The Heaven-shattering: Holding the Jade Disc of Creation

Chapter 23: Cultivation Breakthrough vs. Weiwei (4k)

After completing his teaching and comforting of Lin Jia, Zhang Shuo returned to the cave prepared for him in Lingxu Cave Heaven and began to hone his current realm and digest the insights he had gained during this period.

Zhang Shuo obtained three holy fruits and a large amount of divine spring in the ancient forbidden land, but he only took one holy fruit, leaving two complete medicinal fruits for synthesizing the Nine Wonderful Immortal Elixir in the future. As for the divine spring he took, Zhang Shuo locked the essence in his body and did not digest it.

Now Zhang Shuo began to circulate the Emperor Sutra to digest the essence of the holy fruit and the vitality of the divine spring in his body. The essence of the holy fruit flowed in his body, nourishing every blood vessel and bone it passed through. A large amount of golden blood was produced in the bone marrow, which further condensed the golden blood in the blood vessels.

Afterwards, most of the essence of the holy fruit flowed into the Sea of ​​Bitterness and entered the Wheel of Life. On the Wheel of Life, several traces of time were originally born, but they were eliminated again by the essence of the holy fruit, making the Wheel of Life further complete and thorough.

A large amount of vitality from the God Spring poured into the Life Spring and the Kidney Water Dao Palace, the Life Spring further expanded, and the vitality contained in the life essence that flowed out became more intense. The life essence in the entire Wheel Sea Secret Realm increased further, and fed back from the bottom to the Kidney Water God Repository. The innate Ren Water Qi in the Kidney Water God Repository was supplemented by the life essence in the God Spring and Wheel Sea and became more condensed.

The human-shaped crystal in the Niwan Palace at the center of the eyebrows separated a condensed soul force which entered the kidney water divine storage and combined with the innate Ren water energy to transform into a god. The god was wearing a black dragon robe and looked the same as Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo looked at the deity from within the Dao Palace, and his mind suddenly merged with the deity's, and Zhang Shuo's mind fell into another world. He saw that the whole world was desolate and lifeless.

Then, Zhang Shuo had an idea in his heart. With a wave of his hand, dark clouds floated in the sky and heavy rain fell. The rain fell on the ground and combined with the soil to moisten the earth. The grass and trees in the land sprouted and vitality suddenly emerged. A large amount of rain water merged into streams and rivers that ran through the earth, and wherever it went, it was full of vitality.

Zhang Shuo looked at the scene in front of him without any ripples in his heart. Instead, he waved his hand again, and the rain suddenly became heavier. The heavy rain submerged the land and the river surface rose. The horrible river water began to spread in all directions, submerging everything wherever it went. The original vitality disappeared and the earth was dead silent again.

After watching this scene, Zhang Shuo had some insights in his heart. Water can nourish all things, but it can also destroy all things. Creation and destruction, life and death complement each other. Water benefits all things without competing, and it can also be endless. This is water - one of the five elements.

When Zhang Shuo came out of this state, he woke up and found that his kidney water divine storage had been complete and he could practice the next divine storage.

The practice of the Taoist Palace Secret Realm is the development of the five internal organs of the human body. When practicing the Taoist Palace for the first time, you can choose any one of the divine treasures, but in the subsequent gradual progress, you must choose the next divine treasure to open according to the principle of the mutual generation of the five internal organs and the five elements.

Water produces wood, so the next treasure Zhang Shuo chose was the liver wood treasure. Zhang Shuo took out the ginseng fruit from the space. This was a treasure given by the immortal formation spirit. After all, he had ninety-nine ancestral dragon veins. Even if the treasures were taken away by the ruthless emperor, the savings over the years were enough for him to save some.

Afterwards, Zhang Shuo took out some wood-attributed treasures, such as the White Tiger Divine Medicine Fruit, the Ten Thousand Year Wood Heart, the Withered Dragon Wood, etc. He used the Creation Jade Disc to refine the wood-attributed essences in them, turning them into the innate Jiamu Qi (pseudo), and then absorbed them into the Liver Wood Divine Storage, absorbing a large amount of pure source into the body to open the Divine Storage.

The purest essence of heaven and earth rushed into the Taoist Palace, making Zhang Shuo's entire body become crystal clear and brilliant. The innate Jia wood energy was completely combined with the liver wood spirit, and condensed and grew under the nourishment of a large amount of heaven and earth essence. It also obtained a soul power from the Niwan Palace and turned into the Green Emperor god.

At this moment, Zhang Shuo felt as if he was standing on the grass, his body was connected to the plants, the vigorous and vital energy of the wood element was blessing his body, and the blood in his body was surging like a little real dragon.

Among the five internal organs, the liver and kidneys are connected. Water produces wood, and the five elements circulate one to create two.

