Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 447 - 432: Bone Forging

Zhou Leng stood at the entrance of the Tenth Palace, looking up at the white sphere on the roof inside.

Within the white sphere was the shadow of a black orb.

Upon closer inspection, this shadow resembled a star.

The surface of the star was erupting with streaks of solar flames.

Unlike ordinary stars, this star seemed to emit a powerful spiritual will, and its power was not the burning heat of sunlight but a force of destruction that could incinerate everything.

A star with spiritual will...

Zhou Leng recalled the contents recorded in the Divine Text.

Star God.

Although he couldn’t be certain, he vaguely felt that it was so.

"If the Ancient Path of Spirits is not too dangerous, I can give it a try..."

Originally, Zhou Leng had no hope for this Ancient Path of Spirits, but the oppressive aura of the East Monarch had ignited his fighting spirit.

The East Monarch’s pressure was only in the Ninth Palace, so what about the Tenth Palace and even the final Ancient Path of Spirits?

The Ancient Path of Spirits was truly the inheritance of a high-level civilization.

Zhou Leng thought for a moment and stepped into the Tenth Palace.

The celestial pressure surged in like a tsunami.

Boom...

It was as if Zhou Leng was struck by an invisible great hammer, his body flying backward.

His body lost control and fell to the ground.

Numbness spread throughout his body, and it took a while before he could get back up.

The five Demon Spirit Masters of the Ninth Palace smiled, not with ridicule, but rather with mild schadenfreude, like watching a friend suffer a small setback for not listening to advice.

Zhou Leng shook his head, gradually recovering from the dizziness.

The spiritual pressure inside touched his skin like wind, condensing into substance.

His martial arts perception showed that his body wasn’t damaged.

Or perhaps the damage was so slight that his body’s strong vitality healed it.

Zhou Leng stood up, focused his attention, and guarded his martial arts will, moving forward slowly.

Ahead, the pressure was like a wall, forming a massive thrust, as if a normal person had collided with a typhoon.

A slight stinging pain traveled through his body.

Slowly, the Star God’s pressure entered his martial arts will.

This time, it wasn’t raindrops pattering on a window but hail pounding down chaotically.

Even the Mountain of Will clanked and clattered under the unseen pressure as if it might shatter at any moment.

Instead of retreating, Zhou Leng advanced. This was a great opportunity to temper his martial arts will.

His entire body squeezed into the Tenth Palace. Breathing was difficult, his chest felt like it was weighed down by a boulder, his vision blurred, and the Mountain of Will seemed to be in a hailstorm.

This pressure directly affected his spiritual will, occasionally causing him to black out and become disoriented.

But Zhou Leng gritted his teeth and persisted.

Gradually, he adapted to the rhythm and sat cross-legged on the ground.

At this moment, Zhou Leng was particularly grateful for Saint Zhao’s martial arts will pressure.

Without prior tempering, his martial arts will wouldn’t withstand such pressure.

Though Zhou Leng remained motionless, every few seconds, his body slid back a bit.

After five minutes, Zhou Leng’s entire body was pushed out of the Tenth Palace.

One Demon Spirit Master from the Ninth Palace shouted, "Stop wasting time. The test of the Ancient Path of Spirits is about spiritual power, not the muscles of you martial artists. I’ll admit your martial arts will is strong, but there’s still a long way to go to pass through the Tenth Palace."

Zhou Leng ignored them, drinking Water of Life, Mammoth Lake water, Radiant Juice, Ant Egg Juice, and munching on a bit of Dragon Blood Sausage.

Then he practiced the Star Gazing Technique.

Once his martial arts will recovered, he walked back in, sitting on the ground to hold his position.

Once, twice, three times...

Zhou Leng continued entering and being pushed out.

After the hundredth try, Zhou Leng took a long nap. Upon awakening, he took a bold step forward.

One step, two steps, three steps, four steps, then sat down.

Twenty minutes later, his body was pushed out.

Zhou Leng entered again, sat down again...

