54: Chapter 54 King Martial! King Star!

Over the course of a year, Su Yu had almost completely locked himself away in his underground cultivation room.

Through countless instances of blood-qi exhaustion and breaking then rebuilding, he had polished his Foundation as a Great Grandmaster until it was profound and pure.

Now, his Realm had firmly stalled at the Peak of the Great Grandmaster, only half a step away from the Martial King Realm that countless Martial Artists dreamed of.

In contrast to his son's bitter cultivation, the life Su Wu led on the second-floor balcony could be called "plain and unadorned."

The afternoon sun lazily spilled onto the wide rattan chair, and Su Wu lay there casually, holding a cup of steaming, top-grade spiritual tea in his hand.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and with a flick of his mind, a pale blue transparent panel that only he could see slowly emerged before his eyes.

[Host: Su Wu]

[Bound Descendant: Su Yu]

[Descendant Realm: Great Grandmaster Realm Peak]

[Host Realm: Star Lord Realm Ninth Stage]

[Cultivation Technique: Eight Desolations and Six Harmonies Art (Perfection/Three Attributes)]

[Martial Skill: Three-Fire Thunder Blade (Perfection), Blood Fiend Transformation (Perfection), Yuan Escape (Slightly mastered space attribute), ...]

[Combat Technique: Micro-level]

[Divine Ability: Saber Domain (Intermediate Stage)]

"Star Lord Realm Ninth Stage..." Su Wu looked at the panel, a faint smile curving the corners of his mouth.

Over this past year, as Su Yu's Realm steadily climbed, the System's unreasonable "Fathers Status Rises with the Son" feedback mechanism had forcefully pushed Su Wu's cultivation to the apex of the Star Lord Realm.

He was only separated from that so-called "Star King Realm" by a thin layer of window paper.

...

Meanwhile, inside the underground cultivation room.

The gravity here had been adjusted to a full one hundred times that of the outside world.

Because of the extreme pressure, the air had become incredibly viscous; if an ordinary Grandmaster were to step in here, they would be crushed into a pulp of flesh and mud in an instant.

Su Yu was shirtless, his muscles clearly defined, and a faint purple-gold blood-qi halo flowed across the surface of his skin.

He took a deep breath, adjusting his own essence, Qi, and spirit to an absolute Peak state.

With a thought, his space ring flickered slightly, and a jade bottle emitting a warm, moist luster appeared out of thin air before him.

It was that very pill—the tiger ascending blood-qi pill!

"Martial King Realm... Today, I will certainly break through!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Su Yu pulled the stopper off the jade bottle.

"Roar—!!!"

The moment the stopper was opened, a deafening tiger roar unexpectedly echoed out of thin air within the cultivation room!

An illusory, fierce tiger phantom, its entire body burning with starry sky flames, soared up from the mouth of the bottle, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws.

Su Yu snorted coldly, opened his mouth, and inhaled violently.

The struggling starry sky flame tiger phantom, along with the bright red Medicinal Pill covered in golden pill patterns, transformed into a fiery red stream of light and was swallowed directly into his belly!

Boom!!!

The moment it entered his mouth, Su Yu felt a majestic, scorching, and extremely violent energy explode within his limbs and bones like a surging tide!

"Urgh ah—!"

What terrifying power that was! Even though Su Yu possessed the Chaos Body, at this moment, he couldn't help but let out a repressed, painful low roar.

That energy seemed to turn into thousands of venomous snakes burning with raging flames, frantically rampaging through his Meridians. Wherever it passed, his Meridians felt as if they were being forcibly widened and scorched by molten lava.

His bones emitted an ear-aching "crack, crack" sound, as if they would be burst apart by this violent medicinal power at any moment.

The pain was like dense steel needles, frantically stimulating every one of his nerves.

But Su Yu gritted his teeth tightly, his eyes bloodshot. Large beads of sweat that had just seeped out on his forehead were instantly evaporated into white mist by the high temperature on his body surface.

"Suppress... for me!"

Su Yu frantically operated the Eight Desolations and Six Harmonies Art. The Chaos Vortex within his body was like a greedy black hole, beginning to forcibly swallow and tear apart this violent medicinal power.

The medicinal power of the tiger ascending blood-qi pill continued to disperse, forming a white-hot, terrifying vortex within his Dantian.

This vortex continuously converted the medicinal power into the purest blood-qi, frantically slamming against that invisible Realm barrier.

Crack... crack, crack...

Su Yu could clearly feel that his Peak Great Grandmaster Bottleneck, which was already solid to the extreme, began to emit cracking sounds under the impact of this overwhelming, mountain-toppling force.

It was like a ten-thousand-foot dam blocking a river, finally showing cracks.

