Chapter 1726: Upper Nine-Pin, Wood and Earth Physique!

During the four months that Li Luo was in closed-door cultivation, the ten Outer Shenzhou also entered a peculiar period of quiet. The erosion and incursions from the Other World had largely vanished, and for a time it even gave many forces a sense of tranquility.

But the true top-tier experts understood that this so-called tranquility was nothing more than an omen of a destructive storm about to arrive.

Because the current erosion and incursions no longer held any effect. For all parties, the most important matter now was the ever-approaching day when the Spiritual Resonance Grotto-Heaven would descend.

Once the Spiritual Resonance Grotto-Heaven appeared again, the "Withering-Flourishing Physique" hidden within would also descend. That would be the true great decisive battle for all parties.

The Other World's silence at this moment was merely accumulating strength for that purpose.

Meanwhile, the various alliances of the ten Outer Shenzhou were also doing everything in their power to raise their overall strength. Led by the Shenzhou Assembly, they took out all their top-tier precious cultivation resources and distributed them according to merit.

Numerous king-grade treasures, top-tier pills, and spiritual water wonders were all drawn from the vaults of the top forces, which even included Peerless Arts. As long as one possessed both the strength and the merit, they could obtain them.

Clearly, all the alliances understood that if they lost this decisive battle, the entire world would be shrouded beneath the Other World's shadow, and at that point, these so-called top-tier resources would be utterly useless.

So rather than letting them go to waste, it was better to use them all before the decisive battle. Being able to raise their strength by even a single point was a good thing.

Over the four months, the atmosphere grew quieter with each passing day, but gradually, the extreme oppression contained within that silence began to be released, causing countless living beings across the ten Outer Shenzhou to feel uneasy and fearful.

But time did not pause because of the fear of the world's living beings. The day of the decisive battle drew ever closer.

When Li Luo's closed-door cultivation reached its fifth month.

In the starry space above the Golden Dragon Mountain, amid a ceremony filled with vast golden light, Lv Qing'er was the first to open her eyes. In an instant, terrifying cold qi swept forth, as if even the sun, moon, and stars were frozen beneath it.

At her brow, the seed that had originally emitted a mysterious faint glow had completely transformed, forming an ancient and exquisite ice lotus pattern, inscribed upon her smooth forehead.

This Acquired Primordial Seed, evolved from the Sacred Ice Seed, had finally reached perfection at this moment.

Lv Qing'er rose from the copper coin altar, and from the crown of her head, icy crystalline radiance shot skyward, splitting into seven streams that transformed into seven ten-pillar golden platforms, standing majestically.

These seven ten-pillar golden platforms were all formed from ice crystals, inscribed with countless billions of profound ice patterns.

These were precisely the seven ten-pillar golden platforms that Lv Qing'er had cultivated into existence.

However, it was not just this... The ice lotus profound pattern at her brow grew increasingly dazzling. The next moment, the vast power of the ice origin swept out like a hurricane, directly transforming this stretch of void into a Han Bing Shi Zhong Jie.

Three streams of origin power, all flowing with extreme cold qi, were expanding.

Those were Lv Qing'er's own three Physique Traits.

Ice Physique!

Frost Physique!

Ice Luan Physique!

Clearly, the latter two Physique Traits had both extended from the Ice Physique, capable of enhancing its ice attribute to the extreme.

The three streams of Physique Trait origin converged together, transforming into a beam of icy, piercing profound light that shot skyward. As the profound light bloomed and cold qi flowed, yet another Marquis Platform was forged.

It had ten pillars, its cold light piercing, capable of freezing all things in the world.

The eighth ten-pillar golden platform!

When Lv Qing'er's Acquired Primordial Seed reached perfection, and with the aid of the noble aura accumulated over several thousand years on Golden Dragon Mountain, she finally took another step on the Peerless Path, reaching Peerless Eight-Pin!

Outside the ceremony, Lv Sui and Lv Taiyi, who had been stationed there for a long time, both heaved sighs of relief upon seeing this. Golden Dragon Mountain had accumulated several thousand years of painstaking effort for this very moment.

Fortunately, in the end, it succeeded.

With Lv Qing'er's Primordial Seed reaching perfection, if she could advance to Heavenly King in the future, she would be no ordinary Heavenly King, but a Divine Fruit Heavenly King!

Within the ceremony, Lv Qing'er's beautiful eyes, like Binghu, gazed at the eight ten-pillar golden platforms. Her fair and beautiful face, flowing with frost, still showed no emotional ripples.

