Chapter 552: The Dao Attainment Ritual of the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture

Chapter 552: Chapter 552: The Dao Attainment Ritual of the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture

Xu Yunfan’s gaze swept over the Attribute Panel floating in the void, invisible to ordinary people.

’Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture

Skill Level:

Current Level: Minor Achievement (387/1000)

Associated Traits:

Profound Vault Thunder Essence: Magical Power is imbued with the characteristics of Profound Vault True Thunder, capable of Exorcism and Demon Destruction, and contains hidden Vitality.

Grotto Heaven Embryo: The Dao Foundation has transformed, containing an inner micro Thunder Pool Grotto Heaven.

Initial Thunder Body Formation: Physique tempered by Thunderbolt; Life Force and Recovery Power far exceed those of the same tier.

Green Dragon Thunder Pearl Locking Tribulation and Calming Fortune Technique (Minor Achievement): Stabilizes Destiny, allowing for minor avoidance of calamities, and can use Thunderbolt to disrupt low-tier causality.

Divine Sky Dao Fruit Attraction (Weak Sensation): Can vaguely perceive the vast and profound might and causal resonance of the Divine Sky Yuqing Nine Heavens Profound Vault Myriad Transformations Undying Dao Fruit.’

These were his most prominent True Techniques and traits at the moment. Besides these, he also had a series of other True Techniques like the Profound Capital Eight Sceneries Celestial Refining Creation Cloud Scripture, the Wansheng Sword Technique, and the Heaven and Earth Interchange Yin Yang Separation and Reunion Scripture.

As he scanned his own stats on the Attribute Panel, Xu Yunfan felt a pang of surprise. He hadn’t realized he now had several top-tier True Scriptures in his arsenal.

For an ordinary Cultivator, obtaining even a single True Scripture was a blessing from the heavens.

Yet he possessed several, and his progress in all of them was steady and impressive.

He could now wield the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi at will and was on the verge of reaching the Great Success stage.

As for the Wansheng Sword Technique, thanks to his clone, Han Shi, he could periodically validate his insights, causing its Skill Level to rise very quickly. It had now reached the Great Success stage and was not far from Perfection.

Xu Yunfan figured he would eventually need to find an excuse to get Han Shi out of the Divine Martial Realm. With Han Shi’s talent for the Sword Dao, joining the Wansheng Sword Sect would be a breeze.

When Xu Yunfan focused his attention on the "Divine Sky Dao Fruit Attraction" entry, a magnificent and sacred will faintly emerged at the edge of his perception. It felt boundless, as if it encompassed the Nine Heavens and Ten Directions, an eternal and undying presence.

It was like a brilliant star hanging in the boundless heavens, like the very core of the supreme Laws governing the cosmos. It radiated a pressure that would make even someone at the Foundation Establishment Realm feel insignificant and suffocated, yet it also held an irresistible allure.

The Divine Sky Yuqing Nine Heavens Profound Vault Myriad Transformations Undying Dao Fruit!

In the Taihua Spirit Void Realm, it was ranked among the foremost of the Celestial Spirits, one of the one hundred and eight Celestial Spirit and Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits.

Its Controller would become the Lord of Myriad Thunders, the Sovereign of the Nine Heavens, Ruler of the Profound Vault, and the Myriad Transformations Undying.

To truly attract this Dao Fruit’s favor and receive the chance for Dao Attainment, one needed great vows, great Merit, and great deeds!

Ascend the Nine Heavens!

Tread the Profound Vault!

Erect a Celestial Palace!

Slay demons and cleanse the cosmos!

The Ritual for its Dao Attainment was incredibly vast and arduous. The required "slaying of demons" referred not only to killing mountain spirits and Outer Realm Evil Demons, but more importantly, to slaying those beings that this very world deeply "detested."

And what did it detest?

It detested the Golden Core True Monarchs who were like parasitic locusts, madly devouring the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi. They would completely refine a Fruit Position’s Grotto Heaven and Spirit Vein into themselves, severing the Vitality of all other things.

These people were the greatest "cancers" of this realm.

Slaying them was tantamount to "exorcising demons" for the world itself. By returning the stolen foundations, one could earn the world’s true recognition and cause the strongest Dao Fruit to descend.

But slaying a Golden Core True Monarch was nothing short of a pipe dream.

Back when the Divine Sky Nine Heavens True Monarch performed the Ritual, he only succeeded after trapping and killing over twenty Foundation Establishment Daoist Masters.

A Foundation Establishment cultivator slaying a Golden Core.

How could anyone possibly have the power to do that?

Xu Yunfan considered it a vain hope, even for him with his Attribute Panel.

