Chapter 402: Danger! (Four Updates)

After opening the first breakthrough point, the rest of the process proceeded much more smoothly.

The surrounding barriers, which shimmered with a faint golden light, began to melt rapidly like ice under the burning of the transparent karmic fire!

A streak of flame fell, instantly igniting the golden barrier!

*Sizzle!*

With a single sound, the transparent flames instantly began to spread!

In an instant, the entire golden barrier was enveloped by the transparent fire!

Chu Liuyue could clearly see the countless pentagonal thin crystals accumulated upon it gradually crumbling into sand.

Gradually, the same thing began to happen to the other golden barriers.

Chu Liuyue was almost entirely surrounded by the endless karmic fire!

Fortunately, perhaps because the Tianfang Sacred Cauldron had already recognized her as its master, she felt no sensation of burning.

On the contrary, Tuanzi eventually found it unbearable and hid back away.

When the first golden barrier completely vanished, transforming back into scattered sand, Chu Liuyue suddenly felt a strange force surging into her body along that path of transparent karmic fire.

She blinked her eyes in surprise.

This was...

"Those golden crystals contain abundant power. By using the karmic fire to burn them, you are essentially extracting almost all the power within them."

The Three-Eyed Divine Eagle suddenly spoke, its tone as indifferent as ever.

But if one listened closely, a slight ripple of agitation could be felt.

How long had it been following Chu Liuyue? It had already witnessed her encountering so many fortuitous opportunities with her own eyes!

To call such luck "defying the heavens" would not be an exaggeration!

Even it could not help but feel a stir in its heart.

Having lived for so long, it had never seen anyone with better encounters than Chu Liuyue!

Most people believed that in cultivation, the first priority was talent and the second was diligence.

But in reality, the foremost factor was luck!

And Chu Liuyue—she possessed all three!

Now, it seemed to begin understanding why the Tianfang Sacred Cauldron was willing to recognize Chu Liuyue as its master.

It even began to feel that Chu Liuyue's initial promise to help it restore its physical body didn't seem as ridiculous as it had appeared at first.

If things continued to develop like this, Chu Liuyue might truly become one of the figures standing at the very pinnacle in the future!

Unaware that the Three-Eyed Divine Eagle had thought so much in such a short time, Chu Liuyue reacted for a moment before asking somewhat uncertainly

"Are you saying that doing this is equivalent to cultivating?"

The Three-Eyed Divine Eagle let out a cold laugh

"Are you this efficient when you actually cultivate?"

Chu Liuyue: "..."

Was that a compliment on her luck, or a jab at her slow cultivation speed!?

However, those things were not important.

What mattered was—there were a full hundred of these golden barriers here!

If she burned them all away, wouldn't her strength increase tremendously?!

Since entering the Imperial Mausoleum, her long-tense mood finally relaxed a little.

Chu Liuyue clenched her fists, feeling the abundant primal force surging within her body, and couldn't help but curl her lips into a smile.

She hadn't expected that stumbling into this would bring such a good thing!

If she could devour all this power, she would definitely break through!

Speaking of which, she really should thank Mu Qinghe.

Right, where was he?

Chu Liuyue's expression tightened slightly.

The two of them had fallen from that disc together, yet until now, she had not seen any sign of Mu Qinghe.

Could he be encountering trouble at this moment as well?

The thought flashed through Chu Liuyue's mind, but she quickly pushed it to the back of her head.

Even if Mu Qinghe truly fell into a predicament, it wasn't her place to worry.

With his level of strength, he should have more than enough ability to deal with the troubles within this Imperial Mausoleum.

Chu Liuyue shook her head, casting aside these distracting thoughts. She simply sat cross-legged upon the throne, focused her mind, and began to cultivate!

She closed her eyes and placed her hands on her knees.

The Tianfang Sacred Cauldron returned to her dantian.

With a thought, she suddenly raised her hand!

A streak of transparent karmic fire flew out!

Vast power continuously surged from the surroundings, flowing incessantly into Chu Liuyue's body.

Her entire body felt as if it were soaked in hot spring water, warm and comfortable.

That power traveled through her limbs and bones into her dantian, eventually gathering entirely into that droplet of water.

It looked like only a tiny bead, but it was like a black hole, silently devouring all the continuously surging power.

Gradually, a pattern emerged upon that water droplet.

Moved, Chu Liuyue increased her strength, driving the karmic fire to burn on one hand while absorbing the power contained within on the other.

Whether it was an illusion or not, she vaguely sensed that the karmic fire within the Tianfang Sacred Cauldron seemed to be burning more vigorously than before.

The feeling was very subtle, but soon, Chu Liuyue confirmed her thought—the Tianfang Sacred Cauldron was indeed absorbing the power from the golden barriers!

Its overall aura had clearly improved compared to before!

Even the Three-Eyed Divine Eagle was shocked.

"How can this be... the Tianfang Sacred Cauldron is actually devouring the power here!?"

Chu Liuyue was unaware, but it knew—the Tianfang Sacred Cauldron was a supreme holy object; it wouldn't touch ordinary worldly primal force at all.

Therefore, although it had been suppressed for a thousand years and suffered extremely severe depletion, the Tianfang Sacred Cauldron had never shown any movement.

Except for one kind of power!

But how could such a thing possibly exist here!?

Chu Liuyue did not know what the Three-Eyed Divine Eagle was thinking and assumed it was merely surprised by the scene.

She shared a certain peculiar connection with the Tianfang Sacred Cauldron, so she knew very well that while the cauldron appeared intact, it actually was not.

The way it was acting now seemed to be an active attempt to repair itself.

For Chu Liuyue, this was naturally a good thing.

Once she confirmed this, Chu Liuyue quickly withdrew her thoughts and continued to focus on her cultivation.

Under the burning of the transparent karmic fire, the surrounding golden barriers continued to melt.

On the ground, piles of scattered golden sand appeared.

The aura on Chu Liuyue's body was also continuously strengthening!

After an unknown amount of time, Chu Liuyue suddenly felt as if she had touched an invisible barrier!

Her heart gave a violent thud—that was the sign of breaking through to a Third-Stage Martial Artist!

At that exact moment, a second pattern appeared on the water droplet within her dantian!

The more she reached such a critical moment, the calmer Chu Liuyue became.

She continued to absorb the power in an orderly fashion.

She knew she was different from ordinary cultivators.

With the suppression of the water droplet, she feared that breaking through to the Third-Stage would require much more effort than others.

But gradually, Chu Liuyue discovered another problem.

—The primal meridians within her body seemed unable to withstand the impact of so much power and began to ache faintly!

At first, it was just a slight stinging pain, but it quickly developed into an intense pain throughout her entire body!

That terrifying power continuously washed through her surrounding meridians, nearly bursting them apart!

Chu Liuyue attempted to reduce the influx of power, only to discover to her horror that she could not stop it at all!

(End of Chapter)