Breakthrough to the Spirit Realm, Wu Tan City Is Shaken!

All of a sudden, that glimmer erupted with a powerful suction force, directly drawing Xiao Lei's soul into it.

After a brief bout of dizziness, Xiao Lei sensed the surrounding scenery begin to change. The darkness receded, replaced by a stretch of Chaos Void.

The chaos here devoured time and space, as if the world had only just been born.

Within this vast Chaos Void, Xiao Lei's incorporeal soul was overcome by a sense of insignificance.

Boom! Boom!

A tremendous roar suddenly echoed through the chaos. Xiao Lei's soul looked over, and in the next instant, a trembling sensation surged forth wildly, making his soul shake violently.

Within the chaos, Xiao Lei saw an incomparably massive black shadow slowly emerge.

That shadow was like a black hole, constantly swallowing and annihilating everything.

Yet it was not a black hole, but a gigantic mill with no end in sight.

The gigantic mill was covered in mottled traces of time, its dark, dull color seeming more like it had been formed from the crushed blood of gods and demons.

Rumble!

The gigantic mill stood within the chaos, slowly turning as it ground away all things between heaven and earth!

At that moment, mysterious information flowed through his mind.

It was the cultivation formula of the Chaos God Grinding Visualization Method.

"Within chaos, a divine mill is born. With one turn of the divine mill, gods and demons alike are destroyed..."

"Visualize the divine mill, use the soul as the guide, and endure the grinding of the divine mill..."

"The divine mill turns nine times, each turn a new heaven..."

Xiao Lei's soul trembled as he stared at the divine mill in the chaos. Simply standing here already required immense courage, let alone throwing his own soul into it to be ground...

Xiao Lei took a deep breath, gritted his teeth fiercely, and his soul floated out, falling directly into the boundless gigantic mill.

Boom!

The instant Xiao Lei's soul entered the gigantic mill, it was engulfed by a dark shadow. Immediately afterward, terrifying agony erupted from his very soul.

In merely a few breaths, Xiao Lei's soul was ground into nothingness by the divine mill.

The chaos trembled slightly as invisible fluctuations converged, reforming Xiao Lei's soul.

Sensing that his reconstructed soul had grown stronger, Xiao Lei gritted his teeth again and plunged once more into the slowly rotating, mottled divine mill.

Boom! Boom!

The divine mill turned, crushing Xiao Lei's soul into nothingness again and again, only for it to be reconstructed again and again.

No one knew how much time had passed before Xiao Lei's soul power finally condensed completely, forming an illusory human figure.

Upon closer inspection, it was unmistakably Xiao Lei.

However, Xiao Lei's body was extremely illusory, tinged with a transparent sheen.

This was Xiao Lei's soul!

According to the realm divisions of the Chaos God Grinding Visualization Method, Xiao Lei's soul realm had successfully entered the Void Realm.

By the standards used to measure soul strength on the Dou Qi Continent, Xiao Lei's soul strength had reached the Spirit Realm.

Under normal circumstances, only an Eighth Grade alchemist could attain the soul strength of the Spirit Realm.

But Xiao Lei was clearly an exception.

After successfully breaking through in soul realm, Xiao Lei stirred his mind slightly and withdrew from the strange world where the divine mill resided, appearing in midair above the Xiao Family Back Mountain.

At once, a terrifying Soul Pressure swept rapidly in all directions with him at its center!

Everyone in the Xiao family, and even countless people throughout Wu Tan City, felt an incomparably intense Soul Pressure!

Under that Soul Pressure, many people could not help turning pale and trembling!

In another secluded corner of the Xiao Family Back Mountain, Xiao Yan was practicing Eight Extremes Collapse under Yao Chen's guidance. When he sensed the sudden Soul Pressure, his face immediately went pale, and his body nearly staggered and fell.

"This kind of Soul Pressure... someone has broken through to the Spirit Realm!" Yao Chen's soul form floated out as well, his expression somewhat grave.

"I never expected that someone in such a remote place could break through to the Spirit Realm."

At his peak, Yao Chen would not have cared much about soul strength at the Spirit Realm. But now, his soul was in a weakened state, and a Spirit Realm soul posed no small threat to him.

Moreover, the person whose soul had broken through to the Spirit Realm was in a backwater like Wu Tan City.

"The Spirit Realm? What is that?" Xiao Yan asked in confusion upon hearing Yao Chen's words.

Yao Chen composed himself and began explaining the matter of soul realms to Xiao Yan.

At Xiao Xun'er's residence in the Xiao family, Ling Ying, who had originally been concealed in the shadows, could not help revealing himself.

"Uncle Ling, do you know the source of this pressure?" Xiao Xun'er asked Ling Ying, her pretty face carrying a serious expression.

Ling Ying smiled bitterly. "I only know that it came from the Xiao Family Back Mountain. As for who that person is, it would not be wise to rashly approach and investigate."

"How could such a small Wu Tan City attract a powerhouse like this?" Xiao Xun'er's delicate brows furrowed slightly. She was somewhat worried that this unfamiliar powerhouse might harm the Xiao family.

Of course, the one she truly cared about was Xiao Lei.

Yet Xiao Xun'er did not know that the so-called unfamiliar powerhouse was Xiao Lei himself.

At the same time, Xiao Zhan of the Xiao family, Oba Pa of the Ao Ba Family, Ya Fei of the Mittel Auction House, and others all felt that powerful Soul Pressure and were filled with uncertainty.

Fortunately, the Soul Pressure did not last for long.

At the place where Xiao Lei was cultivating, the "Xiao Lei" in the air paused before suddenly lowering his head and looking toward a large stone on the ground.

There, a figure in blue robes was slowly rising to his feet.

The "Xiao Lei" condensed from soul power moved, walking through the air toward his physical body. With every step he took, his body shrank somewhat.

By the time he arrived before his body, he had become an incorporeal ball of light the size of a palm. It drifted lightly onto his body's forehead and vanished in a flash...

When the soul reentered Xiao Lei's brow, his body trembled slightly, and the Soul Pressure that had spread outward completely dissipated at that moment.

Xiao Lei stood still for a long while before clarity finally returned to his dark eyes.

"Not bad. I've taken another huge step forward on the path to invincibility!"

After familiarizing himself with his soul after the breakthrough, Xiao Lei felt quite satisfied.

Now that his soul had broken through to the Spirit Realm, he could barely use soul power against enemies!

In ancient times on the Dou Qi Continent, powerful alchemists had all mastered soul attacks, making them impossible to guard against!

Although Xiao Lei was not an alchemist, he now possessed similar methods. He could even launch soul attacks against Dou Emperor powerhouses!

After his soul realm broke through to the Spirit Realm, Xiao Lei's life returned to normal once more.

He cultivated every day, occasionally took walks with Xun'er, and waited for Jia Nan Academy's recruitment team to arrive.

That day, Xiao Lei was taking a walk through the family grounds with Xun'er when he suddenly saw the Great Elder and the other two elders hurrying toward the family council hall, their faces filled with gloom and anger.

"Three Elders, what happened?" Seeing this, Xiao Lei approached with Xun'er and asked casually.

"It's Xiao Lei and Xun'er." Upon seeing Xiao Lei and Xun'er, the Great Elder and the other two immediately put on kind smiles.

Within the Xiao family, only Xiao Lei and Xun'er received such treatment.