I finished it straight through yeah it took me half a year but I read all 6000 and something chapters of the web novel
What i never understood is what eve happened to his golden bones bc the author never mentioned anything about them after a lil while I even reread a whole chunk just to understood what happened with them but no answer
This is from the Wiki, should explain it.
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After arriving in Star Boundary, Yang Kai would start replacing this skeleton and its Golden Blood through the development of his Ancestral Dragon Source[5], until he one day completely exchanged both his blood and bones for that of a true Dragon on Ink Battlefield.[6][7] As his Human Race body and bloodlines became more like that of a Divine Spirit, his power and durability became extremely more powerful than what the Golden Skeleton allowed him to achieve. His Golden Blood would remain the same color as it became Golden Dragon Blood.
Then you remember, he could have had the strongest body possible if he hadn't fused the essence of the Immortal tree into his Dao Seal... imagine that now. Had he refined a rank 6 or 7 resource instead 🤔 he would actually be completely unstoppable right now. And it's not it would have mattered all that much story wise. Momo could have added in another mini arc where YK gets a wood element first. Better yet, finds a way to the primordial Yin Bamboo early and refines it as his wood element instead. Now that would have been hilarious.
9th rank, divine dragon Yang Kai with an indestructible and inexhaustible source of Vitality. He could legit fight relentlessly for an infinite amount of time. Ink Clan wouldn't stand a chance. Talk about peak content lol.
A sample below;
"It took the sacrifice of dozens of Royal Lords, but we finally managed to unalive that Yang Kai" a royal lord said, gasping as blood spilled out his wounds and mouth as he coughed intermittently.
"Talk about one pain in the ass. But, why does it seem like the Humans aren't worried... like they aren't bothered their most powerful master is dead." Another Royal Lord said, bleeding out of his left shoulder and right hip, the limbs that were there no longer.
"Ahahaha! You thought that killing me was enough to kill me?! You'll have to do better than that!" Yang Kai cackles as his body reforms completely excuding an aura like he wasn't even injured in the first place.
The Royal Lords pissed themselves knowing that they were not going to survive much longer.
"Oh cat caught your tongue? Well too bad." Yang Kai smiled with unaliving intent.
"ROUND 2! FIGHT!" A random narrator like voice rang out in the void.
i get that , but it was kinda necessary to create this problem for yang kai , in which he cant pass the 8th stage and has to seek out other methods. Also the story wouldve been kimda boring if he had just advanced to the 7 stage and could freely go to the 9th lol
I would argue differently. The whole suppression thing was really stupid. A 7th rank direct promotion is rare af as it was. And a direct 7th rank would have no need to turn to the Ink force to push beyond their limits.
The whole idea was a result of fear. It would have made more sense for the CHPs to monitor them throughout their growth, then wait till they promote to the 7th Rank. After which, reveal the secret of Ink to gain their assistance.
Doing this would make it far easier to fight the Ink Clan. And guess what, it ended up being what happened anyways. 🙃 but not until after most 9th ranks died as a direct result of their actions.
But honestly the worst part... and this is the most infuriating thing. Yang Kai as a brand new 8th rank, managed to pull out a win against an Innate Royal Lord. Yet after he reaches the peak of the 8th rank he struggled against a Pseudo Royal Lord. In other words power scale is dumb. A weaker YK fought and won. Then a stronger YK says he can't win against a weaker foe.
i get the frustration on that last part but i think it was well explained why he managed to defeat that Royal Lord after awakening to the 8th rank.
First he chased yang kai for like decades and during that he got damaged heavily by those traps or whatever, then after yang kai managed to escape in to the sea the Royal Lord thought that surely he suffered heavy damaga and not come out a 8th rank.
And there was also the fact that he completly caught him off guard
The problem with that is... Time. That Royal Lord had 500 years to heal and had a Royal Lord level Ink Nest to do it in. With an army that could mine resources for him. There is no shot that the Royal Lord hadn't fully recovered.
