Chapter 967: Strength Skyrockets, A New Idea
TL: Etude
In the outside world, a million years had passed, while Ye Tian had cultivated inside the True Time Pagoda for ten billion years.
Of course, to True Monarchs, time held no meaning since they had already achieved eternal lifespans.
A mere million years made little difference in the outside world. Even the number of Half-Step True Ancestors had not increased at all.
After all, without some extraordinary opportunity, becoming a Half-Step True Ancestor was an incredibly difficult feat.
Ye Tian still remained first on the True Monarch Rankings, and no one knew the true extent of his power.
Only Ye Tian himself was aware of how much stronger he had become.
He had now fully cultivated the Golden Ape Body Refining Technique to the perfected realm, a level far beyond the ninth layer of the True Spirit chapter of the Profound Void Technique. It had reached an unimaginable degree of mastery.
Even so, Ye Tian’s physical body had not yet reached its absolute limit.
In addition, he had also brought his three core origin divine abilities—God Annihilator, Divine Might, and Blood River True Body—to the perfected realm, achieving a flawless threefold unity.The Golden Eye Domain technique had likewise been cultivated to perfection. His Dao embryonic form had now expanded to 999 meters, the ultimate limit. The next breakthrough would be 1,000 meters, forming a complete Dao.
As for the width of the Dao embryonic form, it had also reached an unbelievable extent. Ye Tian had cultivated numerous chaos divine abilities by collecting various chaos inheritance techniques from others and mastering them one by one.
However, Ye Tian discovered that no matter how many chaos divine abilities he cultivated, the embryonic form of the Dao he could condense remained limited.
Currently, his Dao embryonic form measured 999 meters in both length and width.
Thus, it appeared like a miniature world.
This was the ultimate Dao embryonic form, born from countless paths merged together. If other Dao embryonic forms collided with his, they would undoubtedly be shattered with ease.
Beyond these achievements, Ye Tian used the Time-Space Vibration Technique, a chaos divine ability, to create another origin divine ability: Spacequake!
Spacequake’s power far surpassed that of God Annihilator, Divine Might, and Blood River True Body, placing it in a higher tier.
Although origin divine abilities did not have specific rankings—since they could not be inherited or shared with others, making them difficult to assess—the various forces of the chaos realm divided origin divine abilities into four general tiers:
1. Lower-grade origin divine abilities
2. Middle-grade origin divine abilities
3. Upper-grade origin divine abilities
4. Top-grade origin divine abilities
It was said that True Ancestors who possessed top-grade origin divine abilities could fight Dao Ancestors across realms. Some exceptional ones could even slay weaker Dao Ancestors.
However, such True Ancestors were exceedingly rare.
Ye Tian’s God Annihilator, Divine Might, and Blood River True Body were initially considered lower-grade origin divine abilities, as were most origin abilities created by True Ancestors.
Over time, Ye Tian had continuously refined these three abilities, elevating them to the highest level within the lower-grade tier.
But Spacequake was in a different league entirely—it undoubtedly belonged to the middle-grade origin divine abilities, demonstrating its immense power.
Throughout these long years, Ye Tian had spent most of his efforts developing Spacequake, investing considerable time and only managing to create this single origin divine ability.
If you count the threefold unity as an origin divine ability, Ye Tian now possessed a total of five origin divine abilities—a number that placed him among the top ranks of True Ancestors.
“Other True Monarchs, even those who ascended from the ranks of ten-star Divine Generals, would have already reached the peak of the True Monarch realm at this level and be striving toward a Half-Step True Ancestor breakthrough. But I still underestimated my potential. Even a chaos body refining technique like the Golden Ape Body Refining Technique couldn’t push my physical body to the extreme!” Ye Tian murmured to himself.
He now had two paths to choose from.
One path was to rely on various resources to gradually enhance his physical body step-by-step, pushing it toward perfection.
However, this path consumed enormous amounts of time. In the chaos realm, many True Monarchs spent countless years refining their bodies, barely reaching perfection after tens or even hundreds of billions of years, sometimes taking entire universal eras. Even though Ye Tian didn’t lack resources, it was impossible to predict how long it would take him to perfect his body—progress became increasingly slow as one approached the limit.
The second path involved cultivating a more advanced chaos body refining technique. If Ye Tian could reach a sufficiently high level with such a technique, it would allow him to achieve perfection in his physical body.
However, Ye Tian understood his foundation was too strong. There likely wasn’t any existing chaos body refining technique capable of bringing his body to the extreme. Only True Ancestor-level chaos body refining techniques could help, but… without reaching the True Ancestor realm, he couldn’t cultivate such techniques, as they required the power of a True Ancestor to complement them.
Since Ye Tian wasn’t yet satisfied with merely aiming for True Ancestor-level techniques, he couldn’t use them to enhance his body.
Therefore, if Ye Tian chose this path, he would need to create his own top-tier chaos body refining technique—one perfectly suited to him.
But creating such a technique required more than just high comprehension; it demanded access to a vast number of chaos body refining techniques for reference. At the moment, Ye Tian only had a limited collection. Some of these techniques came from the Sky Ape Sect’s ruins, while others were obtained from the Wind King Palace on Blackwind Mountain.
However, these techniques were far from sufficient. Using them as reference material to create a superior chaos body refining technique was nothing short of wishful thinking.
If it were that simple, the Dao Ancestors themselves would have already created even better chaos body refining techniques. The Void Sky lineage wouldn’t still rely on the Profound Void Technique as their standard technique if superior ones were available.
“I need more chaos body refining techniques, even incomplete ones will do!” Ye Tian thought to himself.
In the days that followed, Ye Tian asked True Monarch Sundragon to help him collect more chaos body refining techniques. Even fragmented techniques could be used for trade.
However, very few True Monarchs were willing to trade their chaos body refining techniques. Most of these techniques required oaths to prevent them from being passed on, let alone used in trades.
The only techniques available for trade were those officially recognized as inheritance techniques or ones obtained without oath restrictions.
Though it was challenging to collect these techniques, True Monarch Sundragon managed to acquire several dozen chaos body refining techniques in a short period. Ye Tian also exchanged or purchased dozens more through the Void Sky Hall.
Unfortunately, the quality of these techniques was relatively low, so their usefulness was limited. However, they were better than nothing.
“It seems I still need to pin my hopes on ruins. I wonder if any new ruins will appear?” Ye Tian thought.
Several hundred thousand more years passed. During this time, Ye Tian, within the True Time Pagoda, successfully created yet another origin divine ability—Void Shift!
This new ability focused on space and speed, instantly increasing Ye Tian’s maximum speed by nearly ten times. His survivability greatly improved, and his overall strength saw a significant boost.
And just as Ye Tian had hoped, something he had long awaited finally occurred:
A new ruin had emerged!