High Martial Arts Era 417
by admin## Chapter 417: Gifts! Breakthrough of Will (Seeking Monthly Tickets at the Beginning of the Month)
Within the Divine Fire Palace, Li Yuan’s residence.
“Master, Princess Jiang Xuan has arrived.” A beautiful maid dressed in purple respectfully reported.
“Hmm, bring Princess Jiang Xuan in.” Li Yuan said.
Soon, two other servants led Jiang Xuan into the hall, and naturally, servants served them with fine wine.
“Brother Xu, I see many people waiting outside, all seem to be here to visit you.” Jiang Xuan smiled faintly: “After yesterday’s battle, your name has spread throughout the entire capital.”
“There are many Divine families who have come to visit.” Li Yuan chuckled.
Not long after returning to the Divine Fire Palace, many Divine families sent people to visit, bringing gifts with them. Especially after the news of Li Yuan becoming the ‘First on the Heavenly Flight List’ spread, the number of visitors increased significantly.
Each gift was worth at least ten Divine Crystals. While Li Yuan refused some highly valuable gifts, which clearly had ulterior motives, he accepted the rest.
It’s not often that one can get so many Divine Crystals without any effort.
Within a day’s time, Li Yuan had collected hundreds of Divine Crystals simply from receiving gifts.
“This is just the beginning. In the next few days, the number of people who visit you will likely increase.” Jiang Xuan’s eyes twinkled with light: “Haha, Brother Xu, you’ll be overwhelmed with gifts, you might not even remember who sent them.”
There were thousands of Divine families in the entire capital. Even if only one-fifth chose to congratulate him, the ultimate value of the gifts would be a substantial number.
“It doesn’t matter if I don’t remember who sent the gifts.” Li Yuan joked: “Just remember who didn’t send any.”
Jiang Xuan burst into laughter, then said: “Well, it seems like I came at the right time.”
“Oh? I was just about to ask you.” Li Yuan asked.
“I’m also here to give you a gift.” Jiang Xuan smiled, flipping her palm and throwing a jade bottle towards Li Yuan.
“What’s this?” Li Yuan took a quick look and revealed a trace of surprise: “Fifty Awakening God Pills?”
It should be known that two hours ago, Li Yuan visited Elder Sha Xi, who directly gifted him twenty Awakening God Pills.
There were no more!
Thirty Awakening God Pills was the limit that a Heavenly Flight level could get from the Divine Fire Palace. Many Divine Fire Palace members needed to complete numerous trials before receiving so many Awakening God Pills.
Buy Awakening God Pills?
This thing was a forbidden item, not allowed to be sold.
Li Yuan understood that ordinary Heavenly Flight demigods didn’t have many chances to obtain Awakening God Pills, and once obtained, they would probably use them directly. Where would they have extra ones?
But Li Yuan never expected that Jiang Xuan would give him fifty Awakening God Pills right off the bat.
“Where did you get these?” Li Yuan asked in confusion.
“After returning yesterday, my elder brother managed to get them for me and asked me to bring them to you.” Jiang Xuan said: “Brother Xu, with your relationship with the King, even if you were to be gifted hundreds or thousands of Awakening God Pills, it wouldn’t be difficult for the King to provide them.”
In fact, Jiang Xuan was somewhat puzzled. Initially, she thought Li Yuan belonged to some Sacred Land sect, or perhaps he was a top genius from the Awakening Star City. But from the fact that Li Yuan hadn’t used any Awakening God Pills, it didn’t seem like he was a core member of any major force.
However, Jiang Xuan could confirm one thing, the King valued Li Yuan highly.
“It’s a small matter. I don’t want to bother the King.” Li Yuan smiled: “A few dozen more Awakening God Pills, or a few dozen less, wouldn’t affect me much.”
Li Yuan was well aware.
Jiang Yuan, the True God, had already helped him tremendously. He had helped resolve his identity, directly given him access to the Starry Sky Ancient City, and given him a token for protection. These were the most important things.
But they were not close, not his guardian, and they had paid so much for something.
If he asked for help with every little thing.
How could he make Jiang Yuan believe he could become a True God?
Let alone that he had just awakened eight-star meridians, his law talent wasn’t so outrageous as to be heaven-defying.
In the history of the Heavenly Serpent clan, even among many outstanding geniuses who had awakened nine-star meridians, many had died on the path to becoming True Gods.
“Jiang Xuan, I do need these Awakening God Pills now, thank you.” Li Yuan said, not being polite with her.
“You don’t need to.”
