Chapter 19: Five Thunder Vajra, One Thought Becomes Soldiers

"The most supreme techniques, divine abilities, and secret arts—all are mine, all mine!" Xue Hongyi was rapidly inspecting one secret chamber after another, his eyes burning with boundless fervor. He hailed from the Snowdragon Mountain, which had not a single loose immortal or earth immortal, and even in its history had only occasionally produced such beings, none comparable to the celestial immortal 'Wujiang Immortal.'

The divine abilities and secret arts left behind by a celestial immortal were by no means ordinary.

The more talented one was, when strength was nearly equal, it came down to one's divine abilities and secret arts.

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"Opportunity, a great opportunity—I must find it. With powerful secret arts, perhaps I can survive the heavenly tribulation in this life." Cangjiang True Person was also filled with boundless longing.

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Everyone was searching. Ji Ning, Whitewater Marsh, and Little Qing also split up to look.

"Where is it? Where exactly?" A small green snake turned into a flowing light, darting out again and again, sometimes vanishing on the spot and reappearing far away, sometimes darting straight into a secret chamber without even needing to push open the stone door.

"For me, adventures are as common as eating, yet in this immortal mansion, the treasures I've found aren't even as many as Uncle White's." Kongqing Snake kept teleporting through the void, even leaping directly from one corridor to another, or straight into a secret chamber, roaming about freely.

Teleporting again and again, searching again and again.

Whoosh.

Another teleport through the void, and Kongqing Snake appeared in another secret chamber.

"Nothing here either..." Kongqing Snake suddenly froze.

"Eh?"

Kongqing Snake stared in surprise at this secret chamber. It was very ordinary and not large, containing only two bookshelves and a long table. The bookshelves held some books, while the table had very few books indeed.

All the books in the entire chamber combined were pitifully few.

"So few?"

One must know that books on immortal cultivation techniques were extremely voluminous; a complete set often comprised dozens of volumes. The divine ability 'Fingerstealer' that Ji Ning had received was transmitted directly into his soul, taking several months to fully transfer. One could imagine how vast the information contained was.

Kongqing Snake involuntarily transformed back into the green-clad maiden. She lowered her head to look, and her pupils contracted.

"Master, master, hurry, come quickly!!!" Little Qing sent a mental shout.

"What? I'm coming!"

Ji Ning, who was elsewhere, spread his divine sense along the corridors and, with the mental link, knew Little Qing's location. He quickly determined the route, marveling, "This Little Qing has actually run to this place. This spot is really inconspicuous, and searching chamber by chamber would take a long time to reach."

Swoosh!

Ji Ning instantly turned into a wisp of green smoke, rushing over rapidly. Soon he arrived at that secret chamber and pushed the door open.

"What's wrong?" Ji Ning entered and found the entire chamber empty, with only Little Qing standing there.

"I've put them all away," Little Qing said excitedly. "I didn't dare leave them here, afraid someone might snatch them."

"What techniques did you find that made you so cautious?" Ji Ning also grew expectant.

Little Qing lowered her voice and said, "Six sets of immortal-grade qi cultivation techniques, totaling over three hundred books; three divine abilities, over a hundred books; and one divine sense secret art, six books. All complete sets!"

Ji Ning's eyes went wide.

Immortal-grade qi cultivation techniques?

Divine abilities?

Divine sense secret arts?

These were the most precious of all, the top-tier even in the Black-White College.

"This chamber actually stored immortal-grade qi cultivation techniques, divine abilities, and divine sense secret arts," Ji Ning quickly understood. "What we found before were only mortal-grade and earth-grade techniques and secret arts... There should probably be another place storing heaven-grade techniques and secret arts."

Mortal-grade, earth-grade, heaven-grade, immortal-grade.

The higher the grade, the more precious.

Having now obtained these immortal-grade qi cultivation techniques, divine abilities, and divine sense secret arts, Ji Ning no longer had much desire for so-called heaven-grade techniques and secret arts. It would be good to get them, but not getting them was fine too!

"Master, they're all here." Little Qing waved her hand, and a pile of books appeared before them.

Startled, Ji Ning quickly waved his hand to store them all into his storage treasure, breaking out in a cold sweat. "How could you take them out!"

"I'll leave them with you, Master. I'm not a divine body refiner, so those divine abilities are useless to me. I also have top-tier qi cultivation techniques. Oh, and that divine sense secret art—let me practice it later." Little Qing instructed.

"Mm." Ji Ning nodded.

He immediately extended his divine sense into his storage treasure to examine them.

There were only a few hundred books in total. Counting by sets, there were only ten sets: six sets of immortal-grade qi cultivation techniques, three sets of divine abilities, and one set of divine sense secret arts.

"Immortal-grade qi cultivation techniques are useless to me. Divine abilities?" Ji Ning's divine sense scanned them. "They are 'Heavenly Earth Transformation,' 'Three Heads and Six Arms,' and 'Five Thunder Vajra.'"

This delighted Ji Ning.

Heavenly Earth Transformation was quite common; almost any slightly powerful sect would have such a divine ability.

Three Heads and Six Arms was also present in the Black-White College, but it was already considered a very precious divine ability. Ji Ning hadn't learned it yet, mainly because he hadn't had enough black-white pellets to exchange for it. Now he had obtained this divine ability in one go, a complete set at that.

