Chapter 731: The Abnormal Changes of the Heavenly Dao Stele

As soon as Ye Feng took hold of that strange stone, the Heavenly Dao Stele in his sea of consciousness began to vibrate violently. Even Immortal, who was cultivating within it, was forced out of his state of enlightenment by that peculiar energy.
“What’s going on?” Immortal sensed something amiss and immediately sent a message to Ye Feng.
Ye Feng finally came back to his senses. Hearing Immortal’s question, he didn’t know how to respond for a moment. “I don’t know either…”
But Immortal quickly identified the source of the problem—the strange stone in Ye Feng’s hand.
“Quick! Make that stone recognize you by letting your blood fall on it!” Immortal urged.
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng immediately forced out some of his vital blood and dropped it onto the stone. At first, the stone resisted, but with the vibrations of the Heavenly Dao Stele, it eventually resonated with the blood, allowing it to seep in slowly.
Once the blood penetrated the stone, it suddenly broke free from Ye Feng’s hand and rushed straight into his sea of consciousness.
Seeing a stone resembling an asteroid pierce through all obstacles surrounding his sea of consciousness and crash inward, Immortal was stunned. This was the first time he had heard of or seen such a thing.
He wasn’t worried that this stone, which had already recognized Ye Feng, would cause any harm to his sea of consciousness. After all, it had already pledged allegiance.
Once inside Ye Feng’s sea of consciousness, the stone’s descent speed didn’t slow down—it even increased slightly. Under Immortal’s watchful eyes, the stone headed straight for the Heavenly Dao Stele.
Immortal was taken aback. Before he could decide whether to intervene, the stone already struck the Heavenly Dao Stele. There was no loud explosion, nor any cracking of the stele as expected. The stone seemed to hit a layer of water, creating ripples on its surface before disappearing, as if it had never existed at all.
“What’s going on?” Ye Feng, who had observed the entire scene with his spiritual power, was filled with confusion. Just as this thought crossed his mind, the Heavenly Dao Stele changed again, beginning to tremble violently.

The originally blue stone tablet was changing color and shape at a speed visible to the naked eye. Its original blue hue gradually turned golden, and its shape began to transform into a rune form. It no longer remained rooted on the surface of the Sea of Consciousness but floated upward, occupying the exact center of it, exuding an inviolable aura.

A golden light radiated from those runes in all directions. Wherever it passed, Ye Feng felt a strange heat current. After a moment, the golden light had swept across the entire Sea of Consciousness, and Ye Feng noticed that its area had expanded by one-third.

“Dad, what exactly is going on?” Ye Feng asked Immortal in confusion.

Immortal also looked grave and remained silent for a long time before speaking, “It seems like your Remnant Tablet of the Heavenly Dao has been perfected and evolved into something else. I’ve never heard of such a thing before. As far as I know, even the Remnant Tablets within the Heavenly Dao haven’t reached this state.”

“It sounds like good news…” Ye Feng said as he extended his spiritual power. In an instant, he was pulled into another world.

It was a world filled with secret runes. When Ye Feng extended his spiritual power, he found there were as many as 108,000 secret runes in total—meaning these runes encompassed all laws and divine powers.

Ye Feng verified each of the 80,000 secret runes he had already learned. Once verification was complete, those 80,000 runes began to combine automatically. First came five basic elemental divine powers, followed by divine powers of light and darkness, and then various other powers. Once all the powers were combined, Ye Feng realized that those 80,000 runes actually contained 800 different divine powers. Each power could be fully represented by just 100 runes, and all variations could be covered by rearranging those 100 runes without omission.

Among the divine powers he knew, except for the Devouring Power, which was not included in those 80,000 runes, the rest were all there.

Ye Feng identified the secret runes for the divine powers he had already practiced and arranged them thoroughly to understand all their variations before stopping.

His consciousness finally left that space.

Back in the real world, Ye Feng felt that the connection between the various divine powers within him and himself had become much stronger. What surprised him even more was that the time it took for his consciousness to enter that space seemed to be zero—Immortal didn’t even notice his consciousness leaving.

“Xiao Feng, I still need to borrow your supreme privilege.” Immortal pointed at the rune in Ye Feng’s sea of consciousness; he wanted to continue merging divine powers.
“Mm,” Ye Feng nodded. After all, every time Immortal’s attempts at merging were interrupted, it was due to his own actions—once because of that guy from Blood Sea, and the second time because he obtained a strange stone that inexplicably caused strange changes in the Ancient Tablet of the Heavenly Dao within his sea of consciousness. Ye Feng once again sent his soul power into the void realm, activating his supreme privilege.
With Ye Feng’s help, Immortal entered a state of enlightenment once more.
Ye Feng withdrew his soul power from his sea of consciousness, bid farewell to the two giant beasts, and then returned to Lake City with Blood Sea’s group.
“Master, what’s the use of that stone?” Blood Sea asked first.
Ye Feng shook his head with a helpless smile. “I don’t know either. After I claimed it, it rushed straight into my body. I don’t know how to activate it. But my sea of consciousness has expanded quite a bit.”
“Those two beasts were able to figure out how to stack divine powers. With some time, Master, you’ll surely find that method too,” Luo Yan reassured him. “Besides, I think that thing isn’t that simple. It’s not only useful for stacking divine powers but probably has other effects as well. At least it can accelerate cultivation, as we can see from those two beasts’ levels.”
“Mm, I’ll study it slowly,” Ye Feng nodded. He knew that even in its original state, the stone had terrifying effects. Now that it had turned into a rune, its benefits should be no less than before.
Just as Ye Feng was pondering this, a powerful soul force scanned everyone recklessly.
“A sixth-level powerhouse?!” Ye Feng deduced the person’s cultivation level from the intensity of the soul force’s scan.