Age of Evolution#

Chapter 815: Chapter 818: Heart Sword Formation_1

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhen was astonished.

There was such a method of becoming a God, it was unheard of.

Seeing Lin Zhen’s astonishment, Mitchell said, “There are two ways to become a God, one is by self-cultivation, and the other is by refining the God Crystal.”

“What’s the difference between the two? If there’s no difference, why wouldn’t everyone just purchase a God Crystal to become a God instead of striving so hard to break through?” Lin Zhen asked.

“Of course, there are differences, and the differences are huge. Those who become gods through self-cultivation are much stronger than those who use the God Crystal. For example, you, Lin, on relying on your own strength to become a God, although the three of us became Gods by refining the God Crystal, if we were to truly fight, we three might not be your match. This is the gap in strength.”

“Yes! Moreover, those who become gods by refining the God Crystal tend to leak the aura of their inner world more easily, encountering strong ones who can track and kill you all the way into your inner world, completely destroying your inner world and you don’t even have the chance to start anew. Only those who self-cultivate to become Gods can more easily conceal their inner world’s aura, even if the divine body is annihilated, it isn’t easy for the others to track and annihilate you.” Sun Yidao added from the side.

Dongfang Yu further added: “Another important point is that after refining the God Crystal to become a God, your strength ceases to advance, and there is no longer any possibility of progression. Although you won’t die, your path as a Martial Artist has come to an end, whereas those who self-cultivate are different, their future holds infinite possibilities.”

Lin Zhen thought for a moment and said: “Since becoming a God through refining the God Crystal has such a major drawback, why are there still so many people fighting for it?”

Mitchell gave a bitter smile: “My man, you really don’t know how difficult it is to become a God. If self-cultivation was so easy, there wouldn’t be many at the Divine Stone Realm becoming Demigods. To say one in a hundred is an understatement, it’s more like one in a thousand, or one in ten thousands!”

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Dongfang Yu laughed: “I’m not hiding anything, my ultimate goal is to refine the God Crystal and become a God. If I reach this step, it would be the end of my years of hard cultivation, I highly doubt there’s any greater achievement.”

“Me too!” said Sun Yidao.

After hesitating for a moment, Mitchell said: “I will try it first, if I fail, then the only path left would be the God Crystal. If I have the opportunity to acquire a God Crystal, I wouldn’t let it slip. This is the back-up plan I’ve kept for myself.”

Seeing that Lin Zhen was yet to respond, Mitchell said, “Bro, if we obtain a God Crystal, then whoever gets it will have it. No one is allowed to argue over it afterward. Even if you, brother are extraordinarily talented, are your relatives as outstanding as you? Don’t they have a day when they will age? You can never have too many of those things.”

Lin Zhen thought for a while: “My family can cultivate to longevity.”

“Longevity is good, but they can still be killed with one strike. Only if they cultivate to become a God, with the internal world externalizing, if your internal world is large enough, after you externalize your world once you become a God, you can even accommodate their smaller worlds. Then even if they die, you can revive them. As long as you, Lin Zhen don’t die, you won’t need to worry about your family members dying. But the prerequisite is that they have to become Gods. Is that reason enough?”

Upon hearing Mitchell’s words, Lin Zhen was finally moved.

He found a new path and goal, which was making his family members become Gods.

Although this goal seems unreachable now, it is still worth striving for.

However, this does not mean that Lin Zhen will follow Mitchell and them to the Tomb Star. Considering it involves the God Crystal’s contention, there must be many people contending and their strength is bound to be strong.

It is not uncommon for a few strong people with the God World Transformation or the Divine Stone Transformation to pop up.

Even though Lin Zhen advanced to Longevity, it doesn’t mean that he has become reckless. After contemplating for a while, Lin Zhen spoke, “Brother Mitchell, I think people should strive for things within their power, rather than pursuing something too illusory. Some things seem good, but they often make people lose their sanity, and even their lives. I won’t recommend going after it now but waiting until our powers are stronger in the future. Everything will naturally come when ready. Isn’t that better?”

Hearing Lin Zhen’s words, Mitchell and the others seemed a bit disappointed, but everyone has their aspirations, they couldn’t force Lin Zhen.

The few individuals cheerfully had a meal together and then took their leave.

However, from what Lin Zhen could make of Mitchell’s team’s intentions, they still planned on going to the Tomb Star.

If they were to go to the Tomb Star, it would conflict with the ten-year competition in the Holy Land. It seemed that they were willing to not show up at the major event, all for the sake of competing for the God Crystal.

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Mitchell and the others did leave. On the tenth day after Lin Zhen returned to the Holy Land, they informed Jin Nuo and left the Holy Land.

Lin Zhen didn’t pay much attention to such matters, deciding to cultivate for a while longer, waiting until the Ten-year Holy Land Competition was over, meet with Little Phoenix, then bring her and Xuan’er back to the New World.

After returning to the Holy Land, Lin Zhen began a new cycle of intense cultivation.

He continued to comprehend the Senluo Sword Skill, continued to challenge the Thirty-Three Tower.

Advancing to Longevity, Lin Zhen’s strength drastically increased, after several challenges, he astonishingly passed the eleventh floor of the Thirty-Three Tower!

His main body and clone joined forces and successively defeated the domain warrior of Divine Transformation, the Star Nebula Beast, element warrior and super swordsman.

However, in the battle against the Heavenly Lord of Divine Sense Transformation, both Lin Zhen’s main body and clone were decisively defeated.

