Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art

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«*Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art*» is one of the top two body tempering arts in All Heavens and Myriad Realms, sharing the honour with the «*Ruism’s Vajrapani Body*».

The «*Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art*» was created by an unnamed old man thousands of years ago. This divine art ranked third amongst the cultivation techniques he created. The divine art also was taught to seven beast cultivators directly by him.

## Cultivation

This art allowed one to condense the projections of the ancient holy apes on the top of one’s head. Each holy ape projection represented a portion of the giant ape’s divine strength. Normally speaking, the time to condense just a single phantom could take at least tens of years. It is possible for equal level body tempering arts to change the phantom, with the Divine Art as the base.

Additionally, it is possible to increase the quality of the cultivated phantoms, through participating in the Beast Realm's Holy Ape Dragon Smelting Trial (described below). Receiving the acknowledgements of the various presiding officers in the various stages will lead to one evolving said phantoms.

The acknowledgement of the presiding officers of the first stage, second station will lead to the phantoms evolving into Steel Holy Apes, causing the Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art to became stronger without affecting the number of condensed phantoms and thus greatly strengthening the practitioners body.

The acknowledgement of the presiding officers of the second stage, second station will lead to the formation of golden lines forming a lifelike picture of a dragon appearing in the phantoms, thereby strengthening and allowing the Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art to complete its form, enabling the practitioner to erupt with both the power of holy apes and dragons.

There exists a final stage of phantom quality improvement originating from combining the power of a practitioner of the Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art and the powers of a Dragon. This combination allows the powers of the dragon patterns on the body of the phantoms to materialize, enabling the technique to possess the power of both apes and dragons when used. It also provides a boost to comprehending the General Principles Chapter in the last stage of the Holy Ape Dragon Smelting Trial by 20% or higher.

The General Principles Chapter, allows to completely reconstruct, rebuild and regrow the practitioners body, fixed everything that was wrong with it and eliminating hidden dangers or weakening them.

### Cultivation Aids

*Main article: Dragon Ape Pill*
Due to the popularity of cultivating the «*Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art*» by the denizens of the Beast Realm, a medicinal pill named **Ape Dragon Pill**, was developed and commonly used by practitioners of this technique to aid in its training.

## Beast Realm's Holy Ape Dragon Smelting Trial

In order to obtain the complete legacy, a practitioner of the art must participate in the smelting trial at the Jar Holy Mountain. Only a limited number of participant allowed for each session, and each session will be held randomly. The secret recommendation is to bring a true dragon.

### Jar Holy Mountain

#### Second Station: Super Giant Ape King Acknowledgement

* Presiding officers: Skinny Super Giant Ape King and Strong Super Giant Ape King
* Reward: Holy Ape evolved into Steel Holy Ape

### Gold Moon Smelting Trial

#### First Station: Shadow Beasts

Upon arriving one the Gold Moon, the trialists will be attacked by shadow beasts that can move freely in the shadows. Those who failed to fend off the beast will have their energy sucked dry. Usually they need 3 – 5 months to recuperate.

Reward: Experience memory

#### Second Station: Divine Dragon Acknowledgement

Majority of Fifth Stage Spirit Sovereign and Sixth Stage True Monarch participants’ goal when entering the Land of Smelting Trial was not to obtain the final legacy. Their true goal was to obtain the divine dragon’s acknowledgement first. They will try to obtain the final legacy when they already a Seventh Stage Spirit Venerable or higher.

* Presiding officer: Divine Dragon
* Presiding officer (temporary): Saint Monarch Tyrant Song. By 2019, Divine Dragon already ran out of idea how to appraise the trialists. It appointed Saint Monarch Tyrant Song as the temporary presiding officer, despite Tyrant Song is one of the trialist himself. This is due to Tyrant Song already obtained its acknowledgement beforehand.
* Asst. presiding officers (temporary): Saint White & White Dragon. At first, Divine Dragon only wanted to appoint Tyrant Song as the temporary presiding officer. However, it saw White and White Dragon seemed interested to help out, so why not?
* Reward: Holy Ape obtained dragon tattoo and dragon strength.

#### Third Station Purgatory Tunnel

The immortal boat for this station was destroyed when Song Shuhang activated a special skill taught to him by White Two.

