Chapter 235: Repairing the Jade Starship, Beyond Tianming
"Immortal Ascension Technique," focused on the mystery of mortals ascending and transforming, bursts one's Spiritual Energy out in an extremely short period of time, significantly enhancing the quality of one's Spiritual Energy and physical strength and thus boosting one's combat power. Such a short-term increase is akin to an ascension-like transformation and is naturally extremely powerful.
This enhancement has no limit; as long as your Spiritual Energy can sustain the consumption, and as long as your body can endure this burst, it can continue to increase indefinitely.
Lu Yi finished reading the information on the Immortal Ascension Technique, a spark of joy flashed through his eyes.
If he could cultivate the Immortal Ascension Technique deeply, with his foundation, the power he could burst forth would likely be extremely formidable!
This reward was indeed satisfactory.
Lu Yi was content and then started to comprehend the intricacies of the Immortal Ascension Technique, striving to master it early.
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While Lu Yi was comprehending the Immortal Ascension Technique and began his closed-door cultivation, the situation of his great battle with Qingqiu Hua naturally was observed by distant cultivators and spread far and wide.
Lu Yi easily defeated Qingqiu Hua, but this news did not cause much of a stir. After all, the strength Lu Yi had displayed previously was excessively great, and this outcome was anticipated by nearly all cultivators.
After returning to Qingqiu, Qingqiu Hua and Qingqiu Yunhua fell silent.
The entire Tianming appeared to have entered a period of calm.
Just like that, time passed.
Eight years later, Lu Yi advanced to the Great Mahayana Fourth Layer.
Meanwhile, Donggong Ming Yue had successfully absorbed the Heavenly Thunder Essence. That day, the sky above the White Cloud Sect was filled with Heavenly Thunder, as if a sea of thunder had condensed, the power it contained startled the entire Tianming.
The mortal people in the area hundreds of kilometers around the White Cloud Sect felt as if tiny threads of electricity were in the air, making them tingle with numbness.
After absorbing the Heavenly Thunder Essence, Donggong Ming Yue transformed into an Immortal Body and also mastered the Thunder Domain to the Law Realm.
Because Yun Xi, Liu Ningshuang, and Jian Ruyu were all already Immortal Bodies and had slowly started to master the Power of Laws after reaching Mahayana, only Donggong Ming Yue was still an Innate Spiritual Body.
Despite the innate talents apparent, even though the Thunder Domain had been perfected for some time, she had still been unable to take that final step to master the Law, until now when she finally completed the last step, mastering the Thunder Law.
For this, Lu Yi was naturally congratulatory.
Having just broken through, Donggong Ming Yue was extremely arrogant, even wanting to fight Liu Ningshuang.
However, even having transformed into an Immortal Body, Donggong Ming Yue still had a slight gap compared to Liu Ningshuang.
Thus, she was unceremoniously suppressed by Liu Ningshuang again and was frozen in a block of ice for a whole half month.
After coming out, Donggong Ming Yue was nearly in tears, wailing and swearing to keep practicing hard to surpass that mean sister.
Though she failed, Donggong Ming Yue did not become discouraged, for after transforming into an Immortal Body, the gap between her and Liu Ningshuang visibly shrank, giving her hope.
However, to celebrate for Donggong Ming Yue, Lu Yi still happily spent over a month with her, since they hadn't seen each other for over a decade.
Eventually, Donggong Ming Yue waved the white flag, and Lu Yi finally let her be.
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Thirty-six years later, Lu Yi's strength once again improved, reaching the Great Mahayana Seventh Layer.
Beyond the improvement in his cultivation base, his other aspects also naturally saw significant enhancements.
Among them, the Immortal Ascension Technique had mainly been comprehended and cultivated by Lu Yi to level 3.
Having reached this level, Lu Yi was now capable of using the Immortal Ascension Technique in combat when he tried in the vacuum of space, it roughly tripled his overall strength.
Lu Yi was already sufficiently powerful, not to mention tripling his strength, but sadly, there were no strong enough opponents to test his current prowess.
Lu Yi had once considered sparring with his master, but recalling his master's lax attitude and remembering the last encounter with a Demon God thousands of meters tall within the forbidden area of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, he wisely eradicated this thought.
