Chapter 159
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Chapter 159: Researching the Heart Tribulation and Its Vulnerabilities
“Yi Chen has broken through! He has reached a new major realm!”
“Indeed, his repair gene has doubled again. His lifespan cap has now increased to four thousand years.”
“What just happened? Why did Yi Chen’s expression change from terror to grimness, then to grinding his teeth? I thought he had gone wrong in his training.”
“I’ve never seen such an expression on Yi Chen’s face before.”
“Who knows what’s going on? The scanner shows that Yi Chen’s heartbeat was once so fast it was almost unimaginable.”
The audience in the live room cheered joyfully while still having lingering fears.
In the minutes leading up to the breakthrough, Yi Chen’s expressions had been so bizarre.
That was a situation they had never experienced before.
Everyone worried that Yi Chen might have gone astray in his training, leading to a disruption in his spirit power.
Yet, according to the scanner, his spirit power was operating very normally.
Fortunately, everything cleared up after the rain.
Yi Chen successfully broke through to a new major realm.
Although the events leading up to it cast a shadow in many hearts,
they felt that Yi Chen’s talent limit might have been reached, causing unexpected issues during his breakthrough.
But regardless, Yi Chen had succeeded in reaching a new major realm, raising the ceiling once again.
Moreover, the time taken was not too long.
……
Phew!
In the stone house, Yi Chen exhaled a breath of turbid air.
He truly hadn’t expected to encounter such a heart tribulation while breaking through to a major realm.
The measure of the heavens seemed rather low.
From his understanding of the balance of the heavenly way, he realized that cultivation indeed went against the will of the heavens.
The heavenly way does not permit the existence of lives that disrupt balance.
Some sort of counterbalance always emerges.
He had even considered whether a calamity would appear after reaching a certain level of strength.
Yet, he hadn’t anticipated that at just the Spirit Consciousness stage’s peak, with only a basic understanding of the power of the laws, he would already face a tribulation.
Moreover, this tribulation was formless and hidden, arising from within and returning to within.
It was so terrifying that his willpower nearly crumbled completely.
However, there were also many benefits.
He could clearly feel that his willpower was growing stronger and more resilient.
Additionally, the shackles in his heart seemed to have been severed, giving him a sense of soul elevation.
He didn’t know if it was because of this heart tribulation, but he vaguely started to grasp certain profound concepts related to the laws of time, space, and fate.
It was just like the laws of fate.
He began to have a hazy understanding of the cycles of heavenly law and the elements of destiny.
If he were willing to take the time, he could easily create a set of skills for observing energy and predicting fate, a form of divination.
Of course, he certainly didn’t want to waste time on such techniques.
If he could gain a deeper insight into the laws of fate when he reached a higher major realm, he would be interested in creating a method to enhance his own luck or deprive others of their fortune.
After realizing the significance of luck, he understood that the laws of time and space were just as important.
He hadn’t thought too deeply; he had only touched the surface of these profound powers.
To create corresponding skills, he would need to reach a higher realm and have a deeper understanding.
He sat cross-legged and began to ponder.
Instead of cultivating to stabilize his realm, he silently recalled the process of his heart tribulation and how he had overcome it.
He tried to find the flaws in the heart tribulation.
If other Spirit Consciousness stage geniuses faced a heart tribulation as powerful as his, he was certain that out of a hundred, not one could successfully overcome it.
Because no one had stronger willpower than him.
His willpower had been sharpened to an unimaginable degree through constant testing and studying of energy circulation pathways.
If he struggled this much, others would find it much harder.
‘First, the heart tribulation arises at the moment of breakthrough.’
‘When the heart tribulation manifests, cognitive abilities are greatly affected, just like in a dream when it’s hard to doubt that you are dreaming; it’s impossible to think that it’s an illusory scene.’
‘The heart tribulation… might vary from person to person, based on their individual attitudes towards emotions, desires, and the four sufferings of life: birth, aging, sickness, and death.’
‘For me, it was the fear in my heart, my relentless pursuit of strength, and my desires for women that caused these heart tribulations. For others, it might be different.’
‘As long as there are desires and emotions, heart tribulations cannot be avoided.’
‘Perhaps the differences in strength and willpower lead to variations in the intensity of heart tribulations.’
‘Otherwise, there would be too few who could succeed. The measurement of the heavens is not so small that it would set an insurmountable barrier at the Spirit Consciousness stage.’
‘Moreover, maintaining clarity of mind when the heart tribulation arises seems to be the best way to restrain it.’
‘Otherwise, one would have to continuously enhance their willpower, reaching the appropriate level before attempting to break through.’
Yi Chen quickly organized his thoughts and experiences before stopping.
With too few samples, he needed to observe the situations of other Spirit Consciousness stage geniuses during their heart tribulations to find more loopholes and shortcuts.
Currently, the most talented individual in his tribe only reached the fourth level of Spirit Consciousness, so he just needed to report back to him.
He quickly adjusted his mindset and entered a meditative state.
After several hours, he stabilized his realm and maximized the strength of his divine consciousness.
He began to comprehend the laws of nature.
His understanding of profound laws such as the laws of time and fate deepened significantly.
Once his comprehension of the laws of nature reached its peak at his current level, Yi Chen began to improve the Chaos Technique for his new realm.
After completing it, he stood up and left the stone house.
He planned to check the warehouse to see if there were any good materials from the spirit mine he obtained from the Sacred Water Tribe.
After breaking through to a higher major realm, his divine consciousness strength increased dramatically.
His powerful strength also greatly elevated the temperature and control of his weapon refining technique.
As long as he had enough materials, refining a fifth-grade spiritual artifact would be no problem at all.
More importantly, after breaking through to a new realm, he could easily create a potion making technique to brew spirit pills.
Unfortunately, most of the spirit materials couldn’t be stored or transplanted; even if he created a potion making technique, he wouldn’t have any spirit materials to refine into pills.
He needed to see if there were suitable materials that could create a spiritual artifact to preserve spirit materials.
As time passed, the improvement of the ordinary tribe members’ strength became slower and slower.
Creating a potion making technique and finding appropriate materials to produce spirit pills for rapid strength enhancement was the only way to significantly boost the average realm of the tribe members.
In fact, even the potion making technique could only temporarily alleviate this issue.
Because the existence of the heart tribulation at the Spirit Consciousness stage would stop the majority of the tribe members at the peak of the ninth level of Spirit Law.
The geniuses’ improvement rates were similarly limited by their comprehension, and the gap between them and him widened.
The real key to solving this problem would be the combination of formations and weapon refining techniques, turning the Comprehension Stone into a treasure that would allow easier comprehension of the heavenly laws and even accelerate training speeds.
Nevertheless, creating a potion making technique and refining spirit pills that could enhance realms would at least raise the average realm of the Yanhuang Tribe to the Spirit Law stage.
With a bit of training, they could form an army of tens of thousands at the Spirit Law stage whenever facing large battles.
Spirit Law practitioners could already utilize the Wind Riding spell for flight and cast offensive spells, far surpassing those at the Spirit Release stage.
An army of tens of thousands composed of Spirit Law practitioners, if well-coordinated, could overwhelm even the most powerful fierce beasts lacking flying ability with relentless spells.
When encountering weaker fierce beast armies, they could easily push through.
