Chapter 1152: Chapter 1137: Arrival at Phoenix Tail Island

The first obvious improvement upon breaking through to the Establishment Realm is the increase in cultivation.

Since a new dantian is opened in the Spirit Palace, compared to the peak of the Seventh Stage Vein Forging Realm, the spiritual power cultivation of the early First Stage Establishment Realm nearly doubles.

This is great news for Ye Zhen, making it easier to wield several soul artifacts.

Especially with the newly acquired Mid-grade Soul Armor, the Yellow Sand Golden Soul Armor, the defensive abilities Ye Zhen can exert are directly doubled.

Ye Zhen feels that with his current cultivation, using the Yellow Sand Golden Soul Armor, he can withstand a strike from a Dao Realm expert without any problem.

At this moment, right in the center of Ye Zhen’s Spirit Palace, the virtual image of a small figure resembling Ye Zhen is sitting cross-legged.

This is precisely Ye Zhen’s Innate Divine Soul.

Over Ye Zhen’s Innate Divine Soul is a golden yellow armor, which is the Mid-grade Soul Armor Yellow Sand Golden Soul Armor Ye Zhen acquired earlier.

Embedded in its forehead is the Acquired Spirit Treasure Thunder Light Pearl, sparking black thunder light, with the Longevity Banner in its left hand and the Purple Flame Golden Lamp in its right hand.

The four soul artifacts are radiating a misty treasure light, making Ye Zhen’s Innate Divine Soul look mighty.

Outside the Spirit Palace, there’s an endless sea of four-colored Innate Soul Light, formerly the Soul Sea. This endless four-colored Innate Soul Light serves as the first layer of protection for Ye Zhen’s Spirit Palace.

To attack Ye Zhen’s Spirit Palace, one must first pierce Ye Zhen’s four-colored Innate Soul Light.

Meanwhile, the seven Spirit Pillars within the Spirit Palace serve as the second layer of protection for Ye Zhen’s Innate Divine Soul.

If Ye Zhen is severely injured in the future and only escapes with his Spirit Palace, then the Spirit Palace can protect Ye Zhen’s Innate Divine Soul from harm, even allowing escape to find a new corporeal body.

Just like Zhang Yi previously did.

These are merely the changes in Ye Zhen’s current Spirit Palace; breaking through to the Establishment Realm’s second notable change is the mutual generation of the Five Elements and Yin-Yang, where spiritual power is inexhaustible.

This is clear, but what’s even more powerful is that with the intercommunication of the seven Spirit Pillars, the mutual transformation of the Five Elements and Yin-Yang can exert immense power during offense or defense.

During defense, for example, if the opponent’s spiritual power attribute is Water Spiritual Power, among the Five Elements, Earth counteracts Water, and any defensive measure by Ye Zhen can include a portion of Earth Spiritual Power aura through mutual transformation of the Five Elements and Yin-Yang, significantly weakening the opponent’s attack power.

The same applies to attacks.

If the opponent possesses Wood Spirit Power, Ye Zhen can incorporate a portion of the First Sword Vein’s aura into the Xuan Fire Drill he launches, doubling its power.

However, the most potent aspect of the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace is the Five Elements Yin-Yang Burst Secret Technique.

This is a secret art of spiritual power inherent in the structure of the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace.

Under normal circumstances, a martial artist’s full power strike can at most mobilize about ten to twenty percent of their internal spiritual power. A secret technique that can simultaneously unleash thirty to forty percent of internal spiritual power is already a top-tier killing move.

But the Five Elements Yin-Yang Burst Technique within the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace can instantaneously unleash all the internal spiritual power.

What does this mean?

Under normal circumstances, an Establishment Realm First Stage King’s full power strike can at most unleash ten percent of internal spiritual power, while Ye Zhen can unleash all his internal spiritual power.

In other words, in a desperate situation, the extent of spiritual power Ye Zhen can unleash is about ten times that of martial artists of the same level.

Considering that each breakthrough in the Establishment Realm King’s cultivation doubles their power, the power Ye Zhen can unleash with the Five Elements Yin-Yang Burst is enough to rival a full power strike from a Fourth or even Fifth Stage King of the Establishment Realm.

If Ye Zhen applies this burst to a soul artifact, the power increases even further.

Ye Zhen’s combat power increase is self-evident.

Moreover, the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace has an inconspicuous advantage, which is endurance.

In terms of energy consumption, under the same level of cultivation, the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace is invincible, whether in fleeing or fighting, it can even outlast martial artists with much higher cultivation.

