A Collective Breakthrough!
Ji Mo pursed his lips and raised his chin. "What are you saying about this thing and that thing? There’s nothing."
Luo Kedi almost burst into tears. "Great Master… You’re my actual master…"
Snorting, Ji Mo’s eyes swiveled all around.
Even if I don’t say it, he’ll know sooner or later anyway. If that’s the case, then I might as well just tell him. Then, I can even… hehehe…
And so, he adopted a mysterious and cryptic attitude and said impassively, "Do you wish to thoroughly improve our body constitution?"
Luo Kedi’s eyes opened wide. He nodded forcefully and repeatedly, as though a chick pecking at grains.
"Do you wish to be as snotty as Gu Duxing and Dong Wushang?"
He nodded forcefully and repeatedly.
"Do you still wish to cultivate like a madman and secretly cry in the corner after the brothers have a breakthrough?"
He shook his head forcefully and repeatedly.
"Now, there’s a way to achieve that…"
"What is it?"
"Do you wish to know?"
"Yes."
"Do you really wish to know?"
"Yes!"
"Are you sure you wish to know? …"
Luo Kedi turned maniacal!
He grabbed Ji Mo’s collar. "Will you say it! Or not!"
Ji Mo’s expression was completely calm and passive. "Do you wish to know?"
…
At this point, it wasn’t just Luo Kedi. Even Mo Tianji who was a man of excellent manners and breeding wanted to grab Ji Mo and give him a good thrashing! Who said that this fellow could keep people in suspense like that!
Didn’t he notice that the veins on Luo Kedi’s face were already bulging… If he continued his silence, it would really turn into a matter of life and death.
"If you keep quiet any longer… then I don’t want to live anymore! I’ll beat you to death, you…" Luo Kedi had gone totally berserk, smacking his buttocks with one hand and pulling at his hair with the other.
"Fine, I’ll just say it… It’s not like it’s that big of a deal… Look at how you’re getting your knickers in a twist…" said Ji Mo with extreme contempt.
"You bastard who eats stuff dug out from your own ass…" Screaming and shouting, it was only after Luo Kedi shouted this out loud that he realized Ji Mo had agreed to say it. Right away, he changed his tone. "Third Brother Ji, Great Master Ji… Hehe, hurhurhur…"
What Ji Mo was the most afraid of right now was precisely this matter being brought up. At once, he flew into a rage. "I’m not going to say it anymore…"
Immediately, Luo Kedi was filled with misery. Grabbing his own jaw, he gave himself a tight slap across the cheek and then wrapped his arms around Ji Mo’s upper thigh. He explained hurriedly, "Third Brother Ji, Great Master, Grandpa… I wasn’t insulting you… I really wasn’t. I just lost control of my mouth for a moment there… Really, it’s not just you who digs stuff out of their ass to eat, right? Right? … Damn it, look at this mouth of mine… What I’m saying is, this Nine Tribulations Pill in the ass… F*ck, there’s no curing this mouth of mine. What I actually mean is… sh*t, what was I saying? …"
Luo Kedi was in such a panic that he was frothing at the mouth, whereas Ji Mo got more and more infuriated. At last, he bellowed, "You bastard! Shut up!"
At the side, everyone was already in stitches, bending back and forth as they chortled.
These two jokers were seriously…
Right at this moment, that wave of prismatic energy circled around all of them, stunning everyone!
All of them could feel a rapid upsurge in the cultivation within them. Instantly, they felt like they had swelled up so much that they were about to explode.
Ji Mo turned pale. "Luo Kedi, what I wanted to say was that when you break through to sixth-grade Supreme Martial Artist and cross the boundary between immortal and mortal, it is possible to change your aptitude. But you must keep your goal clearly in mind…"
Ji Mo could feel very clearly that this absurd advancement that came from nowhere this time was likely to propel Luo Kedi and himself straight there!
And so, he hastily spilled all the details.
After all, after absorbing the dragon and phoenix spirit essence earlier, the average cultivation level of all the brothers was now fourth-grade Supreme Martial Artist!
