Dragon Devouring Cultivation

Chapter 420 Devouring
Actually, it's not surprising that a fifth-tier Heavenly Demon can improve their cultivation so quickly.

The cultivation method of a fifth-order Heavenly Demon is inherently contrary to the laws of nature. This cultivation method hastened the disappearance of Heavenly Demons, but it has also brought about a faster advancement in realm.

Of course, this applies to ordinary Heavenly Demons. Fifth-order Heavenly Demons, being independent beings without any emotions, are not affected by the backlash on their souls.

Therefore, a fifth-tier Heavenly Demon can devour living beings without harming itself, but it can enhance its own soul. As the Heavenly Demon's soul strengthens, its cultivation level also increases.

If an ordinary demon were to devour 100,000 vicious souls, its strength would be greatly enhanced, but it would also be more insane, turning into a killing machine, waiting only for the souls to become uncontrollable and collapse.

Having witnessed the growth of a fifth-tier Heavenly Demon, Li Zhen then focused his attention on the fifth-tier Wukong and the fifth-tier Sanzang.

He couldn't help but shake his head. The cultivation levels of the fifth-tier Wukong and the fifth-tier Sanzang were still the same. Five years was too short a time for a fifth-tier undead.

He regained his composure, and his six nascent souls, the same size as his main body, formed a Five Elements formation, with energy flowing between them.

After five years of arduous cultivation, the cultivation levels of the six Nascent Soul cultivators have increased almost imperceptibly.

There was no way around it; once he reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, it was extremely difficult to improve his cultivation even slightly.

For five years, he was surrounded by the most abundant fifth-order spiritual energy in the world. Unfortunately, after this fifth-order spiritual energy was distributed among the six Nascent Soul cultivators, the amount of fifth-order spiritual energy each Nascent Soul cultivator received was much less.

At this rate of cultivation, it would be difficult to advance to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage even in a thousand years.

After Li Zhen finished his cultivation session and discovered this situation, he immediately stopped cultivating.

He was also very troubled. Even if he went to kill fifth-tier beings, the energy he gained from the early and middle stages of those fifth-tier beings, even if they were devoured by the Dragon Heart Space, would be a drop in the ocean.

Of course, there are ways to quickly improve one's cultivation level.

By killing a powerful being in the late stage of the fifth rank, and having the Dragon Heart Space absorb the energy converted by that powerful being, he can provide energy to rapidly improve his cultivation.

But such beings are not easy to deal with. Since he devoured the corpse of the Xuanwu Divine Beast, he has gained more knowledge about these ancient divine beasts.

If the Xuanwu Divine Beast hadn't been nearing the end of its lifespan, and if Li Zhen hadn't voluntarily agreed to the conditions proposed by the Xuanwu Divine Beast, Li Zhen wouldn't know what the consequences of fighting the Xuanwu Divine Beast with all his might would have been.

It is highly likely that he suffered a crushing defeat, or that he fled in a sorry state.

It wasn't that he lacked confidence, but rather that the Xuanwu Divine Beast's defense was simply too strong. Just think about his physical body right now; even if he stood before a Divine Lord in the early or mid-stages of the Nascent Soul realm, they would still find it difficult to break through his defenses.

His physical body possessed its current defenses precisely because it absorbed a portion of the body-refining energy from the Xuanwu divine beast.

Although there is another divine beast in the medieval world, namely the Kunpeng divine beast of the North Sea Divine Sect, if the Dragon Heart Space could devour the Kunpeng divine beast, it would definitely allow all six of his Nascent Souls to advance to the Great Perfection realm.

The problem is that the Kunpeng mythical beast only appears once every few hundred years, and it's unknown when it will appear again.

Furthermore, even though Li Zhen is incredibly strong, he is not entirely confident in his ability to fight a divine beast.

He composed himself and began to organize the results of his five years of insights into the field.

He was cultivating and comprehending the domain at the same time, and he hardly felt the passage of time, because he was so engrossed in comprehending the domain.

He looked through the inspirations he had gained in the field of enlightenment, which he had memorized, and now that he had time, he planned to verify them.

One experiment after another was launched, some yielding successful inspirations, others wildly imaginative ones.

He came up with another idea: to let the Dragon Heart Space devour more world fragments, thereby strengthening the small world.

Li Zhen didn't have any fragments of small worlds around him, but he did have a top-tier spiritual treasure, the Eastern Absolute Divine Mansion.

Other cultivators would never be willing to use top-tier spiritual treasures for experiments, as it would most likely damage the Eastern Absolute Divine Palace and yield nothing.

