Only I am Venerable

Qin Li continuously poured his Innate Purple Qi into the seal. The seal was like a dried-up deep lake, seemingly impossible to fill no matter how much he poured in.

The seal only stopped absorbing when the purple infant inside Qin Li’s body began to fade in color and his head spun with dizzy spells. By then, although Qin Li was on the verge of collapse, he could finally control the seal completely!

With a thought from Qin Li, the seal shot out with a WHOOSH. Following his command, it flew toward the simple, black Inkstone floating in the air!

However, before it could even touch the Inkstone, the seal lost its momentum due to Qin Li’s waning power. It reversed its course mid-air and, with a SWISH, automatically drilled into Qin Li’s Dantian.

Qin Li was startled and quickly looked inward. He saw the seal appear in his Dantian, grasped in the hands of the purple infant. As if it were giving back, the purple infant quickly became vibrant with life again. Innate Purple Qi flowed back and forth between the two, mutually nourishing each other.

Meanwhile, Qin Li was completely drained of strength. He had no choice but to sit on the ground with a wry smile and begin to recover.

At the same time, all sorts of information about Treasure Artifacts appeared in his mind.

Spiritual Artifacts could be wielded by Martial Artists at the Shattered Void Realm. Using one could multiply a Martial Artist’s own strength several times over. They even had a chance to fight a Pill Nascent Soul Transformation expert to a standstill!

Treasure Artifacts, on the other hand, could barely be wielded by a Shattered Void Realm Martial Artist. At most, they could only be used once a day! This was because a single use would completely deplete all their strength. Therefore, even if a Shattered Void Realm Martial Artist owned a Treasure Artifact, it was best not to bring it out casually. It was a last resort, not to be used unless absolutely necessary.

Otherwise, even if you managed to kill a Pill Nascent Soul Transformation expert with a Treasure Artifact, you would be left completely exhausted and on the verge of collapse. If someone else was coveting your treasure, even a Venerable could easily kill you in that state!

Thus, for a Shattered Void Realm Martial Artist, a Treasure Artifact was not particularly useful. In fact, owning one would only attract unwanted attention.

However, a Martial Artist at the Pill Nascent Soul Transformation Realm could use a Treasure Artifact at least a hundred times a day! In other words, they could wield a Treasure Artifact freely in combat.

This was also the source of Qin Li’s confusion. ’Since those at the Pill Nascent Soul Transformation Realm can use Treasure Artifacts freely, why did I nearly exhaust all my energy after just one use?’

Suddenly, Qin Li thought of the gravity within this hall and had an epiphany. ’I never would have guessed! The greatest advantage of the second floor of the Golden Palace isn’t the sky full of Refining Materials, nor is it the few finished treasures. It’s the gravity itself, a hundred times stronger than the outside world!’

’This is its true value!’

Why were some people stronger than others at the same realm? Take the Venerable Realm, for example. From the lowest to the highest level, a Martial Artist could possess strength ranging from twenty thousand to five hundred thousand jin.

A Martial Artist at the Human Venerable Realm possessed strength between twenty thousand and forty thousand jin. Some could reach thirty-seven thousand, or even thirty-nine thousand jin, while others only had thirty-two thousand or thirty-three thousand jin.

They were at the same level within the same realm, yet there was a clear disparity in their strength.

This was related to a Martial Artist’s talent, but it was even more critically linked to their postnatal training environment and methods!

Effort was a given; no Martial Artist who broke through the Celestial Embracing Realm to reach the Venerable Realm was a slacker! Therefore, the training environment and methods were the true deciding factors!

Simply put, if Qin Li could train every day in a place with a hundred times the normal gravity, he could reach the peak of every realm! He could touch the very upper limit of power!

In other words, he would always be ahead of everyone else! At the same level within the same realm, he would be truly invincible! Even without the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, Only I am Venerable combat technique, even without the Innate Purple Qi Technique, as long as Qin Li possessed this training ground that everyone dreamed of, he could still become a peerless expert!

Thinking of this, the slight disappointment Qin Li had felt about not getting more treasures completely vanished!

In its place was endless joy!

Moreover, Qin Li decided that even after he left, he would take the secret of this seal to his grave! ’Yes, it can just stay in my Dantian!’

He would never bring it out to face an enemy unless it was a matter of life and death! In the words of the Martial World, this Treasure Seal was Qin Li’s ace in the hole, his Ultimate Skill!

He would not use it unless he was facing a life-or-death crisis!

Besides, with Qin Li’s current strength, there was almost no one who could force him to use a Treasure Artifact!

It had to be said that although his energy drained quickly in this place, his recovery was also many times faster than outside. Before long, Qin Li was back to his lively, energetic self.

