The Marvelous Uses of the Divine Weapon Revelation

[At Old Zhang's words, your eyes lit up.]

["That's great!"]

["Huh?"]

["No, I mean, your master's starship can traverse interstellar space, right?"]

["Probably..."]

["Have you seen it? Is it still around?"]

["It should still be there. Master hid it in a pretty secluded spot, but it's broken."]

Whether it's broken or not doesn't matter. You have some confidence in your own artifact-forging skills.

The key is that this is a chance to leave this damn third-rate star!

Old Zhang isn't very cultivated, but he knows the general cultivation system of the Real Realm.

The cultivation realms of the Real Realm are divided into Postnatal Warrior, Innate Warrior, Qi Transformation Realm, Pill Condensation Realm, Extinction Realm, and Transcendent Realm.

Among them,

Postnatal Warriors correspond to the Void Realm's Body Tempering, Spirit Gathering, and Soul Refining.

Innate Warriors correspond to the Void Realm's Golden Body, Spirit Sea, and Mind Consolidation.

The Real Realm also calls these two realms "warriors," but it's not quite the same concept as in the Void Realm.

The warriors here seem more low-martial, with simpler cultivation, unlike the first six realms of the Void Realm, which involve repeated tempering of vitality, energy, and spirit.

The first two realms in the Real Realm all focus on enhancing physical strength, with little involvement regarding souls, aura, and the like.

This isn't hard to understand.

The laws of the Real Realm are stronger, making it difficult for cultivators to easily touch upon these domains.

Once you reach the Qi Transformation Realm, some cultivators begin practicing Qi Refining techniques, and true qi appears within their bodies, allowing them to display all sorts of mysterious moves.

The technical name for these moves is "spells" or "killing moves."

Why did I say "some" cultivators?

According to Old Zhang's master, the path of cultivation isn't singular.

After physical strength is enough to withstand celestial qi, not all races walk the path of Qi Refining techniques.

But most do.

The Qi Transformation Realm has nine minor stages, each turn increasing the concentration and intensity of true qi within the body.

The Void Realm's Martial King, Martial Saint, and Martial God correspond to three of these turns.

["Finally, I've come across 'Pill Condensation.'"]

The term "Pill Condensation" appeared as early as when the "Mortal Bone" was extracted.

But it's only today that you've truly understood where it fits in.

If the realms are divided this way, you realize that "Half Emperor Since Antiquity"'s "realm +1" doesn't actually enhance a major realm, but a third of one.

If you keep breaking through, reaching Qi Transformation's seventh turn, you estimate it will directly push you into the Pill Condensation Realm!

Then the "Mortal Bone" will take effect, and you'll be able to comprehend divine abilities!

Those are powers that the Void Realm simply couldn't withstand!

Old Zhang says his master is at Qi Transformation's ninth turn, while the White-Robed Priests of the Winged God Cult are at the Pill Condensation Realm.

As for the Red-Robed Cardinals, they might be at the Extinction Realm, or possibly still at Pill Condensation.

You feel somewhat relieved.

Your enemy is weaker than you imagined.

When dealing with aliens, being one major standard realm higher than you in the Real Realm should be manageable.

But two higher is troublesome.

Especially since even Yi Chengsheng knew how to use divine patterns to weaken your combat state, and Real Realm people, who are more proficient in divine patterns, are even more worrying.

So you decide to maintain the status quo for now and wait for the situation to change.

In the ninth year, at age thirty-three.

You discover an abandoned mine shaft in the mining field, very deep underground and rarely visited.

Those alien races living their high-and-mighty lives would never come to a place like this.

You have Chen Two put on your face and take your place doing the hard labor.

Meanwhile, in this out-of-sight spot, you begin studying the Divine Armament Revelation.

This is a "celestial-level martial art."

According to the Real Realm standards, it's a fourth-rank spell.

The Low, Mid, High, Earth, and Heaven ranks of the human realm correspond to the ninth through fifth ranks in the Real Realm, so the celestial level is fourth rank.

Once the Divine Armament Revelation is mastered, you can use your own true qi as a guide to enhance magical artifacts.

If you reach a high enough level of mastery, you can even achieve "unity of man and weapon," greatly enhancing the weapon's power.

In the state of "unity of man and weapon," a fatal wound would be taken by the fused artifact instead, effectively granting an extra life!

["It's strong... although 'unity of man and weapon' requires reaching the 'peak mastery' level to use, even the earlier 'enchanting' of magical artifacts is quite practical. Too bad all my treasures were snatched away by that old wretch, sigh..."]

As you study this technique and increase its mastery level through proficiency, you become more and more familiar with the effects of the Divine Armament Revelation.

You discover that this "enhancement of magical artifacts" isn't limited to artifacts.

You can also enhance your fellow workers' mining picks, making them sharp enough to cut through iron and incredibly tough.

By consuming a large amount of true qi, you can even transform a mining pick into a low-grade magical artifact with its own natural spells!

When the mastery level of the Divine Armament Revelation reaches the proficient level, this "enchanting" effect changes from a brief temporary boost to a longer-lasting sustained enhancement.

If you cycle through enchanting every mining pick in the whole mining field, by the time you finish, the first pick still retains its effect!

The true qi you consume can't be recovered by running Qi Refining techniques, because there's no celestial qi here.

But there are plenty of source stones.

As long as you still produce the required output every day, the Winged God Cult won't even notice if you secretly use a few.

With four doppelgängers, how could output be a problem?

This day, you're still monotonously practicing the Divine Armament Revelation.

This technique has already reached the minor success stage.

The Divine Armament Revelation is of a higher quality than any martial art you've cultivated before, so improving its proficiency requires more repeated practice than anything you've ever done.

You don't even know how many times you've done it—you've lost count. From dawn to dusk, day and night, you've done nothing else but focus on improving this technique.

In order to reclaim your artifacts, to take revenge on that old hag, and to leave this third-rate star.

You've gritted your teeth and persisted, unwilling to let go of any chance to strengthen yourself.

["Boss! Something's wrong! Baizhou has been exposed!"]

Chen Two's voice rings out in your mind.

He's at the mining field, doing your work in your place.

This is a nifty trick you've discovered with your doppelgängers: you can talk to the other doppelgängers inside your head, though there's a distance limit.

Like Chen Four, who's on another world—that's definitely too far.

["Stay calm, I'm coming!"]

At this moment, at the center of the great mining pit.

All the human miners have been gathered together, kneeling in neat rows.

Standing on the high ground is White-Robed Priest Luo Ku, his white robe spotless.

["Tell me, who has been secretly giving you food, and how did he bring it in?"]

Complete silence across the entire scene.

Luo Ku sneers coldly.

["You don't want to give him up, do you? Fine, I'll just kill you one by one until you're willing to talk!"]