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275: The Ten Directions Hegemony Record is at its peak! Return to the Black SeaQin Jiang looked at the state of the Taiyin Immortal Lord and already knew the result.

He cast his gaze toward the Northern Border of the Eastern Region, toward the original location of the Nine Luminaries Immortal King’s ruins; although not a single trace remained, he could still sense some lingering aura.

That aura belonged to the Nematode Creatures from the Black Tortoise River Bottom; because he had devoured the power of the Azure Emperor Longevity Record, he was able to sense it.

He finally confirmed that this Nine Luminaries Immortal King ruin was not an ancient projection, but had truly descended from the past into the future.

It was only when Lord Yin Ming was revived earlier that it was taken away by the power of time.

But... who exactly had such great capability?

According to chronological calculations, the true time of this Nine Luminaries Immortal King ruin should belong to the ancient era.

That is to say, during the years before the River of Time was obscured, someone used great magic to hurl this ruin toward the future.

And regarding the temporal node, it wasn’t a random throw; rather, they had calculated something concrete and selected a specific point in time.

So, what was the purpose of doing this?

With a soft sigh—the River of Time was obscured, and even with his current Immortal King level power, he couldn’t penetrate it; many secrets remained unknowable.

He looked at the crowd. ”Everyone, the situation is urgent. In the coming months, I will need your cooperation with a few matters.”

At this point, there was no longer any need to be secretive about collecting Potential Points; he could simply inform the world it was for a special Cultivation Technique.

In any case, his combat power was already comparable to an Immortal King. If anyone dared to hinder him, he would simply strike directly at their sect gates.

A few days later, the Chaos Sea of the Eastern Region.

Qin Jiang stood still upon the sea’s surface. The Gates of Hell were about to open, at which point the Human Emperor’s Evil Incarnation would emerge; he needed to retrieve the human emperor sword quickly.

Stepping across the water, he passed by the mutated remains of True God Tengguang. By now, True God Tengguang had become a reef, with seaweed and other plants parasitizing his body.

Deepening his journey into the Chaos Sea, the surrounding clouds gradually thickened, with faint thunder wandering within them.

Returning here once more, Qin Jiang could clearly sense the chaotic space-time; a single step might lead a thousand miles away, and even time was displaced.

Reaching a certain spot, he stopped and focused his gaze on the potential panel.

【Current Martial arts】

Immortal - Ten Directions Overlord Record (Extreme Realm) (5,000/960,000) [99%]

Immortal - Azure Emperor Longevity Record (initial realm) (7,000/80,000) [95%]

Great Wind Book (Uninitiated) (4,000/500,000) [93%]

【Branches】

Array Dao: Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign (25,000/500,000)

Artifact Dao: Grandmaster of Crafting (4,000/100,000)

【Potential Points: 1,158,182.8】

The experience points for the Ten Directions Overlord Record had grown significantly, and even the Azure Emperor Longevity Record was close to breaking through to the middle stage.

However, the most significant increase was in the Array Dao. This was unavoidable; if his Array Dao wasn’t strong enough, he might already be a corpse by now.

As expected, life-and-death crises and battles were the fastest ways to improve.

Without pushing oneself, one can never know their upper limit.

Well... the fastest way aside from adding points.

Judging by the experience points, he had now traversed nearly half the path of an Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign.

At this stage, he could already be said to be at the forefront of all past Array Dao Heavenly Sovereigns.

Compared to past Array Dao Heavenly Sovereigns who could not see the road ahead and could only grope forward blindly.

With the potential panel, he could clearly know exactly which step he had taken, and his Realm would never regress.

As this advantage continued to accumulate, it would create a despair-inducing chasm.

Looking at the Potential Points—in just a few days, they had surpassed the million-point mark.

It had to be said that with the mobilization of the entire continent, the speed of scavenging Potential Points was extremely fast.

And this was only a small portion; large-scale treasures and places like altars were still being transported and tallied.

By the time he returned from Shenzhou, it should be mostly complete.

For now, it was enough to upgrade the ’Great Wind Book’ or ’Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign’.

But he didn’t plan to upgrade them yet.

The ’Great Wind Book’ was a crucial link, related to the grand scheme spanning ages that was plotting against him.

