#1014 - The fish will die, but the net will not break.
Back in the Trial Grounds, the Holy Spirit Stone Tower voiced its emotions, expressing that after countless ages, it had finally awaited someone who could pass the ultimate trial and obtain the treasured resources.
The entire stone tower glowed, its runes blazing, soaring into the sky, and evolving into a formation diagram in the air.
The formation diagram rotated, gradually forming a spatial gate in the middle.
“Go, Trial Taker, I hope you can go further…”
The stone tower’s desolate voice carried a hint of anticipation and longing.
Jun Wuxie put away Lan Lan, leaped up, and passed through the spatial gate.
In the next moment, he appeared on the spatial teleportation array at the edge of the second level.
The scene here was exactly the same as the edge of the first level when entering the tower, with the same distribution and spacing of all the teleportation arrays.
“Lan Lan, let’s go find the people from the Rising Sun Sect and Purple Cloud Grotto Heaven, let’s go.”
He patted Lan Lan’s neck, and the little fellow let out a soft cry, instantly speeding away at a godlike pace.
When they were on the first level, the people from the two sects hadn't been completely wiped out, because some of them must have already arrived on this second level before that.
Having passed the ultimate test of the advanced trial, there must still be Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence, just like a sun appearing on the first level.
If he were to devour the Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence at that time, after the sun's demise, he would inevitably be discovered.
During cultivation, blood energy is difficult to conceal, and his golden blood energy cannot be exposed, otherwise it would not only bring trouble to himself but also danger to everyone around him.
Jun Wuxie absolutely would not allow such a thing to happen, so the people from the three sects who entered the Trial Tower this time must die, not a single one could be left!
He first chose the edge area of the second level.
Judging from the rotation of trials by the people of the Rising Sun Sect and Purple Cloud Grotto Heaven, they should have already discussed gathering together and not separating from each other.
The people who arrived on the second level first should be waiting in the edge area, constantly contacting those who came to the second level later in the process.
Just as he had predicted, it didn't take long for him to discover the traces of the disciples from the Rising Sun Sect and Purple Cloud Grotto Heaven.
After these people who arrived on the second level contacted each other, they had already gathered together.
This saved him the trouble of searching slowly.
When Jun Wuxie appeared before them, the expressions of the people from the two sects changed drastically.
There were more than twenty people here, and almost instantly, they summoned their middle-grade Saint Weapons, quickly separated, and looked at him vigilantly, their eyes filled with fear and intense killing intent.
“Yue Wuxie, how did you find us!”
Their faces were gloomy. Now that there were only twenty or so people, they didn't have the confidence to deal with Yue Wuxie.
What puzzled them was that the edge area was so vast, with a long horizontal distance, how did the one surnamed Yue find them?
“Yue Wuxie, we came to the tower for trials, and we didn’t actively provoke you. Don’t go too far. Don’t think we’re afraid of you?”
The disciples of the two sects glared at him, putting on an appearance as if they were wronged, but didn't want him to think they were afraid.
“That’s right, we don’t interfere with each other. You do your trials, and we do ours!”
As they spoke, they urged the middle-grade Saint Weapons to the limit of what they could, and the killing intent of the Saint Weapons condensed, ready to launch a fierce attack at any time.
“You weren’t saying this when you entered the tower.” Jun Wuxie smiled faintly, “Now you say you don’t interfere with each other. When all the disciples of your two sects arrive, I think you’ll have a different story to tell.”
The expressions of the disciples from the two sects changed upon hearing this. They didn't expect that Yue Wuxie had seen through their thoughts.
They didn't have confidence now, so they were admitting defeat in order to buy time, just waiting for everyone to gather, and then join forces to kill Yue Wuxie!
“What do you want? Do you really think we’re afraid of you? If we really fight, we’ll fight you to the death with our middle-grade Saint Weapons, and you won’t get away unscathed!”
“The fish will die, but the net won’t break.”
Jun Wuxie spoke indifferently, his voice extremely cold and ruthless.
As soon as he finished speaking, he reached out and pointed a finger.
The fingertip struck in the void, and a golden light instantly spread out, crashing like ocean waves, sweeping in all directions.
Instantly, roars and the trembling sounds of Saint Weapons echoed through the heavens and earth.
However, the golden sword wave instantly obliterated everything.
The Saint Weapons were knocked away, and the bodies of all the disciples of the two sects shook violently, freezing in the air, with horror solidified in everyone's eyes.
Many bloodstains slowly appeared on their bodies, and then their entire bodies suddenly shattered, turning into fragments, falling to the ground, covered in blood.
Jun Wuxie collected all the Naring and Saint Weapons, and rode Lan Lan away quickly.
“There shouldn’t be anyone left from the three sects, right?”
He was still unsure whether there were any survivors.
As long as one person saw his golden blood energy, there might be a major incident after they left.
However, he didn't plan to search now, as it would take too much time.
The world on the second level was no different from the first level, still relatively dim and misty.
