Splitting the Heavens

Chapter 562: 80 Percent

Chapter 562: 80 Percent

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When Shang Xia fought with Lin Chai, he witnessed the use of the Substitution Talisman. She turned into a paper figure after using it and tried to mess with Shang Xia’s senses. Unfortunately, she used it on the wrong opponent and Shang Xia easily dealt with it.

After getting his hands on the inheritance for the talisman, Shang Xia felt that it wasn’t that impressive and thought of using it as an introduction to the talisman arts of the Spirit Abundance World. However, he quickly changed his mind after properly examining the inheritance.

The inheritance he obtained was split into 3 levels and the Paper Figure Talisman Lin Chai used previously was the lowest. Even though the paper figure that appeared would possess a portion of strength, it only served as a distraction.

Even though it was the lowest of the 3 levels, the Paper Figure Talisman had already reached the standard of a rank three talisman.

A Clone Talisman was part of the inheritance and ranked one level higher than the Paper Figure Talisman. The moment he completed the creation of the Clone Talisman, he would be able to infuse it with his extermination qi. When the talisman was activated, a clone with 80 percent of the user’s original power would appear. As long as the extermination qi didn’t dissipate, the clone would possess the strength of a Martial Extermination Realm expert.

During the entire process, if the user could fuse a strand of their divine perception into the clone, it would be able to utilize their personal martial arts and become extremely difficult to deal with.

Looking at the uses of a Clone Talisman, Shang Xia immediately thought of the clones of Martial Dipper Realm experts. They gave Shang Xia an exceptionally deep impression, especially during the battle of the Cloud Water Gorge.

None of the Martial Dipper Realm Ancestors back there infused their clones with a fate dipper in order to not suffer a huge loss if they were killed.

No matter how he looked at it, Shang Xia found the effects of the Clone Talisman similar to that of Fate Dipper Clones.

Fate Dipper Clones could only be created by Martial Dipper Realm experts, but using the Clone Talisman, a Martial Extermination Realm expert could do the same!

In other words, the Clone Talisman could allow a Martial Extermination Realm cultivator to copy the abilities of a Martial Dipper Realm expert!

Of course, there was no need to compare the strength of the clones. The difference between the Martial Extermination Realm and the Martial Dipper Realm was like the heavens and earth.

The Substitution Talisman ranked above the Clone Talisman and that was a talisman that ranked solidly in the fifth rank.

Before obtaining the new talisman inheritance, the Abyssal Emptiness Talisman was the only rank five talisman inheritance Shang Xia had his hands on. Now, he actually received another!

After learning about the abilities of the Substitution Talisman, Shang Xia felt that a more appropriate name would be the Death Replacement Talisman. It was a talisman that could take the place of the cultivator in times of desperation. If they ran into a sure-death situation, the talisman could take its user’s place!

Holding a Substitution Talisman meant that one would obtain another life.

Shang Xia felt a surge of excitement in his heart and he wanted nothing more than to create one of it immediately!

Finally calming down, he realized that he was getting a little overboard with his imagination. Not only was a rank five talisman extremely difficult to craft, it also required a strand of dipper qi. It wasn’t something Shang Xia could get his hands on at that point.

He could only try to craft one when he truly entered the Martial Dipper Realm, or if he found a Martial Dipper Realm expert to coordinate with him during the crafting process so that he could fuse their dipper qi into the talisman.

Those weren’t all. Talisman papers were indispensable when it came to crafting talismans. Shang Xia had no rank five talisman paper on him. The only resources he had were rank three talisman papers which had been sent over with the previous batch of supplies from the Beyond Heavens Pavilion.

He could only try his hand at the Paper Figure Talisman to practice the use of his talismans.

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All the treasures and inheritances that he cared about were kept properly but there were also tons of resources he obtained after killing so many experts.. They might be precious treasures to cultivators of the same level, but they wouldn’t help Shang Xia too much in his current state.

Sorting the treasures out, Shang Xia finally focused his attention on the fate dipper fragment.

When he barged into the heaven and earth qi vortex, he managed to obtain 2 fate dipper fragments. Other than the highest quality fragment in his hand, he managed to grab one of extremely inferior quality.

Unfortunately, the substandard fate dipper fragment seemed to disappear after Shang Xia destroyed the formation and caused the heaven and earth qi vortex to collapse.

Shang Xia had a guess that the world origin in the fragment was sucked up by the Crimson Soul Tablet after the wall of heaven and earth qi crashed into him. However, that begged another question. Why would the tablet only absorb the energy in the inferior fragment?

The world origin contained in the superior fragment was a lot more pure and it should be the target for the Crimson Soul Tablet, but it was left alone.

No matter how hard he racked his brains, he couldn’t think of a reason.

Speaking of the Crimson Soul Tablet, Shang Xia went to observe it again. The only crack that remained was on its first face and when he extended his divine perception into the core of the tablet, he discovered that the internal damage had recovered a little bit.

It was a shame the damage to the interior of the tablet was too extensive. It was impossible to restore it completely with so little world origin. It was going to be a tall task to restore the tablet back to its perfect state.

