69novels Chapter 147, Cloud Silk
Chapter 147, Cloud Silk
Ye Muxuan's figure fell into the enormous sea of clouds that stretched for light-years below. The few kings in the square in front of the palace who had originally intended to befriend this Shadow Blade King exchanged a helpless glance and entered the sea of clouds.
There's nothing they can do. Their teacher is the Palace Master of Baifeng Palace, a high-ranking member of the Hongmeng Alliance at the Seven Star Overlord level, and their senior brother is Venerable Jingfeng. They themselves moved to the inner city of the Hongmeng Alliance tens of thousands of years ago. This means that they are at least invincible kings. Given their status and position, they don't even know about the Primordial Star, let alone the information about the Chianjie clone. It's understandable that they disdain associating with kings like them.
The sea of clouds, stretching for light-years, is a perilous region for those at the cosmic level, second only to the Abyss of Purgatory in terms of danger among all perilous missions. However, it's not so dangerous for those at the King level. Although the unique nature of the secret realm within the sea of clouds gives rise to many special cloud-like life forms called "Cloud Silk," these are beings without intelligence or soul, relying solely on instinct to hunt and kill prey that enter the sea of clouds, and cannot be killed by conventional means. From the weakest at the cosmic level to the strongest comparable to a King level, conventional methods can only disperse the Cloud Silk, not kill it. For those less powerful cosmic-level beings, encountering the unkillable Cloud Silk means they can only flee while still completing their survival mission, naturally creating a desperate situation.
But these kings all possessed something of value, so they naturally had nothing to fear.
Ye Muxuan's heart suddenly stirred. A hundred million kilometers away, there was the aura of a great treasure, and it was moving. It should be a king who possessed a great treasure in the sea of clouds.
Having handled countless treasures, having explored over 700 primordial stars in the nearly 90,000 years since, he has handled tens of thousands of treasures of various kinds. Now, he can determine the level of a treasure simply by sensing the strength of its aura without even touching it.
After just one glance, Ye Muxuan turned his head and looked at the wisp of cloud-like special life form beside him.
A mere king possessing ordinary treasures wasn't enough to pique his interest. On the contrary, the wisp of cloud beside him, possessing the strength of a domain lord, intrigued him far more.
This wisp of grayish-white cloud was hidden within the sea of clouds, almost blending into it; even a domain lord of the same level might not be able to spot it. No wonder those core members at the cosmic level could earn 900,000 points simply by surviving here for three years; even a cosmic-level expert like Ye Muxuan would likely fail to pass.
The Cloud Palace Survival Mission ranks second among all the extreme missions, and it's the flagship extreme mission of the Giant Axe Arena, so it's naturally not easy to pass. Even just on the outer perimeter, this wisp of cloud has already reached the Domain Lord level in strength.
Ye Muxuan reached out and grabbed it, his palm containing a spatial sealing technique that could suppress even a King-level being. Naturally, this wisp of cloud could not withstand it, and he directly trapped it in his palm.
Carefully examining the wisp of cloud in his palm, which seemed to swim merrily like a fish in a river, its movements ever-changing and unpredictable, it roamed in the world of his palm like a ribbon, like flowers and grass, like swimming fish, like flying birds, like warm sunshine, like spring breeze, like the glint of a knife, like the force of a sword, like thunder, like... Ye Muxuan!
Very interesting!
Ye Muxuan opened his palm, and the wisp of cloud danced merrily in his hand before finally merging into the surrounding mist without a trace.
Above the sea of clouds is the Cloud Palace, and further away in the vast starry sky, a pair of deep eyes are fixed on the black-robed figure in the sea of clouds.
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Wandering through the sea of clouds, Ye Muxuan picked up some cloud threads of different levels along the way and examined them in his palm. When he found the inheritance hall of General Feng You, which was scattered in the sea of clouds several light-years away, Ye Muxuan had a pure white cloud thread with the strength of a Marquis in his palm.
Gazing at the azure palace not far away, Ye Muxuan clenched his fist. The world in his palm seemed to collapse like a pillar of heaven. Pure white, Marquis-level cloud threads exploded in his palm, bursting forth with blue lightning that swept across his palm like a hurricane. Finally, a wisp of cloud thread, tinged with gray as if polluted, escaped from his palm, drifting freely and merging into the surrounding mist.
