436 Come and Embrace! (1/2)

Inside the wooden hut on Non-Phase Peak, Wang Lu found that, on the living room table, Faceless One had once again been sealed into an orb by Wang Wu.

For the sake of being too honest, Faceless One was sealed very strongly this time. The grey orb was flickering with metallic luster, seemingly cast by the tough and durable meteoric metal. Moreover, outside the orb, Wang Wu personally left behind her 119th layer of Non-Phase Sword Qi seal, which was practically an indestructible jail for Faceless One.

Fortunately, although Faceless One was tightly sealed, he still retained the ability to communicate with the outside world. While Wang Wu went to Stellar Peak to appeal for her penalty of one-year stipend deduction, Wang Lu looked for Faceless One to ask him for help.

”Oh? Did you finally decide to believe in Holy Light?”

Faceless One appeared excited, but Wang Lu's reaction was even more to his liking.

”I'll give you a chance. In the next few days, I will do a close door training to breakthrough Jindan Stage. At the appointed time, let's repeat our dialogue in the King's Treasure House in the Western Continent.”

Inside the King's Treasure House, Wang Lu and Faceless One had a complicated feeling towards each other that was not easy to express succinctly. However, speaking about dialogue, there was only one real dialogue between the two—when in his dying breath Faceless One made one desperate strike, he was still suppressed by Wang Lu with his Non-Phase Immortal Heart.

That dialogue was more dangerous than many of Wang Lu's life and death battles. Because, facing the temptation of Faceless One, one slight mistake and Wang Lu would've agreed. Faceless One's offers were really tempting. In terms of rationality, even now, Wang Lu should be able to obtain more practical benefit by agreeing to his condition. And regarding that problem, it was just in the form of a slight inconvenience. However, in this world, how could everything be clearly understood?

And Wang Lu's request was precisely for the sake of understanding, so he ignored these trivial matters. In the face of a major issue, it was not easy to resist the outside temptation and follow his own heart. However, following his own heart was precisely one of the keys in Wang Lu's next step to breakthrough Jindan Stage.

After Wang Lu's last dialogue with Faceless One, his mind became refined, as if he had undergone a good baptism—the cultivation base of his Non-Phase Immortal Heart vigorously forged ahead. Therefore, finding Faceless One was exactly to use his persuasive ability to persuade himself to temper his own mind.

”Okay, but you must understand clearly about the consequences.”

From within the grey orb, Faceless One's voice came with a faint smile, but how could Wang Lu not perceive the coldness within it.

Right now, I'm your Non-Phase family dog, so looking at Wang Wu's face, I naturally can't do anything against you. But now, in order to advance to Jindan Stage, you don't hesitate to borrow the taboo force. Thus, you should bear the consequences if you have any problems later. Let go of your immortal heart and let me bewitch you. If by doing this you get a boost, and you successfully reach Jindan, then all is well. But if not… and you're tempted by me to enter the sea of holy light, even Wang Wu can't blame me.

But, could Wang Lu be tempted to enter the sea of holy light? Faceless One expressed his sufficient confidence with a touch of laughter. In his view, Wang Lu was now a holy embryo and already considered as a half-believer.

However, for this dangerous move, Wang Lu also had his own confidence.

”Hah! Want to get me pregnant? Then just give it a try! Even Wang Wu can't do it, much less you…”

”Damn it… I feel like this is a bit like those infertile who have already abandoned themselves to despair.”

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In the following three days, Wang Lu, under the guidance of Reward Giver Elder Liu Xian, took a closed-door meditation in Misty Peak's Golden Clay Hall.

After three days, Wang Lu finally ended his long preparation as the first ray of morning sun entered the Golden Clay Hall. At this point, his primordial spirit was full, and his sword bones were straight. Inside his jade mansion, the void core and the distant sunlight echoed with each other, flashing with golden light. Obviously, the accumulation had reached its limit, and breakthrough was imperative.

Wang Lu, at this time, had already set his feet solidly on the peak Xudan Stage. His core composition was now ninety percent golden core. However, compared to the genuine golden core, although the power of this peak Xudan Stage was extremely strong, the core appeared mixed and its magical power was not pure.

What Wang Lu must do next was to fully invest in this golden core, separating the golden core from the void core, to achieve an unprecedented purity.

This process of turning void into real not only had been repeatedly instructed earnestly in the past three days, several other Elders had also shown their own experience. If there was no restriction from the Reward Giver Elder, those Jindan Stage senior disciples would've rushed to tell him their experience and cheer on him.

Wang Lu, the lead disciple of Spirit Sword Sect whose reputation was at its peak, was officially going to break through Jindan Stage. This was a major event in which the influence was not limited to Spirit Sword Sect.

However, for Wang Lu, what happened next was doomed to be different than what people expect.

According to the method taught by his Master, Wang Lu would circulate the 50th layer of Non-Phase magical power and then return it into the void core. At the same time, his primordial spirit would come out from the purple mansion and sink down into the void core in the jade mansion… Much of this process was borrowed from Qiong Hua's trinity. However, here, Non-Phase immortal heart did not blend in, but just slowly spread and wrapped the void core inside.

But for Wang Lu, he only saw a blur. From golden clay hall, he entered a mysterious place.

Looking ahead, the distance was endlessly chaotic. Through the hazy chaotic fog, he sometimes could see a fleeting scene. However, no matter how he tried to look at it, those images remained blurred. Wang Lu knew that his future was not yet certain, so everything was still possible.

Under his feet, there were thousands of branched roads. Each inch of land contained different possibility. It was just that, in these millions of crossroads, only two roads were above board, pointing straight towards the Main Path. One of them was rich in color, broad, and practical, which symbolized the Non-Phase Method that Wang Lu cultivated, with defense and survival as the primary goals, and it seemed to be the most promising one.