After breaking through to the sixth tier of the Nirvana Tribulation Realm, Kang Shin-mu felt refreshed.
After all, this meant that his cultivation had reached a new height.
However, he knew that his current level was nothing. He needed to work harder.
Then, Yu Yaji took him and Ran Ran through the void and returned to Emperor Xi's Dragon Martial Arts Academy in the west.
When he reappeared near Emperor Xi's Formation, Kang Shin-mu felt as if he had been in another world.
Many things had happened during his return to the Dragon Emperor Court. The most important thing was that he saw Zuo Xiaofeng suffer a setback. He also learned that Emperor Xi's Dean's name was Yu Yaji, and Yu Tianchang was her sister's daughter!
Of course, knowing this was of little use to Kang Shin-mu.
His next task was even more arduous because he needed to consider the difficulty of defeating the second Nirvana beast when breaking through to the seventh tier of the Nirvana Tribulation Realm.
Therefore, he had to improve his strength as quickly as possible during this period of time.
Resources were strength. As long as Kang Shin-mu had enough experience points, he could exchange for advanced Source Dragon martial arts techniques to enhance his strength.
At the same time, he could continue to cultivate the Dark Dragon Filth Controlling Skill. Although he had played a big role in cultivating this dragon martial arts technique, he had never broken through to a higher level.
At the current stage, the effect of his Dark Dragon Filth Controlling Skill was still much worse than Ran Ran's.
Kang Shin-mu's recovery ability mainly relied on devouring.
However, if he cultivated the Dark Dragon Filth Controlling Skill to a higher level, Kang Shin-mu would recover quickly in battle and would not even need to rely on devouring power.
Moreover, the effect would definitely be better when the two were combined.
"Let's devour some dragon mark energy first."
Kang Shin-mu thought to himself.
The dragon mark energy could improve the level of his divine dragon blood essence. Although the effect of upgrading one level at the Dragon King stage was not great, if he upgraded several levels in a row, it would add up to a considerable amount.
Upgrading the Dragon King's blood essence by about three levels was equivalent to breaking through one level in the Nirvana Tribulation Realm, so Kang Shin-mu still planned to devour the dragon mark's energy when he was free.
With the Dragon Mark Blood Pendant as a cover, Kang Shin-mu became much bolder when he swallowed the energy of the Dragon Mark. With a speed ten times that of a normal student, he swallowed the energy of the Dragon Mark into his body.
Moreover, he had stored quite a lot of them, and he had originally planned to pass them on to Jiang Liuxue, Xi Yuying, and the other women. Now that he didn't have the chance to do so, he used them to improve himself.
During this period of time, Kang Shin-mu did not go out to complete any training missions, nor did he have any plans to go to the Beast Abyss.
After all, the commotion he caused in the Beast Abyss last time had not died down yet. If he went now and encountered any danger, it would be terrible.
Therefore, Kang Shin-mu decided to improve his strength first.
From the third grade of the Dragon King's blood essence, to the fourth grade, and then to the fifth grade!
In the short span of half a month, Kang Shin-mu directly broke through the grade of his divine dragon blood essence by two grades!
When he appeared in front of the public again, everyone was shocked.
At this speed, if Kang Shin-mu wanted to reach the level of the Dragon Emperor, it wouldn't take more than a few years!
Of course, this was also because the first five grades of the Dragon King were still relatively easy to improve. After reaching the fifth grade, the amount of dragon mark energy required for each grade increase was several times that of the previous grade.
In other words, if Kang Shin-mu broke through to the fifth grade of the Dragon King, it was practically the limit for him to improve his strength as quickly as possible.
If he wanted to swallow the energy of the dragon mark and raise his divine dragon blood essence to the sixth grade of the Dragon King, even if it was Kang Shin-mu, he would need to spend at least a month. Moreover, the increase in strength was not very obvious.
"I'll think about the rest later. When the time is right, it's better to break through to the Dragon Emperor in one go … Even if it takes half a year, it's worth it.
"As for now, there are other ways to improve my strength faster."
If the dragon warrior's divine dragon blood essence broke through from the Dragon King to the Dragon Emperor, then the Nirvana beast he encountered would also have a qualitative improvement in strength.
Therefore, it was impossible for Kang Shin-mu to break through to the Dragon Emperor now. Although it would increase his strength, it would make it almost impossible for him to defeat the second Nirvana beast, and he would lose the opportunity to condense Nirvana Energy.
If he lost this opportunity, it would mean that he would lose the possibility of becoming stronger for the rest of his life.
Therefore, Kang Shin-mu must seize this opportunity to become stronger in other aspects. Only then could he safely break through to the level of the divine dragon blood essence of the Dragon Emperor.
Imagine, if Kang Shin-mu cultivated many high-level Origin Source Dragon Martial Skills, then his strength would definitely be more than a few times stronger than it was now.
By then, it would not matter if he broke through to the Dragon Emperor level, because he could completely defeat the Nirvana beast of that level, or even the second Nirvana beast …
In the future, the Rebirth Energy would also need to be condensed, and the conditions to condense the Rebirth Energy would be even more stringent. Currently, Kang Shin-mu had not come into contact with it, but he knew that he had to first build a good foundation, or else the road ahead would become more and more difficult.
The better the foundation, the easier the road ahead would be.
"High-level Origin Source Dragon Martial Skills, I already have the Dark Dragon Imperial Filth Technique for recovery."
"I still need to cultivate the body-refining dragon martial skills, attack-type dragon martial skills, body-type dragon martial skills … After cultivating all of them, I will be able to reach the strongest dragon martial skills!"
"Of course, I'm afraid none of the students in the four Dragon Martial Academies can achieve this condition."
"After all, after obtaining the dragon martial skills, I have to cultivate them to the highest Heaven-grade, especially the high-level Origin Source Dragon Martial Skills. It is not that easy to cultivate them to the Heaven-grade."
Kang Shin-mu sighed. It seemed like he could only take it one step at a time.
After spending half a month to raise the grade of his divine dragon blood to the fifth level of the Dragon King, he walked out of his palace, planning to head to the Beast Abyss again.
If he had just broken through and returned to Emperor Xi's Dragon Martial Academy, it would still be a little difficult for him to deal with the fourth level Rebirth Tribulation Dragon King and Demon King. But now, he was much more confident in dealing with opponents of this level.
This time, Kang Shin-mu headed to the Beast Abyss alone.
He did not intend to expose some of his secrets to others. Moreover, the Beast Abyss was basically a place that only students of the Dragon Emperor level had the right to visit. As for the Dragon King students, they were basically just followers.
It was useless for Kang Shin-mu to bring a bunch of Dragon King in. They would only be adding to the trouble.
"This time, I should earn enough experience points and cultivate the Chaotic Dragon Body to the Heaven-grade!"
Kang Shin-mu planned to cultivate his only body-refining dragon martial skill, the Chaotic Dragon Body, to the highest level. This would allow his ability to resist attacks to reach a higher level.