The Ghostly Flood Dragon.

On deck.

Su Ye sat cross-legged, refining the Eternal Hunting Divinity.

A crimson-gold crystal of divinity floated and spun above his palm.

Inside Su Ye’s body, his Magical Power surged.

Like tentacles, it reached into the crystal of divinity, converting it into a "divine seed"!

As the divinity was refined...

Within his Dantian Qi Sea.

A fifth divine seed slowly emerged within Su Ye’s Magic Power Crystal!

At the same time,

an image appeared in Su Ye’s consciousness.

He seemed to have transformed into a blood wolf, experiencing hunting and killing in the wilderness from an immersive, first-person perspective.

Tearing open his prey’s throat with sharp fangs!

Piercing his prey’s heart with his claws!

With each hunt, the environment quietly changed.

WHOOSH.

The north wind howled, and the winter snows drifted down.

A bitter winter descended upon the land.

The world was dyed pure white!

As a blood wolf, he hunted and killed, traveling alone through a vast, frozen expanse...

WENG.

In Su Ye’s senses, 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

time itself seemed to lose all meaning.

Su Ye exhaled slowly, his mind completely immersed.

Countless insights regarding "hunting" and "death" continuously surfaced in his mind!

"Seeking, betrayal, cunning, pain, blood, slaughter, struggle!"

"Fading, remembrance, stillness, decay, snow, finality, the end!"

An unknown amount of time passed.

WENG.

Su Ye slowly opened his eyes.

It was dawn.

The lingering chill of the night air was biting.

The light of the rising sun washed over the land.

HAAAH.

Su Ye exhaled a puff of white mist.

Then,

a flash of crimson-gold flickered through his eyes and vanished!

The Eternal Hunting Divinity was completely refined!

Su Ye focused his senses inward. Inside his Magic Power Crystal, the fifth divine seed was spinning and floating!

The fifth divine seed—[End of Tracing Origin]!

Su Ye used his Divine Sense to examine it, and detailed information about the Quasi-Technique appeared from within the divine seed!

[End of Tracing Origin]

[Upon activation, captures a wisp of the target’s aura to serve as a tracing mark, performing a Thousand-Mile Soul Lock.]

[The tracing mark has priority and clings like a maggot to the bone, making it difficult to detect or remove... A target marked by it will have their location continuously locked by the Caster.]

[The Caster can use this to launch an over-the-horizon strike equal to three times the range of their Divine Sense, killing without a trace.]

[Damage dealt by End of Tracing Origin is filled with the aura of death and has priority. It causes the target’s injuries to continuously worsen and drastically reduces the effectiveness of all healing methods.]

[Additionally, End of Tracing Origin possesses a chance of instant death.]

’This Quasi-Technique...’

Su Ye’s eyes lit up with delight!

The effects of [End of Tracing Origin] were incredibly powerful!

This one Quasi-Technique covered four effects at once: [Target Location], [Remote Snipe], [Continuous Corrosion], and [Instant-Kill Execution]!

The [Target Location] and [Continuous Corrosion] effects, in particular, even had priority!

The first allowed him to constantly pinpoint a target’s location to hunt them down.

The second continuously inflicted damage, preventing the target from healing and forcing them to flee for their lives!

This was just like...

"A hunt?"

Su Ye murmured to himself, his eyes glinting.

His mind raced, imagining the possibilities!

With just a moment of thought, he could already see how much [End of Tracing Origin] would help him!

After mastering [End of Tracing Origin], it would be nearly impossible for a cultivator of the same realm to escape from him!

Soul-Reaping Pursuit! And End of Tracing Origin!

Of these two Attacking Techniques, the former focused on the soul while the latter focused on the physical body, but both possessed terrifying killing power...

One could only imagine how many souls would perish at their hands!

The corners of Su Ye’s mouth lifted into a faint smile.

...

Su Ye was very satisfied with the effects of [End of Tracing Origin].

Next,

he summoned his panel, ready to allocate his points.

’Perfect. I’ve saved up fifty Creation Points. That’s enough to raise the cultivation progress of [End of Tracing Origin] to Mid-stage Crystal...’

That way, the fifth divine seed’s progress would be on par with the others!

WENG.

On the panel, his [Creation Points] dropped to zero!

At the same time, a mysterious fluctuation rippled through the void.

The Power of Rules surged forth and poured into the fifth divine seed!

Nourishing, perfecting, ascending!

After about the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea,

the fifth divine seed began to spin gently.

Its crimson-gold light grew even more magnificent!

[End of Tracing Origin]... Cultivation level increased to Mid-stage Crystal!

"Perfect!"

Su Ye grinned.

Using up all the resources he had stockpiled to get such a huge boost in one go felt incredibly satisfying.

’At the Mid-stage Crystal level, this Quasi-Technique, [End of Tracing Origin], should be my strongest single-target attack right now,’ Su Ye thought.

Compared to his other divine seeds,

even though it was also at the Mid-stage Crystal level, [End of Tracing Origin]’s degree of development was much higher!

From the moment of its birth, it possessed four distinct abilities—something his other divine seeds lacked.

And this advantage came from the Eternal Hunter Incarnation!

Within its divinity,

was contained the Eternal Hunting God’s comprehension of the two Powers of Rules: "hunting" and "death"!

Su Ye had slain the Divine Incarnation and refined the Eternal Hunting Divinity.

Therefore...

He had also obtained this very comprehension!

’For me, this comprehension has saved me decades I would have spent exploring this Divine Technique!’

As leaves of the Great Dao and manifestations of Rules,

True Techniques were by no means skills with fixed effects.

To a cultivator, every single Divine Technique was a treasure trove of infinite potential, with qualities that could be deeply explored and developed!

Of course, Su Ye also knew

that this method of practice—developing and deeply exploring Divine Techniques—was mainly for cultivators beyond the Golden Core Realm...

After all,

the Quasi-Techniques mastered by cultivators in the Crystal Realm

required several years of accumulating power in their divine seeds just to be used a single time.

And any research requires practice as a foundation; it cannot be based on mere theory.

Such a long cooldown all but prevented Crystal Realm cultivators from developing their Divine Techniques.

’[End of Tracing Origin]... what a pleasant surprise. My thanks to the Eternal Hunting God for this gift.’

’As for my other divine seeds, I’ll wait until I break through to the Golden Core Realm to slowly research and develop them...’

...

And now,

with the formation of the fifth divine seed, [End of Tracing Origin],

the original four-part structure within his Magic Power Crystal

had changed!

[Netherworld Boat], [Heart of the Vast Sea], and [Monarch of Calamity].

These three divine seeds now formed a Small Triad Structure!

[Soul-Reaping Pursuit] and [End of Tracing Origin].

These two divine seeds, on the other hand, formed a straight line, echoing each other.

Vaguely, Su Ye felt that something was missing.

’I’m still missing one divine seed.’

’Once I obtain the sixth, I can form a dual Small Triad structure.’

’And that will be the prototype for my Dao Embryo Dharma Aspect!’

...

Sorry for the late update.

I took a short nap after dinner and ended up oversleeping. By the time I woke up, it was already this late...

I’m very sorry QAQ