Purple Mist Dao Master-Chapter 874 - 581: Holy King Stele: A New True Skill!

All the Base God Generals were fervently recruiting Yan Chuan.

But Yan Chuan didn't agree to any of them.

"To me, teammates are just a burden."

Yan Chuan was very clear about his situation—

On one hand, his own strength was extremely formidable, and he was adept in many domains, so he didn't particularly need teammates to cooperate or complement his abilities.

On the other hand, Yan Chuan carried with him the 'Demon Ape Avatar' of Wang Zhengyi, which he could summon anytime as a backup when encountering a strong enemy — a scene that cannot be witnessed by teammates.

Thirdly, Yan Chuan also had Lu Yuru at his side, who possessed a pair of "Wisdom Eyes." In the resource-rich Return Ruins Battlefield, Lu Yuru's "Wisdom Eyes" would surely shine, discovering more treasures. At that time, should he share them with teammates or not? Sharing would be too much of a loss, but not sharing, would teammates be willing?

And fourth, Yan Chuan bore the 'North Mansion', capable of imprisoning High Rank Divine Generals. The Return Ruins Battlefield lacked nothing but these, and in the North Mansion Prison currently were only Divine General Zhou Shun and Nansha Zi, with Zhou Shun not even being a high rank divine general. Yan Chuan planned to capture and suppress a batch on this Sixth Battlefield, so he could carry them around and have them listen to his martial arts lectures, thereby providing feedback.

Therefore.

A team?

Unnecessary!

...

"Not joining any?"

"Is he planning to be selective?"

"Not necessarily! A newcomer with high aspirations, maybe he's truly intending to be a lone walker."

"Ha! Walking alone in the Return Ruins Battlefield? He wouldn't even know how he died!"

...

Yan Chuan's rejection of all recruitment sparked everyone's discussion, with ninety percent thinking Yan Chuan was arrogant and seeking his own death.

Return Ruins Battlefield.

Extremely dangerous.

Even a Tenth Rank Divine General needs teammate support here; wandering alone out of the base is unthinkable. Base 0314 previously had more than three Tenth Rank Divine Generals, but two were too proud, looking down on everyone, rejecting teams and teammates, went alone and ultimately forever remained in the Return Ruins Battlefield, dying without burial.

And that's the case for Tenth Rank Divine Generals.

Yan Chuan, merely an Eighth Rank Divine General, what qualification does he have to walk alone?

People were pessimistic.

Yan Chuan didn't care.

He wasn't in a rush to explore, instead headed straight to the Holy Temple, vast space, immediately seeing rows of 'Holy King Stele' standing: "There are a total of 42 Holy King Steles here, each one can oppress a person's will, the deeper the oppression the stronger, the outermost first one a Sixth Rank Divine General can barely withstand, but the deepest last one even Tenth Rank Divine Generals find hard to resist. How close one can get to that 'Holy King Stele' and how long they stay represents the strength of one's will, high or low, clear at a glance."

Yan Chuan approached the first 'Holy King Stele', seeing mountains, campfires, and a group of savages, among whom a leader was highlighted as the first revered Holy King 'Fire King' of the 'Holy King Hall'.

Yan Chuan stood before the 'Fire King Stele'—

Bang!

Sudden roar in his mind, feeling a surge of fiery light, the first fire of creation, one's heart full of brightness and heat, flames dancing, stirring heartstrings, shocking the sea of mind, constantly grinding down the will.

"It's hard to bear for anything below Sixth Rank,"

Yan Chuan chuckled softly.

But his will was not simple, not to mention how the painful grind during the cultivation of "Fire Demon Golden Bell Shield" tempered him, or during the previous lectures in front of countless people where he constantly received feedback shocks, despite chaotic thoughts, Yan Chuan could bear it, and now with 'Image' and 'Dao Rhythm,' feedback from tens of millions watching across space and time regularly reached Yan Chuan.

Constant feedback.

Constant shock.

Yan Chuan had long forged a steel-like will, completely unmoved.

Fire King?

Merely so!

This provided little tempering for Yan Chuan, yet he stood before the 'Holy King Stele' for long, not for will-tempering nor truly understanding Fire King inheritance, he did so purely for 'Derivation Skill'—

[You can gain corresponding inspiration from certain marks, objects, or environments.]

This was a change added in the Fourth Level of 'Derivation Skill'.

With this function, Yan Chuan successively understood 'Fire Demon Golden Bell Shield', 'Ksitigarbha Heavenly Dragon Roar' from 'Mad Demon Scroll', 'Wave Riding Micro Steps' from 'Mist Rain Stele', and 'Washing Marrow Scripture' from 'Return Ruins', greatly helpful.

This time, Yan Chuan planned to distill further insights from the Holy King Stele.

Time passed.

Yan Chuan paused.

As he halted before the first 'Fire King Stele,' he was really only using his eyes to look, the eyes being windows to the soul and windows to 'Derivation Skill,' he merely provided inspiration for 'Derivation Skill', while his true focus was on absorbing, accepting, and digesting an endless stream of feedback from the Fifteen States of Great Yan and various King City Realms, constantly improving himself.

However.

His behavior appeared peculiar to many Base Divine Generals who had their eyes on new entrants—

"Stopped?"

"Can't be that weak, detained by just the first 'Holy King Stele'?"

"Can't even withstand 'Fire King Stele's shock?"

"This, this, this!"

"Turns out it's a charlatan! Combat strength comparable to Eighth Rank, but with such weak will? This flaw is too obvious, exposed on the first day at the Return Ruins Battlefield, not leaving now, staying will surely lead to death!"

"Fortunate to not drag him into the team, otherwise would drag everyone down."

"Charlatan! Complete charlatan!"

...

Yan Chuan stood before the 'Fire King Stele' for an entire day, and in that time, the news that "newcomer Yan Chuan is a charlatan with extremely weak will" had already spread throughout Base 0314, with some even visiting to see for themselves, finding Yan Chuan indeed immobilized by the 'Fire King Stele'.

Sparking surprise.

At Base 0314, newcomers who could rush through ten or twenty 'Holy King Steles' all at once weren't uncommon, but it was rare for someone like Yan Chuan to be stuck on the first 'Fire King Stele'.

Instantly becoming a rarity.

Yet Yan Chuan paid no mind, ran his own path, standing before the fire king stele for a day, then a day before the second 'Nest King Stele', after which a day before the third 'King Bu Stele'.

Advancing at the astonishing pace of one stele per day.

Not astonishingly fast.

But astonishingly slow, to the point of frustration.

Attracting more attention, more ridicule and sneers.

However, how could these Base Divine Generals at 0314 know, during these brief three days, Yan Chuan not only birthed new inspirations to gradually extend his incomplete True Skill further but also, amidst this process, a new True Skill was being conceived.

Fire King, burning, fiery.

Nest King, firm, steadfast.

King Bu, warm, cold.

Different Holy King Steles gave Yan Chuan different insights, a successive wave of contrasting will shocks fertilized an abundance of inspiration, he amalgamated Wang Zhengyi's 'Alligator Flood Dragon Avatar' with the 'Spiritual Shock' skill mastered during the 'Alligator Beast Rankage', after passing the third Holy King Stele, the embryo of an entirely new True Skill finally appeared.

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