#1012 - Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence
Trials were something Jun Wuxie had always been confident in, just like back in the Golden Scaled Secret Realm.
Back then, he cleared the trial to the limit, completing all the hardest difficulty levels, obtaining massive resources and reaping extremely rich rewards.
That trial enabled his strength to advance by leaps and bounds, resulting in a huge improvement!
Now that these first nine waves of trials in the Tower of Trials are merely basic trials, and there are advanced trials later on, there's no reason for him to stop here.
It seems that to ascend to the seventh floor or higher, he would probably have to clear the advanced trials.
"What I want to know is, what kind of rewards can be obtained after passing the advanced trials?"
The voice inside the Holy Spirit Stone Tower responded, "Upon clearing the advanced trials, the trial-taker can obtain a massive amount of Ruyi Holy Spirit Essence needed for cultivation corresponding to their major realm. Besides this, rare resources treasured for ages within the corresponding floor of the Trial Tower will appear, but whether the trial-taker can obtain them depends on their own ability."
"Rare resources treasured for ages?" Jun Wuxie's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "What kind of resources are they? Can you tell me about them?"
"According to the rules, the trial-taker cannot be informed before successfully passing the advanced trials. I can only tell you that it is a very ancient essence of origin between heaven and earth. Once the trial-taker passes the advanced trials, it will appear, but whether they can obtain it depends on whether the trial-taker's own ability can control it!"
"Alright! Let's start the advanced trials now!"
Jun Wuxie couldn't help but feel excited. A very ancient essence of origin between heaven and earth—just this sentence made him imagine endlessly.
Very ancient, essence of origin—these eight words were enough to illustrate how precious that resource was.
Such a thing would probably be extremely difficult to find even in a prosperous era.
He knew that obtaining it required not only opportunity but also ability.
"Trial-taker, are you sure you want to continue and begin the advanced trials?"
The voice inside the Holy Spirit Stone Tower solemnly inquired.
"Yes, hurry up, don't waste time."
Jun Wuxie was now eager to know what that ancient essence of origin was.
Now it seemed that the people of Qingzhou simply did not understand the Tower of Trials.
For hundreds of years, whether it was the Great Qian Royal Academy or the Four Sects, none of them understood this tower.
What they obtained in the first six floors of the Trial Tower were only the most basic resources rewarded by the Trial Tower—Ruyi Holy Spirit Essence.
Although the Ruyi Holy Spirit Essence could enable cultivators in the Saint Realm to break through their realms in a short period, it was useless to those in the Saint King Realm.
In fact, most of the direct disciples of the Four Sects were not interested in it, because the direct disciples were basically Half-Step Saint Kings, and this Ruyi Holy Spirit Essence could not help them break through to the Saint King Realm.
However, Saint King Realm cultivators were barred from entering by the rules of the Trial Tower.
This resulted in everyone who entered the trial each time being Saint Realm cultivators, mainly the core disciples of each sect.
The lower the realm, the easier it was here, because of the trial rules—the realm of the trial army would constantly change with the increase in waves.
For example, if a Half-Step Saint King Realm cultivator came here, by the third wave, they would have to face a trial army of the early stage of the Saint King Minor Celestial Realm.
Although it was only one small realm higher, it was separated by the barrier of a major realm, unless their talent growth intensity was several major levels higher, otherwise it would be very difficult to cope with.
"Advanced trials initiated, trial-taker, I wish you success!"
As the voice inside the Holy Spirit Stone Tower faded, the range of the rune formation on the ground rapidly expanded.
In an instant, the range of the rune formation expanded tenfold from dozens of miles to cover an area of hundreds of miles.
The tenth wave of the trial army appeared, numbering over five thousand, with six hundred and forty individuals in each direction, clad in black armor and charging forward with spears in hand.
Jun Wuxie stood atop the Holy Spirit Stone Tower, releasing crimson, crystalline blood energy, activating the True Martial Sword Art, and spreading a thick, domineering sword intent.
One heavy sword after another condensed and shuttled around his body, and under his control of his martial intent, they fiercely slashed in all directions.
Without suspense, he easily annihilated the trial army.
When the eleventh wave arrived, the number of the trial army remained the same, but their realm increased to the late stage of the Saint Great Celestial Realm.
Next, in the twelfth wave, the number doubled to over ten thousand.
In the thirteenth wave, their realm increased to the peak of the Saint Great Celestial Realm!
… …
In the subsequent waves, the number no longer changed. It seemed that the upper limit of the trial army in the entire trial wave was ten thousand, and it no longer increased.
