Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 727 - 722 Preparation Four

Chapter 727: Chapter 722 Preparation Four

The aptitude of the two children exceeded that of their predecessors, who were no match for them.

Both were considered abnormally gifted, especially Wei Qing, who was born with the Lie Yang Mysterious Heart constitution. He mastered the Fire System Technique seamlessly, encountering virtually no bottlenecks, and with massive resources poured into his training, he broke through one barrier after another.

With his own resolute will, combined with hundreds of outdoor training experiences, many of which were near-death, he accumulated a wealth of experiences and realizations.

It was only natural that he had broken through to the Fourth Rank and was stepping into the Fifth Rank.

Wang Kongyan, on the other hand, differed from the former. She was one of the two daughters born to Wang Tong and Yao Yuanhui.

This girl was born with her mother’s abnormal fate, manifesting anomalies from birth, holding a purple Jade Talisman in her mouth and with a natural Spiritual Pattern between her eyebrows.

From birth, she encountered endless fortuitous adventures.

At the age of nineteen, she accidentally innovated a cultivation practice, miraculously avoided demonic deviation, and actually developed a more powerful and complete Triple Fire Spirit Technique.

Her cultivation level soared, and although her innate ability was not the best, she always managed to stay at the forefront of all her fellow disciples for various reasons.

Her mother, on the other hand, was gradually being caught up to and left behind.

Now, people like Zhou Songyun were stuck in the Yuan Jing Phase for a long time, unable to break through, while their younger generation had surpassed their elders due to their excellent innate foundation and stable basics.

This was anticipated earlier; the losses brought about by missing the optimal period of cultivation could not be compensated for postnatally.

Lin Xin quietly watched the fluctuations in the distant back mountain.

There lay a cave mansion connected to the netherworld, where nature’s spiritual energy was similar, causing no hindrance to breakthroughs.

Moreover, any child born in his netherworld’s Land for God Worship, regardless of where they breakthrough, would transmit effects and changes to Lin Xin, as the owner of the Land for God Worship.

"Whether it can be successful depends on what we see now," said Lin Xin.

Lin Xin stared intently at the back mountain.

The sky there continuously twisted, sending out rings of transparent ripples.

The nature’s spiritual energy was boiling fiercely. Even though it was masked by a large formation, everyone in the Lake Mountain Immortal Sect could still feel it.

Crack!

Suddenly, a thunderclap roared, and blue lightning split the sky.

Over the skies of the entire Lake Mountain Immortal Sect, the spiritual energy suddenly trembled and instantly shrank inward as though there was an infinite black hole devouring all the surrounding spiritual energy.

Lin Xin’s eyes widened, firmly gazing in that direction.

Suddenly, scenes naturally surged into his heart.

From Wang Kongyan’s birth to her growth, all her countless realizations and experiences flooded into his mind all at once.

A massive amount of memories and insights swarmed in, and Lin Xin gently closed his eyes, calmly assimilating all the memories.

Before he could completely stabilize, another vast wave of memories and insights also poured in.

"It’s Wei Qing’s!" exclaimed Lin Xin.

This batch was even more enormous; Wei Qing’s experiences were richer and more complex.

Additionally, the breakthroughs of two people to the Human Immortal’s Fifth Rank and the instant acquisition of nature’s rules on their bodies and souls caused a qualitative change that was also vividly reflected in Lin Xin’s heart.

Standing by the lake, he suddenly had a realization.

He gently extended his hand and touched the surface of the water lightly.

Without using any spiritual energy, just with that light touch,

suddenly, a huge whirlpool of water emerged on the lake’s surface, spinning rapidly clockwise.

"Is this... stepping into the realm of Earth Immortal?" wondered Lin Xin.

Lin Xin felt that, as the two made their breakthroughs, his physical body and even the Green Yuan Cauldron far in the netherworld began undergoing subtle and complex changes.

Two new Green Yuan Cauldrons also appeared, condensing under the core ground of the netherworld, close to the previous Green Yuan Cauldron.

The three quickly linked automatically, forming a cycle of mana.

Whether it was the total amount of mana or the recovery speed, both far exceeded the past. Although it was only the addition of three Green Yuan Cauldrons, the effect produced was indeed equivalent to five times that of Lin Xin’s previous capabilities!

"The flesh has also been transformed; the instant maximum burst of the Great Qing Water has reached several times that of before. That means the instantaneous Explosive Power has increased several times, and so has the power when taking action, of course, the consumption as well..." Lin Xin calculated internally.

He had always thought that achieving Earth Immortal status would be tumultuous and earth-shattering.

But he didn’t expect it to be just this simple, this easily achieved.

"I think I can wait for more people to breakthrough before concentrating on condensing the Green Yuan Cauldron of the Dust Coagulation Realm," he thought to himself.

He reassessed himself, and this burden seemed almost negligible for him.

It was better to have a solid foundation before advancing to the Sixth Rank.

The rest of his thirty-some disciples were also about to breakthrough.

Sooner in a few years or later in a decade or two, they were scattered across different locations for training, where understanding the Polar Region was key to stepping into the Fifth Rank.

Grasping the rules of fast and slow in the Polar Region, clarifying its mysteries, was essential to fully stepping into it.

Additionally, there were certain requirements for physical constitution or Protective Aura.

However, over the centuries, Lin Xin accumulated vast resources and these disciples also possessed abnormally excellent aptitudes.

It was normal that among the hundreds of descendants he had nurtured, thirty-some achieving the Fifth Rank.

