Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 4 Hell King's Claw

"Di Yi, I heard that you didn't listen to me and chose the Heavenly Demon Prison Diagram, but instead chose the Heavenly Demon Suppressing Prison Diagram. Why is that?" Di Yue asked.

After a moment's thought, Di Yi replied, "I've heard that the Heavenly Demon Prison Suppression Diagram is the most powerful of the thirty-six Heavenly Demon Stone Carvings. Since I have to choose a cultivation technique, I will choose the strongest one. My name is Di Yi, and from now on I will become the number one in the world, the only one of its kind!"

"What ambition! What a great title of number one in the world, the only one in the world!" Di Yue was overjoyed upon hearing this. Before coming here, he thought that Di Yi had lost his mind and chosen the Heavenly Demon Prison Suppression Map because he was shocked by his mother's death. Now it seems that he was wrong.

The Di family has produced many saints and has been passed down for tens of thousands of years. However, by his generation, the family has gradually declined. The lifespan of a half-saint is only two hundred years. If he cannot become a saint, he will pass away in ten or twenty years, and the Di family will become even weaker.

The appearance of Di Yi allowed him to see the future of the Di family.

With the combined blessing of a sacred body and a demonic heart, one possesses the potential to become a saint.

This was his previous expectation of Di Yi, but it has changed now.

This child has the potential to become a sage king!
He held Emperor Yi in high esteem, yet his expression remained unchanged, serene and composed, like a still lake.

After carefully examining Di Yi, he nodded in praise: "Not bad. You have already opened up three meridians, but you did not break through the realm immediately. Instead, you suppressed it. With your Holy Body, you are quite good at doing this."

The Holy Body is born powerful, with a physique many times stronger than that of ordinary people.

Strangely, very few people with a sacred body can reach the supreme realm.

Little Saint King Wan Zhaoyi, the genius Luo Xu of the Eastern Domain Holy Academy, and Ling Feiyu of the Moon Worshiping Demon Sect are not Saint Bodies, yet they have trampled all the Saint Bodies of their time underfoot and reached heights that even Saint Bodies have never achieved.

It is a consensus that the sacred body is difficult to attain the supreme state.

Emperor Yi now deeply understands this point.

It's not that the Holy Body will create any kind of restriction; the reason is actually quite simple.

Those born with a sacred body possess a powerful sacred origin within their bodies. Even if a saint or even an emperor within the sacred path were to seal this origin, as the sacred body embarks on the path of cultivation, the sacred origin will gradually be unsealed to assist in the sacred body's cultivation.

It would take an ordinary martial artist several months to open up one meridian, but Di Yi opened up three meridians in half a day, which is a world of difference.

With the blessing of the Sacred Body's origin, the Sacred Body's cultivation speed is astonishingly fast. Even if one tries to suppress it, it is difficult to hone each realm to its fullest potential.

After all, those who possess a sacred body must embark on the path of martial arts by the age of ten or so at the latest. If they delay any longer and miss the most suitable age for cultivation, it will be a great loss.

As for ten-year-old boys, how many can resist the temptation of the rapid increase in strength brought about by the nourishment of the source? They are often eager for quick success and pursue the speed of breaking through realms, thus losing the opportunity to reach the supreme realm.

Even if a few people with strong willpower can resist the temptation, they are unable to control the power of the sacred body's origin within their bodies, not even a trace of it, due to insufficient mental strength and weak willpower.

The difference between a sage and the Yellow Extreme Realm is like the difference between a puddle and the vast ocean.

The Holy Emperor can naturally seal the origin of the Holy Body, but without the blessing of the origin, what is the difference between the so-called innate Holy Body and an ordinary person?

This is a paradox in itself.

The only solution is for the Holy Body to possess both a firm will and sufficiently strong mental power, enabling it to perfectly control the slight power revealed by its origin during cultivation. Only in this way can it hope to break through to the Supreme Realm.

Coincidentally, Emperor Yi now possesses all of these things.

Besides, perhaps only the gods can solve this problem, since the methods of the gods are completely beyond the imagination of the mortal world, and even the realm of supreme perfection itself has attracted the resonance of all the gods.

"I keep the Patriarch's teachings in mind and understand the principle that too much of a good thing is bad. Although my internal energy is now abundant, there is still room for further improvement. I need to hone it with martial arts. Does the Patriarch have any suitable martial arts techniques to teach me?"

Di Yue smiled faintly and replied, "Of course I do. The martial art I will teach you is called [Hell King Claw]."

The Emperor was deeply impressed by this martial art, having heard Ziyuan mention it several times.

