I Can Accumulate Proficiency, Starting from Alchemy - Chapter 1309

Chapter 1309: Chapter 543: The Book of Wan Ming, Hard Liver Progress_2 Chapter 1309: Chapter 543: The Book of Wan Ming, Hard Liver Progress_2 When Han Yi’s gaze landed on this line of runes, they started to shake and flicker. With every passing moment, the runes altered into something completely different than before, yet they still were not the Immortal Realm script that Han Yi recognized.

After a full three breaths, the runes finally stilled.

And once they stilled, the runes transformed into the Immortal Realm script that Han Yi could recognize.

[Wan Ming Tome (Nether Slave Demigod Volume 1/100)].

This revelation left Han Yi even more astonished.

He understood the line of Immortal Realm script, but his puzzlement only deepened.

“Wan Ming Tome?”

“This must be the true name of this cultivation technique, not Soul Sutra.”

“Wan Ming Immortal Sovereign?”

“Then, by logical deduction, that Wan Ming Immortal Sovereign must know the true name of this technique to have chosen the Tao Title of Wan Ming Immortal Sovereign.”

“Demigod Volume likely refers to the first through ninth stages, I have advanced to the first stage, and the progress is 1/100, which makes sense.”

“The most important part is… Nether Slave.”

Han Yi furrowed his brows; he understood the meaning of ‘slave’ all too well. His prior practice in the Ninefold Soul Tower involved numerous Soul Skills that could enslave others, turning them into his Soul Slaves.

Thus, Nether Slave likely suggested a similar concept.

Does this mean that by cultivating this technique, one becomes a ‘slave’ to the Wan Ming Immortal Sovereign?

Despite this consideration, Han Yi was not worried because when other Immortals cultivated this technique, at most it would turn into a useless volume, and no bigger issues seemed to arise.

Moreover, being at the Golden Immortal Realm, advancing to the ninth stage offered almost negligible augmentation to his Immortal Soul.

At this moment.

After manifesting this line of text on the Proficiency Panel, he suddenly changed his original plan.

Originally, he intended to cultivate methodically to the Third-stage, then join the Soul Hall, starting as an attendant and working his way up, aiming to enter Soul Tower.

The Immortal Court hadn’t set a timeline for him, allowing him to slowly devise his scheme.

Moreover, for countless eons, numerous Immortals, Monarchs, and even Ancestors had taken action, but they could not destroy the Soul Tower. At most, they managed to slay the Wan Ming Immortal Sovereign, causing this dark organization to go dormant for a while, until the Wan Ming Immortal Sovereign awoke in one of his Incarnations and recultivated to the Immortal Venerate Realm, upon which the Soul Tower would re-emerge.

Therefore, Han Yi didn’t hold much hope for the task of finding the Wan Ming Incarnation; he was merely conducting his investigation methodically.

This was his original plan.

However, the runes previously manifested on the Panel, after countless transformations, fixed into Immortal Realm script, led Han Yi to speculate further.

He suspected that those runes were the characters from other great worlds within Chaos.

If so, then the Wan Ming Tome must have originated from within Chaos, with rules vastly different from Immortal Realm cultivation techniques, and its exceptional quality must account for its various peculiar effects.

All of a sudden, Han Yi held immense interest in cultivating the Wan Ming Tome to the tenth stage.

Unless they were Immortals from the Soul Tower or its subordinate organization, when other Immortals in the Immortal Realm cultivated to the tenth stage, the Soul Sutra would collapse within the depths, and the augmentation of Divine Soul acquired from cultivation would fade.

Then, if one wished to re-cultivate the Soul Sutra, one would need to find a new Soul Guide.

But Han Yi felt that at the tenth stage, things might be different for him, somewhere in the unknown.

This was because of the special nature of the Proficiency Panel.

The Soul Sutra manifesting its true nature as the Wan Ming Tome on the Panel meant his cultivation of the Wan Ming Tome was different from other Immortals’.

This difference had been verified in every Immortal Skill he cultivated over the past thousand and more years; the Immortal Skills he cultivated would evolve to a state of perfection, even exceeding the levels described in their records, such as using Tiangang Immortal Skill at only Third-stage.

Even if his intuition was wrong, he could abandon the Soul Sutra and find a new base to restart his original plan.

All this would cost him was a modest amount of time and a negligible amount of Demigod grade Spirit Stones.

Having made up his mind.

Han Yi rose to his feet and released Yao Zhang from his Divine Aperture World.

To make things convincing, he indeed had avenged Yao Zhang in earnest.

After setting Yao Zhang down, Han Yi probed with his Immortal Sense, erased all of Yao Zhang’s Divine Soul Memories related to the Soul Hall, and modified parts of his memories about the revenge. Then, he left the Cave Mansion and returned to the True Immortal Cave Abode he had rented.

