Chapter 1863 : Hometown

Compared to the Array Formation section, the content within this Divine Abilities section was even more profound and complex, yet it represented the fruit born from the convergence of Dao Patterns and the Great Dao itself.

Eldrin had gained profound insights into the Array Formation Chapter, having solidified his Dao Patterns to an exceptional degree. Thus, his comprehension of the Divine Abilities Chapter now progressed with astonishing speed.

In the time that followed, Eldrin (Person Name) continuously delved into various divine abilities and secret arts, spending nearly 3 100 1000 years before fully mastering all techniques below the Great Perfection level.

With this foundation, Eldrin further refined and perfected his 6 innate supernatural abilities, enhancing their latent potential and destructive power.

After completing all this, he turned his gaze to the 3 remaining Life Apertures and fell into deep contemplation.

Within his 9 apertures, aside from the 6 great supernatural powers already refined, 3 apertures remained that had yet to merge with his innate supernatural abilities.

Apart from the Song of Time Blade, he still had 2 innate acupoints that could integrate innate divine abilities. Yet the decision of which specific abilities to incorporate left him grappling with an excruciating dilemma.

Eldrin repeatedly examined his own divine abilities, yet ultimately concluded that the other divine abilities he had cultivated were unsuitable.

With Eldrin's (Person Name) profound foundation, he could have elevated all his other cultivated supernatural abilities to the sovereign level, yet he remained unwilling to integrate these powers.

It was not that these divine abilities were not powerful enough, but rather that for Eldrin, ordinary Patriarch-level divine abilities could no longer bring about a qualitative transformation for him.

"Any Great Luo Golden Immortal, while at the Eighth Tribulation Ancient Immortal realm, would be a nearly invincible existence among their peers."

"With my foundation, even if I were to break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, I would likely stand among the most exceptional."

However, without further pushing the limits of his combat prowess, he might not be able to look down upon all other heroes when facing those truly unparalleled geniuses, especially those at the level of Hunyuan Emperor.

Eldrin murmured softly, his brow involuntarily furrowing.

He understood clearly in his heart that every Great Luo Golden Immortal was a rare genius of their era. Even if he could look down upon his peers after breaking through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, it remained uncertain whether he could truly challenge those at higher cultivation levels.

Whether they were Chaos Fiends or Great Luo Immortal Lords, they not only transcended the cycle of reincarnation but were also exceedingly difficult for others to slay.

Reaching this realm, to slay a Grand Luo Golden Immortal generally required at least 5 to 10 times the combat strength and completely sealing off all escape routes to even have a chance of success.

Most crucially, those who had reached the Mid-stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm could almost universally unlock the fifth, or even the sixth, Divine Ability Acupoint.

Such Great Luo Golden Immortals would often seize the opportunity to cultivate a life-preserving divine ability, or a forbidden technique reserved for desperate, all-out battles.

As far as Eldrin knew, the legendary Sword Abyss Immortal Lord from ages past had unlocked both the fifth and sixth apertures, each containing world-shaking divine abilities.

The fifth aperture was known as the 'Heavenly Sword Dissolution Art'. This divine ability was considered a forbidden Great Perfection Art. Once activated, it would consume the Great Perfection Immortal Physique as its price, temporarily multiplying all combat prowess fivefold.

And the sixth aperture was named ‘Cataclysmic Sword,’ a peerless and exceedingly rare slaughter-type divine ability. It allowed 1 to nurture within the body a single, world-shaking sword qi of absolute destruction, potent enough to severely injure—or even slay—a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Back then, it was precisely by relying on these 2 forbidden divine abilities that Sword Abyss Immortal Lord could freely assault Chaos Nests and successively slay several Chaos Gods and Demons.

Of course, both the Heaven-Sundering Sword Dissolution Art and the Calamity's End Sword Strike far surpassed ordinary Patriarch-level divine abilities in power. However, the cost required to activate either was immense, which was why they were both referred to as forbidden divine arts.

