Essence Devouring Art

Whew~

The chaotic thoughts dispersed.

With a thought, Wu Dao opened his attribute panel—

[Physique: Hero (Minor Achievement)]

[Extraordinary: Essence Devouring Art (65% Potential Release) +

Overlord Whale Fist (Fifty Years) (Versatile) +]

[Teleportation Points: 40]

As expected.

The next leap for the Essence Devouring Art, from Minor Achievement to Great Success, required a total of three hundred Teleportation Points!

This was perfectly normal.

Starting from 65% Potential Release,

the subsequent stages of Potential Release would grant a creature increasingly terrifying power, with each minor stage bringing a massive boost in strength.

At the same time,

the progression was now divided into domains of 9%.

65%–74%: Heroic Domain.

(65%–68% Minor Achievement, 69%–71% Great Success, 72%–74% Limit!)

The same logic applied to the subsequent realms.

75%–84%: Overlord Domain.

85%–94%: Human Extreme Domain.

The final 95%–100%.

This was the Peak of Human Extremes.

In his past life, only Wu Dao had ever entered this realm, standing at the apex of billions of new and old humans!

"Overlord Whale..."

Wu Dao narrowed his Black Gold eyes, his attention drawn to the Overlord Whale Fist on the panel.

During last night’s fierce battle with the Flesh and Blood Tai Sui,

the Overlord Whale Fist had played a crucial role.

Like a master racer driving a top-tier race car, the two merged into one, pushing every ounce of his power to its limit. It was like giving a tiger wings.

The Grandmaster-level Overlord Whale Fist was already this powerful.

What, then, of Meticulous?

’Just as I thought. The attribute panel isn’t a rigid thing. The body’s various powers are complementary and advance together. After I advanced to the Hero realm, the Overlord Whale Fist changed as well.’

Wu Dao glanced at the info tip next to the plus sign for Overlord Whale Fist and murmured inwardly.

At this moment, because he had advanced to the Hero realm, his Spiritual Power and intelligence had undergone a qualitative transformation.

His so-called Comprehension had naturally soared as well.

The sixty Teleportation Points originally required for Meticulous

had now shrunk to a mere ten points!

In other words, if Wu Dao wanted,

he could step into the Micro Realm of the Overlord Whale Fist at any time.

But,

Wu Dao had no intention of using his Teleportation Points.

Because the Essence Devouring Art itself was a super-learning software!

Subduing the Heart, achieving Unity of Heaven and Man!

It was a perfect state of enlightenment that countless people dreamed of, yet he could attain it with ease by hypnotizing his own brain and severing all distracting thoughts.

"The fact that it still requires Teleportation Points to upgrade proves that the Micro Realm would still be helpful to me. In that case..."

Wu Dao closed the attribute panel and rose to his feet in the darkness. He walked out of the dark part of the cave and into a spacious, brightly lit cavern.

HOOO—

INHALE—

He regulated his breathing, closed his eyes, and focused his mind.

Wu Dao activated the Essence Devouring Art, hypnotized his brain, and tamed his own heart. The humanity in his eyes was quickly replaced by a sacred impassiveness as he entered the perfect cultivation state of Unity of Heaven and Man and began to practice the Overlord Whale Fist.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH—

As he executed the moves of the Overlord Whale Fist,

his Iron Arms stirred the surrounding air currents into a surging torrent. Countless particles of dust, grains of sand, and fallen leaves were swept up, dancing and spiraling in the continuous airflow, unable to fall back to the ground.

Inside his mind,

the various essences of the Overlord Whale Fist became as clear as the lines on his palm.

With all distracting thoughts gone,

Wu Dao entered a state of selfless enlightenment. All the computational power of his Brain Domain was dedicated to comprehending and deducing the Overlord Whale Fist.

Every second, new insights and principles were realized. His mastery of the Overlord Whale Fist began to soar once again from its Grandmaster foundation.

If Wu Dao were paying attention to his attribute panel right now,

he would discover

that as he continuously practiced, comprehended, deduced, and reaped insights,

on the attribute panel,

the Power information after Overlord Whale Fist was constantly changing.

Sixty years! 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Seventy years!

Eighty years!

One hundred years!

One hundred and ten years!

