So, he looked at Zhuan Zhu and said seriously, "Senior brother, please give me, your junior brother, guidance in cultivation!”
He knew well that even if there was such a great opportunity in Guyuan Heaven, he needed tremendous strength to support him. Therefore, he had to break through to the intermediate Heavenly Sun stage!
The Heavenly Sun experts in Guyuan Heaven would likely be the strongest in the entire Tianyuan World. In the face of the magnificent full-scale drama that would affect the nine heavens, even Zhou Yuan didn’t dare to underestimate it.
Not to mention, there was also the mysterious sacred race.
Zhou Yuan felt tremendous pressure.
Zhuan Zhu pursed his lips and pointed his finger. “I will let you practice there before the Battle of the Heavens begins. Whether or not you can break through to the intermediate Heavenly Sun stage will depend on your own ability.”
Zhou Yuan lifted his head curiously and followed Zhuan Zhu's gaze, and then, his face stiffened.
“Senior brother, are you joking?!”
This was because Zhuan Zhu was pointing to the blazing sun hanging above the Tianyuan Utopia.
It was also the saint treasure guarding the Tianyuan Utopia, the Sky Illuminating Eye!
Chapter 1072 Training in the Illuminating Sea
It was a sea with no end in sight. There were no waves surging above it, and its surface seemed to be frozen. The stillness was very strange.
Standing on the sea's surface, Zhou Yuan scanned his surroundings in puzzlement. “Is this the Sky Illuminating Eye?”
Zhuan Zhu nodded. “This is the Illuminating Sea, the source of the Sky Illuminating Eye’s power. The seawater is formed from the purest universe Genesis Qi.”
Zhou Yuan’s eyes suddenly shrank, and he stamped his feet. But he found that he couldn't lift half a wave even if he exerted all his strength. Every drop of seawater was unbelievably heavy. What kind of rich Genesis Qi could transform into such seawater?
Zhuan Zhu flicked his finger, and seawater splashed up and landed in his palm. He jokingly said, “Do you believe me if I say this handful of water can crush you to death?”
Zhou Yuan's face darkened. He found that his senior brother was good at everything but enjoyed mocking people.
“What should I do next?” Zhou Yuan asked, changing the subject.
Zhuan Zhu smiled and waved his sleeve. Zhou Yuan suddenly felt the sea vibrate. He peered down and saw a huge eye slowly opening in the depths of the seabed.
The giant eye emitted a frightening earth-shaking power, and as it emerged, a stream of light gushed forth and formed a blooming lotus.
Faint flames leaped about within the light lotus, and although the flames seemed weak, their appearance whipped up slight waves from the surrounding mountain-like seawater.
The seawater near the light lotus was incinerated into crystal dust, then floated into the lotus flower.
Zhuan Zhu said indifferently, “The light lotus contains wisps of Saint fire.The training plan I prepared for you consists of you entering the light lotus. The Saint fire will continue to incinerate the super strong Genesis Qi in the surroundings and produceGenesis Qi Saint Dust. Yes, it’s an extremely pure Genesis Qi unimaginable to someone of your level. To you, each speck of Genesis Qi Saint Dust is a great nourishing substance, and if you can refine and absorb them, they can tremendously strengthen your Genesis Qi foundation.”
“Saint fire?”
However, Zhou Yuan was still very cautious. His scalp numbed when he heard those two words because he knew how terrifying the Saint fire was and that even Law Domain experts were fearful of its power.
The light lotus seemed harmless, but Zhou Yuan felt a deadly aura of danger.
“Can my body even withstand such an experience?” he asked.
Zhuan Zhu nodded as if saying, “I’m glad you understand. Given your bodily strength, you will die in less than ten breaths.”
Zhou Yuan’s face darkened, and he said resentfully, “Senior brother, if you murder your little junior brother, be careful that our master might expel you.”
“Hey, if this is the way to free myself from those troublesome affairs, I really want to try it." Zhuan Zhu looked at Zhou Yuan maliciously.
Annoyed and amused at the same time, Zhou Yuan could only roll his eyes.