However, he still planned to experiment. Since the portability of the Eastern Absolute Divine Mansion could be replaced by a small world, its other functions were useless to him.

He placed the Eastern Absolute Divine Palace into the small world and initiated a request to devour the Dragon Heart Space.

His body refinement cultivation was at the fifth level of perfection, his Qi cultivation had reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage, and with the Dragon Heart becoming a Celestial Spirit Body, the Dragon Heart Space devoured the Eastern Absolute Divine Mansion at an extremely fast speed, finishing the devouring in just a few breaths.

When the Eastern Absolute Divine Palace disappeared, the resulting spatial power and a large amount of rule power were sent into the small world. The small world absorbed the spatial power and rule power, seemingly increasing its size only slightly, with nothing else noticeable.

However, Li Zhen was able to sense that the small world had expanded and its rules had become stronger.

Although the increase in size and the strengthening of rules of the small world are very small, it shows that as long as the fragments of the world are devoured, the small world can grow.

As his small world grew, his domain became increasingly powerful.

Li Zhen had a considerable understanding of the medieval world. As far as he knew, the only fragment of this world he knew of was the Eastern Divine Palace. Other fragments might exist, but they had long been lost in the long river of history.

If one wants to obtain fragments of the world, it seems that only the Immortal Kingdom has them.

Both the Immortal Kingdom and the Medieval World were created by cultivators, but the Immortal Kingdom's technological development brought it more advantages, allowing it to surpass the Medieval World in many aspects.

He acted on his whim and activated his spatial powers. Since he was originally a being from the Immortal Kingdom, he did not encounter any trouble when using his spatial powers to return to the Immortal Kingdom.

There was no small world cave here, but he activated his domain, making himself invisible to Principal Wang.

After Li Zhen withdrew his domain, Principal Wang appeared not far from him after a while.

"Greetings, Lord Li!" Principal Wang said respectfully, bowing.

“I need fragments of the world. Could the school help me?” Li Zhen waved to help him up and then asked.

"The school currently has two unallocated world fragments. If you need more, you will need to apply to the Immortal Kingdom government. Your previous battle merits have not been redeemed yet, and they are enough to redeem two more world fragments!" Principal Wang replied after thinking for a moment.

As a Nascent Soul cultivator, Li Zhen desired fragments of the world. Although fragments of the world are extremely precious, Qingmu University must do its utmost to fulfill Li Zhen's request.

Even if Aoki University didn't have the world fragments that Li Zhen needed, they would still find a way to obtain them.

"What if we need more world fragments?" Li Zhen asked after a moment's thought.

"Then you can apply to the Immortal Kingdom for a time-space scanner. The time scanner can find useful things in the space-time turbulence, the most common of which are world fragments!" Principal Wang offered a solution.

"Alright, help me apply for a spacetime scanner from the Immortal Kingdom, and also send over the four world fragments!" Li Zhen didn't stand on ceremony and gave the order directly.

Principal Wang accepted the order and went to carry it out, while Li Zhen reopened his domain and closed his eyes to comprehend its rules.

Because of the teleportation array, and because Li Zhen was a newly promoted Nascent Soul cultivator, making his first request to the Immortal Kingdom as a Nascent Soul cultivator, the Immortal Kingdom responded immediately.

Li Zhen waited all day, and Principal Wang arrived the next morning.

Unable to contact Li Zhen through his identity bracelet, Principal Wang could only go to the place where they had met last time.

He saw Li Zhen resting with his eyes closed, and he had the same feeling as Wen Hua in the ancient world. The person was right in front of him, but he could not sense Li Zhen's presence by divine sense or other means.

"You're here!" The moment Li Zhen opened his eyes, he withdrew his domain and nodded with a smile.

"Here's what you wanted!" Principal Wang presented a jade slip and a spatial ring.

Li Zhen took the jade slip and the spatial ring. He scanned the jade slip with his divine sense and found that it contained five spatial coordinates and five special spells.

"Since you are a Nascent Soul cultivator, we don't need to take you there. You only need to reach the spatial coordinates and use the incantation to recognize the world fragment as your own. The space ring contains a spacetime scanner!" Principal Wang explained.

"How come there's an extra fragment of the world?" Li Zhen asked when he saw that there were five spatial coordinates.

"It is Lord Liu who believes your achievements are worthy of being exchanged for three world fragments!" Principal Wang explained.

Li Zhen nodded. Liu Gang's transformation into a god was a gesture of goodwill towards him; after all, it was just a fragment of a world.

Despite their preciousness, new world fragments can still be discovered and locked in by activating the spacetime scanner.

(End of this chapter)