Shui Yunzi and others saw clearly the flash of Xu Chong's arm.
Almost instantly, they thought of something at the same time.
"May I ask fellow Taoist..."
Tu Sanshan's eyes were filled with disbelief, and he asked hesitantly, "What was that just now... was it the authority of space?"
"Exactly."
Xu Chong nodded.
"!!!"
The three of them were horrified.
In fact, after they knew that Xu Chong was only of the third rank, they had been speculating on how Xu Chong was able to travel in Daxu.
The first thing that comes to mind is naturally the special cultivation system of the Tianxuan Realm.
However, this speculation was quickly ruled out.
No matter Xu Chong's explanation or those complete sets of exercises, there was no support for walking in Daxu.
The only possibility left is some kind of skill.
Just like the Five Spiritual Realms, in addition to the fundamental practice of the Five Elements Divine Texts, many other techniques for using the Divine Texts have also been developed.
Perhaps Xu Chong also mastered some advanced skills that allowed the seemingly low-end cultivation system of the Tianxuan Realm to exert a power far beyond its original power.
I never expected that it was actually the authority of space...
"Well……"
Xu Chong was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Is there something special about spatial authority?"
He had not expected such a big reaction from the three of them.
After all, during the previous communication, the other party also mentioned the "authority of life", but there was no special reaction.
Moreover, although Salo, who had fought with him, did not master the authority of space, he also stole some of it.
This led Xu Chong to believe that the power of space was very common, and even if it could not form authority, he should be able to use it more.
But now it seems that this is not the case.
"special?"
Tu Sanshan managed to calm down a little, sat down with the other two people again, and said with a wry smile: "It's not that the spatial authority is special, but that all authority is special."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Chong's spirits lifted.
The reason why he holds power is that the two side skills are sublimated along with his upgrade, and he is unaware of all the changes and connections.
Although the existence of the panel allows him to forcibly increase the level of authority, he has no idea how to gain new authority.
It would be best if we could find the answer in the Five Spirits Realm.
No.
even……
Perhaps this was the reason why the true will guided him here.
"None of the three of us have been more shocked than we have been today in our entire lives."
Huo Bufan took a deep breath and said with understanding: "No wonder you can walk in the Great Ruins. With the authority of space, you can carry a large amount of supplies with you to replenish your consumption, and it is not difficult to cross a distance of hundreds of thousands of miles."
"But it seems that Brother Daoist Jiang doesn't quite understand the nature of authority."
Shui Yun Zilang laughed, "I know more about this, so let me tell you."
"That's what I want."
Xu Chong raised his hand.
"In fact, authority can also be seen as a kind of rule."
Shui Yunzi pondered for a moment and said slowly: "Except for the most special rules of longevity, the five elements rotation of the Five Spirit Realm, the words of Zizai Tian and so on are all part of the rules of Daxu."
"There are many kinds of rules, some strong and some weak, scattered throughout the Great Ruins."
"Of course, in most areas of the Great Ruins, the rules are very sparse. Only when they are condensed to a certain degree can their power be revealed."
"Like the Thirty-Three Rings of Heaven, it is the place where thirty-three different rules converge."
"And the various skills that individuals master can also be regarded as rules. For example, if you run first and then jump, you can jump higher. For example, if you calculate the angle and shoot an arrow into the sky, you can also hit the target. These are all rules."
"It's just that most of these rules can only be borrowed, not stolen."
"And the few rules that can be stolen are too obscure and difficult. Simply borrowing them is enough to create a powerful technique."
"Once you steal even a little bit, you can make this skill unleash unpredictable power. For example, Fellow Daoist Tu's method of creating something out of thin air is just by stealing a little bit of the rules of the five elements' rotation."
"As for authority, it is another qualitative change that will occur after enough rules have been stolen..."
At this point, Shui Yunzi couldn't help but look at Xu Chong in amazement again, "Fellow Daoist Jiang should have learned an extremely powerful space skill before he mastered the power of space, right?"
"That's right."
Xu Chong nodded calmly, "This skill has helped me survive many crises. Without it, it would be difficult for me to survive until now."
"That's right."
Tu Sanshan sighed, "Compared to other rules, the rules of space are more difficult to steal because they are everywhere, invisible and intangible, and have no external manifestations at all. Even observation is impossible. Similarly, once you can steal the authority of the rules of space, its power is often unmatched by other authorities."
