Chapter 478: Tribulation - 478
Zhu Yi was curious as to what Chen Jie's words meant. He nodded his head in agreement before asking.
"What does that mean?"
Chen Jie responded. "It is simply the area of our universe that this planet is in. You'll understand more later. Don't worry about it too much."
Zhu Yi nodded. "Alright."
Chen Jie disappeared from where he stood. Zhu Yi turned to look at the spring of Qi and set up a time bubble.
A spring of Qi that sped up cultivation speed was something that would not normally exist. Before Zhou Fan was injured, the Qi of the universe was as dense as it needed to be. Even if it was denser, it wouldn't have really helped. Only a very slight boost would have been given.
However, in this environment with a tenth of the Qi from then, a spring of Qi that increased cultivation speed could form under strict conditions.
As Zhu Yi cultivated, he noticed that his cultivation speed had increased by two times.
With this, breaking through to the soul formation realm was not so impossible.
Around 1,300 years passed within the time bubble, and Zhu Yi reached the 10th level of the nascent soul realm. He was around 2,300 years old. Luckily, it seemed that breaking through was going to happen rather easily.
Even without Zhou Fans help, he would not have much of a bottleneck due to his king rank meridians. And with Zhou Fan's help, there was no bottleneck. 400 years later, at the age of 2,700, the old man that Zhu Yi had become broke into the soul formation realm.
Above the White Palace, clouds formed. Zhou Fan had a realization and spoke.
"Get out of here first."
Zhu Yi did not hesitate and left White Palace city, now sitting right outside of it. Luckily, such a movement was simple for a person at the peak of the nascent soul realm.
Zhu Yi looked up and saw the clouds forming. "What is that? I feel like I'm being targeted."
"I forgot about it until now. It is a tribulation. You face one in order to enter the soul formation realm, and most of the realms after that." Zhou Fan responded.
"That's stupid. Whatever." Zhu Yi stared into the clouds as lightning formed.
"You might want to get farther away from White Palace city, unless you don't mind killing everyone in it."
Zhu Yi agreed and took a few steps to the side. Those few steps took him very far, enough to avoid affecting White Palace City.
The clouds followed him without even the slightest delay.
Zhu Yi stared at the sky and waited. There was a flash of light, and Zhu Yi drew his sword. The lightning clashed with his sword and was dispersed. The clouds, however, remained.
"Is there more than one?"
"Should be three."
Zhu Yi nodded and waited.
Another bolt came down and Zhu Yi slashed it with his sword. This time, his sword felt great resistance. Still, he successfully broke the lightning bolt.
Zhu Yi got serious for the final one. He waited for a moment, and a larger lightning strike fell down.
This strike shook the ground as it fell. The rumbling even reached the White Palace City, which had long taken notice of the disturbance.
Zhu Yi sliced his sword up, using a sword wave. The sword wave struggled for a moment, before slicing through the lightning bolt and continuing into the sky. The sword wave dispersed the clouds, and Zhu Yi reached the soul formation realm.
"How many people can successfully stop that?" Zhu Yi asked.
He had to put in some effort, and anyone else would struggle just to survive.
"It gets slightly harder for those with higher talent, but not that much harder."
Zhu Yi nodded.
Now in the soul formation realm, he changed his body back to how it was before his lifespan began to age him. He now looked like he was in his early 20's.
"What next. Should I keep cultivating or try and help you recover?" Zhu Yi asked.
"King rank meridians are rather insufficent for the void traversing realm, especially in your current situation. It would be much better to find a way for me to recover more."
Zhu Yi nodded and got up. The soul formation realm gave the first huge boost in lifespan. He now had 100,000 years of lifespan. Only 2,700 of that had been used up
Zhu Yi sighed, glad that he had much more time to figure everything out. The first thing to try and test were the effects of Chaos Beasts on Zhou Fan's recovery.
If the effects were truly great, then there was hope of recovering another stage. Otherwise, there was very little hope at all.
As Zhu Yi began to fly, he felt a presence approaching from afar. It sped towards him extremely fast, stopping only a few feet in front of him.
Zhu Yi could tell in an instant that it was a soul formation realm cultivator.
"Who are you? How did you reach the soul formation realm, and why so close to White Palace City?"
"I am an independant cultivator. You can ask the writing sects Wen Si if you don't believe me."
Although it had been a very long time to Zhu Yi, not nearly as much time had passed for everyone else.
It had only been around 340 years since he arrived at the spring of Qi. Even if Wen Si was at the nascent soul realm, he would be alive right now.
The soul formation realm cultivator slightly relaxed upon mention of the writing sect.
"So you're involved with the writing sect. So be it." He said as he turned around, intending to leave.
Zhu Yi hurridely stopped him. "I want to participate in the fight against Chaos Beasts."
The soul formation realm cultivator turned around and looked at him in confusion. "Alright. Head to the Writing sect. It is actually their turn to lead the second group."
