Chapter 596: Chapter 591: 9 Beasts Advance, Qin Feng Gets Promoted

At the peak of the mountain, atop the cliff, Qin Feng sat cross-legged, the surrounding Spiritual Energy so dense that it had turned from formless to a visible Spiritual Fog.

Although this period of cultivation was not particularly lengthy–not as long as the time spent refining the Space Escape Divine Shuttle–the results were extraordinarily good, and the efficiency of the cultivation was astoundingly high!

In just a mere three days, once the Demon Refining Pot had fully stabilized the Chaotic Sky Map within the first layer of space, claiming the vast void within the map as its own, the quivering ceased, allowing the interconnected Spiritual Beasts of various spaces to awaken and revert to their original lucid state.

However, while their conditions were restored, the increase in strength could not possibly vanish into thin air.

Through these days of cultivation, every main Spirit Beast achieved significant enhancements. The Spiritual Beasts that were already on the verge of advancing soared in power due to the sudden burst of the Power of Laws, advancing directly, whereas the ones that had already progressed experienced a tremendous surge in strength.

Among them, the Swallowing Sky Toad reaped the most benefits!

Not only because the anomaly in the Demon Refining Pot originated from the first layer but also due to the high caliber of the Chaotic Sky Map. Even if it was damaged, it was incomparable to ordinary space Magical Treasures. Even if the other layers possessed Immortal Artifact-level space Magical Treasures, they still could not hold a candle to the Chaotic Sky Map.

Hence, after days of profound communion with the Space Laws within the Chaotic Sky Map under the guidance of the Demon Refining Pot, the Swallowing Sky Toad’s understanding of Space Laws and the benefits it gained were unmatched by any other Spiritual Beast.

Its Dao Cultivation skyrocketed directly from the Late Stage of the Purple Mansion Realm, briefly dwelling at the Purple Mansion Peak for merely two days before advancing to the Dharma Image Realm. And even this was because it had yet to fully digest the multitude of insights; after all, the level of the Chaotic Sky Map was so high that, with its current strength, the Swallowing Sky Toad could only grasp the rudiments.

Given time to slowly assimilate, the power of this Spiritual Toad would indeed continue to rise, allowing it to break free from the status of perennial bottom-dweller, leaping to become the one with the most potential.

Yet, in this stroke of fortune, it was the Hellhound that experienced the greatest leap in strength.

Originally, this ferociously inclined Monster was already verging on the Demigod Realm. After Qin Feng took a trip to the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven and requested several Demon Clan Techniques from his master Ning Wuxu for it, the Hellhound was initially bewildered.

Its cultivation method was distinct from the Demon Clan’s, and leaving it to comprehend those spells would be quite challenging since this creature accustomed to bloodline inheritance was somewhat overwhelmed by the sudden introduction of several spellbooks, akin to reading an enigmatic script from the heavens.

Fortunately, Ning Wuxu had experience in battles against Outer Realms and was knowledgeable about such matters. He enforced an enlightenment by directly imprinting those Cultivation Techniques into the Hellhound’s Sea of Consciousness with his Divine Thought and explained many common concepts of the Cultivation World. This helped the Hellhound gain some understanding of the methods to practice these spells.

However, as it was still newly acquainted with these concepts, overcoming numerous difficulties and gaining insight would normally have taken years. Yet, in just a few days of merging with the Netherworld Treasure Pearl, the Hellhound gained significant improvement.

The Netherworld Treasure Pearl, a Divine Artifact cultivated by a Ghost Immortal of the Ten Directions Ghost City, contained the insights of the city’s cultivators into the Netherworld Principle. Especially the Netherworld stream within it, a manifestation of the Death Dao, allowed the Hellhound to gain insights into these Powers of Laws while cross-referencing them with the Techniques imprinted in its mind. Surprisingly, this even led to it understanding several principles.

Although cultivating Demon Clan Techniques might have led it slightly astray due to its established foundations, this unique understanding turned out to be a stroke of genius, allowing it to find the optimal path for itself and to break through its limitations to achieve the status of a Demigod.

Not a Primordial Spirit, for a creature like the Hellhound does not cultivate the Primordial Spirit–so it was called a Demigod according to the unified nomenclature of the Void Ten Thousand Realms.

Although it had cultivated some Demon Clan Techniques for a short time and had not achieved much success, its main focus in cultivation was still the inheritance of its own bloodline, supplemented by Demon Clan Techniques. Combining the Power of Laws within the Netherworld Treasure Pearl and the Death Dao from the Netherworld, it ultimately forged a unique path for this monster.

