Chapter 890: Chapter 613: Seizing Divine Skills
Lu Chenzhou waved his hand and instantly captured six souls, refining them through the Martial Arts Tree in a flash. There were also six Storage Bags, each glittering with treasures; by a rough estimate, just the mid-grade Primordial Stones alone numbered in the tens of millions.
These higher-ups were rolling in wealth, but this was just a drop in the bucket—the main haul always went to the World Venerable.
[Wind and Thunder Dao: Fifth Rank (9%) → Fifth Rank (21%)]
[...]
Proficiency kept rising.
[Wind and Thunder Dao: Fifth Rank (44%)]
[Five Elements Dao: Fifth Rank (71%)]
"Not bad, this saved me over a dozen Void Steles. With these Divine Race souls, it’s only a matter of time before my Five Elements and Wind and Thunder Daos reach the Sixth Rank."
Meanwhile—
"Such powerful Divine Skills—just how many times can he unleash them?" The Divine Race warriors were stunned.
"A fiend! He’s a major fiend! He just devoured the souls of six Realm Kings right in front of us..."
"His aura is even stronger now."
Commander Lei is dead.
Commander Qiu is nowhere to be found.
The sky collapsed for the ordinary Divine Race soldiers.
Many dropped to their knees and surrendered.
"Senior, please spare our lives!"
"We’re just following orders!"
He ignored these people.
Lu Chenzhou activated his Dharma Eye and gazed into the distance, muttering to himself, "Qiu Kuangyi didn’t die after I blasted him off—he used an Earth Escape Technique to flee. And Lei Wanliu clearly got burned by [Butterfly Transformation Circulation], but I didn’t see his soul; he must have used the Golden Cicada Shell Escape Technique. All four Great Commanders stand at the peak of the Three Thousand Worlds, old monsters who’ve lived for thousands of years, with countless life-saving means—it won’t be that easy to kill them. Fortunately, I have the Causality Dao, or else I’d have let them slip away."
He didn’t rush to pursue.
Now that his Causality Dao was at the peak of Fifth Rank, his tracking ability far surpassed before. As long as those two were still in the Mystic Sky Realm, there’d be nowhere to hide.
His telekinesis swept out, sensing that there were over four hundred Sixth Realm Divine Race in this mining field alone.
"The Eighth Rank Circulation Star Acupoint Formation of Aurora Palace needs 360 Sixth Realm cultivators to maintain its operation. The proficiency gained from Sixth Realm Divine Race souls is pitiful, so it’s better to use them continuously—turn them all into black slaves. With enough energy sources, Aurora Palace can activate arrays like [Xuanji Aurora Sword Formation] and [Heavenly Dome Flowing Clouds Binding] to create a mobile fortress. In the future, with Aurora Palace as my base, I’ll have even greater mobility."
Lu Chenzhou already had a plan in mind.
In the Great Wilderness, the true use of palace-type supreme treasures is in launching Sect wars, carrying countless experts and super arrays, like Heavenly Soldiers and Generals descending to the battlefield.
He moved a thought.
"Great Dream Three Thousand Realms."
"One Feather Proves True."
A vast voice echoed for three thousand miles. Centered on Lu Chenzhou, Great Dream Dao Essence rippled out like waves, instantly covering the heart of the mining field.
After ascending to mid-grade Divine Power, [Butterfly Transformation Circulation] could now target specific individuals, and Lu Chenzhou no longer needed to fall asleep either. So, from a God’s-eye view, tens of thousands of Divine Race warriors in the mining field—no matter strong or weak—except for a small number who escaped, all others were put to sleep.
When they woke again, they found themselves on an endless blue wilderness.
High above, a massive, apathetic face appeared—its eyes like two fixed stars, each a million miles across and stretching through the night sky.
"34,712 of you—only 360 may survive. So—kill and slaughter to your heart’s content, until the last survivor is decided."
The giant face judged all beings like a Heavenly God.
Some Divine Race experts looked grim.
"You... You’re committing genocide!"
"Bullying the weak, shameless! You’re an Eighth Realm being and yet you attack us weaklings."
"Never in all of history has anyone dared to massacre tens of thousands of Divine Race at once—Lu Army Master, if you wipe us out, you’ll utterly offend the World Venerable and force a life-and-death war with the Divine Alliance!"
