Chapter 560: Above the Laws
Inside the guest room of the Absolute Martial Ark, Ye Feng spent a full million years to absorb less than one percent of the stone’s size. Fortunately, with a million-fold time acceleration, only one day had passed in the divine realm.
The spatial bubble within Ye Feng’s body grew larger and larger, expanding from the size of a mung bean to the size of a fist.
The message from the stone made Ye Feng temporarily stop absorbing it. Instead of getting annoyed, he was pleased—because the stone had reached the Saint level within the Cultivation Realm.
In the Cultivation Realm, everyone continued to train hard. Ye Feng appeared right beside the stone and said, “Not bad, stone. It only took ten thousand years to reach the Saint level.”
“Boss, you’re the real expert. I can no longer gauge your strength at all,” the stone flattered.
“Don’t worry, you’ll catch up soon!” Ye Feng said as he handed the stone a storage ring filled with various pills prepared for them, including those for enhancing cultivation and the soul—just like the ones he had given Long Tian and Bai Yiyi before.
“Boss, this is…” Seeing the mountain of sacred-grade pills, the stone was almost drooling.
“Normally, cultivation should progress step by step. But since I have a way to avoid affecting your foundation, using pills to improve strength isn’t a big deal,” Ye Feng said with a smile. “These pills are for you. With my current abilities, I can only lift you to just above the Saint realm. Beyond that, it’s impossible.”
“Above the Saint realm?” The stone was stunned. “Then… what’s your cultivation level?”
“I’ve also just surpassed the Saint realm. I’ve been busy with other things lately and haven’t focused on improving my cultivation. It might take some time for that. In the short term, my cultivation level won’t improve much. But fortunately, my Law-based cultivation keeps advancing,” Ye Feng said helplessly. To fully digest that stone would take him over a hundred million years. Even with a million-fold time acceleration, it would still take over a hundred years. In other words, he would have to remain at this cultivation level for such a long time.
“I’ll take you to a place for cultivation later. There are many steps there, with each step corresponding to a certain level of cultivation. You need to reach the level of a Saint to step on the first step. Once you reach the level of a Saint Envoy, then you can step on the second step. Don’t rush to climb up—there are strong repulsive forces and soul attacks there. Just make sure you don’t get pushed back down. If you’re pushed back down three times, I won’t be able to let you enter for cultivation anymore. It’s best not to get pushed down at all!” Ye Feng warned. “After reaching the eighth layer, stop climbing further. There are seven stone tablets there, each containing different elemental laws. You can use them to improve your mastery of these laws. Don’t worry about running out of time—there’s a time acceleration of one million times.”
“One million times time acceleration…” Shi Tou was stunned again. Such a sacred place for cultivation was exactly what this battle fanatic had always dreamed of.
“Alright, I’ll take you there now. Long Ge, Bai Yiyi, and Jin Wen have already been in there for some time.” Ye Feng said as he teleported Shi Tou in as well.
Jin Wen and Long Ge had already started to comprehend the laws in the eighth layer, while Bai Yiyi was even further ahead, having reached the ninth layer, as there were no stone tablets containing soul laws in the eighth layer. Most of the stone tablets with special laws were located in the ninth layer, including those related to soul laws. Although Bai Yiyi was still struggling against the repulsive forces and soul attacks in the ninth layer, Ye Feng knew she would adapt fully soon and then be able to approach the stone tablets to comprehend the laws.
As for Luo Yan, he had already reached the eleventh layer—Ye Feng didn’t even know what level that corresponded to.
Watching everyone cultivate, Ye Feng returned to the guest room and continued absorbing that white stone.
Another five hundred thousand years passed in the Absolute Martial Ark, and Jin finally broke through to the Saint level. In the Realm of Refinement, time passed only five thousand years after the stone’s breakthrough. After giving him some final instructions, Ye Feng also sent him to the Martial Training Hall of the Absolute Martial Ark.
At this point, excluding Ye Feng’s clones, there were already six people in the Martial Training Hall: Long Tian, Jin Wen, Luo Yan, Bai Yiyi, Shi Tou, and Jin. Two spots were still left.
It was originally thought that those two spots would be taken by two of Xiao Yu, Xiao Bei, and Qing Wen. But 1.5 million years later, Xiao Liu and Yi Fan almost simultaneously broke through to the Saint level, overtaking the others.
Ye Feng gave those two spots to them as well. After giving them some instructions, he sent them into the Martial Training Hall.
After such a long period of studying the laws, Ye Feng’s dark-themed avatar finally reached the tenth level of perfection in law cultivation. On the stone tablet of the eighth step, the information about the laws also came to an end here. Ye Feng also felt that his necromancy law cultivation had reached a bottleneck, with no possibility of further progress. He suspected it might be related to his cultivation level or the law secret patterns. With no other choice, he brought his dark-themed avatar back to the guest room to let Ye An ponder in silence. What surprised him a bit was that there was only one stone tablet for each type of law here, meaning he could only cultivate up to the tenth level of perfection at most. What came after that, Ye Feng had no idea at all. There were no relevant clues in the Absolute Martial Ark either. This made Ye Feng unable to help but seek out Zi Ling. “After reaching the tenth level of perfection in law cultivation, can’t it be improved any further?” Zi Ling was slightly stunned and asked back, “You reached the tenth level of perfection in law cultivation so quickly?” “Not really fast. Although my cultivation levels for other laws were only at the third level before, my necromancy law was already at the eighth level of perfection.” Ye Feng guessed that Zi Ling had forgotten about his necromancy law. Only then did Zi Ling recall that Ye Feng’s necromancy law had already reached the eighth level of perfection. It took two levels to advance over such a long time—although not slow, it wasn’t as fast as Zi Ling had thought it would be to go from the third level to the tenth. “After reaching the tenth level of perfection in law cultivation, a bottleneck appears, and it’s not easy to break through,” Zi Ling explained. “After breaking through, the law transforms into a life-based divine ability. It’s called a life-based divine ability because the law secret patterns are deeply imprinted on the soul. Even if one is reincarnated, the abilities carried by the law won’t be lost.” “Can it still be improved after becoming a divine ability?” Ye Feng pressed further. “Once it becomes a divine ability, it can’t be improved anymore. The strength of a divine ability depends on its inherent attributes as well as the user’s cultivation level. For example, space-based divine abilities are far stronger than those of other types. There are also some special types, like soul-based divine abilities, which are stronger than many other types. Of course, it also depends on the cultivation level and the user’s combat awareness,” Zi Ling explained. “Are the divine abilities among the basic laws the weakest?” Ye Feng couldn’t help but ask.
“Yes, divine powers can be divided into seven levels based on their strength. Among the divine powers derived from the five fundamental laws, the strongest ones are only at the fourth level and are extremely rare, such as water-based sealing or lightning-based destruction… As for the light and dark elements, like your dark-elemental undead, they are at the fifth level. The soul-based charm used by that girl is also at the fifth level. Most of the divine powers related to the five fundamental elements are at the first or second level… While most spatial and temporal divine powers are at the sixth or seventh level.” Zi Ling explained in great detail. “There’s also another type of power that’s different from the laws but has a similar effect—it can be combined to create new divine powers, and it may even lead to an increase in level. For example, the lightning-based destruction law and the fire-based annihilation law you already possess can be perfectly combined. As for other combinations, you can figure them out on your own; I won’t say more.” After hearing Zi Ling’s explanation, Ye Feng finally understood everything and knew his new path for cultivation.