Chapter 2115 - A Transient, Captivating Guest

Amidst the churning chaos clouds of the top of the first divine tower.

Bang!

The second combatant, Di Leng, exploded into a rain of light.

This time, Su Yi used his Hidden Summit Realm cultivation base, so it was an overwhelming victory. Defeating his second opponent took barely any time at all.

The Hidden Summit Realm is a level only Transgressors who’ve mastered reincarnation can reach. For that reason, almost no one beneath the heavens knows of its existence.

There’s no way my third opponent will be able to handle this power, either!

This was the source of Su Yi’s confidence.

Even his third incarnation, the one who’d arranged for him to face nine opponents in these trials, could never have anticipated that he wasn’t a Great Profound Stage cultivator after all.

Had Jian Xingyun faced off against Su Yi’s true Hidden Summit Realm strength, he couldn’t have even struggled!

Before long, Su Yi’s third incarnation appeared. He was unquestionably even mightier than Zhu Mu and Di Leng had been.

But he barely lasted a few seconds against Su Yi. Soon, he too was blasted into a rain of light.

One opponent after another appeared, each more terrifying than the one before.

But without exception, Su Yi completely dominated them. Within seconds, he’d defeated eight opponents!

Fighting them with my Hidden Summit Realm fleshly body makes it hard to use them to temper myself,

thought Su Yi. He couldn’t help but find it a pity.

It was just like he’d told Grandmaster Bodhi earlier. When you are lonely for too long, you crave defeat.

He was already invincible among others of the same cultivation. He could one-sidedly crush even the supreme experts of lost epoch civilizations. So how could Su Yi possibly fight to his heart’s content like this?

As his thoughts raced, his ninth opponent appeared. There was no denying his opponent’s strength. He was the strongest yet, a body refiner mighty enough to threaten even Mid-Rank Gods!

He was a true heaven-defying monster, but in the end, he lost too. No Great Profound Stage expert, no matter how monstrous, could threaten the Hidden Summit Realm Su Yi.

“When it comes to cultivating the flesh, I am unique and unparalleled throughout the ages!” Su Yi whispered to himself.

He was neither proud nor delighted. He was calm in a way that suggested that this was simply how it should have been all along.

Clang!

The boundless, ancient ringing of a bell rang out, and the entire divine tower rumbled and erupted with dreamlike and illusory sacred Dao Light.

The experts currently undergoing trial were startled, as were those clustered outside.

“What’s going on in there?” someone asked in bewilderment.

The bell proceeded to ring again and again, and the tower rumbled without end, scattering countless drops of resplendent, holy rain.

The sight startled even the experts clustered around the other divine towers. All of them looked over.

Ultimately, the bell rang nine times in total. The downpour of light enveloped the entire tower in a dense, holy air.

In that moment, everyone had a sudden, simultaneous revelation. Someone had broken the first divine tower’s record, surpassing all others of all epochs to become the strongest Great Profound Stage body refiner in history!

Complete uproar ensued. A clamor of voices arose on all sides.

“Su Yi! It’s got to be Su Yi!”

“How long has it been? He already passed the hidden trial thought only to exist in legends?”

“He... Just where did he come from?”

Jian Xingyun stood in the distance, completely shocked, his chest heaving.

When we fought earlier, he must have held back much of his strength...

Of course he realized that. How could he not?

Meanwhile, atop the first divine tower, nine bundles of light hovered amidst the chaos clouds, each as resplendent as a miniature sun. Then, all nine of them surged into Su Yi’s body.

This was his reward for overcoming the first trial: nine types of divine source blood!

Divine source blood was born of the chaos. It was an innate, ancestral power of blood and qi.

These nine types of divine source blood were the strongest of their respective epochs. They belonged to the Qiongqi, Suanni, Dijiang, Zhuyan, Qingsi, Torch Dragon, Kun Peng, Taowu, and Taotie!

All nine were divine beasts born of the chaos and nourished by heaven and earth. The power of their blood and qi surpassed that of all other life forms beneath the heavens.

Each of the opponents Su Yi had just defeated had borne one of these nine bloodlines.

Now, the purest source energies of these bloodlines flooded into his body, tempering and evolving his flesh.

Boom!

Even though Su Yi had tempered his flesh to the Hidden Summit Realm, when he fused with the overflowing power of nine types of divine source blood at once, his body felt as if it were about to split.

He immediately sat down and started meditating; he dared not hesitate.

Time slipped by.

As Su Yi fused this divine source blood into himself, the power of his fleshly body steadily rose.

From time to time, visions of the Qiongqi, Dijiang, Torch Dragon, Kunpeng, and other divine beasts manifested behind him. All of them were strange phenomena manifested by his blood and qi, a terrifying sight!

A full two hours passed before thunderous rumbling rang out and all such strange phenomena receded like waters at low tide and vanished into Su Yi’s body.

The power of his fleshly body had broken through. It was now at the peak of the Hidden Summit Realm!