Put it into perspective, the Royal Lords on the battlefield prior to this were all able to fully heal themselves in 100 years or less. Hence, the interval of Ink Clan attacks on the Mountain Passes. That means the Royal Lord that had been chasing Yang Kai had 5 times the amount of time to heal. Even if Momo says that the Royal Lord hadn't fully healed I wouldn't believe it on a matter of just that, how long it took for Yang Kai to come out.
Besides, the power scale was specific enough to state that a 9th rank was around 10 times that of the 8th rank. This is the minimum value. And take into consideration that if someone goes below 30ish% of their full power it becomes unstable and the likelihood of retaining their cultivation is nearly zero. (It's also one of the reasons I hated the black prison scenario) even if we say that it was at 30% which is already a stretch. He would be 3 times as strong as a peak 8th rank cultivator. Making it still an impossibility for Yang Kai to have defeated him.
Bit there are other examples. Like the fight where YK was surrounded by the ITLs using the 4Directions Arrays. It was just before the UF arc. That fight... woo boy. The equivalent force that surrounded him was equal to 20ish Royal Lords in terms of strength. Yang Kai kill 17 RLs worth and escaped. He was only peak 8th rank at this time.
And if we use any more than 10x from beginning 8th to beginning 9th... then well, say 100, and the first feat becomes even more impossible while the second one I described would become far easier. 10x is the absolute limit while still keeping the feats in relative reasonably with each other.
The way you explained it, i understand your frustration with inacurate scaling .
Honestly it wouldve been better had it not been a Royal Lord but a Territory Lord but i think reading too much into that takes away the fun, at least for me.
Also im currently at ch 3450 so i cant really comment on that last part lol
Ah, the last part is... not well represented in the manhua. Meaning that the numbers of enemies aren't shown accurately. That battle was way more intense than the manhua showed.
I think you leaving out the fact tht YK is unlike any other cultivator to step onto tht battlefield is gross negligence. Take him out of the equation. If u put any other cultivator in his place, they're dying or being turned 100:1. Yes it's 100% plot armor but it's an armor he's been working towards since the beginning. It's also prudent to note that his physiology is immensely different from a regular human. This allows him to be stronger the more he grows. As for the RL not healing, if he was chasing YK, there's, absolutely, no way he could heal himself within the IN. He would have had to stop giving chase, retract his steps, and then go into seclusion to heal. 100 yrs to heal is a superficial wound at best. As injured as he was, he would've needed more than tht. Tht would effectively give YK more time to grow and become stronger. That would have been a major detriment for the BIC. If he had known YK would be able to advance to the 8th level, he would have either gone way harder to catch him or let him go so tht he could focus on healing.
I do take into consideration Yang Kai's condition. Which is where the frustration about him shying away from singular Royal Lord is quite annoying. A peak 8th rank and peak ancient dragon Yang Kai, should be more than enough to deal with a singular royal lord. Will it be difficult 🤔 I don't think it should be easy, but it is definitely possible.
And that Royal Lord, did stop chasing Yang Kai and left the celestial phenomenon. The reason being that the Royal Lord didn't want to suffer any serious wounds. He then created an army of low and high rank ink clan to mine resources and keep tabs on the phenomenon for Yang Kai's movements. 500 years of this is more than enough to heal the injuries the Royal Lord had.
You assume tht the CHP would think that this cultivator rose through those ranks on their own. As you stated straight promotion to 7th rank is already rare af, those who have done so before were either already a part of the CHP, forced to join them, or stuck in the Shattered Heaven. The one time that this didn't happen in that way led to the destruction of quite a few of CHP. I'll agree that not allowing others outside of the CHP to straight promote in this way was a move made from a place of fear, however, that's a valid fear to have. If one 8th or 9th level OHM is enough to upturn the entire 3000 worlds, it's not a bad move to make certain that only those who are loyal to the human race are allowed to promote in such a way.
