【Ding! The trait has been activated. Consuming evil spirit lifespan to begin deducing the Heaven-grade technique, 《Nine Suns Heaven-Shaking Fist》. You have consumed a mid-grade Comprehension Pill and gained a buff: comprehension increased by three times. Your status grants you a 20% bonus to cultivation efficiency, and your 'Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness' multiplies your gains by a hundredfold.】
“I can actually stack buffs before starting the deduction?” Seeing that the mid-grade Comprehension Pill he had swallowed indeed took effect during the deduction, Ye Lin was pleasantly surprised.
Being able to stack status buffs in advance would save him a massive amount of evil spirit lifespan.
Without any hesitation, he continued to read the deduction prompts appearing on the game panel.
【Deduction beginning:
Day 1: When you open the Heaven-grade technique, your comprehension is so poor that the contents look like a foreign language to you. Fortunately, you are secretly using a cheat. After a day of bitter practice, you gain a glimmer of understanding.
Day 3: Although you understand the contents of the technique, your natural talent is too poor, and your path of cultivation is severely slowed down.
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Day 30: As the saying goes, 'Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will reveal itself.' After seven days of continuous study and exploration, on a sunny afternoon with the blazing sun high in the sky, you reach the Novice level in the 《Nine Suns Heaven-Shaking Fist》.
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Day 200: Since reaching the Novice level, you observe the movement patterns of the sun every day, gradually sensing its vastness. You realize that to the sun, all things in the world are merely insignificant, dispensable existences. You comprehend a trace of the True Intent of the Blazing Sun. Your technique has reached the Accomplished level.
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Year 3: You practice the fist technique bitterly, finally integrating that trace of the True Intent of the Blazing Sun completely into your fists. Every time you punch, your strength is as fierce and overbearing as the sun itself, and your fist force can pierce through enemies ten zhang away. Congratulations, your technique has reached the Proficient level.
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Year 10: Your technique progresses even further. With each swing, your fist force flows continuously like falling meteors, reaching a distance of a hundred zhang. You condense a trace of the True Fire of the Blazing Sun. Congratulations, your technique has reached the Master level.
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Year 100: You smile as you watch the winds rise and clouds surge, you sit back and watch the tides rise and fall. You watch the great sun rise in the east and set in the west, and you watch the stars shift in the sky. A century of vicissitudes passes. While it might not be enough to turn seas into mulberry fields, you cannot help but sigh with emotion. No matter how the world changes, and no matter how spring goes and autumn comes, only the great sun in the sky will never be extinguished. Who in ancient times first beheld the sun? Whom does the rising sun shine upon today? You comprehend the vision, 'The Eternal Sun in the Sky'. Congratulations, your 《Nine Suns Heaven-Shaking Fist》 has reached the perfect level.】
【Deduction ended: Consumed a total of 10,080 years of evil spirit lifespan. Remaining evil spirit lifespan: 5,000 years.】
As the prompts chimed in his ears, Ye Lin was utterly dumbfounded the more he read.
Even with so many cheats active, it actually took him an entire century to cultivate a single Heaven-grade technique to great perfection?
If he encountered a Saint-grade or quasi-immortal-grade technique in the future, wouldn't it take thousands or even tens of thousands of years?
At this moment, he truly realized the sheer value of the taboo cultivation method, the 《Origin Unity Art》. It came with max-level proficiency right from the start, and it didn't even have any talent requirements.
Otherwise, if he had tried to cultivate any random Immortal-grade method with his current talent and comprehension, he might not have even reached the Novice level after tens of thousands of years.
“My comprehension is seriously trash, but thankfully I can slay evil spirits to run deductions.” Taking a deep breath, Ye Lin did not hesitate at all and directly extracted the perfected 《Nine Suns Heaven-Shaking Fist》.
“Boom!”
Along with the extraction of the cultivation experience, Ye Lin completely integrated all of it in almost an instant.
“Nine Suns Shaking the Heavens!”
Right after integrating the experience, he ran directly onto the martial arena and unleashed the final strike of this fist technique.
“Buzz, buzz, buzz!”
As he punched out, a red dharma idol projection several dozen meters tall actually manifested behind him.
The projection's face looked exactly like his, but it wore heavy armor, giving it an even more majestic and domineering appearance. Behind the dharma idol, nine phantom suns slowly rotated.
From afar, the dharma idol resembled a noble and cold deity standing upon the earth, looking down upon all living beings.
“Bring it down!”
Unleashing the ultimate move, Ye Lin smashed his fist violently toward the ground.
In that same instant, the massive red dharma idol mirrored his action perfectly.
“Rumble!”
A deafening roar erupted across the martial arena, carrying a momentum as grand as a collapsing mountain or a raging tsunami.
Unfortunately, this martial arena was located inside the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda. Its hardness was not something the current Ye Lin could even hope to scratch.
Still, he had managed to satisfy his urge to test it out. To put it without exaggeration, the power of this punch was likely unmatched by anyone in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and it was even a massive area-of-effect attack.
At this moment, he noticed that the nine suns behind the red dharma idol were still shining brightly, with none of their light fading.
One had to know that if others cultivated the 《Nine Suns Heaven-Shaking Fist》， even at great perfection, they would only be able to use it nine times within a short period because it consumed far too much spiritual power.
But Ye Lin didn't care. His dantian was a vast sea, and he had the Sea of Spiritual Power on the Dao Seed seedling as a backup. He could spam ultimate moves right off the bat as much as he wanted.
After testing the ultimate move of the 《Nine Suns Heaven-Shaking Fist》， Ye Lin casually opened the two special achievement gift packs.
