The value of a Grand Divine Master in the Mid Dao Realm is simply impossible to measure.
Even though only one third remained, and the Little Demon could only devour and convert ten percent of that one third of Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s power into Ye Zhen’s cultivation.
The result was still extremely astounding.
In just five days, it pushed Ye Zhen’s cultivation straight from the Early-stage Sixth Stage of Dark Palace Realm all the way to the Peak of Ninth Stage Dark Palace Realm.
Even so, there was still some left.
At this time, the cultivation gap between Human Warriors and Demon Clan Martial Artists was fully revealed.
The upper limit of cultivation breakthroughs for Demon Clan Martial Artists is determined by the bloodline in their bodies. As long as the inherited bloodline has not reached its upper limit, and as long as they have sufficient energy, the Demon Race’s cultivation can break through with incomparable ease.
Just like the Little Demon: the power it devoured from Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s body was vast enough, so its cultivation directly broke through to the Second Stage of Realm King Realm.
There was simply no bottleneck at all; once its power reached a certain level, its cultivation just broke through.
But on Ye Zhen’s side, it was different.
The Spiritual Power the Little Demon devoured and converted allowed Ye Zhen’s cultivation to break through directly from the Sixth Stage of Dark Palace Realm to the Peak of Ninth Stage Dark Palace Realm.
However, there was still a certain amount of Spiritual Power remaining in Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s body.
If Ye Zhen could continue refining the remaining amount, at the very least, it could push his cultivation to the Second Stage of Realm King Realm.
But at the threshold of Realm King Realm, Ye Zhen’s cultivation could only get stuck here.
Once a Human Warrior’s cultivation reaches the Peak of Ninth Stage Dark Palace Realm, they must break through to Realm King Realm before their cultivation can be raised again.
Just like when Ye Zhen’s cultivation had once been stuck at the Peak of Ninth Stage of Divine Communication Realm.
If he cannot突破, his cultivation can only be stuck there.
However, now that Ye Zhen is about to break through to Realm King Realm, the situation is different again.
When Ye Zhen’s cultivation was at the Peak of Ninth Stage of Divine Communication Realm, his incredibly powerful Primordial Spirit Power became his greatest roadblock to突破, forcing him to go through untold hardship before finally breaking through to Dark Palace Realm.
But breaking through from the Ninth Stage of Dark Palace Realm to Realm King Realm is a different matter.
At this threshold, Ye Zhen’s incomparably powerful Primordial Spirit makes it incomparably easy for him to push his cultivation from the Ninth Stage of Dark Palace Realm to Realm King Realm.
What Martial Artists need to突破 to Realm King Realm is a special World Fragment that carries the aura of a Little World.
Only by refining a World Fragment and integrating it into their own body can they successfully open up a Mustard Seed Space or Mustard Seed Small World within themselves, allowing the Martial Artist’s Dark Palace to have a concrete carrier; only then can the Martial Artist’s cultivation break through to Realm King Realm.
This thing called a World Fragment sounds rather high-end, but it is actually not rare; on the contrary, there are many.
In the Five Immortals Island Ruins Market, you only need one hundred thousand High Grade Spiritual Stones to buy a piece of Little World Fragment whose quality is barely acceptable.
Even in the Market of Dulong Island under Ye Zhen’s own name, there are goods like World Fragments being traded. It is extremely easy for Ye Zhen to get his hands on some.
However, the quality of the World Fragment used when breaking through to Realm King Realm is like a foundation, directly concerning the future growth of one’s own Little World.
Whether it can grow from a Mustard Seed Space or Mustard Seed World into a Little World depends precisely on this foundational step.
Most of the World Fragments circulating in the major Ruins Markets are those taken from within the stable Mustard Seed Worlds of ordinary Martial Artists of Realm King Realm, used to earn a bit of extra profit.
It can be said that whatever grade of World Fragment you use, the future growth height of the Little World within your body is basically set.
If you use those very cheap World Fragments that Martial Artists of Realm King Realm dig out from their own bodies just to make extra money, then in the future, the Little World in your body will at best grow to the peak of a Mustard Seed World. Without special fortuitous encounters, it will be impossible for it to grow into a Little World.
Likewise, if you use a fragment from an ordinary Little World, then the growth limit of the Little World within your body will be fixed at that of an ordinary Little World.
If you use a World Fragment from one of the All Heavens Small Worlds that can each form One Realm by themselves, then the growth limit will be different again.
However, that being said, it is not the case that just because you use a fragment of an All Heavens Small World, the Little World within your body will definitely grow into an All Heavens Small World.
The growth of the internal spatial world within a Martial Artist’s body is something that consumes an extreme amount of resources, and before it reaches a certain degree, the returns are very limited.
Let alone Martial Artists of Realm King Realm; many Dao Realm Martial Artists’ Little Worlds have not even reached the level of an ordinary Little World.
This is also why many Martial Artists, when breaking through to Realm King Realm, casually find a common World Fragment and break through quickly.
Because their main goal is to walk farther on the path of Martial Arts; they突破 purely for the sake of突破. As long as their cultivation breaks through to Realm King Realm, that is enough.
But for Ye Zhen, it is different.
Ye Zhen has a minimum requirement for the World Fragment.
That is, at the very least, he must use a World Fragment from an ordinary Little World to突破.
The reason is simple: one is for the Little Demon, the other is for those one million Spirit Void Fruit Trees.
Right now, the Little Demon has taken root within Ye Zhen’s Yimu Spiritual Palace. Although it is one with Ye Zhen, the restrictions on the Little Demon are still quite large.
