Volume 3: Global Vanguard & The Advanced Pinnacle
Chapter 274
Spatial and Chaos Elements Sublimation to Advanced Tier (All Six Elements Reach Advanced Tier!)
Billowing clouds of white mist rose from the surface of the Kunlun Divine Spring, enveloping the entire subterranean stone cave in an ethereal, wonderland-like atmosphere. In stark contrast to the external tranquility, a world-shaking subterranean current was surging deep within Lin Feng’s physical body.
Following the intense Ice-Fire Dual Tempering between the Myriad-Year Kunlun Ice Pith and the Primordial Dragon Flame, his entire physique had undergone a thorough, radical transformation. Every single muscle fiber was tightly braided like cold-tempered steel, his bones emitted the faint, translucent glow of archaic metal and stone, and his flesh faintly revealed illusory dragon scale patterns. His meridians, originally vast to begin with, were hollowed out and stretched to manifold proportions, resembling a great riverbed ready to accommodate countless tidal waves of surging magic energy.
Physique Realm: Divine Weapon Body Guard!
The hardness and endurance of his body at this moment rivaled peak Commander-level demonic beasts. Even without casting any defensive magic, ordinary blades or intermediate-level magic bombarding his body would merely tickle, incapable of leaving behind a single white scratch.
Lin Feng sat cross-legged and motionless upon the protruding subterranean rock amidst the spring water, his hands forming hand seals before his dantian, his breathing steady and composed as he drew every stream of tangible spiritual energy into his acupoints.
Before his chest, the Primordial Dragon Pendant spun gently, radiating a jet-black halo intertwined with imperial golden hues. Each vibration of the ancient jade emitted a deep, resonant dragon roar, guiding the purest spiritual energy accumulated over tens of thousands of years from the Kunlun Divine Mountain to pour down in torrents.
Within the boundless sea of consciousness, the four cardinal directions had long since been brilliantly defined. To the East stood the Lightning Element Star Palace, majestic like an ancient thunder tower, where purple-golden lightning roared furiously. To the South, the Fire Element Star Palace burned fiercely, the flames of the Primordial Dragon Flame scorching the void. To the West, the Wind Element Star Palace transformed into ceaselessly swirling emerald gales, sharply tearing the horizon apart. To the North, the Ice Element Star Palace crystallized into an absolute purity of sapphire ice, radiating bone-chilling frost that stagnated space itself.
All four elemental attributes—Lightning, Fire, Wind, and Ice—had already condensed into complete Advanced Tier Star Palaces, majestically guarding the four quarters of his soul.
However, at the deepest center of the sea of consciousness, where the root of the primordial soul’s intent converged, two drifting Star Rivers still coiled and waited: a transparent, silvery Star River of the Spatial Element, and a hazy, grayish-ash Chaos Star River of the Chaos Element.
Both of these mutated magic elements had reached the peak of the Intermediate Tier long ago. Forty-nine silver stars and forty-nine murky gray stars orbited at terrifying speeds, their magic energy swollen to the point of trembling violently. They were like young dragons imprisoned within cramped cocoons, roaring as they demanded to tear the barrier apart and soar freely across the boundless sky!
“The Ice-Fire Dual Tempering is complete, the physique has become a Divine Weapon, the meridians bear infinite load...”
Lin Feng murmured in his spiritual consciousness, his towering ironclad will blazing forth:
“The time has come. Spatial, Chaos, today we level the bottleneck with me!”
The moment his thought fell, Lin Feng immediately urged the Primordial Dragon Pendant. The ancient treasure abruptly erupted with a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering suction force.
The entire Kunlun Divine Spring beneath Lin Feng’s feet instantly boiled over. Columns of transparent spirit spring water shot straight up into the air, transforming into tens of thousands of floating jade dew droplets, which were then pulverized by the invisible suction force into the most primordial energy mist, pouring straight down from the crown of his head like a giant inverted whirlpool into his heavenly spirit acupoint.
