Shrouding the Heavens: Starting by joining the Holy Land of Yao Guang

Chapter 15 Secret Technique
After leaving behind the resources, Zhang Chong departed, filled with awe and joy. With such a prodigy on Rising Sun Island, its fame would endure for the next thousand years. He wanted to share this good news with his martial uncle, so that the old man could also be happy.

Inside the room, Li Yao was overjoyed to see the 700 jin of pure source in the jade bottle. He had originally thought that he would only have 500 jin of pure source this month, since he had just broken through and no one knew about it yet.

But who would have thought that there would be 700 jin of source material!
This was clearly not prepared in advance; it must have been Zhang Chong who replenished him with another two hundred jin of pure source after seeing his breakthrough.

"We've used up 1,260 jin of resources. It will take another two months of resources to recharge the Heavenly Book," Li Yao sighed softly.

He did not continue cultivating. Although he possessed the Yao Guang Jing Ming Quan Juan, it was not refined or strengthened, and it is now only a Great Sage-level scripture.

For others, the divine power cultivated from the Great Sage-level scriptures might be enough to make them look down on the world, but Li Yao had great ambitions and he knew the importance of early cultivation. He would rather wait a month or two than start cultivating the Yao Guang Scripture now.

However, Li Yao is not without things to do. Although he has reached the Life Spring Realm, he lacks protective methods. While he is strong enough to fight against the Divine Bridge even with his bare hands, this is not his full strength. If he can learn one or two offensive divine techniques, his combat power will only increase.

There is another matter that should be put on the agenda, namely weapon forging. With his breakthrough, the original thirty-six divine runes above the Bitter Sea have now increased to forty-nine.

In the world of Shrouding the Heavens, the importance of artifacts is self-evident. They are the continuation of life, the carrier of one's Great Dao, and the place to protect the Dao.

Especially in the early stages, a weapon can greatly enhance combat power, and this weapon can be a companion on the path of life that will accompany you through countless years to come.

Both of the above tasks require time, and now, due to external circumstances, he can take advantage of this free time during his cultivation to complete them.

For his first offensive divine arts, Li Yao chose two: the defensive divine art Hao Ri Divine Shield and the offensive divine art Hao Ri Divine Radiance. One for offense and one for defense, which was sufficient for the early stages.

In fact, what Li Yao most wanted to learn was the forbidden divine technique, Holy Light Technique, from the Yao Guang Scripture. This secret technique was both offensive and defensive, and the Yao Guang Holy Son used it to dominate the world in the early stages, which shows its power.

Unfortunately, Li Yao did not have the method to cultivate this secret technique. All disciples who studied the Yao Guang Scripture who wanted to learn the Holy Light Technique could only be qualified to learn it by going to the Four Extremes Secret Realm.

However, it doesn't matter. For now, the Sun Shield and Sun Radiance are sufficient and greatly enhance his combat power.

After selecting the secret method, all that's left is to forge the weapon.

Cultivators can conjure "divine runes" into various shapes, such as throwing knives and daggers, which can be released outside the body to kill enemies, making them more effective than "divine runes".

Some individuals, unafraid of complexity and mystery, repeatedly refine their "divine runes," transforming them into "cauldrons," "bells," or "towers," which can unleash various mysterious powers.

Legend has it that a very few cultivators can refine "artifacts" with "divine runes," which may undergo unexpected changes in the later stages, with "trajectory of the Dao" weaving inside the "artifact," giving it unfathomable power.

Li Yao pondered what kind of vessel he should forge. First, it must be a powerful weapon that could suppress his own body and prevent external evils from invading. Second, it must also have impressive offensive capabilities, capable of both carrying and protecting the Dao.

"Heaven and earth are the furnace, creation is the craftsman, yin and yang are the charcoal, and all things are the copper."

"The furnace's shape can reverse the creation of heaven and earth, and all things can be put into the furnace to refine an unparalleled golden elixir to nourish oneself. So let's refine a furnace. It can both suppress oneself and have offensive power." Li Yao made his choice.

Logically speaking, the four realms of Bitter Sea, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, and Other Shore can each be used to refine a "weapon". Many rogue cultivators have refined many weapons in each realm.

Anyone with ambition would not choose to do this. Admittedly, refining multiple artifacts would greatly help combat power in the early stages, but powerful artifacts are invariably formed by the fusion of the four realms. In other words, to obtain the strongest artifact, one should only refine one artifact from the Bitter Sea, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, and Other Shore realms, not four.

This is what is called "great talents mature late." Once successful, one can overcome all obstacles with one move, and all other flowers will wither after one's own flower blooms.

In the entire Eastern Wilderness, only a few ancient scriptures record this profound and mysterious method of forging a "weapon" through four realms, which ordinary cultivators have no chance to access.

However, even among the holy lands and ancient families that possess these ancient scriptures, few disciples dare to take such a risk.

Because opportunities always come with risks, the price you pay for more may be unbearable.

Throughout history, the vast majority of people have failed to achieve anything significant by using four stages to refine a single "tool," wasting their lives in vain.

Without one's own "tool," one cannot control objects and is no different from a useless person. Therefore, few disciples of holy lands and ancient families make such a choice.

Only those with great courage dare to do this.

Li Yao had great ambitions, and naturally, he chose a single weapon to overcome all other methods.

As the sun rose and set, time flew by. Li Yao did not practice the scriptures to improve his cultivation, but instead focused all his attention on divine arts and weapon forging.

As the golden crow soared through the sky, he practiced the Radiant Sun and the Radiant Sun Shield on the cliff. When the bright moon rose at night, he would sit cross-legged in his room and forge artifacts.

The years of cultivation are monotonous. Even the most extraordinary scenery becomes tiresome after a while. Li Yao was not a born saint; he was just someone who had just embarked on the path of cultivation. He also felt lonely and isolated.

But he endured it. He knew what he truly wanted. The path to the Great Dao is lonely, and if you want to reach the end, you must accept the price you have to pay.

For cultivators, solitude is the dominant theme.

Li Yao understood this deeply, so he endured the loneliness, and two months passed in the blink of an eye.

……

“Boom!”, “Boom!”, “Boom!”…

A tremendous roar echoed from a cliff thirty feet high, accompanied by a blazing light. The entire mountain trembled slightly, rocks flew everywhere, and trees rustled, as if a savage dragon was trampling on the mountain, threatening to overturn the earth.

After a long time, the sound finally disappeared, and the mountain returned to calm. The mountaintop was now a mess, full of pits and holes, some as large as ten feet in size, with rocks flying everywhere.

The once lush trees on the mountaintop were in even worse condition, many of them broken in half or uprooted, some even blasted into sawdust, with charred marks everywhere.

(End of this chapter)