Xu Chong pondered for a while, and suddenly asked: "Is it possible for an individual to have complete authority?"
"Full authority?"
Huo Bufan was startled and said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Jiang is really shocking... Complete authority means that except for you, no one anywhere in the entire Great Ruins can occupy even a little bit of this rule. If someone really does it, then he is not even a first-class status, but directly the incarnation of the rule."
"Is that so?"
Xu Chong nodded and glanced up at the sky casually.
"actually……"
Shui Yunzi, who had been silent for a while, suddenly spoke up, "In the secret records of my clan, the Emperor of Heaven mentioned a secret about the first-class status, which is related to authority."
"What?"
Tu Sanshan and Huo Bufan were both stunned.
“In the past, only those who broke through the Five Spirit Realm to the Jade Immortal Realm would be informed of this matter. The Five-Colored Divine Bird Clan did not intend to conceal it.”
There was a trace of struggle on Shui Yunzi's face.
"Jade Immortal?... No one in the Five Spirit Realm has broken through to the Jade Immortal level for a long time. I only have the opportunity to try, but I may not be able to do it."
Tu Sanshan looked bitter and said soothingly, "Fellow Daoist Shui, don't worry about it. This is a secret of your clan, so we will not force you to do anything."
"That's all."
Shui Yunzi's face relaxed, as if he was relieved. "You are right. It has been a long time since a Jade Immortal appeared in the Five Spirit Realm. If I keep hiding this secret, it will be destroyed along with the Five Spirit Realm. It is better to tell it out. Maybe it can help you."
Speaking of the latter part, Shui Yunzi glanced at Xu Chong intentionally or unintentionally.
There is no doubt that the reason why he chose to announce this secret was ultimately to tell Xu Chong.
"You all know about the first-class status, but you probably don't know what the conditions are for promotion to the first-class status."
Shui Yunzi looked around and spoke slowly.
"condition?"
Huo Bufan was stunned, "Isn't it possible to break through once you reach a certain level of strength?"
"No."
Shui Yunzi shook his head, "Below the first-class status, it is indeed enough to have enough strength."
"But for a first-class rank, besides strength being the basic requirement, there are two additional conditions that must be met."
"First, there is still a vacancy in the fruit position."
vacancy?
The three of them looked confused and failed to understand this statement.
“Whether it is nothingness or reality, the number of first-level persons, that is, fruition positions, is fixed.”
Shui Yunzi continued, "Once all the fruit positions are occupied, the second-class position will never be able to be promoted to the first-class position, no matter how strong he is, no matter how confident he is of being promoted."
"Fruitment..."
Xu Chong's mind was shaken, and he couldn't help asking: "How many fruit positions are there? What are they?"
"The Real Fruition is the same as the Void Fruition, there are five of them."
Shui Yunzi replied, "Infinite, formless, without delusion, and indeterminate. These are the known void fruit positions, and they should have been occupied. There is also a Five Elements Heavenly Emperor, and we have no way of knowing about it. Maybe he has existed for a long time, or maybe he has not been born yet."
"These names..."
Xu Chong narrowed his eyes, "Could it be that the various levels of fruition are not the same?"
"Fellow Daoist Jiang is indeed extremely wise."
Shui Yunzi nodded, "Boundless means never running out, formless means never revealing, without delusion means never sinking, without determination means never stagnating... This is the description left by the Emperor of Heaven. As for the specific meaning it represents, I can't explain it."
Everything else was fine, but the four words "never exhausted" made Xu Chong think of his devouring talent, and he couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts.
"What about the real side?"
Huo Bufan asked anxiously.
"The Five Elements Heavenly Emperor is the Taishi fruition, and Shanwu is the Taiji fruition."
Shui Yunzi continued, "The Emperor of Heaven did not elaborate on the Tai Chi fruition, and as for Tai Shi, the Emperor of Heaven described it as 'forever maintaining the original state'... Of course, life span is not included."
"That is to say, since the moment the Five Elements Heavenly Emperor attained the fruit position, his appearance, strength, and body have all been permanently fixed. Even at the end of his life, he still possesses peak strength?"
Tu Sanshan seemed to be thinking about something and translated it according to his own understanding.
"That should be what it means."
Shui Yunzi nodded slightly.
“That’s not right…”
Huo Bufan suddenly frowned, "Aren't there three more?"
