Chapter 240

You have purchased one drop of Mysterious Flame Divine Crow Essence Blood; the item will be delivered within an hour, please be ready to receive it!

After deducting the points, this message appeared on the light screen.

And his points were now only two thousand and fifty-nine.

With still an hour until the delivery of the Mysterious Flame Divine Crow Essence Blood, Wang Ping simply began browsing the mall.

He hadn't forgotten the effects of the Mysterious Earth Stone and Thunder Stone; next he would fuse the Solar Golden Crow Fledgling, ignite the Solar True Fire, and if he had the appropriate spirit object, the power of his Red Divine Light would undoubtedly become even stronger.

After inputting the Five Elements Spirit Objects and setting a price limit, dense spirit object information appeared on the light screen before Wang Ping.

Still too many, Wang Ping then wrote down a fire-attribute spirit object, limiting the price to one hundred points.

Even so, the light screen before him still displayed over a hundred spirit object entries.

Wang Ping examined carefully; the most expensive fire-attribute spirit object was a Fusang Tree Leaf, worth ninety points.

In myth and legend, Fusang is the dwelling place of the Golden Crow; its leaves, even the most ordinary one, are tinged with a hint of the Golden Crow's aura.

Upon seeing the Fusang Tree Leaf, Wang Ping already had a choice in mind; this fire-attribute spirit object was exactly right for him.

Having selected the Fusang Tree Leaf, Wang Ping continued browsing other information.

Now the Yellow, Cyan, and Red Divine Lights each have their own spirit object fusions, and also matching Dao arts.

But Wang Ping has yet to find the corresponding spirit objects for the Gold-White and Blue Divine Lights.

The spirit objects he is currently fusing are all rare treasures, whether it be Yin Wood Divine Thunder or the soon-to-be-fused Solar Golden Crow True Form; they are priceless spirit objects, and even the Heaven-Overturning Seal's base material is filled with the miraculous.

Therefore, for the next two Divine Lights, Wang Ping must consider carefully.

In the Dao Academy's virtual mall, spirit objects as numerous as the stars, heavenly materials and earthly treasures, searching here should allow him to find a suitable spirit object, Wang Ping thought.

In fact, Wang Ping had indeed found the spirit object he coveted: the supreme water-attribute spirit objects Weak Water, the River of Forgetfulness, and Lunar True Water.

But upon seeing their price, Wang Ping couldn't help but frown; each cost over ten thousand points, and that was just for a single drop.

Actually, these spirit objects are absolutely out of reach for White Robe and Yellow Robe Disciples; they are placed here so that the outstanding Gold Robe Disciples, Purple Robe Disciples, and Inheritance Disciples can purchase them.

If it weren't for Wang Ping's points breaking a thousand, he wouldn't be able to see this information at all.

Besides the water-attribute spirit objects, Wang Ping also saw several rare spirit golds among the metal-attribute spirit objects, and even more miraculous divine metal and immortal gold, etc.

The prices here are even more terrifying, reaching as high as sixty thousand points.

In the world, metals are divided into mundane gold, refined gold, spirit gold, and divine metal/immortal gold.

Divine metal and immortal gold are invisible; spirit gold is already a rare metal. In the Lower Realm, spirit gold can be called extraordinarily scarce worldwide; even in the Spirit Realm, though spirit gold ore is more abundant, the spirit realm's population of countless billions is still far too few to share.

Refined gold can be forged into magic treasures, while spirit gold can be forged into spirit treasures.

When Wang Ping was in the Lower Realm, he had once considered completing the Artifact Sect's theory, allowing magic treasures to advance to spirit treasures.

Only after coming into contact with the Spirit Realm did he discover that, to transmute a magic treasure into a spirit treasure, it is not enough to merely craft the associated rune patterns; at least one-third of the materials used in the forged magic treasure must be spirit gold.

The Artifact Sect's idea remains innovative even in the Spirit Realm, and in fact many artifact craftsmen specialize in this field.

If successful, this achievement would be nothing short of a clan-suppressing Dao art!

Among the spirit gold Wang Ping saw, for example, his favorite White Tiger Slaughter Gold is a precious spirit gold formed by being stained with white tiger blood.

Its higher-grade metal is a world-rare White Tiger Tribulation Immortal Gold.

This is the True Spirit White Tiger, after battling and slaying an Upper Realm Immortal, their blood simultaneously dripped into the White Tiger Slaughter Gold, nurtured for hundreds of millions of years, becoming wholly platinum-white; once forged into a magic treasure, its slaughter power shakes the world.

Such immortal gold, Wang Ping had not even seen it in the Dao Academy's virtual mall.

But White Tiger Slaughter Gold, the Dao Academy does have a piece, though its price reaches as high as sixty thousand points.

After looking for a long time, Wang Ping exited the virtual mall with a hint of regret.

Soon, the Mysterious Flame Divine Crow Essence Blood he had ordered arrived; next, the Fusang Tree Leaf arrived as well.

With the two spirit objects in hand, he could already begin the next step of his cultivation.

