Chapter 394 : The Universe Within the End
Chapter 394: The Universe Within the End
Zhi Ling’s bloodline awakening proceeded extremely smoothly.
In terms of bloodline, the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox bloodline was immensely powerful. Even among Heavenly-Gang Mystic Beasts, it was a top-tier existence. Even the exceedingly rare Fifth-Tier Origin Beasts in the world might not necessarily surpass it.
In terms of foundation, the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox came from a noble lineage. From a young age, it had undergone tempering by massive amounts of heavenly treasures and earthly treasures. Among Mystic Beast younglings, there were very few that could compare with it.
In terms of comprehension, the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox had followed Chen Beiwu all these years. Although it had not completely comprehended 《Primordial Origin Insight Azure Radiance Controlling Ten Thousand Tribulations and Ten Thousand Spirits Immortal Art》, it had still been influenced by it through constant exposure and had gained some achievements.
In terms of fortune, the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox had formed a Companion Contract with Chen Beiwu and cultivated their lives together. Thus, it could obtain some influence from the Heavenly Fortune Purple Dragon. Furthermore, its own fortune had reached the Fifth-Tier, possessing the protection of purple qi.
Precisely because of this, for ordinary beasts, undergoing a complete transformation and advancing to the Third-Realm Beast General Realm was an extremely dangerous obstacle that threatened their lives.
But for Zhi Ling, whose bloodline, foundation, comprehension, and fortune were all of the highest quality, awakening her bloodline and advancing to the Third-Realm Beast General Realm was merely a matter of naturally following the course of events. Moreover, she had consumed a heavenly treasure like the Beast King Fruit for safety.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Dark clouds surged, and thunder roared.
In Chen Beiwu’s perception, every time a bolt of lightning descended, Zhi Ling’s aura would steadily rise by another level, becoming increasingly condensed.
When the mana within Zhi Ling’s body gathered together and condensed into a dazzling inner core carrying her bloodline origin, the final nine Second-Nine Heavenly Lightning Tribulations descended with a boom.
Zhi Ling did not activate any Mystic Ability. Following Chen Beiwu’s instructions, she circulated the Immortal Art and used the power of heaven and earth’s lightning to temper the newly formed inner core.
“Hum!”
Sensing the faint patterns of light emerging on the surface of the inner core, a trace of joy appeared in Chen Beiwu’s eyes.
The quality of an inner core could determine Zhi Ling’s combat power during the Beast General Realm, and would also affect her future potential.
One must know that when Golden Egg had not yet become a Three-Aspect Mystic Flood Dragon, the inner core it formed when advancing to the Beast General Realm was merely the Three Radiance Suppressing Bright Golden Core, equivalent to a Third-Grade Golden Core among Immortal Alliance cultivators.
But the inner core Zhi Ling formed at this moment was the Radiant Spirit Bright Heart Golden Core, equivalent to the Supreme Golden Core among Immortal Alliance cultivators.
Although it was not a titled Golden Core, the grade of a Companion Beast’s inner core could continuously improve alongside its Dao cultivation and cultivation realm, unlike human cultivators, whose Golden Core grade was fixed and required paying a tremendous price to rebuild and alter.
“Ying!”
At this moment, Zhi Ling opened her eyes and let out a long cry.
The tribulation clouds gathered in the sky dispersed along with it. A powerful pressure that overlooked Beast Generals instantly spread throughout heaven and earth, causing the beasts within the Yuqing Mountain Range to retreat and roar one after another.
At this moment, wherever Chen Beiwu’s gaze reached, the originally fluffy snow-purple ball had already elongated. She was about the size of a mountain leopard, with an elegant and agile figure.
Zhi Ling raised her little head. Her round, different-colored eyes became increasingly mysterious, revealing hints of mystery and nobility, yet the innocence and curiosity within her eyes still remained, only accompanied by a trace of dignity.
“Step!”
“Step!”
“Step!”
Zhi Ling lightly stepped forward. Her four paws moved through the air, while the fluffy long tails behind her had quietly grown larger and swayed slightly, resembling flowing clouds and rosy light. No matter where she was, she could become the absolute center of attention.
Golden Egg could not help but shake its three dragon heads.
What an exaggerated charm.
Just watching Zhi Ling walk, a desire to make her its own arose within its heart.
“Woof.”
Iron Egg closed its eyes and did not look at Zhi Ling.
In its eyes, Zhi Ling was merely a child.
