noveltune Chapter 1966: The Founding of the Ancient Dynasty
Chapter 1966: The Founding of the Ancient Dynasty
In the following ten days, apart from accompanying the ladies, Su Chen naturally dedicated the rest of his time to enhancing his own power!
Much of this time was spent on forming the "Heavenly Origin Killing Formation"!
Although he had already mastered this formation, it still required a considerable amount of time!
During these days, he had formed it no less than a hundred thousand times, sometimes even continuously for two or three days without doing anything else, just repeatedly performing that one action, forming the "Heavenly Origin Killing Formation"!
For someone else, it would be incredibly difficult to persist—can you imagine?
Repeating the same action tens of thousands of times over two or three consecutive days!
Moreover, it required a high level of focus and no margin for error!
Was there an effect?!
Of course there was!
Now, he could complete the formation of the "Heavenly Origin Killing Formation" within three to five breaths!
This was no small feat, considering even the simplest killing formations are extremely complex!
Yet, it was still far from enough!
So, he took out the Soul-Nourishing Flower he had won from Old Xi and consumed it directly!
Apart from mastery and proficiency, spiritual power plays a decisive role in the speed of forming formations!
This was also a crucial point that allowed him to instantly inscribe during the Tianhe Guild!
Since he had hit a sort of bottleneck now, he needed to enhance his spiritual power!
Continuing to practice afterward should yield a significantly greater result!
Upon consuming the flower, he immediately felt a surge in his Sea of Consciousness, as if a hurricane suddenly swept across a calm sea!
Su Chen didn’t expect that this thirty-thousand-year Soul-Nourishing Grass would have such domineering effects, almost scaring him, prompting him to quickly operate the "Chaos Divine Thought"!
Only after a full hour did the hurricane gradually dissipate, as if transforming into a warm ocean, nourishing his Sea of Consciousness!
Four days later, he finally opened his eyes!
At this moment, his face was filled with an expression of disbelief!
In just four days, his spiritual power had climbed from eighty-six levels directly to ninety-eight levels, only two levels from a hundred!
Although previously a third-level Soul Stone had allowed him to leap from sixty levels straight to eighty-three levels, crossing over twenty-three levels.
This time, the thirty-thousand-year Soul-Nourishing Flower only advanced him by twelve levels, barely half, but these twelve levels were far more challenging to cross than those twenty-three!
More precisely, the difficulty was immensely greater!
"Let’s see now how fast the speed can be improved!"
Su Chen muttered to himself.
Immediately, he pinched a technique with his fingers, pointed at the air, and instantly, the dazzling Heavenly Origin Killing Formation appeared!
To his great delight, this time, it took only about two to three percent of a breath’s time, an improvement by nearly a hundredfold!
With this, it was completely satisfactory!
For now, he could set it aside; of course, he needed to continue improving, but he was satisfied with the current achievement!
Su Chen was already very content with his current strength!
Firstly, when performing the "Myriad Forms Return to the Origin" swordsmanship, his power was comparable to a top expert at the Second Turn of the Great Supreme Realm!
Adding the bloodline power, he could surely crush the Fourth Turn of the Great Supreme Realm!
Moreover, there was Star Energy!
His current Star Energy was plentiful, amounting to about thirty million strands!
Secondly, the "Breaking the Firmament" technique alone reached the Fourth Turn of the Great Supreme Realm; combined with the bloodline power, he could at least stand toe to toe with the Sixth Turn of the Great Supreme Realm!
Of course, aside from Zi Mei, his real trump card was the power of the Divine Bone!
The power of the Divine Bone was utterly abnormal; if truly pushed to its limits, he himself couldn’t even imagine it!
...
Unknowingly, a few more days had passed, and Su Chen found it curious that Shi Ruoxuan hadn’t come as she said she would.
But instead of waiting for Shi Ruoxuan, Ji Ya arrived!
When Ji Ya stood at his room door, he was somewhat stunned!
"Princess Lingya, why... why are you here?"
He definitely didn’t expect the Lingya Princess to come unexpectedly!
"Why, just over a month and you’re already acting distant?"
Ji Ya teased with a playful smile upon hearing this.
Su Chen quickly changed his tune and laughed:
"Ji Ya, why are you here?"
He noticed that Ji Ya’s personality seemed much more optimistic than before!
Actually, this was only the case in front of him; for others, Ji Ya remained aloof!
"I have something important to discuss this time!"
Ji Ya immediately got to the point:
"Let’s go inside and talk."
Su Chen was originally puzzled; wondering what could be so important it couldn’t have been conveyed through transmission.
Upon hearing this, he also became more serious and invited Ji Ya into the room!
"What exactly is so important for a princess of the Great Yan Empire to personally come?"
Su Chen asked curiously.
"Su Chen, didn’t you ask me about the Spring of Life last time?"
Ji Ya said.
"That’s right, didn’t you say you didn’t know last time?"
Upon hearing the words "Spring of Life," Su Chen immediately tensed up.
"I indeed don’t know, even my father doesn’t, but just because we don’t know doesn’t mean nobody does."
"Who knows?!"
Su Chen became immediately excited upon hearing this, grabbing Ji Ya’s delicate hand.
His desire for the Spring of Life was needless to say, as it concerned the old ghost’s body and even his life!
"Su Chen, you’re hurting my hand."
Ji Ya’s face immediately flushed red, surprised by his excitement, as he suddenly grabbed her hand very tightly!
"Oh, sorry, I was too excited!"
Su Chen then realized his rudeness, releasing her hand and apologizing.
"It’s okay."
Ji Ya smiled slightly.
"Su Chen, have you heard of the Zhengqi Ancient Dynasty?"
Ji Ya did not directly answer Su Chen’s previous question, unexpectedly asking a seemingly unrelated question!
Su Chen nodded upon hearing:
"As far as I know, the Eastern Continent used to be under the control of the Zhengqi Ancient Dynasty, but it gradually declined later; even the fifteen great dynasties used to be subordinate to it!"
"That’s right, although the Ancient Dynasty declined, it nominally remains the legitimate authority in the Eastern Continent; some institutions still exist, like the Siting Pavilion!"
Ji Ya said:
"Moreover, there are still many forces that consider themselves part of the Ancient Dynasty, although they no longer show any respect for it!"
"Those forces are so formidable that even the fifteen great royal families dare not provoke them; they are essentially above all the dynasties!"
"It can be said that those forces truly represent the foundation of the Ancient Dynasty!"
Su Chen could comprehend this; it reminded him of the late stages of Huaxia’s ancient dynasties, where although nobody necessarily held the court in esteem, the moral authority remained!
He just didn’t understand Ji Ya’s intention in telling him all this!
Or how all of this related to the Spring of Life!