This wisp of cloud, which was originally at the Marquis level, has now become a Realm Lord level, and in Ye Muxuan's palm, there is a pure white crystal the size of a sesame seed.
This was the third strand of cloud he had caught on his journey, and the first one to reach the rank of Marquis. He hadn't noticed anything unusual with the first two, so he had released them without doing anything. But when he caught this Marquis-level cloud strand, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he chose this method. In the end, this crystal appeared in his palm.
After carefully examining the crystal, Ye Muxuan finally gave up trying to figure it out. He didn't recognize it or know what its function was, but his intuition told him that it had some use.
Putting away the white crystal, Ye Muxuan looked at the cyan palace in front of him, took a step forward, and landed on the huge square in front of the palace.
As footsteps landed on the plaza, a faint blue light appeared outside the blue palace, enveloping its surface and separating the inside from the outside.
In the square, Ye Muxuan looked up at the enormous palace in front of him and slowly walked forward. On either side of the entrance to the main hall stood two cyan stone sculptures, each depicting a lifelike bird. Their enormous wings drooped down, covering their bodies, and their raised heads were adorned with flowing feathers. Their two claws, resting on stone spheres, gleamed with a sharp light.
As if sensing Ye Muxuan's arrival, the two pairs of eyes on the stone sculptures seemed to shift slightly, or perhaps it was just an illusion. But the sculptures remained still, while the gate opened automatically.
Ye Muxuan walked in slowly, the gate closed, and the square fell silent, just as always.
The interior of the main hall was not dark; a blue light, seemingly from nowhere, illuminated most of the area, allowing Ye Muxuan to clearly see the three platforms within the hall.
At this moment, the platform on the left was emitting a faint light, while the platforms in the middle and on the right were completely dark.
Before coming to the Cloud Palace, he had naturally researched information about receiving the divine general's inheritance, so he knew the function of these three platforms.
The inheritance of the Wind and Ghost God is actually the cultivation of a secret technique, which belongs to the body vibration secret technique. When cultivated to the great success, it can make the body vibration reach a hundred times.
If a normal immortal king can master the Divine Body Amplification Secret Technique and unleash a hundredfold amplification, then even if he has only one gene, he can still rival those special life forms with a hundredfold gene.
The reason why those at the pinnacle of the King-level realm and the invincible King-level realm are even stronger than those at the peak of the King-level realm is not only due to their self-created secret techniques and treasures, but also primarily because of the amplification secret techniques, which are even more common than treasures. For example, True King Yan and Heavenly Feather King both cultivate amplification secret techniques. If it weren't for Palace Master Bai Feng's deliberate reminder, Ye Muxuan would have inevitably chosen to cultivate an amplification secret technique as well—although the purchased ones would certainly not be as good as the secret techniques inherited from the Divine Generals, they could still significantly enhance his strength.
However, it is extremely difficult. Just look at how many kings of the Hong Alliance have entered the Inheritance Palace throughout countless eras; to this day, not a single king has been able to achieve it. It should be noted that some of these kings, through the opportunity of inheriting divine generals' legacy, reached the Venerable realm, yet still, none of them have been able to achieve true mastery.
The first platform contains a basic secret technique, which is a prerequisite for cultivating the Divine General's Inheritance Amplification Secret Technique. For these Kings, it only takes one or two days for some, and one or two months for others, to successfully cultivate it.
The second platform contains this Amplification Secret Technique, the "Wind Nether Secret Manual." As long as you cultivate it step by step, you will eventually know what level you can reach.
As for the third platform, no one knows what's on it yet, because this platform will only light up when the Amplitude Secret Technique is mastered.
Ye Muxuan stepped onto the first platform.
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P.S.: I'm terrible at naming things, so I'll just call it "The Secret Codex of Wind and Shadow." Also, the Fiery Venerable from the previous chapter has been changed to a High-Level Venerable. Mainly because he was often mentioned together with the Undying Venerable in the original text, and I always thought he was also a cosmic overlord.