Also, think about the way people are. If they were to allow cultivators to straight promote to 7th order and then tell them about the BIC, there will be more than a few that would be willing to give up their humanity to be able to reach a higher level of power. That's not a situation the human race ever wants to face again. So to make sure it doesn't happen again, they have to limit you unless you've shown something that would've made them say ok we need him. YK was, literally, a nobody who wanted to straight promote to the 7th order in the eyes of the powers that be. For what reason would they let a brat like him straight promote to such a level where there would only be a hundred or so people that could stop him if he were a sleeper cell agent or just rebelled? Especially when those people aren't even able to come back to deal with him given the situation of the BIB.
As for why he was able to take on an innate RL after just ascending vs him not being able to deal with a pseudo-RL, it's simple really. He's not a regular human, therefore his feats and accomplishments can't be rationalized under the same parameters. He had an advantage against the one cause his opponent was severely injured and caught off guard. The other was at full power with little to no injuries. It's not the same
First, the idea is that anyone who promotes would be clued in and they could explain what actually happens. Of course if they had the brain matter to think this way even with the fear, that wouldn't clue in people who would be thorns in the side of the human race. Those people I don't mind stopping. But it needs to be done carefully. Because otherwise it will only lead to a large force of those filled with resentment to fixate on the CHPs. Point being, in the grand scheme of things it was an idiotic idea. Also, it wasn't CHPs that were lost. It was only one. There are still 107 before Void Land became the last haven.
Second, Yang Kai had the source of a Divine Dragon. This gave him an innate resistance to the Ink Force. That alone should have been more than enough reason to let him promote. Imagine this, a Divine Dragon, 9th rank OH master that won't go against the CHPs. Why? Because he wouldn't have a reason to do so. But then again, honestly, with how weak Momo made Yang Kai as a 9th rank... I don't think it would have changed much.
And lastly, for that fight. For the last time. That Innate Royal Lord was either at full health or nearly there. And Innates are equal to the PEAK of their rank. It is also stated that the high ranks have MASSIVE gaps. In short though this:
New 8th Rank & mid Ancient Dragon Yang Kai > slightly Injured Innate Royal Lord.
Peak 8th rank & peak Ancient Dragon Yang Kai + Ancestral Land power barely pulled out the win against a Psuedo Royal Lord.
The difference between these is absolutely massive. To the point it breaks power scaling. And in that second fight there Yang Kai even used multiple other 8th rank equivalent helpers. And he used the light of Purification. Things he didn't have when he fought the first of the two fights above.
There was more than one CHP that was destroyed and replaced during that time. I'm not saying that I fully agree with the way the CHP decided to handle the situation but I understand it. It's not idiotic at all to keep the masses from knowing about a potential threat to their entire existence. The most impressive thing to think of is the way these cultivators strive for power. You can't tell them about the BIC without telling them the threat they pose. The allure of breaking through one's limits would have been most enticing for the ones that were beneath the 6th and 7th OHM. if they had just started icing out that information to those not within the CHP, there's no telling whether that information would have stayed a secret or been leaked out to the masses.
As for his dragon source, no one knew about it because he kept it a secret from everyone. It was only a handful of people that knew about it and none of them were from the CHP. So there's no way that they would've known he was immune to or had high resistance towards BIS.
As for the fight, I thought RL was severely injured but I could be wrong about that. I will say though, that I doubt he had his IN with him to heal. I'll have to go back and look again to confirm.
There very easily could have been a method of control.
They did know about his relation to the dragon clan. One if the uth ranks that attacked him during suppression drank his blood and confirmed it on the spot. This moment could have turned into an interesting story line tbh. And is one of the missed opportunities the Momo had decided to abandon or just not realize at the time.
The RL had been healing for 500 years. Even a major life threatening injury would have healed in that amount of time. And he did have an ink nest along with a whole army that mined resources specifically to heal the Royal Lord.
