Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” Chapter 738: The Elder's Mad Move

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Previously on Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”...
The nine-tailed demon dragon gained the Seven Stars–Power–Bloodline Great Dao and a way to convert Nothingness Power into Seven Stars Power. He then ambushed and killed the ancient giant ape, Amoro, devouring his power to break through to the Seventy-third-order Seven Stars Dominator realm, vowing to use others as fodder for his cultivation.

The Seven Stars Fundamental Great Dao wasn't something that could be easily comprehended. Aside from a few Dominators who were extremely compatible with the Seven Stars Great Dao, most Dominators didn't even know of the Seven Stars Great Dao's existence.

Since they didn't know, there was no question of comprehending it.

Beings like the nine-tailed demon dragon—dozens of them had appeared within the Heaven-Destroying Alliance. They had all, through sheer luck and coincidence, successfully comprehended the Seven Stars Great Dao as Nothingness Dominators.

But these individuals very tacitly chose not to inform anyone else of this situation. Instead, they quietly began hunting and killing other Nothingness Dominators.

Within a city of the Heaven-Destroying Alliance.

The former ruler of Hollow Heart Temple, Bai Dicang, a 96th-rank Nothingness Dominator, had now become an Elder of the Heaven-Destroying Alliance. With the Prison Master's help, his cultivation level had been elevated to the 97th rank.

But now, he was no longer the supreme power-holder. Instead, he had become a subordinate of the Prison Master.

He was stationed at Prison Heaven City, overseeing wave after wave of battles.

In the last hundred billion years, many things had happened.

He had gradually grown accustomed to this identity.

Under Wu Tianxiang's guidance, Bai Dicang had even begun to touch the edge of the 98th rank, and his strength had advanced by leaps and bounds.

But Bai Dicang's heart was filled with panic. As one of the original four top-tier forces, he had already guessed many truths.

He had even deduced that, in the future, he himself would become a target for slaughter.

Yet he was powerless to change this outcome.

He was a Nothingness Dominator, completely suppressed by the even more powerful Nothingness Dominator, the Prison Master. Even if he broke through to the 99th rank, he would still be unable to resist.

He was also lost, with no idea where his path forward lay.

While handling his affairs, he happened to notice something unusual.

"Hmm, there have been many assassination incidents recently. A large number of Nothingness Dominators have had their family members killed. The cumulative count has already exceeded seven hundred! This is highly abnormal."

Bai Dicang found this matter somewhat peculiar. Feeling agitated in his heart, he split off an avatar to go investigate.

Soon, he descended upon a military camp, sweeping his will across the entire encampment.

His will happened to discover an assassination in progress.

The nine-tailed demon dragon, who had now advanced to the dual 79th rank, had set his sights on another Nothingness Dominator who had also reached the 79th rank.

This Nothingness Dominator was precisely his close friend. He had suffered considerable injury on the battlefield and had withdrawn to the camp to recuperate.

The nine-tailed demon dragon, acting as a good friend, came to pay a visit.

That injured Nothingness Dominator had no guard up at all. He simply let the nine-tailed demon dragon in, even drinking the healing elixir his friend had brought.

However, that elixir contained a toxin that weakened combat power. Already injured and with diminished strength, this only made things worse.

The nine-tailed demon dragon succeeded easily. He killed his target, plundered his origin, and then elevated his own Seven Stars Dominator cultivation level.

He successfully broke through, rising from the 79th rank to the 80th rank. His Seven Stars cultivation level, coming from behind, had now surpassed his Nothingness Dominator level!

Just as the nine-tailed demon dragon was exhilarated.

A majestic figure materialized out of thin air before him.

When the nine-tailed demon dragon saw who had arrived, his face turned deathly pale.

"B-Bai Dicang, Elder!" the nine-tailed demon dragon stammered, pale-faced. "I, I have a major discovery to report to you!"

"No need. You've already told me!"

Bai Dicang reached out with his large hand, and the so-called nine-tailed demon dragon was grabbed effortlessly, like a tiny loach, clutched firmly in Bai Dicang's palm.

Bai Dicang quickly scanned the nine-tailed demon dragon's memories, then ended his life.

In his hand, all that remained was a clump of pure Seven Stars origin and a clump of pure Nothingness origin.

"So this is a brand-new fundamental Great Dao. Aside from the Chaos Great Dao and the Nothingness Great Dao, there exists a third type?"

Bai Dicang was also shocked.

He, the dignified former ruler of Hollow Heart Temple, didn't even know about the Seven Stars Fundamental Great Dao's existence. Yet a mere nine-tailed demon dragon had cultivated it?

"The Seven Stars Alliance Leader... Could he have brought this?"

He had always been very curious about that so-called Seven Stars Alliance Leader. He still didn't know whether a Seven Stars Dominator broke through the hundredth rank by relying on the Chaos Great Dao or the Nothingness Great Dao.

But from the looks of it now, it was very likely the Seven Stars Dominator.

Bai Dicang put away the Seven Stars origin.

Then, his incarnations traveled to various locations, sweeping through every place where unexplained assassinations had occurred. He killed all the Nothingness Dominators who had comprehended the Seven Stars Power.

Afterward, he brought several dozen clumps of Seven Stars origin back to his cultivation grounds to study them.

With Bai Dicang's experience, combined with the memories and insights of dozens of Seven Stars Dominators,

Bai Dicang successfully comprehended the Seven Stars Great Dao. He even synthesized all the key points and comprehended seven categories of Dao.

He pondered for a moment and chose one of them—the Seven Stars Force Dao—as his main cultivation path.

Then, he began rapidly advancing his Seven Stars cultivation level.

He condensed a Seven Stars body. His cultivation quickly broke through the first tier, reaching the 73rd rank. And then, after only another hundred years had passed,

he successfully elevated his Seven Stars Dominator level to the 85th rank!

This was the Seven Stars cultivation level he had raised solely through his own innate comprehension.

Afterward, Bai Dicang began absorbing Nothingness Primal Source Power to fuel his Seven Stars Primal Source Power.

"So the trait of plundering power does indeed exist!"

By plundering the Nothingness origins from his own stockpile, Bai Dicang rapidly advanced his cultivation to the 90th rank as a Seven Stars Dominator.

He experimented and found that, at the 90th rank, a Seven Stars Dominator could already match a Nothingness Dominator. With the stacking effect of Seven Stars Power and Nothingness Power combined, he still had the potential to challenge a 91st-rank opponent by crossing ranks.

Bai Dicang fell into deep thought.

"Even if I advance to the 99th-rank Nothingness Dominator level, I have no way to break through to the 100th rank. But if I raise my Seven Stars Dominator level to the 99th rank and then devour my own 99th-rank Nothingness Dominator origin, can I go a step further and reach the 100th rank?"

This was a mad idea.

But Bai Dicang felt it was worth a try!

He really didn't want to continue working under those two beings, Wu Tianxiang and Zang Tianguan. That path truly led to death!

He could faintly sense that his Nothingness origin had already been implanted with hidden mechanisms by those two existences. His life was in someone else's hands!

He could fall at any moment!

With this thought, Bai Dicang had already formed a plan.

"Since a turning point has arrived, I'll go all out in this madness!"

Bai Dicang directly used his Elder authority to send a meeting invitation to one of the 90th-rank Elders, asking him to personally come to his residence!

Upon receiving the message, that Elder naturally didn't think much of it. He came quickly—and it was even his true body.

But the moment he stepped into Bai Dicang's grand hall, what awaited him was Bai Dicang's terrifying suppression and slaughter!

Kill! Plunder! Transform! One-stop service!