Chapter 1469: Myriad Phases Platform-Forging Art

In the cultivation chamber.

Li Luo sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, his fingers brushing past the spatial orb worn on his wrist. A mysterious ancient bronze lamp flashed into existence, hovering quietly before him.

The surface of the ancient lamp was inscribed with ancient, obscure patterns that remained crisp and clear even after the erosion of countless years.

"Formless Saint Sect, the Six Sons of Formless, Wang Taixi."

Li Luo murmured to himself. For that colossal entity that once stood at the absolute pinnacle of an era, he harbored a rather keen interest deep within. After all, before the Formless Saint Sect, not to mention a mere lineage like theirs, even the current Academy Alliance and the Return-to-One Society could not compare.

Perhaps that was the strongest major power to have ever appeared in this world?

Yet even such a power ultimately failed to put an end to the chaos brought by the Other. One could imagine just what an obstinate, hard-to-eradicate affliction that Other was for all living beings of this world.

Perhaps only when a Ten-Grade Phase is truly born could this world be restored to clarity.

However, Ten-Grade was utterly ethereal and elusive. Even the last—and strongest—Sect Master of the Formless Saint Sect failed to achieve it. In this world, who else could possibly do it?

Li Luo's thoughts drifted, and finally he gathered his scattered mind. With a lift of his palm, four grains of Heavenly Mirror Sand slowly rose, accompanied by an eruption of tremendously vast and ancient energy. This energy was so dense it reached an extreme, actually condensing into tangible mist that flowed throughout the cultivation chamber.

Even, as time passed, crisp sounds of flowing water actually emerged from the energy mist, as if a stream had been born—utterly wondrous.

Li Luo took a deep breath of the mist, and immediately felt a warm, cozy energy flowing through his limbs and bones, which was swiftly converted into a stream of phase force that flowed into his Phase Palaces.

This conversion speed was utterly mesmerizing.

"I hope these four grains of Heavenly Mirror Sand can help me break through to the Upper Two-Grade of Peerless."

A trace of anticipation flickered in Li Luo's eyes. These four grains of Heavenly Mirror Sand were already the very last he had borrowed from the many Saint Academies' teams on this side of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou. After all, the previous ones had already been formed into entry tickets and stakes for participating in the Sand Gambling Match, and turned over to the enforcement squad of the Academy Alliance within the Heavenly Mirror Pagoda.

It could be said that the entire harvest from this Crossing-Battle on the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou side had almost been scraped clean by Li Luo.

Regarding this, Li Luo also felt a bit embarrassed. Although he had made the greatest contribution in the Crossing-Battle, the teams from the other Saint Academies of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou had not exactly failed to contribute.

But in the end, they were still willing to lend out their Heavenly Mirror Sand. Although this did involve a mindset of wanting to win more resources, the trust within it was also weighty.

"If I lose this, my reputation among the many Saint Academies of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou will probably stink to high heaven." Li Luo scratched his head. This time, he had played a bit too big.

But if he won, all of them could eat a full meal. Especially for the teams from these Saint Academies of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou, this one meal might equal many years of bitter cultivation.

Thinking this way, Li Luo no longer hesitated. He took a deep breath and flicked his finger.

The four grains of Heavenly Mirror Sand shot out swiftly, dropping directly into the ancient bronze lamp.

Puff!

The next instant, the Heavenly Mirror Sand rapidly melted. A cluster of golden flames could be seen igniting from within the ancient lamp, and as the flames curled upward, they transformed into golden smoke that rose slowly.

That golden smoke was several times thicker than when Li Luo had tentatively fed it in before.

Within the golden smoke, there seemed to be countless invisible runes dancing. Those runes emitted ancient, pure fluctuations, as if they were the most pristine energy of heaven and earth.

The four Phase Palaces within Li Luo's body began to tremble wildly at this moment, and the six phase attributes within them became exceptionally active.

Wisps of golden smoke, as if possessing a spirit of their own, drilled into his body through his breath at this moment. The moment this smoke entered his body, it transformed into a surging great river, rushing within him.

Li Luo's state of mind, however, gradually calmed. He drove this vast, surging energy to pour entirely into the "Myriad Phases Wheel" deep within his body.