But if a Little World with stabilized Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire is formed inside Ye Zhen’s body, then the Little Demon can move into Ye Zhen’s internal Little World. Not only will it be able to live freely, its constraints will also become extremely small.
As for the one million Spirit Void Fruit Trees, that is even simpler. The value of Spirit Void Fruit is too high; it can be said to be a hard currency even stronger than Psychic Spirit Pills. The higher one’s cultivation, the greater the demand for Spirit Void Fruit.
Ye Zhen also didn’t want to just sit around and wait for his resources to run dry.
So, Ye Zhen needed an extremely safe and hidden Little World to plant the Spirit Void Fruit Tree, and nowhere was safer than the Little World inside his own body.
Therefore, for this reason, even though a World Fragment of a Mustard Seed World was right within reach, Ye Zhen still couldn’t use it.
The within-reach World Fragment of a Mustard Seed World didn’t belong to someone else, but to Grand Divine Master Nuolu.
There was an already-formed Mustard Seed World inside the Grand Divine Master’s body; this Mustard Seed World, even though Ye Zhen had killed Grand Divine Master Nuolu, was something he still couldn’t obtain.
Because at the instant Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s soul scattered, the Mustard Seed World within his body would collapse correspondingly.
He couldn’t get the complete Mustard Seed World, but Ye Zhen could obtain the World Fragments left after Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s Mustard Seed World collapsed.
And not just one piece.
In other words, as long as Ye Zhen was willing, he could use the World Fragments of Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s Mustard Seed World right now to break through to the Realm King Realm.
However, Ye Zhen didn’t want to make such a rash breakthrough. Breaking through to the Realm King Realm was a matter of laying his foundation; it was a one-time molding that could never be altered again.
At the very least he had to use a World Fragment from an ordinary Little World to break through; this was Ye Zhen’s minimum requirement.
Ye Zhen’s Cultivation was stuck at the Peak of Ninth Stage Dark Palace Realm, but the remaining fifteen percent of power in Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s body could not be wasted like this.
Fortunately, over these five days, after the Little Demon adapted to part of its surging power, it could continue devouring and refining to improve again.
Ye Zhen was just a bit puzzled: this ability of the Little Demon to devour and convert Spiritual Power to raise Cultivation worked only on Ye Zhen and the Little Demon.
It had no effect on the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten and the Nine-Headed Beast.
If it did, that would really be fantastic.
Ye Zhen guessed it should be because of the relationship of Ye Zhen and the Little Demon being two-in-one.
After several days of recuperation, the previously over-exhausted Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten had once again become full of vigor and spirit.
When the Little Demon squeezed dry the last trace of Spiritual Power from Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s body and successfully raised its Cultivation to Late Second Stage of Realm King Realm, Ye Zhen slapped and shattered Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s skull; Nuolu’s Primordial Spirit, already battered by the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, had just fled out when it was swept into Ye Zhen’s War Soul Blood Flag.
It turned into an incomparably pure Blood Soul Smoke, greatly nourishing the War Soul Blood Flag.
After that, Ye Zhen didn’t waste Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s corpse either; he casually tossed it to the Little Demon and the Nine-Headed Beast, who had been drooling all along.
Watching the kitten and the Nine-Headed Beast scrambling over Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s corpse, a sudden, inexplicable chill rose in Ye Zhen’s heart.
He didn’t know when it had started, but he had already become this indifferent.
Ye Zhen remembered that at the very beginning, he would never let the kitten eat the corpses of Human Warriors.
Ye Zhen felt that, no matter what, he couldn’t let those of his own kind become food for Demon Beasts.
Later on, Ye Zhen slowly relaxed that restriction, allowing the kitten to devour the corpses of those Human Warriors who had committed evil deeds, as a kind of punishment.
Now, Ye Zhen no longer cared about right or wrong, only about friend or foe.
As long as it was an enemy’s corpse, Ye Zhen could toss it to the kitten and the Nine-Headed Beast.
Ye Zhen didn’t know exactly what kind of change this was, but vaguely, he knew he had already lost something.
Ye Zhen’s own mindset seemed to be shifting toward the mentality and behavior of the Heavenly Temple’s upper echelon and many Nobles of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
That was, there was no good or evil, no right or wrong, only friend and foe, only opposition!
Suddenly, Ye Zhen shook his head hard.
Ye Zhen wanted to say, "I’m not that kind of person!"
But right before his eyes, the same thing was playing out again.
Ye Zhen wanted to take back Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s corpse, yet in his heart another voice said, "Those who accomplish great things do not bother with trifles; this is just making use of waste."
All of a sudden, an indescribable sense of heaviness welled up in Ye Zhen’s chest.
Letting out a long breath, Ye Zhen didn’t even look at Grand Divine Master Nuolu’s Storage Ring; he flashed out of the Mirage Dragon Pearl and appeared outside.
The sky-filling raging sandstorm had stopped at some unknown point.
At this moment, the Mirage Dragon Pearl had turned into a speck of dust, quietly floating atop the tranquil sand dune, rolling slightly with the breeze.
Cautiously, he released his Divine Sense, attaching it to Earth Spiritual Power and extending it into the distance.
After confirming there was no one within dozens of li—
Only then did Ye Zhen carefully burrow deeper into the Sand Sea, and then take out a small Communication Movement Formation Plate, preparing to contact the North Sea side.
After inlaying a Spirit Stone, the small Communication Movement Formation Plate flickered twice with radiance, then suddenly went dark.
Ye Zhen’s expression instantly turned cold. "They still haven’t given up? Still not letting it go?"

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