Chapter 252: Accumulating Steps and Small Streams

When practicing the Divine Arrow Art, he needed to use a large amount of Spiritual Sense Power to construct an extremely sharp spiritual sense arrow in his Spirit Sense Sea. It was extremely complex, much more complicated than constructing the Divine Sense Spring Silkworm, and the consumption of Spiritual Sense Power was over a hundred times greater.

Jiang Xincheng’s mind flowed with the construction method of the divine arrow. He constructed the divine arrow bit by bit. But as soon as he formed the tail of the arrow, due to a moment of carelessness and using a little too much force, the entire spiritual sense arrow collapsed with a crash, wasting a huge amount of Spiritual Sense Power.

He shook his head and started constructing for the second time. The construction of the spiritual sense arrow was extremely complicated. It could even be said to be no less difficult than building a hundred-story skyscraper. Every tiny part required careful and precise work, without the slightest error.

Only in this way could he construct an extremely sharp spiritual sense arrow, unleashing its strongest power, worthy of being called the Divine Arrow Art.

Hundreds of thousands of fine lines had to be drawn one by one before they could form a single divine arrow. This showed how complex the Divine Arrow Art was. It truly lived up to being an Earth Grade high-tier Spiritual Sense Combat Skill, and its power was not inferior to ordinary Heaven Grade low-tier Spiritual Sense Combat Skills.

If he could cultivate the Divine Arrow Art to its peak perfection stage, its power would definitely match that of most Heaven Grade low-tier Spiritual Sense Combat Skills.

Spiritual Sense Combat Skills were the rarest type of combat skills in the cultivation world. Looking at the Earth cultivation world in his previous life, the number of Spiritual Sense Combat Skills did not exceed three digits. Any Spiritual Sense Combat Skill could be considered a priceless treasure.

In his previous life, even the lowest level Mortal Grade Low Tier Spiritual Sense Combat Skill was sold for a high price of one billion Credit Points. One could imagine how valuable Spiritual Sense Combat Skills were. As for the Earth Grade high-tier Divine Arrow Art that Jiang Xincheng was practicing now, forget one billion Credit Points, even if it were sold for one trillion Credit Points, many people would want to buy it, especially the three major forces on Earth: the Non-Aggression Pact Organization, the Mowei Empire, and the Shenxia Alliance.

Rarity, high value, and scarcity meant great power. The price of Spiritual Sense Combat Skills was so high, and their power definitely lived up to that price.

He constructed it again and again, and failed again and again. In the blink of an eye, Jiang Xincheng had failed ten times. By now, the King Realm peak Spiritual Sense Power in his Spirit Sense Sea had been completely exhausted. This showed how much Spiritual Sense Power practicing the Divine Arrow Art consumed.

Jiang Xincheng immediately opened the sealed space and absorbed the vast amount of Spiritual Sense Power inside. With the help of the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant, in just half an hour, Jiang Xincheng’s Spirit Sense Sea was once again filled with Spiritual Sense Power.

Under normal circumstances, without the aid of the Spiritual Sense Power in the sealed space, it would take Jiang Xincheng at least several days to naturally recover his King Realm late-stage Spiritual Sense Power. Even with the help of the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant, it would take nearly a day. One could imagine how much time the sealed space saved Jiang Xincheng.

Now that his Spirit Sense Sea was full of Spiritual Sense Power again, Jiang Xincheng continued to practice the Divine Arrow Art, and then failed once more.

The twentieth failure… recovering Spiritual Sense Power… practicing the Divine Arrow Art… the thirtieth failure… recovering Spiritual Sense Power… practicing the Divine Arrow Art… the fortieth failure…

He kept failing until the three hundred and seventieth time. On the three hundred and seventy-first attempt, a divine arrow as thick as an arm finally appeared in Jiang Xincheng’s Spirit Sense Sea.

It was completely transparent and colorless, like an enlarged version of an arrow. Countless tiny lines covered its surface, emitting an extremely sharp aura. Jiang Xincheng walked out of the stone crevice, looked at a wild boar several hundred meters away, and smiled slightly. With a fluctuation of his spiritual sense, the arm-thick divine arrow instantly leaped out from his Spirit Sense Sea and landed on the wild boar’s head in the blink of an eye.

