Chapter 714: Forbidden Divine Abilities

Entering the palace at the peak of the Nian Cangsheng’s treasures, and with 100 million times time acceleration, Ye Feng finally activated the Virtual Realm. “You’ve finally completed the absorption and digestion. How much has the restoration progressed?”
“Seventy-eight percent—consider it a quite good improvement,” came the excited voice from the Virtual Realm projection.
“I’ll find ways to get you more genuine treasures to absorb,” Ye Feng said. He expected a higher rate than this; he thought even if not 90%, at least 85% should be achievable. After all, what the Virtual Realm consumed were complete genuine treasures, unlike the fragments before.
“A total of 28 percentage points improved. What privileges should I exchange for?” the Virtual Realm projection asked.
“Forty-nine times the Supreme Blessing Privilege, and seven times the Supreme Comprehension Privilege,” Ye Feng replied after checking his privileges panel.
“Forty-nine times the Supreme Blessing Privilege! Seven times the Supreme Comprehension Privilege!” came the voice from within the Virtual Realm.
Ye Feng checked his privileges panel—the number behind Supreme Blessing Privilege, originally 2, had now become 51. The number behind Supreme Comprehension Privilege, originally 44, had also become 51.
“Fifty-one privileges mean only 153 days. Given my previous fusion speed, it’s impossible to fuse seven elemental divine abilities—perhaps five might be possible.” Ye Feng frowned slightly as he compared his past fusion speed.
After a moment, he glanced around. “With 100 million times time acceleration, even if over a hundred days pass, not much time will go by outside. It saves quite a bit of time.”
After making up his mind, Ye Feng sat cross-legged and sent his spiritual power into the Virtual Realm. “Use one Supreme Comprehension Privilege and one Supreme Blessing Privilege!”
As soon as Ye Feng spoke, his entire body was enveloped in a white light of blessing. He focused his mind and began fusing the divine abilities. Just as he started to deduce, he felt an inexplicable vibration in his mind sea. Then, Ye Feng found himself falling into a void, where a gigantic golden stone tablet, like a living entity, tore through space and appeared before him.
“The Remnant Tablet of the Heavenly Dao?” Ye Feng was shocked, but soon his attention was drawn to the patterns on the golden stone tablet.

Each pattern clearly explained the origins and development of the five fundamental elements, as well as possible subsequent developments. In an instant, Ye Feng felt his mind become clear, as if everything had become simple and easy to understand.

Three days passed quickly, yet Ye Feng still hadn’t awakened from his deep meditation. Fortunately, the Void Realm was aware of his current situation and, without Ye Feng’s permission, activated the second set of privileges—Supreme Enlightenment and Supreme Bestowal.

Five days later, Ye Feng unexpectedly succeeded in integrating all five fundamental element powers. The Five Elements powers reached level 45, while the individual elemental powers each rose to level 21. Since he hadn’t used up the second set of privileges, Ye Feng continued his efforts to integrate more powers. It took six days to integrate the Dark Element, and seven days for the Light Element, bringing his elemental powers to a state of perfect mastery at level 63. The individual elemental powers also reached level 27—a truly terrifying level.

Subsequently, soul-related powers were forced into integration as well, taking eight days, followed by space-related powers, which took nine days. By then, his new powers had reached a terrifying level of 81, with each individual power reaching level 33.

Yet the cultivation still hadn’t ended. Martial arts powers, swordsmanship powers, and blade arts powers each required ten days of integration. This brought his ultimate integrated powers to level 90, after which no further progress was possible. The individual powers also reached level 36.

In total, Ye Feng remained in seclusion for 65 days. He used up 22 instances of each of the Supreme Enlightenment and Supreme Bestowal privileges. Apart from the first time, which he activated voluntarily, the remaining 21 instances were triggered passively.

Over those 65 days, Ye Feng absorbed every bit of knowledge on the stone tablet eagerly, fearing he might miss anything. On the 66th day, he discovered that he could no longer see the content carved further down on the tablet.

“What happened? Why can’t I see the rest?” Ye Feng grew anxious. He widened his eyes, scanning the tablet frantically in search of any readable content.

After a long while, he finally found something visible in the bottom right corner of the stone tablet. That part was marked in scarlet, with two large scarlet characters above it: “Forbidden.”
“Forbidden? Could it be a forbidden divine ability?” Ye Feng frowned slightly. “It seems that so far, everything I can see are the divine abilities I already possess. For those I don’t have, there’s no description at all. If I can see this forbidden ability, could it be because I have some forbidden ability hidden within me that I’m not even aware of?”
Below the two characters “Forbidden” was still all in scarlet color, with the word “Devour” clearly displayed first.
“This ability is called Devour?” Ye Feng frowned again. “As far as I remember, I’ve never learned such an ability. Where did it come from?”
Ye Feng continued to read, and images flashed rapidly through his mind. In just a moment, he fully understood the origin and development of this ability, as well as the devastating harm it had caused throughout history.
“Are there really creatures beyond the highest realms?” After reading the description, Ye Feng couldn’t help but feel puzzled. “Weren’t we told that the universe, which includes the highest realms, is an endless giant universe?”
He asked this question because he saw in those images powerful beings beyond the highest realms devouring those realms, as well as them killing and consuming powerful warriors of level eight or even nine. Those incredibly strong creatures seemed to each possess strength on par with Immortals and the Heavenly Dao.
After reading this, a strange aura surged within Ye Feng’s body. He faintly sensed that something extraordinary within him had awakened…
“I’m so hungry…” Almost at the same time, a strange thought arose in Ye Feng’s mind.