Chapter 646: Those Who Left the Tower

Over the next hundred years, Ye Feng continued to cultivate within the Absolute Martial Ark. Thanks to the one-million-fold time acceleration, although his cultivation level did not improve, his overall strength saw significant growth.

Ye Feng also took out the divine powers, special techniques, and three supreme virtual treasures from the Tower of Heaven-Piercing.

The three supreme virtual treasures were all weapons: a pitch-black long sword, a purple long sword, and a silver long spear. Ye Feng could use both swords, but he already had the Imperial Extreme Demon Plant, which, though still an elite-grade virtual treasure, was sufficient for his needs. As for spear skills, he had no intention of mastering them, so this supreme virtual treasure was of little use to him.

Considering these factors, Ye Feng gave the three virtual treasures to Long Tian and the others, allowing them to distribute them as they saw fit. In the end, Long Tian took the long sword, Xiao Liu took the long spear, and Yi Fan chose the sword.

As for the divine powers, there were thirty-three in total. Most of them were already in Ye Feng’s possession, with only two martial arts divine powers, two sword arts divine powers, and one sword arts divine power being useful to him. He kept these five divine powers for himself. The remaining twenty-eight were distributed to Long Tian and the others.

Although Long Tian and the others had cultivated all the elemental laws, they were not Ye Feng and could not use their special insights to quickly transform these laws into divine powers. Many of the laws within them had reached the tenth level of perfection but had not yet been transformed into divine powers. These divine powers provided them with countless advantages. Soon, they were all divided up.

As for the special techniques, they were completely useless to Ye Feng. The special techniques he had cultivated were only at the eighth level, offering a 50-fold power boost—a result typically achieved only by mastering an eighth-grade special technique to its extreme. Of the thirty-six special technique books in his possession, only one was of the eighth grade, five were of the seventh grade, and the rest were of the sixth or fifth grade. Even Long Tian disdained these techniques, let alone Ye Feng.

After distributing all the special techniques, Ye Feng explained to everyone the effects of cultivating techniques of different grades and advised them that it was best not to cultivate those below the sixth grade, as they could be auctioned or exchanged for other items later.

As for the universes extracted from the bodies of fallen powerful beings, as mentioned by the Tower of Heaven-Piercing, they had already been placed inside the tower by the Heavenly Dao—nearly a hundred in number, of varying grades. Ye Feng, who couldn’t even open the second floor of the tower, naturally couldn’t see them. However, he was well aware that these things would eventually belong to him.

Regarding the so-called Genius Competition, Ye Feng originally thought only he and Long Tian were qualified to participate. Unexpectedly, during this period of seclusion, many others had made breakthroughs and reached the Star Sea level of cultivation. This included Xiao Yu, Xiao Bei, Long Wen, Shi Tou, Bai Yiyi, Zhen Zhu, and Long Tian, who had even reached the peak of the Star Sea level. If not for his deliberate suppression, they would likely have advanced to the Star Domain level by now.

Although the others had already reached the tenth layer of perfection in the laws, they hadn’t yet mastered all their divine powers, so they couldn’t break through to the Star Sea level. However, Ye Feng knew that given time, they would surely make the breakthrough.

As for Jin Wen, he strangely advanced two levels, reaching the True Void level of cultivation and taking on a human form. His appearance was somewhat similar to Ye Feng’s. Perhaps because of the Ye Feng bloodline in his body and his long-term exposure to Ye Feng, he unconsciously wanted to resemble Ye Feng when taking on a human form.

The one with the highest cultivation level was still Luo Yan, whose cultivation had reached the Great Void level. But when he appeared, what caught Ye Feng’s attention the most wasn’t his improved cultivation level but the significant change in his aura—his every move exuded immense dominance.

“Lao Luo, you seem different…” Ye Feng couldn’t help but ask. The others nodded as well, examining Luo Yan from head to toe.

“My bloodline has evolved. I am now a Xuanmu Emperor Corpse—the third Xuanmu Emperor Corpse since the Progenitor,” Luo Yan said. “Because of me, Jin Ling’er and the other two have also evolved into Golden Eye Corpse Emperors, with their cultivation restored to the peak of the Giant Void level.”

“Yes, I told you we chose the right master,” Jin Ling’er said proudly. “Once all the seals are lifted and we return to our original Dongxu level cultivation, our strength will increase by almost ten times. Moreover, breaking through to the Dongxu level won’t be a problem either.”

“Actually, you don’t need to thank me. If you want to thank someone, thank my master,” Luo Yan said with a smile. “Without the powerful bloodline energy transmitted through the contract seal over a hundred years ago, I would never have been able to achieve such an evolution in my bloodline.”

“It’s because of me?” Ye Feng felt a question arise in his mind, but then he remembered that his own bloodline strength had been enhanced once by an elder over a hundred years ago. Likely, that was what Luo Yan was referring to.

“It should be. My cultivation progress shouldn’t have been this fast.” Jin Wen also nodded. “Because the transition from the Pseudo-Void level to the True-Void level is a process of forming a miniature universe, which should normally take a very long time. But one day, I suddenly felt my bloodline boiling, and the stars within me began to rapidly coalesce into a miniature universe. It was completed in just one day.”

“Us too. That day was very strange. The transformation of our divine powers, which had been progressing slowly, suddenly accelerated. In less than half an hour, one set of laws was transformed into a divine power. All the transformations were completed within a day. I told Xiao Yu and the others about this, and to my surprise, they encountered the same thing.” Bernard nodded in agreement.

“That’s right. It was indeed like that that day.” Xiao Yu, Shi Tuo, Bai Yiyi, and Qing Wen also nodded.

“I roughly understand what happened now.” Ye Feng finally had to admit it was his fault. “It must be because of my bloodline improving. Since you all have my blood in you, that’s why you were affected.”

Then Ye Feng looked at Zhenzhen with some confusion. “Sis Zhenzhen, why do I feel your cultivation speed is getting faster and faster? Normally, the higher one’s cultivation level, the harder it is to improve. But it seems the opposite has happened recently—the higher your level, the faster you improve?”

“I also have to thank you…” Zhenzhen said with a smile.

Her words made everyone look at Ye Feng, wondering inwardly, “Could Zhenzhen also have Ye Feng’s bloodline?”

“Me?” Ye Feng was curious himself. He didn’t understand how Zhenzhen’s cultivation speed could be related to him.

“That’s right. Do you still remember the Hellish Nether Butterfly you gave me?” Zhenzhen said, unfolding a pair of wings behind her. “Hellish creatures aren’t as simple as you think. My cultivation method is different from ordinary people’s, and you can’t use it as a reference. Weren’t you all always curious about how I got my techniques for interrogating criminals? They also come from that little guy… I suggest we all go to that dimension sometime as a trip.”