...

The ’Power’ of his Overlord Whale Fist continuously increased as his comprehension deepened. It soon surpassed the ’long life of one hundred years’ that ordinary people yearned for, entering a realm that was ’impossible’ for mortals.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

Within the hundred-meter-wide cavern,

the air currents stirred by Wu Dao grew increasingly violent and turbulent. Sand flew and stones were sent rolling, rumbling and echoing. From a distance, it sounded as terrifying as waves of muffled thunder rolling through the Nine Heavens.

His ears were filled with the roar of thunder.

Yet Wu Dao was completely unaffected, immersed in the ocean of the Overlord Whale Fist’s profound mysteries. He was listening, listening for a certain sound.

The sound of the Overlord Whale Fist, his own Essence, Qi, and Spirit, and the outside world completely merging into one, becoming indistinguishable from each other.

A trinity!

This was the wonder of Meticulous!

RUMBLE—

The ’thunder’ inside the cavern grew louder.

Driven by the Overlord Whale Fist, the swirling air currents caused countless grains of sand to shoot out and strike the cave walls, like a torrential rain of pellets.

The world grew increasingly cacophonous.

Wu Dao’s consciousness hung suspended above a stormy sea. He closed his eyes, listening to the surrounding thunderstorm, sensing every minute change.

At a certain moment,

"BOOM!!"

A clap of Celestial Thunder from the Nine Heavens exploded in his spiritual sea.

On a spiritual level, Wu Dao seemed to tear through an invisible fog, achieving a communication and fusion with the surrounding world that was clearer than ever before. He had finally heard the sound he was waiting for.

It was from a hundred meters away,

the sound of a single grain of sand rolling in the corner of the cavern!

Amidst the raging thunderstorm, it should have been inaudible.

But in Wu Dao’s Spiritual World, it was louder and clearer than any clap of thunder!

Celestial-Human Communication, Listening to Thunder to Know the Subtle!

Meticulous was achieved!

Whew—

Wu Dao’s eyes shot open. He exhaled a long, turbid breath. His Black Gold eyes flashed with lightning, like an ancient leviathan gazing upon the world. Everything was revealed in perfect detail, his divine gaze brilliant and inviolable.

RATTLE—

Only then, with the air currents gone, did the storm of sand, stone, and leaves finally cease, rattling to the floor and settling into silence.

Amidst the dust,

Wu Dao narrowed his eyes, carefully savoring the wonders after achieving Meticulous.

Meticulous.

It was a wondrous state.

In this state,

the small world around him, which had previously felt like something viewed through a high-definition security monitor via his Spiritual Perception, now completely merged with him. He could physically feel every minute change.

It was different from Spiritual Perception.

The difference between the two was:

Spiritual Perception was ’seeing’.

The Meticulous communion with the small world was ’integrating.’ All existence within that small world became a part of his ’body.’

He could truly and tangibly touch and feel the weight of every single speck of dust.

Even in the most raucous and noisy environment, the rolling of a single grain of sand would be as loud and clear as a clap of Celestial Thunder.

This meant

that within the Meticulous domain of Wu Dao’s Celestial-Human Communication, no secret tricks, no deceptions, and no hidden arrows could ever go unnoticed!

The moment an enemy made a move,

no matter how well-hidden, how cunningly insidious, how imperceptible it was,

it would be as loud as thunder in Wu Dao’s perception. He could move before the enemy moved, always be one step ahead, and defeat them before they could even launch their attack!

In actual combat,

this ability was practically a cheat code!

It had to be said,

the Extraordinary Techniques of this world had surprised Wu Dao once again.

Because in the Essence Devouring System,

to reach a state where Spiritual Perception transcended surface appearances and merged with the external world, one needed Spiritual Power at the Heroic Great Success Level.

Now, although achieving Meticulous with the Overlord Whale Fist hadn’t increased the range of Wu Dao’s Spiritual Power, it had allowed him to achieve the state of merging with objects ahead of schedule.

In other words,

through Meticulous as a technique,

Wu Dao had learned how to use his existing Spiritual Power with far greater precision. He had gone from primitive slash-and-burn farming to mechanized operations. His efficiency and combat effectiveness had improved immensely.