Dong Wushang and Rui Butong, who had attained fifth-grade Supreme Martial Artist one step before the rest, were forcefully held back by the average cultivation level value. On the contrary, all the other brothers who were originally stuck at second-grade and third-grade Supreme Martial Artist collectively improved and became fourth-grade Supreme Martial Artists. It was only after that that the dragon and phoenix spirit essence was split among them…
With this, Dong Wushang and Rui Butong suffered a huge disadvantage while the others got an amazing deal out of it instead.
Luo Kedi’s face and neck were flushed red as he endured the discomfort and
Feeling the energy in his meridians boil over as if they were about to explode, he hastily sat cross-legged and catalyzed all the cultivation in his body to digest the energy at full power.
Ao Xieyun and Rui Butong, who were comatose, also regained consciousness with a jolt. The moment they came to, they sensed something amiss. Without even an inkling of what was happening, both of them let out an exclamation of astonishment before they hurriedly invoked their cultivation to guide the energy stream…
Gu Duxing, Mo Tianji, Mo Lei’er and Mo Qingwu also sat down one by one and guided the stream of energy that came absurdly from nowhere through their meridians.
Right at this moment, Chu Yang came rushing out from the depths of the cave in a panicked hurry.
The moment he returned, he was greeted by the sight of everyone sitting and cultivating. Their current situation was exactly the same as his own earlier. It looked like the benefits granted by the Nine Tribulations Sword had already been evenly distributed to them at this moment.
No one noticed the Lord Sword Master’s arrival at all!
Even Mo Tianji, the most cautious out of them all, and Mo Qingwu, the one most concerned over when Chu Yang would return, didn’t sense his arrival.
Because that stream of energy boiling over in their bodies had already taken complete dominance!
Chu Yang paid close and careful attention to the changes taking place in each and every one of them. Taking in the growth in the auras of each of them, he was rather poignant.
Even though the brothers had forcefully used the dragon and phoenix spirit essence to bring everyone’s cultivation level up to the same level, differences were showing again at this moment.
Everyone ultimately differed from person to person.
This was just like the riches in one’s possession. If the heavens were to give every person a copper coin each at the point of the world’s creation, the copper coins needed only to start making the rounds and things would undergo changes swiftly.
While a lot of people’s copper coins would be gone in the blink of an eye, the copper coins in a lot of people’s possession would also increase and accumulate.
This was something that simply couldn’t work out fairly.
Just like this moment now!
At present, the one with the most going for them in terms of their cultivation of vital energy was not Ao Xieyun or Rui Butong. Neither was it Gu Duxing nor Dong Wushang. Instead, it was Mo Qingwu!
The formidability of the young girl’s crazy body constitution was truly showing through at this moment!
Chu Yang could sense her cultivation level advancing starting from fourth-grade Supreme Martial Artist. Bit by bit, it rose steadily, slowly reaching fourth-grade mid-level Supreme Martial Artist, followed by high-level and then peak-level… It paused only for the briefest of moments at the bottleneck to fifth-grade Supreme Martial Artist. With a violent tremble, it broke through the bottleneck to reach fifth-grade elementary-level Supreme Martial Artist. And it continued pushing ahead with a crushing momentum…
Mo Qingwu’s speed actually surpassed Gu Duxing and Dong Wushang’s. In fact, it surpassed even Ao Xieyun and Rui Butong of the Dragon and Phoenix races…
Among the ten of them, Gu Duxing’s speed was second only to Mo Qingwu!
In addition, Gu Duxing’s power was advancing at an acute and unprecedented speed! Even the way he was cultivating was as though a sword piercing straight ahead with an indomitable spirit!
Not long after Mo Qingwu charged to fifth-grade Supreme Martial Artist, Gu Duxing also reached the same level.
And yet Dong Wushang’s breakthrough also differed from Gu Duxing’s. He accumulated power first before the spirit essence within his body went crashing over with an overwhelming momentum, as though a blackhole had suddenly appeared in the milky way!