The wild boar trembled all over and fell down silently. Its Spirit Sense Sea had been completely destroyed by Jiang Xincheng, and even its soul had dissipated without a trace. It was dead beyond dead.

A smile crossed his face. Jiang Xincheng had finally mastered the Divine Arrow Art. And this single use of the Divine Arrow Art consumed a full one-seventh of Jiang Xincheng’s Spiritual Sense Power.

This meant that with Jiang Xincheng’s King Realm late-stage peak perfection Spiritual Sense Power, he could only shoot seven divine arrows. Once the seven arrows were shot, Jiang Xincheng’s Spiritual Sense Power would be completely depleted, and he would no longer be able to fight enemies. This showed how much Spiritual Sense Power the Divine Arrow Art consumed.

But fortunately, such power was worthy of such consumption.

Having mastered the Divine Arrow Art, Jiang Xincheng felt extremely happy. He ate and drank well to restore his energy and spirit, and then continued to practice the Divine Arrow Art.

Constructing the divine arrow was only the beginner level of mastering the Divine Arrow Art. To reach the minor achievement level, he needed to compress the divine arrow again and again, until it shrank to the thickness of a finger. That would mean Jiang Xincheng had cultivated the Divine Arrow Art to the minor achievement stage.

Then he would continue to compress the divine arrow until it became the size of a needle tip. That would mean Jiang Xincheng had reached the major achievement stage of the Divine Arrow Art. Constructing hundreds of thousands of lines into an arrow and then compressing that arrow to the size of a needle tip showed how difficult it was.

And this was only the major achievement stage of the Divine Arrow Art. After that, he would continue cultivating. After constructing one divine arrow, he would cover its surface with another layer of divine arrow, forming a double-layered divine arrow. These could merge into one or suddenly separate to attack the enemy. When he cultivated to this level, it would mean Jiang Xincheng had reached the major achievement peak of the Divine Arrow Art.

Then he would continue to cover it with more divine arrows, layer upon layer, until nine layers were formed, creating nine divine arrows, each as thick as an arm. Only then would it mean Jiang Xincheng had cultivated the Divine Arrow Art to its peak perfection stage.

From thick to thin, then from thin to thick, and simultaneously from few to many—this process was what it took to fully master the Divine Arrow Art. Once the Divine Arrow Art was cultivated to its peak stage, the spiritual sense could interfere with reality. It could not only destroy the enemy’s Spirit Sense Sea and soul but also destroy the enemy’s physical body, leaving them no chance to block.

What Jiang Xincheng was doing now was going from thick to thin, aiming to cultivate the Divine Arrow Art to the minor achievement stage.

The difficulty of this stage of cultivation was no less than that of the beginner stage of the Divine Arrow Art. Just slightly shrinking the lines directly caused the divine arrow to collapse. The first attempt failed.

Then came the second practice session…

The third practice session…

The fourth practice session…

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Dripping water wears through stone. Without accumulating steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without gathering small streams, one cannot form a river. The process of practicing the Divine Arrow Art was a process of becoming skillful through practice. It required thousands of trials to be effective.

After several days, a divine arrow half the thickness of an arm appeared in Jiang Xincheng’s Spirit Sense Sea. After thousands of failures, Jiang Xincheng had finally compressed the divine arrow by half, and its power had increased by more than double.

This was just the beginning. Seeing the results, Jiang Xincheng practiced even more diligently. Letting time pass, Jiang Xincheng immersed himself in the ocean of cultivation, and his strength advanced by leaps and bounds at a terrifying speed.

The thrill of feeling his own strength increase every moment intoxicated Jiang Xincheng. He loved cultivation; he loved this feeling of power.

For Jiang Xincheng, cultivation was a hobby, an interest, and the foundation for him to master his destiny and obtain everything he desired.

Jiang Xincheng’s strength continued to soar rapidly…