MTLNOVEL Chapter 183 Information
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"If this experience were applied to Artifact Refining and the Divine Path, I could reach the tenth level that is capable of forging Spiritual Treasures in Artifact Refining, and I should also be able to step into the Dharma Phase Level in the Divine Path. However, if used in Formation and the Martial Path... I could only choose to either enter the Star God rank in the Martial Path or reach the Seventh Level, or even the Eighth Level in Formation..."
Alkaid pondered.
For Formation, reaching the Sixth Level and being able to optimize Spirit Gathering Arrays is sufficient.
The Seventh Level is not needed for now.
Formations are not like Artifact Refining; I could seriously guide other Artifact Refiners, who after several trials could grasp and learn. But with Formations, even if I pull them apart and crush them to teach, the Array Masters below would still be utterly confused, with a blank expression on their faces.
"There's no rush for Formations, Artifact Refining... advancing it to the tenth level to be able to forge Spiritual Treasures is quite crucial. If I could equip Li Hanqiu of the Nine Cauldrons Sect with a Second Generation, or even a Third Generation Spiritual Treasure..."
Light flickered in Alkaid's eyes.
In actual fact, the recent popular use of classifications like Great Cultivator of the First Rank, Second Rank, up to the Fifth Rank, only came into vogue recently.
A hundred years ago, early stage Foundation Establishment was known as the Fourth Level of the cultivation system, middle stage as Fifth Level, and late stage as Sixth Level. Building the Dao Foundation in the early stage of Foundation Establishment was termed Second Generation Fourth Level, and Immortal Foundation Building as Third Generation Fourth Level, and so on.
However, because the Second Generation who build the Dao Foundation are much stronger than ordinary Foundation Establishers, and do not fit well with the Formation and Magic Artifact systems, the terminology eventually shifted to using ranks from First to Fifth.
Today, the cultivation system and Artifact Refining system have been further perfected, especially the Artifact Refining system, which leads the others by a considerable distance. The increase in strength brought by Magic Artifacts has become more tangible.
Basically, if you are one generation ahead in Magic Artifacts, you can gain a huge advantage, managing to fight two, or even three, opponents.
If you are two generations ahead, you can just about bridge a gap of one entire realm.
In other words, a Third Rank Great Cultivator equipped with a Third Generation Flying Sword could barely contend against a Fourth Rank Great Cultivator equipped with a First Generation Flying Sword.
If the difference in equipment reaches three generations, that is, a Third Rank Great Cultivator equipped with a Fourth Generation Flying Sword, they could even win when fighting against a Fourth Rank Great Cultivator equipped with a First Generation Flying Sword.
This is the case for Great Cultivators of the Foundation Establishment Realm, I wonder...
how it is for Golden Core Realm Cultivators.
"In today's world, although there are Tenth Level Artifact Refiners, they are all remnants from the era of the Moon Demon Empire's wars, and they haven't kept up with the changes in the Golden Core Realm. They do not have the ability to forge even Second Generation Spiritual Treasures, so currently, all Golden Core Realm users have only Spiritual Treasures, and those First Generation Spiritual Treasures, it must be said, can only bear their strength without any amplification..."
Alkaid thought to himself, "If I can raise my Artifact Refining Technology to the tenth level, and be capable of forging Second Generation Spiritual Treasures, Third Generation, or even Fourth Generation..."
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By that time, wouldn't the power of the Nine Cauldrons Sect's Golden Core be fearsome, able to fight one against ten?
For a moment, he suppressed this thought.
If he truly made such Spiritual Treasures public, the impact would be too great.
The one to fight one against ten would be Li Hanqiu, not him.
Once other Golden Core Cultivators learned of this, they would at all costs seek to eliminate him to ensure the strategic balance among the sects is restored.
Therefore...
I must practice creating Fourth Generation Spiritual Treasures only after achieving Star God status.
In this way, it becomes quite clear.
"Power is the foundation. Without sufficient power, even if you have the best technology you wouldn't dare to reveal it. Otherwise, you're just making a wedding dress for someone else."
With this thought, Alkaid's Divine Sense focused on the branch representing the "Divine Path".
Compared to the "Martial Path" branch, the "Divine Path" branch is easier to transform into power.
Even if it's power that leans towards supporting.
"Hum hum!"
