103: Boil ice to get water, speed up

“Finally, I've broken through to the Fifth Stage!”

Not long after Wu Xin started pursuing him, Long Aotian’s Tai Xu Divine Steps finally broke through to the Fifth Stage:

One Step, Ten Thousand Miles!

This speed had already reached the Peak speed of an Ascension expert among Tribulation Transcendence Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage powerhouses, and was even slightly faster than an Ascension expert’s Peak speed.

“One Step, Ten Thousand Miles. I have basically achieved invincibility in speed in the Lower Realm, but this is still far from enough! To cross the endless Void Realm and Ascend to the Immortal Realm, I must Cultivate the Tai Xu Divine Steps to its ultimate Realm.”

In the eyes of others, Long Aotian’s speed of One Step, Ten Thousand Miles was absolutely Heaven-Defying, already enough to look down upon the entire Sky Ruins Continent, and he wouldn't need to work so hard to improve. However, in Long Aotian’s eyes, his speed was still too weak. Above the Tai Xu Divine Steps, there were still One Step, One Hundred Thousand Miles; One Step, One Million Miles; One Step, Ten Million Miles; and One Step, One Hundred Million Miles.

Compared to the Ninth Stage of Tai Xu Divine Steps, One Step, One Hundred Million Miles, One Step, Ten Thousand Miles was simply not worth mentioning.

Perhaps, if his Tai Xu Divine Steps truly broke through to the Ninth Stage of One Step, One Hundred Million Miles, he might not need an Immortal-grade Magic Treasure for defense. With just his invincible speed, he could traverse the Yunmeng Marsh within a few steps.

What dangers existed in Yunmeng Marsh? In front of his speed of One Step, One Hundred Million Miles, even if there were world-destroying lightning, it would be far behind his speed… Long Aotian didn’t take Wu Xin’s pursuit seriously. Instead, he treated Wu Xin as a whetstone, constantly practicing his Tai Xu Divine Steps.

One side was pursuing!

The other side was Cultivating!

The two, one in front and one behind, had different mindsets.

After Long Aotian’s Tai Xu Divine Steps successfully advanced to the Fifth Stage, Wu Xin’s pursuit of Long Aotian clearly became more strenuous. However, she still didn’t give up. Even if the distance between them was constantly widening, she didn’t believe she would run out of spiritual power before a child.

However, she was about to despair.

Breaking through the Fifth Stage of Tai Xu Divine Steps and charging towards the Sixth Stage of Tai Xu Divine Steps, a great leap from One Step, Ten Thousand Miles to One Step, One Hundred Thousand Miles, meant that every time Long Aotian’s speed increased by a small increment, it was an acceleration of One Step, Ten Thousand Miles.

Just as Wu Xin felt that her spiritual power was almost depleted and she had to stop to recover before continuing the chase, not long after she stopped, her Divine Sense, which was still released and focused on Long Aotian, was suddenly stunned by the scene she observed.

One Step, Twenty Thousand Miles?!

His speed actually increased from One Step, Ten Thousand Miles to One Step, Twenty Thousand Miles in an instant!

Shock!

Incredible!

How could a Lower Realm Cultivator display such speed?

Simply unbelievable!

But then Wu Xin felt a bit annoyed. This damned child, could he have been deliberately slowing down just now, intentionally making her chase him like a dog?

It must be like that!

Otherwise, how could his speed increase so much all at once?

Amidst her annoyance, Wu Xin couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation on her scalp. What kind of terrifying existence had she provoked?

If she remembered correctly, Long Aotian was only twelve years old now, right?

The more Wu Xin thought about it, the more alarmed she felt!

At this moment, she seemed to understand again why Feng Keqiang insisted on marrying his daughter to this boy, even going so far as to arrange this childhood engagement for his daughter.

With such a powerful son-in-law, Feng Keqiang probably only regretted not having more daughters.

