Chapter 279: Heading for the Summit

Li Yang looked away from the Space Law Inheritance Palace and toward the one next to it.

’Next, the Thunder Law Inheritance Palace!’

After all, it was his Sky-Fierce Flood Dragon and Thunder Star Beast avatars that comprehended the Laws, so his main body didn’t need any time to process the insights.

Twenty days passed in a flash, and Li Yang found himself transported out of the Thunder Law Inheritance Palace.

’I have two chances left. I’ll save them for now and come back in a few years.’

Li Yang left immediately.

Everyone knew that the higher one climbed the Stairway on the Path to Deities, the more difficult it became. Take Lan Yu, for example. In his first year after joining the Human Race’s Eternal Saint Hall, he passed the sixth step.

It took him another four years to pass the seventh.

Li Yang had suddenly gained many inheritance opportunities, but he knew he would eventually face the same plateau as Lan Yu. He had to save these opportunities for when he truly needed them.

"Master, you have a message."

Sure enough, after leaving the Inheritance Palace, Li Yang received a message summoning him to the summit of the Lianyun Mountain Range.

After a moment’s thought, he first went to visit his teacher, Sect Master Blade Slaughter.

"Li Yang, you just came from the Law Inheritance Palaces. How did your comprehension go?" Sect Master Blade Slaughter asked with a smile.

Li Yang replied, "Teacher, my comprehension of both the Space Law and the Thunder Law has improved by twenty percent! With this boost, I should be able to last for a while on the sixth step of the Path to Deities."

A significant improvement in his Law comprehension meant a direct boost to his strength.

With a little more improvement, he might even be able to pass the sixth step.

"Not bad!" Sect Master Blade Slaughter nodded with a smile. "How many of Yuan Wu’s one thousand attacks have you learned?"

He was inquiring about the details of Li Yang’s cultivation.

Li Yang answered honestly, "I’ve learned one hundred of them."

"Hmm."

Sect Master Blade Slaughter nodded. "Based on your current level of Law comprehension, you’ll probably hit a wall around the two-hundredth attack and be unable to learn any more."

Of the one thousand attacks Yuan Wu created, the later techniques incorporate increasingly profound fusions of the Space Law’s Teleportation Profound Skill, the Thunder Law’s Explosion Profound Skill, and the Fire Element Law’s Melting Essence Profound Skill. The final, one-thousandth attack undoubtedly contains the complete Teleportation, Explosion, and Melting Essence Profound Skills!

Since Li Yang’s Law comprehension hadn’t reached that level, he wouldn’t be able to understand those advanced techniques at all, and they would offer him very little inspiration.

It’s like trying to study calculus without a solid foundation in basic math; you’d be completely lost and wouldn’t understand a thing.

"However, I’ve collected some other attacks for you that are similar to Yuan Wu’s. They also contain the Space Law’s Teleportation Profound Skill, the Thunder Law’s Explosion Profound Skill, and the Fire Element Law’s Melting Essence Profound Skill, and all are within your current ability to comprehend."

With a wave of his right hand, Sect Master Blade Slaughter sent a small sphere flying over.

He had previously recommended that Li Yang study Yuan Wu’s techniques. Seeing Li Yang’s progress, he could easily tell that similar attacks would be tremendously inspiring for him!

Li Yang’s Talent in the Space, Thunder, and Fire Element Laws was exceptionally strong, making him perfectly suited to learn these techniques!

Therefore, the best way to teach him was to find more attacks like Yuan Wu’s and have him continue his studies.

Li Yang’s eyes lit up as he looked at the sphere. He quickly said, "Thank you, Teacher Xie."

In reality, it was extremely rare to find attacks like Yuan Wu’s, created by someone who happened to have comprehended the Space Law’s Teleportation Profound Skill, the Thunder Law’s Explosion Profound Skill, and the Fire Element Law’s Melting Essence Profound Skill.

For someone to have focused on exactly those three Laws, exactly those three Profound Skills, and to have created the techniques in their youth—the probability was incredibly low!