Once the Heaven-Sword Dissolution Art was activated, the Sword Abyss Immortal Lord’s Great Luo Physique would be severely damaged, requiring the consumption of vast and rare treasures to restore it.

Moreover, the Calamity Sword required the tempering of an entire kalpa's duration just to be barely activated once. To theoretically unleash its ultimate power, the Calamity Sword needed to be nourished for a full 9 kalpas.

Such an exacting divine ability naturally possessed astonishing power. In his prime, if Sword Abyss Immortal Lord fought with all his might, even a late-stage Great Perfected Golden Immortal wouldn't dare confront him head-on.

Had it not been for that battle where Sword Abyss Immortal Lord was ensnared by schemes, his Calamity-Severing Sword being suppressed through extraordinary means by the Chaos Godfiends, he might very well have fought his way out of the encirclement despite being heavily outnumbered.

"Forbidden Divine Power, the life-waging art of the Great Dao."

Recalling the rumors about Sword Abyss Immortal Lord, Eldrin murmured softly, a contemplative expression crossing his features.

The power of forbidden divine abilities is incomparably immense, yet the price paid to activate them is equally staggering. Apart from the Great Luo Golden Immortals who transcend the cycle of reincarnation, almost no 1 would dare to unleash a forbidden divine ability.

However, Eldrin had cultivated an Indestructible Body and a True Spirit Primordial Soul, which should allow him to bear the price of invoking forbidden divine abilities. It indeed seemed fitting for him to practice forbidden divine arts to enhance his own methods.

At this thought, Eldrin began searching through the Tai Shi Dao Jing's chapter on divine abilities for forbidden techniques. The moment he delved into it, his heart trembled with astonishment.

Within the Primordial Dao Scripture, there existed a dozen or so forbidden divine abilities, each 1 capable of shaking heaven and earth.

There exists the Art of Soul-Combustion Sacrificial Blade, which involves offering the primordial soul of a Great Luo Golden Immortal to the blade. It requires enduring 30-6 kalpas of tribulation to master. Once activated, it consumes 90-9 percent of 1’s own primordial soul, unleashing a power that transcends all limits.

The 9 Revolutions Body Shattering Art of the Fleshly Sanctification lineage, once activated, causes the practitioner's vital energy and blood to burn irreversibly, unleashing 3 to ninefold physical strength. The price, however, is the need to enter a deep slumber for several kalpas before recovery is possible.

The technique known as 'Sacrificial Strike' was an exceptionally ruthless method that involved igniting 1's own physical body, vital energy, blood essence, primordial spirit, and everything else to unleash a mutually destructive, final blow.

Once this technique of Sacrificial Strike is mastered, even an early-stage Golden Immortal of the Great Roam could potentially severely injure—or even slay—a mid-stage Golden Immortal. This reveals just how perilous and ruthless this method truly is.

"What an overwhelmingly domineering divine ability."

After reviewing all these divine abilities, Eldrin couldn't help but reveal a bitter smile.

A Great Luo Golden Immortal does not fall into the cycle of reincarnation and faces no risk of permanent annihilation. Even if slain in battle, they can be revived from the Great Dao itself. Consequently, the divine abilities they create become increasingly domineering and ruthless.

At this moment, he finally gained a flicker of enlightenment. If even Great Luo Golden Immortals cultivated forbidden arts of this magnitude, their battles against 1 another would likely be fought with trepidation and restraint.

Even with a higher cultivation realm and strength several times greater than the opponent, 1 could never rule out their final desperate strike—a blow that might drag you down to perish together.

Even if we cannot perish together, merely forcing you into a severely wounded state could create an opening for my sworn enemies to strike.

At this thought, Eldrin couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "It seems that even after breaking through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, 1 must never become arrogant or complacent."

With these thoughts in mind, Eldrin fell into contemplation once more.

