After all, the post-upgrade rewards from both the Diary and Check-in modules were far richer than those from ordinary sign-ins. He had never expected such a pleasant surprise on top of that!
A Seed of an Innate Divine Ability—something that could be nurtured within the body to give birth to an innate divine ability!
Divine abilities and mystical techniques were already precious to begin with—let alone an innate divine ability?
However, he had no use for it for the time being. Only after reaching the Middle Three Heavens would it truly be of practical value.
Taking a deep breath, Chu Ge once again connected with the System.
"System, check in!"
[Ding! First-time check-in at Taihuang Hall. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the ancient inheritance: Grand Zhou Cycle Stellar Aperture Refining Diagram!]
A torrent of information flooded into Chu Ge's mind. The volume was so massive that for a moment he was left dazed and disoriented by the impact.
Only after a short while did Chu Ge finish digesting this influx of information.
Shock and ecstatic joy surged in his eyes.
An Aperture Refining Diagram!
This was an indispensable part of cultivation in the Aperture-Opening Realm.
Yet such diagrams were usually held tightly in the hands of the great powers.
Ordinary grassroots cultivators, without opportunity and without inheritance, would never even come into contact with an Aperture Refining Diagram.
The function of an Aperture Refining Diagram lay in linking together the apertures a cultivator had opened, causing aperture to connect with aperture and thus form an effect where one plus one was greater than two.
But most ordinary cultivators opened their apertures without any guiding pattern or objective.
Once they met the basic requirements for breakthrough, they would hastily advance.
They had no way to dig deeper into the profound potential of this realm.
High-level Aperture Refining Diagrams, however, not only greatly amplified the benefits brought about by linking pairs of apertures, but also contained methods for opening Hidden Apertures!
When a cultivator lights up all the required aperture points recorded on the Aperture Refining Diagram they practice, the enhancement granted by the apertures will undergo another surge, reaching a terrifying degree!
As a result, a cultivator who possesses an Aperture Refining Diagram inheritance can easily form an overwhelming crushing advantage over one who does not!
It was precisely for this reason that the Aperture-Opening Realm had become the realm in which the geniuses of the great factions lingered the longest below the Sixth Heaven.
Because this realm was not only the final realm of foundation-building in the Lower Three Heavens, but also the realm with the greatest room for excavating one's latent potential!
At the same time, once one perfected an Aperture Refining Diagram, cultivation in the next realm—the Unceasing Realm—would also gain twice the result with half the effort!
Yet the reason Chu Ge was so pleasantly shocked was not merely because he had obtained an Aperture Refining Diagram.
Although such diagrams were rare, to the Taihuang Sacred Land they were not all that precious—aside from the few core diagrams held strictly by the Sacred Land's inner circle and guarded against leakage.
As for those very core diagrams, now that Chu Ge was already a Holy Lord's personal disciple, he was more than qualified to cultivate them. Even the Undying Radiant Dragon Scripture he had previously obtained already contained an Aperture Refining Diagram inheritance of extremely high grade!
What truly sent Chu Ge into raptured delight was this:
The number of apertures required for the true perfection of the Aperture Refining Diagram rewarded by the System was an astonishing 360 apertures in total!
Essence, qi, and spirit—three paths of apertures—exceeded even the Grand Perfection number of the Aperture-Opening Realm by a full 36 apertures!
Moreover, the 360 apertures opened by this diagram were tempered with the power of the stars, known as Stellar Apertures.
They were far stronger than ordinary apertures—one was comparable to ten, on par with Hidden Apertures!
In addition, the Grand Zhou Cycle Stellar Aperture Refining Diagram also recorded the methods for opening five special Hidden Apertures!
Three hundred and sixty Stellar Apertures each comparable to Hidden Apertures, plus five powerful special Hidden Apertures—this Aperture Refining Diagram could truly be called a supreme inheritance!