173: Heavenly realm, breakthrough!

Following that was a mountain-like pile of Top-Grade Spirit Stones, their pure Spiritual Qi almost liquefying into rain!

There were also various Medicinal Pills in jade bottles: Foundation Strengthening Pills, Soul Condensing Heavenly Pills... With each item brought out, Wang Xiaopang's mouth opened wider, his eyes grew rounder, and by the end, his jaw nearly dropped to the ground, his mouth wide enough to fit a goose egg.

“Oh... oh my god...”

Wang Xiaopang's voice trembled as he pointed at the pile of items, his finger shaking as if he was having a seizure.

“B-Brother... Second Brother... did you... did you dig up the ancestral grave of some Holy Land?! This... Innate Spirit Marrow! enlightenment tea! A mountain of Top-Grade Spirit Stones! My dear mother... Fat Master could loot corpses until the end of time and not find even a fraction of these treasures!”

Xiao Ruobai casually replied, “A gift from Revered Master.”

As if these supreme treasures, enough to cause a bloody storm in the outside world, were just ordinary dry rations.

Fang Hanyu, meanwhile, had already calmly begun to delineate areas, preparing to set up a Spirit Gathering Formation.

And Ling Qiong, standing by, was completely petrified.

All the lectures and complaints he had prepared were now stuck in his throat, not a single word able to escape.

He stared blankly at the pile of treasures, then at the calm Xiao Ruobai and Fang Hanyu, finally letting his gaze fall on the chubby man who looked like he had never seen the world.

Ling Qiong’s heart was in turmoil: ‘A... a gift from Revered Master? What exactly is their Revered Master’s background?! To casually bestow such items, even divine objects like enlightenment tea?

This Foundation... it’s probably more terrifying than some Holy Lands! No wonder... no wonder this kid isn’t very interested in the Tongtian Pagoda... Damn it, does he usually Cultivate with these things?!’

In an instant, Ling Qiong felt how ridiculous his previous complaints of “unrecognized talent” were.

Compared to their Cultivation conditions, the Tongtian Pagoda... it seems... indeed... not so indispensable anymore?

Immediately, an unprecedented urge to cling to their coattails surged wildly in Ling Qiong’s remnant Divine Soul!

Xiao Ruobai seemed to just notice Ling Qiong’s presence and looked at him: “Senior Ling Qiong, we are about to Breakthrough to the Heavenly Human Realm here, we apologize for the disturbance.”

“No disturbance! No disturbance!”

Ling Qiong jolted, instantly putting on his most respectful and enthusiastic smile, floating forward and bowing, saying, “Little friend, rest assured! Ling Qiong will definitely do his utmost! To be your Protector!”

Xiao Ruobai said no more, sitting cross-legged in the Formation eye surrounded by Top-Grade Spirit Stones and many Heaven And Earth Treasures, closing his eyes.

The prelude to assaulting the Heavenly Human Realm officially began!

Inside the Tongtian Pagoda, the ethereal Spiritual Qi was so dense it almost solidified, milky white spiritual mist swirling and rising, making the space appear like a Heavenly Human Realm.

Xiao Ruobai and Fang Hanyu sat cross-legged opposite each other, in the core of a massive Spirit Gathering Formation meticulously outlined with an immense amount of Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

At the core of the Formation eye, the bowl-sized Innate Spirit Marrow emitted a hazy glow, containing the aura of Origin.

The enlightenment tea, upon consumption, felt as if countless Dao runes were being born and extinguished, helping their minds to deduce and comprehend the Laws of Heaven and Earth at an incredible speed, especially the Dao of destruction and rebirth contained within the palm print.

With their eyes slightly closed and breathing long and steady, the two quickly entered a deep meditative state of forgetting self and surroundings.

“Om—!”

As the Formation was fully activated, terrifying suction burst forth from within their bodies!

The Innate Spirit Marrow melted at a visible speed, transforming into wisps of incomparably pure, gray Origin Qi containing Innate Dao patterns, which, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, actively drilled into their limbs, Meridians, and acupoints, frantically nourishing and transforming their Physical Body and Divine Soul Foundation.

