High Martial Arts: Gains one point of health per second, sweeping across the heavens.

"Tsk, this illusion array is quite fancy. If it weren't for my powerful Holy Soul, I would have spent ages just trying to find my way."

Su Jie walked away casually. His tenth-order Saint Soul was like a high-level navigation system, allowing him to see through all the empty illusions at a glance.

Occasionally, some low-level source beasts, lacking common sense, would leap out from the mist or cracks in the rocks, only to be stunned by a casual Holy Soul Impact from Su Jie before they could even get within ten feet of him, collapsing limply to the ground.

Just as Su Jie rounded a natural maze formed by distorted space, a rather powerful and violent aura emanated from a relatively open rocky beach ahead.

Su Jie's Holy Soul swept across the area and saw a colossal creature lying on a giant rock, seemingly asleep.

It resembles a giant ape, but is over five zhang tall. Its entire body is covered with a thick, obsidian-like shell, with ferocious bone spurs growing at its joints. Its head is similar to that of a lizard, and grayish-white air comes out of its nostrils.

The energy fluctuations emanating from its body reached an astonishing nine million units!

"A ninth-tier Origin Beast?" Su Jie's eyes lit up slightly. Along the way, the strongest they had encountered were only a few with three or four million Origin Beasts, so this big guy was considered an "elite monster."

"System, scan this source beast and see what kind it is."

[Command confirmed. Scanning... Target: 'Rock-Armored Chaos Ape', a ninth-tier Source Beast, combat power assessment: 910 million Source. Outstanding defense, relatively weak soul.] The system responded quickly.

"Oh? The soul is a weakness? Then I'll give it a try." Su Jie looked at the giant beast blocking his way and decided to take care of it.

With a thought, he quietly gathered the power of a late-stage tenth-tier Saint Soul.

The Rock Armored Chaos Ape seemed to sense a threat, raising its ferocious head and scanning the area warily with its gray-white beastly eyes.

"go."

With a slight thought, Su Jie silently unleashed a "Holy Soul Thorn" that had been amplified tenfold by the True Spirit Shadow and refined to its extreme. Ignoring the opponent's thick rock armor, it pierced straight into the fragile core of the beast soul.

"Awooo—!!!"

The giant ape only had time to let out a short, painful roar before its massive body crashed to the ground, its life force extinguished instantly.

Immediately afterwards, Su Jie saw the giant ape's corpse begin to disintegrate, with rich, pure energy overflowing and condensing from its core, eventually turning into a small pile of pale golden crystals.

At almost the same time, the Soul-Devouring Pearl within Su Jie's body, which had been dormant for a long time, suddenly felt slightly warm on its own!

This special soul treasure, which had been "unused" due to the fact that the magic spirit had a spirit but no soul and the restrictions of the arena rules, was now activated on its own, as if it were a hungry wolf that had smelled a perfect prey!

A barely perceptible wisp of gray air emerged silently from the Soul-Devouring Pearl, moving with lightning speed and precisely piercing the dissipating head of the Rock-Armored Chaos Ape.

The soul of this ninth-tier source beast was suddenly seized, entangled, and then forcefully dragged back by this gray, misty airflow, and directly sucked into the Soul Devouring Pearl!

Su Jie clearly sensed a subtle fluctuation emanating from inside the Soul Devouring Pearl, as if it were being ground and decomposed.

The originally dull bead quickly shimmered with a warm, soft light.

The next moment, a pure, gentle, and easily absorbed source of soul power emanated from the Soul Devouring Pearl, flowing along Su Jie's meridians and directly into his somewhat depleted sea of ​​consciousness!

"Huh?!" Su Jie's spirits lifted.

Although the amount of this soul power source was not particularly large, its quality was extremely high, even making his late-stage tenth-order Saint Soul feel a faint sense of comfort and a slight sense of growth!

"Goodness!" Su Jie's eyes lit up. "After holding back for so long, you've finally made a sale? The results are pretty good!"

This is truly an unexpected delight! In the chaotic frontier, there is no shortage of powerful creatures.

This means that the Soul-Devouring Pearl, this secret treasure, has finally ushered in its "golden age"!

It can not only absorb remnant souls, but also transform them into resources for enhancing the soul!

Su Jie then grabbed the pile of golden crystals from the ground from a distance. They felt warm and smooth to the touch, and their primordial energy was pure.

"This is... a source crystal?" Su Jie was a little surprised. "It looks a bit like the source I bought before?"

[Analysis complete.] The system's voice sounded at the opportune moment.

Defeating the Chaotic Frontier Beast does indeed drop pure 'Source Crystals'. Based on the quantity, this is equivalent to 320,000 units of Source Essence.

"Three hundred and twenty thousand units?" Su Jie looked at the handful of crystals in his hand, and then remembered that he had just spent more than five trillion Glory Points to buy five hundred and fifty billion units of Source Essence. His expression became quite interesting.

"Wait...did I overpay?" He clutched the crystal. "If I'd known that killing a ninth-tier source beast would drop hundreds of thousands of units, why would I have bought it...wait a minute."

He quickly realized what was happening and did the math: "Even if each one drops 300,000, to accumulate 5.5 billion, I'd have to kill... nearly 20,000 ninth-tier source beasts?"

Su Jie's lips twitched: "Forget it, buying is faster. Collecting them by killing these things would take forever, it's too inefficient. Anyway, any excess can be recycled to the Multiverse Exchange later."

Su Jie glanced again at the completely vanished remains of the source beast on the ground, and felt even more excited about his future "borderland monster-hunting" career.

"Looks like fighting here in this desolate place will not only cause you to lose Source Essence, but also Soul Power Experience Packs?"

Su Jie happily put away the pile of source crystals, while weighing the Soul Devouring Bead in his hand. "Not bad, not bad, double the harvest, double the happiness."

He put away the 320,000 units of source matter; even a mosquito's leg is meat.

Without further delay, we continued towards the chosen hiding place. With the breakthrough imminent, there was no need to dwell on these minor details.

Soon, he arrived at an area deep within the rift valley that was sealed off by a powerful natural illusion array.

With his tenth-tier Saint Soul, he easily found the array node and silently infiltrated it.

Inside is a quiet natural cave where the chaotic energy is pure and stable.

"This is it." Su Jie nodded in satisfaction and sat down cross-legged.

It's time to prepare for a breakthrough and strive for that unprecedented tenth-order transcendent divine form.

Su Jie sat cross-legged, his mind and body having reached the pinnacle of perfection. Within the system space, the primordial crystals, piled up like a sea of ​​stars and totaling 55 billion units, gave him unprecedented confidence.

"start!"

Without hesitation, he sank his mind into the deepest part of his origin and boldly opened the floodgates of breakthrough!

"boom--!!!"

Within his body, nine divine treasures that had already reached perfection simultaneously erupted!

【The Primordial Calamity】The divine treasure transformed into a purple tribulation lightning bolt that opened up the chaos, carrying the supreme will of judgment and rebirth, and was the first to soar into the sky!

【Primordial Transformation】The divine treasure evolved into a chaotic nebula that constantly gave birth to and destroyed all things, swallowing and exhaling the mysteries of creation!

The five fundamental elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—burst forth with dazzling five-colored radiance, weaving together to form a stable foundation for the rotation of the five elements!

[Soul] The divine treasure radiates boundless, clear, and pure light that illuminates the true spirit!

The Divine Treasury of Bloodline then erupts with an ancient, magnificent, and terrifying fighting spirit that originates from the very source of life!