1499 Randomly Increase An Ability, Soul Flower, Ape Forefather's Legend
After Chu Kuangren left the academy, he and Lan Yu headed to Five Ways Mountain directly.
His trip to Five Ways Mountain was purely out of interest. He wanted to see if Yuan Zhan was able to invite promising sky-prides to the event.
Besides, he was also expecting some familiar faces there.
Along the way, he also took time to do a gacha draw.
While he was trapped in the Bagua Furnace for twenty years, he would do gacha draws occasionally. However, his cultivation level was already high enough, and the things he drew were barely useful to him anymore.
Other than some top God-tier and Transcendent-tier items, all the items he got were useless and they were all kept as spare in his Enchanted Sleeve.
After he came out from the Bagua Furnace, he gave a portion of them to his clone to fund the underground organization and sent a portion back to Firmament Star.
"Congratulations, Host! You have won a God-tier reward, one Random Increment Card."
The prize from this gacha draw was rather surprising.
Random Increment Card, as its name suggested, could increase anything from the cultivation realm to physique, divine abilities, and more.
It was a useful prize indeed.
If he could use it to increase his cultivation realm, would he be able to ascend to the Arch Gilded Immortal Realm?
The thought lingered in his head for a while.
He was already at Ninth-grade Gilded Immortal, a few more steps shy from reaching the Arch Gilded Immortal threshold.
In fact, his physical body already contained the condensed Arch Gilded Intent, which allowed him to challenge some of the Arch Gilded cultivators.
"Use!"
Chu Kuangren withdrew it and used it on himself immediately.
For a moment there, he felt a stream of energy shuttling in his body as though it was looking for something.
In the end, the energy entered his mind ocean and fused with the three Gilded Souls.
"Random Increment Card has been successfully used. Soul ability increased!"
Boom!
Chu Kuangren felt like his mind exploded all of a sudden, and the three Gilded Souls in his mind ocean shone in dazzling gold!
The Eighteen-Cycle Trinity Soul Refinement was automatically activated.
Fourteen cycle, fifteen cycle…
The Gilded Trait-infused light shone so brightly that it enveloped his entire mind ocean.
When the Eighteen-Cycle Trinity Soul Refinement reached the sixteenth cycle, Chu Kuangren felt a drastic change in his soul.
It was as though his thought could leave his body and roam into the void and then infinity.
It felt bizarre!
"Desolation state! My soul realm has increased from a Gilded Soul to Desolation! I can send my thoughts into the desolated infinity and observe the universe using the vision of the Desolation state!"
Chu Kuangren was delighted.
It was difficult to increase one's soul realm. The later the stage, the harder it would be. Even Arch Gilded Immortals might find it difficult to achieve Desolation with their souls.
With a single thought, a beautiful lotus bud appeared above his head.
The lotus bud then bloomed into a seven-petaled lotus.
Anyone who saw the scene would definitely be shocked.
Having three flowers on one's head symbolized the Arch Gilded Realm.
After his soul realm got the increment, Chu Kuangren was half a step away from achieving Arch Gilded realm.
"The first realm of the Arch Gilded, the Trinity Flower realm. The three flowers are Immortal's Core Flower, Life's Core Flower, and Soul Flower. Usually, one would first manifest the Immortal's Core Flower, then the Life's Core Flower, and lastly the Soul Flower. But it seems like I'm going the different way by manifesting the Soul Flower first."
Chu Kuangren shook his head as he chuckled. He was not overly concerned because he had differed from people's normal cultivation path from a long time ago.
Manifesting the Soul Flower first was nothing to be surprised by.
After his soul acquired the increment, Chu Kuangren happily continued his journey, looking forward to the trip more than before.
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Five Ways Mountain was where the Ape Forefather went into seclusion during ancient times.
It was said that the Ape Forefather was favored by the heavens and was blessed with matchless talent as soon as he was born. Along his cultivation journey, he improved ridiculously fast without any hindrance, but due to his arrogance, he caused a lot of problems.
One of the biggest troubles he caused was charging up to Kunlun Immortal Hall alone with his battle staff and wreaked havoc.
The battle was one of the fiercest in history. It cost the Immortal Hall many soldiers and generals, but the Ape Forefather was severely injured in the end as well.
Although he survived, he went away to recuperate for a long time.
"I heard after the Ape Forefather wreaked havoc in the Immortal Hall, he started to see the flaw in his own emotions. He's too hot-tempered. Although he is extremely talented, he was unable to achieve Grand Daoist, so he sealed himself under Five Ways Mountain for five hundred years to calm his Daoist core.
"After he came out from seclusion, he affirmed his Dao to become a legendary Embodier. People said that the Five Ways Mountain calmed his hot-tempered self and allowed him to affirm his Dao to the Embodier Realm and get enlightenment on the Dao."
One of the cultivators was talking about the legend passed down from ancient times at Five Ways Mountain.
The other cultivators enjoyed his storytelling.
"Damn. The Ape Forefather is crazy. Before he sealed himself under Five Ways Mountain, he went charging at the Immortal Hall when he was not even in the Embodier Realm. That was the Immortal Hall of ancient times, where they had six Imperial Commanders at their side! They were the overlord of this realm, yet an Arch Gilded like him caused them that much trouble and escaped alive?"
"Of course. The Ape Forefather is adept at fighting. He possessed combat capabilities that surpassed even the sky. It wasn't impossible for him to challenge someone a few realms above him!"
"Not only that, but I heard that other than wreaking havoc, the Ape Forefather ate many of Taishang Laojun's pills and was thrown into the Bagua Furnace. He got his divine vision and indestructible body from there. That was how he got stronger than before, and it allowed him to challenge Embodier cultivators while he was only a Arch Gilded Immortal.
"You remind me of Chu Kuangren. He was thrown into the Bagua Furnace as well, and his strength grew."
"The Bagua Furnace is really an irony. The Immortal Hall used it to deal with their enemies twice, yet it only made their enemies stronger."
A heated discussion sparked among the cultivators.
The topic eventually revolved around Chu Kuangren, who had just reappeared. The crowd could not help but feel sentimental about it.
"I wonder if Chu Kuangren will show up."
Someone looked up to the peak of Five Ways Mountain.
A majestic figure wielding a golden battle staff stood tall at the peak.
It was a massive ape!
Being a few hundred meters tall, he had a golden headband around his head while being surrounded by vast ferocious qi and battle qi. The muscles bulged like hills, making him look indestructible.
The massive ape that stood tall on the peak was Yuan Zhang of the Battle Tribe from the Great Ten Thousand Mountains!
Rumor had it that he was originally a top sky-pride but not a Prodigy yet. However, he got the cultivation method and divine steel left behind by the Ape Forefather at the Interstellar Arena.
He used them to his advantage and slowly rose up the ranks. When he came back from Interstellar Arena, he went into closed-door meditation in Five Ways Mountain.
After he came out, his strength increased, and he rose up to the tenth place on the Immortal Ranking.
He could almost rival the Golden Crow Pseudo-Forefather, who was seventh on the Immortal Ranking and was known as one of the best Yokai Kings from the Great Ten Thousand Mountains.
"Someone is here!"
Yuan Zhan narrowed his eyes at the distant sky.
A golden light came flying in and transformed into a figure with a long saber at his back.
"It's Gu Tiandao, the twenty-seventh on the Immortal Ranking!"