The mountain of Top-Grade Spirit Stones emitted a continuous “crack” sound, rapidly becoming dim and shattered, eventually turning into dust!

The massive amount of pure Spiritual Qi contained within them was frantically drawn out, forming two enormous, visible Spiritual Qi vortices, like funnels, surging into their bodies.

Beneath Xiao Ruobai's skin, ancient dark golden War Patterns flowed like ripples, no longer just surging, but resonating with a deep and majestic hum, like a Dragon Vein awakening deep within the earth.

The mountain of Top-Grade Spirit Stones disappeared at a visible speed. The rate of Spiritual Qi consumption was terrifying!

This was the astonishing consumption brought about by the simultaneous Breakthrough of the War God Body and the Chaos Sword Body!

Every inch of Xiao Ruobai's flesh and blood, every wisp of his War Soul's sublimation, was like a bottomless pit, requiring the ingestion of unimaginable, vast energy.

Fang Hanyu's Chaos Sword Body was even more so; for his Chaos Sword Qi to achieve its ultimate qualitative change and manifest the phenomena of creation, the required Origin power was an astronomical figure!

Their bodies seemed to transform into two massive Chaos vortices, especially Fang Hanyu, whose circulating Sword Qi not only devoured Spiritual Qi but also subtly absorbed surrounding light, sound, and even some spatial fluctuations, returning them to Chaos and refining them for his own use.

This predatory consumption far exceeded common sense!

Watching the mountain of Top-Grade Spirit Stones, enough to cause a bloody storm in the outside world, rapidly “thinning,” Wang Xiaopang's heart pounded, and his chubby face twitched.

“My dear mother... this isn't Cultivating, this is burning Spirit Stones! What are these bodies made of? They're too hungry!”

However, Xiao Ruobai did not even frown in the face of this terrifying consumption.

With a thought, a Heavenly-Grade Spiritual Vein, exuding vast and pure Spiritual Qi, winding like a Dragon, and seemingly with spiritual liquid flowing within, was directly taken out of his Magic Treasure, like a sleeping Spiritual Qi Dragon, spanning the space within the tower!

“Heavenly... Heavenly-Grade Spiritual Vein?!”

Wang Xiaopang's eyes nearly popped out, and he exclaimed in surprise.

“Big Brother! This... this is the Foundation that can support a large Sect for a thousand years without decline! You just take it out... to burn as firewood?!”

The Tower Spirit Ling Qiong's Divine Soul body trembled even more, almost unable to maintain his spiritual art.

A Heavenly-Grade Spiritual Vein, even in a Holy Land, was a strategic resource, yet it was being so extravagantly used for personal Breakthrough at this moment!

Xiao Ruobai, however, seemed to not hear.

As soon as the Heavenly-Grade Spiritual Vein appeared, the extremely pure Spiritual Qi, like a bursting river, instantly engulfed the two of them.

The vast energy flowed into his Meridians, and the War God Body let out a joyful roar, like a drought-stricken land receiving sweet rain, greedily yet orderly absorbing this unprecedented energy baptism, pushing his life Origin to a higher level of leap.

With the almost infinite source of the Heavenly-Grade Spiritual Vein supporting them, the terrifying consumption no longer seemed so daunting, and the Breakthrough process became smoother and grander, imbued with a calm and domineering aura born from absolute resource abundance.

Fang Hanyu's Chaos Sword Body was likewise, as if it had found the most suitable nourishment, and the operation of the Chaos Sword Qi became even more profound and mysterious.

Supported by the almost inexhaustible pure Origin of the Heavenly-Grade Spiritual Vein, the already full accumulations within their bodies finally broke through the last critical point.

There was no earth-shattering impact, no difficult and painful struggle.

Everything happened as naturally as water flowing into a ditch.

“Om—!”

A clear and long resonant sound, like the first Dao sound at the dawn of creation, vibrated from the depths of their life Origin, instantly spreading throughout the Tongtian Pagoda!

With this Dao resonance, the aura of Xiao Ruobai and Fang Hanyu underwent a monumental qualitative change!