"Originally, I created a scripture that fused the Seven-Stars and Six-Directions Realms, called the Seven-Stars–Six-Directions Primordial Spirit Art. I once passed it to Brother Quinn, and he then spread it further—but few people ever mastered it."
Victor Bloom kept moving, suddenly appearing inside Hugh No-Return’s physical body, in the Spirit Embryo Treasury, holding a willow branch. That branch was likely made from divine wood and could freely change its length, with various markings along its surface.
He tossed the willow branch, measuring Hugh’s Spirit Embryo Treasury, while Selena assisted, recording all the data. The couple worked together seamlessly.
"Because so few have mastered it—only prodigies like Battle-Void, Warren Moran, Lucas Lin, and Lina the Spirit Fox—I felt the Seven-Stars–Six-Directions Primordial Spirit Art was not yet mature. So, building on that scripture, I created a new method for merging Divine Treasuries: the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art."
After measuring the Spirit Embryo Treasury, Victor and Selena moved on to the Five Luminaries Treasury, measuring the stars and the dimensions of heaven and earth. He continued, "However, the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art is an extremely troublesome scripture. Everyone’s Divine Treasuries are different, so the data required for the art varies from person to person. Each cultivator must meticulously map out their own Divine Treasury model, then adjust the art according to their personal data. Only then can they build a World-Bridge Tree Divine Bridge starting directly from the Spirit Embryo Treasury!"
Quinn Shepherd was shaken to the core and exclaimed, "Victor, if you complete this Innate World-Bridge Tree Art, it could trigger a massive revolution in cultivation! A single Divine Treasury reaching straight to the Heaven Palace—the impact on divine arts would be unimaginable! The Innate World-Bridge Tree Art is even more important than the Primordial Spirit Guidance that Lynn Ling and I pioneered!"
Victor Bloom smiled. "To surpass you and make you admit you’re a fake Overlord Body, of course I need my own ideas. But I can’t do this alone. The numerology required for the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art is so profound and the calculations so vast that they go beyond my experience and foundation. So I need help."
"Did you invite Dao Lord Lucas Lin to help?" Quinn asked curiously.
Victor was busy mapping the Five-Elements mountain range and didn’t have time to answer.
Selena smiled, "Not just Dao Lord Lucas Lin. My husband also invited Princess Lynn Ling, Saintess Yunxiang, Warren Moran, and other Heaven Alliance members. Besides them, he brought in the Imperial Preceptor, Black Tiger God, and other numerology experts. He even asked Grand Venerable Aiden Starr to join in. Together, they’re all working to derive the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art."
Quinn stared wide-eyed. Some of these people were his rivals, yet Victor Bloom had managed to recruit even them? Was Victor’s network really that extensive?
Selena smiled, "Warren Moran and the Imperial Preceptor have grudges, and Grand Venerable Aiden Starr has feuds with the rest. But when they heard my husband was working on the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art and might outshine Cult Master Quinn, they were all delighted. They came eagerly, hoping to see Quinn lose face."
"Came eagerly?" Quinn snorted.
Selena continued, "The emperor is quite pleased too. Though he can’t come in person, he’s ordered all the academies to send their top numerology students to help. He even told the Woodcutter Sage, and the sage went to help as well."
"The emperor is pleased too? My teacher went as well?"
Quinn grunted, feeling indignant: "So even my teacher went just to outshine me? Maybe I should’ve left him rotting in that ditch! No—he only ran off to find the Warfist Celestial Teacher because Victor and the others were completing the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art. That gave him the guts to challenge Warfist. Too bad he didn’t expect Warfist to ignore him and cripple him, tossing him into the ditch. Serves him right!"
He glanced at the Dragon-Qilin and asked kindly, "Bruno, you didn’t go too, did you?"
The Dragon-Qilin quickly shook his head. "Black Tiger God invited me, but I didn’t go!"
"But you never told me about any of this," Quinn said, his expression darkening.
The Dragon-Qilin replied timidly, "Cult Master, you were busy refining the Sword Pill, and after you finished, you were working on explosive treasure forging..."
Selena said, "Later, the First Ancestor met Aiden Starr and told him about it. Starr deeply respected the First Ancestor, and when he heard it might make Cult Master Quinn lose face, he showed up too and helped a lot. We succeeded in the calculations, and my husband derived the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art, but no one could actually cultivate it."
She sighed, "In the end, my husband concluded that the physical requirements were simply too high. Without an exceptionally strong body, it’s almost impossible to withstand the terrifying pressure from merging the Divine Treasuries. None of us were strong enough, so we had to give up."
"Even Starr..."
Quinn’s forehead veins popped. "Is my reputation really worse than Starr’s or Grand Venerable Aiden Starr’s?"
"But Hugh No-Return’s physical body has reached this level!"
After finishing measurements of the Five Luminaries Treasury, Victor Bloom moved to Hugh’s Six Directions Treasury and said, "Brother Hugh is the strongest physically of anyone I’ve met. Anyone else trying to cultivate the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art would die, but Brother Hugh won’t."
He was brimming with confidence.
The couple finished measuring the Six Directions Treasury, then moved on to the Seven Stars Treasury, and finally mapped the Heaven-Man and Life-and-Death Treasuries. At last, they had perfectly charted all of Hugh No-Return’s Divine Treasuries.
The couple exited Hugh’s Divine Treasuries, and Victor immediately began adjusting the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art according to the measured data.
He had already built the numerology model for the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art; now he just needed to plug in Hugh’s Divine Treasury data to tune the scripture to match Hugh’s physical body.
Quinn secretly praised them: "Victor Bloom and that whole crowd of experts really went all out just to beat me. But this Innate World-Bridge Tree Art truly is ingenious—a masterpiece of numerology!"
He himself was a master of numerology. The Old Farmer, Sam Oxley, and Hugh No-Return were all left dizzy by the calculations, but Quinn could appreciate the beauty of the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art.
This World-Bridge Tree Divine Bridge was constructed from numerology—a divine tree rooted in the Spirit Platform Six Directions continent, with roots plunging deep into Youdu, its main roots linked to the Five-Elements mountain ranges. Its crown was encircled by the sun and moon, its branches bore the Five Luminaries stars, and the myriad stars were hidden among its leaves.
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At the very top of the divine tree’s crown, it was level with the Divine Bridge.
According to the Everpeace clan’s view of the broken bridge, the crown could just fill the void between the Heaven Palace and the broken bridge, linking the two together.
This would eliminate the need to cultivate the Magpie Bridge Art, Mysterious Guidance Art, and Divine Crossing Art.
Victor Bloom, the Woodcutter Sage, the Imperial Preceptor, Aiden Starr, and the others must have incorporated those three arts into the Innate World-Bridge Tree Art during their calculations.
However, for martial artists of the War-Ox Realm, the World-Bridge Tree Divine Bridge only fills one section of the Divine Bridge—the middle span, without the head or tail.
If one’s cultivation isn’t sufficient, their Primordial Spirit still cannot fly across to the Heaven Palace.