However, after Zhi Ling successfully advanced to the Third-Realm Beast General Realm, the charm she radiated was enough to make countless beasts fall for her, and even submit.
“Na.”
Xue Le revealed a radiant smile and stepped forward to offer congratulations.
It was merely a plant. Its only interests were cultivation and thievery.
The charm radiating from Zhi Ling was certainly excessive, but it could not strike its heart and make it feel moved.
“Congratulations on successfully awakening your bloodline and advancing to the Beast General Realm.”
While refining the feedback transmitted through the Companion Contract, Chen Beiwu crouched down and embraced Zhi Ling.
The sweet and warm milky fragrance entering his nose caused Chen Beiwu to feel somewhat surprised.
“Beiwu.” A childish voice slowly sounded.
“Mm.” Chen Beiwu lowered his head, patted Zhi Ling’s head, and responded.
“Hehe.”
Feeling the familiar warmth, Zhi Ling’s eyes curved into crescent moons.
“A grown daughter cannot be kept at home. After getting a contracted cultivator, she has already abandoned her mother to the side.” The Purple Jade Demon King said faintly.
“No, my most beloved mother.”
Zhi Ling came back to her senses. Her figure flashed, instantly appearing within the Purple Jade Demon King’s embrace, her tail swaying behind her.
“Alright, alright. There is no need to say so many flattering words.”
The Purple Jade Demon King waved her hand. A trace of disdain appeared on her face, yet her eyes carried a smile.
“It is already late. You should stay overnight at my residence today.” The Purple Jade Demon King looked at Chen Beiwu.
Chen Beiwu happily agreed. Returning to his hometown was not urgent by one or two days.
……
That night, after Chen Beiwu finished his cultivation as usual, he suddenly noticed footsteps coming from outside his door.
He raised his head and saw a graceful figure carrying a faint fragrance push open the door. It was none other than the lady’s maidservant, Bai Li.
Unlike their previous meeting, Bai Li was dressed very lightly this time.
She wore a thin, strapless long dress as delicate as cicada wings. Her curvaceous figure was faintly visible.
The hem of the dress only reached above her knees, revealing straight and slender calves and exquisite bare feet.
“Young Master.” Bai Li slightly lowered her head, her eyelashes trembling lightly. “The Lady has instructed that tonight Bai Li will serve Young Master and attend to your rest.”
“Please convey my thanks to Lady for her kindness.”
Chen Beiwu’s gaze remained as calm as water. After briefly sweeping over her, he shook his head. “I have always been accustomed to cultivating alone in quiet seclusion. Having someone beside me instead makes it difficult to sleep.”
Hearing this, Bai Li’s eyes moved slightly, and she looked at Chen Beiwu in surprise.
“That’s right, go away, go away.”
As a childish voice sounded, Zhi Ling stepped over the threshold and glanced at Bai Li.
The latter tactfully nodded and withdrew.
“Weren’t you supposed to accompany Lady to sleep today?” Chen Beiwu asked with a light laugh.
“Forget it. Mother does not sleep properly. She always hugs too tightly and does not let me breathe.”
Zhi Ling rushed into Chen Beiwu’s embrace and muttered.
After a long while, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Chen Beiwu, asking tentatively: “Do you like it?”
“Like what?” Chen Beiwu raised his brows.
“I mean, do you like Sister Bai Li’s kind of figure?” Zhi Ling drew circles with both feet, her expression exaggerated.
“Little girl, why are you thinking about such things?”
Chen Beiwu flicked her forehead with his finger, and Zhi Ling immediately covered her forehead in pain.
Seeing this scene, Chen Beiwu laughed helplessly.
How much strength had he used? Could he not know himself?
This little fellow was truly an actor.
“Hmph, just wait and see. In the future, I will definitely be bigger than Sister Bai Li.”
Zhi Ling raised her head, her tone filled with confidence.
“Yes, yes, yes. In the future, you will definitely become an unparalleled beauty.”
Chen Beiwu rubbed Zhi Ling’s head, speaking in the tone one would use to coax a child.
Human nature was difficult to predict.
According to what he knew, some Immortal Alliance cultivators had taken crooked paths, becoming involved with transformed Companion Beasts and giving birth to descendants, such as True Monarch Xu who controlled snakes and True Monarch Liu who controlled dragons.
Chen Beiwu neither commented on this nor had any interest in imitating them.
With his current cultivation realm and status, what kind of beauty could he not obtain? There was no need to let the relationship between Companion Partners become distorted.
Sensing Chen Beiwu’s thoughts, Golden Egg raised its head and looked at him three times.