Zhuan Zhu pulled out a strand of hair. It suddenly turned into a stream of light and landed on the light lotus. The next moment, an extremely powerful aura of life appeared inside the light lotus and transformed into countless tiny dancing people.
“This life aura will protect you so that you won’t be incinerated into ash...but the Saint fire will still bring unimaginable pain to your body as it blazes. This is inevitable. To absorb the Genesis Qi Saint Dust, which can’t be touched by someone of your level, you will have to rely on the Saint fire’s power.”
Zhuan Zhu peered at Zhou Yuan and said nonchalantly, "Of course, if you think it's too dangerous, we can choose a gentler method, but the effect won’t be the same.”
Zhou Yuan intently stared at the lotus floating in the sea, smiled and shook his head. “Let’s go with the first method.”
Zhuan Zhu raised his brows and then smiled at Zhou Yuan. “Not bad."
“Senior brother, please send me down."
The seawater was incomparably thick and heavy, and given his current strength, it was impossible for him to break through the water.
Zhuan Zhu nodded without saying anything else. With a wave of his sleeve, the sea’s surface split apart, directly forming a passageway into the light lotus.
Zhou Yuan once again marveled at a Saint expert’s vast and mighty power, and then, without the slightest hesitation, he transformed into a stream of light and charged into the light lotus.
Roar!
The moment Zhou Yuan rushed into the light lotus’ area, his expression abruptly changed, and an indescribably frightening force gushed toward him from all directions. Then, Zhou Yuan noticed that his body was beginning to melt at an unbelievable speed. Terrifying pain shot through him and almost drowned his mind.
He released a muffled grunt from his bloodied throat and sat cross-legged in the air. His body suddenly swelled, and red lava-like patterns slowly spread across him.
“Great Flame Devil!”
His body drastically strengthened. However, this only lasted a few breaths at most. Zhou Yuan's body soon continued to melt rapidly, and his whole body seemed to turn into a blood-red skeleton.
The crystal dust whirling in the air floated down silently and turned into flecks of light with the Saint fire’s heat and merged with his skeleton-like body. But his vitality was dissipating at an alarming rate, and even his Spirit began to fluctuate.
However, just as his bones began to melt, an incredible aura of life shrouded him and instantly regenerated his flesh! In just seconds, Zhou Yuan's skeleton-like body was restored to its original state.
However, his face was distorted due to the burning pain. The pain this time was several times more unbearable than when he was practicing the Great Flame Devil Art!
But even so, his eyes still blazed with unshakable determination. He had long developed an iron-like tenacity after so many years of cultivation.
“Again!” he roared.
The blazing saint fire came again.
As a result, the figure in the light lotus burned continuously and then recovered under the mysterious aura of life and then continued to burn…. It was like the most painful torture in the world. Yet the figure within the lotus withstood this onslaught again and again.
However, as his body was burned and restored, the waves of Genesis Qi exuded from his body grew visibly stronger!
Above the sea, Zhuan Zhu’s eyes flickered with surprise as he watched Zhou Yuan grit his teeth and withstand the countless times of burning in the light lotus. Zhuan Zhu knew well what kind of destructive power a Saint fire would bring to a Heavenly Sun expert like Zhou Yuan.
A Saint fire
not only incinerated one’s body but also struck the Spirit.
A Nascent Source expert’s body might be able to withstand a Saint fire’s power, but their Spirit would likely be destroyed.
The fact that Zhou Yuan could endure was enough to show his tenacity.
"This little junior brother really isn’t bad…"
He chuckled, a hint of admiration in his eyes.
The next second, he disappeared into thin air, and the entire sea surface restored its usual calmness. Even if Zhou Yuan roared in the sea again and again, those sound waves couldn’t penetrate the surface.
Chapter 1073 Recruitment
When the commotion the Tianyuan Region caused in Hunyuan Heaven gradually subsided, the news about the Battle of the Heavens began to spread from the nine regions and set off an even greater commotion.
To countless beings in Hunyuan Heaven, the Battle of the Heavens would undoubtedly seem a little unfamiliar since it had been a long time since the last one.
