Hearing that Mu Chaoge had a way to refresh the pre-requisite quests ahead of schedule, Ye Lin's heart stirred. He thought to himself that his decision to come to the Thunder Ancestor Secret Realm had indeed been correct.
After a brief explanation from the other party, he summarized that there were only two paths: deceiving the heavens, or challenging destiny.
The so-called deceiving the heavens only required cultivating the Path of Thousand Illusions to confuse the perception of the rules of heaven and earth, making it so the world did not perceive him as a supreme genius.
The benefit of choosing this path was that as long as his realm was sufficient, the pre-requisite quests would refresh according to the level of an ordinary genius. The drawback was that he would no longer receive any Blessing of Heaven and Earth when breaking through.
As for the path of challenging destiny, he only needed to use his own Dao path as a guide to draw down a trial from the Great Dao.
As the saying went, “The Great Dao has fifty paths; heaven derives forty-nine, and one escapes.” Although the peak powerhouses of the myriad realms had usurped many of the Great Dao's authorities and caused it to fall silent, the Great Dao was still the Great Dao.
It would not perish and would exist forever. As long as one used their own Dao path as a wager, they could leverage a sliver of the Great Dao's authority, forcing it to descend a trial—which was the pre-requisite quest.
The benefit of doing this was that he did not have to look at the expression of his current world's Heavenly Dao. As long as his accumulation was sufficient, he could directly obtain the pre-requisite quest.
The disadvantage was that he would be more easily targeted by the Heavenly Dao consciousness or the people behind it, who might act against him. Furthermore, the forcibly descended quest would be ten times more difficult than the original.
But Ye Lin did not panic at all. With the Heavenly Dao Seal in hand, he could modify parts of the quest's content. Even if the difficulty increased a hundredfold, he could still reduce it a hundredfold.
Therefore, he chose the second path without hesitation and asked Mu Chaoge for the specific secret method to trigger it.
“Good job, little brother. You didn't disgrace us transmigrators.”
It seemed Mu Chaoge had already known Ye Lin would choose the second path. The moment Ye Lin asked, Mu Chaoge casually waved his hand and handed over a jade slip radiating the aura of purple lightning.
“This is the specific method to trigger the Great Dao. However, you must also be aware that the consequence of doing this is being hunted by the Heavenly Dao consciousness and the powerhouses behind it.”
“As your fellow countryman, I won't let you say your elder brother didn't look out for you. Take this source of the Law of Thunder and a bunch of thunder-path heritages. Also, these are some gadgets my clone made in his spare time; they should be enough for your travels.”
“Additionally, I have refined your heritage token again. If you have any cultivation-related questions in the future, you can come here to find me at any time. Of course, if you run into an opponent you can't beat, you can also come to your elder brother's place for refuge. Though this clone of mine is only a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, within this Thunder Ancestor Hall, I can beat down even an Immortal Emperor if they dare to show up.”
After finishing his instructions, Mu Chaoge waved his hand and teleported Ye Lin away.
Buzz!
Accompanying a silent ripple of spatial fluctuations, Ye Lin instantly returned to his cave dwelling in the Inner Academy of the Cultivation Academy.
The moment he returned to the cave dwelling, with a shift of his mind, he stepped into the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda.
Sitting cross-legged on the Dao arena of Sovereign Heaven, he did not use his divine sense to scan the jade slip, but instead directly opened his personal game panel to check.
【Cultivation Method: Path-Walking Art
Grade: No Grade, Special Cultivation Method
Description: A manual bestowed by the ancient Great Dao to select supreme geniuses. By cultivating it, one can use this method to leverage the authority of the Great Dao and request it to descend a Great Dao trial.】
After reading the description on the panel, Ye Lin did not hesitate. He directly swallowed a replicated Immortal-grade Epiphany Pill and began cultivating the 《Path-Walking Art》.
【Ding! It has been detected that you are cultivating a method. The Epiphany Pill increases comprehension by 50 times, the identity of a Creation Dao Palace handyman disciple boosts comprehension by 20 times, and the Chaos Spiritual Root (Incomplete) boosts comprehension by 100 times.
On this basis, the 'Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness' trait will accumulate the gains a hundredfold.】
Ye Lin had just begun cultivating the 《Path-Walking Art》 when the game prompt sounded in his ears.
Then, in just an instant, his comprehension gains skyrocketed to seventeen thousand times that of other cultivators with Immortal-grade talent.
The comprehension of an Immortal-grade talent was already heaven-defying, and now with this seventeen-thousand-fold buff, his speed of sudden enlightenment was as simple as eating and drinking.
The so-called path-walking referred to condensing a Dao seal, using one's own Dao to verify the Great Dao, using the Dao seal to reversely summon the Great Dao's authority, and voluntarily requesting a Dao tribulation trial.
If successful, one would ascend to the nine heavens in a single step, their Dao path would sublimate, and they would embark on a new realm.
If defeated, one would plunge into nothingness in a single step, their Dao foundation would be annihilated, and their lifelong pursuits would return to zero. It was a special cultivation method that was a massive gamble on one's life.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
As Ye Lin fell into a sudden enlightenment, the Five Elements Spiritual Roots of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, along with his Sword Spiritual Root, Thunder Spiritual Root, and Darkness Spiritual Root inside his body, each emitted a strand of aura that was drawn in by the 《Path-Walking Art》.