It wasn’t enough for just any top-tier expert to create attacks using these three Profound Skills. Yuan Wu’s techniques had many unrefined aspects, but it was precisely these imperfections that offered Li Yang such great inspiration.

Perfected attacks, like the secret manuals created by those at the Emperor Level, were certainly powerful, but also incredibly difficult to learn.

Li Yang himself had searched before, but aside from the attacks created by Yuan Wu, he hadn’t found any others that contained the Space Law’s Teleportation Profound Skill, the Thunder Law’s Explosion Profound Skill, and the Fire Element Law’s Melting Essence Profound Skill.

But now, Sect Master Blade Slaughter had found many for him.

"Haha, just focus on your cultivation," Sect Master Blade Slaughter said with a laugh.

"By the way, Li Yang, have you received the message from the Saint Hall arranging for someone to take you to the summit of the Lianyun Mountain Range?"

"Yes, I’ve received it," Li Yang nodded.

"Go on, then. Cultivate hard on the summit. Come down once a month so I can give you proper guidance, and feel free to ask me if you have any questions in the meantime."

"Yes, Teacher."

...

Li Yang didn’t stay long before leaving and returning to the Lianyun Mountain Range.

An elderly man was already waiting there for him.

Upon seeing Li Yang, the man smiled and said, "Li Yang, please come with me. I’ll take you to handle the formalities for going to the summit."

Ascending from the mountainside to the summit of the Lianyun Mountain Range was a strictly controlled process; one couldn’t just go up as they pleased.

Li Yang nodded and followed him.

On the way, Li Yang happened to run into Long Zhan, Mute, and some others.

"Li Yang, where are you off to?" Mute quickly asked upon seeing him.

Li Yang replied with a smile, "I’m on my way to the summit of the Lianyun Mountain Range."

"The summit of the Lianyun Mountain Range?"

Hearing this, Mute froze for a moment before an expression of immense envy appeared on his face.

As he watched Li Yang leave, his face filled with a sense of urgency.

’I have to train! Train harder! I must get to the summit of the Lianyun Mountain Range, too!’

Mute was clearly spurred into action.

Beside Mute, Long Zhan clenched his fists as he watched Li Yang’s retreating back.

’I’m ranked third. Now Li Yang has this sudden burst of progress and is being sent to the summit...’

According to the rankings, he should have been the third one sent to the summit.

It wasn’t just Mute and Long Zhan; the other geniuses also quickly received the news.

"What? Li Yang is being sent to the summit of the Lianyun Mountain Range?" Dilunxi’s face filled with indignation upon hearing the news.

’The training environment on the summit is so much better than the one on the mountainside. I have to improve faster, get to the summit faster!’

The one thing he couldn’t stand was seeing others have a better training environment than his own.

"The summit of the Lianyun Mountain Range?"

"That freak, Li Yang... his rate of progress already rivals Lan Yu’s. Now that he’s going to the summit, could he actually start improving faster than Lan Yu?"

"Faster! Faster! Faster! Gotta train hard."

"It’s still early. The training period for the Longevity Realm is a hundred years, and only five have passed!"

"That’s right. This is just the beginning of our training. I may be behind Li Yang and the others now, but I’ll definitely be able to catch up."

Every single genius who heard that Li Yang was ascending to the summit of the Lianyun Mountain Range was spurred into action.

Everyone knew the training environment on the summit was better, offering more contribution points and more inheritance opportunities!

The Human Race’s Eternal Saint Hall trained Longevity Realm geniuses for one hundred years, which meant that geniuses at the summit could receive a total of twenty inheritance opportunities!

That was ten more than the geniuses on the mountainside!

And fifteen more than the geniuses at the foot of the mountain!

The pressure—the immense pressure—compounded by Li Yang’s promotion by special exception... At this moment, the entire batch of geniuses from the selection trials began to train like madmen, as if they had been injected with stimulants.