“Even if the Saintess is the first-generation Nine Heavens Immortal Palace Master who Reincarnated from the Immortal Realm, her Martial Arts Talent might not be as Heaven-Defying as this boy’s…”

At this moment, Wu Xin gave up the idea of continuing to pursue Long Aotian, and at the same time, her resolve to oppose the Saintess’s childhood engagement wavered.

If the Saintess and this boy became Dao Companions, wouldn’t it mean that their Nine Heavens Immortal Palace would gain another monstrous talent?

“It’s all Feng Keqiang’s fault, that bastard, for not telling me that this boy is so Heaven-Defying in speed!

Presumably, he sent me to kill this boy because he wanted to see me make a fool of myself, right? It’s also my fault for only considering the Saintess, not wanting a man to affect her Cultivation speed…”

After realizing Long Aotian’s Heaven-Defying nature, Wu Xin’s heart began to undergo subtle changes. Not only did her opposition to the Saintess’s childhood engagement become less intense, but she also vaguely wanted to use this childhood engagement to lure Long Aotian to the Nine Heavens Immortal Palace.

It could be said that Wu Xin was a very realistic person.

Unable to defeat the combined assault of the four Tribulation Transcendence Realm Middle Stage powerhouses from the Cloud Palace and the Imperial Family, she compromised.

Now that she realized Long Aotian was an unimaginably formidable Martial Arts Talent, she overturned some of her previous ideas… Returning to Long Aotian.

Wu Xin stopped pursuing him. Although he was still under her Divine Sense monitoring, he seemed to ignore her. At this moment, he was trying to mobilize the Void Rule hidden in his Bloodline and body to accelerate his Breakthrough in Tai Xu Divine Steps.

But what made him frown was that he couldn't mobilize it.

How could this be?

Long Aotian couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

He had refined and absorbed thousands of drops of diluted Dragon Essence Blood, so the Void Rule shouldn't be so thin and difficult to mobilize, especially since his physical strength had already reached the Six Immortal Body Realm. He should be able to touch the Rule.

“I clearly feel it’s there, yet I can’t call upon it. This feeling is truly maddening. Could it be that I have to burn my Essence Blood again to force it out?”

Long Aotian couldn't help but recall the previous situation when he activated the Void Rule within his body.

Finally!

Gritting his teeth, he decided to give it a try anyway. Wu Xin wasn't pursuing him now, and his Divine Sense, covering an area of 1.8 billion miles, hadn't detected any approaching danger.

If he succeeded, he might be able to Break through to the Sixth Stage or even the Seventh Stage of Tai Xu Divine Steps in one go.

The further one progressed in Tai Xu Divine Steps, the harder it became to advance, requiring too much time to spend on practice, and the space in the Treasure Pagoda World was too small. To advance quickly, one could only stimulate the Void Rule in the Bloodline to combine with Tai Xu Divine Steps, allowing Tai Xu Divine Steps to advance.

“The Dragon Bone Essence hasn’t produced a single drop of blood for me in so long. I wonder if using Essence Blood at such a young age will harm my Martial Arts Foundation, but even if it does, it was harmed once before, so one more time won’t matter.”

After deciding to burn his Essence Blood to stimulate the Void Rule in his Bloodline, Long Aotian no longer hesitated.

Soon!

While rapidly and frantically performing Tai Xu Divine Steps, Long Aotian began to burn a drop of Essence Blood.

“Hmm?

It really is like this!

This Void Rule in the Bloodline is like a frozen river; it’s clearly river water, but it cannot be extracted, only burned to melt it. But if the heat is not controlled properly, it is very likely to scald oneself…”

As the Void Rule was mobilized, Long Aotian could clearly feel that the Tai Xu Divine Steps, which he was performing at extreme speed, was improving, directly crossing from One Step, Twenty Thousand Miles to One Step, Thirty Thousand Miles… One Step, Forty Thousand Miles… Fifty Thousand Miles… until the drop of Essence Blood was completely burned, and the advancement speed stopped.

Long Aotian’s speed, therefore, also increased to an astonishing degree… 4