Cultivation starts from simplifying the exercises

Chapter 1968 Heaven's Favor

Between heaven and earth, spatial rifts and energy turbulence have not yet completely subsided.

On the Xuan Yu Realm side, all the Sovereign Realm experts gazed in the direction the Heavenly Demon had retreated, their expressions complex. They felt a sense of relief, as if they had been reborn, but also knew that this was only temporary.

However, this sense of complexity lasted only a very short time.

They immediately turned to look at the center of the formation, at the figure in plain robes who, despite his weakened aura, still stood firm and unyielding—the Venerable Tianxuan.

Because of the clash between Venerable Tianxuan and the top-ranked Venerable Pomesis, who ultimately suffered heavy losses, Venerable Pomesis was forced to temporarily abandon his plan to continue the attack.

Otherwise, if an accident occurs, even the Destroyer himself might be in danger due to severe injuries, or even face the risk of death.

"Sir!"

"Fellow Daoist Tianxuan!"

How are your injuries?

Instantly, all the rulers of the Xuan Yu Realm gathered around Venerable Tian Xuan, their faces filled with tension, concern, and worry.

Before today, the greatest reliance and last hope for the entire Xuanyu Realm to survive this world-shattering war rested entirely on Venerable Tianxuan, depending on whether he could withstand the terrifying Destroyer Venerable, who was like a demon god.

Today, Venerable Tianxuan proved to all beings in the Xuanyu Realm through his actions that he not only could withstand Venerable Pomesis, but also possessed the terrifying strength to rival Venerable Pomesis and even to the point of mutual destruction.

This undoubtedly elevated the status and importance of Venerable Tianxuan in everyone's hearts to an unprecedented level; he is truly the pillar of Xuanyu Realm.

Faced with the anxious inquiries of the crowd, Venerable Tianxuan slowly shook his head. Although his voice was somewhat weak, it still carried a reassuring calmness: "It's alright... I just need to meditate for a while."

Venerable Tianxuan's gaze shifted, passing over the crowd and landing on the figure behind him. A smile of relief mixed with a touch of emotion appeared on his pale face.

"If it weren't for the Destroyer severing most of the power over heaven and earth, thus weakening his strength, even if I had improved, today's battle would probably have had a different outcome."

Venerable Tianxuan spoke frankly about this cruel yet real possibility.

As soon as Venerable Tianxuan uttered these words, all the Sovereign Realm experts present involuntarily turned their gazes to Chen Fei, their eyes filled with complex and indescribable emotions, including shock, admiration, and even a hint of disbelief.

Listing Chen Fei's achievements today, firstly, at the beginning of the Heavenly Ranking Martial Arts Arena, he swiftly and decisively killed several early-stage Heavenly Demon Sovereigns, greatly dampening the morale of the Heavenly Demon camp and preventing more early-stage Sovereigns from the Xuan Yu Realm from being randomly selected and sent to their deaths.

Then, with an unparalleled force, he crushed Ji Yangming, whose strength was unmatched among his peers, forcing the Destroyer to pay the enormous price of losing most of his power over the world in order to forcibly end the duel that was already unfavorable to the Heavenly Demon.

Each and every one of these actions was a remarkable turnaround.

It can be said that without Chen Fei, the fate of the Xuan Yu Realm today would probably be completely different.

Facing the intense, multifaceted gazes of the crowd, Chen Fei remained calm, smiled slightly, and spoke in a gentle yet clear voice that reached everyone's ears:

"As a member of the Xuanyu Realm, this is my duty, and I should do my utmost without hesitation!"

The surrounding Xuan Yu Realm rulers couldn't help but smile when they heard his words.

Chen Fei's appearance was like a blessing from heaven, a ray of hope sent from the depths of despair for the Xuanyu Realm, which was in dire straits.

Heaven has not forsaken the Xuan Yu Realm!
A few breaths later, Venerable Tianxuan's figure transformed into a stream of light and vanished from the spot in an instant.

The remaining rulers of the Xuan Yu Realm, after watching the Venerable depart, immediately gathered their attention and began to repair the severely damaged and crumbling Tiankun Formation.

