Chapter 176: Chapter 153: Gathering of the Strong
Chapter 176: Chapter 153: Gathering of the Strong
In just one day, the number of Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses gathered outside the Demon Burial Abyss had reached the hundreds!
All the cultivators of the Heavenly Wind Kingdom, at present, can only reach as high as the Rotating Pill Realm, which is the assembly of the most powerful entities in the Heavenly Wind Kingdom.
After the arrival of these Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses, those of the Spirit Sea Realm, who similarly could fly through the void, had been frightened into flying above the ground, not daring to set foot in the sky by even half a step!
Those disciples in the True Qi Realm didn't even dare to breathe too loudly, afraid of provoking the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses.
You must know, it would be effortless for these Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses to kill someone in the True Qi Realm or the Spirit Sea Realm!
The Rotating Pill Realm is the third major realm in martial arts cultivation, surpassing both the True Qi Realm and the Spirit Sea Realm; breaking through from the Spirit Sea Realm to the Rotating Pill Realm is even more difficult than breaking through from the True Qi Realm to the Spirit Sea Realm.
This is also the reason why, out of the countless millions of cultivators in the entire Heavenly Wind Kingdom, there are only a mere few hundred Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses.
To become a Rotating Pill Realm powerhouse, one must be able to invoke the "Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth" five major Heavenly Void Laws during the breakthrough, accepting at least one or a combination of these Heavenly Void Laws.
And once one has accepted even one of the five major Heavenly Void Laws, even without fully comprehending these laws, they will possess incredible divine abilities, incomparable by those in the Spirit Sea Realm!
It is extremely difficult to become a Rotating Pill Realm powerhouse; however, once one steps into the Rotating Pill Realm and integrates the True Qi spiritual liquid within their Spirit Sea with the descending Heavenly Void Laws to form a "Law Rotating Pill," their strength will increase to an unimaginable extent!
Any Rotating Pill Realm powerhouse is a famous and influential figure who dominates a region in the Heavenly Wind Kingdom!
Now, with these hundreds of Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses arriving at the Demon Burial Abyss, it naturally caused countless Spirit Sea Realm and True Qi Realm cultivators on the ground to panic and hastily make way!
All lower-ranked martial artists understood that with the arrival of these Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses, even if the incredible phenomenon at the Demon Burial Abyss offered great benefits, it would be up to these Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses to decide how to distribute them.
At this moment, all the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses were sitting cross-legged in the void, their gazes all fixed on the astonishing light emanating from the Demon Burial Abyss.
This astonishing light shot out from the Demon Burial Abyss and surged hundreds of feet high in the sky, forming a gigantic void column of light.
Such phenomena were extraordinary at first sight, completely captivating the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses.
In the end, all the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses, after observing the void column of light for a long while, all looked towards a few people seated in the highest places in the void.
These few individuals were precisely the top five Rotating Pill Realm late-stage powerhouses of the Heavenly Wind Kingdom, including Daoist Wine Sword, who had appeared at the Taixuan Sect's true disciple selection conference and had invited Ye Chen to the Spirit Sea Realm Sword Fighting Conference!
Apart from Daoist Wine Sword, the other four were from the Heavenly Wind Kingdom's three major fifth-rank sects.
From the Northern Region's fifth-rank sect, "Cloud Sky Sect," there were two Rotating Pill Realm late-stage powerhouses, "Yunyang" and "Daoist Yun Fang"; from the Southern Region's fifth-rank sect, "Moon Concealing Sect," there was one Rotating Pill Realm late-stage powerhouse named "Fairy Ni Xia"; from the Western Region's fifth-rank sect, "Flame Sect," there was one Rotating Pill Realm late-stage powerhouse named "Daoist Chi Mei."
Daoist Wine Sword, Yunyang, Daoist Yun Fang, Fairy Ni Xia, Daoist Chi Mei—these five Rotating Pill Realm late-stage powerhouses were the most formidable individuals in the Heavenly Wind Kingdom.
Besides these five, there were thirty-nine Rotating Pill Realm mid-stage powerhouses and over three hundred Rotating Pill Realm early-stage powerhouses.
With such a gathering of powerhouses present, how the phenomenon at the Demon Burial Abyss would be investigated was naturally up for the most formidable figures to decide.
Under the gaze of all the powerhouses, the five great Rotating Pill Realm late-stage powerhouses exchanged glances, and then turned to look at Fairy Jialuo, who was sitting among the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses of the Taixuan Sect: "Jialuo, come up and join the discussion."
Fairy Jialuo smiled lightly and stepped up to sit cross-legged beside the top five Rotating Pill Realm late-stage powerhouses.
Though Fairy Jialuo's True Qi Realm was only at the Rotating Pill Realm mid-stage, and she couldn't compare to the top five late-stage powerhouses, not even those in the Rotating Pill Realm late-stage dared to underestimate her in the slightest.
This wasn't only because Fairy Jialuo had once dominated numerous sword cultivators in the vast barbaric lands to take the first place in the Rotating Pill Realm Sword Fighting Conference, shocking the entire Heavenly Wind Kingdom.
It was also because Fairy Jialuo, in a moment of earth-shattering anger, had personally slain four Rotating Pill Realm mid-stage powerhouses, making all Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses recognize that Fairy Jialuo's strength had already reached the level of the Rotating Pill Realm late-stage!
Just like this phenomenon at the Demon Burial Abyss, there had been several occasions in the Heavenly Wind Kingdom that had drawn all Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses due to incredible phenomena and opportunities. The decisions on how to investigate and distribute these opportunities had all been made by Fairy Jialuo!
The six mightiest beings sat in the highest places of the void and began to discuss the affair of the astonishing phenomenon at the Demon Burial Abyss.