Zhang Shuo officially entered the second level of the Dao Palace

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Realm: Dao Palace Secret Realm (Second Level)
Constitution: Chaos Creation Body, Ancient Saint Body (Remnant)
Bloodline: Holy Body (40%)

Exercises: Taiyin, Taiyang

Taoist companion: Lin Jia

Offspring: None
In just half a month, Zhang Shuo completed the breakthrough to the second level of the Dao Palace, and his own strength reached a new level. Now there are still a few months before the opening of the Qing Emperor's Tomb. Zhang Shuo does not intend to waste these months. He is going to go out to collect some resources.

Just after Zhang Shuo left the cave and was about to say hello to Lingxu Cave Heaven, he met Weiwei when he went out.

"You are Zhang Shuo. It's been a while since we last met. It seems that your cultivation has improved a lot." Weiwei saw a smile on Zhang Shuo's face. She knew that Zhang Shuo in front of her was not simple. His strength was not weaker than hers. Moreover, her fairy eyes could not see through him. She also felt a sense of danger when facing him.

"Well! Fairy Weiwei, I have been in seclusion for a period of time recently, and I have indeed gained something." Zhang Shuo was amazed at the beautiful fairy with red lips and pearly teeth in front of him.

"Zhang Shuo, with your strength, you should have broken through to the Dao Palace, right? Have you ever considered which force to join in the future?" Weiwei looked at Zhang Shuo, who had a calm aura. She knew that Zhang Shuo was a cultivator who had reached perfection in the Lunhai Secret Realm before. Now that his cultivation had reached a higher level, he must have broken through to the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

Because even if Weiwei used her fairy eyes, she couldn't see through Zhang Shuo's specific cultivation level, but Zhang Shuo's body was faintly resonating with the grass and trees. Such affinity should be due to the breakthrough to the Taoist Palace Secret Realm, because the cultivators in the Taoist Palace Secret Realm can already preliminarily control the five elements of heaven and earth.

"As for whether to join a new force, I haven't made a plan yet, but I may consider it later." Zhang Shuo had no plans to join any force because he himself was the largest force.

“Now that I have broken through to the Taoist Palace Secret Realm, I am going to join the Yaoguang Holy Land. If you, Zhang Shuo, are interested, you can also join the Yaoguang Holy Land. After all, Lingxu Dongtian is a subordinate force of the Yaoguang Holy Land.” Weiwei said to Zhang Shuo sincerely.

"Okay, I'll think about it later."

"By the way, Zhang Shuo, we have only met a few times and don't know much about each other. Do you want to have a sparring match?" Weiwei suddenly challenged Zhang Shuo because she was really curious about Zhang Shuo's strength, and she had just made a breakthrough in her cultivation and wanted to consolidate her foundation through a fight.

"Okay, no problem." Zhang Shuo readily agreed to Weiwei's challenge, because he also wanted to see Weiwei's strength and then estimate his own strength level.
After the two sides agreed, they left the cave and came to an uninhabited place to prepare for the fight, because the killing power of the Taoist Palace Secret Realm was too strong, and it was inevitable that innocent people would be hurt in the cave. After the two were ready, Weiwei was not polite, and raised her hand and a divine light came straight at Zhang Shuo. Seeing this, Zhang Shuo did not use his Taoist power but only relied on his physical strength to blast away the divine light.

Seeing Zhang Shuo break her magic with just her body, Weiwei's pupils shrank in surprise. Even if she didn't use too much force in that move, it was not something that could be easily blocked with her body.

Zhang Shuo blocked Weiwei's attack and did not move. Then Weiwei frowned, formed seals with her hands, and a holy light spell burst out with amazing power and hit Zhang Shuo.

Seeing this, Zhang Shuo knew that Weiwei must have practiced the scriptures of Yaoguang Holy Land. After all, Lingxu Cave Heaven only had the fragments of Taoist scriptures from Lunhai Secret Realm.

Facing this move, Zhang Shuo simply used the power of the sun in his body to bless his hands, and then took the holy light spell with one palm. He quickly rushed towards Weiwei and then punched Weiwei.

Weiwei saw Zhang Shuo use her killing move casually, and her expression was even more shocked, but when she saw Zhang Shuo coming to kill her, she quickly retreated and did not dare to fight Zhang Shuo's body. Then she raised her hand and shot dozens of holy light spells, and opened her fairy eyes to observe Zhang Shuo's flaws.

Zhang Shuo wrapped his hands with the power of the sun and punched out like a dragon. With a few punches, he defeated all the attacking holy light. Then he formed a mark and the power of the sun turned into a big sun and smashed towards Weiwei.

