CHAPTER 663: CHAPTER 491: HEAD-DOWN CULTIVATION! 80,000 YEARS LATER! ASCENSION CEREMONY!

Forty thousand years of secluded cultivation.

Forty thousand years of mining.

Forty thousand years of enlightenment.

Chen Jichuan did not slack off, and the results were gratifying.

Until today, the ’Dayan Divination Method’ became his fourth Divine Skill to reach the Fourth Realm.

"The ’Dayan Divination Method’ at the Fourth Realm, can already be considered a True Immortal."

"But it’s still not enough."

In the time that followed.

Chen Jichuan continued to seclude himself, still striving hard. He aimed to improve himself as much as possible before the calamity of Shenzhou arrived.

Daoist cultivation.

Divine Skills.

Immortal Artifacts.

In every aspect, he developed vigorously.

Because the cultivation of a True Immortal is extremely difficult to enhance and often stalls, Chen Jichuan frequently consumed his cultivation while striving to derive new Divine Skills.

Taiyin Divine Mirror.

Soul-shaking Bell.

Five Elements Mountain.

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One by one, new Divine Skills of various wondrous uses were derived by Chen Jichuan.

Among them, the ’Taiyin Divine Mirror’ was derived and strengthened from the ’Blood Light Refraction Taiyin Divine Mirror Technique.’

The divine mirror hides within the Taiyin, leaving no traces.

This is a mystical method for exploring the present world, able to observe everything above and below, and not easily detected. This method is useless in battle, but when Chen Jichuan later roams the starry sky, including his current guardianship of Golden Wind Mountain and Sea, the Ancient Immortal Battlefield, and the many Daoist Fields manned by his avatars, it can be of use to monitor all movements.

The ’Soul-shaking Bell’ is a Divine Skill that specifically targets the Divine Soul, most suitable for enemies with weak Divine Souls. Chen Jichuan had previously learned an Absolute Skill called the ’Shocking God Skill’ in the East River Palace, similar to it, both primarily targeting the Divine Soul.

The life span of a True Immortal is long, their Divine Skills vast and unpredictable. Therefore, it’s never wrong to stockpile some Divine Skills for response in combat.

Chen Jichuan had a shortcoming in this area, which he is now just managing to compensate.

As for the ’Five Elements Mountain,’ it is Chen Jichuan’s newly favored Divine Skill.

This was originally a Small Divine Power Chen Jichuan learned from the One Origin Dao Sect after becoming the Daoist Chief, originating from Luo Shan Palace Master.

It excels in suppression.

Chen Jichuan’s intention was to derive it into a Divine Skill, complementing with the ’Daluo Heavenly Sleeve,’ so that once it captures someone, it would leave them with little chance of escape.

But through several attempts in the deduction process, he finally merged the ’Seven Stars Eight Dragons Sword Formation,’ ’Daluo Heavenly Fire,’ ’Ruyi Mountain Opening Method,’ ’Qinglian Eight Techniques,’ and ’Heavenly True Water’ into it, making this single Divine Skill a blend of ’suppression’ and ’slaughter,’ with immeasurable power, surpassing the ’Five Thunders True Skill.’

Moreover, Chen Jichuan practices the ’Five Five Great Expansion True Scripture,’ also aligned with the Five Elements. The ’method’ and ’technique’ harmonize, making this new Divine Skill more potent in application, and with the foundation of the ’Five Five Great Expansion True Scripture,’ the combined Five Elements make comprehension within an acceptable difficulty range.

Power becomes increasingly formidable.

Understanding difficulty is not excessive.

Six Divine Skills merged into one.

To derive this Divine Skill, Chen Jichuan is certainly proud.

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Taiyin Divine Mirror, Soul-shaking Bell, Five Elements Mountain, ...

Exploration, Divine Soul, Suppression, Slaughter...

One after another, Divine Skills with distinct styles and wondrous uses have been derived by Chen Jichuan.

The previously acquired Divine Skills are also rapidly improving.

With ample time and resources, since advancing to True Immortal, the slightly weaker link of Divine Skills has finally caught up and is quickly overtaking, once again forming Chen Jichuan’s unique advantage.

Derivation.

Enlightenment.

Commanding All Laws.

With these three innate talents, he has become an anomaly.

Chen Jichuan can himself derive a multitude of precious Divine Skills. For ordinary True Immortals, comprehending a Divine Skill is difficult, taking millions of years to possibly cultivate one to the Fourth Realm. But Chen Jichuan, with ’Enlightenment,’ reduces this time a hundredfold.

Moreover, with ’Commanding All Laws,’ even Divine Skills with conflicting attributes can be easily cultivated by Chen Jichuan, without worrying about attribute clashes leading to half the effort for double the setback, or even self-destruction.

With so many Divine Skills at his disposal, Chen Jichuan’s confidence gradually solidifies.

The derivation of Divine Skills consumes cultivation, but this matters little.

In the ebb and flow of cultivation, not only does Chen Jichuan’s practice not fall behind, but it also continually progresses. Sometimes encountering a bottleneck, he proactively regresses his cultivation, revisiting the path, akin to a backward run-up, thus breaking through heavy obstacles, his Daoist cultivation strides boldly forward.

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Time flows like water.

Chen Jichuan kept his ears closed to worldly affairs, focusing wholeheartedly on his arduous training.

After the ’Guiyuan Cangtian Technique’ reached the Fourth Realm, Chen Jichuan felt much more secure about his own safety. At this time, he did not neglect the cultivation of these Fourth Realm Divine Skills and continued practicing.

However, advancing Divine Skills beyond the Fourth Realm requires both more time and effort, with no major progress in the short term. Additionally, the resources needed become increasingly precious.

The source jade is not an immediate issue, but within Shenzhou Heaven and Earth, resources of this caliber are scarce, and most True Immortals prefer to retain them for their own use, or at worst, exchange them for treasures of the same grade with others, rarely using them to trade for source jade.

Comprehension is more challenging.

Resources are hard to find.

This resulted in Chen Jichuan’s rapidly advancing Divine Skill attainments being suddenly halted after breaking through to the Fourth Realm, indicating a trend of pausing.

The Third Realm relies on whaling.

The Fourth Realm requires endurance.

However, Chen Jichuan never abandoned them, not setting aside these Divine Skills advanced to the Fourth Realm. Even if progress was slow, he persisted.

On one hand, in the First Realm or Second Realm True Immortal, Fourth Realm Divine Skills might hold an advantage, but when facing Third Realm or Fourth Realm True Immortals, at most it was merely on par.

Only by reaching the Fifth Realm can one hold an advantage throughout the entire True Immortal level.

After all, even Fourth Realm True Immortals may not be able to cultivate a Divine Skill to the Fifth Realm.