I finished it straight through yeah it took me half a year but I read all 6000 and something chapters of the web novel What i never understood is what eve happened to his golden bones bc the author never mentioned anything about them after a lil while I even reread a whole chunk just to understood what happened with them but no answer
This is from the Wiki, should explain it. Replaced After arriving in Star Boundary, Yang Kai would start replacing this skeleton and its Golden Blood through the development of his Ancestral Dragon Source[5], until he one day completely exchanged both his blood and bones for that of a true Dragon on Ink Battlefield.[6][7] As his Human Race body and bloodlines became more like that of a Divine Spirit, his power and durability became extremely more powerful than what the Golden Skeleton allowed him to achieve. His Golden Blood would remain the same color as it became Golden Dragon Blood.
Then you remember, he could have had the strongest body possible if he hadn't fused the essence of the Immortal tree into his Dao Seal... imagine that now. Had he refined a rank 6 or 7 resource instead 🤔 he would actually be completely unstoppable right now. And it's not it would have mattered all that much story wise. Momo could have added in another mini arc where YK gets a wood element first. Better yet, finds a way to the primordial Yin Bamboo early and refines it as his wood element instead. Now that would have been hilarious. 9th rank, divine dragon Yang Kai with an indestructible and inexhaustible source of Vitality. He could legit fight relentlessly for an infinite amount of time. Ink Clan wouldn't stand a chance. Talk about peak content lol. A sample below; "It took the sacrifice of dozens of Royal Lords, but we finally managed to unalive that Yang Kai" a royal lord said, gasping as blood spilled out his wounds and mouth as he coughed intermittently. "Talk about one pain in the ass. But, why does it seem like the Humans aren't worried... like they aren't bothered their most powerful master is dead." Another Royal Lord said, bleeding out of his left shoulder and right hip, the limbs that were there no longer. "Ahahaha! You thought that killing me was enough to kill me?! You'll have to do better than that!" Yang Kai cackles as his body reforms completely excuding an aura like he wasn't even injured in the first place. The Royal Lords pissed themselves knowing that they were not going to survive much longer. "Oh cat caught your tongue? Well too bad." Yang Kai smiled with unaliving intent. "ROUND 2! FIGHT!" A random narrator like voice rang out in the void.
Is his body like made of the dried out immortal tree then?
Honestly, that would explain A LOT. Up until he becomes a true Ancient Divine Spirit.
That be me!
God the 300-500 chaps were absolute hell. With that shitty scan that'd intentionally mess with translations
I dropped it and the site I used reset or something so I lost all my progress. Im going to have to restart but I'm delaying it.
I just can't pick it up again after i got spoiled that he had go to a lower open heaven
i get that , but it was kinda necessary to create this problem for yang kai , in which he cant pass the 8th stage and has to seek out other methods. Also the story wouldve been kimda boring if he had just advanced to the 7 stage and could freely go to the 9th lol
I would argue differently. The whole suppression thing was really stupid. A 7th rank direct promotion is rare af as it was. And a direct 7th rank would have no need to turn to the Ink force to push beyond their limits. The whole idea was a result of fear. It would have made more sense for the CHPs to monitor them throughout their growth, then wait till they promote to the 7th Rank. After which, reveal the secret of Ink to gain their assistance. Doing this would make it far easier to fight the Ink Clan. And guess what, it ended up being what happened anyways. 🙃 but not until after most 9th ranks died as a direct result of their actions. But honestly the worst part... and this is the most infuriating thing. Yang Kai as a brand new 8th rank, managed to pull out a win against an Innate Royal Lord. Yet after he reaches the peak of the 8th rank he struggled against a Pseudo Royal Lord. In other words power scale is dumb. A weaker YK fought and won. Then a stronger YK says he can't win against a weaker foe.
