Gao Wu insists on cultivating immortality.

Chapter 307 Unbearable Memories
1.5 billion merits!
According to reports from various official media outlets, more than 1.2 billion merits were accumulated in just three days.

Gao Wu had held back for two days, waiting for a pleasant surprise, and the result was much, much better than he had expected.

It has to be said, state media is really effective. They may not cover six billion people, but they can certainly cover at least three billion.

Especially in small cities, counties, towns, and villages, people have a lot of trust in the alliance's official media.

Even with the development of the internet, most middle-aged and elderly people still maintain the habit of watching official media.

After three days of intensive promotion, the campaign reached all levels of the alliance, covering at least three billion people.

It can be said that Qin Liuhe's alliance endorsed him, which led to his success.

His personal videos, promoted by commercial companies, have also garnered hundreds of millions in donations.

Such intense propaganda, coupled with the major event of eradicating the evil cult, meant that earning 1.2 billion merits was hardly excessive.

After his initial surprise, Gao Wu quickly calmed down, even feeling that the merit he had accumulated was a bit too little.

If everyone contributes a little, that'll amount to 3 billion. If not, 2 billion will do.

That would make things much easier. There would certainly be enough to accomplish even greater things.

With 1.5 billion merits, we can only use them to upgrade one divine mantra. We need to carefully consider how to use them.

The Xuanwu Divine Qi Mantra primarily increases strength, which may seem insignificant, but its most important function is actually to strengthen the body.

The White Tiger Divine Weapon Spell can also strengthen the body, but it focuses on a different aspect.

This time when we went to kill the Ice Dragon, the White Tiger Divine Weapon Spell was too weak and was almost useless.

On the contrary, the Xuanwu Divine Qi Mantra can greatly strengthen the body and bring out the 35 points of physical advantage provided by the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Mantra.

It's good if we can hold on a little longer!
The agility of the White Tiger Divine Weapon Spell can be countered by the enhancement of the Gale Transformation.

Qin Liuhe probably guessed that he needed to gather humanitarian support to push the official media to give him extensive coverage.

Once you miss this opportunity, you're unlikely to find another like it.

Besides, the public will get tired of being exposed continuously in a short period of time, and they can't always provide him with good karma.

Therefore, this merit must be used in the most appropriate way.

After careful consideration, Gao Wu decided to upgrade the Qilin Divine Heroic Spell.

For a level 10 ice dragon, increasing physical strength isn't very significant. To resist an ice dragon, the Xuanwu Divine Qi Spell would need to reach at least the divine level.

Another very important detail is that he entered the head of the Ice Dragon to activate the Crimson Sky Sword. This mainly required a strong Yin Spirit to withstand it, so there should be no need for physical confrontation.

The Qilin Divine Hero Mantra cannot directly enhance the Yin Spirit, but it can enhance abilities in learning, analysis, understanding, and judgment.

In complex situations where there is a significant difference in strength, improving intelligence is clearly more useful than improving physical strength.

Not to mention that improving one's innate abilities is of great significance for martial arts cultivation.

Gao Wu patiently waited until evening, then spoke to Song Mingyue, and the two resonated with each other once again.

This time, Song Mingyue didn't have to be on duty either, since Hai Wuji was guarding the side, so it couldn't be safer.

If Hai Wuji can't stop the enemy, then there's no point in her guarding the area.

Lying on the bed, Gao Wu summoned the Book of Immeasurable Merit and added ten billion merits to the Qilin Divine Hero Mantra.

Billions of deep yellow octagonal stars emerged, converging to form a gigantic Qilin divine image...

Song Mingyue, who was lying on the sofa next to her, immediately sensed something and vaguely saw a deep yellow Qilin flying in the sky.

Under the illumination of the Qilin's spiritual light, the Tai Chi Twin Snakes moved naturally. Song Mingyue felt as if she had taken jade ointment, her mind becoming exceptionally clear and pure, but the effect was much stronger than that of jade ointment.

In this state, Song Mingyue naturally began to cultivate the Xuanming Heavenly Serpent Technique.

The Xuanming Heavenly Serpent Hai Wuji passed on to her advanced techniques, which, according to Hai Wuji, directly lead to the eighth level.