No one knew how many times this happened; Zhou Leng stepped forward ten steps, then fifteen steps, twenty steps, thirty steps...

Despite being pushed out again and again, despite failing repeatedly, he pressed on.

Until Zhou Leng reached the center of the Tenth Palace and sat down.

In the room, a visible spiritual storm arose, silver light shimmering like starlight shining bright.

The light pierced through the entire path of pressure, illuminating all ten palaces.

Everyone gazed from the entrance toward the depths of the Tenth Palace.

A blurred silhouette sat within the silver starlight, back facing the door, sitting upright in the palace.

Like a saint ahead, like a god seated.

The Demon Spirit Masters began discussing, speculating about the identity of this blurred figure.

In the Seventh Palace, Cyan Flame took a peek toward the depths of the Tenth Palace. Covered by the starlight, it was unclear, and he quietly envied, then meditated silently, accepting the pressure’s impact.

Light of the Mountains and Seas remarked, "This martial artist is truly extraordinary."

"Then we..."

"Who now dares to mess with a seedling from the Tenth Palace? What would the demigods do if they knew? Besides, he’s a disciple of the Ice Snow Divine Sect, making him one of us in the Demon Spirit World."

"The Ice Snow Divine Sect might fight desperately with us."

The Demon Spirit Masters glanced at each other with helpless expressions; Zhou Leng’s value warranted the Ice Snow Divine Sect’s full protection.

Would their own factions really face off with the Ice Snow Divine Sect and the Blue Star for their sake?

Powerful forces steadily pushed Zhou Leng’s body.

The world of martial arts will in his mind was filled with silver flashes.

The flashes seemed like blades, cutting through the Mountain of Will.

The spiritual pain left Zhou Leng in a daze.

The spiritual pressure also affected his body.

Some fragile places inside his body began to break down.

Within the Star God’s pressure was a peculiar destructive force, almost imperceptible, yet continuously damaging his body.

In a hazy state, Zhou Leng suddenly noticed that the silver flashes in the world of will avoided the undying star body, forming a virtual image of Ceres.

A thought arose, and the Undying Star Body Cross Divine Text began to rapidly spin in his mind.

Undying Star Body, activate.

He regarded the Star God Pressure as the starlight of the heavens, utilizing the Undying Star Body to absorb it.

In an instant, the Star God Pressure surrounding Zhou Leng seemed to freeze.

A Star Conch from the Magic Spirit Bag burst into starlight, coalescing into a silver glow on the surface of his skin.

The Star God Pressure collided with the Star Conch’s glow, as if swords striking one another, white feathers flying wildly, erupting into blinding divine light.

This divine light illuminated the body, a portion of it being absorbed by the Undying Star Body.

The immense and unparalleled Star God Pressure continued to invade the Will World, impacting the Mountain of Will.

Under the urging of the Undying Star Body cultivation technique, the virtual shadow of Ceres shone brightly, shattering a portion of the Star God Pressure, absorbing some of it.

The Star God Pressure shattered by the virtual shadow of Ceres transformed into ownerless power.

A portion surged into the Mountain of Will, another turned into the power of the Undying Star Body, merging with the body.

The ten Divine Texts of the Undying Star Body cultivation technique acted like high-speed blenders, stirring Zhou Leng’s mind.

It was as if returning to the days of first learning the Divine Text.

As his mind was stirred, the Undying Star Body also advanced at an extraordinary speed.

The Demon Spirit Masters in the Ninth Palace watched for a long time, inspired by Zhou Leng’s fighting spirit.

"Once I complete the trials of the Ninth Palace, I too will challenge the Tenth Palace!"

"Let’s join forces and break through, I refuse to believe we can’t surpass a Martial Artist!"

"Right!"

The five geniuses of the Three High Towers, the strongest of the current term, closed their eyes in meditation once more, enduring the pressure of the Ninth Palace.

In the Tenth Palace, within Zhou Leng’s body, the Undying Star Body operated slowly.

On the skin’s surface, the glow of the Star Conch clashed and vibrated against the Star God Pressure.