Then, in just a dozen breaths of time, the proficiency of the 《Path-Walking Art》 began to skyrocket frantically.
Novice... Accomplished... Proficient... Master...
By the time he completely pushed the 《Path-Walking Art》 to Great Perfection, a star-shaped imprint slowly formed in front of him.
This imprint carried the aura of his Dao foundation. With just a gentle activation, it could trigger the Great Dao to descend the pre-requisite quest.
“Then let me see what exactly the pre-requisite quest for breaking through to the Golden Core Stage is.”
Looking at the Path-Walking Seal in front of him, Ye Lin did not hesitate to circulate his cultivation method and activate it.
Boom!
As the Path-Walking Seal was activated, the silent Great Dao experienced a microscopic fluctuation.
Precisely because of this sliver of fluctuation, the Heavenly Dao of the Heavenly Desolation Continent seemed to receive some inviolable supreme command, immediately and obediently refreshing his pre-requisite quest.
【Ding! Your Golden Core Stage pre-requisite quest has refreshed.
1. Find a core-fusing spiritual material that is no lower than Immortal-grade.
2. Relying on your own combat strength, defeat or kill an Extreme Realm Golden Core genius, or defeat or kill ten Nascent Soul True Monarchs.
3. Your combat strength prior to the Golden Core Stage must reach the Extreme Realm, and you must comprehend at least two laws.
Note: This quest has a time limit of one month. Missing the deadline will be deemed a failure.】
As soon as the quest refreshed, Ye Lin read through it seriously.
Compared to the pre-requisite quest for the Foundation Establishment Stage, the difficulty of this pre-requisite quest was clearly a thousand times harder.
If these quests were given to other top geniuses of the Heavenly Desolation Continent, not a single one of them would be able to complete them all.
First, the Heavenly Desolation Continent was merely a lower plane. Finding a core-fusing spiritual material no lower than Immortal-grade was simply hell-mode difficulty.
Second, relying on one's own combat strength as a Foundation Establishment cultivator to fight a Nascent Soul cultivator—a single slap from them would be enough to kill you thousands of times over.
As for the third one, it was even more absurd. One's combat strength in all realms had to reach the Extreme Realm, and one also had to comprehend laws that only cultivators at or above the Great Ascension Stage could comprehend—and two of them at that. This was simply a fantasy.
Crucially, the most fatal part was that all of this had to be completed within a month, otherwise one's Dao path would be completely ruined.
Fortunately, Ye Lin was a cheater; he could modify parts of the pre-requisite quest's content.
Buzz!
Without any hesitation, after reading the quest, Ye Lin directly activated the Heavenly Dao Seal within his body to modify the quest content.
Based on his past experience, he felt that the simpler he made the quest content, the more rewards he would receive upon over-completion.
Therefore, following this line of thought, he had originally wanted to change Immortal-grade to Earth-grade, which would surely net him an evaluation that went far beyond over-completion.
Unfortunately, for a quest personally ordered by the Great Dao, the difficulty had to be ten times that of a normal quest, so changing it to Earth-grade was clearly impossible.
Helplessly, he could only raise it bit by bit, eventually changing it to quasi-immortal-grade.
“That works too. Even if I can't find one, I can still pile one up using the Cauldron of Creation.”
Muttering in a low voice, he continued to modify the other tasks.
For the second task, he removed the requirement of relying on his own combat strength, changing it to defeating or killing one Extreme Realm Golden Core genius, or defeating or killing one Nascent Soul True Monarch.
After all, it would be difficult to find even more than five Nascent Soul True Monarchs in the entire Tianyuan Dynasty, so defeating or killing just one would suffice.
As for the third task, his combat strength prior to the Golden Core Stage had to reach the Extreme Realm, and he had to comprehend at least two laws.
His combat strength already surpassed the Extreme Realm, so he modified the strength requirement to a general Extreme Realm. Although he had long possessed the Law of Stars, Mu Chaoge had now also given him a source of the Law of Thunder.
He only needed to perform Random Replication; with so many sources of law, it would be more than enough for him to comprehend his own Law of Thunder.
Thus, he changed the requirement of two laws to one.
And for the final part where the quest was limited to one month, this still had to be modified. After all, one always had to keep a card up their sleeve, so he wanted to change one month to one hundred years.
Unfortunately, it failed, and he could only change it to ten years in the end.
After finishing the modifications to the quest content, he activated the Heavenly Dao Seal to stamp his final approval.
And this action of his clearly enraged the Heavenly Dao consciousness of the Heavenly Desolation Continent once again.
“Abnormal living being, carrying destiny, past and future impossible to calculate, terrifying foundation, extremely fast growth.”
“Danger level: Six stars. Deploying the Child of Fortune to execute the cleanup plan has failed.”
“Now executing the Destiny Decapitation Plan. Let destiny act and destroy the abnormality!”
Based on the program set for it by the powerful existence, the Heavenly Dao consciousness began to launch a new round of extermination plans against Ye Lin.
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