Sword Sovereign of the Celestial Emperor-Chapter 69, Transcendence Realm Sixth Layer (Seeking Recommendations, Seeking Collections)

Chapter 69: Chapter 69, Transcendence Realm Sixth Layer (Seeking Recommendations, Seeking Collections)

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

Inside Chu Ming’s room, one after another, spiritual power overflowed, spreading out from Chu Ming’s body to all directions, sweeping all the surrounding dust into the air.

Crack!

The medium-grade spirit stone in his hand shattered again. This was the sixth piece already, and Chu Ming had been cultivating for a month. He had used six medium-grade spirit stones, but this time Chu Ming did not stop to replace the spirit stone. Instead, he continued his training.

Hiss!

The spiritual power inside Chu Ming seemed to have found an outlet and began to surge crazily. A storm of spiritual power swept over his body, forming whirlpools around him, absorbing all the surrounding spiritual power.

Transcendence Realm Sixth Layer, achieved!

Calming the spiritual power within his body, Chu Ming slowly opened his eyes. Immediately, two beams of light shot out from his eyes like lightning, darting wildly in the void, quite terrifying.

Sigh

Chu Ming exhaled a breath of turbid air, feeling the spiritual power inside his body, which had increased by thirty percent. However, the Fire Burning True Skill still had not broken through to the Fifth Layer, as if he was stuck in a dead end, just as recorded in the secret manuals.

"Now my strength should be in the top three of the Cyan Yang List," Chu Ming pondered. This was his estimation. To confirm, he could only pass through the Cyan Yang Tower. His spiritual power’s strength should surpass his physical strength. freёnovelkiss.com

Opening the door, Chu Ming was about to integrate the concept into his techniques when a white slip of paper on the wooden door caught his attention.

Usually, when the Inner Sect Steward had an urgent task for a disciple but the disciple was in secluded cultivation and could not be disturbed, the steward would post a white slip on the wooden door to notify them.

After glancing at the content of the white slip, Chu Ming tidied up and headed towards Cyan Yang Peak. The white slip didn’t detail much, only saying the Sect Leader had important tasks for him, dated ten days before.

Ignoring the scenery, Chu Ming quickly reached Cyan Yang Peak. The huge shadow on the peak had already disappeared. Evidently, the people of the Celestial Star Sect had left, along with their mount, the Black-Feathered Dark Phoenix.

After asking a disciple in front of the hall to report, Chu Ming waited quietly outside the hall. After a stick’s worth of incense time, the reporting disciple came out.

"The Sect Leader asks you to come in!"

Chu Ming nodded, entered the hall; it was his second time entering. The first was a month ago when the disciples of the Celestial Star Sect arrived.

"Greetings, Sect Leader!"

Seeing Guan Chengzhi sitting at the head, Chu Ming saluted respectfully.

"Hmm!"

Guan Chengzhi nodded, took out a piece of parchment from his chest, and flicked it towards Chu Ming. Catching the parchment, Chu Ming gently opened it, seeing over two hundred tiny words written on it.

"The reason for calling you is all detailed there. Due to your cultivation, the other nine teams have already set off ten days ago. This is a list of Inner Sect Disciples. Choose four as your team members!"

Guan Chengzhi took out another white list, shooting it to Chu Ming. Receiving the list, Chu Ming quickly understood the situation: summoning sect disciples to help fend off the beast tide and train their real combat abilities.

But one condition on the parchment made Chu Ming’s eyes light up. Each demon beast killed in the beast tide by the sect disciples, its right ear could be exchanged for corresponding contribution points. If they found a demon core, the sect would also exchange it for contribution points.

Demon cores, only Fourth Level or above demon beasts could possibly form them inside their bodies, which was purely a matter of chance. However, the probability was very small. Regardless, even exchanging just demon beast right ears for contribution points was an excellent opportunity for Chu Ming to earn them.

Unfolding the white list, he saw names of Cyan Yang Sect Inner Sect Disciples, some in grey, indicating they’d been chosen by others. This wasn’t an advantage of first-come-first-serve; for the top ten disciples on the Cyan Yang List, other disciples were almost negligible.

Seeing a few familiar names, Chu Ming made his selection and handed the white list and parchment back to Guan Chengzhi. Glancing at it, Guan Chengzhi nodded and instructed the guard disciples outside.

"Summon these disciples for me!"

"Yes!"

The guard disciple left and returned after half a stick of incense time, with four Inner Sect Disciples of Cyan Yang Sect following him, all familiar faces to Chu Ming—Hong Yun, Hong Yue, Li An, and Sun Ping.

Perhaps stimulated by Chu Ming, Li An now had reached Transcendence Realm Fourth Layer, filled with evil qi, evidently having experienced much slaughter.

Hong Yue had broken through to Transcendence Realm Seventh Layer, her powerful qi nearly bursting from her body. Hong Yun and Sun Ping were also at Transcendence Realm Fourth Layer; Li An, once behind them, now matched their cultivation.

No need for Guan Chengzhi to explain; everyone understood the situation. In fact, ten days ago, top ten disciples of Cyan Yang List had been picking disciples to resist the beast tide. The rest looked on with envy.

After all, contribution points were hard to earn usually. Defending against the beast tide was dangerous but much faster to earn. Plus, with a top ten disciple leading, the risk was much reduced.

"Alright, prepare today and set off tomorrow!"

Explaining the precautions, Guan Chengzhi waved them off.

"Understood, Sect Leader!"

Chu Ming and the others saluted and left the hall, feeling relieved.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Chu, for this opportunity!"

Hong Yue said softly, somewhat restrained, the others feeling the same.

"No problem, gather at the sect gate tomorrow!"

Chu Ming said indifferently, having expected this result. As the power gap grew, so did the change in people’s hearts.

Perhaps, in a hundred years, his parents would turn to dust. The martial path was indeed lonely, desolate, and cold at the top.

But Chu Ming’s heart remained unchanged, his goal to climb to the peak of martial arts over the road of bones.

Parting with the others in front of the hall, Chu Ming returned to his small courtyard. The only things to pack were some clothes and healing elixirs. Putting these into his storage ring, he calmed down to contemplate integrating his techniques.

Unfortunately, the night passed without any breakthrough. Many martial artists knew about integrating concepts into sword techniques, but few succeeded, highlighting the difficulty. Even with Chu Ming’s strong soul power, understanding it in a night was unrealistic.