However, thinking of the rare spirit objects Weak Water, Lunar True Water, and White Tiger Slaughter Gold, Wang Ping still felt somewhat unwilling, so he directly asked the Silver Stone Gate:

"Transcendent Sir! Do you know where one can obtain such precious spirit objects as Lunar True Water, Weak Water, and White Tiger Slaughter Gold!"

Silver Stone Gate: These things are tremendous spirit objects; for ordinary cultivators to obtain even one is already a heavenly blessing, yet you actually want to obtain two--oh! I understand, you're doing this for your own Divine Light fusion, right!

Your Yin Wood Divine Thunder and the soon-to-be-formed Solar Golden Crow Fledgling are extraordinary powers; if lacking matching spirit objects, the originally balanced Five-Colored Divine Light might possibly weaken due to your infusion of spirit objects.

Wang Ping nodded and said: "What the Transcendent Sir said is correct, so I need matching spirit objects. Moreover, I still need to break through to Golden Core Mid-stage before re-entering that divine mountain to re-refine the Heaven-Overturning Seal once more."

Refining the Heaven-Overturning Seal presents no problem; as for the spirit objects you want, I happen to know some places that have them--in fact, those are precisely the trial grounds I arranged for you.

【However, if you want to enter the trial, at the very least you must become a yellow-robed disciple, having the qualification to freely leave the Dao Institute; otherwise, if I casually open a passage here, it's very easy to be discovered!】

【You must know this place is the humans' main base, the void is solid, various great powers, sovereigns linger here, and there is an unfathomable Human Emperor, true immortals; even a trace of their thoughts will definitely descend upon these Dao institutes.】

Wang Ping nodded and said, "No problem, after I successfully fuse the red divine light, I will go challenge the Will Gate of the Tongtian Tower. After earning points, I will go participate in the disciple promotion examination."

【Fine, since that's the case, you should quickly become a yellow-robed disciple; after becoming a yellow-robed disciple, you can freely enter and exit the Dao Institute. By then, the trial arranged for you can also begin.】

………

Time flies like a shuttle, years flow by; in the blink of an eye, a month has already passed.

In Wang Ping's cave dwelling, heat waves rolled; a month ago, he absorbed the essence blood of the Profound Flame Divine Crow, and after a month of nurturing and absorption.

The nascent form of the Golden Crow sun inside the spirit pearl is about to take shape.

All the spiritual power and life force inside the spirit pearl were absorbed by that illusory nascent Golden Crow sun, and together with the essence blood of the Profound Flame Divine Crow, the form of the Golden Crow sun became increasingly clear.

The crimson-red crow feathers, the reddish-gold three legs, each part becoming increasingly clear, accompanied by an astonishing high temperature.

"Cry!"

With a resonant cry, the red spirit pearl floating in midair suddenly shattered, and a lifelike three-legged Golden Crow broke out of its shell, flying within Wang Ping's cave dwelling.

Reddish-gold flames surrounded this divine crow, intense heat released from its body, and the reddish-gold light emanating from it was like a great sun hanging in the sky.

"Done!"

Wang Ping, sitting cross-legged on the stone couch, couldn't help clenching his fists, a feeling of excitement welling up in his heart.

The nascent Golden Crow sun has already been successfully condensed; next is to fuse it with the red divine light.

When the Sun Golden Crow was still a mass of illusory shadow, Wang Ping had already dripped his essence blood into the Spirit Pearl; after a long time of nurturing, this newly born Sun Golden Crow fledgling was like his avatar, and Wang Ping only needed to think, and the Sun Golden Crow fledgling flying in the air would directly land on his shoulder.

Whoosh!

So hot!

Wang Ping couldn't help but change his complexion; the Sun Golden Crow's claws grabbed his shoulder, and the scorching heat actually made him somewhat unable to bear it.

"Looks like I still need to deepen my connection with the Sun Golden Crow." Wang Ping thought.

Now the Golden Crow fledgling has been condensed; next is the fusion.

Whoosh!

A streak of red divine light rose from behind Wang Ping; the Sun Golden Crow flapped its wings once and flew into the red divine light.

This process remained smooth; after more than half an hour, the Sun Golden Crow fledgling and the red divine light completely merged.

Next was to cultivate the Golden Yang Scorching Heaven Dao Technique that Wang Ping had long chosen.

Without the aid of the Dao Comprehension Valley, although there were runes within the spiritual root that could be comprehended, Wang Ping also spent a full one and a half months to cultivate the Golden Yang Scorching Heaven Dao Technique to the second layer, Dao Manifest.

If his speed of cultivating the technique were to be spread, it would definitely shock everyone.

A Golden Core cultivator cultivating a technique needs at least a year to reach the second layer, but for Wang Ping it only takes one and a half months.

Boom—

Wang Ping's cave abode slowly opened; now the fusion of the red divine light is complete, and the technique has been successfully cultivated.

Next is to challenge the Heaven-Reaching Tower; white-clad disciples can only reach the fourth layer, but if Wang Ping reaches the fifth layer of the Heaven-Reaching Tower and passes the fourth barrier of the Sea of Will, he needs no further assessment and can directly be promoted to yellow-clad disciple.

