The Prodigies War

Chapter 1724: Ten Years of Hard Work

Peaceful silence was restored under the Flat Peach Tree.

Lin Xun started counting the spoils of war. As a supreme Big Saint who was ranked 27th on the list of Starry Sky Big Saint Rankings, Tu Qingxiong was rich.

His Yin Lightning Whip, an ancient treasure with a long heritage, was so shockingly powerful. Seeing that even the Broken Blade hadn’t been able to stop it, one could imagine how extraordinary the whip was.

There was also a dark-green ancient sword with nineteen Natal Treasure Runes on the blade. It was obviously Tu Qingxiong’s life-bound Saint weapon.

However, a life-bound weapon like this was useless to other cultivators. Lin Xun threw it into the No-Nonsense Bow so the weapon spirit could consume the energy for his recuperation.

Besides the two weapons, Tu Qingxiong also carried a great number of pills and treasures of the very best grade this world could offer. Lin Xun gladly put them all into his own pocket.

After finishing with this matter, Lin Xun sat down cross-legged and took out a Flat Peach. This one was crystalline and as fiery as the color of sunset. It flowed with beautiful lights and emitted a refreshing fragrance that penetrated one’s soul.

As soon as he swallowed the fruit, a strange, hot current spread all over inside him. Lin Xun felt like something had exploded in his soul, enlightening him, and would turn him into an immortal the next second.

The power of this peach was simply miraculous. Unlike divine herbs, it attuned the cultivator’s body and mind to the Dao, giving them the feeling of an epiphany.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, his expression solemn and ethereal. Every pore on his skin glowed with surging dao light, making him look dazzling.

Between one breath and the next, all sorts of wondrous phenomena manifested at the back of his head. There were true dragons roaming, yin and yang intermingling, water and fire harmonizing.

There was also the rotation of the Tai Chi, and a great abyss swallowing and spitting.

There was also the thunderous sound created by endless fluctuations of Immortality.

They were all the powers of the grand daos that Lin Xun controlled.

Later on, Lin Xun’s body’s essence, qi, and spirit all rumbled like an erupting volcano erupting, and his internal organs all generated marvelous rhythms that emitted the sound of like gold and jade touching.

From afar, he was like a heavenly furnace, big but immeasurable, boiling and running as it took in all the mysteries of the Great Dao and deduced its principle!

Hours later.

Accompanied by an earth-shaking rumble, the area shook. Churning, thick waves of vitality surged over from all directions and poured into Lin Xun in a continuous stream.

He was like a bottomless abyss, crazily and greedily swallowing and refining this vitality…

The sight was astonishing!

From a bird’s eye view, one would see the peach trees that ran throughout the Peach Utopia Secret Realm clattering and swaying as they produced the sacred vitality that was surging toward Lin Xun.

If it were any other cultivator, they wouldn’t be able to withstand this vast, majestic power at all, let alone refine it.

However, Lin Xun was oblivious to this phenomenon. He was like a furnace that encompassed all the power in this world. There was nothing that he couldn’t tolerate or refine!

Most marvelously, there was an entirely different sight in Lin Xun’s mind as it was flooded by all sorts of unbelievable profound mysteries of the Great Dao. This sent him into a deep state of enlightenment.

It was mysterious and spectacular.

……

Less than two days later.

Boom!

Lin Xun’s qi that was boiling to the extreme suddenly made a breakthrough. As if breaking a heavenly barrier, Lin Xun smoothly stepped into the intermediate Big Saint Stage!

He was shining brightly from inside out. His breathing had the momentum of a fire beacon that rocked upward, shattering the clouds and disturbing the stars.

But that was not the end of it.

The wonderful power brought about by the Flat Peach caused Lin Xun to remain immersed in that strange state of enlightenment!

Not only had his cultivation increased, but his comprehension of the Great Dao, of his own dharma art, and of the Great Endless Devour Scripture…all rose with it as well!

……

Three days later.

The image of a cauldron, so life-like that one would think it was real, appeared and floated above Lin Xun.

The outer surface of the cauldron was engraved with various arts: sky-blotting Taixuan sword qi, a god deploying out a heaven-shaking punch, a true dragon roaring as it split into nine transformations, and a gigantic finger force floating and down as it demonstrated the wondrous mysteries of space…

As the cauldron steamed with light, each of those dao arts presented a clear transformation!

The first to transform was the Taixuan sword qi.

The Thirty-Three Heavy Swords were derived into seventy-two sword qi mountains, each mountain containing 3800 Taixuan sword qi!

Since the number seventy-two corresponded to the number of Earth Deities in the legend, this new formation was called the Earth Deity Sword Mountain!

Immediately following, the essence of the Heavenshaking Punch was melted into one of the profound mysteries of the Great Dao Furnace Art, becoming one with it.

Henceforth, when Lin Xun operated the Great Dao Furnace Art, it would have the power to shake heaven and move earth!

After this, the Tribulation Dragon Nine Transformations shifted and agglomerated into the character ‘Tribulation’ and branded itself on the cauldron. Like the Heavenshaking Punch, its essence was also fully integrated into the Great Dao Furnace Art, thus gaining the characteristic of being flexible.

What was a transformation?

It was like how a dragon could be big or small, and could fly or hide. The big ones could rise to stand beside clouds and fog while the small ones could completely conceal themselves. They could fly and travel worlds, or hide and lurk deep underground!

The Tribulation Dragon Nine Transformations was originally a taboo secret art of the True Dragon Lineage. Now that its axioms had been integrated by Lin Xun, it had become a part of his own dharma art, which was also the case of the Heavenshaking Punch.