"The divine ability of Three Heads and Six Arms, once unleashed, can grow four additional arms that are completely identical to real arms." Ji Ning was extremely excited. In fact, for a Fiendgod Body Refiner at the Void Return stage, plucking a single hair could transform into a clone, and the body could take any form.

Growing eighteen arms was very easy, but those were transformed, not real arms.

The reason Three Heads and Six Arms was so formidable

was that it formed real heads and arms, causing a sharp surge in combat power! For example, Ji Ning could use the divine ability 'Starseizing Hand' with his hands; once he executed Three Heads and Six Arms, all six arms could use Starseizing Hand... Thus, Ji Ning had always yearned for Three Heads and Six Arms.

"I didn't get it at the academy, but I got it here." Ji Ning was overjoyed. "Three Heads and Six Arms combined with my Starseizing Hand will definitely boost my strength tremendously."

"Five Thunder Vajra?"

Ji Ning's mind stirred, and a book appeared in his hand—the first volume of Five Thunder Vajra.

He began flipping through it...

Five Thunder Vajra was a divine ability that only true gods or Fiendgod Body Refiners comparable to true gods could cultivate.

"Fortunately, I cultivate the 'Redmoon Diagram of Nine Forms.'" Ji Ning breathed a sigh of relief. Back at the Yinglong Guard branch, he had discovered that some top-tier divine abilities generally had extremely high requirements for Fiendgod Body Refining, even directly requiring cultivators of the Redmoon Diagram of Nine Forms or true gods.

That Yinglong Guard immortal had told Ji Ning... that after he passed the Prison of the Great Wilderness, he would soon understand the true power of the Redmoon Diagram of Nine Forms.

The power of the Redmoon Diagram of Nine Forms lay in the fact that those who cultivated it could learn some truly top-tier divine abilities, some that only gods could use.

"Five Thunder Vajra: bathed in lightning, achieving a vajra body, requires five types of lightning tempering to reach completion. The fifth level can only be cultivated by Celestial Immortals?" Ji Ning marveled inwardly.

Just as Starseizing Hand was divided into six turns,

Five Thunder Vajra was divided into five levels, the highest of which required Celestial Immortals to cultivate, at which point the divine ability reached perfection.

"Is it a simplified version of the legendary divine ability 'Ten-Foot Golden Body'?" Ji Ning nodded in understanding. The first volume directly stated that the creator had simplified and modified the divine ability 'Ten-Foot Golden Body' for later generations.

Ten-Foot Golden Body...

was a legendary divine ability, one of the top-tier abilities in the Three Realms. According to the book, Ten-Foot Golden Body was among the most supreme abilities in the Three Realms. Ji Ning guessed that Ten-Foot Golden Body was on the same level as his Starseizing Hand.

"I wonder which great power simplified 'Ten-Foot Golden Body' into this 'Five Thunder Vajra.'" Ji Ning mused. "Being able to simplify it, that great power is truly remarkable."

...

Ji Ning put away the divine ability book and took out the divine sense secret art.

There was only one divine sense secret art, called 'One Thought Forms Soldiers.'

"One Thought Forms Soldiers?" Ji Ning was about to flip through it when his brow furrowed. He communicated mentally, "Little Qing, you need to leave quickly."

Swish.

Little Qing vanished in a flash.

Ji Ning turned and rushed out.

Boom. The stone door outside was pushed open, and Xue Hongyi was charging in.

"You?" Xue Hongyi stared at Ji Ning in surprise.

"What a coincidence." Ji Ning glanced at Xue Hongyi, then ignored him and rushed out through the already opened stone door.

Xue Hongyi frowned and looked into the secret chamber—it was completely empty.

"It can't be that coincidental." Xue Hongyi turned and continued searching.

...

The secret chambers in the Dao Repository Hall were very hidden. Ji Ning continued searching frantically with a look of eagerness, not wanting anyone to know he had obtained the top-tier techniques, divine abilities, and secret arts. After all, the Yuchi clan had been annihilated because of the divine ability 'Wind Wings Evasion.'

Thus, it was best not to reveal it easily.

Whoosh.

Shaoyin Nong glanced at the stone book before him. He had fully refined the core of the Dao Repository Hall, and everything in the hall was under his control.

"Hmm?" Shaoyin Nong closed his eyes and sensed carefully. "Nothing? There's nothing?"

In his perception, all the secret chambers in the Dao Repository Hall were empty, without a single book.

...

After another half hour,

Ji Ning and the others gathered with Shaoyin Nong in the outermost hall.

"Everyone's here. Did you find any divine abilities or secret arts?" Shaoyin Nong smiled at the group.

"No."

"No." One by one, they shook their heads.

Ji Ning also shook his head: "No."

"Fire Rainbow Fairy and Cangjiang Zhenren were lucky and found some Heaven-grade techniques and secret arts," Xue Hongyi said. "But the Immortal-grade Qi Refining techniques, divine abilities, and secret arts were not seen."

"Could it be that because the Immortal-grade Qi Refining techniques, divine abilities, and secret arts are too precious, they weren't placed in the Dao Repository Hall but hidden elsewhere?" Mu Zishuo said.

"Yes, possible." Ji Ning nodded.

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