And as for killing twenty-nine Foundation Establishment Daoist Masters in one go—that would be an act to incur the wrath of gods and men.

He had no idea how the Divine Sky Nine Heavens True Monarch had managed it back then.

Especially with that Attribute Panel...

As his gaze swept back to the cultivation progress of the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture, Xu Yunfan’s heart began to pound uncontrollably.

In thirty years at most, he would be able to seek the Golden Attainment Fruit Position.

According to ancient texts and Sect common sense, no matter how compatible this Dao Fruit was with him, he would have to complete the world-shaking Ritual to make it descend—subduing legions of demons in a cataclysmic event.

Such an act would inevitably attract countless covetous rivals and endless interference. It would be a trial with a slim chance of survival.

But the accumulation of "Skill Level" on his Attribute Panel was not as simple as merely increasing the power of his Cultivation Technique.

With every point of Skill Level he gained in the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture, he could faintly feel his connection to the Divine Sky Dao Fruit, hidden somewhere within the world, deepen by a fraction.

That intangible link grew clearer, more substantial.

Unlike the clamorous Ritual that would cause the world to resonate, this connection deepened like a silent, trickling stream—a secret, steady, and subtle influence.

It felt as if accumulating Skill Level was, in itself, a silent and microscopic Ritual, one perfectly tailored to the Dao Fruit’s requirements.

’Does this mean that as long as I max out this "Skill Level," I can attract the Fruit Position and ascend directly to the Golden Core True Monarch realm without performing that world-shaking Ritual?!’

Xu Yunfan wouldn’t have to slay a True Monarch from a lower realm, nor would he need to trap and kill twenty-nine Foundation Establishment Daoist Masters. As long as he maxed out the Skill Level on his Attribute Panel, he should be able to immediately seek the Golden Attainment Fruit Position. He wouldn’t have to suffer through the ordeal of hunting down Foundation Establishment Daoist Masters, a path that could easily lead to him being surrounded and killed one day.

This was proven every time he cultivated; with each point of Skill Level he gained, the Fruit Position grew a fraction clearer.

This meant he wouldn’t need to expose his intentions or attract ambushes from various True Monarchs. He could ascend to the esteemed rank of Golden Core silently, naturally, when the time was right, completely transforming his status overnight.

Xu Yunfan exhaled, an irrepressible smile spreading across his face.

With a Supreme Fruit Position like this beckoning to him, his future was full of promise.

’Ancestral Master Chunyang truly went to great lengths for me.’

His heart surging with emotion, Xu Yunfan bowed formally toward the empty air and declared with a solemn expression,

"This disciple, Xu Yunfan, thanks Ancestral Master Chunyang for the grace of bestowing this technique!"

He didn’t know if Ancestral Master Chunyang could see him, but his gesture at least seemed to please the three strands of Golden Core Sword Intent that accompanied him.

If it weren’t for the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture from Ancestral Master Chunyang, he would probably still be used as someone else’s pawn. Even with the Attribute Panel, who knows how much time he would have wasted before he finally came to his senses.

Sensing the hum of the Golden Core Sword Intent, Xu Yunfan naturally bowed deeply once more.

"Ancestral Master Chunyang’s blessings are truly eternal!"

Even with his usually composed temperament, Xu Yunfan couldn’t help but let out a long, hearty laugh.

After the wave of excitement passed, he took a few deep breaths, his expression once again growing profound.

’The priority right now is to raise my Skill Level by any means necessary.’

’Especially by practicing new Dharma Gates.’

’And by performing new ’operations’.’

He composed himself and immediately took out the two new Secret Techniques he had acquired.

The Celestial-Eroding Netherworld Talisman and the Sun and Moon Profound Pivot.

With a tap of his finger, the Star Beast Hide Scroll inscribed with the Celestial-Eroding Netherworld Talisman slowly unfurled.

Silvery-white characters flowed across it like living things, expounding upon a supreme Secret Technique for obscuring the Celestial Secret, eroding deductions, and twisting causality.

Xu Yunfan immersed his Divine Thought into the scroll, and his Heart and Spirit were immediately swept into a chaotic, hazy "Celestial-Eroding" illusion. Within it, the Celestial Secret was a tangled mess, cause and effect were inverted, and all attempts at deduction were devoured and distorted.

He would have to untangle it all, bit by bit, in order to slowly comprehend it.

Time trickled by. He lost all track of how long he had been at it.

’You have begun to comprehend the Celestial-Eroding Netherworld Talisman. This technique is profound and bizarre. Your progress is arduous. Skill Level +1.’