Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” - Chapter 448: A Wish!
“Haha, Seven Stars Dao Sovereign, you jest. My Wish Dao Principle is fundamentally unimpressive. For example, I once made a wish to achieve the Dao Venerable level. Yet, even after five hundred Immeasurable Kalpas have passed, it still hasn’t come true!”
Dao Lord Jiemeng’s face was full of wistful regret.
Upon hearing this, Su Yuan revealed a smile. “Perhaps today is the perfect opportunity for you to realize that wish?”
Hearing this, Jiemeng also showed a flicker of anticipation. This wasn’t an expression he was deliberately putting on.
He had once, by pre-paying a wish, directly broken through from the Great Emperor level to the Dao Lord level. The cost was that he needed to master another Dao Principle to fulfill that wish. Once he did, he could pre-pay another wish!
Pre-paying wishes—this was the terrifying ability of the Wish Dao Principle. He hadn’t told a single soul about it. This was his greatest reliance for his future achievement of the Chaos Dominator level!
“Fellow Daoist Seven Stars, I’ve heard you are willing to trade Dao Source for items. May I ask what you need?”
“Simple!” Su Yuan smiled slightly. “Treasures containing Dao Principles! Whether they are Supreme Treasures, spirit fruits, pills, treasures, or mineral materials, all are acceptable! Of course, the most valuable are Dao Artifacts. No matter what kind of Dao Artifact, I can offer a price, up to a maximum of fifty trillion Dao Source!”
Dao Lord Jiemeng was surprised. “No requirements on the type of Dao Principle?”
“None! Of course, the rarer and more powerful the Dao Principle treasure, the greater its value! Previously, several Dao Venerables traded with me, and I purchased several Dao Artifacts they offered!” With a wave of his hand, Su Yuan displayed the scenes from those past transactions.
Seeing this, Jiemeng fell into thoughtful contemplation.
“To be honest, the treasures in my possession are limited. I wonder if I could exchange my Wish Dao Artifact for Dao Source?”
Dao Lord Jiemeng gritted his teeth and took out his very own life-bound Dao Artifact.
It was a Wishing Pool.
“This pool allows one wish to be made every Kalpa. The content of the wish is unrestricted, but the more powerful the wish, the harder it is to realize. It can even allow someone to break through to the Dao Lord level! This is my life-bound Dao Artifact and can serve as a bargaining chip for the trade!” Dao Lord Jiemeng stated frankly.
Su Yuan raised an eyebrow. “Fellow Daoist Jiemeng is so generous? You’re directly offering your own Dao Artifact for trade? This will weaken your combat power.”
Dao Lord Jiemeng nodded. “It does affect my strength significantly. Wielding this Dao Artifact allows me to exert three times my combat power. But I truly have nothing else noteworthy to offer. If you, Fellow Daoist, are willing to accept this Dao Artifact, please give me a fair and solid price!”
Su Yuan gazed at the Wishing Pool, falling into deep thought.
This Wish Dao Principle was very appealing to him.
Dao Lord Jiemeng also appeared extremely open and aboveboard.
Su Yuan said, “For this Dao Artifact, I can offer the high price of forty trillion Dao Source! This is the highest price I can manage!”
“Forty trillion?”
Dao Lord Jiemeng was taken aback. He had just watched the transaction records Su Yuan played. In them, even for the True Spirit Record and the Seven Soul Pearls, Su Yuan had only offered a maximum of thirty trillion!
Yet now, Su Yuan was directly offering forty trillion.
Su Yuan smiled slightly. “I hope that after our transaction, Fellow Daoist will vigorously promote my trading affairs!”
So it was a case of spending a fortune to buy bones!
Dao Lord Jiemeng suddenly understood. The extra ten trillion was for him to use his own reputation as a guarantee, to set an example for Su Yuan’s trades!
This point, Dao Lord Jiemeng didn’t mind at all!
He pondered for a long while before saying, “Agreed! I am willing to make the deal!”
Hearing this, Su Yuan beamed with joy. He glanced at his System Panel. The previously depleted Dao Source Fame Points had already climbed back to the forty trillion level.
Su Yuan nodded. “A pleasant transaction!”
The two quickly completed the trade.
Su Yuan obtained the [True Wishing Pool]!
After Jiemeng received the forty trillion Dao Source, he immediately began diligently comprehending his second Dao Principle!
He had already been contemplating his second Dao Principle for countless years. Now, with forty trillion in hand, it was like fitting in the final piece of the puzzle!
Su Yuan bid farewell and left.
Subsequently, using the Other Shore Ark, he transported the [Great Wishing Pool] to the Seven Stars Chaos, directly integrating it into the Chaos’s origin.
The number of Dao Principles in the Seven Stars Chaos increased from 25 to 26!
And Su Yuan’s main body, also leveraging the Chaos, comprehended the Wish Dao Principle!
“So the Wish Dao Principle is actually this powerful!”
Su Yuan marveled as he grasped the Wish Dao Principle. Among its abilities, the power to pre-pay wishes left him utterly stunned. Such a heaven-defying Dao Principle was truly outrageous. It indeed harmonized perfectly with the Causality Dao Principle. Combined with Causality’s ability to reverse cause and effect, he could unleash even more astonishing potential from the Wish Dao Principle.
He had already selected the Wish Dao Principle as his fifth Dao Principle. Now, he only needed to choose the sixth one. Which Dao Principle paired better with Wish?
Su Yuan was quite troubled!
This matter of matching Dao Principle directions was enough to drive one mad!
Thus, Su Yuan immersed himself in attempts to match Dao Principles.
On the other side, Dao Lord Jiemeng entered the deepest level of contemplation.
He made a wish for time acceleration, causing the region he was in to enter a zone of extremely fast time flow. This gave him much more time to comprehend Dao Principles.
In the end, while only ten thousand years passed in the outside world, he had spent over a hundred Kalpas in internal contemplation. Finally, Jiemeng mastered all Dream Dao Principles within the Chaos!
Everything related to dreams was now under his control!
At this moment, tremors at the Dao Principle level occurred in every corner of the Chaos!
The Dream Dao Principles became incredibly active, their intensity suddenly increasing by a large margin. It was as if all the Dream Dao Principles in the entire Chaos had gained a backbone, becoming incomparable to before!
All cultivators practicing the Dao of Dreams gained benefits!
This change immediately alerted all powerhouses at the Great Emperor level and above! This included the four Dao Venerables!
This time, Dao Lord Jiemeng did not conceal himself. Instead, leveraging the Dream and Wish Dao Principles, he made his voice heard.
“I thank the Seven Stars Dao Sovereign for the transaction. My achievement of the Dao Venerable level today relies entirely on the benefit of trading Dao Source with the Seven Stars Dao Sovereign. I offer my sincerest gratitude!”
Dao Venerable Jiemeng expressed his most heartfelt thanks!
Many hidden Dao Lords were astonished. This advertisement was quite loud!
And they also learned that a new Dao Venerable had appeared!
However, this wasn’t the end!
Dao Venerable Jiemeng pre-paid a dream! He transformed dreams into wishes, making dreams reflect reality!
He directly pre-paid his third Dao Principle—the Illusion Dao Principle!
At this moment, the Illusion Dao Principle also roared in resonance!
Dao Lord Jiemeng gained his third Dao Principle out of thin air!
Only when he learned the cost of pre-paying the wish did he freeze completely. The cost was that he could only repay the promised wish after becoming a Chaos Dominator.
Regarding this, Dao Lord Jiemeng could only sigh. It seemed the upper limit of the Wish Dao Principle was just this.
