339: Upgraded panel

"host! A hundred years unseen! Your strength has grown even greater!" Number One's gentle voice carried a hint of admiration.

After this panel upgrade, the panel spirit seemed to have become even more human-like.

Xiao Zhuo did not respond. At this moment, his mind was completely immersed in the profound ocean of the Dao Principle of Freedom.

The first stage of the Dao Principle of Freedom granted Xiao Zhuo the ability to control all the Great Daos of the heavens, but the power of the controlled Daos was always one level weaker than his primary Great Dao.

Even by stacking or fusing multiple Great Daos, he could unleash power that surpassed his primary Great Dao, but it still didn't produce a fundamental transformation.

During these hundred years, Xiao Zhuo traveled through the Immortal-Demon Realm, observing various aspects of life, and his understanding of the Heavenly Dao's operation and the myriad Great Daos deepened daily.

As his Heart-Nature reached Perfection, the Dao Principle of Freedom naturally broke through to the second stage.

The second stage of the Dao Principle of Freedom allowed Xiao Zhuo to unleash half the power of his primary Great Dao when controlling all other Daos!

One must know that previously, there was a difference of an entire major Realm.

Although it still hadn't reached the same intensity as his primary Great Dao, this "half" was already power of the same level.

Coupled with Xiao Zhuo's increasingly refined use of combining and stacking myriad Daos, its actual power was more than ten times stronger than in the first stage!

Therefore, even though Xiao Zhuo's Realm had only just reached the Middle Stage of Taiyi after a hundred years of accumulation, he already truly possessed the strength to contend against a Daluo.

Among the Prodigies of the Immortal Realm, not a few comprehended Dao Principles, and almost all powerhouses who could Cultivate to Taiyi or even Daluo had mastered their own Dao Principles.

However, those who could advance their Dao Principles to the second stage were exceedingly rare.

Even among Quasi-Saint mighty figures, only the top tier possessed such talent.

Xiao Zhuo slowly withdrew his mind from the profound mysteries of the Dao Principle of Freedom flowing within his heart.

"Has the System finally finished upgrading?" He immediately noticed the change, and a brand new panel automatically appeared before him:

Name: Xiao Zhuo.

Race: Human Race.

Realm: Middle Stage of Taiyi;

Physical Body: Middle Stage of Taiyi;

Divine Soul: Peak of soul infant Eleventh Rank;

Divine Sense: saint-grade high-rank (Coverage: Three billion li radius);

Physique: Thunder Divine Body; Devouring Divine Body; Innate Blood God Body; Universe Extreme Divine Body;

Cultivation Technique: Free and Natural Heavenly Art Fifth Stage (saint-grade high-rank); Heavenly Illusion Sacred Art Limit Broken (saint-grade high-rank); Startling Cold Sword Canon Perfection (saint-grade high-rank); Heavenly Talisman Sacred Method Perfection (saint-grade high-rank); Remaining Cultivation Techniques Folded (Can be expanded to view)

Divine Ability: Weapon of Freedom/Self-Mastery, Limit Broken (saint-grade high-rank); Technique of Freedom/Self-Mastery, Limit Broken (saint-grade high-rank); Limit-Breaking Universe God Step (saint-grade high-rank); Illusion-Breaking Divine Eye (saint-grade high-rank);

Ultimate Skills: Heavenly Demon Hegemon Body; Heaven-Observing Divine Eye; Heaven and Earth Calamity Weapon; Illusory Dream Space; Illusory Dream Reversal; Remaining Ultimate Skills Folded (Can be expanded to view)

Secret Arts: Source Blood; Soul Burning Sacred Method; Soul Slaughtering Sacred Method; Soul Fusing Sacred Method;

Talents: Danger Perception; Innate Divine Strength; Soul Perception; Origin Force Fusion; Blood Manipulation; Space Manipulation; Devouring;

Great Dao: Great Dao of Space (Perfection); Great Dao of Time (Perfection); Great Dao of the Soul (Perfection); Great Dao of Thunder (Perfection);

Dao Principle: The Way of Freedom (Second Stage);

World: zizai world (Lesser Thousand);

origin divine weapon: bixue (saint-grade high-rank); tian han (saint-grade high-rank);

origin supreme treasure: waning moon pendant (Soul-type);

Attribute Points (Major Thousand Worlds): 248,489,054.

The main content of the panel hadn't changed much, apart from his cultivation advancing to the Middle Stage of Taiyi during these hundred years, and his Divine Soul reaching the Peak level with the help of the waning moon pendant.

The main additions were the Heavenly Talisman Sacred Method, which Xiao Zhuo had independently deduced and perfected based on True Monarch Bibo's Talisman Canon, and the advancement of the Dao Principle of Freedom to the second stage.