The Path of Ten Thousand Buddhas is one of the three paths in the Kunlun Realm. It has been passed down for millions of years, and its most famous martial arts techniques are eighteen in total, collectively known as the Eighteen Ultimate Techniques.

One of the claw techniques is particularly adept at cutting off veins and capturing dragons, possessing unpredictable power, and is known as the "Heaven and Earth Dragon Claw Hand". In the Middle Ages, a black market master mastered the Heaven and Earth Dragon Claw Hand to perfection, and incorporated his own insights into it, creating a brand new claw technique, named after the King of Hell, whose meaning is "the claw strikes, startling ghosts and gods, the claw falls, suppressing hell".

The Qiankun Dragon Claw Hand only has nine moves, but the Hell Ghost King Claw, which evolved from it, has as many as thirty-six moves, containing endless variations. In some ways, it has surpassed its predecessor.

According to the original timeline, when Di Yi first clashed with Zhang Ruochen on the Tongming River, he used this claw technique.

Zhang Ruochen used a palm technique from the Eighteen Ultimate Techniques of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, called the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm.

The Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm is the number one palm technique of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, while the Qiankun Dragon Claw Hand is the pinnacle claw technique of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect. The two are equally matched, representing the pinnacle of their respective fields.

The saying goes, "All martial arts under heaven originate from three paths, and all schools of thought and sects are found throughout the world." The four schools of Wanfo Dao, Taiji Dao, and Confucianism are the source of all martial arts techniques, skills, and spiritual magic in the Kunlun Realm.

"The Hell King's Claw is unfathomable; when mastered, it possesses the power to change the world. Today, I will teach you the first level..."

The Hell King Claw is divided into nine levels, from shallow to deep. The first level is only equivalent to a low-level Spirit-grade martial skill, while the ninth level reaches the high-level King-grade, which only a Holy Emperor can master.

For the next few days, Di Yue stayed in the mansion and guided Di Yi in his cultivation.

With guidance from a semi-saint and with Di Yi's exceptional comprehension, he quickly grasped the essence of this claw technique.

On the training ground, a short figure was exceptionally agile, practicing claw techniques with each move quite fierce.

Although he had only been practicing for a few days, he was already performing the moves with great ease, and soon he had demonstrated all thirty-six claw techniques.

"I have mastered the first level of the Hell King Claw, and the fourth meridian in my body has been opened. I have reached the peak of the early stage of the Yellow Extreme Realm. Next, I can start to break through to the middle stage of the Yellow Extreme Realm."

Emperor Yi stood in the center of the field, deep in thought.

"Not bad, you've already grasped the basics of Hell King Claw. From now on, you just need to practice diligently." Di Yue's figure quietly appeared.

With his semi-saint cultivation, if he didn't want to be discovered, even if he stood still, Di Yi wouldn't be able to find him.

"It's all thanks to the patriarch's tireless guidance these past few days," Di Yi said respectfully.

Di Yue was quite pleased with this and laughed, "Compared to those mediocre people in the clan, teaching you is actually a very pleasant thing for me."

As he spoke, he took out an object, a claw-shaped weapon.

"This item is called 'Ghost King Claw,' a twelfth-tier True Martial Treasure, which I will bestow upon you today."

Di Yi was somewhat surprised. True Martial Treasures are weapons exclusively for martial artists. They can carry martial arts true energy and exert powerful force. Twelfth-order True Martial Treasures are the highest level among True Martial Treasures. Above that are Sacred Artifacts.

Such a treasure is something that even a peak Fish-Dragon Realm expert might not possess. It is likely that only a half-saint like the head of the Di family could casually bestow it upon a younger member of the clan.

He took the Ghost King Claw and put it on his hands. This True Martial Treasure fit Di Yi's arms perfectly, the size was just right, it was quite extraordinary.

But what follows is a sense of heaviness.

Even without using true qi to activate the internal inscriptions, the twelfth-tier True Martial Treasure was still heavy and beyond his current ability to wield.

Although it is temporarily unusable, Di Yi still loves the Ghost King Claw. After all, what man wouldn't like a divine weapon?

"Thank you for the reward, Patriarch."

Di Yue patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him, "Cultivate diligently and make the Ghost King Claw unleash its full power as soon as possible. I have stayed in the First-Class Hall for three days and it is time for me to leave. If you encounter any problems that you cannot solve in the future, you can seek out a Nascent Soul Half-Saint, who will help you resolve them."

Di Yi did not expect Di Yue to leave so soon, but he could not control the will of the half-saint, so he could only show his reluctance and bid him farewell.

"Di Yi understands and will definitely work hard to cultivate in the First-Class Hall to live up to the patriarch's expectations."

(End of this chapter)