Chapter 381 - Chapter 381: 381 Thirty-three Days (1/2)

Chapter 381: 381 Thirty-three Days

There are several ways for a spirit treasure to acknowledge its master.

One is like the Human Emperor Sword, consenting to lend a portion of its power to Gu Yang, but neither exerting effort nor force. When it’s displeased, it completely ignores him.

When it’s delighted, it can exert divine power, helping him eliminate powerful enemies.

A powerful entity like a Celestial Being, can be eliminated with one strike.

This situation can’t even be considered as acknowledging a master.

Because the Human Emperor Sword can abandon him at any time.

In this relationship, the Human Emperor Sword is the dominant party.

The second type is like the Giant Spirit Hammer, having a certain relationship, its primordial spirit has reluctantly acknowledged him, it just dislikes his weak power. In the absence of a better choice, it temporarily recognizes him as its master.

This relationship is relatively equal.

Gu Yang can use most of the Giant Spirit Hammer’s power, and it will also try to cooperate.

But that’s it, deeper communication cannot be established. He can not activate the Giant Spirit Hammer’s real form.

As an Earth Grade Spirit Treasure, its power is naturally far from this, only, unlocking the real form consumes too much for it. It wouldn’t consume so much for Gu Yang’s sake.

The third kind is like the Ghostly Figure, fully acknowledging him as the master, revealing all its postures and functions to him.

He dominates over this relationship.

The Ghostly Figure’s Primordial Spirit is greatly restricted, the cost of betrayal is enormous.

Gu Yang can have it in its complete form, releasing all its energy, and it must comply.

However, its Primordial Spirit still has a certain degree of autonomy, like, he can’t make it self-detonate.

Apart from these three types, there is one more.

It’s what Gu Yang just proposed to the Mirror of Heart, leaving a mark in its primordial spirit’s body.

This means that its body and mind are completely open to him, with no autonomy left.

Even if Gu Yang orders it to self-destruct, it must comply.

This is the most thorough and complete acknowledgement of a master, an ordinary spirit treasure would rather die than agree to this. Each self-aware being rejects the situation where its life and death completely depend on others’ hands.

Generally speaking, only when a cultivator refines a spirit treasure by his own hands, can he leave a mark when the primordial spirit is newly born and its self-consciousness is extraordinarily weak.

Spirit treasures that have had several owners are all shrewd, not that easy to tame.

The relationship between a cultivator and a spirit treasure, who’s the dominant one and who has the final say, depends on their competition.

Just like now, Gu Yang proposed this extremely harsh condition, does the Mirror of Heart have room for rejection?

“Alright!”

The little girl agreed immediately, opened her most core part to Gu Yang.

This decisive and neat action even surprised Gu Yang a bit.

To be honest, he didn’t really consider recharging this spirit treasure, at least not in the short term.

Unexpectedly, it scared itself and revealed its cards so soon.

Seeing it being so cooperative, Gu Yang naturally wouldn’t be polite, and directly left a mark within it with his original spirit.

This method was learned from the “Taixuan Heavenly Book”.

This method is comprehensive, it could be said to be an encyclopedia of ancient cultivation world, it contains everything.

Suddenly, Gu Yang felt a mysterious connection in his Original Spirit.

This feeling was somewhat similar to when he made a contract with Eve.

He put away the Mirror of Heart and said to the dean and Senior Wen who had been waiting for a long time, “Dean, Senior Wen, what should we do next?”

The dean as usual was still in that green robe, looking like an ordinary scholar, just with a bit more free and easy temperament than before, “I have to go back first.”

After saying this, he disappeared.

Decisive to leave without any hesitation.

Senior Wen said, “I will stay here to cultivate in seclusion for a while.”

Understandable, she just broke through to the Celestial Being realm, and needed to consolidate it.

Gu Yang reminded, “Be careful of those two guys.”

He was referring to the two God Transformations who just ran away.

“Alright.”

Senior Wen didn’t say much unnecessary words, and left after she finished speaking.

She didn’t say where she was going. Having reached the Celestial Being realm, she already had enough power to protect herself and could go wherever she wanted in the world.

…

In the end, only Gu Yang and Ye Lingbo remained.

