'Isn't this from Invincible Conqueror?' He thought, recognizing the martial art from one of the countless cultivation novels he'd consumed in his past life back on Earth, accepting the reward without hesitation.
Instantly, the moment he accepted, the 10,000x buff took effect, the multiplier activating and rippling through the martial art's very foundation like a tidal wave crashing through fragile barriers. The Godly Xumi Art began transforming before his mind's eye, its essence shifting and evolving far beyond its original parameters, transcending its limitations as it became the Primordial Xumi Art.
He took the art into his consciousness and quickly studied it, diving deep into the vast ocean of knowledge that flooded his mind in an overwhelming torrent, and was genuinely amazed as he couldn't even comprehend the first stage despite all his abilities.
He should be able to comprehend everything instantly, immediately grasping any concept with his Endless Potential ability that removed all time constraints from learning, but thanks to this skill transcending itself so monumentally far beyond its original form, it reached a point where time alone wasn't enough to comprehend it anymore, meaning he would need to slowly comprehend it step by step, stage by stage, like a normal cultivator would.
Anyways, this is the Primordial Xumi Art description
[Primordial Xumi Art] This is the most powerful art in the world, ranking beyond the immortals' wildest dreams and fantasies, sitting at the absolute peak of all martial techniques across every realm.
Those who master this combined Martial art and cultivation art shall begin to have the power and ability to create an infinite number of avatars to overwhelm their enemy with sheer, crushing numbers, as each avatar can create more avatars from themselves in an endless chain, each equally powerful as the last one created, without any degradation. One would become immune to all physical and spiritual damage, transcending mortal and immortal limitations entirely….
'That physical and spiritual damage immunity is simply because one can't be killed by destroying their body and soul alone… that's a bit misleading by saying they would be immune.' Yuan Long thought with a slight frown, seeing through the description's wording before looking at the hidden quest notifications he had completed, the system windows popping up one after another in rapid succession.
[You completed a hidden quest: Gain a Primordial Grade martial arts.
Reward: 1 Primordial Grade Item of your choosing.]
[Gain 1 Primordial Grade Cultivation Art
Reward: 1 Primordial Grade Martial Art of your choosing.]
Yuan Long smirked lightly at this unexpected bonus, pleased with the additional rewards. He summoned the list of primordial grade items to pick from, the catalog appearing as a long scroll of options.
He scrolled through the extensive list of treasures, and in the end, picked an item called the Martial God Space… yeah, from that one novel he vaguely remembered reading years ago, and yes, his 10,000x buff acted upon it the moment he selected it, immediately transforming the treasure.
The original Martial God Space from the novel could do many impressive things like help a person comprehend skills quickly, cutting down training time significantly, protect the user against soul attacks from enemies targeting their consciousness, restore incomplete skills and complete them to their original perfect forms, absorb all forms of energy from the surroundings to fuel itself, and speed up cultivation significantly beyond normal rates. This was, of course, an incredibly useful treasure by any cultivator's standard, something empires would go to war over.
But the newly enhanced 10,000x buff version, evolved far beyond its source material, was still called the Martial God Space despite its dramatic transformation and elevation; it could do everything the original could do, but to far greater effect, achieving in moments what took the original hours, and requiring dramatically less energy to activate its various functions.
It even gained several entirely new abilities that the original lacked, including the power to constantly and passively absorb energy from the void itself, and keep Yuan Long in a perpetual state of enlightenment at all times without any effort required on his part, while allowing him to bring his physical body inside the space itself, which could be incredibly useful if he needs to escape from dangerous situations or hide from overwhelming enemies.
For the Martial Art he picked from the second reward, the one offering a primordial grade technique, he chose Heaven's Path Fist Art without much deliberation or hesitation. What was this art exactly? Simple, it was the perfect fist art in every conceivable way, meaning this fist art was a perfect and flawless fist art without any weaknesses, gaps, or vulnerabilities in its technique or application.
Of course, there were more hidden quests he completed, the system notifications continuing to appear before him one after another in a steady stream.
Upon getting the Martial God Space, he completed yet another hidden quest to obtain such a powerful and rare item, so he was given a reward that allowed him to pick a cultivation art from another extensive list that materialized before his eyes.
The Primordial Xumi Art was mainly a Qi cultivation art focused on energy manipulation and control, so he needed a soul and body cultivation art to round out his foundation and create a complete cultivation system.
His eyes fell upon the Dragon Transformation Skill as he scrolled through the options, scanning its description carefully and reading through the benefits, a cultivation art that could allow one to have countless bloodlines absorbed into their body without rejection and form dragon marks, which would increase one's strength dramatically with each mark formed, along with many other beneficial effects.
Then there was the soul cultivation art section, a category he was particularly interested in, where he was genuinely shocked to see the Thought Scripture Cultivation Art listed among the available options.
He never knew that the Thought Scripture from the Emperor's Domination novel had an actual cultivation art associated with it that could be learned; shouldn't only those with naturally powerful Dao Hearts manifest this ability through innate talent alone, or something like that he didn't really recall much about it.
This cultivation art allowed for even the weak of heart to slowly build a powerful enough Dao Heart over time and through dedicated practice that would allow them to do crazy things with just their thoughts alone.
Such a basic thing it would allow one to do is use one thought to kill or even control others, bending their wills to yours with minimal effort, and at later stages of mastery allow one mind to create objects or beings from absolute nothing… picture Alien X from that old cartoon, capable of rewriting reality with a thought.
