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Eternal Gold Monarch Art, Midas's Touch
🕑 Added 2024-06-26 11:51:52 +0000 UTC--- Chapter 247 ---
Yu Long stared at the gold slate with complex emotions.
He kept it in the Sky Poison Pearl to investigate more later and decided to see what Eternal Gold Monarch Art and Mida's Touch Secret Technique had to offer.
After analyzing the Profound Art, Yu Long realized there was more to it in the Eternal Gold Monarch Art. The concept of eternal gold and a ruler isn't something one easily grasped, but he understood it well.
As he previously guessed, the Eternal Gold Monarch Art is mainly about fusing Metal, Earth, and Fire elements. However, that's just the essential premise because one must train their physique to bear Ultimate Gold.
Not just any physique, but a Saint's Physique.
Like Xia Qingyue's Nine Profound Exquisite Body.
The Saint's Physique is called the Golden-Blood Immortal Physique.
No wonder it took the Heavenly King of Gold five years to accumulate enough energy for Midas's Touch.
Midas's Touch is actually a simple secret technique.
It utilized Golden Blood, which possessed strong vitality and a wisp of spirituality that could bestow on the Ultimate Gold.
That's how the Golden Behemoth's Claw is a living being because it has Golden Blood.
Unfortunately, condensing Golden Blood is as demanding as becoming Divine Beast for the Heavenly King of Gold. He needs so many Demonic Cores and heavenly treasures to condense a drop of Golden Blood.
Hah! So that's why the golden toad was so happy with the Evergreen Tree's Dew.
Yu Long's mouth twitched, 'This is definitely that guy's style.'
Even though the Golden-Blood Immortal Physique is strong, it still revolves around Golden Blood and Ultimate Gold.
Without them, this Saint's Physique is only strong physically.
Yu Long thought he could modify the Eternal Gold Monarch Art, but that would take too much effort. He also doesn't want to change his body too much.
He glanced at his right hand, plagued by the Crimson Eye Mark.
"This will do, I guess."
After making his thought, Yu Long's right hand crushed and became dark necrotic due to an insufficient supply of blood. He didn't panic and slowly ran Profound Energy into his hands, using the Profound Veins' points as nodes.
[Art of Metal]
[Art of Earth]
[Art of Fire]
Yu Long didn't outright copy the Eternal Gold Monarch Art. He replicated the phenomenon with his own profound arts, which he was more familiar with.
He also doesn't need to consume heavenly treasures. His blood is a top-notch heavenly treasure that no one could replicate.
Vitality exploded and rushed to Yu Long's necrotic hand, causing it to grow scabs before revealing a flawless and fair hand. This hand didn't match the rest of his body's complexion.
Kaiju Maker's Vitality is very tenacious. So, Yu Long's right hand had undergone a rebirth-like condition.
Of course, this process is far from over.
The next step is to allow the blood in his right hand to synthesize with three elements and transform into Golden Blood.
Dum! Dum! Dum!
Yu Long's heartbeat became abnormal, and the Great Way of the Buddha seemingly rejected this physical change, which caused an intense dark-golden glow to wrap around his body.
"You have nothing to say about my body..." Yu Long coldly glanced at the dark golden pagoda atop his head. "I don't fucking care if Rage God was the one who made you. I'm the king here."
After saying that, the dark golden pagoda flashed with red demonic light before vanishing into the void.
Yu Long snorted and focused on his right hand back. The Crimson Eye Mark already occupied the back of his hand, but that won't change his plan.
"Settle down..."
BOOM!
Yu Long's right hand jerked into motion. The flawless and fair skin gained a gold-like quality and glowed with a mysterious hue. And the Crimson Eye Mark makes it even more mysterious.
Everyone stared at Yu Long's right hand and felt instinctive fear.
They felt that hand could change them forever, not in a good way.
"..." The Heavenly King of Gold.
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
"Human Brother, you're so fierce. You actually reached the 1st stage of Eternal Gold Monarch Art so fast?"
Unknown to the golden toad, Yu Long has reached this stage because that's all he needs. More doesn't always mean good.
Yu Long smiled at the golden toad and didn't explain anything.
He grabbed a random tree branch and transformed it into pure gold. No, he turned it into Ultimate Gold!
"Midas's Touch, not bad."
'How!' The Heavenly King of Gold was speechless this time.
Even though Yu Long has reached the 1st Stage of Eternal Gold Monarch Art, he shouldn't be able to use Ultimate Gold instantly. Moreover, Yu Long shouldn't have a drop of Golden Blood using Midas's Touch.
Yu Long nonchalantly changed the grip on the ice crystal rod to his right hand and turned the fishing rod into a living gold.
Not only does this reinforce the already strong fishing rod, but it also grants it the ability to ignore any defense.
"Here we go..." He pulled the brilliant gold rod, pulling seven-stripped Demonic Core again.
"I knew it."
"This thing also correlates with good luck."
"What a good technique."
With that in mind, Yu Long snapped his fingers and created more Ultimate Golds before turning them into fishing rods to fish on the Star River.
His action shook everyone.
Wait, wait, please be human.
Don't you want to leave some for us?
Please!
However, Yu Long ignored their pleading gazes, especially the golden toad, and focused on fishing more essence spheres until the Star River became dry.
Tempest's face twitched in complex emotion, 'Is this something a human can do?'
'No, God Master is not a human.'
'He's a GOD!'
Camilla roared and clapped her sword-like tail on the ground, cheering Yu Long to get more Demonic Cores. To her, the more Yu Long fish, the more she could eat.
"Let's go to the next Star River." Yu Long said after getting everything he needed from this Star River.
Then, they left.
"Human Brother, wait for me!" The Heavenly King of Gold shamelessly chased after Yu Long.
He finally found someone reliable to hug thigh on.
He couldn't possibly let this chance away.
Yu Long razed every Star River in the area, getting more mutated beasts following him each session. He actually wanted to test the extent of the lucky effect brought by the Ultimate God.
He didn't expect the effect to be this good.
Yu Long's rate of getting rare essence spheres is 120% in all forty-two Star Rivers. The drop rate remained even when Yu Long didn't use the Kaiju Maker.
Of course, there is no perfect ability.
Yu Long noticed that the Ultimate Gold's lifespan is extremely short if he makes too many at once. To make a sturdier and more refined Ultimate Gold, he must expend more importance and Golden Blood.
After a hundred Star River, he finally stopped and turned around, realizing a swarm of mutated beasts was following him now.
"This..." Yu Long raised his eyebrow.
"God Master, they are following us because of your greatness," Tempest commented with a point. "Your fishing skill has tamed them!"
'I only learned a new technique, and suddenly, I'm the leader of mutated beasts?' Yu Long blinked his eyes in amazement. Wait a second. His inner monologue sounds like a web novel's title.
Yu Long bitterly shook his head, "I'm not interested in ruling them, but whatever. Camilla, boss them around like before."
Rawr!
Camilla complained because Yu Long threw a random duty at her. At first, she likes to boss around these mutated beasts, but there are too many old coots now.
Some of them are equal to Camilla's mother in strength.
...
At the same time, the Heavenly King of Stone and Heavenly King of Song have made enough preparations.
"Husband, let's start." Said the white-furred and golden-horned bison.
The giant cow with runes all over his body nodded, "Mm."
"It's time to summon a GOD!"
The Demonic Star Secret Realm shook.
A purple crack appeared in the dusky sky.