The teacher explained the Xuanming Heavenly Serpent very thoroughly, but each person's situation was different.

Understand the secrets of the Mysterious Heavenly Serpent, then refine your acupoints according to your own condition, use source power to cleanse your body and spirit, condense your divine form, and condense the true core of source power through the divine form.

The next step is to integrate the source energy core with heaven and earth, condensing it into a source energy field.

A few days ago, Song Mingyue activated twelve acupoints through resonance. After these few days of cultivation, she further integrated the golden elixir in her body, and the twelve acupoints have now been stably condensed.

At this moment, influenced by the Qilin Divine Image, the essence of the Xuanming Heavenly Serpent Technique emerged in her mind, and the methods of condensing and connecting various acupoints also formed a three-dimensional image.

As she focused her mind, the acupoints in the 3D image constantly changed, and the connection methods were also subtly adjusted.

Everyone's situation is different, but the same method can be used for almost all low-level cultivation.

The higher the level, the greater the differences between each martial artist.

With the same Xuanming Heavenly Serpent technique, Song Mingyue needs to make minor adjustments based on her own condition to make it more suitable for her and her own martial arts divine form.

Since the Xuanming Heavenly Serpent transformed into the Taiji Twin Serpents, she has undergone tremendous changes in all aspects.

Taking Blue Jade Bodhi activated a second supernatural ability, and also gave the Tai Chi Twin Snakes a wonderful, cyclical transformation.

The dramatic change in the Martial Arts Divine Appearance necessitates adjustments to the Xuanming Heavenly Serpent cultivation method to accommodate it.

Song Mingyue has very little experience in this area and can only learn it slowly on her own.

During this profound meditative state, Song Mingyue discovered that she could efficiently deduce the Xuanming Heavenly Serpent Secret Technique.

After countless adjustments, Song Mingyue pinpointed the locations of the final twenty-four acupoints, as well as the order of condensation and connection. With this, she had mastered the seventh-level method of the Xuanming Heavenly Serpent. Now, she only needed to condense the seventy-two acupoints before attempting to condense the divine form into a source energy core…

Gao Wu was unaware of Song Mingyue's situation; he was completely absorbed in the wondrous transformations of the Qilin Divine Image.

Among the Five Gates Divine Mantra, the other four gates all transform from the illusory to the real, and the changes ultimately land on the real.

Only the Qilin Divine Hero Mantra improves one's innate qualities, which are invisible and intangible.

Upon reaching the Saintly Realm, the Qilin Divine Image shone with countless ancient and wondrous octagonal runes. After converging and taking shape within the High Martial Spiritual World, these runes further differentiated into countless streams of spiritual light that flowed throughout his entire body.

During this process, Gao Wu was able to sense that the Qilin Divine Image was deeply merging with his body.

Like the other divine spells, they all condensed and took shape within his body.

This time, the Qilin Divine Heroic Curse seemed to have cleansed his mind and body, and he felt that his whole body had become incredibly clear.

His spirit was as clear and transparent as his Yin essence, bright and clear inside and out, without any obstruction...

Hai Wuji, who was reading in a room, also sensed the subtle change in atmosphere. He put down his book, walked to the window, and fell into deep thought as he looked at the lights outside.

"The successive awakening of advanced martial arts abilities is clearly not a coincidence..."

Hai Wuji believed in Gao Wu's character and that awakening his superpowers would not change Gao Wu in any way.

But is it really possible that such enormous benefits come without any cost?
He was deeply worried about this. But what could he do...?

At six o'clock the next day, Gao Wu woke up from his deep sleep.

He glanced to the side first, and Song Mingyue sat on the sofa with her eyes closed, breathing in her source energy.

Judging from Song Mingyue's condition, she must have been cultivating all night without sleeping.

Gao Wu did not disturb Song Mingyue. He first sensed his own condition and found that there was no actual change, but he felt that his body was three times lighter.

It's not that speed or reaction time has increased, but rather that they've become more agile.

It is no exaggeration to say that if he wanted to, he could control every muscle fiber, including organs, bones, and other aspects. He could intervene, adjust, or even control them as long as he wanted.

