Chapter 254: Breakthrough Hall

Wei Yang stood in place, his soul deeply indebted to the moonstone’s favor.

“Jiang Jian, are you going to the Breakthrough Hall?”

He tucked away the moonstone and asked.

Jiang Jian nodded and said: “The Breakthrough Hall is the most suitable place to contemplate the Divine Illumination Wall.”

Wei Yang hesitated slightly, then warned: “By the way, if during your contemplation you sense your reserves are insufficient, never blindly pursue an Ultimate Divine Palace.”

“Otherwise, you’ll suffer spiritual essence backlash, chaotic spiritual breath—extremely dangerous.”

Hearing this,

Jiang Jian fell silent for a moment, understanding his intent, and gave a slight nod: “Thank you.”

By common logic,

Wei Yang’s warning was entirely appropriate.

After all,

not every living being can achieve an Ultimate Divine Palace.

Even a Level 6 talent may not succeed.

Though among this cohort, Jiang Jian’s performance stood out especially.

Yet Wei Yang spoke out of genuine concern.

If a being’s foundational reserves are insufficient but they force themselves toward an Ultimate Divine Palace, their meridian spiritual essence will collapse instantly, bringing catastrophic backlash!

Over the past few centuries,

many Earth-Moon beings held excessively high ambitions.

They could have achieved a Prodigy Divine Palace but refused to settle for it.

They exhausted all their reserves chasing an Ultimate Divine Palace.

In the end, they failed to break through—their meridians burst and shattered, and they perished.

It was these very real examples that made Wei Yang anxious.

He feared Jiang Jian might meet the same grim fate.

The Ultimate Divine Palace is simply too rare.

Whoever achieves it, after a period of quiet cultivation, will soar beyond all others!

And another reason further proves the Ultimate Divine Palace’s preciousness:

Only the Ultimate Divine Palace

holds even a sliver of hope to glimpse the Spirit Platform Realm.

Though that hope is vanishingly small, nearly nonexistent.

Yet beneath the Ultimate Divine Palace, there is absolutely no possibility of glimpsing the Spirit Platform!

The most basic requirement of the Spirit Platform Realm is that a being’s cultivation foundations in every aspect must reach their absolute limit!

The Ultimate Divine Palace barely satisfies even that fundamental condition.

“I’m heading to the Breakthrough Hall now.”

Jiang Jian bowed slightly, walked past Wei Yang, and headed toward the Breakthrough Hall.

Wei Yang replied: “Alright.”

He watched Jiang Jian’s back.

For some reason, a sense of dread stirred in his chest.

“Given his nature, he’ll definitely pursue the Ultimate Divine Palace.”

Wei Yang stood still, staring at the Breakthrough Hall, his thoughts churning.

At Qiushui Palace, Jiang Jian had displayed terrifyingly immense reserves during the challenge matches.

Wei Yang had long been certain:

Jiang Jian’s cultivation foundation absolutely qualified him to challenge the Ultimate Divine Palace!

Yet,

the Divine Illumination Wall varies in difficulty depending on the being’s cultivation state.

Its level of challenge differs for each individual.

If achieving the Ultimate Divine Palace were truly this simple,

then the top-tier combatants of the Earth-Moon Four Realms—aside from Spirit Platform cultivators—wouldn’t be so scarce.

Breakthrough Hall.

Jiang Jian stepped into the great hall.

Before his eyes appeared rows of array light screens.

These screens floated within the hall, numbering roughly a hundred.

Most of them glowed crimson.

Indicating the array was active, with students of the academy inside, contemplating the Divine Illumination Wall.

Around forty glowed green, available for selection.

Jiang Jian observed for a moment, found a green screen, and lightly touched it with his finger.

Chi .

Like popping a water bubble, the sound was crisp.

The green screen dissolved silently at his fingertip, transforming into a flow of jade-green light.

Instantly,

it enveloped Jiang Jian.

A tremendous pulling force surged through his limbs and bones, spreading across his entire body.

Jiang Jian immediately realized: this was a small teleportation array!

In the Earth-Moon Four Realms,

spatial teleportation technology was exceedingly rare.

Aside from top-tier divine technology, only primordial forces of wonderlands or planetary power could achieve this.

“This Breakthrough Hall must be the work of Xu Suanzhen, a Spirit Platform cultivator.”

As he pondered,

the array’s light flow dissipated.

Jiang Jian landed, looking around.

Here was an isolated island.

