64: Taixu Divine Step

Every time Long Aotian made a major Realm Breakthrough in his Cultivation, his surprises were continuous.

His powerful Divine Sense now gave him a certain confidence to go to the Imperial City to save people.

At the very least, this was a means he could use to deal with the three Mahayana Realm Experts of the Shi family.

As for the Level 6 Void Maelstrom Array?

It was fine for maneuvering against Spirit Division Realm Experts.

But to use it against Mahayana Realm Experts?

It would be as fragile as a baby facing an adult!

"Although I have now Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, my strength is comparable to the Early Stage of the Soul Emergence Realm! But in the entire Eastern Barren, I am still very weak, and there are still too many people who can kill me.

Although the Nine Treasures Glazed Chaos World Tower can save my life, if I hide inside and turn into a speck of dust, no one will notice its existence. However, if there are Experts nearby, hiding inside is equivalent to exposing it to others. At that time, it's uncertain if the Treasure Pagoda can be kept, and my life might be in danger.

So, when there are Experts I cannot contend with for the time being, I cannot enter the Treasure Pagoda. But what if I am being pursued by Experts I cannot contend with for the time being? What should I do then?

At the very least, if I can't win, I must be able to run!

This means that having only the Treasure Pagoda for self-preservation is not enough. I must have a means to escape in front of Experts I cannot contend with!"

Thinking that he was about to go to the Imperial City and that his enemies were likely the three Mahayana Realm Experts of the Shi family—Experts he currently could not contend with—how to preserve his life in front of such powerful enemies was a problem he now had to consider and face in advance.

He could not hide in the Treasure Pagoda in plain sight, which required him to possess a means of escape in front of Experts he could not contend with for the time being!

Where could he find such a method?

Naturally, it was in the memories passed down by his Revered Master, Ao Zhan!

For the unsealed parts of the memory, Ao Zhan had made deletions and careful selections. Ao Zhan had stayed on the Sky Ruins Continent for hundreds of thousands of years. During these hundreds of thousands of years, besides traveling across the Sky Ruins Continent to find a way back to the Upper Realm, he mostly spent his time in seclusion healing or directly in slumber.

Seclusion for healing?

Even healing for tens of thousands of years, the effect was negligible.

For an Expert like him, there were basically no Heaven And Earth Treasure in the Lower Realm that he would deem worthy, let alone anything that could aid in healing his injuries.

Not to mention in the Lower Realm, even in the Immortal Realm, things that could restore Ao Zhan's injuries were rare.

Don't forget, Ao Zhan was ganged up on by a group of Experts, constantly fleeing from a high-Plane world to a low-Plane world. He used the suppression effect of the world Rules of the low-Plane world on Cultivation, and the formidable physical advantage of the Grand Void Dragon Clan, to finally eliminate those people.

In other words, Ao Zhan didn't even belong to the Immortal Realm, but came from a Plane even more Advanced than the Immortal Realm.

This is also why his Dragon Soul Power was so terrifying; Long Aotian only benefited so greatly from digesting a small portion of it. Also, with the Dragon Essence Blood, a single drop diluted into ten thousand parts, Long Aotian only consumed one ten-thousandth of it, and the terrifying energy nearly caused Long Aotian to explode.

Ao Zhan's power was beyond imagination!

How powerful was a single drop of his Essence Blood?

Long Aotian felt it could create an Immortal.

Of course, that was relative to others. As for him, who Cultivates all twelve attribute Spiritual Roots, ten drops of Dragon Essence Blood would not be enough for him to Cultivate to the Ascension Realm.

Even with the small, top-grade spiritual ore vein beneath Immortal Severing Mountain, Long Aotian still felt it might not be enough.

The truth is, with all twelve attribute Spiritual Roots Cultivated, he was too much like a resource-devouring beast. Perhaps this was another reason why Ao Zhan said the Chaos Dao Body was the strongest special Physique?

Such a gold-swallowing beast, it would be strange if he weren't powerful.

However, the benefits were also obvious: he could at least completely dominate enemies across a major Realm, and this ability to fight above his level, instead of diminishing, grew even greater as his Cultivation Realm improved.

It must be known that the higher the Cultivation, the difference in minor Realms becomes a huge chasm, and the higher the Cultivation, the more difficult it is to fight above one's Realm.

Yet, Long Aotian was different. His Purple Core Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage strength was comparable to the Nascent Soul Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage, and his Nascent Soul Realm Early Stage strength was comparable to the Soul Emergence Realm Early Stage.

At first glance, it seemed like he was treading water? But maintaining the ability to fight above his level as his Realm improved was a huge step forward... Ao Zhan had deleted his useless memories of seclusion, healing, and slumber on the Sky Ruins Continent, not knowing whether he had deleted tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years. The tens of thousands of years of memories Long Aotian could now browse were all memories Ao Zhan believed could help Long Aotian's Cultivation at his current stage.

Long Aotian had never browsed these unsealed tens of thousands of years of Ao Zhan's memory Legacy with such diligence as he did now.

