Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” - Chapter 502: Resources and Calamity
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable swiftly traversed the independent space-time.
Vast swathes of starfields fell within his gaze one after another.
Whenever he spotted a star emitting the fluctuations of a Dao Principle, he would stop to investigate briefly. After confirming there was no danger, he would leave behind some cultivators to occupy it.
Traveling at high speed, he had already crossed half the range of a Chaos Kingdom!
“What a bountiful independent space-time! If we could occupy this entire space-time completely, instead of splitting it equally with other forces, the power of our Miluo Dao Court would rise to a terrifying degree!”
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable sighed with endless admiration.
Simultaneously, he was also searching the stars for a Dao Principle that matched his own Dao path as the twelfth principle.
The path he walked was one of his own creation. The words ‘Soul-Constraining’ represented the direction of his advancement. In his view, everything in the world was a manifestation of ‘spirit’. Whether it was matter, Dao Principles, or energy, they were all just variations of ‘spirit’.
And a Soul-Constrainer was an existence that controlled spirituality, a Chaos Dominator!
He had stumbled along this path for countless years, and now he was stuck at the final step. He needed one Dao Principle to perfectly fuse his other Dao Principles together, thereby reaching the level of a Chaos Dominator. If the twelfth principle could not achieve perfect fusion, he would need to reach the eighteenth order to have a chance at success.
Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen—these could not possibly be perfect numbers; they could not achieve the status of Chaos Dominator!
Of course, this was the consensus, but it could still be overturned. As long as someone could break through to Chaos Dominator at these numbers, this consensus would be shattered. Unfortunately, no one had managed to break it so far.
Therefore, the eleventh-order Dao Venerable was a very critical realm, similar to the seventeenth-order Dao Venerable.
“This independent space-time has stars emitting Dao Principle fluctuations. Perhaps I can rely on my intuition to find the Dao Principle most compatible with me!”
While Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable was pondering, he suddenly encountered an extremely unfamiliar Dao Principle star.
“Huh?”
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable approached this star and began sensing its Dao Principle.
Before long, he gained an initial understanding of this Dao Principle.
“The Dao Principle of Waves? Does such a Dao Principle even exist? How come I’ve never heard of it before?”
This made Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable extremely curious. He had some understanding of many Dao Principles, but this so-called Dao Principle of Waves was truly his first encounter!
“It seems a bit like a subordinate principle of the Water Dao Principle, but then again, it doesn’t look like it.”
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable left many disciples on this star, instructing them to investigate it thoroughly.
“The Dao Principle of Waves seems somewhat compatible with my Chaos Dao path.”
The Dao Principle of Waves—whether it’s other Dao Principles, matter, or energy, they all possess the form of a wave. A wave can also be called an undulation!
And light, water, fire, energy, and many materials all possess undulations and waves!
The Dao Principle of Waves inherently can connect many Dao Principles, becoming a fusion point for them!
“If I interpret ‘spirit’ as a kind of ‘wave’… can I combine it with this?”
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable immediately began complex deductions.
However, just as he immersed himself in contemplation, he failed to notice a mass of black mist gradually appearing in the surrounding starry sky!
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable didn’t observe it, but disciples of the Miluo Dao Court did and immediately sent a message to him.
A flood of message alerts jolted Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable out of his contemplative state.
When he looked up at the sky, he realized that, at some unknown time, a mass of black mist had enveloped the area.
“What is that?” Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable became wary.
The black mist suddenly accelerated, surrounding the entire Wave Star with lightning speed.
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable sensed an ominous aura.
In the next moment, the black mist immediately began to churn, spewing forth a large number of black creatures.
Almost every disciple of the Dao Court encountered an attack from a black creature.
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable snorted coldly, reached out, and grabbed one of the black creatures in his hand.
He could feel that the creature’s body contained a vast amount of Calamity Dao Principle.
“Spirit Transformation!”
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable whispered. His fused eleventh-order Dao Principle enveloped the black creature.
Not long after, this black creature was transformed by Soul-Constraining’s methods into a spiritual entity!
“Soul Constraint!”
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable once again performed his Soul Constraint secret art, completely controlling the spiritual entity.
Subsequently, this spiritual entity directly merged into Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable’s body, becoming a part of him.
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable’s strength experienced a slight increase.
Little Cai, hiding in the shadows, watched as Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable directly refined and absorbed a Calamity Fiend with first-order Dao Venerable strength. She felt speechless; this guy seemed more like the evil villain.
What was the difference between this method of transforming other beings into spiritual entities or materials and then devouring the transformed ‘spirit’, and the methods of a demon?
She couldn’t underestimate him; this guy was a veteran Elder in the Dao Court after all.
Thus, Little Cai increased her output.
A Calamity Fiend with second-order Dao Venerable strength sought out Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable.
“Hmm? Its strength increased!”
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable immediately sensed something was wrong.
Checking on the others, he found that each cultivator could still handle their opponents, but faintly, one could detect threads of black aura seeping into these disciples’ bodies!
“Something’s wrong! Very wrong!”
Sensing danger, Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable immediately collected his disciples one by one into his internal grotto-heaven.
Then, he charged towards the direction where the black mist seemed thinner.
When he rushed into the black mist, he immediately collided with a black creature possessing ninth-order Dao Venerable strength.
Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable, with thunderous methods, directly slew the opponent, then cleaved through the black mist and swiftly rushed out of the Wave Star.
After successfully escaping, Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable fled without looking back. Only after putting a considerable distance behind him did he turn his head to look in the direction of the Wave Star.
But when he gazed over, the original black mist had, at some point, completely vanished.
The Wave Star still hung intact in the starry sky, emitting a hazy starlight and the fluctuations of the Dao Principle of Waves.
It was as if everything that had just happened had never occurred.
He looked inward at his internal grotto-heaven. Of the disciples he had just collected, one percent had perished within that black mist. Among the survivors, more or less, abnormalities had appeared.
Those threads of black aura, like a contamination, had merged deep into the disciples’ hearts and minds. They would need to cultivate diligently to grind away these black auras to eliminate the hidden dangers.
He experimented by having some disciples cultivate without first eliminating the black aura.
Among them, some entered a state of Qi deviation, and others even began to suffer mental collapse.
If he hadn’t intervened to treat them, the outcome for these people would have been extremely dire.
“The situation has changed somewhat. This independent space-time doesn’t seem to be a purely resource-based one! I must inform the others immediately!” Soul-Constraining Dao Venerable was very grave.