Clearly, many Divine Race experts couldn’t grasp their situation; prisoners though they were, they still barked orders—arrogance ingrained, too deeply set to shift in a heartbeat.
Lu Chenzhou paid them no heed. After casting down the Dream Realm, he followed the lines of causality and soared away.
...
One hundred thousand miles away.
"That was close—just who is this Lu Chenzhou? It’s one thing for his spirit to be so powerful, but even his physical body suppresses me. Could it be he possesses a True Spirit bloodline?"
In the midst of the mountains, an unremarkable stone lay scattered at the foot—a disguised Qiu Kuangyi in flight.
"My life nearly ended there. Thank the heavens I’m skilled in Earth Escape Techniques—through Bloodline Divine Ability, I’ve turned myself into a boulder hidden among the mountain range, masking all aura. Even Eighth Realm experts with their telekinesis could never find me."
For survival, Qiu Kuangyi had full confidence.
The Stone Clan are not flesh-and-blood organic life, but rock-living beings—a truly unique species.
When a Stone Clan expert dies, they leave no corpse. Instead, they become a peculiar source ore. If they’re blessed by the Clan’s Sacred Artifact and bathed in Divine Blood, new spirit can be birthed and a new Stone Clan member emerges.
A beam of light streaked overhead.
Qiu Kuangyi’s heart leapt into his throat.
"Can’t see me... He can’t see me."
The light moved further away.
Qiu Kuangyi let out a breath of relief.
"Pretty good at hiding, aren’t you?"
A sudden mocking voice sounded.
Qiu Kuangyi’s whole body trembled.
"Impossible!"
He’d used this technique many times to elude Eighth Realm pursuits—it had never failed before. How could it not work now?
Little did he know—such is the tyranny of Causality.
No need to track by aura.
Aura is all too easy to disguise and hide.
Wordless, Lu Chenzhou raised his right arm and morphed it into a massive spear of blood and flesh. The fifth Nine Tribulation Lotus descended.
Nine-colored tribulation clouds shrouded the mountains.
The terrifying power of the Heavenly Tribulation arrived.
RUMBLE!
This strike was the wrath of heaven itself.
Qiu Kuangyi’s scalp went numb.
"He can actually wield Heavenly Tribulation Power?"
Unheard of, unimaginable.
"Flee!"
Qiu Kuangyi had not an ounce of battle intent left.
Like a mole, with Earth Escape, he tunneled ten thousand miles in a flash, actually dodging the Nine Tribulation Lotus.
"Interesting."
The attack missed.
Lu Chenzhou smiled faintly. Blood and flesh flowed, two more arms grew from his back. Four blood-flesh spears lanced in all four directions at once.
RUMBLE!
In the east, south, west, north, four Nine Tribulation Lotuses solidified—mountains and rivers for ten thousand miles sealed off, awe-inspiring as heaven’s might.
Four-Nine Tribulation Lotus.
After reaching the Peak of Seventh Realm, Lu Chenzhou’s inner energy multiplied several times. Nine Tribulation Lotus was still just a low-grade divine power—he could unleash it at least twenty times in a row.
"Now where will you hide?"
"Damn it!"
Qiu Kuangyi was numb.
It was raw humiliation.
"Lu Army Master, I was blind to greatness. I, Qiu Kuangyi, am willing to swear a Divine Blood Oath of loyalty to you—let me help you fight the Divine Race! I’ve never been happy with the World Venerables’ conduct anyway."
"A path that relies purely on bloodline to gain power demands little cultivation of Martial Arts Will and the Heart Realm. Compared to us Martial Arts Experts, it’s far inferior," Lu Chenzhou’s belief in the supremacy of Martial Arts grew ever more firm.
"Explode!"
Lu Chenzhou clenched his fist in the void.
The four Nine Tribulation Lotuses detonated together, erupting with the force of tens of billions of cauldrons. The shockwave tore through the void above and ripped up a thousand-mile-thick layer of earth below.
All was annihilated.
"No! Why won’t you accept my loyalty? A Divine Blood Oath cannot be violated!"
Qiu Kuangyi’s figure exploded with a thunderou boom.
Source ore scattered in all directions.