This time, however, Qin Li no longer fantasized about grabbing all the treasures floating in the hall. Instead, he brought out the Treasure Seal and began to train with it repeatedly.

Each use completely drained his strength, but as he practiced more and more, his control, the accuracy of his strikes, and the seal’s flight speed all improved.

Moreover, every time Qin Li exhausted his strength and then cultivated to recover it, he could feel his power increase just a little. Although the improvement was so subtle it was almost imperceptible, and each attempt left him on the verge of collapse, Qin Li was still ecstatic.

And so, without realizing it, Qin Li became engrossed in his training on the second floor of the Golden Palace, even losing track of time.

It wasn’t until the immense pressure made him feel like he was about to suffocate that he suddenly understood: he couldn’t stay in this high-gravity environment for too long!

After all, Qin Li was a transmigrator from Earth and had some understanding of gravity. For an ordinary person, two or three times the normal gravity would be unbearable. At a hundred times, an ordinary person would be instantly crushed to dust upon entry!

If he hadn’t reached the Pill Nascent Soul Transformation Realm, even entering would have been an impossible dream! At this moment, Qin Li also understood Hu Yanbo’s intention and why only those who reached the Pill Nascent Soul Transformation Realm could enter the second floor.

Clearly, this gravity offered astonishing benefits for a Martial Artist’s improvement!

His recent training had already benefited him greatly. Qin Li had now completely stabilized his cultivation at the Pill Nascent Soul Transformation Realm.

The current Qin Li had also fully adapted to the various powers of the Pill Nascent Soul Transformation Realm. He could now execute his moves with precise control, avoiding any loss of command over his strength.

This was actually easy to understand. For example, if a normal person’s hand suddenly gained the strength of tens of millions of jin, and they tried to grab something like before—say, a beer bottle—the bottle would be instantly crushed! Only after gradually learning how to control this new strength would such incidents stop happening.

This was also why the Golden Eagle and the others had to enter seclusion after their breakthroughs. It was the only way for them to truly familiarize themselves with the power they now commanded.

Thinking that Leng Yao and the others had probably already emerged from their seclusion, and that with the passage of time since the Ancient Divine Temple’s appearance, a large number of experts might be rushing over from the Land of the Far West, he knew that leaving Profound Island a day earlier meant a day earlier of peace of mind.

Qin Li reluctantly exited the second floor of the Golden Palace. The moment he was outside, gravity returned to normal. Qin Li instantly felt like a dragon returning to the great sea. The feeling was simply marvelous!

Qin Li looked up at the sun to judge the time and realized he had been on the second floor of the Golden Palace for nearly two hours. He thought to himself, ’I hope I can last longer the next time I come in here to train! When Shiyu and the others reach this realm someday, I’ll have them come in here to train too!’

Silently activating the Technique to control the Golden Palace, Qin Li found that it was slowly shrinking. From Hu Yanbo’s inherited memories, Qin Li also knew that the stronger he was, the faster the Golden Palace would shrink. Moreover, this process could not be interrupted!

This dispelled any notion Qin Li had of carrying the Golden Palace with him wherever he went. If he were discovered by the Purple-eyed Descendants or that group from the Land of the Far West who knew of the Golden Palace’s origin, a fierce battle would inevitably break out!

Anyone who knew of the Golden Palace’s existence would want it for themselves!

It took nearly two hours for Qin Li to shrink the Golden Palace to the size of a fist and store it in his Dantian. Even though Qin Li was its master, he still felt as if he were carrying a great mountain inside his body; it was incredibly heavy.

This time, however, Qin Li vowed to take the Golden Palace with him, because Profound Island was no longer safe!

The Venerable competition had been held countless times since Ancient Times. If people from the Land of the Far West entered this place and learned about the Golden Palace, they would certainly search for it on Black Tortoise Peak.

Qin Li didn’t believe that a single Array could fool everyone. So, even though carrying the Golden Palace was troublesome right now, it was better than letting others discover it.

Carrying the Golden Palace, it was no longer possible for him to fly through the air as before. However, Qin Li’s running speed had now reached an incredible level.

It wasn’t as fast as flying, but it wasn’t too slow either. More than ten days later, Qin Li returned to the Qin Family.

At this time, Leng Yao and the others had still not emerged from their seclusion. The Spiritual Eagle, Ink Eagle, Golden Eagle, Bai Zhonghuo, and Bai Zhongxue had all come out. Their strength had improved dramatically, and the respect they felt for Qin Li had led them to accept him as their new master!

Another half a month passed before Leng Yao finally came out of seclusion. The improvement in her strength astonished even Qin Li. She had broken through to the Venerable Realm in one go, reaching the peak of the Human Venerable stage!

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