Chapter 88

Fang Yu sat cross-legged, feeling his spirit. After this great battle, he felt his spirit had become somewhat unobstructed; within his mind, his spirit was condensed, giving off a sense of radiant treasure-light.

That's right, a sense of radiant treasure-light.

Within his mind, much of his spirit radiated treasure-light. Though not intense, it was gentle yet tenacious, and his spiritual will had been greatly cleansed.

He had originally had plenty of methods to deal with the Heavenly Demons, such as the various treasures of the Great Lei Yinsi — those were Fomen treasures, most adept at dealing with Heavenly Demons. Casually offering up a single treasure could reduce these Heavenly Demons to ash.

Another example was the spiritual flying sword Purple Fire Sword he had obtained this time. If activated, it could unleash Bing Fire Divine Thunder; Divine Thunder itself is an utmost firm and utmost yang thing, able to casually destroy Heavenly Demons.

However, he had not used any of these treasures, relying entirely on his own will to slay the Heavenly Demons.

After resisting the Heavenly Demons with his own will, Fang Yu's spirit became pure once more, taking a solid step toward entering the Divine Ability Secret Realm.

And this was precisely the purpose of the trial.

To break through from the 10th Stage of Physical Body, the Realm of Divine Transformation, into the Divine Ability Secret Realm, one must constantly temper the spirit — from quantitative change to qualitative change, from spirit to magic power, breaking the ordinary person's worldview. It is by no means something that can be achieved in a single day.

Many inner disciples of the Yuhua Sect, including those on the Shanhe Ranking, were also tempering their spirits.

This tempering could not be altered by any magic treasure or spiritual weapon; only by consuming elixirs, strengthening the physical body, cultivating the spirit, and practicing day after day.

Fang Yu was on this Heavenly Demon battlefield, constantly tempering his spirit; those fine magic treasures, he did not use even once.

One day, two days.

Five days, nine days.

A full nine days passed, and Fang Yu continued to temper himself on this Heavenly Demon battlefield, tempering, tempering.

During these nine days he also encountered some Heavenly Demons, who used every method to tempt him, wanting his mind to lose guard so they could devour his powerful physical body — but they were all defeated and destroyed by him.

"What a pity there's no Huang Quan Diagram, otherwise these Heavenly Demons would all be fine ingredients for Great Azure Elixirs."

On the tenth day, as Fang Yu walked across the Heavenly Demon battlefield, he spotted an inconspicuous large stone along the way, suddenly swept sideways, and struck it with a palm.

This large stone did not shatter into pieces, but let out a wretched shriek, leapt up, and actually transformed into a grim-faced old Daoist Priest.

It was yet another Heavenly Demon, wanting to attack Fang Yu.

This Heavenly Demon had devoured some old Daoist Priest or other, greatly increasing its power. After transforming into a stone it was vivid and lifelike, yet it could not hide from Fang Yu at all.

The instant the Heavenly Demon transformed into the old Daoist Priest, Fang Yu kicked it again. Intense yang-firm qi struck this Heavenly Demon, instantly blasting it into pieces so it no longer held a form; then with another strike, he beat it into smoke and dust.

Slaying this Heavenly Demon took only an instant.

But Fang Yu gained nothing from it.

He knew that if he had a supreme-grade Dao artifact like the Huang Quan Diagram, he could refine those Heavenly Demons into Blood Elixirs.

"Still, my spirit grows ever purer — that's not bad either."

Fang Yu thought to himself.

Just at this moment, the sound announcing the end of the inner disciple examination rang out.

He had successfully passed the trial.