“Speaking of which, Brother Xu, you’ve helped me so much, not only saving me multiple times.” Jiang Xuan said: “This time, the Awakening Star City quota of the Imperial family was also obtained by you, Brother Xu.”
“I got it for you?” Li Yuan was stunned.
“Brother Xu, do you remember those demigod-level beast heads?” Jiang Xuan said.
Li Yuan suddenly understood and chuckled: “So you went to the Abyssal Demon Blood Grotto to compete for the Awakening Star City quota.”
“Yes.”
“Brother Xu, I have another thing to ask.” Jiang Xuan couldn’t help but ask: “Back in the Abyssal Demon Blood Grotto, were you sure that Uncle Xu and the others really perished?”
“I didn’t see them perish with my own eyes, but based on some clues, it seems like they did.” Li Yuan said.
Back then, he watched as Xu Guo and the others entered the cave, and the light dimmed.
“En, thank you for telling me, Brother Xu.” Jiang Xuan’s eyes dimmed, the last bit of hope in her heart shattered.
…
After seeing Jiang Xuan off.
“Ren Qing.” Li Yuan sent a mental message.
The purple-clothed woman immediately flew in, respectfully saying: “Master, what are your orders?”
Ren Qing was the steward assigned to Li Yuan’s residence by the Divine Fire Palace, she was also a demigod.
“Tell those who want to visit me that I’m going into seclusion to cultivate and won’t be seeing guests.” Li Yuan said: “They can leave their name cards and gifts, I’ll note them down later.”
“Master, is that alright?” Ren Qing couldn’t help but say: “The visitors are all Divine families.”
“Don’t worry, they are not Wang Hou families, nor are those Divine beings visiting personally.” Li Yuan chuckled.
Those demigods who could be granted Wang Hou titles in Yuan Kingdom were the truly powerful figures among demigods, like Phantom True Marquis, for example.
As for those demigods at the initial and intermediate stages… if these Divine beings came to visit personally, Li Yuan would naturally treat them with respect. However, if they were just their family descendants, Li Yuan didn’t really care.
“Yes.” Ren Qing said: “By the way, Master, many of the visiting Divine families have conflicts with each other. Should we accept all the gifts they send?”
In Ren Qing’s opinion, accepting gifts was a form of expressing support.
“Accept!”
“If they dare to send them, we’ll accept them all.” Li Yuan laughed: “But you must also discern, anything worth over fifty Divine Crystals, return it all.”
“Yes.” Ren Qing nodded.
She was secretly surprised. She had served as the steward for many Divine Fire Palace demigod-level geniuses… but she had never seen anyone as carefree as Li Yuan, indifferent to the thoughts of those Divine families.
“Perhaps, this is what a super genius is like.” Ren Qing thought to herself.
She had no idea that Li Yuan had already thought things through. After all, he would leave the Awakening Star Continent when he became a demigod in the future… might as well grab all the benefits now.
It’s a fool who doesn’t take advantage of a good deal.
…
“Boom~” The quiet room door slowly closed, Li Yuan immediately activated the source power formation.
“Seventy Awakening God Pills.” Li Yuan sat cross-legged, sensing all the Awakening God Pills in the storage artifact.
“Let’s try.”
“See if I can refine them all.” Li Yuan thought to himself, feeling a hint of anticipation: “Previously, after using ten Awakening God Pills, I awakened thousands of life stars… if I use another fifty or sixty at once, I’ll be closer to awakening the nine-star meridians.”
Whew!
Taking out an Awakening God Pill, Li Yuan, familiar with the process, enveloped it with his divine consciousness and source power, attempting to refine it.
“Boom!”
A powerful soul impact burst out from the Awakening God Pill, striking Li Yuan’s soul origin.
“Here we go again.” Li Yuan concentrated and resisted the impact.
…
In the Fog Mountain王府.
“Commander Mo.” Jiang Xuan whispered: “Have you made all the arrangements?”
“I have, according to your instructions, I have made proper arrangements for the families of Xu Guo and the others.” Commander Mo respectfully said.
“En, you may leave now.” Jiang Xuan said.
After Commander Mo left the hall.
“If I hadn’t met Brother Xu on this trip to the Abyssal Demon Blood Grotto, even with Uncle Xu and the others protecting me, I would have died.” Jiang Xuan thought silently: “Brother… seems to be constantly making plans and arrangements. He’s been hiding things from me about mother.”
“Strength.”
“If I had Brother Xu’s strength, I might be able to share some of the burden with Brother.” Jiang Xuan thought to herself.
