Chapter 643 - 425: Wind and Thunder Power
"A hundred years of the Martial Saint’s Power can make the Dao grow by ten zhang!" Wei Fan quickly concluded.
After his breakthrough, his Dao reached a height of one hundred zhang. Although he hadn’t been cultivating since entering the Wilderness, his Dao continued to grow autonomously.
However, the growth rate was relatively insignificant for a Dao that’s a hundred zhang tall, increasing by about a meter a day.
In fact, this was already quite impressive. At this rate, even if he slept every day, his Dao would grow by over a hundred zhang in three years, and in less than thirty years, his Dao could reach a thousand zhang.
In the division of the Saint Realm, once the Dao reaches a thousand zhang, it enters the Dharma Realm, at which point the Dao will nurture the Primordial Spirit in return.
It’s important to note that many Saint Realm powerhouses might not amplify their Dao to such a scale even after a lifetime of cultivation, yet even if he did nothing, he could enter the Dharma Realm and become a Dharma Martial Saint in thirty years.
This was a benefit brought to him by his identity as the Saint of the current era. If he continued to make merits for the Desert Human Race, endearing them to him, the growth rate of his Dao would be even faster, which is one of the reasons why Huangfu Nalan sighed when they realized he would not become a Saint in the Wilderness.
If he had become a Saint in the Wilderness, the growth rate of his Dao would be even faster.
After his Dao reached one hundred and fifty zhang, Wei Fan stopped and didn’t plan to add all the Martial Saint’s Power to the Scripture of the Three Emperors. While the Dao condensed from the Primordial Spirit was certainly important, the Sacred Body also needed cultivation.
He added the remaining four hundred years of the Martial Saint’s Power to the Nine-Nine True Skill. Cultivation in the Saint Realm of the Nine-Nine True Skill involves nine diagrams, and after adding the four hundred years of the Martial Saint’s Power, the fifty-fifth diagram was not completely perfected, yet his strength significantly improved, and the patterns on his body became even more profound.
"I need to slaughter more Saint Realm powerhouses!"
Simply cultivating the Scripture of the Three Emperors to the Dharma Realm requires nearly ten thousand years of the Martial Saint’s Power, and to finish the nine diagrams of the Nine-Nine True Skill’s Holy Realm, he estimates it would also require tens of thousands of years of Martial Saint’s Power.
To become a Dharma Martial Saint in thirty years is an unimaginable speed for many Saint Realm powerhouses, but Wei Fan is not satisfied at all, especially since he has too many enemies. Who has the time to cultivate slowly?
After adapting to the surge in power, he began to add Divine Weapon Technique. Although he had become a Saint Realm powerhouse, he had not yet refined his own Holy Soldier.
[One year of power, you break through to the Saint Realm and begin refining the Profound Yellow Tripod]
His consciousness sank into the Sea of Consciousness, and the Profound Yellow Tripod floated to the Primordial Spirit’s hand, while the Wind and Thunder Wings folded over, with the Wind and Thunder Power simultaneously infusing into the Profound Yellow Tripod for refinement.
The Profound Yellow Tripod emitted an earthy yellow light, revealing a dense mass of Dao Marks. Thick electric lights wandered over the body of the tripod, being absorbed little by little.
The Divine Soldier of a Martial Artist is much like their own Dao; the refining process not only enhances the divine nature of the soldier’s material but also binds one’s own Martial Dao to the soldier.
Thus, half of a Martial Artist’s combat power is in their Divine Soldier, and only self-refined Divine Soldiers can display their full power.
After some time, the Profound Yellow Tripod suddenly trembled, emitting a towering brilliance, with numerous runes detaching from the walls of the tripod to form entirely new runes outside, like flowing lights entering the tripod.
Wei Fan knew this meant the Profound Yellow Tripod had been upgraded to a Holy Soldier. However, he didn’t stop, as the current Profound Yellow Tripod was only an elementary Holy Soldier with just emerged Saint Realm runes. What he wanted to refine was a top-level Saint Soldier-grade Profound Yellow Tripod.