Weiwei tried to use her secret method to avoid the sun, but she didn't expect that the sun would lock onto Weiwei's aura when it came down from the sky, and Weiwei couldn't avoid it for a while. Seeing this, Weiwei's body was shining with rosy light, and a pair of fairy pupils appeared behind Weiwei. This was a unique phenomenon of Weiwei's fairy eyes. The fairy light in the fairy pupils was shining, and anyone who saw the fairy pupils would be shocked and lose their minds.

Weiwei poured in divine power to activate the vision. The fairy light in her fairy pupil gathered into a powerful aura and then shot out from her fairy pupil and collided with the sun transformed by the power of the sun god.

The two forces intersected, and the horrific aftermath swept in all directions. The earth cracked, the grass and trees turned to ashes, and the air was distorted by the horrific heat wave.

After the collision, Weiwei was knocked back a few steps by the aftermath, her brows slightly furrowed, with a look of shock on her face. However, Zhang Shuo was calm and stood there indifferently, and the land around him was not affected.

"I lost. You are really strong. With your strength, you can be compared with the saints of the top holy places." Weiwei smiled at Zhang Shuo, who looked calm. Weiwei's clothes were a little messy, but with her beautiful face that was slightly flushed, she looked like a beauty in troubled times.

"Maybe! But Weiwei, your strength is not low either." Zhang Shuo smiled as he looked at the beautiful woman in front of him.

"Okay, don't comfort me. I used all my skills, but you were so good at it. I can see that you didn't use any strength at all." Weiwei looked at Zhang Shuo and couldn't help but smile bitterly. As a spoiled girl from childhood, she thought that she was not inferior to the saints of the top holy land. She had always surpassed others, but she didn't expect to be surpassed by this handsome man who was younger than her.

"Your talent is not weak. You possess fairy eyes, and your talent surpasses most people. It's just that the technique you practice is not top-notch, and you don't have many resources for practice. You haven't reached the extreme in practice in each realm." Zhang Shuo looked at Weiwei seriously.

"It may be because you have a low background and do not have sufficient resources, or it may be because you have taken it too easy. From the degree of your divine power concentration and the capacity of your own divine power, it can be seen that you have not continued to explore your own limits at the end of each realm."

"In this case, your training will be fast in the early stages, but as time goes on, your training will become slower and your strength level will become lower."

“As far as talent is concerned, your talent is not inferior to 99% of the people in this world. Whether compared with the people at the level of the Son of God or the Son of the Holy Spirit from the top holy lands or ancient families, your qualifications are not inferior to them.”

“But whether it’s skills, resources, or experience in cultivation, you’re a lot worse than them.” Zhang Shuo looked at Weiwei and expressed his opinion on her current situation.

“I admit that I may not have focused on cultivating each realm to the extreme because things were going too smoothly on the road of cultivation. However, I do not have a deep background, and Lingxu Cave Heaven can only provide me to this extent. Even if I want to join the Yaoguang Holy Land now, it will take a long time to gain trust before I can get the corresponding scriptures and resources.” Weiwei smiled bitterly. She understood that she had a good talent but her background was far behind those who were born in ancient families and trained in top holy places since childhood.

"If you continue like this, you may have the opportunity to go far in the future, but it will waste a lot of time and energy. Are you willing to accept that?" Zhang Shuo said with some inexplicable meaning in his words.

"I didn't choose the top qualifications God gave me, which is already my greatest luck. I am not qualified nor capable of asking for more." Weiwei looked at Zhang Shuo in front of her with a complicated expression and an inexplicable look in her eyes.

She was originally proud. Although she had some shortcomings, they were all compared with the top figures. She just didn't expect that the person she met by chance was so powerful. Her strength was not worth mentioning in front of him. The huge gap made her a little confused, but she was also a strong person with a determined heart to seek the truth. She quickly suppressed her emotions.

"I will go out for some experience next, and Lin Jia will stay in Lingxu Cave Heaven to practice. But I don't know if Lin Jia can take care of herself if she stays alone in Lingxu Cave Heaven." Zhang Shuo ignored Weiwei's complicated emotions and said something meaningless.

Weiwei thought for a moment and said, "It will take some time before I go to Yaoguang Holy Land. I can help you take care of Lin Jia."

"Okay, thank you then." Zhang Shuo smiled when he heard that.

Zhang Shuo did not leave any promises to Weiwei, nor did he take the initiative to ask Weiwei to take care of Lin Jia. He knew that if he went out to do things next, Lin Jia would definitely encounter some trouble. Of course, he had made preparations in advance and left enough trump cards for Lin Jia.

Even a strong man in the Saint Realm can't touch Lin Jia at all. He just looked at Weiwei and suddenly had an idea. He wouldn't explain anything. A person will have several major opportunities in his life, and whether he can seize it depends on himself.

Zhang Shuo didn't say anything else, but turned around and flew away. Weiwei looked at Zhang Shuo's figure, thinking about something in her heart, and then she became determined and turned back to the cave.

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