The Primordial Chaos Realm.
In a ruin near its core.
Xiao Huohuo sat cross-legged there, his entire body bathed in purple divine flames. Like a burning star, he exuded a suffocatingly powerful presence.
His eyes snapped open, shooting out a streak of purple flame.
His presence climbed at an astonishing speed, instantly breaking through his former bottleneck and entering an entirely new realm. His cultivation, originally at the middle Spirit Sea Realm, only stopped rising at the middle Heavenly Dipper Realm.
"You didn't expect this, did you, Lin Fan!"
Xiao Huohuo said coldly, "Not only did I survive, I even stumbled upon a heaven-defying opportunity, broke through to the middle Heavenly Dipper Realm, and upgraded my Purple Blaze Flame to the Half-Sage grade."
As it turned out, after falling into the Primordial Chaos Realm, Xiao Huohuo had accidentally arrived here and discovered over a dozen strands of chaos origin. Absorbing five had brought him to the middle Heavenly Dipper Realm.
The Purple Blaze Flame had devoured two, advancing into a Half-Sage flame.
The greatest power the Primordial Chaos Realm could withstand was at the Saint Realm. If strength reaching the Saint Realm appeared, this realm's laws would sense a threat and erase every factor threatening its existence.
With this cultivation and a Half-Sage flame, he was invincible within the Primordial Chaos Realm.
Yet he turned and left. He did not immediately go looking for Lin Fan.
Instead, he headed deeper toward the Primordial Chaos Realm's core. He had heard that its core held many rare precious and sacred medicinal herbs.
As Xiao Huohuo headed deeper into the Primordial Chaos Realm, he clutched a jade pendant, his eyes bloodshot. "Teacher, wait for me. I'll definitely awaken you! Whatever it takes!"
To save him, his master had been left on the verge of death.
He hoped to obtain medicine useful for the soul to restore his master.
As for Lin Fan, he did not take him seriously at all. Without the protection of powerful experts, what did Lin Fan amount to? Just a puny Pill Condensation Realm cultivator, unable to withstand a single blow.
He could probably even put up a fight against someone in the Purple Mansion Realm, let alone a mere Pill Condensation Realm cultivator.
"Brother Kunlong! Wang Bo has fallen!"
Somewhere in the Primordial Chaos Realm, before a majestic, imposing white tiger statue a hundred zhang tall, Wang Kunlong stood with his arms bare. A lifelike white tiger was branded on his right hand, and Geng Metal Gang Qi surged all over his body.
Though he was still at the Heavenly Dipper Realm, his presence was probably no weaker than that of an ordinary Purple Mansion Realm cultivator, perhaps even stronger.
He truly lived up to being a heavenly pride on the Heavenly Pride Ranking.
A man rushed over from afar to report to Wang Kunlong, who was receiving the inheritance with his eyes closed.
What this man described was precisely what had happened between Lin Fan and Wang Bo at the Cloud Ladder.
After hearing Wang Xun's words, Wang Kunlong abruptly opened his eyes and roared. The white tiger on his right arm flashed, and a white tiger manifestation appeared behind him, shaking heaven and earth. Its roar shook the mountain forests.
"What?"
"Lin Fan killed Wang Bo?"
"That damned little bastard from the Lin Clan has made our Wang Clan suffer time and again! If I don't kill him, I, Wang Kunlong, am not a man!"
"But this young master still needs half a day to finish receiving the inheritance. Then I'll be able to break through to the Purple Mansion Realm. Here's what we'll do: you go surround and kill him first!"
As he spoke, a formation disc appeared in Wang Kunlong's hand. "This is a Half-Sage-grade formation bestowed by our Lineage's Great Emperor. Go find the heavenly prides of the Feng Clan and Luo Clan and join forces. With all of you acting together, even a Purple Mansion Realm cultivator will fall!"
Seemingly thinking of something, he paused before continuing, "Even if he has a trump card and you can't kill him, just trap him! Don't let him leave Cloud Ladder Square, or finding him again will be like fishing a needle from the sea. Killing him would be best, but if you can't, I'll be there soon."
"Yes, Brother Kunlong!"
Wang Xun took the sacred-grade formation disc, a trace of fervor appearing in his eyes.
He recognized it: the Blazing Fire Four-Directions Formation.
