… Seeing the Nine Kings was equivalent to seeing the empress—this was applicable to them as well, so how could they possibly dare to disobey?
“Ling Han, this time, it’s all thanks to you that Big Sister praised me very much!” The Ninth King was all smiles. Drawing out a pill bottle, she handed it over to Ling Han. “This is a Jade Sun Pill, which has the effect of boosting cultivation by about a year. It’s my gift to you!”
Chapter 942 - A Gift from the Ninth King
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The Ninth King actually gave a gift to a man in public!
This practically caused the eyeballs of all the people from the Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire to pop out of their sockets in shock. They only knew how inconceivable and unacceptable this scene was.
Aside from the Ninth King, who had appeared not many years ago, the other Eight Kings had all respectively joined the Imperial Court and been bestowed the title of king in the last million years. In truth, they had not made any bit of contribution to the empire, and it was all the decision of the empress who bestowed the title upon them.
Yet facts had proven that the empress truly had a keen eye.
After a long time, the Eight Kings had all advanced into the Heavenly Body Tier, though none knew exactly what level they had reached. Hence, when the Ninth King appeared, the citizens all naturally thought that it would not take too many centuries before this important person would also become a great elite of the Heavenly Body Tier.
However, the other Eight Kings and the empress all shared a common point, and that was being aloof to men and maintaining a distance from them.
So, in everyone’s head, the Ninth King should be no different.
Thus, when they saw the Ninth King personally come over to deliver a gift of an alchemical pill, it was naturally so astonishing that they were gaping with shock; no matter how much they puzzled over it, they could not believe it was possible.
Ling Han accepted the pill bottle, smiled, and said, “Thank you, Ninth King.”
He, on the other hand, was clear that the Ninth King was innocent and naive, simple to the extreme and without any schemes in her head at all. She did not have any romantic thoughts, either, and it was completely because he had helped the Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire get the first place, which allowed the Ninth King to be praised by the empress. Now that she was happy, she wanted to express her gratitude.
It was that simple.
“All right, you’d better not die inside. We’ll see each other later.” The Ninth King waved, and, holding up her skirts, raced off again.
Lin You’s mouth was open wide enough for a fist to fit inside. After a long time, he finally punched Ling Han’s chest playfully, and teased, “Awesome guy, never thought that you managed to conquer the Ninth King, let alone without any previous sigs at all. Hiss, this time, probably no one would dare to make a move against you now.”
The Ninth King represented the will of the empress, so if she favored Ling Han, who would dare make a move against him?
Ling Han merely smiled, though he was shaking his head internally. How could things be as simple as that? Who would be able to find out who the culprit was after someone was killed in a Mystery Realm? How could the Ninth King possibly kill them all?
… If something happened to the Ninth King, perhaps the empress of the Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire would really massacre all those who entered to calm her rage, but she would definitely not go so far for him!
To speak more crudely, who did he think he was?
Ling Han put away the pill bottle. The Jade Sun Pill could save cultivators a year’s time of cultivation. It was negligible for any Immortal who had a very long lifespan, but for him, it was extremely useful.
Perhaps he would be able to reach the maximum limit of strength of 20 Stars after he had refined this alchemical pill.
He had nothing to do anyways, so he simply chose to consume the pill directly, and refine it here and now.
Who would dare make a move against him now?
In front of the eyes of so many, Ling Han was the safest. Anyone that dared to make a move now would be publicly declaring themselves an enemy of the Ninth King, and he believed that even the Left and Right Ministers and the Seven Great Generals would never dare to do such a thing.
Shui Yanyu could only watch with a muscle twitching in her cheek, stunned by how outrageously bold this man could be.
Ling Han consumed the alchemical pill, and immediately circulated the Six Techniques Return to One to absorb the medicinal effects inside the pill.
Spiritual Qi from the heavens and earth abruptly surged over in waves, almost becoming solid, and wrapped around Ling Han.
A Spirit Base that had six alignments absorbed Spiritual Qi that had six alignments, and became six pillars of Qi, their various colors vibrant and bright.
When they saw these pillars of Qi, quite a number of people was moved.
“What is there to be so amazed about? Isn’t it just stimulating Spiritual Qi?” someone said in a disdainful tone.
“There is nothing amazing about being able to stimulate Spiritual Qi that has six different alignments at the same time; even for someone that does not possess a natural Spirit Base, they could forge one out afterwards to create a perfect Spirit Base that has perfectly balanced six different alignments. But, the problem here is how could these pillars of Spiritual Qi be so wide!?”
“This is extremely astonishing. When I was in the Shattering Void Tier, the pillars of Spiritual Qi that I stimulated were only a hundredth of the width of his at most.”
Being thus reminded, whether it was those in the Shattering Void Tier or those in the Mountain River Tier, they all looked stunned. No wonder this person was absolutely invincible in the Shattering Void Tier. He had indeed cultivated Shattering Void Tier to a practically perfect level.
“Tsk, he is just invincible in the Shattering Void Tier. Once he enters into the Mountain River Tier, he’ll be trash.”
