Chapter 160: Void Realm Legacy

Su Yun stood in front of the main hall of the Penglai Immortal Palace, with fifteen hundred newly recruited female Disciples standing behind him.

They wore pale blue dresses and had different appearances, but their gazes toward him were the same: submissive, fanatical, and filled with worship.

Palace Master Shui Linglong stood by his side, her head lowered, her expression respectful.

The Palace Master, at the Spirit Transformation Peak Stage, stood there obediently like a young wife.

Su Yun turned to look at her. "There are still vengeful spirits in the Secret Realm, and several are at the Late Huashen Stage. You said before that you couldn't clear them out; can you do it now?"

Palace Master Shui Linglong raised her head. "With Master here, I can."

Su Yun nodded. "Lead the way."

The two entered the Secret Realm again.

This time, Su Yun did not bring Fairy Jianyun and Zi Wuji, only Palace Master Shui Linglong.

Fairy Jianyun and Zi Wuji remained at the Penglai Immortal Palace to help reorganize the newly recruited female Disciples.

The Secret Realm remained the same: gray skies, gray earth, and broken buildings and Magical Artifacts scattered everywhere.

The vengeful spirits they had scattered had gathered again, but their numbers were much fewer than last time.

In the distance, several particularly strong black shadows were wandering—Late Huashen Stage—the ones that had hidden and dared not approach last time.

Palace Master Shui Linglong pointed at those black shadows. "Master, that's them."

"They have stayed in the Secret Realm for over ten thousand years and have already developed intelligence, knowing how to seek advantages and avoid harm. Last time, Master was too strong, so they dared not come close."

Su Yun asked what they feared.

Palace Master Shui Linglong said they feared thunder; the remnant souls of ancient demonic Cultivators feared lightning the most, and the Lightning Spirit Root was their nemesis.

Su Yun smiled.

He happened to have Thunder Spirit Power; although it was only Low Grade, it was enough to deal with these remnant souls.

He stepped forward, lightning flickering around his body.

Purple lightning surged over him, emitting a sizzling sound.

The black shadows sensed the lightning and began to retreat.

Su Yun did not give them a chance; he raised his hand, and a pillar of lightning shot from his palm, striking the black shadow at the very front.

The black shadow screamed and exploded on the spot, turning into black smoke and dissipating.

The remaining black shadows turned and fled. Su Yun chased after them, striking out with one lightning pillar after another.

In less than half an incense stick of time, all the Late Huashen Stage vengeful spirits were completely cleared out.

Palace Master Shui Linglong stood in the distance, watching Su Yun's back, a flash of complexity in her eyes.

She had lived for eight hundred years and had seen countless geniuses, but she had never seen a person like him.

A Spirit Transformation Peak Stage vengeful spirit could not even withstand a single move before him.

She suddenly felt that following such a person might truly allow her to achieve a Breakthrough to the Void Refining Stage.

Su Yun, having cleared the vengeful spirits, walked back to Palace Master Shui Linglong. "Are there any more?"

Palace Master Shui Linglong shook her head. "No more. The vengeful spirits in the Secret Realm have been cleared out."

Su Yun nodded and turned to walk out. When he reached the exit of the Secret Realm, he suddenly stopped.

He remembered the remains of Master Void.

The remains of a Void Refining Stage Cultivator should not be left lying there casually.

He turned and walked back, and Palace Master Shui Linglong hurriedly followed.

The two returned to the stone platform.

The remains of Master Void were still sitting there, skeletal and grim, with tattered Daoist robes.

Su Yun stood before the remains, silent for a moment, then waved his hand.

A surge of spiritual power wrapped around the remains, and he stored them into his Storage Ring.

The remains of a Void Refining Stage Cultivator might still contain some useful things; he would let Valley Master Su Yao take a look when he returned.

Palace Master Shui Linglong watched his actions without speaking.

The two left the Secret Realm and returned to the Penglai Immortal Palace.

Su Yun stayed in the palace.

He was not in a hurry to return to the Central Region, instead staying in the East Sea to begin studying the Jade Slip left behind by Master Void.

The method for Cultivating the Void Refining Stage recorded in the Jade Slip was very detailed, with every step from the Spirit Transformation Peak Stage to the Early Stage of the Void Refining Stage written very clearly.

Master Void stated in the Jade Slip that the key to a Breakthrough to the Void Refining Stage was not spiritual power, but the void node.

A Cultivator needed to find a void node between heaven and earth and connect their Divine Soul to the node to achieve a Breakthrough.

A void node was very difficult to find; some people searched for a lifetime and never found one.

