Chapter 938: Chapter 658: The Path of the Fighting Ancestor
In the Ruins Sea, a world moves swiftly like a bubble, surrounded by chaotic Qi flow.
With Lu Chenzhou’s current cultivation, martial arts training cannot be fully unleashed within the Aurora Palace.
Hence, he simply trains and spars within the world he has created.
The light of the hammer crashes down like thunder, each strike carrying the power of endless cold ice, freezing the world inch by inch.
"Take this axe of mine!" The bald giant dodged the hammer light, his whole body enveloped in treasure armor was frozen and shivering, taking advantage of the gap, he swung his axe.
This seemingly unimpressive giant axe is also a Supreme Treasure named [Sun Breaking].
It was the treasure of the True Spirit Kua Zu from the ancient times, seemingly slow and heavy yet moving like lightning.
Lu Chenzhou lifted his hammer to block, the giant hammer heavy as stars danced an impenetrable defense.
"Chaotic Ancient Eighteen Hammers!" Seemingly random swings of the hammer, yet the power stacked like ocean waves, and after eighteen hammers suddenly exploded.
Boom! Boom! Boom! The surging force roared like a flood bursting forth, sending the bald giant along with his axe flying tens of thousands of miles away.
"No more, totally not a match." The bald giant’s arms were shattered, the burning dragon blood flowed in the void, which he reabsorbed into his body.
"My Supreme Treasure is complete, while your Sun Breaking axe is incomplete, so it loses in collisions." Lu Chenzhou said.
"A good hammer indeed, though its divine nature is ordinary, it’s hard and heavy enough." The bald giant laughed.
After some sparring, Lu Chenzhou felt more confident about the upcoming great battle.
[If the Shattering Star Hammer is fully unleashed, its weight would be akin to a real star, with one strike, none but the divine would dare to withstand it.]
The Artifact Spirit in his mind spoke rather proudly.
[The master’s talent is truly rare, even though the Hammer Technique ’Chaotic’ created by the Cold Ice Ancestor was an early-stage method, it is a Third Step Eighth Rank Technique; for the master without any hammer technique foundation to cultivate to Small Success within a month, even if the Ancestor were alive, he’d be amazed as if witnessing a Heavenly Person.]
After refinement, the Artifact Spirit became more aligned, showering with rainbow praise continuously.
It had long wished for a new master, yet no one had ever passed the will test set by the Ancestor.
The Cold Ice Ancestor intended to find a successor whose will and cultivation were infinitely close to the Great Power.
The Shattering Star Hammer, generally the Eighth Realm, couldn’t be handled.
Unexpectedly, just after Lu Chenzhou broke through to the Eighth, he passed the test.
"I was forced into this," Lu Chenzhou said helplessly.
His Divine Weapon progress could never keep up with his cultivation; facing powerful enemies, he could only rely on hand-to-hand combat.
To fully unleash the power of the Shattering Star Hammer, he, a determined spear skill cultivator, had to temporarily practice hammer technique.
The ’Chaotic’ is divided into three major realms.
The first killing move [Eighteen Rings], eighteen hammer swings stack like the waters of the Yellow River, resisting directly, can hammer-kill the Second Step, severely wound the Third Step.
The second killing move [Never-Ending], one hundred and eight hammer swings stack like the waves of the East Sea, can hammer-kill any enemy below Great Power.
The third killing move is Perfection, seven hundred and twenty hammer swings stack, chaos moves heaven and earth, can hammer-kill Great Power, giving birth to Great Divine Power [Canghai Reverse Flow].
This move was used by the Cold Ice Ancestor to kill three Demigods of the Stars and severely wound the top-level Demigod [Heavenly Disaster Demon Lord].
"Just the Shattering Star Hammer is not enough." Lu Chenzhou began another seclusion.
This time, he took out the Mystic Sky Thunder Realm.
Inside the purple semi-transparent bead, corpses of Realm Kings and World Venerables of the Divine Race are being disassembled.
