Chapter 780: Chapter 704: Consecration_2
"What is that..."
"The Nascent Soul Celestial Phenomenon?"
"In the direction of Thunderfire Hall, could it be that Master Lei Huo is about to condense a Nascent Soul?"
The faces of the many cultivators stopped their tasks, expressions of shock and envy emerging on their faces.
"This is bad, the market was just beginning to improve, and now it’s going to fall into chaos..."
Several other senior cultivators looked distressed, almost cursing out loud, "How could the Sky Brahman Gang be willing to see a Yuan Ying True Monarch emerge from Thunderfire Hall? They’ll probably start a war right away..."
Fang Xi had to admit, they made a lot of sense.
The truly anxious one should be Zhou Jun.
This person had hidden his cultivation, and normally a group of Core Formation cultivators wouldn’t be able to detect it.
But if it were a Nascent Soul cultivator, it would be different.
Therefore, no matter what his plan was, he should immediately start to push it forward.
"Master Lei Huo... surviving great peril, establishing a gang, gathering resources... to break through to the Nascent Soul bottleneck in merely twenty years?"
Fang Xi stroked his chin, looking in the direction where the spiritual clouds were gathering: "Really does seem to have the luck of a protagonist..."
Above his head, a peculiar worm that looked like an eight clawed spider surfaced amidst the flickering lights, looking somewhat eager as it faced the spiritual clouds, or more accurately, the grand fortune holder below.
This fifth-rank Fortune Worm had indeed been very helpful to him since he obtained it.
Up until recently, it was still concealing the Heavenly Secret for Fang Xi.
However, as his realm broke through continuously, the worm’s effects would only diminish, unless... he sacrificially refined it to advance its rank!
The method of advancement had already been found by Fang Xi in the Valley God Secret Realm, but upgrading this fifth-rank worm to the sixth-rank was particularly difficult.
"A Nascent Soul... is there a Cultivator with Perfect Core Formation about to advance to Nascent Soul?!"
Xiao Chong, inside Zhou Jun’s Dongfu, also looked at this scene with great surprise.
"Alas... I thought I could hold on for a bit longer," Zhou Jun sighed looking at the changed celestial phenomenon, with a flick of his sleeve.
A black aurora surfaced, wrapping around Xiao Chong.
Xiao Chong was startled, snorting disdainfully, expelling two streaks of Sword Qi from his nostrils.
The sword technique he practiced was just ordinary, but he possessed a ’Lung Gold Sword Qi’, which allowed him to breathe through the essence of five metals usually, storing it in the lung meridians, and when needed, a cold snort would emit it through the nostrils, attacking the enemy invisibly—his trump card for saving his life!
Unfortunately, when the Sword Qi clashed with the dark aurora, it disappeared without a trace.
"Master... why?"
Xiao Chong’s face was colored with disbelief.
Then, he saw a black cauldron-like treasure surface above Zhou Jun’s head, its fluctuations causing Xiao Chong’s expression to change drastically: "A Core Formation magical treasure... Master, you are actually a Core Formation cultivator..."
"Not quite!"
Zhou Jun smiled faintly, taking Xiao Chong into a secret chamber.
He sat cross-legged, and atop his head within the flickering Heavenly Spirit light, a Nascent Soul surfaced.
This Nascent Soul appeared somewhat emaciated and looked a bit different from Zhou Jun.
Of course, Zhou Jun himself had altered his appearance while living here in seclusion.
Now, staring at Xiao Chong, he let out a cold laugh, "Disciple... You have helped your master a lot before. Help your master one more time today!"
After the Nascent Soul finished speaking, it formed a hand seal.
Accompanying the sound of mysterious incantations, it vanished in an instant from its original position.
The next instant, inside Xiao Chong’s Sea of Consciousness, Zhou Jun’s Nascent Soul surfaced!
’Damn it...’ Xiao Chong’s eyes filled with tears, thinking of many tales about old monsters performing Soul Possession to be reborn...
...
"Has it started?"
Fang Xi held a wine gourd, taking a swig of Green Bamboo Wine, watching thunderbolts falling from afar.
Although to him at the moment, the mere Nascent Soul divine tribulation was something he could easily break with a snap of his fingers,
it was a test of life and death for a Nascent Soul cultivator who had just managed Shattered Pill into Infant!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Thunderbolts fell, one after another, and in the blink of an eye, nine tribulations had struck!
"This Master Lei Huo, no, Lord Lei Huo, truly has some fortune... he actually succeeded," commented Xiao Qing lightly.
"A blessing in disguise, who can say what is good or bad, obtaining a horse, who can say what calamity it may bring!"
Fang Xi’s lips curved into a strange arc.
No one understood the true nature of Black Rock Market Town better than he did.
And whether the breakthrough of a Nascent Soul would attract that Primordial Chaos Beast, who knew?
Even if he didn’t use the Fortune Worm, Fang Xi knew Lord Lei Huo’s fortune was extremely weak, the clouds of blood were looming overhead, and at any moment, he could face a bloody disaster!
...
Lord Lei Huo overcame the tribulation, achieving Nascent Soul!
The Sky Brahman Gang immediately declared allegiance!
Just as everyone in Black Rock Market Town was celebrating wildly, thinking the good days were about to come.
That night...
"A nine-round moon, truly magnificent..."
Fang Xi pulled out a wicker chair, gazing at the moonlight, murmuring to himself.
By then, his Divine Consciousness was already projected outward, with many Puppets and Item Transforming Secret Skill-created beasts of Primordial Energy, monitoring every movement within Black Rock Market Town.
’Could the ascent of a Nascent Soul bring about a Tri-Horned Yuan Rhinoceros?’
Fang Xi was somewhat skeptical, as to a sixth-rank Primordial Chaos Beast, an ordinary Nascent Soul seemed to have little attraction.
Soon, his Divine Consciousness noticed a trace.
Thud! Thud!
Darkness enveloped, and heavy footsteps approached from the distance.
Countless mists dissipated, revealing a gigantic Wild Beast resembling a rhinoceros.
Three pale gold horns ran parallel atop its head.
At that moment, it let out a roar that shook Black Rock Market Town.
The terrifying aura of the Wild Beast spread, causing the city’s cultivators to recall the fear they faced on that night over twenty years ago!