“That’s right. He has only just climbed up to the eighth floor, and is just a four-star genius. Even a two-star genius, once he has reached the peak of low extreme of the Mountain River Tier, would be able to dominate him easily.”
Some spoke in envious tones, but once they had said such words, even they themselves could not help but be dumbfounded.
Just barely entered into the low extreme of Mountain River Tier, and he would have battle prowess to match someone in the early stage of medium extreme of Mountain River Tier? How astonishing was that? “Just a four-star genius”? Did you know how many four-star geniuses there were in total in the whole Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire? And you dared to use the word ‘just’!
“Hehe, he only has the potential to become a four-star genius, it’s not set in stone!” In the end, those people justified their words.
Ling Han would naturally not take this idle gossip to heart. Under the effects of the alchemical pill, the Spiritual Qi formed pillars and surged madly into his body, endlessly transforming into his Origin Power.
His strength was rapidly improving, charging towards the maximum limit of 20 Stars.
Because he had been cultivating the Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art all this while, added with the wealth of resources in the Immortal Realm, he, a mere Shattering Void Tier cultivator, naturally reached the peak of his Body Arts very soon, and the only thing he lacked was the level of Origin Power.
In truth, with how rich the resources were in the Immortal Realm, they could easily send a cultivator up to the level of 20 Stars of Shattering Void Tier of strength, but the problem was whether you personally would be able to bear this kind of strength.
If your Dantian was not big enough, and your Spiritual Sea not wide enough, how could you be able to accommodate so much Origin Power?
You would only be stuffed to the point of exploding.
This was like a man who was obviously filthy rich, yet he was ill, so he could not eat scrumptious d
elicacies, and could not touch his beautiful wife—what meaning was there in having this kind of wealth?
Ling Han cultivated the Six Techniques Return to One to open the final door and become capable of accommodating the maximum of 20 Stars of strength. When he came to this understanding, the only thing he lacked was time to “fill him up”.
Now that the Ninth King had gifted him a “Jade Sun Pill”, it just happened to fill in for this shortcoming of his.
Only after a day did Ling Han stop, his eyes snapping open as a smile pulled up the corners of his lips.
“Yi!” Shui Yanyu was astonished. “When you looked at me, I actually felt as if I was afraid to look you in the eye.”
Ling Han gave a laugh, and teased, “That’d be natural. Don’t you know that the husband’s duty is to guide the wife, so it is natural that you would fear me?”
Shui Yanyu mercilessly rolled her eyes at him, but was still extremely surprised. One had to know that she was in the Mountain River Tier, yet she was actually scared by the gaze of a minor cultivator in the Shattering Void Tier. What kind of logic was that?
Her heart tensed up suddenly, and she felt breathless. She asked, “You, could it be that you have pushed your strength up to 20 Stars?”
“Clever, as expected of my wife!” Ling Han praised.
Strength of 20 Stars!
Shui Yanyu’s whole head was filled with these words. She was so stunned that she forgot to criticize the way Ling Han was taking liberties with her.
She knew that Ling Han would definitely be able to reach strength of 20 Stars of Shattering Void Tier one day, but she had never imagined that it would’ve happened so quickly. She stared at Ling Han with eyes filled with astonishment; this man… would perhaps one day become a miracle that all others could only look up to and admire!
Chapter 943 - Divine Metal
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“The Heavenly Sea Mystery Realm is about to open!” someone called out, and everyone turned their heads to look skywards.
Ling Han could not help but turn to look at the sky as well, and saw that the previous sky that had been clear and sunny had, in a mere instant, actually been torn open, revealing a colossal sea.
The width was unknown, but the waves were fierce. There was a frightening divine sense interwoven within, and a mere look would scare one witless.
Hong, long, long. The desolate plain ahead of them also split open as well, revealing a huge tunnel. All of a sudden, a pillar of water shot up into the sky, forming a waterfall that was flowing backward—towards the sky.
The waterfall was flowing upside down into the sky, and connected with that sea in the sky. Suddenly, endless waves surged in the opposite direction upwards into the sky.
The sound of the waves boomed like thunder, suppressing all other sounds. At this time, even if someone tried their utter best, he would not be able to hear what he himself was saying at all.
Ling Han looked on with shock. This was too grand. There was a great sea floating in the sky, and it was so wide that it seemed like it could crush the entire Joint Peace Planet if it flowed downwards. Furthermore, the water underground was actually gushing in the opposite direction into the sky, completely going against natural laws.
He finally found out why this Mystery Realm was known as the “Heavenly Sea Mystery Realm”.
A sea in the heavens—it was not just in name, but rather the actual reality.
Everyone could only use their divine sense to communicate now as their hearing was completely disabled—they could only hear that endless thunder produced by the waves.
“That would be the Heavenly Sea; no one can fly above to get a clear look at it. There are no living beings inside that huge sea, and there is no end, either,” Lin You mused ruefully. “There was once an elite of the Heavenly Body Tier that steered a galaxy-level warship and entered within, but as a wave broke over him, the warship turned into pieces, and that elite did not even manage to flee with his spirit in time. He was crushed along with his physical body.”