“Let’s go.”

Gu Yang called.

However, Ye Lingbo did not move. Instead, she took off a jade pendant from her neck and handed it to him, saying, “This is the key to the Heaven Opening Water Moon Pocket Universe. With this, you can come and go freely.”

Gu Yang understood and asked, “You’re going to stay here?”

Ye Lingbo replied, “If I follow you now, I’d only be a liability.”

Gu Yang seemed a little hesitant, but he respected her decision. He took the pendant and said, “I understand. I’ll be leaving now. Take care.”

Watching his departing figure, Ye Lingbo cried out, “Don’t flirt around anymore.”

Then he saw Gu Yang raise his hand and wave once.

A moment later, his figure had disappeared.

Her eyes flashed with a hint of melancholy, and she murmured softly, “The next time we meet, I want to stand by your side.”

Then she vanished from the spot as a glimmer of light flickered beside her.

If Gu Yang was here, he would have noticed that her space-traveling method was just like Yun Piaomiao’s method from earlier.

…

There wasn’t too much sadness or nostalgia in Gu Yang’s heart. His mind was still not at a point where it could accommodate such sentiments.

What he really wanted to say earlier was that the gap in their cultivation levels might be even larger the next time they met.

But thinking that stating such a harsh truth could hurt feelings, so he kept it to himself.

There were only five days left until the Yao Chi Conference.

He was still a little short of reaching the Celestial Being realm.

Don’t be fooled thinking that he had just killed two Celestial level beings. One achievement could be attributed to the Human Emperor’s sword and had nothing to do with him.

The other one was because he was aided by Fu Wansheng’s true spirit, restraining Yun Piaomiao.

Otherwise, no matter how powerful that sword was, it would be useless if it didn’t hit target.

The Immortal Palace in Yao Chi is full of ancient powerhouses that have survived till now, none of whom he can trifle with.

Now, he is at the peak of the third layer of the Unleaking Realm. The only path that lies before him is to make a breakthrough to the Celestial Being realm.

The term Celestial Being is used by Great Zhou. In ancient times, this realm was called God Transformation.

The so-called God Transformation is to cultivate the Original Spirit to Pure Yang, hence directly comprehending the Way of Heaven.

This step is crucial in the Immortal’s path. It is the starting point of becoming an Immortal.

Until the catastrophe of the ancient times, the collapse of the Way of Heaven, the fall of all immortals, there was no existence of Immortals in the world.

Also, no one could break through to this realm anymore.

After the catastrophe, the Martial Arts flourished, and the first to break the barrier of the Celestial Being realm was the founder of the Dao Sect, the Nameless Taoist.

Since then, the realm of Celestial Beings has arisen in the Divine State.

He referred to this realm as Celestial Being for a good reason.

this path was much different from that of the ancient cultivation

The path of ancient cultivation was to unify with heaven and human, focusing on merging body with Dao.

However, Martial Arts focus on tapping personal potential, continuously enhancing oneself. At the Celestial Being realm, the Dao is also comprehended and integrated into the body, creating a Daoistic aura in the Original Spirit, eventually forming one’s own Dao.

Such path to becoming a Celestial Being was more domineering. It was destined to be more difficult as it required a deep understanding of the Way of Heaven.

That’s why there were so few Celestial Beings in Great Zhou.

After Xia Emperor, in a thousand years, only three celestial beings have appeared in the whole Great Zhou. Including Wen Jue and Qin Wu who will achieve the Celestial Being realm in the future, there are only five.

In any Pocket Universe, the number of Celestial Beings is higher than that in Great Zhou. There is certainly a reason.

Of course, in terms of strength, the Celestial Beings of Great Zhou are very powerful. Just one academy principal was able to halt the invasion of the Lord Chi Ming.

The primary issue facing Gu Yang in achieving the Celestial Being realm is the location of the breakthrough.

He was aware of many Pocket Universes, not to mention this place. There were also Golden Court Pocket Universe, Yellow Springs Pocket Universe, All Appearances Pocket Universe, Star Luo Pocket Universe, Penglai Heaven, Peach Source Heaven, and so on.

There were too many choices.