Immortals of the End Times

Within the space of the pot-shaped heaven, purple light swirled like mist.

Emerging from Zhao Wuji's acupoints, the spiritual clouds condensed into three lingzhi-shaped clouds above the cloud bed.

Each cloud contains a swirling starlight, as if it contains a small world within itself.

This is an extraordinary phenomenon of someone with exceptional spiritual talent!

"After experiencing the sixth and seventh cycles of the primordial yin essence in one go, my spiritual aptitude has actually reached this level."

Zhao Wuji closed his eyes slightly, his divine sense sweeping over his spine and every meridian in his body.

As the spiritual energy surged, the meridian barriers were covered with fine purple patterns.

That is a sign of the manifestation of spiritual affinity.

Those with ordinary purple light aptitude have at most only 20-30% spiritual affinity.

For example, Nan Zhixia, although she also has the Purple Light aptitude, has only 20% of the Purple Light level in terms of affinity.

And this moment.

"Not only has my spiritual aptitude broken through to the Purple Light level, but my spiritual affinity has also reached 30%."

Zhao Wuji's mind stirred slightly, and he lightly traced a line with his fingertips.

A wisp of water spirit energy moved with ease, drawing intricate runes in the air. The speed at which the Water Rune Technique condensed runes was more than three times faster than usual.

This is the terrifying aspect of spiritual affinity.

The higher one's affinity, the more adept one becomes at harnessing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Both the speed of cultivation and the power of spells will increase accordingly.

This affinity is also an important criterion for judging the level of spiritual aptitude.

However, because it is so subtle, it is difficult for anyone other than a Golden Core cultivator with a powerful divine sense to detect it.

Therefore, it did not become widely known in the cultivation world, and did not form a clear spiritual classification standard like "green, purple, and gold".

"Senior brother's talent is truly amazing."

Li Shiyu's black hair cascaded over her fragrant shoulders, and her ethereal aura, like a veil, lightly covered her graceful figure. The mark of the ethereal woman between her brows had turned a deep purple.

"Although I have relied on the Nine Revolutions of the Maiden to elevate my spiritual aptitude to the pinnacle of purple light, my affinity is only about 60%."

"Sixty percent?!"

Zhao Wuji raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, but he was not surprised.

Li Shiyu's initial spiritual aptitude was golden, while his was only azure. Now that they are both in the purple light, it is normal that the other party has a higher affinity.

With this thought in mind, he immediately performed a hand seal and looked inward.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, the primordial spirit reigned high in the clouds, surrounded by seven divine lights like a galaxy.

Below the primordial spirit, the Yin-Yang Bead rotated, and a line of small golden characters clearly appeared on its surface:
Cultivation Level: Mid-Nascent Soul Stage (18949/300000)

Zhao Wuji couldn't help but shake his head and smile.

Because of the fusion of his three golden cores, his martial immortal cultivation has merged with his immortal cultivation and inner realm cultivation, making his foundation extremely profound.

The amount of spiritual energy required to accumulate for each minor realm may be more than twice that of others.

"Cultivation is indeed getting harder as you progress. It seems that even with my spiritual aptitude now elevated to the purple level and the aid of a level six spiritual vein, breaking through to the late Nascent Soul stage will still be difficult."

He estimated that "it will take at least another forty years of arduous training."

He couldn't help but smile wryly; indeed, cultivation required fortuitous encounters.

He once spent seven years comprehending the Dao on the Star Chessboard, and was able to break through from the early to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

However, if one cultivates step by step, it will take forty years. If one is delayed by other matters, the time will be even longer.

Just as she was pondering this, Li Shiyu, who was standing beside her, put on her robe and stood up. Her crimson palace dress cascaded down like water, concealing her enchanting spring scenery.

"What are your plans for the future, Senior Brother?" Her eyes sparkled, and her voice was as soft as honey.

"Once I have finished dealing with matters here, I will set off for the Immortal Saint Sect."

Zhao Wuji stood up, gently stroking her cascading black hair with his fingertips, and said with a smile, "You should cultivate here diligently. If you wish to see me in the future, you can enter this secret realm at any time."

After a pause, he continued, "With your current spiritual aptitude, help me settle in the Immortal Martial Sect and the Yang Family, and use their spiritual veins to cultivate. It won't be long before you can transform the Nine Transformations of the Maiden to the Ninth Rank."

Li Shiyu bit her lip lightly, her eyes filled with resentment: "So, if I slack off in my cultivation, it will be difficult for me to even see my senior brother in the future?"

