Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1441 - 432: The World’s First Celestial Human Realm

Chapter 432: [The First Celestial Human Realm in the World]

Chen Yan broke through to become a Realm-Breaking Celestial just like that, as silent as if nothing had happened.

No rumbling heavenly thunder descended, no desperate gamble against a Celestial Tribulation.

In fact, the signs of his Realm-Breaking Celestial had already started to appear a week ago.

That state of his where he could survive without eating, just by absorbing Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi—at first it was still somewhat unstable, but as it gradually stabilized, Chen Yan himself vaguely guessed a few things in his heart.

He only thought that it was probably his fleshly body’s strength reaching "Level 100"—Level 100 before breaking through to Realm-Breaking Celestial, the body’s strength reaching the critical point just before the Celestial Human Realm.

According to the cultivation rules of the Domain Realm, before breaking through to Realm-Breaking Celestial, a cultivator must train both aspects to "Level 100".

Body + Primordial Spirit.

The fleshly body is to make this vessel larger and more solid.

And the Primordial Spirit is to reach a certain level of strength, because after reaching the Celestial Human Realm, one must be tested on comprehending the Heavenly Dao Rules. If the Primordial Spirit isn’t strong enough, if the Divine Sense isn’t strong enough, it’s fundamentally impossible to comprehend the Heavenly Dao Rules.

Once both are maxed out, the cultivator will have a sense of it, and then their powerful Primordial Spirit will attempt to connect with the Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao will respond—the response is the Celestial Tribulation.

By crossing the tribulation, one thus transforms from a Mortal Cultivator into an Extraordinary.

If one fails to cross it, it means either death or severe injury, and it will shake the foundation, grievously wounding the root. Generally speaking, if one fails the first Tribulation Crossing, then in more than ninety percent of cases, this lifetime is doomed to never assault the Celestial Human Realm again, because the root has been damaged.

A week ago, when Chen Yan was meditating and training in the cave, he began to notice some changes in his state.

At the very beginning, he found that he could no longer enter Meditation.

In cultivation, the simplest, most basic requirement is to quiet the mind, to have a heart free of stray thoughts.

Yet at that time Chen Yan didn’t know why, but he kept feeling irritable.

Not that kind of inexplicable irritability, but rather as if his mind and spirit had been disturbed.

Clearly he didn’t hear any noise, there was no outside interference, and the cave was perfectly quiet.

Yet Chen Yan just felt that he was being disturbed.

On the first day it was like this, so he forcibly sat to meditate, using a quarter of an hour to suppress the stray thoughts in his heart before he could finally begin training.

But when he trained on the second day, it was the same situation, and Chen Yan felt something was off.

However, after thinking it over carefully, he suddenly recalled something.

When he was a child, he once fell out of a tree and smashed his head. At the time he was at a township school, with no decent medical conditions. Country kids are used to rough play, the teacher didn’t pay much attention, just dabbed some medicine on him and that was that.

But for the rest of that afternoon, he kept feeling a headache, especially with one particular symptom—ear ringing.

Clearly there was no noise at all, yet his ears could hear a sharp ringing.

That sound annoyed him to no end.

After he grew up and later looked back on this incident, Chen Yan basically judged that back then he must have hit his head and triggered some mild concussion-like symptoms.

Later, after school when he went home, his grandma applied some medicine, and after he slept through the night it was fine.

But that bout of ear ringing left a deep impression on him.

That feeling of clearly being in a quiet room, yet being forced to hear those sharp, irritating ringing sounds—the memory of that discomfort was too vivid.

And this time, when he sat to meditate and clear his heart of stray thoughts, Chen Yan immediately recalled that ear-ringing symptom.

He began using his Divine Sense to trace the surrounding environment strand by strand.

Nothing.

Then, a sudden inspiration struck, and he began to inspect his own Divine Sense strand by strand.

And that was when he realized something was wrong.

His Divine Sense had become inexplicably keen!

Divine Sense is like ears, like an antenna.

If the ears are overly sharp, they’ll hear sounds farther away, more subtle sounds.

If the antenna is overly sensitive, it will receive more delicate signals.

Then what about Divine Sense?

Obviously, his Divine Sense was being interfered with; his thoughts were in turmoil because his Divine Sense had "heard" something it shouldn’t have.

So, what had his Divine Sense "heard"?

Starting from the third day, Chen Yan stopped training.

Although he still sat in the cave for a while each day, he didn’t cultivate at all, didn’t absorb Primordial Qi, but instead allowed his Divine Sense to wander.

That kind of non-control, releasing his Divine Sense and letting it spread out freely in all directions.

Whatever it heard, it heard; whatever it encountered, it encountered.

This kind of letting Divine Sense flow and roam everywhere is actually not a behavior worth encouraging for a cultivator, because in an uncontrolled state, Divine Sense will spread everywhere like water.

If left unchecked, a cultivator’s Divine Sense will be thinned out, then infinitely diluted, and in the end may even cause some unknown damage.

So even at the Realm of a High-Level Cultivator, this "Divine Travel" is still something dangerous.

Divine Travel is already something the cultivator controls actively; if it’s uncontrolled, it’s naturally even more dangerous.

Fortunately, Chen Yan’s Primordial Spirit and Divine Sense were tenacious enough.

Hard enough!

Because he had often used the "Sharpening" method before—that near self-abusive method to temper the Primordial Spirit—although Chen Yan’s Primordial Spirit in overall level was inferior to many cultivators of the same Realm in the Domain Realm, its density and strength far surpassed those of many in the same Realm.

With the same volume, a piece of tofu and a stone may be equally large, but naturally the stone is harder and denser.

Thus, when Chen Yan let his Divine Sense flow everywhere, relying on the toughness of his Divine Sense, he actually didn’t fall into qi deviation.

It has to be said, the Sharpening method truly played a huge role.

On the first day of this attempt, Chen Yan gained nothing at all. He felt like an idiot dazing there for an entire day, his Divine Sense wandering about everywhere without detecting any suspicious "signal".