Chapter 1472: Special Cultivation Path (2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Zhao Hongfu had six Birth Charts while Kong Wen and his brothers, who had a good foundation since they came from the green lotus domain, had about nine and ten Birth Charts each.
After gaining an understanding of the strength of the people of the Evil Sky Pavilion, Lu Zhou nodded in satisfaction.
After more than 100 years of cultivating in the Unknown Land, and if one counted the years they lost to the Pillar of Impermanence, everyone had paid a huge price to rise to their current cultivation bases. Fortunately, the reward was quite big as well.
Lu Zhou said, “The path of cultivation is long. Continue to work hard.”
Everyone bowed.
Lu Zhou continued to say, “Cultivate here for a few days before we set off again.”
“Yes.”
With that, the people of the Evil Sky Pavilion scattered, looking for their own spots to cultivate and rest.
Lu Zhou found a quiet place under an ancient tree and sat cross-legged immediately. Since he had become a Saint, he had yet to study his blue avatar so he decided to look at it now.
During Lu Zhou’s confrontation with Meng Zhang, the blue avatar had absorbed a large amount of force from the lightning tribulation, which was 1,000 times stronger than the one he experienced at the White Tower Council. He still had not figured out how his blue avatar that had entered the Thousand
Realms Whirling stage and had three Birth Charts could improve during the lightning tribulation when there was no life heart to activate a Birth Chart.
Buzz!
Lu Zhou waved his hand, manifesting the blue avatar. When he saw the blue avatar, he exclaimed in surprise, “Eleven leaves?”
Lu Zhou thought his eyes were playing tricks on him so he rubbed his eyes and counted the leaves again. Indeed, there were eleven leaves.
“What’s going on?”
Lu Zhou was puzzled. According to the normal cultivation path, the eleventh leaf would only sprout after he activated the twelfth Birth Chart. Why did his blue avatar sprout the eleventh leaf ahead of time?
Lu Zhou was slightly worried. After all, if the same thing that happened to Lan Xihe in the past happened to him, he would be in big trouble.
‘How can I confirm that nothing is wrong?”
Lu Zhou looked at the blue avatar again before he controlled it to perform a set of movements. There was no change from before, just that its movements seemed smoother, and he could perform finer movements. The speed at which the avatar unleashed energy swords and performed sword techniques was
no different from humans. Up until now, he did not discover any problems at all. It seemed like all he needed to do was to continue increasing its strength, speed, and skills.
In the past, Lan Xihe did not sprout the eleventh leaf and directly activated her thirteenth Birth Chart. As a result, she lost a huge amount of her life, making it difficult for her to activate subsequent Birth Charts.
When Lu Zhou thought about this again, he seemed to understand his blue avatar’s condition.
The blue avatar did not have a problem with an insufficient life span so it was not restricted by the conventional cultivation path. Moreover, it was in an unrestrained state.
“Isee.” Lu Zhou nodded after realization dawned on him.
He understood now why the Great Void labeled the unrestrained state and different cultivation paths a heresy. He also vaguely understood what it meant to break free from the shackles as mentioned in the Scripture of Sermons.
“Is it possible that the blue avatar holds the solution to breaking the shackles?”
The shackles of heaven and earth had plagued human cultivators for countless generations. Even those from the Great Void did not have answers.
Lu Zhou looked at the blue avatar in front of him with admiration as he muttered to himself, “Who’s the Unholy One exactly? How did he come up with such a special cultivation path?”
Everyone might condemn the Unholy One, but Lu Zhou was different. After becoming the Pavilion Master of the Evil Sky Pavilion, the Heavenly Writing power and his blue avatar became his most important trump cards. He knew very well that the Heavenly Writing’s energy was extremely pure. How could it
contain the evil energy?
“What is evil?” Lu Zhou shook his head.
“The Heavenly Writing power originated from the Three Scrolls of Heavenly Writing, Currently, I’ve opened it to the Earth Scroll. The blue avatar is part of the Heavenly Writing Scrolls. Then, what’s going on with the system?”
There was definitely a connection between the two.
Every time Lu Zhou thought about this question, he really could not wait to break through and become a supreme being. However, when he recalled the things he had seen and heard in the Scripture of Sermons, it seemed to him that his questions would only be answered after he met the Unholy One.
Lu Zhou shook his head as he muttered to himself, “The most important thing now is to confirm there’s no problem with the blue avatar.”
Then, he brought a life heart out and inserted it into the blue avatar’s Birth Palace.