Then, her gaze turned toward Li Luo, who was still immersed in cultivation. The origin fluctuations emanating from the latter's body gave even her an extremely strong sense of pressure.

In the void behind him, the mysterious and grand Myriad Physique Wheel slowly rotated, emitting a divine roar, with ten streams of Physique Trait origin continuously circulating within it.

In Lv Qing'er's perception, Li Luo's Wood-Earth Physique had nearly reached the extreme of Middle Nine-Pin. If it were a normal Middle Nine-Pin advancement, he would have long since succeeded, but Li Luo's situation was different. He possessed five Physique Palaces and ten Physique Traits, and these Physique Traits had long since perfectly fused together. Therefore, while others only needed to feed one during advancement, he needed to feed ten...

Especially now that he had nearly reached a state where there was no room left to advance, completing that final flaw was naturally extremely difficult.

Therefore, even after a full five months of cultivation, and after refining four portions of Upper Nine-Pin spiritual water wonders along with the augmentation of some noble aura, Li Luo was still stuck at a critical threshold.

Lv Qing'er pondered slightly, her gaze turning to the noble aura still flowing within the ceremony. Her own advancement had not completely exhausted the noble aura accumulated over several thousand years on Golden Dragon Mountain.

Lv Qing'er made up her mind, and her gaze suddenly turned toward Lv Sui and Lv Taiyi outside the ceremony.

"Hey, your daughter is about to dig into the family fortune again." Lv Taiyi stroked his grizzled beard and said to Lv Sui.

Lv Sui could only sigh helplessly.

The two were so experienced that they understood what she wanted to do from just one glance.

"This noble aura could at least produce five King-realm experts for Golden Dragon Mountain within a hundred years," Lv Sui said with some heartache.

"That assumes we still have a hundred years to wait," Lv Taiyi said with a smile.

"Perhaps this can also be considered an investment. If Li Luo succeeds, it would mean he owes my Golden Dragon Mountain a great favor. This investment might bring Golden Dragon Mountain the most generous return rate in its history?"

Lv Sui said wistfully, "Let's hope so. We can't be running a losing business."

While the two were speaking, Lv Qing'er within the ceremony had already begun to act. She took control of the ceremony, running it at full capacity, then channeled all the remaining noble aura toward Li Luo.

Tens of thousands of streams of golden light flowed forth, like falling golden coins, filling the sky with crisp sounds.

The Myriad Physique Wheel behind Li Luo was like a black hole, greedily devouring every last bit of the incoming noble aura.

In just half a day, the noble aura filling this stretch of starry sky had vanished completely.

The consequence of this was that the massive golden dragon coiled below began to grow dim, its form shrinking by nearly half. The mountains upon it trembled, and many experts from the three branches shot skyward, staring at this scene with shock and suspicion.

Once the experts of the three branches understood what had happened, they immediately began to discuss it animatedly. Naturally, there were those with short-sightedness who expressed dissatisfaction with Lv Qing'er's unilateral decision.

Lv Sui and Lv Taiyi quickly stepped forward at this moment to calm the situation.

However, the criticism could not be entirely eliminated.

Just as the controversy surged within Golden Dragon Mountain, the world's energy suddenly began to churn violently. In the starry sky, vast streams of origin flood appeared, as if ten invisible, endless Dahe of origin.

The source of these ten origin rivers was Li Luo.

At this moment, the Myriad Physique Wheel behind him erupted with profound light vast enough to illuminate the heavens, and the five Physique Palaces shone like great suns, dazzling to the extreme.

At Li Luo's brow, that emerald-green vertical mark slowly wriggled and opened.

An emerald-green crystalline core, like the vertical eye of a deity, released boundless vitality.

At this moment, the many disputes within Golden Dragon Mountain came to an abrupt halt, because everyone clearly sensed an extremely terrifying pressure emanating from within Li Luo's body.

Upper Ninth Rank, Wood-Earth Phase!

And Li Luo's eyes suddenly snapped open, the aura of perfection radiating from the Myriad Phases Wheel behind him surging to an unprecedented extreme.

After enduring countless hardships, cutting through thorns and brambles, he had finally reached this step.

Five Dual Phases, all at Upper Ninth Rank!

He wondered whether, with this foundation, he could take that most difficult step in the world?!

Li Luo took a deep breath. He had walked this unrivaled path for so many years; perhaps now, the moment had come to give it a try.