Around it stretched an endless expanse of azure sea.

Above the island floated a semi-transparent vortex.

This vast vortex was entirely formed of spiritual energy!

The spiritual energy here was nearly solid in density!

“The spiritual essence here surpasses even the Celestial Array of the Grand Astronomical Observatory in Da Zhou!”

Jiang Jian walked to the island’s center, sensing carefully, slightly startled.

Since beginning cultivation, nearly three years had passed.

Jiang Jian had never been to a place with such abundant spiritual energy.

The Star Ring Realm, the Grand Astronomical Observatory, Yinshan’s Tenth Hall—

though all were excellent for cultivation,

compared to this “Breakthrough Hall,” they still fell short.

The Breakthrough Hall was once a fragment of the Primordial Star Ring, and the core structure of the Earth-Moon Academy.

Across the seventy prefectures of the surface realm,

countless Earth beings must break through here to form their Divine Palaces.

For centuries, official resources had been heavily directed here.

Thus, the Breakthrough Hall, as a site for contemplating the Divine Illumination Wall, had grown ever more refined, nearly flawless.

Yet,

each use of the Breakthrough Hall consumed a portion of “Primordial Star Ring fragments.”

Compared to other resources, these were Earth’s true core treasure.

Because,

Primordial Star Ring fragments,

once used, were gone forever.

They could not be regenerated!

This was precisely why the Earth-Moon Academy bestowed them as the most precious spiritual item upon graduating students.

Above Jiang Jian’s head, the massive vortex of spiritual energy

was, in essence, a fragment of the Primordial Star Ring, no larger than a palm.

With this object,

a being’s contemplation of the Divine Illumination Wall during breakthrough becomes vastly more efficient!

The immense spiritual energy required to activate meridian essence and comprehend the Divine Illumination Wall is entirely supplied by this fragment!

If a being achieves Divine Illumination Manifestation.

This fragment of the initial star ring can further enhance the Divine Palace’s foundation and strengthen the earth-moon qi fortune.

“The Yongquan acupoint has not yet reached its limit.”

Jiang Jian sat cross-legged on the ground but did not attempt to break through.

Instead, he calmed his mind and carefully sensed the spiritual essence within his Yongquan acupoint.

In his cultivation plan,

the Shenque acupoint had long since reached its maximum, possessing a perfect foundation of 121% of the Divine Gift realm.

But the Yongquan acupoint had only been cultivated to the standard acupoint limit—not his own extreme.

There are three common ways to raise the upper limit of spiritual essence.

The first is to consume corresponding spiritual substances.

The second is to refine and fuse a spiritual essence artifact to alter the essence’s nature.

The third is to forge and polish the acupoint using one’s overall foundation and powerful will, thinning the acupoint walls to raise the upper limit.

Ordinary beings mostly choose the first method, gaining only slight improvement.

The third method suits prodigies with deep spiritual essence cultivation.

Many prodigies, before breaking through, spare no time, spending long periods

solely to forge their acupoints and slowly raise the spiritual essence upper limit.

Yet the vast majority can only slightly thin the acupoint walls.

The increase is negligible.

The second method—refining a spiritual essence artifact—is even rarer.

Such artifacts are produced in extremely limited quantities.

They are almost exclusively found in the Strange Realms.

In the Four Realms of Earth and Moon,

only two types of people possess spiritual essence artifacts.

One, those with deep backgrounds.

The other, those with astonishing destiny and boundless fortune.

Once one obtains a spiritual essence artifact,

they can refine it into their acupoint and alter the essence’s nature.

The acupoint’s upper limit will then surge dramatically!

“My Yongquan acupoint has never truly been forged.”

As he pondered,

Jiang Jian furrowed his brow.

Back in the Tenth Hall of Yinshan, when he refined the Wang Dian crown and the Lunzhuan King’s robe,

the Yongquan acupoint had indeed been polished.

But now,

his cultivation foundation was no longer what it once was.

The Yongquan acupoint had not even reached its limit!

Jiang Jian gently closed his eyes and activated all his spiritual essence to begin forging the acupoint walls!

The second method—refining a spiritual essence artifact—he had already perfected.

The Wang Dian crown and the Lunzhuan King’s robe

had transformed into the “Royal Way” nature and been fully integrated into the Yongquan acupoint.

And now,

what Jiang Jian intended to do

was to forge the Yongquan acupoint to its absolute extreme!

(End of Chapter)