Chapter 155: Silver Stone Gate Issued a Mission?

Wang Ping, this previously unknown name, now thoroughly resounds throughout the West Chui Cultivation Realm; for a time, no one knows how many cultivators are searching for him.

The previously deserted Wasteland has seen an influx of many cultivators, all seeking this cultivator called the first Foundation Establishment.

However, after three months of searching, 99% of cultivators still haven't found the original battlefield.

Only some late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, and some Great Completion Foundation Establishment cultivators, continually advance deeper into the Wasteland.

A fortune-teller once tried to calculate Wang Ping's position, but suffered backlash; moreover, the Wasteland is vast, and for half a year no cultivator has found Wang Ping's trace.

For a time, the news of Wang Ping's fall spread widely, but this rumor quickly collapsed on its own, because someone in the Alliance once declared that the Heaven Pride Stele never records the battle deeds of the dead.

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At a certain spot in the Wasteland, Wang Ping sits cross-legged in a cavern ten meters underground, his whole body flashing with azure light.

In his dantian, a drop of azure spiritual liquid is forming; this process Wang Ping has maintained for three days, yet even so he has only condensed two-thirds of it, still some time away from true completion.

The last six drops of spiritual liquid for Great Completion Foundation Establishment are extremely difficult to condense; this difficulty stems not only from heavenly and earthly pressure, but more from one's own limits.

In the past month, Wang Ping has successfully condensed three drops; when his bodily injuries healed, the pressure that once filled his dantian suddenly dissipated somewhat.

What Wang Ping does not know is that, if he had not practiced Five Elements Joint Cultivation, when he reaches Great Completion Foundation Establishment, relying on the limit he broke during Qi Refining, his dantian would not have such great pressure when condensing the last drop of spiritual liquid.

But he insists on practicing Five Elements Joint Cultivation, so the resulting chain reaction makes the pressure in his dantian not a simple additive one-plus-one-equals-two, but rather multiplies.

That is, his heaven-defying slaying of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, with its unparalleled vigor, allowed him to forcibly break his own limits, enabling him, after his injuries healed, to condense another three drops of spiritual liquid.

At this point, he is only three drops, three hundred threads of spiritual power, away from true Great Completion.

Wang Ping is now condensing the fourth drop, but the process is extremely difficult.

Thus, another three days passed, and the fourth drop of wood-element spiritual liquid finally condensed.

Whoosh!

Wang Ping directly flew out of the cavern, appearing above the Wasteland; as his Azure Gleam Sword flashed, a blade of azure light split into two, then four, then eight, and in an instant his surroundings were filled with thirty-six light-swords.

This already exceeds the eighteen sword-lights of the Superior Azure Light Sword Technique, but has not yet reached the forty-nine of Dao grade.

This is what Wang Ping, based on his understanding of the Azure Light Sword Technique, has deduced on the foundation of the Superior Azure Light Sword Technique: another eighteen sword-lights.

"Sword Fusion!"

Wang Ping gave a low shout, palms together; the thirty-six sword-lights merged, and in less than a breath a azure light-sword about one zhang in size appeared before him.

Wang Ping nodded, his face showing satisfaction; after the Golden Core battle, he has improved in all aspects.

Previously, the fusion of thirty-six light-swords was at least ten zhang in size; now it has shrunk to one zhang.

This shows his control over sword-light has increased; the sword-light shrinking does not mean reduced power—on the contrary, its power grows exponentially as its volume decreases.

Wang Ping gazed at the one-zhang sword-light before him and murmured, "Let me see just how formidable your power is now! Go!"

As Wang Ping's voice faded, the azure sword-light vanished before his eyes without noticeable tremor.

Less than one-tenth of a breath after the sword-light disappeared, a booming sound suddenly rang out five li ahead of him.

Wang Ping flew neither hastily nor slowly toward it; soon, in his sight appeared a rift roughly twenty zhang long, five to six zhang wide, and over ten zhang deep.

This power somewhat exceeded Wang Ping's expectations; he halted in place, staring blankly at the great rift ahead.

After the time to finish a cup of tea, Wang Ping showed an expression of realization; his consciousness came to the space above his dantian, where the azure spiritual power was only four drops more than the other four elemental energies, yet it almost gave off a sense of completeness.

Gazing at the wood-element spiritual power that stood out from the other four elemental forces, Wang Ping murmured, "One Yuan—could this not be the likeness of a Golden Core Completion?"

If the union of essence, energy, and spirit is a personal completeness, then spiritual power approaching the One Yuan is the Heaven-Earth Great Completion.

Under the influence of Heaven-Earth Great Completion, each of his attacks is unconsciously affected, performing a Golden Core Fusion.

This is far superior to the deliberate Golden Core Fusion displayed by Liu Haodong and his companions, and it is the realm Wang Ping has strived for fifty years to achieve.

Who would have thought that today he would unexpectedly reach the Golden Core Fusion realm.

After retracting his Azure Gleam Sword, Wang Ping returned to his cavern; having unexpectedly attained Golden Core Fusion, he must reconsider his Golden Core path.

Wang Ping knows his opportunity lies in the Spirit Realm, for the Lower Realm certainly lacks such material for reference; even if it existed, it could not compare to the Spirit Realm's already systematized Five Elements cultivation system.

The Silver Stone Gate will open again in half a year; this time he has a full forty Spirit Realm days to explore the Spirit Realm.

"I wonder if this time I can again choose a special point for teleportation!" Wang Ping deliberately let this thought arise in his sea of consciousness.

Ding!

The host can, by consuming two entries into the Spirit Realm's time, exchange for one specific-point teleportation.

Ding!

Detecting that the host has accumulated a relatively long time this time, the host may choose whether to accept the task of seeking the fragments of the **Trial Gate**.

If choosing to accept, it will consume three entries into the Spirit Realm to calculate the positions of the remaining fragments.

Reward: ***

Wang Ping narrowed his eyes; the Silver Stone Gate actually issued a mission—this mission is still to seek the stone gate's fragments. Without doubt, the more Silver Stone Gate fragments Wang Ping collects, the more benefits he gains.

Moreover, this is the second time he has heard the Silver Great Gate mention the Trial Gate; from the literal meaning, one can guess that one function of the Silver Great Gate is for a great power to conduct trials.

But when he recalls the towering, heaven-piercing, earth-penetrating Silver Stone Gate he once saw, of unknown height, Wang Ping truly cannot imagine what kind of power would need such a massive transmission gate for trials.

Trial! Trial! Wang Ping continually thinks of these two words; he feels the Silver Great Gate's secrets go far beyond this.

Finally, Wang Ping decided not to undertake the task issued by the Silver Stone Gate for now; what is most important currently is that he must cultivate the Five Elements Unification.