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Shang Xia had been able to affect space ever since he reached the grand completion stage of the Martial Intent Realm. When he absorbed the Winter Extermination Origin earlier, made use of its power to slice open space to arrive before the Hundred Flowers Essence Extermination Origin and Mirroring Sun Extermination Origin.

With three of the four extermination origins absorbed, Shang Xia felt the final calling and started to refine the strand of extermination origin on the maple leaf he had kept earlier.

Shang Xia glanced at the maple leaf in his hand and noticed that the intricate runes on it were starting to disappear as he started to refine the Falling Leaf Extermination Origin..

With no time to care about the leaf in his hand, he turned his attention back to his body.

Turning his attention to the Winter Extermination Origin that he absorbed earlier, he quickly identified it as the Freezing Soul Extermination Origin.

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The Freezing Soul Extermination Origin was of comparable quality to the Mirroring Sun Extermination Origin that signified the Summer season, and Shang Xia was extremely satisfied with it.

With the Four Seasons Extermination Origins in his body, the effects of the Four Seasons Samsara fully enveloped Shang Xia. Every cycle that passed allowed him to refine the extermination origins in his body a little more. Every time a new cycle began, each season in his dantian would last a little longer as the refinement of each extermination origin took a little more time.

Throughout the process, Shang Xia’s inner qi was also starting to transform. His Triple Command Qi that filled his dantian started to transform into Four Constellation Origin Qi. Like every breakthrough he experienced, the inner qi in his dantian would eventually transform to complement his cultivation level.

Before his advancement, Shang Xia already had countless insights. The Four Constellation Realm he was shooting for seemed to be completely different from the Martial Extermination Realm that represented the Fourth Order of the Primary Realm coined by the Azure Origin World. Although they seemed similar in the sense that they required extermination origins, the principle behind how Shang Xia trained would be different from the rest.

As the advancement process continued, Shang Xia’s understanding of his cultivation realm grew.

From what he knew, cultivators in the Martial Extermination Realm would have to refine extermination origins in order to improve their cultivation base. Usually, they would refine one strand of extermination origin when breaking through to the Martial Extermination Realm and when they had fully refined their first extermination origin, they would go on to refine a second one. They would be able to refine 4 extermination origins in total, but that was also their biggest obstacle. Experts in the Martial Extermination Realm in the Azure Origin World were restrained by the number of extermination origins they could locate! If they failed to find another extermination origin, their cultivation base would remain stagnant!

That applied to cultivators of the Azure Origin World, but Shang Xia was different. He refined 4 extermination origins at the same time.

If he used the same way to classify his cultivation level, that would mean that he would reach the fourth layer of the Martial Extermination Realm the moment he completed his breakthrough. If one thought about it logically, that wasn’t something that should have been possible.

If news of what he achieved was to spread across the lands, the Azure Origin World would actually fall into chaos. Shang Xia could tell that every single superpower in the Azure Origin World would set their eyes on him. They might even form a massive alliance to hunt him down to make him spill his secrets.

That was because the process of breaking through in the Martial Extermination Realm wasn’t as smooth as everyone had thought. There weren’t many inheritances on how to break through, and even extremely strong experts like Shang Bo and Ji Wenlong had to feel their way around when advancing from the first to the fourth layer of the Martial Extermination Realm. If they knew of a way to break through to the fourth layer of the Martial Extermination Realm, they would be able to avoid a lot of mistakes along the way!

Unfortunately for Shang Xia, he realized that his dreams of immediately reaching the peak of the small completion stage of the Martial Extermination Realm weren’t going to come true after half the medicinal effects of his Four Seasons Samsara Wine were used up. How could advancing his cultivation level be so simple?!

At the end of the day, the use of any rank four advancement medicine was to leave a seed of extermination qi in a cultivator’s dantian so that they would be able to transform their inner qi in the future.

Shang Xia’s Four Seasons Samsara Wine wasn’t an exception. The only special property it had over other rank four advancement medicines was that it was able to leave four seeds of extermination qi in Shang Xia’s dantian.

In Shang Xia’s case, the seeds were of his Four Constellation Origin Qi and it was far from enough to allow him to refine all four extermination origins at once. They might not be a cheat code for him to power up all the way, but at the very least, they formed a perfect guide for Shang Xia’s cultivation in the Four Constellation Realm.

In the future, those seeds of Four Constellation Origin Qi would be nurtured into a towering tree through Shang Xia’s hard work.

Of course, refining four extermination origins at once to enter the Four Constellation Realm had its drawbacks. Before Shang Xia could fully transform his inner qi into Four Constellation Qi, he would only be able to display the strength of a first layer Martial Extermination Realm expert!

Only when he completed the transformation of his inner qi would he receive a huge boost to his strength. The moment the transformation was complete, Shang Xia would immediately possess the strength of a fourth layer Martial Extermination Realm. He might step into the large completion stage of the Four Constellation Realm immediately.

The difference in strength might seem too extreme when described in words, but Shang Xia would be able to wield all four extermination origins in the Four Constellation Realm the moment he broke through. He might not be able to use them to their fullest potential, but he would be much stronger than cultivators at the first layer of the Martial Extermination Realm.

As for how much stronger he would be, that would depend on how much Four Constellation Qi he had.

