Inside the Vajra Platform.
Chen Qing stood with his spear in hand, Qi and Blood circulating throughout his body as a pale-gold Dragon Elephant Phantom gave off a deep hum.
He looked up at the thirty-meter-tall Vajra manifestation. It had three faces and eight arms, wreathed in golden flames, with a halo behind its head rotating like a Great Sun and Sanskrit Sound rumbling like thunder.
Its pressure was like a mountain—heavy and solid, nearly crushing the air around him into an iron slab.
Yet beneath that terrifying pressure, Chen Qing felt the True Essence that had been suppressed by the Vajra Platform's rules suddenly loosen. Like a great river surging forth, the mercury-condensed True Essence refined through Nine Refinements roared up from the lake within his dantian and raced through his Meridians!
"The Sixth Stage... actually allows the use of True Essence?"
Chen Qing's heart stirred, and he immediately understood. "The Vajra Platform's eight stages—its first three test one's foundation and physical body, the fourth tests resolve, the Fifth Stage tests comprehension. From the sixth onward, however, challengers must exhaust everything they possess for even a sliver of survival."
"Good."
The five fingers of his right hand slowly clenched. One by one, the black-green lightning patterns on the Jingzhe Spear Body lit up, faint arcs of electricity dancing at its tip.
The next instant, Chen Qing moved!
There was no probing, no circling. A wave of force exploded from the stone platform beneath his feet as he shot forward like an arrow loosed from the bow, tearing through the air. The Jingzhe Spear became a streak of purple-gold lightning, thrusting directly at the glabella of the Vajra manifestation's central, compassionate face!
This thrust was faster than the eye could follow!
The moment the spear shot forth, True Essence, Qi