Essence Five Elements Power gushes into the Thunder Realm, transforming this world.
Between heaven and earth, elemental beings are continuously being born.
"The Thunder Realm is essentially a miniature world; I wonder if it can merge with the world I created?" Lu Chenzhou pondered.
"Let’s try." He covered the Thunder Realm with World Dao Essence, operated inner strength to refine this treasure.
A few days later, an unexpected reaction occurred.
In the starry sky of the Xia Realm, within the small world Dao Field created by Lu Chenzhou, a small purple dot quietly emerged.
The dot rapidly expanded into a purple sun with a diameter of a thousand miles.
Within moments, the small world underwent transformational change.
In the surrounding chaotic Qi flow, the dense purple lightning fluid wrapped a world like a sea suspended upside down.
The violent destruction aura was terrifying.
Lu Chenzhou had a feeling that even the Third Step would face disaster if caught in it.
"After the Mystic Sky Thunder Realm merged with the small world I created, it birthed a Lightning World of unmatched destruction."
Lu Chenzhou’s consciousness left the small world.
In a thought, the projection of the small world appeared around him, opening a temporary world in the Ruins Sea.
Compared to before, this temporary world was larger, expanding from a diameter of thirty thousand kilometers to fifty thousand kilometers.
Moreover, the boundary barrier became thicker; around the world, endless Thunder Power transformed into billion purple giant snakes coiled in the Ruins Sea.
"In the mutated world domain, just these Thunder Powers alone can easily kill the First Step, no matter how many come, they will perish. In this Thunder World, I am invincible; the tactic of overwhelming numbers will not work. As for the Second Step, without some special means, being bombarded by thunder and restricted everywhere, they cannot utilize more than fifty percent of their power, and I can easily annihilate them. Only the Third Step can barely have a chance to battle me." Lu Chenzhou said.
Lastly, Lu Chenzhou took out a black broken blade, emitting a bizarre and sombre aura.
"Shattering Star, Thunder Realm, Shadow God Blade... with these three grand gifts, enough for Yan Ming to drink his fill."
In fact, if Lu Chenzhou weren’t wary of Divine Artifacts, a Third Step wouldn’t need to go through such trouble.
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Battle Realm.
Dou Ancestor Cave Mansion.
A gigantic building shaped like a beast fighting arena floats in the starry sky, surrounded by meteor clusters.
A towering figure of a hundred zhang in height tore apart the True Spirit·Void Ancient Dragon projection before him, standing firmly like an iron tower.
Beidou God Monarch, the strongest in the Beidou Region, the pioneer of Mad Fighting Dao, a supreme genius stepping into the Eighth Realm at six hundred years old.
"Finally passed the third stage, now I possess near Third Step battle strength."
The rewards of Dou Ancestor’s legacy are extremely abundant and extremely dangerous.
Other legacies, failing merely means failure, even a chance to restart.
But in the Dou Ancestor Cave Mansion, the way to gain the legacy is through life-and-death battles in the beast fighting arena.
The Fighting Ancestor most enjoys battling, especially with powerful True Spirits.
Therefore, your enemies are various powerful True Spirit Projections, all of which are the elites within the same realm.
Succeeding yields great rewards, failure results in death and entering the cycle of reincarnation.
To enter the Dou Ancestor Cave, at least Eighth Realm cultivation is required.
Passing the first trial makes you an elite of the First Step.
After entering the Eighth Realm, Beidou God Monarch spent another hundred years accumulating power, barely passing.
Passing the second trial makes you an elite of the Second Step.
He waited two hundred years for this step.
His speed was actually very fast.
Throughout history, many cultivators have ventured into the Dou Ancestor Cave, but half have perished here.
In nearly ten thousand years, only a handful have succeeded in passing the second trial.
Those who have passed the third trial are just a few, all renowned figures.
Han Zhenjun, Kunxu Ancestor, Sword River Great Saint...
