Chapter 1481: Perfect Po Jing! Three Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms!

Three enormous pillars of energy shot skyward, stirring the world's energy into a vortex that covered the heavens, a breathtakingly magnificent sight.

The various squads within Tianjing City were still reeling from the shock of Fifth Mingxuan's Ten-Pillar Golden Platform, and now they were jolted into stunned disbelief by this new commotion.

Then they noticed that deep within the massive vortex triggered by those three energy pillars, purple currents now cascaded down like waterfalls, as if forming three purple auspicious clouds.

When these three purple auspicious clouds appeared, countless people in Tianjing City slowly opened their mouths wide.

The entire city seemed to fall into dead silence.

The silence lasted only a few breaths before it was shattered by an even more frenzied uproar.

"Purple auspicious clouds?!"

"That is... that is the sign of triggering a perfect Po Jing!"

"Three people triggered a perfect Po Jing this time? How is that possible!"

"The facts speak for themselves. According to records, whenever a perfect Po Jing is triggered within the Tianjing Pagoda, it draws purple qi to form auspicious clouds. That is the power of the Tianjing Pagoda—there is absolutely no possibility of fakery!"

"Fifth Mingxuan had no purple auspicious clouds earlier, which means he didn't achieve a perfect Po Jing through Tianjing Sand, but rather relied on other methods to forcibly forge ten pillars!"

"They're all monsters!"

"Who exactly are these three who triggered the perfect Po Jing?"

"Judging by the location, it seems to be over at the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou."

"Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou? The Outer Shenzhou?"

"Impossible!!"

"..."

Countless cries of astonishment echoed throughout Tianjing City. Everyone was stunned by these three purple auspicious clouds, and the entire city was in an uproar because of it.

And amid that endless clamor—

Beneath the purple auspicious clouds, vast energy gathered. Accompanied by the influx of purple qi, three towering, majestic Marquis Platforms began to form at a startling speed.

The three Marquis Platforms emanated fluctuations of different elemental attributes.

One Marquis Platform appeared sacred and pure, as if cast from glazed crystal. It stood in the void like a blazing great sun, releasing billions of rays of light, and the very world seemed to grow clearer because of it.

Another Marquis Platform seemed carved from ten-thousand-year profound ice. Standing still in the void, it unleashed terrifying waves of extreme cold, freezing the very space around it solid.

If the first two Marquis Platforms represented the extreme of a single elemental attribute, then this third Marquis Platform appeared utterly peculiar—because six different attributes of phase force flowed across its surface. These six phase forces evolved into unique patterns, inscribed upon the Marquis Platform, and the flourishing sensation was as if an independent small world had already formed upon it.

Although the phase force attributes differed, at the very top of all three Marquis Platforms stood ten golden pillars. Upon those golden pillars, the most ancient runes of the world emerged, radiating an aura of completeness and perfection.

Three Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms!

The entire city fell silent once more.

Three people had achieved perfect Po Jing, and all of them had forged Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms!

In all previous Tianjing Pagoda trials, such a thing had never occurred.

"I know who those three are. It must be Li Luo, Jiang Jiang Qinge, and that Lü Qing'er. Only those three in the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou had previously forged Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms. Only by triggering a perfect Po Jing could they directly reach ten pillars!" someone said with a complicated expression.

"But that doesn't add up. Where did they get so much Tianjing Sand? Could it be that all the Tianjing Sand won at the Sand Gambling Bureau was swallowed up by those three?"

"No way to know."

"..."

In the residential area of the Holy Mist Academy, Lü Ruyan gazed at the three dazzling pillars of light in the distance. Her charming face was now covered in a livid hue. She clenched her fists so tightly they creaked, and the blue veins on the backs of her hands bulged out.

She recognized it at a glance—that Marquis Platform flowing with the purest, most extreme cold qi belonged to Lü Qing'er.

In other words, Lü Qing'er had now stepped into the Unparalleled Second Rank!

"Damn it!"

Lü Ruyan's heart blazed with fury. She couldn't help stamping her foot, and immediately terrifying frost qi erupted outward from her as the source, spreading violently. Within just a few breaths, the entire pavilion was transformed into an ice sculpture building, radiating a chilling cold.

"It's all that bastard Li Luo's fault!" Lü Ruyan raged. If she hadn't lost all her Tianjing Sand at the Sand Gambling Bureau, she could have attempted to trigger a perfect Po Jing herself. But now, she could only rely on cultivation resources she had prepared in advance and a top-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure to forge a Nine-Pillar Marquis Platform.

That's right. Over the past nearly three months, Lü Ruyan's strength had also broken through, and she had stepped into the Seventh Rank Marquis Realm.

So now, she possessed the lavish configuration of one Ten-Pillar Golden Platform and six Nine-Pillar Marquis Platforms. With such foundations, even facing Eighth Rank Marquis powerhouses like Sheng Que'er, she wouldn't fear them in the slightest.

However, compared to the Ten-Pillar Golden Platform Lü Qing'er had forged, she still fell short.

Because what she lacked was the future.

As Lü Qing'er walked further and further down the Unparalleled Path, she would gain the favor of more old-timers at the Golden Dragon Mountain, and by then, Lü Ruyan's chances of taking back the "Holy Ice Seed" would grow even slimmer.

