Within the depths of the mountains, boundless spiritual mist rippled across the region. Due to the excessively vast and boundless Spiritual Aura present, everything appeared exceedingly blurry. Even the mountain peaks were faintly discernible within the spiritual mist, appearing exceedingly hazy and indistinct.
However, despite being unable to be clearly seen by the naked eye, everyone was able to see the gigantic vortex hovering above the mountain peaks. The vortex was approximately a few hundred metres in size, and the Spiritual Energy of the Heavens and Earth that hid the skies and covered the earth was sucked into the vortex. Following the vortex, the Spiritual Energy continuously poured into the slender figure seated on the mountain peak.
At this moment, Mu Chen's figure was already concealed by the torrential Spiritual Energy. His body was akin to a bottomless pit, greedily and crazily absorbing and refining all of the Spiritual Energy that gushed into his body.
Over the past month, his figure had not moved in the slightest, akin to a boulder.
Furthermore, the absorption did not stop for even a moment.
However, despite this, there seemed to be no signs of his cultivation stopping. This scene caused quite a few Hokuang Reiwon students to inwardly smack their lips. Indeed, worthy of being the strongest person in their Hokuang Reiwon. Just by cultivating, he was able to cause such a huge commotion.
While Mu Chen was immersed in his cultivation, on a mountain peak not far away, Ling Xi's lovable eyes tightly stared at Mu Chen's figure. In the next instant, she raised her head and shot a look at the numerous mountain peaks in the distance. At that location, there was a figure present on every single mountain peak. They were none other than Dean Tai Cang, Elder Zhu Tian and the rest.
Gently clenching her jade-like hand, a black chessboard the size of a palm appeared within her palm. Profound and mysterious patterns sparkled on the chessboard, while a unique fluctuation radiated from it.
Rubbing the exquisite black chessboard with her jade-like fingers, Ling Xi shot a glance towards the sky. In the eyes of ordinary people, there wasn't anything special about the sky. However, within Ling Xi's eyes, she was able to see rays of light extending out from the sky. These rays of light interweaved together in a complicated manner, forming a gigantic Spiritual Array.
This spirit formation had consumed an entire month of her energy.
Faintly opening her mouth, Ling Xi breathed out a sigh of relief, while exhaustion flashed within her eyes. She had practically not rested at all for the past month, with all of her time and energy being placed on this Spiritual Array. Such a huge workload had caused even her to feel exhausted.
However, even though she was somewhat tired, she could not rest, because she knew that it was extremely important for Mu Chen to cultivate the complete version of the Great Pagoda Art this time.
Back then, Aunt Jing had secretly told her that the Great Pagoda Art was the fundamental cultivation technique of her clan, and was exceedingly important. In the past, Mu Chen had only cultivated the Yang scroll, so there was naturally no problem. However, the fusion of the Yin and Yang scrolls would form the complete version of the Great Pagoda Art. Once he successfully cultivated it, there was an extremely high possibility that he would be discovered by the powerful existences within her clan. At that time, Mu Chen might be exposed, and might even be discovered!
Although Ling Xi's past memories had been sealed, she was still faintly able to sense how frightening that mysterious clan was. It was a fear that originated from the deepest parts of her heart. Even someone as powerful as Aunt Jing was forced to leave Mu Chen. Exactly how frightening was that mysterious clan?
Ling Xi did not believe that she possessed the strength to protect Mu Chen from the hands of that clan. Therefore, the only thing she could do was to do her utmost to prevent Mu Chen from being discovered. In any case, regardless of how frightening the existence of that mysterious clan was, it was absolutely impossible for them to sense Mu Chen, who was concealed by her, from such a great distance.
"Don't worry, Aunt Jing. I'll protect Mu Chen well."
Ling Xi slowly clenched her jade-like hands as she muttered to herself, her beautiful eyes brimming with determination.
Time flowed like sand as he cultivated. Unknowingly, two months had quietly elapsed.
During these two months, there was still no movement from Mu Chen, with him continuing to absorb and refine the Spiritual Aura of the world. At this moment, the mountain peak had already been enveloped by a gigantic Spiritual Energy vortex. As Mu Chen's figure disappeared, boundless fluctuations continued to ripple out.
Anyone could sense that the Spiritual Energy present within Mu Chen's body seemed to be much more tyrannical than it was two months ago.
On the mountain peak not far away, Ling Xi was quietly seated with her beautiful eyes faintly shut. A gentle breeze blew past, causing her supple black hair to flutter. At this moment, the boundless Spiritual Energy present on the mountain peak seemed to have suddenly fluctuated for a moment.
Swish.
Seemingly in an instant, Ling Xi's eyes snapped open. A grave expression appeared on her lovable face as she looked towards the mountain peak, while her jade-like hands started to clench tightly.
"Is Yin and Yang about to fuse together?" She muttered to herself, while her lovable body grew increasingly tense, ready to take action to seal off this stretch of the world at any moment.
Just as Ling Xi was tensed up and on guard, the Yin Seed in front of the Spirit within Mu Chen's body had already grown to the size of a fist. Appearing akin to a pearl that radiated with brilliance, it contained boundless Yin Energies. This was the result of Mu Chen's two months of absorbing Spiritual Energy and nurturing it.
"It's about time, right?"
Muttered to himself within Mu Chen's heart. In the next instant, the little mouth of the Spirit abruptly opened. With a gentle suck, the pearl-like Yin Seed transformed into a ray of white light, rushing into the mouth of the Spirit.
