Chapter 1436, The Inheritance of Foundations

Translator:  Ashish

Translation Checker: Silvain

 

After a moment of deliberation, Yu Zi Yu decided to suppress his aura comparable to a Level-2 Hegemon.

 

A Level-3 Hegemon would be too provocative, and would draw too much attention; thus, he settled for Level-2.

 

Forcing it to Level-1 also crossed his mind, but he dismissed it right away.

 

He couldn’t possibly hide it that far.

 

The entire cosmos already knew that the Demon Emperor of the Demon Court achieved Seventh Order in Physical Evolution.

 

To appear now as a mere Level-1 Hegemon would be an insult to the intelligence of his enemies. He would be no different than a man holding a mountain of gold while claiming to be a beggar.

 

Level-2 was the perfect middle ground: formidable enough to command respect, yet subtle enough to hide his true depths.

 

Besides, a Level-2 Hegemon was already frightening enough.

 

One had to understand that the gap between a standard Hegemon and one who had opened Heaven’s Door was not a mere step, but a chasm.

 

Even more staggering was the distance between each successive level within the Realm of Hegemony itself.

 

In terms of raw Spiritual Energy, each level could represent a jump of several times, or even a tenfold increase, over the last.

 

After some thought, Yu Zi Yu decided to suppress his aura at the level of a Second-Heaven Hegemon.

 

Following a millennium of painstaking cultivation, Yu Zi Yu’s Spiritual Energy had surged to at least a hundred times its former volume.

 

This was no flight of fancy; it was a cold, hard reality of his evolution.

 

Theoretically, as a Level-5 Hegemon, he possessed the capacity to hold a thousand or even ten thousand times the energy he once had.

 

However, that was ultimately theoretical.

 

Even with the benefit of time acceleration in a pocket dimension, a thousand years was but a blink to a Hegemon. While other Hegemons spent ages cultivating, Yu Zi Yu had only had a fraction of that time.

 

How could he accumulate such a level of Spiritual Energy!?

 

His body had the capacity to contain Spiritual Energy thousands of times greater than before, but his accumulation still fell short.

 

He had a vessel the size of an ocean, but he had currently filled only a surging lake.

 

“But even this is more than enough,” he murmured, a soft laugh escaping his lips.

 

He was not troubled. Though his reserves had ‘only’ grown a hundredfold, he could feel his strength swelling with every passing second.

 

Behind him, deep within the depths of the void, a massive web of golden divine chains wove through the layers of spacetime. These chains acted as celestial conduits, ceaselessly refining and pumping vast seas of Spiritual Energy into his being.

 

This supply was inexhaustible, until the day, when his reserves had finally hit the ceiling of a Level-5 Hegemon.

 

Only then would he be considered a true Level-5 Hegemon in every sense.

 

And that day would not be far; by his calculation, with the aid of time acceleration, he would need another thousand years in universe’ time.

 

Compared to the long cultivation of other Hegemons, it was but a pittance.

 

*Hahahaha…* The thought of the prospect brought a light, yet dangerous chuckle from him.

 

He could already envision it: a single, casual palm strike possessing the force to pulverize countless star systems into cosmic dust.

 

Of course, even now, restrained to the height of a Level-2, his actual lethality remained unaffected.

 

He was a hundred times more dangerous than the day he opened the Heaven’s Door, and should he choose to unleash his Grand Divine Abilities, his combat prowess would ascend to a plane beyond comprehension.

 

To suppress the Myriad Races of the cosmos was no longer a dream; it was a simple matter of Will.

 

A faint, satisfied smile tugged at the corner of his lips, but his mind was already moving toward a different prize, the spoils he had gained from the ruins of the Heavenly Court.

 

“But that’s not all…” he whispered, his eyes narrowing as he mentally unfurled the complete Grand Divine Ability, the Wheel of Five Elements.

 

It was a technique of staggering profundity. When mastered, it allowed a practitioner to reverse the Five Elements, granting them the power of supreme creation or the capacity to grind all of existence into nothingness.

 

It was the ultimate manifestation of Five Elements, an offensive power that bordered on the absolute.

 

Unfortunately, it was exceedingly difficult to master. Even the Five Emperors of the Heavenly Court had relied on shortcuts to achieve it.

 

“The threshold is indeed high.” Yu Zi Yu sighed, a touch of helplessness in his voice.

 

Even for him, mastering this Grand Divine Ability would be a grueling climb.

 

This was because the bare minimum requirement for cultivating it was five distinct Spiritual Physique: Innate Water Physique, Innate Fire Physique, Innate Wood Physique, and so on.

 

While these constitutions sat a tier below Yu Zi Yu’s own Supreme Dao Physique that he had created, they possessed the unique advantage of being Innate.

 

Such constitutions were almost impossible to achieve through postnatal effort; unless one possessed the Heaven-defying power to reverse postnatal into natal.

 

It all came down to luck, and luck was a fickle thing, not to mention the difficulty of gathering all five.

 

The Five Emperors of the Heavenly Court were living proof of this struggle. They were the peak of their Sect’s foundation, yet even they barely needed the conditions for cultivating it.

 

However, even they did not possess Innate Physiques, but Postnatal Spiritual Physique.

 

Innate and Postnatal, it was a single word difference, but a chasm that had prevented them from ever reaching perfection.

 

Still, the raw power of the technique was undeniable.

 

Had Yu Zi Yu not already ascended to the Realm of Hegemony, his strength greatly dwarfing theirs, he might have actually sustained injuries against their combined assault.

 

But only injured.

 

To kill him? That was a feat beyond their reach.

 

Perhaps if all five had been Hegemons who had opened Heaven’s Door, then they might have a sliver of hope. And that would be assuming Yu Zi Yu simply stood still without retaliating with his own Great Divine Abilities.

 

A faint smile played on his face as he archived the unique Divine Abilities he had plundered from the fallen Emperors.

 

He had no intention of wasting his own time cultivating the Wheel of Five Elements, but that didn’t mean its power would go to waste.

 

The Heavenly Court had its Five Emperors. Why shouldn’t his Demon Court have its own?

 

“Qing Gang, Little White, Moon Laurel…”

 

The names drifted from his lips as a grand design took shape.

 

[This can indeed serve as a formidable legacy for the Demon Court, a legacy that can be passed down the generations. One day, they too will master a unique Divine Ability, which they could merge into a world-destroying wheel that would crush any who stood against them.]

 

In fact, his true ambition went further. He hoped that one day, the Demon Court would produce a singular, peerless prodigy, one born with an Innate Five Elements Physique.

 

The threshold for the Wheel of Five Elements was indeed high, but that was only because of the element of luck; all it needed was a Divine Physique.

 

The Innate Five Elements Physique was no less inferior to his own Supreme Dao Physique.

 

If a genius with such a constitution was found, he would be the perfect candidate for not just the Wheel of Five Elements, but for the legendary One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

 

Simply put, the Wheel of Five Elements was an ability tailor-made for that genius.

 

Unfortunately, Postnatal Physiques were quite easy to obtain, Innate Physiques were manifestations of miracles.

 

As a matter of fact, many people had tried to force the path with Postnatal Five Element Physique, but like the Five Emperors, they found it difficult to master this Grand Divine Ability.

 

Even mastering it to the elementary-level proved to be difficult.

 

Everyone had seen only a glimpse of the true power.

 

The power of the true Wheel of Five Elements would be something far more terrifying than what Yu Zi Yu had witnessed last time.