“The three of them were promoted after the destruction of the Ring Heaven, and the Emperor of Heaven didn’t have much contact with them.”
Shui Yunzi shook his head.
Xu Chong's pupils shrank suddenly, "Three first-class fruit positions?!"
"I'm sorry, I forgot that Brother Jiang didn't know this yet."
Huo Bufan scratched his head and said, "In the Great Ruins, there are three first-class real individuals constantly wandering around, imprisoning all the nothingness they encounter."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Chong had already understood.
Isn't this what the two Void Buds mentioned? Three extremely terrifying things that imprisoned a large amount of nothingness...
I didn’t expect it to be of first-class status.
“That doesn’t make sense.”
Xu Chong frowned, "Three first-class positions, one more than when Huantian was at its peak, why is our real situation still not improving?"
“They are different.”
Shui Yunzi sighed and said, "They have lost their wisdom as the real thing, and only retain the instinct to be hostile to nothingness. Apart from imprisoning all the nothingness they encounter in their bodies, they cannot do anything that is more beneficial to the real thing."
"Lost wisdom?"
Xu Chong was shocked, "Why is this happening?"
“I don’t know the details.”
Shui Yunzi shook his head, "The Five Elements Heavenly Emperor guessed that these three were once Heavenly Emperors of Huantian, and they all controlled some of the authority of space."
"When the ring sky was shattered, in order to preserve the last bit of truth, they chose to disintegrate their own ring sky and transform it into nutrients, using it to forcibly break through to the first level."
"Unfortunately, the backlash of the true will caused them to completely lose their wisdom and fall into a state where reality is not real, and nothingness is not nothingness."
Shui Yunzi sighed: "Rather than saying they are living Heavenly Emperors, it would be better to say they are three real bodies occupying positions."
No wonder he can live longer than the Five Elements Emperor, it feels like he is not alive...
Xu Chong was amazed.
“But you can’t say they did anything wrong.”
Tu Sanshan's eyes flashed with admiration. "At that critical moment , their Huantian couldn't survive as a separate world like the Wuxingtian. He was able to think of this method and put it into action without hesitation. He is worthy of the name of the Emperor of Heaven."
"yes."
Huo Bufan smiled and nodded, agreeing: "With them here, even if you and I, or even the Five Spirit Realms, are gone, there will still be real existences in the Great Ruins. Maybe one day they will become a human-shaped world and give birth to real hope."
Maybe it was the right atmosphere, or maybe it was the right mood, the four people, including Xu Chong, raised their glasses at the same time.
"Respect my true sage!"
"Respect the ancestors!"
“…”
The four of them drank it all in one gulp.
"Okay, now that we've had our tea, it's time for you to talk about the second necessary condition."
Huo Bufan had a lively personality and ruined the atmosphere with just one sentence.
“…”
Shui Yunzi obviously didn't react, and after a pause he continued, "The second necessary condition for a first-class status is authority."
“Here it comes!”
Xu Chong thought to himself.
"Only if you steal more than 20% of a certain rule will you be recognized by the fruition in the dark and be granted the power."
Shui Yunzi looked at Xu Chong deeply, "For this condition, only Daoist Jiang has this hope at the moment."
“Twenty percent…”
Xu Chong was delighted.
The authority over space can no longer be improved. It is obvious that the remaining 99% has either been stolen by individuals or scattered in the Five Spirit Realms, Baiyujing or Daxu.
But the authority of light is fine.
As long as you can hunt enough nothingness, using divine energy to improve it can be said to be a piece of cake.
Shui Yunzi and the other two looked at each other, then stood up and bowed together.
"Why are you three like this?"
Xu Chong also quickly stood up and moved away.
"Just now I saw a flash of joy in your eyes, are you sure you can be promoted to the first-class status?"
Shui Yunzi asked hopefully.
"This... is indeed certain."
Xu Chong thought about it and decided to be more calm.
“It is indeed so!”
Huo Bufan's eyes lit up, "I knew I was right."
"vulgar."
Tu Sanshan glared at Huo Bufan, then looked at Xu Chong sincerely: "If you are willing to stay in the Five Spirits Realm, the three of us... no, the entire Five Spirits Realm, are willing to respect you as our master."
“…”
Xu Chong was stunned for a moment.
He thought that these three people must have something they wanted him to do for them, perhaps more Tianxuan Realm skills, or ways to share ways to steal power.
I never expected that I would be asked to stay and be the boss?