Chapter 22: Dual Breakthroughs

  Jiǔ Pán sat in the center of the practice room, with the sunset by his side. The entire practice room was quiet and still.

  In his sea of consciousness, the talismans fluttered and floated, emitting a soft golden light. As the talismans in his sea of consciousness absorbed more primordial energy from heaven and earth, the light grew brighter.

  The purpose of this practice is to break through the middle stage of the Bright Realm and enter the upper stage.

  Wishing you continuous manipulation of the talisman to absorb more yuanqi, making it full and overflowing, waiting for an opportunity to break into the upper realm of enlightenment.

  This time, he sat cross-legged and accumulated the primordial energy. In the quiet and soundless space of his cultivation room, three days and nights had already passed. When Zhu Jiu felt that the heavenly and earthly primordial energies in the talisman were full to bursting, he knew that the moment had arrived. Suddenly, he released his control over the talisman, allowing all the accumulated primordial energy within it to surge out wildly.

  The entire sea of consciousness suddenly became bright and magnificent, transforming into a vast ocean of light, with brilliant golden splendor illuminating every position in the sea of consciousness.

  Zhu Jiu felt a shock in his mind, and the golden light in his sea of consciousness suddenly appeared behind him, forming a dazzling aura that made Zhu Jiu's treasure body look solemn and majestic, with an air of dignity, as if a divine demon had descended into the world.

  As the light of the Shihai symbol grew brighter, Zhu Jiu felt his magical powers surging upward, increasing by more than 30% before slowing down again and gradually stabilizing.

  Slowly opening his eyes, a thread of golden light pierced through, instantly illuminating the entire cultivation room.

  The Great Bright Light Realm, Upper Grade, is indeed different from the Middle Grade before the breakthrough. Not only are the five senses more acute, but the volume of spiritual energy in the body has also increased significantly. The spiritual energy is much more condensed than before, and the body is light and powerful, as if it can tread on air.

  The most important thing is the change in the power of the technique, which not only greatly enhances its destructive power but also tightens the connection between heaven and earth, making the time it takes to trigger a spell shorter.

  Turning his head to look at the sunset beside him, the realm of the demon corpse and the master's cultivation were closely related, and at most could not exceed one major stage.

  That is to say, when Jiǔ Guāng is in the realm of clarity, the setting sun must not exceed the category of orange soul corpse guard, otherwise, Jiǔ's recognition sea talisman will be unable to withstand the sunset's soul fire power and cause the talisman to crack open, leading to a tragic event of demonic corpse devouring the master.

  Wishing you stability of mind, close your eyes again, and next is to mobilize your magical powers to help the sunset break through.

  The superior talisman of Great Brightness absorbs the primordial energy of heaven and earth at a faster rate than before.

  Wishing that the primordial energy brought by the nine pulls of the talisman is transformed into pure magical power through the symbol, and continuously poured onto the image of the sunset at the bottom of the talisman.

  As the pouring of mana increased, the red soul fire in Xi Yang's eyes changed first, slowly revealing a distinct orange color.

  The sunset in the practice room let out a silent roar, and the soul fire burning fiercely in its eye sockets suddenly flashed brightly, instantly extending beyond the skull to envelop the entire skeletal body of the sunset, undergoing the unique evolution and leap in life level that only a demon corpse possessed.

  Its entire skeleton gradually evolved new components in the soul fire wrapping and recasting, the skeleton itself became more compact, the front end of the forehead slowly bulged, generating a ball of extremely ferocious emerald green bone spines, effectively increasing the skull's attack power, and its appearance also looked more ferocious.

  The vertebrae on the back became more robust, but their length decreased, becoming tightly attached to the spine. As the sunset's soul fire flickered and danced, it seemed like a strange kind of breathing, as if they had life.

  The shortened vertebral spines, not only more convenient for Xi Yang to move and hide in combat, but also can be manipulated at will by Xi Yang to stretch and shrink according to his wishes, forming a killing trap.

  In the final stage, the soul fire of sunset was all covered with orange, dark red completely disappeared, and the whole turned into light orange, lively and dynamic, stunning beyond compare, this is already the representative of the thousand-year-old dead force condensed orange soul guard fire.

  Overall, the evolution of Xīyáng makes its skeletal system even more indestructible on top of its already extremely robust foundation, and greatly enhances its attacking power.

  When the sunset's advancement ended, Jiu also opened his eyes in time, turned his head to check on the sunset, and found that although the death force in the sunset's soul fire had only increased by one-tenth from nine hundred years to a thousand years, it helped the sunset advance from red soul corpse to orange soul corpse guard first-class, which was two completely different levels.

  Wishing the ninth pair a great battle power after sunset evolution, just about to get up and take the sunset out, but feeling that the Shao Shi Bao mirror on the neck seems a bit unusual, with a move in mind, hastily taking it out for a closer look.

  The surface of the mirror indeed changed, with a faintly warm side rising up a hazy mist. The mist grew thicker and thicker, eventually condensing into a thumb-sized ball that floated up and down inside the mirror.

  Jiu was somewhat perplexed, unsure what the misty mass that had condensed in the mirror was for. He turned the mirror over, and on its cold surface, a bright point that had always existed began to move more quickly, as if a small fish were swimming about. Suddenly, it floated out of the mirror and materialized on the glass surface, darting back and forth.

  This is a rare anomaly in the Mirror of Corpses for the past year. Could it be because of Xi Yang's advancement that triggered it?

  He wished that the idea in his mind would be inspired by a thread of fate, and he felt that there was some connection between the small silver fish born from the mirror and the sunset. He prepared to try the sunset, moving the mirror with the small fish on its surface to near the sunset, hmm! No reaction.

  Think about it, Zhu Jiu touched the silver small fish with his fingertips, feeling a little cool, and the small fish seemed to be swimming slowly on Zhu Jiu's fingertips as if it had life. Putting it on Xi Yang's skull still didn't work, could it only take effect when placed directly in the soul fire?

  Order the sunset to roll the small fish into the soul fire for refining and burning, the sunset follows the order, the soul fire spreads, and according to the order, it rolls the small fish into the soul fire.

  The change occurred in the next second when the soul fire and the little fish came into contact, the little fish instantly merged with the soul fire and disappeared without a trace, but the power of death contained in the sunset soul fire surged up by a large margin.

  This sudden change apparently startled Xi Yang himself, and the light orange soul fire jumped violently several times before calming down.

  Jiǔ zǎi xì gǎn yìng, jì ér shén sè jīng xǐ, zhè yī shùn de biàn huà, jìng ràng xī yáng de sǐ wáng zhī lì xiàng shàng zēng zhǎng bǎi nián zhī duō.

  Can a small light fish formed by the reflection of a corpse's mirror contain a hundred years of pure dead energy?

  A century's worth of effort is just one-tenth of the total effort at sunset, which doesn't seem like much. But if every major breakthrough has a tenth increase, how astonishing it would be to accumulate!

  To know that after the Corpse Guard stage, the corpse's tyrant realm's dead force increase is calculated in units of ten thousand years, one tenth is a thousand years, what about afterwards?

  Of course, all of this is still just Zhu Jiu's speculation for now, and the specifics will have to be verified over time, but it's a very likely direction nonetheless.

  May the nine hearts be filled with joy, this treasure mirror that protects oneself from reincarnation is indeed extraordinary, as the law power advances day by day, it slowly reveals a hint of reversing heaven's will.

  "Hmm! The small silver fish in the cold, refreshing water can help increase the dead's strength. But what about the other side that always exists, the light fog? Could it be related to myself? Jiǔ couldn't help but think!"