But once news about the battle spread, it very quickly evoked memories of many ancient books and stories retold by elders in their clan. After all, it was a battle of magnificent scale.
The scale of the Battle of the Heavens was terrifying, encapsulating all nine heavens of Tianyuan World. And in a sense, the Battle of the Heavens wasn’t a one-on-one battle; it would instead have an unignorable impact on any region.
Once the mighty ancestral qi born in Guyuan Heaven flows into a heaven’s region, it would increase the grade of the universe Genesis Qi in that region and make it purer and more powerful than before. Ultimately, the region's cultivation efficiency would soar, and the beings in that region would achieve twice the result with half the effort. Moreover, the influence would last a period of time. How many heaven prides would benefit from the improved Genesis Qi during this period?
Even veteran Nascent Source experts could use that chance to break through into the coveted Law Domain and thereby become top-level existences in all heavens.
Therefore, regardless of an expert's level, it was impossible for them to ignore the Battle of the Heavens.
Of course, the minimum cultivation level one had to have reached to participate in a battle of that level was the Heavenly Sun stage, and anyone below the Heavenly Sun stage could only watch the battle anxiously and quietly wait for the final result.
But that didn’t stop the news of the Battle of the Heavens from spreading to every corner of Hunyuan Heaven like a virus. Even the previous nine regions tournament paled in comparison to such a grand battle.
It was said that some Heavenly Sun experts and Nascent Source experts had recently received abundant training resources to improve their strength as much as possible. Moreover, the nine regions released a recruitment notice and offered very favorable benefits in the hope of attracting top Heavenly Sun and Nascent Source experts.
Although the nine regions were the leaders of Hunyuan Heaven, the vast Hunyuan Heaven naturally concealed many hidden dragons, and some of the hidden experts weren’t much weaker than the veterans on the Heavenly Sun List and Nascent Source List.
The nine regions wouldn’t care much about those people in the past, but now, because of the Battle of the Heavens’ unique requirements, there was a great need for such top Heavenly Sun and Nascent Source experts, and each of the nine regions wanted to recruit them.
The nine regions’ actions unsurprisingly set off huge movements in the Hunyuan Heaven. Many unaffiliated cultivators were indeed tempted by the favorable benefits the nine regions offered, and so, during this period, dark horses emerged one after another and unfamiliar names burst forth. They each displayed remarkable strength, and the Heavenly Sun List and Nascent Source List began to change.
It was only then that many people realized the waters of their Hunyuan Heaven were very deep and concealed many great players.
But the nine regions weren't the only ones hoping to recruit talents. Even the other top forces were eager to act because, as members of Hunyuan Heaven, they were also qualified to participate in the Battle of the Heavens. Their goal in the battle might not be to fight for the nine main channels of ancestral qi. After all, there were still many other ancestral qi channels in Guyuan Heaven. If they could occupy them and direct the ancestral qi contained in them towards their headquarters, it could similarly bring great benefits to their forces.
Therefore, they couldn't help but take action. As a result, the Hunyuan Heaven became even more tumultuous.
However, the nine regions were undoubtedly more advantageous among the many recruiting forces. Among the nine regions, the Wanzu Region, Wushen Region and Zixiao Region were unsurprisingly the most popular. The matter that was unexpected was that the Tianyuan Region’s popularity wasn’t any lower than the three top forces.
This would have been unimaginable in the past. After all, everyone knew that the Tianyuan Region was the weakest. However, Zhuan Zhu’s powerful return to the Tianyuan Region had overturned the Tianyuan Region’s deterioration. Evidently, the shock of having two Saint experts in the same region was unbelievably strong. Therefore, countless hidden dark horses flocked to the Tianyuan Region during the recruitment period.
As the Tianyuan Region's recruitment progressed, four months had passed since Zhou Yuan went into closed-door cultivation.
...
The Sky Illuminating Eye. In the depths of the Illuminating Sea.
The light lotus floated in the sea as a faint flame rose from it. Zhou Yuan was sitting inside the lotus.
Even after four months of adjustment, his body was still in a constant melting state, and his powerful body, which he was extremely proud of, was as fragile as a candle.