The Myriad Phases Wheel absorbed this energy without holding anything back, and finally converted it into pure phase force with astonishing efficiency. This phase force constantly shifted into various forms—like a river, like flowing light, like an ancient tree standing tall, like brown earth stretching on, like a great dragon coiling, like thunderclouds gathering thick...

The six phase attributes within his body were all manifested at this moment.

Two Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms emerged deep within his body, and then the six types of phase force took turns irrigating them. In an extremely wondrous manner, this caused the Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms to grow increasingly majestic and solid.

"This Myriad Phases Platform-Forging Art is truly wondrous. Its effect is no less than some high-grade Platform-Forging Arts!"

Sensing the changes in the two Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms, a subtle thrill also welled up in Li Luo's heart. The Platform-Forging Art he was currently employing was not something he had obtained from the Li Li Tianwang lineage, but rather was formed by stimulating the Myriad Phases Wheel within his body under the guidance of Dantai Lan when he was in Zhao Shenjiang City.

According to Dantai Lan, this art could be called the "Myriad Phases Platform-Forging Art," and its characteristic was that the more phase attributes one possessed within, the stronger its efficacy.

It was said that every Sect Master throughout the history of the Formless Saint Sect used this art to forge and polish their own Marquis Platforms.

However, since Li Luo only learned of this art when he was in Zhao Shenjiang City, during this period he had only been practicing and comprehending it. To formally employ it now was truly his very first time.

And this effect... left him extremely satisfied.

"This Myriad Phases Seed has finally revealed some of its wonders."

Li Luo murmured inwardly, then immersed his entire mind, blocking out all interference from the outside world, greedily swallowing those wisps of golden smoke into his body without cease.

Within the cultivation chamber, all was silent. Only from within Li Luo's body could there be heard, faintly and indistinctly, the strange rumbling produced when the six phase attributes washed against the Marquis Platforms.

And time slipped quietly away, day by day, just like that.

The phase force fluctuations emanating from within Li Luo, who sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion, also grew increasingly surging and majestic.

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

And during these ten days, the matter of this Sand Gambling Match between Li Luo, Jiang Qing'e, and Lü Ruyan and Xi Li remained the hottest topic of conversation. Some even opened off-site betting pools, wagering on the outcome between the two sides. This level of fervor even surpassed that of the other four Eight-Grade Marquis-level powerhouses.

However, judging from the various off-site odds, clearly more people favored Lü Ruyan and Xi Li.

This was hardly surprising. After all, everyone considered Li Luo to be the weak link. Although he had defeated Fang Xingyun in the Crossing-Battle, how could a Lower Seven-Grade like Fang Xingyun compare to Xi Li, an Upper Seven-Grade from the Xuanling Ancient Academy?

Li Luo's defeat of Fang Xingyun still relied on that strange trick of the Nightmare Art and the auxiliary boost from that teammate of his. But now that the strange trick had failed, and at the same time he had lost his teammate's boost, what did he have to fight Xi Li with?

When the time came, if Li Luo was defeated and Xi Li joined forces with Lü Ruyan, then even Jiang Qing'e would probably find it very hard to resist.

After all, Lü Ruyan and Xi Li were both among the "Eighteen Heroes," and were leading figures in this Heavenly Mirror Pagoda trial. They were no mere chickens and dogs.

So many people were baffled as to how Li Luo dared to accept this Sand Gambling Match. Was he really planning to put all the pressure on Jiang Qing'e's side? If so, that would truly be a case of setting his wife up to fail.

And it was precisely amid all this commotion within Heavenly Mirror City that Li Luo, who had been sitting with closed eyes in the cultivation chamber for several days, slowly opened his eyes.

In that instant, a surge of vast, majestic energy fluctuations erupted explosively.

The void behind him trembled, and two Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms slowly revealed themselves. The oppressive energy they radiated was undoubtedly a full tier stronger than before.

A smile bloomed on Li Luo's handsome face.

In ten days, aided by the mysterious ancient lamp, the four grains of Heavenly Mirror Sand, and his own "Myriad Phases Platform-Forging Art," the Upper Two-Grade of Peerless had finally been achieved.