Chapter 4019 - Two Great Swordmaidens
"What power! Ji Ji's own cosmoforce can rival the other four's combined!" Most of the time, Ji Ji didn't participate in combat, and it didn't have many abilities, either. However, it contributed the most to Tianming's power and energy levels, so having it around made a huge difference.
Its spiritform emerged and sat on the crystal planet and said, "Vaporize is a few times stronger now. There’s also many other ridiculous changes. Want to give it a try? I promise I'll reduce you to ashes."
"Better not. Leave the good stuff for our enemies," Tianming said. Seeing it compressed to this extent, it definitely packed a much heavier punch than before. Having Ji Ji around means that I'll be able to survive even crazier situations now! There's only one final step before I become a cosmic god....
He looked down in stark anticipation; only two of his orders left. "The Eightpart Pantheons aren't done harvesting the fruits yet, so I should keep going."
He continued cultivating for a few more days and found that his final two orders were still quite far off from transforming. So he had no choice but to focus on leveling up the other things in his arsenal to make some kind of progress.
First, Shao Xingru had ancestral cosmic god corpses with cosmic tribulation seas that he could use for his totems. Second, there was one final strike that he had to master from the flameyellow voidkin's cosmic art. And third, there were the chaos swordmaidens inside the Grand-Orient Sword.
Among the three, the first took the least time to go through, so he immediately opened the totemancers' corpses and let his decapath era godswords absorb whatever they could from the cosmic tribulation seas. Their simulacra rapidly increased to 40 folds! Even though Shao Xingru had a high status, she couldn't bring an infinite number of ancestral corpses with her. But Tianming was still happy with how much his simulacra had increased. Though it hadn't reached 60 folds, like Shao Xingru’s, the innate quality of his totems was higher to begin with.
"40-fold Simulacrum, Decapath Era Swordmaidens...." He blankly looked at the ten goddesses that his totems had transformed into. His sword totems had turned into heavenly-being totems thanks to his new simulacrum, each one embodying the unique elemental, cardinal, or spacetime aspects of their respective swords. The core essence of the decapath era godswords was still within them, just expressed in a much more complex form.
What surprised Tianming even more was how similar they were to Jiguang herself, just like her sixfold simulacrum, Era Swordmaidens. Though their precise appearances differed, their overall gentle temperament remained the same. It was the same kind of upgrade.
Why are they also called swordmaidens? Are the chaos swordmaidens also somehow related? Were they the concubines of the big boss or something? He had far too many questions. That said, though, no matter who they used to belong to, they were his for now, both the ones in his sword and his totems. They also made for a powerful combination. When Tianming applied the 40-fold simulacrum to his sword, he noticed that the two swordmaidens' powers began blending. With a single strike, he suddenly felt the sensation of ultimate bliss.