He self-destructed.
Lu Chenzhou frowned.
The earth quaked and split. The mountain ranges came alive, writhing together like a nest of serpents, gathering and finally shaping into a towering beast a thousand miles tall.
Dragon horns, the head of a horse, the body of an ox,
wings on its back.
This was the largest living being Lu Chenzhou had ever seen—as if a mythic creature had returned to the mortal world.
"You have gone too far! I am a descendant of the divine Gou Chen, bearer of Earth Elemental Will. All mountains and earth are my body—how do you intend to kill me?"
The giant beast’s voice was like muffled thunder.
Its aura drew near to the Eighth Realm. Like an enraged bull it stomped the ground, shaking a hundred thousand miles of land and sending sandstorms roaring into the clouds.
Man and beast charged and collided—shockwaves erased everything for a thousand miles around. The giant beast stumbled and was flung aside; Lu Chenzhou was also blasted backward.
Over ten thousand Mystic Sky Shields shattered to dust.
"Such tremendous force."
Lu Chenzhou murmured to himself.
"Hahaha! Now I’m one with the earth—like a god of earth—briefly able to wield the power of the Sixth Rank Dao of earth. I’m not weaker than Lu Chenzhou!"
Qiu Kuangyi was pleased.
At least he broke through the outer shield—
Lu Chenzhou was not utterly invincible.
This move burned Divine Blood—a huge price—he would never use it unless fatally threatened.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Man and beast brawled with brute force, reshaping the land itself with each mighty blow.
"Overlord Transformation!"
Enflamed by battle, Lu Chenzhou transformed—violent earth-yellow Qi Flows battered the sky, and from the dust emerged a three-hundred-mile colossus: an Overlord turtle.
"Again!"
The Overlord’s power and defense stood at the pinnacle of True Spirits—though this was only a Fake Spirit Transformation, it brought Lu Chenzhou’s strength instantly up to the Sixth Rank Power Extreme Dao.
ROAR!
The Overlord crashed forward like an asteroid, slamming the thousand-mile beast flying—its limbs flung apart.
"Overlord... No wonder your strength and defense are so monstrous. You really do possess a True Spirit bloodline!"
Qiu Kuangyi grew even more terrified.
From his power, it was clear that Lu Chenzhou’s Overlord bloodline was far purer than the Divine Race’s own lineages.
Boom! With another massive collision, the beast shattered and a yellowish soul flew out—Lu Chenzhou captured it, swallowing it down like Zhu Bajie gobbling a ginsengfruit, turning it into pure Earth Element Dao Essence.
[Five Elements: Fifth Rank (71%) → Sixth Rank (1%)]
"Worthy of a Great Commander—the proficiency gain from one far outstrips the other three put together."
Lu Chenzhou licked his lips. With his Five Elements Dao ascending to Sixth Rank, the Nine Tribulation Lotus’s power reached a whole new level.
And it didn’t stop there.
Fragments of memory poured into his mind, imparting countless Divine Race secrets—along with over a hundred simple Earth Element Secret Techniques, which he instantly comprehended with his stunning insight.
Though these Secret Techniques belonged to the Divine Race, given his mastery, he could convert them into new Martial Arts.
The effect just wasn’t as impressive as for the Divine Race.
[You have comprehended the Secret Technique "Sand Gathering Wall."]
[You have comprehended the Secret Technique "Transforming Earth into Sea."]
[...]
A series of notification sounds rang in his mind.
[You have seized the Earth Element Escape Skill: "Vertical Earth Mysterious Light."]
Lu Chenzhou’s brow furrowed.
"Eh, wait a minute."
"How did I gain a Divine Skill?"
Lu Chenzhou gazed at the Martial Arts Tree.
Sure enough, there was an update again.
Ever since passing ten million zhang, the Martial Arts Tree was constantly evolving, so Lu Chenzhou hadn’t paid much attention. After killing Qiu Kuangyi, the evolution completed.
[Five Elements: Sixth Rank (1%)]
[Dao Divine Power: Vertical Earth Mysterious Light (Earth)]
After some study, Lu Chenzhou understood.
"So that’s it—after the Martial Arts Tree’s advancement, it can now extract a Dao Divine Power from the enemy’s soul and memory, and turn it into my own."