262: Exchange for Ghost Pearls

Three seconds later.

Lin Chen's figure reappeared in the exchange hall.

As soon as he appeared, he heard several agonizing wails.

He saw five extremely faint true spirit bodies in the mysterious spring water.

These true spirit bodies were screaming continuously, as if still immersed in the great terror of the previous Other World.

Beside the spring was a figure in purple-gold battle armor; this person was none other than Ye Shaoyang.

Ye Shaoyang was incredibly powerful, at least at the Seven-Step Emperor Realm level.

However, even he was severely wounded in this trial, with half his body missing and his aura extremely weak.

Originally, there were 33 trial participants; now, including him and Savage Iron, only 8 remained.

Savage Iron had been hiding in his clone's Inner World the entire time, thus escaping harm and remaining unscathed.

The clone's side was lucky; it did not encounter any Great Emperor Realm level mystics... Lin Chen guessed that these surviving trial participants were all quite fortunate.

Moreover, their life-saving abilities must be very strong; to last 10 minutes without dying, each of them must be abnormal... Especially Ye Shaoyang, Lin Chen suspected he possessed a very powerful treasure.

Something similar to his time wheel!

Ye Shaoyang also noticed Lin Chen. Upon seeing Lin Chen in such good condition, his eyes narrowed into slits, and a hint of greed flashed in their depths.

"You won't have a chance to run in the third layer of the trial."

Ye Shaoyang said with an evil grin.

A killing intent flashed in Lin Chen's eyes as he coldly glanced at Ye Shaoyang.

He then found a corner, sat down cross-legged, and began browsing the exchange list.

The third layer?

It seems Ye Shaoyang knows a lot about the Black Tower trial.

It's very likely that his Space-Time Evasion will be ineffective in the third layer of the trial.

However, he no longer cared. Now that he possessed so many Energy Points, he intended to make significant improvements!

Then he would crush Ye Shaoyang head-on!

Lin Chen browsed for half an hour and discovered that the exchange list for the second layer actually offered gui pearls!

gui pearls were categorized according to the Mystic's power level.

A Quasi-Emperor level gui pearl required 1 million points.

A First-Step Emperor Realm level required 10 million points.

A Second-Step Emperor Realm level required 50 million points... A Half-Step Great Emperor level required 100 billion points.

This time, all who passed the second layer trial were rewarded with 10 billion points.

Enough to exchange for many gui pearls!

According to Lin Chen's understanding, condensing a First-Rank Gui Markings required 50 Quasi-Emperor level gui pearls.

A Second-Rank Gui Markings required 50 gui pearls each of the First-Step to Third-Step Emperor Realm levels.

A Third-Rank Gui Markings required 50 gui pearls each of the Fourth-Step to Sixth-Step Emperor Realm levels.

A Fourth-Rank Gui Markings required 50 gui pearls each of the Seven-Step to Eight-Step Emperor Realm levels.

A Fifth-Rank Gui Markings required 50 Half-Step Great Emperor level gui pearls.

10 billion points were enough to condense a Second-Rank Gui Markings!

A Second-Rank Gui Markings augmenting the Physical Strength was equivalent to an Imperial Rank Four Forged Golden Body!

A Fifth-Rank Gui Markings was comparable to a Great Emperor Realm Physical Strength!

Lin Chen was deeply moved; this was equivalent to a shortcut for body cultivators!

With enough gui pearls, one could quickly gain powerful combat strength.

However, Lin Chen was not foolish enough to condense Gui Markingss.

He didn't know why the Black Tower had gui pearl exchange options.

It was known that creatures who condensed Gui Markingss never had a good end; they all eventually became Mystics who lost their self-awareness... Taking shortcuts came at a price!

While Lin Chen wasn't interested in condensing Gui Markingss, he was very interested in the Energy Points from gui pearls!

When he was in the second layer world, he had tested the Energy Points contained in different gui pearls.

gui pearls contained half the Energy Points of creation crystals.

A First-Step Emperor Realm level gui pearl had about 30,000 Energy Points.

Higher levels had 40,000, 50,000, 100,000, 150,000, 200,000 Energy Points... Although higher-grade gui pearls contained more energy, the points required for exchange were too expensive.

