NOVEL WEB Chapter 530: 237. Self-Created Divine Skill 2
The material cost of the remaining ten divine artifacts is also worth tens of millions, bringing his savings to over 1.2 billion Void Coins.
With his current savings, he is confident in bidding for a spot in the Endless Pool auction and can still purchase some additional auxiliary treasures. All he has to do is wait for the next introductory auction to open. After all, there's no rush with this time.
As for the last three divine artifacts, Lin Qing prepared them for himself and does not intend to auction them.
After successfully refining the last batch of three divine artifacts, he then left the Divine Artifact Workshop and returned to the estate granted to him by the Stars Group.
...
"No wonder it's the place closest to the Secret Realm Origin in the Second-level Civilization."
In the cultivation room of the estate, Lin Qing looked up at the stable rift above, feeling the space's various fluctuations with great clarity, and observing the various changes in the space.
Though he is not a native Void Creature and cannot fully integrate into the Secret Realm Origin, being able to observe from this close is already quite beneficial.
The Blood Cauldron King Avatar also sat nearby, meticulously sensing and comprehending.
"If I had the wonder 'Endless Pool,' it would be even faster..."
Lin Qing thought to himself.
With just his own comprehension of the void, even with these superior conditions close to the Secret Realm Origin, and even with the Black Flame Clone, it would take countless millennia to possibly grasp the Void Essence.
But if he comprehends the Void Essence displayed by the wonder, grasping the outline of the Void Essence is like having a professional book laid out before him, not needing to slowly organize and summarize by himself—it's naturally much faster, he could even directly preempt!
"There are still a few months until the next introductory auction starts, by then the Stars Group can bid a spot for me." Lin Qing planned to himself.
He didn't need to attend personally.
In such auctions, with the Stars Group fronting, the cost is naturally lower. When others see the Stars Group competing for the spots, they understandably refrain from contention.
"In these past twenty years, although I have not made much progress myself, the Blood Cauldron King Avatar has made considerable advancement..."
Lin Qing glanced at the Blood Cauldron King Avatar beside him, then with a flip of his hand, a silver-white cube-like divine artifact, a dark cyan large cauldron, and a peculiar artifact that resembled a biological heart flew towards Blood Cauldron King immediately.
Blood Cauldron King's avatar accepted these three divine artifacts and immediately started infusing them with the mysterious energy within his body to establish ownership.
"It truly is tough to create divine skills with the Void Essence self-creatively..."
Lin Qing mused, "Over these years, even with the constant comprehension by the Blood Cauldron King Avatar and Black Flame Clone, they've barely designed three moves, and the difficulty of these divine skills is so high that only through preemption can they be cultivated successfully..."
These purely theoretical skills he can directly help the avatars preempt, as long as he understands it, the avatars do too.
But for preemption, the theory must be plausible first.
Normally, self-creating a divine skill requires first conceptualizing the theory, then slowly proving it, and only when it's theoretically possible can cultivation succeed.
However, some theories, even when theoretically achievable, have a minimal chance of real success.
This needs repeated trials to find theories with greater plausibility, a task of daunting difficulty.
What about Lin Qing?
He doesn't need the subsequent process of trial and integration; as long as he can devise a theory and it's plausible, the Entropy panel will indicate it.
Any skill shown by the Entropy panel indicates a potentially realizable future!
As long as there's a slight possibility, he can directly preempt!
Therefore, all he needs to do is theorize.
The Blood Cauldron King Avatar has only been a Void Creature for over twenty years, yet has already self-created three Single Phase Divine Skills!
"Fortunately, the art of refining divine artifacts is pure empirical technique, a debt best settled..."
During these years, Lin Qing's process of refining divine artifacts was essentially settling a debt. With each perfect refinement, one is cleared.
Once settled, the three divine skills conceived by the Blood Cauldron King Avatar are preempted, all successful as expected.
"However, as per my conception, these three moves should form a Combined Divine Skill; even if not as perfect as a World God's, they should exhibit the potency of a normal Combined Divine Skill..."