As long as it persisted in following this path, it would inevitably become a God sooner or later.

In the cosmos of Ten Thousand Worlds, there are two types of Gods: divine beings and the Divine Clan!

The divine beings nurture all life, drawing on the Power of Faith from myriad living beings to become powerful with divine strength.

The Divine Clan relies on their innate bloodline inheritance to gain formidable strength and extended lifespans, making them beings that can only be looked up to by ordinary life, such as the Giant Spirit Divine Clan and the Light God Clan, among others.

However, many beings can also attain strength equivalent to that of the Divine Clan through cultivation and are also referred to as Gods.

Such Gods can draw on the Power of Faith, but they can also choose not to gather followers and solely cultivate on their own.

The Power of Faith has its advantages and disadvantages.

If used well, it can indeed rapidly increase one’s strength, but it can also create a vicious cycle, causing the Gods who draw on faith to need an ever-growing amount of faith power to advance to higher realms. Otherwise, if they were to stagnate, or if most of their followers were killed by other beings, this could lead to the Gods facing the danger of being demoted.

Gods who rely on their own strength to advance do not have this hidden danger. However, ascending ranks relying solely on one’s own strength often requires a much longer time, and sometimes many members of the Divine Clan, unable to see the road ahead and with no progress in strength for far too long, cannot help but attempt to draw on the Power of Faith for a quick promotion.

Human Clan Cultivators are very unique in the Void Ten Thousand Realms because all who achieve the Immortal Dao from the Human Clan have cultivated step by step from the bottom up, without exception!

Even if certain Golden Immortal Great Powers used special means to bear offspring, they would not directly grant the strength of an Immortal. At most, these offspring inherently possess a stronger foundation than ordinary humans, able to control some Power of Laws from the moment they are born; still, to Prove Dao, they need to cultivate step by step.

For this reason, the Human Clan has always been distinct from the Immortal Clan!

The so-called Immortal beings are first and foremost human, and secondarily Immortal!

Therefore, the Human Clan is the foundation of the Immortal Dao. Without the Human Clan, relying only on those Immortals pursuing carefree lives would definitely not form a Race. After all, it is extremely difficult for Immortals to reproduce, and in the event of a great war causing the fall of numerous Immortals, it is ultimately necessary to replenish their numbers from the mortals.

This is why even a Creation Realm Great Power such as Grandmaster Ancestor Taixuan did not give up on ordinary mortals during the difficult times of the Ancient Great Tribulation and continued to protect all living beings!

With the Hellhound achieving Demigod status, Qin Feng now had a Spiritual Beast capable of directly confronting Great Cultivators at the Primordial Spirit Realm.

Moreover, given the brutality of this monster, combined with Qin Feng’s future training, its accomplishment would certainly be extraordinary.

Apart from the Swallowing Sky Toad and the Hellhound, each having advanced in their own right, the primary Spiritual Beasts of the Demon Refining Pot’s fourth layer, the Death Curse Crow, the fifth layer’s Undying Qingluan, and the eighth layer’s Ghost-Faced Spider, all consequently advanced, becoming existences within the Dharma Image Realm.

The Death Curse Crow was innately gifted, absolutely considered the most special talent of all crows within the Demon Beast tribe.

Therefore, despite being young, its cultivation progress had been exceptionally quick under abundant resources. Even though the Ten Thousand Crows Pot initially didn’t contain the Curse Principle, it still managed to take away many useful things from it, thus breaking through the Cultivation Realm in one fell swoop.

The Undying Qingluan had an incredibly rich Divine Bird Bloodline within its body. Coupled with the integration of the Otherworld Phoenix’s Bloodline Divine Power, although it deviated slightly from Qin Feng’s original hope for its evolution, its war power was even stronger than that of a pure Qingluan Divine Bird.

Especially since the Phoenix also possessed the Innate Divine Ability of Bathing Fire Rebirth, not to mention anything else, just this alone sufficed to make Qin Feng feel like he had struck a considerable bargain.

The Undying Qingluan, having now received the bloodline inheritance of two Divine Birds and already on the verge of advancement, completed its ascent naturally under the guidance of the Demon Refining Pot, swiftly cultivating until reaching the Dharma Image Realm.

The Ghost-Faced Spider was rather unique.

This fellow had always been quite lucky, tagging along with Qin Feng since its Qi Refining days. Despite previously not being particularly favored by Qin Feng, it managed to keep pace over the years through various opportunities, consistently able to contribute its worth.

After starting to receive Qin Feng’s focus on cultivation some time ago, it first integrated with the Du Head Demon Spider, gaining more Innate Divine Abilities and significantly increasing its strength. Then, it began to devour the corpse and Divine Status of the Spider Evil God.