The fierce spiritual energy caused the air within the stone cave to emit cracking, popping explosions. If an ordinary mage dared to absorb energy at this violent speed, their meridians would surely be torn into shreds within a single breath. Yet Lin Feng’s body at this moment was protected by the Divine Weapon Body Guard, his meridians as sturdy as mysterious iron dragon spines; no matter how ferocious the torrent of spiritual energy was, it was merely like water pouring into the depths of the ocean, obediently flowing along each operational route.
After passing through the meridians, the energy immediately split into two torrential streams—one silver, one gray—and stabbed straight into the center of the sea of consciousness!
First target: The Spatial Element!
Under the reinforcement of the pure spiritual spring and archaic dragon breath, the 49 silver spatial stars instantly shone brilliantly. They crazily devoured energy, each star swelling to three times its original size, floating like blazing silver orbs amidst the endless darkness.
The physical space surrounding Lin Feng’s body manifested a terrifying anomaly. The surface of the ice rock where he sat began to crack into bizarre straight lines due to localized distortion of the spatial structure. Light passing through his figure was refracted into multiple chaotic layers, causing his silhouette to flicker between faint haziness and splitting into multiple overlapping afterimages. Tiny, sharp streams of silver wind appeared, revolving around his body and cutting the air with piercing screeches.
Within the sea of consciousness, an invisible silvery-gray wall blocked the path of the Spatial Star River. That was the magic barrier separating the Intermediate and Advanced Tiers! This wall was thick, rigid, and profound like a bottomless abyss, preventing the stars from linking to form the fifth, sixth, and seventh Star Maps... preventing them from expanding into a Star Sea!
“Break for me!”
Lin Feng roared within his soul. His formidable spiritual power transformed into a gigantic silver halbooth, carrying all 49 surging magic-energized stars as it stabbed straight into the blocking wall!
“CLANG——!!!”
A sound akin to divine metal colliding echoed from the depths of his soul. The violent tremor caused his entire body to tremble, his viscera shaking violently. Yet his spiritual gaze was as sharp as a divine sword unsheathed, refusing to retreat even a single fraction of an inch.
“Not enough force? Then borrow the archaic Dragon Breath!”
The Primordial Dragon Pendant vibrated in a long succession, and an ancient black-and-gold dragon projection rushed out from the jade into the sea of consciousness, wrapping around the silver tip of the Spiritual Will, bestowing upon it a heaven-destroying and earth-extinguishing majesty!
“CRACK, SNAP!”
Upon the surface of the Spatial Element barrier, the very first crack finally appeared. The moment the crack opened, the torrent of magic energy immediately found its outlet! Floods of blinding silver light poured across the fissure, tearing apart the rigid boundary.
“BOOM——!!!”
A heaven-shaking and earth-shattering explosion resounded within Lin Feng’s sea of consciousness! The Intermediate Tier barrier wall completely collapsed, disintegrating into dust and void!
The instant the wall shattered, the 49 silver spatial stars seemed liberated from shackles, simultaneously roaring as they sublimated. They frantically absorbed the Kunlun Divine Spring energy and ancient dragon breath, beginning the most wondrous molecular division of creation: a single star splitting into seven new stars!
The original forty-nine stars disintegrated and recombined amidst the brilliant silver light, bursting into a gigantic stellar network consisting of exactly 343 pure silver stars!
343 Spatial Stars!
They no longer drifted aimlessly; under Lin Feng’s inch-precise spiritual control, each cluster of stars flew and intertwined in supreme order: seven stars formed a Star Trail, seven Star Trails intersected to weave a gleaming Star Map, and seven massive, infinitely complex silver Star Maps—carrying the rules of bending the space of heaven and earth—began to stack upon one another in an ancient, mystical order!
First layer, second layer... all the way to the seventh layer!
“HUMM——!”
A transparent silver column of light shot straight from the crown of Lin Feng’s head up to the dome of the Kunlun cave, piercing through the dense fog! The entire space within a radius of several hundred meters instantly froze, time seemed to stand still, and individual droplets suspended in midair were frozen in place.
At the center of the sea of consciousness, the fifth Spatial Element Star Palace officially took shape!
It was magnificent, resplendent, and as sharp as a Milky Way crystal palace. The 343 silver stars circulated rhythmically along intricate magic rune lines, emitting a space-suppressing majesty that caused breath to catch in one’s throat.
