#534 - Seventh Transformation of the Zonghuang Realm
The power of the Demon Saint was astonishing, its energy pure and unmatched. For someone like Jun Wuxie, who, despite being at the Sect Royal Realm, required energy resources far exceeding that of the Sect Royal Realm, it was an excellent resource.
In just a few days, Jun Wuxie's realm broke through.
He surged to the sixth transformation of the Sect Royal Realm, his overall strength receiving a considerable boost. Upon internal inspection, the stars within his heavenly passage were densely packed, with numerous star seas constructing the prototype of a nebula chart.
“Now I've reached the peak of the mid-stage of the Sect Royal Realm. Another step forward and I'll be at the late stage. By then, the prototype of the nebula chart will be initially completed, and then I'll move forward, constructing a true nebula chart, stepping into the Saint Sect Realm!”
He pondered while absorbing and refining the power of the Demon Saint.
Currently, the situation in the world is changing too quickly, and he is increasingly eager and thirsty to improve his strength.
He looked at the center of the mountain, where the light cocoon was becoming thicker, covered with mysterious demonic marks.
He could sense Yan Qingcheng's aura, which had changed considerably compared to the past, with a much stronger bloodline aura, suggesting that her demonic true blood had begun to gradually awaken.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, ten days had passed.
The runes on Demon Saint Mountain gradually dimmed, ceasing to release demonic power.
The demonic power filling the heavens and earth was quickly absorbed.
The mountain transformed into an ordinary mountain, with nothing extraordinary about it.
Jun Wuxie slowly opened his eyes, exhaling a long breath.
His eyes shone brightly, and his entire aura was more than twice as strong as before entering the mountain!
The peak of the seventh transformation of the Sect Royal Realm!
This trip yielded great gains, two minor realms in ten days.
Without such an opportunity, achieving such a breakthrough in the Sect Royal Realm would be a pipe dream.
“This time, within this secret land, I must try my best to break through to the Saint Sect Realm. Only by reaching the Saint Sect Realm can I reduce the suppression of the Semi-Saint domain on me. By then, perhaps I still won't be a match for a Semi-Saint, but I should be able to rely on my own strength to retreat completely in front of a Semi-Saint…”
He pondered this way.
Semi-Saints are very strong, he had no doubt about that.
Although he had killed Semi-Saints before, the circumstances were special.
For example, the Blood Toad was trapped in the swamp and could not avoid his Severing Technique, and leaving the swamp area meant standing on invincible ground, taking a natural advantage.
As for the old coir raincoat, his essence, energy, and spirit were severely depleted, his blood energy was failing, and his strength was no longer at its peak. Moreover, he was successfully ambushed without any preparation, otherwise, he would not have been a match for him even for a single exchange.
What is a Saint?
It is an existence that has truly achieved a leap in life!
The so-called transcendence into sainthood means this.
Saints, although they are also cultivated by humans, they have completely broken away from the life level of humans, possessing the ability to destroy stars, and are extremely powerful.
Semi-Saints, on the other hand, are a kind of existence between Saints and mortal martial artists.
They have already faintly touched the threshold of the Saint Realm, and have already embarked on the starting point of the path of life leap.
As for Saint Sect, in the end, they are still just martial arts masters, only walking at the pinnacle of masters, given a Saint character, but there is no substantial relationship with Saint at all.
Jun Wuxie got up and stretched his arms on the altar, practicing secret techniques.
He did not release his blood energy, his power was restrained and not released, just wanting to familiarize himself with the power he now possessed.
In the center of the mountain, the light cocoon still existed, but it was gradually thinning, and the demonic marks on it were also fading a lot.
Obviously, Yan Qingcheng was absorbing its power.
The next day, the light cocoon disappeared, revealing Yan Qingcheng's figure sitting there.
She wore a purple dress, like a goddess, her purple hair flowing with crystal purple light, her whole person had a trace of transcendence than before, and the diffused aura was many times stronger than before.
Jun Wuxie opened his Primal Chaos True Eyes to take a look, and was shocked.
He seemed to see dormant primordial demonic power in her body, a power that shocked him very much.
However, those demonic powers were currently dormant and had not awakened.
But there was a very pure demonic power flowing in her body.
Her talent growth intensity had actually been promoted to the late stage of the Myriad World King, reaching a terrifying level of the eighth heaven!
“It seems that Qingcheng's demonic true blood has really awakened…”
Jun Wuxie suddenly realized that many ancient god bloodlines in this world possessed extremely terrifying potential, and once they truly awakened, their talent growth intensity would increase rapidly.
Relatively speaking, the awakening degree of his Chaos Bloodline was too low, and currently it could only be regarded as a preliminary awakening.
If his bones had not been dug out back then, then that Chaos Source Stone would have definitely allowed the Chaos Bloodline to further awaken. Unfortunately, its Chaos Power was used to repair the Primal Bones.
However, it was not without gains.
