Glazed Heaven, Enormous Gains!

"Glazed Heaven? What's that?"

Su Sanjia was full of doubt. The moment Ning Fengzhi spoke those words, Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo's expressions both changed.

"Fengzhi, isn't this... inappropriate?"

Bone Douluo spoke after a moment of hesitation. Sword Douluo remained silent beside him, but he too felt that this form of gratitude was somewhat excessive.

"This is entirely appropriate. Could it be that the two elders believe Sanjia's gift of thanks isn't worth us treating him this way?"

Ning Fengzhi's face was full of resolve. Hearing this, Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo no longer objected. After all, that treasured place had nothing to do with them. Only the current Sect Master and Young Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were qualified to enter it! Looking across the history of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, only once, several centuries ago, when a mighty expert had saved the sect from disaster, had the Sect Master of that era given such a reward. In Ning Fengzhi's eyes, Su Sanjia was worth it.

"Sanjia, Glazed Heaven is the absolute forbidden ground of our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. It is located on the topmost floor of the iconic Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in the back mountain of our sect. The concentration of spiritual energy there is more than ten times that of the outside world. Not only that, Glazed Heaven offers enormous benefits in refining a soul master's soul power, nourishing spiritual power, healing injuries, and strengthening one's foundation. Even I have only entered this forbidden ground twice."

"Don't refuse. Your gift is of great help to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After much thought, Uncle Ning believes that only this place can somewhat express our gratitude! Go. How much you gain there will depend on your own ability. However, Uncle Ning hopes that when you emerge from Glazed Heaven, your soul power will have reached rank sixty! When the time comes, the soul ring you need will be provided by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!"

Just from those words alone, one could tell how important Glazed Heaven was! Su Sanjia's heart shook violently. This was something that had never appeared in the original work. Glazed Heaven... of course. As one of the Upper Three Sects, how could they lack something kept in reserve?

"Then... Sanjia offers his thanks!"

Su Sanjia had not expected to gain something like this. There was no way he could miss such a good opportunity. Perhaps his chance to break through to rank sixty lay here!

Led by Ning Fengzhi and the two elders, Su Sanjia arrived at the forbidden ground in the back mountain of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. They ascended that towering seven-story glazed pagoda, where a heavy glazed door stood before them. Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo stopped there. Ning Fengzhi summoned his martial soul and walked ahead, with Su Sanjia following behind him. Guided by Ning Fengzhi's soul power, the glazed door slowly opened.

The instant the door opened, an incomparably dense surge of spiritual energy, nearly condensed into mist, spilled out. Su Sanjia felt utterly refreshed after taking just a single breath!

"Go, Sanjia. Just focus on cultivating! When it is time for you to leave, Glazed Heaven will awaken you!"

Su Sanjia nodded, then stepped into Glazed Heaven.

The door closed. Ning Fengzhi let out a long breath. He had just descended from the seventh floor when the two Titled Douluo impatiently surrounded him.

"Fengzhi, Glazed Heaven had been accumulating energy for twenty years. It was originally prepared for Rongrong! Rongrong's talent is so exceptional. With Glazed Heaven, there is a great chance that her martial soul could evolve into an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda!"

It hurt. How could it not hurt?

Why were only the Sect Masters and Young Sect Masters of every generation allowed to enter Glazed Heaven? Because this was an opportunity for Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda soul masters to evolve their martial souls! Spiritual energy accumulated over decades could allow their martial souls to advance further, and Ning Rongrong was the greatest genius the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had seen in a hundred years. With Glazed Heaven, she might truly have been able to take that step.

"Uncle Bone, we can't be too stingy, can we? That child has already brought us the Condensed Radiant Exquisite Zhi, enough for our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to gain another Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. What harm is there in giving him this opportunity once? Besides, ordinary soul masters cannot absorb the Glazed Treasure Qi within Glazed Heaven. We only need to wait another ten years. Once the spiritual energy is abundant again, Rongrong can enter. No matter how you look at it, we haven't lost anything!"

Ning Fengzhi spoke calmly, then a smile appeared on his face again.

"I'll have to trouble Uncle Sword and Uncle Bone next. I'll be going into seclusion for a while. Once my martial soul evolves, the benefits you two gain from absorbing that heavenly treasure will be at their greatest!"

"Of course!"

"So this is Glazed Heaven!"

Su Sanjia examined it carefully. The Glazed Heaven before him resembled an independent pocket dimension, self-contained and complete. Above his head, layers upon layers of auspicious seven-colored glazed light flowed endlessly, with no distinction between day and night. Beneath his feet lay natural glazed jade marrow, its texture translucent and lustrous. Each step scattered specks of spiritual light in every direction. Several spiritual springs wound throughout the entire realm. Their water was no ordinary water, but some unknown spiritual liquid that radiated pure soul power and shimmered with rainbow-colored light. At the center of the secret realm floated a small seven-colored glazed pagoda with neither roots nor foundation. All the spiritual energy in this world flowed endlessly from that pagoda. Mist-like spiritual energy drifted through the air, and the instant Su Sanjia entered Glazed Heaven, it crazily burrowed into his body.

"What a Glazed Heaven! It truly is a holy land for cultivation!"

Su Sanjia was filled with excitement. Without further hesitation, he strode to the small seven-colored pagoda and sat cross-legged before it. His martial soul possessed his body as he began circulating his soul power and guiding the spiritual energy that had entered him.

"This... this cultivation speed is more than merely ten times faster?!"

Su Sanjia was thoroughly shocked. The soul power within his body was rising at an astonishing rate. He was like a parched sponge, greedily absorbing the mist-like spiritual energy. Thirty percent of that energy entered his body and transformed into pure soul power cultivation, while the remaining seventy percent fused into his flesh, causing his already absurd physical strength to undergo another transformation.

Ning Fengzhi had overlooked one thing.

Every person who had entered this place throughout history had been a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda soul master. But how could the bodies of those support-system soul masters compare to Su Sanjia's? With his Extreme Yang Physique combined with the physical strength of General's Bearing, the spiritual energy within Glazed Heaven had already formed a vortex and was wildly pouring into Su Sanjia's body.

Su Sanjia closed his eyes and cultivated with complete focus. Before he knew it, he had entered a state of deep meditation.

Time passed unnoticed in the mountains; in the blink of an eye, several autumns went by.

It was not as exaggerated as cultivation novels, where one cultivation session lasted hundreds of years, but by the time Su Sanjia opened his eyes again, the spiritual energy within Glazed Heaven was nearly exhausted and could no longer maintain its mist-like form.

"Exhilarating! Truly exhilarating!"

Su Sanjia felt as though he had taken a hot bath on a freezing day. His entire body was warm and comfortable, the soul power within him deep as the sea. An unprecedented sense of bliss spread through every inch of him. He slowly rose to his feet and stretched his limbs. Beneath his skin, faint seven-colored glazed light flickered.

"Gasp! This Glazed Heaven..."

Su Sanjia's eyes widened. After sensing the condition of his body even more carefully, he sucked in a cold breath.

"This... how is this any different from consuming another immortal-grade herb? No! The benefits it gave me are even greater than those of an immortal-grade herb!"