He feared being severely thrashed by his master.
Thinking over it, Lu Yi decided to wait until he was sufficiently strong before seriously facing his master in battle.
He wasn't yet at a stage where he could be so presumptuous.
Beyond the improvement of the Immortal Ascension Technique, other aspects also saw substantial advancements.
What made Lu Yi proudest was that his comprehension of the Heavenly Immortal Level Array Tao had been completely mastered. Combined with various Powers of Laws he acquired and the Innate Array Pattern Fragment rewarded from tasks, Lu Yi finally deduced a Heavenly Immortal Formation.
Lu Yi also published a task to deduce the Heavenly Immortal Formation, with quite a rich reward.
[Task]
Deduce Heavenly Immortal Formation.
Reward: Increased Array Tao Enlightenment, Low Grade Immortal Device Heavenly Origin Array Map, Innate Array Pattern*1
Would you accept the task: Yes/No
Needless to say, an increase in Array Tao Enlightenment, the Low Grade Immortal Device Heavenly Origin Array Map could make arranging formations somewhat easier for Lu Yi, and could even be used as an Array Eye for setting up extremely powerful compound formations.
The value of the Innate Array Pattern was something Lu Yi had experienced before; his Melding Array Technique was derived from that previous fragment of the Innate Array Pattern.
This time, gaining a complete Innate Array Pattern was naturally even more powerful.
Lu Yi could use this Innate Array Pattern to continue enhancing his Melding Array Technique, thereby significantly improving his Array Tao strength once again.
However, Lu Yi did not have the time to comprehend the Innate Array Pattern just yet.
After all, there was no shortage of things Lu Yi needed to practice now.
It was only because he had absorbed various Tao Treasures and Chaos Qi for Foundation Establishment that his talents were incredibly strong, allowing him to make such rapid progress in Array Tao in such a short time.
Apart from Array Tao, Lu Yi had also acquired the Leaving Fire Artifact Refining Technique and the Leaving Fire Refining Elixir Skill.
Both of these cultivation techniques were of Heavenly Immortal level.
Lu Yi also began to gain insights.
Because his Jade Starship had collided with a Jiuyou Immortal Beast earlier, damaging the front, Lu Yi primarily focused on mastering the Leaving Fire Artifact Refining Technique.
He thought of repairing the Jade Starship.
Over the years, his insights had significantly improved his Leaving Fire Artifact Refining Technique, reaching level 4, which was even stronger than the Immortal Ascension Technique.
One day, Lu Yi was in his Cave Mansion; he used the Heavenly Origin Array Map to set up a very powerful Great Array, isolating the outside world.
He planned to use the Leaving Fire Artifact Refining Technique to repair the Jade Starship.
The so-called Leaving Fire is an extremely powerful flame, not a Mortal Fire but a type of Immortal Fire, though it does not necessarily need to be Immortal Fire.
Fortunately, in a previous task, Lu Yi was rewarded with a Low Grade Immortal Device, a refining furnace called Golden Flame Refining Furnace, which contained powerful Golden Flames, comparable to Leaving Fire.
If it weren't for this Golden Flame Refining Furnace, Lu Yi would not have considered repairing the Jade Starship now.
The Golden Flame Refining Furnace was a gold-colored furnace about three meters tall with patterns of flames engraved on it; the entire furnace shimmered with Mysterious Tao Patterns.
Merely taking out this furnace, Lu Yi felt an extreme high temperature.
His Fire Tao had reached Perfect Domain Level, still a distance from the Law Realm, but with his own strength, he could barely activate the Golden Flame Refining Furnace.
As for the materials needed for repairs, the rewards from Lu Yi's previous tasks included some Immortal Level Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures suitable for Artifact Refining.
Lu Yi chose Star Iron, which was most compatible with the Jade Starship.
With a serious expression, Lu Yi followed the techniques of the Leaving Fire Artifact Refining Technique, continuously changing Array Patterns, melting the Star Iron, and repairing the Jade Starship.
Although it took over two months, during which Lu Yi had to replenish Spirit Jade several times to restore Spiritual Energy, the overall result was quite satisfactory.