The reborn Chaos Primal Bones were stronger than the previous Primal Bones, activating a trace of Chaos True Blood that was originally difficult to activate.
The Chaos Forbidden Laws Myriad Phenomenon Domain should be inherited from the True Blood.
After all, that Xiao Tianming took his bones, but did not awaken this phenomenon domain.
“It's too difficult to find treasures containing Chaos Source Power. I don't know when my Chaos Bloodline will awaken again. Qingcheng's Enchanting Eyes True Blood is actually the Enchanting Eyes True Demon Bloodline. If I can find the Enchanting Eyes Demon Flower again, let alone the legendary domain, at least it can let her rush to the quasi-legendary. Moreover, she also possesses the Void Ancient God Bloodline, gathering two god bloodlines in one body! In the future, if the two ancient god bloodlines are awakened, then it will simply be too strong, I'm afraid that among the same ranks, I won't be too much weaker than her…”
Jun Wuxie thought to himself, it seems that he has to go to the trial land again sometime, and take the Void Sand there, which can allow Yan Qingcheng to awaken the Void God Blood!
However, that place is too terrifying. To reach the top of the mountain and successfully obtain the Void Sand, even with his growth intensity, he would need at least the Saint Sect Realm!
“Wuxie.”
Yan Qingcheng lightly tapped her jade feet and floated in front of him, looking at him with her charming and cold face slightly raised, her misty eyes carrying a hint of excitement.
“The feeling of skyrocketing strength, isn’t it particularly wonderful?”
Jun Wuxie said with a smile, he was too clear about this feeling, he had experienced it too many times, every time he was high-spirited, feeling that he could hold the world in his hands and punch through the universe.
“Yes, I have never experienced the feeling of improving so much in such a short period of time. It is a bit unreal, as if being in a dream.”
“This is the power of the Ancient God Bloodline. Now that your bloodline awakening degree is still low, you can reach such a level, and you have dual god bloodlines. Entering the mythical realm in the future is a certainty!”
“Really… really can enter the mythical realm?”
Yan Qingcheng was stunned, looking at him with some disbelief.
Myth, that is a level that should not exist in legends.
But she believed in the man in front of her, he was not a person who spoke carelessly.
“Believe me, you definitely can.”
Yan Qingcheng nodded. After calming down, she suddenly thought of something and said, “We should leave. We have spent too long here. If we delay any longer, the other opportunities in this secret land may fall into the hands of others!”
After she finished speaking, she pulled Jun Wuxie and left.
Seeing her like this, Jun Wuxie couldn't help but wonder, “Do you have a goal? Do you know what other natural treasures are here?”
“Yes, in the soul imprints of the demon ancestors, in addition to this demon saint burial ground, there is also a location where a kind of tree grows, called the Demon Spirit Tree, which bears a kind of fruit called the Demon Spirit Fruit, which can be used to improve talent growth intensity!”
Jun Wuxie immediately became interested. Things that improve talent growth intensity can be said to be peerless treasures!
This kind of thing is really hard to find.
For martial artists, talent growth intensity is much more important than realm.
The former is relatively easier to improve, while the latter is very difficult.
Moreover, if the talent growth intensity is high, then the realm limit that martial artists can reach will also increase.
He retracted the Primal Chaos incarnation at the mouth of the canyon, rushed out of the mountain, and saw that the Fire Dragon and the Demon Ape were gathered together, looking sneaky, and were discussing something in a low voice.
His divine sense was so keen that he heard the content of their conversation.
The two owe-a-beating guys were actually discussing when to take advantage of his unpreparedness, join forces to sneak attack, beat him up violently, and vent their anger.
The muscles on Jun Wuxie's face twitched a few times.
I have to say, these are really two iron fools, signing a soul contract with him, their life and death are controlled in his mind, and they dare to have evil intentions and plan such a thing to court death.
What a face full of flowers, looking for teeth all over the ground, why are the flowers so red, how is steel made, all kinds of words, discussing with great enthusiasm.
Seeing Jun Wuxie come out, the two guys were suddenly stunned, with a hint of panic in their eyes, trotting up with their tails between their legs, bowing and scraping, with a flattering look, which was completely different from the lewd look of fantasy on their faces during the discussion just now.
“Ah, master, you have broken through again, master is really divine and talented, a strange man who shocks the past and the present, this temperament, this heroic posture, is as majestic as the eternal mountains, I will definitely be your devout and loyal admirer and servant for the rest of my life!”
The Fire Dragon flattered very shamelessly. The dragon head should obviously be very majestic, and the dragon eyes should obviously be very sharp, but at this moment, they were all flattering. Jun Wuxie wanted to beat it up, this guy was too hypocritical.
The Demon Ape couldn't help but cast a contemptuous look at this guy.
“You are really very loyal.” Jun Wuxie glanced at the Fire Dragon meaningfully, and then said, “Come in, all of you!”
After saying that, without waiting for them to react, he directly took them into the soul space in his body.
“They seemed to be discussing ambushing you just now?”