Since he intended to study the Wan Ming Tome, or rather the Nether Slave Demigod Volume up to the tenth stage, he wouldn’t be in a location known to the Immortal City’s Immortals. In case something went wrong and he happened to encounter Immortal City’s Immortals investigating his progress in the Soul Sutra, it would avoid unnecessary complications.

This cautiousness, he still possessed.

After Han Yi left,
Yao Zhang appeared in the Cave Mansion, always feeling that something was amiss.

He only remembered killing his enemy. Although it wasn’t a complete act of revenge, he had done his utmost given his current capabilities.

After tidying up, he quickly left the Cave Mansion and hurried away from Han Ming Immortal City.

He would wait until his strength increased, until he stepped into the True Immortal stage, to annihilate his enemy’s clan.

Some time passed, and when the True Immortal from the Soul Hall returned to check, he found Yao Zhang had already left. This True Immortal from the Soul Hall didn’t give it much thought; such situations were not rare. He crossed out Yao Zhang’s name from the roster and went on his way.

…

Elsewhere,
after Han Yi returned to the True Immortal Cave Abode he had rented, he started to cultivate the Wan Ming Tome with abandon.

The Half-immortal Volume he obtained could only be cultivated to the Ninth Stage, lacking the Immortal Spell for the Tenth Stage. Only by becoming an outer member of the Soul Hall, and cultivating to the Ninth Stage, would he be able to obtain the cultivation technique for the Tenth Stage.

But this time, Han Yi did not plan to acquire the subsequent techniques through the Soul Hall. He even did not intend to cultivate the Soul Sutra for the second stage but planned to directly grind through to the Second, Third, and all the way to the Tenth Stage using the Proficiency Panel.

Compared to the Soul Sutra, he had much more faith in the Proficiency Panel that had accompanied him for countless years.

For him, this wasn’t difficult.

His Sword Controlling Immortal Skill originated from the Sword Control Skill he cultivated during the Qi Cultivation Stage in the Yu Heng World, and the Change Form skill, which began as mere Disguise Skills, and the Zhou Guang Nian Jie Xian Shu, originally started as the Light Body Skill.

All he needed was to spend a certain amount of time, and all cultivation techniques could be complemented on the Proficiency Panel.

What made Han Yi puzzled next was that the Wan Ming Tome, which he originally estimated would take a short time to cultivate to the Tenth Stage, took far longer than he expected.

Discarding the Soul Sutra and using the Proficiency Panel to grind the Wan Ming Tome to the Second Stage took him half a month.

Grinding to the Third Stage took three months.

The Fourth Stage, one year.

The Fifth Stage, three years.

The Sixth Stage, ten years.

After cultivating to the Sixth Stage, Han Yi temporarily stopped. By this time, nearly fifteen years had passed since he arrived at Han Ming Immortal City.

This duration greatly exceeded his expectations.

He temporarily set aside his cultivation and rushed back to the Immortal Court and then went to make inquiries with Original Art Immortal Monarch, expressing his doubts about the Soul Sutra without revealing the fact that he was grinding through the stages with the Proficiency Panel.

The Immortal Monarch replied, “I have also attempted to cultivate the Soul Sutra from the Soul Tower, and I even got my hands on the Jade Slip for the Tenth Stage cultivation technique.”

“But this Soul Sutra is very strange. The moment when advancing to the First Stage, the Soul Sutra directly collapsed, and even I, with the status of an Immortal Monarch, could not prevent it. Moreover, after the collapse of the Soul Sutra, my memory of its techniques also vanished.”

“I speculate that this Soul Sutra is the root cause of Wan Ming Immortal Sovereign’s ability to split his soul countless times and be killed repeatedly without truly dying.”

“It’s just that there’s no evidence to confirm this.”

Original Art Immortal Monarch looked at Han Yi and said, “The process of breaking through the Tenth Stage of the Soul Sutra is very strange. All the Immortals who investigate the whereabouts of Wan Ming Immortal Sovereign always attempt to cultivate this Soul Sutra, which is not considered a secret.”

“But as far as I know, all Immortals have failed without exception.”

“Han Yi, have you cultivated the Soul Sutra and then discovered something?”

Original Art Immortal Monarch had a glimmer of expectation, as many inconceivable events had occurred with Han Yi. At this moment, Original Art hoped for a breakthrough.

But Han Yi simply shook his head, “Disciple is just puzzled.”

“What kind of Immortal Skill could leave all Immortals of Daluo helpless.”

“Therefore, I have come to seek answers from the Immortal Monarch.”

“As for discoveries, there have been none that go beyond the information from the Jade Slips previously provided by the Immortal Monarch.”

After a moment, Han Yi took his leave, and Original Art Immortal Monarch gave it no more thought.

As Han Yi said, for countless eons, all Immortals of the Daluo Immortal Court had been helpless against Wan Ming Immortal Sovereign, and this included several Heavenly Sovereigns that had appeared in Daluo.

It was to be expected that there would be no new findings in just over a decade.