Ling Xiao immediately used his realm template to conceal his cultivation base and limit it to Half Great Master.
He didn’t want to enter the Inner Sect now.
Hadn’t Vast Wintry Celestial Worthy said that if he passed the Moon Advent Festival Pagoda Climbing Ceremony with the status of an outer disciple, he would get extra rewards?
He could pause for these rewards.
In any case, it was just a few months.
Eh?
Just when Ling Xiao had finished with the realm template and was preparing to consolidate his cultivation base, he suddenly discovered something.
The integration of his Landscape Martial Soul and soul, which had been stagnant, reached one hundred percent.
Rumble~~
Rumble~~
A loud noise like an earthquake emerged from his body while he felt certain special changes happening to his Landscape Martial Soul.
Ling Xiao didn’t know what the exact changes were.
He had some expectations but was also a bit scared.
When in Hollow Cloud City, he had understood that his martial soul was not an ordinary one. Therefore, its every change would bring a completely different situation from ordinary martial souls.
He looked into the Landscape Martial Soul and found a scene of doomsday within the Landscape World.
Floods!
Earthquakes!
Meteorites!
Volcanic Eruptions!
Terrifying scenes appeared one after another as if a certain power was venting itself.
“Ah~~”
At this moment, Ling Xiao felt a sharp pain from the depths of his soul.
This kind of pain was more terrifying than continuously breaking bones.
He almost lost consciousness.
His entire body profusely sweated, and his complexion became deathly pale.
If it weren’t for having experienced this painful sensation several times before, he might have truly collapsed.
Endure!
Endure!
He must endure!
He vaguely felt that although the changes within the Landscape Martial Soul were fierce, it was not a bad thing.
To rebuild, things should be destroyed first!
Perhaps, this destruction was making way for something new.
He sat there gritting his teeth; his gums and lips were already bloody. In addition, his nails were also covered in blood.
This kind of pain was worse than death. It lasted for almost two hours before gradually subsiding.
Ling Xiao took a deep breath: the path of cultivation was truly not easy. If his will had not been firm enough, his path might have ended here.
He then reentered the Landscape World.
Surprisingly, the Landscape World had already become peaceful, but it lacked even a blade of grass. It was a world of ice and snow.
However, this thick layer of ice seemed to have given birth to something, and he felt like he could sense the earth’s heartbeat.
The pain was gone, but was it over?
Ling Xiao didn’t believe it.
Rebirth after destruction! Now, the destruction had ended, and it had entered an ice age, not a true rebirth.
He examined his current situation.
In accordance with the state of ordinary martial artists’ promotion to the Transcendent Realm——
If one entered the Transcendent Realm via one’s soul potential, a ‘spirit sea’ would appear in one’s brain.
Via internal energy potential, a ‘qi sea’ would appear in one’s dantian.
Via body potential, the acupoints of one’s entire body would be opened, and the nine martial veins as well as all the meridians would form a cycle, continuously absorbing spiritual qi. The body itself would be a similar existence to the spirit and qi seas.
The first type of martial artists’ true essence came from the spirit sea, which was mainly transformed from soul power;
The second type of martial artists’ true essence came from the qi sea. After internal energy was produced, it would be tempered via the qi sea;
The third type of martial artists’ true essence came from outside the self. Spiritual qi would enter via the acupoints, before being refined and changed into true essence via the meridians and martial veins.
Ling Xiao, however, was different.
He had been promoted to the Transcendent Ream via all three potentials, so all three traits existed.
This made his true essence source richer. Naturally, he would also have more true essence. Compared to ordinary people who were promoted via one potential, he had at least three times the amount.
As for the quality, it was a lot more powerful because of the aggregation of all three types of true essence.
The three would ultimately flow into the martial veins and be stored, turning into an energy source for martial arts.
At present, his internal core law <Twelve Golden Lotuses Formula> and defensive martial art <Heavenly Dragon Golden Law> weren’t inferior to superior gold-grade martial arts.
Therefore, the true essence produced by his qi sea and the true essence produced via the absorption of worldly spiritual qi through the acupoints were greater in quantity and also of higher quality.
However, the true essence produced by his spirit sea was a bit lacking because he didn’t have a soul cultivation technique comparable to <Twelve Golden Lotuses Formula> and <Heavenly Dragon Golden Body>.
Next, he sought a set of soul cultivation techniques that were at least of the rare gold-grade. Naturally, it would be best if it was superior or peak gold-grade.
After examining his physical changes, Ling Xiao realized the changes of his Landscape Martial Soul hadn’t ended.
Perhaps, after the glacier melted, there would be even more terrifying changes. At that time, he would definitely suffer more pain.
However, although he thought so in his heart, his Landscape Martial Soul remained quiet. Therefore, he planned to take a break and wash himself.
His entire body was uncomfortably sticky from the sweat he had released during his pained tremors.
When he left his cave dwelling and found a hidden spring to bathe, he discovered a miserable phenomenon. Upon his jumping into the water, the entire spring water instantly froze. The layer of ice was so thick that even if a behemoth stepped on it, it wouldn’t break.
“How come I can’t even take a bath?”
The strange thing was that this terrifying chill had no effect on his body, not even his sweat froze.
However, any external thing would be frozen instantly.
This terrifying chill was even more terrifying than Vast Wintry Celestial Worthy’s cold qo.
Ling Xiao even estimated that he would be able to easily defeat Rank One Transcendent Realm martial artists with just this chilly aura. This was not a martial technique, but it was a lot better than many gold-grade martial techniques.
Eh?
It started again!
Ling Xiao broke this layer of ice and jumped out. He then put on his clothes and ran towards a deeper area of the mountains.
The abnormal changes of his Landscape Martial Soul would most likely trigger some special phenomena. If he continued to stay in the Moonlight Sect, he would likely be discovered. Therefore, he had to stay away.
Otherwise, once someone realized that he possessed the Landscape Martial Soul, even if he survived, his martial soul would be forcibly snatched.
With his speed, he could instantly cover tens of miles.
This time, he ran for no less than an hour, entering the edges of the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range.
Crouching Dragon Mountain Range was extremely large. Although Heavenly Peak City was on the edge of Crouching Dragon Mountain Range, Moonlight Sect was in the depths of the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range.
Now, he was already closer to Heavenly Peak City than the sect, far outstripping the time it had originally taken him to traverse the stretch from the city to the sect.
There were many terrifying evil beasts here, including rank nine evil beasts. However, after seeing Ling Xiao, they lay on the ground and didn’t dare to move, as if they had seen an even more ferocious being.
Sure enough, the strong would be respected. Even these beasts were the same.