Zhao Wuji laughed heartily, winked, and said half-jokingly, "Who told me, Senior Brother, to bear the mission of Heaven and Earth!"

"whispering sound!"

Li Shiyu chuckled softly, took his arm with her slender hand, and pressed her body close to his. "Then when you, Senior Brother, have completed the great task of fulfilling your mission to Heaven and Earth, I can become the Mother of Heaven and Earth!"

Zhao Wuji raised an eyebrow: "Mother of Heaven and Earth? You don't even rank that high, you're at most a concubine!"

"You bullied me again!"

Li Shiyu playfully punched him lightly, "With such a sharp tongue, don't expect me to help you take down those two peak masters again!"

After the two joked around for a while, Zhao Wuji's figure flickered and he was already deep in the Tiannan Secret Realm.

Looking up, a blood moon appeared and shimmered in his double pupils, piercing through the clouds and reaching the ninth heaven.

To explore the true Nine Heavens of the outside world, one must first pass through the pseudo Nine Heavens created by the ancient great power Jin Linzi within the Tiannan Secret Realm.

This is the best way to familiarize oneself with the dangers and characteristics of the Nine Heavens in advance, which is better than directly risking one's life in the outside world.

"Back when I used the Immortal Summoning Technique to possess Senior Jin Linzi, he was still at the Nascent Soul stage."

"Since he was able to create this pseudo-Nine Heavens, he must have personally ventured into the real Nine Heavens and escaped unscathed."

As Zhao Wuji stepped into the void, his robes fluttering, he thought to himself, "To be able to break through the Nine Heavens of Truth and escape unscathed, such strength must have reached the Dao Integration Realm."

I wonder where this senior went afterward?

While he was pondering, his figure shot into the air like a sharp sword.

He had already passed through the first six levels of the pseudo-ninth heaven within this secret realm.

In the sixth level, 'Fallen God's Turbid Mist Heaven', not only was the true meaning of the mist-making technique revealed, but the magical treasure 'Turbid Mist Rope' was also obtained.

There are still three heavens to conquer.

These are the Shattered Star Meteor Fire Heaven, the Dharma Annihilation Vacuum Heaven, and the Ninth Heaven, the Soul-Burning Radiant Sun Heaven.

At this moment, he made a hand seal and his figure quickly flew through the first six heavens.

As soon as he stepped into the seventh heaven, Zhao Wuji felt the void above his head tremble and the sky suddenly turn crimson.

Looking up, the entire sky resembled molten iron.

Amidst the rolling crimson clouds, thousands of meteorites, carrying with them the earth-shattering starlight, crashed down with tremendous force.

Ancient star patterns floated on the surface of each falling meteorite, and the trailing flames scorched the void with black cracks.

"Boom boom boom!!"

The first meteorite, the size of a house, fell and suddenly exploded a hundred feet away.

A violent shockwave, mixed with fragments of stars, swept in, and Zhao Wuji's protective aura immediately exploded with spiderweb-like cracks.

Even more terrifying is that the rain of fire conceals stellar magnetic turbulence, distorting space like a vortex, rendering escape techniques ineffective, and even shrinking the distance to an inch is difficult to perform!
"Shifting scenery and changing shape!"

Zhao Wuji let out a cold shout, and his figure instantly transformed into twelve afterimages, some real and some illusory.

However, under the tearing force of the stellar magnetic turbulence, the nine illusory bodies instantly disintegrated.

A meteorite the size of a millstone grazed past the real body's left shoulder.

With a hissing sound, the superior robe of the Immortal Saint Sect turned into carbonized paper, instantly burning through the robe, and the powerful body was also torn apart.

"Such powerful force!" Zhao Wuji's expression changed.

"All celestial bodies, heed my command!"

His eyes flashed with golden light as he made hand seals and unleashed the Star Number Technique.

A celestial chessboard suddenly appeared in his mind's eye, predicting the trajectory of the meteorite.

With a divine sense as fine as silk, he captured the patterns of stellar magnetic fluctuations. His body suddenly shifted to the side, narrowly avoiding the attack of three meteorites. The scorching wind stung his face.

"Not fast enough!"

As the meteorites grew denser, he suddenly raised his hand and made a gesture.

'Whoosh! '

The turbid mist, like a black dragon soaring into the sky, caused this magical treasure obtained from the sixth heaven to expand in the wind, transforming into a hundred-zhang-long mist dragon with ferocious scales.

