Chapter 205: Upgrading The Soul Palace and Heavenly Dao Runes

( Big Chapter )

In an instant, his Dao heart returned to a state of absolute clarity and now It was time to plan his next major upgrade.

"Now, let’s see how to maximize the use of these 3.5 million System Points," Yu Liang muttered to himself, opening the System Store interface.

His first thought was to upgrade his physical body. A supreme physique could increase combat power exponentially and grants the innate divine abilities.

He filtered the store for ’Physique’.

However, when he saw the prices, his eyebrows twitched. The cheapest decent physique, the ’Desolate Sacred Body’, costing a staggering 10 million System Points. The ones below that, like the ’Mountain Breaking Physique’ or ’Bronze Bone Body’, only cost a few thousand points.

Yu Liang sighed internally and immediately dismissed the idea. With his current wealth and status, buying a trash tier physique was just a waste of his precious points.

If he wanted a truly heaven defying physique, he needed to save up more points. The cheap ones simply weren’t worth his time.

"Then what about upgrading my spiritual roots?" he pondered, shifting the filter the search. Upgrading from his current spiritual root rank to a higher one would drastically increase his absorption speed of spiritual energy.

But after a moment of thought, he shook his head and dismissed this idea as well. In the vast cultivation world, there were countless Heaven and Earth treasures that could cleanse and upgrade spiritual roots, such as the Nine Revolutions Golden Lotus or the Marrow Cleansing Divine Pill.

He could just buy those items from the System Store later using spiritual stones. There was absolutely no need to waste precious System Points on something he could achieve with ’mundane’ wealth.

"Comprehension pills? Insight Pills?" He thought about the list of mental type items.

He quickly dismissed this idea too. Comprehension was certainly important, but it wasn’t something that would have a direct, tangible effect on his current foundation.

It was too abstract and unpredictable. As a man with a System, he should use his points meaningfully on things that could give him direct and permanent advantages, not on vague concepts that might not yield immediate results.

He closed his eyes as his mind raced at high speed. What was the most crucial foundation for a cultivator? What could give him an absolute, unassailable advantage over all the geniuses in the world?

Suddenly, a flash of memory struck him like a bolt of heavenly lightning.

He remembered that when the heaven previously helped him build his Soul Palace, it imprinted mysterious ’Dao runes’ onto its walls.

In any cultivation path, the Soul Palace was the absolute core of a cultivator’s foundation. To break through to the legendary Divine Lord Realm, a cultivator had to engrave Dao runes into their Soul Palace.

The more profound and numerous the runes, the easier the breakthrough to the Divine Lord realm would be, and the stronger their comprehension of the Heavenly Laws would be in the future.

However, in the normal cultivation world, cultivators would only begin this perilous process when they reached the Dao Palace realm.

It was an incredibly difficult and dangerous task. It required profound enlightenment and absolute concentration. A single moment of distraction, a single mistake in the rune’s trajectory, and the Soul Palace would shatter, causing the cultivator’s foundation to collapse entirely, turning them into a lifelong cripple or causing fatal Qi deviation! Countless geniuses had perished or been crippled at this stage.

But Yu Liang was currently only at the Core Formation realm!

Because of his unique advantages and the System’s assistance, he could start engraving runes now, laying a perfect foundation decades ahead of his peers! And the best part? He didn’t need to risk enlightenment, nor did he have to fear foundation collapse.

He had the System! He could just buy the runes directly and imprint them flawlessly!

"System, search the store for ’Inscription Runes for Soul Palace’!" Yu Liang commanded.

[ Ding! Searching... ]

A massive holographic list materialized in front of him. The runes were strictly categorized by tier: Low Tier, Mid Tier, High Tier, Peak Tier, and... Heavenly Dao Level.

Yu Liang gasped, his breath hitching in his throat.

"Heavenly Dao level runes?!"

He was astonished once again. His System was truly omnipotent and omniscient! It didn’t just sell physical items, it sold the fundamental laws and concepts of the universe itself!

To think that the very runes that governed the heavens and earth, the things that normal cultivators would spend lifetimes trying to comprehend, could be bought like cabbages in a market!

He quickly looked at the price tags for each tier.

[ Low Tier Dao Rune: 10 System Points / each ]

Discription: Low Tier Dao Runes contain the most basic fragments of a Law. They are like cultivators who have just begun exploring the mysteries of the Dao.

These runes generally contain simple principles and incomplete insights. By studying them inside their Soul Palace, a cultivator can develop an initial understanding of a particular Law.

[ Mid Tier Dao Rune: 100 System Points / each ]

Discription: Mid Tier Dao Runes contain more complete fragments of a Law. Unlike Low Tier Runes, which primarily explain basic principles, these runes allow cultivators to explore the relationships between different aspects of the same Law.