It wasn't that he didn't want to before, but he felt his Divine Sense was too weak, and the browsing speed was too slow. He couldn't possibly spend hundreds or thousands of years browsing; it was simply too time-consuming.

Once his Cultivation improved and his Divine Sense became stronger, he could browse a year, ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years in a single glance, completing it in a day. Wouldn't that be better?

He was only browsing now because Long Aotian wanted to find a means of escape, and he had no other choice.

With his current Divine Sense strength, he could browse hundreds of years of memories in a few days.

This speed was barely usable.

Ten days passed.

Long Aotian had browsed approximately two hundred years of Ao Zhan's memories and finally found a means of escape within them.

Namely:

Tai Xu Divine Steps!

Tai Xu Divine Steps is a Martial Skill specially created by Tai Xu Supreme, the ancestor of the Grand Void Dragon Clan, combining the Grand Void Dragon Clan's unique advantages in the Void Realm.

This Martial Skill has nine stages.

Namely:

Tai Xu One Li

Tai Xu Ten Li

Tai Xu Hundred Li

Tai Xu Thousand Li

Tai Xu Ten Thousand Li

One Hundred Thousand Tai Xu

One Million Tai Xu

Ten Million Tai Xu

One Hundred Million Tai Xu!

Breaking through the first stage allows for a speed of one Li per step.

Breaking through to the ninth stage means one hundred million Li per step.

This speed is absolutely terrifying!

It is an essential Martial Skill for escape!

Of course, another reason Long Aotian chose to learn Tai Xu Divine Steps was that learning it required comprehending the Void Rule or possessing the Grand Void Dragon Clan Bloodline, as the Grand Void Dragon Clan's Bloodline contains the Void Rule.

Otherwise, others who obtained such an amazing Martial Skill as Tai Xu Divine Steps would have no way to begin.

From this, one can see just how powerful this Martial Skill is.

To learn it, one must even comprehend the Void Rule?

In this Lower Realm, even Tribulation Realm Experts only comprehend the Law of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Rules are more Advanced than Laws.

It is difficult for Cultivators in the Lower Realm to comprehend Laws, let alone Rules.

However, Long Aotian had fused with the Dragon Bone Essence, Dragon Essence Blood, and Dragon Soul Power, making him equivalent to half a Dragon of the Grand Void Dragon Clan.

According to Ao Zhan, as long as Long Aotian was strong enough to bear the Dragon Bone Essence and even cause it to evolve, making its blood-creation function even more powerful, he would be more like a Grand Void Dragon Clan Dragon than the Grand Void Dragon Clan's Dragons themselves.

What does that mean?

Naturally, it refers to Bloodline purity!

Don't forget, Ao Zhan was the Clan Chief of the Grand Void Dragon Clan during the Myriad Clans Era. For Ao Zhan to become the Clan Chief of the Grand Void Dragon Clan, his powerful Cultivation was only one aspect; his Bloodline purity also had to be sufficiently high.

It can be said that if the Grand Void Dragon Clan's Dragon Clan Experts knew about the Dragon Bone Essence Ao Zhan gave Long Aotian, even they would be envious. This is absolutely an incredibly Heaven-Defying treasure... Although Long Aotian is not a true Dragon of the Grand Void Dragon Clan, having fused with Ao Zhan's Dragon Bone Essence, it is not an exaggeration to say he is half a Dragon of the Grand Void Dragon Clan. Especially since Ao Zhan's Bloodline purity is so high, even though Long Aotian has only fused with the Dragon Bone Essence for a short time and the Dragon Bone Essence has not yet produced even half a drop of Dragon Essence Blood for him, he is still a qualified half Tai Xu Dragon.

Not to mention, he also consumed a few ten-thousandths of a drop of Ao Zhan's Dragon Essence Blood, which was diluted into ten thousand parts during his Peak period.

Hidden within his Bloodline, there must also be the Void Rule that allows the Grand Void Dragon Clan to dominate the Void Realm.

Furthermore!

Speaking of the Void Realm, is there anything more powerful than the Spatial Laws? Long Aotian possesses the Chaos Dao Body and has twelve attribute Spiritual Roots, with the most mysterious and unfathomable Time Spiritual Root and Space Spiritual Root being two of them.

Even if the Void Rule doesn't work, doesn't he still have the Spatial Laws?

To be precise, the Space Spiritual Root within Long Aotian's Chaos Dao Body might even be stronger than the Spatial Laws itself; it's just that he is currently too weak to develop the Chaos Dao Body.

Even so, he has benefited greatly from possessing the Chaos Dao Body... After deciding to Cultivate the Tai Xu Divine Steps, Long Aotian, who had just Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, once again entered a state of seclusion.

This was a means of escape he might need if pursued by Mahayana Realm Experts when he went to the Imperial City, so he had to learn it as quickly as possible.

If he couldn't Breakthrough to the ninth stage, he at least had to be able to escape from the pursuit of Mahayana Realm Experts...