Jiang Shan thought Jiang Xuan was unaware of anything, but she wasn’t a child. In fact, she had already sensed something, but had never revealed it.
“This time, Brother Xu helped me get the Awakening Star City quota, even if I can’t stay in the Starry Sky Ancient City, I have to try my best to stay for a while longer.” Jiang Xuan thought to herself.
Yuan Kingdom had ten demigod quotas for the Awakening Star City trials, and the Imperial family competed with everyone else.
However, the Heavenly Flight level quotas were partly given to the Divine Fire Palace, and the rest belonged to the Imperial family.
The Imperial family only had five quotas each time, seemingly not many, but the number of Imperial family members was also much smaller, so the competition pressure was actually much less.
Jiang Xuan’s strength wasn’t ranked high in the Divine Fire Palace, but she was already a top talent among the Imperial family’s Heavenly Flight level, especially since she was still young.
This Abyssal Demon Blood Grotto trial was the final trial to determine the quotas!
She used the large number of demigod-level beasts gifted by Li Yuan and successfully secured the first place in the final Abyssal Demon Blood Grotto trial.
“Let’s give it our all.”
“Brother is preparing for the ancestor realm war, and I have to work hard too.” Jiang Xuan secretly said.
…
In the next few days, Li Yuan’s residence was indeed lively.
Even though Li Yuan explicitly stated he was in seclusion and not seeing guests, it couldn’t stop the enthusiasm of the many Divine families.
Many of the Divine family managers had received instructions from their ancestors in the background, stating that Xu Yuan would surely join the Awakening Star City soon, becoming a True God was possible… if he were to return to Yuan Kingdom from the Starry Sky Ancient City in the future, he would be a top-tier figure in Yuan Kingdom.
Now was the best time to forge ties.
Not to seek a close relationship, but at least not to make Xu Yuan dislike them.
The large number of gifts made Ren Qing, the steward, numb. She had never imagined that she would one day receive treasures worth thousands of Divine Crystals… she even had a thought.
“Why not run away with these treasures? So many Divine Crystals, it’s enough for me to exchange for some precious cultivation resources, maybe I can cultivate to the demigod peak.” A trace of greed arose in Ren Qing’s heart.
However, she soon abandoned the idea.
“No!”
“Unless I escape from the Eastern Region, Yuan Kingdom’s Abyssal Guard would surely catch me.” New thoughts arose in Ren Qing’s mind: “But now, maybe it’s an opportunity.”
“From what Elder Sha Xi said, Master Xu Yuan is alone, he doesn’t have a family? No companions or children?”
“That means I’m Master Xu Yuan’s closest subordinate right now. If I can gain his trust, if Master Xu Yuan becomes a demigod, or even a True God… I’ll have even more opportunities for benefits.” Ren Qing thought to herself.
She also had aspirations, wanting to completely break free from her servant status and become a demigod.
In the Awakening Star Continent, there were many legends and stories of one person gaining the Dao and benefiting everyone around them.
There were such cases within Yuan Kingdom.
It was said that the extremely low-key ‘Goumumu True God’ had helped Jiang Yuan when he was still a demigod, at that time Jiang Yuan was just a Heavenly Flight level. Later, when Jiang Yuan became a True God, he helped Goumumu become a True God from a demigod.
After figuring things out.
Ren Qing became even more dedicated to managing the residence and receiving visitors from various families.
…
In the quiet room of the residence.
Li Yuan naturally didn’t know about Ren Qing’s change of heart. He was wholeheartedly immersed in cultivation, refining one Awakening God Pill after another.
After refining fifty-three Awakening God Pills in one breath.
Adding the initial ten, and the one he was currently refining, this was the sixty-fourth Awakening God Pill Li Yuan had refined.
“Rumble!”
The soul impact from the Awakening God Pill had reached an exaggerated level, crazily striking Li Yuan’s soul will.
“Endure!”
“Endure!” Li Yuan’s mind roared.
The terrifying soul impact, like raging rivers, violently struck, seemingly slow, but Li Yuan could not avoid it. He couldn’t even use his soul treasures, he could only endure it.
This kind of impact could shake the soul.
It made Li Yuan’s body tremble uncontrollably, the soul pressure was simply too much to bear.
In fact, from the moment he used the sixtieth Awakening God Pill, the soul impact had become increasingly alarming, gradually approaching Li Yuan’s limit.
However.
With his will that was almost at the demigod level, Li Yuan endured it, refining three more Awakening God Pills.