It was a kind of momentum which firmly and resolutely swept away all obstacles in the way!
In fourth position were Ao Xieyun and Rui Butong. Their speed pretty much progressed at the same speed, one surging ahead like a divine dragon stretching and curling in the sky and the other like a phoenix spreading its wings and gliding at high speed…
Xie Danqiong was next, followed by Mo Tianji.
Mo Lei’er came next. The ones ranked last were Ji Mo and Luo Kedi.
Their cultivation and breakthrough progress rate was also very fast but compared to the eight other people in front of them, they were clearly a notch slower.
Taking in all these, Chu Yang suddenly thought of the twelve influential figures of the Middle Three Heavens in his past life.
Black Devil, Dark Bamboo, Lone Traveler, Poison Spirit, Heavenly Secret, Li Xiongtu, Dark Saber, One Thousand Talents, Evil Young Master, Dream Fall, Viburnum Flower, and Heaven Cannot Compare.
Right now, among the twelve, Black Devil, Lone Traveler, Heavenly Spirit, Black Saber and Evil Young Master were all in front of him. Although there were differences between their speed, overall they were pretty similar.
In the previous life, Ji Mo and Luo Kedi were not selected.
At the moment, it seemed, this ranking of the previous life did make sense. The qualifications of Ji Mo and Luo Kedi were indeed a little less than those of these twelve men.
Chu Yang frowned, thinking to himself, "This time, be sure to succeed …"
In the Nine Tribulations Space, Chu Yang had already prepared two Bloom and Fade Flower and two Heavenly Moonlight Essence.
The Bloom and Fade Flower combined with the Heavenly Moonlight Essence could allow people who are breaking through the boundary between immortal and mortal to change their physical foundations! At the very least, it could improve one’s qualifications somewhat.
He was told about this effect by the Sword Spirit. Right now, Chu Yang was secretly praying in his heart: please let this work!
Right when the other eight had all broken into mid-level sixth-grade Supremacy…
Ji Mo and Luo Kedi’s faces were sweating. Their consciousness was almost chaotic, as they advanced towards the bottleneck to sixth-grade Supremacy…
Ji Mo looked as though his blood was gonna burst through his skin, but he still persisted, almost stubbornly, with the little bit of clear-mindedness left in him, and shouted out loud, "Change in aptitude!"
On his side, Luo Kedi already couldn’t speak, but he still persisted with all full force. The impact came one time after another, the piercing pain couldn’t change his determination. "Improve… body constitution…"
Chu Yang felt a warmth in his heart.
This was the biggest thing on the minds of Ji Mo and Luo Kedi!
But one’s aptitude was determined by birth, and it was no easy thing to change it through one’s own efforts. Though they worked hard, though they eagerly wanted to change…
But such matters of changing one’s aptitude and body constitution were not achieved simply by working hard.
If they didn’t come by the chance to become one of the Nine Tribulations, Ji Mo and Luo Kedi might just…
Chu Yang felt the internal screams in Ji Mo and Luo Kedi’s minds, and sensed the two failing one time after another to breakthrough into the level of sixth-grade Supremacy. Every time they failed, it was as painful as thousands of arrows piercing through their hearts, as painful as being dismembered!
But the two persisted in going forward.
I won’t, I won’t be left behind by my brothers!
I won’t!
I won’t be a burden!
I also want my brothers to be proud of me!
Chu Yang felt a slight warmth in his eyes.
In his consciousness, with one command, the Bloom and Fade Flower and Heavenly Moonlight Essence had started integrating inside the Nine Tribulations Space. The Heavenly Moonlight Essence abruptly covered a Bloom and Fade Flower…
Immediately, the Heavenly Moonlight Essence contracted, and Bloom and the Fade Flower also slowly became smaller…
Gradually, both Heavenly Moonlight Essence and Bloom and Fade Flower disappeared.
In the Nine Tribulations Space, two clear water droplets floated in the air. They spun and reflected a thousand rays of bright light…