Initially, with its rank as a ninth-level Demon Beast, it would have been impossible for it to assimilate the Divine Status of the Spider Queen, but with guidance from the Demon Refining Pot, that all changed.

Elder Liuling had previously considered Qin Feng’s cultivation of the Ghost-Faced Spider when refining the Spider Nest into a Magical Treasure. Rather than shaping the Spider Nest solely to her preferences, she integrated it with the original Underground Spiritual Veins, while also incorporating some new elements from the Beast Taming Sect’s techniques for cultivating Spider Demons, turning the naturally suitable spider dwelling into an even better fit for the Ghost-Faced Spider.

Moreover, the Ghost-Faced Spider had already devoured the Divine Status of the Spider Evil God.

Even though Qin Feng wouldn’t allow it to fully inherit the Spider Evil God’s Divine Status, which would erase its potential and turn it into a second Spider Queen, it was still fine for it to comprehend the Laws within it.

Under the guidance of the Demon Refining Pot, the Ghost-Faced Spider, which originally had minimal understanding of the Spider Evil God’s Laws, managed to refine a considerable amount of power from the Divine Status, thus smoothing its advancement and directly being propelled by the vast Divine Power within the Divine Status to reach the Super Demon Beast Realm.

Apart from them, the White Dragon and the Life Tree, two other beings that had already advanced, also made significant progress.

This time, the White Dragon truly and thoroughly comprehended the Light Domain, the Divine Artifact.

Although it used to reside within the Light Domain, it had fully inherited the Giant Dragon Clan’s lazy nature, passively improving through the power emanating from the Light Domain–and rarely actively contemplating the specific principles behind the formation of the Light Domain.

This time, due to the drive of the Demon Refining Pot, the White Dragon was involuntarily integrated with the Light Domain, deeply comprehending the Laws of the Light Domain.

Although the Light Domain was not considered very strong among Divine Artifacts–nowhere near the strength of the Chaotic Sky Map–it was precisely its lack of strength that allowed the White Dragon to benefit even more. Unlike the Swallowing Sky Toad, which was amid treasures yet unable to seize more opportunities.

After this round of comprehension, the White Dragon actually understood some of the principles of the Light Domain and could manifest a rudimentary form of Domain.

Although it was just a rudimentary form, a Domain is still a Domain. Any enemy entering its Domain would be suppressed, giving it a strategic advantage.

The only drawback was that releasing the Domain required a great deal of power. Unless it became a Dragon God, this issue would persist.

The Life Tree was another that reaped many benefits.

The Life Spring, a Divine Item born from the creation of heaven and earth, allowed it, through this chance, to deeply perceive the Laws within the Life Spring, greatly enhancing its Dao Cultivation. Its mastery of Laws had already reached the Dharma Image Peak, not much different from the Hellhound before its advancement.

The only one that hadn’t advanced was now just the Spring and Autumn Cicada.

While the Mountain and River Map was indeed a proud creation of a Golden Immortal Great Power, it didn’t contain the Time Law, meaning the Spring and Autumn Cicada could only derive understanding from other Laws, granting it a substantial increase in war power. However, since its fundamental Law did not progress, it remained at the Purple Mansion Peak, unable to ascend.

This made the Spring and Autumn Cicada the only Spiritual Beast among all Qin Feng’s main cultivates that remained at the Purple Mansion Realm and was the weakest one, taking the place of the original Swallowing Sky Toad as the junior member.

However, Qin Feng wasn’t worried about its inability to advance, because not long ago, Lin Jingxin had just exchanged a piece of the World Tree Root for his Time Hourglass.

For Qin Feng, using a piece of the World Tree Root, which wasn’t very useful to him, to obtain the Time Hourglass–a rare Divine Artifact–was definitely taking advantage.

As long as the Spring and Autumn Cicada properly comprehended the Laws within the Time Hourglass, advancing to the Dharma Image wouldn’t be too difficult.

Even if it didn’t make it, Qin Feng could always let it devour the grains from the Time Hourglass imbued with Time Power, still capable of enhancing its strength.

As for now, although the Spring and Autumn Cicada hadn’t advanced, the Power of Laws within it still met Qin Feng’s needs.

Thus, like most Spiritual Beasts, Qin Feng’s own Dao Cultivation Realm also experienced an uplift.

Already at the Purple Mansion Peak, he utilized the insights of nine Spiritual Beasts to deepen his understanding of various Powers of Laws, breaking through his constraints and ascending to the Dharma Image!