Once the Profound Yellow Tripod becomes a top-level Saint Soldier, with his Physical Strength and the power of the Profound Yellow Tripod, even if he couldn’t kill the Qilin Ape Saint, the old demon, he should at least have the strength to engage the Qilin Ape Saint without being killed in a few moves.
[Eight hundred and sixty thousand years of power, the Profound Yellow Tripod is elevated to a top-level Saint Soldier, featuring Wind and Thunder Power]
[Ordinary Power: 90,000 years]
[Martial Saint Power: None]
The refinement finally ended, and the Profound Yellow Tripod returned to the top of the Primordial Spirit, continuing to merge divinely with it.
Additionally, unlike before, during the divine merging process, the Wind and Thunder Wings also participated, with occasional electric lights infusing into the Profound Yellow Tripod, only to be discharged back to the wings, during which both experienced a slow uplift.
"The enhancement of Will Power also saves a lot of power in refining weapons!"
When the Profound Yellow Tripod was refined into a top-level Martial King Divine Soldier, it cost over four hundred thousand words of power, but to become a top-level Saint Soldier only took over eight hundred thousand years. This was relatively low, benefiting from his increased Will Power.
Currently, his Primordial Spirit has become more mystical, with the Martial Arts Celestial Eye, Wind and Thunder Wings, and the Divine Ring, surpassing Saint Realm powerhouses of the same realm in Will Power.
"Isn’t anyone coming?"
This was already his second day appearing in the Wilderness, and he hadn’t hidden, yet no one came to kill him, not even the Demon Fiends.
"How is the outside world?" he asked Gu Ziqin and Zhi Hua.
These two followed by his side mainly to help him gather intelligence from the outside world, as Zhou Shen had arranged for people to stay in contact with them.
Gu Ziqin stepped forward and said, "Compared to before, the chaos has lessened considerably. Some forces that were about to seize others’ sects have temporarily halted their actions, planning to see if you have the courage to sweep through those forces that have already occupied sects tomorrow.
After your declaration, those sects without Martial Saints have already returned the sects they occupied, and some Holy Sects have voluntarily evacuated the sects they seized. About seven or eight forces haven’t heeded your warning and continue to occupy others’ sects."
Zhi Hua’s eyes showed a different color; this is the weight of an invincible powerhouse under the Martial Saint. Although the outside world does not yet know that Wei Fan is already a Martial Saint Powerhouse, if Wei Fan calls out a single word, even the Holy Sect would give him face.
After all, such a demon fiend comparable to Xuanyuan Peak, once offended, if you can’t kill him, just wait for the day he returns to exterminate your whole sect.
Years ago, Xuanyuan Peak hid for several years, after becoming a saint, he returned for revenge, eliminating many Martial Saints of the Holy Sect.
"What about the Demon Fiend side?"
Wei Fan asked about the movements of the Demon Fiends, the forces that ignored warnings. He would naturally sweep them when the time came, but he was genuinely concerned with the Demon Fiend side, mainly not forgetting to highlight the matter of drawing out the Qilin Ape Saint.
"Most of the Demon Kings left the Human Race territory and went to those uninhabited areas after you sent the message."
Wei Fan nodded, thinking it was understandable that the Human Race Saint Realm didn’t come to kill him as Zhou Shen and Gu Qingshan were in the shadows. But it was strange that those Demon Saints were not coming to kill him, given that most of Beiding Continent’s Demon Saints had offspring who died at his hands. Previously, they had even sent people to capture Huo Tianzheng and others. Now that he’s appeared, those Demon Saints have instead disappeared.
A day passed, and still no one came to find Wei Fan.
He didn’t know if it was because no one dared to kill him or because no one could locate him. After all, being too deliberate made those who wanted to kill him suspicious.
"Let’s go, the deadline has passed, it’s time to deal with those people!"
Wei Fan left the mountaintop, taking Zhi Hua and Gu Ziqin with him, heading into the distance.
"We’ll go to the Celestial Profound Sect first!" Gu Ziqin shared the information he had collected.