Master Void himself had found one by accident; while traveling in the depths of the East Sea, he was swept into a spatial rift and woke up to find himself beside a void node.

He seized that opportunity and achieved a Breakthrough to the Void Refining Stage.

Su Yun put down the Jade Slip and pondered.

The void node was in the depths of the East Sea, surrounded by spatial rifts, and ordinary people could not enter.

But he was not an ordinary person.

He was at the Spirit Transformation Peak Stage, possessed Thunder Spirit Power, Power of the Five Elements, and had the added strength of True Monarch Bingpo and the Blood-colored Girl.

Those spatial rifts might not necessarily be able to harm him. He decided to go to the depths of the East Sea to search.

Upon hearing that he was going to search for a void node, Palace Master Shui Linglong volunteered to lead the way.

She had lived in the East Sea for eight hundred years and knew this sea area like the back of her hand.

Su Yun agreed. The two left the Penglai Immortal Palace and flew toward the depths of the East Sea.

The East Sea was vast; the further east one went, the deeper it became, the seawater turned from blue to black, and the waves grew larger and larger.

After flying for three days, Palace Master Shui Linglong suddenly stopped.

"Master, ahead is the sea area that Master Void mentioned. Look."

Su Yun looked in the direction she pointed.

Above the sea surface ahead, countless tiny rifts were flickering; those were spatial rifts, small and dense, like a giant spider web.

Eerie light shone through the rifts—some gold, some silver, and some purple.

Those lights danced on the surface of the sea, dyeing the seawater in various colors.

Su Yun released his Divine Sense to probe the rift area.

As soon as his Divine Sense touched the rifts, it was torn to shreds.

He let out a muffled groan and withdrew his Divine Sense.

If even the Divine Sense of a Spirit Transformation Peak Stage could not enter, the void node inside would be even harder to find.

But he did not give up. He told Palace Master Shui Linglong to wait in the distance and flew into the rift area alone.

Those spatial rifts flickered around him, some only a few feet away.

He could feel the terrifying suction force coming from the rifts; that was the power of the Void Realm, the power that only a Void Refining Stage Cultivator could master.

He carefully wove between the rifts, cautious with every step he took.

After walking for about half an hour, he saw something.

It was a ball of light. Golden light, the size of a fist, suspended in mid-air, slowly rotating.

There were no spatial rifts around the ball of light; those rifts seemed to have been repelled by something and dared not come close.

Su Yun stared at the ball of light, his heart racing. A void node.

He reached out his hand to touch the ball of light. As soon as his fingertip touched the ball of light, a terrifying force surged out of it, rushing into his body along his arm.

That power was completely different from the medicinal power of the Soul Transformation Stage Pill; it was more violent, purer, and carried the vastness and coldness of the Void Realm.

His Divine Soul trembled, his Dantian churned, and his Meridians expanded.

He gritted his teeth and pressed that power down bit by bit, pushing it into his Dantian and deep into his Divine Soul.

He did not know how much time had passed, but the ball of light became quiet.

It no longer rotated but hovered silently in his palm like a docile bead.

Su Yun stored it into his Storage Ring and turned to walk out.

Palace Master Shui Linglong was still waiting in the distance. Seeing him come out, she hurriedly went up to meet him.

"Master, did you find it?"

Su Yun nodded. "I found it."

Palace Master Shui Linglong's eyes lit up. "Then can Master achieve a Breakthrough to the Void Refining Stage?"

Su Yun shook his head. "Still early. It needs time to refine."

He brought Palace Master Shui Linglong back to the Penglai Immortal Palace.

He stayed in the palace for three days and refined that void node.

On the fourth day, his cultivation finally touched the threshold of the Void Refining Stage.

Although he had not achieved a Breakthrough, he had already touched that barrier.

Give him another year, and he would definitely achieve a Breakthrough.

Su Yun stood at the highest point of the Penglai Immortal Palace, overlooking the island.

Fifteen hundred newly recruited female Disciples were Cultivating on the island, with Fairy Jianyun and Zi Wuji guiding them.

Palace Master Shui Linglong stood behind him, waiting quietly.

"Prepare yourself; we are returning to the Central Region," he said.

Palace Master Shui Linglong nodded. "Yes, Master."

Su Yun turned and flew toward the Central Region.

Behind him, fifteen hundred female Cultivators followed, a vast dark mass.

The matter of the East Sea had come to an end.

Next, he would go into seclusion to refine the void node and achieve a Breakthrough to the Void Refining Stage.

The female Cultivators of the three regions—the Central Region, the Western Region, and the East Sea—were all waiting for him. He could not let them down.