As time passed, a layer of blood-colored light cocoon, thick and substantial, gradually emerged on the surface of Su Yu's body.

His Aura climbed steadily, becoming stronger and stronger.

A sense of oppression that surpassed that of a Great Grandmaster began to permeate the cultivation room.

He did not know how long had passed, but when the last trace of medicinal power within his body was completely refined and absorbed...

"Break!!!"

Su Yu opened his eyes violently and let out a long howl that pierced gold and cracked stone towards the sky!

Rumble—!!!

After a long while, the air waves subsided.

Su Yu slowly stood up.

He did not rely on any external force, nor did he operate the Yuan Escape movement technique; he simply lifted his foot with extreme naturalness and stepped forward into the Void Realm.

Hum—

The air beneath his feet seemed to turn into a substantial staircase. Su Yu's body floated steadily in mid-air, as if walking on flat ground.

Flying through the air, walking upon the Void Realm!

This was the sign of breaking free from the shackles of gravity and completing a transformation of one's life level!

Achievement—Martial King Realm!

...

At the very moment Su Yu broke through.

On the balcony of the second floor of the villa.

Su Wu, who had been resting with his eyes closed and silently observing the movements in the basement, finally bloomed a knowing smile at the corners of his mouth.

Meanwhile, deep within Su Wu's mind, that celestial, mechanical System voice sounded once again!

[Ding! Detected that descendant Su Yu has undergone countless trials, broken through human shackles, and forged a flawless Martial Foundation, successfully advancing to the Early Stage of the Martial King Realm!]

[Host Realm synchronous critical feedback in progress...]

[Congratulations Host! Successfully shattered the Star Lord barrier, advancing—Star King Realm First Stage!]

[Special reward triggered: Because descendant Su Yu forged a "Perfect Foundation," rewarding the Host with successful mastery of: First-Order Space Attribute, First-Order Fire Attribute, First-Order Thunder Attribute, First-Order Water Attribute!]

Hum—!!!

At this very instant, the world around Su Wu... stalled.

This was not an illusion, but rather time and space coming to a standstill under the interference of some extremely high-dimensional power. Falling leaves hung suspended in mid-air, and the distant birdsong stopped abruptly.

Su Wu only felt a majestic power that could not be described in words, like the weight of the entire Universe pouring down, instantly flooding into his limbs and bones.

If the Star Lord Realm was condensing Star Vortexes within the body to control one's own miniature starry sky, then the Star King Realm was letting this miniature starry sky completely resonate with the great Universe!

This was a leap in the dimension of life!

Su Wu's Soul seemed to be infinitely elevated, and he "saw" the essence of this world.

Countless profound, obscure, deep, and vast insights poured into his mind out of thin air like a torrent of information.

After a Martial Artist reaches the Star King Realm, the focus of cultivation is no longer simply the accumulation of blood-qi and Origin Qi, but rather beginning to comprehend the various "Attributes" of the Origin within the Universe.

These Attributes are divided into First to Ninth Order from shallow to deep. They are not superficial energy like Origin Qi, but the "code" that constructs the lowest layer of this Universe, and the cornerstone for entering higher Realms and cultivating supreme "Laws" in the future.

When a Martial Artist successfully comprehends an Attribute, the power of the Origin Qi used in their every gesture will experience a terrifying, exponential increase!

And the System, extremely barbarically, forcibly engraved the First-Order Profound Truth of the four Attributes deep into Su Wu's Soul!

"Boom!"

In Su Wu's Sea of Consciousness, the first thing to explode was a boundless Void Realm.

First-Order Space Attribute! He clearly perceived the folding, faulting, and veins of the surrounding space. He had a strong intuition that now, with just a single thought, he could easily tear through the space barrier before him and perform short-distance instantaneous movement.

Just like Lin Feng back in the day, regarding spatial distance as nothing!

Immediately following was flames burning the heavens! First-Order Fire Attribute! This was not ordinary mortal fire, but the fire of the Universe capable of burning stars and igniting the Void Realm.

Subsequently, it was the roaring of world-destroying thunder! First-Order Thunder Attribute! Representing heavenly punishment and destruction, every arc of electricity contained the violent true meaning of destroying life.

Finally, it was the First-Order Water Attribute! Extremely soft yet extremely hard, encompassing all things yet capable of dripping through stone and collapsing the Void Realm.

Space, Fire, Thunder, and Water! The four First-Order Attributes intertwined and fused within Su Wu's body.

Phew—

Su Wu slowly opened his eyes.

"The harvest this time is no ordinary one."

Su Wu clenched his fist. He did not release any earth-shattering Aura; all his power was perfectly contained within his body.

"No wonder everyone below the Star King is an ant. Mastering the power of Attributes, dealing with a Star Lord is indeed like a dimensionality-reduction strike."