Zhi Ling, meanwhile, happily nodded, enjoying Chen Beiwu’s praise.
‘As expected, she is still just a child.’
Seeing Zhi Ling’s reaction, Chen Beiwu sank his mind and investigated the Three Veins.
The Mystic Vein reaches the heavens and forms the Dao itself; creation returns to Yuanshi as true.
As Chen Beiwu expected, Zhi Ling, as an existence comparable to a Fifth-Tier Origin Beast, possessed innate Origin Veins of Heavenly Grade.
After obtaining the enhancement of Zhi Ling’s Three Veins, Chen Beiwu’s spirit root aptitude also transformed into:
“Metal 95, Wood 97, Water 97, Fire 95, Earth 96.”
This transformation could only be described with two words: ‘exaggerated’!
Unfortunately, the higher spirit root purity became, the more difficult further improvement became.
Although there was only a one-point difference between 95-point spirit root purity and 96-point spirit root purity, in reality, it was equivalent to the transformation from 80 to 90 spirit root purity. It could almost increase Chen Beiwu’s efficiency in refining heaven and earth spiritual energy by thirty to forty percent.
With this thought, Chen Beiwu’s divine sense moved and extended toward Zhi Ling’s Attribute Vein.
“Metal 96, Wood 96, Water 96, Fire 96, Earth 98.”
Chen Beiwu nodded in satisfaction.
Without exaggeration, if Zhi Ling’s Earth-element Attribute Vein could advance another step, it would reach the limit of a Heavenly Spirit Root. That was an absurd value that only Creation Origin Beasts could possess.
But this also meant that Chen Beiwu’s speculation was correct. Zhi Ling’s current bloodline grade was almost equivalent to a Fifth-Tier Origin Beast.
Chen Beiwu’s divine sense moved again and extended toward Zhi Ling’s Art Vein.
【Dao Cultivation: Six Hundred Ninety-Nine Years】
To possess such Dao cultivation immediately after advancing to the Beast General Realm, with cultivation comparable to a middle-stage Golden Core True Person, Zhi Ling could be said to have accumulated power over time before erupting.
However, compared with Dao cultivation, what Chen Beiwu cared about more was the innate Mystic Abilities Zhi Ling had awakened.
【Purple Net Heavenly Barrier】
【Seven Lifetimes Seven Realms】
【Treading Void Fur Escape】
【Universe Within the End】
【Great Rift Void Claw】
Skipping over the first two signature Mystic Abilities of the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox clan, Chen Beiwu’s divine sense moved toward the three newly awakened Mystic Abilities.
【Mystic Ability】: Treading Void Fur Escape
【Attribute】: Possesses all Five Elements, primarily Earth, with Spatial Attribute
【Grade】: Peerless Fourth-Tier Profound Ability
【Introduction】: Extreme-speed movement, crossing realms. When the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox activates this Mystic Ability, it can rely on the connection between its fox tails and the void of heaven and earth, transform itself into the Supreme Void, ignore arts and techniques, step through space, and travel thousands of miles in an instant.
Chen Beiwu’s eyes moved slightly. He felt that this Mystic Ability seemed simple, but in reality it was not. It was a genuine divine technique for escaping danger.
One must know that instantaneous movement of a thousand miles with a single thought was a privilege of Nascent Soul True Monarchs.
Even though Golden Egg possessed methods to break space and move, it could not instantly travel thousands of miles during the Beast General Realm. At most, it could move dozens of miles instantly, or at most a hundred miles.
Yet relying on her innate Mystic Ability, Zhi Ling could grasp a Five Elements Spatial Escape technique comparable to Nascent Soul True Monarchs while still in the Third-Realm Beast General Realm. This showed just how monstrous her talent was.
Furthermore, Treading Void Fur Escape was not only capable of long-distance movement and escape. At critical moments, it could also transform the body into the Supreme Void and ignore certain arts and techniques. It was one of the few special escape Mystic Abilities that simultaneously possessed both speed and defense.
‘An escape Mystic Ability is naturally excellent. It can protect the body and preserve life, but I already possess the Five Elements Bright King Wings with a similar effect.’
Chen Beiwu’s thoughts rapidly turned as he exhaled a breath of turbid air.
Having more techniques never hurts.
Although this escape Mystic Ability overlapped with the Five Elements Bright King Wings, it still could not be underestimated.
If an accident occurred in the future and the Five Elements Bright King Wings were restricted by a special Mystic Treasure, Zhi Ling’s Treading Void Fur Escape could still serve as a backup.