The corners of Jun Wuxie's mouth turned black, and he said, “I'll slowly clean up those two iron fools when I have time!”
Yan Qingcheng covered her mouth and chuckled, and said, “Let's go.”
She led the way in front, Jun Wuxie followed, and quickly left this area.
The journey ahead was long, and along the way, in certain areas, they saw some natural treasures being fought over by humans and sea creatures.
They only glanced at them briefly.
The human prodigies were quite strong, but the sea creatures only had a few individuals there, and they were basically being suppressed.
So, they didn't interfere.
Fortunately, the sea creatures who came this time were just ordinary young experts. Only four were like the White Shark King, and he had killed one of them. The rest weren't very strong.
The humans who came were the top prodigies from various forces and had the strength to fight.
They didn't know how many hundreds of thousands of miles they traversed before finally arriving at their destination.
Ahead was a small hill, only a few hundred meters high.
At the foot of the hill were many corpses of sea creatures, all of whom had reverted to their original forms after death. The ground was covered in solidified bloodstains, long since dried.
"We're too late…"
Yan Qingcheng sighed. On the hill, a purple sapling swayed in the wind, its leaves crystalline, shimmering with purple light.
However, apart from the leaves, there wasn't a single fruit on the tree. They could see at the treetop, there were two fruit stems, clearly marks left after someone picked the fruits.
"It's gone, it's gone," Jun Wuxie said, although he also felt very regretful, he also felt relieved: "Judging from the scene here, there were human martial artists fighting with sea creatures at the time. So many sea creatures died, but there were no corpses of human martial artists. It seems that the Spirit Demon Fruit was obtained by humans, and it didn't fall into the hands of the sea creatures, which is a good thing."
"That's the only way to think about it…"
Before Yan Qingcheng could finish speaking, at the end of the distant sky, lightning suddenly flashed, like a silver dragon, piercing down and connecting the sky and the earth.
Both she and Jun Wuxie's expressions changed slightly.
The power of the lightning was strong, definitely not natural lightning produced by the collision of ordinary clouds.
If it were natural lightning, it would be impossible to have such a terrifying scene. Even one ten-thousandth of its power would be extraordinary.
Jun Wuxie said, "There should be an abnormal situation over there. Let's go take a look!"
Yan Qingcheng nodded. The Spirit Demon Fruit here had been picked, and there was no point in staying, so it was better to explore the area where the lightning pierced through the sky and the earth.
The distance between the two places wasn't too far, only about hundreds of thousands of miles.
At their speed of a thousand times the speed of sound, it would only take two or three minutes.
As they approached that area, they discovered that it was an island.
In front of them was a huge lake, the water clear, reflecting the rolling sea of clouds in the sky. The intense lightning made this dim world seem extremely oppressive and terrifying.
The island was long and narrow, about three or four thousand miles long from north to south, and about a thousand miles wide from east to west.
With their eyesight, and activating their pupil techniques, they could see the situation on the entire island clearly.
Above the island, the heavy clouds were very low, as if the entire sky was pressing down. Thick silver lightning, like silver dragons, howled and pierced down from the sky, bombarding the mountain in the center of the island, which had no peak.
There was a hundred-zhang tall tree there, surrounded by silver electric light, swaying. Between the collision of the leaves, the electric light flashed, crackling. The splashing electric light easily tore the void, making the space around the tree, within a radius of ten miles, present a spider web-like broken picture.
Was that tree undergoing tribulation?
On the tree, some scattered silver fruits could be seen, surrounded by lightning, and lightning runes were actually growing on the surface.
"That is… a Lightning Tribulation Tree, and the fruits on it are Lightning Tribulation Fruits!" Yan Qingcheng said excitedly, "The Lightning Tribulation Fruit, condenses the essence of the Lightning Tribulation Tree, and gradually matures by repeatedly absorbing the power of lightning tribulation. It is a treasure for those who practice body refinement to temper their bodies. Moreover, taking the Lightning Tribulation Fruit can give the taker extremely strong lightning resistance. This is something that many Half-Saints dream of!"
She said that Half-Saints have a chance of failing when they undergo tribulation. If they can take the Lightning Tribulation Fruit, then the success rate of undergoing tribulation will be greatly improved, which is equivalent to giving themselves a permanent tribulation talisman!
"Someone arrived before us!"
Jun Wuxie narrowed his eyes. Under the Primal Chaos True Eyes, he saw a young man in a certain area of the island with thick black hair, casually draped over his chest and back of his head, full of wildness and coldness.
That young man was sitting on a bluestone, holding a fishing rod with a metallic luster in his hand. The golden fishing line hung down and disappeared into a piece of sandy soil below that was constantly flowing and squeezing like quicksand.
He seemed to be fishing for something in the sandy soil. His expression was extremely focused, and he turned a blind eye to the terrifying lightning tribulation not far behind him. The whole person had a calmness and confidence that Mount Tai could collapse in front of him without changing his expression.