As for the rest, a few were stuck at bottlenecks, unable to advance, while many others had already died on their mystical journey, leaving behind nothing but a mound of yellow earth.

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Outside the Qing Shan Realm in the void.

Thunder rumbled as two dark, twisted spheres continuously rolled and turned in the airspace of the Void Territory.

Shen Tang floated in mid-air, his face covered in bulging veins, his eyes filled with pain.

Below him was a large group of protectors, and beams of pure white light shot from their hands onto Shen Tang, helping him recover from his continuously worsening injuries.

"Hang in there! Young master, it’s almost over!!" they shouted.

An elder of a family shouted loudly.

"I... can’t hold on any longer!!"

Shen Tang’s eyes began to eject bloody tears, and wounds kept bursting open all over his body, yet they were rapidly healed by white light, the blood seeming as if it would flow but didn’t, presenting an extremely eerie sight.

"Stepping into the Sixth Rank, it all hinges on this moment! If the young master can’t hold on, these more than two hundred years of hard work will be destroyed in an instant!"

Another noblewoman shouted loudly.

"Had I known, I should have only let the young master endure the enlightenment of a Fifth Rank advancement.

I didn’t expect... didn’t expect... alas..."

A look of regret appeared in the elder’s eyes.

"There’s no use in saying what we should have known, since it’s already done, there’s nothing else to do but persevere."

The noblewoman said decisively.

"Qing Shan Realm has fully cultivated the young master, and we have nearly exhausted our resources. If he does not breakthrough, I fear Qing Shan might soon turn against us. The situation would then be even worse."

"But the young master...."

The elder’s face showed deep sorrow, as everyone present had their entire fortunes and lives tied up with Shen Tang.

If he truly couldn’t endure this ordeal, any mishap,

Everyone here would have to accompany him in death.

"At this point, our only hope is that the young master can really withstand this."

The noblewoman said in a low voice.

In mid-air, Shen Tang’s body continued to crack open, and now even the healing light could no longer suppress the deterioration of his body.

Blood flowed out from the cracks in his Sacred Body, dripping incessantly.

Suddenly,

Puff!

Flesh burst open, and a blood hole exploded on the left side of Shen Tang’s waist.

"Ah!!!!"

He cried out in pain, tilting his head back and howling as the lifelong memories and realizations of two Human Immortals, along with the qualitative changes induced in his own Sacred Body at the time of promotion and a series of pains, all crazily surged into his mind. The pressure from inside his head grew increasingly intense.

"Shen Tang! Hang on!"

Suddenly, a pale yellow light band shot towards him from a distance.

Shen Tang immediately rejoiced upon hearing this, quickly reaching out to catch the light band.

In an instant, a black mist surged wildly from Shen Tang’s body, following the light band into a spinning earthen pot in the distance.

The earthen pot was painted with a rhinoceros pattern, had three ears, and faint green smoke was wafting from its mouth.

Crack.

As the black mist infiltrated the earthen pot, it instantly exploded, its surface showing fine cracks.

The green smoke originally wafting from the mouth of the pot quickly dissipated, leaving no further oddities.

"Thank you, Mother!"

Shen Tang clearly felt much better now, although he was still in pain, it was far less than before.

"What an enormous sacrifice! Using an Ancient Divine Artifact, just to lessen the son’s pain for a moment..."

The crowd below twitched their faces, all inwardly lamenting the wastefulness and extravagance.

The real catastrophe of that Ancient Divine Artifact, which was the earthen pot, was whether it could permanently lessen Shen Tang’s pain. However, it merely temporarily lessened it.

Half a day later, the pain would continue to return.

If Shen Tang could not adapt to the overwhelming memories and realizations on his own, he would continue to agonize indefinitely, exhausting any supports available, until he utterly perished.

Suddenly, a woman appeared in mid-air, dressed in a yellow gown, her face pale and somewhat disheveled.

"Shen Tang, it’s only two Fifth Rank advancements, you can do it, you must hold on!"

She stared anxiously at her son, her eyes full of blood vessels.

It was evident that she had paid a great price to obtain that Ancient Divine Artifact.

"Mother...."

Shen Tang clenched his teeth, taking advantage of the momentary lessening of his pain to hurriedly close his eyes and assimilate the enlightenment and memories flooding into his body.

Success or failure depended on this moment.

The woman in the yellow gown watched her son with utmost nervousness.

"Thirty-three years ago, in the Weaving Emperor Realm, that Chen Ying managed to survive the impact brought by two Fifth Rank advancements. Shen Tang, you definitely can do it, you must..."

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What does it feel like to step into the Earth Immortal realm?

Lin Xin had always thought it would be a dramatic, earth-shattering change.

But in reality, it was merely that his own Spiritual Power was several times richer than before, and his spirit substantially larger. Naturally, around the Land for God Worship, a thin film emanated.

It was a mix of countless people’s intentions, capable of isolating any Mental Probe from the outside world.

Besides that, the spiritual density of the Ghost Realm also saw a significant enhancement.

Lin Xin researched a bit but couldn’t determine the source of the enhanced spiritual density, so he let it be.

Then, there was the change in the core of Ghost Realm, the Green Yuan Cauldron.

Because Lin Xin had not activated the next phase, the Sixth Rank Green Yuan Decision, he had actually only completed half of the Earth Immortal accumulation.

The remaining half, depended on him, whenever he was willing to end this accumulation phase, he could step into the Earth Immortal at any time.