The overall panel had transformed into a translucent platinum background, replacing the previous blue light screen, and the deduction button was inlaid with profound golden runes.

In addition to the appearance change, a new button appeared next to the deduction button — Resource Conversion.

Resource Conversion: Consuming Attribute Points can exchange for Materials or energy needed by the host. The host can also sacrifice treasures to gain corresponding Attribute Points.

Xiao Zhuo's gaze finally landed on the enormous amount of Attribute Points in the lower-left corner of the panel.

His eyes suddenly brightened.

Before the upgrade, he remembered only having a few hundred thousand points left; now, it had surged to over 240 million!

No need to guess, it must be that the System continued to absorb the Attribute Points from the enemies he killed during the upgrade period.

Xiao Zhuo was immensely grateful that he had participated in the great war between the Corpse Clan and Blood Prison when the System was upgrading.

This astronomical number of Attribute Points was enough to support his rapid advancement to the Daluo and even Quasi-Saint Realm.

As for whether he could achieve a saint position with this, it was still unknown.

The current Xiao Zhuo was no longer the novice who first entered the Immortal Realm.

He knew well that there were only eighteen saint positions in the Immortal-Demon Realm, one for each person.

If no Saint fell, even if a Quasi-Saint had profound foundations, successfully severed their Three Corpses, and condensed a Dao Fruit, they would not be able to obtain the saint position's blessing.

Saints were once the cornerstone of the Immortal-Demon Realm's past prosperity (ranking among the top ten Major Thousand Worlds), and also the root cause of countless Geniuses' Dao paths being cut off, leading to the Immortal-Demon Realm's decline to a middle-tier position after the Saints disappeared.

Although Saints were not apparent, with Xiao Zhuo's current Realm, through Dao perception, he could clearly sense sixteen colossal entities residing above the Great Dao of the Immortal-Demon Realm — this meant there were still two vacant saint positions.

Hao Duo's emergence this time was very likely aimed at one of them.

Xiao Zhuo temporarily set aside these distant thoughts and began to test the "Resource Conversion" function.

He took out a dark gold compass, a Saint-Grade Low-Rank Immortal Artifact, which would be enough to cause Golden Immortals to fight over it in the outside world.

It could boost the power of Formations below Saint-Grade Low-Rank by 30%, but for Xiao Zhuo, it was already dispensable, perfect for testing.

With a thought: "Sacrifice."

A mysterious Void Realm power surged forth, and the dark gold compass in his hand instantly disintegrated and vanished.

"Congratulations, host, the sacrifice of the Saint-Grade Low-Rank Dark-Pattern Thousand Silk Condensing Origin Compass was successful. You have gained 2145 Attribute Points." Number One's prompt sounded at the opportune moment.

Xiao Zhuo, however, frowned slightly.

A treasure that Golden Immortals would fight over was only worth a little over two thousand points?

Killing an ordinary Profound Immortal could yield over two thousand points, and those with higher cultivation even four or five thousand.

And this Immortal Artifact was so "cheap"?

"Black-hearted! Panel, you've changed! You weren't so black-hearted before!" Even with Xiao Zhuo's steady Heart-Nature, he couldn't help but complain.

Previously, the panel had always seemed quite fair to him.

"host, Resource Conversion only calculates Attribute Points based on the material value of the sacrificed item, not its functional value." Number One proactively explained.

"So that's how it is." Xiao Zhuo suddenly understood.

Calculated this way, it was reasonable. Although that compass was a Saint-Grade Low-Rank Immortal Artifact, it used very few Saint-Grade Materials; its main body was still Heaven-Grade Materials, and its grade was achieved entirely through the Artifact Refiner's superb skill.

Understanding this, Xiao Zhuo knew how to efficiently sacrifice items for Attribute Points — prioritize raw ores or basic Materials; finished Immortal-Demon Artifacts or functional treasures were the least cost-effective.

After testing the sacrifice, Xiao Zhuo turned to test the exchange function.

"Divine Artifact!" He silently thought, while envisioning the characteristics of the Divine Artifact he needed.

"host, Resource Conversion can only exchange for basic Materials, not finished products. Please use this function with caution." Number One's voice carried a hint of subtle teasing.

Xiao Zhuo shook his head, chuckling at his own greed.

If he could truly directly exchange for Divine Artifacts (called Innate Spirit Treasures in the Immortal-Demon Realm, existences above Sacred Artifacts, with unparalleled power), wouldn't he be invincible?

However, being able to exchange for Materials was already a huge help, especially those origin supreme treasures that could forge the Quasi-Saint's Three Corpses.

So, he concentrated: "Exchange for a time-space type origin supreme treasure!"

Immediately after, he was dumbfounded...