[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-sword-god-of-the-universe":3,"chapter-the-sword-god-of-the-universe-the-sword-god-of-the-universe-chapter-12":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Sword God of the Universe",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1072163,1385,"Chapter 12 - 12 Breaking Through the Fifth Heaven","the-sword-god-of-the-universe-chapter-12",12,"\u003Cp>Chapter 12: Breaking Through the Fifth Heaven Chapter 12: Breaking Through the Fifth Heaven A short while later, several figures emerged from the woods and approached the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was apparently a hunting group of five: four men and one woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It looks like a tough fight’s just taken place here,” said a tall and thin warrior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked around with his eyes narrowed, noting the faint smell of blood in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s the dead body of a Spiritual Beast over there.” The only woman in the group focused her gaze on the skinned Shadow Gale Wolf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since the Spiritual Beast is dead, let’s not waste more time here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We should keep going deeper into the mountains,” said a man in a blue gown, furrowing his brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t plan to linger in the foothills of the mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go!” The man who was obviously the leader waved his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?” Just as they were about to leave, the leader’s eyes widened slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze had landed on the body of the Shadow Gale Wolf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s a Shadow Gale Wolf!” When they got close enough to the lifeless body to get a good look at it, the leader recognized it at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?” “A Shadow Gale Wolf?” “No way!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We’re still in the outskirts of the Blackrock Mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could there be Shadow Gale Wolves hanging around?” A slightly chunky warrior checked on the Shadow Gale Wolf’s body, and his eyes began to blaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No kidding!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It really is a Shadow Gale Wolf!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brother Qi was right!” The Brother Qi he mentioned was the leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His name was Lin Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, the group of five was from the Lin Clan of Dong Lin City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all disciples of the family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They teamed up to kill Spiritual Beasts to exchange for Spiritual Stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lin Clan was one of the Four Legendary Families in Dong Lin City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All five of them had pretty good cultivation levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leader, Lin Qi, was at the Sixth Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other four were all at the Fifth Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group like that, as long as they were careful enough, had enough power to brave the middle areas of the Blackrock Mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he carefully investigated the scene, Lin Qi narrowed his eyes and said, “Judging from the footprints left behind, it’s unlikely that a group of warriors did this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s possibly a solo hunter.” “A solo hunter?” “Someone killed a Shadow Gale Wolf all by himself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it a High-ranking warrior?” The tall and thin warrior sounded alarmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes flashed briefly with shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had to be at least a High-ranking warrior, if not a group, to be able to kill a Shadow Gale Wolf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hard to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a shame that we got here too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a Shadow Gale Wolf for heaven’s sake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would have been worth several hundred Spiritual Stones, at least.” Lin Qi shook his head with regret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“D*mn it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That lucky b*stard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He got to catch a Shadow Gale Wolf all the way out here.” The chunky warrior ground his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If only we’d gotten here sooner!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>D*mn!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he was a High-ranking warrior, if we came across him, we could definitely take some of the loot that he got from killing the Shadow Gale Wolf!” “Okay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let’s not worry about that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever did this has already left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We couldn’t catch him even if we wanted to.” Lin Qi waved his hand dismissively, and the group of five soon vanished back into the woods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>… On a cliff in an outer area of the Blackrock Mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This place will work!” Jing Yan walked back into a cave in the cliff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had taken him some time to find it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cave wasn’t very deep, and he had checked every corner inside very carefully to make sure no humans or Spiritual Beasts had been living there or using it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jing Yan planned to use the Soul Crystal he’d just taken from the Shadow Gale Wolf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His cultivation was only at the Fourth Heaven, which still wasn’t good enough, but the Soul Crystal he’d just been lucky enough to obtain should help increase his rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had made sure that there were no other people or Spiritual Beasts around, Jing Yan still set up some simple traps outside the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were more meant to alert him than to stop anyone or any Spiritual Beasts from entering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jing Yan would be notified as soon as anything got too close, which should give him enough time to prepare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a place like the Blackrock Mountains, it paid to be extra cautious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And considering that Jing Yan’s plan was to improve his rank via cultivation, he needed to be even more careful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s get started!” After he got ready, Jing Yan picked a random spot inside the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his eyes highly focused, he took out the glowing Soul Crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Soul Crystal was a Low-ranking one, of course, yet it was still valuable enough to make a lot of warriors go crazy for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jing Yan held the Soul Crystal in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He started taking light inhales, nostrils flaring slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something intimidating flashed in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Arch of Heaven began to flow, the Vital Qi inside his body started to move in response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The glowing yellow crystal began to flicker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there had been a High-ranking warrior witnessing the whole thing, he would have been able to tell that Jing Yan was inhaling part of the faint yellow light coming from the Soul Crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nice!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing is worthy of its fame!” Jing Yan almost shouted as he absorbed the energy from the Soul Crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt incredibly good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to Soul Crystals, Spiritual Stones were like garbage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Legendary-grade Spiritual Stones were far inferior to Low-ranking Soul Crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s so good!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So powerful!” “It’s too bad that Soul Crystals are so rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I could get ahold of more Soul Crystals, it probably wouldn’t take long to return to Precelestial Rank.” Jing Yan’s flow of Qi was long and thick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After pausing briefly to consider the situation, he put his full concentration into absorbing the energy from the Soul Crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he absorbed more and more energy from the Soul Crystal, the Vital Qi inside Jing Yan’s body was surging more and more dramatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time went by, but Jing Yan barely noticed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first rays of morning sun sifted in from the entrance of the cave, signaling that a new day had come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Jing Yan was surrounded by a thin layer of mist that was continually rising and swirling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jing Yan’s face was flushed red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, like a quiet pond into which a giant rock had just been dropped, Jing Yan’s Vital Qi raged and surged as if it were alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Jing Yan opened his eyes as his face lit up with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha, the Fifth Heaven rank!” “Wait, what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s day time already?” Jing Yan noticed the sun outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One night has passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haha!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It only took me one night to break through to the Fifth Heaven from the Fourth Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That feels d*mn good!” Jing Yan straightened his back and sprang to his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body was filled with inexplicable power that swept through him and pounded inside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jing Yan could feel that the Vital Qi inside him had become several times stronger than when he was at the Fourth Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he came across another Shadow Gale Wolf, as long as the wolf dared to sneak up on him, he was confident he could kill it with one strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After spending some time exploring the sensation of his new strength, Jing Yan gazed at the yellow Soul Crystal in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hadn’t faded away yet, but it had gotten a lot smaller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, Jing Yan had absorbed a lot of its energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I just leveled up a rank, so I need time to consolidate my power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t get too greedy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Okay, I will stop absorbing energy for now.” Jing Yan carefully put away the Soul Crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then took a sliding step and came to the entrance as fast as lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>",1373,"2026-06-03T10:25:51.540Z",1,"novelbin.me","16d05dab16835120c5c82f415544bc08320a02900ead103046ba023705c763be","the-sword-god-of-the-universe-chapter-13","the-sword-god-of-the-universe-chapter-11",2108,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-sword-god-of-the-universe-cover.jpg"]