As for the fourth trial, no one has passed it to date, not even Kunxu Ancestor dared to try.
Theoretically, this trial requires Eighth Realm power without relying on supreme treasures, nearly demigod strength to pass.
Because the gatekeeper of the fourth trial is a Great Power Projection of the Fighting Ancestor, possessing a fraction of his power.
Passing this fourth trial is succeeding in life-and-death reincarnation.
One can obtain a Great Power opportunity of the Fighting Ancestor and the supreme treasure ranked seventh in the Spiritual Weapon List, the Demon Emperor Claw.
"Give me another three hundred years and I can pass the third trial, I’ll go out and accumulate slowly."
Before Beidou God Monarch finished speaking, a grand voice came from the Beast Fighting Arena.
[Cangtian Dragon King has passed the third trial, becoming the 14th to succeed.]
"The Dragon King has passed?"
Beidou God Monarch’s eyes narrowed.
The projection of the third trial is the master of Yuan Mountain, known for being difficult to deal with.
With a pair of stick techniques unfolded, they are much stronger than ordinary True Spirit gatekeepers who don’t know combat skills.
Dragon King, who started challenging the reincarnation just decades ago, passed the third trial.
This means he has entered the ranks of the top-level powerhouses in the Three Thousand Worlds, being an elite of the Third Step.
If word spreads, he’ll be mentioned alongside Star-devouring Sword Demon, Kunxu Ancestor, and others.
The Dragon King has cultivated for only about two hundred years to date.
Buzz—lights flickered, and Beidou God Monarch returned to the Beidou Region.
He looked around, not seeing the figure of Cangtian Dragon King.
After successfully challenging the Dou Ancestor Cave, there are two choices.
One is to leave the cave and accumulate power and cultivate outside, challenging again after a hundred years.
The other is to stay in the cave and accept the hellish training of the Fighting Ancestor which might lead to death.
In endless battles, you refine the body and skills, with only brief moments of rest each day.
This demands incredibly high requirements for the mind and will, ordinary Eighth Realm cannot persist for a year without mentally and physically collapsing.
But if one can endure, progress will naturally not be slow.
"Dragon King, still want to challenge? Is he insane, doesn’t he want to live?"
Beidou God Monarch’s eyes were shocked, unable to comprehend.
"Martial Arts is boundless..."
He murmured as he left.
...
Dou God Hall, the number one organization in the Beidou Region.
"God Monarch! You have emerged!"
"Congratulations on passing the second trial, God Monarch."
"Henceforth, Beidou Region’s position in the Beiluo Region will be even higher."
"Even the Ice Heart Divine Clan is not to be feared."
A group of Seventh Realm powerhouses gathered around.
Beidou God Monarch nodded, saying, "I have successfully passed the second trial, what is the current situation in the outside world? How is the battle between the Divine Alliance and Mystic Sky Alliance?"
After long years of cultivation, he knew very little about the current situation outside.
Some time later, the expression of Beidou God Monarch became enriched.
"Lu Alliance Hierarch broke through Eighth in a century? Three great Realm Venerables combined are no match?"
He thought of Cangtian Dragon King, and couldn’t help but feel emotional, "What kind of monsters are these Martial Artists of Tianxia?"
After calming his thoughts, Beidou God Monarch said, "Deliver my command, march upon the Divine Alliance!"
"God Monarch, you are personally taking the field?"
"That’s too crazy."
"Yes, it is said that Yan Ming Realm Venerable has stepped into the Third Step, paired with a Divine Artifact, perhaps even Kunxu Ancestor is no match."
Everyone advised against it.
Beidou God Monarch exuded a powerful aura, laughing greatly, "In this era, how can you live without madness?
If we can’t even defeat the Divine Alliance and have to be afraid, then there’s no need to start a war with the Forbidden Zone Evil God.
Give it all you’ve got, regardless of success or failure!
That’s what a true Fierce Fighter is!"