After making up his mind, Chen Beiwu looked toward another Mystic Ability.
【Mystic Ability】: Universe Within the End
【Attribute】: Possesses all Five Elements, Spatial Attribute
【Grade】: Fifth-Tier Supreme-Grade Creation Origin Art
【Introduction】: Contain Mount Sumeru within a mustard seed, tails cover the universe.
The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox possesses the inherited bloodline of the Void Heavenly Fox. Skilled in spatial Mystic Abilities, it can rely on its bloodline potential to open an independent miniature Grotto-Heaven world within the tails behind its body.
This world can contain all things, store weapons and accumulate strength. It can also evolve the might of heaven and earth overturning when fighting enemies, drawing foes inside and suppressing them with the power of the universe. Its wonders are endless.
Chen Beiwu’s pupils contracted, and surprise was difficult to conceal within his heart.
Even through a simple divine sense perception, he could already understand the extraordinary nature of this Mystic Ability.
This art was not merely the opening of a space, nor was it a True Realm created by Nascent Soul True Monarchs. Rather, it was a miniature Grotto-Heaven world evolved through the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox’s bloodline instincts.
Such a Mystic Ability had already touched upon a trace of the origin mysteries of heaven and earth. It transcended techniques and approached the Dao. Its value far surpassed the technique itself, and it was a completely different concept of spatial Mystic Ability compared with Xue Le’s Five Qi Origin Forest.
By borrowing the artistic conception of this Mystic Ability, he even had hope of comprehending the Other Shore Qiongqi Crossing Stele within Taiyuan Heavenly Realm.
Chen Beiwu lowered his eyes and looked at Zhi Ling. “Let me see your Universe Within the End.”
“Ying.”
Zhi Ling stepped upon the void. The seven tails behind her slowly spread and danced, drawing upon the surrounding spatial power of heaven and earth and creating faint ripples.
In the blink of an eye, a miniature Grotto-Heaven world quietly appeared behind Zhi Ling. Turbid energy lingered on the surface of the world, making it impossible to see what was inside.
“Whoosh!”
Zhi Ling looked toward Xue Le, and the latter’s figure instantly vanished without a trace.
No, rather than saying it disappeared, it would be more accurate to say that Xue Le had been drawn into the Universe World and suppressed.
‘Such fast capture. Even Xue Le could not react!’
Chen Beiwu clicked his tongue inwardly in amazement.
One must know that Xue Le was an existence halfway into the Beast King Realm, with Dao cultivation far surpassing Zhi Ling.
Regardless of whether Xue Le had underestimated her or simply failed to react in time, being captured and suppressed by Zhi Ling’s single move was undeniable.
Chen Beiwu: “How long can you suppress Xue Le?”
Zhi Ling frowned and extended three claws.
She could suppress Xue Le for three days, provided the latter maintained her current state and did not activate Mystic Abilities to unleash her full strength.
“Three days is enough.”
Chen Beiwu slightly nodded and quickly thought of various uses for this Mystic Ability.
The next second, spatial ripples appeared, and Xue Le’s figure suddenly emerged.
“Na!” (That’s unfair!)
Xue Le widened her eyes and looked toward Zhi Ling.
She had merely been watching from the side. How had she suddenly suffered betrayal from her companion?
“Sorry, those nine Fourth-Tier Mystic Medicines may trouble you to take care of.” Zhi Ling lowered her head and apologized.
“Na!”
Hearing this, Xue Le immediately became spirited. Her anger turned into joy as she patted her chest and spoke proactively.
Was once enough?
She had always been happy to help, especially when helping companions. She could also continue cooperating with Zhi Ling to test her Mystic Ability.
“Why can you only suppress Xue Le for three days? Is it because of the difference in mana?” Chen Beiwu asked through thought.
“It is not mana. With the Seven Lifetimes Seven Realms Mystic Ability, the mana within my body is almost endless.”
Zhi Ling hesitated before saying: “It is because Xue Le’s strength is too great. If the suppression lasts longer than three days, the Universe World will fluctuate. If it lasts longer than a month, the Universe World may be impacted by Xue Le’s mana and become unstable.”
Put simply, the difference in their Dao cultivation still existed.
If they fought within the same realm, then even if she could not injure Xue Le, she would still be confident in suppressing her for several years.
If she advanced to the Fourth-Realm Beast King Realm, she would be confident in suppressing Xue Le for five hundred years.