Chapter 898 - 726: Martial Seal Mastered, Harmonizing Divine Skills_2

As time passed, all kinds of things kept flying out from the surface of the Jade Bottle.

There were birds and beasts, flowers and trees, rivers and streams, mountains and basins... as if an actual world had been created.

The scene shifted, and Lou Yi returned to reality; everything before his eyes vanished.

But he could feel that the spirit of that Treasure Bottle had left behind a trivial wisp on his body.

That strand of spirit was incomparably weak; ordinary Martial Artists probably wouldn’t notice it.

But with Lou Yi’s strength that was infinitely close to the Third Realm, he naturally sensed within it that unique flavor of the Treasure Bottle’s constancy and stillness.

"∅＆★*əʊ..." Seizing the chance, riding this blazing momentum, he continued circulating his mental method, his hands constantly forming complex hand seals.

Another wave of heat surged up in his heart.

This time the heat wave didn’t quickly dissipate, but flowed through his body along a strange trajectory.

It coursed through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, numerous acupoints, even stirring the Divine Sense in his mind.

Qi-Blood and Divine Sense intersected and rushed out of his body, forming a mass of black-red mist.

The mist kept changing shape; just as it barely condensed into a bottle-like form, it made a ’snap’ and scattered.

"Impressive, Junior Brother, your talent is truly astounding beyond measure; I have never seen the like in my life!" Zhou Xinghai said excitedly. "You just came into contact with the mental method and already almost condensed the Treasure Bottle; that’s hardly any worse than our Ancestors when they were young.

At this rate, you might really master the Treasure Vase Seal before the Martial Arts Conference opens and fight on behalf of our Sect!"

Having seen Lou Yi battle the Outer Evil Demon, Zhou Xinghai was the person in this world who understood Lou Yi’s strength the best; he knew Lou Yi’s Cultivation was absolutely not weaker than those Great Vein Masters.

His only concern was that the other party did not know the Sect’s Martial Seal.

After all, to represent the Sect in battle, he definitely had to use the Sect’s methods.

But looking at it now, Lou Yi had a great chance of barely mastering the Martial Seal before the Martial Arts Conference.

Even if it was only a preliminary grasp, combined with his deep Power, he could still accomplish a great deal.

What had originally been a "dead horse treated as a living one," now actually showed some hope of reviving the Sect’s prestige; Zhou Xinghai’s mood was naturally very excited.

"A Martial Soul Book—there’s actually ready-made Martial Arts True Intent inside this." Lou Yi said in surprise.

He thought back to when he first became the new Sect Leader of the Extreme Fist Sect, the scene of the old Sect Leader Wei Youdao opening the True Intent for him.

Observing the True Intent could deepen one’s comprehension of the Breathing Technique.

And the effect of a Martial Soul Book was many times stronger than that of a True Intent.

The Martial Arts True Intent on a True Intent was weak, blurry, and imperfect; its effect in transmitting the inheritor’s Martial Arts True Intent was less than one percent.

The Martial Arts True Intent within a Martial Soul Book, however, was relatively complete, its effect more than ten times that of a True Intent.

It could even apply a sliver of True Intent onto the observer, helping them comprehend a Martial Arts True Intent that was closest to the Ancestor’s true self.

Of course, that sliver of True Intent was extremely faint; ordinary Martial Artists needed to observe many times before possibly gaining something.

"The Martial Soul Book was created by our Sect’s Ancestor; I’ll temporarily entrust it to you, Junior Brother." Zhou Xinghai said with a smile.

Afraid that Lou Yi might fail to learn the Martial Seal, he was actually willing to hand over this incomparably precious Martial Soul Book to Lou Yi, letting him observe it repeatedly.

Of course, doing so would inevitably cause considerable wear to the Martial Soul Book.

For the sake of this Martial Arts Conference, Zhou Xinghai couldn’t care about that anymore.

"We probably won’t need it, Senior Brother." Lou Yi shook his head. "What I need most right now is to go into seclusion and comprehend."

"Is that so? Then I won’t disturb you." Although Zhou Xinghai didn’t quite believe it, he wasn’t a nagging person. Hearing this, he simply left Lou Yi’s room.

Lou Yi looked at the Attribute Panel; in the Cultivation Technique column a new entry had appeared:

Perfect Treasure Vase Seal (Not Initiated 0/100)

Perfect Treasure Vase Seal (Not Initiated 0/100) → Perfect Treasure Vase Seal (Initiated 0/300)

’This Cultivation Technique doesn’t require any key item?’

Lou Yi thought about it and felt it should be related to his current Martial Arts Cultivation.

There were many paths in Martial Arts, but no matter which one you walked, they all led to the same destination in the end.

With his current Martial Arts Realm, learning most Cultivation Techniques—at least in the early stages—wouldn’t present any bottlenecks.