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Thinking about the Spirit Extermination Gourd that contained several strands of extermination qi, Shang Xia discovered the true difficulty cultivators in the Azure Origin World were facing when breaking through. The strands of extermination origin contained within the gourd were mostly of different elements. In order to obtain a complete extermination origin, cultivators had two choices. One was to collect extermination qi from random sources to eventually form a complete extermination origin, and the other was to trade extermination qi with others to speed up their collection process. At the end of the day, all that meant was that they would have to collect enough extermination qi through different means to form a complete extermination origin.

Unless they were as lucky as Shang Xia who had the ability to find a forbidden region with multiple extermination origins, they were destined to remain in the Martial Intent Realm for a long time while collecting extermination qi.

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Shang Xia’s ascension to the Four Constellation Realm could be said to be an extremely fortunate matter. He might not be able to utilize the full strength of all four extermination origins the moment he broke through, but he would be able to make use of them nonetheless, albeit to a certain extent. That would greatly aid his understanding of his extermination origins and allow him to comprehend his fourth martial intent in the future, allowing him to step into the grand completion stage of the Four Constellation Realm.

Shang Xia used the four seeds of Four Constellation Qi in his dantian to refine the Four Seasons Extermination Origins while using the extermination origins to nurture the Four Constellation Qi seeds with their power.

Even though half of the medicinal effects of his Four Seasons Samsara Wine had been used up, only a fifth of the runes of the maple leaf that contained the Falling Leaf Extermination Origin had disappeared.

Moreover, that was because the advancement medicine was extremely compatible with Shang Xia. If anyone else were to use the same advancement medicine, they might not be able to refine as much of the extermination origin as Shang Xia could.

Of course, no one was crazy enough to do what Shang Xia did. He was probably the first person in the Azure Origin World to refine 4 extermination origins at once! His actions could be considered reckless by most people, but they didn’t understand that he had the Crimson Soul Tablet to guide him.

Without the Crimson Soul Tablet, Shang Xia wouldn’t be able to make a perfect rank four advancement medicine anyway!

Now that half the medicine effects of the Four Seasons Samsara Wine was used up, Shang Xia counted that a total of 25 cycles had passed.

Allowing the process to continue, Shang Xia realized that all the medicinal effects were used up after the 49th cycle. The runes on the maple leaf that contained the Falling Leaf Extermination Origin had decreased by two-fifths, and that seemed to be however much he could refine. The same applied to the other extermination origins.

At the end of the 49th cycle, Shang Xia finally stepped into the Four Constellation Realm. Or in the eyes of others, he was now a Martial Extermination Realm cultivator.

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As the person who was cultivating within the Yuxi Peak, Shang Xia didn’t know that the Yuxi Peak was experiencing a massive change the moment he ingested his Four Seasons Samsara Wine and started the breakthrough process.

The moment it started, the multicolored qi that surrounded the Yuxi Peak started to fluctuate wildly. The Yuxi Peak, shrouded in hazy light, became clear for all to see.

When Shang Xia sundered the space around the Tongyou Peak to absorb the Hundred Flowers Essence Extermination Origin, a multitude of lights emerged from the body of the mountain as though all the flowers had bloomed at the same time.

When he grabbed the Mirroring Sun Extermination Origin next, a pillar of light tore through the lake and emitted dazzling rays as it reflected off the water’s surface.

Next came the Falling Leaf Extermination Origin that he had kept earlier. Even though he wasn’t close to the forest experiencing the Autumn season, the leaves in the forest turned a shade darker before falling to the ground in unison.

Finally, came the refinement process of the Freezing Soul Extermination Origin. The layer of ice that covered the top of the Yuxi Peak started to melt rapidly as though a divine force was interfering with the course of nature.

That wasn’t all. Throughout the advancement process, the Yuxi Peak went through rapid transformation that signified each season.

Such a huge commotion naturally attracted the attention of the cultivators in the battlefield between the two worlds. More than half of them noticed what happened and it didn’t matter which faction they came from. All of their gazes were stuck to the Yuxi Peak.

There were even several Martial Extermination Realm experts who were starting to approach the mountain.

Among them, Ge Qingzhu was the first to arrive. He had a complicated gaze as he stared at the majestic structure before him.

Originally, he wasn’t planning on revealing himself. He wanted to hide in the voice to observe the changes, but the commotion caused by Shang Xia’s breakthrough was truly too large.

His breakthrough caused the screen of multicolored qi to retreat rapidly and cultivators around the Yuxi Peak quickly noticed the precious herbs growing on the mountain. They wanted to rush in there to collect as many as they could.

Ge Qingzhu could only show himself to control the situation. The moment he appeared, he stopped anyone from approaching the mountain. He even commanded the disciples of the institution to guard the area.

By the time he passed down his order, another Martial Extermination Realm expert of the institution, Zhang Haogu, arrived.

𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

The moment Ge Qingzhu saw him, he cupped his fist in welcome. “Mister Zhang, I’m afraid the experts of the Liao Continent and Changbai Holy Land will be coming soon. Shall we head over to welcome them?”

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By the time Shang Xia returned to the top of the Yuxi Peak, he had completed his advancement. Looking at the only ice boulder that remained, Shang Xia reached out to touch it. The Crimson Soul Tablet in his sea of consciousness quickly absorbed whatever world origin was left behind.

Raising his Spirit Extermination Gourd again, Shang Xia released a soft chuckle before waving his hand slightly to shatter whatever remained of the boulder.