Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 265 Major Breakthrough, Ten Days Have Passed
Four days passed in the blink of an eye.
Today marks the ten-day period for the Heavenly God's assessment.

The leaden-gray clouds that had lingered over Evil Island for years quietly dissipated.

The pervasive eerie atmosphere was dispersed by the salty sea breeze onto the vast ocean.

With a loud "whoosh," five figures suddenly emerged from the sea. The five elders of the Suspended Mountain each carried a fragment of a star the size of a millstone as they flew out from the seabed.

On the beach, Chi Xiu transformed into a sixteen-foot-tall silver giant, standing silently in the void, surrounded by star fragments of various sizes.

At first glance, there are about fifty or sixty of them, some large and some small.

Some of these were collected by Li Wushou, while others were collected by the five elders.

However, most of them were later salvaged from the seabed around Evil Calamity Island by the five elders.

At this moment, the five elders, holding the fragments of the star, flew over the beach.

The star fragments, heavy as mountains in his hands, floated gently and merged into the magnetic field in front of them, revolving around Chi Xiu along with the other star fragments.

These five are the last fragments of stars they were able to find on the seabed.

As the star fragment slowly rotated, the five people stared intently at the silver figure in the center of the star fragment.

Now is the time for Senior Chi Xiu to step in and create a destiny star.

It's truly a blessing to have met Senior Chi Xiu.

Four days ago, Elder Yun did his best to kill the giant tortoise, but he did not expect that the giant tortoise was just a puppet body made by the Evil King. After Elder Yun realized this, he was once again caught in a life-and-death battle with the Evil King. In the end, even with the dissipation of the painted infant, he still failed to kill the evil spirit.

When everyone was in mortal danger, High Priest Li Wushou summoned Senior Chi Xiu.

Senior Chi Xiu is skilled in the divine way, and his golden body shines with silver light. He should be the protector of the high priest.

After a fierce battle, the evil king was finally killed.

Their lives were saved by Senior Chi Xiu, and also by High Priest Li Wushou.

Having survived a brush with death, the group suddenly realized that the struggle between the two factions was unnecessary. Only by uniting the two factions could the Hanging Mountain prosper.

As for raising the Heavenly God, it doesn't really matter to either of the two factions who should be in charge.
The so-called "discourse power" of the suspended mountain, no matter who gives the orders, ultimately it is still everyone working together to get things done.
They used to be burdened by fame and fortune, and now they realize they shouldn't have been like that.

Therefore, they unanimously decided to hand over all the star fragments to High Priest Li Wushou, so that he could decide which one to support next.

The other party comes from a noble family and has a clearer perspective than others, unlike them who are burdened by their family reputation.

They will surely be able to make the most impartial judgment and choose a deity who is truly good for Suspended Mountain and Huazhou.

They still trusted the High Priest's character.

As expected, after receiving the star fragments, the High Priest not only did not keep them to himself, but also handed over the star fragments he had collected. He then went to great lengths to ask Senior Chi Xiu to help him forge a destiny star.

This moved the five people, and they also felt that they hadn't trusted the wrong person.

The High Priest's character is truly beyond reproach!
Chi Xiu floated in mid-air

With a thought, the star fragments swirling around him suddenly split into two piles according to size.

His stellar body, due to the hammering of the stellar core, is far stronger than these star fragments. Therefore, the magnetic force he can generate can easily influence these star fragments.

He was originally a true god, and although he only possessed the realm at this moment, the magnetic force of his Star Body was enough to crush even a Golden Core Realm True Person and rival an ordinary Nascent Soul True Monarch.

Creating a destiny star is not difficult for Chi Xiu.

The smaller pile of star fragments, about twenty in total, is enough to forge a high-quality destiny star. Chi Xiu plans to use the rest to create a Heavenly Gang Star Array for Fellow Daoist Li Wushou.

He has benefited greatly from his discussions with three fellow Daoists from the Three Immortals Pavilion over the past few days.

He felt as if he had been reborn, and he wanted to repay this kindness!
Fellow Daoist Li Wushou has an unparalleled and unforged physical body. With the Heavenly Gang Star Formation and that star core, it should be able to help Fellow Daoist Li Wushou temper his physical body.

Fellow Daoist, you are also a highly accomplished person in the Daoist arts. I currently do not have any worshippers or followers. Once I do, I can help you establish a shrine and provide you with more incense offerings.

Moreover, the old beggar fellow Daoist was not ashamed to ask questions and inquired about many of my divine methods.

This is truly an overwhelming honor!
As for Fellow Daoist Chen Gou'er, he has a great fondness for flesh and blood. The purer the flesh and blood, the more he likes it. At the moment, his pockets are empty and he has no gift to give as a greeting. He will prepare more when he has income later.

In this world, where people fight against others, against the land, and against the heavens, it's truly rare to find someone like the Sanxian Hall who is willing to help others without expecting anything in return.

The less others ask for anything in return, the more you should show your appreciation; otherwise, it would be quite impolite.