However, the realm of the trial army still increased by one realm every other wave, and in the waves where the realm did not increase, the change in number stopped, and leaders began to appear. The realm of the leaders was the same as that of the ordinary trial army, but their talent growth intensity was much stronger.
In this way, wave after wave, not giving the trial-taker any time to breathe.
Jun Wuxie continued to kill until the fortieth wave, and the realm of the trial army had increased to above the Saint King Middle Celestial Realm, with dozens of leaders among them.
Fortunately, whether it was the trial army or the leaders, although they were a whole major realm higher than Jun Wuxie, their talent growth intensity was too low.
Even though their realm was high and their numbers were large, they were still crushed and instantly killed when facing Jun Wuxie.
He cleared the trials on the first floor very easily.
Throughout the entire process, he only moved his fingers at most, and he didn't even move a bit from the top of the Holy Spirit Stone Tower.
Forty-eighth, forty-ninth… …
The trial army in all directions of the rune formation were reduced to ashes under the True Martial Heavy Sword, and the area of hundreds of miles was filled with brilliant rune light and rain.
The trial did not end there.
At the edges of the rune formation in all directions, powerful fluctuations permeated from the small space rune formations there.
A leader wearing dark red armor and a particularly burly and strong body appeared in each small space rune formation.
After they appeared, they quickly converged.
The eight leaders combined, turning into a ten-zhang-tall armored giant, wielding a giant sword, and charging towards the Holy Spirit Stone Tower with heavy steps, causing the entire ground to shake.
Buzz!
The armored giant raised the giant sword in his hand and swept it across.
The giant sword bloomed with brilliant sword energy, a vast expanse of white, like a silver training sweeping across the sky.
Jun Wuxie stared at the sword energy, a cold light flashing in his eyes.
The True Martial Heavy Sword condensed from crimson blood energy roared forward, shattering the sword energy, and colliding heavily with the giant sword.
The giant sword was struck, ringing loudly, and bounced back, causing the armored giant to retreat several steps, his hand holding the sword spasming slightly, and the giant sword in his hand shaking non-stop.
The empty eyes of the armored giant gradually condensed blood-colored light, like two blood-red lanterns dancing in his eye sockets.
He dragged the giant sword and continued to walk towards the Holy Spirit Stone Tower, his momentum rising madly with the movement of his footsteps, as if he had cast some kind of sublimation-type forbidden technique to bless himself.
"The number of Great Derivation is fifty, one escapes, and the remainder is forty-nine."
Jun Wuxie muttered to himself, his eyes fixed on the approaching armored giant.
This giant was the one that escaped, and also the last wave of trial creatures in the advanced trials.
There was only him, no others.
The realm of the armored giant was not high, the same as Jun Wuxie's, the late stage of the Saint Middle Celestial Realm.
This was the realm that Jun Wuxie spied when the eight leaders merged into the armored giant.
Although his realm was not high, his talent growth intensity was quite outrageous!
The first heaven of the Mythic Domain!
Compared to the previous forty-nine waves of the trial army, this was completely outrageous, a world of difference.
The previous trial armies were only genius level, even the leaders were only Kings.
But now this ultimate trial leader had reached the Mythic Domain!
It seemed that the trials on the later floors would not be easy.
This was only the first floor, what about the seventh floor, wouldn't it be the seventh heaven of the Mythic Domain?
And before the fiftieth wave, it was not known what the talent growth intensity of the trial army would be.
The advanced trials set by this Tower of Trials could be described as perverted.
"I don't know how long this Tower of Trials has existed. That one from the Great Qian Royal Academy was definitely not the first person to obtain this tower. This ancient essence of origin treasured in the tower has always existed for so long, which means that no one has been able to pass the advanced trials, not even on the first floor… …"
He increasingly realized that the origin of this tower was greater than he had previously imagined, and its true master must be an extremely talented powerhouse.
Boom!
The armored giant wielded the giant sword and killed over.
The sword body impacted, causing the space here to violently oscillate. Not to mention the sword energy, even the raging wind that was rolled up was enough to instantly kill most cultivators below the Saint King Realm.
Jun Wuxie operated the Taiji Star Sea in his body, waved his fist to meet it, and the tenfold attack effect of the Dou character formula was instantly triggered.
The fist imprint was like a crimson, crystalline blood-colored sun across the sky, unstoppable, blasting the sword energy, and smashing the giant sword's aura, colliding with the giant sword, bursting out harsh metal trills.
With a crack, cracks spread all over the giant sword, and then it shattered into pieces, disintegrating into rune light and rain.
The crimson fist imprint's momentum did not diminish, blasting towards the armored giant.