Wherever the black cord passed, seven meteorites exploded into dust in mid-air.

However, the star essence contained within the sparks was corroding the spirituality of the magical artifact. The mist dragon let out a painful hiss, and its body surface continuously crumbled, releasing burning black crystal fragments!

"Boom!"

Suddenly, three house-sized meteorites, engulfed in blazing flames, fell from the sky in a triangular formation!
Zhao Wuji's pupils constricted sharply, his blood-moon-like pupils reflecting the pulsating star patterns on the meteorite's surface. These were no less powerful than real star fragments; each line contained the power to shatter mountains and split seas!

With no way to avoid it, he made a hand seal with his hands blooming like lotus flowers, and the Stone Boiling Technique suddenly erupted.

"cook!"

A dim, yellowish spiritual flame erupted from his hands, instantly transforming into a three-zhang-long (approximately 10 meters) fire shield.

The moment the meteorite came into contact with the flames, the star-like patterns on its surface twisted and roared as if they were alive, and were forcibly melted into molten iron.

At that moment, deep within his sea of ​​consciousness, the Sixth Yang Pearl suddenly trembled violently!

"Buzz!"

Two tadpole-shaped characters inside the bead lit up simultaneously, and golden light cascaded down, revealing two newly deciphered Earthly Fiend Techniques.

Surprisingly, the Stone-Penetrating Technique and the Mountain-Carrying Technique were both unsealed!
Information about numerous Earthly Fiend Techniques immediately surfaced in his mind.

"vigorously!!"

Faced with the successive meteorites, Zhao Wuji let out a long roar and used hand seals to unleash the Great Strength Technique and the newly deciphered Mountain-Carrying Technique.

"Kick-kick-kick!"

His entire body emitted sounds of dragon roars and tiger howls, his spine rose like a pillar of heaven, and dark gold battle patterns intertwined on his body to form mountain totems.

The muscles in his arms bulged and bulged, and the veins stood out like the earth's veins, as if he suddenly possessed the immense strength to carry mountains!
"boom!!"

Without dodging or avoiding, he lowered his waist and stood at attention, his right fist carrying the force of a mountain as it slammed upwards.

Wherever the fist passed, the air was compressed into a visible ring-shaped air burst.

"boom!!"

The first meteorite exploded in mid-air, scattering fragments like rain.

Before the force of the recoil had subsided, Zhao Wuji's left arm lashed out like a whip, and the turbid mist rope transformed into a black dragon that coiled around the second meteorite.

The golden light from the Stone-Penetrating Technique spread along the rope, directly penetrating the star's core structure and completely disrupting its internal balance.

"burst!"

As he clenched his fists, the second meteorite disintegrated from the inside out into countless streams of fire.

At this moment, the third one was already close to our face, and the stellar magnetic turbulence twisted into a spatial vortex, making it difficult to even use the Shifting Scene Technique.

"Shouldering mountains and supporting the sky!"

Zhao Wuji suddenly changed his move, his arms crossing like divine iron, instantly forming a cross-shaped barrier in front of him.

The immense power of the Mountain-Carrying Technique merged perfectly with the body-cultivating battle runes, and his entire body suddenly erupted with dazzling golden light.

"clang!!"

The moment the meteorite collided with the golden statue, it produced a deafening roar like a great bell.

His entire body radiated golden light as if the sun were descending upon the world, and his muscles bulged like a dragon turning over.

Every inch of her skin was covered in dark gold patterns resembling lava.

A golden shockwave, visible to the naked eye, exploded in a ring, instantly evaporating the sea of ​​clouds within a radius of thousands of feet.

His legs plunged deep into the clouds below, where spiritual energy had condensed, like pillars of heaven. Spiderweb-like spatial cracks exploded beneath his feet, shattering the entire cloud platform into pieces!

At that moment, blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, but his eyes gleamed with a sharp light.

The flaws in the astrological calculations are right before our eyes!
"Star Shift!"

He suddenly spun around, using the momentum of the meteorite to fling it into the sky.

The murky fog, coiled like a serpent, actually drew two falling meteorites into a collision.

"Boom!"

Heavenly fire poured down like a waterfall, blasting a huge hole in the seventh layer of tribulation clouds.

Zhao Wuji rode the turbid mist upwards, his right arm muscles bulging like a dragon, his five fingers suddenly clenching into claws, firmly grasping the last fragment of the crimson star into his palm.

