96: Chapter 96 Successfully Obtained a Fifth-Order Ancient Martial Art

"It's too simple."

Su Wu's lips curled slightly, forming a confident smile.

He did not pause any longer.

He stepped forward steadily, too lazy to even adopt a defensive posture, and with extreme composure, he directly took a step onto that final, highest third step!

Rumble!

The moment Su Wu's feet landed on the third step.

The entire space of Chaos and Void Realm emitted a deafening roar!

A crushing pressure, ten times more terrifying than the previous two steps combined and containing an aura of extreme destruction and violent slaughter, like a Heavenly Tribulation descending from the Nine Heavens, smashed down fiercely onto Su Wu's head!

But Su Wu didn't even blink.

Without hesitation, he directly invoked the most domineering lightning attribute within his body!

Crackle!

Countless violent purple-black electric arcs instantly exploded across Su Wu's body surface!

The violent pressure was instantly dissolved into nothingness amidst the purple-black electric arcs.

The next moment, Su Wu steadily ascended that bronze high platform.

On top of the high platform.

Su Wu stood before the white jade offering table, only half an arm's length away from the bead emitting brilliant golden light.

Observing it up close, the bead, the size of an infant's fist, appeared even more mysterious and alluring.

It was not a solid piece of jade or metal.

Its outer shell was a layer of extremely condensed, semi-transparent golden barrier, and inside that barrier, a mass of extremely viscous mysterious substance, resembling liquid gold, was constantly flowing and surging in a profound trajectory.

Every time it flowed, it would emit a terrifying power that made even the Divine Thought of a Star Emperor feel a stinging pain!

"Is this... the fifth-order ancient martial art?"

Although Su Wu was knowledgeable, apart from seeing a Sixth-Order Ancient Martial Weapon once at the ancestral grounds over twenty years ago, let alone a fifth-order one, he hadn't even seen a third-order ancient martial art before.

He didn't know the specific function of this bead. Was it defensive? Was it offensive? Or was it some kind of auxiliary wonder?

But relying on his Star Emperor Level Divine Thought perception, he could be one hundred percent certain that this bead was that special fifth-order ancient martial art!

Su Wu extended his right hand, and without any hesitation, grabbed the gold-glowing bead and held it tightly in his palm!

The moment he touched the bead.

An extremely vast, immense, yet surprisingly warm power, as if it had found an outlet, instantly surged out from inside the bead, flowing through the pores of Su Wu's palm and madly pouring into his body!

This power was extremely pure, flowing all the way along Su Wu's Meridians.

Su Wu discovered with shock that this power was actually... nourishing his Physical Body!

It was like the top-tier star-sky life nutrient solution; wherever it passed, those cells inside Su Wu's body, which were already monstrously strong, began to greedily devour this power like parched land meeting sweet rain.

He felt his bones becoming denser and his muscle fibers becoming tougher.

Even the cultivation barrier that he had just broken through to the ninth-order Star King showed signs of loosening under the nourishment of this power!

"What kind of treasure is this? Just holding it can passively temper the Physical Body and improve cultivation?!"

A stormy sea rose in Su Wu's heart. A weapon actually possessed such a Heaven-Defying auxiliary effect; if it were completely refined, or if its true offensive form were activated, how terrifying would its power be?

But Su Wu didn't have time to study it slowly here.

He flipped his wrist and decisively threw this hot potato into his space ring.

He had obtained the item; the mission was complete.

Su Wu raised his head, his gaze passing over the white jade offering table, and continued to look toward the front of the high platform.

He saw that at the end of that Chaos and Void Realm.

In the Void Realm where there was originally no path, as Su Wu took the golden bead, a long, narrow passage paved with starlight slowly extended out.

That passage did not know where it led.

"There's still a path ahead?"

Su Wu's brows locked tightly, a trace of hesitation flashing in his eyes.

The first trial tested the Physical Body and rewarded a fourth-order Soul flying knife; the second trial tested attributes and contained a fifth-order ancient martial art.

Then, what would the third trial after this starlight passage be...? What other shocking legacy of a Domain Lord was hidden there?

Su Wu touched the space ring on his finger.

"Wealth is sought in danger."

He hesitated no longer, took large strides, and followed that starlight passage, moving forward resolutely.

His figure was gradually swallowed by the depth ahead.

...

At the very moment Su Wu resolutely stepped into the starlight passage.

Inside a deep, different dimension within Starfall Palace that was extremely hidden and absolutely impossible for even a Star Emperor's Divine Thought to detect.

This was a place of absolute darkness.

But in the center of the darkness, there floated a mass of eerily dark red, constantly wriggling, like a lump of rotting flesh—a fragmented Soul!

Directly in front of the Soul, a clear image was projected into the Void Realm.

What the image displayed was the entire process of Su Wu just now on the bronze high platform, using the three attributes of fire, water, and lightning to easily crush the pressure and take away the golden bead!

The moment it saw Su Wu's figure disappear into the starlight passage.

That dark red fragmented Soul suddenly began to boil violently!

A hoarse voice echoed in this darkness!

"Good! Good! Very good!!!"

"This seat has waited bitterly in this damn place, devoid of light, for a full thirty million years!"

"I set up this damn trial and opened the Secret Realm a dozen times, but all who came were a bunch of trash with weak Physical Bodies and single attributes!"

"It was not in vain that this seat waited so long! Finally... finally, this seat has waited for a perfect prey!"

"Such a monstrously strong Physical Body! He must possess some kind of special Physique!"

"What's even more incredible is... a mere ant in the Star King Realm has actually simultaneously comprehended and mastered the three third-order Origin attributes of fire, water, and lightning!!!"

"A perfect Physical Body vessel! An excellent carrier!"

"This is simply a top-grade container tailored by the heavens for this seat's Rebirth!"

In the darkness, it let out a hair-raising, cackling laugh:

"Hahaha! Come... keep walking forward! My cute, stupid trial-taker..."

"Bring your perfect, vibrant Physical Body and come to the deepest part of this palace!"

"This seat finally has a chance to break free from this damn cage! Not only will I see the light of day again, but even... I will be able to reach that Domain Lord Realm once more!!!"