Advanced Spatial Magic: OFFICIALLY UNLOCKED!
Blink – Instantaneous teleportation in the blink of an eye! Spatial Decapitation – Severing space, absolute defense or cleaving all things in two! Spatial Gravity Burden – Crushing enemies with spatial gravity a hundred thousand times over!
The sensation of holding space in the palm of his hand caused boundless euphoria to surge through Lin Feng’s entire body. Now, with a mere flicker of a thought, he could vanish from his current position and appear at an entirely different coordinate without leaving any trajectory of movement. This was the supreme power that millions of mages yearned for their entire lives!
However, Lin Feng knew this was only half the battle!
He did not pause to savor the joy of victory. For right beside the newly condensed Spatial Star Palace, the grayish-ash Chaos Element Star River was burning wildly, as ravenous as a wild beast imprisoned for a millenniums!
“It’s your turn, Chaos Element!”
Lin Feng drew a deep breath, marshaling all the remaining spirit spring energy swirling within his meridians, pouring it relentlessly into the Chaos Star River.
Chaos—the origin of all things, yet also the end of all things. It possessed no fixed shape, following no conventional physical or elemental rules. The essence of Chaos was bending, inversion, devouring, and transformation!
As the surging energy poured in, the 49 grayish-ash Chaos stars did not shine like the Spatial Element; on the contrary, they grew denser and more profound. A gigantic silvery-gray vortex formed within the sea of consciousness, spinning rapidly like a cosmic black hole.
The external anomalies in reality immediately shifted with bizarre extremes. Surrounding the submerged rock where Lin Feng sat cross-legged, the laws of nature were completely inverted! The water in the Kunlun Divine Spring no longer flowed downward but began to flow in reverse, successive waves soaring upward toward the stone cave ceiling. Fragments of gravel at the bottom of the lake floated up into the air. Gravity at times increased tenfold, causing the ground to sink, and at times dissipated entirely, leaving the air weightless and buoyant.
Directions were fractured. East turned to West, up turned to down. Light was swallowed by the Chaos vortex, forming a hazy, murky gray shadow that enveloped Lin Feng.
Within the sea of consciousness, the barrier of the Chaos Element manifested. It was not a rigid wall of stone or crystal like the other elements. The Chaos barrier was an endless marsh, an expansive gray void that swallowed every single attack! When Lin Feng released his Spiritual Will and magic energy into this marsh, it was instantly absorbed, disintegrated, and vanished without a trace. The harder he pushed with destructive force, the more his power was entirely swallowed, much like punching a giant cotton wad.
“Formless chaos, overcoming hardness with softness, is it?”
The corners of Lin Feng’s lips curled slightly, his gaze brimming with enlightenment. Having studied the Chaos Element since the earliest days of his awakening, he understood its essence better than anyone else. To break this barrier, using brute force alone was the inferior strategy. He had to use the rules of Chaos itself to defeat Chaos!
“Inverting the Cosmos, Chaos Gives Birth to All Things!”
Lin Feng abruptly withdrew all the energy attacking forward. He no longer pushed outward; instead, he completely reversed the rotational direction of the 49 Chaos stars!
Forward rotation is devouring, reverse rotation is eruption!
He forced the Chaos vortex to spin counterclockwise at extreme speeds, simultaneously pouring the supreme-yang, supreme-rigidity Primordial Dragon Flame directly into the epicenter of the black hole! The collision between the infinite devouring force and the primordial destructive flame created an unimaginable chain reaction!
“RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE——!”
The grayish marsh was burned from within by the flames; the chaotic space began to collapse and compress into an infinitesimal point. When the compression reached its absolute limit...
It exploded!
“BOOM——————!!!”
A second thunderous roar shook the entirety of Lin Feng’s soul! The millenary barrier of the Chaos Element shattered into countless fragments of energy!
Those grayish-ash fragments instantly transformed supreme nourishment, nurturing the stars. The 49 Chaos stars began a frenzied division amidst the energy storm: seven split into forty-nine, forty-nine split into three hundred and forty-three!
The 343 mystical grayish-silver Chaos stars, gleaming with mesmerizing magic light, broke away from their initial chaotic state and began to line up neatly under Lin Feng’s supreme control!