The Thought Scripture could even adapt itself dynamically, shifting and changing to suit a person's needs and personality perfectly, making this the strongest soul path cultivation art available in the entire catalog, as the only requirement for using it effectively was simply a person's Dao Heart. The stronger the Dao Heart, the more one could do with the technique and the greater the feats that became possible.
He turned his attention to see if the other scriptures from that series were in the system as well, scrolling through the massive catalog with growing curiosity and excitement, and he was shocked to find all of them present in the database. Physique Scripture, Space Scripture, Time Scripture, Treasures Scripture, and so on, all of them were here in the system's extensive database, every single one from the series, making him wonder if he could eventually get all of them through various quests and rewards since all of the scriptures were in forms of cultivation arts that could be learned and mastered.
But he ignored that tantalizing possibility for now, filing it away for later consideration, and picked the Thought Scripture without further delay, selecting it from the list.
The art instantly evolved the moment he selected it, the 10,000x multiplier working its transformative magic once again, becoming the Eternal Dao Heart Cultivation Art. A cultivation art that makes a Dao Heart so overwhelmingly powerful and unshakeable that a simple thought is enough to alter the world around them, reshaping reality through sheer willpower alone.
By the way, for those unfamiliar with the concept, a Dao Heart was a person's willpower given tangible form in the cultivation world. The Dao Heart also reflects a person's soul strength directly, the two being intrinsically linked.
Since the stronger the willpower, the stronger the soul naturally becomes as a result. Think of willpower as the heart of the soul, meaning he needed a body cultivation art for the soul specifically, something to temper and strengthen his spiritual body, to make his soul immune to all harm and attacks targeting his consciousness directly.
'Maybe I should have gone for a body cultivation art first, seeing as I can't cultivate without a martial soul…' He sighed heavily as he realized he had forgotten that small but crucial fact in his excitement. Shaking his head at his own oversight and poor planning, he opened the starter pack that had been sitting in his inventory since the system first activated.
[Congratulations, you have gained the Martial Spirit awakening pill, 1x Cultivation Art, and the Fusion Tab].
'Cool.' He thought simply, his mind calm despite the magnitude of what he'd just received, summoning the Martial Spirit awakening pill from his inventory with barely a thought, the small golden pill materializing in his palm.
Wasting no time at all, not even pausing to examine it, he ate it without hesitation, swallowing the pill whole and feeling it dissolve instantly… and instantly, he felt a surge of overwhelming energy explode within his body, coursing through every vein and meridian.
He looked behind him instinctively, drawn by an inexplicable pull, where he saw a transparent egg slowly form in the air behind his back, materializing from absolute nothing.
Yuan Long was stunned to see a galaxy contained within the translucent shell of the egg, countless stars and colorful nebulas swirling in an endless, mesmerizing dance within the confined space… he was stunned because this didn't embody endless potential in the way he expected it to. Shouldn't it be like an omniverse worth of stars?
Suddenly, notification after notification popped up in front of him in rapid succession, appearing one after another in an endless stream, filling his entire vision with system windows. At first, it was to congratulate him for awakening a 1-star or higher martial spirit, a basic achievement that anyone could reach.
The second notification was to congratulate him for awakening a 2-star or higher martial spirit, slightly better, then three stars appeared, but the list went on and on without stopping, climbing higher and higher in an accelerating pattern until it reached the 12-star mark, where it began skipping stars entirely in large jumps, jumping from 12 to 13, then 15, then 17, then thousands, then millions, until it finally stopped after what felt like an eternity of notifications flooding his vision.
[Congratulations on finishing a hidden quest: Awakening a Martial spirit with 500 billion stars or more. Reward: 1x Martial arts. 1x Cultivation Art]
Well… it wasn't hard to guess what he went on to do next with all these accumulated rewards at his disposal, the path forward obvious. First, he went on to get all of the most overpowered cultivation arts he could find in the system's massive database, scrolling through category after category and selecting one legendary technique after another without restraint.
From the Dragon Transformation Skill that allowed the absorption of countless bloodlines without limit plus turning one into a dragon and those lovely dragon marks, all of the remaining Scriptures from Emperor's Domination that he hadn't gotten yet, The Indestructible Heaven Scroll that granted an immortal body impervious to damage, All of the Library of Heaven Path Arts that perfected every single aspect of cultivation through divine insight, Blood Cultivation from the God of Slaughter that turned slaughter and killing into pure power, Crimsonbright Diagram Of The Nine Heaven, and so many more legendary techniques from countless worlds and universes.
Taking his Warp Sovereign Cultivation Art as the head, the foundation of everything, he entered the fusion tab that was just unlocked by the system as a reward from the starter pack, and went on to have all of the skills he had just gained and collected, each one already upgraded and transformed by his 10,000x multiplier into something far beyond their original forms.
He had them fuse with his cultivation art in one massive combination, merging dozens of legendary techniques into a single unified whole, and as he did this, watching the fusion process begin, he recalled the wish he had made back in that office with the red-haired god.
[A/N: I'm curious which cultivation art you guys think is the most overpowered. To me, it's between the Dragon Transformation Skill from Dragon Mark War God and Blood Cultivation from God of Slaughter, but I know there are others I'm missing.
And before I forget, the MC system sees spells, martial arts, and soul arts as all martial arts. So, although it would reward MC with the chance to get a martial art, he can get spells and soul arts if he wants.]