Divine Brilliance

That golden-colored Giant Pagoda suddenly rose up from the ground. It stretched close to 1,000 feet and was made of an unknown purple golden metal. The octagonal roof hung various kinds of treasures. It gave off a Spiritual Light that was really noble and majestic.

It continued up until it broke the ninth layer before it stopped. It actually completely merged with the 32-layer Golden Pagoda.

Not only Qingxuan, but even the few Elders of Common People’s Path were astonished.

Even Xiuguan had a weird glow appearing in his eyes.

The six Celestial Swords spun about the air. The Sword Aura gathered into one and when it spun around, the Spiritual Senses of Mingyu and the others were interacting with one another.

“Why was there such a Golden Pagoda beneath the main hall?”

“I didn’t remember Master Xi Zi talking about it.”

“Speaking of which, there was indeed an empty patch within this formation. I didn’t think much about it and thought that the formation had to have that if it wanted to run…”

“What a joke! We have been studying the Dao in the main hall for 300 times and we actually didn’t know that there was such a Golden Pagoda under it. In 8,000 years, did no one think about finding out what was below the Learning Palace?”

“What kind of sacred place is that? Who would dare to dig it up to take a look? Moreover, with the formation blocking, our Spiritual Sense can’t even go in. After all, this formation is the foundation of the Common People’s Path, so what if we accidentally spoil it?”

“Did Senior Master Xiuguan know about it?”

After a period of silence, someone changed the topic.

“Junior Brother is still going through his tribulation, who knows what the situation is there?”

“He should be okay, the Guangxuan Sword is still spinning. Although that person has the Blood Cloud Sword, Senior Brother Wei Xu hasn’t completed the tribulation, and his strength had broken through the Saint Realm barrier, so he can probably hold on for a while. However, for him to safely pass the tribulation would be really tough!”

“I think Junior Brother Wei Xu can at most last for 10 minutes. After that, he probably won’t have any chance to reincarnate. Unfortunately, we can’t help him…”

“So the key to this battle is whether or not Junior Brother Zong Shou can grasp the God Refined Sword in 10 minutes?”

“It will probably be really tough for the Sword Spirit to listen to him…”

Mingyu still didn’t know that the Sword Spirit of the God Refined Sword had accompanied beside Zong Shou for a long time.

Everyone was both worried about Wei Xu and also about the safety of the Vast Habitat.

“If he really can’t, we have to combine strength to send Junior Brother out of the Vast Habitat.”

“Of course! However, speaking of which, the Golden Pagoda behind Junior Brother is really weird. In the past, none of us could make this artifact yield. Could this item really be the core of the formation?”

Even if it wasn’t the core, it shouldn’t be far. This big and small pagoda probably has a huge connection with one another. Can you feel that the formation is getting stronger?”

Heaven and Earth was shaking. Zong Shou’s eyes were at a loss. He stepped on the tip of the pagoda and was brought up into the sky.

Only when the pagoda stabbed through the ninth layer did this momentum stop.

At this moment, Zong Shou didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He made that oath just now, so that he would be able to pull out the God Refined Sword.

However, he still hadn’t grasped the God Refined Sword and instead, a nine-layer Golden Pagoda charged out from the ground.

He looked at the sword in his hand in a slightly depressed manner.

It was the God Refined Sword!

The sword was stabbed into stone and one didn’t need much strength to pull it out.

What was tough was to make the sword recognize him such that he would be able to grasp the Sword Artifact and use its abilities.

When the stone layer was broken and the Golden Pagoda rose up, this sword followed him to the ninth layer.

Although Zong Shou used all his strength to study the sword body, even if his Chakra Meridians and the Sword’s Energy Veins were joined as one, he was still unable to make the Artifact Formation within move at all.

“I am still lacking a little!”

“However, the thing behind me, the pagoda that Senior Brother Wei Xu gave me, was it really the core of the formation?”

“Thirty-Three Skies, Great Cycle of Heaven, Grasp, Heaven Emperor, so that was the case…”

Zong Shou too in a deep breath and retracted all the random thoughts in his head. He focused his eyes onto the sword in his hand and stopped bothering about the two pagodas. He retracted his Spiritual Sense and focused on using it to charge at the sword body.

He had actually predicted that he would be unable to grasp in right away. At the start, he had predicted that the price he had to pay this time wouldn’t be small.

Since this sword was still not satisfied after he swore for people to be equal and that he would protect people of the world.

Then…

“I will use this sword to become the Heaven Emperor! To become the Master of the Thirty Three Skies, the Emperor of all people! The Ruler of 10,000 Celestials! No matter which race under my rule, all people, all cultivators will be treated equally! I might not be able to complete a truly equal world, but I can give them a fair and righteous world…”

The Vast Habitat was silent for a while and his foot shook once more as the Golden Pagoda continued to charge upward.

The God Refined Sword gave out a 10,000-foot energy glow. The Nameless Sword beside Zong Shou actually fell apart, turning into streaks of red light that entered the purple gold sword in front of Zong Shou.

The vast Sword Aura surged through the sky and resonated with the other six swords.

It caused more and more Will of the Heavens to be gathered in the Vast Habitat.

This time without needing anyone to control the Seven Swords, they were able to gather 60% of their strength above the 32-layer Pagoda.

Xingya was the first to be unable to block it. After a beast-like roar, his body was forcefully suppressed by an invisible strength! He fell from the 31st layer all the way down back to the 23rd layer. Only then was he able to support himself.

The other people had solemn expressions on their faces as they all felt that huge pressure.

Not only the Will of the Heavens gathered over by the Seven Swords, even the formation was getting stronger.

Originally under their strikes, the core of the formation was riddled in holes. However, now most of it was replaced by this Golden Pagoda which was now at the 18th layer.

The strength of this item was comparable to that of a God Treasure.

Seemingly sensing that things weren’t right… If this God Refined Sword was bound by Tanqiu, who knew how many more layers would come out from the ground?

Then, the battle today…

Zhu Zi’s face was dark and sunken. Qingxuan didn’t speak, he just looked towards Wei Xu while in deep thought.

If he could have ended that person earlier, then these Seven Swords…

He felt the chill in his heart increasing. When he looked back, he saw Xiuguan looking over coldly.

He instantly knew that the top person in the Cloud World had some strength recovered and had already seen through his plans.

At this moment, even if he could struggle free from the restrictions of the formation, he wouldn’t be able to escape from Xiuguan.

Taishi also looked over and scoffed coldly, “Master of the Thirty Three Skies, the Emperor of all people! The Ruler of 10,000 Celestials? How preposterous…”