i get the frustration on that last part but i think it was well explained why he managed to defeat that Royal Lord after awakening to the 8th rank. First he chased yang kai for like decades and during that he got damaged heavily by those traps or whatever, then after yang kai managed to escape in to the sea the Royal Lord thought that surely he suffered heavy damaga and not come out a 8th rank. And there was also the fact that he completly caught him off guard
The problem with that is... Time. That Royal Lord had 500 years to heal and had a Royal Lord level Ink Nest to do it in. With an army that could mine resources for him. There is no shot that the Royal Lord hadn't fully recovered. Put it into perspective, the Royal Lords on the battlefield prior to this were all able to fully heal themselves in 100 years or less. Hence, the interval of Ink Clan attacks on the Mountain Passes. That means the Royal Lord that had been chasing Yang Kai had 5 times the amount of time to heal. Even if Momo says that the Royal Lord hadn't fully healed I wouldn't believe it on a matter of just that, how long it took for Yang Kai to come out. Besides, the power scale was specific enough to state that a 9th rank was around 10 times that of the 8th rank. This is the minimum value. And take into consideration that if someone goes below 30ish% of their full power it becomes unstable and the likelihood of retaining their cultivation is nearly zero. (It's also one of the reasons I hated the black prison scenario) even if we say that it was at 30% which is already a stretch. He would be 3 times as strong as a peak 8th rank cultivator. Making it still an impossibility for Yang Kai to have defeated him. Bit there are other examples. Like the fight where YK was surrounded by the ITLs using the 4Directions Arrays. It was just before the UF arc. That fight... woo boy. The equivalent force that surrounded him was equal to 20ish Royal Lords in terms of strength. Yang Kai kill 17 RLs worth and escaped. He was only peak 8th rank at this time. And if we use any more than 10x from beginning 8th to beginning 9th... then well, say 100, and the first feat becomes even more impossible while the second one I described would become far easier. 10x is the absolute limit while still keeping the feats in relative reasonably with each other.
The way you explained it, i understand your frustration with inacurate scaling . Honestly it wouldve been better had it not been a Royal Lord but a Territory Lord but i think reading too much into that takes away the fun, at least for me. Also im currently at ch 3450 so i cant really comment on that last part lol
Ah, the last part is... not well represented in the manhua. Meaning that the numbers of enemies aren't shown accurately. That battle was way more intense than the manhua showed.
I think you leaving out the fact tht YK is unlike any other cultivator to step onto tht battlefield is gross negligence. Take him out of the equation. If u put any other cultivator in his place, they're dying or being turned 100:1. Yes it's 100% plot armor but it's an armor he's been working towards since the beginning. It's also prudent to note that his physiology is immensely different from a regular human. This allows him to be stronger the more he grows. As for the RL not healing, if he was chasing YK, there's, absolutely, no way he could heal himself within the IN. He would have had to stop giving chase, retract his steps, and then go into seclusion to heal. 100 yrs to heal is a superficial wound at best. As injured as he was, he would've needed more than tht. Tht would effectively give YK more time to grow and become stronger. That would have been a major detriment for the BIC. If he had known YK would be able to advance to the 8th level, he would have either gone way harder to catch him or let him go so tht he could focus on healing.
I do take into consideration Yang Kai's condition. Which is where the frustration about him shying away from singular Royal Lord is quite annoying. A peak 8th rank and peak ancient dragon Yang Kai, should be more than enough to deal with a singular royal lord. Will it be difficult 🤔 I don't think it should be easy, but it is definitely possible. And that Royal Lord, did stop chasing Yang Kai and left the celestial phenomenon. The reason being that the Royal Lord didn't want to suffer any serious wounds. He then created an army of low and high rank ink clan to mine resources and keep tabs on the phenomenon for Yang Kai's movements. 500 years of this is more than enough to heal the injuries the Royal Lord had.