The armored giant's hands bloomed with brilliant light, quickly condensing a secret technique array in front of him, forming a defensive shield wall.
Bang!
The shield wall shattered, failing to block the fist imprint, and was powerfully penetrated by it.
Boom!
The armored giant flew out, the armor on his chest shattered, revealing a huge hole.
He was penetrated by the fist imprint. After his body landed, cracks quickly appeared on his body.
At this time, Jun Wuxie pointed his fingers like a sword and slashed out a thousand-zhang sword energy from the air, killing him with one sword!
The armored giant's body quickly disintegrated, turning into brilliant light rain, and dissipated.
Here, it became quiet.
"Congratulations, Trialist, for successfully passing the final stage of the Advanced Trial and becoming the first person in history to clear the final stage of the first level! You have obtained a massive amount of Ruyi Sacred Spirit Primordial Qi and fulfilled the hidden condition: the Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence has manifested!"
The voice inside the Sacred Spirit Stone Tower was ethereal and resonant, echoing throughout the heavens and earth.
At the same time, the seven-story stone tower, except for the brilliantly lit first floor, had its remaining six floors shining brightly.
A massive amount of Ruyi Sacred Spirit Primordial Qi surged out from the six floors of the tower, rushing upwards like an inverted waterfall towards the top, pouring into his body.
His Celestial Destiny Star frantically devoured it, and the Star Sea expanded at an astonishing rate.
Jun Wushang clearly sensed his realm continuously rising.
In a short time, the blood energy in the Star Sea surged, erupting with tsunami-like momentum, and the entire Star Sea instantly doubled in size.
He instantly broke through from the late stage of the Saint Middle Celestial Realm to the peak of the Middle Celestial Realm!
"I broke through…"
Such speed left him feeling incredulous.
In the past, he already felt that his breakthrough speed was very fast and abnormal.
But compared to the Ruyi Sacred Spirit Primordial Qi, there was simply no comparison; the difference was like heaven and earth.
This was a special energy that could truly break through realms in an instant; as long as there was enough energy, one could continuously break through!
The increasingly scorching environment pulled him back from the wonderful feeling of breaking through.
The world became brighter, no longer so dim.
He looked up at the sky, where a round of golden-red sun was gradually emerging, becoming increasingly brilliant and dazzling.
As the sun manifested, scattering golden sunlight, the temperature between heaven and earth rapidly rose, and waves of heat rose from the earth illuminated by the sunlight, making the space seem to be slightly distorted.
"Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence…"
Feeling the fire essence aura in this special sunlight, Jun Wushang's breathing became slightly rapid.
He had not expected that the Trial Tower would treasure such a thing!
The Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence was of great use to him.
Ye Qingxue had said that if he wanted to achieve the Ultimate Primordial Golden Body in the future, the prerequisite was to first cultivate the Congenital Sacred Body!
The Congenital Sacred Body could only be forged by fusing sixteen sources of Congenital Origin: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Ice, Light, Life, Time, Space, Chaos, Hongmeng, Primordial, and Origin.
His physical body had fused with Fire, Lightning, and Wind.
Among these three attributes, his physical body had fused with the strongest Fire power, and the quality of the Fire Source he possessed was the highest.
He had fused with many essences of Fire in the past, but it had only transformed the Solar True Lotus into Four Yang; it was still far from Six Yang.
"This time, I can not only transform the Solar True Lotus into Six Yang grade, but also further improve my own fire attribute resistance by several levels. Fusing with this Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence, using it to temper my body, strengthen my muscles and bones, and further transform towards the Congenital Sacred Body, will definitely enhance the intensity of my talent growth!"
Jun Wushang's heart surged. This kind of Congenital Origin was too precious and hard to find in the world.
He did not expect to obtain it in this Trial Tower!
He forcibly restrained the excitement in his heart, soared into the sky, and rushed directly towards the scorching sun.
The closer he got to the scorching sun, the more terrifying the temperature became.
When he landed on the sun, the temperature had reached who knows how many billions of degrees.
Even with his formidable fire resistance and powerful physical body, he felt somewhat overwhelmed. He was drenched in sweat, his skin had a strong burning sensation, and even began to blister and get burned.
This was only the surface of the scorching sun; the temperature at its center was even higher, because all the Six Yang Primordial Essence was inside.
He drank a large mouthful of divine beast blood, sat down cross-legged, activated his Destiny Star, and began to devour the Primordial Fire Essence inside the sun.
His body was ignited with terrifying golden flames, constantly burning his flesh, causing him to feel excruciating pain.
This flame burned him from the inside out, and his flesh, internal organs, and bones seemed to be melting.