Saying that, he turned around and left.
Zhu Yi, now with a direction, headed towards the Writing sect.
Chapter 479: Breaking Through All Things - 479
Zhu Yi very quickly arrived. He stood above the writing sect and made himself known. This time, no Core Formation realm cultivator greeted him. Instead, a soul formation realm cultivator flew up. He looked at Zhu Yi in astonishment.
"Where did you come from? I don't recall having any information on you."
"I am an independent cultivator. I'm also a friend of Wen Si's and would like to participate in the fight against Chaos Beasts."
The soul formation realm cultivator seemed to need a moment in order to take in everything he was told. The shock of Zhu Yi being an independent cultivator was not small.
"An independent cultivator reaching the soul formation realm? I haven't even heard of anyone besides Chen Jie reaching such a level." The man said.
"Was Chen Jie an independent cultivator?"
"When he reached the soul formation realm, yes. A lot had happened before that, but nobody knows the specifics. Regardless, it is incredible that an independent cultivator could reach this realm. If you want to participate in the fight against Chaos Beasts, you can join my squadron, as long as you believe you can hold yourself against a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast that is."
Zhu Yi nodded. "I'm sure I can."
The soul formation realm cultivator shook his head. "You must have never fought a Chaos Beast. You can never be sure about anything when it comes to them. Just be cautious since you've never fought one before."
Zhu Yi nodded.
"Since you say you're a friend of Wen Si's, you're free to meet him." The soul formation realm cultivator said before leaving.
Zhu Yi flew down to the same building as always and walked up. He soon met Wen Si.
Wen Si looked confused upon seeing him. "I can't clearly see your cultivation realm right now. You must be high in the nascent soul realm."
Zhu Yi looked at Wen Si. It seemed he was at the 1st level of the nascent soul realm.
Since he had broken into the soul formation realm, Wen Si could not clearly sense his strength anymore.
"I'm in the soul formation realm now."
Wen Si was naturally shocked. Zhu Yi expected it and did not dwell on it too much. He had only come to check in on Wen Si's progress.
He wanted to know how effective the secret of the world was at raising strength.
Of course, no matter what, it was already beyond his understanding.
Wen Si would not participate in the fight against Chaos Beasts. He was considered too important to the sect and too weak to properly protect himself.
After an hour or so, Zhu Yi left Wen Si's building and was led by someone waiting outside to the largest building in the sect. It was a large castle that seemed to house most of the strong people of the sect.
Zhu Yi was given the title of guest elder and given a grand room. He stood in the middle of it and practiced his sword while waiting for the day to come.
He hadn't used a sword in a while, instead spending all of his time focusing on cultivating. After all, his life had been at stake.
It took him a day before he got used to it again, and from then on, he progressed at an unimaginable pace. Besides practicing Zhou Fan's basic sword style, he focused on the formless sword. He could tell why Zhou Fan praised it.
It was truly an incredible technique, and it was fun to use as well. It made a person feel invincible when using it. It was a year before Zhu Yi heard a knock on his door.
His progress, as someone being taught by Zhou Fan and a person with god-level sword talent, was far beyond reasoning. Few in the entire universe could experience such growth in a single year.
Zhou Fan had also created a sword technique for Zhu Yi. He made the condition that he would teach it once Zhu Yi was able to use the formless sword a thousand times without sheathing his sword again.
Zhu Yi had thought that it would be easy, but it got harder and harder as he progressed. He had been stuck on the 978th consecutive attack for an entire day.
Zhu Yi opened the door.
A core formation realm cultivator stood outside and spoke. "We will set out in three months. Please be prepared by then."
Zhu Yi nodded and the core formation realm cultivator left. He had not expected to get a warning so far in advance, but this was the world of cultivators after all.
Zhu Yi practiced as hard as he could for the next month and a half before finally reaching the 1000th consecutive attack. If he was surrounded by three thousand soul formation realm cultivators right now, he felt confident that he would win. This was the power of the formless sword, and the feeling of power it gave.
With a month and a half left, Zhu Yi looked at Zhou Fan, clearly expectant.
Zhou Fan jumped off of his shoulder and formed a sword. It was not using Qi, but manipulating the power of the soul.
Sadly, the real world remained unaffected.
Zhou Fan explained things clearly while making only two movements with the sword.
A vertical downwards slash, and a vertical upwards slash.
"With your talent, I made things a bit more advanced. I call this technique, "Breaking through all things"."
The name alone made Zhu Yi excited, and seeing its potential made him even more so. However, he didn't quite expect just how advanced Zhou Fan had made the technique.
As the remaining month and a half passed, he had barely reached the most basic mastery of the sword.
"If Chaos Beasts truly use the power of Chaos Qi, then this technique may help you more than you think." Zhou Fan said.
Zhu Yi nodded and sheathed his sword. It was still the one that Chen Jie had given him. He really needed a new one.
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