With ferocious beasts crying out from all four directions, it could attack or trap. It was the Wang Clan's strongest Half-Sage-grade formation. Four Half-Sages had once used it to slay a late Saint Realm expert.
It was absolutely the strongest means that could be employed within the Primordial Chaos Realm.
With this, he was confident he could sweep aside anyone in the Primordial Chaos Realm.
At the summit of the Cloud Ladder.
Wind rose and clouds surged. Violent spiritual power swept madly through everything around it like surging ocean waves. Yet at the very center of this terrifying storm of spiritual power, a figure sat steadily cross-legged.
It was Lin Fan.
At that moment, Lin Fan's eyes were tightly closed, and a faint layer of golden light enveloped him. As time passed, the storm of spiritual power grew increasingly fierce, but Lin Fan remained as steady as Mount Tai.
Finally, as that tremendous power gradually subsided, Lin Fan slowly opened his eyes. Joy he could not conceal appeared on his face, and he said softly, "I've taken my first step into the early Spirit Sea Realm!"
During this time, as Lin Fan had continually absorbed the scant chaos origin within the Chaos Realm, he had felt his bottleneck loosen.
He had wondered whether he should try opening his Spirit Sea.
No sooner thought than done!
He refined the dozens of strands of chaos origin his father had given him all at once, then frantically absorbed the thin chaos origin between heaven and earth, shaking the golden core in his dantian.
To his distress, he still could not open it. His Spirit Sea was as firm as rock.
But at the critical moment, something unexpected happened...
He felt a vigorous surge of chaos origin rush toward him. It actually came from that towering, hundred-zhang stone statue-several hundred wisps of chaos origin lending him a helping hand.
For Lin Fan, who had been about to fail, it was like sweet rain after a long drought...
Finally!
Lin Fan opened a corner of his Spirit Sea within his dantian in one stroke.
Yes, just a corner. Several hundred wisps of chaos origin had been poured in, yet they had only stirred up a small splash.
But to Lin Fan's shock, when he looked inward at his dantian, he discovered that the corner of the Spirit Sea he had opened was already as vast and boundless as an ocean.
Rumble!
Within that Spirit Sea, waves surged and billows rolled, as though it contained endless power and mysteries.
Scattered through the Spirit Sea were terrifying bolts of lightning flashing with dazzling golden light.
The golden light shone brilliantly, like an ocean cast from gold, making it seem even more sacred and extraordinary; every lightning dragon that rampaged through heaven and earth exuded a powerful, mysterious presence that inspired fear at a glance.
This...
Faced with such a magnificent sight, Lin Fan was stunned, his eyes wide. He could scarcely believe everything he saw, his heart filled with disbelief.
He had never heard of anyone having such a badass Spirit Sea!
Ordinary cultivators, after all, could at most open a somewhat larger lake. Only monstrous geniuses could open a Spirit Sea like a vast ocean.
And Lin Fan?
He simply wasn't human!
His Spirit Sea was already as vast as an ocean before it had been fully opened. How incredible would it be once it was complete?
As expected of a Spirit Sea that had consumed several hundred wisps of chaos origin to open!
And that was not all. His Spirit Sea had also devoured a considerable amount of the cultivation power and spiritual power Lin Fan had previously stored, turning them into spiritual liquid within it, including the power and nourishment from the Nine-Nine Annihilation Divine Lightning he had devoured during the lightning tribulation.
He finally understood the words recorded in the Chaos Scripture.
Only by absorbing vast quantities of chaos origin could one open a Spirit Sea as vast as the universe. Otherwise, the golden core would remain as indestructible as solid rock.
It truly was a Spirit Sea as vast as the universe!
Such an enormous Spirit Sea, still incomplete, was already enough for him to enter the Spirit Sea Realm. How could it not require so much origin?
Boom! Hum!
The Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art continued circulating on its own. Lin Fan tried to keep absorbing the tiny wisp of chaos origin contained between heaven and earth, and his Spirit Sea continued expanding.
He did not know how much time had passed. Lin Fan only knew that the Spiritual Qi here had grown sparse.
He stood up. "I'll find somewhere else to absorb it. I heard the core region of the chaos origin is rich in origin. It should be very suitable for opening my Spirit Sea right now."
After cultivating for so long, it was time to get some air and show off!