Lou Yi continued to advance the Treasure Vase Seal.

Perfect Treasure Vase Seal (Initiated 0/300) → Perfect Treasure Vase Seal (Skilled 0/1000) → Perfect Treasure Vase Seal (Mastered 0/3000) → Perfect Treasure Vase Seal (Minor Achievement 0/10000) → Perfect Treasure Vase Seal (Great Success 0/30000 + 1 Star Core)

Strange memories appeared in his mind.

In those memories, Lou Yi became an ordinary disciple accepted into the Treasure Bottle Lineage, his aptitude exceedingly mediocre.

He spent a full thirty years just to get the Cultivation Technique initiated, barely able to condense the Treasure Vase Seal.

Within the Sect he was the target of constant ridicule; those peers from the same year had all easily left him far behind.

Yet unexpectedly, after he entered the gate, it was as if his mind suddenly opened up.

After a bit more than ten years, he cultivated the Treasure Vase Seal to the realm where it had color and form.

Ten years later, he refined it to the point where it was almost tangible.

Another seven years passed, and he cultivated the Treasure Vase Seal to the level where it possessed the five senses.

Less than five more years later, he actually trained the Treasure Vase Seal to merge into the void and influence heaven and earth; by then the Cultivation Technique had already reached Great Success.

In reality, Lou Yi opened his eyes.

Vast Heaven and Earth Energy swept in from all directions, pouring into his body, madly remolding his flesh and his Divine Soul.

In his mind, a Treasure Bottle radiating seven-colored light suddenly appeared; compared to the one Zhou Xinghai had summoned earlier, it had two more colors, fuller and more resplendent.

Beside it, a black goshawk fixed it with its golden eyes, full of hostility, even poised to pounce.

However, the Seven-Colored Treasure Bottle instantly released ring after ring of multicolored ripples, washing the goshawk away and rendering its movements futile.

"Perfect Treasure Vase Seal."

In Lou Yi’s mind, the bottle’s brilliance flared; his hands rapidly formed intricate hand seals.

Immediately, all the Energy in his body surged out, soaring upward and transforming into a seven-colored Jade Bottle, roughly human-sized yet dazzling.

The Jade Bottle suppressed the surrounding void, emanating a sense of eternity and remoteness as if it had existed since antiquity, untouchable by ten thousand calamities, transcending the mundane.

Within a radius of several dozen zhang, nothing external could affect him.

’A Perfect Treasure Vase Seal at the Great Success Level is not much weaker than a Grandmaster Realm; if I cultivate it to the Perfection Level, it should even surpass it.’

’My current Cultivation might have already stepped into the strongest Tier Two level in history.

Even so, I still can’t fully comprehend the Perfect Martial Seal. It shows that the Martial Seal at this stage should be something a Tier Three Cultivation can truly control.’

Lou Yi then thought that the effect of the Treasure Vase Seal at Great Success was similar to that of a Grandmaster Realm; could they be stacked?

Once the thought came, he immediately put it into action.

"Perfect Treasure Vase Seal."

"Grandmaster, Domain."

The next moment.

’Boom!’

The two Martial Arts True Intents fused, triggering a violent chemical reaction.

The void around Lou Yi nearly collapsed, becoming incomparably dark.

Light twisted and refracted within it; countless specks of dust and even tinier particles froze in midair.

Its power was clearly more than a full step above a pure Grandmaster Realm.

The range of Control also expanded from the previous hundred-zhang limit to about two hundred zhang.

The effect was equivalent to one plus one being greater than two.

’Just one Martial Seal is already this strong. If I cultivate two, three...’ Lou Yi’s eyes lit up at the thought.

"Senior Brother, in this world, are there any who can cultivate several Martial Seals?" Very soon, Lou Yi went to the hall and asked.

The white-haired elder Zhou Xinghai looked puzzled. "Of course there are, but what’s the point?

You can only form one set of hand seals at a time, and can only use one Martial Seal.

It’s better to just learn the strongest one and avoid distracting yourself."

Hearing Lou Yi’s question,

the senior brother Xu Feng of the Treasure Bottle Lineage, who had been stifling his anger these last two days because his status had inexplicably dropped a rank, finally found a chance to mock.

He let out a cold snort, eyes full of superiority. "Only those Wandering Practitioners with incomplete inheritances run around collecting Martial Seals everywhere to make up for their own shortcomings.

Our Sect disciples naturally wouldn’t do such a thing. The Treasure Vase Seal is the strongest Martial Seal in the world; why would we abandon the near to seek the far and learn other seals, wasting our time for nothing?

Or do you have four hands and can use two Martial Seals at the same time?"

Lou Yi listened and only smiled without speaking.

He glanced at the Divine Skills column on the Attribute Panel:

[Divine Skills: Golden Body (Perfection), Heaven Shaking (Skilled/?), Thousand Hands (Initiated/?)]

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