The process of activating Birth Charts for the blue avatar was similar to the golden avatar. Specific life hearts were needed for specific Birth Charts. Fortunately, there were many kinds of fierce beasts in the Unknown Land, and they had accumulated many life hearts during their journey.
Apart from that, Lu Zhou still had the life hearts of Gou Chen and the iron-armored divine beast. He would have no problem activating his 26th Birth Chart.
A crisp noise rang in the air, indicating that the life heart had been successfully embedded into the Birth Palace.
Lu Zhou nodded in satisfaction. It seemed like there was no problem with the blue avatar. With this, he confirmed the blue avatar was truly unrestricted by the rules of the common cultivation path.
“If this is the case, does this mean I can activate Birth Charts as I please?” Lu Zhou wondered out loud as his heart stirred.
His eyes flashed as he wondered what would happen if he only used life hearts of divine beasts or ancient divine beasts to activate Birth Charts for the blue avatar. However, he knew it would be unrealistic for him to only use the life hearts of divine beasts or ancient divine beasts.
After a moment, Lu Zhou manifested his golden avatar and looked at his Birth Palace. Even after passing the fourth Birth Trial, the Birth Palace did not expand. Passing the fourth Birth Trial only strengthened his Birth Palace.
Lu Zhou sighed. ‘I can only activate another two Birth Charts. This means there are only two chances left for my golden Birth Palace to expand.”
If Lu Zhou’s Birth Palace did not expand, it meant that his limit was only 26 Birth Charts.
After Lu Zhou put away his golden avatar, he decided to have a look at the random card he had been rewarded with after Duanmu Sheng completed his apprenticeship.
“Use.”
“Ding! Obtained Ji Tiandao’s Peak Trial Card x2.”
“As expected.”
Lu Zhou was certain the system had some sort of foresight ability and provided him help according to his need. Since he had gained the power of infinite deduction from the Heavenly Writing, it was not surprising if the system had such a power.
Including the two cards from before, Lu Zhou now had four Peak Trial Cards. He still needed another five Peak Trial Cards.
Considering they were going to the Great Abyss Land, it was best that he synthesized the cards as soon as possible.
“Complete Ci Yuan’er’s apprenticeship.”
“Ding! Your disciple, Ci Yuan’er, has successfully completed her apprenticeship. Reward: 10,000 merit points.”
“Ding! You’re rewarded with a random card. When you use this card, a rare item card will be randomly awarded to you.”
Lu Zhou ignored the subsequent notifications and said, ‘Complete Luo Shiyin’s apprenticeship.”
“Ding! Your disciple, Luo Shiyin, has successfully completed her apprenticeship. Reward: 10,000 merit points.”
With this, all ten of Lu Zhou’s disciples had successfully completed their apprenticeships.
Lu Zhou sighed softly. He felt inexplicably empty in his heart as he listened to the notifications. It was inevitable for disciples to leave their masters.
“Ding! All ten of your disciples have successfully completed their apprenticeships. The system’s Mentor and Eternal Paragon’s effects are now null.”
“Ding! Reward: Upgrade Card x1.”
“Ding! Reward: one scroll from the Heavenly Writing. You will obtain a new Heavenly Writing power.”
“Ding! Triggered a new mission: The Return of the Great Void.”
Apart from the new mission, Lu Zhou saw that all the missions from before had disappeared from the system interface.
“Return of the Great Void?” Lu Zhou furrowed his brows when he saw there was no description for his new mission on the system interface. After a while, he shook his head and said tonelessly, ‘Whether the Great Void returns or not, I have to go to the Great Void.”
Then, Lu Zhou used the two random cards he had just obtained from the completion of Little Yuan’er and Conch’s apprenticeship.
“Use.”
“Ding! Obtained Ji Tiandao’s Peak Trial Card x2.”
“Use.”
“Ding! Obtained Ji Tiandao’s Peak Trial Card x2.”
‘One more card,” Lu Zhou muttered to himself as his eyelids twitched. The Peak Trial Cards could not be bought from the system. The only other way for him to obtain the cards was through the lucky draw. He hated the lucky draw the most. Every time, he would be thanked endlessly for his participation. He
felt uncomfortable just thinking about it.
“Forget it. I’ll endure it for a while.”
With that, Lu Zhou started the lucky draw. He had accumulated a lot of luck points previously, and it seemed like he was going to continue accumulating more.
Three days later.
In the morning.
A huge beast flew above the forest, waking everyone from the Evil Sky Pavilion up.
At the same time, Lu Zhou who was still not with the lucky draw finally received a notification he had been waiting for.
“Ding! Used 50 merit points and 9,999 luck points. Obtained: Ji Tiandao’s Peak Trial Card x1.”