The Nine Heavens Divine Thunder is also the result of Ye Zhen’s ten years of arduous cultivation within the Mirage Dragon Pearl.
Its power is several tis stronger than the Evil Punishing Divine Thunder in the Thunder Elent Forbidden Techniques that Ye Zhen could previously use.
Ye Zhen’s forr Evil Punishing Divine Thunder was incapable of threatening Dao Realm experts, but this Nine Heavens Divine Thunder can.
Of course, this refers to the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder cast by Ye Zhen using the Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Whip, which can threaten Dao Realm experts.
Without the support of the Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Whip, the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder cast by Ye Zhen relying solely on his own strength would be greatly diminished in power. It wouldn’t even be able to severely injure Wang Baimu.
Naturally, the imnse power of this Nine Heavens Divine Thunder is related to the significant increase in Ye Zhen’s cultivation.
Before Ye Zhen went into seclusion for arduous cultivation on Five Immortals Island, his cultivation had barely reached the peak of the First Stage of Dark Palace Realm, but after ten years of cultivation within the Mirage Dragon Pearl.
Ye Zhen’s cultivation surged all the way to the Early-stage Fifth Stage Dark Palace Realm.
Breaking through a small realm every three years on average, this speed can be considered miraculous.
Because for most martial artists, after reaching the Dark Palace Realm, advancing a small realm within ten years is considered genius, and three years is almost unimaginable.
However, Ye Zhen has a Primordial Spirit as powerful as a Dao Realm early-stage expert, supported by high-grade Thought Spirit Pills that only late-stage Realm King Realm experts can consistently afford, and a Five Elents Refining God Pill custom-made for Ye Zhen by Shuili Dan King.
These pills are made without regard to cost, using the best Spiritual dicines among Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures required for alchemy.
Added to this are the countless tis strengthened physical bloodlines refined within the Mirage Dragon Pearl.
All these factors combined result in Ye Zhen’s astonishing speed of breaking through a small realm every three years and multiplying his power manifold.
The cultivation division of martial artists below the Dao Realm is quite clear, basically divided into nine stages.
However, within these nine stages, there is a slightly broader and watershed-like division.
The first, second, and third stages of the Dark Palace Realm are called the Early-stage Dark Palace Realm; the fourth, fifth, and sixth are called the Mid-stage Dark Palace Realm; the seventh, eighth, and ninth are called the Late-stage Dark Palace Realm.
If the power difference between the First Stage and the Second Stage of the Dark Palace Realm is not particularly obvious.
Combat techniques, skills, and even experience and terrain can sotis compensate for the strength gap, but the power gap between the Early and Mid-stage Dark Palace Realm is normally crushing.
Martial artists of the Mid-stage Dark Palace Realm have an absolute advantage over martial artists of the Early-stage Dark Palace Realm. To narrow this advantage requires powerful Divine Power Secret Techniques and strong Suppressing Devices.
A martial artist like Ye Zhen, who owns two or three postnatal Spiritual Treasures even at the Divine Communication Realm and now possesses four in total, with a Divine Soul as strong as that of a Dao Realm expert.
Such a bizzarity is once-in-a-millennium.
Thus, for Ye Zhen, these cultivation gaps make no sense, but for other martial artists, they are very accurate.
The extent of Ye Zhen’s power increase can be imagined.
Ye Zhen’s strength multiplies; the enhancent in combat power is even more significant.
This depends on the characteristics of the Acquired Spirit Treasures.
Whether it’s an Artifact, Spiritual Artifact, Soul Artifact, or Suppressing Device, their power is actually fixed, with not much fluctuation.
Suppose a piece of Suppressing Armor at the Suppressing Device level; its maximum defense capability is ten, and in the hands of an Early-stage Dark Palace Realm martial artist, its defensive capabilities are nine, while it’s ten for a Late-stage Dark Palace Realm martial artist.
Its defensive capabilities remain ten even in the hands of Martial Artists of the Realm King Realm or Dao Realm experts.
This is its inherent limitation.
A Suppressing Device-level long sword can display earth-shattering power in the hands of a Dao Realm expert, but that’s a reflection of the Dao Realm expert’s own Sword Dao insight; this sword’s inherent power is permanently fixed at its upper limit.
But Acquired Spirit Treasures are different.
The power of Acquired Spirit Treasures is, in a way, almost limitless.
An Acquired Spirit Treasure might display the power of a high-grade Soul Artifact or even a supre Soul Artifact in the hands of a Divine Communication Realm martial artist, and display the power of a high-grade Suppressing Device or supre Suppressing Device in the hands of a Dark Palace Realm martial artist.
Thus, in the hands of a Martial Artist of the Realm King Realm, it can display power far exceeding a supre Suppressing Device.
In the hands of a Dao Realm expert, it can even wield the power to destroy heavens and earth.
Its power increases along with the improvent in the martial artist’s strength.
The sa Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Whip, the sa Evil Punishing Divine Thunder, wielded by Ye Zhen at the First Stage and Ye Zhen at the Fifth Stage of the Dark Palace Realm, the power differs imnsely.
Especially after Ye Zhen’s advancent in cultivation, using the Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Whip to comprehend and achieve a higher stage Thunder Elent Forbidden Art—the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
Speaking of which, the special characteristics of the Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Whip in Ye Zhen’s hands must be ntioned.
Most acquired spiritual treasures possess only one power.
