Chapter 211: Delivery Disrupted, Eastern Sea Fallen!

    [Secret of the Number Character: Supreme Avatar Holy Technique. By cultivating the Secret of the Number Character, one can create avatars with identical combat power to oneself. There is no limit to the number of avatars. When fully mastered, one can transform into all things...]

    Reading the introduction, Ye Chen was utterly shocked.

    The Secret of the Number Character was not a divination technique as Ye Chen initially thought. It was an avatar holy technique.

    The cultivation world had avatar techniques, but they were considered useless.

    Using them would weaken the original body’s combat power, and the avatars could only reach about seventy percent of the original body’s strength at best.

    In top-tier battles, having an avatar at the cost of weakening the original body was nearly pointless and could lead to defeat.

    Therefore, avatar techniques were not popular in the cultivation world and were considered useless.

    Some techniques used powerful corpses or beast bodies to create secondary bodies, which had a small market.

    The Secret of the Number Character was worlds apart from these avatar techniques.

    It could create avatars with the same combat power as the original body.

    This alone was terrifying.

    If one-on-one fights were tough to win, adding another avatar with equal strength would ensure overwhelming force, instantly deciding the battle.

    Moreover, the Secret of the Number Character allowed for an unlimited number of avatars. What did this mean?

    As long as the cultivator could handle it, they could create hundreds of avatars as powerful as themselves.

    Such a number of avatars could even destroy top-tier factions single-handedly.

    This showed how terrifying the Secret of the Number Character was.

    Of course, having countless avatars required the cultivator to withstand it.

    According to the introduction, a Deity Transformation Realm cultivator could create one avatar, which was already considered genius.

    The energy consumption was also tremendous.

    Maintaining an avatar for thirty seconds at the Deity Transformation Realm was already impressive.

    However, these limitations did not diminish the power of the Secret of the Number Character.

    Even a thirty-second avatar could drastically change the battle.

    Most importantly, Ye Chen was no ordinary Deity Transformation Realm cultivator.

    Once he cultivated the Secret of the Number Character, the number of avatars and their duration would be beyond imagination, incomparable to ordinary Deity Transformation cultivators.

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    “What a pleasant surprise!

    “The power of the Secret of the Number Character is no less than any of the other nine secrets.

    “Once fully mastered, the Secret of the Number Character can create countless avatars with immense power.”

    With such a holy technique, Ye Chen naturally wanted to cultivate it immediately.

    Before starting, he opened the Heavenly Origin Little Spirit Communicator to check for messages from the Foreign Affairs Elder.

    There were only five or six messages, indicating nothing major had happened.

    Ye Chen listened to them.

    They were mostly reports on the financial status of the sacred land, noting a slight drop in revenue but nothing severe.

    He decided to address it after his cultivation.

    The last message mentioned Daoist Huangpu, making Ye Chen narrow his eyes.

    This person was a close friend of Xue Jiumo.

    Although it was said that Daoist Huangpu had retreated and seemed to have given up, who knew what he would do upon emerging?

    Ye Chen was not afraid of him, but if Daoist Huangpu encountered his close ones outside the sacred land, they could be in danger.

    The Saint Master had emerged from seclusion.

    The elders were delighted to hear this.

    However, when they saw Ye Chen sitting on the throne, their faces showed shock.

    They felt that the Saint Master seemed even more powerful than before.

    Since the Saint Master reached the Deity Transformation Realm, simply looking at him brought immense pressure.

    Now, just by sitting there, they felt their spiritual energy flow becoming sluggish, and the pressure was even more intense than before.

    Elder Wang Changchun was stunned. “Saint Master, have you made another breakthrough?”

    Low-level cultivators couldn’t discern the exact level of high-level cultivators, but Ye Chen’s aura was noticeably stronger.

    Ye Chen smiled slightly and nodded. “I felt inspired!”

    The elders were dumbfounded.

    Another inspiration? Could the Saint Master teach them how to be inspired?

    They were envious, but Ye Chen’s next words shocked them even more.

    “I broke through to the mid-Deity Transformation Realm!”

    Mid-Deity Transformation Realm!

    The Saint Master had reached the mid-Deity Transformation Realm?

    How is this possible?

    All the elders were thunderstruck, standing dumbfounded.

    The Saint Master had made a breakthrough, not just improved.

    But the Saint Master had only reached the Deity Transformation Realm seven months ago. Despite previous rapid breakthroughs, this was beyond belief.

    Not even a year?

    The elders felt their worldview crumbling.

    Wasn’t it supposed to get harder to break through in cultivation as one advanced?

    Weren’t Deity Transformation Realm breakthroughs supposed to take four to five hundred years?

    Even for a heavenly genius like the Saint Master, this speed is absurd.

    The hall fell silent.

    The elders couldn’t say a word.

    Seeing their expressions, Ye Chen smiled slightly.

    His breakthrough speed was indeed astonishing, but regardless of external opinions, he would always prioritize increasing his strength.

    “Why has the revenue from various applications decreased recently?” Ye Chen brought up business.

    The Foreign Affairs Elder, still recovering from the shock, quickly responded, “Saint Master, the monster tide in the Eastern Sea has overrun six immortal cities. The entire region is in chaos. This war has lasted three months, affecting countless people. As a result, usage of the Immortal Net Auction House and Immortal Net Cloud Classroom has dropped significantly. The Eastern Sea’s delivery network is completely disrupted. Since the Eastern Sea is a major source of elixirs in Great Yan Province, cultivators there can’t receive deliveries, and those in Great Yan Province can’t purchase elixirs from the Eastern Sea. Orders on Immortal Net Taobao have decreased by thirty percent, making it the most affected application.”

    Hearing the Foreign Affairs Elder’s explanation, Ye Chen narrowed his eyes.

    The Eastern Sea was in chaos?

    He knew about the fishmen tribe’s unrest from the trending news before his seclusion.

    But hadn’t the Jade Pond Saint Master said that their Supreme Elder had already gone to suppress it?

    How did it turn into such a mess?

    “Isn’t Jade Pond handling it?” Ye Chen frowned.

    Elder Wang Changchun explained, “After the fishman tribe attacked the immortal cities, Jade Pond immediately dispatched a mid-Deity Transformation Realm Supreme Elder to suppress them. However, the fishman tribe secretly allied with several demon kings from Ten Thousand Demonic Mountain and ambushed the Jade Pond experts. That mid-Deity Transformation Grand Elder was injured, and a Nascent Soul Elder perished. The other elders were also wounded.”

    Ye Chen’s lips twitched.

    He recalled the Jade Pond Saint Master’s confident tone in the previous communication.

    The situation had indeed turned out far worse than expected.