"Why?! I've worked so hard at Golden Dragon Mountain for all these years—why does that wild girl come back and take everything that was supposed to be mine?!"

From within the frost-covered pavilion came Lü Ruyan's furious, low growl.

Deep within Tianjing City, in a stone pavilion by the lake—

Three figures sat within. They were Wang Xuanjin, Elder Jinxi, and Elder Bai Yu. At this moment, Elder Bai Yu had transformed into a beautiful woman with a charming face and a slender, voluptuous figure, though her legs were a white snake tail, not human legs.

Because these powerful spirit beasts always took pride in their beast forms. In their eyes, human bodies were frail, so there was simply no need to take on such a form.

It was only for the convenience of conversation now that Elder Bai Yu had taken on this semi-human appearance.

At this moment, the three King-level powerhouses were also gazing at the purple auspicious clouds in the distance, looks of surprise surfacing on their faces.

"It's that Li Luo, Jiang Jiang Qinge, and Lü Qing'er... they actually all triggered a perfect Po Jing?" Elder Jinxi said in astonishment.

"Their Tianjing Sand shouldn't be enough for three people to trigger a perfect Po Jing, should it?" Elder Bai Yu spoke in a soft, gentle voice that gave off a tender feeling.

"They must have used some special method," Wang Xuanjin said thoughtfully.

"Oh? A method that can amplify the effects of Tianjing Sand? That would be quite rare," Elder Jinxi said.

"After all, one is a pride of the Dragon Fang Vein, and the other is a noble lady of the Golden Dragon Mountain. If their elders prepared some special methods, that would only be natural," Wang Xuanjin said with a smile.

Elder Jinxi and Elder Bai Yu nodded slightly. Li Luo and Lü Qing'er both came from Li Li Tianwang-level powers, so they had deep foundations. Many things that others couldn't achieve were not impossible for them.

"Still, three people triggering a perfect Po Jing at the same time and forging Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms—this is an unprecedented event in the Tianjing Pagoda's history," Wang Xuanjin said.

"Fifth Mingxuan also forged a Ten-Pillar Golden Platform over there, but he didn't achieve a perfect Po Jing..." Elder Jinxi looked toward another direction, where another pillar of energy shot into the clouds, and within it, a Ten-Pillar Golden Platform emerged.

However, with the discerning eyes of Elder Jinxi and the others, they could tell that at the top of Fifth Mingxuan's Marquis Platform, the tenth golden pillar was slightly shorter than the other nine, and the countless divine runes upon it were also somewhat sparse.

This indicated that the ten-pillar golden platform forged by Fifth Mingxuan was somewhat lacking in foundation.

"On the tenth pillar of that Fifth Mingxuan, I sensed a somewhat familiar aura," Elder Bai Yu said suddenly.

Wang Xuanjin nodded slightly and said, "It's that fellow Light Bright King's aura. If I'm not mistaken, the reason Fifth Mingxuan was able to forge ten pillars this time should be because he used the 'Light Bone' bestowed upon him by Light Bright King. Heh, Light Bright King thinks quite highly of him, to be willing to invest so heavily."

Upon hearing the title of Light Bright King, the expressions of Jin Xi and Elder Bai Yu both grew solemn. Within the Academy Alliance, this Light Bright King was known as the number one king beneath Li Li Tianwang—a true existence at the peak of the Triple Crown King realm, said to be only a single step away from the Li Li Tianwang realm.

Over these past several hundred years, the number of anomalous kings purified by this Light Bright King had already reached no less than ten. This illustrious reputation had also made his name become a legend within the Academy Alliance.

Light Bright King, Qi Huang.

And Fifth Mingxuan was his disciple.

In a certain green-wood pavilion.

Zhou Jun and Shen Shen Jinxiao, who had replaced Guo Guo Jiufeng's appearance, slowly withdrew their gazes.

"Hasn't Jiang Jiang Qinge now stepped into the Unparalleled Fourth-Rank? Truly terrifying. With such strength, even though I've now stepped into the Upper Eighth-Rank, I'm really not certain I could take her down," Zhou Jun said, a note of wariness in his voice.

"Jiang Jiang Qinge..."

Shen Shen Jinxiao softly murmured this name, a sickly smile surfacing on his face. Back then at the Sacred Mystic Star Academy, he had coveted Jiang Jiang Qinge's Light Heart to the point of madness.

Unfortunately, in the end, he still failed to achieve his wish.

If he could devour her pure, sacred Light Heart, his future would be limitless.

At this thought, Shen Shen Jinxiao couldn't help but stick out his tongue, greedily licking his lips.

What he hadn't managed to do in the Great Xia last time, this time, there was another opportunity.

Finally, Shen Shen Jinxiao waved at Zhou Jun, turned and left the pavilion, walked into the street, and headed toward the lodging district of the Eastern Domain Outer Shenzhou.

But as he walked, a momentary daze appeared in "Guo Guo Jiufeng's" eyes. He stood frozen in place, looked around, and muttered somewhat blankly, "Why am I here?"

At this moment, whether in demeanor, aura, or voice, he had once again transformed back into Guo Guo Jiufeng.

After pondering for several breaths, Guo Guo Jiufeng shook his head strangely, then lifted his feet and hurried back toward the lodging district of the Eastern Domain Outer Shenzhou.