Chapter 360: Condensing the War God Body and Secluding to Break Through to the Seventh Heavenly Realm (II)

In the hotel room on the other side of Yan Ruoyi's suite, Li Daoyi suddenly sat up in bed when he was startled out of sleep.

"The late stage of the Sixth Heavenly Realm!"

Li Daoyi looked toward the rooftop as he felt that familiar yet much stronger oppressive aura, his face full of shock.

"How did this guy break through to the late stage so quickly?" Li Daoyi's expression turned troubled.

Thinking back to when they met at the airport, Chen Chu had just broken through to the beginning stage of the Sixth Realm, a minor realm lower than his. He didn't expect that not long after, this guy would silently break through to the middle stage and now to the late stage, surpassing him, an Innate Awakener.

After cultivating for more than a month, Li Daoyi felt he still needed about ten days to break through to the late stage himself. The only way he would be able to accelerate his cultivation was if thunderstorms rolled through in the following days and provided hin with a large amount of thunderbolt power.

"My old man misled me with that talk about maintaining balance and waiting for one's own time. It's all lies. Look at this guy, working harder than me day and night, and his cultivation speed is soaring. Why isn't his foundation unstable?

"If I had stayed on the northern battlefield to constantly absorb thunderbolt power, I might have already broken through to the late stage or even neared the peak."

The more Li Daoyi thought about it, the more troubled he felt. Just as he considered whether he should start working harder, his phone vibrated beside his pillow. Someone had sent him a message before dawn.

Ya Ya: Good morning, Brother Daoyi, mwah (kiss)

(Wearing a sexy camisole)

(Bathroom selfie)

(Changing clothes selfie...)

With each nosebleed-inducing, barely-dressed selfie sent over, Li Daoyi grew increasingly excited, sending several red envelopes in return.

Working hard in cultivation? What was that?

Brother Chu breaking through to the late stage is fine. That guy’s a monster anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Just then, however, a vast aura erupted from the rooftop, with transcendent energy swirling within a few hundred meters, all converging toward the spot the aura was coming from.

Li Daoyi froze in the middle of enjoying the photos, looking up in disbelief. "The transcendent energy is converging... the True Martial Phantom!?

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"No, an actual phantom's power is greater, this is more like it's just a step away from breaking through. Did that guy condense the runic phantoms in advance?"

Not only Li Daoyi, but Bai Yunfeng also looked up in surprise on the same floor.

With the gathering of transcendent energy, the wind howled on the rooftop, and a thirty-meter-tall phantom holding a halberd, with light rings spinning behind it, faintly appeared behind Chen Chu.

As the phantom emerged, the surrounding transcendent energy gathered, stirring up gusts of howling wind and creating a formidable presence.

However, unlike Lin Xiong and Qingqiu Minghui's almost tangible True Martial Phantoms, the one behind Chen Chu appeared somewhat illusory, as it was merely a will projection. His cultivation was just one step away from being enough.

Feeling the battle phantom standing in his sea of consciousness and the true dragon power within him, Chen Chu squinted slightly.

With the runic phantoms successfully condensed in his sea of consciousness, all that remained was to reach the peak of the Sixth Heavenly Realm, let his true power ignite into light flames, and unify his essence, qi, and spirit to take the final step.

Chen Chu was already mentally prepared for this outcome. The core of the seventh stage of martial arts was the True Martial Phantom, which primarily relied on willpower to condense its true form. The cultivation path for true power ended here.

From the Seventh Heavenly Realm onward, the cultivation path involved condensing the True Martial Phantom, transforming virtual into reality, gathering the power of heaven and earth into the body, and ultimately breaking through to the Eighth Heavenly Realm to reshape the physical body.

Therefore, the energy from this attribute enhancement was almost entirely consumed by the runic phantoms. The improvement in cultivation level was simply a side effect caused by the enlightened state, similarly to how An Fuqing's cultivation level surged when she entered an enlightened state from condensing her sword will.

