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Chapter 521 - 0339 Path to Ascension (4k for monthly ticket and subscription)

Chapter 521: 0339 Path to Ascension (4k for monthly ticket and subscription)

Not long after.

Scores of shadows descended upon the Star-Picking Tower.

Their skin colors and races varied, coming from all countries.

A two-meter-tall white fighter’s heart brimmed with joy, it was Ricken!

"Hahaha, it has finally opened, my opportunity has come!"

During this time, Ricken’s mood could be described as extremely complex.

His father took great pains to send him to the side of the Elephant King to learn the Holy Image Path.

During his hard cultivation, he believed he achieved the same epiphany as Lu Chenzhou, at least that’s what he thought.

Then, he cultivated night and day for seven years.

He initially believed that when he came out, he would be able to be on par with Lu Chenzhou.

But then... when the internet reached his village, he was dumbfounded.

The internet was flooded with news about Lu Chenzhou.

[Lu Chenzhou! Dragon City Chief!]

[Lu Chenzhou, Reverse Attack Break Two!]

[Lu Chenzhou, causing Zhang Ancestor to manifest!]

[Lu Chenzhou, champion of the first Battle Realm Spear Skill Exchange Competition! Defeated numerous spear skill geniuses in one strike!]

This newly crowned "Absolute Peak" made Ricken’s Dao heart nearly collapse.

It turned out that the Holy Image posture he dreamed of was just the starting point for others.

Fortunately, he obtained the Sky Battle Token.

So, he came!

Beside him, the Elephant King sighed:

"What an unbelievable spectacle... this giant tower seems to be built from an entire tree."

"The height of this tower is immeasurable, could this tree be the World Tree from Norse mythology?"

"You know what, it just might be!"

"Teacher, I have a premonition that my opportunity is here!"

Looking at the enthusiastic yet naïve apprentice, the Elephant King felt gratified. With Lu Chenzhou as his goal, this kid’s future in the Holy Image is promising!

As time passed, the first batch of people to ascend Star-Picking Tower numbered only a few hundred.

Most people were cautious, preferring to wait and see.

Among these early arrivals, there were only a few grandmaster experts.

Their faces were elderly, looking like their time was running out. They must have come here to seek life-extending treasures.

As the first person stepped in, the crowd rushed to enter the tower.

The ancient Battle Realm welcomed challengers once again.

...

Su City Dragon Martial.

Lu Chenzhou sat cross-legged, hands clasped in a meditative posture like an old monk.

His qi mechanism was retracted, merging with the surrounding illusion.

Anyone with low cultivation would feel that Lu Chenzhou’s figure was slowly fading as if he were disappearing.

Even using telekinesis to probe would feel like scanning through nothing, hard to perceive.

Of course, he was neither invisible nor disappearing, he was using the "Little Bodhi Technique" to conceal his qi mechanism, like a jet becoming invisible to radar.

Suddenly, Lu Chenzhou opened his eyes, green light shot out, and void currents surged chaotically.

"There is originally nothing, so where could dust alight? The Bodhi Technique is indeed the divine skill to isolate telekinesis detection."

After many years of Buddhist cultivation, this qi mechanism secret technique had finally been cultivated to perfection by him.

This was also his first perfected secret technique.

[Little Bodhi Technique: Perfection]

[Divine Seed · Dustless (Fourth Rank), hidden in...]

[Effect 1: Buddha Wisdom Forth Level, enhances some Buddhist martial arts comprehension]

[Effect 2: Dustless Body, unaffected by qi mechanism, isolates perception, ineffective when the realm gap is too large. The stronger the spiritual power, the stronger this effect.]

"Related to spiritual power? With my 140 Prajna spiritual power, it should be enough to isolate the qi mechanism perception of most Da Xia martial artists below grandmasters."

As for Pu Suo Third Realm cultivators, they are professionals, so not comparable for now.

As long as he doesn’t go to Pu Suo, his spiritual power within the same realm would be invincible!

With another enhancement of his Buddhist foundation, his path as a great monk seemed irreversible.

Whatever, as long as he strengthens his power, it doesn’t matter.

Suddenly, a token flew out from his waist, it was the Sky Battle Token.

The token’s light curtain swirled, reflecting the image of Star-Picking Tower.

"Someone has already started challenging the tower."

The Sword Spirit’s voice came:

[Battle Realm reflects the heavens, all who hold the Sky Battle Token across the Three Thousand Worlds can see your heroic figure. If you were cultivating Sword Dao, the image of a white-clad Sword Immortal would be so cool!]

"Spear skills are cool too."

[Sword Immortal is the true romance for men!]

Lu Chenzhou watched others’ projections of climbing the tower for a while, then continued his cultivation.

He was not in a hurry, he had an important cultivation technique on the verge of breakthrough.

Once mastered, his tower climb would be astonishing.

...

In the west, in the Forbidden Zone of the Million Mountains.

New peaks rose abruptly, exuding a primordial and ancient aura.

Mount Everest was no longer the highest peak in the human world.

In the sky, missiles would occasionally break through and bombard this area.

An invisible red curtain separated the Void Realm from the human world, with faint dragon roars echoing within the curtain.

On the other side of the curtain, thirty-six shadows of various forms stood silently, staring at the human world like demon gods.

They were all Seventh Realm demon ghosts, the strongest forces sent by the major forbidden zones.

The leader was a giant man with black scales, a thousand meters tall, with wings on his back, demonic horns like those of a goat on his forehead, and a tail like a mountain ridge trailing on the ground.

He carried a Black Flame Giant Sword radiating destruction, his demonic body was afflicted with four types of injuries that constantly flared up, like maggots gnawing at bones.

Blade marks, fist imprints, cross-shaped cracks, and lightning scars.

He was the avatar of the Evil God Fire Saint King, known as the [Black Mountain Demon Venerable].

His frenzied eyes gazed at the human world.

So close, yet so far...

Under the organization of the witches, the forty revived forbidden zones collectively dispatched 36 demon venerables, aiming to break the curtain and forcefully invade the world.

Unfortunately, after half a month of attempts, the curtain remained unmoved.