, nor to take any further action."
"...!"
Ziyang’s pupils contracted.
Because the instructions and orders the Cangzhou Daoist Sect had given him were almost identical to those the Cangzhou Buddhist Sect had given Shi Kong. He stared in the direction Xu Qing had disappeared.
"This..."
Ziyang opened his mouth, a boundless sense of dread welling up inside him.
"Benefactor Ziyang, why aren’t you going after him?"
Shi Kong asked.
"..."
However, Ziyang did not speak or answer.
"This humble monk imagines that the task the Cangzhou Daoist Sect gave you, Benefactor Ziyang, is the same as mine. That is why, like this humble monk, you dare not take any unnecessary action,"
Shi Kong said.
"That’s right."
Ziyang nodded deeply.
HUFF...
Ziyang took another deep breath and couldn’t help but say, "To make both the Cangzhou Daoist Sect and your Cangzhou Buddhist Sect act this way, to treat him with such caution..."
"It’s hard to imagine."
"Just what kind of existence is this ’Yama’?"
"Benefactor Ziyang, in this humble monk’s foolish opinion,"
Shi Kong said, "it is best not to think too much, and certainly not to inquire too deeply. Some things are more dangerous the more you know."
"Ignorance is a better path to a long life."
"..."
Ziyang fell silent.
And so, the incident of the Tier Four Law Stone Vein came to a close.
「Late at night.」
「Nearing dawn.」
Xu Qing had returned to the first level of the Cangzhou Prefecture.
「Lin Yun Street.」
「Inside A Weapon Shop.」
「The back courtyard.」
Xu Qing was back.
HUM! HUM!
With a thought, Xu Qing activated the ability of his Level 30 Thousand-Faced Mask. His appearance changed again, shifting into the likeness of ’Ouyazi’.
「In the bedroom.」
Xu Qing sat cross-legged. His consciousness sank into the Storage Ring on his hand, sensing a vast space within. Inside this space, piles and piles of Law Stones were stacked high.
His harvest this time was immense.
First, after that last battle, Xu Qing had a good measure of his own strength. Even though he had just broken through to the ’Third Realm: Law Realm’, with the help of his numerous Level 30 items and the Divine Powers he had mastered, his strength was enough to contend with an ordinary Peak of Law Realm cultivator.
Also, Xu Qing had harvested a great number of Law Stones from the Tier Four Law Stone Vein, which was one of his greatest gains of the night.
Among them were:
ten thousand Top-grade Law Stones, thirty thousand Upper-grade Law Stones, one hundred thousand Middle-grade Law Stones, and a full one million Low-grade Law Stones.
"Excellent, excellent."
A deeply satisfied smile spread across Xu Qing’s face. ’With so many Law Stones harvested this time, I won’t have to worry about them at all in the short term.’
HUFF...
Xu Qing took a deep breath. With a thought, he retrieved an Upper-grade Law Stone and a Top-grade Law Stone from his Storage Ring.
The Upper-grade Law Stone was rhombus-shaped, gleaming with a black luster, and faintly showed what looked like seven Law Patterns.
As for the Top-grade Law Stone, it shone with a nine-colored radiance and also faintly revealed Law Patterns, but it had nine of them.
’Let’s give it a try.’
HUM! HUM!
Xu Qing gripped an Upper-grade Law Stone tightly in his right hand, drawing its Energy and beginning his Meditation on the mysteries of the Reincarnation Law.
Time passed.
...
[Experience +1]
...
[Experience +1]
...
It was incredibly fast. In just six short seconds, Xu Qing had already meditated on and cycled the Reincarnation Law a full ten thousand times. It was as if his mind, his consciousness, his very thoughts had entered a wondrous state where time itself had slowed down immensely.
Keep in mind,
when Xu Qing used a Middle-grade Law Stone, he could only meditate on and cycle the complete Reincarnation Law one hundred times in six seconds.
But now, using an Upper-grade Law Stone, he had reached ten thousand cycles.
It was a full one-hundred-fold increase.
"Not bad, not bad at all."
Xu Qing nodded in satisfaction.
Immediately after,
he took out a Top-grade Law Stone and gripped it tightly in his right palm, absorbing its Energy.
HUM! HUM!
Xu Qing began to meditate on and cycle the Reincarnation Law.
Time flew by.
...
[Experience +1]
...
[Experience +1]
...
Again, in the same six-second span,
one million times.
A full one million times.
With the Energy from the Top-grade Law Stone, Xu Qing was able to meditate on and cycle the Reincarnation Law one million times in just six seconds.
He had reached such an unbelievable speed.
Once upon a time,
it had taken Xu Qing a full ten minutes just to meditate on and cycle the complete Reincarnation Law a single time.
This was the difference.
It was simply enormous.
HUFF...
Xu Qing took a deep breath, marveling internally as he sensed the rate of Energy consumption from the Top-grade Law Stone. ’If I use an Upper-grade Law Stone and meditate on the Reincarnation Law for sixteen hours a day,’ he calculated,
’a single stone’
’would be enough for one hundred days.’
’And if’
’I use a Top-grade Law Stone, also meditating on the Reincarnation Law for sixteen hours a day,’
’a single stone’
’would be enough for one thousand days.’
’This means,’
Xu Qing mused, ’I currently have ten thousand Top-grade Law Stones. If the consumption rate stays the same, that’s enough for ten million days.’
’Converted,’
’that’s about twenty-seven thousand, four hundred years.’
’Tsk, tsk...’
Xu Qing clicked his tongue. ’In that case, it’s not that I don’t have to worry about Law Stones for the short term... I don’t have to worry for a very, very, very long time.’