The Celestial Profound Sect is the strongest Holy Sect on Beiding Continent, not weaker than Fire Cloud Cave, with three Martial Saints currently overseeing the sect, having previously seized the Desert Five Tigers Sect’s mountain gate.
Originally, the Five Tigers Sect was only a third-rate sect in the Wilderness. Even with the nurturing of heaven and earth, the sect birthed just one Martial Venerable Powerhouse. However, the location of the Five Tigers Sect was special, and after Dao Collapse ended, divine light shot towards the sky from the Five Tigers Sect’s spot, with the chain of order appearing, making it one of the nearest to the Dao locations in the Wilderness.
People from outside began to search for Dao grounds in the Wilderness. The Celestial Profound Sect promptly set its sights on the place where the Five Tigers Sect was located, sending notices for Five Tigers Sect disciples to leave.
However, the people of the Five Tigers Sect, just like those from the Iron Sword Sect, were also tough-minded and did not hand over their mountain gate simply because the Celestial Profound Sect was the number one Holy Sect on Beiding Continent. They chose to go head-to-head with the Celestial Profound Sect.
Of course, the result of going head-to-head was that the sect leader, elders, and core disciples of the entire sect were all killed, and the Five Tigers Sect became a Dao ground for Celestial Profound Sect’s disciples in the Wilderness.
"What about the other Holy Sects on Beiding Continent? Are there still a few who think I dare not go kill them?"
Wei Fan’s eyes flashed fiercely. Such bandit-like behavior, yet no one was going to stop it. Certainly, the bigger reason was that no one dared to intervene. The Demon Hunter Organization doesn’t meddle in Jianghu grudges. Smaller sects being bullied often have no choice but to swallow their anger.
He couldn’t care about other places, but the Wilderness was his hometown. Now that he had become the saint here, the more chaotic the Wilderness became, the worse it was for him.
"Apart from the Celestial Profound Sect, there’s also Yunxiao City. The other Holy Sects withdrew from the seized Dao grounds after you spoke. If you decisively suppress the people of the Celestial Profound Sect, other Holy Sects will probably also withdraw.
The Hall Master assured you could kill freely, the Martial Saints of the Celestial Profound Sect are not in the Dao ground."
After an hour’s flight, Wei Fan arrived at the Celestial Profound Sect’s perimeter. At this moment, it was already a sea of people here, ’people everywhere, all came to watch how he would sweep away the outsiders.
There were local Martial Artists from the Wilderness, as well as outside powerhouses, and even some hidden, high-capability Demon Kings mixed among them.
Of course, it wasn’t that these people calculated that Wei Fan would come to find the Celestial Profound Sect first, rather, among those who had not withdrawn from the seized Dao grounds after Wei Fan’s words, only about six or seven remained. These were just the nearby people who came, in other places, there also were people waiting for Wei Fan to come.
"What a perfect cultivation holy land!"
Just approaching here, Wei Fan felt the Great Dao become active and clear, as if he could reach out and touch it, far surpassing where the Iron Sword Sect was previously located.
"Boom!"
With Wei Fan’s appearance, the crowd became excited, the Desert Martial Artists stared at him with fervor.
"He really dares to come!"
"Has Wei Fan gone mad? This is the Celestial Profound Sect, the number one Holy Sect on Beiding Continent. It has three Martial Saints. Is he not afraid of being suppressed by the Martial Saints?"
Many showed an expression of disbelief, not understanding where Wei Fan got the confidence to act like this, not fearing that a Martial Saint might be sitting in the Dao ground.
"Wei Fan, you are indeed arrogant, wanting to be this Wilderness’s savior, making our Celestial Profound Sect your first target to establish your authority. But we have disciples inside the Dao ground, do you dare kill us?"
A Martial King from the Celestial Profound Sect flew up, disbelieving that Wei Fan would dare to act against them.
The Celestial Profound Sect is not the Zilan Sect, ten Zilan Sects combined wouldn’t compare to one Celestial Profound Sect. Don’t be fooled by the fact that Celestial Profound Sect only has two more Saint Realm powerhouses compared to Zilan Sect, but in true strength, the difference is like heaven and earth.