Glossary

Nine Secrets

The Nine Secrets are supreme techniques passed down from ancient times, originally a single entity. However, due to their heaven-defying nature, they were deemed intolerable by the Great Dao and split into nine distinct secret arts. Each secret represents an ultimate ability, granting its master extraordinary power.

Front Secret: Enhances the physical body, greatly boosting defense and attack, akin to an indestructible body.

Armament Secret: Controls all weapons in the world, even manipulating enemies as weapons.

Battle Secret: Unmatched in offense, capable of evolving all attack methods, known as the "foremost in assault."

Healing Secret: Supreme healing technique, instantly recovering injuries, even regenerating from a single drop of blood.

Multiplier Secret: Randomly triggers a tenfold increase in combat power, though with low probability.

Stasis Secret: Accelerate the user's own time (reactions, healing, and technique execution become instantaneous). When mastered to Great Perfection, it can freeze the enemy's current state in the river of time, permanently preventing wounds from healing, severed limbs from regenerating—turning any injury into an eternal, unrecoverable curse.

Array Secret: Specializes in formations and runes, capable of setting up peerless killing arrays.

Foresight Secret: Foresees the future, senses fortune and calamity, and cultivates divine perception.

Movement Secret: Supreme speed, able to traverse formations, and at its peak, can even influence time.

Vicious Ten

1. Heavenly Horned Ant. Embodiment of extreme strength. Adult form can grow to billions of pounds in power; pure strength suppresses all techniques. The only "pure strength" race among the Vicious Ten.

2. True Dragon. Supreme bloodline of the Dragon Clan.

3. Thunder Emperor. Sovereign of thunder and lightning, wielder of the Chaos Thunder Law.

4. True Phoenix. Undying bird of rebirth; every death makes it stronger.

5. Nine-Leaves Sword Grass. Ultimate sword intent lifeform. Appears as ordinary green grass but can cut through all things in existence.

6. Kun Peng. Kun Peng can transform into two forms: Kun (a colossal whale-like fish that swallows galaxies). Peng (a golden-winged roc that cleaves the firmament with one flap). Kun swims the cosmos, Peng cleaves the heavens.

7. God-Striking Stone. Extremely hard, with an extremely high hit rate when striking people (one hit, one accurate strike, proficient in formations), and it can devour other peculiar stones to enhance its strength or evolve.

8. Gu. A translucent crystalline cicada the size of a human palm. Wings made of pure flowing Time-River fragments; every time the wings flicker, billions of years are sliced away.

9. Kirin. Bearer of the Emperor's majesty, its Kirin Step is unrivaled under the heavens — one stride crosses three thousand realms, leaving behind trails of auspicious purple lightning that even Immortal Kings cannot catch.

10. Nine-Nether Ao. Pitch-black dragon with nine serpent heads growing from the neck. Each head breathes a different law-destroying flame (Nine Netherworld Hellfire). Spine covered in backward-facing bone hooks that can tear immortal king bodies like paper. Eyes are nine constantly rotating black holes – once you meet its gaze, your soul is dragged into the Netherworld forever.

Immortal Roots

Enlightenment Tea Tree. Chaos Blue Lotus. Nine Wonders Undying Herb. Ginseng Fruit Tree. Kirin Undying Herb. True Dragon Undying Herb. True Phoenix Undying Herb. Black Tortoise Undying Herb. White Tiger Undying Herb. Fusang Divine Tree. Moon Laurel Tree. Peach Divine Tree.