Chapter 751 Yang Xiao's Strength

“So this is the Hidden Dragon Secret Realm?”

Huang Tianling’s clear voice rang out.

As they stepped into the Secret Realm, they were greeted by a world of lush greenery, suffused with a dense Spiritual Qi.

This Spiritual Qi was hundreds of times denser than that of the Profound Sun Continent.

It also seemed to be nearly a hundred times richer than the Star God Continent’s.

Thus, as soon as Huang Tianling, the sisters Liuu Wanyu and Liuu Wanqing, Yun’Er, Nangong Yin, and the other women entered, they felt a refreshing aura wash over them.

As for Yang Ziling, Bing Xin, and the others, though they had seen much of the world over the past two years and had even visited the outskirts of the Divine Land Continent, Spiritual Qi this dense was still a rare sight.

A feeling of being in a celestial paradise filled their hearts.

Only Nan the First and his men remained expressionless.

Although they were slaves, they were slaves of the Star Lineage. The Spiritual Qi in the Star Emperor Dojo was far denser than this.

Naturally, they wouldn’t be surprised by such a thing.

As for Yang Tian and Yang Xiao, it was even more unlikely for them to be astonished.

The former had a mysterious background and had been to the Divine Land Continent before. Moreover, the fact that he dared to call Yang Xiao “junior martial brother” was a testament to his master’s extraordinary status.

He was at least an expert above the Great Emperor realm.

And not just any ordinary Great Emperor.

And then there was Yang Xiao.

He was from the late Ancient Times, an era when the Spiritual Qi was thousands of times richer than it was now.

Why would he be surprised by the meager amount of Spiritual Qi before him?

However, the weeds before him did stir some emotion within him.

‘Back in the Purple Sun Sect, it was incredibly difficult to obtain even a single so-called Fourth-Grade Spirit Medicine,’ he mused. ‘But in reality, in the Ancient Era, something like that wouldn’t even count as a weed. If nothing else, the weeds right here contain Spiritual Qi at Level 3 or higher. If I had come here right after my rebirth, this would have been a true paradise.’

Unfortunately, when Yang Xiao was first reborn, he wasn’t lucky enough to come to a place like this.

And now, for him, only something at the level of a Divine Medicine would have even the slightest effect.

‘Given the picky nature of my Heaven and Earth Origin Fire, it would likely be impossible to advance without a Mid-Upper Grade Divine Medicine.’

Therefore, in his eyes, these weeds were now just… weeds.

Utterly useless.

However, Huang Tianling and the others found it all incredibly novel.

Yang Xiao let them look around freely.

He had already scanned the area with his Divine Thought.

There didn’t seem to be anyone else nearby.

‘It seems the teleportation portal doesn’t lead to a fixed area,’ Yang Xiao realized. ‘Otherwise, even if we were the last to enter, we should have at least seen a trace of someone else.’

At the same time, he tried to activate his Divine General Talisman.

He had heard that this place suppressed Divine Talismans that directly boosted one’s strength and cultivation. A quick test confirmed this to be true.

In that case, he could only rely on himself.

‘Thankfully, I comprehended my own Dao this time, was tempered by Star Power, and developed my Great Star Dominating Body to an extremely high level. I also fused the Dark Star Power with all the other energies in my body, transforming them into various Stars. This power is enough for me to face a Tier Six Divine Sect Level expert without being at a disadvantage. Killing someone like Nangong Miexian would be no difficult task.’

Yang Xiao felt a sense of relief.

If not for the opportunity in the Ten Thousand Stars Hall, his strength would probably be at the level of a Tier Four True God at best.

And he would have to use a signature ability like the Flame Emperor Divine Fist just to reach that level.

Doing so would have likely exposed his identity from his first life.

But now…

After the opportunity in the Ten Thousand Stars Hall, although his cultivation hadn’t increased much—only barely reaching the Peak from the Blue Flame Second Revolution Great Success—his true combat power had soared by more than a hundredfold.

First, while evolving the new Ten Thousand Stars Array, his physical body had been tempered by all the Stars within him and infused with a massive amount of external Star Power. His Physical Strength had reached the power of ninety-nine Great Dragons, several times stronger than before.

If not for the fact that a True Dragon Level body was a massive bottleneck, requiring a special opportunity to reach the power of one hundred Great Dragons and condense it into a single strand of True Dragon Power, Yang Xiao likely would have already used this chance to elevate his Physical Strength to that of a True Dragon.

And this was merely a “side effect” of what Yang Xiao had obtained.

