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Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, six months had passed. Zhao Yang had been wandering through the Sky-Connecting Forest for quite a while. During this time, he encountered many legendary beasts, powerful creatures that were not under the control of the Demon Empress. They were unwilling to take human form, as doing so would drastically shorten their lifespan; as beasts, they could live for over ten thousand years if nothing unexpected happened.
Zhao Yang also discovered several ancient hidden places. Through the Spirit Pearl's guidance, he found some rare treasures and secret techniques. However, with Zhao Yang's current perspective, he was not particularly interested in those ancient techniques; in fact, he looked down upon them.
In an Ancient Cave, Zhao Yang saw an inscription stating that if a fated person wished to take him as a master, they could bow a thousand times, and the supreme Cultivation Method would naturally appear before them.
Zhao Yang chuckled at this old trope. He had seen it on television no less than five or six times, not to mention in books. His powerful Divine Sense allowed him to perceive all knowledge around him, including the unparalleled Cultivation Method hidden beneath restrictions.
However, upon reading it, Zhao Yang almost laughed out loud. The name of the Cultivation Method was quite imposing: "Heavenly Breaking Technique," but the first line stated that to practice this technique, one must first castrate themselves. Zhao Yang took the risk of destroying this Cultivation Method and left quickly. Such methods were even more vicious than Demonic Techniques; they required self-harm as a condition for gaining immense power, ultimately leading to disaster—harmful to oneself and others. The emergence of such Orthodoxy would surely take an extreme path; he would eliminate anyone who practiced it.
With the help of the Spirit Pearl, Zhao Yang had gathered hundreds of pounds of spiritual herbs and fruits over these six months. They were antique and fragrant; although they could not compare to the Ginseng Fruit in his possession, each one was a rare medicinal material that would cause a significant stir in the Cultivation world—many would fight over them. Zhao Yang also found a red fruit guarded by an Ancient Beast resembling Qiongqi on a cliff. This was a Holy Fruit; according to Zhao Yang's memory from One Hundred Thousand Volumes, such fruit was referred to as Vermilion Fruit—a fruit that could greatly enhance one's cultivation power.
Zhao Yang remembered that during his time at Heavenly Mechanism Mountain, he had obtained a Supreme Great Rejuvenation Pill. Consuming one could increase one's cultivation by fifty years. In his sleep, Little Beast had fed it to him. When Zhao Yang woke up, he found no increase in his cultivation; perhaps his body was not in any living state while he slept, which prevented any growth. Alternatively, maybe the effects of the Supreme Great Rejuvenation Pill were not as exaggerated as claimed.
However, the increase of fifty years in cultivation was meant for ordinary people; his Chaotic Root contained many types of Spiritual Roots. While others might gain fifty years of cultivation from it, for him it was equivalent to just one or two years at most. Moreover, being in a state of death-like slumber slowed his progress even further.
Now that Divine Monkey had passed away and the suppression of the Great Dao was lifted, cultivators who had been suppressed since childhood suddenly found themselves thriving; their cultivation advanced rapidly. Some Super Geniuses could cross an entire major realm in just one or two years. By now, Zhao Yang was twenty years old; he had started cultivating at ten and had only reached the Divine Transformation Stage after ten years—not particularly fast.
Zhao Yang thought that two and a half years had passed; perhaps Xiao Wu and his senior brothers had already reached the Nascent Soul Stage. The Nascent Soul Stage was a watershed moment for cultivators; many remained stuck at Divine Transformation Stage or Great Perfection Realm throughout their lives. He recalled that the Grand Elder of Myriad Spirit Sect, Demon Slayer Master, had been stuck at Divine Transformation Stage for nearly a century before finally breaking into Nascent Soul Stage shortly before passing away. He still vividly remembered how Demon Hunter Supreme displayed immense power when emerging from Primordial Infant state and annihilated all enemies.
Although his cultivation did not increase during those two years of slumber, on the second day after waking up, he heard a light sound within him and broke through from the first layer of Divine Transformation Stage to the second layer.
Later on top of Heavenly Tree, when he picked Ginseng Fruit, he broke through from the second layer of Divine Transformation Stage to the third layer.
Less than seven days had passed.
In the following ten days, fifteen days, and a month, Zhao Yang continued to break through. He slaughtered numerous beasts that attacked him, hunted for inner cores to absorb their essence, and consumed countless medicinal herbs and Spiritual Fruits. His cultivation soared without any bottlenecks, reaching the eighth layer of the Divine Transformation Stage.
As Zhao Yang looked at the Vermilion Fruit in his hand, after swallowing it, he unexpectedly leaped directly from the eighth layer of the Divine Transformation Stage to the perfect realm of the Divine Transformation Stage.
Zhao Yang knew that his rapid progress was not only due to devouring a large amount of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures but also because of the influence of the Heavenly Tree. Under the divine tree, he gained insights into the path of all living beings.
However, even as a genius in the Enlightenment Realm, it was impossible for him to advance so quickly. After all, many people in the world could achieve Enlightenment, especially after reaching the Dao Fruit Stage. A significant portion would comprehend their own path; otherwise, they would never make any progress in their cultivation throughout their lives.
Zhao Yang's Chaotic Root was too unique; it could not be suppressed by any Spiritual Root in the world. Even the most extraordinary super Spiritual Root from Shiyunsheng could not suppress his Spiritual Root. Thus, its side effect was that the Spirit Energy required for a cultivator's advancement increased significantly, making it impossible for him to follow a normal genius's development path. The Chaotic Root was indeed a good thing; it could suppress many Spiritual Roots and fight against hundreds. However, once the speed of cultivation slowed down to a certain level, even the strongest Spiritual Roots became meaningless. After all, could a person at the Divine Transformation Stage defeat someone in the Tribulation Period?
The answer was no. No matter how strong a person was, they could only fight one level higher at most. Even using schemes and tricks might allow them to deceive someone two realms above them, but in front of absolute strength, everything else was pale.
When Sun Wukong implanted the Chaotic Root into Zhao Yang's body, he realized something was wrong. He used his own blood to cleanse Zhao Yang's physical body and employed his supreme power to refine Zhao Yang's meridians and acupoints, opening his mind and helping him temper his body. This was all to make up for his own mistake. In his estimation, Zhao Yang might only reach the Dao Fruit Stage in his lifetime, with an expected timeframe of eight hundred years because no one understood the power of the Chaotic Root better than him. It originated from his own world and was the only and most powerful ancestral-level Spiritual Root—its divine might was unfathomable. Generally speaking, someone obtaining such a Spiritual Root would take a hundred years just to advance one layer.
This was also why it took him three years to raise two levels initially; starting anything is difficult. Sun Wukong considered it his duty as a master and invested great effort into cleansing Zhao Yang's bloodline.
In Sun Wukong's memory, he felt relatively unsuccessful in taking on disciples. He recalled that during his five hundred years of suppression, he had guided several individuals: one was a child who had once picked peaches for him; after growing up, that child never returned to find him again. Another was a little girl known as Consort of Rain; she possessed exceptional talent and was one of the most unique existences in the cultivation world.
There was also a man from the Northern Icefield known as the Divine Healer.
And then there were Zhao Yang and his sister.
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