These nine types of divine source blood had transformed into the latent potential of his fleshly body. Later, when he proved his Dao and achieved divinity, they’d let his fleshly body undergo yet another startling transformation.

In truth, Su Yi could have relied purely on the power of his flesh to prove his Dao and achieve divinity right now. It was just that he didn’t want to, as his cultivation base and soul were still far from reaching their limit.

That aside, when he achieved divinity, he wanted to use himself as a seed and cleave open a new pat that was his and his alone!

Hah~!

Su Yi exhaled, then climbed to his feet.

His frame was still tall and thin, but his blood and qi were strong enough to put any body refiner to shame.

Even descendants of divine beasts like the Qiongqi, Zhuyan, and Bi’an were several levels beneath him. After all, Su Yi had fused with a full nine divine source bloods, each supreme in their epoch of origin!

The first celestial trial tested the power of my flesh,

thought Su Yi.

The second trial will test my soul. I’m sure that good fortune sufficient to transform my soul power is hidden there!

He was full of anticipation for his next trial. Even if he couldn’t temper himself, the good fortune alone was more than worth the trip.

......

When Su Yi emerged from the first divine tower, all eyes were instantly upon him.

Numerous experts were waiting there, and when they saw him, they gazed upon him as if he were a legend.

Su Yi was briefly dazed, but he quickly understood. When he overcame the trial, nine bells rang. That must have drawn the attention of the other experts gathered here to undergo trials.

“Greetings, Fellow Daoist Su!”

“Fellow Daoist Su, congratulations on becoming the first in history to overcome the first divine tower’s hidden trial!”

Experts smiled and came up to congratulate him, one after another.

Su Yi wasn’t acquainted with any of them, but that did nothing to discourage them from offering their heartfelt congratulations.

When you were strong, there was no need for you to say or do anything. Others would naturally cluster around you with good intentions and smiles on their faces. That was true in the mundane world, and it was true here, too.

Su Yi laughed this off, then turned and walked toward the second divine tower.

Yet another uproar ensued as the crowd realized that Su Yi planned to head straight for his second trial!

“Quick, follow him!”

“Let’s see whether this Fellow Daoist Su of unknown origins can set yet another new record!”

Numerous people rushed over, but Su Yi disregarded them all. People loved a spectacle; it was just human nature. Even far stronger experts than these were drawn to anything that piqued their interest.

...

The trial of the second divine tower was called “Walking in the Sky!”

The second test, a trial of the soul, was divided into three levels.

The first level required challengers to use their souls to pull down a star to carry them to the second level.

The second level required challengers to use their souls to seize the moon and climb into the “nine heavens”—the third level.

The third level required challengers to use the power of their soul to shoot down nine suns. Destroying all nine counted as passing the trial.

When Su Yi entered the second divine tower, he found himself in a barren stretch of earth. Stars flashed overhead, like a boundless silver river.

The Stele of Trials appeared before him once more.

Su Yi was familiar with the process and quickly carved his name on the stele.

The stele transformed into a rain of the light of the Laws, sealing Su Yi’s physical body and cultivation base completely. It was as if he’d suddenly become an ordinary mortal again.

He could only use the power of his soul!

Su Yi walked confidently ahead. He could see no small number of challengers undergoing trial.

Some stood in place, sending the power of their souls into the dome of heaven, where they tried to guide the stars.

Others sat cross-legged, using their soul power like a net. They cast their “soul nets” into the sky as if it were an ocean and they were fishermen fishing for stars.

The stars slowly descended as the challengers’ souls slowly reeled them in.

The stars weren’t real. Rather, they were manifestations of a formation, and they were for a power of the Laws that suppressed the soul. They were utterly terrifying.

It was unquestionably far too difficult for an expert on the ground to pull a star toward them with nothing but their soul!

“No——!”

An embittered shout suddenly rang out.

A trial taker had almost drawn a star toward him when it broke free of his soul’s grasp and returned to the starry sky!

The trial-taker instantly vanished. He’d obviously washed out!

After taking all this in for a moment, Su Yi began. He put his hands behind his back, then gazed up at the dome of heaven.

Kcch!

A wisp of soul power shot forth like the unstoppable edge of a sword. It instantly reached the dome of heaven and swept outward.

Whoosh!

Wherever the sword qi passed, the stars shook and fell like rain.

The strangest part was that even as the other stars fell like rain, the stars the other trial-takers were pulling toward them weren’t disturbed or affected in any way. It was a dreamlike, ethereal sight.

The other trial-takers were stunned.

Just whose soul could be so terrifyingly strong as to make the stars fall like rain?

Without any prior discussion, everyone looked in the same place.

But all they saw was a blue blur shooting in the sky, riding off on the stars. In a flash, he’d vanished into the starry sky.

The crowd was melancholy; they almost felt like they’d lost something.

Who was that person? A single slash made stars fall like rain. He was like a transient, captivating guest in this domain.