This is the various wonders of the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace.

Yet these are just some known wonders recorded in the martial arts inheritance left by the Earth Core Fire Commander regarding the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace.

According to the Earth Core Fire Commander, he cultivated a Fire Spirit Palace and was unaware of the true wonders of the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace. His understanding of the wonders of the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace was rather general.

By classification, his Fire Spirit Palace followed an extreme attack route, whereas the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace is considered a supportive spirit palace, ranking among the top ten spirit palaces in the supportive category.

It is said to have endless wonderful uses.

But the specific wonderful uses require Ye Zhen to gradually explore them himself in the future.

Most of the above discussion concerns some of the various wonders of the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace as recorded by the Earth Core Fire Commander’s martial arts inheritance.

As the Earth Core Fire Commander said, he practiced the Fire Spirit Palace, and did not know the true powers of the Five Elements Yin Yang Spirit Palace.

In essence, his Fire Spirit Mansion pursued an extremely offensive style, whereas the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace is a supportive type of spirit mansion, ranking among the top ten supportive spirit mansions.

It is said to have endless wonderful uses.

But the specific wonderful uses will need Ye Zhen to slowly explore in the future.

Thus, what has been said mostly pertains to some known wonders of the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spirit Palace in its current state.

A key transformation in breaking through to the second notable change of the Establishment Realm is that the Five Elements Yin-Yang generate each other, and spiritual power becomes endless.

This acceleration in manipulating spiritual power makes both attacks and defenses even more acute.

All martial artists experience significant boosts in speed of manipulating spiritual power upon breaking through to the Establishment Realm, enhancing both their offensive and defensive capabilities.

Throughout Ye Zhen’s breakthrough to the Establishment Realm, which took five days from preparation to achievement, the five stars of the Stars Tower had already departed for five days.

There are still ten days left until they should reach Phoenix Tail Island.

Yet, in the current state, the journey that would have normally taken the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten twenty days to complete, stretched to twenty-four days as Ye Zhen traveled leisurely, practicing while sitting on the lap of the Cloud Winged Tiger King.

However, at this time, Ye Zhen, while traveling, unlike before, did not rush but, sometimes stopped to explore an uninhabited island he occasionally saw on the road, or simply to appreciate the surrounding scenic views.

So it went that what originally took, even for the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, twenty days to cover, ended up taking twenty-four days because Ye Zhen took his time.

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Ye Zhen’s leisurely pace was not a big deal, but for the five Dao realm leaders of Stars Tower who were rushing all the way, it was almost enough to make them cough up blood.

What does it mean to travel four and a half million miles in fifteen days?

It means averaging three hundred thousand miles a day.

Under normal circumstances, among Spirit Tier demon beasts, particularly flying ones, they can cover about eighteen thousand miles in two hours. If they push themselves, they might manage over twenty thousand to thirty thousand miles in two hours, but at that speed, they can’t sustain it for long; one or two hours at most, then the beast is spent.

In such a situation, even riding a flying demon beast wouldn’t allow them to make it within fifteen days.

So, Gai Jun, Huang Tan, Ou Tu, Ning Shiyi, and Yan Wudi resorted to the simplest method—human-powered flight.

The usual flying speed of a Dao realm expert isn’t much different from that of a Spirit Tier flying demon beast.

However, the burst speed of a Dao realm expert can be finely controlled.

Take Gai Jun, for example. When he pushes his limit, he can easily exceed thirty thousand miles an hour.

But if he exceeds thirty thousand miles an hour, Gai Jun might not even last a full hour.

However, if he stabilizes his speed at around twenty-six thousand miles an hour, Gai Jun can easily maintain it for over two hours.

Take Ning Family’s ancestor Ning Shiyi, who specializes in speed; he can stabilize his speed at around twenty-six thousand miles an hour and even maintain it for more than three hours.

Then comes the simplest method.

Flying twenty-six thousand miles in two hours, twelve hours a day, equals about three hundred and twelve thousand miles a day, nearly four and a half million miles in fifteen days.

Maintaining this ultra-fast speed, they barely made it before Ye Zhen’s deadline, with even a little surplus.

How did they manage it?

Gai Jun flies with all his might for two hours, and before his spiritual power is exhausted, releases someone, takes Gai Jun into the Spirit Beast Bag, and flies with all his might again, then switches to the next person.

With different speeds among the five, basically switching once a day, a full day was just enough for them to restore their spiritual power completely without regard for consumption.

But, this was continuous intense work.

