novelraw Chapter 199 - 196: The Road Ahead (Part 2)
Chapter 199 - 196: The Road Ahead (Part 2)
A strange look flashed in his eyes.
’This must be crafted from some kind of Spiritual Material that can store and record information.’
’And only a Refining God Venerable who has broken through to the Refining God Realm and possesses the Power of the Heart can access the information within.’
’Barring any surprises, the value of the content recorded here definitely far exceeds that of an Inheritance Secret Martial Arts.’
After all, not even Inheritance Secret Martial Arts received such treatment. In a way, this was enough to prove the preciousness of this piece of Jade that could record information.
’To think it was something like this!’
After digesting the information in his mind, a flicker of emotion crossed Hu Qi’s face, his expression turning solemn.
What was recorded inside was not a powerful Secret Martial Arts inheritance or some mighty Secret Technique.
Instead, it was information about the path beyond the Refining God Realm.
The Realm of the Refining God Venerable was incomparably powerful, but as things stood, any Secret Martial Artist who reached this stage...
...had essentially reached the end of their path.
Neither the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map he cultivated nor the Divine Secret Martial Arts from the Sword Pavilion and Holy Rain Sect he had previously obtained had any records about what lay beyond the Refining God Realm.
A Refining God Venerable, in terms of Lifespan alone, could live for at least three thousand years.
Even within the Miwu Civilization, this Realm represented absolute power.
However, as Secret Martial Artists, how could they be willing to stop here?
Secret Martial Artists progressed from the Qi Blood Realm to the Martial Arts Family, from the Martial Arts Family to Qi Dao Grandmaster, and then to Refining God Venerable.
Each of these steps was deduced by countless predecessors over vast amounts of time.
They firmly believed that a path existed beyond the Refining God Realm.
Coupled with the threat of the Black Blood Species from the Inner Earth World, the most powerful Schools within the Miwu Civilization had once gathered all the Refining God Venerables in the world to deduce the path forward together.
The power of a Food Master was nearly on par with the Refining God Realm.
They believed that only by surpassing the Refining God Realm would it be possible to resist the coming world-ending catastrophe.
Unfortunately, they had yet to successfully forge this path.
The Miwu Civilization was destroyed.
But it couldn’t be called a complete failure, because they had already found a general direction.
It was only because they lacked the time to continue perfecting it that they suffered an unimaginable blow, leading to the destruction of their entire civilization.
Under these circumstances, those Schools were unwilling to let the path they had worked so hard to deduce be buried with the fall of their civilization.
So, they recorded this information within these pieces of Jade.
They hoped that a future civilization, blessed with the remnants of the Miwu Civilization, could walk further and thereby escape the fate of certain annihilation.
This was the case with the Dog Blade Sect.
This information was presented in the form of text, yet Hu Qi could still feel the magnanimity of the Secret Martial Artists of that era from these words.
Previously, Hu Qi had integrated numerous Inheritance Secret Martial Arts into his Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map.
He, too, had the idea of deducing the path forward.
He just didn’t know if it was because his Realm was too low or for some other reason, but he had never made much progress.
But now, having obtained this information, it had undoubtedly pointed him in the right direction.
To him, this was more precious than any Inheritance Secret Martial Arts.
Afterward, Hu Qi went to check the location of the ruins again, but unfortunately, nothing else had been left behind.
This was to be expected. After so many years, that small island had been practically hollowed out. If there was anything of value, Yunhe Country would have discovered it long ago; it wouldn’t have been his turn now.
However, Hu Qi didn’t leave immediately. Instead, he returned to Yunhe Country.
He had someone arrange a quiet place for him.
Then, Hu Qi sat cross-legged in the room.
With a thought,
’Crimson!’
At his call,
the familiar crimson panel unfolded before his eyes.
[Host: Hu Qi]
[Status: Normal]
[Age: 22 (Remaining Lifespan: 4978 years, 153 days, 4 hours, 31 minutes, 1 second)]
[Bloodline: Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent (75%) △]
[Talent: Spirit Devouring, Twisted Light, Primordial Eye]
[Divine Techniques: Water Control, Intention Sword]
[Skill: Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map (Celestial Heart Chapter, First Layer) △ | Traits: Wolf Transformation, Tiger Intent, Rhino Armor, Flash Jump, Infrasound, Frenzy...]
[Taiqing Immortal Slaying Sword Technique (Energy Storage: None) △]
...
[Modification Points: 501 (9%)]
Compared to before, the panel had become much simpler because a large number of Inheritance Secret Martial Arts had been integrated into the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map.
In addition, after breaking through to the Refining God Realm,
his Lifespan had increased again.
According to the records, upon becoming a Refining God Venerable, one’s Lifespan would reach three thousand years.
But this Lifespan was not fixed.
Unlike ordinary Secret Martial Artists whose Lifespans were tied to their physical bodies,
thanks to the unique nature of Refining God Venerables, even if their bodies died,
as long as their Divine Soul was not extinguished, they could still seize another body and be reborn.
Therefore, the stronger the Divine Soul, the longer the Lifespan.
Moreover, as a Secret Martial Artist’s strength increased through cultivation and their Divine Soul was enhanced, the length of time they could exist would also grow longer.
According to the information Hu Qi had obtained, a Refining God Venerable could theoretically live for a maximum of ten thousand years.
Ten thousand years was the absolute limit; no Refining God Venerable could survive beyond this number.
This seemed to be the ultimate limit of a Refining God Venerable’s Divine Soul Lifespan.
However, compared to the three-thousand-year Lifespan of an ordinary, newly-ascended Refining God Venerable, Hu Qi’s Lifespan had directly jumped to five thousand years, almost double the norm.
But to Hu Qi, this wasn’t of much use.
After all, he was only twenty-two years old and very young.
Furthermore, with the Crimson panel’s existence, he believed he could go even further, perhaps even achieve immortality, and one day no longer be bound by the limits of Lifespan.
He didn’t dwell on it any longer.
Hu Qi’s gaze fell on the Modification Points section.
At the moment, he had just over five hundred Modification Points left.
He had previously used sixty Modification Points to supplement and perfect his Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Bloodline, leaving him with eight hundred and one.
Now, there were only five hundred and one on the panel, which meant that breaking through to the Refining God Realm had cost him a full three hundred Modification Points.
This consumption was several times higher than the fifty points needed for the Qi Dao Grandmaster Realm, which made Hu Qi wince.
’But what must be used, must be used. I can’t be frugal. Only by converting Modification Points into strength do they become my own. What’s the use of having more if they just sit on the panel, unused?’
Thinking of this,
his gaze fell upon the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map, and he activated his will.
Three hundred Modification Points were instantly consumed.
The space within his Celestial Heart Divine Treasure suddenly expanded once more.
The Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent within it let out a hiss, its body growing in size as well.
The most obvious change was that Hu Qi’s Power of the Heart, which could originally only cover a fifty-kilometer radius, instantly expanded to cover a radius of nearly one hundred kilometers.
When the Mutation subsided,
the text on the panel had already changed.
[Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map (Celestial Heart Chapter, Second Layer)...]
...
[Modification Points: 201 (9%)]
The remaining Modification Points were not enough to continue upgrading the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map.
Hu Qi dismissed the panel.
He called Habukawa Chisui in and gave her some instructions.
Then, he turned and left the place.
His figure headed in the direction of Anshan City.
A Refining God Venerable’s speed was much faster than that of a Qi Dao Grandmaster.
It wasn’t long before the skyline of Anshan City appeared before him.
Just as Hu Qi was about to draw near, he seemed to sense something.
His brows furrowed slightly.