Enlightenment: Attaining the Dao at Age 8

For Li Chang’an, this was a massive and unexpected windfall!

The Array Chapter, unlike the main body of the Martial Scripture, wouldn’t cause Li Chang’an’s physical body to evolve at a crazy rate. Nor was it like the Divine Soul Chapter, which granted him a variety of strange and unpredictable new tricks.

But the Array Chapter was, nonetheless, a means to directly enhance Li Chang’an’s combat prowess!

Take, for example, the Five Elements Immortal Array that Li Chang’an had just learned. That alone was enough to grant him a massive boost in power!

As an Array that even High-tier Cultivators held in high regard, the boost provided by the Five Elements Immortal Array was terrifying.

As long as there was enough Energy to keep the Array running, the Five Elements Immortal Array could not only directly increase the Attack Power of his Techniques but also add extra Attribute damage to them!

For example, take the Soul Fireball Skill—a Technique Li Chang’an had developed himself by combining Soul Fire and the Fireball Skill. If he were to superimpose the Fire Attribute Array Pattern from the Five Elements Immortal Array, the Technique’s searing power would increase by at least eighty percent!

When factoring in the additional boost to the Technique’s attack power, its overall destructive force would more than double!

Of course, that wasn’t even the best part. The true superiority of the Five Elements Immortal Array lay in the fact that it wasn’t a single, monolithic Array. Instead, it was formed by combining five distinct Arrays.

In other words, the Five Elements Immortal Array could be broken down into five smaller Arrays!

When combined, these five Arrays could unleash a terrifying power capable of sundering the heavens and splitting the earth.

However, even in a pinch when there wasn’t enough time to inscribe the complete Array, he could still use one of the smaller, individual Arrays to get a corresponding boost. The power and Attribute enhancements would be slightly weaker due to the Array’s incompleteness, but the boost to his combat power was still nothing to scoff at!

For instance, since Li Chang’an currently lacked other powerful Attribute-based attacks, simply inscribing the Fire Attribute Array Pattern on its own would be more than enough for his everyday needs.

Of course, none of this was the most crucial part.

The most crucial part was that the Five Elements Immortal Array was only the beginning of the Martial Scripture: Array Chapter. With this as a template, Li Chang’an’s mastery of the dao of Arrays would only continue to grow.

After completely deciphering the Array that had been inscribed in the sky, Li Chang’an took a deep breath, an involuntary smile spreading across his face.

’This world is just too good to me,’ he thought.

First, he’d fleeced the Child of Destiny and the Heaven and Earth Consciousness to get the Soul Technique. Now, he’d made Cultivators drop loot, netting him the Five Elements Immortal Array.

These two acquisitions had directly added two brand-new Chapters to his Martial Scripture. The sheer scale of his gains was hard to fathom.

By Li Chang’an’s conservative estimate, the two new Chapters of the Martial Scripture had tripled his combat power.

And his arsenal of methods for dealing with enemies had grown as well.

Before, he had relied mostly on his blade and his fists. Now, he’d not only learned how to ambush his enemies with Soul Fire but had also figured out how to inscribe Arrays…

His progress was swift.

“Well-rounded in every way. At this rate, I’ll really become a jack-of-all-trades, master of all!” Li Chang’an mused as he came back to his senses.

With the deaths of the twelve Cultivators in the sky, the battlefield fell completely silent.

Even having witnessed it all with their own eyes, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers below could hardly believe that Li Chang’an had actually won.

After a long silence, they finally snapped out of their daze.

A thunderous cheer erupted from the crowd, soaring into the heavens.

“We won! Hahaha, we actually won!”

“So these are the so-called ’Immortals’? They call us insignificant, wretched ants, yet they use our flesh and blood as ingredients for their alchemy. And in the end, before His Majesty, they turned out to be so fragile!”

“Those son-of-a-bitch Cultivators! Fuck them all to hell!”

Before, when the Cultivators sat enthroned in the heavens, using their Array to manipulate a rain of fire and destroy everything, countless Martial Artists had trembled in fear, feeling they could be crushed as easily as ants at any moment.

It was the innate fear of mortals facing the ’heavens.’

The enemy had been so unreasonably powerful that no matter how furious or resentful the people on the ground were, they couldn’t even imagine being able to kill them.

Their feelings were little more than helpless rage and an emotional outburst.

But now, having seen Li Chang’an slaughter those twelve Cultivators one by one like dogs before hundreds of thousands of people, the Martial Artists finally understood. The so-called ’Immortals’ were still human. When their bodies were hacked apart and their souls burned, they too felt fear. They too could die.

How could they not be ecstatic?

A boss seems invincible before its health bar appears.

But once that health bar is visible, even if it looks a little thick, the meaning is completely different for everyone!

As the Heaven and Earth Array that Elder Hun had meticulously prepared beneath his feet slowly dissipated, Li Chang’an felt his connection to the Martial Artists below sever. The power that had swelled to its absolute limit began to fade away.

It left Li Chang’an feeling a little empty.

After all, once you’ve experienced the ultimate thrill of tearing Cultivators apart with your bare hands, it was hard to get used to being your normal self again.

Lu Shang walked up to Li Chang’an’s side, his face a mask of complex emotions. After a long silence, he finally spoke. “I can’t believe you actually pulled it off, and so cleanly at that… Elder Hun was right. You truly are stronger than me, and more suited to take part in this plan.”