The Heavenly Lord of Divine Sense Transformation represented the strongest of the Divine Sense Transformation, it was no surprise that Lin Zhen lost.

However, completing thirty percent of the twelfth floor’s progress did cause quite a stir throughout the Holy Land.

Jin Nuo was very satisfied with Lin Zhen’s performance, not paying attention to anyone else anymore, focusing his heart on cultivating Lin Zhen, hoping for him to achieve great scores in the Ten-year Competition.

And Lin Zhen hadn’t disappointed him. In his ninth year in the Holy Land, Lin Zhen made another breakthrough and entered Longevity Level 7!

Seeing Lin Zhen’s progress, Jin Nuo was overjoyed, as he had never seen a Martial Artist progressing so rapidly.

Perhaps in a few more years, Lin Zhen would reach the Three Flowers Realm, and if that happened, he would undoubtedly become an extremely powerful individual who could hold his own.

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The Ten-year Holy Land Competition was less than three months away.

Lin Zhen was meditating in front of the stone tablet.

His soul had entered the stone tablet, and all he could see in front of his eyes were the vast shadows of swords.

He had comprehended ninety-nine percent of this stele, this was already the last step.

After stepping through this, Lin Zhen would be able to fully comprehend this stele

“Can I truly master the second move of Senluo Sword Skill, Sen Han, before the big competition?”

“This last sword, it has a total of thirteen thousand six hundred sword marks! It was almost drawn within 0.1 seconds. Having clarified this sequence of drawing the sword leads to Sen Han.”

Lin Zhen now had many insights about this sword. While comprehending, he also entered into the Dimensional Arena.

A private training ground, in front of him was a simulated stele.

He stood before the stele, his eyes slightly closed.

As time passed, Lin Zhen’s body started to emit the sword qi of Sen Han, the surrounding air twisted around him, occasionally being sliced apart by the outwardly released sword qi.

“To comprehend this sword, I must grasp the feelings of the person who engraved the stele when they drew the sword.”

“The person who created the Sen Han sword must be absolutely ruthless and heartless.”

“Ruthlessness and heartlessness are not derogatory terms for a martial artist. It proves that the martial artist can remain unmoved by external matters and has an extremely resolute Heart of Warrior. Such a person must hold a high position in the Holy Land!”

Lin Zhen recalled all the steles he had seen. Each of these steles had names, he even saw Jin Nuo’s stele left in the Holy Land.

However, the Senluo Sword Skill conspicuously lacked the name of its creator. This forced Lin Zhen to doubt.

“Could it be that the creator of this sword technique is the master of Falling Star Lake?”

Whew~!

At this moment, Lin Zhen had an epiphany, his black hair danced without wind, his eyes remained closed, but his Heart Sword had already been unsheathed!

The sword exists in his heart, not in his hand!

Lin Zhen had never mastered this move in the Holy Land, but in this moment, his Heart Sword was formed!

Hum~!

A burst of Sword Light shot out and heavily struck the simulated stele before his eyes.

Stone chips flew, a sword mark was carved and was exactly the same as the one in the sacred stele in the Holy Land!

Success!

Before the Holy Land stele, Lin Zhen opened his eyes, the brilliant shine in his eyes made people shudder!

At that moment, not only had he mastered the second move of Senluo Sword Skill, but he had also mastered the Heart Sword.

The so called Heart Sword is the ultimate expression of externalising Sword Qi, not only can you release Sword Qi, but you can also release powerful and mysterious killing moves.

The move released by the Heart Sword may not necessarily be more powerful than the move released by a divine weapon in hand, but this move is unguardable.

Who would have imagined that the person standing across with their hands behind their back, would suddenly release a killer move without moving? A vast majority of people would most likely lose under the Heart-Sword.

Moreover, after Lin Zhen mastered Sen Han, the power of the two sword techniques, Abyss, and Sen Han, even exceeded God’s Burial, becoming one of Lin Zhen’s strongest destructive means.

After testing these two sword techniques several times, Lin Zhen’s star power gradually levelled out.

Level seven of Longevity, one hundred and thirty million star power, plus the newly learnt Heart Sword and Senluo Sword Skill, Lin Zhen’s power rose dramatically.

Now he was just waiting, waiting for the grand competition to be over, and then he would return to New World to find his family.

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New World, Andromeda Galaxy Star Nebula.

This here is the capital star, Fairy Star, a huge planet several times larger than Earth, with a population in the hundreds of billions.

The high level of technological civilisation here is advanced. Space shuttles weave in and out in the sky, the buildings on the ground can be folded and are easy to move, a skyscraper can be disassembled and taken away.

Above the capital star, lives the emperor of the Andromeda Galaxy Star Nebula, a Level Nine World King.

Taxis shuttled above the streets.

John, the taxi driver, kept honking: “What a congested day. The traffic on Fairy Star is getting more and more crowded. Taxi businesses are not doing well. Maybe I should consider doing business in Tianhe Empire. I heard that it’s even more prosperous there than in Andromeda.”

The passenger in the car said: “I just came back from Tianhe, but most places there are still not as good as Andromeda. The most prosperous place is Lin Zhen’s Solar Territory.”

“Ah~! If only we had such a formidable martial artist in Andromeda.” John lamented.

“Why is the sky a bit dark?”

John squinted his eyes slightly. In the distant sky, the sunlight was blocked and a huge wormhole appeared, as if it came from the pitch-black depths of the cosmos.