I am indeed too poor right now, but rebuilding the foundation of the divine path will eventually pay off.

Let's refine the Destiny Star and the Heavenly Star Formation now!

While the five elders and Chi Xiu were busy on the beach, Li Wushou was sitting cross-legged in the nearby jungle.

The jungle was silent; the usual gloomy atmosphere had vanished without a trace.

The dark figure behind him lay limply on the ground, looking somewhat exhausted.

Ignoring the pitiful act feigned by the shadowy figure, Li Wushou took a deep breath as his golden core spun within his dantian.

The shadowy figure twitched silently; he really wanted to cry because he wasn't faking it!
In two days, aside from some flesh and blood monsters that were devoured by Li Wushou's golden core, he had great difficulty devouring nearly three hundred Yin evil spirits, even if they were lying there motionless.

Li Wushou promised 30%, but he didn't have time to process it all. Most of the time, he just kept it inside and brought it back for Li Wushou to digest himself.

Only in this way could they barely devour the entire Evil Island within two days.

Just as he was feeling bloated and expecting Li Wushou to absorb some of it, Li Wushou was immersed in cultivation, seemingly making some breakthroughs.

Helpless, the shadowy figure could only devour and digest itself.

It's unclear whether Li Wushou did it on purpose or not, but he woke up right after digesting his food.

I've been busy for several days, and before I could even warm up to it, the other person had almost completely taken it all.

The shadowy figure was utterly devastated!

Li Wushou was unaware of the shadowy figure's thoughts; otherwise, he might have taken another drag.

Because of this, the shadowy figure was indeed wrong to him. When he was in the middle of the absorption, he finally broke through the state that was just one step away from victory!

First, his spiritual energy condensation level officially reached the level of the Five Clans Elder.

This also suggests that Li Wushou should be invincible in the entire Golden Core realm with just spiritual power!

If we consider the spiritual power of the five elders as one, then Li Wushou's power is ten or even more.

This is not as simple as one plus one. Li Wushou even felt that ten Golden Core cultivators at the Five Surnames Elder level would not be enough for him to beat!
Theoretically, this should have touched the spiritual power threshold for the Nascent Soul transformation, but Li Wushou did not sense any abnormality. Therefore, he continued to absorb the black shadow and condense spiritual power during his breakthrough.

That's why the dark figure was howling earlier.

Besides his spiritual power, his soul had also made a breakthrough. At this moment, the illusory image of his soul within his golden core had become much more solid, with a clear outline, and even a face had emerged, looking exactly like Li Wushou.

When he entered Evil Island, his spiritual sense could detect an area of ​​three miles in radius, and his line of sight could detect an area of ​​four miles in radius.

After absorbing the contribution of the dark shadow in the middle, his divine soul detection range became a radius of five miles, and his line of sight became six miles.

At this moment, another breakthrough was made, and the range of the divine soul's exploration reached ten miles, while the line of sight became twelve miles.

Li Wushou was unsure of what level this was at, so he consulted with Elder Yun and learned that the limit of his soul perception range was only about one mile, and the further away he was, the more blurred his perception became.

Li Wushou was also somewhat surprised by this.

Elder Yun is the person in Suspended Mountain who is closest to the Nascent Soul stage. Does this mean that Li Wushou's soul is actually comparable to the Nascent Soul stage?

Li Wushou was naturally overjoyed, as it meant he was one step closer to the Nascent Soul stage.

The transformation of the soul and spiritual power is also directly reflected in the realm of law.

Li Wushou's domain originally had a self-contained world within three zhang, much like the domain of a Nascent Soul True Monarch. Li Wushou could sense the power of heaven and earth within it, but it was difficult to mobilize.

But at this moment, things are different. As soon as the thought arises, the power of heaven and earth directly condenses into a Tai Chi pearl, with the Heavenly Dao rotating to the left and the Earthly Dao rotating to the right, endlessly spinning.

Li Wushou had sparred with the five elders and also with Chi Xiuzhenshen, but neither Elder Yun's black cloud nor Chi Xiuzhenshen's magnetic force could shake the Taiji Pearl.

Therefore, this Taiji Pearl gave Li Wushou the feeling that it could split mountains, fill seas, and obliterate all laws.

Of course, this is also because their techniques are not strong enough; they are only at the Golden Core level. If they were facing a Nascent Soul cultivator, things might be different.

At the same time, this domain, which was always under Li Wushou's absolute control, changed from three zhang to six zhang, and the maximum distance of the domain also changed from eighteen zhang to thirty-six zhang.

This breakthrough was a qualitative one for Li Wushou. Although he had not yet officially crossed the threshold of the Nascent Soul stage, Li Wushou had a feeling that even without the blessing of the Golden Dragon Seed, he should be no worse than an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator!
In comparison, his progress in cultivating his Golden Core Dragon Seed was not as significant.