The moment the fragment was in hand, countless rays of starlight burst forth from between the fingers, illuminating the surrounding area for hundreds of feet as if it were daytime.

"Penetrating Stone!"

With a low shout, the golden light of the Stone-Penetrating Technique surged through his meridians to his palm.

The star fragments, hardened by the finest iron, cracked like brittle clay, their surface star patterns crumbling inch by inch.

"boom!"

As the five fingers suddenly closed, the fragments exploded with a deafening roar.

Amidst the swirling stardust, a crimson stone the size of a pigeon's egg floated in the palm of the hand, its surface flowing with lava-like patterns.

The surface of the stone ball is covered with star-shaped patterns, each pattern resembling a miniature meteorite sealed within, and even containing a trace of Daoist charm that seems to have formed naturally.

Just by holding it in your hand, you can feel the terrifying power of the stars contained within.

"This... actually contains a trace of Daoist essence?! Could it be a seventh-level magic weapon?"

Zhao Wuji's eyes suddenly lit up.

The moment the divine sense probed into the stone ball, it was as if countless star trails exploded in the sea of ​​consciousness.

His proficiency in astrology increased significantly.

Zhao Wuji immediately realized that this magic weapon was actually forged from a fragment of a star core in the real seventh heaven.

It does indeed contain a trace of Daoist charm, and is undoubtedly a seventh-level magic weapon.

"This stone is shaped like a ball, which is perfect for manipulation using the Ball Manipulation Technique. Rise!"

With a flick of his finger, he made a hand seal and a ball-making gesture, and the stone ball instantly transformed into a crimson meteorite the size of a millstone.

As the incantation changed, the meteorite seemed to fly and spin in the air as if controlled by an arm, its trailing flames scorching the void.

"go with!"

The meteorite crashed down, instantly evaporating the murky fog hundreds of feet below.

A distorted void vortex emerged from the center of the explosion, and the aftershocks spread thousands of feet into the ravines.

"What a magnificent celestial treasure!"

Zhao Wuji stroked the star-like patterns dancing on the surface of the stone ball.

This item is a perfect match for the Ball Manipulation Technique; when fully activated, its power is astonishing.

"If such a treasure exists in the seventh heaven, what about the eighth and ninth heavens?"

Zhao Wuji looked up at the eighth heaven above him, which seemed to be almost a complete vacuum, like a glass dome hollowed out by a god, presenting an absolute void and transparency.

The ninth heaven, further above, is like an inverted furnace.

The blazing sun casts distorted beams of light through the vacuum, scorching the vacuum boundary with spiderweb-like scorch marks.

After a moment's thought, he looked at the newly deciphered techniques of carrying mountains and penetrating stones revealed by the sixth Yang Pearl.

"I wonder what kind of Earthly Fiend Techniques can be deciphered in the eighth and ninth heavens. I only have one empty spell slot left on my sixth Yang Pearl."

Zhao Wuji frowned slightly. "It seems that if I don't unlock the sixth Yin Pearl, it will be difficult for me to decipher any more spells."

He pondered for a moment, then exhaled a breath of stale air and continued to fly upwards.

"boom!"

The moment he entered the eighth heaven, his five senses were struck as if by lightning!

Suddenly, everything went dark.

It's not the darkness of night, but an absolute nothingness where even the concept of 'darkness' has been erased.

Silence surrounds me.

It's not the stillness of silence, but a vacuum where even sound waves cannot exist.

Divine senses ventured out like mud oxen entering the sea, while spiritual energy circulated like frozen mercury solidified into lead.

Even more terrifying is that the nascent soul within the body suddenly 'disappeared'.

I can clearly sense the existence of my dantian, but it feels like there are countless layers of void between us.

Even the Yin-Yang Pearl was shrouded in a gray mist, and the spiritual light of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Techniques flickered and was about to be extinguished like a candle in the wind.

This environment was simply bizarre, even more terrifying than when he was young and entered the Dharma-ending Age or the spirit-suppressing array in his family's ancestral land.

Because in the Dharma-ending Age, the spiritual energy within him was not yet suppressed and could still be mobilized.

But in this eighth heaven, the Void Heaven of Annihilation, he not only could not sense the spiritual energy from all directions, but even his own spiritual energy and the nascent soul within his body were as if they were isolated.

It was as if even the 'Tao' itself was swallowed by the vacuum, completely placed in the chaotic origin before the creation of the world.
(End of this chapter)