But the sixty-fourth one was obviously beyond Li Yuan’s tolerance limit.
Suddenly.
“Boom~” Li Yuan’s soul will finally couldn’t withstand it, he suddenly went blank, a sharp pain surged in his mind, and he collapsed.
The moment Li Yuan couldn’t hold on, the soul impact disappeared without a trace.
A long time passed.
“Whew!” Li Yuan gradually regained consciousness, sat up again, and thought to himself: “As expected, it’s just like what Jiang Yuan said, the soul impact from the Awakening God Pills is not a soul attack… it just presses and impacts, at most it causes fainting, it won’t cause the soul to collapse.”
This was the reason why Li Yuan dared to try to the limit repeatedly.
“The effect of the Awakening God Pills is indeed excellent, although I haven’t awakened the nine-star meridians yet.”
Li Yuan closed his eyes slightly, sensing the eight meridians in his life star space: “But after refining them all at once, I awakened nearly 20,000 life stars, which made my sixth meridian break through to the ninth level.”
Li Yuan also looked at the panel on the Divine Palace:
【Meridian: 8-star Meridian (10th level + 10th level + 10th level + 10th level + 10th level + 9th level + 8th level + 7th level)】
The first five meridians had already reached the perfect meridian level, and the three meridians that were awakened later, under Li Yuan’s continuous attempts to awaken them over the years, were getting closer and closer to the ninth level.
The number of meridians is important, but the quality is also important.
Just like the same six-star meridian, those who can cultivate the ninth-level star techniques, and those who can only cultivate the seventh-level star techniques, their strength will naturally be worlds apart.
The former, if they cultivate body-tempering star techniques, their combat prowess could rival that of seven-star meridian experts.
The latter would be much weaker.
Why do many seven-star meridian and eight-star meridian experts have generally very high law comprehension? One important reason is that most of them have two or three nine-level meridians, allowing them to cultivate the most powerful auxiliary star techniques, making their compatibility with laws reach an astonishing level.
“The quality of my meridians should be among the top among eight-star meridian experts.” Li Yuan thought to himself.
In addition to the eight awakened meridians, the number of chaotic, unowned life stars had reached a new peak.
“Steady progress.”
“As long as it’s not at the limit, as long as I can keep awakening life stars.” Li Yuan’s eyes shone: “Even without spiritual guidance, there is still hope of awakening the nine-star meridians.”
Spiritual guidance is very important.
But Li Yuan had never placed all his hopes on spiritual guidance.
Just like back then, Li Yuan had desperately become a demigod-level soul, directly breaking through from six-star meridians to seven-star meridians.
“External opportunities are important.”
“But if I rely solely on spiritual guidance, then ultimately becoming a ten-star meridian will likely be a pipe dream.” Li Yuan calmed down, adjusted his heart, and began cultivating the “Boundary Cloud Spear”.
In his mind, the scene of An Chi, the True God, wielding a single strike from the law mirror emerged.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~
Spear shadows continuously appeared around Li Yuan, all of them were evolving the same move – stab!
Forward stab!
“Whether it’s the wind, earth, or space law comprehension, if I take them individually, I’m not at the demigod level.” Li Yuan thought to himself: “But combined together, I’ve comprehended the fourth style of the “Boundary Cloud Spear”, the spear techniques have reached the demigod level.”
Many demigods who individually comprehended a fundamental law, could only reach the seventh level of perfection, in terms of the profoundness of their techniques, they might not even be able to compare to Li Yuan.
“Continue to comprehend.”
“Comprehend more law mysteries and integrate them into the spear techniques, and the spear techniques will become stronger.”
“The spear techniques of the founder of the “Boundary Cloud Spear” are centered on the earth and wind laws, with space mysteries as an auxiliary… but I’m the opposite, it’s space law as the core.” Although Li Yuan was comprehending the “Boundary Cloud Spear”.
As his comprehension deepened, he gradually had his own understanding.
In terms of space talent, Li Yuan clearly surpassed the earth and wind laws.
…
After pondering the spear techniques for a long time, the fatigue Li Yuan had from refining the Awakening God Pills had recovered a lot.
“Start practicing the observation technique now.” Li Yuan switched to another cultivation method.
Ever since his source power cultivation had reached its limit.
Meridian cultivation, spear technique comprehension, will cultivation… these three had become Li Yuan’s main cultivation focuses, he usually rotated between them.
In a way.
Li Yuan had been maintaining his youthful habits, dedicating himself wholeheartedly to cultivation.
Spiritual world, the spiritual palace.
“Whoosh!”