Chaos Star Trails linked together, Chaos Star Maps intertwined layer upon layer. Seven Chaos Star Maps—carrying the laws of overturning the cosmic universe—slowly descended, perfectly engaging with one another to form a supremely magnificent sixth magic architecture!
ADVANCED CHAOS ELEMENT STAR PALACE!
“SWOOSH——!”
A ring of silvery-gray radiance erupted, sweeping across the entire Kunlun Divine Spring cave. All the inverted gravity anomalies and reversing lake currents instantly ceased, crashing heavily back onto the lake surface and creating towering pillars of white spray dozens of meters high.
Advanced Chaos Magic: COMPLETELY AWAKENED!
Chaos Vortex – Devours all of the opponent’s attacking magic, reinforcing and counterattacking with multiplied might! Cosmos Inversion – Bends spatial and magic trajectories, turning the enemy’s strike into a mockery! Chaos Gravity Domain – Manipulates the gravitational field of all things at will!
At the very moment when the Chaos Star Palace firmly solidified, an unprecedented resonance in human history began to unfold within Lin Feng’s sea of consciousness!
Six quarters of heaven! Six magic elements! Six magnificent, brilliant, and majestic Star Palaces shone overwhelmingly at the exact same time:
The Lightning Element Star Palace with its ferocious purple-golden lightning, governing absolute destruction.
The Fire Element Star Palace bearing the crimson-gold Primordial Dragon Flame, its archaic supreme aura scorching all living things.
The Wind Element Star Palace roaring with emerald gales, sharp wind blades tearing the horizon apart.
The Ice Element Star Palace crystallizing pure sapphire frost, absolute zero, freezing even the soul.
The Spatial Element Star Palace resembling a transparent crystal Milky Way, infinitely profound, mastering space-time.
The Chaos Element Star Palace carrying hazy grayish hues, unfathomably bizarre, overturning the rules of the cosmos.
Six Star Palaces, each consisting of exactly 343 stars! A total of 2,058 stars shone together, revolving harmoniously around the center of Lin Feng’s sea of consciousness, forming a picture of a galaxy so complete, massive, and magnificent it resembled a miniature universe!
AN UNPRECEDENTED AND UNMATCHED MIRACLE!
ALL SIX ELEMENTS REACH ADVANCED TIER!
An ordinary mage entering the Advanced Tier could awaken at most three magic elements, and cultivating all three elements to the Advanced Tier typically required twenty to thirty years of uninterrupted hard cultivation, consuming countless heaven-and-earth resources. Those regarded as the pride of heaven from great clans and secluded sects, reaching Advanced Tier in one or two elements past the age of twenty, were already enough to shake the world and be revered by millions.
Yet at this moment, Lin Feng—a young man barely past twenty years old—possessed a full SIX ELEMENTS ALL REACHING THE ADVANCED TIER!
Six independent elements mutually reinforcing one another to form a perfect cycle: Lightning for eruption, Fire for scorching, Wind for acceleration, Ice for crowd control, Spatial for mobility and ambushes, and Chaos for defense and energy conversion. Devoid of any weaknesses, it was breathtakingly flawless!
“BOOM——!!!”
Under the resonance of the six Advanced Star Palaces, a massive surge of spiritual energy soared wildly from the depths of Lin Feng’s soul. It was the sublimation of the soul!
The Spatial Element and Chaos Element were two elements intimately dependent on Spiritual Will. When both elements simultaneously broke their cocoons into the Advanced Tier, they created a heaven-defying rebound force, directly scouring and reforging Lin Feng’s sea of consciousness.
His spiritual mental force began breaking through barriers at an unimaginable speed: the Ninth Peak shattered, the Seventh Realm of Spiritual Will surpassed in the blink of an eye! The torrent of divine thought continued to surge, trampling all invisible shackles, rushing straight toward a higher realm!
“CRACK... BOOM!”
BREAKING THROUGH TO THE EIGHTH REALM!
Eighth Realm Spiritual Will! A divine mental realm that even the vast majority of peak Super-tier Mages could only gaze up at in dreams!
