Chapter 1760: Chapter 9: A Century of Seclusion, Zuo Qiyu’s Trial
Year 157 of entering the Primordial Realm.
Inside Huai Liu Courtyard, within the dueling arena.
"Boom~Boom~"
The Yin Yang Dao Domain martial artist, Bagel, had extended four arms, holding swords, dueling with three bronze-skinned giants.
The giants wore nothing, their upper bodies bare, dressed in grass garments woven from green leaves.
Bagel wielded three weapons, constantly dodging under the attacks of three giants. He was very agile, sufficiently so that the giants found it extremely difficult to touch him, yet Bagel remained cautious and refrained from exerting full force.
For he knew, facing the three Giant Sun Grassmen, particularly Giant Sun Grassmen who could wield the Great Divine Power Five Finger Mountain and unleash the Treasure Mountain Divine Ability, he had only one opportunity to strike.
After sparring for thousands of moves, Bagel finally couldn’t resist. His physical body swelled, sprouting four more arms again, akin to a beast’s transformation, instantly charging towards the Giant Sun Grassmen.
But just then... the three Giant Sun Grassmen vanished, shrinking to mere rice grain size.
"What? Void Ancestor Divine Power, Rice Grain Mixed Heaven Technique?" Bagel was stunned for a moment, then suddenly felt stinging sensations from his abdomen, knee joints, and palm.
"Bang!"
Although still instantly crushed by the Eight-Armed Divine Power, Bagel staggered, a patch of blood appeared on his body.
With the battle concluded, the Giant Sun Grassmen exploded, turning to ash.
"Sir, when did you learn the Rice Grain Mixed Heaven Technique? Isn’t that restricted to martial artists?" Bagel inquired.
"Just learned it." A trace of consciousness gathered from the grassman ashes, swirling like wind, drifting afar, "Bagel, good work today, let’s end the training here."
"Yes, sir." Bagel refrained from further questioning.
"Quite impressive." Sinda approached Bagel offstage, "The sir only dispatched three avatars yet forced out your ’Eight-Armed Divine Power.’"
The Eight-Armed Divine Power is a martial artist’s Physical Body Divine Power, the more arms, the more divine powers, with the power compounding.
The first two layers of the Eight-Armed Divine Power are at the Small Divine Power level, only when eight arms converge does it reach the Great Divine Power.
Usually, martial artists can only excavate the fourth arm of their physical body, unable to go further, but Bagel, upon reaching the Yin Yang Dao Domain Realm, has excavated his Physical Treasure to the eighth arm.
It is thanks to this divine power that Bagel was able to enter the Primordial Realm as a sparring partner.
Although he defeated Zhao Xing’s Giant Sun avatar, Bagel is a formal martial artist, whereas Zhao Xing is a Minister of Agriculture.
And his grassmen even mastered the Great Divine Power Five Finger Mountain and Rice Grain Mixed Heaven Technique, which was indeed astonishing.
"Sinda, I’ve trained so many years, yet didn’t know the Minister of Agriculture’s Grassman Skill could use martial artists’ Great Divine Power. What does that make me?" Bagel was somewhat questioning life.
Sinda hesitated, "Uh, a waste?"
"Thank you, you didn’t have to answer."
"Uh..."
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Hundred Feet Void, Zhao Xing retracted the grassman’s soul thought while also absorbing today’s ’combat experience.’
"Bagel and Sinda’s understanding remains limited; they’ve seen Grassman Skills but not my sort of Void Ancestor Grassman Skill."
The Giant Sun Grassman Skill is part of the Void Ancestor Grassman Skill series.
Ordinary Grassman Skills can generally only integrate spells, unable to incorporate martial artists’ Secret Techniques and Divine Skills.
However, the Void Ancestor series Grassman Skill is different, able to assimilate and accommodate.
After the founding of Great Zhou, Zhao Xing embarked on a frenzy of cultivation, nearly a century has now past.
The most significant achievement among them is that the Giant Sun Grassman Skill has reached Small Divine Power perfection and begun the fusion of spells and divine skills.
"Fundamentally, the Giant Sun Grassman Skill is a spell, utilizing materials from the Void Ancestor Star System, compatible with two Great Divine Powers, excluding the Mountain Law Great Divine Power, also including Rice Grain Mixed Heaven Technique."
The Mountain Law Great Divine Power was something Zhao Xing was intimately familiar with, practicing for a long time.
And Rice Grain Mixed Heaven Technique itself is among the Void Ancestor Divine Powers; when exploring the scholarly Dao Treasury, the Qi Sect martial artist under Du Yun, You Yitian, once demonstrated it.
"The Giant Sun Grassman Skill reaching Divine Power perfection allows for Harmonization, but combining two Great Divine Powers is already the limit."
"It isn’t that my talent and perception aren’t enough, it’s that the Giant Sun Grassman Skill itself isn’t suitable as a foundation for Harmonization." Zhao Xing mused.
If considering the Giant Sun Grassman Skill as a foundation, Harmonization akin to building a house, with the first layer being the Mountain Law Great Divine Power, the second layer being the Rice Grain Mixed Heaven Technique.
The weight of these two Great Divine Powers has reached the limit of the Giant Sun Grassman Skill’s endurance; further Harmonization would certainly collapse the foundation.
The Giant Sun Grassman Skill itself wouldn’t stand.
"This series of Grassman Skill must be replaced, and only Zuo Qiyu from the series can teach."
"How should I find Primordial Envoy Zuo Qiyu to learn the technique?" Zhao Xing pondered. "Personal mastery, not listed on the treasury exchange list."
The Red Star Empire doesn’t force anyone to selflessly offer their Secret Techniques; for those willing, benefits naturally associated, and for those unwilling, no compulsion.
Many masteries require coincidence and fortuity to acquire, like Wu Tian’s Great Divine Power; he sold the Treasure Mountain Divine Power but never sold ’Five Finger Mountain.’
Zuo Qiyu’s Taichu Grassman Skill is an unrivaled mastery.
Only when facing the True Spirit’s expiration might he consider teaching it.
"Zuo Qiyu’s Avatar Technique, Taichu Avatar, I won’t hope for it; even learning it wouldn’t provide me the Taichu series materials, as they are non-renewable resources, as valuable as top-tier Reincarnation Soldiers."
"But the advanced Taixu, Primordial, Silent Extinction three series Grassman Skills must find a way to acquire one from him."
