Chapter 425: Chapter 204: Breakthrough, I, The Ancestor, Am Invincible in My Realm!_3

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Han Li employed the Five Elements Divine Punch, which allowed him to exhibit the combat ability of the seventh layer of the Tongxuan Realm. After triggering his Divine Sense, even if his strength increased by 15 times, he could only manifest the combat ability of the eighth layer of the Tongxuan Realm—a mere increase of one minor realm.

This was because the higher the realm, the greater the difference; there was a substantial disparity in combat power between the seventh and eighth layers of the Tongxuan Realm.

Now, his Divine Sense no longer increased strength by a multiple of his current power; instead, it directly elevated him by two minor realms.

Using the Five Elements Divine Punch again and triggering his Divine Sense, he could now directly burst forth with the combat ability of the eighth layer of the Tongxuan Realm.

Han Li felt quite pleased as it was much more useful than before. In the past, his Divine Sense had been rather unstable and the power boost weakened as his own realm increased.

After contemplating for a while, Han Li turned his attention to breaking through the Tongxuan Realm, directly inquiring the System for the information he wanted and received the answer he was seeking.

“So pricey!”

Han Li exhaled a breath and couldn’t help but utter.

When he had advanced to the Divine Yuan Realm, he had a Second Grade aptitude and spent two thousand years. According to the System, a Second Grade aptitude would require five thousand years of cultivation to advance to the Tongxuan Realm.

He now had a First Grade aptitude, which would consume two thousand five hundred years of cultivation.

However, Han Li currently had only one thousand six hundred and seventy years of cultivation, lacking eight hundred and thirty years. He felt that he needed to accumulate it for a while yet.

He did a rough calculation and found that it would take at most three to four months for him to advance to the Tongxuan Realm.

The total number of his descendants was 4,603—fewer than four hundred shy of reaching five thousand. Upon reaching that number, he would gain six hundred years of cultivation, and with the additional four hundred years from four hundred more descendants, that would be one thousand years.

At that time, his cultivation would exceed two thousand six hundred years, more than meeting the requirement to break through to the Tongxuan Realm.

To reduce the amount of cultivation consumed by the breakthrough, there were two methods. One was obtaining a special physique. An Imperial Body would halve the cultivation needed, a Royal Body would halve it again, and an Immortal Body would halve it yet again.

This meant, with a King’s Body, Han Li would only need one thousand two hundred and fifty years to reach the Tongxuan Realm. With an Imperial Body, he would need just six hundred and twenty-five years, and with an Immortal Body, merely three hundred and thirteen years.

The second method was to improve one’s aptitude to an Immortal Grade, which would reduce the required cultivation by one-fifth, to five hundred years—a bit more than what an Immortal Body would need.

This was because within the Cultivation Realm, an Immortal Body was rarer and more cherished than Immortal Grade aptitude.

Han Li’s aptitude had only reached 23% of the First Grade, making an upgrade to Immortal Grade a distant prospect.

Though for every addition of a First Grade aptitude descendant, Han Li could gain a tenth of that aptitude in return, it seemed that just eight more First Grade aptitude descendants were needed. He could create them in a few years, especially with a number of First Grade aptitude beauties like Murong Ying, Yao Xi, Xue Yueqing, and Long Yue for wives.

But raising a First Grade aptitude to an Immortal Grade was not so simple. Han Li had previously asked the System, which said there was a huge threshold to cross.

The gap between a First Grade aptitude and an Immortal Grade aptitude was immense. A cultivator with First Grade aptitude had a fair chance of reaching the Tongxuan Realm, while those with Immortal Grade aptitude had a good chance of becoming a Heavenly Immortal. Between the two grades, there were two to three Big Realms, including the Sacred Abyss Realm, the Quasi Emperor, and the Great Emperor of the Heaven Imperial Realm.

To bridge this gap, the Sages, through relentless research, had finally created special physiques which could gradually narrow the gap between the First Grade and Immortal Grade aptitudes.

Even if Han Li’s aptitude reached 99.99% of the First Grade, additional First Grade aptitude descendants would not enable his aptitude to rise to an Immortal Grade.

To truly ascend, certain conditions had to be met.

Han Li knew it would be a while before he could meet those conditions, so he dismissed the option of enhancing his aptitude. As for acquiring a physique, he could certainly activate a King’s Body, but it wasn’t really necessary.

Conserving one thousand two hundred and fifty years of cultivation wouldn’t allow him to advance straight to the fourth layer of the Tongxuan Realm, nor would it greatly enhance his combat ability. Moreover, his own combat ability had little impact on the upcoming matters; what he needed were Immortal weapons.

With a sigh, Han Li learned more details about the breakthrough to the Tongxuan Realm and obtained some secret knowledge from the System.

The path of cultivation was one of defying the heavens, requiring one to continuously seize the natural fortunes of heaven and earth in order to climb step by step to higher realms.

Starting from the Hollow Void Stage, advancing from the God Refining Realm to the Hollow Void Stage necessitated the comprehension of the nascent form of Martial True Intent. This was a critical juncture; comprehending a high level of martial arts would present limitless possibilities in the future, much like Han Li’s ultimate Martial Dao.

But such knowledge was exceedingly secretive, not widespread even in Qianyuan Divine Province or the Endless Yuankun Domain. Perhaps, only those Great Holy Land Schools that had produced Great Emperors and Immortals might be somewhat aware of it.

If one failed to comprehend a high-level Martial Dao during the Hollow Void Stage, there were still opportunities for rectification in the future, such as obtaining some defying fate, starting over with cultivation, building the strongest foundation at every realm, and so forth…

To advance to the Myriad Phenomena Realm, one needed to perfect the Martial True Intent nascent form into their personal Martial True Intent. To advance to the True Martial Realm, it was essential to polish the Martial True Intent and condense a Martial True Pill.

To progress to the Divine Yuan Realm, one had to refine the Martial True Pill to integrate it holistically, and finally, make the Martial True Pill, Divine Spirit, and True Yuan coalesce into a Martial Primordial Spirit.

And to ascend to the Tongxuan Realm, it was necessary to unite the Primordial Spirit, physical body, True Yuan, and one’s own Martial Dao, to foster the True Spirit.

The True Spirit was the hallmark of the mighty beings of the Tongxuan Realm. Only by giving birth to the True Spirit did they have the chance to reincarnate and be reborn.