togophonebook Chapter 53 Breakthrough to the Late Stage of Nascent Soul
Chapter 53 Breakthrough to the Late Stage of Nascent Soul
Deep within an unnamed, desolate island in the Chaotic Star Sea lies an underwater cave.
Time flies, the outside world is ever-changing, and killings and conspiracies are intertwined, but in this secluded cave, time seems to stand still.
Wang Tianlong slowly opened his eyes, his gaze sharp and restrained, his aura calm and profound. After ten years of tireless seclusion to heal and cultivate, the stubborn demonic energy within him had been completely eradicated, and his damaged meridians and body had long since recovered to their original state.
Wang Tianlong did not immediately leave the seclusion, but instead began to carefully take stock and organize the gains from his trip to the Void Heaven Palace.
The first thing that caught his eye was naturally the two pages of the Heavenly Void Jade Book, shimmering with silver light and as thin as cicada wings. He took out the two tadpole-like pages and placed them flat in front of him. Strangely, when the two pages came close together, they naturally and seamlessly joined together without any external force, as if they were originally a single, complete page, only artificially separated. The tadpole-like characters on the pages merged into one, flowing endlessly, emanating an even more profound and obscure Daoist charm.
"They're actually one piece..." A look of understanding flashed in Wang Tianlong's eyes, but when he tried to gently touch the crack at the joint with his finger, the two pages easily separated again. "It seems that they are only connected by their aura, not truly fused."
Wang Tianlong attempted to probe with his divine sense, trying to decipher the meaning of those tadpole-like characters. However, the result was the same as before. With his divine sense and knowledge at the Nascent Soul stage, he couldn't understand a thing. He could only sense the vast information and profound meaning of the Great Dao contained within them, which far exceeded the level of this world.
"Well, this is extraordinary, beyond my current comprehension." Wang Tianlong shook his head, not feeling too disappointed. He carefully separated the two pages of the Heavenly Void Jade Book, applied multiple seals, and treasured it carefully. "When I ascend to the Spirit Realm in the future, where there are many experts and ancient traditions, perhaps I can find the method to decipher this book. For now, it is my greatest trump card and hope on my future path."
Next, he took out the ten-thousand-year-old Soul-Nourishing Wood and the remaining ten-thousand-year-old Spiritual Milk. The Soul-Nourishing Wood was full of vitality, emitting a refreshing fragrance that nourished the soul; the Spiritual Milk was crystal clear, containing boundless spiritual power. These were all rare treasures to aid cultivation, but he did not intend to use them immediately.
Finally, his gaze fell upon the vibrant green Azure Mist Fruit, its surface shimmering with a gentle, ethereal glow. The moment this fruit appeared, the spiritual energy of the entire cave seemed to invigorate.
"The Void Heaven Palace... all arose from this fruit." Wang Tianlong looked at the Azure Orchid Fruit, his heart filled with countless emotions. If he hadn't taken this fruit with the Azure Wood Immortal back then, the spatial collapse wouldn't have occurred, the Void Heaven Palace might not have appeared, he wouldn't have experienced the series of life-and-death crises that followed, and he wouldn't have obtained such a heaven-defying opportunity as the Heavenly Void Jade Book. The cycle of cause and effect is mysterious and difficult to describe.
"Now is the time for it to truly shine." Wang Tianlong's eyes hardened. His cultivation had already reached the peak of the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, just one step away from the late stage. This Azure Mist Fruit, as a sacred fruit of the wind attribute, could not only greatly enhance his cultivation but also help him comprehend divine abilities, making it an excellent aid in breaking through the bottleneck of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm!
He got up and went to the secret chamber on the other side of the cave. Inside, the purple-haired rat was curled up in a dense cloud of purple demonic energy, its aura fluctuating wildly, clearly at a crucial moment in its breakthrough to the late Nascent Soul stage. Wang Tianlong checked it over and, confirming that its condition was stable and there was no danger, reinforced the secret chamber's restrictions to prevent his breakthrough from disturbing it.
Back in the main room, Wang Tianlong took a deep breath and adjusted himself to his best condition. He set up several layers of spirit-gathering and protective formations to maximize the concentration of spiritual energy within the cave.
Everything is ready.
Wang Tianlong sat down cross-legged, his gaze fixed intently on the Azure Cloud Fruit in his hand. Without further hesitation, he opened his mouth and inhaled. The fruit, containing immense wind spirit power and the Dao essence of breaking through realms, transformed into a stream of azure light and disappeared into his mouth!
The fruit melted in his mouth, instantly transforming into a pure, vast, yet incredibly gentle torrent that surged into his limbs, bones, meridians, and dantian! At the same time, a profound understanding of "wind," like a sudden enlightenment, was directly imprinted deep within his soul!
Wang Tianlong immediately focused his mind and fully activated the "Wind-Treading Technique," guiding this massive energy to launch the most ferocious attack on the bottleneck of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm that had troubled him for many years!
Just as Wang Tianlong was in seclusion deep on a deserted island, focusing all his efforts on breaking through the bottleneck of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm, the chaos and slaughter in the outside world did not stop because of his hiding.
Despite the joint mediation and patrols of top forces such as the Kunwu Alliance and the Star Palace, the human cultivation world still experienced a long and bloody period of turmoil due to the continuous instigation, framing, and targeted assassinations by the ancient demon forces. Many small and medium-sized sects and families, especially those who had gained something in the Void Heaven Palace but lacked the strength, were wiped out under the double blow of conspiracy and greed. Trust among cultivators plummeted to an all-time low, and everyone lived in fear.