For fifteen days straight, they constantly exhausted their spiritual power, then rapidly restored it by consuming large amounts of pills and refining spirit crystals.

After fifteen consecutive days, the spiritual aura of each person became quite mixed, and their endurance time drastically reduced. Out of necessity, they had to take out a few treasured Spirit Tier flying demon beasts and push them desperately to rest, gaining precious recovery time.

Finally, they managed to reach the designated Phoenix Tail Island before noon on April 27th, as stipulated by Ye Zhen.

But the cost was—the death of two mid-grade and one high-grade Spirit Tier flying demon beasts along the way from being overdriven.

By the seventh day, their sustained flight time started to sharply decline, with each person’s endurance time nearly one-third less than before.

They had to stay alive and maintain a certain level of strength, so they had no choice but to overdrive the demon beasts.

The two mid-grade Spirit Tier flying demon beasts aside, the high-grade Spirit Tier Sky-soaring Cloud Crane, which had been with the Gai Family for over five hundred years, was literally pushed to death by them.

There was no choice; if the demon beasts didn’t die, they would have to overdrive themselves to death. If they didn’t, Ye Zhen would kill the precious Young Tower Chief of Stars Tower.

The core inheritance of Stars Tower was almost entirely in Ye Zhen’s hands, leaving them no choice but to risk their lives.

But even so, by the time they reached Phoenix Tail Island, they were nearly falling apart.

Their cheekbones were prominent, eyes bloodshot, auras slightly chaotic, a side effect of long-term consumption of spiritual power recovery pills.

Especially for Gai Jun and Ning Shiyi, both over seven hundred years old, the long journey visibly aged them.

According to Gai Jun, this journey cost him and Ning Shiyi at least fifty years of lifespan.

Fifty years of reduced lifespan was insignificant to Stars Tower before; after all, their inheritance was secure.

But now, with Tower Chief Gai Shanjun and Fourth Tower Chief Ning Chun killed, if they died, there would be no successors for their families’ Tower Chiefs.

That’s why they spared no effort in rescuing the five Young Tower Chiefs because grooming a new Dao realm expert takes nearly three hundred years.

The Huang, Ou, and Yan families might manage if determined, but the Gai and Ning families can’t.

With less than two hundred years of lifespan, they absolutely can’t cultivate a new Dao realm expert.

The loss of fifty years of lifespan now is particularly significant.

This loss, even if they save the five Young Tower Chiefs, would leave them with tight time to nurture them into Dao realm experts.

That’s the real reason for their distress.

“Ye Zhen, we arrived as agreed, come out now!” Upon arrival, Fifth Tower Chief Yan Wudi roared over Phoenix Tail Island.

Phoenix Tail Island was a place for loose cultivators to gather, train, and trade. Yan’s roar immediately startled the island’s martial artists.

An island steward attempted to soar into the sky to reprimand them, but upon rising, he was terrified.

The aura in the sky was that of Dao realm experts, five of them!

At the same time, inside a guest courtyard on Phoenix Tail Island, the Great Saints of Jinghai, Fug Hai, and Sea-Breaking examined the five, whispering.

“Big Brother, I didn’t expect Fourth Brother to push those five guys into such a state?” Sea-Breaking Great Sage’s eyes flashed with murderous intent, “Big Brother, what if we launch a surprise attack while they’re so vulnerable, how many can we eliminate?”

Upon hearing this, Jinghai Great Sage glared at Sea-Breaking Great Sage, “Two at most, but we can forget about living peacefully afterward!”

“Fourth Brother’s plan is safer!”

“Using Fourth Brother’s plan…” Sea-Breaking Great Sage was disappointed.

“Ye Zhen, we’re here, hurry out and face us…”

“Damn Yan, what’s with the shouting? Keep calling, and I’ll present you with an authentic Yan Family leg!” Sea-Breaking Great Sage roared, as the Sky Wing Three Saints soared into the sky.

“You…”

Yan Wudi’s expression changed, while Gai Jun slightly raised a hand to stop him, “So it’s the Sky Wing Three Saints, may I ask where Sea Suppression Great Saint Ye Zhen is? We have arrived as agreed, please show yourself!”

Jinghai Great Sage was about to speak but was stopped by Sea-Breaking Great Sage, who rolled his eyes and said, “It won’t be that easy to see my Fourth Brother!”

Gai Jun, Huang Tan, Ou Tu, Ning Shiyi, and Yan Wudi all changed their expressions, “What do you mean?”

In response, Sea-Breaking Great Sage chuckled and, facing Gai Jun and the others, held out his hand!