Chapter 3279 - See What It's Like

"I heard Yaoyao is in the Jiguang Sea. What has she been up to lately?" Suishen Yuan asked.

"Cultivating," Tianming said.

"Is she trying to annul her engagement by reaching the top spot of the Fortuna Ranking?"

"Yeah."

"Do you think it's possible? Eminent Ranxing probably only said that to shut her up because he doesn't think it’s even possible."

"Well, I can't say for sure whether it is," Tianming said. Since Suishen Yuan was no longer out for him, Tianming didn't intend to oppose him, either. It wasn't like he could defeat someone a thousand years old anyway. "By the way, I intend to try to comprehend a stele. Can you give me suggestions?"

"You?" Perhaps thinking that Tianming was also someone who had also failed to get with Suishen Yao, Suishen Yuan felt some sympathy for him and decided to help. "What kind of battle art are you looking for?"

"Nothing in particular. It's my first time here, so I want something that's as powerful as possible," Tianming straightforwardly said.

"As powerful as possible?" Suishen Yuan felt that Tianming might have cruised off his streak of miracles to the point of becoming out of touch. Still, he shrugged and said, "The strongest myriadpath steles contain ten types of maniverse-class battle art techniques."

"Maniverse class? There’s maniverse-class battle arts in the myriadpath steles?" Tianming asked, surprised.

"Of course. Those ten great maniverse-class battle art techniques are the true signature moves of Myriadpath Valley. They're the very pinnacle of battle arts in the entire astralscape! Cultivators from all over can only dream of obtaining them. Less than ten people in the whole Myriadpath Valley are able to learn them. Only the valley lord has achieved mastery in one of them!"

Based on those statistics, Tianming could be certain that they were indeed the strongest battle arts. Only ten of the tens of thousands of steles contained them. "Which steles are they?"

"Wow, are you really off to dreamland?" Suishen Yuan didn't know how to react.

"No. I just want to see what it's like since I'm already here," Tianming said, rubbing his left arm in excitement.

"Fine. I'm free today anyway, so I'll bring you to take a look." Suishen Yuan waved for Tianming to follow him. "The Midsky Myriadpath Stele is the first among the ten great steles. There’s many restrictions and only the valley lord is allowed to access it. As for the other nine, members of the Three Exalted Houses are free to try, but the success rate’s near zero. Not only do you need talent for maniverse-class battle art techniques, but you also need sufficient power. Only eminents have successfully obtained them all through history."

"Got it!" So, only eminents were capable of accessing the very first level.

"Of the nine great steles, three belong to each of the Three Exalted Houses. I'll bring you to the sun, moon, and star steles of House Suishen. They’re the most fitting to House Suishen's basic cultivation techniques, and also the ones that we are the best at," Suishen Yuan said, feeling a little pumped; he also dreamed about those three steles.

"Three great Suishen steles? Are they maniverse-class battle arts or techniques?" Tianming asked. His Aeternal Infernal Codex and Genesis Chaos Codex were considered techniques, which were part of symbiotic cultivation. So he had never needed an explicit cultivation technique to progress. For others, techniques were probably more important than battle arts, and the steles had both of them.

Seeing Tianming ask something so basic, Suishen Yuan felt a sense of superiority. He glanced at Tianming and calmly explained, "At the maniverse class, cultivation techniques and battle arts are the same thing. To use a battle art, you first have to cultivate the basic cultivation technique. Only then can you convert the necessary energy to unleash the battle art to its fullest. That is what makes maniverse-class battle art techniques unique, and why the ten great steles are so revered!"

Those ten battle art techniques were superior to everything, and only available to members of the three houses, save for the Midsky Myriadpath Stele, which only the valley lord could access. Three of those nine were House Suishen's. House Qitian and House Yumo need not apply.

"Can I go, too?" Tianming nervously asked.

"I heard that Suishen wards are allowed to partake. However, none have ever succeeded in all of our history," Suishen Yuan said, but his mouth twitched. "I know you're a monster who's broken all precedents in Myriadpath Valley. You're also slated to become an eminent. I do believe you can obtain the legacies of the three great Suishen steles... eventually. It can't hurt for you to give them a look for now."

"Is being an eminent really necessary?" Tianming asked.

"That's what my dad says. There's been no precedent of reverends succeeding either. Attempting to understand those steles takes large amounts of cosmoforce and concentration, after all. Since you aren’t at the Foundation stage yet, you're far from meeting the necessary conditions. Given your talent, I'll take you to the steles that suit your current level of power after that," Suishen Yuan calmly said.

"Thank you," Tianming said with a grateful salute.

"Very well." Suishen Yuan brought him past many magnificent steles. Soon, he pointed ahead with a look of pride. "Do you see them? Those are the three great Suishen steles."

Tianming saw three radiant myriadpath steles at the very edge of his vision. With one look, he could tell that they weren’t like the others. They were also fashioned clearly in a style unique to House Suishen: bright, radiant, and illuminating.

In terms of size, weight, aura, and pattern complexity, they were ten times the quality of normal myriadpath steles. The legacies that were recorded on them were sure to be powerful.

There were nine such steles in Myriadpath Valley, and the three in front of Tianming now stood tall like gigantic mountains that towered over him.

The leftmost stele had a gigantic golden sun in its center, or rather a golden nova source. Like an actual nova source world, it shone with blinding light, illuminating everything around it. Once Tianming was closer, he noticed that the golden sun was actually formed from an infinite number of golden divine celestial patterns, bound together in the shape of a golden bird of flame. The bird's wings wrapped around itself to make a sun-like body.

𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

The stele in the middle had two mirrored crescent moons in the center. They were silver, unlike the golden sun, and emanated a cold, frosty glow that sent chills through Tianming’s bones. The two slender crescents looked like silver fish, and each of them were formed from countless silver divine celestial patterns.