Before long, he found the Holy Spirit Stone Tower, still having Lan Lan stand guard in the distance, while he activated the runes on the stone tower.
“Warning! The trial has been activated, and the trial army is about to appear!”
A voice came from inside the stone tower, and Jun Wuxie leaped to the top of the stone tower, waiting quietly.
On the ground around, a rune array with a radius of tens of miles lit up.
The first wave of the trial army appeared, still humanoid rune simulated creatures in black armor, with the same number as the first wave of the trial on the first level, a total of one hundred and sixty people, and the strength of their talent growth had been improved, from the genius level to the quasi-prodigy level.
The realm of the trial army was on par with him. As his realm broke through to the peak of the Saint Middle Heaven Position on the first level of the tower, it also became the peak of the Middle Heaven Position.
“If it changes like this, the trial army will improve by a major talent growth realm every two levels. I just don’t know if the change pattern will change later…”
Jun Wuxie stood on the top of the tower with his hands behind his back. Nine battle swords rushed out of his body, which were the spoils of war seized from the disciples of the three sects – middle-grade Saint Weapons.
The nine battle swords, condensed with martial intent and sword intent, clanged clearly, and the Red Dust Sword Intent permeated, and the battle swords burst out with brilliant sword energy, killing towards the trial army, sweeping in all directions.
Such a trial was not difficult for him at all. The difference in the talent growth realm was too great. They were not on the same level at all. In terms of pure strength, if the suppression of the major realm barrier was not counted, it was equivalent to fighting opponents who were several major realms lower than him. Because the realms were the same, but the talent growth strength was a full seven major realms higher.
Wave after wave.
His trial speed was very fast.
The first nine waves of basic trials were completed quickly.
“Trial Taker, congratulations on completing the basic trial on the second level of the Trial Tower and obtaining the Ruyi Holy Spirit Essence reward. May I ask, do you want to continue the advanced trial?”
The first level of the Holy Spirit Tower shone brightly, and the Ruyi Holy Spirit Essence rushed to the top of the tower like a stream, submerging into his body.
“Don’t ask, the answer is continue, come on.”
Jun Wuxie responded calmly, closing his eyes slightly, and enjoying the pleasure of the Ruyi Holy Spirit Essence pouring into his body.
This feeling of being able to clearly feel the growth of the cave heaven star sea was truly wonderful.
What he lacked the most now was his realm!
“The advanced trial is about to begin. Please be vigilant, Trial Taker, and I wish you success!”
The voice in the Holy Spirit Stone Tower fell, and the range of the rune array on the ground quickly expanded, and the brightness of each rune was increased by several levels.
More than two thousand trial troops appeared, rushing in mightily, and the shouts of killing shook the wilderness, and the iron-blooded aura swept across the mountains and rivers, and the momentum was fierce.
The nine battle swords shuttled around Jun Wuxie's body, killing in all directions, and the sword energy was vertical and horizontal.
Wherever the sword energy went, the rune army's armor was shattered, their bodies collapsed, and they kept falling down, like mowing grass.
In an instant, thousands of rune armies were wiped out.
He came wave after wave at an extremely fast speed, and soon reached more than forty waves.
As with the law of the first level trial, after the fortieth wave, the realm of the rune army no longer continued to change, but began to appear leaders with higher talent growth.
Throughout the trial, the upper limit of the realm change of the trial army was exactly twenty small realms higher than the trial taker's, which was a whole major realm in the Saint realm.
“Although it’s perverted, it’s not enough to be desperate…”
Jun Wuxie estimated that the following levels should follow this rule, otherwise, after reaching the seventh level, it might be very difficult.
He was very clear that what he thought was not desperate was only for him. For any other cultivator in the Saint realm, it was impossible to get through all the trials.
Not to mention the later levels, even the first level was extremely hopeless, because the fiftieth wave corresponded to the leader in the Myth realm of the trial taker's realm.
In this world, those who can step into the Myth realm in the Saint realm cannot do it even for the contemporary holy sons and holy virgins of those top forces.
Perhaps, they would have ancient young supreme beings sealed down from certain ancient times, and some of those people might have entered the Myth realm in the Saint realm.
However, such people would not come to Qingzhou at all, let alone be interested in this Trial Tower, because the world did not really understand the Trial Tower.
Besides, those people should still be sleeping and have not woken up, and even if they wake up and come to this Trial Tower, how many levels of the ultimate trial can they complete?
He killed all the way to the fiftieth wave.
Leaders appeared in eight directions, and they combined to become an armored giant.
The realm of this armored giant was still the same as Jun Wuxie, but the strength of his talent growth had changed from the first level's Myth realm first level to the Myth realm second level!
On each level, the ultimate leader's talent growth was improved by one level in the Myth realm.
If this law was followed, then by the seventh and eighth levels, it would be the Myth realm seventh and eighth levels!
For cultivators in the Saint realm other than Jun Wuxie, this was simply invincible.