Chen Fei naturally joined in as well. His understanding and mastery of formations had already reached an extremely profound level. In terms of the depth of his understanding of formations, he could definitely rank among the top few of all the Sovereign Realm beings present.

Half an hour later, the main damage to the Tiankun Formation had been initially repaired, and its basic defensive function had been temporarily restored. Chen Fei then stopped and flew towards the Tianxuan Sect's Forging Peak.

Upon returning to the Forging Peak area, Chen Fei keenly sensed that the atmosphere here was exceptionally heavy and oppressive, as if the air was filled with a lingering sense of unease after a great battle.

Before Chen Fei even stepped into his Heart Forging Abode, the void in front of him rippled slightly, and a figure formed from pure spiritual light, with a blurred face but exuding a gentle yet vast aura, quietly appeared.

Chen Fei recognized it; it was the spirit that guarded the Tianxuan Sect's treasure vault.

"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Chen." The artifact spirit spoke in a calm voice, bowing slightly in a very polite manner, even carrying a hint of barely perceptible respect.

"The Venerable One has ordered me to hand these over to you, fellow Daoist," the spirit said, raising its hand and waving gently.

Several spiritual materials, radiating dazzling brilliance and containing fluctuations of fragments of the Great Dao, flew to Chen Fei's front.

Any one of these spiritual materials, if it were to fall into the outside world, would be enough to cause a fight among powerful beings at the Dominator Realm; they are truly top-tier treasures that are hard to come by.

Chen Fei looked at the spiritual materials before him, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. He suddenly remembered that Venerable Tianxuan had indeed promised him that he would find mid-grade or even high-grade spiritual materials of the fifteenth rank to help him break through his cultivation.

Clearly, there are no ready-made fifteenth-rank spiritual materials in the Tianxuan Sect today. Otherwise, they would have been used to cultivate the sect's strength long ago. Why would they have left them until today?
Venerable Tianxuan had chosen a less desirable option: he first took out these top-tier spiritual materials from his treasure vault—materials containing numerous fragments of rank and extremely beneficial to cultivation in the Sovereign Realm—and gifted them to Chen Fei.

Hopefully, this will help Chen Fei further enhance his strength in a short period of time, increasing his ability to protect himself and contend with the Heavenly Demon.

"Thank you for your generous gift, Venerable One!"

Chen Fei did not refuse. He reached out and accepted these invaluable spiritual materials, then with a flick of his sleeve, carefully put them away.

Seeing that Chen Fei accepted it, the spirit smiled on its blurred face, nodded, and its figure slowly dissipated, merging into the void and disappearing.

Chen Fei watched the artifact spirit depart, then turned and entered the Heart Forging Abode, directly activating the restrictions on the secret chamber. The next moment, Chen Fei appeared in the Void Realm.

Having just broken through to the mid-stage of the Dominator Realm, Chen Fei still has much to learn and his combat strength is far from reaching the limit of his current cultivation.

Although the Destroyer has retreated today, he will definitely not give up and may return at any time to launch an even more fierce and deadly attack.

Faced with a threat of this magnitude, Chen Fei's only option now is to race against time and do everything possible to enhance his power. Then, he can enter the mysterious and unpredictable Martial Arts Arena of the Myriad Realms, filled with infinite possibilities, to find the power that can break the deadlock before him.

Beneath the Time Pavilion, Chen Fei sat cross-legged, his mind completely calmed. He looked inward at his soul and activated the two orbs of light representing the profound mysteries of the laws of time, resonating with the cycle of time and the passage of time.

Time Cycle: The solidified state lasts for three breaths, but from the very beginning, it directly draws on the power of the body collapsing after three breaths, transforming it into time disturbances, instantly empowering itself and increasing its combat power by 20%.

And after three breaths, the aftereffects of the body's collapse disappeared.

Time Resonance: Forcibly peels away a phantom image of "the self after half a breath" and condenses it into an echoing puppet with the power of the original body. It lasts for one breath, and after it dissipates, its power will be added back to the original body, increasing the original body's combat power by 10%, lasting for one breath.