Later on, the essence of the Heavenly Yuan Slash was also refined, giving the characteristic of ‘sharpness’ to the Great Dao Furnace Art.

Sharp to the extreme, unstoppable!

From now on, whenever Lin Xun used the Great Dao Furnace Art and controlled the Broken Blade to activate the Heavenly Yuan Slash, he could incorporate the flexibility of the True Dragon and the heavy momentum of the Heavenshaking Punch at will. The power of the slash would be nothing that its past self could ever compare to!

In the end, however, Lin Xun was not able to incorporate the essences of the Great Diffusion Void Breaker Finger and the Taixuan Sword Scripture into his own dharma art.

As the legacy left by the number one Sword Emperor of the primeval era, the Taixuan Sword Scripture was just too special. It was a true Emperor Dao sword scripture of supreme dao power.

If Lin Xun wished to incorporate it into his own dharma art, then he would first need to reach the Emperor Stage.

As for the Great Diffusion Void Breaker Finger, while it only had three strokes, it involved the most obscure power that was the Law of Space. Even now, Lin Xun was still not able to penetrate its mysteries.

Nevertheless, the Great Dao Furnace Art had been further perfected through this transformation. The profound mysteries and power it contained were at least twice higher than before!

Moreover, as Lin Xun melted and integrated more and more arts moving forward, these properties of the Great Dao Furnace Art would keep increasing.

This was Lin Xun’s own dharma art. From the moment it was created, it was destined to be a unique dharma art, and there would only ever be one of such in all existence and history!

……

Seven days later.

Lin Xun woke up from his deep enlightenment.

His eyes were like the purest spring water, capable of reflecting everything in the world and gaining insight into all things.

Around him flowed rhythms of the dao, dust-free, ethereal, and transcendent.

Unless one far exceeded Lin Xun in cultivation, it was extremely difficult for them to peer into his depths.

Such was called ‘body like an abyss, aura next to non-existent,’ capable of hiding an elephant within thin air!

Lin Xun’s mind was unprecedentedly clear and broad.

In an instant, he was able to perceive the various transformations in his own power.

In terms of cultivation, he was already at the intermediate level of the Supreme Big Saint Stage. He had combined his spirit, qi, and body in a single furnace, gaining from it an only essence.

In terms of dao enlightenment, the power of all his grand dao had been condensed into Big Saint Law Power. After further refinement, it had become much thicker and purer.

A big change was that Lin Xun’s understanding of the Spatial Grand Dao had been elevated from entry to intermediate!

In terms of martial arts, there were likewise all sorts of transformations…

After meditating on this series of changes, Lin Xun sighed as if he wasn’t satisfied.

“For others, a Flat Peach can be worth a hundred years of hard work in cultivating, but for me, it’s at most ten years…”

Lin Xun knew full well this was because his dao foundation was already too strong.

An average person’s one hundred years of bitter cultivation was certainly not the same as his own a hundred years of bitter cultivation. This was a relative concept.

However, Lin Xun was not unreconciled.

Or rather, being able to have progressed ten years in just less than seven days was already a shocking and pleasant surprise to him.

In cultivation, it was never the faster the better, but rather whether one’s foundation was constantly tempered and grew during their quest.

This was the core of cultivation, and also the determining factor in their future achievements!

Thinking back on it, Lin Xun had taken far less than a hundred years to reach the Supreme Big Saint Stage. This kind of speed was already astonishingly fast.

Even on the Ancient Nebula Road, he would be regarded as a peerless genius.

Of course, Lin Xun’s path was never about speed, but rather ‘I am invincible and unique in all history’!

“With my current power, killing someone of Yan Chunjun’s level would be effortless…”

Lin Xun’s eyes gleamed with the confidence and domineeringness of someone who was invincible.

He just wanted to test and see how many attacks from him a character such as Sha Liuqing could block!

“Congratulations on your further advancement in the Dao, Brother Lin!”

A crisp and pleasant voice rang out beside Lin Xun. It was A’hu in her yellow dress, and she wore a smile on her naturally beautiful face as she looked at him.

At this moment, her eyes were limpid, her red lips were glistening, and her skin was shining white. Her delicate and graceful figure radiated a dazzling vigor. When she smiled, she could charm every living being and topple nations, but when she didn’t, she was like an otherworldly goddess. The two temperaments were fused together and produced a beauty that stole colors from the world.

“Thanks and congratulations to you as well.” Lin Xun smiled as he could tell that A’hu’s strength had also undergone an amazing transformation after she consumed the Flat Peach.

Then, both of them couldn’t help but laugh.

This trip to the Peach Utopia Secret Realm had reaped them quite a staggering harvest. Now, it was time to leave.

After a chat, the two decided to set out immediately.

The Peach Utopia Secret Realm was only one of the many lands of opportunity in the Kunlun Ruins, so they certainly wouldn’t spend all their time here.

Before departing, Lin Xun suddenly remembered something. He took out a spear and fiercely plunged it into the earth under his feet.

Clang!

Unexpectedly, the earth was incredibly solid and comparable to the hardest iron in the world. The impact caused Lin Xun’s hand to go numb and his spear to buzz.

“What are you doing?” A’hu was stunned.

“Digging up some mythical five-colored dirt so that I can plant trees after going back,” answered Lin Xun casually, frowning as it had caught him off guard.

After some pondering, Lin Xun tried several more times only to fail to get what he wanted. He found the hardness of the soil here simply unimaginable.

Right at this moment, a helpless chuckle rang out in his mind.