Fortunately, his body operates very stably and efficiently on its own, without requiring him to actively intervene or adjust it.

His body was also exceptionally healthy; every cell seemed to be full of vitality and boundless energy.

The energy source of the acupoints operates in an orderly, efficient, and stable manner. The fifty-two acupoints throughout the body form a powerful whole, with the three acupoints at the center of the eyebrows, the heart, and the dantian as the core.

Including the Crimson Flame Flying Dragon Armor embedded in his chest, this was the first time Gao Wu had deeply sensed the inside of this flying armor, sensing the connection between the armor and various parts of his body, and sensing the internal operating status of the armor.

He had a feeling that everything was under his control.

Even if there is no improvement in his physical and mental attributes, his in-depth mastery of all aspects of his body and mind will increase his combat power by at least 30%.

Looking at the Nine Dragons Limitless Path from this perspective, one realizes that most of its methods are still very simple, clear, and straightforward.

He'd never understood it before; his brain was practically made of tofu dregs...

The truly complex and difficult paths of the Nine Dragons Limitless Path are the Yuanlong and Xuanlong paths, while the other seven paths are the more advanced Dragon Image Fist and Heavenly Dragon Nine Transformations.

He has a very solid foundation in terms of dragons such as Zhulong, Canglong, Tianlong, Shenlong, Kanglong, and Qianlong.

Only Yinglong's method is quite special, which teaches the method of extermination and annihilation. It is extremely vicious and cruel, and has little in common with other methods, nor does it fit his nature.

Gao Wu enjoys quick and decisive duels, but he lacks the ruthlessness to kill and annihilate everything.

At this moment, he was in perfect condition and suddenly understood that the most crucial aspect of Yinglong Dao was to condense the ferocious poison that could kill and annihilate everything into a form, and then completely destroy the opponent's god through a special source power transformation.

This is a method that simply pursues the ultimate killing power.

His strongest attack method now is Yin God Sword Control, which unleashes the Divine Light of Li Fire and the White Tiger Divine Weapon Incantation.

The intense heat of the Divine Fire Light combined with the sharpness of the Divine Weapon Incantation is enough to destroy all life.

However, this combination is pieced together and is not a true transformation and blessing of martial arts divine intent.

If one can empower Yinglongdao, one can combine the Divine Light of Lihuo and the White Tiger Divine Weapon Incantation through martial arts divine intent, and unleash an extremely poisonous and ferocious sword strike.

For example, even if the intense heat of the Divine Light of Fire fails to kill the opponent, the vicious sword intent gathered by this sword can still extinguish the opponent's consciousness and life force.

Gao Wu reorganized the Nine Dragons Limitless Path, and he immediately understood that the extremely fierce and poisonous killing intent of the Yinglong Path did not come from nowhere, but rather was formed by the Yin-Yang transformation of the Candle Dragon, condensing the most fierce and powerful force among the Heavenly Dragon, Divine Dragon, and Kanglong Paths into killing intent.

Apart from the Yuanlong and Xuanlong paths, the other seven paths are actually one, with cultivation methods, combat methods, killing methods, concealment methods, transformation methods, and nurturing methods...

Yinglongdao is too vicious, requiring the activation of one's own life force to unleash its power, which is also an extreme burst killing move that consumes one's own lifespan.

Gao Wu, now possessing keen intelligence, quickly clarified the relationships between the seven paths of Zhulong, Tianlong, Shenlong, Qianlong, Canglong, Kanglong, and Yinglong, and the twelve acupoints corresponding to the Yinglong path also began to respond.

Given enough time, one can condense the acupoints and cultivate the Yinglong Dao to an extremely high level...

With his current martial arts talent, it wouldn't be difficult for him to condense seventy-two acupoints.

Without needing any other external resources or support, he was confident that he could condense a true core of source power and advance to level seven within a year.

Gao Wu couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this. The difference between a root talent of 25 points and a root talent of 30 points is really huge!

Looking back on his condition two years ago, he felt very conflicted. Fortunately, he had the Book of Immeasurable Merit; otherwise, given his physical attributes, he would have been about the same as Shen Yue…

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