Top-Tier Perception Starts From Basic Fist Techniques

Time trickled by. Two hours passed, four hours, and six hours... Lu Changsheng could feel the Void Divine Stones growing ever more plentiful, and he knew the Void Divine Crystal could not be far off.

He was just about to push harder and dig it out when a majestic dragon roar suddenly shook both heaven and earth.

"That's... the flood dragon!" Lu Changsheng's expression changed drastically.

The flood dragon sacred beast was a terrifying existence rivaling a Martial Saint! What was coming had come at last.

The flood dragon had hurried back after all, and it clearly knew what had happened here. This valley was almost certainly the flood dragon's territory, the sacred beast's home, so to speak. And now the valley was gone.

What Lu Changsheng had done amounted to raiding its home while it was away. To the flood dragon, this was an irreconcilable blood feud!

"Human martial artist, how bold of you to dare to trespass on this seat's territory! You deserve death! This seat will devour you whole!" The flood dragon had yet to arrive, but its furious voice had already reached Lu Changsheng.

A sacred beast rivaling a Martial Saint could naturally speak human tongue. Lu Changsheng snapped his head up. Above the valley, a colossal flood dragon a hundred zhang long looked down at him with its eyes all but spitting fire. It hated him to the bone!

Lu Changsheng did not hesitate for even a moment and instantly unleashed his immeasurable divine ability. "Four Symbols Prison!"

With a rumble, the Four Symbols Prison descended in a flash, caging the flood dragon's massive body in the distance. This immeasurable divine ability, condensed from the Principles of Land, Fire, Water, and Wind, possessed power that shook heaven and earth.

To this day, Lu Changsheng had never met an opponent who could break free of the Four Symbols Prison. But this time was different, and he remained extremely cautious. The one he faced was a flood dragon that rivaled a Martial Saint!

"A trifling divine ability..."

The flood dragon hurled its enormous body against the Four Symbols Prison.

The impact rang out with a deafening crash. With the flood dragon's strength, a collision like that would normally shatter even a mountain peak. After all, its physical body and raw power were its greatest assets. Yet Lu Changsheng's Four Symbols Prison merely shuddered violently before settling back into stillness.

"Hmm? What divine ability is this? It can actually withstand this seat's strength?" The flood dragon faltered, finding the sight inconceivable. I had always been unstoppable; against martial artists at the Divine Ability Realm, a single breath was enough to snuff them out. However, it could not even break just one divine ability?

"Again!"

This time, the flood dragon turned vicious, hurling itself at the Four Symbols Prison with everything it had. But how could Lu Changsheng let it have its way?

"Mental Black Hole! Five Elements Decomposition!"

Without a moment's pause, Lu Changsheng unleashed two more immeasurable divine abilities. The Mental Black Hole enveloped the flood dragon, and its dreadful devouring force ravenously consumed the beast's mind, wringing scream after scream from it.

Sacred beast or not, rival to a Martial Saint or not, its mind remained its weakness. It shrieked without end, its whole body thrashing wildly, and even the force of its charge against the Four Symbols Prison weakened considerably.

The two collided head-on. Lu Changsheng's Four Symbols Prison quaked violently, seemingly on the verge of collapse, but in the end it held. As long as the Four Symbols Prison stood, Lu Changsheng was in no danger.

Right after, the Five Elements Decomposition descended on the flood dragon as well. The flood dragon's physical strength was incomparably high, rivaling a Martial Saint's, yet the Five Elements Decomposition could still break down anything of the five elements, and flesh itself belonged to the five elements.

So, the flood dragon's fleshly body decomposed bit by bit. Its powerful physique made the process slow, but it proved one thing—Lu Changsheng's three immeasurable divine abilities could actually threaten Martial Saints!

"Aaaarghhh!" the flood dragon roared in fury, and then it rammed the Four Symbols Prison with even greater frenzy. Once, twice, thrice... Finally, after several more tries, the Four Symbols Prison gave out and was smashed apart by the flood dragon.

Lu Changsheng retreated instantly, almost without thinking about it.

"Four Symbols Prison!"

Before the flood dragon could even collect itself, it found the same divine ability closing around it once more. The Four Symbols Prison!

The flood dragon's rage grew without bounds at the sight of it. But the Mental Black Hole and Five Elements Decomposition, two immeasurable divine abilities, still clung to it, even though it had shattered the Four Symbols Prison.

"Shameless, despicable human martial artist..." the flood dragon howled.

Yet no matter how it cursed, Lu Changsheng remained unmoved. Each time the flood dragon destroyed the Four Symbols Prison, he immediately fell back and cast it anew, again and again.

Under the ceaseless devouring and decomposition of the Mental Black Hole and Five Elements Decomposition, the flood dragon grew weaker and weaker. The battle of attrition dragged on for several hours.

"I refuse to accept this!" the flood dragon bellowed.

Sadly for it, words meant nothing. Lu Changsheng's Mental Black Hole annihilated its consciousness completely, and the Five Elements Decomposition broke down its fleshly body outright. In a blink, nothing remained of the flood dragon, not even bones. It was like it had never existed at all.

"Phew..." Lu Changsheng let out a long breath.

"It's finally dead... That flood dragon was really a handful. It took several full hours just to grind it down. Sacred beasts really are hard to deal with. Against a Martial Saint, my Mental Black Hole might still work, but nowhere near this well.

"And a Martial Saint's Saint Body is peculiar. Many kinds of Saint Bodies lie outside the five elements. Against those, my Five Elements Decomposition would be meaningless. Some Martial Saints also specialize in explosive power, with Saint Bodies even stronger than that flood dragon. They might crush my Four Symbols Prison in an instant.

"If I encounter a Martial Saint, even an ordinary one, I could kill them, but they could kill me, too. As things stand, against a Martial Saint, I'd call it fifty-fifty, or maybe sixty-forty against me."

Lu Changsheng felt a chill of sober clarity. He was not the least bit smug about slaying a sacred beast. He knew there had been some luck in this kill, and against a Martial Saint, his luck would likely not be so good.

Even so, it proved that his three immeasurable divine abilities working in concert could match an ordinary Martial Saint. If an opponent's Saint Body fell within the five elements, the advantage would be his; if not, he would likely be at a disadvantage.

Either way, Lu Changsheng could now really contend with Martial Saints, and that satisfied him greatly. All the pains he had taken to condense his immeasurable divine abilities had clearly been worth it.

"The flood dragon is dead. Nothing should stand in the way of digging out the Void Divine Crystal now."

Lu Changsheng had not forgotten his purpose in coming to the Cloud Chart Mountain Range, and so he resumed his excavation.

With a boom, the ground caved in once more, and this time Lu Changsheng unearthed an enormous quantity of Void Divine Stones.

"Hmm? This is..." His eyes suddenly lit up. He had spotted a glittering crystal among the Void Divine Stones. Its aura resembled the Void Divine Stones, but its terrifying energy surpassed them a hundredfold, a thousandfold—no, even ten thousandfold.

"The Void Divine Crystal!" Joy surged through Lu Changsheng's heart. After all this time, he had finally dug out the Void Divine Crystal!