In the Will World, the Mountain of Will stood motionless, constantly being honed.

At this moment, the Undying Star Body cultivated at a speed hundreds of times faster than usual.

Originally, given Zhou Leng’s physical strength, he could not withstand such powerful Star God Pressure; the cells in his body would surely be destroyed one by one.

However, the Star Conch weakened a portion of the power, the Undying Star Body absorbed part of it, and the body inherited from the High-level Tree-man continually healed the damages.

During this endless healing, two distinct changes occurred within the body’s cells.

Some cells, like refined steel, were continuously struck, continuously strengthened, slowly advancing towards the Undying Star Body.

Others, twisted by the Star God Pressure, either aged or transformed into changes similar to cancer cells, undergoing mutation.

The stronger the body’s vitality, the stronger the mutated cells became.

Because this, too, was a part of the body.

One body with both gains and losses.

The power inherited from the High-level Tree-man could not resolve these mutated cells.

Theoretically, only through long-term cultivation could a Martial Artist gradually eliminate them.

Yet, the power of the Mammoth Lake water exercised a miraculous effect at this moment, rapidly eliminating these mutated cells, maintaining the body’s health.

One day, two days, three days...

The Undying Star Body cultivation technique advanced at an unimaginable speed.

Unaware of the passage of time, the ten spinning virtual shadows of the Undying Star Body Divine Text within his mind suddenly stopped in unison.

The first Divine Text transformed from illusion to reality.

Sssss...

A brilliant silver light erupted around Zhou Leng, repelling all Star God Pressure.

Sleek silver currents flowed in all directions, dancing through the sky.

In the eyes of the people behind him, Zhou Leng stood amidst a storm of electricity, crackling all around.

The lightning formed like trees, towering like walls.

Before long, the starry lightning converged, returning to his body.

Strips of starry electric currents, two fingers wide, twisted and flowed over Zhou Leng’s body.

Where the starry electric currents passed, the skin turned fiery red, appearing with strange, faint silver star patterns, vanishing into his flesh in an instant.

Gradually, all of the starry electric currents penetrated into his body.

Viewed from the rear, Zhou Leng seemed like a solitary star, suspended in the cosmos, illuminating all directions.

The first layer of the Crossing Body was completed.

In an instant, the destructive star force hidden within the Star God Pressure, upon touching Zhou Leng’s skin, was partly repelled by the power of the Undying Star Body, and partly absorbed, no longer causing any damage to the body.

The pure Star God Pressure entering the Will Space remained as strong and domineering as ever, still looming like a star, but where once it was violent, it now seemed more gentle.

The Star God Pressure landed on the Mountain of Will, like raindrops on a window, tinkling continuously.

Heaven and earth returned to silence.

Zhou Leng opened his eyes.

Within his eyes, lightning roared like dragons, stars dazzling.

Surrounding him was still the thick wall of Qi formed by the Star God Pressure, harboring destructive star force.

But everything felt like a gentle breeze and light rain.

He glanced down at his body.

The Undying Star Body ceased running, and his skin appeared even more lustrous than before, not like the luster of jade, but rather a combination of jade and metallic steel.

In his Martial Arts perception, within his body, there still existed faint starry electric currents, slowly coursing through his flesh, stimulating his blood and muscle.

"The starry electric current is probably one of the powers of the Undying Body."

"The destructive force within the Star God Pressure is much like a hidden destructive star force, or could it be called solar radiation? But it seems even stronger than solar radiation."

"Now, this body..."

Zhou Leng clenched his fist, released it, and drew out the Demonized Grip Strengthener.

He squeezed with all his might.

Crack...

The grip strengthener, exceeding its 5-ton limit, shattered into pieces.

At the moment of forming a grip, his body connected completely.

The entire physical form, united as one.

Though it was merely the fingers applying force, in that instant, power arose from the whole body, concentrated at one point.

Zhou Leng gathered up the fragments and flexed his fingers.

The power within his body surged and surged.

Unknowingly, his Realm broke through the Blood Shock Period, entering the Bone Forging Stage.

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