However, time is the best diluent.
A century has passed in the blink of an eye.
As the fervor surrounding the Void Heaven Palace gradually cooled, the treasures that had been brought out were either successfully refined and hidden by powerful individuals, changed hands or were destroyed in repeated battles, or were taken to their graves by their original owners. The initial fervor and greed gradually subsided under the baptism of blood and the tempering of time.
Although the shadow of the ancient demons still lingers, and bizarre massacres of entire families or disappearances of cultivators still occur occasionally, their scale and frequency are far less than before. On one hand, the major forces in the human realm have strengthened their vigilance and cooperation, making it much more difficult for the ancient demons to operate; on the other hand, perhaps because the ancient demons have achieved their main objectives (collecting living souls and creating chaos to support some larger scheme) to a certain extent, they have also begun to become more cautious, moving from the open to the shadows and lurking deeper.
Gradually, order began to slowly return to normal in the cultivation world. A new power structure gradually took shape during the reshuffling, and the surviving cultivators began to refocus their attention on their daily cultivation and exploration of secret realms.
The turmoil caused by the Void Heaven Palace seemed to have subsided on the surface. It became a legendary and bloody chapter in the history of the human world, and a topic of conversation among cultivators.
However, only a very few beings standing at the pinnacle of the human realm, such as the Three Elders of Kunwu and the Palace Master of the Star Palace, still harbored deep anxieties. They keenly sensed that the evil force lurking in the shadows had not disappeared, but had merely gone into hibernation like a venomous snake. Furthermore, the actions of certain cultivators towards this mysterious force might foreshadow an even greater storm brewing.
Meanwhile, in the underwater cave on that nameless deserted island, Wang Tianlong's breakthrough had been ongoing for a century. The cave was filled with spiritual energy, and the fluctuations of wind-attribute spiritual power were growing increasingly intense.
The secret chamber was now filled with an intensely dense, azure spiritual mist. This was no ordinary spiritual energy, but rather pure wind-attribute spiritual power activated by the "Wind-Treading Technique" within Wang Tianlong's body! The spiritual mist seemed to have a life of its own, slowly rotating around Wang Tianlong, who was sitting cross-legged in the center, forming a huge vortex of spiritual energy that emitted a low, whistling sound.
Wang Tianlong's eyes were tightly closed, his face solemn. His aura surged like a volcano about to erupt, fluctuating wildly, yet firmly bound within him by a powerful will. Within his dantian, his nascent soul had grown to be identical to his original form, its entire body a pure azure, its features clear, resembling a second Wang Tianlong. The nascent soul's hands formed hand seals, frantically absorbing the immense magical power continuously surging from its meridians.
The medicinal power of the Azure Orchid Fruit, after a hundred years of refinement, has completely permeated his limbs, bones, meridians, and nascent soul. This is the most crucial moment in his attempt to break through that incredibly solid bottleneck of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm!
"boom--!"
A deafening roar, audible only to himself, seemed to resound within his body. The invisible barrier that had hindered him for so many years, under the impact of the breakthrough Dao essence contained in the Azure Orchid Fruit and the immense magical power accumulated through a century of arduous cultivation, finally began to tremble violently, revealing cracks!
However, at this crucial moment, Wang Tianlong keenly sensed that the spiritual energy gathered by the surrounding spirit-gathering array was not keeping up with the consumption required for the instantaneous burst of his internal mana! After all, this place was not a top-tier spiritual vein, and the spiritual energy required to break through the bottleneck of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm was enormous!
"As expected... I still need external help." Wang Tianlong had anticipated this, but his expression remained unchanged. With a thought, the two top-grade wind-attribute spirit stones he had been holding in his palms were instantly activated!
These two spirit stones are crystal clear, with an inner blue storm flowing eternally, radiating a powerful wind spirit energy that is extremely pure and almost free of any impurities!
"Snap!"
Cracks appeared on the surface of the spirit stone, and the terrifying spiritual power contained within surged out like a river bursting its banks, instantly being greedily absorbed by Wang Tianlong's body! This injection of pure external force was like injecting new power into a battering ram that was about to run out of strength!
"Break it!"
Wang Tianlong roared silently in his heart, turning the newly generated, incomparably pure wind spirit power, along with all the remaining medicinal power of the Azure Mist Fruit in his body and the will he had condensed through a hundred years of arduous cultivation, into an unstoppable torrent that crashed fiercely into the cracked bottleneck barrier!
"Boom—!"
This time, the barrier could no longer withstand it and collapsed like shattered glass!
In an instant, Wang Tianlong felt a lightness throughout his body, as if he had broken free from some invisible shackles! His divine sense surged instantly, his perception range expanded several times, and his perception and control of the wind-attribute spiritual energy in the world reached an unprecedented level! The nascent soul in his dantian also let out a clear and melodious cry. Although its size did not increase, it became more solid and agile, as if it truly possessed life!
A powerful, vast, and overwhelming aura, far surpassing that of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, erupted from his body like a resurrected dragon, sweeping across the entire cave! Had it not been for the numerous restrictions blocking it, this aura would have been enough to trigger extraordinary phenomena within a radius of hundreds of miles!
Late stage of Nascent Soul realm, achieved!