Although the forbidden divine ability was domineering, its power was truly immense. Even if cultivated only at the early Great Perfection Golden Immortal stage, it could still pose a threat to those at the mid Great Perfection Golden Immortal stage.

"Now that I have cultivated the True Spirit Primordial Soul, it is time to master a forbidden divine art."

At this thought, Eldrin did not cultivate these forbidden divine abilities. Instead, he began to contemplate and comprehend them, intending to use these as a foundation to create his own divine abilities.

Tens of thousands of years later, when he had grasped roughly 70 to 80 percent of the profound mysteries behind these forbidden divine arts, he began forging his own forbidden techniques.

However, before creating his own forbidden divine ability, Eldrin took out the Yin-Yang Unity Vessel. Gazing at the treasured artifact, he murmured to himself,

"This Yin Yang Unity Vessel can comprehensively enhance 1's magic power, primordial spirit, physical body, and even the Great Dao and Dao Fruits."

"If we use this as a foundation and integrate the principles of these divine abilities, could we create a world-shaking transcendent technique?"

Eldrin murmured softly, his eyes suddenly blazing with intensity.

Without delay, he immediately began using the Yin-Yang Unity Kettle as his foundation to draft the framework of his own forbidden divine ability.

Thus, in the fleeting span of a 1000 years, Eldrin laid the foundational framework for this divine ability. Once more, he integrated concepts from several other forbidden arts into its foundation, ultimately creating a world-shaking divine ability after tens of thousands of years.

It is done.

After creating this divine ability, Eldrin could not help but reveal a look of delight.

The divine ability he had created could be considered a rare forbidden art, divided into 3 stages.

The first stage involves storing the Primordial Yin-Yang Qi within 1's divine abilities. At critical moments, 1 can unleash this sealed Yin-Yang Qi to empower themselves. Before the stored Yin-Yang Qi is exhausted, it can temporarily double 1's combat prowess.

The second stage involves mobilizing the qi and blood, primordial spirit, magical power, and the Great Dao within 1's body—sacrificing these foundations through combustion to unleash the ultimate combat prowess.

In theory, this stage could unleash fivefold power, yet it remained within controllable bounds.

With his true spirit and primordial soul, Eldrin could fully control this portion of power, ceasing the combustion of his vital energy, primordial soul, magic power, and the Great Dao at any moment.

However, activating the second stage also required a certain price—afterward, 1 must refine various rare treasures to recover. As long as Eldrin mastered the Great Dao of Life, the injuries from the second stage would not be considered a particularly severe loss.

The third stage involves the unreserved combustion of 1's primordial spirit, vital energy, cultivation base, Dao Fruit, Great Dao, and all else, erupting with combat prowess far surpassing 1's inherent limits.

However, the price of the third stage was also incomparably immense. Unless 1 had cultivated a True Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root) foundation or broken through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, activating it would inevitably lead to certain death.

"This divine ability is extraordinary in all 3 stages."

"The first stage is relatively weak in power, but its advantage lies in requiring only the storage of Yin and Yang Qi to activate."

"The second stage possesses formidable power, yet activating it comes at a tremendous cost. Before breaking through to the Great Perfection Stage, it should be used with utmost caution—only in life-or-death situations."

"As for the third stage..."

Eldrin shook his head. Once the third stage was activated, he would fall into an irreversible slumber, requiring at least several kalpas of time to recover.

Moreover, the higher 1's cultivation realm, the longer the recovery period after activation. Unless it was a true life-or-death situation, he would never rashly unleash it.

At this thought, Eldrin gazed at this divine ability and couldn't help but chuckle softly. "Since this technique is founded upon the Yin Yang Union Vessel, why not name it 'Sacrifice to the Dao of Yin Yang'?"

With these words, Eldrin (Person Name) stored away the newly drafted ancient scripture once more.