He had to wait until he saved enough Potential Points to simultaneously upgrade both the ’Great Wind Book’ and ’Immortal - Ten Directions Overlord Record’ to the Immortal King Realm before proceeding.

And there was no rush for the Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign, even though an Array Dao existence comparable to the Immortal King Realm had never been recorded in history. But essentially, the Array Dao was a force multiplier, while the Foundation remained the Martial Dao—the Ten Directions Overlord Record.

If the Ten Directions Overlord Record wasn’t strong enough, even if he raised the Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign to the Immortal King level, the overall improvement wouldn’t be very significant.

An overly powerful Array Dao might even cause his power to become unbalanced, suppressing his Martial Dao and causing his strength to decrease instead of increase.

Thinking no more, he glanced at the deep sea beneath his feet, chose an area with severe space-time chaos, and sank directly into it.

As he got further from the surface, the surroundings gradually became profound until they turned completely black, as if he were falling infinitely.

Platinum radiance radiated out, illuminating a patch of the sea, while hundreds of array patterns layered over each other to cover this section of the ocean.

Waiting no longer, he poured Potential Points into the Ten Directions Overlord Record.

【Immortal - Ten Directions Overlord Record (Extreme Realm) (5,000/960,000) [99%], Potential Points +910,000】

【Immortal - Ten Directions Overlord Record (Perfection)】

【Detected that ’Immortal - Ten Directions Overlord Record’ has reached the limit of Heaven-grade Martial Arts. Consume 600,000 Potential Points to perform Martial Arts Leap Deduction?】

【Potential Points: 248,182.8】

Buzz~~~

A subtle humming sound transmitted through the seawater; everywhere it passed, even chaotic space-time could not obstruct it, being smoothed out directly by the hum.

Qin Jiang slowly opened his eyes. A flash of platinum gradually receded, revealing eyes with clear black and white.

Compared to the previous grand Breakthroughs, the Breakthrough to Extreme Realm Perfection felt silent and stealthy.

All sense of power had returned to the ordinary.

A faint sense of rejection came from all directions; he lightly raised his hand and casually tore that rejection force apart.

Slightly clenching his fist, he whispered to himself, ”Am I too strong?”

This sense of rejection from heaven and earth should only appear after becoming an Immortal King, yet he could already feel it now.

This meant that from this moment on, the time he could remain in this world had entered a countdown.

Well, a countdown lasting a million years.

Smiling and shaking his head, in the next instant, his figure appeared on the sea surface.

Searching for the traces from when he first arrived, in just a flash, he discovered more than one Sea Abyss passage.

Finding the passage he had taken before, a platinum light flashed briefly, and his figure vanished.

In the Black Sea, upon the pitch-black surface, a white-robed figure walked forward with great ease.

His Immortal Sense extended, plunging deep beneath the sea surface.

The last time he passed through here, his Divine Sense was blocked; now, that power blocking Divine Sense could no longer stop his Immortal Sense.

Following the familiar route, before long, a massive corpse appeared on the seabed below.

Its body exceeded ten thousand zhang, exactly the same corpse he had seen last time.

At the time, he had guessed an Immortal King had fallen here, but looking at it now, this was not an Immortal King, but an Innate Sacred Being.

Furthermore, it hadn’t fallen here; rather, after dying, it had been dumped in this place.

Not only that, he also sensed a death vitality from this corpse that shared the same source as the Nematode Creatures and the Skull Insects.

Sinking to the seabed, he stood at the center of the corpse’s brow. Various strange snakes and fish swam around, seemingly somewhat afraid of him.

Squatting down to investigate for a moment, he withdrew his hand, his eyes carrying a hint of regret.

The time of death was too remote; there was no useful information left.

Glancing at the surroundings, ahead appeared to be a towering underwater mountain range.

Moving along the seabed, all the strange fish he passed avoided him as if they had encountered a natural predator.

Before long, he arrived atop the mountain range and looked forward.

Gulp.

Even with Qin Jiang’s current composure, he couldn’t help but swallow hard, shock surfacing in his eyes.

He saw beneath the mountain range ahead, hundreds of massive corpses lay across the ground, each over a thousand zhang long, with no fewer than twenty exceeding ten thousand zhang!