The difficulty of breaking through the Sea of Will is greater than that of the Heaven-Reaching Tower; most white-clad disciples cannot even pass the third barrier.

So if Wang Ping passes the fourth barrier of the Sea of Will, his willpower will definitely be comparable to that of a yellow-clad disciple; adding the strength from reaching the fifth layer of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, he can fully become a yellow-clad disciple.

Since Wang Ping became famous by passing the platform battle, he has already been the focus of many disciples' attention, especially since he actually cultivated the Yin Wood Divine Thunder, which has also attracted the attention of many yellow-clad disciples and a few gold-clad disciples.

Don't look at the fact that Wang Ping currently has no second-level instructor taking him as a disciple; but everyone believes that as Wang Ping's realm rises, there will definitely be an instructor who will take him as a disciple, and perhaps even a great expert will step forward.

Actually many disciples wanted to befriend Wang Ping, but after they found out, this disciple who came from the Lower Realm seemed to be an ascetic cultivator; since entering the Dao Academy, he has basically been cultivating all the time.

Thus their ideas of making friends all came to naught; even if a disciple sent out a message jade slip, the other party refused on the grounds of needing to cultivate.

This situation is very common among disciples of the Dao Academy, especially white-clad disciples, who have a ten-year limit and are the most diligent in cultivation; thus Wang Ping's behavior has not provoked much resentment.

However, ordinary attention is certainly indispensable; as soon as Wang Ping leaves his cave abode, many people know about it.

Only the most outstanding few among white-clad disciples can receive such treatment, and Wang Ping, for various reasons, has also received this attention.

Soon, the news of Wang Ping heading to the Heaven-Reaching Tower spread among some disciples.

He Peng and Dongfang Hong heard this news and quickly came to the front of the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

Many white-clad disciples who heard the news came; a small part were Wang Ping's former subordinates who had been defeated, while more simply wanted to see how many layers Wang Ping, who had caused a stir upon entering the Dao Academy, could pass in his first challenge of the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

More than two months have passed since the grey-clad disciple promotion assessment, and everyone wants to know Wang Ping's current strength.

The first place of this batch, Ji Changkong, came to challenge the Heaven-Reaching Tower on the third day after being promoted to white-clad disciple, in one go passing the fourth barrier and entering the fifth, and persisting there for a considerable time.

In the Sea of Will, he also reached the fourth barrier and was directly promoted to yellow-clad disciple.

Besides Ji Changkong, several of the top ten disciples have already passed the fourth barrier of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, while the Sea of Will stops at the third barrier.

A yellow-clad disciple once declared that these few could definitely be promoted to yellow-clad disciple within half a year at the latest.

In most people's eyes, Wang Ping's strength is naturally inferior to that of the top-ten geniuses, but after the platform battle, many disciples considered their strength to be roughly equal to Wang Ping's, or even superior.

Regardless of the purpose, everyone wants to come and see Wang Ping's result in his first challenge of the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

The Heaven-Reaching Tower is very high; it is said that the entry point for white-clad disciples is the first layer, for yellow-clad disciples the fourth layer, and for gold-clad disciples the seventh layer.

The higher the Heaven-Reaching Tower, the greater the difficulty.

Since the establishment of the Dao Academy, the limit for Golden Core disciples challenging the Heaven-Reaching Tower has been the ninth layer.

This record has been maintained for two million years; for this reason, five hundred thousand years ago, the Ten Great Dao Academies jointly issued a mission: the first disciple to pass the ninth layer of the Heaven-Reaching Tower during the Golden Core stage and reach the tenth layer would be rewarded with one hundred thousand points.

Unfortunately, since the issuance of this reward mission, no one has been able to break the record.

You should know that the ninth layer of the Heaven-Reaching Tower already possesses the combat power of an early-stage Nascent Soul.

Throughout countless ages, Golden Core cultivators able to reach the ninth layer of the Heaven-Reaching Tower have possessed the combat power to match an early-stage Nascent Soul in battle; to pass the ninth layer and enter the tenth, one must possess the combat power to easily slay an early-stage Nascent Soul.

This gap is extremely huge, akin to an uncrossable chasm.

In front of the Heaven-Reaching Tower stands a stele, on which is written exactly that mission.

When Wang Ping arrived before the Heaven-Reaching Tower, he at once saw this stone stele.

Regarding the mission on the stele, he naturally felt eager, but its difficulty was so great that even the arrogant Transcendent Great Person bluntly said, 'Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!'

Behind the stele stands a towering blue stone tower that pierces the clouds; Wang Ping looked up and could not see its end.

It is said that the summit of the Heaven-Reaching Tower is where the Dean resides.

Being able to reach there indicates that the cultivator possesses the combat power of the Unity Stage; both the Dao Academy and the human race would grant rewards.

Withdrawing his gaze from the Heaven-Reaching Tower, Wang Ping looked again at the stone stele, when a voice came from behind:

"It seems Fellow Daoist Wang is also moved by this Epoch Mission!"