At that moment, Lin Feng felt the entire world around him completely transform. Without needing to open his eyes, his invisible divine thought projected outward like a quantum radar network covering the entire Kunlun Divine Mountain. He could clearly see every tiny ripple at the bottom of the lake ten thousand fathoms away, count every ridge on the millennium-old ice along the cliff walls, and even sense the vibration of every tiny dust particle suspended in the air.
With a mere flick of his Eighth Realm Divine Thought, the surrounding space rippled automatically; thousands of pounds of boulders by the lake trembled slightly and floated weightlessly into the air, obedient as children obeying their guardian.
Lin Feng slowly exhaled a long breath of turbid air resembling a white ribbon, his eyes snapping wide open!
From his deep black eyes shot two dazzling rays of divine light: the left eye flashed with the sharp silver of Space, and the right eye flashed with the mystical grayish-ash of Chaos! The two rays of divine light swept across the lake surface, directly slicing a thousand-pound boulder on the opposite bank into two flat, mirror-like halves, then turning the boulder into dust and void without making a single jarring sound!
Lin Feng stood up. With every step he took onto the void, the space beneath his soles automatically condensed into a silver lotus blossom supporting his form. He needed neither Wind Tracks nor magic wings, simply strolling leisurely through midair like a descending deity.
The magic majesty radiating naturally from the six Advanced Star Palaces and the Divine Weapon Body Guard caused the entire surface of the Kunlun Divine Spring to be compressed three feet deep, forming a massive depression where not a single drop of water dared touch the hem of his robe.
A sensation of peerless strength, holding the life and death of the cosmos in his hands, flooded every single cell in his body!
Before stepping into the Kunlun Divine Spring, when facing peak Advanced-tier powerhouses or Commander-level demonic beasts, Lin Feng still needed to calculate tactics and carefully coordinate moves to slay them.
But now? Six Advanced Elements! Divine Weapon Body Guard! Eighth Realm Spiritual Will!
Below the Super Tier, he was entirely invincible!
Whether it was a peak Commander or those half-step Super-tier Advanced old monsters, before him at this moment they were merely grass and weeds, capable of being suppressed with a turn of his hand! Even if he were to face a genuine Early-stage Lord directly at this moment, Lin Feng possessed the full confidence and trump cards to fight a life-and-death battle head-on, rather than struggling to escape as he had before!
“The Kunlun Divine Spring truly lives up to its reputation as the number one magic holy land...”
Lin Feng clenched his fists tightly, feeling the surging strength like a roaring sea in his hands, his spirit soaring to the heavens. On this Western Regions trip, his harvests had far exceeded all initial expectations.
However, just as Lin Feng prepared to withdraw his aura to stabilize his newly broken realm...
“RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE——!!!”
Suddenly, from the deep bottom of the Kunlun Divine Spring came unprecedented, violent tremors!
The previously calm lake surface instantly bubbled furiously, billowing heat mixing with an oppressive, ancient, foul stench.
Lin Feng paused, his sword-like brows knitting tightly together. His Eighth Realm Divine Thought immediately released, piercing straight down to the ten-thousand-fathom depths of the lake to investigate.
And the scene reflected back caused his pupils to contract slightly.
At the bottom of the Kunlun Divine Spring, where colossal boulders covered in ancient talismanic seals had been sealed a thousand years ago, numerous spiderweb-like cracks had now appeared. Clearly, the heaven-shaking shockwaves from Lin Feng’s recent six-element Advanced breakthrough had inadvertently shaken and fractured the structure of the ancient seal!
From within the pitch-black cracks at the bottom of the lake, wisps of thick deathly aura and archaic murderous intent began leaking outward.
Accompanied by this was a deep, choked sound akin to the ragged breathing of an archaic demonic beast imprisoned beneath the nine hells through endless ages:
“Hmph... The aura... of the Primordial Dragon Clan...”
“Finally... someone... has brought the key...”
At the same time, the Primordial Dragon Pendant on Lin Feng’s chest suddenly grew as hot as a red coal, vibrating violently and pointing its sharp tip directly toward the dark fissure at the bottom of the lake, emitting a mournful, warning dragon roar!
At the bottom of this Kunlun Divine Spring... exactly what kind of terrifying monster was being sealed?!