After some calculations, Lin Chen decided to exchange for First-Step Emperor Realm level gui pearls!

This retreat might take a long time.

So Lin Chen reserved 2 billion points to exchange for the Origin Chamber.

He exchanged all 7 billion points for gui pearls, which allowed him to get 700 of them!

Each gui pearl had about 30,000 Energy Points, totaling over 20 million Energy Points!

With this, Lin Chen's Energy Points were approaching the 100 million mark.

Exchange!

Lin Chen directly exchanged for two hours in the Origin Chamber.

That was 1 billion points.

After the gui pearls were also exchanged, Lin Chen directly teleported into the Origin Chamber.

The time wheel had already been used once, so he had to wait 10 days before it could be activated again.

Lin Chen wasn't in a hurry; he first absorbed the 700 gui pearls.

A long time later, Lin Chen looked at the system panel.

Name: Lin Chen

Realm: Second-Step Emperor Realm + (Promoted by increasing comprehension of self-created Great Dao)

true spirit: Seven-Step Emperor Realm + (Consumed 1 million stones to promote)

Golden Body: Imperial Rank Six Forged + (Consumed 600,000 stones to promote)

Physical Strength: 20 trillion Dragon Elephants

Taiyi Great Dao: 20% +

Great Dao Deduction (Self-created): Ultimate Great Dao consumes 100,000 stones

...Energy Points: 83.8 million stones

System Upgrade: Consumes 100,000 stones

Over 80 million Energy Points, Lin Chen was incredibly excited!

"With so many Energy Points, can I push my cultivation realm to the Great Emperor Realm?"

Just thinking about it filled him with anticipation. After all, in these two rounds of trials, he had witnessed the terror of Great Emperor Realm Experts.

The Great Emperor Realm was already the pinnacle of power in the Endless Realm.

A Great Emperor could establish a vast empire and control countless Great Worlds!

Even in the Primordial World, Great Emperor Realm was truly a figure of great power.

"Let's see how far these Energy Points can push my realm!"

Then Lin Chen took out the 9 enlightenment spirit pills remaining from his previous exchange.

One enlightenment spirit pill could increase comprehension by ten thousand times, with effects lasting one year.

The thousand-core ancient lamp had also long since cooled down.

After lighting this ancient lamp, Lin Chen's comprehension soared to 30,000 times!

The time wheel still needed to wait ten days to activate. The current time acceleration was a million times.

After ten days, it would be 5 million times acceleration.

The Taiyi Great Dao's current comprehension was 20%. Due to the true spirit realm's limitation, he could at most comprehend up to 70%.

"Breakthrough!"

With a thought, Lin Chen directly consumed 2.1 million Energy Points.

Great Dao comprehension, true spirit realm, and Golden Body realm broke through simultaneously!

Boom—

Immediately, various phenomena erupted in the Origin Chamber.

Countless Great Dao profound insights appeared in the chamber, and Lin Chen absorbed and transformed them madly... With the 30,000 times comprehension boost, Lin Chen's speed of absorbing and understanding these Great Dao profound insights reached an astonishing level.

260 years later.

Lin Chen's Physical Strength emitted a dazzling golden light, which slowly dissipated after a long time.

The Golden Body's breakthrough from Six Forged to Seven Forged was a huge bottleneck, so it took the longest time.

During this period, Lin Chen's Taiyi Great Dao also reached 80% comprehension.

For this, he exchanged for 5 more enlightenment spirit pills.

And this was only the first step of Lin Chen's breakthrough.

He glanced at the system panel.

Name: Lin Chen

Realm: Eight-Step Emperor Realm + (Promoted by increasing comprehension of self-created Great Dao)

true spirit: Eight-Step Emperor Realm + (Consumed 5 million stones to promote)

Golden Body: Imperial Rank Seven Forged + (Consumed 3 million stones to promote)

Physical Strength: 100 trillion Dragon Elephants

Taiyi Great Dao: 80% +

...Energy Points: 81.6 million stones

Energy was still very abundant, so Lin Chen consumed another 8.2 million Energy Points.

A new round of breakthroughs began!