The Heavenly Body Tier, on the Joint Peace Planet, was synonym for invincible, but even Heavenly Body Tier cultivators ended in that manner, so that sea in the sky naturally became a forbidden area.
“Look!”
“There’s something!”
Someone pointed at that waterfall that connected the heavens and earth.
Ling Han focused his gaze and looked over. There was a white-colored object flickering in the waterfall, but he could not exactly distinguish what it was.
This was extremely shocking. A waterfall flowing upside down was in itself a very bizarre happening, but now, in the Heavenly Sea, there was actually an object that was going against the water flow and floating down the waterfall, which was an even more unacceptable fact to them.
Ling Han activated the Eye of Truth, and could finally make out the rough features of that white object.
“It’s a piece of metal!”
“A white-colored metal!”
“Heavens, the waves there could easily crush a galaxy-level warship, and kill an elite of the Heavenly Body Tier, but now there is actually a piece of metal that is still completely preserved.”
“That metal must be extraordinarily heavy; how else could it possibly flow down the waterfall, going against the flow of the water?”
“A top-grade Godly metal! It must be a top-grade Godly metal, which can be forged into the strongest Spirit Tool in this world! It could even block the destructive power of the Heavenly Sea; is there any force capable of destroying it in this world?”
A few important people all exclaimed in surprise. They were all elites of the Heavenly Body Tier, and as something that could move even them… The value of this piece of Godly metal could be imagined.
In that moment, everyone’s eyes became fiery.
One had to know that if this piece of Godly metal fell down, where would it fall to? Into the Heavenly Sea Mystery Realm!
That was right. The Heavenly Sea Mystery Realm was not that piece of sea in the sky, where even if an elite of the Heavenly Body Tier entered, he would be directly eliminated. If they went there, wouldn’t they just be heading to their deaths? The Mystery Realm was under the ground, and only when the Heavenly Sea appeared would this Mystery Realm appear as well. Otherwise, even if you dug through the entire Joint Peace Planet… don’t even think you would be able to find it.
Ling Han also felt a rush of excitement. Top-grade Godly metal… Who would not want such a treasure?
Moreover, others might not be able to mold this type of Godly metal, but he had the Black Tower, so he should be able to, right?
He could not help but ask, “Small Tower, could you do it?”
“I haven’t seen it, so how would I know?” Small Tower humphed. “However, as long as it is Godly metal, it would be a piece of cake.”
Ling Han caught the implication of its words, and asked, “So there is something that is even tougher than Godly metal, and even you would not be able to refine it?”
“Of course! Think, what material has the Black Tower been forged from?” Small Tower said in a tsundere tone.
“What was it forged from?” Ling Han continued to ask. He was indeed very curious.
“Divine Metal!” This time, Small Tower did not give an excuse like “your cultivation level is too low, so telling you would be pointless”. “Above Godly metal, there is Divine Metal. However, Godly metal is divided into many grades, and though there are many different types of Divine Metal, there is only one grade. It either is Divine Metal, or it is not.
“Every piece of Divine Metal has its own unique consciousness, and possesses incredible might. According to legends… hehe, we’ll speak more on this subject when you actually get a piece.”
Small Tower was beginning to keep him in suspense again.
When they were speaking, that piece of white-colored metal had already glided into the ground.
“The He
avenly Sea Mystery Realm is already open, go in quickly!”
“If you are not entering now, what are you waiting for?!”
“You must get that piece of Godly metal!”
“Whoever can obtain that piece of Godly metal for me will be heavily rewarded!”
The important people all spoke up, urging the masses to descend. At the same time, they were offering amazing rewards to obtain that piece of top-grade Godly metal. There was nothing else that could be done; they could not enter into the Mystery Realm, and so could only place their hopes on these youngsters.
One could foresee that there would definitely be a fierce battle full of bloodshed that would be caused by this piece of Godly metal.
“Let’s go!” Ling Han tugged on Shui Yanyu’s hand. If they did not enter at the same time, they would appear in different locations when they entered into the Mystery Realm.
“Blockhead, wait for me!” Li Weiwei hurriedly chased after them.
“Fourth Young Miss!” Yet Tang Feng stepped out to stand in her way. He still wanted to be alone with Li Weiwei, so he was naturally hoping there would not be a third wheel with them.
“Damn it!” Li Weiwei stretched out a hand in a palm strike. It was naturally impossible for her battle prowess to pose any threat to Tang Feng, but when she delivered her palm strike, a beaded bracelet she was wearing on her wrist exuded brilliant light. Peng , Tang Feng was suddenly sent flying, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
‘A God Tool!’ Tang Feng exclaimed in his heart. Moreover, it was no ordinary God Tool. Otherwise, a Shattering Void Tier cultivator would definitely be unable to activate it. It should have been refined multiple times by the Left Minister, and because of their blood relation, Li Weiwei was capable of activating the power hidden within.
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Ling Han grabbed ahold of Shui Yanyu’s hand. Hong , the sound of the water was thunderous, ringing out in his ears.
The waves here were very huge, but there were no divine patterns interwoven with them. Thus, even if they broke over Shattering Void Tier cultivators, they would not die. However, if they did not have enough ability, they would still be throwing up blood like crazy.
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