For instance, Ye Zhen’s new Bone-attached Poison Fla Pearl has the primary power of the Triple Absolute Poison Dragon Fla, in addition to the artifact spirit nurtured by the Innate Bone-attached Phosphorus Fire Spirit.
Similarly, the Wood Vein Divine Whiskers traded by Mu Xu, the Mu Hall Master of Qingli Peak in the Heavenly Temple with Ye Zhen for the latter part of the Yimu Spiritual Communication Technique, also possesses only one ability comparable to supernatural secret techniques.
Furthermore, the Thunder Light Pearl that Ye Zhen just acquired only enhances control over Thunder Spirit Power, allowing Ye Zhen to activate secret techniques like Thunder Snake Flash, Thunder Snake Blast, and Thunder Light Shield.
However, when Ye Zhen was in the Kui Niu Mountain Cave, he fused the Thunder Light Pearl with the still growing innate spiritual treasure, the Thunder God’s Whip, resulting in the current Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Whip.
Though the innate spiritual treasure Thunder God’s Whip was in its infancy, innate spiritual treasures are no ordinary artifacts; the fusion endowed the Thunder Light Whip with a trace of innate spirituality.
At the core of the Thunder Light Whip lies an imprint of the Thunder Elent Origin Law.
Typically, only innate spiritual treasures possess imprints of origin laws.
However, due to its grade, Ye Zhen’s acquired spiritual treasure Thunder Light Whip bears the origin imprint typically exclusive to innate spiritual treasures, thus distinguishing it from ordinary acquired spiritual treasures.
As long as Ye Zhen’s cultivation reaches the required level, enabling him to gradually comprehend the origin law imprint within the Thunder Light Whip, he can successively master new and even more powerful thunder forbidden techniques.
The thunder forbidden techniques comprehended in this manner are part of Ye Zhen’s own cultivation; even without the Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Whip, Ye Zhen can still independently execute them. However, utilizing the Thunder Light Whip, the power becos exponentially terrifying.
Moreover, apart from the present Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, with prolonged comprehension in the future, Ye Zhen will be able to grasp more advanced and astonishing thunder divine abilities that are forbidden techniques.
In this context, it was quite normal for Ye Zhen’s Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to strike Wang Baimu into submission without resistance.
Alongside the growth and fusion of the Thunder Light Whip, its grade is ever close to a High Grade Acquired Spirit Treasure.
The power of a High Grade Acquired Spirit Treasure is significantly stronger than that of a Mid-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure.
Not to ntion, Wang Baimu himself was quite unfortunate, recklessly charging forward like a fool, only to be struck down by Ye Zhen on the spot. Truly a lantable fate.
When Ye Zhen captured Wang Baimu alive, he swiftly struck countless finger imprints all over Wang Baimu’s body.
In just a few breaths, Ye Zhen not only dislocated all of Wang Baimu’s joints but also imposed multiple layers of restrictions on his body inside and out.
Ye Zhen ensured Wang Baimu cannot summon the slightest spiritual power at this mont.
However, Ye Zhen still wasn’t at ease.
When the purple electric light around Wang Baimu was nearly exhausted, Ye Zhen took out a Flood Dragon Tendon, tough enough to defy severance even by Mid-grade Town Artifacts, infused it with spiritual power, and roughly drove it through Wang Baimu’s scapula, knotting a deadlock over two clavicles, then securing it through his neck vertebrae.
Only when clutching this deadlock in hand did Ye Zhen feel secure.
After a few painful grunts, Wang Baimu, blood filling his mouth, forced a pained smile at Ye Zhen, "Do you need to be this cautious?
Dislocated joints, sealing my entire cultivation, locking my dantian, fixing my scapula, and even my great vertebrae — such asures would trap even a Dao Realm expert."
"In my eyes, you’re far more slippery than Dao Realm experts." Ye Zhen coldly glanced at Wang Baimu, saying.
Ye Zhen had witnessed Wang Baimu’s transformation into black smoke using supernatural secret techniques; it was formidable enough to leave even Dao Realm experts helpless.
Ye Zhen wasn’t going to allow Wang Baimu to escape after just capturing him.
Common thods could hardly defend against such supernatural secret techniques.
Yet Ye Zhen didn’t believe that, even with the holes drilled and the Flood Dragon Tendon threaded through his scapula, Wang Baimu could vanish into thin air, escaping while yoked by the tendon ensnaring his critical points.
The main reason was Wang Baimu’s significant utility to Ye Zhen.
Otherwise, when Wang Baimu charged with intent to kill Ye Zhen earlier, Ye Zhen would have resorted to the Bone-attached Triple Absolute Poison Dragon Fla on the Bone-attached Poison Fla Pearl instead of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
Ye Zhen was confident that even a Demon Clan Venerable in the Dao Realm would suffer heavy injuries from the Bone-attached Triple Absolute Poison Dragon Fla, making it challenging for Wang Baimu to survive.
"To think I’m so formidable in your eyes — such... an honor... cough, cough..." Agitated by the wounds, Wang Baimu began to cough violently.
"Enough with the tricks. From now on, disclose every detail about this lava channel inside, hidden dangers, and how to navigate it. I might just grant you a way out," Ye Zhen said.
No sooner had Ye Zhen spoken, Wang Baimu decisively closed his eyes in silence, not uttering a word.
Presumably, he was banking on his value, refusing to speak, and would then negotiate terms with Ye Zhen.
However, Ye Zhen wasn’t your typical person.
Such ans might intimidate others but were futile against Ye Zhen.
The next mont, Ye Zhen took action!
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