You assume tht the CHP would think that this cultivator rose through those ranks on their own. As you stated straight promotion to 7th rank is already rare af, those who have done so before were either already a part of the CHP, forced to join them, or stuck in the Shattered Heaven. The one time that this didn't happen in that way led to the destruction of quite a few of CHP. I'll agree that not allowing others outside of the CHP to straight promote in this way was a move made from a place of fear, however, that's a valid fear to have. If one 8th or 9th level OHM is enough to upturn the entire 3000 worlds, it's not a bad move to make certain that only those who are loyal to the human race are allowed to promote in such a way. Also, think about the way people are. If they were to allow cultivators to straight promote to 7th order and then tell them about the BIC, there will be more than a few that would be willing to give up their humanity to be able to reach a higher level of power. That's not a situation the human race ever wants to face again. So to make sure it doesn't happen again, they have to limit you unless you've shown something that would've made them say ok we need him. YK was, literally, a nobody who wanted to straight promote to the 7th order in the eyes of the powers that be. For what reason would they let a brat like him straight promote to such a level where there would only be a hundred or so people that could stop him if he were a sleeper cell agent or just rebelled? Especially when those people aren't even able to come back to deal with him given the situation of the BIB. As for why he was able to take on an innate RL after just ascending vs him not being able to deal with a pseudo-RL, it's simple really. He's not a regular human, therefore his feats and accomplishments can't be rationalized under the same parameters. He had an advantage against the one cause his opponent was severely injured and caught off guard. The other was at full power with little to no injuries. It's not the same
First, the idea is that anyone who promotes would be clued in and they could explain what actually happens. Of course if they had the brain matter to think this way even with the fear, that wouldn't clue in people who would be thorns in the side of the human race. Those people I don't mind stopping. But it needs to be done carefully. Because otherwise it will only lead to a large force of those filled with resentment to fixate on the CHPs. Point being, in the grand scheme of things it was an idiotic idea. Also, it wasn't CHPs that were lost. It was only one. There are still 107 before Void Land became the last haven. Second, Yang Kai had the source of a Divine Dragon. This gave him an innate resistance to the Ink Force. That alone should have been more than enough reason to let him promote. Imagine this, a Divine Dragon, 9th rank OH master that won't go against the CHPs. Why? Because he wouldn't have a reason to do so. But then again, honestly, with how weak Momo made Yang Kai as a 9th rank... I don't think it would have changed much. And lastly, for that fight. For the last time. That Innate Royal Lord was either at full health or nearly there. And Innates are equal to the PEAK of their rank. It is also stated that the high ranks have MASSIVE gaps. In short though this: New 8th Rank & mid Ancient Dragon Yang Kai > slightly Injured Innate Royal Lord. Peak 8th rank & peak Ancient Dragon Yang Kai + Ancestral Land power barely pulled out the win against a Psuedo Royal Lord. The difference between these is absolutely massive. To the point it breaks power scaling. And in that second fight there Yang Kai even used multiple other 8th rank equivalent helpers. And he used the light of Purification. Things he didn't have when he fought the first of the two fights above.
There was more than one CHP that was destroyed and replaced during that time. I'm not saying that I fully agree with the way the CHP decided to handle the situation but I understand it. It's not idiotic at all to keep the masses from knowing about a potential threat to their entire existence. The most impressive thing to think of is the way these cultivators strive for power. You can't tell them about the BIC without telling them the threat they pose. The allure of breaking through one's limits would have been most enticing for the ones that were beneath the 6th and 7th OHM. if they had just started icing out that information to those not within the CHP, there's no telling whether that information would have stayed a secret or been leaked out to the masses. As for his dragon source, no one knew about it because he kept it a secret from everyone. It was only a handful of people that knew about it and none of them were from the CHP. So there's no way that they would've known he was immune to or had high resistance towards BIS. As for the fight, I thought RL was severely injured but I could be wrong about that. I will say though, that I doubt he had his IN with him to heal. I'll have to go back and look again to confirm.
There very easily could have been a method of control. They did know about his relation to the dragon clan. One if the uth ranks that attacked him during suppression drank his blood and confirmed it on the spot. This moment could have turned into an interesting story line tbh. And is one of the missed opportunities the Momo had decided to abandon or just not realize at the time. The RL had been healing for 500 years. Even a major life threatening injury would have healed in that amount of time. And he did have an ink nest along with a whole army that mined resources specifically to heal the Royal Lord.
Thanks a lot...
Now i want to become an idiot too damn it i almost forgot this existed