The true benefit he received was forging his own Dao.

Within his body were over three hundred and sixty thousand Stars.

They were distributed throughout his body, forming their own system. From time to time, Stars would perish, and new ones would be born.

His entire body was like a real world.

But this world seemed different from any he knew; it contained only Stars.

Therefore, it could be called a world of Stars.

If that were all, Yang Xiao wouldn’t have been so overjoyed.

Because in that case, while his strength would have increased, it would only have been an improvement in the Star Dao.

However, when Yang Xiao began to continuously integrate the twenty types of power within him into these Stars, he discovered that these powers could evolve into different kinds of Stars.

For example, some Stars could only retain Gold Element Power, becoming incredibly hard.

Other Stars could hold the power of water and wood, becoming full of vitality.

There was also the Power of Time.

The power of the void.

There was even the Power of the Emperor Dao.

Although there was only a single Star of the Emperor Dao, Yang Xiao found that it was exceptionally bright and shimmered with a faint purple halo.

A single glance at it was enough to inspire a desire to submit.

Thus, Yang Xiao named it the Emperor Star.

Of course, many more Stars could hold two, three, or even all twenty types of power.

Some Stars, for instance, contained the power of the Five Elements.

They appeared particularly full of spiritual energy.

What satisfied Yang Xiao even more were the Stars that purely integrated Fire Element Power.

They were like miniature suns.

Exceptionally bright.

What he found even more peculiar was that it seemed none of the Stars rejected the Fire Attribute Power. Even Stars composed purely of a single other power would allow the Fire Attribute to enter, so long as Yang Xiao willed it.

‘Perhaps this is because my own Origin is flame,’ Yang Xiao guessed.

And so, he did just that.

Therefore, in a true sense, apart from those Stars that were like suns, there were no longer any Stars within his body composed of only a single type of power.

At the very least, they would have two types of power fused within them.

Strictly speaking, counting the power of the Star itself, it was three.

And this was what truly overjoyed Yang Xiao.

Because in the future, if he obtained more different Daos and different powers, he could integrate them into these Stars without any restriction.

And these powers could not only be mobilized like the Ten Thousand Stars Array, but thanks to the Chaos Secret Pattern, they could also be fused or combined.

This not only gave Yang Xiao immense room for growth but also infinite possibilities and an incomparably terrifying power.

As a result, Yang Xiao could now unleash the power of a Tier Six Divine Sect expert with a mere wave of his hand.

One had to understand, his current cultivation was only at the Early-stage Demigod realm. There was a gap of a full Tier Eight and a Half between him and the Tier Six Divine Sect Level.

Although he had not yet reached Breaking Nine Prohibitions, this was, after all, his own power.

It was not a boost from the Power of the Emperor.

Moreover, the stronger one’s cultivation became, the more difficult it was to fight across tiers.

For Yang Xiao to possess the ability to fight across Tier Eight and a Half while at the Demigod Level was far more terrifying than possessing the power of Breaking Nine Prohibitions back when he was at the Small Divine Technique realm.

It was unbelievable.

Because at this level, even top-tier Secret Techniques could no longer help one fight across tiers.

Take the Emperor Golden Dragon Secret Technique, for example.

This top-tier Secret Technique could once increase Yang Xiao’s strength by at least a hundred or a thousand times—equivalent to a two or three-tier boost—but now, it only provided a Half-Tier increase at most.

Its effect had been greatly diminished.

Of course, even though he had received such a great opportunity in the Ten Thousand Stars Hall, Yang Xiao did not get carried away.

His cultivation realm, after all, was still his shortcoming.

“Young Master, according to the Great Emperor’s instructions, we are to make our breakthroughs after entering the Secret Realm. Shall we begin now?”

Just as Yang Xiao was watching Huang Tianling and the other women play to their hearts’ content, while also sensing the circulation of the Stars within his body and reflecting on his recent progress, Nan the First and his men hesitated for a moment before speaking up.

Hearing this, Yang Xiao’s eyes lit up.

He nodded at Nan the First and the others.

He gestured for them to begin.

Nan the First and his men breathed a sigh of relief.

They began to make their preparations.

Meanwhile, Yang Xiao’s attention became more focused.

He, too, wanted to see to what level the Nangong Family’s resources would allow these men to ascend in such a short time.

If the combined strength of these men could reach the level of a Divine Marquis, or even a Divine Venerable, then perhaps his plan to seize the Small World Origin this time would have a much greater chance of success.