Jun Wuxie didn't want to waste time. He activated both the Taiji Star Sea and the Primordial Disassembly Technique. The instant the Sword of the Mortal World slashed forward, the Dou Character Secret's tenfold attack effect was triggered.
Just one sword!
The brilliant sword energy, along with the heavy, overbearing, and age-old epic sword intent, severed the greatsword in the armored giant's hand, splitting its entire body in two from head to toe.
"Congratulations, Trialist, for completing the second level advancement trial of the Tower of Trials, defeating the ultimate boss, and becoming the first person in history to clear the ultimate trial of the second level. The Trialist is rewarded with a massive amount of Ruyi Sacred Spirit Essence. The hidden condition is fulfilled, and the Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence appears!"
The brightness of the runes on each level of the Sacred Spirit Stone Tower increased countless times at this moment. All the runes were dazzling and radiant. The seven-story tower shone brightly on every level.
A massive amount of Ruyi Sacred Spirit Essence surged out from the tower like a rushing river, pouring upwards and continuously into his body.
"Comfortable..."
Jun Wuxie opened his arms, closed his eyes, and enjoyed the feeling.
This essence entered his Blessed Grotto, expanding the Star Sea at an astonishing rate.
With his inner vision, he watched his Star Sea expand crazily, the number of stars within it increasing explosively, and his realm continuously climbing.
In just a quarter of an hour, the Star Sea in his Blessed Grotto boomed, erupting with a tsunami-like momentum.
Every inch of his skin was glowing, and every pore was spraying golden light, illuminating the mountains and rivers around the stone tower with golden splendor.
Before long, the momentum subsided, the golden light receded, and Jun Wuxie opened his eyes.
"I've broken through, reaching the Great Perfection of the Middle Heaven position of a Saint. I'm very satisfied with this speed of breakthrough. It seems that I can achieve a breakthrough in every level of the trials ahead..."
Jun Wuxie was in a joyful mood. Before entering the Tower of Trials, he couldn't have imagined that he could break through his realm like this while training in the tower, unless he stayed in one place and cultivated in seclusion, but that was obviously impossible.
This Ruyi Sacred Spirit Essence is truly as one wishes, infinitely shortening the cultivation time. The saved cultivation time can be used to devour the Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence, evolve his bloodline and physique, and transform towards the Congenital Sacred Body.
The world was no longer dim, but bright.
Above the high sky, the clouds had long since dissipated, and a round golden sun hung high, scattering scorching sunlight, causing the temperature between heaven and earth to rise sharply.
Jun Wuxie rushed towards the sun, landed on that special sun, sat down, and began to devour the original fragments of the Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence inside.
His current devouring speed was much faster than when he was on the first level.
At that time, his resistance to flames was far inferior to what it is now, and he could only devour it slowly at first.
Now, his devouring speed was several times faster than at the beginning.
The brightness of the sun changed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the fire essence inside was rapidly lost.
By the second day, the color of the sun had become somewhat reddish.
On the third day, it completely turned into a deep red fireball, and the original fragments of the Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence inside were completely devoured by Jun Wuxie.
The strength of his physical body had improved a lot, and the Congenital Fire Source of the Sacred Body had become even more concentrated.
"It's about to break through the intensity of talent growth..."
He left the sun and returned to the Sacred Spirit Stone Tower.
Carefully sensing the changes in himself, he was now at the peak of the sixth heaven of the Myth realm, only one step away from breaking through the shackles and stepping into the seventh heaven!
"This trip was not in vain. It's a good thing I came to participate in the trials and didn't miss it, otherwise I would have missed a great opportunity for nothing..."
He was now surging with excitement. According to this progress, if he could clear all the levels of the Tower of Trials, he would definitely be able to break through several levels of talent growth intensity.
In the Myth realm, this was originally very difficult, but now it had become so easy.
"You are too strong, simply a monster..."
The ancient voice in the Sacred Spirit Stone Tower exclaimed. How terrifying was the Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence to a Saint realm cultivator?
This trialist actually used only two days to completely devour and refine the original fragments of the Six Yang Primordial Fire Essence on the second level. Unbelievable.
"A monster... that comes from countless opportunities and countless life-and-death transformations..." Jun Wuxie smiled faintly and said, "Let me ask you something. Besides me, are there any other trialists on this second level, or have any trialists passed the second level trial and gone to the third level?"
The Sacred Spirit Stone Tower was slightly silent, and then said, "Originally, such a question is a violation of the rules. I shouldn't answer you, but now it doesn't matter anymore. My mission has been completed. Now, there is only you, a trialist, in the entire Tower of Trials. There is no one else."
"Thank you. Now open the passage, I'm going to the third level."
Jun Wuxie was completely relieved to get such an answer.
Before entering the tower, he had actually counted the number of trial disciples from the three sects.
The number of people he killed matched the number, but he still couldn't rest assured, worried that the people from the three sects would have special methods to secretly bring more people in.
Now it seems that these concerns were unnecessary, and he was relieved.
In the subsequent trials, he could use his abilities with peace of mind, without any worries, and no longer afraid of revealing his true identity.