Also, Shang Xia hadn’t been using all the world origin he absorbed to restore the tablet. He focused more on using it to deduce his rank four martial intent and to complete his rank five advancement formula. He was saving them bit by bit to be used in the future.

Along with the rise in his cultivation, Shang Xia knew that the Crimson Soul Tablet would require a lot more world origin when coming up with those things.

At the moment, Shang Xia felt that it might not be a problem for the tablet to come up with his rank four martial intent. However, the problem would come when he used the tablet to deduce and optimize his rank five advancement formula. He was afraid that it would greatly exhaust the tablet and cause even greater damage.

The moment the Crimson Soul Tablet suffered such great damage, it would probably reach the end of its lifespan and crumble. When that happened, Shang Xia’s life would probably end with it.

If not for the fate that Shang Bo and the others told him about the use of the fate dipper fragment, he would have already fed it to the Crimson Soul Tablet.

Carefully storing it away, Shang Xia started to craft rank three Paper Figure Talismans. There might be differences between how talismans were made in the Spirit Abundance World and the Azure Origin World that caused Shang Xia’s attempts to end up as failures.

Of course, Shang Xia wasn’t dejected because of several failures. He expected as much and after using up all the rank three talisman papers only to not succeed once, his hands were no longer itching to craft talismans. He could fully immerse himself in cultivation.

Since he was blasted by waves of heaven and earth qi during the collapse of the vortex, he managed to purify his inner qi even more. His refinement of his extermination origins had also reached a staggering 70 percent.

If not for the fact that the sea of heaven and earth qi dissipated and Shang Xia was located in a dangerous region, he would have been able to refine his extermination origins to a greater extent!

When he fully immersed himself in cultivation this time, he started to place all his focus on his extermination origins. However, his refinement process wasn’t as slow as expected.

That was the difference between the way Shang Xia cultivated and other experts of the same realm. He found it difficult to kick off his cultivation in the Martial Extermination Realm, but it got easier the stronger he became.

The true difficulty and risk came when he refined all four extermination origins at once and created four different types of extermination seeds to produce extermination qi in his dantian. The moment all four extermination origins reach an equilibrium, they would be able to start fusion. When that happened, Shang Xia’s cultivation would also increase rapidly.

After Shang Xia refined 70 percent of his extermination origins, he didn’t feel the slightest bit of bottleneck when he cultivated. Instead, he felt that everything was going really smoothly. It was as though nothing could stop him.

As he continued to refine his extermination origins, his cultivation grew accordingly. He entered such a miraculous state that he couldn’t even feel the passing of time.

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Unknowingly, Shang Xia passed the 80 percent mark of his extermination origins refinement. The moment it happened, Shang Xia felt as though he stepped into a new world. His Four Constellation Qi bubbled in his dantian and the Crimson Soul Tablet rumbled heavily in his sea of consciousness. The sudden disturbance caused him to awaken abruptly.

The moment he opened his eyes, Shang Xia didn’t bother inspecting the state of his dantian or the purity of his inner qi. Instead, he gathered his thoughts and inspected the Crimson Soul Tablet in his sea of consciousness.

The tablet was vibrating slightly and Shang Xia could see strands of light emerging from its surface.

He was no stranger to what was happening. That was a sign that the tablet was about to come up with something.

Shang Xia couldn’t understand why it was happening at that exact moment. After all, he hadn’t completed the refinement of his extermination origins…

He might be extremely confused, but he grabbed the fate dipper fragment in his hands just in case.

At the same time, Shang Xia used the connection he made with the Crimson Soul Tablet after entering the Martial Extermination Realm to try to communicate with it. He wanted to understand what the tablet was doing.

Originally, he was trying his luck when he tried to understand what the tablet wanted. However, a thought quickly appeared in his mind.

Martial intent… Possible to deduce…

That was what Shang Xia learned.

It wasn’t a message that was transmitted into Shang Xia’s mind by the tablet. Instead, it was something that appeared in Shang Xia’s mind the moment he willed it. It was a strange occurrence, but that was the truth!

Shang Xia felt slightly interested and instinctively wanted to let the tablet do what it wished. However, he quickly suppressed the thought.

He couldn’t do it at the moment. He hadn’t refined his extermination origins completely and there was no rush for him to deduce his martial intent!

Muttering to himself to calm himself down, Shang Xia tried to soothe his urge the best he could. He was extremely confident that deducing his martial intent would not cause irreversible damage to the tablet or cause it to shatter, but Shang Xia had his own considerations.

It was true that understanding the way to develop his martial intent early on would allow him to make his preparations and greatly shorten the time he would need to enter the grand completion stage of the Martial Extermination Realm, but there was a nagging feeling deep in his heart constantly reminding him to slow down. It told him to gather more world origin as that would never go wrong…

Finally stopping the Crimson Soul Tablet from operating however it wished, it finally calmed down. The bubbling Four Constellation Qi in his dantian also started to cool down.

Despite those factors, Shang Xia still felt uneasy as his heart palpitations hadn’t stopped.