With a thought, Chen Fei caused the two beams of light to collide, and in an instant, a vast, shimmering, and seemingly timeless river of light, stretching across the past, present, and future, unfolded beneath his feet.

Above the river, three dazzling orbs of light, each radiating a different implication of the laws of time, slowly emerged, rising and falling, awaiting Chen Fei's decision.

Chen Fei's gaze swept across the torrent of information contained in the three orbs of light with lightning speed. After a moment of contemplation, he directly chose the orb in the middle, which had the most restrained light but exuded a sense of endless circulation.

[Resonance Layered]

This feature can increase basic combat power by 10% without loss in normal circumstances.

At the same time, the phantom of "the self after half a breath" can be permanently peeled off, left behind, and sealed within the body, no longer appearing outside to participate in battle, but instead transformed into an invisible barrier to protect the main body from a fatal injury at any time.

Furthermore, after the phantom blocks the damage and dissipates, the power it contains will be added back to the main body, increasing the main body's combat power by 10%, and the duration will be extended to three breaths.

The [Resonance Overlay] feature is not absolutely perfect. It abandons the extreme offensiveness of [Time Cycle], which instantly unleashes 20% of its combat power, and also abandons the tactical flexibility of [Time Resonance], which summons a future body with full combat power that can fight independently for even a moment.

However, it cleverly integrates the essence of these two characteristics into one in a way that focuses more on enhancing the body's foundation and absolute defense.

The further you progress with the Dominator trait, the lower the base combat power it can increase will be. This is almost inevitable, since the boost from the realm is already very large, and it is extremely difficult for the trait to be further enhanced on this basis.

It permanently increases your base combat power by 10% daily, and can absolutely withstand a fatal blow in a critical moment. After the blow is blocked, you will also receive a 10% combat power boost for three consecutive breaths.

For Chen Fei, who pursues absolute strength and believes that only personal power is fundamental, this is undoubtedly an excellent choice that perfectly suits his mind.

As for the other two orbs of light, one tends to continue summoning future bodies to fight, but the added combat power is boosted to the future bodies, and the future bodies still only last for a breath.

Chen Fei felt that this was putting the cart before the horse; external forces were ultimately not as reliable as one's own abilities.

The other option is to summon more future versions of himself, but with weaker individual power, which is not what Chen Fei wants.

Chen Fei reached out and grabbed the ball of light from the [Resonance Overlay], merging it into his own divine soul origin.

"simplify!"

"Resonance superposition simplification in progress...simplification successful...resonance superposition → time rules of the Void Realm!"

Chen Fei immediately closed his eyes and began to operate the time rules of the Guixu Realm.

In an instant, all the profound insights regarding [Resonance Overlay] came to mind: how to solidify the traces of time, how to peel away the illusions of the future, how to transform them into an internal barrier, and how to perfectly absorb power after the barrier dissipates...

Like a vast ocean of information, it surged into Chen Fei's mind.

Chen Fei's mind was clear and focused as he frantically and efficiently absorbed, understood, and digested this massive amount of insight, rapidly transforming it into his own strength and foundation.

Meanwhile, at the summit of the Tianxuan Sect's main peak, in a secluded courtyard shrouded in misty spiritual energy and profound array formations.

Venerable Tianxuan sat cross-legged on the futon, his body radiating a faint yet resilient fluctuation of law. His face was still pale, but his aura was slightly more stable than before.

Venerable Tianxuan slowly finished his practice, opened his tightly closed eyes, and barely managed to suppress the extremely heavy injuries within his body for the time being.

He raised his gaze and looked at a figure that had appeared in the courtyard at some unknown time.

Di Tianling, an envoy sent by the ancient Heavenly Court.

"Pity!"

Di Tianling looked at Venerable Tianxuan and shook his head with some regret: "If you could forge a true Earthly Dao Foundation, today, Venerable Pomesis would have nowhere to escape and would be slain by your sword!"

When Tianxuan Venerable heard Di Tianling's words, he nodded slightly, but did not say anything.

Such hypothetical "if...then..." assumptions have no practical significance for things that have already happened; they only add to the sense of regret.