His face was bloodied, and his bones were exposed, similar to a skeleton. As his flesh melted, his flesh and blood made slight crackling sounds, but Zhou Yuan didn't budge, as if feeling no pain. It wasn’t that the pain had weakened over time but that four months of melting pain had left Zhou Yuan in a numbed state.
However, even though Zhou Yuan had suffered inhumane torture during the past four months, he had gained tremendous benefits. Even his bodily strength had increased by more than one level, to say nothing of improvements in other areas.
The Great Flame Devil’s level had also improved.
The golden blood in his heart had quietly reached more than 1,800 drops. As his heart beat, the astonishing force that permeated his bones and limbs was enough to move mountains and split the sea.
The faint flames rising in the light lotus had begun to fade after four months.
However, the Genesis Qi breakthrough that Zhou Yuan anticipated the most hadn't appeared. It was much more difficult for him to achieve a breakthrough in his Genesis Qi cultivation than for ordinary people.
Zhou Yuan slightly opened his eyes. His face was bloody, and his pupils looked particularly striking. As he stared at the extremely faint flames in the light lotus, his eyes flickered and then blazed with determination and fierceness.
He opened his mouth abruptly and inhaled deeply.
Hu!
Zhou Yuan swallowed the faint flames remaining in the light lotus! Although the flames were extremely tiny, they ultimately originated from the Saint fire. If they were placed in an ocean, the entire ocean would bubble.
But Zhou Yuan had dared to swallow them in one mouthful. His actions were crazy!
Roar!
After swallowing the wisps of flame, Zhou Yuan's flesh and blood were instantly burned clean. Even his bones began to melt. The inhuman pain was enough to make anyone crazy, but Zhou Yuan remained motionless. He activated the Ancestral Dragon Scripture and directly forced the flames into his Divine Dwellings.
The terrifying heat disappeared.
The light lotus gradually grew cold.
But Zhou Yuan's skeleton-like body stilled, and his aura of life seemed to weaken at an alarming speed.
His Spirit, which was at the center of his eyebrows, also dimmed. It was on the verge of extinguishing.
From a distance, he seemed to be a desiccated corpse sitting cross-legged in the light lotus, his life force annihilated.
That state lasted for a long while.
Eventually, Zhou Yuan's skeleton-like body suddenly trembled. The little life aura remaining in the light lotus whizzed, his flesh and blood rapidly began to recover, and his Spirit gradually grew brighter.
Zhou Yuan folded one hand in a seal.
Om!
Rays of Genesis Qi gathered behind him and finally transformed into a glass Heavenly Sun.
But before it ended, the corners of his mouth curved upwards.
Om!
After the first glass sun formed, the light erupted again, and another more magnificent glass sun slowly emerged.
Two suns!
He had finally stepped into the intermediate Heavenly Sun stage!
Chapter 1074 Nine-Claw Heavenly Sun
On the surface of the Illuminating Sea
A scream resounded, and the sea’s surface parted as a figure soared into the sky.
Standing in midair, Zhou Yuan felt the mighty Genesis Qi surging in his body, and his eyes were filled with joy and excitement. After four months of painstaking training and suffering endless pain, he had finally achieved what he wished. He had broken through to the intermediate Heavenly Sun stage!
He closed his eyes slightly, feeling his Genesis Qi. After a while, the corners of his lips slowly curved upwards.
"1.86 billion Genesis Qi stars…"
Following his breakthrough, his Genesis Qi foundation had soared from 720 million to 1.86 billion! It was a frightening increase. Moreover, a foundation of 1.8 billion was comparable to some advanced Heavenly Sun experts!
Evidently, an ordinary glass Heavenly Sun couldn’t compare to the potential of Zhou Yuan's variant glass Heavenly Sun.
The Genesis Qi increase surprised even Zhou Yuan a little. He originally thought his foundation would at most reach 1.6 billion after the breakthrough because his Genesis Qi foundation was around that level when he activated the Heavenly Yuan Brush’s Promotion. But that didn’t mean it was the limit of his potential.
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