As the experience poured in, the branch representing the "Divine Path" grew rapidly, and before long, it had reached its peak in growth.
Blossoming and bearing fruit.
Just as the "Divine Path" broke through to the Dharma Phase, which represents the Seventh Level, Alkaid's Primordial Spirit shuddered. The world seemed to undergo a tremendous change amidst this tremor, shifting from simplicity to richness and variety.
Such richness and variety...
Alkaid had an insight.
He even felt it somewhat familiar.
"It's the profundity of chaos and spacetime that's contained in the Purple Cloud Divine Thunder!"
Theoretically, one could comprehend the profundity of chaos and spacetime when transcending the Purple Cloud Divine Thunder.
But in reality, those who could achieve this step in the Primordial Spirit Realm are truly one in ten thousand.
Just like Alkaid...
Once his realm had reached the Dharma Phase Level, he clearly understood just how difficult it was to realize the profundity of chaos and spacetime through the Purple Cloud Divine Thunder.
It was like being given only a primary school mathematics textbook yet being asked to solve the seven great math conjectures.
"The biggest difference between not comprehending the profundity of chaos and spacetime and comprehending it is that the former's scope of exploration depends on the coverage of Divine Sense, while the latter's scope depends on the strength of Divine Sense. As long as the Divine Sense is strong enough, by understanding and penetrating spacetime distortions with Divine Sense, one can directly cross spatial distances."
Alkaid quietly perceived the power of Dharma Phase Level, "In other words, as long as the Divine Sense is strong enough, it's not just about probing targets a hundred thousand miles away. Even separated by a hundred thousand light-years, a Dharma Phase Divine Cultivator could easily perceive them. If the Divine Sense is infinite, one could even probe beyond the starry skies!"
This is almost a change in dimension.
Before reaching Dharma Phase Realm, the probing of Divine Sense is like a line spreading on a piece of paper.
The length of that line represents the extent of Divine Sense probing.
But once one achieves Dharma Phase and touches the profundity of spacetime, Divine Sense becomes not just a line on paper but a line drawn from the tip of a pen.
This line, drawn from another dimension's pen tip, can exist at any point. Also, when the line is no longer from the paper but from the pen tip, there are more ways to extend the line than just drawing.
The pen tip stays still, however, by pulling the a paper, the line can still form.
"Through the understanding of chaos and spacetime profundity, my Divine Sense can operate like the pen tip from another dimension, capable of drawing lines at any point at any time. Similarly, it can move along with spacetime, probing to a hundred thousand miles, several hundred thousand, even more than a million miles away..."
At this moment, he faintly understood why there were Heavenly Palace Cultivators and why Dharma Phase Cultivators customarily resided Above the Nine Heavens.
Because...
The world is in motion.
Heavenly Palace Cultivators make use of the characteristics of the world's movement to increase their perception range, like Dharma Phase Cultivators, significantly improving it.
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He fixated on a certain point, and within the cycle of the world's motion, he was able to achieve complete perception of that area, no different from the perception process matching the cycle of the world's motion.
Suppose a cycle of the world's rotation took a day, it meant that a Heavenly Palace Cultivator would need an entire day to process all the information in that area.
But if twenty-four Heavenly Palace Cultivators were arranged in this area, the time required for investigation would shrink to one hour.
If there were one thousand four hundred forty Heavenly Palace Cultivators, it would be reduced further to a single minute.
As for Dharma Phase Cultivators...
They would keep themselves in sync with the world's horizontal movement.
Then, under this horizontal movement, they would continuously disperse their Divine Sense.
As long as they consistently maintained integration with the chaotic space-time, their Divine Sense could eventually cover the entire world with the flow of space-time energy.
Of course, this was a theoretical value.
To extend Divine Sense across the entire world would consume a tremendous amount, and no Dharma Phase Cultivator could afford such expenditure.
Unless...
Someone was willing to provide their mental power as energy to support this consumption.
"Void Divine Realm."
Alkaid had a realization.
The Void Divine Realm was a method for Dharma Phase Cultivators to obtain "Divine Sense" energy.
Others, through Divine Sense, Divine Knowledge, and Divine Intent, entered the Void Divine Realm to search for data or communicate. Although extremely convenient, their use of the Void Divine Realm also meant they were supplying it with energy, thus enabling the Dharma Phase Cultivators behind the scene to have the capability to explore their environments.
