ATPnovel Chapter 1632: 19: Night Falls, Day Breaks
Chapter 1632: 19: Night Falls, Day Breaks
Chapter 1632: Chapter 19: Night Falls, Day BreaksThe entire city of Linzi was closely following the Feng Gu case, albeit all the attention was kept in the shadows.
Especially as the case grew more complex and the layers peeled back, everyone was curious yet kept their distance.
No one would discuss the case openly, but anyone with the privilege to know about the case’s progress was watching intently.
This could very well become the largest political storm following Jiang Wuqi’s death!
Who could remain uninvolved?
Being a central figure in the case, assigned to oversee the investigation, Jiang Wang, the Marquess Jiang, continued his daily cultivation practices outside of the case.
Having advanced to the External Building Environment, in addition to his regular cultivation routines, he was now also engaged in the expansion of the Star Sea and polishing of the Star Tower…
As long as he wanted to move forward, there was always something to do.
Even when considering Dao Techniques alone, having just formed Dragon and Tiger, it required much practice for deeper mastery. Meanwhile, the Flame Flower Burning City would be the next superlative Dao Technique to conquer.
Furthermore, the five Instantaneous Dao Arts imprinted in the Inner Mansion Realm, including the Decayed Wood Decision, Eight Sounds Burning Sea, Voice Broadcast Immortal Style, Five Senses Hell, and Rage Fire, all had room for enhancement in the External Building Environment.
As the Eight Sounds Burning Sea and Voice Broadcast Immortal Style were self-created, they were progressing well. As his horizons broadened, naturally new ideas emerged, but enhancing the Decayed Wood Decision, Five Senses Hell, and Rage Fire evidently required the Taixu Illusion Realm’s Daoist Platform for assistance.
For that, “merits” were needed…
Currently, there weren’t many channels to earn merits in the Taixu Illusion Realm, aside from contributing a significant amount of cultivation techniques, it could only be gained on the Discussion Platform.
Jiang Wang was invincible at the Inner Mansion level; on the External Building level of the Discussion Platform, he was almost unbeatable.
Five battles a day, undefeated thus far.
At this rate, he might achieve an unbeaten record and reach the summit as Taixu’s top External Building rank.
He only engaged in five matches because, apart from cultivation, five intense high-quality battles provided enough yield.
If it were merely about obtaining victory, easily crushing opponents, the number of matches, be it five or fifty, made no difference to Jiang Wang.
That would not be cultivation.
Jiang Wang did not enjoy the thrill of torturing weaker opponents; he took pleasure in discovering the “uniqueness” of each opponent, the Spirit Light they exhibited in combat, and those battle choices that surprised him.
It’s the accumulation of these elements that became his resource, making him stronger.
Therefore, he often suppressed his strength during battles, trying many new ideas that he wouldn’t attempt easily in life-or-death fights, giving himself and his opponents more opportunities.
Yet, even with this approach, he had never truly felt threatened in the Grade-4 Discussion Platform battles thus far.
After all, at the Inner Mansion level, he had already defeated four great External Building-level Human Demons single-handedly. Ordinary External Building-level cultivators, even the elites admitted into the Taixu Illusion Realm, posed little threat to him.
Especially as the Taixu Illusion Realm expanded rapidly, drawing in more and more cultivators… which also meant more weaklings.
Of course, with the number increasing swiftly, more strong individuals would become active in the Taixu Illusion Realm.
The strong would ultimately meet at the summit.
Jiang Wang would certainly be the one to ascend to the peak.
Every victory on the Grade-4 Discussion Platform earned two hundred merit points, while the defeated lost four hundred.
It was evident that as time went on, the demand for merits in the Taixu Illusion Realm grew increasingly.
How many merits could sustain such losses?
Analyzing the observable trends, in the future, one would need to contribute cultivation techniques to the Daoist Platform as much as possible to spar with peers without reservation.
The strong continued to advance with merits, while the weak had to continuously contribute techniques and Dao Arts to cover the expense of using the Discussion Platform, maintaining their progress in continuous battles, evolving towards becoming the strong.
Almost all the rules in the Taixu Illusion Realm were blatantly promoting the progression and innovation of Dao Techniques, the reform of cultivation techniques.
It wasn’t even about the strength or efficacy of the Dao Techniques; those ingenious, thought-provoking ideas that opened new perspectives were the key points to accumulating more “merits.”
Conversely, the accumulation of myriad cultivation techniques would also bolster the strength of the Daoist Platform.
It’s entirely conceivable that someday, as the Taixu Illusion Realm evolves to a certain stage, the innovation of Dao Techniques will accelerate, potentially driving a transformation in the world of cultivation…
Hence, the global powers all sought to intervene, supervising the operation of the Taixu Illusion Realm. Even as formidable as the Taixu Sect, it could only share power over the Taixu Illusion Realm.
The challenge in the initial promotion of the Taixu Illusion Realm was precisely because its potential was visibly apparent!
There were bound to be obstructionists amongst the conservatives, and resistance from those who benefited from the current order.
How the Taixu Sect persuaded the great powers to join, laying the groundwork for the Taixu Illusion Realm, must have been a magnificent tale itself…
Of course, it wasn’t something Jiang Wang needed to concern himself with at the moment.
Victorious in every battle, he didn’t have to worry about the “cost” of the Discussion Platform. No matter the price, he was always on the winning side, there was no need to pay.
Five battles daily in the Taixu Illusion Realm, consistently earning a thousand merit points, far surpassing the monthly merit reward from the Blessed Land.
The Blessed Land, with its Fortunate Mountain of forty-nine embraces, offered only three hundred and forty points, not enough to cover a single loss on the Grade-4 Discussion Platform. The mismatch between value and acquisition difficulty was evident, so the significance of the Blessed Land was certainly not in the merit reward, nor solely in that gate leading to the Hongmeng Space.