Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” Chapter 735: Extracting Terms

Su Yuan quietly slipped back into the ruins.

The golden Dao mark before him had already recovered to its complete form.

Su Yuan was quite satisfied—this was exactly the result he wanted.

He checked around and was surprised to find that the three old bastards hadn’t left behind any surveillance measures at all.

It turned out the ruins themselves repelled external forces.

At the same time, those three old fools had been convinced that without any of their power intervening, the golden Dao mark couldn’t be broken.

Su Yuan’s body flickered, and he manifested an avatar. After entering the Void Emperor Hall, he passed through it, arrived at the rear of the hall, sat down cross-legged before the black Dao mark, and then sent out another avatar to sit before the golden Dao mark, concealing himself in Nothingness. Meanwhile, his main body walked into the Void Emperor Hall and sat down to comprehend the Fundamental Great Dao.

Time flew by during this secluded cultivation session.

In the blink of an eye, ninety thousand Yuan Assemblies had passed.

His Fame Great Dao had successfully reached the 99th rank, only a single step away from the hundredth rank.

At the same time, he had been meditating on the Chaos Origin Great Dao and the Nothingness Origin Great Dao.

His insights were equally profound—both had reached the 99th rank.

At this moment, Su Yuan’s Dao comprehension had arrived at the pinnacle of this world.

However, he was surprised to discover that the threshold of the hundredth rank was far higher than he had imagined.

The realm ahead seemed within arm’s reach, yet it was as distant as the horizon.

He had reached the 99th rank within the first hundred Yuan Assemblies of his seclusion. The subsequent ninety thousand Yuan Assemblies were all spent trying to break through the bottleneck. But after ninety thousand Yuan Assemblies, he felt himself getting closer and closer to the 100th rank, as if the next moment he could break through—yet there was still a tiny gap.

“Strange. Is the hundredth rank really this difficult?”

Su Yuan was somewhat surprised.

Reaching the 72nd rank was Minor Perfection, a leap in life itself. Chaos Dominators above the 73rd rank were fundamentally different beings from those at the 72nd rank and below.

Similarly, the 81st rank was a second leap, the 90th rank was a third leap, and the 99th rank was a fourth leap.

And the 100th rank was the fifth leap—the realm of the Supreme Nine-Five Emperor.

The difficulty was far greater than Su Yuan had imagined.

Before the Void Emperor Hall, the golden Dao mark had already dissipated by more than half, leaving only the last one percent floating in midair. The black Nothingness Dao mark behind the hall had also dwindled to just one percent. Both indicated that Su Yuan’s progress was still far from true Great Perfection.

Su Yuan sighed. “I was too arrogant. I never thought I’d be trapped by a bottleneck one day.”

“So this is what it feels like to be stuck.”

Su Yuan looked up at the sky, then down at the ground, scratched his chin, and felt restless no matter what he did.

Finally, he glanced at the True Name Jade Disc.

“Let’s try extracting some traits.”

It had been a long time since Su Yuan had last extracted a trait.

The last consumption had been one million mixed-void units. This time, it should be ten billion mixed-void units, right?

He already had seven Dominator-level traits: 【Dominator of Will】, 【Dominator of Artifacts】, 【Dominator of Force】, 【Life Dominator】, 【Dominator of Space】, 【Borrowing Dominator】, and 【Mental Dominator】.

According to the pattern, he might be able to extract two more Dominator-level traits.

Su Yuan immediately attempted the extraction.

Ten billion mixed-void units evaporated.

Before him, three options for Dominator-level traits appeared.

【Dominator of Time】: Defines the essence and forms of time, unifies the time system.

【Dominator of Dimensions】: Divides the concept of dimensions, constructs multiple dimensions, and masters the core of dimensions.

【Seizing Dominator】: Seizes all Dominator-level power.

Su Yuan stared at the three traits, momentarily stunned.

Among the three traits, Dominator of Time and Dominator of Dimensions both seemed decent, but Su Yuan was interested in the third one.

He had thought about this before when he obtained 【Borrowing Dominator】—borrowing was still too polite. If there was a way, it would be better to directly seize it.

He hadn’t expected to encounter 【Seizing Dominator】 now. This trait had arrived a bit too late—if he had encountered it earlier, his cultivation speed could have been even faster.

But it wasn’t too late now.

Su Yuan’s mind moved, and he selected this trait.

In an instant, the 【Seizing Trait】 was added to his collection of Dominator-level traits, becoming part of his origin.

When he mastered this trait, he attempted to seize Qixin’s hundredth-rank realm.

To his pleasant surprise, it actually worked! However, to seize it, Qixin had to willingly offer it—or be forced to do so willingly.

The hundredth-rank realm seized from someone didn’t naturally integrate into his body either; he needed to find a way to merge it himself.

On this point, Su Yuan wasn’t worried, because the 【Dominator of Force】 trait could help him master the power of the realm, allowing him to integrate the hundredth-rank realm into himself.

Those three hundredth-rank existences were just like nourishment prepared for him in advance—so perfectly timed that it was as if they were meant for him to use his Chaos Origin Great Dao, Nothingness Origin Great Dao, and Fame Great Dao to all ascend to the hundredth rank simultaneously.

Su Yuan paused, then continued extracting the ninth Dominator-level trait.

This time, the consumption was one hundred trillion mixed-void units.

That amount was truly massive. Su Yuan checked his savings—the treasures he had seized from the three apex forces had mostly been exchanged over these ninety thousand Yuan Assemblies, granting him enormous wealth. It was more than enough to refresh traits.

Without any hesitation, Su Yuan continued extracting Dominator-level traits.

With a flash of light.

Three pieces of information appeared before Su Yuan.

【Nothingness Dominator】: Masters everything about Nothingness, defines the rules and principles of Nothingness.

【Chaos Dominator】: Masters the ultimate mysteries of Chaos, standardizes the profundity and foundation of Chaos.

【Seven Stars Dominator】: Defines the essence and forms of the Seven Stars, masters the ultimate secrets of the Seven Stars.

Su Yuan was stunned.

Seeing these three traits appear before him, he suddenly realized the true meaning of Dominator-level traits!

Each one represented the hundredth-rank Dao essence of a specific domain!

【Dominator of Will】, 【Dominator of Space】... every Dominator trait was a hundredth-rank power.

If he chose 【Nothingness Dominator】, he would directly gain the hundredth-rank Nothingness Great Dao!

He had actually already grasped the hundredth-rank realm—he just hadn’t fully unearthed it yet.

Su Yuan’s epiphany was accompanied by a peculiar expression when he saw the third Dominator-level trait, 【Seven Stars Dominator】.

What exactly did this trait mean?

Without hesitation, Su Yuan chose 【Seven Stars Dominator】!

As soon as he selected this trait, he mastered the essence of the Seven Stars.

The 【True Name Jade Disc】 actually materialized a blank Fundamental Great Dao named the Seven Stars out of thin air!

Within this Fundamental Great Dao, there were currently no mysteries or profundities—it was up to Su Yuan to fill them in!

The 【True Name Jade Disc】 had given Su Yuan a tremendous surprise—it had directly named an entire Fundamental Great Dao into existence!