Chapter 1155: God Ascension Level Five, Awakening the Sin Dragon, Forging Spirit Stones by Hand

[The Son of Heaven, born of heaven and earth, shall enact heaven's will, protect the land of a nation, ensure favorable weather, receive the cries of the people, and earn the reverence of all within the realm]

Yes, Lu Ding had found another bug to exploit, and this one was a one-time deal.

As a public servant of the Great Han, now enjoying the full backing of the nation, he held unprecedented influence and prestige, second to none at this moment.

All he needed was the Great Han to play along, and he could leap past this rule and achieve God Ascension Level Six!

The reason this was a one-time exploit was that the conditions on the God Sealing List would become public knowledge once Lu Ding transcended God Ascension and advanced to the realm beyond. At that point, heaven would reveal the criteria for the Son of Heaven's divine path.

If anyone in the future were to become the Son of Heaven and wish to walk the divine path of the Son of Heaven, they would have to follow the road Lu Ding had forged, moving upward along his defined path. He had set the precedent!

With Lu Ding setting the bar so high, no one else would dare allow another Son of Heaven to emerge in this world.

If any nation produced a Son of Heaven, that nation would surely face ruin. Even if a later candidate could satisfy every condition Lu Ding had met, other nations and other powers would spare no effort to obstruct that Son of Heaven from advancing to God Ascension Level Six.

This was one of the advantages of forging one's own divine path, the unpredictability of information.

Don't blame Lu Ding for being selfish. He didn't want the road he had carved out to be walked by others. He had a psychological purity complex. This path was his alone to walk!

After putting down the brush.

The Sin Dragon within Lu Ding's body was already straining under the burden, desperately pulling his spiritual energy and cultivation base, holding firm at God Ascension Level Five, just one step short of Level Six.

But the Sin Dragon was now utterly exhausted.

This was somewhat like a tiny horse trying to pull a massive cart.

Lu Ding had advanced too quickly without giving it a head start. It simply couldn't keep up!!!

What kind of person lets their cultivation technique drag their cultivation realm forward? Wasn't it supposed to be the realm guiding the technique, flowing naturally to completion?

Taking the college entrance exam before even starting high school, it was completely topsy-turvy!

Lu Ding said, "Don't worry, I'll replenish you soon."

"I don't need the remaining medicinal energy for now, so I'll feed it to you first."

Lu Ding shifted his focus and began making supplements to his cultivation technique.

He carefully combed through every inch of the [Sin Dragon Bone Seal].

This was the path he had chosen for himself.

Whether it was the Three Flowers.

Or the divine path of the Son of Heaven.

All of it was expected yet unexpected.

Originally, Lu Ding had planned to walk the path of the Three Flowers and charge upward with all his might.

But then heaven-conferred nobility made him the Son of Heaven, giving him a sense of cultivating both immortality and divinity simultaneously, and what's more, achieving sainthood through the physical body.

This wasn't the soul-based godhood Lu Ding had imagined, like holding an iron rice bowl.

It was more like starting his own business, then being absorbed by the state, where the state didn't interfere with his decisions or choices, only providing channels and resources.

In other words, he answered to orders but didn't execute them on demand.

That was a good thing too.

And he was also the pioneer of the Son of Heaven path.

Cultivating his own law, walking his own dao.

It was as if the heavens were leading him forward (the divine path), letting him earn money to fill his own enterprise (the immortal path of Three Flowers). Both sides had connections, helping each other out.

There would be no situation where a public official's excessive wealth caused problems, and he still enjoyed the rights and social status of a public servant.

All the good things had landed on him!

Awesome!

Inch by inch, the medicinal energy flowed into the [Sin Dragon Bone Seal], helping it transform and evolve, supplemented by the [Water Dao System] he had obtained from his Golden Finger, combined with [Heaven-Man Unity], carving the thorough principles of the [Water Dao System] into the [Sin Dragon Bone Seal], allowing it to comprehend the essence and turn it into instinctive nature.

Better guiding the spiritual energy within Lu Ding that was like the waters of the four seas, letting it roam freely.

This was Lu Ding's vision.

The [Sin Dragon Bone Seal] was a cultivation technique, in other words, a lifeless object, a source of power within Lu Ding's body that maintained balance.

But Lu Ding wanted to refine it into something living, existing within his body, letting the [Sin Dragon Bone Seal] itself drive the technique's operation and spiritual energy allocation, while Lu Ding himself served as the 'weapon'.

Transforming matter into spirit, transforming spirit into matter.

It was like giving AI self-awareness and removing its restrictions, or like humanity undergoing mechanical ascension.

Then merging the two into one.

A cultivation technique that could cultivate itself, just listen to that, how terrifying was that?

Of course, realizing such a vision required many more conditions.

But the spells and secret techniques Lu Ding possessed happened to satisfy all of them.

To awaken the [Sin Dragon Bone Seal], he had the Life-and-Death Dao Fruit to control life and death.

To change the essence of the [Sin Dragon Bone Seal], he had [Touch of Gold Turns to Stone] to decompose and reconstruct.

Finally, the comprehension of [Heaven-Man Unity], the ultimate control and fine-tuned precision of [White Snake Shakes Scales], and the weakness-detecting insight of [Stinger] that hit the nail on the head, filled in all the gaps.

Spells were meant to be used flexibly and creatively.

This entire combination was no less than the world's best research laboratory, equipped with the finest high-tech instruments and the best professors.

As long as there was even a glimmer of possibility for success.

Then that meant...

ROAR!!!!

A dragon's cry roared within Lu Ding's body.

It stirred his spiritual energy, which was like the waters of the four seas, churning and surging.

As the Sin Dragon roared, its body transformed inch by inch, triggering Lu Ding's cells to continuously hatch into dragons, feeding back into him.

Looking closely, the mercury-like blood flowing through his veins, magnified again and again, turned out to be countless miniature Sin Dragons gathering together, swimming in schools.

At this moment, Lu Ding was in a mysterious and forbidden state.

It was also because of the transformation of the [Sin Dragon Bone Seal], driving the refinement of his acquired physical body, making it more attuned to [Mountain-Shaking Earth-Quaking], allowing Lu Ding to gradually comprehend what 'force' truly meant.

This force was mana, physical strength, imagination, soul power, and the power of thought.

It was the force in 'one force breaking all techniques'!!!

This was something difficult to describe in its entirety, or perhaps, it was something that shouldn't have been within Lu Ding's reach at his current cultivation realm.

But he had touched it.

Even if it was just a sliver of surface-level understanding, he had still touched it. The hardest part wasn't progress, it was getting through the door!!!

Lu Ding suddenly raised his hand and pressed his palm against the empty space beside him.

Crack, crack, crack...

Terrifying fissures instantly spread outward along the void.

If he wanted to, this single palm strike could pierce through space and shatter a mountain ten thousand miles away, and there would be no visible trajectory of the attack, making it impossible to defend against.

This was 'force', the spatial power involved in Lu Ding's [Celestial Shift], combined with the extension of his newfound understanding of 'one force breaking all techniques'.

Looking again as Lu Ding raised his hand.

The [Water Dao Fruit] extended and permeated outward, combined with [Touch of Gold Turns to Stone], and condensed with a grasp of [Qi of the Ticket Wind].

Surrounding spiritual energy instantly poured in.

In that moment.

A flawless, immaculate top-grade spirit stone, one that only existed in novels, appeared in Lu Ding's hand.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha..."

Lu Ding laughed as black smoke billowed from him, his whole appearance fierce and rampant.

One sentence could describe his current mood, the great plan can succeed!!!!