The Destroyer possesses the Earthly Dao Foundation, a fact that the Heavenly Profound Venerable learned from Di Tianling. It is precisely because of this that the Destroyer possesses such immense power, making him a unique figure within the Xuan Yu Realm.

As for Venerable Tianxuan, although he is a peerless genius who is rarely seen in the Xuanyu Realm, his talent, intelligence, and comprehension are all top-notch, and he is not inferior to Venerable Pomie.

However, the Xuan Yu Realm itself is just a lower-level plane with incomplete laws and relatively scarce resources. It simply does not have the complete cultivation method inheritance at the level of Xuan Yuan Dao Foundation and Di Yuan Dao Foundation.

It's not that Venerable Tianxuan is inferior to Venerable Pomie, but rather that the world he lived in limited his growth potential until he received the Haotian Scripture bestowed by the ancient Heavenly Court.

“If it weren’t for Chen Fei today, the situation of your Xuan Yu Realm would probably be even more dangerous.” Di Tianling changed the subject and mentioned Chen Fei. A strange light flashed in his usually calm eyes.

"This child is indeed quite strange."

Di Tianling frowned slightly, as if he was pondering something:
"To think that in an environment like the Xuan Yu Realm, relying on the almost impossible-to-cultivate Eternal Immortality, combined with other cultivation techniques, he could forge his own path and ultimately build his own Earthly Origin Dao Foundation..."

"Such a thing would be considered earth-shattering even in the Primordial Continent; it is truly an anomaly!" Di Tianling's tone carried an undisguised astonishment and curiosity.

"There's not enough time!"

Venerable Tianxuan spoke in a deep voice, his tone carrying a hint of helplessness and heaviness. He was speaking to Di Tianling, and also stating a cruel fact.

"Has Your Excellency considered this...?"

Di Tianling suddenly said, his gaze becoming somewhat profound, "Perhaps Chen Fei possesses some kind of unknown, earth-shattering treasure? Otherwise, how can we explain his abnormal growth rate and formidable combat power?"

"Exotic treasure?"

Venerable Tianxuan replied calmly, "A plane like the Xuanyu Realm... with incomplete rules and limited resources, what earth-shattering treasures could it possibly produce?"

Venerable Tianxuan had one more thing to say: if there really were some extraordinary treasures hidden in the Xuanyu Realm, he, as someone born into this realm to some extent by its destiny, would surely sense something.

This is a unique authority and characteristic bestowed upon Venerable Tianxuan by the Xuanyu Realm.

"really!"

Di Tianling thought for a moment and nodded, agreeing with Venerable Tianxuan's statement, "The rules of the Xuanyu Realm are indeed too complex to nurture treasures of that level."

"This Chen Fei is more like..."

Di Tianling pondered for a moment and offered an explanation that was relatively common across many planes:

"It's like a 'variable' that the Heavenly Dao of the Xuan Yu Realm was forced to create when it was facing imminent collapse. Many planes on the verge of destruction experience this situation, attempting to turn the tide!"

"If only we could give him enough time to grow..."

Di Tianling continued, his voice tinged with regret: "Perhaps, if the Destroyer hadn't reacted in time and had been allowed to continue growing, Chen Fei might actually have been able to join forces with you, Venerable One, to wipe out all those demonic cultivators!"

"but……"

Di Tianling's tone shifted abruptly, becoming serious, "There's not enough time now!"

Reality is often this cruel!

"What might those demonic cultivators do next?" Venerable Tianxuan looked at Di Tianling and asked the most crucial question.

Di Tianling slowly shook his head, a look of solemnity and uncertainty on his face.

"I don't know!"

"The methods of demonic cultivators are always unpredictable and difficult to fathom with common sense, and even if we could know their plans in advance..."

Di Tianling glanced at Venerable Tianxuan's still pale face and said softly, "Given the overall strength of the Xuanyu Realm and your current condition, Venerable, I'm afraid you are powerless to do so!"

If it weren't for the support secretly provided by their ancient Heavenly Court and techniques like the Haotian Scripture, even Venerable Tianxuan himself might have lost his life at the hands of Venerable Pomesis in today's duel.