"No wonder, despite the convenience of the Void Divine Realm left by Dharma Phase Cultivators, each sect still works hard to develop their own Heavenly Palace Cultivators, and even their Dharma Phase and Void Divine Realm; using the Void Divine Realm is equivalent to exposing oneself under their gaze… Such control over the information layer…"
Alkaid took a deep breath.
It was frightening.
Truly frightening.
It was no wonder they said that whoever controlled the Void Divine Realm essentially held information hegemony.
"Dharma Phase, Void Divine Realm, information hegemony…"
Alkaid collected his thoughts.
Pondering, he carefully linked his Divine Sense to the Void Divine Realm.
Upon entering the Void Divine Realm, he immediately sensed four powerful Divine Senses permeating it, with each one dominating a fundamental territory, but at the same time, they were continually infiltrating the ranges controlled by other Divine Senses, searching, reading, and even restricting their Divine Sense data.
"Four Dharma Phases?"
Alkaid thought to himself.
Based on the directions represented by these four areas, he gradually discerned the forces that the four great Dharma Phases belonged to.
"One from Myriad Beasts Sect, one from Immortal Alliance, the other two... are from Limitless Star Palace."
This distribution did not surprise him.
He sensed the information in the Void Divine Realm again...
Even though he didn't possess his own Void Divine Realm at the moment, relying on his sophisticated application of Divine Sense, he could completely restrict the transmission of Divine Sense within any given area, and even distort or modify the information and Divine Sense of that area.
For example, facing that Patrol Heaven Warship from Limitless Star Palace...
He could change an order originally intended to attack Dragon Majestic City to become one that sought to save it.
Of course, Limitless Star Palace had its own Dharma Phase Cultivators and its own Void Divine Realm, so the information couldn't possibly be interfered with.
But if it were a power without Dharma Phase Cultivators...
"I'm beginning to understand why the Quicksand Sect was crushed so easily."
Alkaid had an epiphany, "Quicksand Sect did not develop a Heavenly Palace Cultivator system and completely relied on the information transmission of Myriad Beasts Sect, which was the leader of the Northern Alliance at the time. But… the Myriad Beasts Sect only had one Dharma Phase Cultivator while Limitless Star Palace had two. Once one of the Dharma Phase Cultivators took the forefront to block the way, Myriad Beasts Sect had to focus all its attention on the confrontation. In this situation, the other Dharma Phase Cultivator could take the opportunity to deal with the Quicksand Sect... Under an information black-out, the counterattack orders from the Sect Master of Quicksand Sect might not have reached every Great Cultivator precisely."
He sensed toward the direction of Black Feather Sect in Black Flame Continent again...
Well, indeed there was a Dharma Phase Cultivator entrenched in the Black Flame Continent, but...
Black Feather Sect directly prohibited the use of the Void Divine Realm, declaring that no one was allowed to link into it.
As a result, the information transmission within Black Feather Sect became extremely difficult.
At the same time, however...
Without a steady stream of Cultivators supplying energy to the Void Divine Realm, the Dharma Phase Cultivator stationed in Black Flame Continent couldn't replenish his power and had to rest from time to time.
And as soon as he took a rest, the allies monitoring the situation would inform Black Feather Sect, which would immediately launch a counterattack.
This counterattack was not very harmful, but it was extremely offensive.
You continue to fight, while they disperse and do away with using the Void Divine Realm, making them hard to locate.
If you don't fight back...
Your enemies have already attacked you, and you, Limitless Star Palace, actually don't retaliate? Are you willing to give up your title as the number one great sect in Cangwu?
"I knew there was a mastermind behind Black Feather Sect."
Alkaid observed and quickly reached a conclusion.
"Black Feather Sect will ultimately not be able to defeat the Limitless Star Palace, but... it would take at least ten to twenty years for Limitless Star Palace to completely subdue Black Feather Sect."
This was not a guess!
It was the conclusion he had drawn!
In other words...
For the next ten to twenty years, Nine Cauldrons Sect need not worry about Limitless Star Palace making a comeback, nor did they need to be tentatively probing anymore. They could act boldly and fearlessly in the East Sea Archipelago!
"Xuanming Sect, you're all too eager to jump around because you've got the backing of Limitless Star Palace, huh?"
He addressed aloud, "Tang Fenghua, help me connect with Sect Master Li, I have important information to offer him."