* Presiding officer: Dragon Pupil
* Reward:

#### Crystal Room

There are 100,000 crystals in this room, with each crystal has a rune on it. Trialists must rearrange the crystals into the correct sequence.

Reward: Complete Divine Art's development experience from First Stage to Eternal Life Being. Subtle experience with Way of Time. Limited by trialist's realms.

## Known Practitioners

### Beast Realm Denizens

This divine art is commonly practised by the practitioners from Beast Realm. In the Beast Realm, it is common to show off the quantity of Holy Ape phantoms one’s have before a fight. By comparing the number of the phantoms, the combatants established the relative strength between them.

### Orangutan General

Beast Realm’s Great General who Conquers the West was widely known as a genius practitioner of this art, only managed to condense 107 Holy Apes phantoms, despite practicing it since childhood.

During the Tour of Forbidden Area, he was bestowed with 143 Holy Ape phantoms by White Two making his phantoms to 250. He became White Two's pet to improve his phantom quality to the level as White Two.

### White

White obtained the manual for the «*Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art*» from a phoenix from the Beast Realm. In exchange, he lent the phoenix the Stone Tablet. He practiced this art as a hobby and condensed 587 phantoms.

During the Tour of Forbidden Area, White Two encountered Orangutan General who boasted about his 107 phantoms. As a reward for becoming his pet, White Two bestowed 143 Holy Ape phantoms to the Orangutan General, leaving himself with 444 phantoms.

Afterwards, White Two practiced the art again until he mistakenly condensed 12,346 phantoms instead of 12,345 phantoms as he originally intended. He solved the problem by bestowing a Holy Ape phantom to Song Shuhang.

### White-haired Old Man

White-haired Old Man practiced the «*Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art*» for several hundred of years. Only after he reached the Fifth Stage did he managed to condense 10 holy apes.

### Song Shuhang

Song Shuhang obtained the manual for the First Stage until the Fifth Stage of the «*Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art*» from a Beast Realm’s cultivator, the White-haired Old Man. Later on, he obtained the full and authentic version up until the Ninth Stage from Saint Monarch Blue Luan as part of Beast Realm’s payment for his help in the Biohazard Crisis.

Song Shuhang’s apes were noted to be extraordinarily unique and unprecedented. Even the Super Giant Ape Kings and Divine Dragon have never see anything like it, despite them having presided the trials for thousands upon tens of thousands years.

His apes possess their own personalities and habits as if they were alive. They even began providing Ruism righteous qi. His version reached to higher levels.

### Blue Luan

Saint Monarch Blue Luan also practiced this «*Holy Ape Dragon Strength Divine Art*». Since she was an established Eighth Stage Profound Saint, it is safe to assume that she has condensed more than a hundred holy ape phantoms.

As part of Beast Realm’s payment for Tyrant Song’s help in the Biohazard Crisis, Blue Luan delivered with the complete manual for the divine art. She also explained the FAQs to the self-learnt Saint Monarch Tyrant Song.

## Technique's Minor Chapters

* Ape Dragon Nascent Soul Ingenious Method - Sixth Stage True Monarch for nurturing a Nascent Soul.

## Links and References

1. ↑ Chapter 1218
2. ↑ Chapter 1362
3. ↑ Chapter 2096
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 1219
5. ↑ The maximum number may increase if the practitioner has a special bloodline or physique.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 1298
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Chapter 1905
8. ↑ Chapter 1299
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 2038
10. ↑ Chapter 2039
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Chapter 2042
12. ↑ Chapter 2141
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Chapter 1900
14. ↑ Chapter 2037
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 2045
16. ↑ Chapter 2048
17. ↑ Chapter 2041
18. ↑ Chapter 2043
19. ↑ Chapter 2044
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Chapter 945
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Chapter 1297
22. ↑ In Chinese, the number 250 (二百五; *èr bǎi wǔ*) means that someone or something is ‘air-headed’, ‘half-hearted’ or ‘foolish’. This word is fairly offensive and for post 80s and 90s Chinese school-aged boys, it acted a legitimate alternative to *sha bi*, which is strictly forbidden to be used.
23. ↑ Chapter 2012
24. ↑ 444 is homonym to ‘die die die’.
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Chapter 1220
26. ↑ Chapter 2103
27. ↑ Chapter 1906
28. ↑ Chapter 2055