These were the ones he had obtained from suppressing the black flame and from breaking through the Extreme Realm of the Qi Condensation Stage.
【Ding! The special achievement gift packs have been opened. Congratulations, you have obtained the traits 'Seeking Wealth in Danger' and 'Dao Heart of the True Self'.】
【Seeking Wealth in Danger: The path of cultivation is fraught with obstacles; fail to become an immortal, and you shall turn into dry bones. After equipping this trait, you can consume a corresponding amount of Luck Value to guarantee finding a desired opportunity. However, whether you can seize it depends entirely on your own capability.】
【Dao Heart of the True Self: The myriad phenomena of the mortal world may dazzle the eyes, but a hundred lifetimes will not alter the Dao Heart. With the true self in the light, all demonic barriers are shattered. After equipping this trait, you will be immune to all illusions, allowing you to perceive your true self. Your Dao Heart will automatically strengthen every day, but you are highly likely to be targeted by inner demons.】
“They're actually flawed traits?” After reading the descriptions of the two traits, Ye Lin was somewhat surprised.
Getting traits from heaven-defying achievement gift packs had basically become a rule, but he really hadn't expected to get traits with negative side effects.
【Seeking Wealth in Danger】 was indeed incredibly powerful, allowing him to consume Luck Value to locate a specified opportunity with absolute certainty, but having to rely on his own ability to seize it was quite a catch.
For example, if he wanted a Foundation Establishment Pill right now, he would only need to consume some Luck Value, and this trait would teleport him directly to the opportunity.
But whether that pill was inside someone's treasury, hidden within some cave dwelling ruins, or held in the hands of a super powerhouse was completely unpredictable.
As for the side effect of 【Dao Heart of the True Self】, it didn't matter. It was perfectly countered by his trait 【The Strictest Father of Other Races】.
It would be fine if those inner demons didn't show up, but if they dared to come, he would let them know what the strictest father truly was, and maybe farm some rewards along the way.
“Whatever, I'll equip them first. What if I really need some rare resource one day?”
After pondering for only a few breaths of time, Ye Lin unhesitatingly equipped the new traits.
Having done that, he finally turned his gaze to the black flame and the ancient, simple grey compass.
According to the description on the game panel, the black flame was called 'Great Dark Heaven Flame', an Immortal-grade flame.
The ancient, simple compass was the 'Eternal Stellar Plate', an ancient rare treasure that the game had automatically picked up when he killed the octopus evil Venerable.
After one shichen, after a physical exchange of “fists and kicks,” the Great Dark Heaven Flame finally wept and begged to acknowledge Ye Lin as its master.
It claimed to be completely prostrated by his charm, and its admiration for him was like a torrential river, flowing endlessly.
Seeing that it was homeless and quite pitiful, Ye Lin then agreed to let it claim him as its master.
Great Dark Heaven Flame: “How can you be so selfish?”
“Am I the one who's homeless? You're the one who used this damn pagoda to trap me here! If I didn't agree, you were going to lock me up in this prison for the rest of my life!”
“As if that wasn't enough, you even pulled out that Sword of Original Sin and said it's been a bit disobedient lately and likes to stab around randomly. The key is, that sword can actually hurt me! Who is going to speak up for me?!”
Witnessing the Great Dark Flame's inhumane treatment, the Eternal Stellar Plate proved to be very tactful. It immediately became as docile as a little lamb, proactively rushing over to acknowledge Ye Lin as its master.
The reason why the two treasures were so powerless before Ye Lin was primarily because the power of the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda was far too terrifying. Before it, both treasures were mere children.
And since Ye Lin was the master of the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda, he could naturally suppress these two treasures at will.
Once the master-acknowledgment was complete, Ye Lin quickly gained a thorough understanding of the functions of both treasures.
First was the Great Dark Heaven Flame. This fellow had actually once been a quasi-divine flame. Unfortunately, it failed to ascend to divinity and was injured, which caused it to degrade into an Immortal-grade flame.
As for the power of an Immortal-grade flame, while it might not burn everything in this Heavenly Desolation Continent—since there were still unknown existences like Xu Qing'an's mysterious master—it could still incinerate almost anything else.
However, Ye Lin was currently only at the great perfection of Qi Condensation. No matter how dense his spiritual power was, he couldn't unleash much of the Immortal-grade flame's true power.
Nevertheless, with its property of burning anything to ashes, he now possessed an extremely terrifying method to deal with his enemies.
As for the Eternal Stellar Plate, it was a unique rare treasure nurtured by heaven and earth. This array plate could channel the stars of heaven and earth to break through ninety-nine percent of the world's peerless formations.
It could also be used as a medium to instantly cast various formations, amplifying their power by tenfold.
In addition, it had another powerful function: based on the strength of the holder's divine sense, it could automatically perceive the grades of all things within different ranges.
To put it simply, while others needed time to set up formations against enemies, Ye Lin could cast them instantly with the Eternal Stellar Plate, and they would be ten times more powerful.
Furthermore, with the Eternal Stellar Plate, he would immediately know when he encountered special items, preventing him from missing out on them due to ignorance or inattention.
“Not bad, not bad. Both are excellent treasures.”
Patting the two treasures in satisfaction, Ye Lin sent them off to play on their own.
As for himself, while continuing his daily check-in task of 'swinging the sword ten thousand times' for the Heaven-Cleaving Sword Intent inheritance, he suspended the Soaring Fairy Visualization Chart in the air before him, rapidly strengthening his divine sense through visualization!
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