这阴阳祭我道非常强大，但是需要寻到大罗奇珍级数的阴阳二气才能修成，眼下还不是修炼的时机。

Eldrin ceased further deduction of divine abilities.

Now that the eighth innate acupoint had been determined, the ninth required careful deliberation.

After all, the True Spirit Primordial Soul only possessed 9 innate acupoints. His current experience was still somewhat lacking, and he feared that choosing the wrong divine ability would lead to a lifetime of regret. It would be better to wait until after breaking through to the Great Luo Realm, when his wisdom had deepened, before selecting the ninth innate acupoint for fusion.

At this thought, Eldrin made a quick calculation with his fingers and realized he had been in seclusion for over 800,000 years.

"A single seclusion lasted over 8 100 1000 years. How swiftly time has flown."

Eldrin (Person Name) let out a soft sigh before emerging from the seclusion chamber.

After emerging from seclusion, he discovered that Lyra and the others were still in closed-door cultivation, seemingly striving to advance further before the Calamity Tribulation. Meanwhile, Lior and his group were busy stockpiling additional strategic resources required for the impending tribulation.

Eldrin did not disturb them. Instead, he stepped out of the Guixu Grotto-Heaven and raised his eyes to gaze upon the magnificent Vaulting Azure Immortal Domain.

After so many years gazing upon the Vast Azure Immortal Realm once more, Eldrin perceived that the calamity qi of this world had grown increasingly dense, with faint yet turbulent waves of ominous energy surging ominously on the horizon.

Once more, he lifted his gaze, his eyes piercing through the boundless immortal realms into the depths of chaos. Yet, he perceived that even within that vast expanse of primordial disorder, faint traces of baleful energy seemed to be continuously emerging.

Beyond the Vast Azure Immortal Realm, a faint crimson glow began to shimmer in the eyes of the few primordial chaos beasts.

"The Great Calamity is approaching."

Eldrin murmured softly, a faint premonition telling him that this calamity of slaughter was inescapable. Unless a Great Luo Golden Immortal were willing to shelter him within their celestial domain, even an 8-Calamity Ancient Immortal would inevitably fall into the cosmic tribulation.

To transcend it would naturally lead to a great surge in 1’s foundation, opening the possibility to advance even further. Yet, should 1 fail, even the direct descendant of a Primordial Chaos Emperor would be utterly annihilated, reduced to ashes and smoke.

At this thought, Eldrin slowly withdrew his gaze.

He withdrew his focus, then with a sweep of his sleeve, tore through the void. In a single step, he strode into it, falling through the endless dimensional emptiness until he arrived within a magnificent, vast universe.

Boom—

In the boundless great cosmos, from the depths of a vast sea of stars, a violent explosion suddenly resounded.

In an instant, space and time trembled, crack after crack emerging from the depths of the Star Abyss. Immediately after, a snow-robed figure stepped forth from within.

Clad in robes of snow-white, He was wreathed in boundless immortal energy, His ethereal radiance illuminating the vast cosmos.

The newcomer was none other than Eldrin. He lifted his head, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings, and a faint tremor passed through his eyes. "My homeland, I have returned."

"Bzzz—"

In an instant, the vast cosmos trembled as a supreme will descended from the depths of the universe.

His gaze fell upon Eldrin, as if carefully examining him for a long while, before finally conveying a thought: "Good child, it seems I shall soon nurture another Da Luo offspring."

Eldrin smiled faintly, offering no further words.

After all these years, Eldrin finally understood the true nature of the Grand Cosmos upon gazing upon it once more.

This great cosmos was vast and boundless, spanning approximately 30 billion light-years in diameter. Yet to the present-day Eldrin, it could no longer be considered a colossal entity.

Such great universes were as countless as the stars across the endless dimensions.

The Endless Dimensional Void is also composed of these infinite universes. Therefore, the Endless Dimensional Void may also be referred to as the Endless World Sea, or the Endless Cosmos Sea. (Chapter End)