Below the six mightiest beings, the other Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses were seated, and even further below on the vast ground were the countless Spirit Sea Realm and True Qi Realm cultivators who had gathered because of the phenomenon at the Demon Burial Abyss.
The entire area was silent, save for the celestial column of light and the low voices of the six mighty beings conversing.
After a long time, the six mightiest beings finally finished their discussion, and Yunyang of the Cloud Sky Sect, robed in his sect's garments, looked down upon all the cultivators below and spoke slowly, "This Demon Burial Abyss is a vast chasm left by the battle of two great Heavenly Saint powerhouses of old, and for thousands of years, it has served as the burial place for the corpses of the ten great demonic cultivators of the Western Desolation."
"Over these years, apart from wild beasts running rampant, there have hardly been any anomalies here. Now that there is such a celestial phenomenon, it could either be a great disaster or a tremendous opportunity for our Heavenly Wind Kingdom."
"We six have agreed to take the initiative to probe the source of this phenomenon, and afterward, we will discuss how to proceed."
Yunyang's words prompted the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses below to nod continuously, "We will follow the arrangements of our Daoist friends."
The True Qi Realm and Spirit Sea Realm cultivators on the ground, however, didn't have the guts to speak up at all, let alone dare to discuss recklessly.
"Chi Mei, just like the previous explorations of anomalies, let your 'Fire Spirit Puppets' do the investigation," said Yunyang with a smile, seeing no objections below, addressing Chi Mei from the fifth-rank grand sect "Flame Sect," who had also reached the late stage of the Rotating Pill Realm.
This Daoist Chi Mei was a middle-aged man with a broad frame, and the most striking feature was his pair of fiery red eyebrows, which looked like red flames.
Hearing Yunyang's words, Daoist Chi Mei smiled faintly. With a wave of his large hand, five flames appeared in his palm.
The flames began to burn fiercely, and eventually, they seemed to come to life, transforming into five incredibly agile little firemen that flew towards the Demon Burial Abyss, from where the startling column of light had emerged.
These five agile little firemen, each only a little over half a meter tall, emitted a powerful aura that even made the early-stage Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses feel a tingling in their hearts.
And the True Qi Realm and Spirit Sea Realm martial artists kept far away from these little firemen, fearing being touched by them.
Those who knew of Daoist Chi Mei's methods were discussing in astonishment, "When Senior Chi Mei first stepped into the Rotating Pill Realm, he merged with the 'Fire Element Law' from the five Heavenly Void Laws. It's said that he has cultivated the 'Fire Element Law' to the third layer, just one step away from completing all four layers!"
"Once all four layers of the Fire Element Law are completed, one can become a saint of the fire law, stepping into the Heavenly Saint Realm!"
Merging with a descending Heavenly Void Law can turn one into a Rotating Pill Realm powerhouse, and cultivating any of the five Heavenly Void Laws to perfection allows one to become a saint of that law, stepping into the Heavenly Saint Realm, and becoming a supreme Heavenly Saint Realm powerhouse, delving into the ultimate mysteries of "space" and "time."
This Daoist Chi Mei was not far from achieving the Heavenly Saint Realm!
Although he was not far from it, just lacking the final layer of comprehension for the Fire Element Law, Daoist Chi Mei had been at this stage for more than three hundred years.
As murmurs filled the air, the five little firemen had already flown into the Demon Burial Abyss.
With a wave of his hand, Daoist Chi Mei displayed the scenes discovered by the firemen in the void for everyone to see.
Everyone looked toward the void to see the interior of the Demon Burial Abyss revealed as the little firemen continued their investigation.
Seeing a two-hundred-meter-long beast lunging at the firemen, only to be incinerated to ashes by the fiery light they emitted upon contact, countless martial artists gasped in shock.
As the firemen entered the mysterious cave, everyone saw the scene inside it and the spiraling passage descending into its depths.
After the startling phenomenon occurred, the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses dared not rashly investigate this terrifying anomaly, preventing anyone from entering, and waited for the arrival of more powerful beings. Thus, none had seen this cave before, and they couldn't imagine that such a mysterious cave was hidden within the Demon Burial Abyss!
And when the five firemen stepped into the deepest part of the cave and saw the place where the startling light was emanating from, with three colossal dark coffins, even the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses were visibly shaken.
Coffins! Tombs!
This was the sign of a great secret land!
As powerhouses who had explored numerous fortuitous encounters, they knew that the presence of a colossal coffin always indicated the site of an ancient tomb left by a powerful being!
The phenomenon was so extraordinary that the tomb was likely to be anything but ordinary!
"If it were the tomb of a Rotating Pill Realm powerhouse, such a startling phenomenon wouldn't occur."
"Could it be... could it really be a Heavenly Saint Ancient Tomb?!"
Even the five late-stage powerhouses of the Rotating Pill Realm up above were somewhat moved at the thought.
The Heavenly Saint Ancient Tomb could potentially contain a great treasure or collection left by the Heavenly Saint, and even more likely, the "Law Relic" that the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses dreamt of obtaining!
It was known that any Heavenly Saint who fully cultivated one of the "metal, wood, water, fire, earth" Heavenly Void Laws would, upon their death, not disperse their complete law. Instead, it would transform into a "Law Relic" within the ancient tomb.
This Law Relic was of great use to the Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses in comprehending laws and was a coveted treasure many would vie for!
Unfortunately, the demise of a Heavenly Saint Realm powerhouse was exceedingly rare.
Although many had entered the remains or cultivation caves left by Heavenly Saint Realm powerhouses, no one had ever entered a Heavenly Saint Ancient Tomb!
If this truly was a Heavenly Saint Ancient Tomb, then all Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses would go mad with excitement!