Chapter 2396: Chapter 2400: Studying the Sky-Cleaving Strike
"Junior Brother, are you alright?"
That night, when Yun Tao and the others entered Sky-Cleaving City, Hu Yiqiu and Jiang Chen were waiting in a private room at the Sky-Cleaving Inn. As soon as they met, Yun Tao looked at Jiang Chen with concern.
"I’m fine."
Jiang Chen chuckled lightly, shook his head, and turned to look at Mu Ling’er with a gentle smile. Though he couldn’t say much in front of everyone, his gratitude was conveyed.
Mu Ling’er playfully stuck out her tongue with a mischievous smile.
Pang Wenyan glanced at Jiang Chen, with a hint of suspicion in his eyes.
Mid Divine Infant Realm!? It’s not him, is it? But why is Yun Tao...?
"Wenyan, don’t dwell on it, I’ll handle this!"
A message sounded in her mind, and Pang Wenyan glanced at Su Ruoyun next to her and nodded lightly.
After chatting for a while, everyone returned to their respective rooms.
The next day, Jiang Chen followed Hu Yiqiu back to Changlin Academy, Zhuo Bufan went with Su Ruoyun back to Changling Academy, and Yun Tao and the others set off to complete their personal tasks.
Changlin Academy’s Fire Dao Mountain.
Today marks the first time in the history of Changlin Academy that Fire Dao Mountain is sealed during a non-combat period!
And this time, the sealing of the mountain is solely for one person’s cultivation, Jiang Chen!
Regarding this, neither the students, instructors, nor elders of the academy had any objections.
Jiang Chen’s contributions to the academy are evident to all. He prevented a catastrophe for the academy, leading to the reopening of the Archive Pavilion, Elixir Medicine Pavilion, and other places!
Because of all this, everyone in the academy held both admiration and gratitude for Jiang Chen!
This time, the students understood that Jiang Chen’s cultivation is aimed at enhancing his combat power, not his strength!
Everyone in the academy already knew that this student, who made unprecedented and perhaps never to be repeated contributions to the academy, was suppressing his own realm by two levels to obtain more support resources for the academy in the institutional competition for the main academy’s support.
Upon learning about this, many students from the academy took pride in having such a peer, and the instructors and elders felt proud to have such an academy!
Suppressing cultivation by two realms, not everyone can achieve that!
Everyone knew that Jiang Chen was relatively older in the same realm, having started cultivation in his twenties, which was already missing the optimal time for cultivation. Yet, this senior student, even among all Changlin Academy students, willingly suppressed his realm for the academy, even stopping his spiritual power cultivation to avoid breaking through.
Such dedication, such contribution, is something not everyone could bear!
And yet, Jiang Chen silently accomplished all of this. If not for this time’s need to use the power of the Fire Path Dao Fruit, hardly anyone in the academy might have known about it.
Everyone in the academy is filled with gratitude for Jiang Chen. Some elders and instructors voluntarily surrounded Fire Dao Mountain, prohibiting anyone from disturbing him during this retreat.
Everyone knew that Jiang Chen’s enhancement this time was not just to raise his combat power, but also for the upcoming institutional competition!
This is all for the academy’s honor!
Inside Fire Dao Mountain, atop a magma platform.
Jiang Chen sat cross-legged on the platform with his eyes slightly closed. Torrents of violent Fire Path aura poured into Jiang Chen’s body, enveloping him in a scorching red energy.
Meanwhile, his Divine Infant was not within his body, but in that ethereal Dao Fruit Secret Realm!
In the fiery red world.
Jiang Chen’s Divine Infant sat cross-legged, surrounded by a blazing furnace.
This time, what he aimed to do was to integrate the power of the Dao Fruit into the Flame Furnace, making it more solid and its power even more potent.
The Flame Serpent had already been refined into the Flame Furnace by Jiang Chen, and the Dao Fruit power of the Fire Path was meant to enhance the power of the Flame Serpent!
The first refinement of the Flame Furnace, in Jiang Chen’s understanding, was the foundation of the entire combat technique. This time, with the aid of the Dao Fruit’s power, he intended to solidify this foundation.
Relying on The Tome of Dao and the ancient cultivation techniques in his dreamlike memories, Jiang Chen re-evaluated the Heaven and Earth Furnace combat skill and discovered that this technique was not an incomplete fragment as conventionally thought.
It’s a complete combat technique. The reason it was marked as incomplete was that the Heaven and Earth Furnace combat skill didn’t have an absolutely definitive cultivation method. The stronger the flame beast soul or Heavenly Earth Spirit Fire integrated into the Furnace, the stronger the Furnace’s power becomes, and the Dao Fruit’s power is mightier than any Heavenly Earth Spirit Fire known to Jiang Chen, also marking the strongest flame power Jiang Chen could currently refine.
If Jiang Chen were to be thrown into the true Dao Fruit Secret Realm of the main academy, he might find himself powerless, as the power contained within the real Dao Fruit was too immense for his current stage to absorb!
The sealing of Fire Dao Mountain lasted a full half month. When Jiang Chen emerged from Fire Dao Mountain, the Dao Fruit power was almost undetectable, and the surrounding power of the Great Dao of Fire was nearly identical to other places.
On this point, everyone in the academy was not shocked but delighted. No one blamed Jiang Chen for absorbing all the Dao Fruit power; instead, they celebrated his ability to absorb such power, indicating a further increase in his combat power!
After leaving Fire Dao Mountain, Jiang Chen returned to Southern Maniac Mountain and secluded himself once again. This time, he unlocked the seal on Sky-Cleaving Strike in his Sea of Consciousness and rigorously studied the technique.
"Truly, it’s a combat skill capable of slaying a Semi-Saint expert at the Pinnacle of the Integration Realm!"
After three days of study, Jiang Chen opened his eyes and let out a sigh.
Back then, Hu Yiqiu said Sky-Cleaving Battle Emperor relied on the small Dao Fruit of the Dao of Wind he condensed to slay a Semi-Saint expert. But after mastering Sky-Cleaving Strike, Jiang Chen realized that the Sky-Cleaving Battle Emperor could slay a Semi-Saint expert even without using the Dao Fruit.
Sky-Cleaving Strike’s core principle lay in power control. The better the control over one’s strength, the greater the power unleashed.
In other words, if Jiang Chen could completely master all eleven types of Power of the Great Dao within him, and simultaneously master Spiritual Power, Primordial Spirit Power, and Blood Fiend Force, he could unleash an attack with all his internal strength combined, resulting in a compounded strike.
From Jiang Chen’s current strength perspective, if he could achieve such holistic control, slaying a cultivator in the mid-stage of the Virtual Refinement Realm in a single strike would not be a dream.
Of course, Jiang Chen couldn’t accomplish this yet.
Currently, he had only managed to fuse the Five Elements Great Path and the Spatial Path with Spiritual Power, which was already his limit!