The Realm of Return to Nothingness, the deepest part of the void.

The Time Pavilion enveloped all around, completely isolating a region from the outside world.

Chen Fei sat quietly in the void, his eyes closed, his aura as calm and undisturbed as a deep pool or ancient well. Only deep within his sea of ​​consciousness, between his brows, the imprint of the law representing the characteristics of resonance and superposition was radiating an increasingly brilliant and solid Daoist brilliance.

After an unknown amount of time, the void around Chen Fei trembled slightly. A unique and profound meaning, seemingly capable of resonating with the river of time, suddenly spread from his body, then quickly receded and settled within his limbs, bones, and the origin of his soul.

Chen Fei slowly opened his eyes, his gaze seemingly filled with countless tiny fragments of time rising and falling, eventually settling into a deep tranquility.

The resonance builds, and the perfection is achieved!

With a slight thought, Chen Fei quietly activated this new feature.

In an instant, Chen Fei clearly felt that his basic strength had increased by about 10% out of thin air.

This improvement was not a temporary burst, but a strengthening rooted deep within his very being, as if his foundation in cultivation had been solidified and broadened once again.

At the same time, Chen Fei could see a blurry phantom, emanating the same aura as himself, quietly appearing within his body, ready to shield him from the sudden, deadly crisis.

This is the power of resonance stacking, which permanently increases basic combat power by 10% daily, and allows a future phantom image to reside within the body that can withstand one fatal blow.

After the phantom dissipates, it can replenish the main body, increasing combat power by 10% for three breaths.

After briefly experiencing the new power and life-saving trump card brought by [Resonance Overlay], Chen Fei nodded in satisfaction. Time was of the essence, so Chen Fei did not indulge too much in the joy of the power increase.

The next moment, Chen Fei's mind sank into his soul again, his gaze falling on the other two groups of characteristic light clusters that shimmered with different laws: [Time Rift] and [Law Return to Nothingness].

Time-slot jump: It allows one to freely travel and jump within extremely small "time fragments" that are frozen within themselves.

It is an extremely profound and mysterious spacetime movement technique, used to evade fatal attacks or launch surprise attacks at critical moments, with excellent results.

Law Returns to Nothingness: Slash the law, causing it to temporarily "collapse" into nothingness.

It can precisely strike and interfere with the fundamental laws and structures contained in an opponent's supernatural powers, formations, and even domains, causing them to temporarily "collapse," become ineffective, and return to nothingness.

It is a powerful method of breaking through force with skill and directly targeting the source.

Without hesitation, Chen Fei activated his mind, and the two beams of light collided and merged.

The vast, ethereal, timeless river of light unfolded once more beneath his feet, shimmering and illuminating countless possibilities of the past, present, and future.

Above the river, three dazzling orbs of light, each radiating different laws and representing three directions of fusion, slowly emerged from the river's center, rising and falling, awaiting Chen Fei's decision.

Chen Fei's gaze was sharp as lightning, quickly scanning the massive amount of information contained in the three orbs of light, and then his attention was completely focused on one of the orbs of light.

[No Leap Forward]

This characteristic is not a simple superposition, but rather an extremely subtle and profound fusion of the movement technique of [Time-Space Leap] and the law-breaking power of [Return to Nothingness].

Its core lies in the fact that each time it leaps through those microscopic time fragments that are solidified by itself, the "path" it takes is strongly affected by the power of the law of nothingness, causing those time fragments to be completely "annihilated" and return to absolute nothingness in an instant after it passes through.

The result is that it greatly enhances the stealth and untraceability of the jump, making it extremely difficult, or even impossible, for opponents who are also proficient in the laws of time to predict or intercept its next location by tracing the time trajectory and locking the jump landing point.

Because the timeline itself has been "erased".

Each leap is equivalent to a perfect "invisibility" at the level of time and rules, making it impossible for the enemy to track his movement using conventional means. This greatly enhances his survivability and mobility in complex battle situations.

This is of paramount importance to Chen Fei, who is constantly at risk of being attacked by powerful figures.

(End of this chapter)