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The system notifications chimed as dense as rain, coming in one after another so fast that the previous prompt was drowned out before it could even finish.
Chen Zui barely maintained consciousness under the combined assault of excruciating pain and system prompts.
He watched the number representing his EXP in his mind jump at a speed visible to the naked eye.
One thousand, three thousand, five thousand, eight thousand, ten thousand...
With every fragment of the laws converted, a small portion was lost.
After all, these fragments of the laws ultimately belonged to this world, while Chen Zui was not from this world to begin with.
His body had a natural rejection toward the laws of this heaven and earth. That the system could convert these fragments into EXP he could absorb was already a power so defy-defying that it was beyond belief.
Yet even with the loss, the energy contained within these fragments of the laws was immensely vast.
Those were, after all, the shattered laws of heaven and earth shattered when two Earthly Sword Immortals clashed with all their might.
Every single fragment was wrapped in the origin qi of this world.
Even absorbing sixty to seventy percent was enough to cause any martial artist's cultivation to surge to an unbelievable degree.
The EXP broke past twenty thousand.
It was still rising.
Twenty-five thousand.
Still rising.
Thirty thousand.
Chen Zui felt as though his body were about to burst.
What flowed through his meridians was no longer his familiar Mountain-Viewing Realm inner energy, but a chaotic and vast power that had not yet been fully tamed.
That power thrashed wildly inside him like a trapped beast desperately trying to find an exit.
Fine beads of blood began to seep from his skin—a sign that his meridians were beginning to crack under the strain of this surging force.
He knew that if this continued, he might become the first martial artist in history to explode and die from being stuffed full with the laws of heaven and earth.
Just as this thought crossed his mind, the system prompt he had been waiting for finally rang out in the depths of his mind.
【System detected EXP storage has reached the upper limit of current realm.】
【EXP storage is full. Please allocate points quickly to break through your realm.】
【Warning: If points are not allocated for breakthrough, excess EXP will begin to decay after thirty breaths.】
Chen Zui took a deep breath. Enduring the screaming agony in every inch of his body, he spoke two words in his mind.
“Allocate points.”
The moment those words fell, an unprecedented warm current erupted from deep within his dantian.
That warm current was not the fragments of the laws surging in from the outside, but the purest cultivation power, transformed in an instant by the system from all the EXP he had accumulated.
Unlike the chaotic and wild fragments of the laws, it was gentle yet immense—like a tamed flood flowing methodically along his meridians.
Wherever the warm current passed, the meridians torn to shreds by the fragments of the laws began to heal at a terrifying speed.
The newly formed meridians were wider and tougher than before.
A faint golden luster shimmered upon the walls of his meridians.
Under the infusion of this warm current, his dantian expanded violently.
The inner force vortex inside his dantian spun faster and grew larger.
Finally, at a critical threshold, it exploded with a roar, then reassembled once more.
Chen Zui felt his entire body shudder as if something that had bound him for a long, long time were thoroughly shattered in this instant.
It was a feeling of complete ease surging from the depths of his bone marrow—a cathartic thrill after being suppressed for far too long.
【Realm Breakthrough: Mountain-Viewing Realm → Abyss-Facing Realm】
Before he even had time to process what the Abyss-Facing Realm felt like, that warm current pushed forward without stopping.
The realm barrier he had just broken through was as fragile as thin paper before this irresistible power, shattered in a single charge.
Abyss-Facing Realm early stage, mid stage, peak...
His aura skyrocketed at a terrifying speed.
The qi of heaven and earth within a hundred feet began to resonate with him.
The rubble on the reef beach trembled softly under the draw of his aura, and ripples on the sea surface spread outward in all directions with him at the center.
That purple-gold light reappeared upon him.
Brighter and grander than before, illuminating him like a deity descending from the heavens.
The people atop the wall were completely dumbfounded.
“B-Broke... broke through?”
Qin Tiegu's wrought bronze staff actually slipped from his hand this time.
Clang! It slammed into the blue bricks of the battlements.
His mouth hung wide open, his eyes nearly bulging from their sockets, his voice trembling beyond recognition.
“He was just in the Mountain-Viewing Realm... How is he in the Abyss-Facing Realm now?! And it's still rising! Still rising!”
A-Tong had already climbed down from his Martial Aunt's neck. Gripping the battlements with both hands, he stood on tiptoe, desperately staring toward the reef beach.
The little fellow's eyes were round as saucers, his mouth open in an "O" shape. Only after a long while did he squeeze out a sentence.
“Is Brother Chen... an immortal?”
Meanwhile.
On the ninth floor of Wangchao Pavilion.
Third Prince Zhao Li stood before the window, watching the purple-gold light on the reef beach below grow ever more brilliant.
He watched that young spearman—whose name he hadn't even bothered to remember—break through realm after realm right beneath his eyes.
His face was completely devoid of expression now.
“Good. Very good.”
He spoke through gritted teeth.
“A rogue martial artist from the martial world stole my opportunity.
And broke through two realms right before my eyes.
This world... is truly interesting.”
A near-manic jealousy and violent malice churned in the depths of his eyes.
His fingers gripped the nanmu window frame with lethal force.
His fingernails tore against the wooden splinters, oozing a streak of dark crimson blood.
And on the reef beach, Chen Zui's realm breakthrough continued.
Under the impact of that immense warm current, the bottleneck of the Abyss-Facing Realm peak began to loosen violently.
The Abyss-Facing Realm—like standing at the edge of an abyss, like treading on thin ice. One had to directly confront the might of heaven and earth as well as one's own inner demons.
This was the most treacherous hurdle in martial cultivation.
Countless brilliantly talented martial artists were stuck before this threshold, unable to cross it for their entire lives.
Yet Chen Zui felt no inner demons and no bottleneck whatsoever.
The trials of the mind that this world forcibly imposed upon martial artists seemed not to exist for him at all.
His soul did not belong to this world, and his karma was not governed by the Heavenly Dao of this realm.
When others crossed the Abyss-Facing Realm, they had to face their inner demons, sever their obsessions, and walk a tightrope over a ten-thousand-foot abyss.
As for him, he merely felt that warm current inside his body surge past yet another barrier, and then... there was nothing more to it.
【Realm Breakthrough: Abyss-Facing Realm → Wind-Riding Realm】
The Wind-Riding Realm!
On the city wall, no one could speak anymore.
An incense stick ago, this young man was merely in the Mountain-Viewing Realm.
An incense stick later, he had broken through two major realms in succession, stepping directly into the Wind-Riding Realm!
Yet Chen Zui's aura did not pause for even a moment at the threshold of the Wind-Riding Realm.
Wind-Riding Realm early stage...
Wind-Riding Realm mid stage.
His realm climbed upward at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The qi of heaven and earth within a hundred feet had formed a miraculous resonance with him.
When the sea breeze blew past him, it automatically veered away.
When the ocean waves crashed against the reefs beneath his feet, they subsided on their own.
This was the sign of body uniting with heaven and earth, qi communicating with all things.
It was also the unique heaven-man resonance of a Wind-Riding Realm Grandmaster!
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