Li Yuan’s consciousness gathered, as always, converging on the Grand Sun Jade Platform, and then the scene around his consciousness body changed, and he arrived in the vast starry sky.
That star, like the sun, was still suspended there.
“Starry Sky Grand Sun.”
Li Yuan’s consciousness body quickly approached the Grand Sun, the scorching light emanating from it, containing terrifying power, constantly trying to suppress Li Yuan.
However, after so many years of cultivation, Li Yuan’s will had already grown to almost the level of a demigod, at such a distant distance, those lights barely affected him.
Whew!
Li Yuan’s consciousness body flew closer and closer, eventually stopping very close to the scorching sun.
Here, the enormous fireball seemed like half the universe, scorching and endless, even the fire snakes dancing on the fireball could be clearly seen… endless scorching light enveloped Li Yuan’s consciousness body.
Pain!
Terrible pain that targeted the soul.
“Grand Sun Soul Refinement.”
“Observe the Vast Starry Sky.” This kind of soul burning pain, enough to drive many Heavenly Flight warriors mad and collapse, was not enough to make Li Yuan change his expression.
He had attempted to get close to the Grand Sun many times.
“Soul transformation will make the will stronger!”
“A strong will will also bring greater hope for soul transformation.” Li Yuan silently recited in his heart: “The “Observing the Grand Sun Starry Sky Scripture”, although excruciatingly painful, is an ultimate technique that allows both soul and will to undergo continuous transformation.”
No matter how powerful the technique is.
No matter how good the opportunity is.
You have to work hard to grab it in order to succeed.
Just like many True God offspring, their cultivation environment from a young age often surpassed their parents… but ultimately, their achievements mostly didn’t match those of their parents.
“Sizzle sizzle~” The terrible pain tormented him, also slowly transforming Li Yuan’s will.
Although his soul will had been at level 49 for a long time.
But Li Yuan was convinced that even if he endured the torture that was akin to hell every time, as long as he could make the slightest bit of progress, he could eventually come to a day of complete transformation.
Time passed.
“Rumble~” The invisible light from the Grand Sun, like sharp blades, struck Li Yuan’s soul again and again.
Whoosh~
Li Yuan also operated the “Observing the Grand Sun Starry Sky Scripture”, allowing a trace of mysterious power to be transmitted from the vast starry sky behind him, constantly nourishing his soul… however, the fatigue from his will being constantly tormented could only be endured by himself.
Li Yuan’s consciousness body was like a rock, completely motionless.
After a long time.
“It seems that I won’t break through this time either. I’ll cultivate for a while longer, then wait for next time.” Li Yuan’s heart was very calm: “Counting the time, the Nine Sounds Realm is about to open.”
“A True God-level soul master, a place specially opened to recruit disciples, hopefully it can give me some inspiration.”
Just then.
“Boom~~”
Soundlessly.
Under the nourishment of the body, under the influence of the law dao origin, and after reaching level 49 of will, still enduring the “Observing the Grand Sun Starry Sky Scripture” cultivation and tempering day after day.
Li Yuan’s will, which had already reached the demigod limit, suddenly began to transform at this moment, breaking through that crucial bottleneck.
From human to god!
As if a chain reaction, Li Yuan’s consciousness body suddenly burst out with streaks of dazzling light, like glass, also representing that his will had completely entered a new level.
The demigod level!!
“Heart like glass, unmoved by the external world, persevering in one’s heart, can endure forever.” Li Yuan instantly understood in his heart: “Is this the fundamental principle of the will at the god level?”
Whether it’s a source warrior, a Heavenly Flight warrior, or a demigod, their wills continue to strengthen, but there’s no fundamental difference.
In countless calamities, they often waver in their hearts, doubting whether their choices are wrong.
It’s difficult to hold onto the original heart!
Only by persevering in one’s heart, persevering in one’s path, constantly questioning one’s heart without slacking off, can one’s will continue to transform, continue to evolve, ultimately reaching the level of ‘heart like glass’.
“Heart without good or evil.”
“Nor good or bad.”
“Some terrifying demons, who kill countless beings, destroy worlds and planets, have extremely terrifying wills,” Li Yuan felt his will transforming, becoming increasingly aware of this: “So-called right or wrong, are all judged by others.”
“And true strong individuals, their hearts are unshakeable, they only persevere on their own paths.”
“Thus.”
“They can remain true to themselves for thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years.”
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ps: A 6,000-word chapter, continue writing.
Brothers, seeking monthly ticket support at the beginning of the month.
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