In the past few days, due to digesting the remnants of thirty-six Golden Core evil spirits and a few flesh and blood monsters, the Golden Core Dragon Seed has barely advanced by one-twentieth.

Li Wushou discovered a drawback: if a species repeatedly devours another, it actually contributes very little to the perfection of the Golden Core Dragon Seed.

Li Wushou guessed that this was because the attributes of the same species were too similar.

This made Li Wushou feel like he had shot himself in the foot.

Originally, after he devoured the flesh and blood monsters as soon as he arrived on the island, he quickly reached one-tenth of the level. Li Wushou thought that he would soon be able to fill the Golden Core Dragon Seed.

In retrospect, it's understandable that the Dragon King took over a hundred years to create the Blood and Flesh Pool Forest, given the sheer number of species involved.

This put Li Wushou in a bit of a predicament.

The Golden Core Dragon Seed's blessing upon him was indeed powerful; even one-tenth of it was enough for Li Wushou to advance a realm. What would it be like if it were complete?

However, filling it up is too difficult. If I can't fill it up, will I never be able to break through to the Golden Core stage and advance to the Nascent Soul stage?
Nevertheless, Li Wushou was not prepared to give up the Golden Core Dragon Seed.

He still savors the feeling of being pleased by heaven and earth.

He was certain that he liked this feeling.

If this feeling is what it means to be an immortal, then Li Wushou must become one.

He'll figure out a way to get to the Nascent Soul stage!
After refining the last bit of Yin energy from the shadowy figure into his own body, Li Wushou slowly got up and walked towards the beach.

Judging by the time, Chi Xiu's destiny star and the Heavenly Gang Star Formation should be almost finished, right?

Chi Xiu insisted on creating a star array for him to refine his body, which made him feel quite embarrassed. Moreover, he had heard that this star array could, to a certain extent, gather evil spirits and repel them from the field.

Although it was somewhat inferior to the Star Core, it was still enough to make Li Wushou happy.

Li Wushou just hadn't figured out where to put this thing.

However, he wasn't planning to just throw it away right now, since he still needed it to refine his body.

Unfortunately, there are still too few star fragments. It would be great if we could refine more Heavenly Gang Formations.

He actually had some fragments left over from the star fragment that Li Wushou had punched open earlier.

This part is quite large, after all, it's the largest one, and because it contains a star core, its quality is better than ordinary star fragments.

But the old beggar said he was useful, so Li Wushou moved him to the Three Immortals Pavilion and didn't care about him anymore.

During this time, the old beggar has been fiddling with that star core and star fragments, and no one knows what he's planning.

During this time, Li Wushou also became curious about the star fragments and even asked about them.

Both the old beggar and Chi Xiu said that these star fragments were actually formed from the broken and falling star of a true god after his fall.

Most of the fragments melted away during the fall.

Originally, this natal star was incredibly large.

This filled Li Wushou with longing. He wondered what it would be like if he could make another breakthrough in his physical body and refine the Heavenly Gang Formation with the thirty-six True God Life Stars.

Of course, he only dared to think about it. True gods were comparable to great beings. Where could he find so many true gods?

When Li Wushou reached the beach, Chi Xiu's Destiny Star and the Heavenly Gang Star Array were indeed completed and were now floating in mid-air.

Upon seeing Li Wushou emerge from the forest, the five elders hurriedly bowed, showing him the utmost respect they now held for him.

Chi Xiu, standing in the sky, also descended and bowed to Li Wushou as a fellow Daoist.

He then beckoned, and the suspended Destiny Star and Heavenly Gang Formation slowly shrank. By the time they were in front of Li Wushou, the Destiny Star was only the size of a fist, and the Heavenly Gang Formation resembled a string of prayer beads.

With a thought, Li Wushou withdrew his Destiny Star from the Yin-Yang Diagram, while the Heavenly Gang Formation fell around his neck like a necklace.

Suddenly, I felt my body sink, my bones and muscles creaked, and the void exploded softly.

Li Wushou quickly mobilized his blood and energy to adapt.

Having undergone body tempering in the Hengyang River, Li Wushou adapted very quickly, and soon he was able to move freely again.

The five elders standing to the side were dumbfounded, and Chi Xiu was also secretly amazed; such a physical body was truly astonishing.

Just then, a golden light shone in the void, and a small golden boat flew out and transformed into a huge flying boat in the blink of an eye.

After calming himself down and inviting Chi Xiu back to the Three Immortals Pavilion, Li Wushou boarded the flying boat first. The five elders followed closely behind, and the flying boat transformed into a streak of light, heading towards the Suspended Mountain.

Li Wushou gazed at the sea of ​​clouds, eager to see what tricks the painter and the mysterious girl were up to.

According to the information obtained from Laowo, the painter has been staying in Wushi Town these days, and the other party has not offered any incense or prayers.

The assessment ended today, and the other party checked out of the hotel early in the morning, strolling leisurely towards Moth King Valley.

Outside Wangxian City, An Chengping had just died!
(End of this chapter)