Chapter 1677 (1/2)

Chapter 1677: World Annihilation Flame Lotus, Heavenly Manifestation

Long Chen didn’t view himself as particularly talented or as someone possessing the immense intellect of the ancient creators of magical arts. Those experts had been truly peerless when it came to intelligence, and they had come up with amazing techniques.

Those who could create amazing magical arts were capable of founding their own sects and inheritances. However, in the long river of history, countless heavenly geniuses soared like shooting stars, but then also fell like shooting stars. The absolute majority of the supreme sects from those times had vanished after the dark era. No more sects on their level ever rose.

That was due to the decline of this era. By this point, the current generation had been severed from the inheritances of the immortal era. It was impossible for someone to create similar magical arts on the same level.

Long Chen knew that this was very difficult, and his chances were slim, but he still wanted to see if he could do it. After all, as long as he constantly consumed the pills that Huo Long refined for him, he was still steadily increasing his cultivation base. He could focus on other things while digesting those pills since he had the divine ability that Evilmoon had given him for his stomach.

As he absorbed the medicinal pills, he also experimented with creating his own magical art based on the principles of the divine rune.

His unwavering perseverance resulted in a notebook filled with notes after three days.

Bang!

The flame sphere in Long Chen’s hand exploded again. Long Chen wrote down: Failure #798. Reason for failure: unable to stabilize the core.

After writing down this line, he sat on his b.u.t.t. Although he had prepared himself from the start, failing so many times dispirited him.

“It really isn’t a normal level of difficulty.” Long Chen bitterly smiled.

Before this, he had thought of countless possibilities for his magical art. However, after failing time and time again, the s.p.a.ce for his imagination shrank. When he failed the last time, it was a big blow to him.

Long Chen sighed. “Maybe I’m aiming too high. Perhaps I should take things step by step.”

Originally, Long Chen had felt that using the divine rune’s principles to blaze an alternate path would be possible. However, when he tried to summon a flame domain similar to the Celestial Lightning Body Blink, he found he was completely unable to stabilize the core of it. He was unable to summon a true domain.

Although he had created a few simple magical arts, those were practically garbage. If he used them in combat, his enemies would laugh at him.

“Whatever. I should try building naturally on the divine rune instead.”

Long Chen took a deep breath. He spent an hour to make sure his heart was as calm as possible before he once more summoned the divine rune.

This divine rune was like fertile soil. As long as he had a suitable seed, it would easily grow. Having this divine rune saved him a great deal of effort when it came to creating his own magical art.

Despite that, it was still incredibly difficult. This divine rune was like the foundation of a skysc.r.a.per. Although the foundation was amazing, building a skysc.r.a.per was still very difficult.

The most difficult thing was that if his building didn’t match the foundation in the end, it would immediately explode.

With the divine rune as the foundation, his greatest advantage was that his magical art wouldn’t crumble in the middle of it. Success or failure would only be shown when it was fully built.

However, where there were advantages, there were also disadvantages. If he didn’t have this foundation, he would know if he failed right at the start. He could immediately give up and start again, which would save him time.

Bang!

BANG!

BOOM!

“f.u.c.k!”

Explosive sounds rang out in the room along with Long Chen’s cursing. After failing another hundred times, even Long Chen was going crazy.

There were some magical arts that he felt should definitely work in theory, but when they finally reached the final point, the divine rune formed a rejection toward them and collapsed.

“I refuse to believe this c.r.a.p! I can definitely find an equilibrium.”

Long Chen’s stubborn character flared. For now, he gave up on this kind of testing. Based on his understanding of the divine rune, he began to test how to stabilize the core of the magical art while still allowing all the divine rune’s power to circulate throughout the magical art evenly. He wanted to make the divine rune and the magical art one ent.i.ty that could not be separated and would not have any expulsion toward each other.

Long Chen wrote down nineteen plans at once. This time, he confidently started his experiments. The result? All nineteen failed.