Five Divine Pills, All Ultimately Dregs!

Those pillars of light grew thicker and brighter, swelling from the width of a bucket at first, to the width of a house, and then to the width of a mountain peak.

They dropped straight down from the vault of heaven, shrouding the top of the World Tree in a multicolored curtain of light.

The curtain of light was like an inverted bowl, sheltering the entire Divine Wood Forest beneath it.

Within the curtain, five-colored starlight flowed without cease. Each cycle stirred up a deep, low hum, a sound like the tolling of ancient bells, echoing between heaven and earth.

Inside the Grotto-Heaven, everyone was so shaken by the sight that they could not speak.

The beards of the Five Great Ancestors trembled. Feng Xi's hand clamped tightly around the edge of the stone table, her nails digging into the grain of the wood.

Even Zhen Ershisan Zi's phantom leaned forward slightly, an unprecedented light flickering in those ancient eyes.

Zhan Chui, Ju Li, and the others did not even dare breathe too loudly.

They hung in midair, heads raised as they stared at the dazzling, multicolored sky beyond the Grotto-Heaven barrier. Only one thought remained in their minds.

Was he really going to succeed?

Could someone truly walk the Ancient Path to the end?

And cultivate all five pills at once, something no one had ever done before?

Under the radiance of the starlight, time flowed by day after day.

Ten days, twenty days, one month.

Two months, three months...

Lu Jun sat cross-legged atop the World Tree, utterly motionless.

All his mind and spirit were immersed in the Bitter Sea, immersed in the five Divine Pills that were slowly growing.

The five Divine Pills were no longer the tiny motes of light they had been at the beginning.