They are like cultivators who have already established a foundation and deepen their comprehension.

[ High Tier Dao Rune: 1,000 System Points / each ]

Discription: High Tier Dao Runes contain profound fragments of a Law. Their inscriptions are considerably more complex than those of lower tier runes, and each may contain multiple interconnected principles. These runes are valuable to the cultivation system of the world. A High Tier Dao Rune does not merely explain a Law. It allows cultivators to study how that Law operates, how its principles interact, and how those principles can be applied to combat and cultivation.

[ Peak Tier Dao Rune: 5,000 System Points / each ]

Discription: Peak Tier Dao Runes contain exceptionally profound fragments of a Law. Their inscriptions approach the deeper principles governing the existence and operation of that Law. Unlike lower tier runes, which may reveal isolated principles, Peak Tier Runes can contain several interconnected insights that help a cultivator understand the broader structure of a Law.

One has to know that even exceptionally talented cultivators may spend decades studying a single Peak Tier Dao Rune.

[ Heavenly Dao Level Rune: 20,000 System Points / each ]

Discription: Heavenly Dao Level Runes stand above any Dao Runes. They do not merely contain fragments of a Law. Instead, they contain profound manifestations of the principles governing that Law, allowing cultivators to study its deeper structure and relationship with the natural order of the world.

Unlike lower tier runes, whose inscriptions may explain individual principles, a Heavenly Dao Level Rune can contain a highly integrated manifestation of a Law.

However, possessing such a rune does not mean that a cultivator automatically masters the Law. Their ability to understand and use its insights still depends on their spiritual comprehension, cultivation, and Soul Palace.

Then he selected one of the Heavenly Dao Level Rune

Law Contained: Heavenly Sword Law

Provid: Imprints the profound principles underlying the Sword Law.

1) Allows the cultivator to study the relationship between sword intent, sword energy, and the essence of a sword.

Provides insights into the unity of the sword, its wielder, and the principles guiding its movement.

2) Helps the cultivator comprehend how the Sword Law can be expressed through different sword techniques.

3) Reveals the underlying principles of sword domains and other advanced sword-related abilities.

4) Provides a foundation for developing a personal understanding of the supreme Sword Law.

Special Effect — Myriad Sword Manifestation: When the cultivator meditates upon the rune, countless sword manifestations appear within the Soul Palace. Each manifestation displays a different application of the Sword Law, allowing the cultivator to study their structure and principles.

Uses:

1) Developing exceptionally powerful sword techniques.

2) Deepening sword intent.

3) Comprehending advanced sword domains.

4) Improving the ability to perceive weaknesses in sword based techniques.

5) Studying the relationship between the Sword Law and other Laws.

2: Heavenly Dao Level Space Rune

Description: A translucent silver rune that seems to contain an entire miniature universe within its inscriptions. Stars, spatial currents, and countless dimensional layers appear and disappear across its surface. Its true form cannot be fully perceived through ordinary spiritual sense.

Law Contained: Heavenly Space Law

Provid: Imprints the profound principles governing spatial existence.

1) Allows the cultivator to study the relationship between spatial structure.

Provides insights into spatial compression, distortion, and dimensional separation.

2) Helps the cultivator comprehend the underlying principles of spatial barriers and teleportation.

3) Reveals deeper relationships between spatial structures and the stability of independent dimensions.

4) Establishes a foundation for comprehending the creation and manipulation of spaces.

Special Effect — Spatial Universe: The rune manifests a miniature spatial structure inside the Soul Palace. The cultivator can examine its layers, observe spatial fluctuations, and study the principles that maintain its structure.

Uses:

1) Developing advanced teleportation techniques.

2) Creating powerful spatial barriers.

3) Comprehending spatial imprisonment.

4) Studying dimensional manipulation.

5) Developing techniques that interact with the structure of space itself.

Yu Liang stared at the price of the Heavenly Dao level rune, their functions and he couldn’t control his excitement.

20,000 points

For an ordinary cultivator or even a top tier sect, this was an astronomical, unimaginable number. But for him? With over 3.5 million points currently sitting in his account? It was practically dirt cheap!

Each rune is an extraordinary treasure that even powerful ancient sects might struggle to obtain.

He could buy over a hundred and fifty Heavenly Dao runes!

If he imprinted even a fraction of these Heavenly Dao runes into his Soul Palace, his foundation would be so terrifying, so flawless, that it would even the biological son of heavenly dao vomit blood in sheer jealousy.

When he eventually breaks through to the Divine Lord Realm, his comprehension of the laws would be a hundred times or even thousands of times faster than any normal genius!

"Heavenly Dao runes... I’ll take them all," Yu Liang whispered with a smile spreading across his face as he reached out to select the most expensive items on the list.