Lin Qing felt a little helpless, "Where exactly did the conceptualization of the combination techniques and skills go wrong?"
No help for it.
A divine skill has to incorporate space mysteries, while a Combined Divine Skill must truly merge multiple divine skills together to transform the potency qualitatively.
The difficulty is incredibly high.
Even formulating a feasible theory is challenging enough.
Many Void Creatures spend millions of years failing to create even one divine skill, attesting to its exaggerated complexity.
"However, with just Single Phase Divine Skills, there's hardly any difference whether or not a Combined Divine Skill is created."
A slight smile appeared on Lin Qing's face.
The Blood Cauldron King Avatar originally possessed strength nearly at the level of Star Abyss Eleventh Layer; now, after creating three Single Phase Divine Skills, his power is already at the level of Star Abyss Twelfth Layer!
Plus three life system artifacts in synergy with the divine skills...
"Buzz..."
Blood Cauldron King continuously infused energy, forming unique secret patterns within the three artifacts using the divine skills, and once the artifactual origin was shaped, he started thoroughly sensing the alignment of the three divine artifacts with the three divine skills.
"Attack Divine Skill 'Extreme Origin,' artifact alignment approximately 67%."
"Defense Divine Skill 'Blood Emperor Tripod,' artifact alignment approximately 91%."
"Domain Divine Skill 'Heart Tide,' artifact alignment approximately 79%."
Lin Qing quickly gauged the alignment between the three artifacts and the three divine skills, nodding slightly, "Not bad, only the attack divine skill is slightly lacking but still has 67%."
No matter what, with these three divine artifacts in possession, the Blood Cauldron King Avatar's strength has stepped into the Star Abyss Thirteen Layers level!
Even Void Creatures mastering Three Phase Divine Skills might not necessarily have such prowess.
After all, the Blood Cauldron King Avatar has a Genetic Index twice that of typical Void Creatures and wields three divine skills, naturally making his strength superior.
"Now, even creating a Combined Divine Skill wouldn't elevate the Blood Cauldron King Avatar's real-world strength much more..."
Lin Qing shook his head inwardly and said, "Unless there's a set of divine artifacts, but..."
A single divine artifact can only bolster one divine skill.
Even with a few more divine artifacts, it wouldn't form a holistic unit.
Only an integrated set of divine artifacts could elevate the potency of Combined Divine Skills to a new level.
However, high-level divine artifacts are rare enough, let alone sets.
As far as Lin Qing knows, the inheritance divine artifacts owned by the White Tower Civilization are single pieces.
"In the tombs of the Vacuum Tomb, there must be a set of divine artifacts..."
Lin Qing contemplated privately, then used the Heart of Infinite to check on a suitable inheritor girl again.
He frowned slightly.
"Forty years old and still an Original Life?"
The image in his mind remained a slender, silent girl seated on a wheelchair.
Considering the average talent of a second-level civilization, becoming an Original Life is the baseline; turning into one in their teens is quite normal.
But... now forty years old, even becoming an Ultimate Star Creature is plausible.
And this girl is still an Original Life?
"Residents of Holy Star City shouldn't possess such poor talents."
Lin Qing thought contemplatively, "There must be some special reason..."
He could sense that the girl was several thousand miles away, and from the distance estimated, that place, while not at the central area of Holy Star City, certainly was an internal zone.
Even if not at the topmost level of White Tower Civilization, the background should be significant.
"I'll look into it once the Void Creature transformation is complete. After waiting for decades, there's no rush for a moment."
Lin Qing temporarily set this aside and continued his cultivation peacefully.
The inheritor of the Vacuum Tomb can still be sought later; now, the priority is steady power enhancement.
At the auction a few months later, the Stars Group smoothly procured the spot in the Endless Pool for Lin Qing, spending only 9.8 billion Void Coins successfully.
And Lin Qing also ceased cultivation, preparing to enter the Endless Pool.