Chapter 208 - 102: Ritual Dharma Aspect: Lord of the Clouds

Chapter 208: Chapter 102: Ritual Dharma Aspect: Lord of the Clouds

Though it had only been two or three days since his last battle, the Treasure Level Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid was exceptionally compatible with Jiang Xuan. Even though he had only refined three drops, its effects were immense.

Its incredible malleability allowed just three drops of the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid to spread fine golden threads like a spiderweb throughout Jiang Xuan’s bones, muscles, and tendons.

These golden threads, integrated into his very tissues, vastly raised the tolerance limit of Jiang Xuan’s Flesh Body. As a result, the range of Chang’s World expanded significantly, and even the duration of the Divine Technique saw a noticeable increase.

As for why Jiang Xuan activated this Divine Technique while comprehending Dao Rhyme, the reason couldn’t have been simpler:

’Whatever the Golden Bell covers is the Era of the Eternal Emperor that I command, my personal kingdom. In this realm, I am king.’

As Jiang Xuan chanted this in his heart, the Power of Heaven and Earth in the area immediately merged with him, becoming his to command.

Of course, limited by the incompleteness of his Divine Technique, Jiang Xuan couldn’t arbitrarily rewrite the rules and landscape of this "kingdom" like an Earth Immortal or a Divine Spirit.

He couldn’t even fully integrate with the inner essence of the Golden Bell.

All he could control for now was the Spiritual Qi in the area and, with the aid of his Righteous Level Spiritual Pupil, the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye, the forces of Gravity, Repulsive Force, and a faint amount of Space Power.

However, these powers were of no help whatsoever to Jiang Xuan in comprehending the essence of Spring Revival.

What Jiang Xuan relied on was a new application he had developed for the Eternal Golden Bell.

DONG!

At a certain moment, with a flash of intent, Jiang Xuan’s Soul Spirit condensed into a heavy bell clapper and swung fiercely at the Eternal Golden Bell suspended in the void!

VMMMM—!

The strike was like the toll of the World Awakening Bell.

The clear, majestic chime pierced straight through to his Divine Soul, giving his Heart Spirit a violent jolt. It was as if a ray of Celestial Light had shattered the fog in his mind, causing countless motes of spiritual light to erupt within his Sea of Consciousness.

Moreover, the grand, majestic Bell Ringing, the foremost of all ritual music, washed over Jiang Xuan’s Divine Soul with a brilliant, righteous rhyme, causing his Divine Thought Realm to instantly jump a level.

"..."

The greatest sound is silence. After the deafening roar, Jiang Xuan’s Heart Soul settled into a state of ultimate nothingness. Yet it was precisely this "nothingness" that allowed him to naturally step into the profound and mysterious Enlightenment Realm.

This World Awakening Bell was not, in fact, an ability Jiang Xuan should have been able to comprehend yet.

Over the past few days, while cultivating in the Scripture Pavilion, he had taken advantage of his Sixfold Spirituality to study his Golden Bell.

He then discovered that because of the involvement of his Righteous Level Dharma Eye, Dharma Eye Nether Abyss, his Divine Power Seed was in an incomplete state.

This incompleteness was not something an ordinary Cultivator could resolve simply by advancing their Cultivation from the Spirit Core Realm to the Dao Foundation Realm.

With Jiang Xuan’s Eternal Golden Bell, even the Divine Power Seed itself was defective.

’When my Second Spirit Core—the Sea of Qi—reaches Perfection, the Eternal Golden Bell will undergo its first stage of completion. When my Third Spirit Core—the Purple Mansion—reaches Perfection, it will undergo the second stage. Only then can it be considered a truly complete and flawless Divine Dao Seed.’

The World Awakening Bell he was using now was an ability that the Eternal Golden Bell should only have unlocked after the Third Spirit Core—the Purple Mansion—reached Perfection.

As for how Jiang Xuan could bypass the Second Spirit Core Sea of Qi to tap into and use an ability associated with the Third Spirit Core, it was naturally because his Divine Soul barely met the requirements, having reached the Spirit Core Late Stage Realm.

More importantly, the enhancement his Sixfold Spirituality provided to his Heart Soul was simply too powerful.

His Divine Soul, which already far surpassed those of his peers, combined with the Spirituality and Comprehension nurtured by ninety-six thousand volumes of Dao Scriptures, had allowed him to achieve sudden Enlightenment the moment he analyzed the Eternal Golden Bell, forcefully prying open the gates to the World Awakening Bell ahead of schedule.

Of course, his Realm was ultimately insufficient, the Eternal Golden Bell was defective, and he wasn’t inside his Scripture Pavilion with the support of thousands of Dao Scriptures. All this made his current use of the ability extremely strenuous.

BOOM!

The World Awakening Bell truly made Jiang Xuan’s Divine Soul feel as if it had been struck by the Golden Bell itself.

His blank consciousness was both the Saint Realm of Enlightenment and the backlash from his Divine Soul being shaken into a void.

Blood even began to seep from his seven facial orifices.

From this single strike, he would need at least half a day of quiet recuperation for his shaken and damaged Heart Soul to fully recover.

However, despite all its limitations, the World Awakening Bell was incredibly effective.

The moment Chang’s World unfolded, he became the Dominator of this realm. While the Golden Bell shook his consciousness into a state of pure clarity, his Divine Thought was also elevated to an unprecedented height.

All the Spirit Charms in this realm thus fell under his command, surging into his Sea of Consciousness like a hundred rivers flowing into the ocean.

The most abundant in this region was the Spring Revival Spirit Charm. As his Soul Spirit and the Dao Rhyme merged, in that instant of the Unity of Heaven and Man, Jiang Xuan captured and analyzed a faint but tangible strand of the Spring Dao Rhyme.

In truth, there was still one problem.

During the time his consciousness was shaken into a void by the Bell Ringing, Jiang Xuan’s perception of Heaven, Earth, and all of creation should have been completely severed.

Dao Rhyme is strange and ineffable. For that very reason, the sensation of that moment is like sand slipping through one’s fingers—extremely difficult to retain.

Logically speaking, when Jiang Xuan came to, only one or two percent of the revival’s lingering charm should have remained.

But then, he had the Memory Palace - Scripture Pavilion.

Jiang Xuan had, after all, experienced the sensation of the Spirit Charms merging, and because of that, it was recorded by the Scripture Pavilion.