With a Level 4 Leaving Fire Artifact Refining Technique as a basis, he managed to repair the Jade Starship without any major issues.
Looking at the repaired Jade Starship, Lu Yi also revealed a smile.
Given his current level of the Leaving Fire Artifact Refining Technique, perhaps he could even craft an Immortal Artifact?
However, his current stock of Immortal Level Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures was insufficient, so Lu Yi planned to address this later.
And since he already had enough Immortal Artifacts, not to mention dozens of them, he wouldn't discuss this further.
If it weren't for the fact that his fellow sect sisters weren't strong enough yet, Lu Yi would have liked to give each of them an Immortal Artifact.
Lu Yi planned to wait until they reached the Tribulation Transcendence Realm before giving them the Immortal Artifacts.
After repairing the Jade Starship, Lu Yi thought of Liu Ningshuang and the others and recalled something.
He had previously thought of taking Liu Ningshuang and the others on a jaunt through the universe, but then the Jade Starship was damaged, and Lu Yi forgot about it.
Now that the Jade Starship was repaired, and since they had all been in seclusion for so long, why not tour the universe?
Lu Yi, being a transmigrator, remembered that in his previous life, each country had just begun space competition, unable to even survive on the moon and with very few that had even reached it.
This life was different, however; cultivators were extremely powerful individually, and the cultivation treasures were likewise extremely powerful.
A spaceship like the Jade Starship, capable of sub-light speed, was something most scientists in his previous life couldn't even dream of.
Thinking of this, Lu Yi felt a rush of excitement; he stored the Jade Starship, left the Cave Mansion, and went to find Liu Ningshuang and the others.
"A tour around the universe? Sounds great!" Donggong Ming Yue's eyes shone bright. She was naturally lively and was very interested in such adventures.
"Since Lu Yi wants to go, I'll join in," Yun Xi said with a smile, her ethereal face like an immortal's.
Jian Ruyu and Liu Ningshuang also smiled and nodded; after all, they too were extremely curious about the cosmos.
Therefore, Lu Yi took the four of them onto the Jade Starship, which then transformed into a streak of light and disappeared from the spot.
Almost instantly, the Jade Starship left Tianming and entered the vacuum of space.
Donggong Ming Yue and the others, staring at the Tianming below, which had shrunk to the size of a marble, were all wide-eyed and momentarily stunned.
Donggong Ming Yue exclaimed, "Is that Tianming?!"
Lu Yi nodded with a smile, also surprised, "Yes, does it look quite small from here?"
Jian Ruyu also exclaimed, "Tianming is so vast; mortals couldn't traverse it in several lifetimes. Yet, from space, it's just this tiny."
Liu Ningshuang nodded slightly, then looked around at the endless void and twinkling stars, sighing, "Places like Tianming are abundant in the universe. We are like frogs in a well, limited in our view of the sky."
Lu Yi also felt a sigh in his heart; though Tianming was indeed vast, much larger than Earth,
it was still like a speck of dust in the universe.
Lu Yi looked toward the deep vacuum, laughing, "Let's go see even further places away from Tianming."
Liu Ningshuang and the others nodded, full of anticipation.
Lu Yi controlled the Jade Starship, flying toward a more distant place.
After leaving Tianming, Lu Yi realized that the sun outside Tianming was also unbelievably large, far surpassing the sun from his previous life.
The power emanating intense heat made Lu Yi's heart palpitate immensely.
Even for immortals, facing such a sun would likely be dangerous, right?
In the entire star system, besides Tianming, there were a few other planets. As the Jade Starship passed by, Lu Yi and the others exclaimed in awe.
They soon realized these planets had no life; perhaps Tribulation Crossing Practitioners could survive there, but it wasn't necessary. The harsh conditions made cultivation inconvenient unless one were a hermit; otherwise, it's unlikely anyone would choose such a desolate place for cultivation.
Just as they were about to leave the entire star system, Lu Yi and the others suddenly paused and turned their heads in one direction.
There, a profoundly dark void was twisting, slowly transforming into a massive black hole, its depths unfathomable and the scenery inside indiscernible.