Taking advantage of this enhancement and enlightenment, Chen Chu's cultivation level soared to the late stage of the Sixth Heavenly Realm, very close to its peak.

Moreover, having already condensed the runic phantoms, Chen Chu's cultivation speed while gathering large amounts of transcendent energy was essentially on par with that of the Seventh Heavenly Realm.

He estimated that within ten days, he would reach the peak of the Sixth Realm. Additionally, while Chen Chu hadn’t stepped into the Seventh Realm yet, he had already gained some of the abilities of an advanced cultivator at that level.

With the manifestation of the phantom, he could still gather the power of heaven and earth to enhance his true dragon power, increasing its destructive capability several times over.

Given the strength of Chen Chu's War God Body, once he stepped into the Seventh Heavenly Realm, the True Martial Phantom would boost his true dragon power by at least tenfold, far surpassing the usual fivefold increase seen in ordinary Seventh Realm cultivators.

Thinking about this, Chen Chu called up the attribute page with a thought, and his gaze fell on the notes below the War God Body art.

Art: War God Body, Halberd [Seventh Stage, True Martial Phantom (incomplete), capable of gathering transcendent energy when projected, can amplify true dragon power fivefold.]

By the time the breakthrough aura subsided, the sky had already brightened. Chen Chu retracted his aura, calmly walked down from the rooftop, and after a quick wash, headed to the private restaurant on the nineteenth floor.

There, he saw Li Daoyi looking at him with a strange expression.

"Uh... Brother Li, why are you looking at me like that? Aren't you chatting with your beautiful friends today?"

Every morning at breakfast, Li Daoyi would chat enthusiastically with his female friends, something Chen Chu and Yan Ruoyi had gotten used to.

Li Daoyi sighed. "No chatting today, it's pointless. To me now, beauties are just flesh and bones, all illusions."

"You've had an epiphany?" Chen Chu's expression was peculiar.

Li Daoyi nodded with an air of transcendence. "Yes, I have realized something."

"As expected of Brother Li, always having realizations," Chen Chu said in an admiring tone.

Only Li Daoyi knew what he had truly realized; Chen Chu didn't believe he would abandon his beautiful friends.

As they talked, a large screen on the nearby wall broadcasted the morning news for Miamir, showing a martial arts arena. A bearded young man was standing in front of the arena’s shattered ring, surrounded by many reporters, as a severely injured middle-aged man lay behind him.

"Hello everyone, I'm your host, Xiao Xi. I'm now at Prudo, about three hundred kilometers from Miamir City, at the Blood Tiger Martial Arts Academy ring.

"Just now, early this morning, Mr. Kleide refreshed his record yet again by defeating the champion of Prudo's second largest martial arts academy with a single strike.

"Reportedly, this champion, Davis, had a powerful cultivation close to the middle stage of the Seventh Heavenly Realm and once shattered a hundred-meter building with a single punch while fully beastified. But such a strongman couldn't withstand a single move from Mr. Kleide, who is in the Sixth Heavenly Realm.

“He's unbelievably powerful. Such a freak is extremely rare, even in the three great empires. Next, he plans to challenge Godslayer Chu Batian in Miamir. We don't know who will be stronger between these two in the Sixth Heavenly Realm.

"I'm sure everyone watching on TV also has this question. You can discuss this with me by sending a text message or logging into the live streaming platform of the TV station."

Another reporter behind the first shouted at Kleide.

"Mr. Kleide, are you planning to go to Miamir next to challenge Chu Batian?"

The bearded young man coldly replied with sharp eyes. "No, I gained some insights from this battle and will retreat for a few days to break through to the Seventh Heavenly Realm."

The others were instantly abuzz.

"Breaking through to the Seventh Realm!"

"My God, isn't he under twenty? He's already on the verge of breaking through to the Seventh Realm so quickly."

"His talent is terrifying. If he breaks through to the Seventh Realm, can Chu Batian still be his match?"

The scene was filled with excitement as the reporters had found a new sensational story.