Humm!
At the instant when the Yin Seed was swallowed by the Spirit, bright and resplendent white light abruptly gushed out from within Mu Chen's body. Behind the white light, an overbearing black light swept out. As the two lights intertwined, it caused Mu Chen's Spirit to turn black and white, an extremely bizarre sight to behold.
Boundless and boundless Spiritual Energy radiated out from the Spirit, pervading every single part of Mu Chen's body.
On the mountain peak, Mu Chen's eyes abruptly snapped open as spiritual light gushed out from the top of his head. In the next instant, a pillar of light rushed towards the sky, while the black and white Spirit rushed towards the horizon. With a suction from its little mouth, the boundless Spiritual Mist present in this stretch of the world instantly transformed into a torrential torrent, before being completely sucked into the Spirit's body.
The black and white Spirit sat cross-legged in the air. Extending its little hands, it hugged the empty space, as if its palms were suppressing the sun and moon.
Whoosh Whoosh!
Black and white rays of light rapidly converged within its palms. Faintly, it seemed to have transformed into a black and white Yin Yang disc. Black and white rays of light chased each other within it, akin to Yin and Yang fishes. In the next instant, boundless and mysterious fluctuations abruptly radiated out from it.
As the Yin Yang disc took shape, glowing dots suddenly surfaced from the depths of Mu Chen's body. These glowing dots linked together, appearing to take the shape of a pagoda!
Dong!
An ancient bell chime seemed to have penetrated through time and space from the ancient times, before resounding out from within Mu Chen's body in a clear and melodious manner.
Glowing halos started to condense behind Mu Chen's back. Within the glowing halos, a glowing black pagoda that was approximately a hundred metres in size slowly condensed and condensed.
There wasn't much difference between this glowing black pagoda and the pagoda of the past. The only difference was that there were traces of tiny golden flames leaping on the ancient golden dragon tattoo on the exterior of the pagoda. Those flames were extremely tiny, yet they caused the expressions of Dean Tai Cang and the rest, who were paying attention to the commotion not far away, to slightly change.
That's because they could still clearly remember that when Mu Chen's mother took action to refine the Yellow Dragon Sovereign, she had also brought out such a black pagoda. Furthermore, it was precisely those golden flames that not only completely refined the Yellow Dragon Sovereign's Sovereign Celestial Body, even his body had been reduced to ashes.
Those golden flames were clearly an extremely frightening existence.
Although the golden flames on the golden dragon tattoo of Mu Chen were too tiny and couldn't be compared to the flames of his mother, it didn't stop Dean Tai Cang and the rest from exclaiming in admiration.
"Dean Tai Cang!"
Looking at the pagoda behind Mu Chen, Ling Xi's face abruptly turned solemn as her roar resounded.
Hearing Ling Xi's roar, Dean Tai Cang and the rest instantly raised their palms. In the next instant, numerous rays of brilliance rushed towards the sky, causing ripples to instantly appear in the sky. In the next instant, a black glowing screen rapidly extended out, completely enveloping everything within a radius of several thousand metres.
As darkness spread out, this area seemed to be isolated from the rest of the world.
A solemn expression appeared on Ling Xi's lovable face as she gave a wave of her jade-like hand. In the next instant, the black chessboard in her hand rushed towards the sky. Spreading out, rays of brilliance enveloped the mountain peak that Mu Chen was on. Under the brilliance, Dean Tai Cang and the rest instantly felt as if the mountain peak before their eyes had disappeared, with any aura present within it being isolated.
That feeling was as if the mountain peak no longer existed in the Great Thousand World.
As the black screen and chessboard were set up, Mu Chen's tightly shut eyes abruptly opened on the mountain peak. With a move of his body, he soared into the sky. As for the Spirit that was holding onto the Yin and Yang chessboard, it swiftly flew down and returned to Mu Chen's aurasea through the top of his head.
When his Spirit returned to his body, Mu Chen was instantly able to sense an extremely boundless Spiritual Energy sweeping out from his body like a tidal wave.
This Spiritual Energy was no longer black as it was in the past. Instead, it was a fusion of black and white. Looking at it, it looked as if there were two Yin and Yang fishes intertwining, looking extremely bizarre.
Compared to the Spiritual Energy in the past, this black and white Spiritual Energy was undoubtedly much more tyrannical!
An indescribable carefree feeling started to spread out from within Mu Chen's body, and he couldn't let it go without spitting it out.
Therefore, Mu Chen stood in the air, spreading his hands out as he faced the sky and roared. His roar was akin to thunder, rumbling across the heavens and earth. As the roar rumbled, the Spiritual Energy fluctuations radiating from within Mu Chen's body started to rise in an instant.
Heavenly Completion Stage Middle Phase, peak of Heavenly Completion Stage Middle Phase … Heavenly Completion Stage Late Phase, peak of Heavenly Completion Stage Late Phase!
As the Spiritual Energy fluctuations violently and rapidly rose to the pinnacle of Heavenly Completion Stage Late Phase, they finally came to a stop. At this moment, Mu Chen's eyes started to turn incomparably bright, while his heart was brimming with excitement. As long as he was one more step away, he would be able to break through the first of the Three Sovereign Disasters!
He never imagined that this time around, he would actually break through Heavenly Completion Stage Middle Phase and reach the peak of the Three Heavens Stage!
(11 more chapters to go.)
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