Chapter 556: Chapter 261: Breaking Through to Seventh Rank! Knocking on the Heavenly Gate!
Above the Divine Pill, it’s as if a deep night sky loomed.
Two beams of light in the night sky extended like starlight, forming two roads, one long and one short.
The short one naturally belonged to the former dean, stopping abruptly at the Eighth Grade.
The long one belonged to Di Jun, a road leading straight to the Absolute Peak, though it was quite winding, and the starting point was extremely far from the Divine Pill.
Looking at these two roads, Xu Zhou quickly made a judgment in his heart.
"Whether it’s the former dean’s road or Di Jun’s road, I cannot fully rely on them."
"Because, after all, they are someone else’s paths, the starting point doesn’t belong to me, and neither does the endpoint."
Take Di Jun’s road, for example; the starting point is incredibly distant from him.
This is not a matter of the difference in the realm, but because when Di Jun reached the peak of the Sixth Grade, many aspects were different from Xu Zhou, and the differences were huge.
The most straightforward point is that Di Jun’s cultivation system is the Divine Martial Department, while Xu Zhou’s is the True Martial Department.
Additionally, there are the Circulation Acupoints, the Five Elements Divine Technique, and other differences between the two.
You cannot say which is better, but for Xu Zhou to walk Di Jun’s road, it’s as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
"Even if I luckily managed to step onto it, reaching the endpoint would still be difficult, as it’s someone else’s path after all."
Meaning, once he chooses that path, reaching the Absolute Peak would be near impossible.
At most, he might stop at the peak of the Ninth Grade.
The peak of the Ninth Grade is a dream for most people, but for Xu Zhou, it’s far from enough.
His goal is not merely the Ninth Grade, nor the Absolute Peak, but the Supreme Realm above the Absolute Peak!
"Di Jun senior showed me these two roads probably for my reference, not for me to directly walk them."
Xu Zhou’s eyes became more determined: "I must carve out my own path!"
"Since the road to the heavens is blocked, I will create a heavenly road of my own!"
Xu Zhou looked again at the two starlights above the Divine Pill, silently memorized their positions, and then felt a stir in his heart.
"Boom!"
In the next moment, those two starlights suddenly collapsed, and the roads belonging to them shattered rapidly.
Although these two starlights were put in by Di Jun, since they were within Xu Zhou’s Divine Pill space, he could erase them easily if he wished.
However, once Xu Zhou did so, it meant he would lose these two fallback paths.
From now on, he only had one path to walk, the one that truly belonged to him!
"Facing death to seek life."
"This is the true way of Martial Arts!"
Xu Zhou quietly closed his eyes, swallowed a near-Seventh Grade pill, and began earnestly cultivating the Golden Core.
...
Meanwhile, sitting in Guang Han, Di Jun suddenly seemed to sense something.
"Hmm? Have you severed all your fallback options?"
He could naturally sense when something he had personally implanted was erased.
However, there was no displeasure on Di Jun’s face; instead, a hint of a smile appeared in his eyes: "Facing death to seek life, eh? This little fellow does have some character."
"Very well, let me see if you can truly reach that step."
"I am looking forward to it."
...
In the days that followed, Xu Zhou relied on near-Seventh Grade pills to continuously enhance himself.
Soon, he broke through the realm of the Second Transition Golden Core.
Upon discovering the impurities in the Golden Core had accumulated to their limit, Xu Zhou returned to the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool for refinement.
After completing the refinement, he returned home to begin cultivating the Three-Transformation Golden Core.
Meanwhile.
In a desolate mountain within the Ten Thousand Clan Restricted Zone.
After developing for dozens of days, the Supreme Dragon Beast had now reached the Sixth Stage, Level 10!
Avatar: Supreme Dragon Beast
Stage: Sixth Stage, Level 10 (95%)
Net Weight: 3.4 million kilograms
"By tomorrow, it should break through to the Seventh Stage."
The Supreme Dragon Beast looked expectant.
No one expected that while the main body was fighting hard on the battlefield, it was this avatar that would first break through to a higher realm.
"Once I break through to the Seventh Stage, perhaps it will also aid the main body in breaking through to the Seventh Grade..."
The Supreme Dragon Beast awaited with a hint of anticipation.
Soon, the next day arrived.
The Supreme Dragon Beast eagerly took out a Divine Beast’s carcass.
"Crunch!"
He feasted on it heartily.
Half an hour later.
As the Supreme Dragon Beast finished eating, the weight on the display soared instantly.
3.4 million kilograms → 3.45 million kilograms.
Meanwhile, the stage started to rise as well.
95%, 96%, 97%...
When the stage reached 100%, it was as if the crust shifted inside the Supreme Dragon Beast’s body, grand and heavy.
"Crackle!"
The bones throughout the Supreme Dragon Beast’s body began to undergo transformation.
First the bones, then the blood, finally muscles, and skin.
But this time, the transformation of the physical body was but a minor part.
The main course was happening within his Purple Mansion, where a newborn energy was being born, and that energy was connected to his origin.
"The Primordial Spirit has been born."
The Supreme Dragon Beast was enlightened, understanding what had happened at the moment of breaking through to the Seventh Stage.
The Beast Race’s breakthrough to the Seventh Stage is similar to humans breaking through to the Seventh Grade; both birth the Primordial Spirit, also known as the Divine Soul.
It’s just that the Beast Race’s Primordial Spirit is born in the Purple Mansion.
While humans’ Primordial Spirits need to be nurtured from the Divine Pill and then traverse the heavenly road to reach the Purple Mansion.
"Unexpected that the Beast Race can directly skip the process of traversing the heavenly road?"
The Supreme Dragon Beast was utterly astonished: "Indeed, at the Sixth Stage, the Beast Race simply didn’t have something like the Divine Pill, so naturally, there was no traversing the heavenly road."
"Breaking through to the Seventh Stage, the Primordial Spirit sits firmly in the Purple Mansion!"
Upon realizing this, the Supreme Dragon Beast felt immensely emotional.