Unrivaled Martial Emperor-Chapter 1472 - Collecting the Sacred Radiance

Seeing that Chen Fan had completed his transformation, Luo Wushuang smiled and asked, “How do you feel?”

Chen Fan sensed changes within himself, feeling incomparably happy.

After going through the Sacred Radiance’s baptism, he had been utterly remade. His bloodline power pulsed stronger than ever, and his Hegemonic Golden Body had advanced once more, now at level 53. The immortal arts he had cultivated seemed to have been etched into his very blood, flesh, and bones; even a casual use of them would now unleash power far greater than before.

The baptism had pushed his strength to new heights, truly reaching the level of the brocade youth, perhaps even surpassing him.

Chen Fan was now truly unrivaled below the Immortal Platform realm.

“Good, very good!” Chen Fan couldn’t help but grin and said, “Congratulations on your advancement, too, Brother Luo.”

“I got lucky. I didn’t expect to come across the Sacred Radiance here. Without it, I’d have needed far more time to advance and certainly wouldn’t have broken through so quickly. Besides, with such a divine relic from the primordial era, breaking through one level is nothing; two or even three in succession wouldn’t be surprising at all.”

Chen Fan nodded in agreement. If he had wanted, he could have advanced to the third or fourth stage of the half-immortal realm with the help of the Sacred Radiance.

“Is there really no way to bring the Sacred Radiance with me?”

Chen Fan looked at the Sacred Radiance, somewhat reluctant.

It would be great if his senior brothers and sisters could also experience the baptism and stimulate their potential.

Moreover, he could later use the Sacred Radiance to cleanse and refine his immortal platform.

“Well... there is a way. Sacred Radiance is holy light from the primordial era. If you wish to collect the Sacred Radiance and store it somewhere, legend says that sage artifacts can do so. The question is, do you have such a treasure?” Luo Wushuang said with a smile.

Only Sage powerhouses who had attained enlightenment could use such artifacts.

Based on what Chen Fan knew, even the Featherlight Sect, an immortal holy land, had only two sage artifacts, underscoring their rarity and value.

For the countless immortal sects and holy lands across the Heavenly Realm, sage artifacts were treasures beyond measure: heirlooms handed down through generations, revered as the very lifeblood of a sect, its guardian, its fate.

“I can use a sage artifact to carry it, huh?”

Instead of feeling disappointed, a brilliant light flashed across Chen Fan’s eyes.

Swish!

With a flip of his palm, a palm-sized wheel appeared in his hand.

The Wheel of Myriad Laws was a boundlessly powerful artifact of the Heaven Interception Great Emperor. After refining it over the past two years, Chen Fan had already achieved initial mastery.

Most believed it to be an emperor-grade immortal artifact; in truth, it was something far greater: a divine object unearthed by the Heaven Interception Great Emperor from the ruins where a Sage had perished.

Heaven Interception Great Emperor had already begun preparing to achieve enlightenment, but his eventual demise was related to this ruin.

According to the memory fragments Chen Fan had obtained, in the Heaven Interception Great Emperor’s youth, he and a close friend stumbled upon a Sage’s final resting place.

After enduring countless perils, the two finally reached its core. But just as they were about to claim the legacy, his friend betrayed him, seeking to seize everything for himself. The betrayal was sudden and cruel, as he had struck from behind, leaving the Heaven Interception Great Emperor gravely wounded.

Chen Fan wasn’t sure of the details; ultimately, the Heaven Interception Great Emperor counterattacked, severely injuring his friend, and took the legacy and the Wheel of Myriad Laws for himself.

From that point onward, his cultivation soared; within a thousand years, he had reached the brink of enlightenment. But the wound from that betrayal had cut too deep, and his foundation was damaged beyond repair. And so, at the very threshold of the Sage realm, the Heaven Interception Great Emperor met his tragic end.

The Wheel of Myriad Laws was once a sage artifact, but after being damaged in that battle, it had degraded into an emperor artifact.

“So, this is the Wheel of Myriad Laws.”

Luo Wushuang was a little puzzled. He had also heard of rumors of the events in the Heaven Interception Great Emperor’s ancient tomb, how Chen Fan had obtained both the legacy and the artifact there, but the wheel was said to be no more than an emperor artifact.

Chen Fan wasn’t sure if the degraded Wheel of Myriad Laws could bear the Sacred Radiance. He wanted to give it a try. After all, it had once been a sage artifact, merely fallen in rank. What if he succeeded?

With a wave of his hand, the wheel expanded and flew toward the Sacred Radiance. The endless Sacred Radiance instantly flowed into the Wheel of Myriad Laws, transforming into light patterns that fused into the artifact.

Chen Fan quickly realized why a sage artifact was required to contain the Sacred Radiance. It was a formless holy light from the primordial era. If one tried to confine it within an ordinary treasure, the Sacred Radiance would simply seep through and vanish.

Sage artifacts, on the other hand, were weapons forged by Sage powerhouses; they carried the profound power of the Great Dao. Since the Sacred Radiance was itself a manifestation of that same mysterious force, only such artifacts could bear it.

Although the wheel had fallen in grade to an emperor artifact, it had once been a sage artifact, so it still carried traces of the Great Dao wielded by its former master. Afterward, although the Heaven Interception Great Emperor did not attain enlightenment, he was close to it and was a quasi-Sage, possessing a hint of the power of the Great Dao.

“Eh? This...”

Luo Wushuang couldn’t help but feel shocked to see the wheel succeeding in containing the Sacred Radiance. He quickly realized something and glanced at Chen Fan.

The light of the Sacred Radiance kept surging into the Wheel of Myriad Laws. It was as if Chen Fan was afraid that it wouldn’t be enough, as he just kept it going on for a long time.

However, the Wheel of Myriad Laws was no longer a sage artifact, after all. Though it endured for some time, it failed to absorb much of the Sacred Radiance’s light.

Just as Chen Fan thought it could hold no more, the cascading waterfall of Sacred Radiance, shimmering like the Milky Way, suddenly trembled, as if sentient, as if it had sensed someone ‘stealing’ its light.

Splash!

The entire waterfall of Sacred Radiance shook violently, as if it were about to fly away.

Chen Fan frantically retrieved the Wheel of Myriad Laws; simultaneously, the Sacred Radiance waterful began shrinking. Heaven and earth rumbled.

Suddenly, more people arrived at the scene. Seeing the shrinking Sacred Radiance, they immediately roared, “Sacred Radiance!”

It was Xie Qingjin and Xuan Yang’s groups.

They had also passed the test of the void battle arena; unfortunately, they didn’t clear it as easily as Chen Fan and Luo Wushuang. They had only passed it just now.

Swish, swish, swish.

They quickly flew over, wanting to rush into the Sacred Radiance. However, as soon as they entered the light of the Sacred Radiance, it disappeared completely with a swoosh.

“Ah! Damn it! Damn it! Why did the Sacred Radiance disappear!”

Xie Qingjin and the others roared furiously in indignation.

They had only just entered the embrace of the Sacred Radiance and undergone a moment of its baptism, receiving a tinge of benefits before it disappeared. They couldn’t accept it; their disappointment was immeasurable.

They were prodigies with incomparably powerful bloodlines to begin with. If they had undergone the baptism of the Sacred Radiance, their strength would have soared; their bloodlines would have been elevated to new heights. Each of them might have stood a true chance of enlightenment, of becoming Sages themselves one day.

But now, the divine object, Sacred Radiance, which could stimulate their potential and elevate their bloodline, had disappeared.